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{{trope|wppage=Pieing}}
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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.
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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}}
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== 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 ==
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* 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.
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* [[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.▼
* 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]]''.▼
* 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.▼
{{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.▼
▲* One of the earliest recorded pie scenes 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.
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* ''Heartburn''.
* The climactic scene of ''Nanny McPhee'' has this with wedding cake.
* ''[[Singin' in the
* 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]]''.
▲* [[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.
* 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 ''[[
** They're also a staple of Ankh-Morpork
* 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?
* ''[[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
* ''[[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".
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* ''[[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.
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* 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 ==
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* [[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.]]
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* 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
== 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 ==
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* 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.
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* ''[[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.]
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* 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 ==
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** 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 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''. Of course, in this case, Jerry doesn't ''just'' get it in the ''face''.
* 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.
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{{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.
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* 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.
* In the ''[[Woody Woodpecker]]'' short "Robin Hoody Woody", Woody (portraying [[Robin Hood]]) raids a bakery for pies, then battles the Sheriff of Nottingham and his men by launcing the pies at them with ''catapults''.
* ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]''; given the heroes' love of pizza, ''every'' adaptation has had a few cases where they've used one on a foe this way.
== Real Life ==
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* 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
** 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
* 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'
* 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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