MuscleBob BuffPants
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| SpongeBob SquarePants episode | |
| "MuscleBob BuffPants" | |
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| Chronology | |
| Next: | Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost (11b) |
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| Information | |
| Season №: | 1 |
| Episode №: | 11a |
| Airdate: | September 25, 1999 |
| Best Day Ever Rank: | #72 |
| Credits | |
| Writer(s): | Ennio Torresan, Jr. Erik Wiese Doug Lawrence |
| Storyboard Artist(s): | Erik Wiese |
| Directors | |
| Storyboard: | Ennio Torresan, Jr. |
| Animation: | Edgar Larrazabal |
| Creative: | Derek Drymon |
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"MuscleBob BuffPants" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season one.
Brief summary: When SpongeBob finds out that he is extremely weak, he buys "Anchor Arms". The disguise works perfectly well, until Sandy enrolls him in the Bikini Bottom Anchor Toss Competition.
Characters Present:
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Sandy Cheeks
- Larry the Lobster
- Don the Killer Whale
- Muscular fish
- Gary the Snail
- Tom
- Audience
- Referee
- Perch Perkins (debut)
- Scooter
- Other fish in Goo Lagoon
- Anchor Arms shark
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Plot
When SpongeBob realizes that he is extremely weak, he asks Sandy to help him workout. However, Sandy's methods prove far too intense for him, and he runs back home. At home, he sees an ad on TV for a product called "Anchor Arms", which are inflatable muscles. SpongeBob purchases Anchor Arms, and is at the Goo Lagoon bar showing off his (fake) muscles when Sandy sees him, and enrolls him in the Anchor Toss Competition. where each contestant must throw an anchor the farthest they can. SpongeBob cannot even lift the anchor, and blows up his Anchor Arms so much that they explode, revealing him as a fraud. The next scene shows SpongeBob changing TV channels with a remote in Sandy's treedome as an exercise, which he finds exhausting.
Transcript
Trivia/Goofs
- Anchor Toss Scores:
- Don the Whale: 200 yards
- Larry the Lobster: 210 yards
- Sandy Cheeks: 510 yards
- SpongeBob SquarePants: Disqualified (0)
- When SpongeBob hits the pole after Sandy finishes signing him into the anchor-tossing competition, he is wearing his normal pants instead of his bathing suit.
- There are notable closed captioning errors in SpongeBob's lines while he's using the telephone after the training scene.
- When SpongeBob is first showing off his muscles to Larry, he says "Who were you expecting, Tiny Tim?". In the climatic scene from the first episode of the series ("Help Wanted") when SpongeBob is in the kitchen making thousands of Krabby Patties, a Tiny Tim song is playing.
- The muscle arms are later used by the SpongeBob robot in SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom after it is defeated by the player and before SpongeBob enters its head.
- A couple of lines said by Sandy in the Juice Bar scene are not closed-captioned.
- The Juice Bar in this episode was later seen in Battle for Bikini Bottom in the Goo Lagoon level.
- 8th time Patrick doesn't appear.
- The billboard sign with beachgoers working out reads "Mussel Beach", instead of "Muscle Beach". This is a reference to the tiny shell-covered creatures commonly found on beaches.
- When Sandy is asking Spongebob his secret, the purple fish behind her has darker eyelids than usual.
- The Anchor arms are based on steroids.
- The title card music "Big Ed's March" was also used in several Budweiser Superbowl ads during the 2006 and 2007 NFL seasons.
APM music identification
- Big Ed's March - Title card
- Vibe Link A - SpongeBob fantasizes himself with big muscles.
- Pell-Mell - SpongeBob attempts to do a push-up for Sandy.
- Dramatic Impact 5 - "This squirrel's trying to kill me."
- Hawaiian Link B - "This working out thing isn't working out. Ow. Ow. Ow."
- Fun at the Seaside - The commercial for Anchor Arms
- Stars and Games - SpongeBob shows off his Anchor Arms at Mussel Beach.
- Vibe Link B - "Eh, whadaya mean?"
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