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SpongeBob SquarePants episode
"Pizza Delivery"
Chronology
Information
Season №: 1
Episode №: 5a
Airdate: August 14, 1999
Best Day Ever Rank: #29
SpongeBash Rank: #1
Credits
Guest(s): Doug Lawrence as the truck driver[1]
Writer(s): Sherm Cohen
Aaron Springer
Peter Burns
Storyboard Artist(s): Aaron Springer
Directors
Storyboard: Sherm Cohen
Animation: Sean Dempsey
Creative: Derek Drymon
Episode List
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"Pizza Delivery" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season one. SpongeBob and Squidward attempt to delivery the first Krabby Patty pizza. After a mishap while trying to start their car, they end up stranded in the middle of nowhere. This episode was voted to be the number one SpongeBob episode of all time by fans in The Ultimate SpongeBob Sponge Bash.

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Plot

At the Krusty Krab, it is closing time, when Mr. Krabs receives a phone call ordering a pizza. Despite the fact that the Krusty Krab neither serves pizza nor makes deliveries, Krabs creates a pizza from Krabby Patties and has SpongeBob and Squidward deliver it.

Outside, Squidward tells SpongeBob to start their boat. However, SpongeBob cannot drive and is still in boating school. SpongeBob nervously begins "backing up", and ends up exhausting the entire gas tank, leaving them stuck in the middle of nowhere. Squidward kicks the boat in an attempt to make it work again, and it instantly drives away without them. SpongeBob suggests to deliver the pizza on foot, and they start walking. Along the way, SpongeBob sings a song about the Krusty Krab Pizza, and how it is the best pizza on the sea floor. When they see a truck, SpongeBob attempts to catch a ride by hitchhiking like the "pioneers", but fails and is almost hit by the truck. Soon after, they enter a sandstorm area, where Squidward tries to take the pizza from SpongeBob to eat it. While they struggle, the winds carry them into a tornado, which spits them out, sending them flying into the distance. When they land, the road is nowhere in sight, and Squidward concludes that they have become hopelessly lost. SpongeBob sees a moss-covered rock, and says that, according to the pioneers, moss always points to civilization. However, Squidward insists on going in the opposite direction, and SpongeBob follows. The screen then pans away to reveal that the moss actually did point towards the city.

Eventually, the exhausted and starving duo find a piece of coral, and SpongeBob comments that the pioneers would eat coral in times of hardship. Squidward tries to eat it, and when he finds it inedible, he tries the take the pizza from SpongeBob again, this time trying to tempt him into eating it. However, SpongeBob realizes what he is trying to do, and just as Squidward is about to resort to violence, SpongeBob sees a rock and proclaims that they are saved, explaining that the pioneers "used to ride these babies for miles."

Squidward, of course, scoffs at the ludicrous idea of driving a rock, but when SpongeBob is able to successfully do so, he begins to follow him. Soon they arrive at the customers house, and SpongeBob walks up to the door to give him his meal. The customer, who turns out to be Tom is at first glad to get his pizza. However, Tom then gets really unneccessarily mad with SpongeBob because the latter had SUPPOSEDLY forgotten the Diet Dr. Kelp soda Tom insists he ordered with the pizza (it is possible Mr. Krabs hung up the phone before Tom got the chance to fully finish his order). Spongebob of course tries to explain that there was no drink included in the order but Tom is FAR from understanding, and as a result of Spongebob's "forgetting" he rudely refuses to pay for the pizza and slams the door shut. SpongBob is devastated by this, and falls to the ground, crying. Feeling bad for Spongebob and angered that Tom made the sponge cry, Squidward marches to the door and shoves the pizza into Tom's face, after yelling, "Well, this one's on the house!" After the confrontation, the two drive back to work, which ironically is only a few feet away. Squidward, realizing that their journey was entirely unnecessary, says "Oh, my aching tentacles" as the episode ends.

Trivia/Goofs

  • This episode is number 20 on Tom Kenny's Top 20 on iTunes. His description says:
"The classic setup: SpongeBob and Squidward lost in the desert while delivering a pizza to a customer's home. Squidward just wants to get out of there, but SpongeBob sees his pizza delivery as a sacred oath between himself and the customer. I like when SpongeBob singing to himself - 'The Krusty Krab pizza is the pizza' ...turns into a bizarre gospel jingle singer-'Krusty Kray -ya ya-yaa-aaab!'"
  • Tom says that he ordered a "Diet Dr. Kelp". Dr. Kelp is a spoof on "Dr. Pepper."
  • The driver's seat on SpongeBob and Squidward's boat is on the right side, which would that it is a foreign car.
  • When SpongeBob, not knowing how to drive, looks at the gear lever, he hallucinates the Korean words "앞으로가" (forward) and "뒤로가" (reverse).
  • After Squidward is run over by SpongeBob's rock, his eyes momentarily become the same color as his skin.
  • During Spongebob's dance when he finds the rock, he does 2 pushups. However, "MuscleBob BuffPants", he couldn't even do one pushup. Later on, in "The Fry Cook Games", he is able to do many pushups.
  • This is the 1st title card to feature flowers.
  • Second time Patrick doesn't appear.
  • This is the first time a tornado appears. The second time was in "Pineapple Fever".
  • The music that plays when Squidward stomps angrily toward Tom is also heard throughout the entirety of "Reef Blower".
  • This is one of the few episodes that Squidward shows his liking for Spongebob, despite the fact that he forcibly attempts to take the pizza from him in this episode as well.
  • This episode may be a reference to when McDonald's served pizza, but McDonald's never delivered.

Transcript

Main article: Pizza Delivery (transcript)

APM music identification

Notes

  1. ^ The truck-driver is voiced by Doug Lawrence, but the end credits for this episode mistake him to be voiced by Rodger Bumpass.
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