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Truth or Square (Episode)
Episode No.: | 123+124, Movie |
USA Airdate: | November 6, 2009 |
Season: | Season 7 |
Previous Episode: | Single Cell Anniversary |
Next Episode: | Pineapple Fever |
"Truth or Square" is a TV Movie from Season 7.
Contents |
Info
Patchy segment characters
- Patchy the Pirate
- Potty the Parrot
- Tina Fey
- P!nk
- Rosario Dawson
- Lebron James
- Will Ferrell
- Robin Williams
- Craig Ferguson (Patchy's old friend from pirate school)
- The Guy on the Penny
- The Queen
- The 3 Point Fowl
- Sir Quentin and Mr. Tinder
- SpongeBob SquarePants
Characters
- SpongeBob
- Patrick
- Mr. Krabs
- Squidward
- Sandy
- Plankton
- Karen
- Gary
- Mother SquarePants
- Father SquarePants
- Baby SpongeBob
- Pearl
- Mrs. Puff
- Larry
- Bikini Bottomites
- Harold
- Fred
- Tom
- Gus
- Nancy
- Evelyn
- Nat
- Dale
- Not SpongeBob
Places
- SpongeBob's House
- Krusty Krab
- Freezer
- Chum Bucket
- Krusty Krab's Air Vents
- Krusty Krab's Videoroom
- Nickelodeon Studios
- Squidward's House
Songs
- I'm Ready to Go to Work (Song)
- Oh, Krusty Krab (Song)
- Squidward Tentacles Theme (Song)
- Patrick Seastar Theme (Song)
- Eugene Krabs Theme Song
- We've Got Scurvy
- Beautiful Dreamer (sung by Squidward in credits)
Patchy plot
Patchy, after ten years of wanting to meet SpongeBob, goes to Nickelodeon Studios to meet his favorite idol. He waits at the gate, hoping for SpongeBob. A security guard shows up and takes him to the casting room, where Patchy orders a shrimp cocktail. He sees something with celebrity phone numbers on it. His bad side (which is just Potty with horns and a cape) tells him to call, and his good side (Potty with an angel skirt) tells him not to. Patchy calls Rosario Dawson, and she hangs up because of his bad breath. He then decides to call Lebron James, but he hangs up because he has a game to attend to. He finally calls who he thinks is Tina Turner, but is actually Tina Fey. He decides to call Will Ferrell. He hangs up because he is supposedly going to host the 20th aniversary show. The last person he calls is Craig Ferguson, his old friend from pirate school, who tells him that Robin Williams is in the studio. Then Robin Williams shows up, and Patchy takes him to the green room. Patchy starts the show, and the guests are: The 3 Point Fowl, The Guy on the Penny, The Queen, Pink, Sir Quentin and Mr. Tinder. SpongeBob is supposed to be there, so Patchy goes looking for him. Later, P!nk decides to rehearse, and we hear some of their songs. Patchy finally gets to Bikini Atoll. He gets swallowed by a whale, and he decides to go ahead and show the outtakes and the rejected scenes. A film starts, and Patchy tells us that SpongeBob started as a thought, and that he was made into a primitive rendering. He then shows us Patrick, Mr. Krabs and Squidward versions of the theme song. Then we see a 1920's Mickey Mouse cartoon-style segment of SpongeBob going to work. Patchy gets spit out of the whale. He lands in the studio and he is knocked out. He dreams that he meets SpongeBob. He faints and the dream ends. The Guy on the Penny asks him if he is okay. Patchy says he will never meet SpongeBob, and The Guy on the Penny lifts up his hat, which has a plush SpongeBob underneath it. Patchy faints once again, and the Patchy segments end.
SpongeBob Plot
The Krusty Krab celebrates its "eleventy-seventh" anniversary, and Mr. Krabs plans to sell lots of Krabby Patties, and has also hired Patrick as a security guard, leaving SpongeBob and Squidward in charge of a hologram of the Krusty Krab, showing the air ducts below. Mr. Krabs leaves SpongeBob in charge of decorating. SpongeBob has all the decorations ready, but when he takes the whole group into the freezer to show them the big Krabby Patty he made out of ice, it proves too heavy for them to pull, and SpongeBob flies out, only to bounce back in, with the door closing and locking behind him. So SpongeBob, Patrick, Squidward, and Mr. Krabs accidentally get locked in the freezer before they have a chance to celebrate. While finding their way through air shafts, they look back at some memorable moments in their lives and tell each other shocking reveals, thinking that they will never get out. SpongeBob even almost reveals the secret formula in a flashback! Meanwhile, Plankton finally finds the perfect opportunity to steal the Krabby Patty formula! But, like any other episode, the formula fails to come out to the public. We will have to keep waiting.
Cultural References
- The original title is based off of the classic 1963 film of the same name.
Trivia/Goofs
- There was a 3-hour marathon to go with the movie.
- The original name was The Great Escape, but it was later changed to Truth or Square.
- In September 2009, there were two books released, based on this movie. They are called SpongeBob SquarePants: The Great Escape! and SpongeBob SquarePants: Good Times!.
- This is the second SpongeBob TV movie. The first was Atlantis SquarePantis.
- This movie was originally going to air during Season 6, but it was later moved to Season 7.
- The movie is called Truth or Square, but one of the books based on this episode is called The Great Escape, its original name.
- There is also a game to the movie called "Truth or Square".
- The movie includes a new opening in stop-motion. [1]
- In this movie, there is footage of SpongeBob as a baby and the first Krusty Krab commercials.
- The first ad said SpongeBob and Sandy could be getting married in this movie. A second ad says that SpongeBob once married Sandy. However, it turns out to be a play, which the Bikini Bottomites disliked very much, although the minister thought it was real
- Mother SquarePants is seen pregnant with SpongeBob for the first time. Also, Mother SquarePants' hat was gone in the movie.
- It is unknown who the Krusty Krab fry cook during SpongeBob's baby flashback was. In Squidward's "Before SpongeBob" flashback, Jim wasn't the fry cook, possibly because the flashback takes place after he quit, because Squidward didn't have his long, blond hair.
- This is the first movie and episode in HD.
- SpongeBob pulls the umbilical cord out of his belly button in his flashback. This probably would've killed him, but didn't.
- How can SpongeBob put his umbilical cord into his mouth?
- Patchy the Pirate is always seen with a peg leg, but in this movie he doesn't have one.
- Despite foreshadowing in the advertisements, the Krabby Patty formula was never revealed.
- This is the first time Patchy is underwater.
- 3 altered SpongeBob theme songs are shown, one with Patrick, one with Mr. Krabs, and one with Squidward.
- After the day of this movie's premiere, the celebrity cameos were cut out for unknown reasons.
- It is possible that SpongeBob and Sandy truly wanted to get married by tricking the minister, because he said, "I didn't know this was a play."
- It is revealed that the Chum Bucket is 50 years old.
- The play wedding is a reference to the end of the first book in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events when Count Olaf tries to marry Violet in a play.
- The second evolution of SpongeBob resembles Homer Simpson.
- For some reason, this episode is on the Season 6, Volume 1 DVD, even though it's a Season 7 episode.
- The German title is Eiskalt entwischt', which means Ice Cold Escaped.
The DVD Includes an extended version of the movie and is not released on Blu-Ray.
Transcript
Episode Transcript: Truth or Square
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