Buh?

I used to like that song.

Okay since I watch the show I'm going to attempt to explain what's going on in this clip....

The bird they're chasing is a homing pigeon which was killed when it flew (or more accurately, fell) into the window of the pie shop where the younger woman in the back seat works after having one of it's wings cut off in the propeller of a hijacked crop duster. The young woman's name is Olive Snook and her boss, the owner of the pie shop has the ability to bring the dead back to life with a touch. He accidentally revived the pigeon. Olive then took it to the two older women, Lilly and Vivian, who keep birds and are also amateur taxidermists. They helped the pigeon recuperate and attached a stuffed parrot wing to it as a kind of prosthesis. Shortly after they attached the prosthetic wing to the bird it flew out of the window, leaving behind the message which was attached to it's leg. They are chasing the bird in order to deliver the message.

The women are agoraphobic shut ins who have only left their house since meeting Olive Snook. She delivered a pie that was sent to them by their dead daughter, named Charlotte Charles, who was the childhood sweetheart of the owner of the pie shop, and who he revived while attempting to solve her murder on a cruise ship. Olive has an unrequited love for the owner of the pie shop and has come to view the newly undead Charlotte Charles as a romantic rival. She has been attempting to arrange for Lilly and Vivian to meet Charlotte who Olive believes faked her own death in order to remove Charlotte from the scene.

Unbeknownst to Olive the bird they are chasing is heading for a historic windmill preservation site, where the man who escaped from prison by hijacking the plane which cut off the pigeons wing has just arrived, looking for a cache of diamonds that had been buried there by his cell mate before he had been sent to jail. The diamond theif had used the pigeon to correspond with a woman on the outside, and had made the hijacker promise to writing to the woman after he died in exchange for revealing the location of the diamonds. The hijacker subsequently fell in love with the woman via their pigeon mediated correspondence....

aaaaaand I could go on for like three more paragraphs (I haven't even gotten to the private detective the dead pilot and the owner of the pie shop), but it's late and I'm tired. Basically the producers decided to shoehorn in a They Might Be Giants reference into this rather byzantine plot.

so whimsical!

Yes and thats Kristen Chenworth (of Wicked fame) and Ellen Greene (little shop of horrors) also known as Sylar's mom that are singing

I like this show, but if this had been my first exposure to it, I would never have watched it

Boy.

That's wacky. Zany, even.

Great show (though I prefer Wonderfalls more at this point), but this scene is cringeworthy.