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| Gary Takes a Bath | |
| Episode: | 33b |
| Airdate: | July 26, 2003 |
| Season: | Season 1 |
| Previous Episode: | Shanghaied |
| Next Episode: | Welcome to the Chum Bucket |
"Gary Takes a Bath" is an episode from Season 2.
Info[]
Time/Date[]
5:00 - Bath time
Characters[]
Places[]
- SpongeBob's House
- Inside
- Outside
Plot[]
The clock is ticking and SpongeBob knows it is time for Gary's bath, but as usual, the snail doesn't want to take it. SpongeBob, wary of the battle he is in for, tries various tricks/methods to get Gary into the tub.
First, he throws a ball to the bathroom and tells Gary to fetch. However, it is a Boomerang Pet Ball, so it comes right back. Next, he straps a bomb to his own chest and tells Gary that it will explode if he does not take a bath. Gary does not move and, unfortunately, the bomb is not fake.
SpongeBob's next strategy is hypnotizing Gary by sending subliminal messages into his brain, but the disturbing imagery does not help. He tries calling a French restaurant, but he cannot understand the receiver's accent.
Next, SpongeBob plays leapfrog with Gary and throws him towards the bathtub, but misses and breaks Gary's shell. He tries to play leapfrog once more with the bandaged Gary, but receives a hard knock on the head with a cane. He then tries to bribe Gary saying he will give a dollar to the next person who takes a bath, but out of nowhere, Mr. Krabs shows up in a mobile bathtub and snatches the dollar. A dance routine and a fake treasure hunt leading into the bathtub (as his most powerful method of sending Gary to the bath) also fail, as do his attempts to physically force Gary in.
Getting frustrated, SpongeBob decides that if he cannot bring Gary to the water, he will simply have to bring the water to Gary. SpongeBob loads himself up with water and tries to spray it at Gary, who swiftly dodges every shot. Outside, he corners the latter in a tree and climbs up, unloading his ammo at what he presumes to be Gary.
At first, SpongeBob fears the force of his water jet tore off Gary's skin, but realizes he only sprayed a gramophone playing a record of meowing. The real Gary then steals SpongeBob's ladder, leaving him stuck on top of the tree. Then, SpongeBob notices Gary sneaking towards a mud puddle. He gives him a three-second count to get away from said mud puddle. However, SpongeBob accidentally falls out of the tree into the mud himself, forcing him to take the bath under Gary's supervision instead.
Trivia/Goofs[]
- This episode is not on Nick UK. It was banned. But after 7 years on October 31, 2008, this episode was aired in the UK along with episode Shanghaied.
- This episode runs 6 minutes and about 30 seconds long. It was the third episode running less than 11 minutes. The first two were the episodes: Help Wanted and Reef Blower.
- Despite the title, Gary never actually takes a bath.
- This is the only episode that had only one voice actor; which was Tom Kenny.
- When SpongeBob hands Gary the soap and the duck, and after he says "I don't know what a snail would want with a brooch!", in the next shot the soap and the duck are gone.
- It is later revealed that SpongeBob's room is on the 3rd floor.
- This is the first time we see a tree outside SpongeBob's house.
- This episode shows that Gary has psychic powers since Gary can teleport out of SpongeBob's hands.
- In this episode when SpongeBob plays leapfrog with Gary and launches him to the bathroom it shows the bathroom on the bottom level of the house but it is revealed further in the episode that it is on the second level of the house.
- When SpongeBob is talking to Gary about the buried treasure, in the house they are in a room with a metal background but when it has a closeup on the map there is a bamboo background.
- This episode aired in 2001 but was not seen again until 2003.
- It was almost banned in the United States because the hillbilly-like girl that appears at the beginning of the episode could be frightening to younger children. But, the episode didn't get banned for unknown reasons
- The hillbilly girl was Censored in Mexico
Cultural References[]
- It is also somewhat similar to Martin Stellman's Dor Queen and Country. As Denzel Washington's character, Reuben James, turned vigilant to clean up his crime-infested neighborhood in London which he did as he would walk off into the night, SpongeBob tried anything to get Gary clean but he ends up getting dirtier and has to take a bath instead.