History Main / PieInTheFace

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* The game Pie Face is all about this trope. Players roll a die for the number of times to turn the crank, stick their face through a hole in front of a hand holding a pie, and turn it that number of times. If the pie doesn't get launched in their face, they give another player a turn. Whoever gets hit with the pie loses.
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** In "UsefulNotes/WiiU[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilaJtPQsPvk&ab_channel=ScottTheWoz : Downfall of a Downfall (Part II)]]", in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it example, he suddenly gets nailed by a pie offscreen again.

'''Ernie:''' Yeah, yeah, of course I do. That is a banana cream pie.\\

* ''Series/SesameStreet'' Happens during the song "Surprise," with [[FlyAtTheCameraEnding even the viewer getting pied.]]

* ''Series/SesameStreet'' during the song "Surprise," with [[FlyAtTheCameraEnding even the viewer getting pied.]]

* The Music/BeastieBoys in the video for "(You've Got to) Fight for Your Right (to Party!)", from ''Music/LicensedToIll''.

* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': In an old Scrooge McDuck comic, there's an incident where Scrooge, Donald, and the kids are trying to retrieve a rare coin from where it bounced into a custard pie in a bakery. The bakers misunderstand, and the whole situation devolves into a pie war.

* In ''Fanfic/PathToMunchies'', Taylor's first idea for using her power (she can make foolproof plans for anything as long as food is involved in the process) to be a hero is 'throw pies at [[ThoseWackyNazis Kaiser]] until he surrenders'. She decides not to go through with it when it turns out to be not only doable but rather sadistic, since it's months of him never being able to show his face without it getting pied. By the endgame, he's a broken shell of a man known by everyone as 'Pieser', and Taylor is thought of as a villain.

* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': In an old Scrooge McDuck comic, there's an incident where Scrooge, Donald, and the kids are trying to retrieve a rare coin from where it bounced into a custard pie in a bakery. The bakers misunderstand, and the whole situation devolves into a pie war.

* ''VideoGame/LoveAndPies'': The beginning of the Pie Pass event shows everyone throwing pies at each other.

* ''VideoGame/NetHack'' has a cream pie item, which causes blindness. On the one hand, stealing from shops will result in Keystone Kops showing up to [[ShopliftAndDie 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 [[PacifistRun pacifist conduct]].

* [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker]], as befitting his chaotic nature, once concocted an elaborate scheme whose sole purpose was to hit Characters/{{Batman|TheCharacter}} in the face with a pie.
* In ''ComicBook/ThePunisherWelcomeBackFrank'' story arc of ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'', Castle finally manages to stun [[MadeOfIron The Russian]] by throwing hot pizza in his face.

* In a ''ComicBook/RichieRich'' story, Richie keeps coming up with ideas for keeping their money safe from burglars. One comes from an old slapstick comedy in which a police officer pies a criminal. Richie's implementation is to mount a spring-loaded giant hand in a safe, with a giant pie in front; when the burglar cracks the safe, the pie is launched at him.
* In an old [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Scrooge McDuck comic]], there's an incident where Scrooge, Donald, and the kids are trying to retrieve a rare coin from where it bounced into a custard pie in a bakery. The bakers misunderstand, and the whole situation devolves into a pie war.
* ''ComicBook/SuicideSquad'' has a RunningGag subplot about a mysterious attacker pieing their personnel and visitors (in one issue, [[Characters/SupermanLoisLane Lois Lane]] was pied!). It turns out to be [[spoiler:Captain Boomerang, who'd earlier arranged to attack himself with a boomerang pie to divert suspicion]].
* There's a running gag of Prankster pieing Characters/{{Superman|TheCharacter}}. Granted, on at least one occasion, the pie delivered an electric shock or other nasty surprise. Creator/{{Gotlib}} did the same gag on a U-Comix cover: Superman is ImmuneToBullets, but his dignity is ruined by the pie.
* In ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'', it is revealed that during the one-year-later arc Miss Martian joined and left the team. The reason she left? [[AliensStealCable She saw]] a [[Film/TheThreeStooges 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.
* ''ComicBook/XMen #8''. [[Characters/MarvelComicsGambit Gambit]]: "A plasma rifle 'gainst a boysenberry pie? Can you see the crazed psychopath in this picture?" Naturally, [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bis7ofRCcAAC-d1.jpg Rogue gets the pie in the face]].
* In Creator/ScottMcCloud's ''ComicBook/{{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 [[TheBlank 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.

* A ''Webcomic/WhatsNewWithPhilAndDixie'' strip about practical jokes in D&D says that since the point is loss of dignity, it's funnier to hit a paladin in the face with a pie than a tavern wench. The next panel shows a cheerfully pied paladin saying "Mmm, pie!" and a caption saying "...Sometimes".

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14026808/7/Daphne-Greengrass-and-the-Preemptive-Adulterer Daphne Greengrass and the Preemptive Adulterer]]'' Daphne uses a self-propelled coconut cream pie to distract Lucius Malfoy during a critical moment.

[[caption-width-right:240: [[WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry Let 'em have it!]]]]

* There was an entire episode of ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa'' dedicated to this after Dedede was seen getting pied on live television. HilarityEnsues, and many of the pies thrown are simply eaten by Kirby. Dedede even had the MonsterOfTheWeek be a pie-throwing monster; its pies are [[LethalChef so horrible]] that [[ExtremeOmnivore even Kirby]] won't eat them. Even [[TheComicallySerious Meta Knight]] is pied at one point.

* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': [[ComicBook/TheThing Ben Grimm]] once got a pie in the face from a spring-loaded box, courtesy of the Yancey Street Gang. [[spoiler:Or, rather, [[ComicBook/HumanTorch Johnny Storm]], who had been framing the Yanceys for his pranks for years.]]
* ComicBook/TheJoker, as befitting his chaotic nature, once concocted an elaborate scheme whose sole purpose was to hit Franchise/{{Batman}} in the face with a pie.

* In an old [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Scrooge [=McDuck=] comic]], there's an incident where Scrooge, Donald, and the kids are trying to retrieve a rare coin from where it bounced into a custard pie in a bakery. The bakers misunderstand, and the whole situation devolves into a pie war.
* ''ComicBook/SuicideSquad'' has a RunningGag subplot about a mysterious attacker pieing their personnel and visitors (in one issue, ComicBook/LoisLane was pied!). It turns out to be [[spoiler:Captain Boomerang, who'd earlier arranged to attack himself with a boomerang pie to divert suspicion]].
* There's a running gag of Prankster pieing Franchise/{{Superman}}. Granted, on at least one occasion, the pie delivered an electric shock or other nasty surprise. Creator/{{Gotlib}} did the same gag on a U-Comix cover: Superman is ImmuneToBullets, but his dignity is ruined by the pie.

* ''ComicBook/XMen #8''. ComicBook/{{Gambit}}: "A plasma rifle 'gainst a boysenberry pie? Can you see the crazed psychopath in this picture?" Naturally, [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bis7ofRCcAAC-d1.jpg Rogue gets the pie in the face]].

* ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears: The Runamuck Dog Show'' has a banana cream pie hitting Dr. Hairball in the face while an angel food cake lands on Minister Jones' head while HilarityEnsues.

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* In a ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' skit from the 1990s, Chris Farley’s character, while on a date at a restaurant, is informed by the waiter that he is not drinking regular coffee but Columbian Decaffeinated Coffee Crystals, as part of a hidden camera commercial. He explodes in fury, rampaging through the restaurant, and at one point throws pies at an unsuspecting couple.
* In an attempt to demonstrate his sense of humour, Sheldon does this to Leonard in ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' through a BaitAndSwitch - he initially pretends to Leonard that he's playing a snake-in-the-peanut-brittle-can prank, with Leonard surprised that he's been given a real can of peanut brittle, before Sheldon hits him in the face with a pie.
* Creator/LucilleBall both dealt and received many of these, on her long-running show ''Series/ILoveLucy''.
* Creator/MindyKaling took a [[https://youtu.be/2dWPimNHjuM cake to the face]] in ''Series/TheMindyProject'' when she confessed to her boyfriend's ex, Heather (Creator/EllieKemper) that she had sabotaged her chances of renting a place in the same building as her. Heather [[HairTriggerTemper did not take it well]].
* A Victorian couple in ''Series/HorribleHistories'' are having a picnic together where the era's stuffy propriety is dialed up to eleven and everything the man does is declared some form of bad manners by the woman. After she finally says "[[TemptingFate There is nothing improper about an apple pie]]" she gets one shoved in her face by the exasperated man.
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* A recent rivalry in WWE had Toni Storm getting a pie in the face twice by Charlotte Flair on an edition of [=SmackDown=], Toni puts a pie in Charlotte in face as revenge the following week.

** In the Sandy Duncan episode, she gets pied by Behemoth for calling him ugly. (She's ''trying'' to say he's beautiful inside.)
** Fozzie gets one from a rival comedian bear in one episode, and from Paul Simon in another.
** At the end of the Candice Bergen episode, Kermit appears with a "pie for Fozzie Bear" (the culmination of a RunningGag where Fozzie would call there was "[X] for Kermit the Frog"). When he pies Fozzie, some of it splatters onto Bergen, and Fozzie says "Look what you did!"

* In ''VideoGame/DeadRising'' 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.
** This is also used as one of Frank West's attacks in ''Ultimate VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'', where he throws a pie at the opponent's face. It only sticks for a second though.

* In ''VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'', ComicBook/TheJoker's [[LimitBreak super move]] starts by throwing a pie into his opponent's face, allowing him to move in for the rest of the attack (filled with [[CrowbarCombatant crowbar-smashing]] and [[NoRangeLikePointBlankRange explosions!]]). In ''VideoGame/Injustice2'', his new LimitBreak is instead initiated by lobbing a gas canister at his enemy, [[CallBack but if he's equipped with "Side Order of Pie" gear, it returns to being a pie to the face]].

* In [[http://www.pvponline.com/comic/2004/09/06/september-6-2004 this]] ''Webcomic/{{PvP}}'' strip, fantasy LARP plus Civil War re-enactors plus Klingon LARP plus a broken-down catering truck equaled one rather bizarre pie-fight.

* A ''Webcomic/WhatsNewWithPhilAndDixie'' strip about practical jokes in D&D says that since the point is loss of diginity, it's funnier to hit a paladin in the face with a pie than a tavern wench. The next panel shows a cheefully pied paladin saying "Mmm, pie!" and a caption saying "...Sometimes".

* A variant: in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0q5JWRsA6c this video]], a guy and his girlfriend make a cake. When they are done, he (around 12 minutes in), shoves a piece of cake in her face. While she's a bit mad at first, she seems to forgive him pretty quickly, as the two of them start kissing while she still has cake all over her face.

* As a variant, it's not that uncommon for newlyweds to shove wedding cake in each other's faces and the like. As they generally agree to it beforehand, it's not considered assault or the like.
** There have been cases where it was ''not'' agreed on before hand, and some marriages have ended there and then.

* In ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'', the faces of Mt. Rushmore get ''big'' ones--Except for Abe, who gets his in the back of the head, and the filling ''leaks out his nose''.