SpongeBob Meets the Strangler
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| Season №: | 3 |
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| Episode №: | 60a |
| Best Day Ever Rank: | #51 |
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"SpongeBob Meets the Strangler" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season three.
Brief summary: SpongeBob gets the Tattletale strangler caught for littering, but he escapes. Now the Tattle-tale Strangler wants revenge by strangling SpongeBob, but he has to find a way to do it without any witnesses...
Time/Date:
Time Cards Shown:
- 20 minutes later
- 6 hours later
Characters Present:
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- The Tattle-Tale Strangler (debut)
- Patrick Star
- Gary the Snail
- Squidward Tentacles
- Mr. Krabs
- Larry the Lobster
- Pearl Krabs
- Sheldon J. Plankton
- Sandy Cheeks
- Mrs. Puff
- Bikini Bottomites
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Plot
SpongeBob has a man arrested for littering. After calling the police on him and having him arrested, Squidward reveals that the stranger is, in fact, the Tattle-Tale Strangler, an extremely dangerous serial killer. Seconds later, the Strangler escapes, and begins planning to kill Spongebob. SpongeBob looks for a bodyguard for protection, but no one would take the job knowing that they would have to face the Strangler. Spongebob decides to go into hiding until the Strangler gives up on him, until a man who is obviously the Strangler using a fake mustache as a disguise offers to take the job, intending to lead Spongebob to a place where he can kill him with no other witnesses. Spongebob, oblivious to his identity, hires him.
However, SpongeBob needs to run some errands first. They are faced by every possible delay, and when they finally get to SpongeBob's house, SpongeBob realizes he lost his key and looks for it in his pockets for 20 minutes. The Strangler suggests entering through the window. The window is too high for him to reach, so the Strangler asks SpongeBob to climb on his shoulders. SpongeBob, now with sharp cleats on his shoes, does so, his shoes going directly inside of the Strangler's eyeholes. He runs around for 6 hours before finally pulling the shoes out.
Spongebob eventually remembers that the key was under his doormat. The Strangler then locks the doors and starts to choke SpongeBob. The lights then turn on, revealing a "100% on-time average" surprise party. SpongeBob acts surprised, asking how they knew, with Patrick saying that they just did what the invitations told them to do. The party goes on for a considerable length of time. The Strangler then attempts to choke him again, but the guests come back for a birthday party for SpongeBob. Finally alone, he tries again, but then Patrick shows up for some odd reason. The Strangler tries to get rid of him, saying "He could be the Strangler in disguise". Patrick then runs off thinking that he is the strangler, breaking through the wall and running off to turn himself in.
SpongeBob is confused upon realizing that Patrick is the Strangler. The real Strangler, enraged, reveals his true identity and intentions by removing his disguise. However, SpongeBob still fails to understand, and is amazed at the Strangler being able to tear off his mustache without shaving cream. The Strangler says "Oh, it's a fake, you idiot! I bought it at the party store!" The Guests return overhearing the word "party." The Strangler runs away, but SpongeBob goes after him, saying he still needs protection from the "strangler". He attempts to escape in a series of vehicles, but SpongeBob catches up every time. Eventually, He lands in the police department in a jail cell and SpongeBob learns the truth. The Strangler says "At least I'm safe from that yellow idiot!" Immediately, the Strangler finds Patrick in his cell, who asks, "Hey mac, what're ya in for?"
Transcript
Trivia/Goofs
- This episode was originally titled "Litterbug".
- When Spongebob checks in for work, below the clock are more slips than just three (Spongebob, Squidward, Mr. Krabs), despite there being only three employees.
- The Strangler has 10 fully functional separate fingers, similar to Dr. Gill Gilliam, who has eight fingers, as well as SpongeBob himself.
- The pay check says the Strangler's moustache is from "The Phony Baloney Moustache Emporium". However, the Strangler says it's from the party store later on.
- When SpongeBob arrives with the Strangler at his house, bamboo wallpaper is up. But when the party is revealed, the wallpaper changes to green with flowers. When the party members leave, it changes back to the old wallpaper, then back to the flower wallpaper when the party members arrive again.
- In the Korean version, the police don't say anything about SpongeBob being a tattle-tale.
- When SpongeBob is in front of his house looking for his key, he doesn't have a mat, but when he gets the key the mat is there.
- When the strangler beats up the picture of SpongeBob on the head rest, there is a tongue drawn on the picture, though originally it did not have a tongue on there.
- The word "party" is said 5 times.
- After SpongeBob says he has to run some errands and the Strangler gets mad, the Strangler's white undershirt disappears.
- When the strangler say's "Sorry tubby, why?", Patrick, is not mad in the episode No Weenies Allowed when spongebob says "You're going down tubby" he is mad at Spongebob.
Quotes
- Strangler: I can't take any chances! For all we know, he could be the Strangler!
- Patrick: I'm the Strangler?! Oh, I should've known! I gotta turn myself in!
- SpongeBob: So Patrick's the Strangler. Gee, ya think ya know a guy...
- Strangler: HE'S NOT THE STRANGLER!!
- SpongeBob: He's not?
- Strangler: (tears off phoney mustache) I AM!!!
- Police Fish (After The Strangler lands in jail): Good job kid. You got the Strangler behind bars!
- Strangler: (relieved) At least I'm safe from that yellow idiot!
- Patrick: Hey, Mack. What are you in for?
- Strangler: Hey, you could get in through that window. Maybe you can climb up on my shoulders.
- SpongeBob: Of course! With these spikey cleats, anything is possible!
- Strangler: "Cleats"? (screams) GET YOUR FEET OUT OF MY EYE SOCKETS!!!!
- SpongeBob: I'm trying, but my feet are stuck in your corneas!
(The Strangler is running around and screaming with SpongeBob's feet in his eyes)
- Strangler: OH, GET OFF!! GET OFF!
- Narrator: Six hours later...
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APM Music Identification
- Like Strange - "Squidward? Squidward?"
- Dramatic Impact 5 - "The Tattletale Strangler?! Go away, SpongeBob! Take that wild old death trap with you!
- Dramatic Impact 1 - "He doesn't look scary to me."
- Dramatic Impact 6 - The Strangler looks at his dirty hands and laughs evily.
- So Tired - The Strangler's head explodes and gets mad.
- Terror By Night - SpongeBob and the Strangler go inside his house.
- Rescue - "I finally got you all alone!"
- Dramatic Impact 5 - "I'm the strangler? Do'h I should've known!
- Drama Link D - "I gotta turn myself in!"
- Dramatic Impact 3 - "Ah! The strangler!"
