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==Synopsis==
 
==Synopsis==

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Characters

Synopsis

SpongeBob is walking home with a very heavy bag of snail food for Gary, and Patrick tells him that he has something important to tell him, but SpongeBob ignores him and passes Patrick's House before he can say it. At his front door, SpongeBob finds a package for him. He leaves the snail food on the porch and opens the package to find a Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy paddleball set. SpongeBob begins to play with it, and finds the "Dirty Bubble Challenge" inside the box, which presents him with the absurdly impossible task of hitting the paddleball 29,998,559,671,349 times in a row. He accepts the challenge, and repeatedly attempts it, never being able to successfully hit the ball even once. Meanwhile, Gary goes to his food bowl to eat, but finds it empty. He confronts SpongeBob for his food, but SpongeBob is too preoccupied with the paddleball and tosses Gary aside. Feeling disowned, Gary abandons SpongeBob, who does not even notice as he leaves. Gary wanders across the sea aimlessly, eventually departing on a bus to parts unknown.

Sometime later, Patrick goes to SpongeBob's House to tell him what he was going to say, remarking that he hasn't seen him in a couple of days. He finds that the house has deteriorated into an unkempt mess, and finds a psychologically broken SpongeBob lying in fetal position in his private quarters. SpongeBob tells him that he became this way from taking the Dirty Bubble Challenge, and Patrick cries at the mention of the challenge, saying that he took it years ago and won, but lost the trophy they sent him. SpongeBob, who has now gotten over the challenge, invites Patrick into the kitchen for cookies and milk. He gives Patrick a "fresh" glass of milk, and trips over Gary's food bowl. He remembers that he must feed Gary, and retrieves the bag of food from his porch, remarking that it has gathered a lot of dust for "a couple hours". When he calls Gary for dinner, and when he does not come, SpongeBob asks Patrick how long he was taking the Dirty Bubble Challenge. Patrick, judging by the condition of the milk, which has spoiled to the point of being completely solid, tells SpongeBob that he was gone for about seven to ten days. SpongeBob begins desperately looking for Gary, until he checks in the mailbox, where he finds a note from Gary telling him that he has run away in search of a new owner that will remember to feed him. SpongeBob is devastated by this.

Meanwhile, Gary comes to a seedy and uninviting neighborhood, and after a close encounter with a gang of alley snails (Who just wanted to give him Nachos), Gary is found by an old lady who recognizes him as "Ms. Tuftsy". She takes Gary into her house, where she pampers and overfeeds him. Meanwhile, SpongeBob desperately searches all over Bikini Bottom for Gary, but to no avail. The next morning at work, SpongeBob is extremely depressed and unproductive, and Mr. Krabs tells him that "any problem you have can be solved with a little hard work." SpongeBob interprets this as meaning that he must work harder to find Gary, and with newfound confidence, leaves the Krusty Krab to continue his search. He puts up fliers around town that directly apologize to Gary and ask him to come home. They put one on the door of a crafts store, and when Patrick sees that the store is having a sale on scented pine cones, he rushes in to get some.

File:Lady That Calls Herself Grandma & Gary.jpg

Inside, he sees Gary with Grandma, and asks her where the scented pine cones are. She tells Patrick that she bought all of them, and Patrick leaves, oblivious to the fact that he has found Gary and not mentioning it to SpongeBob.

This is followed by a song set to a montage of a heartbroken SpongeBob (along with Patrick) unsuccessfully searching for Gary and publishing media asking him to come home (including a billboard, a television public service announcement, and skywriting). After returning from a day out with his new owner, Gary indicates that has to go to the bathroom, and Grandma gives him a stack of fliers given to her by "a chubby little boy". Gary sees that the stack of flyers is from SpongeBob, and realizes that he does indeed care about him. While Grandma is in the kitchen getting the meatloaf she had been cooking for him, Gary tries to find an exit, and stumbles across a closet full of dead snail shells. Gary realizes that Grandma has been fattening him up to eat him, and runs away as Grandma throws cookies and deviled eggs at him. He hides in a back alley, where he encounters one of the alley snails he met earlier. He pushes him into the open, where Grandma believes him to be her snail and takes him in place of Gary. Meanwhile, SpongeBob has given up on looking for Gary, and wishes to see him one last time, when Gary suddenly comes to him. SpongeBob promises to never neglect him again, and takes him inside to feed Gary, saying that he must be "starving", unaware of what Gary has been through, which Gary responds with a denial meow stating that he's full.

Production

Deleted Scene

According to the storyboard, Spongebob was originally going to visit Squidward's house and ask him if he could help give him a hand. This was mostly cut to save time.

Music

 ) Production music
 ) Original music
 ) SpongeBob music

  Open and End Fanfare - Nino Nardini ["Ahoy, it's a SpongeBob SquarePants special!"]
  Leap Steel - Nicolas Carr ["Ahoy, it's a SpongeBob SquarePants special!"]
  Alley Cats - Robert Mersey [title card]
  Alekoki - Kapono Beamer [SpongeBob carrying snail food]
  Vibe Sting - Nicolas Carr [form letter]
  Seaweed - Steve Belfer [SpongeBob reads it]
  Hawaiian Sting - Nicolas Carr [SpongeBob leaves the snail food outside]
  Knights of the Air - Sam Fonteyn ["Let's see what we got here."]
  Life on the Wild Side - Sam Spence [Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy paddleball set]
  The Beast Within - Paddy Kingsland [Dirty Bubble challenge]
  The Holy Land - David Farnon [choir]
  Grand Orchestral Fanfare - Gregor F. Narholz [SpongeBob begins playing paddleball]
  On the Beach - Kapono Beamer [Gary goes over to his food bowl]
  Life on the Wild Side - Sam Spence ["Mermaid Man needs me."]
  Rescue - Cecil Milner [SpongeBob describing Dirty Bubble]
  Hawaiian Link (b) - Richard Myhill ["Pets."]
  Dramatic Impact 2 - Ivor Slaney [Gary leaps onto SpongeBob's face]
  Dramatic Cue (b) - Ronald Hanmer [SpongeBob runs around screaming]
  Pua Paoakalani B - Kapono Beamer, Queen Lili'uokalani [Gary leaves on a bus]
  Vibe Sting - Nicolas Carr [Patrick sees bag of snail food]
  Graveyard - Johnny Pearson [Patrick looking for SpongeBob]
  Dramatic Impact 2 - Ivor Slaney ["SpongeBob, what happened?!"]
  Fates - Gregor F. Narholz [SpongeBob on the floor]
  Bittersweet Memory - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin ["Many years ago, I took that challenge!"]
  Closing the Door - Nicolas Carr [door closed]
  Quiz Logo 1 - Dave Hewson ["I think it has something to do with this bowl."]
  Harp Ding - Nicolas Carr ["That's it, I gotta feed Gary!"]
  Hawaiian Party - Peter Dennis [SpongeBob puts food in Gary's bowl]
  Waddle Cop - David Farnon [solid milk]
  Of Love and Destiny - Leighton Lucas [SpongeBob can't find Gary anywhere]
  Harmonica Shorts - Robb Appleton, Rick Fenn [Gary wandering through a desert]
  You're Nice - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield ["Gary's favorite treats!"]
  Hawaiian Sting - Nicolas Carr [later that night]
  Torn Apart - Mike Sunderland ["Gary, where are you?"]
  Comic Walk - Sidney Torch [Squidward taking a bath]
  Six Powerful Cues (f) - Wilfred William Burns [looking for Gary in Squidward's bathroom]
  Dramatic Climax - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin ["Here goes nothing."]
  Comic Cues [#25] - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin [letters fly out of mailbox]
  Leap Steel - Nicolas Carr ["Look, Pat!"]
  Woe is Me! - Richard Myhill [note from Gary]
  Whisper from the Past - Gregor F. Narholz ["Dear Neptune, what have I done?"]
  Alley Cats - Robert Mersey [Gary in the city]
  Heavenly Voices (b) - David Farnon [nachos]
  Alley Cats - Robert Mersey [other snails hiss at Gary]
  West Side Rumble - Sam Spence [Gary slithers away]
  Evil Alien Attack 1 - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin [Gary sees a shadowy figure]
  Light and Easy - Harry Rabinowitz ["There you are, Miss Tufsy."]
  Waltzing in Dreamland - Alan Moorhouse [Gramma puts on music]
  Koleh Koleh - Coy Pereira [SpongeBob looking all over town for Gary]
  Stealthily - Jack Shaindlin [Gary and Gramma watching TV]
  Lynda's Music Box - Peter Dennis [Gramma puts Gary to bed]
  Botany Bay (b) - Robert Alexander White [the next morning at the Krusty Krab]
  Dramatic Impact 3 - Ivor Slaney [Krabby Patty covered in tears]
  Hawaiian Breeze - Jon Jelmer [SpongeBob crying]
  Marching to Honolulu - Kapono Beamer ["If I'm gonna find Gary, I'm gonna need to work harder at it."]
  Dramatic Cue (d) - Ronald Hanmer ["It's the apocalypse!"]
  ? ["Patrick, now is not the time for talking."]
  Lambs in Clover - Jack Strachey [Gary having breakfast]
  Beach Boy - Hilmar Doetsch, Karl Heinz Kroll [inside the craft store]
  Gary Come Home - Stew [montage of SpongeBob looking for Gary]
  Folli the Foal - Andrew Fenner ["Gramma will get a lovely meatloaf in the oven for you."]
  Whisper from the Past - Gregor F. Narholz [Gary sees SpongeBob's flyers]
  Stepping into Danger - Mike Sunderland [Gary opens a door]
  Dramatic Cue (d) - Ronald Hanmer [closet full of snail shells]
  House of Horror - W. Merrick Farran [Gary escapes]
  Vibe Q Sting - Nicolas Carr ["When Gary left, he took all my tears with him."]
  Drowsy Reef - Jeremy Wakefield, Sage Guyton ["Gary loved balsa wood!"]
  Romantic Entrance - Harry Bluestone ["Gary!"]
  Goro Goro Ne - The Kilima Hawaiians [ending]

Release

Reception

  • "Have You Seen This Snail?" was viewed by eight million people.[1] It was the highest-rated program on all TV with children aged two to eleven for the year of 2005 behind the Super Bowl and the Super Bowl kick-off, and the highest-rated program on all of cable TV with children aged two to eleven and children aged six to eleven in 2005.[2]
  • Critics produced mixed reviews for Have You Seen This Snail?. Tom Shales of The Washington Post called the episode deeply hilarious and described the plot as a "bittersweet riot". He drew attention to how the story is similar to the plot of "Dumped", an earlier episode in which Gary deserted SpongeBob.[3]
  • The television critic for the St Petersburg Timeswas not so positive about the episode however, criticizing how SpongeBob's disappointed and sad character for "Have You Seen This Snail?" is quite different to the character's normal bright personality.[4]

Trivia

  • This is the final episode from 2005.
  • This is the first of 4 thirty minute specials on November 11 of separate years. The others were The Great Patty Caper in 2010, A SquarePants Family Vacation in 2011, and SpongeBob You're Fired in 2013 .
  • There is a game on [1] based on this episode, named Trail of the Snail.
  • Gramma also appears in "Boating Buddies", "Choir Boys", "Shuffleboarding", and "Gramma's Secret Recipe".
  • Originally, this episode was going to be a TV movie rather than a thirty minute episode.
  • Advertisements for this episode refer to it as Where's Gary? It is also called Where's Gary? on its VHS and DVD releases.
  • In international dubbings of this episode, the song 'Gary come home' is either sung by SpongeBob himself, or is left untranslated.
  • File:Screen Shot 2014-06-25 at 5.26.48 PM.png

    Gary on Cartoon Network?

    Nickelodeon Inc.
    is written on the packaging of the Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy paddleball set.
  • Around the time this episode aired, Cartoon Network had a snail resembling Gary at the bottom of the screen. The joke was that Gary had run away from Nickelodeon to Cartoon Network for the time.
  • Oddly one of the buses was seen being driven by a police fish rather than a typical bikini bottomite.
  • It is revealed that Gary has a clock inside his shell that tells what time he eats.
  • This episode, along with What Ever Happened to SpongeBob? and Pest of the West, has a Patchy the Pirate opening in Flash animation.                                                     
  • The title card is very similar to Wet Painters due to the painted letters.
  • Running Gag: Gramma calling Gary Mrs. Tuffsy and SpongeBob says "darn it" when trying the challenge.
  • There was a book based on this episode named Where's Gary?.
  • The scene where Squidward screams when SpongeBob and Patrick enter his house has become a meme on YouTube. The videos are usually named "[Insert name here] drops by Squidward's house".
  • A clip of this episode was seen in the movie Alvin and the Chipmunks, which showrunner Tim Hill appeared on.
  • In Poland, this episode called Kto widział ślimaka? which means Who Seen the Snail?
  • The DVD used the alternative title "Where's Gary?"[5]
  • Have You Seen This Snail? featured an original piece of music written for the episode by the musician Stew, entitled "Gary's Song."[3]

Cultural References

  • This episode is similar to the Peanuts movie "Snoopy, Come Home", "Spike Runs Away" from Rugrats, "Abner Come Home" from Hey Arnold!, "Pluto Runs Away" from Mickey Mouse Works, the Arthur movie "Arthur's Missing Pal", "Where's Huggy?" from WordGirl and "Oh, There You Are Perry!" from Phineas and Ferb.
  • Gramma seems to be a parody of the witch from Hansel and Gretel, who overfed the children with the intention of eating them. She is also similar to Bluebeard, who kept the corpses of his murdered wives in a closet, which gives away his secret to his new wife.
  • When Gary and Gramma are driving in the car, Gramma says "Set phasers on fun!", a reference to the Star Trek line "Set phasers on stun".
  • The song, "Gary Come Home" is remarkably similar to Heart of Gold by Neil Young.

Errors

  • When Gary was bothering SpongeBob before running away, he could have brought the bowl to SpongeBob so he could understand that he is hungry and not in need of play time.
  • When Gramma takes Gary to dance, the blanket is still there, but after that, the blanket is gone.
  • When Patrick flips SpongeBob, the paddleball is missing, later it reappears.
  • When SpongeBob trips on Gary's bowl the milk splashes out from the jug. But then Patrick shakes the milk out of the glass in a solid form.
  • When Patrick causes the plane to crash, SpongeBob says "Pat, no!", but captions say "Aah, no!".
  • When SpongeBob is reading the note left on his door, he walks inside and leaves the door open. But when the mailfish rings the doorbell, SpongeBob opens the door, though it was already open. 
  • When Gary is getting out of the food dish, he doesn't have the running away sack. In the scene right after, he has it on his back.
  • When Squidward says "What are those neanderthals up to?" His teeth look different hence you can see each individual tooth. Similar to Patrick's teeth.
  • During the song, Patrick and SpongeBob are putting a poster on a bus, the driver of that bus is a police officer.

References

  1. ^ de Moraes, Lisa (2005-11-16). CBS Cruises, but SpongeBob Sops Up Viewers. Washington Post. Retrieved on 2008-11-15.
  2. ^ SpongeBob SquarePants 'Where's Gary' Scores Colossal Ratings. PR Newswire (2005-11-14). Retrieved on 2008-11-15.
  3. ^ a b Shales, Tom (2005-11-11). SpongeBob Squeezes Tears Of Laughter Out of Snail Tale. Washington Post. Retrieved on 2008-11-15.
  4. ^ Michael, Nader (2005-11-07). 'SpongeBob' special moves at a snail's pace. St Petersburg Times. Retrieved on 2008-11-15.
  5. ^ Johnson, David (2005-12-14). DVD Verdict Review - SpongeBob SquarePants: Where's Gary?. DVD Verdict. Retrieved on 2008-11-15.

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