For us old guys, fantasy was everything before the internet, before home video, before Splosh. Pictures like this one were exciting. My imagination is she's thinking "Oh no your not going to throw that pie are you?"

Of course that isn't what happened next but I can dream can't I?

The set-up is the best part! The situation leading to the pie in the face is more exciting than just taking a pie to the face. The anticipation is very important. I want the build up to it. It's more exciting knowing that it's going to happen and really wanting it to happen but not knowing when or how it's going to happen make it more fun.

Yeah, Creamy, and you ARE the best at it!

100%

I see that I was not the only one

I was well into my 30s before I realized that was an actual Carly Simon song and NOT a ketchup commercial.

It's like the difference between sex and a cum shot

Here's another anticipation photo, seen in all sorts of mainstream slapstick comedies: "Whats going on here?"

Speaking of 'anticipation' shots... this image was found on pinterest (no actual wam*)...but what a fantastic set up! So many aesthetic details in the photo...it almost takes my breath away.

* but I wonder how the actual photo shoot went / evolved / played out

Anticipation can make or break a scene, who will get it? What will they get?
Are they wearing stockings or tights under their clothes?
What will their reaction be?
Used to love votes on things like Noels House party, where you would have to wait to see whether the attractive, perky, beautifully dressed female would get gunged, or the grizzled old bloke..and it was usually the latter..
Although nowadays, because of the nasty hate spreading headlines from the Sun and Mail, about us perverts trying to rig gunge/pie votes tgere is a sense of guilt, although I guess when these young women go on wearing sandals, they wear them because of fashion, and don't give any thought to the many foot fetishists out there, anymorenthan they do us.