Pie In The Face / Western Animation

Giving characters a Pie in the Face in Western Animation.

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• In the 3-2-1 Penguins! episode "Practical Hoax", Fidgel receives one of these when he opens his laptop thanks to Jason and Midgel.
• An episode of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius has Jimmy's evil clone do this to a bystander. Lampshaded by the clone, who laughs and gives an Aside Glance to the audience while saying "You can't beat the classics".
• Adventure Time has Never-Ending-Pie-Throwing Robot, or NEPTR, a robot Finn built for the purpose of inflicting this practical joke upon Jake potentially infinitely.
• 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.
• In "Buster Bombs" from Arthur, Buster tries having Arthur throwing pies at him, desperate to find something that will make people laugh. Arthur is just grossed out.
• In Avatar: The Last Airbender, practicing airbending aim with pie-throwing at meditating monks was shown in flashbacks to have been one of Monk Gyatso's training methods for a young Aang.
  • In Book Four of The Legend of Korra, the incompetent, foolish Prince Wu is making his way towards his waiting Satomobile when several sinister figures start making their way through the crowd. The music turns tense. Mako, Wu's bodyguard, sees what's going on, grabs Wu, and tosses him into the cover of the car... and the "assassins" start flinging fruit pies. It gets better after Wu mistakes the strawberry filling on his shirt for something else that's red.
• Back at the Barnyard has Otis (as Ned Bovine) getting into a Pie Fight with Nora Beady right after his mustache falls off during the debate and Mrs. Beady tried to get the people to believe that Ned Bovine is a talking animal.
• Just as in the comics, in the 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.
• In Batman Beyond, the Jokerz member Spike threw pies. Later, in a crossover with Static Shock, he upgraded to pies filled with acid. Fortunately, Virgil dodged it, and it ate through a wall.
• An episode of Bonkers features a Running Gag about which flavors of pie were appropriate for this gag.
• One episode of The Buzz on Maggie has Maggie being picked to give Principal Pestrip a pie in the face as homecoming prank, being perhaps the first student to do so since others couldn't due to Pestrip creating some sort of diversion on them to avoid being pied. What does Pestrip do to avoid getting this from Maggie? Appointing her brother, Pupert, as one of his safety monitors and hoping she breaks enough rules that he gives her detention, but Maggie sees through Pestrip's plan and tries not to break the 40th and final rule that would get her a detention, but while being continuously tailed by Pupert, she shreds one of her previous citations, which results in the 40th rule broken. Pupert eventually realizes Maggie was right just as she makes it before she could be sent to detention and finishes the job for her of giving Pestrip the pie in the face.
• Care Bears
  • In "Caring for Spring", Simple Simon (Beastly) lost his other pies before he can eat them. He throws his last pie at Wicked Witch of Winter (Shreeky). "It was my last pie, but it was worth it."
  • At the end of "Space Bubbles", Grumpy makes fun of himself by falling on his own pie. This covers his face.
• 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.
• Courage the Cowardly Dog
  • In the episode "Dr. Le Quack: Amnesia Specialist", Dr. Le Quack feigns an amnesia specialist visiting the Bagge's house and attempts to interrogate Muriel, who has suffered amnesia due to a bump on the head earlier, by asking her where she is keeping the riches. When Muriel can't remember, Le Quack responds by torturing her in different ways, such as throwing a pie in her face.
  • Le Quack himself later on falls victim to this in "Nowhere TV" during a battle with Courage, only for his annoyance to alter to an Oh, Crap! expression when he finds that the pie has a hidden bomb inside. You can guess how this ends.
• Danger Mouse: When DM and Penfold stop to ask The Prankster Funny Bone for directions in "The Invasion of Colonel K", they are initially greeted by a barrage of custard pies to the face.
• Darkwing Duck:
  • A running gag in the episode "Comic Book Capers", where the culprit is a funny-looking Native American named Running Gag.
  • Dr Sara Bellum invents a bazooka that fires expanding pies in "Just Us Justice Ducks".
• The "Balmy Swami" episode of Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines includes an airborne pie fight among the Vulture Squadron members.
• In an episode of Dennis the Menace, Dennis accidentally triggers a huge pie fight at a cafe when a woman sits on the pumpkin pie he planned on buying.
• In Doc McStuffins: "Toy Hospital: Welcome to McStuffinsville, Stanley gets pied by his own trap that he set. He then gets ice cream on the head because it was set to "pie a la mode."
• In DuckTales (2017), one of Gizmoduck's weapons is a hand that comes out of his chest and throws a pie (assorted flavours). Gizmoduck himself has no idea how his armor can store so many pies.
• Ed, Edd n Eddy: In "Oath to an Ed", Eddy tries to earn an Urban Rangers badge by being a "good neighbor" and offering a pie to Sarah. When he does, she throws it in his face, knowing he can't retaliate lest he fail his objective.
• Ewoks: An Ewok gets one from an invisible Dulok in "The Haunted Village" (Them having stolen the invisibiliy soap that was to be used on the sunberry trees).
• Done in the pilot of The Fairly OddParents!, with Cosmo pieing Vicky while wearing Groucho Marx glasses.
  Cosmo: That's the first time the baby ever sat on the sitter.
  Vicky: HELP!!
  Cosmo: Sorry, the secret word was "pie".
• Family Guy:
  • The musical number "It's a Wonderful Day for Pie" in the episode "Road to the Multiverse", set in a Disney-esque alternate universe, concludes with Herbert (in the guise of the Wicked Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) pelted with pies by the rest of the cast (except Brian and Stewie).
  • In the episode "You Can't Do That On Television, Peter", Peter creates a puppet named "Saggy Naggy" (based on Lois, who has been nagging him constantly to help around the house) for his children's TV show, and throws a blueberry pie into Saggy Naggy's face — leading a child to do the same to the "real" Lois while she's out shopping.
  • A Cutaway Gag from "#JOLO" shows a dog-riding midget clown throwing a pie in Meg's face as one of the many bizarre things Peter planned to have at his funeral.
  • Referenced in "A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Bucks", when Peter attends a performance of Uncle Vanya, that he finds to be rather dull. He calls out from the audience, "For crying out loud, somebody throw a pie!"
• Fanboy and Chum Chum:
  • Pies thrown in the face are among the pranks pulled in "Prank Master".
  • At the end of "Funny Face", the class picture is screwed up when the pies Mr. Mufflin baked end up hitting the faces of Fanboy and Chum Chum's classmates.
• A Running Gag on Garfield and Friends. (In the original comic strip too.) The Written Sound Effect "SPLUT!" was carried over with a booming voice. One of the lyrics in the show's second theme song is "And pies of (and pies of) all sizes!"
• The Garfield Show has a Game-Show-Within-a-Show called "Say a Type of Tree and Get Hit in the Face With a Pie". It is Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
• In the Gargoyles episode "Vendettas", Ascended Extra Vinnie — who'd filled the role of hapless mook in several past episodes — follows Goliath and Hudson around all night (while they're busy fighting a real enemy) with a humongous bazooka he calls "Mr. Carter", bent on revenge for his mishaps at the gargoyles' (mostly unwitting) hands. Eventually, he gets his chance... and shoots Goliath in the face with a pie. Now satisfied, Vinnie tells him they're even and walks away, humming the Theme Tune. They have no idea who he is.
  Hudson: Hmm, banana cream!
• The Hair Bear Bunch: In "Whatever Happened To Goldilocks And The Three Bears," The bears and Mr. Peevly are starring in a revisionist filming of the fairy tale. When Hair Bear steps on Twinkles Sunshine's (Goldilocks) line, she throws a bowl of porridge at him. It hits Peevly, leading to an on-set porridge fight.
• Heckle and Jeckle pull this on Chesty and Dimwit (who are bank robbers) in "The Hitch-Hikers." Jeckle poses a quiz show question to Chesty; when he doesn't answer in time, Heckle throws a pie in his face.
• Jimmy Two-Shoes:
  • Heloise tries hitting one of the Things That Go "Bump" in the Night with one, who dodges it. She hits him with a trash bag instead.
  • The Rodeo Clowns love doing this, although they don't always get the intended results. The first time they tried to pie Jimmy, he just ate it and told them it was delicious, which only infuriated the clowns.
• In the King of the Hill episode "A Firefighting We Will Go," Dale and Bill get into a Three Stooges-style slapstick chase that briefly culminates with Bill stealing Boomhauer's fresh-baked Frito pie and throwing it at Dale... who blocks it with his face shied (they were volunteer firefighters in this episode) and throws the pie back at Bill, whose face gets badly burned as a result.
• Many instances in Looney Tunes:
  • 1942's "Case of the Missing Hare" starts with an argument between Bugs and a magician who put a flyer up over the tree hollow he was living in. The magician offers Bugs a pie to placate him — then smashes it in his face. "Of course you realize this means war." Hilarity (and a returned pie at the end of the cartoon) ensues.
  • Bugs Bunny repeatedly hits Elmer Fudd with these (after tricking Elmer into making them first) 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.
  • Vaudevillians Bugs and Elmer take turns with this in What's Up, Doc??
  • In Shishkabugs, Bugs releases a spring-loaded pie into the face of the king, causing royal cook Yosemite Sam to be led away to the dungeon.
  • In A Hare Grows in Manhattan, Bugs pies a dog in the face, then wipes it out while apologizing profusely:
    Bugs: My goodness, I don't know what came over me! You wanted cherry pie! *splut*
  • In Leghorn Swoggled, Foghorn Leghorn rigs a toy train with a pie and sends it to the front door of the Barnyard Dawg's house, causing the latter to get pelted when he sticks his head out to see what's going on.
  • 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!" says Daffy at the end.)
  • 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.
  • A Ham in a Role opens with a dog getting a pie in the face — he turns out to be an Animated Actor who's sick of doing funny cartoons and goes off to study the Bard. At cartoon's end, he is given a choice part where he begins Hamlet's soliloquy... and gets a pie in the face.
• The Loud House: Luan Loud, being a comedian, is fond of using this, which is demonstrated in the shows opening where she tries to pie Lincoln but he dodges.
• The Mickey Mouse cartoon The Little Whirlwind has Minnie promising Mickey some of a cake she just made if he does yardwork for her. Mickey's conflict with the eponymous whirlwind ends up leaving the yard a mess, and when Minnie sees the aftermath, she's enraged enough to throw the whole cake in Mickey's face. Mickey doesn't really mind because, hey- he still got to taste the cake.
• This occurs in Mixels when Kraw, having combined with Gobba, performs a joke for his final act in Vaudeville Fun.
  Kraw + Gobba Comedian Mix: That's no Nixel! That's my brother-in-law!
• In an episode of Muppet Babies, Fozzie tries to bake blueberry muffins; however, Scooter tells him he's actually following the recipe for "comedy cream pie", at which point Fozzie gets hit in the face with one.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • In the episode "Over a Barrel", the settler ponies fight the buffalo with pies.
  • In "A Bird in the Hoof", an overexcited Pinkie Pie does this to herself at a party in honor of a visiting Princess Celestia.
  • In "The Best Night Ever", poor Rarity ends up getting hit with a flying layer cake which Prince Blueblood was using her to shield himself from.
  • In "Power Ponies", Pinkie Pie (as Filli-Second) hits one of the Mane-iac's mooks in the face with a banana split.
  • In "No Second Prances", Starlight Glimmer drops a huge cake she created onto Mrs. Cake.
• In My Little Pony: The Movie (1986), the witch sisters Reeka and Draggle get covered in pies while attempting (and failing) to spoil the ponies' Spring Festival. Reeka then sticks another pie in Draggle's face after the chaos is over.
• Phineas and Ferb:
  • The first of many indignities Candace receives in "Comet Kermillian" when she goes on a picnic with her crush's Enfant Terrible sister Suzy is a blueberry pie in the face. The others include being pushed down a hill in an ice cream cart and getting squirrels in her pants.
  • Candace also gets pelted with pies aplenty in "Let's Take a Quiz".
• In The Powerpuff Girls (1998) episode "Supper Villain", the next-door neighbor decides to become a villain, but he is not allowed to follow through with his evil scheme until after dinner is over. When dessert is served, Blossom throws a pie at him. This leads to a big pie fight, ruining dinner and leading to a Face–Heel Turn for his wife.
• Problem Child had an episode featuring a deranged clown that was obsessed with hitting people in the face with pies. At the end of the episode he winds up being dropped into an enormous pie that had been made in an attempt to set a new record for "World's Biggest Pie," resulting in the person who made it being instead given the record for the world's biggest pie in the face.
• Rocky and Bullwinkle did this in a "Bullwinkle's Poetry Corner" segment. After an attempt at reciting "Simple Simon" is side-tracked by a Who's on First? routine, Boris Badenov (playing the pie-man) hits Bullwinkle (playing Simple Simon) in the face with some of his "wares". Bullwinkle doesn't mind, remarking "Now I'm getting some ware!"
• The Simpsons:
  • In "Simple Simpson", Homer becomes the Pieman, a costumed vigilante whose shtick is throwing pies at Springfield's jerkasses.
  • In "Brother From Another Series", 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.
    Cecil: Uh, I have prepared a pie-in-the-face take.
    Krusty: (groaning) Alright, knock yourself out, kid. Hal!
    (a pie flies in from offscreen and hits Cecil; Cecil vocalises a timid 'ta-da!')
    Krusty: Free comedy tip, slick: the pie gag's only funny when the sap's got dignity! (gesturing to Bob) Like that guy! Hey Hal! Pie job for Lord Autumn-Bottom there!
    (a pie hits Bob from offscreen, knocking off his hat and releasing his palm tree-like hair)
    Bob: ...Oh, dear.
  • In "Krusty Gets Busted", a behind-the-scenes footage reel shows Sideshow Bob doing this to Krusty. In response, Krusty punches Bob in the face.
  • 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, "Mmm... Blueberry...")
  • In "Bart the Fink", the IRS seizes Krusty's assets and as a result, his show gets corners cut. The show can't even afford pies to throw, and neither someone to throw them at.
    Krusty: Well, throw something! (a briefcase gets thrown at him) Gah! Oh, the corner!
  • In "Homie the Clown", one of the lessons Krusty teaches is how to get laughs with a wealthy dowager in the room by throwing a pie at her so hard that she smashes her head against the wall and causes a crater.
    Homer: (taking notes) Kill wealthy dowager...
  • In "The Clown Stays in The Picture", Krusty admits he's afraid of pies and all "pies" thrown at his face were cakes made to look like pies.
  • The sketch Bart is dragooned into in "Bart Gets Famous" had been intended to consist of an extremely dragged-out pie in the face gag.
    Krusty: Anyway, all you gotta do is say, "I am waiting for a bus." Then I hit you with pies for five minutes.
• The Smurfs (1981):
  • Jokey Smurf masquerades as the episode's eponymous Masked Pie Smurfer to attack his fellow Smurfs with pies, resulting in an Escalating War.
  • In "Reckless Smurfs", a few Smurfs go around pieing Smurfs in the face with plates full of pooka nut icing to cure them of the effects of Daredevil Dust. Even the camera gets pied.
• One episode of Sonic Boom appears to end on a warm note, only for Tails to interrupt, saying they forgot to end on a punchline. A couple pies proceed to fall our of the sky and land on him.
• The plot of the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Dying for Pie" involves Squidward giving SpongeBob a pie which, unbeknownst to him, is actually a highly volatile explosive. Over the course of the episode, a guilt-ridden Squidward attempts to give SpongeBob an enjoyable final day, thinking that he has eaten the pie, only to find out that he hasn't. SpongeBob then trips and accidentally throws the pie in Squidward's face, and the episode ends with a mushroom cloud (actually footage of the Bikini Atoll nuclear test) presumably where they stand.
  "Ouch."
  • In Squirrel Jokes, a clown called Dougie Williams does this as his entire act at the Komedy Krab.
    Dougie Williams: Good evening, folks. I'm going to skip the jokes and get right to the part where I throw pies at you! [pulls out a cart of pies. The crowd takes out their umbrellas. SpongeBob opens the curtain from behind and gets splattered with pie]
• As one of the many pranks played by the Enterprise computer in the Star Trek: The Animated Series episode "The Practical Joker", a pie is shot out of a food replicator and straight into Scotty's face.
• In the Steven Universe episode "So Many Birthdays," Steven throws a birthday party for the Gems, who have no concept of birthdays, and tries to give himself a pie in the face. When he pretends to trip and fall onto it, Pearl catches him, so Steven just shoves it directly into his own face. She is upset at how wasteful it is but ends up doing it to herself to try and cheer him up when he accidentally ages himself to near-death.
• In the Super Mario World episode "Send in the Clown," the circus performers torture ringmaster Big Mouth, hitting him a pie at one point. Then, a pie-throwing machine is rolled out with the ammo hitting Rexes disguised as clowns and cave people in the audience. Yoshi saves the Mario Bros. from punishment by eating any pies that are launched in their direction.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) introduced Usagi Yojimbo into the series when he defeats Raphael, Donatello, and Leonardo (who were using ninja weapons) but is bested when Michelangelo flings a pizza pie into his face. He licks the pie to find it tastes delicious. When Usagi asks what manner of fighting this is, Splinter comments, "I believe it is called, 'slapstick'."
• 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 "Lemme have it!"
  • In Solid Serenade, Jerry hits Tom with two pies... the former of which has a steam iron hidden inside it.
  • Tom tag Jerry with a pie in the everything (he's a mouse, after all) at the end of Jerry's Diary.
  • In another cartoon, Jerry pelts Tom with a cream puff. Tom gets wise and opens his mouth wide to catch Jerry's second throw and just gets a tasty treat. So Jerry loads the last one with a salt shaker...
• Also used in the U.S. Acres shorts, including the episode "Big Bad Buddy Bird", which had a holiday called "Don't-Mention-Meat-Or-Someone-Will-Hit-You-With-A-Banana-Cream-Pie Day".
• In the Donald Duck wartime short "The Vanishing Private", Donald gets dunked in invisible paint and spends the second half of the cartoon trolling Sergeant Pete. At one point, he passes a tray of pies cooling on a window sill and helps himself to one; when Pete peers curiously at the pie hovering in midair with a bite taken out of it, Donald smashes it into his face and runs off.
• The VeggieTales episode "King George And The Ducky" replaces the Biblical war that named The Uriah Gambit with a more kid-friendly Great Pie War, in which pies are flung into the enemy lines by catapults.
• Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa: Dakota Dude gets hit in the face with a pie in "Circus Daze".
• A Winnie The Pooh Thanksgiving: Rabbit has to catch the pumpkin pie which was accidentally launched in the air by Eeyore and Tigger. He manages to catch it, but Tigger slaps him on the back with pride. This caused Rabbit to lose his balance on the tipped over table he was standing on and landed face first in the pumpkin pie.
• In one Yogi Bear cartoon, a visitor to Jellystone Park is standing under a tree when a blueberry pie falls from the tree onto his head.

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