SpongeBob and Patrick are given the task of pet sitting Sandy's pets when she is out of town. One of Sandy's pets is a small monarch caterpillar named Wormy. SpongeBob and Pat quickly befriend the caterpillar and they enjoy a day of play together, however; their fun is disrupted; overnight, when SpongeBob and Patrick are not at the Treedome, Wormy goes through quick metamorphisis and becomes a monarch butterfly. When they come back in the morning, Patrick and SpongeBob think their new friend was eaten by the butterfly. They go breserk as they try to trap the "monster". Unfortunately, Wormy (now as a butterfly) manages to escape the Treedome while flying inside a bubble. SpongeBob and Patrick begin to spread news of the terrible monster throughout Bikini Bottom. Mass chaos erupts and the whole town becomes destroyed and deserted.
Sandy arrives at the shattered town in a few days. She immediately finds Wormy and places him inside a jar. All the townsfolk cheer and celebrate the capturing of the monster.
Production
Music
( ‣ ) Production music
( • ) Original music
( ◦ ) SpongeBob music
•Twelfth Street Rag - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [title card] ‣Dreamy Hawaii - Terry Day [opening] •Hawaiian Trax - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Sandy's pets] ‣Children 2 - Dave Hewson ["Hey, little fella."] •Hawaiian Trax - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [playing hide, seek] ◦That's What Friends Do - Peter Straus ‣Youthful Days - Mike Sunderland ["Gee, SpongeBob, I don't want today to end ever."] ‣Code 'Dead End' - Gregor F. Narholz [Wormy transforms into a butterfly] ‣On the Beach - Kapono Beamer ["Here I come, Wormy!"] ‣House of Horror - W. Merrick Farran ["I think something bad happened to Wormy."] ‣Flight in Panic 1 - Gregor F. Narholz [SpongeBob and Patrick running to the door] ‣Action Cut A - Gregor F. Narholz ["He's eaten Patrick!"] ‣Footsteps of Horror - W. Merrick Farran [phone in jar/Patrick on a dinner plate] ‣Death Trap - Gregor F. Narholz [SpongeBob traps the butterfly in a bubble] ‣Bridgehead Alt. End - Sam Fonteyn ["Yeah!"] ‣Lovely Scenery C - Mladen Franko ["...headed straight for the Krusty Krab!"] ‣Hit and Run - Sam Spence [secret entrance] ‣Frankenstein's Niece A - Gregor F. Narholz [SpongeBob warns Krabs about the "monster"] ‣A Sad Affair - Mike Sunderland [SpongeBob and Patrick crying] ‣Frankenstein's Niece A - Gregor F. Narholz ["That's the monster?"] ‣The Rake Hornpipe - Robert Alexander White ["Get a load of the scary monster."] ‣Frankenstein's Niece A - Gregor F. Narholz [Squidward and Krabs scream] ‣Harp Ding - Nicolas Carr [thumbs up] ‣Gator - Steve Belfer [SpongeBob, Patrick warning everyone] •Twelfth Street Rag - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [everyone running from the butterfly] ‣Bridgehead Alt. End - Sam Fonteyn [ending]
"Wormy" was ranked #57 during the Best Day Ever event from November 9–10, 2006.
Trivia
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The close up of the butterfly is the head of a buzzing horse-fly.
Wormy is able to complete the full transformation from caterpillar to butterfly in just one night. In real life, this is impossible, and the length varies with different species if butterfly (in this case, Monarch butterflies, which is what Wormy was, spend ten to fifteen days in the chrysalis stage when changing into a butterfly.)
MY LEG: Fred runs out of his house after seeing the newscast.
The warning poster SpongeBob and Patrick put up depict a Viceroy butterfly, while Wormy is actually a Monarch butterfly. Viceroys belong to a different family group of butterflies, and are smaller and less common than the Monarchs. The reason why Viceroys resemble Monarchs is due to Müllerian mimicry, in which two separate species that share a certain predatory defense mechanism (in this case, being nasty-tasting to birds) also share very similar warning patterns.
This was the first episode to feature Patrick's new design, featuring thicker eyebrows, instead of the usual "Z" eyebrows.
When SpongeBob is saying "We did it, Patrick!" during the destruction scene, a meteor can be seen flying down until it falls off screen in the background a few seconds later, a flash can be seen in the background, referencing the landing explosion.
At the beginning Patrick whistles, and SpongeBob says: "I didn't know you spoke bird!", and Patrick says "No, that's Italian". In the Italian version, he says that it is Spanish.
The Krusty Krab cash register boat is driveable as seen in this episode.
The soundtrack Flight in Panic 1 is played in reverse when SpongeBob and Patrick are running backwards as a joke.
This is the first episode to feature a short-cut to the Krusty Krab. This is shown again in Born to be Wild.
There was a deleted scene in the original airing where SpongeBob was eating pie.
This episode was banned in some countries because the live-action horse-fly could scare younger viewers.
Errors
Though Wormy eventually pupates into a Monarch Butterfly, he looks nothing like a Monarch caterpillar.
At the part where SpongeBob and Patrick ran away from Wormy along with everyone else, the town is destroyed. But when they reach the stoplight while being chased, the town is perfectly fine.
When Patrick's helmet broke, acorns fell in it. The water should've been displaced and overflowed, but it stayed at the same level.
When SpongeBob and Patrick finally lead the butterfly outside, they only open the first door. There are two doors, so the butterfly should've stayed between them, instead of making its way outside.
Nancy's dress changes from yellow to gray in one point where the Bikini Bottomites are being chased by Wormy as butterfly.
When SpongeBob begs Wormy not to eat him, his mouth didn't sync right.
The mouse in the snake's digestive tract should be in the middle of the snake's body, not at the snake's tail.
When Mr. Krabs and Squidward run away from Wormy, two pairs of underwear can be seen, but Squidward doesn't wear pants or underwear.
When Mr. Krabs asks "What's the meaning of this, SpongeBob?!", Squidward doesn't have his hat on.File:Imageforums-6.png
Patrick without eyes, SpongeBob without his buck teeth and floating, and Sandy's left arm is gone.
In the part of the episode where it shows people running away, there is one yellow fish flying.
When Patrick is with the people holding up SpongeBob and Sandy, he doesn't have his eyebrows. In another shot during the same scene, he doesn't have eyes. Also, SpongeBob's buck teeth and Sandy's left arm disappear for a split second. And he is also floating.
In this episode while the bird is singing, apparently it's voice is the same to a European Robin in 2001 documentary nature film Winged Migration.
When SpongeBob and Patrick trap the butterfly in the entrance of Sandy's treedome, Wormy somehow made it outside the front door and headed for the Krusty Krab.
When SpongeBob and Patrick first discover Wormy as a butterfly, they both run in different directions, but end up at the same table in the middle of Sandy's treedome.
The bubble that SpongeBob blows to catch the butterfly is impossible to make because he has his helmet filled with water on.
When the final shot of Sandy is shown before she leaves the treedome, she is wearing her spacesuit and helmet, but in the previous shots, she's in her bra and bikini.
It is impossible for SpongeBob to be wearing a cheerleader outfit without taking his helmet off.
When Patrick says "Attention, Bikini Bottom, there is a flying monster that's going to eat you!" his mouth doesn't sync right.
