Changes: Reef Blower

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If you were looking for the article about the machine, then see Reef Blower (machine).

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Characters

Synopsis

The episode starts out when Squidward walks outside and sees a tiny shell on his front lawn. He believes that it ruins the appearance of his lawn, so he kicks it onto SpongeBob's lawn on purpose.

Suddenly, SpongeBob pops out of his window and sees the shell. He also believes that it ruins the appearance of his front lawn, so he gets his "reef blower" (an underwater version of a leaf blower) out of his garage. He turns it on, much to the annoyance of Squidward. Squidward plugs his ears and SpongeBob struggles to blow the shell away.

After failing attempts, he angrily blows a large column of sand onto Squidward. To fix this problem, SpongeBob blows the sand off, which irritates Squidward's eyes. SpongeBob peers over at his sidewalk and sees a pile of sand. A subtitle "You" appears as SpongeBob points at the pile (no dialogue is heard).

He then sucks the pile of sand into the reef blower, which begins to malfunction. The sand and a few mechanical gears blow out. So, SpongeBob unzips the reef blower and puts them in himself. The reef blower sneezes.

When the reef blower refuses to start, SpongeBob pulls the cord to an extreme distance and before it finally starts. However, this causes it to suck in all of the water in the ocean.

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The reef blower then explodes, returning the water and leaving piles of sand all over Squidward's lawn, while SpongeBob's lawn is perfectly clean. Satisfied, SpongeBob gets out of a pile of sand and then goes back inside, while the shell lands on Squidward's nose.

Production

Art

Development

The episode was originally going to have dialogue, but the recording equipment broke and the episode was wholly rewritten to be silent. ^{[citation needed]}

Music

( ‣ ) Production music
( • ) Original music
( ◦ ) SpongeBob music

‣ Leaf Blower - The Blue Hawaiians [Throughout]

Release

Reef Blower aired as part of the pilot show after the Kid's Choice Awards on May 1, 1999. Unlike a majority of the episodes, this episode is paired with Help Wanted in that there are no commercials in between. The title card for this episode pops up as soon as "Help Wanted" finishes. This later happens with other three-episode groups.
The episode is available on The Complete 1st Season, First 100 Episodes, Complete First Season, and The Pilot a Mini-Movie and the Square Shorts DVDs.
This episode aired first in Germany on August 23, 2002.

Reception

As of August 4, 2015, The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) gives this episode a rating of 8.6/10 based on 499 ratings by users.^[1] TV.com users give this episode a rating of 8.7/10 based on 448 votes.^[2]
"Reef Blower" was ranked #24 during the Best Day Ever event from November 9–10, 2006.

Trivia

This is the shortest episode to date, with a length of two minutes and fifty-one seconds.
Although this is the only episode to contain no dialogue, SpongeBob says, "You!" (Subtitle appeared at the bottom of the screen,) but no audio is heard.
- In translations of this episode, SpongeBob can be heard saying it, but at a completely different voice than his normal (translated) voice. The subtitle also still appears.
Every time a reef blower appears, its own music can be heard.
Squidward is purple above-water in this episode.
This is the first episode that does not feature Patrick, Gary, and Mr. Krabs.
This is the first time a reef blower is used. The second and third times are "Squidville" and The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water.
This is the only episode in Season 1 not to have any bubble transitions.
This is the first of a few times that SpongeBob has been shown to have a garage.

Cultural references

A reef blower is a parody of a leaf blower.

Errors

When SpongeBob runs past the houses to get his Reef Blower started, Squidward is gone.
When SpongeBob's reef blower explodes, sand is shown in his yard.
- In the next scene, his house is sparkling clean.
When Squidward looks at SpongeBob's house in the beginning of the episode, SpongeBob has an extra window on the side of his house than he does in the "Help Wanted" episode.
When Squidward is in his yard eating, the flower in the pot from the beginning is now gone.
Squidward looks like he was eating some kind of green paste, but after SpongeBob blows the sand off of him it appears to be just a leaf.
When the sand is piled in SpongeBob's walkway, the window on the first floor of his house is gone again.
Squidward is sitting on a door step before SpongeBob drains the ocean, but Squidward's house never had a doorstep before that moment.

References

External links

Reef Blower at the Internet Movie Database
Reef Blower at TV.com
Reef Blower at MegaCartoons.net

[1] IMDB rating

[2] TV.com rating

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 *This is the first time a reef blower is used. The second and third times are "[[Squidville]]" and ''[[The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water]]''.
 *This is the only episode in [[List of season 1 episodes|Season 1]] not to have any bubble transitions.
-*This is the first of a few times that Spongebob has been shown to have a garage.
+*This is the first of a few times that SpongeBob has been shown to have a garage.
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