Thank you for sharing these great pictures! I appreciate the time it took for you to do so!

Blue Leopard did a lot of 'blackout' type skits, where the model was pied just once, then it would cut to another skit with the same model completely clean in a different outfit, only to be pied again. The first two Ruby Diamond bits above fall into this category, while in the third one, Ruby D. obviously gets hit with MANY pies.

While I enjoy seeing models get hit with many pies (the produced WAM video standard), I also have a special fondness for the one-pie blackout type skits. Basically, I'd rather see a woman in different situations/outfits/hairstyles go from clean to pied multiple times, even if it's just one pie each time, than to see endless pies piled on to her in the same scene, because for me, that first pie is by far the most crucial -- the one that takes the model from looking completely clean and gorgeous to extremely messy in an instant.

The multiple blackout scenes approach also tends to produce better results from the angle of true comedy. Not saying that multiple pie scenes can't be genuinely funny, but in my experience, they are less likely to be able to maintain the humor over dozens of pies than a series of blackout scenes.

Of course, it's much more time consuming -- and thus much more expensive -- to film multiple blackout scenes than one long scene with endless pies. And that surely contributed to the fact that neither of the two producers who consistenly used this approach -- Blue Leopard and PieJinx -- lasted very long in the WAM business. It's a real shame, because in my opinion, these guys made some of the very best pie videos ever. (I bought as many of their videos as I could afford when they were around; if there were some way to buy the ones I didn't get now, I would jump on that opportunity.) I know these producers are remembered fondly by some other UMDers. And I can't remember for sure which one it was, but either Neil or Lenny that used to say that Blue Leopard made the all-around best pie videos on the WAM market.

I loved Blue Leopard. I have this DVD somewhere. I wish I had picked up his "Butt Queen" DVD with pies before it disappeared from the net.

Blue Leopard was great. He was doing long WAM related stories when no one else was.

Thanks for posting these!
One of my biggest regrets in my vid buying history is waiting until it was too late to buy this one. Great thick shaving cream pies with crusts.

Did anyone notice the incredible similarity of the dress Ruby wears in the first skit above to the one Rich used to use for his Laugh-In sketches in his very early videos?

(In case anyone cares, the SStuff model shown below is Liz in SStuff Volume 9, Scene 1. Although I haven't watched Rich's oldest videos in years, I always liked Liz a lot, and I think she does a great job in the Laugh-In skit. She's not necessarily doing a good imitation of Goldie, but she's a very good sport who can really roll with the slapstick "abuse." If only the real Goldie Hawn had been treated this way on the show!)

Coincidence? Uncanny. Which vid came out first?

I don't know which came first, but I do know they both came out in the mid-aughts. I'm now thinking maybe that's just a pretty common "costume" dress for people looking for a late-sixties look. I say this because I just typed "sixties go-go dress" into Google image search, and out of the top 30 results, three showed women in this same dress/headscarf combo.