An absolutely great game today for fans of Brazilian hotties and big sticky colored pies. One girl got nailed with 3 in a row for no reason whatsoever, and it was outstanding.

The edit should be forthcoming from the usual sources... And no, in advance of the question that is asked every single time: None of us know what the pies are made of. Still.

Melted Smurfs. DUH.

Or just some girls at Comic Con that got caught in the rain...lol

Rich

Judging by the consistency and the way they look and how they smush to the face, I would say that the recipe they are using is the same recipe that Lenny uses to make his pies. But also...as I recall, this recipe came from "Mike the Pie Man" who was a San Francisco pie performance artist and he attended our pie shoots in 1994 and organized the pies in special way in order to write his poetry on each pie...and he read the poem on each pie before he smushed the pies to our girls or they pie'd him. Lenny also adopted a similar pie recipe when we did our shoots together in Florida....because we had two logistical problems with the pies...

1) The Florida heat...which was 90 degrees, and most pies would melt before anybody could pick them up (if you take the Universal Studios tour, they tell you that on "Happy Days" nobody was eating ice cream at the ice cream parlor...because it would melt under the hot studio lights....so they used mashed potato instead)...and

2) We did not have enough refrigerator space to keep the regular pies from melting...because I only had 2 refrigerators at my ranch and could only store about 40 pies in those....and Lenny was ordering 1500-2000 pies at a time, and they all had to be stored in my garage for 3 days without them melting,

So Lenny worked on a recipe with our local Publix Supermarket bakery manager, George, to create pies that would not melt under the 95 degree heat in my garage and my garden. This must be same for that Brazilian show,.,,because they have very hot studio lights in that show so they would need to make pies that would not melt under the studio lights too.

I forget what the recipe was....but Lenny will remember, so ask him.

All I remember is....those pies were DEADLY to the fish in my pond, cos Lenny once dumped the pie mess and tarps into the pond on my property and the next day I had 100+ dead fish floating in my pond. But the vultures loved them...cos for days we had 40-50 vultures in a menacing flock picking over the remains of our pie scenes...and those birds were very large and menacing in the back of my property so I had to keep my little dog inside the house cos the big birds may have attacked my dog.

Another thing, once Lenny did a pie fight in 20 different places on my property....it killed all the grass for years and the grass never grew back in those spots...when I sold that property in 2001 there were so many scorched earth black spots....it looked like my property had been a testing ground for UFO landings...ha ha

MK

Haha! Mark, I remember you telling me stories about the destruction Lenny did to your property with your shoots! And how the wife put the foot down on your new place: "Absolutely NO pie shoots here!!"

My pies aren't even 1/10th as toxic as Lenny's....... But they still ruined my carpet. (Along with my sweet dog.) I have hardwood now for that reason.

I'm fairly sure Lenny's pies were a version of buttercream icing, right? I've experimented with that for pies and it's.... temperamental. I might do a special "Chega Mais" scene one of these days but I prefer good ol' Cool Whip for everyday shoots.
Also, I know a couple Lenny models said they needed to scrub with dishwasher detergent for 20 minutes (!!) just to get the pie remnants off their face??... Which might explain why these Brazilian girls still look super messy 15 minutes after taking a single pie. That stuff STICKS.

Ah yes,....Butter Cream....that was the main ingredient for the pie recipe Lenny used for the pies he and his baker George used to make for us.

Yeah....cleaning off the pie mess was very hard to do, cos they were so greasy the girls could not just shower it off....and the girls had to use Dawn washing detergent for 30 mins to get it off their bodies after the pie shoot. Dawn is what they use when there is an oil spill on the beach and they need to get the oily mess off of the wildlife....and we used Dawn to clean up our "wild life" as well.

Cool whip works well in cool climates, but it melts in the Florida sun, so Lenny had to make industrial strengh pies that would not melt in the heat. The problem was, those pies were quite heavy once they were fully loaded to the pie crusts, and Lenny was often a bit too enthusiastic at throwing them rather hard, in a couple of instances Lenny almost knocked the girls head off cos being hit with a heavyweight pie from a distance of more than 10 feet can be pretty hard to take. We also had some instances where the pie coloring did not wash out very well and we had some unhappy girls complaining that their blonde colored hair had been tinted pink or blue or green and would not immediately wash out....and they had to take several showers with Dawn before their hair returned to normal.

Also, those pies were so greasy then when they fell on the floor of my garage they became a serious hazard....cos during the Splattermatch gameshow in 1994 that was shot inside my garage, my partner was carrying his 20 grand Betacam SP camera on his shoulder and he slipped on the pie mess and broke his arm, and I had to take him to the emergency room cos he had a broken bone sticking out of his arm and needed surgery. When I asked him why he fell and brought his entire weight of his body onto his arm and never let go of his camera, so he used his arm to protect damaging his camera...he told me...when you have a 20K camera in your hands, you learn that if you fall, always protect the camera in favor of your body.

MK

I love all your "behind the scenes" stories, Mark!

I laughed out loud when you were saying about the damage the pies did to your lawn, and the pond with the fish! (I know your wife wasn't laughing!) And the vultures circling around, so that you had to keep your small dog away. It would have been like when Toto (in The Wizard of OZ) got carried away by the flying monkeys!

Norman

Yeah.... I get the feeling my total model budget for 3 years combined doesn't equal the cost of ONE full-blown Mark & Lenny shoot from the 1990s.....

And of course Mark will appreciate the irony that the Canon HD cameras I bought in 2012 for under $300 apiece shoot higher-quality images than the $20,000 Betamax from 1994.

My only similar story, which I've never told.... I had a "recurring" model slip and fall during a shoot. She actually broke her fall by grabbing onto me, but she still cut her chin open and needed stitches! (And obviously the shoot ended right there.) But the kicker? NOT during a scene, and NOT by slipping on the obvious stuff (pie mess, slime mess, etc).

She slipped in my KITCHEN, while walking around in high heels, waiting for me to get everything ready for the next scene. I think a small wet spot was the culprit. (She was even dressed in the lingerie that we never shot. Sigh...)