tiered table that was wheeled in  earlier. Then he turns back to General Turgidson, who now has a look of  apprehension on his face as he ducks aside, managing to evade a custard pie  that the ambassador is throwing at him. President Muffley has been standing  directly behind the general, so that when he ducks, the president is hit  directly in the face with the pie. He is so overwhelmed by the sheer  indignity of being struck with a pie that he simply blacks out. General  Turgidson catches him as he collapses. "Gentlemen," he intones, "The  president has been struck down, in the prime of his life and his presidency.  I say massive retaliation!" And he picks up another pie and hurls it at the  ambassador. It misses and hits instead General Faceman, the joint Chief  representing the Army. Faceman is furious. "Youve gone too far this time,  Buck!" he says, throwing a pie himself, which hits Admiral Pooper, the Naval  Joint Chief who, of course, also retaliates. A monumental pie fight ensues.  Meanwhile, parallel to the pie