1960s kid game commercial: Pie Face

David Gray says: "Old commercial (1960's?) for a kids game where you get smacked in the face with a cream pie."

[#1 posted by mkultra , February 8, 2008 3:19 PM]

I think my nightmares just found a new soundtrack.

[#2 posted by Stefan Jones , February 8, 2008 3:20 PM]

Very late 60s' or even early 70s'.

My cousins had this game, although I never actually played it or saw it in operation. It came with a clear plastic face mask. It wasn't clear to me what use that was; wasn't the pie-ing supposed to be a surprise?

[#3 posted by se7a7n7 , February 8, 2008 3:23 PM]

HAHA

"Get your face full of GOOOOOOO!!!!!"

so dirty...

and it's called "Pie Face"!! A derogatory term for Inuits.

[#4 posted by Stefan Jones , February 8, 2008 3:25 PM]

Ah, ok, reviewing the video cleared that up. You got behind the mask when your turn came up.

I think I remember another commercial, one where a whole family played and there wasn't an elaborate cardboard frame for the mask.

[#5 posted by franko , February 8, 2008 3:40 PM]

i
want
this
game.

now.

[#6 posted by coldspell , February 8, 2008 4:01 PM]

Why would one play this game? It seems pretty inevitable that you will get a pie in the face.

[#7 posted by Lea Hernandez , February 8, 2008 4:04 PM]

All I can think is "bukkake face."

[#8 posted by Antinous , February 8, 2008 4:11 PM]

I like pie.

[#9 posted by holybuzz , February 8, 2008 6:22 PM]

Hot pockets, anyone?

[#10 posted by phlavor , February 8, 2008 7:27 PM]

The old "pie in the face" has become almost nonexistent in modern society. Crying shame.

Come to think of it, I'd find it damned suspicious if someone was walking up to me with a cream pie at all.

[#11 posted by SamLL , February 8, 2008 7:35 PM]

And here's the page on BoardGameGeek: http://boardgamegeek.com/game/18755

[#12 posted by License Farm , February 8, 2008 11:08 PM]

Turn it upside down and you've got the home version of "Kicked In The Nuts."

The lengths kids used to have to go to for whippits.

[#13 posted by NickD , February 8, 2008 11:58 PM]

Here in LA on Spanish TV there is some show where they still do pie-in-the-face. There are midget clowns and audience members that come up and participate. There are also girls in bikinis standing around but unfortunately there are not part of the pie-in-the-face fun.

This also reminds me of this 70's musical movie Bugsy Malone where are all of the the actors were kids playing adult mobsters during the 20's prohibition. Instead of getting killed they get a pie-in-the-face. Maybe this element of the movie inspired this game or vice-versa.

[#14 posted by Infamous Lunchbox , February 9, 2008 12:59 AM]

Amazingly I also thought of Bugsy Malone when I saw this. However I thought this should have been in the movie as some sort of Russian Roulette device. I mean c'mon, isn't that what this game is all about? Go around the table, first one to have the pie go off loses!

[#15 posted by Jawboneradio , February 9, 2008 7:13 AM]

We had that game growing up. Except we replaced the shaving foam with piping hot apple chutney,

[#16 posted by meg , February 9, 2008 8:26 AM]

@ Phlavor (#10)

we still love a good ol' bit of pieintheface humour up here in canada. http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2000/08/16/peiChretienPie16aug00.html

[#17 posted by BooBerry Bill , February 11, 2008 6:06 AM]

hmmm... I suggested this over a month ago...
http://thebooberryalarmclock.blogspot.com/2008/01/hey-kids-its-pie-face.html

[#18 posted by Jacques , February 11, 2008 1:26 PM]

I keep thinking "Pie facial" for some reason. I don't remember this one from the 60s.