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"Ghost Host"
Chronology
Information
Season №: 4
Episode №: 70a
Airdate: May 5, 2006
Best Day Ever Rank: #5
Credits
Writer(s): Erik Wiese
Zeus Cervas
Tim Hill
Directors
Episode List
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"Ghost Host" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season four.

Brief summary: The Flying Dutchman loses his scary touch from scaring SpongeBob so much, so SpongeBob lends a hand to help him get his revenge on the citizens of Bikini Bottom and ghostly gift back.

Time/Date: Unknown

Time Cards shown:

  • 6 months later

Characters Present:

Songs:

(Not really a song, but repeated many times.) The power within, the power within...

Contents

Plot

After his ship breaks down, The Flying Dutchman takes up residence at SpongeBob's house where he proceeds to scare, startle and surprise SpongeBob around the clock. SpongeB0b does get scared and goes to Squidwards for help, but unfortunately, he doesn't believe in ghosts. So he slams the door in SpongeBob's face, so he soon turns to Patrick to help, but he just closes his door. Then he hears Gary cry for help. SpongeBob enters his house to stop The Flying Dutchman. The Flying Dutchman then says that he just wanted to pet Gary, only to reveal that it was a trick by eating him. SpongeBob despairs about the death of hair until Gary appears behind him with no explanation. Eventually, all the spooky shenanigans grow old, and SpongeBob and all of the citizens of Bikini Bottom are no longer afraid of the Dutchman. This creates a panic for the old ghost who now fears that he has lost his scary touch. So SpongeBob decides to lend a hand and help the Flying Dutchman learn to scare people again. Unfortunately, his's first attempt didn't work until the customer on the mattress screamed from the startling notice of the mattress salesman. The second attempt also didn't work since The Flying Dutchman got hit by a jump rope. The third attempt didn't work when an old lady mistakes him for someone else. He then realizes that the Dutchman is trashing his place and tells him to get active by getting the Flying Dutchman to watch a crazy video about some mysterious saying "The Power Within" constantly. The next attempt, however, doesn't work when Larry thought that he had a flab on his pecs. The Flying Dutchman decides to give up since maybe people don't believe in ghosts anymore. This gives SpongeBob an idea. SpongeBob then tells the Dutchman to try to scare Squidwad since he doesn't believe in ghosts. The Flying Dutchman gets his revenge to go to Squidward's house and successfully scares him. The Flying Dutchman finally has the nerve to scare people again. He had a confession to make and tells SpongeBob that his ship had been repaired for three months. The episode ends with The Flying Dutchman leaving SpongeBob with a present with a scary surprise, but SpongeBob laughs at it.

Trivia/Goofs

  • List of the Flying Dutchman's successes at scaring:
    • He comes out of the floor in front of SpongeBob with a RAARGH!
    • He scares SpongeBob with an evil laughter and snakes coming of his mouth.
    • He pretended to eat Gary.
    • He scares SpongeBob with a ARGH!
    • He says in dark voice: Oh, don't get too comfortable. with the fire in his eyes in the background which is also on fire.
    • He scares SpongeBob with his house coming to life roaring with the insides on fire.
    • He replaces SpongeBob's body with tentacles.
    • He scares him with a monster in his fridge that pops out when he opens it.
    • He tears SpongeBob's parallel image face off by eating it in a mirror.
    • He "buries" a skeleton in a drawer.
    • To scare Squidward, while Squidward was doing the thing with the powder, he moved the powder thing and made the room all powdery and the powder turned into clouds and a ghostly image of Squidward's mother appeared from the clouds asking why Squidward didn't call her and the image melted into a giant clarinet that goes through Squidward's head that says that it heard that he doesn't believe in ghosts. The clarinet turns into a chain which The Flying Dutchman was holding from the other side of the road which serves their houses. The Flying Dutchman threw Squidward into his house. Squidward says that there's no such thing as ghosts and the Dutchman disagrees with him and the floor turns into a big puddle and eyeballs come and form a multi-eyed monster that ate Squidward, sending him to his living room, which was in his stomach, where a giant SpongeBob breaths heavily, then pours out spiders and its eyeballs slither out like snakes and turns into the Flying Dutchman and then the Dutchman does an illusion with his fingers saying "Ooooh. Scaa-ry." Squidward then runs out of his house, breaking his house's wall and yelling "Ghooosts!!! Ghooosts!!!".
  • List of the Flying Dutchman's unsuccessful attempts to scare SpongeBob:
    • Mirror of SpongeBob getting eaten by a shark
    • eyes in his cereal box
    • Skeleton in his drawer
    • A giant slimy bald green monster which appears from the floor and turns into a giant ant creature which turns into a hideous clown-worm with a babyish head which turns into a creepy human face with a bubblepipe which he spits out which turns into SpongeBob's head which pours out spiders and its eyeballs slither away like snakes and then the Flying Dutchman's head and arms come out of the body.
  • When Squidward says, "Squiddums loves his mama.", his teeth keep flashing between white and a pale yellow.
  • In current airings after the premiere, this episode airs after Chimps Ahoy.
  • Squidward's mother causes Squidward to reveal his nickname being Squiddums.
  • It is revealed that the Flying Dutchman is or was married.
    • The Flying Dutchman seems to want to deny it, like the real one would.
  • It is shown that SpongeBob uses a built-in VCR on his TV just like in the episode Karate Island.
  • A scene where Squidward's mother appears as a giant ghost (not in cloud form) in his room and speaks to Squidward is a parody of the films The Land Before Time, where Littlefoot's mother appeared as a giant cloud ghost in the sky and spoke to Littlefoot, and The Lion King, where Simba's father Mufasa appeared as a giant cloud ghost in the sky and spoke to Simba. This may mean this episode took place after Fool's in April and Krusty Towers, because if she's a ghost, that must mean she died.
  • Squidward screaming 'No! That's impossible!' is a parody of Luke Skywalker in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.
  • Squidward is scared to call his mother ugly, even though she is.
  • SpongeBob riding on the Dutchman's back holding his hair back is a parody of The NeverEnding Story.
  • In this episode, Squidward does not believe in ghosts, but in Pranks A Lot, he does.
  • When flying to the gym the Flying Dutchman says "Let's Hit it", this is a pun when the Flying Dutchman flys through the wall being a ghost, but SpongeBob hits it face-first.
  • This episode is similar to "Can You Spare a Dime?", only SpongeBob uses a less hostile maneuver to get "Dutchy" back in shape.
  • SpongeBob laughs at the end, but the captions say he screams.
  • This episode first aired on YTV on October 23, 2006.
  • When the Dutchman raided Squidward's house, the Dutchman has 5 fingers, but when he was at SpongeBob's, he had only four.
  • The giant ant the Flying Dutchman changed into is a parody of the sci-fi film Them.
  • The house coming to life with the insides on fire is similar to the Episode "Procrastination", except that it only roared instead of telling SpongeBob to stop wasting time.
  • This was the #5 episode in the Best Day Ever countdown.
  • This is the third appearance of Squidward's mom. The first was in Fools in April, the second was in Krusty Towers.
  • At the party the Flying Dutchman threw off his wedding ring. But, when he lifts up Squidward on the rope, he can be seen wearing it.
  • The video SpongeBob showed the Flying Dutchman caused self-awareness to him. This may be because it has scenes of life on land, as you can see an eagle flying.
  • Also, the video has an old fish screaming, "The Power Within!" This is one of the few underwater creatures to wear shoes. (One being SpongeBob, others being rich fish or businessman)
  • And a chicken walks across the old man in the video, but they are underwater.
  • It is revealed that the Flying Dutchman can shapeshift.
  • How can Squidward show disbelief in the Flying Dutchman,especially when he has seen him multiple times throughout the series?
  • In this episode Squidward's mother sounds like a old woman but in Fools in April his mother sounds like a man.
  • This is the first time The Flying Dutchman is shown without a hat.

Quotes

SpongeBob: (after seeing his ghost friend crash into a wall) Oh, no! No, no, no, no, no, no! (goes to his door) EVERYONE, GET OUT!

APM Music Identification

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