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Mermaid Man & Barnacle Boy VI: The Motion Picture

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"Mermaid Man & Barnacle Boy VI: The Motion Picture"
Chronology
Information
Season №: 4
Episode №: 67b
Airdate: October 7, 2005
Best Day Ever Rank: #53
Credits
Writer(s): Casey Alexander
Chris Mitchell
Paul Tibbitt
Directors
Episode List
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"Mermaid Man & Barnacle Boy VI: The Motion Picture" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season four.

Brief summary: SpongeBob and Patrick are offended that the new big-budget Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy movie has actors portraying their heroes, and decide to make their own movie, using the real Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy.

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Plot

SpongeBob and Patrick are at a Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy fan club meeting, where they learn a new movie will be made based on the heroes, and meet the actors who will be portraying them. SpongeBob is offended that the movie is using actors instead of the real Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy, and tells the fan club that they must boycott the movie. Then he and Patrick are thrown out of the building.The two then go to Shady Shoals and tell Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy that Drippy Brothers Studios is making a movie about them and using actors. The heroes find the news horrible, and Patrick suggests they make their own movie, which they agree with. After brainstorming ideas at the Krusty Krab, SpongeBob and the crew meet to make the movie. SpongeBob is the director and in charge of the movie, Squidward, the makeup artist, prepares the actors for the movie, Sandy is in charge of using the dynamite for explosion scenes, Patrick is the cameraman, Mr. Krabs caters the crew with Krabby Patties, Pearl is the leading lady and the invisible boat mobile, and Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy, of course, are the stars of the movie. While they are filming, Plankton appears auditions for Man Ray, but SpongeBob tells him that Man Ray isn't in their movie. Plankton is given the job of working the microphone instead. Mermaid Man has trouble with one of his lines and it takes 5,003 takes to get it right. A scene is filmed where Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy ride Pearl up a steep mountain to Kelp-Thing's hideout. Pearl is too heavy to pull, and slides down the mountain, crashing into the sets. Everything is destroyed, and Patrick reveals that he had been filming with the lens cap on, meaning that they have no footage. SpongeBob goes berserk with frustration, but Mermaid Man convinces him to finish the movie. Mr. Krabs holds the premiere of SpongeBob's production in his restaurant, hoping to make lots of money from the movie. The members of the Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy Fan Club attend, but only because the Drippy Bros. production is sold out. The movie is then shown. SpongeBob plays with a car near a box with "Lox" on it. Then the patty vault is open and Kelp-Thing comes down, but then Mermaidman attacks him. He and Barnacleboy unite. Then it ends. The movie proves to be terrible, and the fans are not pleased. However, Mermaid Man is glad that SpongeBob proved he and Barnacle Boy still have some "action" left in their old bones.

Transcript

Main article: Mermaid Man & Barnacle Boy VI: The Motion Picture (transcript)

Trivia/Goofs

  • This episode has the longest title of any episode of the series.
  • This episode is number 14 in Tom Kenny's Top 20 on iTunes. His description says:
"When SpongeBob's heroes are considered too 'old' to portray themselves in a Hollywood-type movie, he decides to make his own. As a comic book fan, I've sat through horrible movies based on classic comics, wishing I could 'do it right!'"
  • Sandy blows up dynamite whenever she hears the word "boom," even if she's not supposed to, a reference to Crazy Harry from The Muppet Show.
  • Drippy Brothers Studios is a parody of Warner Brothers Studios (which produces the Batman film series).
  • Patrick says that he had the camera lens on for the entirely of the filming, but the lens cap is off in all previous scenes of filming.
  • The scenario of SpongeBob's film is a reference to the James Bond film Goldfinger. In the film Goldfinger, the villain is trying to rob Fort Knox and all the gold in it. In the Mermaidman and Barnacleboy film, "Kelp Thing" tries to rob the Krabby Patties from "Fort Lox".
  • In some close-up scenes of SpongeBob, he appears more green than yellow.
  • This episode uses music from The Hudsocker Proxy.
  • The premise of this episode is similar to the video game Lights, Camera, Pants!.
  • The character model of the fan club's leader is the same as one of the nerds in Weenie Hut Jr.'s from " No Weenies Allowed".
  • Before being interrupted by SpongeBob opening the door to the retirement home, The fish calling out bingo numbers says A-23. There is no A in B-I-N-G-O.
  • The title card of this episode is completely different from all the other Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy episodes.
  • On Nickelodeon, "Mermaid Man and; Barnacle Boy VI: The Motion Picture" is shown after "Enemy In-Law", but the listings say the opposite.

APM Music Identification

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