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Episode Information

General

Season №:

Episode №:

14a

Airdate:

December 31, 1999

Best Day Ever Rank:

#63

SpongeBash Rank:

Credits

Cast:

*Rodger Bumpass (Squidward)
*Tom Kenny (SpongeBob/SpongeTron/Primitive Sponge/SpongeTron X/SpongeTron Y/SpongeTron Z)
*Bill Fagerbakke (Patrick/Patron/Primitive Star)

Guest(s):

None

Writer(s):

Aaron Springer
Erik Wiese
Doug Lawrence

Storyboard Artist(s):

Erik Wiese

Storyboard:

Aaron Springer

Animation:

Tom Yasumi

Creative:

Derek Drymon

Chronology

Plankton!

Pickles

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SB-129 is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season one. In this episode, Squidward accidentally freezes himself and travels through time.

Time/Date:

March 6, 17 - Squidward "invents" Jellyfishing.

March 6, 2017 - Squidward is frozen in the freezer for 2000 years.

March 6, 4017 - SpongeTron unfreezes Squidward out of the freezer.

Time cards shown:

2,000 years later

Characters Present:

Squidward Tentacles
SpongeBob SquarePants
Patrick Star
SpongeTron
SpongeTron X
SpongeTron Y
SpongeTron Z
Patron
Primitive Star
Primitive Sponge
Chrome spray-painter
Ammonite
Tapeworm
Trilobites
Disembodied voices
French Narrator
The other 483 SpongeTrons (mentioned)

1 Plot
2 Transcript
3 Quotations
4 Trivia/Goofs
5 Errors
6 APM music identification
7 Gallery

Plot Edit

The day starts off quite well for Squidward. He is about to practice his clarinet when SpongeBob's alarm clock (facing out the window) knocks the clarinet inside Squidward's mouth, and SpongeBob asks Squidward if he wants to go jellyfishing. Squidward tries to reply, but because his

clarinet is in his mouth, anything he says is incomprehensible, and SpongeBob thinks he said yes. After Squidward takes his clarinet out of his mouth, Squidward is constantly bothered in his house by SpongeBob and Patrick who want to go jellyfishing with him. Squidward, in an attempt to stop SpongeBob and Patrick bothering him, tells SpongeBob that he should be at work, but SpongeBob tells him that it's a Sunday, and the Krusty Krab is closed on Sundays.

Squidward tells SpongeBob and Patrick to stay where they are, and goes out the back door of his house and goes into the Krusty Krab. He sees SpongeBob and Patrick looking for him, and goes into the kitchen. SpongeBob and Patrick are still looking for him, so he goes into the freezer. After SpongeBob and Patrick go away, Squidward is frightened to find that the handle is jammed, and that he is stuck inside the freezer. He assures himself that someone will find him but he becomes frozen and is stuck there for 2,000 years.

SpongeTron, a descendant of SpongeBob finally discovers Squidward after a hinge snaps off and the door breaks down. After being defrosted by SpongeTron, Squidward finds out that everything in the future (except for people) is made entirely of chrome, and all organic life forms that aren't people (such as seaweed or kelp) are simply spray-painted chrome. SpongeTron introduces Squidward to his clones, SpongeTrons X, Y, and Z. He also informs Squidward that there are 486 SpongeTrons in response to his question "Are the other letters of the alphabet involved here?" meaning that the English alphabet has been expanded, merged with another character set, or (most likely) it was hyperbole by the writers to make the future more complex. Squidward decides that he hates the future, so SpongeTron directs him to a time machine, which is actually a small room with a control panel. Shortly after meeting Patron, a two-headed descendant of Patrick, Squidward goes into the can opener, and then goes into the time machine to travel to the past, ripping the entire room out of the building in the

process.

Primitive SpongeBob
Added by Grizabella45

Squidward winds up in early prehistoric times, where he meets the primitive ancestors of SpongeBob and Patrick, who are torturing themselves with a jellyfish. Squidward introduces jellyfishing to them, and they seem to be interested until Squidward starts playing his clarinet, which drives them crazy, causing them to chase after him.

He goes into the time machine, but he accidentally malfunctions it by pulling the lever so hard that it breaks, causing the time machine to go all around the dimensions. The time machine got flatter and flatter and it disappeared, and Squidward ends up in a surreal realm of nothingness, with a strange atmosphere (A strange basstone, very weird echoing voices in the background

Prehistoric Starfish
Added by Grizabella45

and large 2D rectangles which disappear when Squidward touches one of them). At first glance of the realm, Squidward is relieved to finally be away from SpongeBob alone with his clarinet (and is later echoed by the surreal echoing voices). Suddenly realizing his loneliness, he attempts to escape the realm by running and stomping the ground in frustration. He breaks through the floor, landing in the time machine room. He begs it to return to the present, which it does, but Squidward finds out that in his travels, he invented jellyfishing. Squidward says, "I'm going back." Which causes the episode to end.

Transcript Edit

Main article: SB-129 (transcript)

Quotations Edit

Squidward: (Trying to teach the prehistoric SpongeBob and Patrick to jellyfish) "You're supposed to CATCH these things. Not torture yourselves with them!"
Squidward: I went to the future, then I went to the past, then I was nowhere, and now I'm back and you don't know how happy I am to see you guys.
SpongeBob: Does this mean you wanna go...
SpongeBob and Patrick: Jellyfishing?
Squidward: NO! Sheesh, who was the barnacle head that invented that game anyway?
SpongeBob and Patrick: You are, Squidward! (they begin laughing)
Squidward: I'm going back! (episode ends)
Narrator: Ah! It is Sunday morning in Bikini Bottom and it is about time for Squidward to practice his clarinet. So get your ear plugs ready.
Squidward: (Kissing his clarinet) I think I'll treat Bikini Bottom to some real music.
SpongeTron: Everything is chrome in the future.
Squidward: (doing situps) Future...future! (repeated line) (Brick falls on his head)
Squidward: (talking to Spongetron and his clones) Thanks. Now listen, all of you. I don't belong here. This is all a horrible mistake. Please, we've got to do something!
SpongeTrons X, Y, and Z: Jellyfishing?
(Patron teleports into the Krusty Krab.)
Patron: Did somebody say jellyfishing?
SpongeTron: Hi, Patron.
Squidward: I may have finally found a place where I can be all... alone.
Various voices: AlONE...AlonE...aLoNe...AloNe...(louder and discordant) Alone!.Alone!.Alone!|.Alone!.Alone!.Alone!.|Alone!.Alone!.Alone!.|Alone!.Alone!.Alone!...(lower) ALONE!!...
Squidward: (continues talking to SpongeTron and his clones) Just listen to me! I don't belong here. I need to get back home to by own time period. I got to go!
SpongeTron: Well, why didn't you just ask? The time machine is down the hall on the left.(Pointing to a door.)
(Squidward runs into the room laughing. A mechanical whirring noise is heard followed by him coming out in shreds)
SpongeTron: Oops! Oh yeah, that one's the can opener. Try the one on the right.(Squidward slams the door closed).
(Squidward walks into the time machine, which almost looks like a fancy elevator)
Squidward: Well, I never would have chosen this interior.

Trivia/Goofs Edit

The Jellyfish are smaller than usual in this episode.
Third episode where Squidward's rear end is noticable.
Jellyfishing was invented in 17 AD, according to the timeline above. But Squidward wasn't born until 1977, so somebody else might have invented it. Maybe Neptune's son Triton.
14th time Mr. Krabs doesn't appear. 1st was Reef Blower, 2nd was Tea At The Treedome, 3rd was Bubblestand, 4th was Ripped Pants, 5th was Jellyfishing, 6th was Naughty Nautical Neighbors, 7th was Boating School, 8th was Home Sweet Pineapple, 9th was Mermaid Man & Barnacle Boy, 10th was Hall Monitor, 11th was Jellyfish Jam, 12th was Opposite Day & 13th was I Was A Teenage Gary.
This episode shows that, apparently, the nautilus was an early form of jellyfish. However, minutes later, a modern-SpongeBob-era jellyfish appears.
The Serbian name for this episode is SB-192 for some reason.
The first time Squidward enters the Time machine, the switch reads future on the top and past on the bottom. The next time he enters, the two are reversed.
The Time Machine that Squidward uses in this episode was meant to be a parody of the TARDIS from Doctor Who.
This was the first episode to focus (entirely) on Squidward.
The episode, which arises from Squidward time-traveling and inventing the game of jellyfishing while seeking to avoid SpongeBob and Patrick as they want him to jellyfish with them, is a time paradox known as a casual loop. Thus, a person is inspired or driven by an event to time travel and, whether or not intentionally, causes the event which will facilitate their initial time travelling trip.
This is the first (and currently only) episode in which the title card is spoken out loud.
The background of this episode's title card is also seen in Can You Spare a Dime? when Squidward pictures himself as an astronaut.
Squidward is later stuck in the freezer with SpongeBob, Patrick, and Mr. Krabs, in Truth or Square.
This is also the 1st title card to have an animation. It's repeated in "Prehibernation Week," "One Krabs Trash," "Idiot Box," "SpongeBob Meets the Strangler," "Skill Crane," "Ghost Host," "Karate Island," "All That Glitters," "The Donut of Shame," "The Krabby Kronicle" and "Barnacle Face".
The date of the first airing of the episode (12/31/1999) was intended to coincide with the eve of the new millennium, along with Karate Choppers.
This is the first episode with The Krusty Krab but not Mr. Krabs, the others being Just One Bite, Enchanted Tiki Dreams, Krabby Road, Love That Squid, You Don't Know Sponge, A Life In A Day, I Heart Dancing, Sentimental Sponge, Smoothe Jazz At Bikini Bottom, Are You Happy Now?, The Bully, I Had An Accident, Single-Cell Anniversary, Grandma's Kisses, Big Pink Loser (even though he's mentioned), Mermaid Man & Barnacle Boy IV, Treats!, Back To The Past, That Sinking Feeling & Oral Report.
In the future, everything is chrome in Bikini Bottom. (EXCEPT for the hinges on the freezer door. They had been rusted over the last 2,000 years.)
The episode "Ugh" (also marketed as SpongeBob Goes Prehistoric or SpongeBob B.C.) seems to be set after the time prehistoric time period shown in this episode, as the cavepeople characters in that episode are more civilized and have developed a simple language. Three scenes of this episode can be seen during the song "When Worlds Collide."
The title, SB-129, is production code for the episode.
The ALONE voices are voiced by the entire crew of the show.
This is the first (and only) time SpongeBob's alarm clock faces the window toward Squidward.
In the PC version of the game for the SpongeBob SquarePants movie, SpongeBob can look into his future with the Pool of Perception. The third time he looks in, he sees the 41st century, which resembles the future seen in this episode.
This is the first time Squiward swallows his clarinet. Squidward swallows his clarinet again in "Squidtastic Voyage", and once again in his nightmare in "Squidward in Clarinetland".
This is the first episode to involve time travel. The second was "Back to the Past".
The future version of Patrick is Patron. In Latin America, the name is the same. Ironically, "patron" is another Spanish word for "jefe" ("boss"). A "patron" is also another word for a customer.
When Squidward travels 2,000 years into the future Krusty Krab, there is a tear-off calendar behind Squidward and the future SpongeBob. On it, the date reads March 6, 4017. This means that the episode takes place on March 6, 2017. Both dates are on a Monday.
The square that Squidward touched made a similar sound to the Jason Voorhees sound.
In The Nickelodeon South East Asia Squidward's big holiday contest, this episode was known as SpongeBob 3000.
Squidward is the new inventor of jellyfishing.
When Squidward was in nowhere, his step sounds are different from the previous episodes.
SpongeTron says he has 486 clones of the alaphbet, but he really means he's got clones of every letter of every alaphbet.
It;s the only episode in Indonesia that the title cards is narrated.
This is the 1st time Spongebob's used as a robot. 2nd will be Goo Goo Gas.

Errors Edit

After SpongeBob snores at the beginning, captions say "(Gary meows)" when this is SpongeBob exhaling.
If the year in the future is 4017, Squidward must have been stuck in the freezer in 2017, but this episode was made in 1999/2000, but it may have probably counted at least 18 years more than 2,000 years.
When Squidward first arrives in the Nowhere Zone, his clarinet is in his hands. But when he begins running frantically, the clarinet is missing. And when he stomps on the floor and falls through the roof of the time machine, the clarinet reappears. When he got out of the time machine again, it disappeared again.
Before SpongeBob's alarm clock goes off during the start on the episode, it is facing the bed, but when it goes off, it is facing Squidward. SpongeBob's bed could be facing the window however, in which case this would just be a change in perspective.
When Squidward enters the time machine, the door knob changes sides.
The controls for the time machine say different things every time the inside is shown.
At the beginning, SpongeBob's pineapple has one window instead of two, like usual.
When Squidward exits the time machine in the past, there are two red lights at the top. But when he entered the time machine in the future, there was one red light and one blue light.
There were many events where SponeBob entered the freezer. Though, those events might have not occured without Squidward in the prescense, or they have a less used second freezer.
Through those years, Squidward's face is clearly seen, yet no one noticed him. This may be due to his blue-ish color, or Mr. Krabs and SpongeBob just ignored Squidward.
- Though, that would be strange, because SpongeBob thinks of Squidward as a "friend".
- Although if you consider the end of the episode, Squidward returns to the same day. Which means that although he froze himself earlier that day, he would have returned to work.
- Squidward had his clarinet when he was in the Krusty Krab. When he went in the freezer, it was gone. It reappears after the time card is shown.
On Netflix, the title of the episode is "SpongeBob 129".

APM music identificationEdit

Hawaiian Blues- the morning time
Cierre Bob Esponja - "Rrrrready to go?" An electronic version of the cue can be heard while SpongeTron thaws Squidward; a primitive version of the cue is heard when Squidward "invents" jellyfishing in the past.
The Rake Hornpipe - Squidward hides in the freezer from SpongeBob and Patrick.
Death Trap - Squidward tries to open the freezer door.
Abject Terror - Squidward got frozen.
Hawaiian Link B - "Well, someone will realize I'm gone and come looking for me. I'll be outta here in no time."
Lonely Violin - "I don't belong here! This is all a horrible mistake! Please, we've got to do something!"
Aloha Oe - SpongeTron directs Squidward to the time machine.
Dorothy - "Well, I wasn't expecting this interior."
Hilo, March - Squidward is happy to see SpongeBob and Patrick again.
Unidentified electro-acoustic music from the 1930s.