SpongeGuard on Duty
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| "SpongeGuard on Duty" | |
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| Season №: | 3 |
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| Episode №: | 41b |
| Airdate: | March 22, 2002 |
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"SpongeGuard on Duty" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season three.
Brief summary: After an accident with a flying ice-cream truck, Larry mistakes SpongeBob for a lifeguard and leaves him in charge of the people's safety.
Characters:
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Patrick Star
- Larry the Lobster
- Beachgoers
- Sea monster
- Shark family
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Plot
At Goo Lagoon, SpongeBob and Patrick are sunbathing. SpongeBob remarks on how cool Larry the Lifeguard is, and Patrick doesn't agree. SpongeBob then says that he's just as cool as Larry, and "if I'm not, let me be struck by - (thunder crashes) - a flying ice cream truck! (shadow falls on him) AND LIVE!" Larry helps him up when the truck falls on him and notices ice cream on his nose. Thinking that it's sunscreen, and that therefore he is a lifeguard, he offers SpongeBob to help him with his lifeguard duties. As a lifeguard, SpongeBob becomes very popular and does many fun activities. However, when Larry hears a person drowning and saves him, SpongeBob realizes that being a lifeguard actually means guarding people's lives. Larry suddenly leaves for the tanning booth, leaving SpongeBob, who can't swim, in charge of the beach.
SpongeBob begins panicking, thinking that everyone is going to drown, and lures everyone out of the water with ice cream. After they eat it, he tells them that they now have to wait one hour before going back in the water and binds them with Police tape. Thinking that everyone is safe, SpongeBob settles down to relax. However, Patrick, hearing the ice cream announcement too late, crosses the tape and goes into the water, where he gets cramps and starts drowning. When alerted to this, SpongeBob initially refuses to believe that someone is drowning, but he eventually sees Patrick and tries to find a way to save him without going in the water. He reaches Patrick using a boatmobile he "borrowed" from the parking lot, but Patrick destroys it and they both start drowning. Larry then comes back and "saves" them from the ankle deep water. At the end of the episode, Larry is seen teaching the two how to swim, and they both get butt cramps.
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Trivia/goofs
- The geeky shark father that SpongeBob insults also appears in "MuscleBob BuffPants".
- "SpongeGuard On Duty" was formerly known as "Summer Of Sponge".
- The Ukelele instrument was once again played.
- This is the first episode to feature Larry, but not Sandy.
- This is the first episode where Larry is a lifeguard. In "Ripped Pants", "Walking Small", and "Bubble Buddy", another person was lifeguard.
- When Larry lifts the board with the people on it, two fish fall off face first.
- An old man who Larry tells to leave (and who is implied to be Larry's father) reappears in a later scene.
- When SpongeBob raises his arms to call the people for ice cream, he never lowers his arms as he gives it to them.
- On TV Guide, the date for this episode is not listed.
APM Music Identification
- Dramatic Impact 2 - Thunder crashes.
- Dramatic Impact 1 - A shadow of an ice cream truck falls on SpongeBob.
- Dramatic Impact 3 - "Patrick isn't drowning!"
- Dramatic Cue G - SpongeBob and Patrick start drowning.
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