Born To Be Wild (Episode)

Born To Be Wild
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Episode No.:	78a
Season:	4
Airdate:	31 March 2007
Previous Episode:	Rule of Dumb
Next Episode:	Best Frenemies
Characters	Voice actors
SpongeBob SquarePants	Tom Kenny
Patrick Star	Bill Fagerbakke
Squidward Tentacles	Rodger Bumpass
Mr. Krabs	Clancy Brown
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"Born to Be Wild" is an episode from Season 4.

Plot

SpongeBob is jellyfishing. Some men on motorcycles drive past him, and SpongeBob holds on to one of the men's jackets, ripping a 'W' off the jacket. He looks at the jacket when he has to let go of it. He presumes it says 'The ild Ones', but he soon notices the 'W' in his hand and figures out that they are called 'The Wild Ones'. After someone tells him about the Wild Ones, SpongeBob runs to tell Mr. Krabs (actually, SpongeBob "takes the shortcut, which is a piggyback ride on a bubble). He does not listen, so he tells Patrick. Mr. Krabs puts up a banner saying 'WELCOME WILD ONES!' on the Krusty Krab and raises his prices in order to get them to eat there after hearing SpongeBob describes them as "ravenous". SpongeBob is worried because he is scared for the people of Bikini Bottoms safety After Patrick says that if they dressed up like bikers, they would be the big scary bikers, SpongeBob and Patrick decide to dress in biker attire and ride into town on a paddle-unicycle and a paddle-tricycle, respectively. After the bikers arrive at The Krusty Krab and after Patrick abandons SpongeBob and leaves Bikini Bottom, it turns out that they are old folk. The actual name of the biker gang is 'The Mild Ones'. SpongeBob had the 'M' upside-down. The biker that had the "M" ripped off his jacket gets his "M" back from SpongeBob and The Mild Ones ride away. Shortly after this, it revealed that Squidward decided to go with them.

Cultural References

The title is based on the Steppenwolf song "Born to Be Wild".
The show Squirrel Boy parodies the episode's title, and makes an episode called Born to be Mild.

Trivia/Goofs

In The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, Patrick's underwear has the peanuts singing with lyrics and dialogue. However, in this episode, Patrick's underwear only has peanuts around them.
Once, it revealed that SpongeBob is frightened because they ran out of napkins.
The Mild Ones' leader is Old Man Jenkins.
We know that the Mild Ones are just elderly people who are harmless, but at the beginning, they make fire and destroy things everywhere they go.
It has revealed that Jellyfish Fields is 50 miles away from Bikini Bottom.
This is the last episode to use a title card written in white with one other color as a background color. The others before this episode were Chimps Ahoy, Have You Seen This Snail?, Wet Painters, and the Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy episodes.
You can see the Mild Ones are old at the beginning. But their mouths, noses and big toes are bleeding.
SpongeBob uses incorrect grammar when he says "A horrible biker gang called the Wild Ones are coming!"
The title card uses the same name of the Steppenwolf song Born to Be Wild.
The bubbles that go up usually do that to enter another scene. SpongeBob thinks of them as a shortcut, and, thus, the 4th Wall is broken.
Blood is shown in this episode as Mr. Krabs told that the jackets have real bloodstains, and also when SpongeBob drinks diet blood although it is probably just soda that they call blood.
The person who told spongebob about the Wild Ones was a crazy hill billy so that should have been a hint not to listen.