Pie in the Face: Difference between revisions

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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.

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.

 

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* ''The Shaggy D.A.'', notable for a cigar punching right through the pie.

* ''Going Ape''.

* ''[[The Addams Family|Addams Family Values]]''.

* ''Heartburn''.

* The climactic scene of ''Nanny McPhee'' has this with wedding cake.

* ''[[Singin' in the Rain|Singin in The Rain]]''. Lampshaded as a movie tradition, and possibly subverted: Don Lockwood dodges and the pie hits Lina Lamont.

* 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.

** Cream pies to the face are an occupational hazard of coming too close to the Fool's Guild.

** In ''[[Discworld/Making Money|Making Money]]'', they're also portrayed as the greatest threat to Lord Vetinari's tenure as Patrician.

* 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.

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* ''[[Three's Company|Threes Company]]'', the "bake-off" episode.

* ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'', in the first [[Cousin Oliver]] episode, "Welcome Aboard"

* 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.

* ''[[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.

* Johnny Carson would often get hit with pies in a recurring ''[[The Tonight Show]]'' sketch theme.

* ''[[Treasure Hunt US]]'', several times.

* 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.]

** ''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.

* 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]]''

* 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|Mister Rogers Neighborhood]]''.

 

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