Pizza Delivery

"**Pizza Delivery**" is a *Maggie Muffin* episode from season 1. In this episode, Maggie and Helen get lost in the middle of nowhere while delivering a pizza.

## Characters

* Helen Luggins
* Maggie Muffin
* Florence Owl
* Pioneers (debut; mentioned)
* Egg trucker (debut)
* Customer (debut)

## Synopsis

As the episode starts, it is closing time at the Lightbulb Office, and Helen answers a last-minute phone call from a customer. Just as he is about to tell the customer the restaurant is closed, Ms. Owl suddenly appears and snatches the phone from Helen's hands. The customer tells Ms. Owl that he wants to order a pizza and have it delivered, an order Ms. Owl happily accepts, knowing he could get extra money. Helen protests this by saying that the restaurant doesn't serve pizza nor do they deliver, but Ms. Owl spontaneously makes a pizza out of Krabby Patties and forces Helen and Maggie to deliver it.

After Maggie does a vehicle inspection on a boatmobile, Helen tells him to drive. However, Maggie says that he is still in boating school, but Helen does not want to drive either. He says the customer is around the corner and advises Maggie to do what he does in school. As expected, Maggie panics when he tries to shift the boat into reverse and ends up "backing up" for miles and miles until the boat runs out of gas in the middle of a big desert. Furious, Helen complains about the situation and kicks the boat out of frustration after Maggie mentions the pizza is getting cold. This causes the boat to suddenly drive off back to the Lightbulb Office, leaving the two stranded and forced to continue their delivery on foot.

Throughout the journey, the duo encounters numerous mishaps. First, Maggie tries a pioneer trick he claims to have seen in a movie where he listens to the ground and hears a truck coming. When Maggie tries to get the driver's attention by doing a ridiculous dance in the middle of the road, the driver speeds up and Helen pushes Maggie out of the way so he does not get mowed down. Later, the pizza box gets caught in the wind. Helen tells Maggie to let go of the pizza until they see a tornado. He then says to hang on to the pizza, which saves their lives after Maggie turns it into a parachute.

Upon landing on solid ground, Helen panics when he cannot find the road. Maggie says that moss points towards civilization and that they should go in the direction at which the moss is pointing. Helen goes in the other direction, unaware that they almost found a city.

They become tired and hungry, so Maggie suggests ridiculous things to eat. Helen wants the pizza instead. Maggie runs away from Helen. Helen pauses for a moment so that when Maggie crashes into Helen, he tries to grab it, but Maggie notices a giant rock that he claims the pioneers drove for miles. Helen is incredulous at this claim and tries to tell Maggie to forget about the pioneers, saying that there are none left because of their unusual habits and traveling methods. However, he quickly changes his mind after Maggie runs him over with the rock and he chases after him for a ride out of the desert. With the giant rock, they drive it to the customer's house.

Unfortunately, their journey does not pay off very well. The customer is at first excited to get his pizza, but then gets confused for a second and asks where is his drink, Diet Dr. Kelp, which he claims he had ordered. A confused Maggie checks the order, which says that the customer did not ask for a drink (though it is somewhat implied that Ms. Owl either hung up the phone before the customer could finish his order or did not hear him correctly). Filled with anger, the customer lashes out at Maggie, interrupting him when he tries to explain, and refuses to take the pizza or pay for it before rudely throwing it at Maggie's face and aggressively slamming the door in front of his face.

Maggie walks over to Helen, who tries to console him, but his attempt ends in vain and Maggie collapses to the ground crying while also absorbing his tears. Appalled at how the customer treated Maggie and refused to accept the pizza all because of a drink (making this long journey and the ridiculous obstacles the duo went through a complete waste of time) and after taking a brief second to think about all the trouble they went through, Helen furiously confronts the rude customer by brutally slamming the pizza into his face as a well-deserved payback, claiming it to be "on the house."

Helen then cheers up Maggie by saying that the customer took the pizza and "ate the whole thing in one bite," even without a drink. Helen calmly asks to be taken home, but Maggie instead drives them back to the Lightbulb Office as he states that they have enough time to make it back to work, which is comically revealed to be right across the street, much to Helen's dismay, as the screen fades black.