Pizza Pieholes

Title Card

**Pizza Pieholes** is the twelfth episode of *Mike & Friends*. In this episode, Mike, Connor, and Kyle get jobs as chefs at a pizzeria.

#### Characters

* Mike Mormon
* Connor Wettermenn
* Kyle Anderson
* Three chefs (debut)
* Jack (debut)
* Customer (debut)
* Craters (debut)

## Synopsis

Mike, Connor, and Kyle sit at a table in Jack’s Pizza Shack, waiting for their pizza. Mike gets angry that they’ve been waiting 20 minutes for their pizza to be ready. Suddenly, three chefs storm out of the shack, angry that their boss, Jack, fired them to save money. Jack apologizes and cries as they walk out. Mike felt really bad for him.

He gets the idea for them to become chefs for a living and to impress Jack. Connor and Kyle go along with it and he brings them to the manager’s office. In Jack’s office, Mike tells him that they want the jobs as chefs. Jack asks them if they had any job experiences, their names, and if they’re good at making pizza. Mike reassures him that they are and that gets him to hire them.

In the kitchen as chefs, Mike has Connor cut the cheese and has Kyle cut the pepperoni. Mike gets them to work and has made the dough for the pizza. Connor starts farting because Mike told him to "cut the cheese". He is stopped and is told to literally cut the cheese. Connor refuses to because he thinks the cheese looks harmless.

He treats it like a baby and calls it "Craters". Meanwhile, Kyle forgot to unwrap the pepperoni while chopping it. Mike puts the sauce on the dough, and checks on Connor, who is "breastfeeding" Craters. Mike takes Craters away from him and shreds it like he wanted Connor to do.

Later, the pizza is ready and served to the customer who ordered. However, the pizza slips off the table, out of the box, and onto the customer's shirt. The unsatisfied customer gets mad at this and leaves the restaurant to go to the laundromat to get them clean. Jack mopes about this and fires the boys. Then, the episode ends with them running out of the restaurant.

## Production Music

* Listen to the Mockingbird - John Kricfalusi (arrangement) (title card/ending)

## Trivia/Goofs

* According to Pakenham, this episode is a homage to *The Three Stooges* shorts and the *Ren & Stimpy* episodes that homage the *Stooges* shorts.
* The “Listen to the Mockingbird” arrangement used in this episode was originally used in the *Ren & Stimpy* episode “Rubber Nipple Salesmen” before being used in the adult-oriented revival series, *Adult Party Cartoon*.
* Speaking of which, this is the only track used in this episode and is only used twice in it: once on the title card and once at the very end of the episode. This occurrence is because most *Three Stooges* shorts, in which this episode is based on, tend to have no background music.
* This is the first episode to be uploaded in two or more parts. This is because Pakenham wanted some of the episode out faster due to it getting delayed a little. The next episode to be uploaded in multiple parts would be “Brain Mix”.
* Part 1 upload date: February 27, 2020
* Part 2 upload date: March 10, 2020
* In one scene, Kyle points out that both him and Mike work at a cafe. This is a reference to the comic strip series of the same name, where they work at a cafe called the Donut Shack. The aforementioned cafe’s first appearance is in the episode “Con No Pay” and would appear in the show ever since.
* This was the last episode produced and uploaded before COVID-19 was declared a pandemic worldwide by the World Health Organization, on March 11, 2020.
* On the right of Jack’s Pizza Shack is a green store with the numbers 507 labeled on it and white-and-purple roof above the door. This is a direct reference to The Android’s Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop on *The Simpsons*.
* The title of this episode is a reference to the restaurant of the same name on the *SpongeBob* episode, “SpongeBob You’re Fired”.
* The way Connor is saying “You did it now, Mike. Now you’ve really done it.” in a deep voice and starts bawling like crazy is a reference to the *Ren & Stimpy* episode “Man’s Best Friend”, where Stimpy says the same thing and says it in a deep voice to Ren.
* This episode was originally going to be the eleventh episode of the series, but "Mike Watches the THX Logo" took that spot instead because Pakenham wanted said episode out as soon as possible. He actually wrote this episode's script first before he wrote the script for "Mike Watches the THX Logo".
* This episode spawned a *Mercy's Meeting* parody remake of it, which is episode 168 (part 2) of Mercy's Meeting With Futt, Hands And Friends.
* This episode spawned a *Mercy's Meeting* parody remake of it, which is episode 71 (part 2) of The Adventures of Mercy And Friends.

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