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"Sun Bleached" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 6. In this episode, SpongeBob accidentally gets sun bleached when he and Patrick tan to join Craig Mammalton's party.

Characters[]

Synopsis[]

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"Sun bleached!"

SpongeBob and Patrick are playing at the beach, where all the other beach goers are tanning. Craig Mammalton, the tannest man on TV, then shows up and announces to a crowd that he is having the hottest party of the summer. Everyone is invited except for SpongeBob and Patrick, who are not tanned. Craig says that they cannot come if they do not get to the tan minimum and insults them for having smooth skin. Patrick converts his house into a tanning machine, able to give them the minimum tan in just 15 seconds. Patrick goes first and gets a perfect tan. But during SpongeBob's turn, Patrick forgets to watch over SpongeBob and leaves him in for 2 hours while he goes off with a group of girls. After Patrick finally lets him out, SpongeBob has ended up with a white "Sun Bleached" tan that dehydrates his skin. SpongeBob suggests asking Squidward for help, who ridicules him. SpongeBob feels sad because he will not be able to go to the party, but Patrick offers to help him however he can.

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"Looks like you two took my advice!"

Patrick first gives him a "makeover" by covering him in mud, placing kelp jerky over his teeth, and putting hair on SpongeBob's head that was ripped from his armpits. While walking through town, a woman mistakes SpongeBob for a monster and attacks him to protect her baby. While having an ice cream break, Patrick gets an idea while eating his caramel sundae. He covers SpongeBob with the caramel, giving him a "tan." They are let into the party, where portable tanning lamps shine on the dancing partygoers, causing SpongeBob's caramel to harden. SpongeBob notices and tries to leave, but the oblivious Patrick makes the situation worse and directs everyone's attention to him. The caramel shell cracks, revealing his bleached skin.

The partygoers start to complain and make fun of him until Craig reveals on the tan scale, sun-bleached is the ultimate tan. SpongeBob is called a hero, thus making the partygoers praise him. The tanning lamps are cranked to the maximum "Sun Bleach" level and everyone is dried up to dust. SpongeBob asks Patrick if too much sun is bad for them, to which he replies, "Whatever. I just go with the flow."

Production[]

Art[]

Music[]

 ) Production music
 ) Original music
 ) SpongeBob music

  Hangin' Ten - Rod Abernethy [title card]
  Beach Party - Harry Bluestone [opening]
  Lovely Twist - Michel Gaucher [Craig Mammalton introduced]
  Surfmania - Eric Spencer ["Must be this tan to enter."]
  Lap Steel - Nicolas Carr [later]
  Skipping to School - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Patrick's tanning bed]
  Steel Licks 35 - Jeremy Wakefield [Patrick becomes tan]
  Gunning for Danger - Syd Dale [soda commercial]
  Tiki Rapido - Lionel Wendling [SpongeBob in the tanning bed]
  Beer Festival - Dick Stephen Walter [music on Patrick's headphones]
  Fresh Twist - Eric Spencer ["Is that tan for us?"]
  Tension Bits - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield ["It's time for me to get out!"]
  Fresh Twist - Eric Spencer [two hours later]
  Menace [#37] - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin [SpongeBob emerges from the tanning bed]
  Gator - Steve Belfer ["You don't look too good."]
  Menace [#42] - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin [Squidward screams]
  Tomfoolery - David Snell ["You're sun bleached!"]
  Steel Licks 18 - Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob sighs]
  Hawaiian Misadventures B - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [makeover]
  Love Sting - Nicolas Carr ["I look... amazing!"]
  Lap Steel - Nicolas Carr ["Time to go to the party."]
  Toy Piano 2 - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony ["Oh, what a cute little baby."]
  From The Dead - Ronald Hanmer ["Monster!"]
  Steel Licks 22 - Jeremy Wakefield ["You look like you could use an ice cream."]
  Hello Blues - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [ice cream parlor]
  Grass Skirt Chase - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Patrick puts caramel on SpongeBob]
  Surf Buggy - The Surfdusters [at the summer shindig]
  Saxaboogie - Harry Bluestone [tanning lights]
  Menace [#42] - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin [SpongeBob's bleached skin revealed]
  Dracula 2020 C - Gregor Narholz [someone's eyes melt]
  Steel Licks 18 - Jeremy Wakefield [everyone complaining]
  Love Me Spencer - Eric Spencer ["I have seen this only one other time."]
  Bikini Babes - Eric Spencer [Craig's crowd follows in SpongeBob's footsteps/Ending]

Release[]

Trivia[]

General[]

  • This and its sister episode "A Life in a Day" both have a summer setting and take place at Goo Lagoon.
  • The soda commercial later appears in "Welcome to Binary Bottom" on a billboard screen on the side of a building in Binary Bottom where the robots are driving.
  • In real life, SpongeBob would have gotten skin cancer if he had stayed under the tanning machine for over two hours. However, it is worth noting that, being a sea sponge, SpongeBob would most likely be immune, or at least highly resistant, to cancer.
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"Two Hours Later" from "Wet Painters."

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"Two Hours Later" from "Sun Bleached."

  • The "Two Hours Later" time card uses the same background as the "Two Hours Later" time card from "Wet Painters," only slightly brighter.
  • When the tanners scream at Craig's party, the screams used are mainly not used for people partying, but mainly for people literally screaming and running away from something in other movies/shows.
  • This is the first episode where a seal appears in the series. Craig is the only seal to appear in the series.
  • This is the first episode where the same time card appears twice in the same episode.
  • This is the second episode to feature Goo Lagoon without Larry the Lobster. The first was "No Weenies Allowed."
  • This is the last episode to use music by The Surfdusters.
    • The last track to be used from them is "Surf Buggy."
  • In the Indonesian dub, Patrick was already tanned after the Goo Lagoon scene ended as the scene where Patrick gets tanned along with the Old Man Soda Commercial scene were cut straight to SpongeBob's tanning scene because of time constraints.[citation needed]
    • In addition, the scene where Patrick attempts to cover SpongeBob in mud was skipped immediately to the ice cream parlor scene, also because of time constraints.[citation needed]
  • During the SpongeBob vs. The Goo marathon, this episode was paired up with "Bubble Buddy."[2]

Cultural references[]

  • Craig Mammalton's name is similar to film and television actor George Hamilton.
  • There is a real-life energy drink and citrus soda brand with the name Xtreme.
  • Kelp Jerky is a parody of beef jerky.
    • The X-Treme Soda commercial is likely a reference to the cutaway gags made infamous by the cartoon series Family Guy, with the commercial's setup being similar to how most cutaways from the series are started.

Errors[]

  • After SpongeBob is sun-bleached, his voice becomes dry and hoarse, but during the scene where he is covered in mud and throughout the rest of the episode, his voice is normal again.
    • It's possible, however, that the sundae he had helped hydrate him slightly.
Squidward with no neck in Sun Bleached

Squidward has no neck.

  • When Squidward shouts, "You're sun-bleached!" in SpongeBob's face, his neck goes missing for a brief moment.
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Bikini Bottom Summer Shinding.

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The partygoers are smiling at the wrong moment.

  • When SpongeBob's sun bleached skin is revealed to the partygoers, a majority of them are shown smiling, when they actually were not supposed to be happy with this at first.
  • When Craig is speechless, some of the party goers do not have tans.
  • SpongeBob's sun bleached skin causes Incidental 107's eyes to melt. However when Craig explains the extreme rarity of the tan, the same fish picks up his eyeballs despite the fact that they melted and didn't fall out.


Videos[]

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SpongeBob Gets "Sun Bleached"! ☀️ Full Episode in 5 MINUTES!

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SpongeBob SquarePants - SpongeBob's Sweet Tan (S6, E6) - Paramount+

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