The Camping Episode
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| Season №: | 3 |
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| Episode №: | 57b |
| Airdate: | April 3, 2004 |
| Best Day Ever Rank: | #7 |
| SpongeBash Rank: | #4 |
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| Directors | |
| Main: | Stephen Hillenburg |
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"The Camping Episode" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season three.
Brief Summary: This weekend, SpongeBob and Patrick are camping, and Squidward is excited that they will be away. However, they are only camping ten feet from their homes, much to Squidward's disappointment.
Characters:
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Patrick Star
- Squidward Tentacles
- Sea Bear
- Sea Rhinoceros
Songs
- "The Campfire Song Song"
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Plot
Squidward looks forward to a weekend of peace and quiet when SpongeBob and Patrick decide to go camping. However, he's disappointed to learn that they are camping in SpongeBob's front yard, right outside his window.
Squidward confronts them and tells them that they can't be "camping" if they're ten feet away from their house, and decides to join them in their "camping", after getting the impression that SpongeBob and Patrick think he's not manly or qualified enough to camp. After he's unable to set up his automated tent, he decides to sleep on the ground.
Spongebob and Patrick begin roasting marshmallows while Squidward goes to his house to get his can opener. However, he they stop him from doing so, saying that it "just doesn't feel right." So Squidward decides to eat the marshmallows, but Patrick repeatedly blows on his burned ones, sending them flying into Squidward's face. Spongebob then plays the "Campfire Song Song". Squidward dislikes it, and begins playing his clarinet, and SpongeBob stops him by shooting a marshmallow in his clarinet, which goes into his windpipe and chokes him. SpongeBob explains that playing clarinet badly is something that attracts a Sea Bear. He and Patrick begin talking about sea-bears and the things that attract them, and Squidward attempts to disprove their existence by doing all the things that supposedly would attract a sea-bear, such as cheese cubes, hoop skirts, flashlights, clown shoes, etc. Sure enough, a sea-bear soon appears and begins mauling Squidward. SpongeBob and Patrick draw an "anti sea-bear circle" on the ground, of which Squidward is also skeptical. After being attacked several times, he attempts to make a circle of his own, but it is poorly drawn and offers him no protection. Eventually, he jumps into SpongeBob and Patrick's circle, where he is not attacked. He thanks them for saving his life, and they all celebrate. SpongeBob is grateful that it was only a sea-bear and not a sea-rhinoceros, which is attracted by the sound of the sea-bear attacks. A sea-rhinoceros then appears and grunts at Squidward, and SpongeBob says "good thing we're all wearing our anti-sea-rhinoceros undergarments", which Squidward is of course not wearing.
Trivia/Goofs
- This episode is #4 on Tom Kenny's Top 20 on iTunes. His description says:
"I always laugh even though I know the sea bear attacks are coming. By the way, SpongeBob singing the ever-accelerating verses of 'The Campfire SONG Song' is NOT artificially sped up. (People always ask about that!)"
- The episode was originally going to be titled Squid Gets Mauled, but was later changed to The Camping Episode for the title being too violent.
- The title refers to both an "episode", as in an event or incident, and the actual episode of the TV series.
- Patrick is revealed to be left-handed.
- The audio for the Campfire Song Song was used in DirecTv.
- In the episode Idiot Box, Squidward finds a sombrero when he looks for a box and says: "Why haven't I worn this yet?" Later, in "The Camping Episode" Squidward wears his sombrero.
- In the Hebrew version of the episode, "The Campfire song" is called "ש-י-ר ה-מ-ח-נ-E. שיר המחנה" which means "C-A-M-P-F-I-R-E S-O-N-G, the campfire song".
- The song Squidward tries to play on his clarinet is "Red River Valley (song)", but the captions say that he was playing "Michael, Row the Boat Ashore".
- This episode is shown in the Family Guy episode "Road to Rupert", which was also directed by Dan Povenmire, in which Peter Griffin listens to the "Campfire Song Song". However, the animation is redone to show just SpongeBob and Patrick dancing with their instruments while singing.
- In the Best Day Ever marathon, this is the only episode in the Top 10 that is not from season 4 (it ranked #7).
- On Squidward's calendar, his drawings of Patrick and SpongeBob do not have clothes on.
- This episode and Krabby Land were the last episodes where the closed captions appear before the the lines are actually said.
- The article I married a sea bear is a reference to the film "I Married A Monster from Outer Space".
- "The Bikini Bottom Inquirer" is a reference to "The National Inquirer", a tabloid newspaper notorious for printing exaggerated or outright false stories.
- The Campfire Song sounds a little similar to Top of the World by The Carpenters.
- Like the episodes The Great Snail Race and Snowball Effect, fire is able to exist underwater.
Transcript
APM music identification
- Tom Fool - Title card
- Lonely Heart's Club - Squidward sees that SpongeBob and Patrick are right outside his house.
- Tomfoolery - Squidward joins SpongeBob and Patrick.
- Andy Anorak - Squidward keeps becoming victim of Patrick's burnt marshmallows.
- Dramatic Cue B - "No! I'll save you, Squidward!"
External Links
The Camping Episode on Turbonick
The Camping Episode at Tv.com
The Camping episode at The Internet Movie Database
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