Dying for Pie

Template:Infobox episode Characters Present:

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Squidward Tentacles
• Eugene Krabs
• Pirates (debut)
• Bikini Bottom Residents
• Krusty Krab Customers
• Frank (citizen) (name revealed)
• Monroe
• Dale
• Harold
• Gore Jenkins (pirate owner)

Plot

At the Krusty Krab, it's Employee Brotherhood Day. Squidward doesn't know that on Employee Brotherhood Day, all employees must exchange gifts that they made 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.

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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 they're just pie shaped bombs, but after Squidward offers to buy one, one of the pirates says they were kidding, and Squidward buys a pie for $25. He lies to Mr. Krabs, saying that he made it. Mr. Krabs says he has to inspect it, and eat a bit to see that it isn'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 away. When they arrive at the Krusty Krab, SpongeBob acts as if he ate the pie, but it is unknown if he even ate anything. Mr. Krabs tells Squidward that the pie would explode around sunset when it reached SpongeBob's lower intestine, so Squidward decides to make SpongeBob's remaining hours fun. After being asked what the funnest things he likes to do are, SpongeBob presents a list of the funnest things he likes to do.

SpongeBob's things to do for his friendship list:

• Show his best friend Squidward to everybody in town
• Show his best friend Squidward to everybody in town wearing a salmon suit
• Knock-knock jokes
• Friends in reverse
• Babble like an idiot
• Trade faces
• Open-heart surgery
• Watch the sunset with Squidward
• Hundreds of other unseen acts

After remembering SpongeBob explodes at sunset, Squidward 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 after eating the pie. SpongeBob doesn't seem to remember, then says 'Oh, you mean 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, the bomb hits Squidward in the face and goes off, demolishing all of Bikini Bottom in a huge explosion. Squidward miraculously survives, uttering a very plain "Ow".

Quotes

• SpongeBob: GARY! YOU ARE GONNA FINISH YOUR DESSERT AND YOU ARE GONNA LIKE IT!
• Squidward: I'm gonna make SpongeBob's final hours the best he's ever had. And this time, there's gonna be love, 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 duties?"
• SpongeBob: "Hey kids! check it out! It's my best friend, Squidward.

(one of the kids throws a rock at Squidward)

(later)

SpongeBob: "I'm going to show my best friend Squidward to EVERYBODY in town wearing a salmon suit."

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

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

(switches to a scene with Squidward wearing a salmon suit in front of the same kids. They all proceed to throw a rock at him.)

• Squidward: FORGET THE BOOK!

Trivia/Goofs

• 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, but could indirectly be named after the bikini swimsuit.
• It is awkward how Squidward didn't hear them saying it is a bomb pie.
• When Mr. Krabs drops the piece of pie he was about to eat, it only blew up the back of the Krusty Krab. When SpongeBob drops the pie it explodes the entire ocean. This is more likely that Mr. Krabs only took a little piece of the pie instead of the whole pie.
• This is the first time blood is seen on the show.
• After Squidward scolds Mr.Krabs for making Employee Brotherhood Day, when he says "...that guy!", Mr. Krabs is seen clearly with no legs. This is most likely an animation error.
• What was meant to happen was a baking contest was going to happen at the Krusty Krab and Mr. Krabs wanted Spongebob and Squiward to cook something.When Squidward is making pie he puts a bomb instead of sugar.
• When the brick wall that is separating Squidward and SpongeBob during the sunset breaks down after the bubble bomb explosion, a brick flies out of it. During the second bubble explosion, the brick is suddenly back in the wall when it's in the air, and dissapears again when it falls on top of Squidward.
• Squidward is seen driving a boatmobile in this episode, but he is frequently seen using his bicycle to work. However, Squidward is seen using another boat in Boating Buddies.
• There is a bumper sticker on Squidward's boatmobile that reads "Don't ask me about my day".
• SpongeBob breaks the fourth wall when he says "hi" to Mr. Krabs while Squidward was remembering him talking about how SpongeBob had until sunset.
• The music Unkown Tracks 6 playing a different music note when SpongeBob gives Squidward a knock knock joke will be heard again in the newer episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants like Ditchin'.
• When Spongebob sais "Well since we finished everything on the list i thought i'd make up a new one" the closed captions say "Well since we finished everything on the list I made a new one".
• On SpongeBob's list, one of the things is "Introduce friend in a salmon suit". However, when SpongeBob checks off juggling, he checks off to introduce friend in a salmon suit a second time, when this was already done.
• When SpongeBob says "Yeah I know!" It sounds exactly like it did when he said the same phrase in the episode "Procrastination".
• The bandage on Squidward's chest disappears when he and SpongeBob go watch the sunset.
• When Mr. Krabs tries to eat a piece of the pie, he left a small hole in the pie, but when SpongeBob takes it out from his pocket and walks to Squidward the hole is gone.
• The Krusty Krab appears and disappears in the background when Squidward talks with the pirates.
• This is one of the rare times where Squidward feels sorry for SpongeBob. He did this in SpongeBob's Last Stand, Pizza Delivery, and also in Christmas Who?.
• There was no rock near SpongeBob when Squidward was yelling at him. When SpongeBob said,"Oh! You mean this pie!" the screen eased in to the pie. When it zoomed out, a rock appeared near SpongeBob and thus, he tripped.
• The explosion at the end has become an internet meme.

APM Music Identification

• The Tip Top Polka / The Cliff Polka - "Good morning Mr. Squidward."

• Lonely Violin - "Is this any better Squidward?"

• When Daylight Shines / Captain Lenoe S - "Those homemade pies sure look good."
• Action Cut (a) - "And that's what happened!"
• Unease - "You had to kill him"
• Orchestral Link 50 - "There's gonna be so much love, He's gonna drown in it"

• Fates - "Watch the sunset with Squidward"

• Pua Paoakalani - "I love underwater sunsets"

• Dramatic Climax - "5, 4, 3, 2, 1"