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Characters

Synopsis

Patrick and SpongeBob go to a comic book store, and Patrick sees an ad for a mail-in offer promising to record a song. He takes SpongeBob's comic book money to enter, and submits an entry called "I Wrote This." The song doesn't make much sense and it's so awful that the paper smells terrible when he submits it, and the band died from recording it. When the two listen to the song, it turns out to be so bad that it destroys SpongeBob's pineapple. Patrick had a flashback when he recited the poem: "Roses are blue. Violets are red. I have to go to the bathroom." The gym teacher told him that he had told him repeatedly that it was gym class, so he had the class throw dodgeballs at him. SpongeBob however enforces to Patrick that it's the greatest song ever, so he and Patrick try to get the song on the radio.

They are immediately kicked out by the radio station, so, finding a different method, they climb up the Radio Tower and use gum to stick a record player to the top of the antenna. The song is heard throughout the town, which causes rioting, breakups and head explosions, the town formed an angry mob, headed by Fred and protested. They chase SpongeBob and Patrick down and Patrick starts to sing the song in front of everyone until his old gym teacher arrives, saying that Patrick never learned his lesson, which leads to the two getting pelted by dodgeballs and the episode ends by the scene.

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Production

Music

 ) Production music
 ) Original music
 ) SpongeBob music

  Hilo Rag - Guy Fletcher [title card]
  Twelfth Street Rag (Prerecorded Version) - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Patrick reading comic books]
  Vibe Q Sting - Nicolas Carr ["Mm-hmm... hmm..."]
  Beach Boy - Hilmar Doetsch, Karl Heinz Kroll [SpongeBob reads an ad]
  Seaweed - Steve Belfer ["I want to send in a poem!"]
  Nude Sting - Sammy Burdson, John Charles Fiddy [SpongeBob kicked out]
  Goofy Conversation - Gerhard Narholz, Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony ["I wish not to be disturbed, SpongeBob."]
  Toy Piano - Dave Hewson [flashback to Patrick in school]
  Drama Link (d) - Hubert Clifford [dodgeballs thrown at Patrick]
  Drama Link (b) - Hubert Clifford ["Oh, Patrick..."]
  Emotional Drama - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin ["I've never told anyone this."]
  Alekoki - Kapono Beamer ["I'm worried my poem's not gonna be any good."]
  Factory Workers - Harry Bluestone [Patrick struggling]
  Wah Wah (a) - Richard Myhill ["What is that horrible smell?"]
  Puffing Along - Harry Bluestone ["I'm making art!"]
  Lap Steel - Nicolas Carr [shot of envelope]
  Cookie, Wookie, Teddy Bear - Tom King, Eban Schletter [Bigshot Records exterior]
  Steel Sting (Original Version) - Jeremy Wakefield [band manager gags]
  Rockin Hood - Nicolas Carr [guitarist's eyes disintegrate]
  Funeral Sting (1) - Harry Bluestone, Dieter Reith [band members' tombstones]
  Gator - Steve Belfer [back at home...]
  Rockin Hood - Nicolas Carr ["Are you ready to rock?"]
  I Wrote This - Luke Brookshier, Tom King, Eban Schletter [plays on record]
  Wahini Wobble - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield ["That was the best song I ever heard!"]
  Nude Sting - Sammy Burdson, John Charles Fiddy [SpongeBob and Patrick kicked out of the radio station]
  Parting of the Clouds - David Farnon [SpongeBob gets an idea]
  Tomfoolery - David Snell [climbing the antenna]
  I Wrote This - Luke Brookshier, Tom King, Eban Schletter [plays on record]
  Fanfare (b) - David Farnon ["Patrick Star, musical genius!"]
  From the Dead - Ronald Hanmer [angry mob chases SpongeBob and Patrick]
  Steel Link (b) - Jeremy Wakefield ["You know, it's not that bad."]
  Grass Skirt Chase - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [ending]

Release

Trivia

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  • Patrick has three fans that like his song; they are SpongeBob, Old Man Jenkins, and the orange Harold.
  • Running Gag: SpongeBob's arms are removed from his body.
  • Patrick accurately describes a riot as an angry mob with pitchforks and torches, but SpongeBob mistakes it for a fan club, marking another moment of Patrick's brief high intellect.
  • This is the second time Patrick pulls SpongeBob's arm off. The first time was in "Big Pink Loser."
  • Patrick takes SpongeBob's money against his consent to buy something, in this case payment to turn his poem into a song. He would do this again in "Yours, Mine and Mine."
  • The braces-wearing orange nerd fish, seen in the episode "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy VI: The Motion Picture" as a member of the fan club, is seen in the comic shop. He is reading a comic and gets annoyed by Patrick's constant noise. He remarks, If only Inaudible Lad were here right now! He was first seen in "No Weenies Allowed."
  • The scene where the gears in Patrick's head turn was previously seen in "Patrick SmartPants."
  • In real life, a record player stuck to the top of a radio tower with gum would not broadcast music.
  • Patrick's song should have been on a CD, not a record; records (though for nostalgia purposes is still in limited production) went obsolete in the early 1990s.
  • When SpongeBob asks if Gary owns a dodgeball, Gary meows to say no, but Gary rolls his eyes when he meowed, assuming he does own a dodgeball.
  • When SpongeBob and Patrick climb up the radio tower, the space object that pass them is Sputnik 1, Russia's and the world's first artificial satellite, which in fact launched on October 4, 1957 and burned up on February 4, 1958, so it's impossible for Sputnik 1 to appear in the episode.
  • The radio mast on the radio station looked exactly like Warsaw Radio Mast in Poland, which was the world's tallest structure until its collapse in 1991.
  • This episode first aired with "Rise and Shine"/"Waiting," but aired with "The Krusty Sponge" in the later reruns.
  • The band is shown to be able to successfully record each song in one take, when in real life it normally requires more than one take to master each song.

Cultural references

  • When Bikini Bottom is in chaos by Patrick's song, this is similar to the movie Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story where the audience is affected by Cox's controversial music.
  • Cookie Wookie Teddy Bear is a parody of the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang song, Chu-Chi Face.
  • The title is a play on the nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence."

Errors

  • During I Wrote This, when the song goes, "My mommy named it Fred," the DVD closed captions say "My mommy made the bread."
  • When Patrick's brain is working, if you look closely at the doorway, the door is nowhere in sight. However, moments later, SpongeBob is knocking on the door.
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