Home Sweet Rubble

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Characters

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Squidward Tentacles
• Sandy Cheeks
• Gary the Snail
• Eugene H. Krabs
• Patrick Star
• Henry-Bart (Cameo in the end of the line)
• Dale (Cameo in the line)

Plot

One morning, SpongeBob's pineapple home starts wilting. When SpongeBob wakes up, he's ready to give Gary breakfast, but when he sees his home's condition, he puts off feeding Gary until it's fixed. He boards up the sides, and is ready to feed Gary. However, the ceiling caves in, and he tries to keep it up. He stands under it and holds it up, calling for Patrick to help him. Patrick is dreaming that he is in an office. The phone rings and Sandy is on the other line tells him it's from SpongeBob. When the message is put through, Patrick hears SpongeBob calling for help. Then he wakes up and goes to the pineapple. Squidward comes over after hearing the ruckus and SpongeBob tells him he could use his help. Patrick grabs his arms and wraps him around the pineapple. Gary comes over with a can and meows, but SpongeBob doesn't listen to him.

SpongeBob's arms are full, so he asks Patrick to call Sandy. However, Patrick is too stupid to understand how badly he needs her help, and instead has small talk with her. When she hears part of the wall fall, she realizes that something is not right and goes to the pineapple. Mr. Krabs also comes over, asking what's going on, since SpongeBob is two hours late for work.

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SpongeBob's House

They agree to help him, but Mr. Krabs will do it for one week of SpongeBob's wages per hour. They remodel the home as Gary continues to walk around with a can. Mr. Krabs remodels the home his way, as Sandy also remodels the home her way, both ignoring SpongeBob's protests. SpongeBob asks Gary, who is holding a can, if he ever feels like he's being ignored, and Gary assents. When the rebuilding is complete, SpongeBob is not happy with the changes. He explores his new home and sees Gary is still hungry, so he takes a can from a shelf (being held by Squidward's hands). However, the weight of the can was the only thing keeping Squidward's hands in place, and the home collapses. Climbing out of the rubble, Squidward angrily chastises SpongeBob, but it's cut short by severe pain in his neck, so he goes home. SpongeBob, dejected, calls to have his home condemned.

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Gary presents SpongeBob with a can, and SpongeBob opens it. Out pops a pineapple, which lands on the rubble and is fully furnished inside. All this time, Gary was trying to show SpongeBob the can, which contained a fully furnished pineapple. SpongeBob opens the can, a big pineapple house pops out, SpongeBob reads what the can says, SpongeBob then hugs Gary saying "You're the best!", then laughs happily.

Trivia

• The title and plot are both similar to Home Sweet Pineapple in season 1.
• This could possibly be a sequal to Home Sweet Pineapple.
• This it the 4th time SpongeBob's pineapple rots, or is roting. The first was Patty Hype, the second was Sing a Song of Patrick, and the third was Mystery with a Twistery.
• This is the fourth episode to have a title card with a pineapple. The others were Home Sweet Pineapple, Squid's Visit, and Pineapple Fever.
• Squidward mentions the Big One from "SpongeBob SquarePants vs. The Big One".
• Apparently, Frank knows how to open a cash register.
• In Patrick's dream, there were two pictures of him from Squidward's School for Grown-Ups.
• Running Gag: SpongeBob is about to feed Gary, but is distracted by something else.
• The bathroom Sandy made resembles Atlantis from Atlantis SquarePantis.
• Even the title card background is similar to Home Sweet Pineapple.
• This is the second time Squidward is treated like an object by SpongeBob and his friends; the first was in Frozen Face-Off, in which he was frozen in a block of ice. This time, he's wrapped around the house against his will and even coated over with Mr. Krabs' stucco.
• In Your Shoe's Untied, Gary roared to get SpongeBob's attention when SpongeBob didn't want to listen to him. This time, Gary doesn't roar.
• SpongeBob breaks the fourth wall by making a reference to Home Sweet Pineapple, when he says, "It's not "Home Sweet Pineapple...". It is very likely that this episode is the sequel to Home Sweet Pineapple.
• SpongeBob's house wilted before in Sing a Song of Patrick; Patrick's song was so horrible, it made the pineapple collapse all at once. However, that was not the first time Spongebob's home was completely destroyed: earlier, in Home Sweet Pineapple, nematodes sucked all the juice until it was totally gone
• This is the third episode to have a name based on "Home Sweet Home", after Home Sweet Pineapple and Bucket Sweet Bucket. Also, the three episodes involves fixing the "home".
• Mr. Krabs was worried that Spongebob didn't come to work for 2 hours, but he didn't seem to mind that his decision to coat the house with stucco would trap Squidward, thus preventing him from coming to work at all. It could be that since Squidward is so lazy that if he didn't come to work, it wouldn't make a difference in sales.
• When Spongebob's pineapple crashes into Squidaward's house, he screams and yells out "Ahhhhh, it's the big one!" This is a referance to this episode.

References

1. Clip for episode: http://spongebob.nick.com/videos/clip/spongebob-170b-home-sweet-rubble-pineapple-in-a-can-clip.html