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"The Smoking Peanut"
Chronology
Information
Season №: 2
Episode №: 32b
Airdate: March 8, 2001
Credits
Writer(s): Paul Tibbitt
Walt Dohrn
Doug Lawrence
Storyboard Artist(s): None
Directors
Main: Paul Tibbitt
Walt Dohrn
Storyboard: Carson Kugler
Animation: Andrew Overtoom
Creative: Derek Drymon
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"The Smoking Peanut" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season two.

Brief summary: SpongeBob throws a peanut at a sleeping oyster, Clamu, at Oyster Stadium in the Bikini Bottom Zoo, and she begins screaming in agony. This causes mass hysteria, and SpongeBob believes that he is responsible.

Characters:

the bikini bottom zoo

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Plot

It is annual "Free Day" at the Bikini Bottom Zoo, and Mr. Krabs is abusing this by stealing light bulbs, filling an entire barrel at the soda machine, and raiding the gift shop. Meanwhile, SpongeBob and Patrick go to the Oyster Stadium to see Clamu the Clam perform tricks. However, Clamu is sleeping, and Patrick leaves out of boredom. SpongeBob tries to wake Clamu up by throwing a peanut at it, and Clamu wakes up and goes on a rampage as she attacks people and cries. SpongeBob believes himself to be responsible, and as he walks home with Patrick, Patrick decides to investigate the crime. At home, SpongeBob tells himself that the incident will blow over soon. However, when he turns the on the TV, the oyster incident is the top news story. The Realistic Fish Head reports that the cry is so powerful that it can be heard all around the world (even above the surface), and asks whan kind of "cruel, careless, evil person" would do anything to upset the giant clam. Feeling guilty, SpongeBob goes to Squidward and Sandy for advice, but both are concerned with finding and punishing the culprit, adding to SpongeBob's anxiety. Eventually, policemen enter SpongeBob's house and question him on the oyster incident. SpongeBob admits to everything they ask him, but instead of arresting him, they conclude from their evidence that Patrick is the culprit. Patrick is taken to Oyster Stadium, where he is chained to a platform in the middle of the stage and pelted with peanuts by the angry audience. SpongeBob arrives at the stadium and confesses to the crime, apologizing to Clamu, Patrick, and the people of Bikini Bottom. The audience decides to throw peanuts at both of them, but before they can do so, a zookeeper arrives with the true culprit, Mr. Krabs, who has stolen the oyster's pearl. The zookeeper gives Clamu her pearl, which turns out to be an egg and hatches into a baby scallop. Mr. Krabs makes the excuse that it's free day, and is literally buried in peanuts by the angry audience.

Transcript

Main article: The Smoking Peanut (transcript)

Quotes

  • Patrick: (excited) WHY ARE WE HANGING AROUND WATCHING A CHEAP IMITATION?! LET'S GET OVER THERE!!!
    • SpongeBob and Patrick: THIS IS THE GREATEST DAY OF OUR LIVES!!! (They see Clamu sleeping)
      Patrick: This is the greatest day of our lives?
    Fish on P.A.: Attention zoo patrons. Clamu, the giant oyster is on an emotional rampage! Please scream and run around in circles.
    • ( all screaming )
      Fish on P.A.: Thanks for coming!
    SpongeBob: There it is. Oyster Stadium. Not only do they have the largest oyster held in captivity, it also does tricks. He spits a giant pearl 100 feet in the air!! Like a cannonball!! [Takes his hat, rolls it into a shape of a ball, puts it in his mouth, and spits it out. Letting it soar into the air. But then it lands into a kid's ice cream.]
  • Patrick This grain of sand looks pretty suspicious... so does this rock! And I have a few questions for this blade of grass.
  • Patrick This is it. All of the clues are falling together. I followed these footprints right to where you are standing. And I found this bag of peanuts! I'm so close to solving this, I can almost taste it (Patrick licks what appears to be SpongeBob's face but the camera zooms out to reveal that the object he was licking is a yellow popsicle) Boy, crime-fighting sure makes me hungry and this yellow popsicle sure hits the spot!
  • Police Officer: Is your name SpongeBob SquarePants?
  • SpongeBob: Yes! (shrinks)
  • Police Officer: Put those eyeballs back son. We got a few questions for you. Were you at the zoo on the day of the oyster incident ?
  • SpongeBob: Yes! (shrinks)
  • Police Officer: Did you or did you not take part in various activities of zoo-time merriment?
  • SpongeBob: Yes! (shrinks)
  • Police Officer: And are you familiar (shows the peanut in a specimen bag) with this peanut?
  • SpongeBob: YES! (shrinks so much he goes inside his underwear)
  • Police Officer: Just one more question, is it true that you were at the oyster's lair with a Mr.Patrick Star?
  • SpongeBob: YES!(Starts crying)Yes, it's true, it's all true, the merriment, the peanut! The Patrick!
  • Police Officer: That's all we need to know, son, let's book him!
  • Patrick: (Putting the handcuffs on Patrick) Wow you guys are good, I am the last person I would have suspected, but I was looking for me the whole time! It's the perfect crime!
  • Police Officer: Yeah, Yeah tell it to the judge pinky!
  • SpongeBob I have come to reveal the truth. They say that truth will be rewarded with trust and forgiveness. I have come to trim the branches of deception from the tree of life, to shave the unkempt sideburns from the face of truth, to...
  • Audience member Oh just get on with it!

Trivia/Goofs

  • On YTV airings of this episode, when Mr. Krabs says "But it's Free Day!", captions say "But it's pretty!".
  • When Patrick says "Hey SpongeBob", his eyelids are pink instead of their regular purple color.
  • A "smoking gun" refers to an object or fact that serves as conclusive evidence in a crime or similar case.
  • When the zookeeper pulls Mr. Krabs pants off, his belt buckle colors are reversed to yellow on the inside and black on the outside, but in the next scene, the belt is back to normal.
  • Clamu is a parody of the popular and very famous whale Shamu in Seaworld.
  • In all other episodes, Bikini Bottom has blue and white police cars (similar to NYPD's old squad car color scheme). However, in this episode, the police cars are black and red.
  • There is a book based on this episode, called "Zoo day disaster".

APM Music Identification

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