Pizza Delivery (SpongeBob SquarePants episode)

## Pizza Delivery

"**Pizza Delivery**" is a *SpongeBob SquarePants* episode from season one. In this episode, SpongeBob and Squidward deliver a pizza.

## Synopsis

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

After SpongeBob does a vehicle inspection on a boatmobile, Squidward tells him to drive. However, SpongeBob says that he is still in boating school, but Squidward does not want to drive either. He says the customer is around the corner and advises SpongeBob to do what he does in school. As expected, SpongeBob 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. Squidward complains about the situation and kicks the boat out of frustration after SpongeBob mentions the pizza is getting cold. This causes the boat to suddenly drive off back to the Krusty Krab, leaving the two stranded and forced to continue their delivery on foot.

Throughout the journey, the duo encounters numerous mishaps. First, SpongeBob tries a pioneer trick he claims to have seen in a movie where he listens to the ground and hears a truck coming. When SpongeBob tries to get the driver's attention by doing a ridiculous dance in the middle of the road, the driver speeds up and Squidward pushes SpongeBob out of the way so he does not get mowed down. Later, the pizza box gets caught in the wind. Squidward tells SpongeBob 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 SpongeBob turns it into a parachute.

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

They become tired and hungry, so SpongeBob suggests ridiculous things to eat. Squidward wants the pizza instead. SpongeBob runs away from Squidward. Squidward pauses for a moment so that when SpongeBob crashes into Squidward, he tries to grab it, but SpongeBob notices a giant rock that he claims the pioneers drove for miles. Squidward is incredulous at this claim and tries to tell SpongeBob 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 SpongeBob 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 frowns for a second and asks where is his drink, Diet Dr. Kelp, which he claims he had ordered. A confused SpongeBob checks the order, which says that the customer did not ask for a drink (though it is somewhat implied that Mr. Krabs either hung up the phone before the customer could finish his order or did not hear him correctly). Filled with anger, the customer harshly berates SpongeBob and refuses to take the pizza or pay for it before throwing it at SpongeBob's face and aggressively slamming the door in front of his face.

SpongeBob walks over to Squidward, who tries to console him, but his attempt ends in vain and SpongeBob collapses to the ground crying while also absorbing his tears. Appalled at how the customer treated SpongeBob 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), Squidward furiously confronts the rude customer by brutally slamming the pizza into his face as a deserved payback, claiming it to be "on the house."

Squidward then cheers up SpongeBob by saying that the customer took the pizza and "ate the whole thing in one bite", even without a drink. Squidward calmly asks to be taken home, but SpongeBob instead drives them back to the Krusty Krab 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 Squidward's dismay.

### Running gags

* SpongeBob singing "The Krusty Krab Pizza."
* Squidward trying to steal the pizza from SpongeBob.