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===Characters===
 
===Characters===
 
*[[SpongeBob SquarePants (character)|SpongeBob SquarePants]]
 
*[[SpongeBob SquarePants (character)|SpongeBob SquarePants]]
 
*[[Jellyfish]] <sup>(debut)</sup>
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**Four Stingers <sup>(debut)</sup>
 
*[[Sandy Cheeks]] <sup>(debut)</sup>
 
*[[Sandy Cheeks]] <sup>(debut)</sup>
 
*[[Patrick Star]]
 
*[[Patrick Star]]
 
*[[Giant Clam]] <sup>(debut)</sup>
 
*[[Giant Clam]] <sup>(debut)</sup>
 
*Birdy <sup>(debut)</sup>
 
*Birdy <sup>(debut)</sup>
*Four Stingers <sup>(debut)</sup>
 
   
 
==Synopsis==
 
==Synopsis==
The episode starts out with SpongeBob hunting jellyfish in [[Jellyfish Fields]]. Suddenly, he spots a young female squirrel wrestling with a giant clam. He takes out his field guide book, and identifies her as a 'land squirrel'. SpongeBob thinks that she is in trouble, and goes to wrestle the clam himself. The squirrel manages to escape the clam, but SpongeBob ends up inside it. The squirrel then rescues SpongeBob, and throws the clam out of the area. SpongeBob introduces himself, and the squirrel says that her name is [[Sandy Cheeks]].
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The episode starts out with SpongeBob hunting jellyfish in [[Jellyfish Fields]]. Suddenly, he spots a young female squirrel wrestling with a giant clam. He takes out his field guide book, and identifies her as "Land Squirrel." SpongeBob thinks that she is in trouble, and goes to wrestle the clam himself. The squirrel manages to escape the clam, but SpongeBob ends up inside it. The squirrel then rescues SpongeBob, and throws the clam out of the area. SpongeBob introduces himself, and the squirrel says that her name is [[Sandy Cheeks]].
   
 
SpongeBob inquires about the helmet she wears, and Sandy tells him that it's her air helmet. SpongeBob doesn't know what air is, but he doesn't tell her this, instead he says that he loves air. Sandy, surprised that SpongeBob is fond of air, invites him to her treedome for "Texas tea and cookies."
 
SpongeBob inquires about the helmet she wears, and Sandy tells him that it's her air helmet. SpongeBob doesn't know what air is, but he doesn't tell her this, instead he says that he loves air. Sandy, surprised that SpongeBob is fond of air, invites him to her treedome for "Texas tea and cookies."
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Sandy gives him a tour of her treedome, showing him that she has an oak tree, a bird bath, and other things. During this, SpongeBob quickly sneaks over to the bird bath, which is filled with water, and soaks up the water. The bird then angrily kicks him out.
 
Sandy gives him a tour of her treedome, showing him that she has an oak tree, a bird bath, and other things. During this, SpongeBob quickly sneaks over to the bird bath, which is filled with water, and soaks up the water. The bird then angrily kicks him out.
   
SpongeBob gives Sandy some flowers. Sandy is very pleased and she decides to get a vase for them. Sandy asks SpongeBob if he needs anything, and he replies, "'Water would be nice'", though Sandy does not reply to that, and simply leaves to gets the vase.
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SpongeBob gives Sandy some flowers. Sandy is very pleased and she decides to get a vase for them. Sandy asks SpongeBob if he needs anything, and he replied "''Water would be nice''," though Sandy does not reply to that, and simply leaves to gets the vase.
   
 
Meanwhile, Patrick, watching from outside the treedome, tells SpongeBob to keep his pinky finger up. Sandy comes back and puts the flowers in a vase, filled with ice cold water, on the picnic table. SpongeBob tries to resist drinking the water. Sandy asks him to tell her about himself, and remarks that being a "sea critter" must be fascinating. However, the oven dings and Sandy goes to get the tea and cookies.
 
Meanwhile, Patrick, watching from outside the treedome, tells SpongeBob to keep his pinky finger up. Sandy comes back and puts the flowers in a vase, filled with ice cold water, on the picnic table. SpongeBob tries to resist drinking the water. Sandy asks him to tell her about himself, and remarks that being a "sea critter" must be fascinating. However, the oven dings and Sandy goes to get the tea and cookies.
   
SpongeBob eventually gives in (after a mental battle of assuring himself that he doesn't need the water, and finally screams, "I NEED IT!"), drinks it, and runs for the door, declaring that he is a quitter. Patrick, thinking he is being shy around Sandy, quickly enters the treedome and tries to convince him to stay. After a moment, Patrick also realizes that there is no water. The two struggle to get out of the treedome, but are unsuccessful.
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SpongeBob eventually gives in (After a mental battle of assuring himself that he doesn't need the water, and finally screamed "I NEED IT!"), drinks it, and runs for the door, declaring that he is a quitter. Patrick, thinking he is being shy around Sandy, quickly enters the treedome and tries to convince him to stay. After a moment, Patrick also realizes that there is no water. The two struggle to get out of the treedome, but are unsuccessful.
   
 
When Sandy comes back, she shrieks as she spots both Patrick and SpongeBob dried up on the grass. She helps them by giving them water-filled helmets and mentions that if they needed water, they should have asked. In the end, Sandy proposes a toast to new friends, and they drink their tea. SpongeBob and Patrick drink by gulping the tea-filled water in their new helmets (due to being unable to drink the tea from their glasses while wearing their water helmets) with their pinky fingers pointing up.
 
When Sandy comes back, she shrieks as she spots both Patrick and SpongeBob dried up on the grass. She helps them by giving them water-filled helmets and mentions that if they needed water, they should have asked. In the end, Sandy proposes a toast to new friends, and they drink their tea. SpongeBob and Patrick drink by gulping the tea-filled water in their new helmets (due to being unable to drink the tea from their glasses while wearing their water helmets) with their pinky fingers pointing up.
   
 
==Production==
 
==Production==
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===Art===
 
 
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Spongebobpatrickpinkyup.jpg|SpongeBob and Patrick holding their pinkies up.
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===Reception===
 
===Reception===
 
*{{Reception
 
*{{Reception
|date = [[June 10]], [[2014]]
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|date = [[September 9]], [[2014]]
|IMDB = 8.4
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|IMDB = 8.5
 
|IMDBid = tt0707293
 
|IMDBid = tt0707293
|IMDBreviews = 353
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|IMDBreviews = 382
 
|TVid = [http://www.tv.com/shows/spongebob-squarepants/help-wanted-reef-blowers-tea-at-the-treedome-53077/]
 
|TVid = [http://www.tv.com/shows/spongebob-squarepants/help-wanted-reef-blowers-tea-at-the-treedome-53077/]
|TV = 8.6
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|TV = 8.7
|TVvotes = 435
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|TVvotes = 438
 
}}
 
}}
 
*This episode is number 17 on Tom Kenny's Top 20 on iTunes.
 
*This episode is number 17 on Tom Kenny's Top 20 on iTunes.
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{{Trivia
 
{{Trivia
 
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*Before every other Sandy episode
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*Before every other Sandy appearance
 
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*In this episode, the water helmets have two openings. However, in the episodes following this one, there is only one.
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*In this episode, the water helmets have two openings.
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**In the episodes following this one, there is only one.
*SpongeBob and Patrick are shown to dry up without water. However, in ''[[Pressure]]'', ''[[The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie]]'' and once again in ''[[Survival of the Idiots]]'', they manage without it (In the first two examples they actually go above water). This is supposedly because of moisture in the air, with snow in ''Survival of the Idiots'' and mist and the sea spray on the island and the beach.
 
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***The second opening reappears in [[Whatever Happened To SpongeBob?]], so that he can short out Sandy's robot.
*The original version of the episode airing had the 1995 variation of the 1986 [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]] logo placed right after this episode ended, it was then removed and replaced with the 1999 variation when it officially aired. Finally, the logo was removed and replaced with the 2003 variation of the 2002 Paramount logo.
 
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*SpongeBob and Patrick are shown to dry up without water.
*This is the first episode to be a third episode in the 30 minute block. The next time this happened was in season 5's ''[[Fungus Among Us]]''.
 
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**In "[[Pressure]]," "Survival of the Idiots," and the 2004 hybrid [[The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie]], they manage without it
*This is the first episode to not feature [[Squidward Tentacles|Squidward]], though he appeared in the novel adaption.
 
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***In the former and the letter, they actually go above water.
*This is the first episode to use an under angle, it would not be used again until the season 9 episode, [[It Came from Goo Lagoon]].
 
*This is one of the only episodes to have the second door in Sandy's treedome is used, in most the rest of the series, it is just the door that is on the outside of the dome is used. Even though it both doors still exist.
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**This is supposedly because of moisture in the air, with snow (In "Survival of the Idiots") and mist and the sea spray on the island and the beach.
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*'''Running gag''': Patrick constantly tells SpongeBob to hold up his pinky finger, all just to be fancy.
 
*This is the first episode to be a third episode in the 30 minute block.
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**The next time this happened was in the later episode "''[[Fungus Among Us]]''." (Season Five)
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*This is the first episode to use an under angle.
 
**It would not be used again until the later special "[[It Came from Goo Lagoon]]." (Season Nine)
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*This is one of the only episodes to have the second door in Sandy's treedome is used.
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**In most the rest of the series, it is just the door that is on the outside of the dome is used.
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***Even though it both doors still exist.
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*The scene which shows SpongeBob completely dried up from lack of water and saying "I need it!" has become a popular internet meme.
   
 
===Errors===
 
===Errors===
 
*When SpongeBob is demonstrating his karate skills, his eyelids turn black.
 
*When SpongeBob is demonstrating his karate skills, his eyelids turn black.
 
*When SpongeBob is pulling up the clam's shell to save Sandy, he appears to be standing on thin air.
 
*When SpongeBob is pulling up the clam's shell to save Sandy, he appears to be standing on thin air.
*When Sandy and SpongeBob meet, Sandy's tail is missing, however, Sandy's tail is missing throughout the first season when she is in her water protection suit.
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*When Sandy and SpongeBob meet, Sandy's tail is missing.
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**Sandy's tail is missing throughout the first season when she is in her water protection suit.
*In the scene where Sandy finds SpongeBob and Patrick dried up, if one would go frame by frame, she lifts up the plate to drop it before a shocked expression is seen on her face.
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*In the scene where Sandy finds SpongeBob and Patrick dried up, if one goes frame by frame, she lifts up the plate to drop it before a shocked expression is seen on her face.
*When SpongeBob is looking at the jellyfish through a telescope and says "Wow! four stingers." the jellyfish actually has 6 when the stingers bend up.
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*When SpongeBob is looking at the jellyfish through a telescope and said "Wow! four stingers" the jellyfish actually has six when the stingers bend up.
*When Sandy is fighting the clam, her suit has a yellow badge on it, it is supposed to have an acorn on it but during the fight scene it appears to be 3 dots.
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*When Sandy is fighting the clam, her suit has a yellow badge on it, it is supposed to have an acorn on it.
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**During the fight scene it appears to be 3 dots.
 
*The red light on Sandy's front door where the water gets drained isn't there when SpongeBob and Patrick first walk up to the treedome.
 
*The red light on Sandy's front door where the water gets drained isn't there when SpongeBob and Patrick first walk up to the treedome.
 
*The ice cubes in the vase shouldn't be floating and sinking up and down.
 
*The ice cubes in the vase shouldn't be floating and sinking up and down.

Revision as of 05:36, 13 November 2014

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Characters

Synopsis

The episode starts out with SpongeBob hunting jellyfish in Jellyfish Fields. Suddenly, he spots a young female squirrel wrestling with a giant clam. He takes out his field guide book, and identifies her as "Land Squirrel." SpongeBob thinks that she is in trouble, and goes to wrestle the clam himself. The squirrel manages to escape the clam, but SpongeBob ends up inside it. The squirrel then rescues SpongeBob, and throws the clam out of the area. SpongeBob introduces himself, and the squirrel says that her name is Sandy Cheeks.

SpongeBob inquires about the helmet she wears, and Sandy tells him that it's her air helmet. SpongeBob doesn't know what air is, but he doesn't tell her this, instead he says that he loves air. Sandy, surprised that SpongeBob is fond of air, invites him to her treedome for "Texas tea and cookies."

SpongeBob quickly runs over to his best friend Patrick Star and tells him everything that happened. Patrick tells him that 'putting on airs' is fancy talk. He then tells SpongeBob if he wants to be fancy, to hold his pinky finger high above him.

When SpongeBob arrives at Sandy's treedome, Sandy is in a purple bikini, since she does not need her air helmet inside. SpongeBob goes inside, and notices that the water level drops to almost nothing. He panics, and tells Sandy that there is no water. She tells him that, it's just air. SpongeBob says that there isn't any problem and tries hard to breathe. He doesn't realize that sea creatures need water to survive.

Sandy gives him a tour of her treedome, showing him that she has an oak tree, a bird bath, and other things. During this, SpongeBob quickly sneaks over to the bird bath, which is filled with water, and soaks up the water. The bird then angrily kicks him out.

SpongeBob gives Sandy some flowers. Sandy is very pleased and she decides to get a vase for them. Sandy asks SpongeBob if he needs anything, and he replied "Water would be nice," though Sandy does not reply to that, and simply leaves to gets the vase.

Meanwhile, Patrick, watching from outside the treedome, tells SpongeBob to keep his pinky finger up. Sandy comes back and puts the flowers in a vase, filled with ice cold water, on the picnic table. SpongeBob tries to resist drinking the water. Sandy asks him to tell her about himself, and remarks that being a "sea critter" must be fascinating. However, the oven dings and Sandy goes to get the tea and cookies.

SpongeBob eventually gives in (After a mental battle of assuring himself that he doesn't need the water, and finally screamed "I NEED IT!"), drinks it, and runs for the door, declaring that he is a quitter. Patrick, thinking he is being shy around Sandy, quickly enters the treedome and tries to convince him to stay. After a moment, Patrick also realizes that there is no water. The two struggle to get out of the treedome, but are unsuccessful.

When Sandy comes back, she shrieks as she spots both Patrick and SpongeBob dried up on the grass. She helps them by giving them water-filled helmets and mentions that if they needed water, they should have asked. In the end, Sandy proposes a toast to new friends, and they drink their tea. SpongeBob and Patrick drink by gulping the tea-filled water in their new helmets (due to being unable to drink the tea from their glasses while wearing their water helmets) with their pinky fingers pointing up.

Production

Art

Music

 ) Production music
 ) Original music
 ) SpongeBob music

  Moloka'i Nui A - Kapono Beamer [title card]
  SpongeBob Closing Theme - Steve Belfer, Nicolas Carr [opening]
  On Fire - Gregor F. Narholz [Sandy fighting a clam]
  Death Trap - Gregor F. Narholz [clam attacks Sandy]
  Charge - Will Schaefer ["Hold on, little squirrel."]
  The Adventure Begins - Jonathan Neal ["You have fought well, giant clam."]
  Wild Panic - Gregor F. Narholz ["Your shell is mine!"]
  Return of the Surfin' Headhunters - The Mel-Tones ["Hold on there, little square dude."]
  Moloka'i Nui A - Kapono Beamer [Sandy introduces herself]
  Heroes Win - Gregor F. Narholz ["Oh, yeah? Watch this!"]
  Twelfth Street Rag - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Sandy invites SpongeBob over]
  Cocktail Lounge - Dick Stephen Walter ["That's just fancy talk."]
  Armed Attack 1 - Mladen Franko [SpongeBob banging on Sandy's door]
  Merlin's Hill - Jennifer Jones [harp music]
  Aloha - Dick Stephen Walter ["Course there's no water."]
  Hawaiian Cocktail - Richard Myhill [Sandy giving SpongeBob a tour]
  Hippo's in my Bath - Richard Myhill ["Pinky, pinky!"]
  Dead March 2 - Frederic Chopin, Alfred Kluten ["I brought you some flowers."]
  Encirclement - Jean Clero ["I gotta get out of here!"]
  Merlin's Hill - Jennifer Jones ["I like you, SpongeBob."]
  Encirclement - Jean Clero [SpongeBob struggling to open door]
  Cocktail Lounge - Dick Stephen Walter ["When in doubt, pinky out."]
  Tribute to the King - Gregor F. Narholz ["I don't need water! Water's for quitters!"]
  Action Cut A - Gregor F. Narholz ["I don't need it... I don't need it..."]
  Kung Fu Saturdays - The Mel-Tones ["I NEED IT!"]
  Dramatic Cue (h) - Ronald Hanmer [SpongeBob and Patrick dried up]
  You're Nice - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [ending]

Release

Reception

  • As of September 9, 2014, The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) gives this episode a rating of 8.5/10 based on 382 ratings by users.tt0707293 TV.com users give this episode a rating of 8.7/10 based on 438 votes.[1]
  • This episode is number 17 on Tom Kenny's Top 20 on iTunes.
  • "Tea at the Treedome" was ranked #97 during the Best Day Ever event from November 9–10, 2006.

Trivia

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  • In this episode, the water helmets have two openings.
    • In the episodes following this one, there is only one.
  • SpongeBob and Patrick are shown to dry up without water.
    • In "Pressure," "Survival of the Idiots," and the 2004 hybrid The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, they manage without it
      • In the former and the letter, they actually go above water.
    • This is supposedly because of moisture in the air, with snow (In "Survival of the Idiots") and mist and the sea spray on the island and the beach.
  • Running gag: Patrick constantly tells SpongeBob to hold up his pinky finger, all just to be fancy.
  • This is the first episode to be a third episode in the 30 minute block.
    • The next time this happened was in the later episode "Fungus Among Us." (Season Five)
  • This is the first episode to use an under angle.
  • This is one of the only episodes to have the second door in Sandy's treedome is used.
    • In most the rest of the series, it is just the door that is on the outside of the dome is used.
      • Even though it both doors still exist.
  • The scene which shows SpongeBob completely dried up from lack of water and saying "I need it!" has become a popular internet meme.

Errors

  • When SpongeBob is demonstrating his karate skills, his eyelids turn black.
  • When SpongeBob is pulling up the clam's shell to save Sandy, he appears to be standing on thin air.
  • When Sandy and SpongeBob meet, Sandy's tail is missing.
    • Sandy's tail is missing throughout the first season when she is in her water protection suit.
  • In the scene where Sandy finds SpongeBob and Patrick dried up, if one goes frame by frame, she lifts up the plate to drop it before a shocked expression is seen on her face.
  • When SpongeBob is looking at the jellyfish through a telescope and said "Wow! four stingers" the jellyfish actually has six when the stingers bend up.
  • When Sandy is fighting the clam, her suit has a yellow badge on it, it is supposed to have an acorn on it.
    • During the fight scene it appears to be 3 dots.
  • The red light on Sandy's front door where the water gets drained isn't there when SpongeBob and Patrick first walk up to the treedome.
  • The ice cubes in the vase shouldn't be floating and sinking up and down.
  • When Sandy finds SpongeBob and Patrick dried up, they have no clothes on.
  • When Patrick tries to open the door to get out, and SpongeBob jumps on his back his eyes are small dots, but when he falls underneath Patrick, his eyes are back to their original color.
  • Once the glasses are flown off of SpongeBob's head, they are not seen for the rest of the episode.
  • When SpongeBob tries to sneak away to Sandy's birdbath, his sunken-in eyes return to normal until after Sandy leaves.

References

External links

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