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Pieing is the act of throwing a pie at a person or people. This may be a simple practical joke, but can be a political action when the target is an authority figure, politician, or celebrity and can be used as a means of protesting against the target's political beliefs, or against perceived arrogance or vanity. Perpetrators generally regard the act as a form of ridicule to embarrass and humiliate the victim. In most or all jurisdictions, pieing is punishable as battery, and may constitute assault as well. In pieing, the goal is usually to humiliate the victim while avoiding actual injury. For this reason the pie is traditionally of the cream variety without a top crust, and is rarely if ever a hot pie. In Britain, a pie in the context of throwing is traditionally referred to as a custard pie. An aluminum pie pan or paper plate filled with whipped cream or shaving foam can substitute for a real pie. Pieing and pie fights are a staple of slapstick comedy, and pie "tosses" are also common charity fundraising events, especially in schools. ==Slapstick== Pieing has its origins in the "pie in the face" gag from slapstick comedy, first seen in the 1909 Essanay Studios silent film ''Mr. Flip'' starring Ben Turpin. In the story, Turpin has a pie pushed into his face for taking liberties with a woman. Beginning in 1913 with ''That Ragtime Band'' and ''A Noise from the Deep'', filmmaker Mack Sennett became known for using one or two thrown pies in many of his comedy shorts. Sennett had a personal rule about who received the pies: "A mother never gets hit with a custard pie ... Mothers-in-law, yes. But mothers? Never." At least a half dozen films have been made incorporating extended pie-throwing battles. The first was Charlie Chaplin's ''Behind the Screen'' released in 1916. The definitive pie fight film is ''The Battle of the Century'' (1927) starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, using 3,000 pies. Our Gang's ''Shivering Shakespeare'' (1930) winds up with an auditorium full of people throwing pies. The 1935 short subject ''Keystone Hotel'' featured a large pie fight ending with the camera taking a pie. In 1941, another major pie fight film appeared: The Three Stooges' ''In the Sweet Pie and Pie''.〔〔 A Technicolor film involving pies was the 1965 comedy, ''The Great Race''; known for having the largest pie fight in cinematic history. Its $200,000 pie fight scene used one large cake and 4,000 pies, and took five days to shoot. Pie fight also featured in ''Beach Party'' (1963) and ''Smashing Time'' (1967). In the movie ''Bugsy Malone'', the "splurge guns" resembled spud guns which fired custard. There are many instances in the Looney Tunes series of cartoons where characters "pie" each other in the face. Bugs Bunny repeatedly hits Elmer Fudd with cream pies during a scene in ''Slick Hare''. In ''Shishkabugs'', Bugs Bunny releases a spring-loaded pie into the face of the king, causing the royal cook Yosemite Sam to be led away to a dungeon. The episode ''Daffy Dilly'' has Daffy Duck trying to cure a dying millionaire by getting him to laugh. After he achieves this inadvertently, by landing in a cake, Daffy is hired as a sort of household jester and ends the cartoon by getting repeatedly pelted with cakes and pies.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Pie in the Face )〕 In one of the Batman comic books, The Joker once concocted an elaborate scheme whose sole purpose was to hit Batman in the face with a pie.〔 Many comedy routines have used a pie as a gag, including ones performed by Soupy Sales and Monty Python, and those of clowns in many circus performances. A popular Nickelodeon reality show called ''What Would You Do?'' also features contraptions designed to hit participants in the face with multiple cream pies, often as punishment for losing, or sometimes reward for winning, a game performed on the show. The UK Saturday morning programme ''Tiswas'' had custard pies as a regular feature and even had a character called The Phantom Flan Flinger, a masked man who pied people. The World Custard Pie Throwing Championships take place annually in the village of Coxheath in Kent, England. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「pieing」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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