Victoria was visiting her friend Lewis. Her flight landed before Lewis's last shift of the week so she insisted she'd drop him off and pick him up while she explored the neighborhood near his studio.

Victoria and Lewis shared a cigarette before he went in. An intern walked by and handed Lewis a coffee. Lewis introduced Victoria who asked if he knew a good shop to kill time and grab a coffee like that nearby. "Well we have espresso in our bistro. Feel free to hang. We actually need one more interactive audience member " the intern said, "Lewis's crew is on set to film a big network game show today who had a drop out. Small role, big payout. Cushy downtime" Lewis's shift left her 5 hours of downtime and Victoria knew this would cover her trip expenses. "Why not. Lead the way."

Lewis chuckled at this idea and they walked inside. "I'm a terrible actress," Victoria giggled, stressed. "It's a cartoon network, it'll be mindless," replied Lewis. He squeezed her shoulders and told his intern to take care of her.

Victoria was led to the office for paperwork and fittings. She got excited. The office was nice. Her cafe order, perfect. She saw her payout, $500.00 plus tips. Victoria sighed in relief, skipped to the last page of the contract and signed.

She was led into a dressing room. "you'll need an audience look, blended, but in an alluring and unique way." The stylist pulls out a black long sleeve mini dress, light pink tights and heeled Mary Janes. No makeup but hair blown out, full volume, side part, long. "Girl next door. We need likeable but un-intimidating participants."

Curtain was called and the actors were directed into assigned front bleacher seats in the front row sat "The audience portion is improv and very chill", the intern told Victoria, "You relax, honey." The paying studio audience is let in right after and fill the rest of the bleachers. The show begins. It's a circus variety show with surprise audience interaction game show segments.

The circus starts with acrobats who blast spotlights on two of the front row actors. The audience meets the victims and votes who will complete the dare. They vote on the small redhead who cutely covered her face in the spotlight. She was told to read the card under her chair, "a trip to the pie pod or a dare" She didn't want to be pied so she chose dare which had her cross a balance beam to deliver dessert. A sheet cake half her size was placed onto each of her hands and she was told to deliver them to the opposite side of the beam. The beam was a foot wide but towered tall above a bouncy soft pit full of slippery oil. She walked across the flawlessly but at the end, looked down, felt chills, and dropped one of the cakes on the beam. She felt a pit in her stomach seeing how high up she was and her right foot slipped on the buttercream under her, sending her bellyflopping softly onto the slippery pit into a splatter of cakey icing, completely marinading her as she crawled out slipping around. The audience roared with laughter and embarrassed whispers. She wished she picked the pie pod. The curtain closed and the set & actors were whisked away.

Second act started w the magician blasting the spotlight for a volunteer for his act. The next two crew members were presented and voted on and a beautiful woman with glasses wearing a tight pant suit and stilettos was chosen to join the magician. After the first act she felt it was probably less mortifying to do the pie pod. She was told to reveal the dare under her chair before heading to the pie pod, "get chopped in half on stage" The magician opened up the prop box showing her the safe secret compartment that hid her body only exposing her head. The tools were all rubber. She immediately regretted the pie pod. She was guided towards a plastic covered lazy boy and had a clear tarp slipped over her head and then strapped in. Her glasses were gently taken off her face revealing beauty that stopped the magician in his tracks. "I'll grant you the mercy of the audience." Displayed around her head were four crusted shaving cream pies topped with a spiral of chocolate & cherry sauce. The audience voted how many of pies she gets and one lucky member gets to deliver them. The audience shouted four unanimously. The magician gives her a sad look, pulls her long hair out of its ponytail over her shoulders and snaps thin strapped clear goggles onto her head. A was brought up to pie her and went straight for two slow, deep pie sandwiches. Her head was a heaping helmet of cream, crust and stripes of syrup. She pulled up her dripping goggles, exposing two shocked doe eyes. The magician asked if she was pleased with her choice. She shook her head no, sheepishly.

The third act was about to begin and Victoria and her seat mate looked at each other nervously. The clowns are hosting this final act and blast the lights on the last pair's chairs.They pair stand up and the audience overwhelmingly vote for Victoria who is magnetic.

She gets chants of "dare! dare! dare!" Victoria nods, "That pie pod seems brutal. I'm feeling cautious enough for a dare." The clown hands Victoria her seat's dare card. It reads, "become a clown." Victoria turned bright red, but accepted her fate. She was stripped down to her tights and leotard and pulled into a puffy silk polka dotted clown suit. There was a pillow sewn into the stomach so it pulled up the legs into capris exposing her tights, rainbow leg warmers and ankle bells. She struggling bending down with the pillow stomach to clumsily lace up jumbo, rubber clown shoes. Last, was a puffy satin collar taut around her neck and tight white latex gloves. She was waddled over to the makeup chair and her face was smeared white. Her eyebrows disappeared and were replaced with blue & yellow eyeshadow and thin black harlequin eyebrows. Two thin black tears dripped down her pink cheeks. An oversized frown was painted in red onto her chin. Rubber nose secured on with eyelash glue.

Victoria was given a mirror to see her new look and gasped. Her face--full circus clown. Her suit--mortifying. Admittedly getting filled and stuffed into oversized clothes felt a little good. Her long hair was teased and big. Two clowns whisked her from makeup and told her to come with them. Victoria waddled along the clowns to the kitchen. They give her 2 trays of bakery pies to put in the case. She does it, even feeling dragged down by her stuffed suit and clunky shoes. She then is told to roll the case across stage to the other clowns. She reaches them only after getting stuck rolling the case in circles, needing the clowns to rescue and help. The clowns ask the audience how they should correct & train their newest clown. The audience gets to vote between: clown wig and suit worn all day for a week or target practice. The audience all shout in unison, target practice, and Victoria is squished into a clown car with stocks. Her clown suit tightens with the pillows as she sits down. Her neck is fastened into a locked bar right underneath her clown collar. She has chills down her body. A rainbow curly wig is shoved on top of her head. Her hands are tied to the posts arms stretched. Each clown gets to choose 2 pies from the bakery cases, then can line up to pie Victoria.

Victoria is met by the first clown who takes two towering marshmallow cream pies and smushes them firmly in her face so the crust is stuck on. He stuck both tins on top of her wig and posed for pictures. The second clown chose two Boston cream pies and also smashed them deeply into Victoria's face but slower and more mockingly then the first clown. Victoria was so embarrassed. The third clown immerses her head in a pie sandwich of pistachio pudding. Her wig droops down saturated with pie. The fourth clown continues the onslaught w two chocolate pies on top of Victoria's head. Her wig is now completely pie. The fifth clown takes Victoria's wig off and brushes her hair out. The clown picks up two banana cream pies. She places a banana in Victoria's mouth and throws a banana pie powerfully onto Victoria's face. It hits direct and they let the tin remain stuck on Victoria's face for a while longer. The second banana cream is dropped on top of Victoria's head smushing into her natural clean hair.
the banana is broken in two and put in her hair as horns. Victoria doesn't know what they're doing up there or what she looks like. Cherries are plopped where her eyes should be with a strawberry nose and banana mouth. Victoria is their fool. The sixth clown goes easy on her and pours his caramel pies down her sleeves filling them up. The seventh clown clears her eyes and picks up two monstrous, jiggly traditional cream pies and lets her see them before giving her a deep and encompassing pie sandwich. Victoria knows she has six more pies. The eighth clown sacrifices two whipped cream pies down her sleeves ballooning them up fully. This clown is offered another turn where he has the option to let Victoria out of the stocks. He sees her as pathetic and worn out and knows she won't try anything so her frees her neck and arms from the stock. Victoria stands up, her suit drooping full, slowly spilling out cream. The 9th clown picks up two huge cool whip pies sprinkled with chocolate, cherry sauce, and sprinkles in chocolate pie crust. He tells Victoria to pie herself. She slowly smashes it in her face and sneaks it upwards over her head, resting the pie and tin like a hat. She does this twice with the second pie smeared up and over her head on top of the first. The last clown had cherry pies--wet, heavy, and covered in mountains of whipped cream. He throws one dead center onto the side of her head tossing her head to the side a little,sinking the pie even deeper into her. He quickly dies the sand thing to the other side of her head. Victoria feels the heaviness of these tosses. She's in another world of cream right now. The audience cheers. Victoria gets up and shuffles down a path she thinks is the exit but it leads her straight to a giant foam pie crust. She trips over it and sinks belly first into the crust turning on sensors and activating a factory line. Victoria can't get up and is rolling around in her swollen clown costume about to be turned into a pie. She gets spread into custard and floats on top before thick clots of cream spray a new layer of pie. Victoria pushes herself to sit up and gets propped up by cream stopping at her neck, filling up her suit underneath her collar. The next contraption gives her neck a collar of whipped cream until her entire hair is covered. To finish the pie, marshmallow, chocolate and strawberry syrup are rained all over the pie, also decorating Victoria's face. Little rainbow sprinkles are tossed on top of Victoria's head w a cherry and a clown nose. The circus bows as Victoria tries to climb down from the pie. She splats face down back into it becoming unrecognizable.