Dying for Pie

"Dying for Pie" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season . In this episode, "Dying for Pie" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season two.

Brief summary: Squidward accidentally lets SpongeBob eat an exploding pie. To alleviate his guilt, Squidward resolves to make SpongeBob's few remaining hours enjoyable. And that makes Squidward more miserable than ever!

Characters Present:

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Squidward Tentacles
• Patrick Star
• Pirates 
• Eugene Krabs
• Bikini Bottom Residents
• Krusty Krab Customers
• Frank (citizen)
• Harold

Characters Mentioned:

• Gary the Snail
• Scooter

Songs: None

Plot

At the Krusty Krab, it's 'Employee Brotherhood day'. Squidward doesn't know this. On 'Employee Brotherhood day', all employees must exchange gifts (they have to make the gifts themselves), and SpongeBob gives Squidward a sweater made out of his eyelashes. When Squidward scoffs at his heartfelt gift, SpongeBob begins to cry copiously, eventually handing Squidward a sweater made from his tears.

Squidward wishes he could buy a gift instead of make one, and sees a group of pirates outside with a sack of pies. He goes outside and the pirates say that theyre just pie shaped bombs, but after Squidward offers to buy one. One of the pirates says they were kidding, and Patrick buys a pie for $25. He lies to Mr. Krabs, saying that he made it. Mr. Krabs inspects it, and says he has to eat a bit to see it wasn't horrible. He breaks a tiny bit off the crust and says "This would go great with some milk!" When he trips over and the bit of the pie explodes and wrecks the back of the Krusty Krab. Squidward and Mr. Krabs are blown far away. When they arrive at the Krusty Krab, SpongeBob acts as if he ate the pie, even though he actually ate a different one. Mr. Krabs tells Squidward that the pie would explode when it reached SpongeBob's lower intestine (which is around sunset), so Squidward decides to make SpongeBob's remaining hours fun. After being asked what the funniest things he could do are, SpongeBob presents a list of the funnest things he could do.

SpongeBob's things to do for his friendship list:

• Show his best friendsSquidward to everybody in town
• Show his best friends Squidward to everybody in town wearing a salmon suit
• Knock-knock jokes
• Friends in reverse
• Babble like an idiot
• Trade faces
• Open-heart surgery
• Dismemberment (not seen, mentioned by Squidward)
• Watch the sunset with Squidward and Patrick at the Goo Lagoon

And the Lord explained the pies are made in his factory, Squidward remembers that SpongeBob will explode at sunset, So he builds a brick wall between them. At sunset, there is an explosion, but it's actually a bubble that SpongeBob blew (It's in the shape of a bomb and explodes). There is another explosion which knocks the wall down, crushing Squidward. Squidward comes out and finds that SpongeBob is still alive. He says he's supposed to explode. SpongeBob doesn't seem to remember, then says 'Oh, this pie!" He takes the explosive pie out of his pocket and says that he was saving it for them to share. He prepares to eat it even though Squidward 'just' said it was a bomb when he trips over, and the pie/bomb hits Squidward in the face and goes off, demolishing all of Bikini Bottom. The (extremely huge) explosion, here portrayed by actual live action footage of the nuclear test Operation Crossroads, can be seen above the sea.

Quotes

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• Squidward: I'm gonna make SpongeBob's final hours the best he's ever had. And this time, he's gonna be loved, so much, he's gonna drown in it!.........DROWN IN IT!

Mr. Krabs: Note to self: Watch out for Squidward.

• SpongeBob "Ok see ya later, squidenator!"
• Squidward "Now may I resume my minimum wage duty?"
• SpongeBob: "Hey kids! check it out! It's my best friend, Squidward.

(one of the kids throws a boot at Squidward)

(later)

SpongeBob: "I'm going to introduce my friend Squidward to every one in town wearing a salmon suit."

Squidward: "You're gonna be wearing a salmon suit?"

SpongeBob: (laughs) "Good one,Squidward!"

Cultural References

• The Operation Crossroads nuclear test, footage of which is used to represent the explosion near the end of the episode, was conducted at Bikini Atoll. SpongeBob SquarePants is set in the fictional city of Bikini Bottom, which is named after this atoll (possibly indirectly, via the bikini swimsuit).
• Between Operation Crossroads in 1946 and 1958, Bikini Atoll was the testing ground of more than twenty hydrogen bomb/atomic bomb tests, meaning that Bikini Bottom must have been vapourized or burned down several times in those twelve years. A possible reference to this is made by Mr Krabs who says, "I've seen this before. Eleven times as a matter of fact." Mr. Krabs was in the Navy,(revealed in Shell of a Man, possibly an underwater version of a ground force division) so he should have experienced these events.
• Camp Lazlo has a similar episode called The Big Cheese. Scoutmaster Lumpus eats a deadly cheese and finds out he is going to die in 13 minutes. At the end, just like this episode, Lumpus explodes. Here are the reasons and the unfortunate events: In Camp Lazlo, the cheese is made in China and Lumpus goes to jail, though explodes at the end. In SpongeBob SquarePants, SpongeBob kept the pie in his pocket and he trips causing a big explosion.
• This is the first time blood is seen.
• If Spongebob didn't eat the pie that morning, then why was he licking his fingers?
• The explosion happened in the middle of the city, not on the cliff they were on.
• There is a closed captioning error near the end of the episode. When Squidward says that the pie Spongebob "ate" was the Lord's and Spongebob goes, "What pie?" and Patrick says, "The one I swallowed on the trolley bus, that pie!" The captions says, "The one I swallowed on the trolley bus....................................TONIGHT!!!!"
• A surprise came up by Patrick that the barrelmakers looked for the Lord's pie in his pocket. 
• Spongebob crosses off "In a Salmon Suit" twice from his list.

APM Music Identification Action Cut (a) - "And that's what happened!"