Perhaps the best aspect of a great pie scene is the coverage.

Through the years, there have been a number of pie scenes with great potential. BUT, what drives me nuts is a great hit, then, there's no closure, because the the scene cuts away before the plate/tin is removed!

Some examples (attached) are:

- the Susan Lucci commercial from Hurley'a collection. The ad later shows her with some coverage, but it was absolutely not right after the hit.

- Kiki Dee getting pied in George Michael's "Wrap Her Up" video

- Girl getting pied in the Beastie Boyz' "Fight for the Right to Party" video

Is it just me?

I'm pretty sure the Lucci pie hit was on plexiglass in front of her, and never hit her face. They later applied the "pie" as makeup, and that's good enough for me.

As to the Beastie Boys video, if you watch the footage later when people are singing"paaaaartyyyy!" I think that is one of the girls you see with the pie on her face, briefly.

I know what you mean. Still, the brunette in the turtleneck in the Beastie video gets it pretty good, which makes up for the blonde.

SL, for whatever it's worth, admitted on a NYC talk show that she took a shaving cream pie in the face.

As for the BB vid, the girl does show up at the end, but I bet the coverage was much better at the time of the hit.

Maybe I'm just too picky.

There there, sport. Here's a decent reimagining of the Beastie vid where three girls get pied (one with good aftermath around the 2 minute mark). https://umd.net/forums/wam_alert_-_cute_girl_pied_in

The Kiki Dee one is the biggie, shame there was never any aftermath that surfaced. (Behind the scenes footage...??)

The Susan Lucci clip is one of the biggest letdowns to date. Pieing plexiglass is not pieing a face.

I think there is more than one Susan Lucci commercial here, IIRC. In the first version, yes we find out she was protected by plexiglass. In a later version she and we think she will be protected by plexiglass and isn't. If my memory is correct I'm sure they were produced as a set and at the same time. The intention was to keep viewers paying attention with the fakeouts.

I think you're absolutely correct! I remember two versions.

There is a version (mentioned by Myds above) where Lucci does have "pie" (i.e. shaving cream) on her face, but it looks very much like it was applied makeup-style, rather than her taking a panful in the face. The coverage is actully pretty good (nice & thick & extending into her hair somewhat) except that the areas immediately around her eyes and mouth is suspiciously immaculate.

Yep, it's "pie in the face makeup" basically. If you're good with shaving cream applied to the cheeks, nose, forehead, and bangs, then this is a good scene. But judged by today's standards, it's pretty weak.

Same thing with the Rachel Stevens pie from 2005. The camera cut away to a super wide shot and we never got to see a close up. It was great coverage too.

Here are some screencaps from the Susan Lucci pie commercial. As she's wiping the pie off her face, she is laughing and asking "Who's idea was this anyway?"

In an interview on Good Morning America, she was asked about this commercial. She says the people who shot the commercial gave her the choice of a whipped cream pie or a shaving cream pie. She says she naturally picked whipped cream, but then they talked her into the shaving cream pie anyway, saying they'd found that it works much better than whipped cream. Not sure why they even bothered to offer her a choice if they were so set on shaving cream in the first place...