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SpongeBob SquarePants episode
"Shanghaied"
Chronology
Next: Gary Takes a Bath (33B for production and 31B for premiere)
Information
Season №: 2,
Season 3 (re-aired as Patchy the Pirate special)
Episode №: 33a
Airdate: March 9, 2001
November 5, 2002 (video premire) (Sea Stories)
2003 (re-aired as a Patchy the Pirate special)
October 5, 2004 (DVD re-release) (Season 2 box set)
Credits
Cast: Tom Kenny (SpongeBob/Patchy)
Bill Fagerbakke (Patrick)
Rodger Bumpass (Squidward)
Brian Doyle-Murray (Flying Dutchman)
Doug Lawrence (Larry the Lobster)
Sara Paxton (Kid Fish)
Stephen Hillenburg (Potty the Parrot) (2003)
Guest(s): None
Writer(s): Aaron Springer
C.H. Greenblatt
Merriwether Williams
Storyboard Artist(s): C.H. Greenblatt
Directors
Main: Aaron Springer
Storyboard: Stephen Hillenburg
Animation: Frank Weiss
Creative: Derek Drymon
Episode List
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"Shanghaied" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season two.

Brief Summary: SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidward become the crew of the Flying Dutchman.

Time Cards Shown:

  • A Few inches Later

Characters:

Contents

Plot

The episode begins with a short Patchy the Pirate segment. Patchy tells the audience that they will be watching his favorite show, "Shanghaied", but Potty shoots him out of a cannon.

The SpongeBob episode starts with SpongeBob opening a box of cereal, labeled as having "One of eight essential prizes inside". He pours out the whole box, but cannot find a prize. Suddenly, a giant anchor crashes into SpongeBob's house, which SpongeBob believes to be a "baby" from the sky. He and Patrick alert Squidward to this, and he explains that it is a giant anchor. Suddenly, the anchor moves, crashing in to Squidward's House as well. Squidward begins climbing up the anchor's rope to complain, and SpongeBob and Patrick follow. They find out that the anchor was dropped from the Flying Dutchman's ghost ship. When the trio set foot on the ship, the Flying Dutchman emerges from his cabin, terrifying Squidward. SpongeBob and Patrick tell the Dutchman of Squidward's intentions to complain to him, and he repeatedly burns Squidward with fire from his nostrils. He tells SpongeBob and Patrick that "you're next", and they attempt to jump over board, but land back on the ship every time. The Dutchman then tells them that for setting foot on his ghost ship, they shall be forced to work as his ghostly crew for all eternity.

Squidward proceeds to complain about this, and the Dutchman throws him into a zipper-like portal to a hellish dimension, called the "Fly of Despair". The Flying Dutchman then has SpongeBob and Patrick help him go around Bikini Bottom and scare people. However, they cause more harm than good for the Dutchman, who then tells him that he has decided to eat them instead. He locks them in their room, as he prepares for his dinner. SpongeBob and Patrick reluctantly decide to escape through the "perfume department", where perfume is constantly getting sprayed on them as they walk through it. After getting through the perfume department, they steal the Flying Dutchman's "lucky dining sock", which he can't eat without. SpongeBob and the Flying Dutchman begin fighting over the sock, until the Flying Dutchman decides to grant them three wishes in exchange for it. Patrick wishes he knew about this earlier, thus wasting the first wish. SpongeBob wishes that Squidward was here to see this. Meanwhile, Squidward, after passing through the Fly of Despair, is dropped into his bedroom, but is then immediately transported back to the Dutchman's ship. The trio begin arguing over who should get the last wish, until the Dutchman gives SpongeBob the last wish. SpongeBob wishes that the Dutchman was a vegetarian, and thus cannot eat them.

Squidward, SpongeBob, and Patrick turned into fruit.

Suddenly, SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidward are seemingly transported back home, until they discover that they're in a dish of fruit and have been turned into fruit. The Flying Dutchman explains that he did this, because he still wants to eat them, and he begins chasing them as the episode ends.

Transcript

Main article: Shanghaied (transcript)

History

"Shanghaied" aired with The Rugrats Movie In Paris in 2001. This makes it the only SpongeBob SquarePants short to appear in theaters, and the Rugrats Movie had earned over 103 million dollars at the box office. This is a possible reason why the short is 16 minutes long, longer than a average length of a short but shorter than a half-hour episode. It was later featured on the "Sea Stories" VHS and DVD releases, before being shown on television. This release featured all three endings (see below)

When this episode was first aired, a poll was held that let viewers decide between three possible endings to the episode, with a different character recieving the final wish in each ending.

After the commercial break, the two alternate endings were shown before the actual conclusion to the episode:

Patrick: He wishes that he had gum that never lost its flavor, and they are eaten by the Flying Dutchman.

Squidward: He wishes he never met Spongebob and Patrick, thus never getting annoyed by them everyday, as well as getting out of the situation. However, his wish simply makes Spongebob and Patrick forget they've ever met him, and instead meeting him just now, and they are eaten.

The showings of these alternate endings were hosted by Patchy the Pirate (thus explaining his seemingly pointless appearance at the beginning), and this footage was never seen again.

In all future airings of the episode, only the SpongeBob ending is shown. The episode is paired with "Gary Takes a Bath", which is shorter than a regular 11 minute segment.

Trivia/Goofs

  • This episode was originally titled "You Wish", but was changed to "Shanghaied". On the Series 2 DVD box set, it is listed as You Wish/Shanghaied.
  • This was the first ever SpongeBob special to be shorter than a double length (22 minutes), but longer than a regular episode (11 minutes), at a length of 16 minutes. It was paired with the episode "Gary Takes a Bath".
  • The Flying Dutchman was first mentioned to wear a sock in "Your Shoe's Untied."
  • The scene where the Flying Dutchman's head turns 360 degrees around is a reference to the film The Exorcist.
  • When Patrick says "SpongeBob, how long are you going to stay in your little fantasy world?", the original captions say "You are in your little fantasy world." On the "Sea Stories" DVD and VHS and the Season 2 DVD box set, the captions are corrected.
  • When SpongeBob and Patrick return to their cabin on the ship after their scaring spree, their ice skates, which they used during their final "scare", are hanging on the wall.
  • After SpongeBob is chosen to get the last wish, Squidward knows that they are about to be eaten, even though he wasn't present when SpongeBob and Patrick were informed.
  • The Flying Dutchman's ship is featured in the computer version of Lights, Camera, Pants!, even featuring the ice skates in SpongeBob and Patrick's room.
  • When SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidward are climbing the ship's anchor, right after SpongeBob says "Squidward, wait!" the rope's shape and art changes.
  • After The Flying Dutchman screams at Squidward, SpongeBob mistakes the ship to belonging to the Red Baron.
  • When Squidward says, "I am getting to the bottom of this," and SpongeBob says, "Wouldn't you mean the top?", the captions say, "Isn't the top?" When SpongeBob says "Squidward! The sky had a baby!", "Squidward" is missing from the captions.

Quotes

  • Patchy: We're gonna see me favorite show Shanghaied TA-DA!
  • Potty: BORING!
  • Patrick: Hey SpongeBob, the sky had a baby!
  • SpongeBob: I know! What should we name it?
  • SpongeBob: "But the door is locked, and the only way out is through (horrifingly) the "PERFUME DEPARTMENT"!
  • Patrick: Let's do it.

(SpongeBob gulps in fear, followed by a comical short of SpongeBob and Patrick trying to run through the perfume department shortcut, avoiding perfume samples, eventually leading to the exit near The Dutchman's office.)

  • SpongeBob: Ugh, I've always hated going in there.
  • Patrick: It would seem we have reached an impasse.
  • Dutchman: Pink one is right. Tell you what, you gave me back the sock, and I'll give you three wishes.
  • Patrick: Make it five.
  • Dutchman: Four.
  • Patrick: Three! Take it or leave it!
  • Dutchman:... okay, three. You get three wishes.
  • SpongeBob: Wow! Three wishes, Pat, isn't that great?
  • Patrick: Wishes? I wish we'd known that earlier!
  • (clock goes back five minutes)
  • Dutchman: Okay, you got two wishes left.
  • Dutchman: Howl with me! Ahwoooo!
  • SpongeBob: Naaaaaahhhhhhh!
  • Patrick: Leduleduleduledulee!
  • Dutchman: Ahwooo!
  • SpongeBob: Naaaaaahhhhhhh!
  • Patrick: Leduleduleduledulee!
  • Dutchman: Ahw-
  • Patrick: Ledulduluduhbada...Leduledulabalada
  • Dutchman: ...Eh, that'll do.
  • Squidward: I'll get to the bottom of this
  • Spongebob: Wouldn't that be the top

APM music identification

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