Dying for Pie

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SpongeBob SquarePants episode

"Dying for Pie"

Season №:

Episode №:

24a

Production №:

024

Airdate:

December 28, 2000

Best Day Ever Rank:

#52

Credits

Guest(s):

None

Writer(s):

Aaron Springer
C.H. Greenblatt
Merriwether Williams

Storyboard Artist(s):

C.H. Greenblatt
Erik Wiese

Supervising Producer:

None

Directors

Main:

None

Storyboard:

Aaron Springer

Animation:

Edgar Larrazabal

Creative:

Derek Drymon

Technical:

None

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

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

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.
12:25 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

[edit] 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 pirate 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 good 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 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, not SpongeBob or anyone in town)
Knock-knock jokes
Reverse
Babble like an idiot
All-you-can-do
Trade faces
Peel-a-guig
Open-heart surgery
Open-heart surgery wearing a salmon suit (not seen)
Juggling (not seen)
Watch the sunset with Squidward
Dismemberment (not seen, mentioned by 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."

[edit] Quotes

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) GAAAAARRRRRY!!!! YOU ARE GOING TO FINISH YOUR DESSERT, AND YOU ARE GONNA LIKE IIIIT!!! (laughs) Now it's your turn.

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

SpongeBob: 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, 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) ooops! (pie lands on Squidward, causing Bikini Bottom to explode, and a mushroom cloud appears on the surface of the sea.)

Squidward: Ouch.

Squidward: I'm gonna give SpongeBob the best last hours he's ever had. And this time, he's gonna be loved, so much, he's gonna drown in it!.........DROOOOOWWWN IN IIIT!

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

[edit] 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, which is named after this atoll (possibly indirectly, via the bikini swimsuit).
Near the beginning of the episode, Squidward drives a car to work, when he normally walks or rides a bike.
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, (possibly an underwater version of a ground force division) so he should have experienced these events.
There was a possibility in which Spongebob ate the pie. Before sundown, he said "Hmm, soemthing just entered into my lower intestine. Smells like Apple, no cherry, raspberry?" and he burps smoke out.
We later find that SpongeBob didn't eat the bomb. So where did the second pie come from?
Ironically, when Squidward gets hit in the face with a pie, and takes the full force of the huge blast, he doesn't die, unlike SpongeBob would have done if he had actually swallowed the real bomb.
Camp Lazlo has a similar episode called The Big Cheese. Lumpus eats a deadly cheese and he is gonna die in 13 minutes. At the end, just like the episode, Lumpus doesn't die. Here's the reasons and the unfortune events: In Camp Lazlo, The cheese is made in China and Lumpus goes to jail. In SpongeBob SquarePants, SpongeBob kept the pie in his pocket and SpongeBob trips causing a big explosion.
On YTV airings of this episode, the title card isn't shown.
This episode features blood, when Squidward and SpongeBob do the open heart surgery.
When Mr. Krabs takes a piece of pie, he trips and the pie hits the counter, it explodes. Yet SpongeBob took the pie, stuck it in his pocket and kept it there the entire episode.
"Wearing a salmon suit" appears again on the list near the end of the episode.
When Mr. Krabs drops the piece of pie, he clearly smiles while it's falling, which could imply that he did it on purpose. On the other hand, it could be that he was smiling at the idea of eating a delicious piece of pie.
In the beginning of the episode, SpongeBob gives Squidward a shirt in honor of Annual Brotherhood day and says he made it out of his eyelashes, but when it shows SpongeBob later, he had his eyebrows plucked, not his eyelashes.
When Squidward parks his car, you can see that his bumper sticker says "Don't ask me about my day".
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!"