For an invertebrate, you really do need to grow a spine.
Airdate: December 10, 2021"All For Ski" is the eighth episode of Gory Toons. It is also the final episode of 2021.
After Cuddles tosses a snowball at SpongeBob, causing him to slide down a hill, he must navigate his way to safety. As in, he ends up suffering from electrocution, a branch impaling his eye, being pinned to a wall by one of Disco Bear's ski sticks, and getting pelted by a snowball. Meanwhile, the ski race is interrupted by a giant snowball unwittingly formed by Tom and Jerry's antics, crushing many of the skiers and audience members.
"All For Ski" contains examples of:
- Agonizing Stomach Wound: During a chase, Jerry abruptly flies backward and his ski poles impale Tom's stomach, which causes the feline to tumble down the hill that he and Jerry were skiing on.
- Asshole Victim: Cuddles, who, after accidentally starting SpongeBob's torment, is immediately killed by the latter after the conflict ensues.
- Disco Bear as well, as he caused Kenny's death at the beginning of the episode.
- Blind Mistake: The first death in the episode has The Mole unknowingly skiing over Kenny, splattering him.
- Bookends: The first season of Gory Toons started off with an episode centered on tormenting SpongeBob. This episode ends off the Season with an episode once again tormenting SponegBob.
- Break the Cutie: SpongeBob goes through hell trying to survive.
- Brick Joke: When Disco Bear is hit by a snowball, one of the ski sticks lands onto the ground, leading to Disco Bear landing onto it and getting impaled, while the other ski stick is seemingly nowhere to be found. However, at the very end of the episode, SpongeBob gets impaled by the other one.
- Cathartic Exhalation: SpongeBob breathes a sigh of relief after he lands safely in the middle of an ice rink. His relief is short-lived, however, as Chef Pee Pee accidentally knocks him off the ice and down a hill.
- Christmas Episode: Serves as the first one of Gory Toons.
- Cruel and Unusual Death:
- SpongeBob is run over by a giant snowball, pinned to a wall by one of Disco Bear's ski sticks, is hit by a snowball, frozen by it, and explodes into pieces.
- Kenny is ran over by The Mole during a ski race. SpongeBob flattens Kirby in a similar fashion.
- Cuddles' face is scraped off when SpongeBob slides towards him.
- Lumpy gets his stomach torn apart by various sharp objects until he's nothing but his antlers.
- Comical Overreacting: SpongeBob finally lands to safety after sliding down a long hill. Yet, he is bailing until a few seconds later.
- Disaster Dominoes: Cuddles tosses a snowball at SpongeBob, causing madness and several deaths to ensue.
- Downer Ending: SpongeBob is tormented and dies, most of the citizens are dead, and no one really won the ski race.
- Eye Scream: SpongeBob has two of Lumpy's severed antlers jammed into his eyes. Later on, he is stabbed in an eye by a tree branch.
- Facial Horror: What's left of Cuddles' face after getting skinned by SpongeBob.
- Human Snowball: It's implied that the giant snowball that suddenly appears halfway through the episode was made from Tom and Jerry tumbling down the hill.
- Hope Spot: Twice for SpongeBob.
- First is when he lands safely on a frozen pond after flying towards a power line. He is then knocked away by Chef Pee Pee down another hill.
- Second is when he finally comes to a halt and is greeted by Mayor McDaniel's giving him a trophy for making first place in the skiing race. However, just as he is about to grab the trophy, he notices that a massive snowball is rolling in their directions, making it clear that SpongeBob is doomed.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Disco Bear's death. He is hit by a snowball and lands on one of his ski sticks, impaling him with his heart on the end of it.
- Oh, Crap!: The audience of the ski race gave this reaction the moment SpongeBob was heading right at them shortly before quickly getting out of the way.
- Sheila also has this reaction after noticing a snowball that is rolling towards her.
- Overly Long Scream: After being impaled in the eye by a tree branch, SpongeBob proceeds to scream in agony. He continues to scream until he finally notices that he come to a standstill.
- Pun-Based Title: "All For Three"
- Rasputinian Death: SpongeBob suffers from a few injuries from his predicament before he finally dies from freezing to death.
- The Scream: Tom lets out his iconic yell once he is stabbed in the gut by Jerry's ski sticks.
- Season Finale: Of Season One.
- Ship Tease: Disco Bear and Pop kiss at the beginning of the episode.
- Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Poor SpongeBob has to go through a lot of pain just to survive. At the end, he dies anyway, just as he won first place in the ski race he was in.
- Ski-Resort Episode: The episode takes place at a ski resort.
- Snowball Fight: This is how the episode starts.. and what provoked a chain that lead to most of the characters dying in the episode.
- Squashed Flat: The crowd that was watching the ski race is trampled by the massive snowball, gruesomely crushing them.
- Sugar Apocalypse: Perhaps the most demonstrated example. Have the cast of animated Toons playing in the snow? Well, slaughter them all!
- Tear Off Your Face: Cuddles has his face ripped off by SpongeBob.
- They Killed Kenny Again: Kenny, Mime, Kirby, Cuddles, Lumpy, Tom, Jerry, Sheila, Cappy, Nibbles, Disco Bear, Linda, Stephen, Mrs. Testaburger, Ms. Tweak, Pop, Peter, Stewie, Elmer, Homer, Mayor McDaniels, and SpongeBob die in this episode.
- This episode has known for having one of the, if not, the highest amount of deaths, since almost every major recurring character in the show (excluding Eric Cartman) appears in this episode, and nearly all of them died.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: That being said, Nutty, Chef Pee Peenote , and Waddle Dee survives in this episode.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Cuddles throwing a small snowball at SpongeBob.
- What a Drag: Lumpy gets dragged across many hills littered with sharp objects, which eventually shreds his entire body to just his antlers.
- X-Ray Sparks: After sliding off an acorn in a similar manner to a ramp, he flies right towards a powerline and is then electrocuted by it.
