Reef Blower (Episode)

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Reef Blower
© Viacom
Episode No.:	1b
Season:	1
Airdate:	1 May 1999
Previous Episode:	Help Wanted
Next Episode:	Tea at the Treedome
Characters	Voice actors
SpongeBob SquarePants	Tom Kenny
Squidward Tentacles	Rodger Bumpass

Reef Blower is an episode from Season 1, the second of the three pilot episodes, including a brief reference and a pun.

Plot

Squidward walks outside and sees a shell on his lawn. He believes that it ruins the appearance of his lawn, so he pretends to accidentally kick it onto SpongeBob's lawn. Suddenly, SpongeBob pops out of his window and sees the shell. Trying to clean his lawn, SpongeBob takes his "reef blower" (an underwater version of a leaf blower) and starts to blow away the tiny shell. But the only thing he blows is a large column of sand landing onto Squidward. To fix this problem, SpongeBob blows the sand off, which irritates Squidward's eyes. SpongeBob peers over at his sidewalk and sees a pile of sand. He then sucks the pile of sand into the reef blower, which malfunctions. The sand and a few mechanical gears blow out. So, SpongeBob unzips the reef blower and puts them in himself. When the reef blower refuses to start, SpongeBob pulls the cord to an extreme distance and it finally starts. However, it sucks in all of the water. The reef blower then explodes, leaving piles of sand all over Squidward's lawn, while SpongeBob's lawn is perfectly clean. Satisfied, SpongeBob goes back inside, while the shell lands on Squidward's nose.

Trivia

SpongeBob with a reef blower.

When shown on TV this episode and Help Wanted are literally stuck together. The title card for this episode pops up as soon as Help Wanted finishes with no commercials in-between.
Squidward is shown in this episode to be purple over water. This was changed later.
This is the shortest episode to date, with a length of approximately 3-4 minutes.
After SpongeBob cleaned his path and when his reef blower threw up, there was a crash SFX and that crashing noise shows up a lot on The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss.
Although this is the only episode that is silent, SpongeBob says "You", but only his lips say it. The word is seen at the bottom.
This is the first episode where SpongeBob's garage is seen.
This is the first time a reef blower was used to ruin Squidward's day, the other time being in Squidville.
The reef blower was too small to have all the water in Bikini Bottom.
First episode to have flowers on the title card.
First episode to have Patrick gone.
The episode was orginally going to have dialogue, although the recording equipment was broken.
This is the only episode to have no title card music, just the sound of bubbles.
This is the only episode that doesn't have any dialogue due to recording equipment breaking.
This episode is the only episode to skip the opening credits.
This episode is the actual true short to be part of the canon.