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*[[Episode 119: Vincent Price|Episode 119]]: Kermit promises โ€œno silliness,โ€ and is then immediately hit with a pie.
 
*[[Episode 119: Vincent Price|Episode 119]]: Kermit promises โ€œno silliness,โ€ and is then immediately hit with a pie.
 
*[[Episode 202: Zero Mostel|Episode 202]]: When [[Sam the Eagle]] calls for his "just desserts," [[Beautiful Day Monster]] hits him with a pie.
 
*[[Episode 202: Zero Mostel|Episode 202]]: When [[Sam the Eagle]] calls for his "just desserts," [[Beautiful Day Monster]] hits him with a pie.
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*[[Episode 324: Cheryl Ladd|Episode 324]]: One line in the song "[[I Enjoy Being a Girl]]" has [[Miss Piggy]] singing "With a pound and a half of cream upon his face!" Kermit is then hit with a cream pie.
 
*[[Episode 511: Paul Simon|Episode 511]]: As [[Paul Simon]] sings "[[Scarborough Fair]]," Fozzie approaches relating the "Simple Simon" rhyme with Fozzie playing the part of the pie man. When Simon asks Fozzie for a custard pie to go, Fozzie asks, "To go where?" Simon shows him where, putting the pie in his face.
 
*[[Episode 511: Paul Simon|Episode 511]]: As [[Paul Simon]] sings "[[Scarborough Fair]]," Fozzie approaches relating the "Simple Simon" rhyme with Fozzie playing the part of the pie man. When Simon asks Fozzie for a custard pie to go, Fozzie asks, "To go where?" Simon shows him where, putting the pie in his face.
 
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A pie is a baked food typically composed of a pastry shell that can be filled with fruit, custard, cream, meat, or other ingredients. It is often covered with a pastry crust when consisting of fruit filling, though pies made of pumpkin or custard are more typically topped simply with whipped cream.

Pie in Humor

The "pie in the face" gag has been around since the days of Vaudeville. The Keystone Kops were credited with bringing it to the big screen. The "art" of the pie fight was later amplified in 1927 with Laurel and Hardy's short film The Battle of the Century. Monty Python, Charlie Chaplin, Bugs Bunny, The Three Stooges, Dick Van Dyke, Carl Reiner, and Mel Brooks have all used pie gags in their productions. The Muppets have used and adapted this joke on numerous occasions. Pies used on The Muppet Show for such gags are made from Crazy Foam, a children's bath product far easier to clean off of puppet fur and fleece than custard or fruit. [1]

Sesame Street

The Muppet Show

Other Uses in Comedy

  • The Muppet Movie: Fozzie crashes his car into a billboard advertising for Aunt Amy's Custard Pies. The pie from the billboard goes flying onto Doc Hopperโ€™s car. Oddly enough, the billboard's designers thought it fitting to use a real, giant pie in its construction.
  • In a deleted scene from It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie, Fozzie tells a joke with a punchline that involves hitting himself in the face with two pies.
  • In a pie gag unique to the Muppets' sensibilities, the viral video โ€œCรฅrven Der Pรผmpkรฎnโ€ has The Swedish Chef prepare pumpkin pie with a bazooka.
  • Time Piece: Don Sahlin gets a pie in the face.

General References

Sesame Street

  • Ernie and Bert: Ernie has two slices of apple pie. He takes the big piece, and gives Bert the small piece. Bert takes offense to this, saying that he would have given Ernie the big piece and kept the small piece for himself - but the outcome is the same, so what's Bert angry about?
    (EKA: Episode 1396)
  • Waiter Grover: Grover serves only "CH" food in honor of Charlie's birthday, including cherry pie.
  • Waiter Grover: On rhyming day, Grover brings Mr. Johnson apple pie instead of tuna on rye.
  • Colambo: The Great Plum Plunder - Colambo enjoys a piece of Christmas pie.
  • "Blueberry Mouth": A song about blueberries and blueberry pie.

Fraggle Rock

Misc Muppet References

Merchandise

Sources