No one could have predicted that a teenage boy sticking his dick in a pie would become one of the most iconic cinematic images of the late 1990s, but that’s precisely what happened when American Pie was released in theaters 25 years ago on July 9, 1999.

After a friend tells him third base feels like “warm apple pie,” horny high schooler Jim Levenstein (Jason Biggs) tries to replicate the experience with a freshly baked pie that’s cooling in his kitchen. Unfortunately, his dad (Eugene Levy) walks in just as Jim is fully “inside” the pie.

In all, the pie sequence only lasts about two minutes — or about twice as long as Jim lasts with Nadia; premature ejaculation is also very much on the menu in American Pie — but it was funny enough to launch a whole cinematic universe.

None of that could have happened, though, without the original apple pie,...