Art - American painter Wayne Thiebaud, associated with the Pop Art movement, created many well-known works of pie.
Theater/Movie/Book/Song: Sweeney Todd, Mrs. Lovett owns a bakery selling meat pies - "the worst pies in London".
Showbusiness: The diner on the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus train is called the "pie car".
Pie is such a cornerstone of our society, it permeates our pop culture. From Family Guy to Hannah Montana, patriarchs' adoration for pie is comic fodder. But pie isn't just played for laughs; pie is often treated with great affection, sometimes even revered. Behold, the beloved pie:
Movies:
(For an awesome compendium of Hollywood's Craziest Pie Scenes, go here.)
Movie - American Pie (1999); American Pie 2 (2001); American Wedding (2003); and American Pie 4: Band Camp (2005)
Movie - Michael (1996): Andie McDowell's character sings a song about pie.
Movie - Pecan Pie (2003), a short film by Michel Gondry starring Jim Carrey.
Movie - Three Stooges film In the Sweet Pie and Pie (1941)
Movie - Animated VeggieTales film VeggieTales: Duke and the Great Pie War (2005)
Movie - Waitress (2007), a film starring Keri Russell had the marketing tagline, "If only life were as easy as pie"
Movie - Tweety Pie (1947), the debut of Sylvester and Tweety Bird.
Books:
Children's Book - Enemy Pie by Derek Munson. Winner of multiple awards and a featured book on Reading Rainbow.
History:
Butch Cassidy's first criminal offense (that he got busted for, anyway) was stealing a pie. He left an IOU, though. And the jury acquitted him.
Music (PieTunes):
Song Lyrics - "Rico Suave" by Gerardo: "Would you rather have me lie, take a piece of your pie and say bye"
Song - "American Pie" by Don Mclean
Song - "Cherry Pie" by Warrant
Song - "Country Pie" by Bob Dylan
Song - "Pecan Pie" by Elvis Presley.
Radio:
Radio: A Prairie Home Companion (Garrison Keillor's radio show) often thanks Beebopareebop Rhubarb Pie, a fictional sponsor that sells frozen rhubarb pies.
Recreation:
Gaming - Trivial Pursuit, the goal is to earn pie slices until you have a full pie. (Or, if you play the way the Pie Maven does, start with a full pie and take a piece away - "eat it" - when it is earned.
Gaming - In the Lord of the Rings Online (a popular MMORG - Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game), your character can earn the title of "Pie Maven" (a truly illustrious title, and the Pie Maven is extremely flattered to have a namesake in such a popular game), making you "a fine judge of pies". To become a Pie Maven in LOTRO, you must consume 7 each of: mushroom pie, coney pie, steak & kidney pie, spiced apple pie, and perfect pie. All must be crafted by a cook. They can be eaten in any order at any time, even all in one sitting if you can. Some foods are level-restricted, however. You can't consume perfect pie unless you are at least 40th level.
Sports - It is tradition in skydiving that when a skydiver reaches any significant number of jumps (e.g. 100; 500; 1000), his fellow jumpers "pie" him.
Television:
TV - Sopranos, Tony's racehorse was named "Pie-oh-My"
TV - "The Pie" is the 79th episode of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld (the 15th episode of the 5th season). It originally aired on February 17, 1994
TV - ABC series Pushing Daisies centers around a pie maker who runs a pie shop named "The Pie Hole".
Television: Pie Town Productions is the production company behind many hit reality shows, such as Designed to Sell, Design on a Dime, Diet Tribe, House Hunters, A Baby Story, and oodles more.
TV - In the series Twin Peaks, Agent Dale Copper (portrayed by Kyle MacLachlan) was known for his fondness of cherry pie from the Double R Cafe.
TV - In Season 8 Episode 1 of Family Guy, the characters (in Disney mode) proclaim that it's a Wonderful Day for Pie (in song).
A NOTE ON PIEING:
Pieing in the act of throwing a pie in someone's face. Pie-ing is a classic form of slapstick humor, as well as a common choice among pranksters and protesters.
Soupy Sales is well-known for taking a pie in the face, probably more than anyone else ever.
Singer and anti-gay-rights activist Anita Bryant became one of the first persons to be "pied" as a political act in Des Moines in 1977.
According to cinematical.com, the Top 5 Cinematic Pie Fights of All Time are: The Great Race; Bugsy Malone; The Sweet Pie and Pie; The Battle of the Century; and Dr. Strangelove.