October 31, 2008 - Happy Halloween!

The Simpsons

Homer’s mother, who has sneaked into the house, holds out a pie.

Homer: Mom! You’re alive … and you baked a pie! (digs into pie)

Marge: Homie? What’s going on?

Homer: I’m fighting a robber. You go get ice cream.

October 30, 2008

Gilmore Girls

Sookie: Do you want some pie?

Rory: Oh … I never say no to pie.

October 29, 2008

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Joyce: I think we’re just about ready for pie.

Xander: Then I’ll be pretty much ready for barf.

October 28, 2008

Pushing Daisies

Vivian: To be honest, I wasn’t craving pie, I was craving company.

October 27, 2008

Winnie-The-Pooh, by A.A. Milne

Cottleston, cottleston, cottleston pie,
A fly can't bird, but a bird can fly.
Ask me a riddle and I reply,
Cottleston, cottleston, cottleston pie.

October 26, 2008

Johnny Cash (re: country music): I think it speaks to our basic fundamental feelings, you know. Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.

October 25, 2008

Popwatch blog, on www.ew.com

(re: Nathan Fillion and exorcising the memory of his evil Caleb performance on Buffy the Vampire Slayer): Thanks to a few slices of watching-him-have-sex-with-Keri-Russell pie, I've done it.

October 24, 2008

Tougher Tuesday Crosswords, “Eat Your Veggies!” by Patrick Berry

52 Across: Yet another “vegetable" that kids don’t mind eating
Answer: PUMPKINPIE

October 23, 2008

Eugene Field:
The best of all physicians
Is apple pie and cheese!

October 22, 2008

Sweeney Todd

Mrs. Lovett: Mrs Mooney had a pie shop,
does her business - but I notice something weird!
Lately all her neighbors' cats have disappeared.
Have to hand it to her, wot I calls, enterprise,
popping pussies into pies.
Wouldn't do in my shop,
just the thought of it's enough to make you sick,
and i'm telling ya them pussy cats is quick.

October 21, 2008

The Simpsons

Little Marge: You sound so sweet.

Little Homer: That’s ‘cause I’ve eaten sixteen pieces of pie.

October 20, 3008

Pushing Daisies

Chuck: He’s the lord of the pies.

October 19, 2008

Gilmore Girls

Lorelai: I voiced my concerns, you told me your plans, we had pie … it’s cool.

October 18, 2008

Swingtown

Janet: Your pie is on the stoop.

October 17, 2008

Kath and Kim

Kim: Can I have some more fried wontons?

Kath: Uh … no.

Phil: Whew … fried wontons. Boy, you know when I was Big Phil I loved my fried wontons … and my pizza … and my pie.

October 16, 2008

Knitty.com

Well, okay. We didn't HAVE to. It's not like our mom told us to do it or there'd be no pie for us, missy.

October 15, 2008

Waitress

Becky: … just once in my life I’d like to be able to make a pie half as good as you can make a pie.

October 14, 2008

Bones

Bones: You’re just having coffee? Don’t you want pie?

Booth: I’m fine.

Bones: But you always have pie.

Booth: Can we stop talking about pie?

Bones: Is it because of what Sweets said?

Booth: I’m just going pie-less, OK?

October 13, 2008

Cotton commercial: Joy is not like a pie. The more you share it, the bigger it grows.

October 12, 2008

Pushing Daisies

Emerson: It is not okay for a grown-ass man to weep in public with a bunch of happy families enjoying pie.

October 11, 2008

American Pie

Jim: Guys, uh, what exactly does third base feel like?

Kevin: You want to take this one?

Oz: Like warm apple pie.

Jim: Yeah?

Oz: Yeah.

Jim: Apple pie, huh?

Oz: Uh huh.

Jim: McDonald's or homemade?

October 10, 2008

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Anya: I liked his wife. She gave me pie.

October 9, 2008

The Simpsons

Marge: I really shouldn’t show up without an apple pie for Dwight. In fact, I really shouldn’t show up without an apple pie for everyone at the prison.

October 8, 2008

Special Topics in Calamity Physics, by Marisha Pessl

p. 245: … Hannah was frowning as she rubbed her thumb around the rim of her wineglass and her eyes, they kept moving between my face and the wineglass, the piece of apple pie (that looked like it’d been stepped on) back to the wine glass.

October 7, 2008

Gilmore Girls

Jackson: Never see a pie before an auction. It’s bad luck.

October 6, 2008

Swingtown

Roger (entering the kitchen in suit and tie): Ooh. Hot apple pie. Now that’s the way to start off a week.

Janet: The pie is not for you. (swats Roger’s hand away)

Roger: Ah, come on. Just one tiny little slice?

Janet: Sorry.

Trina (enters … naked): Oh for Pete’s sake Janet. Let the man have some pie. God knows the poor guy can use a little pie. (scoops some pie on a finger and feeds it to Roger).

Janet: Roger!

(It’s just a dream …)

October 5, 2008

Pushing Daisies

Lily: She insisted on coming all this way just to ask why you stopped delivering pies.

Olive: I'm flaky.

October 4, 2008

Family Guy

Meg: I wanted to thank you for being so great to me, so I baked you a pie.

Brian: Oh wow. Hey, that looks delicious … mmm … whoa, this is good. What’s in there?

Meg: Well there’s some apples, some cinnamon, and … my hair.

Brian: What?

Meg: My hair’s in the pie, Brian. And now it’s inside of you. Part of me. Is inside of you, Brian.

October 3, 2008

Waitress

Jenna: I’m callin it “I Don’t Want Earl’s Baby Pie.”

Dawn: I don’t think we can write that on the menu board, hon.

Jenna: Then I’ll just call it “Bad Baby Pie.”

October 2, 2008

Headline on a review of Big Love, Televisionwithoutpity.com

Solving For Pie

October 1, 2008

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, by Mark Haddon

p. 121. Father: “And you know what that bloody dog was like after the operation. Bloody schizophrenic. Nice as pie one moment, roll over, tickle its stomach. Sink its teeth into your leg the next. …”