During the deleted pie-fight scene, President Muffley took a pie in the face and fell down, prompting Gen. Turgidson to cry, "Gentlemen! Our gallant young president has just been struck down in his prime!" Had not Stanley Kubrick already decided to cut the pie fight by the time President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, the line (or possibly the entire sequence) likely would have been cut due to its eerie similarity to real events.