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SpongeBob SquarePants episode
"SB-129"
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Chronology
Information
Season №: 1
Episode №: 14a
Airdate: December 31, 1999
Best Day Ever Rank: #63
SpongeBash Rank: #5
Credits
Cast: *Rodger Bumpass (Squidward)
*Tom Kenny (SpongeBob/SpongeTron/Primitive SpongeBob/SpongeTron X/SpongeTron Y/SpongeTron Z)
*Bill Fagerbakke (Patrick/Patron/Primitive Patrick)
Guest(s): None
Writer(s): Aaron Springer
Erik Wiese
Doug Lawrence
Storyboard Artist(s): Erik Wiese
Directors
Storyboard: Aaron Springer
Animation: Tom Yasumi
Creative: Derek Drymon
Episode List
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"SB-129" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season one.

Brief summary: Squidward flees to the Krusty Krab in search of quiet and winds up in frozen in the freezer. When he finally thaws, he finds himself far in the future and wonders how to get back.

Time cards shown:

  • 2000 years later

Characters Present:

Contents

Plot

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. Unfortunately, this isn't true.

2000 years later, the door falls down and a frozen Squidward is defrosted by "SpongeTron", a descendant of SpongeBob. 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.

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 it malfunctions, and Squidward winds up in a surreal realm of nothingness, where he is soon overcome by loneliness and begins 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. The episode ends with Squidward saying "I'm going back."

Quotes

  • 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: Squidward is about to practice his clarinet, so get your ear plugs ready.
Squidward: I think I'll treat Bikini Bottom to some real music.
  • SpongeTron: Everything is chrome in the future!!!!!!!!!
  • Squidward: (does situps) Future...future! (repeated line)
  • Squidward: We've gotta 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!...(louder) ALONE!!...
  • (Squidward is talkling to SpongeTron and his clones)
Squidward: Now listen, all of you! I don't belong here. I need to get back 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.

(Squidward runs into the room laughing; a mechanical whirring noise is heard followed by him coming out in shreds)

Spongetron: Oops! Oh, yeah, that was the can opener. Try the one on the right and (slams door closed).
  • (Squidward first walks into the time machine, which almost looks like a fancy elevator)
Squidward: Well, I never would have chosen this interior.

Trivia/Goofs

  • This is the first episode to focus entirely on Squidward.
  • The episode, which arises from Squidward time travelling and inventing the game of jellyfishing while seeking to avoid SpongeBob and Patrick as they want him to jellyfish with them, is an example of 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 only) episode in which the title card is spoken out loud. This is also one of the eleven episodes in which the title card has an animation. The others are "Pre-Hibernation Week", "One Krabs Trash", "Idiot Box", "SpongeBob Meets the Strangler", "Skill Crane", "Ghost Host", "Karate Island", "All That Glitters", "The Donut of Shame", and "The Krabby Kronicle".
  • The date of the first airing of the episode (12/31/1999) was intended to coincide with the eve of the new millennium.
  • In the future, everything is chrome in Bikini Bottom EXCEPT for the hinges on the freezer door. They are rusted metal.
  • The episode Ugh (also marketed as SpongeBob Goes Prehistoric and also SpongeBob B.C.) seems to be set after the time prehistoric time period shown in this episode, as the cavemen characters in that episode are more civilized and have developed a simple lanuage. Two scenes of this episode can be seen during the song "When Worlds Collide".
  • The title, SB-129, is production code for the episode.
  • The DVD which features this episode also shows a recording session of Tom Kenny and Bill Faggerbakke recording as Primitive SpongeBob and Patrick.
  • A calendar in the future Krusty Krab is dated Friday, March 6, 4017, and if this is 2000 years later, which means the show must take place in the year 2017.
  • The words "past" and "future" switch places from when Squidward first enters the time machine and when he goes in from the past. Additionally, nothing is written on the lever when Squidward "falls" into the time machine towards the end.
  • When Squidward first arrives in the "Nowhere" zone, he has his clarinet. But when he begins running frantically, the clarinet disappears. When he stomps on a floor and then falls through the roof of the time machine, the clarinet is back in his hand.
  • The "alone" voices are voiced by the entire crew of the show.
  • Before SpongeBob's alarm clock goes off during the start of the episode, it is facing the bed. However, when the alarm goes off, it is facing Squidward's window.
  • This is the first time SpongeBob's alarm clock faces the window to 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.
  • Squidward swallows his Clarinet again in "Squidtastic Voyage".
  • This is the first episode to involve time travel.
  • When Squidward enters the time machine the door knob changes sides.
  • The Nickelodeon schedule names this episode SpongeBob 129.
  • When Spongebob says, "We'll be right over", he could be referring to Patrick already being there, since it doesn't make sense that in that short period of time Spongebob left his house, got Patrick and went right over to Squidward, since it was only a few seconds.
  • The controls for the time machine say different things when the inside is shown. The first time, the word "past" is on bottom and the word "future" is on the top. The second time Squidward goes into the time machine, the handle that controls if you go to the past or the future, the buttons on the right side of the handle are also in the spot that said, "past" if you look closely. The third time the time machine is shown, the words are not there at all. They are blank.

APM music identification

  • 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.
  • 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.


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