Old Habits Pie Hard

When I think about Thanksgiving dinner, my mind usually wanders toward dessert. I'm not a huge fan of pumpkin pie—I'd rather make a chocolate silk mousse pie instead. Or cheesecake. Maybe even cream puffs.

But everybody expects pie on Turkey Day. Since pie is synonymous with T-Day, TV writers take the opportunity to have fun with pie. More than 100 eps include 'pie' in the title, and I've hand-selected some of the more amusing ones here:

• I Pie (''Good Eats'')
  
• In the Sweet Pie and Pie (''The Three Stooges'')
  
• Let Them Eat Pie (''My Wife and Kids,'' 11/7/2001)
  
• My Kingdom for a Pie (''Adventures of the Gummi Bears'')
  
• Pie Pie Blackbird (''Yippee, Yappee, and Yahooey'')
  
• Pie Pirates (''Yogi Bear'')
  
• The Best Little Pie Shop in Tulsa (''Rodney,'' 6/6/2006)
  
• The Masked Pie Smurfer (''Smurfs,'' 9/28/1985)
  
• The Night of the Flying Pie Plate (''The Wild Wild West,'' 10/21/1966)
  
• The Pie Who Loved Me (''Grim & Evil,'' 10/18/2002)
  
• 'Twas the Pie Before Christmas (''The Bob Newhart Show,'' 12/24/1977)