Picture Day

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Characters

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Mrs. Puff
• Patrick Star
• Gary the Snail
• Squidward Tentacles
• Bikini Bottomites
  • Lonnie

Synopsis

SpongeBob wakes up on the morning of the Boating School Picture Day, all excited. He gets up and he does his routine, "brushing" his teeth, putting on his socks, getting dressed. But, as he leaves, he is dumped in a garbage truck and gets laughed at by a watching Squidward. He goes back and he does his routine over again. He leaves, more cautious 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 second time and redos his routine. This time, he uses Sponge Gloss (a pink substance that keeps the user clean similar to lip gloss). 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. As he is taking another shower, 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. But Patrick thinks he is jelly and takes him over to the table, where his peanut butter taco is. He dumps SpongeBob on it, unknowing that it is SpongeBob. SpongeBob lands in the taco, all dirty again. As he cries, his teacher, Ms. Puff, comes outside and drags him in kicking and screaming for the picture, despite SpongeBob's protesting. The cameraman puts him in a small green outfit for the picture, but SpongeBob still doesn't smile. The photographer puts a huge mouth of dentures in SpongeBob's mouth and that makes him smile. The episode ends with SpongeBob and Gary looking at the yearbook. He is surrounded by real humans in the yearbook, like in real life, with teeth exactly like SpongeBob's. SpongeBob says, "Look, there I am. I don't look so bad." And the episode ends.

Production

Music

( ‣ ) Production music

( • ) Original music

( ◦ ) SpongeBob music

 ‣ Moloka'i Nui A - Kapono Beamer [title card]
 ‣ Hawaiian Sting 6 - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield ["Nice try, alarmy."]
 ‣ ? ["...picturesque!"]
 ‣ Marching to Honolulu - Kapono Beamer [SpongeBob getting dressed]
 • ? - Nicolas Carr [seaweed lands on SpongeBob's chest]
 ‣ Marching to Honolulu - Kapono Beamer [SpongeBob getting dressed again]
 • Drama Sting - 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 Sting (a) - Jeremy Wakefield [ketchup squirted in SpongeBob's face]
 ‣ Marching to Honolulu - Kapono Beamer ["And now, as an extra precaution..."]
 ‣ Fanfare (a) - David Farnon [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]
 ‣ Seaweed - Steve Belfer [Patrick with jelly jar]
 ‣ Harp Ding - Nicolas Carr ["That's it!"]
 • ? - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob gets inside jar]
 ‣ Hawaiian Cocktail - Richard Myhill [SpongeBob crying]
 ‣ Wooden Bear - Gil Flat, Tony Tape, Florian Voelxen [SpongeBob's picture taken]
 • Hawaiian Trax - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [ending]

Trivia

• The inspiration of the episode was from Dani Michaeli, as his daughter was having a bad picture day in preschool. He reveals this as he replies to a fan's tweet about the episode, as shown here: https://twitter.com/danimichaeli1/status/438792387981103104
• In other episodes, SpongeBob's socks already have the lines, but in this episode he draws them.
• The green outfit the Photagrapher makes SpongeBob put on is a little lord fauntleroy outfit, a little boy's outfit of the 1800's, as Casey Alexander explains here: https://twitter.com/_dolza_/status/438844135915544576.
• The plot in this episode is almost identical to the Disney's Recess episode "One Stayed Clean."
• 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 when he takes a shower with his clothes. When Patrick comes in and sees SpongeBob, SpongeBob says "Patrick, a little privacy here". If his clothes were on, nothing should be private.
• This is one of the few episodes where Mrs. Puff is nice to SpongeBob.
• At the end, The yearbook is Stephen Hillenburg's high school yearbook, while Spongebob is covering up his picture.
• This is the only episode to include Cautious Memories.
• Some of the teenagers appeared to be very young.
• The kid who tryed to squirt ketchup from a bottle onto SpongeBob appeared in Friend or Foe.
• This is the second time SpongeBob was in jar. The first was Jellyfish Hunter.

Cultural References

• The scene where SpongeBob is sprayed with the hose is taken from the Harmony Korine film Julien Donkey Boy.

Errors

• When SpongeBob went back inside his house, he painted two more stripes on each sock, and when he putted on his pants, his socks each had two stripes, and SpongeBob said, "I'm ready!", his socks each had four stripes again.
• In the scene when the foghorn alarm clock goes off Gary meows but his meow cannot be heard.
• When Harold is hit by a ketchup filled balloon, he is knocked out. But when SpongeBob runs to the hot-dog place, Harold is sitting there eating
• The old fish missed his hot dog when squirting ketchup on it, but the hot dog already had ketchup.