Idiot Box
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| Season №: | 3 |
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| Episode №: | 44b |
| Best Day Ever Rank: | #62 |
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"Idiot Box" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season three.
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Plot
Squidward sees a large box being delivered to SpongeBob and Patrick. They open the box, which contains a giant Television. Patrick and SpongeBob throw the television away and keep the box. Squidward asks why they threw the television away, and SpongeBob explains that "We don't need television, as long as we have our... imagination." Squidward, not wanting any part of this, asks for the television, and they let him have it. Once he takes the TV back inside his house, he realizes that the remote control is missing and he goes back outside for it. He hears SpongeBob and Patrick begin - supposedly - to mountain climb inside the box and, annoyed by their stupidity, he gives the box a hard kick. A sound of an avalanche suddenly erupts from the box, shocking Squidward. Concerned, he taps the box, prompting another avalanche. Squidward hears a critically injured SpongeBob and Patrick saying that their limbs are frozen and that they have to cut them off, and rushes over to the box, opens it, and the noises immediately stop. He questions them about the noises, but they act oblivious and he leaves. Suddenly, the sound of a helicopter is heard and Squidward ducks. Realizing that its coming from the box, he angrily opens the box and confronts them again. SpongeBob simply tells him that all of it is coming from their imagination. Squidward says that he has plenty of imagination, to which Patrick replies, "Good, now all you need is a box". Squidward gets a box, attempts to imitate SpongeBob and Patrick's experiences, and fails. After kicking his box in anger, he hears the sound of police sirens outside. Thinking that his kicking of the box is the cause, he goes outside with his box to apologize. He is quick to realize that the noises are coming from the box SpongeBob and Patrick are playing in. Furious, he kicks the box he was holding, which Patrick retrieves, saying, "Whoopee! Another Box!"
Squidward then begins watching TV to get his mind off the box, but all the shows that are on involve boxes. He then hears a Space shuttle launch. As he tries to think of how they could possibly manage to make such realistic sound effects, it dawns upon him that they are probably using a tape recorder. Angered, he marches outside and demands the tape recorder from SpongeBob and Patrick. SpongeBob tells him that they don't have a tape recorder, which Squidward doesn't believe. He decides to join them in the box to see how they are managing to make the sound effects. After being asked where he wants to go, he asks to go to "Robot-Pirate Island". However, he sees nothing but SpongeBob and Patrick closing their eyes and saying stereotypical phrases of robots and pirates (Arrr, You'll walk the plank for that, beep beep, etc.) Squidward returns to his house and soon hears the sounds of an epic robot-pirate battle. The show cuts to late at night, when a pirate victory celebration is heard.
Once SpongeBob and Patrick abandon the box and go to bed, Squidward sneaks outside and enters the box, looking for something that would make the noise. A scan of the box proves that there is no such device in it. Realizing that the box is in fact empty, Squidward wonders if it really was their imagination that caused the sound effects, but he immediately dismisses the notion, thinking that it's ridiculous. He mockingly starts pretending to be a racecar driver, but suddenly he begins to hear noises. He imagines himself racing, and feels all the movements of actually driving a racecar. However, in reality, these sounds and movements are due to a garbage truck hauling the box away. It is then dumped into the landfill, and Squidward flies out of the box, landing face-first in a pie. The next day, SpongeBob and Patrick realize the box is gone and they go to check on Squidward. Patrick says "I hope he's too down in the dumps today." as the episode ends.
Transcript
Trivia/Goofs
- "Idiot box" is a slang term for television.
- This episode is number 5 on Tom Kenny's Top 20 on iTunes. His description says:
"SpongeBob and Patrick turn an empty box into a fantasy play land using only their 'imaginaaations.' Since Squidward lacks any imagination, he resents anyone who does! The ultra-dramatic and over-the-top action movie fantasy scenarios that our boys playact are really funny (we only hear them)."
- Music from "Count Duckula" and "Dangermouse" is used.
- This episode is similar to "The Paper", as well as the Rugrats episode "The Box".
- Patrick exclaims "I am the Lizard King!" upon reaching the top of the mountain, a clear reference to Jim Morrison, lead singer of the doors.
- Things Squidward watches on TV:
- A show about how a box is assembled
- An old man describing a box in the form of geometry (He shows the formula F=MA^2. This is an incorrect version of the formula for force, F=MA.)
- A man and his wife/girlfriend exchanging gifts, which turn out to be empty boxes
- A boxing match between two actual boxes
- This episode was set to premiere with "Doing Time" but aired with "Nasty Patty" instead.
- This is the second episode with the word "Idiot" in title. The first was "Survival of the Idiots".
- When Squidward gets the remote, he appears bigger than the buildings behind him.
- The sombrero Squidward finds in the hat box is later worn in "The Camping Episode".
- There was a LeapPad book based on this episode.
- When Squidward comes out of the house to get the remote, it is lying next to the box, but it was not there in the previous scene.
- The first time this episode aired in the Netherlands, the screen stood still a few seconds before SpongeBob and Patrick took the TV out of the box, but the sound was still heard.
- When SpongeBob says "As long as we have our imagination." he has five fingers on each of his hands, rather than just his usual four fingers.
- In the final scene, when SpongeBob and Patrick realize the box is gone, the path from the road to Patrick's rock is missing.
- When the garbage truck takes the box,Spongebob's house is gone.
APM music identification
- Vergnügungspark - SpongeBob and Patrick do a happy dance.
- Awakening Memories - "Squidward, we don't need television, not as long as we have our i-mag-i-na-tion!"
- Full of Beans - SpongeBob and Patrick play "Mountain Climbing Adventure".
- Comic Walk - "Why isn't this thing turned on?!"
- Finders Creepers - Squidward sneaks into the box at night.
- Tympup A - "I hope he's not too down in the dumps today."
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