A Day Without Tears

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Characters

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Squidward Tentacles
• Patrick Star
• Eugene H. Krabs
• Gary the Snail
• News Reporter
• Unnamed Snail ^(debut)
• Unnamed father
• Unnamed kid
• Bikini Bottom Men's Choir

Synopsis

SpongeBob wakes up, stubs his toe, and starts crying. He rips his favorite shirt and starts crying again. He goes downstairs and hears a sad song on the radio; he cries again.

At work, he flips a Krabby Patty, which lands on the ground when Mr. Krabs startles him. SpongeBob then cries once again. Squidward gets irritated of SpongeBob's crying and he yells at him. SpongeBob then cries, wailing, "You yelled at me!"

Squidward tells SpongeBob that he cries too much; SpongeBob denies it. Squidward then pulls up a TV and plays a video of a trillion tears and millions of places where SpongeBob has cried over those years. He then makes a bet with SpongeBob that he couldn't last until midnight without crying.

After the bet is made, Squidward follows SpongeBob home to make sure he cries, and tries to make SpongeBob cry over things like a beautiful sunset, sad news stories with funerals, a sad song on the clarinet, and a sad bedtime story.

Amazingly, SpongeBob manages to hold in his tears until midnight, despite all of Squidward's best attempts, and after midnight, SpongeBob cries all over Bikini Bottom like crazy. Squidward comes over for a slumber party the next night, and the episode ends with Squidward crying and screaming and SpongeBob comforting him.

Production

Music

( ‣ ) Production music

( • ) Original music

( ◦ ) SpongeBob music

 ‣ Aloha Bikini Bottom - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [title card]
 ‣ Coconut Cream Pie - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob wakes up]
 ‣ Hawaiian Cocktail - Richard Myhill [SpongeBob cries]
 ‣ Coconut Cream Pie - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob goes into his closet]
 ‣ ? [Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony]
 ‣ Steel Licks (d) - Jeremy Wakefield ["That SpongeBob is such a crybaby."]
 ‣ ? [Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr]
 ‣ Dirgey - "He was a good little Krabby Patty."
 ‣ Drama Link (e) - Hubert Clifford [Squidward annoyed by SpongeBob's crying]
 ‣ ? [Drama Sting]
 ‣ Steel Licks (b) - Jeremy Wakefield ["You yelled at me!"]
 ‣ Boring Morning - Gerhard Narholz ["All right, look."]
 ‣ South Pacific Island II - Victor Cavini [montage of SpongeBob crying]
 ‣ Lap Steel - Nicolas Carr [thousands of tears later...]
 ‣ South Pacific Island II - Victor Cavini ["Wow, guess I do cry a lot."]
 ‣ Vibe Q Sting - Nicolas Carr ["Excuse me a minute."]
 ‣ Seaweed - Steve Belfer [SpongeBob calls Patrick]
 ‣ ? [Gerhard Narholz]
 ‣ Drama Link (c) - Hubert Clifford [Squidward laughs]
 ‣ Hawaiian Flower - Jon Jelmer [sunset]
 ‣ Steel Sting - Jeremy Wakefield ["Oh, well, sunset's over."]
 ‣ O Makalapua B - Kapono Beamer [Gary sleeping]
 ‣ ? [mail arrives]
 ‣ Maui Beach - Hans Haider [postcard from SpongeBob's parents]
 ‣ Nude Sting - Sammy Burdson, John Charles Fiddy ["No problem."]
 ‣ Bikini Bottom News Theme - Nicolas Carr [news on TV]
 ‣ International Law - Peter Yorke [snail caught in tree]
 ‣ Bikini Bottom News Theme - Nicolas Carr ["Coming up: an interview with a manatee..."]
 ‣ Drama Link (o) - Hubert Clifford ["Sad news for Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy fans."]
 ‣ Alpine Holiday - Harry Bluestone [Squidward changes the channel]
 ‣ Drama Link (f) - Hubert Clifford [SpongeBob throws the TV out the window]
 ‣ Steel Sting (a) - Jeremy Wakefield ["I'm gonna watch it all night!"]
 ‣ Down in Davy Jone's Locker - Gerhard Narholz ["It's getting late."]
 ‣ ? [Gerhard Narholz]
 ‣ ? [Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony]
 ‣ Tension Bits - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Squidward gets angry]
 ‣ ? [Gerhard Narholz]
 ‣ Befuddled Gent - Phillip Green [bedtime story]
 ‣ Danger Sign - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin [SpongeBob trying not to cry]
 ‣ Frightmare - Jane Antonia Cornish [it's almost midnight]
 ‣ ? [Jeremy Wakefield]
 ‣ Sponge Monger - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob bursts out crying]
 ‣ Friends and Family - Phillip Green, Geoff Love, Ken Thorne [ending]

Release

• This episode is available on the Heroes of Bikini Bottom and Complete Seventh Season DVDs.

Trivia

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• The Bikini Bottom Men's Choir made another appearance in this episode.
• The Adventures of Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy playing 7 times a day instead of 8 might be a reference to SpongeBob being on 9 to 11 times a day.
• The title of the episode maybe a reference to the song A Day Without Love by Love Affair.
• During the slideshow Squidward made of SpongeBob's breakdowns over the years, SpongeBob wore his Krusty Krab hat in all of the clips even though most weren't set at The Krusty Krab.
  • However, some episodes show SpongeBob's intense love for The Krusty Krab so much, that maybe he doesn't like to take his hat off (this was in the past, remember).

Cultural references

• On the radio, if one would listen carefully, the announcer said the song was by Eely Dan. This is an obvious reference to the jazz rock band Steely Dan. Also the next song was by Lionel Fishy. This is also a reference to Lionel Richie.
  • The radio announcer also states that the song's name before "Sad Songs" was Aja, a song by Steely Dan on the album of the same name and a song called "Sad Song" by Paul Williams.

Errors

• In the subtitles on TV, SpongeBob says "Stop. It burns," when he would normally say "Sob. Whimper."
• SpongeBob can be seen shedding a tear during the news story about the snail, which means Squidward won the bet all along.