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* 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... [[~~Big~~ ~~Lipped~~ ~~Alligator Moment~~|throwing pies at zombies]]. We'd call it a [[Narm]] moment, but George Romero might have been going for laughs here.

* 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]].

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* ''[[Three's Company|Threes 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".

* 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.

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