Mermaid Man Begins (Episode)

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Mermaid Man Begins
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Episode No.:	163a
Season:	8/2011
Airdate:	September 23, 2011
Previous Episode:	Ghoul Fools
Next Episode:	Plankton's Good Eye
Characters	Voice actors
SpongeBob SquarePants	Tom Kenny
Patrick Star	Bill Fagerbakke
Squidward Tentacles	Rodger Bumpass
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Mermaid Man Begins is an episode from Season 8.

Info

Characters

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Patrick Star
• Squidward Tentacles
• Mermaid Man
• Barnacle Boy
• Man Ray
• Gary the Snail (cameo)
• Dirty Bubble
• Fred
• Mermaids
• Human captain (debut)
• Human scientist (debut)
• Alien spaceship (debut)

Places

• Bikini Bottom
• SpongeBob's House
• Squidward's House
• Mermalair

Plot

When SpongeBob and Patrick are getting to watch the origins of their favorite superheros when a un-expecting storm ruins the fun they both must find a way to learn the stories of how their favorite superheroes became the legendary heroes they are today. Mermaid Man argues that the story is that he falls asleep on a beach, and gets washed up by the waves, and gets sucked into a whirlpool. While he was running out of oxygen, mermaids give him a starfish on his nose so he can breathe underwater. Then, as Barnacle Boy is cleaning the barnacles on his captain's ship, he has to go underwater to get the ones on the bottom. While doing this, Mermaid Man makes Barnacle Boy's lungs nothing but barnacles from the boat, making him breathe underwater as well. And thus, they teamed up. barnacle boy says that the only reason he teamed up was because he could no longer breath air. MM and BB start arguing about it when the TV comes back on and they see what really was their origin.

Tim and Ernie (a reference to their voice actors) were having a movie night in thier apartment, Ernie started to cook the popcorn. then their upstairs neighbor who a scientist specializing in radioactive ants knocked over a jar of his latest expirement. one ant went thorugh a crack in the ceiling and bit ernie. He ran in pain and both him and Tim fell out the window nd into an acid factory but the vat they fell into was knocked over by a UFO causing them to be carried through town on a wave of acid durring an eclipse on a leap year.

Trivia

• This happens to be the strongest storm in town than the last one seen in SpongeHenge. It even took the homes of SpongeBob and Squidward away.
• Barnacle Boy was called Tim and Mermaid Man was named Ernie before they were superheroes. This is a reference to the voice actors that play them.
• Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy were exposed to tons of nuclear radiation, yet they became superheroes after eating overcooked popcorn.
• The title is a reference to the 2005 movie titled "Batman Begins".
• This is the last episode where Ernest Borgnine plays Mermaid Man alive, as he died on July 8,2012.