Top 5 – Pie Scenes in a Movie

Today is Pi Day (3.14), so to have a little fun, here are the best pie scenes in cinematic history.

5 – Sweeney Todd and the Demon Barber of Fleet Street  (Tim Burton, 2007)

Sweeney Todd and the Demon Barber of Fleet Street is one of my favorite musicals of all-time and one of Tim Burton’s best films.  Mrs. Lovett (Helena Bonham Carter) and her pies are horrible, as her intro song implies.  However, business starts booming when she uses people as meat instead of whatever stuff she was using before.  That’s right, people.  It’s pretty sick stuff, but extremely entertaining for a gothic musical.

4- The Help (Tate Taylor, 2011)

The Help is one of the biggest surprises of this decade.  I did not expect this movie to be as good as it was, but I absolutely love it.  Viola Davis was criminally robbed of Best Actress Oscar that year, and it was the breakout for now megastar Jessica Chastain.  But, it was Oscar winner Octavia Spencer who stole the movie and had the scene everyone was talking about.  After being fired for using the white folks’ toilet, Minny Jackson (Spencer), in an apparent act of good faith, gives the woman who fired her Hilly (Bryce Dallas Howard) a chocolate pie.  After a couple servings, Minny reveals to Hilly that the brown filling in the pie wasn’t all chocolate (use your imagination if you can’t figure it out).  It was a hilarious, powerful, applaud inducing scene and gives new meaning to the phrase, “Eat my shit.”

3- Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks, 1974)

In Mel Brooks’ comedy masterpiece, Brooks ends the film with a fight between the Rock Ridge townsfolk and the desperadoes assigned to get them out of town.  This brawl roles into a sound stage on the Warner Bros. lot amongst other productions and tourists.  The fight makes it way into the studio commissary, where a pie fight breaks out.  Hundreds of pies are thrown all over the scene, hitting everyone in site, including the films main villain Hedy Lamar (Harvey Korman).  Only Brooks could pull this off and make it fit in the film as well as make it iconic.

2- Stand By Me (Rob Reiner, 1986)

Much like The Help, the pie scene in Stand By Me is one of revenge in the wildest way.  Gordie (Will Wheaton) is telling a campfire story to his buddies about “Lardass” Hogan.  Hogan is a bullied teen who exacts the best revenge on the town at a local pie eating contest.  Before the contest, he swallows a bottle of castor oil and a raw egg and then starts going to town on the pies.  The oil and egg combination causes Hogan to projectile vomit all over one of his competitors, which then causes the audience and everyone on the stage to start vomiting as well.  It’s gross, amusing, and a perfect fable in a perfect movie.

1- American Pie (Paul Weitz & Chris Weitz, 1999)

Arguably the most iconic pie scene of all-time, there isn’t much debate as to why.  After being informed having sex is like having sex with warm apple pie, Jim (Jason Biggs) takes it literally and has sex with a pie his mother just made and father catches him.  It is hilarious and painfully awkward and one of the classic scenes in comedy history.

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