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Whale of a Birthday

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SpongeBob SquarePants episode
"Whale of a Birthday"
Chronology
Information
Season №: 4
Episode №: 71a
Airdate: May 12, 2006
Best Day Ever Rank: #60
Credits
Writer(s): Paul Tibbitt
Tom King
Luke Brookshier
Supervising Producer: Paul Tibbitt
Directors
Storyboard: Luke Brookshier
Tom King
Animation: Tom Yasumi
Technical: Vincent Waller
Episode List
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"Whale of a Birthday" is an episode from the second volume of the fourth season of the animated television comedy SpongeBob SquarePants.

Brief summary: It's Pearl's 16th birthday, but Mr. Krabs' notorious penchant for not wanting to spend even a penny has meant 15 lame birthday parties for his daughter. Pearl forces her dad to promise that he won't be cheap for her Sweet 16, but it's not easy for her father to break a terrible habit, even for the most important thing in his life. As for her present, Mr. Krabs gives SpongeBob his credit card, and the sponge follows her in a spy-like manner at the mall, buying almost everything Pearl picks up.

Time/Date:

  • September 2
    • 7:00 AM: Pearl wakes up.
  • September 3 (Pearl's birthday.)

Characters Present:

Songs:

  • It's All About You

Boys Who Cry Version:

It's about you girl ,
On your sixteenth birthday!
Pay attention to you kid ,
Everyone has to do just what you say.
You get your very own spotlight "
"you can do it on own ways"
because you can remember when your born or sat the place"
"because its your special day!"
It's all about you girl,
On your sixteenth birthday!
Pay attention to you girl,
Everyone has to do just what you say.
You get your very own spotlight tonight,
Cuz it's all about you!
Yeah, it's all about Pearl!
You're the birthday girl!

Pearl's Version:

Yeah! It's all about me!
On my sixteenth birthday!
I want music, and clothes, and shiny things!
So give it up, right away!
Everybody, in the whole wide world,
They have to pay attention, to me!
It's all about me, me, and guess who?
Meeee!

Four-Ply (Squidward)

it's all about you girl,
Iit's all about your day...
and on my birthday I wanted things like pieces of art or some perfume,
it's four-ply,
but its like four-ply to me!
When I cry...

':When my tearducts give issue,

I can't use just any tissue...
I need four-ply,
Four-Ply,
Four-Plyeeee! Hello, ladies.
I need four-ply,
Four-Ply,
Four-Ply,
When I cry...
Huh!

Contents

Plot

Pearl Krabs has had 15 horrible birthday parties, and her 16th birthday is just one day away. Her father, Eugene H. Krabs, is forced to give Pearl the best birthday ever, or else Pearl's high school reputation will collapse, she will have to drop out to avoid embaressment, she will not go off to college, she will never leave home, and Mr. Krabs will have to support Pearl for the rest of her life.

While Mr. Krabs works on the party, SpongeBob SquarePants is assigned the task of figuring out what Pearl would like for a present. Mr. Krabs gives him his credit card, so that if something Pearl wants should be bought, it can be bought with any credit card. So SpongeBob trails Pearl and her friends through the Bikini Bottom mall and takes note of everything she wants. However, he uses Mr. Krabs' credit card to buy Pearl's gifts, so that Pearl's party shouldn't be a disaster and that Pearl will get all she wants.

Once Pearl arrives at her party with her friends, she is horrified to find that her dad's miserly ways have won out again. The popcorn is stale, the drinks are dishwater, Pearl's ice sculpture is made out of 400 pounds of raw Krabby Patties, the cake is made out of cardboard and frosting, and even Squidward Tentacles sings a song called "Four-Ply," which disgusts everyone. Once more, what is supposed to be the most fun and fabulous event has ended up cheap and lame, and she will be secluded for the rest of her life. It looks like Pearl's birthday will go down in history as the worst one ever - until SpongeBob shows up with a truck-load of presents. Everything Pearl has looked at in the mall has been so Coral (which means cool) that SpongeBob has bought it all - maxing out Mr. Krabs' credit card in the process.

Quotes

  • SpongeBob: I'd like to buy this piece of plastic [A comb] with this piece of plastic [The credit card].
Cashier: [Looks at the credit card] Mr. Krabs, huh? Quick! How do you spell Krabs?
SpongeBob: Um...I'm pretty sure it has a "B" in it.
Cashier: Close enough.

Trivia

  • It is revealed that Mr. Krabs has a credit card. His credit card number is 000123587, and it is a MasterCarp card; a take-off on MasterCard.
  • At the begining of the episode, and at school, Pearl states that her birthday is the following day. But she goes shopping the same day, and comes back to the Krusty Krab to celebrate her birthday.
  • Mr. Krabs might have well over one million dollars on his credit card which indicate that he is a millionaire because:
    • The Boys Who Cry band charges "one million dollars" just to show up. However, Squidward was sarcastic and might have made it up.
    • SpongeBob spent over 1,200 dollars while shopping for Pearl.
  • This also can mean that all of Mr. Krabs' money is on its credit card, according to Clams (Mr. Krabs earned his millionth dollar in that episode.).
  • Oddly, Mr. Krabs has a credit card, but doesn't have a bank, as revealed in "The Lost Mattress", howerver it is possible that after that incident, and seeing how much easier it is to sleep on, Mr. Krabs could have put all his money in the bank, and disposed of the old mattress.
  • This was the fourth time SpongeBob has dressed in women's clothing as a cartoon gag.
  • SpongeBob makes a reference to Angelina Jolie's relationship to Brad Pitt when overhearing Pearl's conversation. Pearl mentions two students at her school with those names. SpongeBob picks it up, making note that "Angela likes Brad". However, a mistake is sometimes it is referenced to "Angela likes bread."
  • Even though Billy Fishkins is in this episode, there are two conflicts regarding him: First, Pearl mentions his name as Billy Fishkin and he is blue in color and has black hair that is quiffed up rather than his brown hair in a large afro style in "The Chaperone". Both of them went to Pearls birthday.
  • On the Whale of a Birthday DVD, the episode All That Glitters comes before this episode, when usually on DVDs that have an episode name, the episode with the same name comes first.
  • The word "coral" is used through the episode, yet in Mid-Life Crustacean, Pearl called a friend and said that "coral" was out. That episode took place before this episode, so the word may have come back in style since then.
  • This episode is similar to the MTV show My Super Sweet Sixteen.
  • The group, Boys Who Cry, could spoof the popular boy band, The Backstreet Boys. The band's name parodies Boys Don't Cry.
  • During the first performance of Birthday Girl, if you look closely, you can see Brian Flounder from "The Chaperone" in the audience. This is the first time he has even been in an episode since "The Chaperone". He can also be seen during Boys Who Cry's second performance of Birthday Girl, after the three girls faint.
  • This episode and Karate Island were shown before Chimps Ahoy and Ghost Host on YTV.
  • In this episode, when Pearl runs out of her school, right directly across from her school, is the Krusty Krab, when in most episodes, right directly across from the Krusty Krab is Plankton's unsuccessful restaurant, the Chum Bucket.
  • Mr. Krabs got bubble wrap for the party favors. He also got Squidward to sing Boys Who Cry songs at the party, got an "It's a Boy" banner but wrote "girl" on it, and made a cardboard cake with icing.
  • In the mall, Mystery the Seahorse from My Pretty Seahorse can be seen in the pet store, but she is smaller and referred to as a Sea Pony.
  • The music heard during the title card of this episode is xylophone/guitar music, a mix of two instruments that had never been heard on this show until this episode. (The song could be heard from The Lost Mattress.)
  • Closed-captioning error: when Mr. Krabs says "Neptune's trousers!" at the beginning, the captioning said "treasures" instead of "trousers", and if watched on Nickelodean, the captions say "That tune is trousers."
  • Billy Fishkin's last name could be a reference to the book, There's a boy in the Girl's Bathroom by Louis Sachar, in which there is a character named Jeff Fishkin
    • Actually, Fishkins appeared earlier in the episode The Chaperone.

APM Music identification

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