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|title = Mooncation
===Characters===
 
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|seasonnumber = 8
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|code = 268-818
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|episodenumber = 161a
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|year = {{Time|2011}}
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|sisterep = Mr. Krabs Takes a Vacation
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|writer = [[Sean Charmatz]]<br>[[Vincent Waller]]<br>[[Steven Banks]]
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|supervising producer = [[Paul Tibbitt]]
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|director-storyboard = [[Sean Charmatz]]<br>[[Vincent Waller]]
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|director-animation = [[Alan Smart]]
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|director-creative = [[Vincent Waller]]
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|briefsummary = {{Link|Sandy}} takes {{Link|SpongeBob}} to the [[moon]] for a vacation
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}}
   
 
===Characters===
*[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]
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*{{Link|SpongeBob SquarePants}}
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*[[Patrick Star]]
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*Monkey agents {{Single appearance}}
 
*[[Sandy Cheeks]]
 
*[[Sandy Cheeks]]
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*{{Link|Incidentals}}
*Unnamed Chimpanzees
 
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**[[Incidental 39]] {{Sup|(dark orange; named Mr. Bakerman)}}
*[[Lou]]
 
*[[Patrick|Patrick Star]]
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**[[Incidental 107]]
*[[Mr. Bakerman]] {{Debut}}
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*[[Grandpa Cheeks]] {{Mentioned}}
*[[Ernest Borgnine]] <sup>(cameo)</sup>
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*[[Ernest Borgnine]] {{Cameo}}
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*Carol {{Mentioned}}
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*Carol's father {{Mentioned}}
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*Fuel gauge {{Single appearance}}
   
 
==Synopsis==
 
==Synopsis==
SpongeBob and Patrick go to Sandy's Treedome, but are knocked aside by monkeys leaving her home. 
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In the beginning of the episode, SpongeBob and Patrick go to {{Link|Sandy's treedome}}, but are knocked aside by monkeys leaving her home. They hold a slide carousel, mentioning they confiscated it. SpongeBob and Patrick ask Sandy what is going on, and she says she has a copy of the slide carousel to show them. The show begins.
   
 
In the show, SpongeBob meets Sandy, who is preparing for a trip to the moon. She asks him to help her with her luggage, but he runs off to the bakery. He tries to take a number, but gets tangled in the tickets from the dispenser, to the baker's annoyance. The baker asks for "Number 12," and SpongeBob gives him his ticket. Through gritted teeth, the irritated baker asks him what he would like. SpongeBob says he would like a bon voyage sheet cake with "yummy letters." He asks the baker to write, "Have fun on the moon," but thinks of what would rhyme with moon (goon, rune, noon, tune), while the baker angrily suggests loon, but he goes with "See you soon." He takes the cake to Sandy's, but her rocket just started the countdown. It lifts its ladder, but SpongeBob leaps on, and into the ship. Sandy is annoyed, and says she must adjust for the newly added weight of SpongeBob. The ship blasts off, and soon they are in space. While in there, SpongeBob presents her with the cake. She warns him that food that is not contained will fall apart in a zero-gravity environment, which the cake promptly does. She says everything will be fine unless it gets into the vent, and once again, the cake does just that. She climbs into a special suit and goes out to remove the cake from the vents. While standing out there, she takes a bit of the cake and says it could use "more nuts." She returns to the ship, and the moon is getting closer. Sandy picks a crater as a good place to land the ship.
[[File:New_movie_yay.png|thumb|"Ha-ha-ha. Dat'll neva stick."]]
 
They hold a slide carousel, mentioning they confiscated it. SpongeBob and Patrick ask Sandy what's going on, and she says she has a copy of the slide carousel to show them. The show begins.
 
   
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[[File:Mooncation 117.png|thumb|200px|SpongeBob and Sandy "moonboarding."]]
SpongeBob meets Sandy, who is preparing for a trip to the moon. She asks him to help her with her luggage, but he runs off, to the bakery. He tries to take a number, but gets tangled in the tickets from the dispenser, to the baker's annoyance. The baker asks for "Number 12", and SpongeBob gives him his ticket. Through gritted teeth, the irritated baker asks him what he'd like. SpongeBob says he'd like a bon voyage sheet cake with "yummy letters". He asks the baker to write, "Have fun on the moon", but thinks of what would rhyme with moon (goon, rune, noon, tune), and goes with "See you soon." He takes the cake to Sandy's, but her rocket just started the countdown. It lifts its ladder, but SpongeBob leaps on, and into the ship. Sandy is annoyed, and says she must adjust for the newly added weight of SpongeBob. The ship blasts off, and soon they're in space. While there, SpongeBob presents her with the cake. She warns him that uncontained food will fall apart in a zero-gravity environment, which the cake promptly does. She says everything will be fine unless it gets into the vent, and once again, the cake does just that. She climbs into a special suit and goes out to remove the cake from the vents. While there, she takes a taste and says it could use "more nuts". She returns to the ship, and the moon is getting closer. Sandy picks a crater as a good place to land.
 
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When they exit the ship, Sandy sandboards on the moon, showing off many of her moves, such as the "Flippity-Doo Dah," the classic Texas tail grab (where Sandy grabs her tail to the shape of Texas with a star on it), and the 7-20 nut-job (where she slices a moon rock to an acorn, and eats it), including one where she lies on Saturn's rings; the "Tour de Saturn."
   
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[[File:Mooncation 174.png|thumb|200px|Sandy lassos the rocket.]]
When they exit the ship, Sandy sandboards on the moon, showing off many of her moves, such as the "Flippity-Doo Dah", the classic Texas tail grab' (where Sandy grabs her tail to a shape of Texas with a star on it )' and the 7-20 nut-job, (where she slices a moon rock to an acorn, and eats it), including one where she lies on Saturn's [[File:RocketRide.jpg|thumb|"Oh my God!"]]rings; the "Tour de Saturn". When it's SpongeBob's turn to sandboard, he floats away, since he's too light in the moon's gravity. Sandy uses a lasso made with a rope and a moon rock, and tells SpongeBob to grab it. He does, and falls to the moon. While screaming and holding onto the moon rock, he shows amazing skills, which impress Sandy. SpongeBob tries again, but this time, his board crashes into the fuel tank, causing it to leak. Sandy pulls SpongeBob back to the ship, telling him they need to return home while there's still enough fuel left. They manage to make it back to Earth, but the steep dive means they'll turn into a giant fireball, which causes SpongeBob to panic. Sandy goes outside to "grab this bull by the horns" and lassos the ship, pulling it out of its dive. It flies over Bikini Bottom, doing loop-de-loops, and eventually crashing to the ground. SpongeBob sees an unconscious Sandy lying on the ground and tearfully apologizes for ruining her vacation. Sandy tells him he didn't ruin her vacation, she had a great time. She plans on taking him with her to Mars next, then jokingly suggests he bring her cakes more often, and they laugh.
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When it is SpongeBob's turn to sandboard, he floats away, since he is too light in the moon's gravity. Sandy uses a lasso made with a rope and a moon rock, and tells SpongeBob to grab it. He does, and falls to the moon. While screaming and holding onto the moon rock, he shows amazing skills, which impresses Sandy. SpongeBob tries again, but this time, his board crashes into the fuel tank, causing it to leak. Sandy pulls SpongeBob back to the ship, telling him they need to return home while there is still enough fuel left. They manage to make it back to Earth, but the steep dive means they will turn into a giant fireball, which causes SpongeBob to panic. Sandy goes outside to "grab this bull by the horns" and lassos the ship, pulling it out of its dive. It flies over Bikini Bottom, doing loop-de-loops, and eventually crashing to the ground. SpongeBob sees an unconscious Sandy lying on the ground and tearfully apologizes for ruining her vacation. Sandy tells him he did not ruin her vacation; she had a great time. She plans on taking him with her to Mars next, then jokingly suggests he bring her cakes more often, and they laugh, as the episode ends.
   
 
==Production==
 
==Production==
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This episode was confirmed on {{Time|June 6}}, {{Time|2011}}.<ref>https://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=198&ti=226,198&SEQ=20231112003139&Search%5FArg=SpongeBob%20SquarePants&Search%5FCode=TALL&CNT=25&PID=M5ZasKK2JtQAF4sbjmVr_kf7H6WxA&SID=2</ref>
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===Promotional art===
 
[[File:Greetings from the moon.jpg|thumb|center|260px|A postcard for the episode.]]
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===Music===
 
===Music===
 
{{MLegend}}
 
{{MLegend}}
{{APM|p|Paranormal [#64]|Harry Lubin|title card}}
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{{APM|p|Paranormal [#64]|Harry Lubin|Title card}}
{{APM||||"We got the slides, sir."}} 
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{{OM|Sponge Burgler|Nicolas Carr|"We got the slides, sir."}}
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{{OM|Secret Agent 00 SquarePants|Nicolas Carr|Sandy takes SpongeBob and Patrick inside her treedome}}
{{APM|a|Against All Odds|Paul Lawler|rocket revealed}}
 
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{{OM|SpongeBob Flashback Vibes|Nicolas Carr|Start of Sandy's story}}
{{OM||Jeremy Wakefield|"I'll be right back!"}}
 
 
{{APM-article|Against All Odds|Paul Lawler|Rocket revealed}}
 
{{OM|Steel Licks 40|Jeremy Wakefield|"I'll be right back!"}}
 
{{OM|You're Nice|Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield|SpongeBob buys a cake}}
 
{{OM|You're Nice|Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield|SpongeBob buys a cake}}
{{APM|c|Cosmos Adventure|John Fox|rocket launch}}
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{{APM-article|Cosmos Adventure|John Fox|Rocket launch}}
{{APM|m|Missile Disaster|John Fox|cake disintegrates}}
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{{APM-article|Missile Disaster|John Fox|Cake disintegrates}}
 
{{APM|b|Beyond the Galaxy|Larry Hochman|Sandy's special spacesuit}}
 
{{APM|b|Beyond the Galaxy|Larry Hochman|Sandy's special spacesuit}}
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{{OM-nonarticle|o|Origami|Nicolas Carr|Origami}}
{{APM||||origami}}
 
{{APM||||rocket lands on the moon}}
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{{OM|Star Trekkers#Star Trekkers 1{{!}}Star Trekkers 1|Steve Marston|Rocket lands on the moon}}
{{APM||||camp set up}}
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{{APM-article|Aquarium|Eric Gemsa, Bernard Rabaud|Camp set up on the moon}}
{{APM|g|The Grinder|Rolf Anton Krueger|moon crater boarding}}
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{{APM|g|The Grinder|Rolf Krueger|Sandy doing moon crater boarding}}
{{APM|m|Moon Walk|John Fox|"Nothing like extreme sports in zero gravity."}}
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{{APM-article|Moon Walk|John Fox|"Nothing like extreme sports in zero gravity."}}
{{APM|a|Alien Spacecraft A|Gregor F. Narholz|SpongeBob floats away}}
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{{APM-article|Alien Spacecraft A|Gregor F. Narholz|SpongeBob floats away}}
{{OM|Monster Wave|Nicolas Carr, Fabian Fernandez, James King|SpongeBob grabs a rock, falls}}
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{{OM|Monster Wave#Monster Wave No Sax{{!}}Monster Wave No Sax|Nicolas Carr, Fabian Fernandez|SpongeBob grabs a rock and falls}}
{{APM||||Patrick watching TV}}
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{{OM-nonarticle|s|Soap Opera Scene 1|Hiram Titus|Patrick watching TV}}
{{OM|Monster Wave|Nicolas Carr, Fabian Fernandez, James King|"Watch this, Sandy."}}
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{{OM|Monster Wave#Monster Wave No Sax{{!}}Monster Wave No Sax|Nicolas Carr, Fabian Fernandez|SpongeBob jumps from the satellite/"Watch this, Sandy."}}
{{APM||||leak in fuel tank}}
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{{OM|Star Trekkers#Star Trekkers 2{{!}}Star Trekkers 2|Steve Marston|Leak in fuel tank}}
{{OM||Jeremy Wakefield|SpongeBob takes a picture}}
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{{OM|Steel Licks 54|Jeremy Wakefield|SpongeBob takes a picture}}
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{{OM|Star Trekkers#Star Trekkers 3{{!}}Star Trekkers 3|Steve Marston|Rocket leaves moon}}
{{APM||||rocket leaves}}
 
{{APM||||empty fuel tank}}
 
 
{{APM|s|Seven Seas|Oded Tzur|Sandy lassos the nose of the rocket}}
 
{{APM|s|Seven Seas|Oded Tzur|Sandy lassos the nose of the rocket}}
{{APM|a|The Assignment|Gregor F. Narholz|rocket crash lands}}
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{{APM|a|The Assignment|Gregor F. Narholz|Rocket crash lands}}
{{APM|d|Disturbing Facts A|Gregor F. Narholz|"Oh my gosh!"}}
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{{APM-article|Horror Cues#Horror Cue 1 A{{!}}Horror Cue 1 A|Gregor F. Narholz|"Oh my gosh!"}}
{{OM||Jeremy Wakefield|"I'm sorry I ruined your vacation."}}
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{{OM|Steel Licks 18|Jeremy Wakefield|"I'm sorry I ruined your vacation to the moon."}}
{{OM||Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield|ending}}
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{{OM|Bikini Bottom Bound|Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield|Ending}}
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===Release===
 
===Release===
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*This episode is available on the [[SpongeBob's Runaway Roadtrip]], SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 13, [[The Complete Eighth Season|Complete Eighth Season]], [[The SpongeBob SquarePants Collection]], [[Bikini Bottom Getaways]], [[On the Road]], [[3 DVD Value Pack]], [[The SpongeBob SquarePants 8 Season DVD Collection]], [[The Next 100 Episodes|Next 100 Episodes]], [[The Best 200 Episodes Ever]], and [[The Seventh & Eighth Seasons]] DVDs.
*This episode is on the [http://spongebob.wikia.com/wiki/SpongeBob%27s_Runaway_Roadtrip SpongeBob's Runaway Roadtrip]<span style="font-size:13px;text-align:center;"> </span>and[[The Complete 8th Season|&nbsp;Complete 8th Season]] DVDs.
 
 
===Promotional Art===
 
<gallery position="center">
 
Greetings from the moon.jpg|A postcard for the episode
 
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==Trivia==
 
==Trivia==
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===General===
*This is similar to [[Sandy's Rocket]], as SpongeBob and Sandy were previously going to the moon in this episode. In fact, it could even be a remake or sequel.
 
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*This episode was available on the SpongeBob's Runaway Roadtrip DVD, released earlier in {{Time|2011}}, before it aired on American television.
*This is the third time space is seen. The first two are [[Sandy's Rocket]] and [[A SquarePants Family Vacation]]. The next time will be [[Fiasco!]].
 
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[[File:Proton-K-Zarya.jpg|thumb|260px|The Proton-K booster, lifting Zarya into orbit.]]
*The rocket got to the moon in a couple of minutes, but in real-life, it takes at least 3 days.
 
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[[File:Zarya from STS-88.jpg|thumb|260px|Zarya, on which the doctored image came from.]]
*This is the fourth of the five episode miniseries on Nickelodeon.
 
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[[File:2560px-TKS_spacecraft_drawing_(svg).svg.png|thumb|180px|The Zarya module is based on the TKS, especially its FGB segment.]]
*There is a brief scene of a man at Nickelodeon Studios looking at Sandy and SpongeBob crashing down to Bikini Bottom. That man is [[Ernest Borgnine]], the voice actor of [[Mermaid Man]]. This is his only appearance, as he died shortly after.
 
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[[File:Apollo_17_liftoff.jpg|thumb|260px|Apollo 17 lifting off with the crew taking the famous Earth photo.]]
*After the story begins, Patrick isn't seen or mentioned again, so it's unknown what he and SpongeBob thought after the story.
 
 
*This episode is similar to "[[Sandy's Rocket]]," as SpongeBob and Sandy were previously going to the moon in this episode and it features a rocket.
*This is the fourth appearance of primates on the show. The first was [[I Had an Accident]], the second was [[Chimps Ahoy]], and the third was [[Friend or Foe]].
 
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*When SpongeBob sings "Going to the Moon! Moon trip!" repeatedly, it is a reference to "Sandy's Rocket," when SpongeBob sings "Going to the Moon! Moon ride!" repeatedly.
 
*This episode marks the third time space is seen. The first was "[[Sandy's Rocket]]," and the second was "[[A SquarePants Family Vacation]]."
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*This was the first episode with [[Vincent Waller]] credited as a writer/storyboard director since the [[season 4]] episode "[[Skill Crane]]," and was also the first of two episodes that he and [[Sean Charmatz]] worked on together.
 
*This is the fourth of the five episode vacation miniseries on [[Nickelodeon]].
 
*This is the fourth appearance of primates on the show. The first was "[[I Had an Accident]]," the second was "[[Chimps Ahoy]]," and the third was "[[Friend or Foe]]."
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*Earth stayed the same in the background. In fact, it was the famous image of Earth, ''{{W|The Blue Marble}}'', taken by the Apollo 17 crew, that SpongeBob "held."
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[[File:Mooncation 156.png|thumb|260px]]
 
*When Sandy is moon-crater-boarding, the music is similar to the music in "[[Prehibernation Week]]."
 
*When Sandy is moon-crater-boarding, the music is similar to the music in "[[Prehibernation Week]]."
*The beginning of this episode was very similar to [[Sandy's Rocket]], only the rocket is brown and the one on [[Sandy's Rocket]] was white. The rocket bared some resemblance to a US (currently grounded) Taurus 1 Minotaur I or Italian Vega Rocket (the esa's newest booster) with first stage removed.
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*The beginning of this episode is very similar to "Sandy's Rocket," only the rocket is brown and the one on "Sandy's Rocket" was white. The rocket bared some resemblance to a U.S Taurus 1, Minotaur I by Northrop Grumman (formerly Orbital ATK) or Italian Vega rocket (ESA's solid fueled rocket next to the Ariane 5 and Soyuz, which is suspended due to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine Russia's invasion]/[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_War war with Ukraine]) with first stage removed.
*This is the third time Nickelodeon Studios has appeared on the show, the first time was in [[The Sponge Who Could Fly]] and the second was in [[Truth or Square]].
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**This is also the second episode in which someone attempted to go to the moon in the series. The first was also "[[Sandy's Rocket]]."
*This is the second time within the vacation mini-series that SpongeBob flies near the moon, the first being [[A SquarePants Family Vacation]]. The family boat-mobile flew into a crescent moon and crashed into a cow jumping over it.
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*This is the third episode where [[Nickelodeon Animation Studio]] has appeared in the series, the first being "[[The Sponge Who Could Fly]]" and the second being "[[Truth or Square]]."
 
*There is a brief scene at Nickelodeon Animation Studios where a man is seen standing at the front entrance as he looks up high in the sky to see a small rocket passing by. That man is [[Ernest Borgnine]], the voice actor of [[Mermaid Man]]. This is his only physical appearance in the series, as he died shortly after the episode aired.
*When SpongeBob was standing on the moon he didn't float away (which is in tune with the laws of physics as the moon does have gravity) but when he was about to "moonboard" he needed a rock to hold him down, then after he crashed into the rocket he didn't need the rock.
 
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*This is the second time within the vacation mini-series that SpongeBob flies near the moon, the first being "[[A SquarePants Family Vacation]]." The family boat-mobile flew into a crescent moon and crashed into a cow jumping over it.
*When the fish on the TV says "Harold, your real father is-" before the TV glitches, it may be a reference to Star Wars.
 
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*This is the only episode of the five-part vacation miniseries not to feature {{Link|Mr. Krabs}}.
*The satellite [[SpongeBob]] hits is actually a doctored image of the International Space Station's Zaryia Module, the first one of the entire complex shot up in 1998. The actual module has only 2 solar panels.
 
 
*This episode was rated PG in Canada.{{Citation needed}}
*This episode marks [[SpongeBob SquarePants|SpongeBob]]'s second trip to the Moon. The first was in [[Sandy's Rocket]].
 
 
*When SpongeBob was standing on the moon, he did not float away (which is in tune with the laws of physics as the moon does have gravity) but when he was about to "moonboard" he needed a rock to hold him down, then after he crashed into the rocket he did not need the rock.
*This episode was rated PG in Canada.
 
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*Sandy [[List of title drops|mentions the episode title]] when she says, "Looks like you're going on a '''mooncation'''!"
*This is the first episode Vincent Waller has written since Season 4, and the first time he has been paired with Sean Charmatz.
 
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*In this episode, SpongeBob says he does not know what corn is, despite the fact that he had corn in his mouth in the [[Walking the Plankton|previous episode]].
 
*This episode marks SpongeBob's second trip to the Moon. The first was in "Sandy's Rocket."
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*In the [[Spužva Bob Skockani|Croatian dub]], the episode name is "Put na Mjesec," which translates to "Trip to Moon."{{Citation needed}}
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[[File:Screen Shot 2018-11-18 at 6.28.36 AM.png|thumb|260px|Tom Kenny listed for providing the "sorry" button line.]]
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*In a deleted scene, Tom Kenny voiced a button in the rocket ship that said "Sorry." The "sorry" line was listed in the credits as if it were a character name. Vincent Waller said in a tweet that he does not remember this scene in August {{Time|2017}}.<ref>[https://twitter.com/VincentWaller72/status/893577611560992774 Vincent Waller on Twitter]</ref>
   
===Cultural References===
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===Cultural references===
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*The satellite SpongeBob hits is a doctored image of the International Space Station's Russian Orbital Segment's Zarya module, Zarya is Russian for "dawn," and is the first module of the ISS being based on the {{W|TKS (spacecraft)|TKS spacecraft}} (Транспортный корабль снабжения, ''Transport Supply Spacecraft)'', the next being the Russian Zvezda module (whose design lineage thus extends back to the original ''{{W|Salyut programme|Salyut}}''/''{{W|Almaz}}'' stations), and the United States' Unity module.
*The "Flippity Doo Dah" is a reference to "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah", a song featured in the Disney film "Song of the South".
 
*This episode is similar to the 1995 film, [[wikipedia:Apollo 13 (film)|Apollo 13]], and the 2000 film, [[wikipedia:Mission to Mars|Mission to Mars]].
 
   
 
===Errors===
 
===Errors===
 
*When Sandy's rocket is activated, Sandy's suitcases are not there, but once Sandy shows up, all her suitcases are there.
 
*When Sandy's rocket is activated, Sandy's suitcases are not there, but once Sandy shows up, all her suitcases are there.
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*Sandy and SpongeBob are both at the middle of the rocket when they board, but are shot up from the bottom at liftoff.
*It's impossible to get to Saturn just by jumping off the moon, and if it was, it would take many decades, or even centuries. For NASA's Cassini Huygens, it took 7 years to get to Saturn.
 
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[[File:SpongeBob's eyelashes mistake in Mooncation.png|thumb|260px|SpongeBob's visible eyelashes mistake.]]
*Normally, a fire cannot start in space, it needs a flammable substance. Spacecraft and rockets need liquid nitrogen.
 
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*When SpongeBob says, "Oh gee Sandy. I don't know," SpongeBob blinks his eyes but his eyelashes are still seen.
*Sandy was shown to take her helmet off in space, however if you actually did outside the space station or a Soyuz-TMA capsule that's not docked to station, you would die instantly of space exposure.
 
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[[File:Mooncation 159.png|thumb|260px|The fuel gauge being incorrectly colored in the background of this shot.]]
*Sandy, and planet [[Wikipedia:Saturn|Saturn]] were not to scale size-wise.
 
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*When SpongeBob and Sandy are quickly flying back to earth, the fuel gauge in the background is incorrectly colored blue (as it is colored tan during the close-up of it being sentient).
*Sandy skated on [[Wikipedia:Rings of Saturn|Saturn's rings]], however planetary rings are not solid, they are just asteroids that orbit the {{W|planet}}.
 
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{{Clear}}
*When Sandy jumped off the moon, she went really high, but in real-life, she would've only jumped 4 meters.
 
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[[Category:Vacation miniseries]]
 
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==Videos==
 
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Nickelodeon Split Screen Credits (October 22, 2011)
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SpongeBob SquarePants Mooncation Crater Boarding Nick
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SpongeBob SquarePants - Moon Crater Boarding (S8, E9) - Paramount+
 
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==References==
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{{Reflist}}
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[[es:La Lunavacación]]
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[[pt-br:Férias Lunares]]
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[[ru:Луноотпуск]]
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[[Category:SpongeBob's Runaway Roadtrip]]

Latest revision as of 14:37, 16 February 2024

"Mooncation" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 8. In this episode, Sandy takes SpongeBob to the moon for a vacation.

Characters

Synopsis

In the beginning of the episode, SpongeBob and Patrick go to Sandy's treedome, but are knocked aside by monkeys leaving her home. They hold a slide carousel, mentioning they confiscated it. SpongeBob and Patrick ask Sandy what is going on, and she says she has a copy of the slide carousel to show them. The show begins.

In the show, SpongeBob meets Sandy, who is preparing for a trip to the moon. She asks him to help her with her luggage, but he runs off to the bakery. He tries to take a number, but gets tangled in the tickets from the dispenser, to the baker's annoyance. The baker asks for "Number 12," and SpongeBob gives him his ticket. Through gritted teeth, the irritated baker asks him what he would like. SpongeBob says he would like a bon voyage sheet cake with "yummy letters." He asks the baker to write, "Have fun on the moon," but thinks of what would rhyme with moon (goon, rune, noon, tune), while the baker angrily suggests loon, but he goes with "See you soon." He takes the cake to Sandy's, but her rocket just started the countdown. It lifts its ladder, but SpongeBob leaps on, and into the ship. Sandy is annoyed, and says she must adjust for the newly added weight of SpongeBob. The ship blasts off, and soon they are in space. While in there, SpongeBob presents her with the cake. She warns him that food that is not contained will fall apart in a zero-gravity environment, which the cake promptly does. She says everything will be fine unless it gets into the vent, and once again, the cake does just that. She climbs into a special suit and goes out to remove the cake from the vents. While standing out there, she takes a bit of the cake and says it could use "more nuts." She returns to the ship, and the moon is getting closer. Sandy picks a crater as a good place to land the ship.

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SpongeBob and Sandy "moonboarding."

When they exit the ship, Sandy sandboards on the moon, showing off many of her moves, such as the "Flippity-Doo Dah," the classic Texas tail grab (where Sandy grabs her tail to the shape of Texas with a star on it), and the 7-20 nut-job (where she slices a moon rock to an acorn, and eats it), including one where she lies on Saturn's rings; the "Tour de Saturn."

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Sandy lassos the rocket.

When it is SpongeBob's turn to sandboard, he floats away, since he is too light in the moon's gravity. Sandy uses a lasso made with a rope and a moon rock, and tells SpongeBob to grab it. He does, and falls to the moon. While screaming and holding onto the moon rock, he shows amazing skills, which impresses Sandy. SpongeBob tries again, but this time, his board crashes into the fuel tank, causing it to leak. Sandy pulls SpongeBob back to the ship, telling him they need to return home while there is still enough fuel left. They manage to make it back to Earth, but the steep dive means they will turn into a giant fireball, which causes SpongeBob to panic. Sandy goes outside to "grab this bull by the horns" and lassos the ship, pulling it out of its dive. It flies over Bikini Bottom, doing loop-de-loops, and eventually crashing to the ground. SpongeBob sees an unconscious Sandy lying on the ground and tearfully apologizes for ruining her vacation. Sandy tells him he did not ruin her vacation; she had a great time. She plans on taking him with her to Mars next, then jokingly suggests he bring her cakes more often, and they laugh, as the episode ends.

Production

This episode was confirmed on June 6, 2011.[2]

Promotional art

Greetings from the moon

A postcard for the episode.

Music

 ) Production music
 ) Original music
 ) SpongeBob music

  Paranormal [#64] - Harry Lubin [Title card]
  Sponge Burgler - Nicolas Carr ["We got the slides, sir."]
  Secret Agent 00 SquarePants - Nicolas Carr [Sandy takes SpongeBob and Patrick inside her treedome]
  SpongeBob Flashback Vibes - Nicolas Carr [Start of Sandy's story]
  Against All Odds - Paul Lawler [Rocket revealed]
  Steel Licks 40 - Jeremy Wakefield ["I'll be right back!"]
  You're Nice - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob buys a cake]
  Cosmos Adventure - John Fox [Rocket launch]
  Missile Disaster - John Fox [Cake disintegrates]
  Beyond the Galaxy - Larry Hochman [Sandy's special spacesuit]
  Origami - Nicolas Carr [Origami]
  Star Trekkers 1 - Steve Marston [Rocket lands on the moon]
  Aquarium - Eric Gemsa, Bernard Rabaud [Camp set up on the moon]
  The Grinder - Rolf Krueger [Sandy doing moon crater boarding]
  Moon Walk - John Fox ["Nothing like extreme sports in zero gravity."]
  Alien Spacecraft A - Gregor F. Narholz [SpongeBob floats away]
  Monster Wave No Sax - Nicolas Carr, Fabian Fernandez [SpongeBob grabs a rock and falls]
  Soap Opera Scene 1 - Hiram Titus [Patrick watching TV]
  Monster Wave No Sax - Nicolas Carr, Fabian Fernandez [SpongeBob jumps from the satellite/"Watch this, Sandy."]
  Star Trekkers 2 - Steve Marston [Leak in fuel tank]
  Steel Licks 54 - Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob takes a picture]
  Star Trekkers 3 - Steve Marston [Rocket leaves moon]
  Seven Seas - Oded Tzur [Sandy lassos the nose of the rocket]
  The Assignment - Gregor F. Narholz [Rocket crash lands]
  Horror Cue 1 A - Gregor F. Narholz ["Oh my gosh!"]
  Steel Licks 18 - Jeremy Wakefield ["I'm sorry I ruined your vacation to the moon."]
  Bikini Bottom Bound - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Ending]

Release

Trivia

General

  • This episode was available on the SpongeBob's Runaway Roadtrip DVD, released earlier in 2011, before it aired on American television.
Proton-K-Zarya

The Proton-K booster, lifting Zarya into orbit.

Zarya from STS-88

Zarya, on which the doctored image came from.

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The Zarya module is based on the TKS, especially its FGB segment.

Apollo 17 liftoff

Apollo 17 lifting off with the crew taking the famous Earth photo.

  • This episode is similar to "Sandy's Rocket," as SpongeBob and Sandy were previously going to the moon in this episode and it features a rocket.
  • When SpongeBob sings "Going to the Moon! Moon trip!" repeatedly, it is a reference to "Sandy's Rocket," when SpongeBob sings "Going to the Moon! Moon ride!" repeatedly.
  • This episode marks the third time space is seen. The first was "Sandy's Rocket," and the second was "A SquarePants Family Vacation."
  • This was the first episode with Vincent Waller credited as a writer/storyboard director since the season 4 episode "Skill Crane," and was also the first of two episodes that he and Sean Charmatz worked on together.
  • This is the fourth of the five episode vacation miniseries on Nickelodeon.
  • This is the fourth appearance of primates on the show. The first was "I Had an Accident," the second was "Chimps Ahoy," and the third was "Friend or Foe."
  • Earth stayed the same in the background. In fact, it was the famous image of Earth, The Blue Marble, taken by the Apollo 17 crew, that SpongeBob "held."
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  • When Sandy is moon-crater-boarding, the music is similar to the music in "Prehibernation Week."
  • The beginning of this episode is very similar to "Sandy's Rocket," only the rocket is brown and the one on "Sandy's Rocket" was white. The rocket bared some resemblance to a U.S Taurus 1, Minotaur I by Northrop Grumman (formerly Orbital ATK) or Italian Vega rocket (ESA's solid fueled rocket next to the Ariane 5 and Soyuz, which is suspended due to Russia's invasion/war with Ukraine) with first stage removed.
    • This is also the second episode in which someone attempted to go to the moon in the series. The first was also "Sandy's Rocket."
  • This is the third episode where Nickelodeon Animation Studio has appeared in the series, the first being "The Sponge Who Could Fly" and the second being "Truth or Square."
  • There is a brief scene at Nickelodeon Animation Studios where a man is seen standing at the front entrance as he looks up high in the sky to see a small rocket passing by. That man is Ernest Borgnine, the voice actor of Mermaid Man. This is his only physical appearance in the series, as he died shortly after the episode aired.
  • This is the second time within the vacation mini-series that SpongeBob flies near the moon, the first being "A SquarePants Family Vacation." The family boat-mobile flew into a crescent moon and crashed into a cow jumping over it.
  • This is the only episode of the five-part vacation miniseries not to feature Mr. Krabs.
  • This episode was rated PG in Canada.[citation needed]
  • When SpongeBob was standing on the moon, he did not float away (which is in tune with the laws of physics as the moon does have gravity) but when he was about to "moonboard" he needed a rock to hold him down, then after he crashed into the rocket he did not need the rock.
  • Sandy mentions the episode title when she says, "Looks like you're going on a mooncation!"
  • In this episode, SpongeBob says he does not know what corn is, despite the fact that he had corn in his mouth in the previous episode.
  • This episode marks SpongeBob's second trip to the Moon. The first was in "Sandy's Rocket."
  • In the Croatian dub, the episode name is "Put na Mjesec," which translates to "Trip to Moon."[citation needed]
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Tom Kenny listed for providing the "sorry" button line.

  • In a deleted scene, Tom Kenny voiced a button in the rocket ship that said "Sorry." The "sorry" line was listed in the credits as if it were a character name. Vincent Waller said in a tweet that he does not remember this scene in August 2017.[3]

Cultural references

  • The satellite SpongeBob hits is a doctored image of the International Space Station's Russian Orbital Segment's Zarya module, Zarya is Russian for "dawn," and is the first module of the ISS being based on the TKS spacecraft (Транспортный корабль снабжения, Transport Supply Spacecraft), the next being the Russian Zvezda module (whose design lineage thus extends back to the original Salyut/Almaz stations), and the United States' Unity module.

Errors

  • When Sandy's rocket is activated, Sandy's suitcases are not there, but once Sandy shows up, all her suitcases are there.
  • Sandy and SpongeBob are both at the middle of the rocket when they board, but are shot up from the bottom at liftoff.
SpongeBob's eyelashes mistake in Mooncation

SpongeBob's visible eyelashes mistake.

  • When SpongeBob says, "Oh gee Sandy. I don't know," SpongeBob blinks his eyes but his eyelashes are still seen.
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The fuel gauge being incorrectly colored in the background of this shot.

  • When SpongeBob and Sandy are quickly flying back to earth, the fuel gauge in the background is incorrectly colored blue (as it is colored tan during the close-up of it being sentient).


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