Dying for Pie

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"Dying for Pie" is the first segment of the 24th episode of SpongeBob SquarePants.
==Synopsis==
It's Employee Brotherhood Day at the Krusty Krab, and SpongeBob presents Squidward a sweater made out of his eyelashes. Squidward, who hasn't bothered to make anything for SpongeBob, scoffs at this heartfelt gift due to it being too itchy (to which a saddened SpongeBob then makes a second sweater from his own tears). Mr. Krabs insists that Squidward go make a present for SpongeBob in return, but Squidward isn't keen on doing so, asking himself why he can't just buy a gift instead. He then sees a group of pirates outside loading what appear to be a supply of pies onto their ship. Squidward approaches the pirates, saying the pies look good, but they tell him that they're actually bombs made in a factory. When Squidward says he was willing to buy one, the captain claims that they were kidding about "that bomb stuff", and sells one to Squidward for $25.
When Squidward shows his "homemade pie" to his boss, Mr. Krabs says he has to inspect it. He breaks a tiny bit off the crust and then goes to get some milk, but then trips and drops the crust piece, blowing up the back wall of the office and throwing Squidward and Mr. Krabs outside. Squidward explains to Mr. Krabs that he was tricked into buying a bomb by the pirates. When they rush back in, the pie is gone, having seemingly been eaten by SpongeBob, who thanks Squidward for the pie. Squidward immediately feels guilty that he may have just caused SpongeBob's death, and Mr. Krabs figures that the pie will explode around sunset, when it reaches SpongeBob's lower intestine (he's apparently seen this sort of thing happen 11 times before). Since they can't bring SpongeBob to the hospital to save him, and Mr. Krabs doesn't want SpongeBob to feel miserable on what may be his last day on Earth, Squidward decides to make SpongeBob's remaining hours fun.
Squidward approaches SpongeBob and tells him that there's a second part to his gift - doing the most fun thing he can thing of. However, Squidward soon learns that SpongeBob has a whole list of fun things he likes to do, and is forced to go along as SpongeBob does the following:
*Show Squidward to everybody in town
*Show Squidward to everybody in town wearing a salmon suit
*Knock-knock jokes
*Friends in reverse
*Babble like an idiot
*Trade faces
*Open-heart surgery
The last activity is watching the sunset together. Remembering that SpongeBob is likely going to explode once the sun sets, Squidward builds a brick wall between them, getting even more nervous and sad than before. After the sun sets, Squidward indeed hears an explosion, and cries over SpongeBob's apparent death, when suddenly a second explosion occurs and knocks the wall down, crushing him. Squidward comes out and finds that SpongeBob is still alive, blowing giant bomb-shaped bubbles. Squidward is furious at this, having spent the whole day doing all those silly things for no real reason, and tells SpongeBob that he was supposed to explode after eating the pie. SpongeBob is confused at first, but then reveals that he actually had the explosive pie in his pocket the whole time, saying that he was saving it for them to share. SpongeBob then accidentally trips over a rock, causing the bomb to hit Squidward in the face and explode, seemingly demolishing all of Bikini Bottom. Squidward miraculously survives this, muttering a very plain "Ow" in response.
==Home video releases==
;VHS
* SpongeBob SquarePants: Sponge Buddies
* SpongeBob SquarePants: Undersea Antics Volume 1
;DVD
* SpongeBob SquarePants: Nautical Nonsense and Sponge Buddies
* SpongeBob SquarePants: The Complete 1st Season
* SpongeBob SquarePants: The First 100 Episodes
;Blu-ray
* SpongeBob SquarePants: It's a SpongeBob Christmas!
==Trivia==
* This episode was ranked #2 in The 100 Greatest Nicktoon Episodes countdown in 2007.
* The explosive pie appears as an item in Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl and Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2.
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