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*[[Sandy Cheeks]]
 
*[[Sandy Cheeks]]
 
*[[Patrick Star]]
 
*[[Patrick Star]]
*[[Squidward Tentacles]] <sup>(voice only; cameo)</sup>
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*[[Squidward Tentacles]] <sup>(voice only)</sup>
 
*[[Chimpanzees]] {{Debut}}
 
*[[Chimpanzees]] {{Debut}}
 
**[[Professor Percy]]
 
**[[Professor Percy]]
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==Synopsis==
 
==Synopsis==
The Chimpanzee beneficiaries of Sandy’s undersea treedome are paying a visit to see what progress she has made with her inventions. But Sandy doesn't think any of her work will satisfy the chimps, and if they don’t like what she’s invented Sandy could lose her funding forcing her to leave [[Bikini Bottom]]. SpongeBob and Patrick [[File:Chimps_ahoy.jpg|thumb|250px]]decide to help their distraught friend by taking over her work and finishing her inventions. At first, Patrick has ideas of things that have already been invented, such as a pencil and a mirror (which ironically is actually a parallel universe). After hours of hard work, SpongeBob and Patrick invent a back scratching, hair-combing, nose-picking ukulele-tuner. When the Chimps arrive, Lord Reginald is the first to test it (though never wanted to, as Patrick forced him). Shockingly, the invention works, but when tuning the ukulele, the machine malfunctions, hits Reginald with the ukulele, slaps him, then starts attacking him with all sorts of weapons. Meanwhile, Sandy hears the screaming of Reginald, and arrives just as the machine spits out Reginald. The Chimps decide to close down the Treedome, but when Dr. Marmalade holds out a banana, Sandy's "nutcracker" peels it for him. It is revealed that this is an invention that Chimps have been searching hundreds of years for. Soon they decide to let Sandy stay for 20 more years, including a higher salary. After the Chimps leave, Patrick decides to test out the machine that injured Reginald, which, of course, malfunctions on him, yet he still yells out "All right!"
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The Chimpanzee beneficiaries of Sandy’s undersea treedome are paying a visit to see what progress she has made with her inventions. But Sandy doesn't think any of her work will satisfy the chimps, and if they don’t like what she’s invented Sandy could lose her funding forcing her to leave [[Bikini Bottom]]. SpongeBob and Patrick [[File:Chimps_ahoy.jpg|thumb|250px]]decide to help their distraught friend by taking over her work and finishing her inventions.
==Production==
 
   
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At first, Patrick has ideas of things that have already been invented, such as a pencil and a mirror (which ironically is actually a parallel universe). After hours of hard work, SpongeBob and Patrick invent a back scratching, hair-combing, nose-picking ukulele-tuner. When the Chimps arrive, Lord Reginald is the first to test it (though never wanted to, as Patrick forced him). Shockingly, the invention works, but when tuning the ukulele, the machine malfunctions, hits Reginald with the ukulele, slaps him, then starts attacking him with all sorts of weapons.
   
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Meanwhile, Sandy hears the screaming of Reginald, and arrives just as the machine spits out Reginald. The Chimps decide to close down the Treedome, but when Dr. Marmalade holds out a banana, Sandy's "nutcracker" peels it for him. It is revealed that this is an invention that Chimps have been searching hundreds of years for. Soon they decide to let Sandy stay for 20 more years, including a higher salary.
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After the Chimps leave, Patrick decides to test out the machine that injured Reginald, which, of course, malfunctions on him, yet he still yells out "All right!"
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==Production==
 
===Music===
 
===Music===
 
{{MLegend}}
 
{{MLegend}}
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{{APM|s|Sweet Perfume|Joe Sherman|SpongeBob scratching his back}}
 
{{APM|s|Sweet Perfume|Joe Sherman|SpongeBob scratching his back}}
 
{{OM|Steel Sting|Jeremy Wakefield|"Oh, sorry."}}
 
{{OM|Steel Sting|Jeremy Wakefield|"Oh, sorry."}}
{{OM||Jeremy Wakefield|"To Squidward's house!"/"Go away!"}}
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{{APM|s|Steel Licks (a)|Jeremy Wakefield|"To Squidward's house!"/"Go away!"}}
 
{{OM|Steel Licks|Jeremy Wakefield|"To Sandy's house!"}}
 
{{OM|Steel Licks|Jeremy Wakefield|"To Sandy's house!"}}
 
{{APM|l|Lurching Monster|Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin|broken inventions}}
 
{{APM|l|Lurching Monster|Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin|broken inventions}}
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{{APM|p|Proud Fanfare|David Farnon|SpongeBob and Patrick's invention revealed}}
 
{{APM|p|Proud Fanfare|David Farnon|SpongeBob and Patrick's invention revealed}}
 
{{OM|Vibe Sting|Nicolas Carr|"This is where our research money went?"}}
 
{{OM|Vibe Sting|Nicolas Carr|"This is where our research money went?"}}
{{OM||Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield|"Step right up!"}}
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{{OM|Hawaiian Trax|Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield|"Step right up!"}}
 
{{APM||||machine malfunctions}}
 
{{APM||||machine malfunctions}}
 
{{APM||||bus pulls up}}
 
{{APM||||bus pulls up}}
 
{{APM|d|Dramatic Impact 5|Ivor Slaney|"What in tarnation?"}}
 
{{APM|d|Dramatic Impact 5|Ivor Slaney|"What in tarnation?"}}
{{APM|d|Dramatic Cue (b)|Ronald Hanmer|Sandy gasps}}
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{{APM|d|Dramatic Cue (d)|Ronald Hanmer|Sandy gasps}}
{{OM||Jeremy Wakefield|"Lord Reginald, are you all right?"}}
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{{APM|s|Steel Licks (c)|Jeremy Wakefield|"Lord Reginald, are you all right?"}}
 
{{APM|s|South Pacific Island II|Victor Cavini|"I'm sorry, Sandy."}}
 
{{APM|s|South Pacific Island II|Victor Cavini|"I'm sorry, Sandy."}}
 
{{APM|b|Busy Life|Cedric King-Palmer|nutcracker peels bananas}}
 
{{APM|b|Busy Life|Cedric King-Palmer|nutcracker peels bananas}}
 
{{APM|h|Hall of Fame|Harry Bluestone|"It's the banana peeler we've been searching 117 years for!"}}
 
{{APM|h|Hall of Fame|Harry Bluestone|"It's the banana peeler we've been searching 117 years for!"}}
{{OM||Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield|ending}}
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{{OM|Hawaiian Trax|Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield|ending}}
   
 
===Release===
 
===Release===
This episode is available on DVD on [[The Complete 4th Season]].
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*This episode is available on [[Whale of a Birthday (DVD)|Whale of a Birthday]], [[Season 4 Volume 2]], [[The First 100 Episodes|First 100 Episodes]], and [[The Complete 4th Season|Complete 4th Season]] DVDs.
   
 
==Trivia==
 
==Trivia==
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{{Trivia
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|timedate = *After "[[Tea at the Treedome]]"}}
 
*The back scratcher that SpongeBob buys in the beginning of the episode costs him 52 box tops.
 
*The back scratcher that SpongeBob buys in the beginning of the episode costs him 52 box tops.
 
*This is the first episode to have actual land mammals in it besides Sandy, Mermaid Man, and Barnacle Boy.
*Sandy will be able to remain in Bikini Bottom for 20 more years, before her next expiration on October 23, 2026.
 
 
*The first episode to reference the [[Goofy Goober]] Ice Cream Shop, outside [[The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie|the film]]. The second will be "[[Born to Be Wild]]," the third will be "[[Porous Pockets]]," the fourth will be "[[Chum Bucket Supreme]]," and the fifth will be "[[The Clash of Triton]]."
*This is the first '''episode''' to have actual land mammals in it (besides Sandy, Mermaid Man, and Barnacle Boy).
 
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*Sandy will be able to remain in Bikini Bottom for 20 more years, before her next expiration on October 23, 2026. However, in the movie which is set in the year 2030, she is still in Bikini Bottom. One possible explanation is that she was visiting or she got a renew for her contract.
*Based on the comparative size of SpongeBob and Patrick when compared to the humans depicted in [[The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie]], the monkeys depicted in this episode would only be 2 - 3 inches tall.
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*Based on the comparative size of SpongeBob and Patrick when compared to the humans depicted in ''[[The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie]]'', the monkeys depicted in this episode would only be 2 - 3 inches tall.
 
*The monkeys have been searching for the banana-peeling nutcracker since 1889.
 
*The monkeys have been searching for the banana-peeling nutcracker since 1889.
*After Sandy's song ends, SpongeBob and Patrick start crying just like in [[Texas]].
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*After Sandy's song ends, SpongeBob and Patrick start crying just like in "[[Texas]]."
*At one moment, Sandy is not in her breathing suit.
 
 
*The things holding SpongeBob's invention together:
 
*The things holding SpongeBob's invention together:
 
**Bandages
 
**Bandages
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**A taped down lollipop
 
**A taped down lollipop
 
**Chewed bubble gum
 
**Chewed bubble gum
*The phrase on SpongeBob's invention says "Dr. Professor Patrick Rulez!" However the invention was finished before Patrick started calling himself "Mr. Dr. Prof. Patrick".
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*The phrase on SpongeBob's invention says "Dr. Professor Patrick Rulez!" However the invention was finished before Patrick started calling himself "Mr. Dr. Prof. Patrick."
 
*The towns for those that have nowhere else to go, as mentioned by the bus driver, in which the bus makes stops to:
 
*The towns for those that have nowhere else to go, as mentioned by the bus driver, in which the bus makes stops to:
 
**Quittersville
 
**Quittersville
 
**Failuretown
 
**Failuretown
 
**Loserburg
 
**Loserburg
*SpongeBob's invention is called "The Automatic Back-Scratcher, Hair-Comber, Nose-Picker and Ukulele-Tuner 9000".
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*SpongeBob's invention is called "The Automatic Back-Scratcher, Hair-Comber, Nose-Picker and Ukulele-Tuner 9000."
*The peanut SpongeBob talks to says, "It's dark in here".
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*The peanut SpongeBob talks to says, "It's dark in here."
 
*The inventions Patrick thinks of:
 
*The inventions Patrick thinks of:
 
**Pencil: (A stick that can be used to draw or write stuff with)
 
**Pencil: (A stick that can be used to draw or write stuff with)
 
**Light bulb: (A glass ball that lights up so the user can see in the dark)
 
**Light bulb: (A glass ball that lights up so the user can see in the dark)
 
**Mirror: (A parallel universe)
 
**Mirror: (A parallel universe)
*In this episode, SpongeBob and Patrick's water helmets are worn with the openings facing up, like they wore them in "[[Tea at the Treedome]]".
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*In this episode, SpongeBob and Patrick's water helmets are worn with the openings facing up, like they wore them in "[[Tea at the Treedome]]." This happens again in "[[Squidtastic Voyage]]" and "[[Whatever Happened To SpongeBob?]]."
 
*The list of items shown when "The Automatic Back-Scratcher, Hair-Comber, Nose-Picker and Ukulele-Tuner 9000" goes haywire include:
 
*The list of items shown when "The Automatic Back-Scratcher, Hair-Comber, Nose-Picker and Ukulele-Tuner 9000" goes haywire include:
 
**An electric saw with a circular blade
 
**An electric saw with a circular blade
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*The chimps exclaimed they searched 117 years for a banana peeler, so they should be older than that, making the chimps the oldest mammals in the show.
 
*The chimps exclaimed they searched 117 years for a banana peeler, so they should be older than that, making the chimps the oldest mammals in the show.
 
*This episode first aired on YTV on [[October 23]], [[2006]].
 
*This episode first aired on YTV on [[October 23]], [[2006]].
*The first reference to the [[Goofy Goober]] Ice Cream Shop, outside [[The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie|the film]], is made. (the second being [[Born to Be Wild]]. The third is [[Chum Bucket Supreme]].
 
 
*When Sandy sings her "birds that fly upon the ground" line, a manta ray swims by, releasing a bird call. This is strange, because most birds are depicted as scallops.
 
*When Sandy sings her "birds that fly upon the ground" line, a manta ray swims by, releasing a bird call. This is strange, because most birds are depicted as scallops.
*Patrick often insultingly refers to SpongeBob as an "unpaid intern" in this episode. Strangely, he is perfectly fine with actually ''being'' an unpaid intern (and referred to as so) in [[Bummer Vacation]].
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*Patrick often insultingly refers to SpongeBob as an "unpaid intern" in this episode. Strangely, he is perfectly fine with actually ''being'' an unpaid intern (and referred to as so) in "[[Bummer Vacation]]."
 
*When SpongeBob talked to Patrick about the his mouth moved before the reflection.
 
*When SpongeBob talked to Patrick about the his mouth moved before the reflection.
*In Sandy's song, you can hear string squeaks camouflaged in the background of her music. Although in "[[Texas]] ", you can hear that the guitar strumming sounds distorted, so the string squeaks can't be heard.
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*In Sandy's song, you can hear string squeaks camouflaged in the background of her music. Although in "[[Texas]]," you can hear that the guitar strumming sounds distorted, so the string squeaks can't be heard.
*'''Running Gag:''' Patrick wants people to call him "Mr. Dr. Prof. Patrick".
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*'''Running Gag:''' Patrick wants people to call him "Mr. Dr. Prof. Patrick."
*This episode takes place the day before "[[Whatever Happened To SpongeBob?]]".
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*This episode takes place the day before "[[Whatever Happened To SpongeBob?]]"
 
*SpongeBob's reflection has a Ukranian accent.
 
*SpongeBob's reflection has a Ukranian accent.
 
*In Greek, this episode is called ''Έρχονται οι πίθηκοι'' which means ''The ape's are coming''.
 
*In Greek, this episode is called ''Έρχονται οι πίθηκοι'' which means ''The ape's are coming''.
*During the title card, the music is the same as in the episode title card[[Selling Out]].
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*During the title card, the music is the same as in the episode title card for "[[Selling Out]]."
   
 
===Cultural References===
 
===Cultural References===
 
*This episode title is a parody of ''[[Wikipedia:Chips Ahoy!|Chips Ahoy!]]'', a popular cookie snack.
 
*This episode title is a parody of ''[[Wikipedia:Chips Ahoy!|Chips Ahoy!]]'', a popular cookie snack.
*Christopher Ryan, Rik Mayall and Nigel Planer are best known for their roles as Mike, Rick and Neil on The Young Ones (TV series).
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*Christopher Ryan, Rik Mayall and Nigel Planer are best known for their roles as Mike, Rick and Neil on ''The Young Ones'' (TV series).
*The helmet Sandy invented is similar in style and design to the helmet worn by Noodle, fictional guitarist for Gorillaz, during Phase 1.
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*The helmet Sandy invented is similar in style and design to the helmet worn by Noodle, fictional guitarist for Gorillaz, an American rock band, during Phase 1.
 
*Lord Reginald appears to be a parody and resemblance of Cranky Kong from the [[wikipedia:Donkey Kong Country|Donkey Kong Country]] series.
 
*Lord Reginald appears to be a parody and resemblance of Cranky Kong from the [[wikipedia:Donkey Kong Country|Donkey Kong Country]] series.
 
*The chimps arrive in a yellow submarine. This is a possible reference to the Beatles song [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Submarine_(album) Yellow Submarine].
 
*The chimps arrive in a yellow submarine. This is a possible reference to the Beatles song [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Submarine_(album) Yellow Submarine].
*The Hasbro toy Barrel of Monkeys appear on the title card.
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*The Hasbro toy, ''{{W|Barrel of Monkeys}}'', appears on the title card.
*An element of this episode, Sandy's funding potentially being cut, bears similarities to the ''Mystery Science Theatre 3000 ''episode "Laserblast", in which Dr. Clayton Forrester's funding is cut, forcing him to disconnect the Satellite of Love and leaving Mike Nelson and the Bots to what Dr. Forrester thinks will be an eventual demise.
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*An element of this episode, Sandy's funding potentially being cut, bears similarities to the ''Mystery Science Theatre 3000'' episode "Laserblast," in which Dr. Clayton Forrester's funding is cut, forcing him to disconnect the Satellite of Love and leaving Mike Nelson and the Bots to what Purple Doctorfish thinks will be an eventual demise.
   
 
===Errors===
 
===Errors===
 
*When SpongeBob looks in the mirror, he is wearing his water helmet, but in the mirror it is gone.
 
*When SpongeBob looks in the mirror, he is wearing his water helmet, but in the mirror it is gone.
*If you look at Sandy playing her guitar, you see she's playing with her left hand. However, in other episodes like [[Band Geeks]], she plays with her right.
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*If you look at Sandy playing her guitar, you see she's playing with her left hand. However, in other episodes like "[[Band Geeks]]," she plays with her right.
 
*When the machine spits out Lord Reginald, he is bald from the accident. But when [[Professor Percy]] says to invent the Poop Thrower, [[Lord Reginald]] 's hair is all grown back.
 
*When the machine spits out Lord Reginald, he is bald from the accident. But when [[Professor Percy]] says to invent the Poop Thrower, [[Lord Reginald]] 's hair is all grown back.
*When SpongeBob and Patrick say "It's here!", captions say "It's Eric!''"''
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*When SpongeBob and Patrick say "It's here!," captions say "It's Eric!''"''
 
*Sandy said in the beginning of the episode that the chimps were coming that afternoon. When SpongeBob and Patrick want to help, they work all night, and the chimps come the next day.
 
*Sandy said in the beginning of the episode that the chimps were coming that afternoon. When SpongeBob and Patrick want to help, they work all night, and the chimps come the next day.
 
*At one moment, Sandy is not in her breathing suit.

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Characters

Synopsis

The Chimpanzee beneficiaries of Sandy’s undersea treedome are paying a visit to see what progress she has made with her inventions. But Sandy doesn't think any of her work will satisfy the chimps, and if they don’t like what she’s invented Sandy could lose her funding forcing her to leave Bikini Bottom. SpongeBob and Patrick

Chimps ahoy

decide to help their distraught friend by taking over her work and finishing her inventions.

At first, Patrick has ideas of things that have already been invented, such as a pencil and a mirror (which ironically is actually a parallel universe). After hours of hard work, SpongeBob and Patrick invent a back scratching, hair-combing, nose-picking ukulele-tuner. When the Chimps arrive, Lord Reginald is the first to test it (though never wanted to, as Patrick forced him). Shockingly, the invention works, but when tuning the ukulele, the machine malfunctions, hits Reginald with the ukulele, slaps him, then starts attacking him with all sorts of weapons.

Meanwhile, Sandy hears the screaming of Reginald, and arrives just as the machine spits out Reginald. The Chimps decide to close down the Treedome, but when Dr. Marmalade holds out a banana, Sandy's "nutcracker" peels it for him. It is revealed that this is an invention that Chimps have been searching hundreds of years for. Soon they decide to let Sandy stay for 20 more years, including a higher salary.

After the Chimps leave, Patrick decides to test out the machine that injured Reginald, which, of course, malfunctions on him, yet he still yells out "All right!"

Production

Music

 ) Production music
 ) Original music
 ) SpongeBob music

  The Drunken Sailor - ? [title card]
  Intro Fanfare - Raymond C. Jones [Goofy Goober backscratcher]
  ? [Goofy Goober backscratcher]
  Sweet Perfume - Joe Sherman [SpongeBob scratching his back]
  Steel Sting - Jeremy Wakefield ["Oh, sorry."]
  Steel Licks (a) - Jeremy Wakefield ["To Squidward's house!"/"Go away!"]
  Steel Licks - Jeremy Wakefield ["To Sandy's house!"]
  Lurching Monster - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin [broken inventions]
  Hawaiian Cocktail - Richard Myhill ["None of my inventions are any good."]
  Troop Movement - Sam Fonteyn [SpongeBob talking to a peanut]
  Taps - ? [peanut ground up]
  Busy Life - Cedric King-Palmer [Sandy's nutcracker]
  Domestic Fun (b) - Ernest Tomlinson ["I can't even make a simple nutcracker."]
  Sweet Perfume - Joe Sherman [Patrick scratching his back]
  O Makalapua B - Kapono Beamer ["Oh, it's no use, SpongeBob."]
  ? - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Patrick's "inventions"]
  So Long, Bikini Bottom - Luke Brookshier, Peter Straus
  Power Plant - Cecil Milner [SpongeBob and Patrick working on an invention]
  Goofy Conversation - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [Sandy's bosses arrive]
  Proud Fanfare - David Farnon [SpongeBob and Patrick's invention revealed]
  Vibe Sting - Nicolas Carr ["This is where our research money went?"]
  Hawaiian Trax - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield ["Step right up!"]
  ? [machine malfunctions]
  ? [bus pulls up]
  Dramatic Impact 5 - Ivor Slaney ["What in tarnation?"]
  Dramatic Cue (d) - Ronald Hanmer [Sandy gasps]
  Steel Licks (c) - Jeremy Wakefield ["Lord Reginald, are you all right?"]
  South Pacific Island II - Victor Cavini ["I'm sorry, Sandy."]
  Busy Life - Cedric King-Palmer [nutcracker peels bananas]
  Hall of Fame - Harry Bluestone ["It's the banana peeler we've been searching 117 years for!"]
  Hawaiian Trax - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [ending]

Release

Trivia

Template:Trivia

  • The back scratcher that SpongeBob buys in the beginning of the episode costs him 52 box tops.
  • This is the first episode to have actual land mammals in it besides Sandy, Mermaid Man, and Barnacle Boy.
  • The first episode to reference the Goofy Goober Ice Cream Shop, outside the film. The second will be "Born to Be Wild," the third will be "Porous Pockets," the fourth will be "Chum Bucket Supreme," and the fifth will be "The Clash of Triton."
  • Sandy will be able to remain in Bikini Bottom for 20 more years, before her next expiration on October 23, 2026. However, in the movie which is set in the year 2030, she is still in Bikini Bottom. One possible explanation is that she was visiting or she got a renew for her contract.
  • Based on the comparative size of SpongeBob and Patrick when compared to the humans depicted in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, the monkeys depicted in this episode would only be 2 - 3 inches tall.
  • The monkeys have been searching for the banana-peeling nutcracker since 1889.
  • After Sandy's song ends, SpongeBob and Patrick start crying just like in "Texas."
  • The things holding SpongeBob's invention together:
    • Bandages
    • Screws driven into bottle caps
    • Pieces of tape made into an X
    • A taped down lollipop
    • Chewed bubble gum
  • The phrase on SpongeBob's invention says "Dr. Professor Patrick Rulez!" However the invention was finished before Patrick started calling himself "Mr. Dr. Prof. Patrick."
  • The towns for those that have nowhere else to go, as mentioned by the bus driver, in which the bus makes stops to:
    • Quittersville
    • Failuretown
    • Loserburg
  • SpongeBob's invention is called "The Automatic Back-Scratcher, Hair-Comber, Nose-Picker and Ukulele-Tuner 9000."
  • The peanut SpongeBob talks to says, "It's dark in here."
  • The inventions Patrick thinks of:
    • Pencil: (A stick that can be used to draw or write stuff with)
    • Light bulb: (A glass ball that lights up so the user can see in the dark)
    • Mirror: (A parallel universe)
  • In this episode, SpongeBob and Patrick's water helmets are worn with the openings facing up, like they wore them in "Tea at the Treedome." This happens again in "Squidtastic Voyage" and "Whatever Happened To SpongeBob?."
  • The list of items shown when "The Automatic Back-Scratcher, Hair-Comber, Nose-Picker and Ukulele-Tuner 9000" goes haywire include:
    • An electric saw with a circular blade
    • A flamethrower
    • A pair of scissors
    • A corkscrew
    • An aerial poison dart
    • A taser
  • Inventions the chimps have been searching for many years:
    • Banana peeler
    • Poop thrower
  • The chimps exclaimed they searched 117 years for a banana peeler, so they should be older than that, making the chimps the oldest mammals in the show.
  • This episode first aired on YTV on October 23, 2006.
  • When Sandy sings her "birds that fly upon the ground" line, a manta ray swims by, releasing a bird call. This is strange, because most birds are depicted as scallops.
  • Patrick often insultingly refers to SpongeBob as an "unpaid intern" in this episode. Strangely, he is perfectly fine with actually being an unpaid intern (and referred to as so) in "Bummer Vacation."
  • When SpongeBob talked to Patrick about the his mouth moved before the reflection.
  • In Sandy's song, you can hear string squeaks camouflaged in the background of her music. Although in "Texas," you can hear that the guitar strumming sounds distorted, so the string squeaks can't be heard.
  • Running Gag: Patrick wants people to call him "Mr. Dr. Prof. Patrick."
  • This episode takes place the day before "Whatever Happened To SpongeBob?"
  • SpongeBob's reflection has a Ukranian accent.
  • In Greek, this episode is called Έρχονται οι πίθηκοι which means The ape's are coming.
  • During the title card, the music is the same as in the episode title card for "Selling Out."

Cultural References

  • This episode title is a parody of Chips Ahoy!, a popular cookie snack.
  • Christopher Ryan, Rik Mayall and Nigel Planer are best known for their roles as Mike, Rick and Neil on The Young Ones (TV series).
  • The helmet Sandy invented is similar in style and design to the helmet worn by Noodle, fictional guitarist for Gorillaz, an American rock band, during Phase 1.
  • Lord Reginald appears to be a parody and resemblance of Cranky Kong from the Donkey Kong Country series.
  • The chimps arrive in a yellow submarine. This is a possible reference to the Beatles song Yellow Submarine.
  • The Hasbro toy, Barrel of Monkeys, appears on the title card.
  • An element of this episode, Sandy's funding potentially being cut, bears similarities to the Mystery Science Theatre 3000 episode "Laserblast," in which Dr. Clayton Forrester's funding is cut, forcing him to disconnect the Satellite of Love and leaving Mike Nelson and the Bots to what Purple Doctorfish thinks will be an eventual demise.

Errors

  • When SpongeBob looks in the mirror, he is wearing his water helmet, but in the mirror it is gone.
  • If you look at Sandy playing her guitar, you see she's playing with her left hand. However, in other episodes like "Band Geeks," she plays with her right.
  • When the machine spits out Lord Reginald, he is bald from the accident. But when Professor Percy says to invent the Poop Thrower, Lord Reginald 's hair is all grown back.
  • When SpongeBob and Patrick say "It's here!," captions say "It's Eric!"
  • Sandy said in the beginning of the episode that the chimps were coming that afternoon. When SpongeBob and Patrick want to help, they work all night, and the chimps come the next day.
  • At one moment, Sandy is not in her breathing suit.