Here is an awesome interview with Brian Fuller where he spills the beans on what would’ve happened if “Pushing Daises” had a third season:

The Empire Strikes Back. You’re separating R2D2 and C3PO and sending them off into two different directions, and so that was going to be Chuck and Ned. Chuck was going to go off with the father, and Ned was going to try to chase her down.That was the heart of it, and part of the thing that was going to be part and parcel of the third season was Chuck being exposed and what happens when part of your family shows up and says, “Just kidding! I wasn’t murdered on the beach in Aruba.”

What does she have to deal with in that situation, and obviously Olive was going to have this huge falling out. Those events that were in that last little snippet of [that last episode, called] “Kerplunk,” with that whole tale of how she came to open the Intrepid Cow, the macaroni and cheese palace, was going to be a huge arc for Olive, why she got there and what brought her to those circumstances.

I was really excited about telling those stories. I was excited about shifting the dynamics around with those characters. What would happen when Lily had to move in with Chuck because Vivian kicked her out. The plan was to keep Wendie Malick, who played Cora, Vivian and Lily’s AquaDarling rival, on as a reoccurring character for the rest of the second season.

There were all those little pieces, not to mention the pocket watches with Dwight Dixon, and Chuck’s dad and Ned’s dad, and Emerson’s daughter. It was just a crazy amount of material that kept generating story. It could have gone on for a while.

I could see how the various story threads were going to unfold over the next season and a half. I could honestly say I could see where we were going through the end of season three, then I was hoping that sometimes during season three, season four would occur to me.