"Pushing Daisies" director/executive producer Barry Sonnenfeld, who's not exactly an unknown (you may recall his work as a director in "Men in Black" and "Addams Family Values"), is mildly miffed that some critics have apparently likened the pilot to the work of another director, Tim Burton. Some, he says, have gone so far as to call it "Burtonesque," "which makes me really thrilled, since my name is Sonnenfeld."

I'm pretty sure I've been telling people it reminds me of "Lemony Snicket: A Series of Unfortunate Events." Which, it turns out, Sonnenfeld also produced.