History Main / PieInTheFace

* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'': One strip shows a cowboy having received one and a clown lying dead in front of him.
-->''It was over. But the way the townsfolk called it, neither man was a clear winner.''

** In ''Literature/MakingMoney'', they're also portrayed as the greatest threat to Lord Vetinari's tenure as Patrician. When [[spoiler: Mr. Bent]] throws a pie at Vetinari during a big public meeting, Moist [[TakingTheBullet takes the metaphorical bullet]] to save Vetinari from being publicly humiliated.

* ''Literature/OctoberDaye'': At one point during ''Chimes at Midnight'', the False Queen has one of her men hit Toby in the face with a pie made from goblin fruit - which is dangerously addictive to changelings and humans - in an attempt to undermine Toby's credibility as a threat to her power. It not only gets Toby addicted to goblin fruit until she finds a hope chest, but also leads to her unconsciously using her Dóchas Sidhe powers to make herself almost human, just so she can get a better high.

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* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'': If you agree to play pranks with Sera in the ''Trespasser'' DLC, what follows is a ''montage'' of the two of you gleefully pieing random people - and then each other. It's a CallBack to a potential dialogue from the main game, in which Sera assures the Inquisitor that they're not evil enough to deserve any worse treatment than a pie in the face.

** Doc receives one in [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb383.html this strip,]] [[spoiler: ultimately revealed to have been set up by Bandit]].

* 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.

See other clown tricks, like PullingOutScarvesTrick. ClownCar, and CartoonJuggling.