Sandy's Rocket
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| SpongeBob SquarePants episode | |
| "Sandy's Rocket" | |
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| Information | |
| Season №: | 1 |
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| Episode №: | 8a |
| Airdate: | September 4, 1999 |
| Best Day Ever Rank: | #68 |
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| Writer(s): | Sherm Cohen Aaron Springer Peter Burns |
| Storyboard Artist(s): | Aaron Springer |
| Directors | |
| Storyboard: | Sherm Cohen |
| Animation: | Tom Yasumi |
| Creative: | Derek Drymon |
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"Sandy's Rocket" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season one.
Brief Summary: Sandy has made a rocket, and plans to go to the Moon. After being begged mercilessly, she lets SpongeBob come along, which results in disaster.
Characters:
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Patrick Star
- Sandy Cheeks
- Gary the Snail
- Squidward Tentacles
- Mr. Krabs
- Mrs. Puff
- Bikini Bottomites
- Larry the Lobster
- Doodles the Worm
- Flats the Flounder (cameo, debut)
Plot
Spongebob visits Sandy's treedome, and sees that Sandy had built a rocket ship. Sandy explains to him that she is going to the moon, and SpongeBob begs her to take him with her. Although she insists that he cannot come, SpongeBob's begging ultimately convinces her to let him come.
That night, Patrick comes to SpongeBob's house and gives him some "Alien repellent", which they sneak into Sandy's treedome to spray on the windows. Even though they agree to only spray the windows, Patrick inadvertently enters the rocket, and SpongeBob follows. After playing with the ship's verious features, Spongebob accidentally starts up the rocket, which loops over the moon and comes back to Bikini Bottom. SpongeBob and Patrick, convinced that they're on the Moon, think that the aliens are projecting their memories onto the environment to trick them. They begin catching everyone with Sandy's net guns (intended for harvesting moon rocks), believing they're aliens. Eventually, after capturing everyone in Bikini Bottom, including Sandy, who attempts to explain the truth to them, Spongebob is convinced that Patrick is an alien. Patrick attempts to shoot him before he has a chance to capture him, but ends up shooting and capturing himself. Spongebob starts the rocket again to return home, and crashes on the moon. SpongeBob looks out the window and realizes mistake. All the captured fish, who are being stored in the cargo hold of the ship, say "SpongeBob, we aliens would like a word with you." as the episode ends.
Transcript
Trivia/Goofs
- This episode marks the first appearance of Flatts the Flounder, who would later appear in "The Bully". Flatts also appears in "Texas".
- SpongeBob makes reference to "cowlicks" as evidence of aliens. This is most likely an homage to Pete and Pete, a very early Nickelodeon live action show.
- When Patrick is "playing a game" on the rocket's control console, the sound effect in the background is the rotating block sound from Tetris.
- When SpongeBob and Patrick first become weightless in the rocket, a book floats by with "2001" written on its cover. This is a reference to Arthur C. Clark's novel 2001: A Space Odyssey.
- SpongeBob's belief that the "aliens" are projecting his and Patrick's memories of their home, Bikini Bottom, onto the lunar surface to put them into a false sense of security seems to be inspired from a short story, "The Third Expedition", from Ray Bradbury's book, the Martian Chronicles.
- When SpongeBob looks out at the window towards the moon, the view of Earth from the Moon looks almost exactly like the famed Apollo 8 photograph.
- "Les Patineurs" is played during the scene of Spongebob and Patrick are floating in the rocket.
- During a Nickelodeon movie promotion in 1999, a set of scratch and sniff stickers were released at specified fast-food restaurants to be used with certain Nicktoons. One of them was used when Patrick squirts toothpaste in Spongebob's peanut butter. Also, the symbol that signaled you to "sniff" at the bottom right part of the screen was accidentally filmed along with the episode, and not edited out until late 2002, almost 3 years after the scratch and sniff packs were put out of circulation.
- In one scene where Sandy is showing SpongeBob how the net gun works, she blows on the bubbles coming out of the gun, despite having her helmet on.
- When SpongeBob and Patrick are having a tough time fitting the "aliens" in the ship's hold, there are still many Bikini Bottomites captured and left on the ground. However, when Sandy is captured, the chamber is nowhere near full.
- SpongeBob and Patrick experience gravity turning on and off as soon as they leave or enter the water. Gravity would not change until they left Earth's atmosphere.
- When the rocket first circles the moon, the rocket is almost as big as the moon, but at the end of the episode when SpongeBob looks out the window, the moon is much bigger.
- A Lego SpongeBob SquarePants set is based on this episode, and was also the first Lego set to include Sandy as a minifigure.
- Sandy could smell the smoke from the rocket even though it was outside of her airtight treedome.
- A chapter book based on this episode features an extended ending: SpongeBob releases Patrick and Sandy from the bags, and Sandy shoots SpongeBob as punishment before flying the rocket back to Bikini Bottom. It should be noted that in the episode, the rocket runs out of fuel as it reaches the moon, which would make this impossible. The book version also shows Plankton getting captured while stealing a Krabby Patty–also not seen in the TV version.
- When SpongeBob and Patrick throw Gary into the rocket, a scoreboard is visible, but in later shots, it is nowhere to be seen.
- This is the first time that Mr. Krabs appears away from the Krusty Krab. His pet worm would also reappear in "As Seen on TV".
- When Spongebob asks Sandy what she is going to do on the moon and he says, "Are we gonna go hunting aliens on the moon?" The captions say, "Will we hunt aliens on the moon?"
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