Home Sweet Apple

"**Home Sweet Apple**" is a *Maggie Muffin* episode from season 1. In this episode, Maggie's apple is consumed by nematodes, leaving him homeless.

## Characters

* Rainbow Worms
* Carlos
* Strawberry the Octopus
* Maggie Muffin
* Helen Luggins
* Kira Moonhead
* Jimmy Muffin (debut)
* Susan Muffin (debut)
* Stu Moonhead and Bonnie Moonhead (mentioned as "parents")

## Synopsis

A crowd of hungry nematodes arrive in Dice Bottom early in the morning and eat a variety of items. Upon reaching Maggie's house, they pull out straws and start drinking the juice inside it. Meanwhile, Maggie and Strawberry are inside, sleeping, as everything starts to shrink. Maggie and Strawberry wake up and rush into the living room as Maggie calls Helen on the phone, and Helen asks if it is time for Maggie to ruin his day. Then Kira gets up asking, "Is it already time to ruin Squid's day?" before rushing over elegantly dressed. When Helen sees that there is nothing left of Maggie's house save what seems to be small pebble, he starts elatedly saying goodbye to Maggie, but throws a party inside his house, with confetti and streamers flying out of his front windows. Now that the house is no longer there, Maggie says that he will have to move back in with his mom and dad. However, Kira convinces Maggie to build a new house.

Later, Maggie and Kira attempt to build another apple house, but it ends up being a scale model, meaning Maggie has no choice but to move away, until Kira offers to allow Maggie and Strawberry to stay at his house. When Maggie and Strawberry try to sleep, Kira hogs his rock, which he and Maggie are using as a blanket, and they get into a tug-of-war. Not only does Kira snore so loud that Maggie put corks in his ears, but he also begins drooling in his sleep. Maggie absorbs the drool and waddles over to Kira to put a giant cork inside his mouth. Later, Kira has dreams that spiders are attacking him, and hits Maggie repeatedly with the cone, crushing him. Maggie decides to sleep far away from Kira, but when Kira has another nightmare, he sleep-runs to where Maggie is and pounds him with his rock some more before heading back to where he was and going back to sleep the way he normally does.

Maggie gives up sleeping at Kira's house and goes to sleep at Helen's. Maggie asks Helen for a glass of water, and Helen, who is still half-asleep, brings him one. When they say goodnight to each other, Helen suddenly wakes up and realizes that Maggie is sleeping at her house, and angrily kicks she and Strawberry out, leaving both of them without a place to stay for the rest of the night.

The next day, Helen gets up early so he can see Maggie move back with his parents. When Maggie's parents arrive, Kira begins crying hysterically and attempts to drag Maggie's family's car to a stop while Helen starts dancing and singing. Despondent, Maggie buries the pebble from the beginning of the episode where his house used to be because it holds too many memories. He begins to tear up, and one tear falls on the spot where the pebble was planted. However, the "pebble" is actually a seed, and Maggie's tear waters the apple seed, which causes it to glow and creates a massive vine. This vine sprouts a new apple house identical to the previous one, drops it on top of Helen, and retreats underground. Maggie is happy her house came back as he, her parents, and Kira rush over to go inside to find everything back to where it belongs. Just before the episode closes, Maggie then goes over to tell Helen, who is underneath the floor, that his house is back forever, much to the cephalopod's dismay.