im assuming for a cartoonishly dangerous version of april fools day
What about the wars Mr Krabs fought in? This could be the rise of a rebel cell that disguises their munitions. The Krusty Krew was on the verge of discovering possibly the biggest conspiracy to hit Bikini Bottom, and it went right over their heads!
They’re apparently able to use moldy crust at cannonballs, so disguising bombs as pies doesn’t sound too far fetched.
Imagine if they had a food war, that I would like to see.
The Theorizer would go crazy for this
Controlled Demolitions and mining?
Why disguise them as pies? They are a weapon of terror that target civilians.
its the opposite acksually! it’s a standard bikini bottom regulation. It’s to prevent public hysteria from constantly seeing bombs being produced within their neighborhood. by disguising them as pies, they can openly transport them with the public being none the wiser. it’s also not like they’re keeping it a secret that they’re transporting bombs, in fact they’re open to disclosing what they have in the name of public safety
We already played 'babble like an idiot'!
Except that they're willing to sell the bombs to a random civilian (Squidward) when he offers them money. Their boss even says, "we were just kidding about that bomb stuff."
True, true
Happy Cake Day!
How else would Squidward blow up?
Eating a bunch of Krabby patties and letting them go right to his thighs.
And then he blows up
They are pirates. There are canons literally in the shot. They're gonna have bombs.
But don’t they take cannonballs, not bombs?
Oh man, wait until you learn how cannonballs get launched.
...I mean. It's definitely not with bombs.
They're PIErates
Take my upvote and get out.
Well Bikini Bottom is based on a real place where beetween 1946 and 1958, the U.S. government detonated 67 nuclear weapons. At the end of the episode, they use footage from one of those tests called Operation Crossroad, for when he explodes.
this is such a good subtle joke, pirates on a huge pirate ship just chilling behind the krusty krab and collecting pie shaped bombs made in a bomb factory.. Like ?? It’s just so nonsensical, but almost no one is processing how dumb it is because they’re focusing on the dialogue
It’s taken me literal years to process how ridiculous this whole concept is, and yet so purely Spongebob
It's because they're PIErates
Even more conspicous that Mr Krabs knows exactly how they Work and the exact number of piebomb-related incidents.
Didn't you know? Bikini Bottom's biggest industry is weapons manufacturing. They serve as the second biggest contributor to King Neptune's arsenal.
Same reason they have the one vehicle
There’s a navy, so clearly there are military conflicts that require weapons
Why were they pirates?
Nobody escapes the MIC
3000 pie bombs of Squidward
For their imperialist campaigns against the neighboring atolls.
Controlled Demolitions and mining?
Well, "Bikini Bottom" is an actual place where it is the highest place that the United States has tested over 23 nuclear weapons in the real-life version. There are many references to the dropping in Spongebob nuclear droppings in the show later in that episode we see an explosion of this nuclear drop. (Fun fact in Godzilla Minus One, where Godzilla wakes up is at Bikini Bottom).
Explosive materials have all sorts of uses other than bellic ones. They could use it for mining or construction. For the benefit of society.
Relations with Rock Bottom have been pretty iffy.
I wanna say for demolition but then why would they be disguised as pies
This episode used to scare me so much
I firmly believe there were bombs in this scene initially, and then some Nick censors ordered them to remove them.
There isn't a bomb factory, he was just segueing his joke from "these pies aren't homemade, they were made in a factory".
They’re…from a different part of the ocean…
you know bikini bottom is just one city, right..?
The part of the ocean they are in is US controlled Waters?
It’s why people used to randomly explode, they had a rigged pie in their pocket
Rock Bottom better look out, Bikini Bottom is preparing for war.
War profiteering.
Turns out Mr Krabs is surprisingly ethical in the context of Bikini bottom.
Everyone knows that 60% of Bikini Bottom's GDP could comes from its military industrial complex and defense spending.
and what the fuck is the point of edible bombs that look and taste like blueberry pie??
3.....2......1.....looks like we started to early!
because plot convenience, there is barely any lore to spongebob episodes so there's no point overthinking one time jokes
I always just thought he was making up some bs to cover up the fact that he’s a pirate and would never work for a paycheck
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