Dying for Pie

Template: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!

Time/Date:

7:00 AM: Squidward wakes up.
7:10 AM: Squidward arrives at the Krusty Krab.
12:20 PM (approx): Part of the bomb detonates, destroying several boatmobiles, and the rear wall of the Krusty Krab.
12:25 PM: Squidward says "There's going to be love. So much, he's going to drown in it!"
5:00 PM: When Squidward remembers what Mr. Krabs said before.
6:00 PM: Bikini Bottom gets destroyed thanks to the bomb pie.

Time cards shown: None

Characters Present:

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 his crew says that they're bombs, but after Squidward offers to buy one, the pirate says they were kidding, and Squidward 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!" As he gets the milk, 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 funnest things he could do are, SpongeBob presents a list of the funnest things he could do.

SpongeBob's things to do for our friendship list:

Show my best friend Squidward to everybody in town
Show my best friend Squidward to everybody in town wearing a salmon suit (That's Squidward wearing the salmon suit)
Knock-knock jokes
Reverse
Babble like an idiot
All-you-can-do
Trade faces
Peel-a-guig
Open-heart surgery
Dismemberment (not seen, mentioned by Squidward)
Watch the sunset with Squidward

Upon hearing this, 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 tries very hard and finally yells, "GARY! YOU ARE GOING TO FINISH YOUR DESSERT, AND YOU ARE GONNA LIKE IT!!" Squidward tells him that he means SpongeBob is supposed to blow up into a million pieces, and Squidward tells him about the pie. 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 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. Squidward gets the full force of the explosion, and manages to utter out, "Ow" as his last word.

Quotes

SpongeBob: Hey, Squidward. Check this out.

Squidward: HSGDFHDGFHJSDGYFAHJGYFG!!!!

SpongeBob: Squidward, we already played babble like an idiot.

Squidward: WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE?

SpongeBob: Well, since we already finished the list, I thought I'd make up a new one. I've already filled up this book with ideas. We should be able to finish by January.

Squidward: FORGET THE BOOK!!! I SPENT THE WHOLE DAY WITH YOU DOING ALL KINDS OF REDICULOUS THINGS BECAUSE YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO EXPLODE!!!

SpongeBob: You want me to explode?

Squidward: YES!! THAT'S WHAT I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR!!

SpongeBob: Well, okay I'll try. (gets angered up) GARY! YOU ARE GOING TO FINISH YOUR DESSERT, AND YOU ARE GOING TO LIKE IT! (laughs) Now it's your turn.

Squidward: THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT, YOU BARNACLE HEAD!!!!!!!

SpongeBob: (claps hands) Oooh, good one!

Squidward: NO! YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO EXPLODE, INTO A MILLION PIECES!!!!

SpongeBob: Why would I do that?

Squidward: BECAUSE THE PIE YOU ATE, WAS A BOMB!!

SpongeBob: What pie?

Squidward: The one that I left sitting on the counter this morning, that I bought from pirates, for 25 bucks, and I didn't know it was a bomb, and you ate it, THAT PIE!!!

SpongeBob: Pie........ Oh, you mean this pie! (holds up bomb pie) I was saving it in my pocket for us to share! Let's eat! (trips on a rock) oops! (pie lands on Squidward, causing Bikini Bottom to explode, and a mushroom cloud appears on the surface of the sea.)

Squidward: Ow.

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 pal Squidward to every one in town wearing a salmon suit."

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

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

(Squidward appears in a salmon suit, this time all three kids throw rocks at him)

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.

Trivia/Goofs

In the scene where the hole created by the bomb going off is seen, we see some of the metal wall curls inwards, whereas it should curl outwards, because of the direction of the blast energy.
On YTV airings of this episode, the title card isn't shown.
When Squidward parks his car, you can see that his license plate says "bINKI bOTTOM".
SpongeBob's List:
- Show Squidward
- In a salmon suit
- Knock-Knock jokes
- Reverse
- Imagination
- Act like ape
- All-you-can-eat
- Trading Faces
- Peel-n-go
- Open-heart surgery
- Juggle
- Read a story
- Sail on the boat
- Tip sheep over
- Follow by the beach
- Climb up the Bikini Bottom Water Tower
- Watch the Sunset with Squidy
When Squidward asks what the coat is made of, SpongeBob replies, "Eyelashes!" However, in the comic version of this episode (from "Who's Hungry?") he replies, "Eyelashes and eyebrows!" A similar mistake was made when Squidward asks what flavor the pie is. In the episode, the pirates say, "Apple!" "Cherry!" "Raspberry!", but in the comic, they say, "Apple!" "Cherry!" "Boysenberry!"
When SpongeBob trips and lets the pie hit Squidward's face, the explosion takes place at the center of Bikini Bottom rather than on the hill they were on.
When SpongeBob trips on the pie, an explosion causes the Bikini Bottom sign to vanish.
This episode is the first SpongeBob episode to allow blood to be seen. The second is in Karate Island, and third in Born to Be Wild.
The rock which trips SpongeBob when he drops the bomb pie only appears in the scene where he actually trips. Other times, the rock has vanished.
In the Friend or Foe marathon, this episode aired with Krab Borg.
When Squidward asks what the coat is made of, SpongeBob replies, "Eyelashes!". However, his eyelashes are not shown and there are clearly some empty spots where used to be his eyebrows (so actually the coat is made of eyebrows instead of eyelashes), which is also strange because SpongeBob doesn't have any eyebrows.
The live-action explosion from this episode later returns in "The Krusty Plate".
After most of the list is done, Squidward is seen with bandages over his chest part of the shirt. This is due to the Heart Surgery which resulted in a loss of blood after some squirted out.
At the end, when Squidward finds out Spongebob wasn't really dead, just blowing bomb bubbles, and when Spongebob asks "What Pie?" and Squidward says "The pie I left on the counter this morning," but the captions say, "The pie on the counter."