SB-129
Template:SpongeBob episode "SB-129" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season one. Template:Spoiler Brief summary: Squidward flees to the Krusty Krab in search of quiet and winds up in frozen in the freezer. When he finally thaws, he finds himself far in the future and wonders how to get back.
Time/Date:
- Present: Sunday, March 6, 2017
- 5:58:23 AM: Squidward says "I think I'll treat Bikini Bottom to some real music."
- 5:59:47 AM: SpongeBob's alarm clock is shown after Squidward says the line above
- 6:00:00 AM: SpongeBob's alarm clock goes off, it is 6:00:00 AM
- Future: Monday, March 6, 4017 (according to the calendar you can see when Squidward is in the future)
- Past: Early-Mid Paleozoic Era (judging by flora and fauna depicted)
Time cards shown:
- 2000 years later
Characters Present:
Main Character:
Major Characters:
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Patrick Star
- SpongeTron
- SpongeTron X
- SpongeTron Y
- SpongeTron Z
- Patron
- Primitive SpongeBob
- Primitive Patrick
Minor Characters:
- Chrome spray-painter
- Ammonite
- Tapeworm
- Trilobites
- Disembodied voices
Characters Mentioned:
Songs: None
Plot
The day starts off quite well for Squidward. He is about to practice his clarinet when SpongeBob's alarm clock (facing out the window) knocks the clarinet inside Squidward's mouth, and SpongeBob asks Squidward if he wants to go jellyfishing. Squidward tries to reply, but because his clarinet is in his mouth, anything he says is incomprehensible, and SpongeBob thinks he said "yes". After Squidward takes his clarinet out of his mouth, Squidward is constantly bothered in his house by SpongeBob and Patrick who want to go jellyfishing with him. Squidward, in an attempt to stop SpongeBob and Patrick bothering him, tells SpongeBob that he should be at work, but SpongeBob tells him that it's a Sunday, and the Krusty Krab is closed on Sundays.
Squidward tells SpongeBob and Patrick to stay where they are, and goes out the back door of his house and goes into the Krusty Krab. He sees SpongeBob and Patrick looking for him, and goes into the kitchen. SpongeBob and Patrick are still looking for him, so he goes into the freezer. After SpongeBob and Patrick go away, Squidward is frightened to find that the handle is jammed, and that he is stuck inside the freezer. He assures himself that someone will find him.
Unfortunately, this isn't true and 2000 years later, the door falls down and a frozen Squidward is defrosted by 'SpongeTron', a descendant of SpongeBob. Squidward finds out that everything in the future (except for people) is made entirely of chrome, and all organic life forms that aren't people (such as seaweed or kelp) are simply spray-painted chrome. SpongeTron introduces Squidward to his clones; X, Y, and Z. SpongeTron informs Squidward that there are 486 Spongetrons in response to a question by Squidward. Squidward had asked "Are the other letters of the alphabet involved, here?", meaning that the English alphabet has been expanded, merged with another character set, or (most likely) it was hyperbole by the animators to make the future more complex. Squidward decides that he hates the future, so SpongeTron directs him to a time machine, which is actually a small room with a control panel. Squidward uses the time machine (shortly after meeting Patron, a two-headed descendant of Patrick) to travel to the prehistoric past, ripping the entire room out of the building in the process.
He meets Primitive SpongeBob and Primitive Patrick, whom are the ancestors of SpongeBob and Patrick. Squidward tells them about jellyfishing because they keep on torturing themselves with jellyfish. They seem to be interested, but are driven crazy by Squidward's clarinet, and chase after him. He goes into the time machine, but it malfunctions, and he goes to a very strange place with abstract shapes and no characters or setting (it is possibly an alternate universe, another dimension, or a time warp, but Squidward calls it 'nowhere'). After he finds the time machine, he begs it to return to the present, which it does, but Squidward finds out that in his travels, he invented jellyfishing. The episode ends when Squidward says "I'm going back."
Quotes
- Squidward: I went to the future, then I went to the past, then I was nowhere, and now i'm back, and you don't know how happy I am to see you guys.
- SpongeBob: Does this mean you wanna go...
- SpongeBob and Patrick: Jellyfishing?
- Squidward: NO! Sheesh, who was the barnacle head that invented that game anyway?
- SpongeBob and Patrick: You are, Squidward! (start laughing)
- Squidward: I'm going back! (Episode ends)
- Narrator: Squidward is about to practice his clarinet, so get your ear plugs ready.
- Squidward: I think I'll treat Bikini Bottom to some real music.
- SpongeTron: Everything is chrome in the future!
- Squidward: (does situps) Future...future! (repeated line)
- Squidward: We've gotta do something.
- SpongeTrons X, Y, and Z: Jellyfishing!
(Patron teleports into the Krusty Krab.)
- Patron: Did somebody say jellyfishing?
- SpongeTron: Hi Patron.
- Squidward: I may have finally found a place where I can be all... ALONE.
- Various voices: Alone...alone...alone...alone...(louder and discordant) Alone!...(louder) ALONE!!...
- (Squidward is talkling to SpongeTron and his clones)
- Squidward: Now listen, all of you! I don't belong here. I need to get back to by own time period. I got to go!
- SpongeTron: Well, why didn't you just ask? The time machine is down the hall on the left.
( Squidward runs into the room laughing and a mechanical whirring noise is heard followed by him coming out in shreds)
- Spongetron: Oops! Oh, yeah, that was the can opener. Try the one on the right.
Trivia/Goofs
- This is the first episode in Season 1 for Squidward to be a main character.
- The episode, which arises from Squidward time travelling and inventing the game of jellyfishing while seeking to avoid SpongeBob and Patrick as they want him to jellyfish with them, is an example of a time paradox known as a causal loop. Thus, a person is inspired or driven by an event to time travel and, whether or not intentionally, causes the event which will facilitate their initial time travelling trip.
- The fact that Squidward is trapped frozen for 2000 years means that if anyone goes into the freezer of the Krusty Krab in any episodes after this one, they will find his frozen body.The freezer is seen in the episode "Nasty Patty."
- When Squidward is frozen in the freezer for 2000 years, he actually survives. This is impossible since after freezing someone for a long time their cells die off and the heart will stop functioning, causing death.
- This is the first (and only) episode in which the title was spoken when the title card was shown. This is also one of the nine episodes in which the title card has an animation. The others are Pre-Hibernation Week, One Krabs Trash, Idiot Box, SpongeBob Meets the Strangler, Skill Crane, Karate Island, and All That Glitters.
- The date of the first airing of the episode (12/31/1999) was intended to coincide with the eve of the new millennium since the plot focuses on life in the future since at the time there were concerns regarding Y2K and the perspective of what would occur in the 21st century and 3rd millennium.
- In the future, everything is chrome in Bikini Bottom EXCEPT for the hinges on the freezer door. They are rusted metal.
- The episode SpongeBob B.C. (also marketed as SpongeBob Goes Prehistoric) must be set after this time period, because of the more advanced clothing and the fact that they have invented a language, and discovered fire. Also, two scenes of this episode can be seen on the song "When Worlds Collide".
- The title, SB-129 was believed to be a parody of the ever popular science fiction TV series, Stargate SG-1, but is really the production code for the episode.
- The premise of this episode (taking the "straight man" Squidward and placing him in several wildly different and random scenarios) is comparable to that of the Looney Tunes classic Duck Amuck.
- The DVD which features this episode also shows a recording session of Tom Kenny and Bill Faggerbakke recording as Primitive SpongeBob and Patrick.
- A calendar in the future Krusty Krab is dated Friday, March 6, 4017, and if this is 2000 years later, this means the show must takes place in the year 2017 on Sunday, March 6. The real March 6, 2017 falls on a Monday.
- The words "past" and "future" switch places from when Squidward first enters the time machine and when he goes in from the past. Additionally, nothing is written on the lever when Squidward "falls" into the time machine towards the end.
- When Squidward first arrives in the "Nowhere" zone, he has his clarinet. But when he begins running frantically, the clarinet disappears. When he falls through the roof of the time machine, the clarinet is back in his hand.
- When Squidward said "Alone" other voices came. These voices were voiced by the entire crew.
- Before SpongeBob's alarm clock goes off during the start of the episode, it is facing the bed. However, when the alarm goes off, it is facing Squidward's window.
- The chrome world isn't a phenomenon by nature. It is possibly a new world design by inhabitants underwater.
- This is the first time SpongeBob's alarm clock faces the window.
- In the PC version of the game for the SpongeBob SquarePants movie, SpongeBob can look into his future with The Pool of Perception. At the third time he looks in, he sees the 41st century, which resembles the future area in this episode.
- This is the first of 2 times Squidward swallows his clarinet. The second is in Squidtastic Voyage.
- This is the first episode to involve time travel.
- This episode parodies 2001: A Space Odyssey, Woody Allen's Sleeper, and H.G. Well's The Time Machine.
- This episode could also be a reference to Futurama because Squidward gets frozen and Fry from Futurama also gets frozen. The episode aired on 12/31/99, the date in Futurama where Fry gets frozen.
- When Squidward goes to the past, he invents jellyfishing. When he goes back and talks with who SpongeBob & Patrick, and, in one part, Spongebob & Patrick say "You did!" after squidward says, "Sheesh, who was the barnacle head that invented that game anyway?" This means that they already knew that, although it wasn't actually part of their timeline.