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:

Characters Mentioned:

Gary the Snail
Scooter

Songs: None

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.

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 far 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
Dismemberment (not seen, mentioned by Squidward)
Watch the sunset with Squidward

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. The (extremely huge) explosion, here portrayed by actual live action footage of the nuclear test Operation Crossroads, can be seen above the sea.

Quotes

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!"

Trivia

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.
The Krusty Krab been destroyed 2 times first one was when Mr. Krabs took a crumb and blew it up. Second time was when the Whole Pie made a nuclear explosion.
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!"