Crashing Dreams: The episode opens with an Imagine Spot of Squidward on an island playing tropical music on a piano when he's interrupted by SpongeBob ringing a bell yelling 'Order up, Squidward!', which resulted from his ringing alarm clock.Disgusted, Squidward throws the sweater back at SpongeBob, making the sponge cry.and he uses his tears to make a new sweater for Squidward.

The hole for Squidward's head is way too big (SpongeBob says he used a watermelon for scale) and it's itchy because SpongeBob made the sweater out of his eyelash hair. Crappy Homemade Gift: SpongeBob makes Squidward a sweater for Employee Brotherhood Day.Krabs informs him that he has to make the gift himself. Convenience Store Gift Shopping: Defied when told he needs to exchange gifts with SpongeBob, Squidward says he’ll just “buy the little twerp a gumball” before Mr.Krabs says he's only got until sunset before it drops into his lower intestine and that’s the time he is to explode. Celestial Deadline: When SpongeBob is thought to eat the exploding pie, Mr.Cardiovascular Love: SpongeBob's sweater for Squidward reads 'I ♥ U'.Bumper Sticker: 'Don't Ask Me About My Day.'.Brutal Honesty: When SpongeBob doesn't explode after sunset, Squidward tells him point-blank that the pie he supposedly ate was a bomb.Break the Cutie: SpongeBob is heartbroken when Squidward rejects his eyelash sweater, to the point where he cries him a new sweater.Despite this, the episode itself is left uncut. This is so children wouldn't see a reference to death in the episode's title. Bowdlerise: All airings of 'Dying for Pie' on YTV remove the title card for Canadian audiences.Fortunately, this turns out to be Fauxshadowing, since it's then revealed that the protagonist hadn't eaten the bomb to begin with. Near the end of the episode, SpongeBob burps, which he interprets as a sign that something has wrapped in his lower intestine. Bizarre Belching: SpongeBob has accidentally swallowed a bomb, which will explode once it reaches the end of his digestive system.Krabs gives him an appalled What the Hell, Hero? for seemingly dooming him to an early death. Then, when it seems that SpongeBob ate the explosive pie Squidward bought, Mr. He organizes the whole 'Employee Brotherhood Day' schtick after noticing Squidward's rotten attitude towards SpongeBob and forces the former to find a gift for his fry cook when Squidward tries to leave. Krabs plays this role again, which isn't outside of the norm for the pre-movie seasons. SpongeBob seems to explode after the sun sets, but it turns out that he was just blowing bomb-shaped bubbles.SpongeBob: Here it is, the SUNSET! I love to count it down! FIVE. Angrish: Upon seeing that SpongeBob is still alive after sunset, Squidward starts spouting gibberish in disbelief:.

All for Nothing: Squidward spends the whole afternoon doing activities with SpongeBob so his last moments before the pie bomb hit his lower intestine would be happy, only to find out that SpongeBob never ate it in the first place.The captain, however, is Faux Affably Evil, as he has no qualms over selling a powerful explosive for twenty-five dollars despite knowing just how dangerous it is.

Affably Evil: The pirates are actually pretty polite to Squidward, even initially warning him against taking/eating the pies due to being bombs.

An Aesop: Don't always assume a product is safe even if the owner says it is.

When it appears that SpongeBob has eaten it, a guilty Squidward endeavors to make his last few hours before the bomb detonates as joyful as possible. Since the gifts have to be homemade, Squidward buys a pie from a crew of pirates and tries to pass it off as his own cooking, but the pie turns out to be a bomb in disguise. Krabs has SpongeBob and Squidward exchange gifts. It's Employee Brotherhood Day at the Krusty Krab and Mr.

Spongebob until sunset