January 31, 2008

Welcome back, Lost!

Kate’s mother: Coffee, pie, both?
Kate: How ‘bout a beer?

January 30, 2008

Daily Show

John Hodgman: The Morlocks are loathsome underground dwellers who eat human flesh … and don’t really like pie.

January 29, 2008

Heather Havrilesky for Salon.com

Gimme a piece of that metrosexual pie.

January 28, 2008

Special Topics in Calamity Physics, by Marisha Pessl

p. 109: The girls were fraternal twins, Eliara and Georgia Hatchett. With curly auburn hair, stout frames, shepherd's-pie potbellies and alehouse complexions, they resembled two oily portraits of King Henry VIII ...

January 27, 2008

Adam Gopnick, in The New Yorker

(Re: artist Joseph Cornell): In his diaries and letters, while he is knocked sideways by prints and poems and pies and sexy waitresses and melodies, I can’t find a single occasion when he is overwhelmed by a painting …

January 26, 2008

Gilmore Girls

Lorelai: Hmm … Muffin bottom pie … sounds dirty.

January 25, 2008

King of the Hill

Peggy: Honey, did you try the capers with your fruit pies yet?

Bobby: That was a real disappointment. Let’s not talk about it.

January 24, 2008

Waitress


Becky: You should have your own little pie shop somewhere - somewhere they could really use a little pie shop. Like Europe ... or New Jersey.

Happy National Pie Day!

www.piecouncil.org

Perform Random Acts of Pieness

January 22, 2008

Pushing Daisies

Ned: I’m not a detective. I make pies.

January 21, 2008

Dagenham Dave, by Morrissey

Head in the clouds and a mouthful of pie
Head in the clouds – everybody loves him; I see why
… Dagenham Dave

January 20, 2008

The Simpsons

Lisa: Noble idiot, bring in the pie.

January 19, 2008

South Park

Cartman: I would never let a woman kick my ass. If she tried anything, I’d be like, Eh! You get your bitch ass back in the kitchen and make me some pie.

January 18, 2008

Angel

Lorne: Blessings and moon pies, brethren and sistren.

January 17, 2008

Pushing Daisies

Vivian: Beaver Boy did say he was a pie maker. I imagine he gives lots of people pie.

Olive: Beaver Boy’s a pie maker?

January 16, 2008

The Colbert Report

Colbert: Some good old American comfort food … a hot dog pie.

January 15, 2008

A Winter’s Tale, by Mark Helprin

p. 215: Even Mrs. Gamely, a paragon of conservation, gave freely of her stores and participated in the ruthless cooking of a dozen feasts and the fearless baking of a hundred pies.

January 15, 2008

Sex and the City

Miranda: Why do I have a rolling pin?

Cleaning Lady: It’s for you to make pies.

Miranda: Un-hunh.

Cleaning Lady: It’s good for woman to make pies.

January 14, 2008

The Tale of Peter Rabbit, by Beatrix Potter

Mother: … don’t go into Mr. McGregor’s garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.

January 13, 2008

Weeds

Conrad: Heylia, break out that pie you made last night. The white lady’s havin’ a time of it here. C’mon.

Heylia: Tell her get her skinny ass in here and get her own damn pie. Slave days is over.