The Battle of Bikini Bottom

If you were looking for the article about the video game, then see Battle for Bikini Bottom.

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Characters

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Patrick Star
• Eugene H. Krabs
• Squidward Tentacles
• Harold
• Old Man Jenkins
• Fred
• Nancy Suzy Fish
• Shubie
• Peterson
• Tom
• Harv ^(cameo)
• Jimmy Gus
• Nathiel
• Sheldon ^(cameo)
• Nazz-Mimi
• Thaddeus

Synopsis

While at the Bikini Bottom Mall, SpongeBob and Patrick find shirts that say Best Friend with an arrow pointing. This arrow points to the side (indicating their best friend). However, when either of the them face a different direction, the arrow points elsewhere, thus "sending out the wrong signals." So, they decide to look for new friendship clothes. SpongeBob finds a group of citizens who were putting on an annual event, which was reenacting the historical Battle of Bikini Bottom. SpongeBob and Patrick approach them and then SpongeBob ask one of the soldiers where did him and his friends get their cool outfits. However, the fish stated that he didn't have friends and that he hates just about everyone here. SpongeBob then hears about the Battle of Bikini Bottom. He is told that there were two factions, the clean, who spend all their time washing their hands and the dirty, who had better things to do then wash their hands. They then had a war over who is better. Patrick tells SpongeBob the tale wrong, saying that the dirty won, annoying the other fish, and making them walk away. SpongeBob and Patrick begin to argue and then they get uniforms and start their own war. After many times of attacking each other, SpongeBob gets dirtier while Patrick ends up cleaner. Patrick then picks his nose and chases SpongeBob into the Krusty Krab. SpongeBob runs by Mr. Krabs yelling that Patrick is digging for "gold," which he takes for real. SpongeBob attacks Patrick with food until Patrick grabs two Krabby Patties and uses them for socks. Angrily, SpongeBob fills up with fury making him blow up. Outside SpongeBob swallows a soap bar while Patrick picks up a trash can and then they attack each other. The fish reenacting the battle come and see the two friends forgiving each other and tells them that it's not over until they have winner. SpongeBob then explains to them to not remember events that divide them, but recall what brings them together. Then the guys who were doing the reenactment chose to something 'more manly': knitting fluffy sweaters. Then, SpongeBob and Patrick go home. Template:Section-Expand

Production

Music

( ‣ ) Production music

( • ) Original music

( ◦ ) SpongeBob music

 ‣ Fife and Drum March - Larry Hochman [title card]
 ‣ Shoppers World - Harry Bluestone [opening]
 ‣ Colonial March - Larry Hochman ["You mean like those guys?"]
 ‣ We Shall Return! 2 - Udi Harpaz [Patrick talks about the Battle of Bikini Bottom]
 • Steel Sting - Jeremy Wakefield ["Ugh! That's not what happened!"]
 • Gator - Steve Belfer [flashbacks]
 • Seaweed - Steve Belfer ["Well, then, I guess we can't be friends."]
 ‣ Colonial March - Larry Hochman ["I am joining the other side!"]
 • Grass Skirt Chase - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob gives Patrick a pedicure]
 ‣ ? [harp music]
 • Skipping to School - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Patrick's morning breath]
 • Grass Skirt Chase - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob brushes Patrick's teeth]
 ‣ The Jitters - Raymond C. Jones [deodorant spray]
 ‣ Hawaiian Link (b) - Richard Myhill ["My beautiful pit stink... it's gone!"]
 ‣ Team Trophy - Sammy Burdson, John Charles Fiddy ["It's booger time!"]
 ‣ Drama Link (d) - Hubert Clifford [Patrick picks his nose]
 ‣ Inferno - Fredric Bayco [Patrick chasing SpongeBob]
 • Vibe Sting - Nicolas Carr ["Gold?!"]
 ‣ Steel Sting (a) - Jeremy Wakefield ["Did you get any of Patrick's gold?"]
 ‣ Inferno - Fredric Bayco [SpongeBob throws onions at Patrick]
 ‣ ? ["That does it!"]
 ‣ ? [patty socks]
 • Drama Sting - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield ["Grrrrr! You stop that right now!"]
 • Sponge Monger - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Patrick throws dumpster at SpongeBob]
 ‣ Steel Licks (d) - Jeremy Wakefield ["I'm covered in muck and scum!"]
 • Vibe Q Sting - Nicolas Carr [SpongeBob, Patrick thinking]
 • You're Nice - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield ["All right!"]
 ‣ Royal Wedding - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin [SpongeBob's speech]
 • Hawaiian Trax - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [ending]

Release

• This episode is available on the SpongeBob's Pest of the West, Season 5 Volume 2, Complete 5th Season, and First 100 Episodes DVDs.

Trivia

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• It's shown SpongeBob may want to physically hurt Patrick since when they were fighting in the Krusty Krab, SpongeBob might've looked at the knife before throwing onions at Patrick.
• This episode was set to premiere with "Banned in Bikini Bottom," but aired with "20,000 Patties Under the Sea" instead.
• In Indonesia, the flashback of ice cream is cut for unknown reason.
• SpongeBob said that Patrick didn't have a nose, but in "Opposite Day," he had a piece of coral for a nose to be Squidward, in "Survival of the Idiots," he had one made of snow, in "Wet Painters," he pulled a lot of hair from his nostril with the paintbrush, in "A Flea in Her Dome," he had Squidward's nose, and in "No Nose Knows," he had to have one (but that was a future episode).
• Patrick, has brushed his teeth as seen in some episodes, like "Dumped," "Rise and Shine," and "Stuck in the Wringer" (a future episode).
• Patrick's feet should not have harmed the Krabby Patty as SpongeBob cleaned them with a pedicure.
• The soap that SpongeBob raises in the air is like the soap in the movie Fight Club. His pose is reminiscent of Brad Pitt holding the soap on the cover.
• In "Krusty Krab Training Video", the narrator mentions a war that occurred some time ago. This episode might have occurred during this war.
• In "Sand Castles in the Sand," SpongeBob and Patrick also have a war, but with weapons made out of sand.
• This is the second episode to have the title on a pirate map. The first was "Arrgh!"
• The closeup of SpongeBob's teeth was featured in the SpongeBob game: Cavity Crisis.
• In the flashback, the person who represented the dirty in the bathroom looked and sounded just like Patrick. He may either be an ancestor of Patrick, or a good enough person to show how dirty they were.
• In this episode, it shows that Patrick's eyes are navy blue. Although, in "Wormy," his eyes are green, and in "Oral Report," they are jade. It is possible that his eye color varies between episodes, like his stupidity, as revealed by Patrick in "Tentacle-Vision."
• The name of this episode can be easily mistaken for "Battle for Bikini Bottom," a SpongeBob video game from 2003.

Cultural references

• The Battle of Bikini Bottom could be a parody of the Revolutionary War, judging from the military uniforms. The red-coated soldiers have British accents in the flashback, and the blue coats have American accents. This is a reversal of the actual war, in which the Patriots wore blue, and the British wore red.

Errors

• When Patrick says "Hopping... clams!," the captions say "Hopping... crabs."
• After SpongeBob pedicured Patrick, the chair and bucket of water in the background is gone.
• SpongeBob also painted Patrick's toe nails red. After he turns to SpongeBob and says "You sick little Monster!" and "Feast my morning breath!" the red nail polish is gone.
• If you play the scene where Mr. Krabs runs into the kitchen looking for gold frame by frame, you can see the door actually opened before Mr. Krabs pushed it.
• In this episode, Patrick says he's never washed his hands. However, in the episode Something Smells, Patrick is seen washing his hands in the movie theater bathroom.
• Patrick has been clean in other episodes (such as "Shanghaied") and SpongeBob dirty in other episodes ("Whatever Happened To SpongeBob?"). Though that is possible due to the aftermath of this episode.