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"Roller Cowards"
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Season №: 5
Episode №: 86a
Airdate: July 27, 2007
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"Roller Cowards" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season five.

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Plot

The episode begins with SpongeBob reading a bedtime story to Gary in the living room of his pineapple house. Suddenly Patrick bursts into the living room through the walls with his t.v. He turns the t.v. on and it shows an emergency broadcast advertising the opening of a new, large, and painful roller coaster in Glove World known as the Fiery Fist of Pain the next day. Patrick then turns it off and recommends that they go to bed immediately so they can be the first in line. They do just that, and SpongeBob develops an excitement while he sleeps, making movements with his hands and muttering coaster-related words. Later that night, however, he has a nightmare in which he and Patrick go on the ride and are thrown off towards their deaths. SpongeBob immediately wakes up and declares he doesn't want to go.

The next day, Patrick wakes him up and tells him he had a nightmare too. But before he can tell what it was about, the bus arrives and they board the bus. On board, they listen to two kids talk about how a man tested the ride and lost his spine. This deepens their fears.

When the bus stops at Glove World, they take their first look at the Fiery Fist of Pain, but it's interrupted when the rest of the passengers step off the bus and carry SpongeBob and Patrick to the ticket stand. They try to fake out that they don't have tickets and walk away, but the ticket man spots their tickets in their back pockets and admits them.

Inside, SpongeBob and Patrick are chatting about how "lucky" it was that the ticket man found their tickets when they pass the line for the Fist of Pain and see how long the line is. They decide to go visit all the kids rides first so that when they come back to the Fist of Pain, it'll seem even cooler, when in reality, they were too scared to go on the ride yet.

After going on all the rides, SpongeBob and Patrick face the park's mascot, Glovie Glove, and take a picture, but because Patrick is terrified of Glovie Glove, he's reluctant to go near him. Soon after, they spot The Mitten and get excited, but try to cover their true feelings by claiming that it's for babies. They go on the ride with a baby girl to make sure, but the bumps spook them. They then wait in line for the Fist of Pain, but run away because an old man in a wheelchair with a blood supply device came out, even though he already had the condition before the ride came out. They then play a game in which they try to go to the bathroom as many times as possible. Larry, however, steps in and talks about his adrenaline, then asks them to go on the ride, but SpongeBob lie and tell him that they're hungry, though they're still too frightened. They then have ice cream at the cafe, and Patrick decides to wash his face. When he washes, he reminds himself that he has nothing to fear about the Fist of Pain, but his reflection says otherwise. He then beats it up and tells him that he thought they settled it the last time they argued. Meanwhile, SpongeBob had fainted and tried to take his mind off of his fear by making the ice cream cone look like it knows what scary really is. Patrick returns and tries to confess, but before they can confess, the intercom warns that the park will be closing in five minutes, so they run off. They finally go on the ride, and SpongeBob is forced to sign a waiver declaring that he won't blame Glove World in the case he loses his spine. The car then starts up but doesn't launch because something's wrong with the starter system. SpongeBob confesses and tells Patrick he was to scared to go on the ride and that he didn't want to tell because he thought Patrick would be affected. Patrick confesses too and tells the same thing. The starter is fixed, however, and they're launched. In the end, they make it, and discover that their spines were lost. They decide to go on the ride again.

Trivia/Goofs

  • The Fist of Pain's landscape is shown differently every time it's seen.
  • When SpongeBob is sitting in bed, he has white and black p.j.s, but when he's woken and freaked out by Patrick, his p.j.s turn completely brown.
  • Spongebob and Patrick are invertabrates so it's impossible for them to even have spines
  • Also how could they not gasp for water when they are at the top?
  • Glove World also appeared in Stephen Hillenburg's inspired episode "Rock Bottom"
  • If you pay close attention, then you will see that the Mitten had three laps.
  • The "Fist O' Pain" first appeared in one of the artworks on the Friend or Foe DVD special features.
  • At the beginning of this episode, they said that it was the grand opening of the Fist O' Pain, but in Friend or Foe? there was a t-shirt that said, "I survived the Fist O' Pain" which means this episode takes place before Friend or Foe?. Or did the roller coaster closed down before?
  • The goof above is wrong. It just means that you managed to go on the Fist O' Pain.
  • In episode Rock Bottom, where they feature Glove World, Glove World already has a roller coaster, which probably may be the Fiery Fist O' Pain. Either that or the Fist O' Pain is supposed to be a new roller coaster and they tore down the old one.
  • All the rides in Glove World are gloves, mittens, or fists.
  • After SpongeBob and Patrick finished the ride, they said "Let's go again", but in the scene before, it said that SpongeBob and Patrick were the last people to go on the ride for the day.
  • SpongeBob's behavior when he was hitting himself with the ice cream cone was similar to that of Stewie Griffin from Family Guy.
  • If you look closely, when SpongeBob and Patrick's spines fly through the water, both of their spines go into the other's body (SpongeBob’s spine went to Patrick's body and vise versa). On the next scene their spines are back to normal.
  • The sign for the ride "Fiery Fist O' Pain" says: This ride may cause:
    • Crying
    • Screaming
    • Projectile Vomiting
    • Amnesia
    • Spine Loss
    • Embarrassing Accidents
    • Uncontrollable Gas
    • Explosive Diarrhea
  • If you hear well enough when Patrick and SpongeBob got back from the Roller Coaster, the computer that mentions the ride is over sounds like Karen.
  • It is revealed that this episode takes place during Old Man Jenkins' birthday.
  • In this episode, Patrick has a TV that isn't the usual sand TV.
  • It should be noted this is Miranda Cosgrove's favorite episode.
  • Normally when an amusement park is closing in five minutes, it lets the people already in line get on the ride and not allow anyone else to get on. But for some reason, Spongebob and Patrick can run to the Fiery Fist O' Pain, read the sign, stand in line, and then ride all in five minutes.
  • When boarding the Fiery Fist O' Pain, the operator puts helmets on both Spongebob and Patrick. Patrick's helmet matches the cart, whereas Spongebob's helmet is the classic orange Nickolodeon color with green "slime" on top!

Quotes

  • (Old Man Jenkins is shown in a wheelchair)
  • Old Man Jenkins: Why won't you let me on the ride?
  • Harold: Sir, you have a serious medical condition.
  • Old Man Jenkins: But it's my birthday!
  • SpongeBob and Patrick: Wooo! One More Time!
  • Tom: You know, this is the line for the bathroom.
  • SpongeBob: (laughing) We've gone 8 times!
  • Patrick: And I went 3 times all by myself.
  • Tom: I'm going to walk away now.
  • Patrick and SpongeBob: Goodbye! Have Fun!
  • Nancy Suzy Fish (In the Fiery Fist O' Pain Commercial) Harold, no!!!
(SpongeBob and Patrick see The Mitten)
  • Both:THE MITTEN!!!
  • SpongeBob:At-hem. I mean-The Mitten.
  • Patrick:That ride's for babies.
  • Roller Coaster Computer:Please wait until the ride comes to a complete stop. And STOP CRYING!

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