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{{trope|wppage=Pieing}}
[[File:Hagar pie collage 3461.jpg|link=Hagar the Horrible|frame]]

A classic gag, tossing a pie into another person's face. Usually, this is a cream pie to get the proper [[Covered in Gunge]] effect. For extra comedy value, the victim might take a taste of the pie and note it's not bad.

This [[Practical Joke]] was a staple of silent movie comedies, which came up with most of the variants. Often, a missed throw would result in an [[Escalating War]] pie fight. The all-out pie fight is pretty much a [[Forgotten Trope]] in movies, but still shows up elsewhere.

[[Real Life]] celebrities and politicians sometime have this happen to them as a protest. For example, Anita Bryant and Bill Gates have been pied in public.

On TV, the pie is often just whipped cream or shaving cream sprayed into a pie pan, which gives a similar effect while being much cheaper than baking up a whole pie just to throw it.

[[The Other Wiki]] calls this [[w:Pieing|Pieing]].

{{See also|Edible Ammunition}}

{{examples}}
== Anime and Manga ==
* There was an entire episode of the ''[[Kirby]]'' [[Kirby: Right Back at Ya!|anime]] dedicated to this after Dedede was seen getting pied on live television. [[Hilarity Ensues]].

== Comic Books ==
* ''[[Suicide Squad]]'' had a [[Running Gag]] subplot about a mysterious attacker pieing their personnel. It was {{spoiler|Captain Boomerang, who'd earlier arranged to attack himself with a boomerang pie to divert suspicion}}.
* British comics such as ''Beano and Dandy'' thrive on this trope, custard pies being the usual ammunition of choice. They can be thrown by hand or with a suitably elaborate [[Bamboo Technology]] device designed for the express purpose of leaving the target [[Covered in Gunge]].
* In [[Scott McCloud]]'s ''[[Zot]]'', he conducted a poll for which character the reader most wanted to get a pie in the face. Unfortunately, it was won by 9-Jack-9, an electronic being previously established as [[The Blank|not actually HAVING a face]]. At the New Year's party featuring the pie, it passed through 9-Jack-9 to hit the runner up, Zot, in the face.
* There's a running gag of Prankster pieing [[Superman]]. Granted, on at least one occasion, the pie delivered an electric shock or other nasty surprise.
* [[The Joker]], as befitting his chaotic nature, once concocted an elaborate scheme the sole purpose of which was to hit [[Batman]] in the face with a pie.
* In ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]'', it is revealed that during the one-year-later arc Miss Martian joined and left the team. The reason she left? [[Aliens Steal Cable|She saw]] a [[The Three Stooges|Three Stooges]] short and decided to throw a pie in Rose Wilson's (ravager) face. Rose apparently yelled at her enough to leave her crying.
* ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]] #8''. Gambit: "A plasma rifle 'gainst a boysenberry pie? Can you see the crazed psychopath in this picture?" Naturally, [http://img157.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=02233_X_Men008_ToothandClaw_14_122_222lo.jpg Rogue gets the pie in the face].
* In ''[[The Punisher|Welcome Back Frank]]'', Castle finally manages to stun [[Made of Iron|The Russian]] by throwing hot pizza in his face.

== Fan Works ==
* Episode 8 of ''[[Final Stand of Death]]'', following a [[Food Fight]], [[Spice Girls|Victoria]] is hit by a random pie after coming out of her hideout.

== Film ==
* [[Fatty Arbuckle]] did this early and often—his short ''A Noise from the Deep'' is the earliest known instance of the joke, and it was repeated many times in his later films.
* One of the earliest recorded pie scenes (but after Fatty Arbuckle's) was a [[Mack Sennett]] short in which Mabel Normand is pied, but she does carefully remove her glasses first.
* [[The Three Stooges]] did this numerous times, most notably in the short ''The Sweet Pie and Pie''.
* The "lost scene" from ''[[Dr. Strangelove|Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb]]'' is a massive pie fight in the Pentagon's War Room. Cut for not quite fitting the darkness of the rest of the movie.
* ''[[The Great Race]]'' has one of, if not the, largest pie fights ever. Including one that's so big, it can't be thrown; it's a huge multi-layer cake, and two different people get knocked into it at two different times.
* The 1978 version of ''[[Dawn of the Dead (film)|Dawn of the Dead]]'' features a group of vicious bikers storming the mall, looting stores, firing at the heroes and... [[Non Sequitur Scene|throwing pies at zombies]]. We'd call it a [[Narm]] moment, but George Romero might have been going for laughs here.
* ''Bugsy Malone'' is a parody gangster movie with child actors (including a young [[Jodie Foster]]) and used pies instead of handguns. It also had "splurge guns", based on the Thompson submachine gun, with drum magazines that allows rapid pie firing.
* [[Laurel and Hardy]] made money by selling pies to throw in their short film ''Battle of the Century'', which [[Trope Codifier|codified this trope]].
* ''The Shaggy D.A.'', notable for a cigar punching right through the pie.
* ''Going Ape''.
* ''[[Blazing Saddles]]'', during the "Great Pie Fight" scene in the studio commissary near the end. Everyone gets pied except Hedley Lamarr, who goes into a bathroom and smears (shaving?) cream on his face to make it look like he'd been pied.
* ''[[The Addams Family|Addams Family Values]]''.
* ''Heartburn''.
* The climactic scene of ''Nanny McPhee'' has this with wedding cake.
* ''[[Singin' in the Rain]]''. Lampshaded as a movie tradition, and possibly subverted: Don Lockwood dodges and the pie hits Lina Lamont.
* During the brawl at the climax of ''The Pirate Movie'', a cart of pies is wheeled out and a character predicts a pie fight—turns out it's ''pizzas'' being thrown around instead.
* In [[The Monkees (band)|The Monkees]]' feature film ''[[Head]]'', Peter winds up with a pie thrown in his face (while riding a cow, of all things) towards the end of the movie.
* During the carnival at the end of ''[[Grease]]''.
* Pies being flung from home-made catapults are part of the Lost Boy's arsenal in ''[[Hook]]''.
* The [[Tony Hancock]] film ''The Punch and Judy Man'' features a climactic pie fight, but it escalates too quickly to generate the right comic effect.
* In the [[Vehicular Combat|Mega Race]] of ''[[Spy Kids]] 3: Game Over'', one of the racers has a giant pie-throwing arm as a weapon.
{{quote|'''Juni:''' [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Easy as pie]].}}
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDM75-oXGmQ The trailer] for ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]'' puts one in the iconic [[Chess with Death]] [[The Seventh Seal|scene.]]

== Literature ==
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** Cream pies to the face are an occupational hazard of coming too close to the Fool's Guild.
** In ''[[Making Money]]'', they're also portrayed as the greatest threat to Lord Vetinari's tenure as Patrician.
** They're also a staple of Ankh-Morpork theatre; the Librarian is a frequent visitor, and has simple, defined tastes in entertainment and a ''really'' good throwing arm for displaying his displeasure with a play.
* The ''[[Star Trek Expanded Universe]]'' novel ''How Much for Just the Planet?'', by [[John M. Ford]], ends with a pie fight between tuxedoed ''Enterprise'' officers and tuxedoed Klingons.
{{quote|"Blueberry," Kirk thought instead of ducking.
''Splat.''
Blueberry it was. }}
* In ''[[Who Censored Roger Rabbit?]]'', Roger reports having been pied by someone who was apparently trying to kill him. When Eddie Valiant asks why he believes it was anything besides a normal pieing, Roger explains in great detail the fine points of face-pieing.
* ''[[Vorkosigan Saga]]'': For a high-tech version of the traditional pie fight, see the butterbug butter battle near the end of [[Lois McMaster Bujold]]'s ''A Civil Campaign''.

== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[Tiswas]]'' has the Phantom Flan Flinger, a recurring character who pied people. Including a number of celebrities, mainly recording artists such as the Pretenders, Adam Ant, Phil Collins, and Annie Lennox (while still with The Tourists, pre-Eurythmics). One of the most memorable moments in the show's run had Sheena Easton covered from head to toe in shaving foam and multi-coloured slime—perhaps she should have titled her hit song "For Your Pies Only"?
* ''[[Three's Company]]'', the "bake-off" episode.
* ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'', in the first [[Cousin Oliver]] episode, "Welcome Aboard"
* The [[Nickelodeon]] semi-game show ''[[What Would You Do? (game show)|What Would You Do?]]'' featured pieing as a penalty in nearly every episode; in fact the show came up with a number of [[Exaggerated Trope|pieing devices]] involving multiple or giant pies or jets of whipped cream (the Pie Wash in season two). Sometimes, though, pieing was a prize or privilege. Most of the people who went down the Pie Slide did so willingly or because they wanted to. Also there were two episodes in the first season called "Pie-a-Thons" which pitted Kids vs. Adults, and being pied was a way to add "points" for your "team".
* Not surprisingly, pies were also heavily featured in The Family Channel's later ''Family Challenge'', which was from the same producer (Woody Fraser).
* ''Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters'' has a misfired Practical Joke.
* ''[[Maude]]'', where most of the cast—including [[Bea Arthur]] and Rue McClanahan—gets into a big pie fight at the end of the episode "Musical '78."
* ''[[That Girl]]'' in a [[Show Within a Show]] sequence.
* The newer version of ''[[The Mickey Mouse Club]]'' had a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTHKP6BqwO0&feature=related sketch] in which 13-year-old [[Christina Aguilera]] and [[Ryan Gosling]] both get a pie to the face.
* ''[[Moonlighting]]''
* ''[[The Soupy Sales Show]]'' has this as a trademark.
** This was extended to Soupy's appearances on ''TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes''.
* ''[[I Love Lucy]]'' has a couple of pie episodes, including "The Diner."
* ''[[Love, American Style]]'', the episode with Susan Howard.
* ''[[You Can't Do That on Television]]'' featured this in several episodes, most strikingly in "Drugs".
* Many [[Talk Show]] hosts and guests have been pied. Sometimes by themselves.
* ''[[Happy Days]]'' in the episode where Chachi tries to join the Leopards.
* [[The Monkees (TV series)|The Monkees]] endured this when they appeared on [[Show Within a Show]] ''Captain Crocodile''.
* ''Captain and Tennille Show'', during Masterjoke Theater sketches, primarily.
* ''[[Route 66]]'', during an episode with Guest Star Soupy Sales.
* ''[[Bewitched]]'', during one of the Serena episodes, which included Elizabeth Montgomery pieing herself from across the room.
* ''[[The Dick Van Dyke Show]]'', due to one of Rob's many pratfalls.
* ''[[Family Matters]]'', the episode "Stop In the Name of Love."
* ''[[The Baby Sitters Club]]'', with a school carnival.
* ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'''s "Heavy-Wit Championship of the World" sketch.
* ''[[Growing Pains (TV)|Growing Pains]]'', the "20th Anniversary" episode.
* ''[[Cybill]]'', wedding episode.
* ''[[3rd Rock from the Sun]]'', "Dick Learns About Comedy."
* ''[[The Bob Newhart Show]]'', as part of a practical joke Bob plans to play on Peeper.
* ''[[Gilligan's Island|Gilligans Island]]'', episode "X Marks the Spot."
* ''[[Diff'rent Strokes|Diffrent Strokes]]'', when the cast visits Universal Studios.
* Even an episode of ''[[Wheel of Fortune]]'', with Pat and Vanna pieing each other!
* ''The Jackie Gleason Show'' at least twice.
* ''[[The Patty Duke Show]]'', during a modeling photo shoot.
* ''[[Head of the Class]]'', "Make Fun of the Teacher" episode.
* During an election episode in ''[[Salute Your Shorts]]''.
* A Thanksgiving Day episode of ''[[Cheers]]''.
* ''[[Webster]]'', but only during a [[Dream Sequence]].
* ''[[Wild and Crazy Kids]]''
** Once featuring the fire department.
** In an earlier episode (and season), a "organized" pie fight between camp kids and their counselors quickly spiraled into a free-for-all.
* In one gag of the Spanish sketch show ''¡Vaya semanita!'', they are asked to do more intelligent humor, so they decide [[Comically Missing the Point|to pie Stephen Hawking in the face]].
* ''[[Unfabulous]]'', where a classroom presentation on the American Revolution turned into a Boston Cream Pie fight.
* Moe Howard, of [[The Three Stooges]], once [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_METTgPnSWY demonstrated proper pie-throwing technique] to Mike Douglas and Ted Knight during a 1973 episode of Douglas' daytime talk show.
* Johnny Carson would often get hit with pies in a recurring ''[[The Tonight Show]]'' sketch theme.
* ''[[Treasure Hunt US]]'', several times.
* On a late episode of the original version of ''[[Let's Make a Deal]]'', one of the [[Zonk]]s was an old pie wagon; after the reveal, [[Lovely Assistant|Carol Merrill]] hit [[The Announcer|Jay Stewart]] with one of the pies.
* An episode of the current series of ''[[Let's Make a Deal]]'' featured a large pie as a [[Zonk]]; when it was revealed, [[Game Show Host|Wayne Brady]] went down to the pie and pulled a ''real'' one out from behind it, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ofhn7v6IM8 with which he hit] [[The Announcer|Jonathan Mangum]]. At the end of the show, Mangum got his revenge, at which point a curtain opened revealing an entire rack of pies, resulting in a [[Food Fight|pie fight]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srTg1_KSrIU&feature=related among the entire cast].
* During one of the Showcases of Drew Carey's ''[[The Price Is Right]]'', the models hit each other with pies. Near the end of the narration, Rich Fields is hit with a pie, and at the end of the show, Drew himself is hit with a few by the models as well. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1X4k-VqpsQ Here's a clip.] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AslrpLDBxi0&feature=related And here is Rich Fields making sure the showcase winner isn't left out on the fun.]
* ''[[Power Rangers]]''
** [[Those Two Guys|Bulk and Skull]] on ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' frequently received these (Well, typically it was [[Carrying a Cake|cakes]], but the principle is the same).
** And in ''[[Power Rangers Zeo]]'', the Rangers once defeated a group of [[Mecha-Mooks|Cogs]] by pieing them, leading to a well-deserved [[Surrounded by Idiots]] rant from [[Big Bad| King Mondo.]]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDMX2pWVecM A staple] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzStVM8HjAU of Brazilian game show] ''Passa ou Repassa'' (at a certain point, a sound effect was added, making it even funnier). Two contestants put against each other answering a question. Get right, pie the other one. Get wrong, pie in your face. Then come the next two of the team. And due to rotativity, eventually the first two return, allowing for either revenge or getting the opponent even dirtier. (The same [[Speed Round]] was later used on ''Megamatch'' in Venezuela (rerun through out Latin America) and ''[[Fun House|College Mad House]]'' in the USA.
* On ''[[Boy Meets World]]'', Eric hits Jack with one at the end of a food fight.
* A recurring theme on [[Dick and Dom]]'s shows, from ''[[Dick and Dom in da Bungalow]]'' (hosts splatting contestants, contestants splatting hosts, or giant free-for-all) to Splatalot (with "Splat" written on the bottom of the pie plate).
* A Season 14 Detour on ''[[The Amazing Race]]'' had teams pelt each other in the face with pies until they found one with a cherry filling.
* Subverted on ''[[All That]]'' when the cast get a bunch of pies from the bakery. [[Butt Monkey|Kevin]] expects they will throw the pies at him, but is told they are not going to do that. The baker also made a cake for such a purpose.
* ''[[Elvira, Mistress of the Dark]]''; Elvira was the victim of this at least once.

== Music ==
* [[Jonathan Coulton]]'s song "Bozo's Lament" is about a clown who's grown weary of his job. Naturally, this trope is referred to in the course of the song.
* The [[Beastie Boys]] in the video for "(You've Got to) Fight for Your Right (to Party!)".
* Bette Midler's video of "Beast of Burden".
* [[Alanis Morissette]] in the video of "You Learn"
* [[Cobra Starship]] in the video of "The City is at War".
* [[Elton John]]'s frequent duet partner Kiki Dee, in his music video for "Wrap Her Up" (1985).

== Newspaper Comics ==
* A [[Running Gag]] in ''[[Garfield (Comic Strip)|Garfield]]'' was the "Splut" pies, which came out of nowhere and made the [[Written Sound Effect]] "SPLUT!" when they came in contact with Garfield's face. This gag carried over to ''[[Garfield and Friends]]''.
{{quote|'''Garfield:''' [[This Is Gonna Suck|Yup... it's Splut Week.]]}}
* ''[[Hagar the Horrible]]'' has this, as shown with the page image.
* It also happened to Snoopy's brother Spike in one ''[[Peanuts]]'' comic strip.
* Pie-ing is the signature prank of Kokopelli in the cartoons in ''Muse'' magazine. His pie of choice is banana cream, and his victim of choice is Urania.
* In ''[[Bloom County]]'', there was a strip where [[Donald Trump]]'' (in Bill the Cat's body) gets a pie in the face from Opus after calling him a "little fat-nosed toad thing."
* ''[[Beetle Bailey]]'':
** In one strip, Beetle rigs a howitzer to shoot pies, hoping to use it in a "Camp Swampy Follies" skit.
** In another, Sarge volunteers to be a target at a carnival, seeing how [[Sweet Tooth| he loves pie.]]

== Professional Wrestling ==
* A pie in the face is something any aspiring [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] Diva can expect at some point in her career, especially around Thanksgiving. Past victims include Mickie James, Michelle McCool, Sunny, [[Kelly Kelly]], Layla El, the Bella Twins, Ashley Massaro, Rosa Mendes, Joy Giovanni, Vickie Guerrero, and [[Stephanie McMahon]]. The men also sometimes get it in diva-related segments, as has happened to [[The Big Show]] and Santino Marella.
* During the Fourth of July episode in 2016, [[Kevin Owens]] falls victim to this.

== Puppet Shows ==
* ''[[Sesame Street]]'' during the song "Surprise," with even a brick wall getting pied.
* A Sandy Duncan appearance on ''[[The Muppet Show]]''.
* A regular happenstance in ''[[Les Guignols de l'info]]'' for French philosopher Bernard-Henry Lévy, following a pair of such incidents in [[Real Life]]. There was even a parody of the movie ''[[JFK]]'', with BHL being pied in the face treated like JFK's assassination.

== Tabletop Games ==
* In the RPG ''[[Toon (game)|Toon]]'', this is a surefire way to [[Wild Take|Boggle]] a character.

== Theater ==
* ''[[Monty Python]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSgRkBWNlBo Live at the Hollywood Bowl]''. The sketch in question was originally written by Cleese and Chapman for a 1968 sketch show, ''We Have Ways of Making you Laugh''. (It was of course only one of several recycled sketches the Pythons used on stage, most of the others being from ''At Last the 1948 Show''.)

== Theme Parks ==
* Fozzie accidentally pies himself with a remote controlled one in [[Disney Theme Parks]]' ''[[Muppet*Vision 3D]]''.
* In 1995, several Paramount Parks partnered with Nickelodeon to create Splat City. One of the attractions was  a show called [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdI1KNiLuLk Mega Mess-a-Mania], where some of the guests got pied.

== Video Games ==
* ''[[Nethack]]'' has a cream pie item, which causes blindness. On the one hand, stealing from shops will result in Keystone Kops showing up to [[Izchaks Wrath|pie you and beat you with rubber hoses until you die]]. On the other hand, pieing something does not count as an attack, and the pie takes up the weapon slot, which makes it very useful for characters attempting the [[Pacifist Run|pacifist conduct]].
* ''[[Makai Kingdom]]'' has these as [[Improvised Weapon|weapons]], though their basic purpose is to [[Healing Shiv|heal]] their targets.
* The Pie Throw is a whole series of Weapons (Gags) in the MMORPG ''[[Toontown Online]]''.
* Johnathan from ''[[Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin]]'' can throw cream pies at enemies. [[Magikarp Power|When leveled up]] it's also arguably the most powerful [[Elemental Powers|Dark-element]] weapon in the game {{spoiler|making it the perfect tool to take out [[Bonus Boss]] Richter Belmont}}.
* The only way to defeat the terrifying, monstrous, bloodthirsty Yeti in ''[[King's Quest V|King's Quest V Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder]]'' is to throw a cream pie in its face. This was [[Guide Dang It|not one of its best puzzles]], especially since the only chance to obtain a pie is early in the game, and should the player think Grahm has to eat it (and the [[Lemony Narrator]] does his best to convince you that he should, or should give it to someone else), the encounter with the yeti (which occurs ''much'' later) is unsolvable, making the game unwinnable.
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!|Yu-Gi-Oh]]'' Tag Force Games:
** In the ones with the GX cast at least, you can play a Dodgeball-esque minigame. One of the things you can throw is a Pie. It disables whoever is hit by it for a couple of turns.
** Also in the Third Tag Force Game there's a sandwich throwing minigame. One of the things that needs to be avoided is Pie.
* In ''[[Dead Rising]]'' there's a few places with pies, which you can eat for one hit point or throw at zombies. Score a direct hit to their face and the pie will stick, leaving them unable to see you. If you attack them and knock off the pie, you can pick it up and throw it again.
* ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'' "This is a cream pie, which has been expertly balanced for throwing." Other players can be targeted giving them the 'Hilarious!' effect of 'Pie in the Face'.
* Peacock from ''[[Skullgirls]]'' has a pie in the face as one of her attacks, which fits into her repertoire of slapstick moves and cartoon references.

== Web Comics ==
* It took more than a few tries for him to get it right, but ''[[Girl Genius]]'' has a minor Spark who's developed a special pie that [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070119 calms people down] when he tosses it in their face.
{{quote|"''Yes!'' Extra butter! ''Less nutmeg! '''I'm a genius!''''' Ha! Take ''that'', [[wikipedia:Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin|Brillat-Savarin]]!"}}
* ''[[Cheer]]'' brilliantly [[Playing with a Trope|played with]] the cream pie to the face in [https://web.archive.org/web/20081005131728/http://cheer.thewotch.com/index.php?date=20070822 this strip.]
* So did ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' in [https://web.archive.org/web/20121103085203/http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=070912 this strip.]
* UltraCar in ''[[Shortpacked]]''
* In ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'', Xykon is brought to pay attention to a strategic discussion with Redcloak by the prospect of [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0416.html seeing one hobgoblin throw a pie in another one's face.]
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' opined that "a spontaneous celebration is really only one short hop away from being a riot." Then [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20070709.html the chef made some pie].
* ''[[Freefall]]'' blatantly foreshadows one starting [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1800/fc01752.htm this strip].
* Doc receives one in [http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb383.html this strip] in ''[[The Whiteboard]]'', from {{spoiler|Bandit}}.
* In ''[[Scary Go Round]]'' Hugo gets hit in the face with an apple pie. It's so hot ([[Elements Do Not Work That Way|one molecule away from magma!]]) that it grievously injures him, forcing him to drop out of the election.
* The humorous comic ''[http://epic.crimsonflagcomic.com/ Epic Battle]'' makes pie fights [[Serious Business]].
* At the end of ''[[Ozy and Millie]]'', Millie's father starts a pie fight during the wedding of Ozy's father and Millie's mother. Strangely, this is a sign that he ''approves'' of the match (Food fights are a traditional part of dragon weddings. This is why they had so many pies lying around in the first place).
* ''[[Vexxarr]]'' has cakes as one of repeating themes, so it should not be too surprising that eventually one was [http://www.vexxarr.com/archive.php?seldate=031116 thrown at a spaceship].

== Web Original ==
* ''[[RWBY]]'':  The absolutely ''epic'' [[Food Fight]] which is the highlight of the first episode of the second volume essentially starts when Weiss gets a cream pie (intended for Yang) right in the kisser.

== Western Animation ==
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''
** In "Simple Simpson", Homer becomes the Pieman, a costumed vigilante whose shtick is throwing pies at annoying people.
** This is also the reason Sideshow Bob was selected as Krusty's assistant over his brother Cecil, as Bob's dignity made the take all the funnier.
{{quote|'''Bob:''' ''(after being hit by the pie)'' ...Oh, dear.}}
:* In "Krusty Gets Busted", a behind-the-scenes footage reel shows Sideshow Bob doing this to Krusty. In response, Krusty punches Bob in the face.
:* In "Krusty Gets Kancelled", Krusty tries to practice for his comeback special by throwing pies at Homer, but keeps missing, complaining that he's lost his aim. Then Bart hands him one fresh from the oven. Krusty yelps in pain from the hot tray, then throws it, finally hitting Homer. Homer shouts in pain too, but then quickly says, [[Catch Phrase| "Mmm... Blueberry..."]]
* The "Balmy Swami" episode of ''[[Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines]]'' includes an airborne pie fight among the Vulture Squadron members.
* ''[[Tom and Jerry]]''
** In the short ''Quiet Please!'', Tom catches Jerry on the kitchen counter. Jerry asks for a moment to draw up a last will and testament, in which he leaves a custard pie "to Tom, my favorite cat". Reading this, Tom eagerly tells Jerry to "[[Tempting Fate|Lemme have it!]]"
** In ''Solid Serenade'', Jerry hits Tom with ''two'' pies... the former of which has a steam iron hidden inside it.
** Tom pelts Jerry with a pie at the end of ''Jerry's Diary''.
* Many instances in ''[[Looney Tunes]]'':
** [[Bugs Bunny]] repeatedly hits Elmer Fudd with these during a scene in ''Slick Hare''. "Your pie, sir!" Unfortunately for Elmer, he tries to retaliate and hits [[Humphrey Bogart]]. "Why did you hit me in the face with a coconut custard pie with whipped cream?" Bogie asks menacingly.
** Vaudevillians Bugs and Elmer take turns with this in ''What's Up, Doc?''
** In ''Shishkabugs'', Bugs releases a spring-loaded pie into the face of the king, causing royal cook Yosemite Sam to be led away to the dungeon.
** In ''A Hare Grows in Brooklyn'', Bugs pies a dog in the face, then wipes it out while apologizing profusely:
{{quote|'''Bugs:''' My goodness, I don't know ''what'' came over me! You wanted ''cherry'' pie! <nowiki>*splut*</nowiki>}}
** In ''Leghorn Swoggled'', [[Foghorn Leghorn]] rigs a toy train with a pie and sends it to the front door of the Barnyard Dawg's house, causing the latter to get pelted when he sticks his head out to see what's going on.
** ''Daffy Dilly'' has [[Daffy Duck]] trying to cure a dying millionaire by getting him to laugh. After he achieves this accidentally, by landing in a cake, Daffy is hired as a sort of household jester and ends the cartoon getting repeatedly pelted with cakes and pies. ("It's a living!")
** ''Tree-Cornered Tweety'' has Tweety seeking refuge from Sylvester in one of the food boxes at an automat. Sylvester inserts a coin to get Tweety out, but is instead hit with a pie when the box opens.
** ''A Ham in a Role'' opens with a dog getting a pie in the face—he turns out to be an [[Animated Actor]] who's sick of doing funny cartoons and goes off to study the Bard. At cartoon's end, he is given a choice part where he begins Hamlet's soliloquy... and gets a pie in the face.
* In the opening of ''[[American Dragon: Jake Long]]'', [[Annoying Younger Sibling]] Haley is hit in the face with a pie by her mother as Jake passes them on the way to school.
* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]''
** The first of many indignities Candace receives in "Comet Kermillian" when she goes on a picnic with her crush's [[Enfant Terrible]] sister Suzy is a blueberry pie in the face. The others include being locked in an ice cream cart and getting [[Squirrels in My Pants|squirrels in her pants]].
** Candace also gets pelted with pies aplenty in "Let's Take a Quiz".
* In ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', practicing [[Blow You Away|airbending]] aim with pie-throwing at meditating monks was shown in flashbacks to have been one of [[Cool Teacher|Monk Gyatso's]] training methods for a young [[The Hero|Aang]].
* In the ''[[Gargoyles]]'' episode "Vendettas", an [[Ascended Extra]], who turned out to be a mook in several past episodes, follows Goliath and Hudson around all night with a [[BFG]], after his ''revenge''. Eventually, he gets his chance... and shoots Goliath with a pie. Satisfied, the guy walks away, humming the [[Theme Tune]]. [[Unknown Rival|They have no idea]] who he is.
{{quote|'''Hudson:''' Hmm, banana cream!}}
* Happened several times in one episode of ''[[Clone High]]''. Although with a rather dark twist in that they were actual hot pies fresh from an oven, and that it horribly burned and scalded the face of the screaming victim. Which is played for laughs, of course.
* A running gag in the ''[[Darkwing Duck (animation)|Darkwing Duck]]'' episode "Comic Book Capers"; the hero is continually being hit with pies by a funny little Native American named Running Gag.
* Just as in the comics (see above section), in the ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman the Animated Series]]'' episode "Christmas with the Joker", the Joker threatens hundreds of lives, on Christmas, no less, just to pie Batman in the face.
* An episode of ''[[Bonkers]]'' features a [[Running Gag]] about which flavors of pie were appropriate for this gag.
* In ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' episode "Supper Villain", the next-door neighbor decides to become a villain, but he is not allowed to follow through with his evil scheme until after dinner is over. When dessert is served, Blossom throws a pie at him. This leads to a big pie fight, ruining dinner and leading to a [[Face Heel Turn]] for his wife.
* On ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes|Jimmy Two Shoes]]'', Heloise tries hitting one of the [[Things That Go Bump in the Night]] with one, who dodges it. She hits him with a trashbag instead.
* The plot of the ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' episode "Dying for Pie" involves Squidward giving SpongeBob a pie which, unbeknownst to him, is actually a highly volatile explosive. Over the course of the episode a guilt-ridden Squidward attempts to give Spongebob an enjoyable final day, thinking that he has eaten the pie, only to find out that he hasn't. SpongeBob then trips and accidentally throws the pie in Squidward's face, and the episode ends with a mushroom cloud presumably where they stand.
* In one ''[[Yogi Bear]]'' cartoon, a visitor to Jellystone Park is standing under a tree when a blueberry pie falls from the tree onto his head.
* The Disney-parody musical number "It's a Wonderful Day for Pie" in the ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode "Road to the Multiverse" concludes with Herbert (in the guise of the Wicked Queen from ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs]]'') pelted with pies by the rest of the cast (except Brian and Stewie). With a song about pie, one could smell a pie-in-the-face gag coming up from a mile away.
* Jokey Smurf in ''[[The Smurfs]]'' masquerades as the episode's eponymous Masked Pie Smurfer to attack his fellow Smurfs with pies, resulting in an [[Escalating War]].
* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]''
** In the episode "A Bird in the Hoof", an overexcited Pinkie Pie does this to ''herself'' at a party in honor of a visiting Princess Celestia.
** Earlier in "Over a Barrel", the settler ponies [[Edible Ammunition|fight the buffalo with pies]].
** In "The Best Night Ever", poor Rarity ends up getting hit with a flying layer cake which [[Prince Charmless|Prince Blueblood]] was using her to shield himself from.
* A [[Running Gag]] on ''[[Garfield and Friends]]''. (In the original comic strip too.)
* ''[[The Garfield Show]]'' has a [[Show Within a Show|Game-Show-Within-a-Show]] called "''[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Say a Type of Tree and]] [[Makes Just as Much Sense in Context|Get Hit in the Face With a Pie]]''".
* In the Season 2 finale of ''[[DuckTales (2017)]]'' Gizmoduck grabs the [[Smart Ball]] by fighting the invading aliens this way, specifically using lemon meringue pie. Not because pieing them would actually stop them in any way, but because harpies [[Call Back| (which have laired around Duckberg since season one)]] are ''very'' fond of lemon, and swoop down to attack the invaders upon catching the scent.

== Real Life ==
* The University of Victoria's Engineering Students' Society has an annual fundraiser on March 14, Pi Day (3.14 - get it?) One person makes a donation to have an individual of their choice pied; the victim can dodge the pastry by matching the donation. Some good-natured individuals allow themselves to be pied but donate as well.
* Same with University of Calgary's own ESS. '''''[[Oh Crap]].''''' This would be a [[Berserk Button]] had it happened outside of Engineering or if an informal restraining order was never made.
* The Biotic Baking Brigade, a San Francisco-based left-wing activist group, specializes in throwing pies in the faces of those it regards as its political foes.
** Former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien was pied by a member of this group in 2000.
** As mentioned at the top of this page, Bill Gates suffered a similar fate on a trip to Belgium.
* Indeed [[Wikipedia|The Other Wiki]] has [[wikipedia:List of people who have been pied|a page devoted to people who have been "pied" at some point]].
* And then there are the organizations that are dedicated to pieing people. [http://www.entartistes.ca/ Like these people.]
* In recent years, it's become common for a professional baseball player who gets a game-winning hit to be rewarded with a shaving-cream pie to the face from his teammates.
* ''[[Skippy's List]]'' references one particular incident where pies, to be thrown at the unit CO, would be auctioned off for a charity fundraiser. The pies, however, would be "[[Blatant Lies|voluntarily]]" bought by individual soldiers. So Skippy, being [[The Loonie]] that he is, decides that a traditional cream pie would be too blasé, and goes with something [https://web.archive.org/web/20131022073318/http://skippyslist.com/2007/07/09/cephalopod-surprise/ a little nontraditional...]
* In the 70s, science fiction critic Charles Platt pied magazine editor Ted White in the face at a convention. Sadly, White didn't see the funny side.
* Since 2010, the [[Furry Fandom]] convention ''Rainfurrest'' has featured the tradition of pieing staff members in the face if their charitable donation goals are reached.
* The first time Fred Rogers ever turned on a television, he saw footage of people throwing pies in each other's faces. The violence disgusted him enough that he decided to devote his life to gentler television programming. Pies in the face are directly responsible for ''[[Mister Rogers' Neighborhood]]''.
* A [http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10792399 variant of this] has been carried out in [[New Zealand]] with [[wikipedia:Lamington|lamington cakes]]—twice.

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