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If you were looking for the article about the online game, then see Picture Day Disaster.

"Picture Day" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 5. In this episode, SpongeBob tries to get to boating school without getting filthy for Picture Day.

Characters[]

Synopsis[]

As the episode opens, SpongeBob wakes up on the morning of the Boating School Picture Day. He gets up and he does his routine, which includes "brushing" his teeth with crayons, putting on his socks, and getting dressed. But as he leaves, a piece of seaweed gets stuck on his shirt. He goes inside, saying it is "no problem," and does his morning routine over again. When he goes back outside, he is dumped in a garbage truck and gets laughed at by Squidward. He then goes back and he does his routine over again for the second time. He leaves, but much more cautiously this time. But he has a run-in with teenagers and ketchup. He manages to duck them but is squirted by Old Man Jenkins' ketchup. He goes back home for the third time and redoes his routine. This time, he uses Spongegloss in an effort to stay tidy. As he gets closer to boating school, the sponge gloss gets washed away by a truck full of water. More trucks crash and cover SpongeBob in stamps, oatmeal, and glue.

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As he is taking another shower for the fourth time, Patrick comes in with a jar full of jelly. Patrick eats it, and then SpongeBob gets an idea. He hides in the jar and successfully gets to Boating School. However, Patrick forgets the reason he came to the school and thinks he is jelly and takes him over to the table, where his peanut butter taco is. He dumps SpongeBob on it without knowing. SpongeBob lands in the taco, all dirty again. Patrick soon recalls the reason and watches SpongeBob start to cry. SpongeBob then sadly reveals the truth to Patrick about why the day for him was important, which it is that someday, he will graduate from school, and he doesn't want to be remembered as the guy in peanut butter and taco shells. He then bursts into tears.

As he cries, his teacher, Mrs. Puff, comes outside and drags him in kicking and screaming for the picture, despite SpongeBob's protesting. The cameraman sprays him with water to be clean and puts him in a green outfit that is a little small for the picture, but SpongeBob still doesn't smile and Mrs. Puff begs him to stop crying quickly. To correct it, the photographer puts a huge set of dentures in SpongeBob's mouth and that makes him smile forcefully, and the picture is now taken.

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The episode closes with SpongeBob looking at the boating school yearbook. He is surrounded by real humans in the yearbook, like in real life, with teeth exactly like SpongeBob's.

Production[]

Music[]

 ) Production music
 ) Original music
 ) SpongeBob music

  Moloka'i Nui A - Kapono Beamer [title card]
  Hello Blues - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield ["Nice try, alarmy."]
  Flute Link (A) - Richard Myhill ["...picturesque!"]
  Flute Link (E) - Richard Myhill ["...picturesque!"]
  Marching to Honolulu - Kapono Beamer [SpongeBob getting dressed]
  Lap Steel - Nicolas Carr [seaweed lands on SpongeBob's chest]
  Marching to Honolulu - Kapono Beamer [SpongeBob getting dressed again]
  Tension Bits - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [garbage truck]
  Marching to Honolulu - Kapono Beamer [getting dressed again]
  Desperate Dilemma - Dick Stephen Walter [SpongeBob hides behind garbage can]
  Comic Tension (A) - Dick Stephen Walter [SpongeBob goes into town]
  Dramatic Cue (G) - Ronald Hanmer [ketchup-filled balloons]
  Dramatic Cue (B) - Ronald Hanmer ["Wait, wait, don't squirt!"]
  Battle at Sea - Johnny Pearson [SpongeBob hides at a hot dog stand]
  Steel Licks 46 - Jeremy Wakefield [ketchup squirted in SpongeBob's face]
  Marching to Honolulu - Kapono Beamer ["And now, as an extra precaution..."]
  Birth of the Krabby Patty - Nicolas Carr [spongegloss]
  City Heat - Gerhard Trede [SpongeBob hides in a mailbox]
  Towerstreet 17 [#4] - Gerhard Narholz [stamp truck crashes]
  On The Beach - Kapono Beamer [SpongeBob bathing]
  Gator - Steve Belfer [Patrick with jelly jar]
  Hgliss & Bell - Nicolas Carr ["That's it!"]
  Happy Bells - Jan Rap, Peter Smid [SpongeBob gets inside jar]
  Hawaiian Cocktail - Richard Myhill [SpongeBob crying]
  Wooden Bear - Gil Flat, Tony Tape, Florian Voelxen [SpongeBob's picture taken]
  Tentacally Speaking - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [ending]

Release[]

Trivia[]

General[]

  • The inspiration of this episode was from Dani Michaeli, as his daughter had a bad picture day in preschool.[2]
  • In other episodes, SpongeBob's socks already have the lines, but in this episode, he draws them.
    • Every time SpongeBob cleans up, he draws new lines on them so that he has multiple stripes.
  • A gag in this episode is that SpongeBob takes a shower with his clothes on. In fact, this is the only time in the entire series where he does this. When Patrick comes in and sees him, SpongeBob tells him to give him privacy. If his clothes are fully on, nothing should be private.
  • The green outfit the photographer makes SpongeBob put on is a little Lord Fauntleroy outfit, a little boy's outfit of the 1800s.[3]
  • List of items that dirtied SpongeBob:
    • Kelp juice
    • Trash
    • Ketchup
    • Water
    • Stamps
    • Oatmeal
    • Glue
    • Patrick's peanut butter taco
  • Like most of season 5 episodes, in the Bahasa Indonesia version, the scenes where SpongeBob gets dirty because of a piece of seaweed and dumped into the garbage truck featuring Squidward were all omitted either due to time constraints or saving more time due to repetitive scene of SpongeBob getting ready and cleaned up again and again.[citation needed]
  • In the Russian dub, the episode is titled "Фотография на память," which translated to "Picture for a Memory."[citation needed]
  • The drain shown when SpongeBob was in the shower was later seen in the mobile game SpongeBob Marbles & Slides.
  • There is an online game based on this episode called Picture Day Disaster.
  • This was the last episode to play the track "Moloka'i Nui A" until "Treats!," which premiered nearly five years later.
    • This was also the last episode to play this track as a title card music until "Appointment TV," which premiered eleven years later.
  • SpongeBob cries in this episode, but not as much crying as in All That Glitters.

Cultural references[]

  • When SpongeBob puts on a black wig at the beginning of the episode, one of the different hairstyles he wears is the one The Beatles had in their early years.

Errors[]

  • On the December 5, 2017 Nicktoons airing of this episode, the Nicktoons logo does not show up.[4]
  • In the scene where SpongeBob's alarm clock goes off, Gary's mouth moves, but he is not heard saying anything.
  • In the beginning scene, while SpongeBob is in his bedroom, his socks already have red and blue stripes. They disappear in the bathroom.
  • When SpongeBob goes back inside his house, he paints two more stripes on each sock, and when he puts on his pants, his socks each have two stripes, and when SpongeBob says, "I'm ready," his socks each have four stripes again.
  • When SpongeBob barfs out a garbage bag, Squidward's mouth with no audio moves before abruptly cutting to SpongeBob getting ready for Picture Day again, suggesting Squidward was going to laugh a second time.
SpongeBob's shirt mistake in Picture Day

SpongeBob's shirt is yellow instead of white.

  • When SpongeBob says, "Well, I'm not sure how I did it," one side of SpongeBob's shirt is yellow instead of white.
  • When SpongeBob is saying, "I'm not jelly," as Patrick is dumping him in the peanut butter taco, Patrick's mouth moves as if he is saying the line, too.
  • Tom Kenny is miscredited as the photographer at the Boating School who is actually voiced by Bill Fagerbakke, and Fagerbakke is miscredited as the trucker who is blinded by sunlight whom is actually voiced by Kenny.


Videos[]

Nickelodeon_Split_Screen_Credits_(July_27,_2007)

Nickelodeon Split Screen Credits (July 27, 2007)

Nickelodeon_Split_Screen_Credits_(August_3,_2007)

Nickelodeon Split Screen Credits (August 3, 2007)

References[]

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