Rock-A-Bye Bivalve (Episode)

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Rock-A-Bye Bivalve
Episode No.:	49b
Airdate:	29.03.2002
Season:	Season 5
Previous Episode:	Krab Borg
Next Episode:	Wet Painters

"Rock-A-Bye-Bivalve" is an episode from Season 3.

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Info

Time Cards Shown

12:00 Midnight
Tomorrow
Tomorrow for Sure
Eventually...
Uhh...

Characters

SpongeBob
Patrick
Junior Scallop
The Worm from Appleworld
Gary

Places

Plot

SpongeBob is outside his house when he receives his paper and takes the rubber band off the newspaper and places it halfway between his bodies. Patrick comes by and he has done the same thing with his body and they both leave to go to their houses. They both hear a little squeaking and they get upset with each other. Patrick and SpongeBob look on the ground and find a baby clam and decide to raise it by themselves. Then the baby scallop begins to cry because he is hungry, and SpongeBob and Patrick have these ideas to feed him:

SpongeBob: Krabby Patty?
Patrick: Absolutely not! He needs a tiny Krabby Patty!
Scallop: Yuck!
Patrick: Donuts?
Scallop: Ewww...
SpongeBob: French Fries?
Scallop: No way!
Patrick: A donut?
Scallop: Uh-uh...
SpongeBob: All I have left is apple. Soon, a worm comes out, and tells SpongeBob about himself. (Then, Junior decides to eat it)

They decide that they would be the mother and father of the baby clam. SpongeBob decides to be the mom while Patrick is the father. Patrick wanted to be the mother, but SpongeBob said that all of Patrick's fat would not help. They then decide to start working on their parenting tasks. Patrick starts going to work and leaves SpongeBob at home with the baby clam, Junior. Everyday SpongeBob is working so hard vacuuming, holding Junior, ironing, and cooking. When Patrick comes home he says that he would help SpongeBob take care of Junior, but fails to do anything to help SpongeBob out around the house. Patrick said that he would come home early to come and help SpongeBob around the house. Instead of coming home early Patrick comes back at midnight and SpongeBob comes out in a nightgown and is upset with him. Patrick is upset with SpongeBob and they have a big argument until Patrick says he is going to go back to work. Patrick walked to his rock and turned on the TV. SpongeBob followed him and asked him if that is what he called his job, watching TV. Patrick said that it was very hard to do because sometimes his butt itches or he has to move the antenna. They start yelling at each other until they see that Junior was about to fall out of the window and they make up and try to save him. They are too late to save Junior, but Junior ends up flying because he was all grown up. Junior flies away and leaves off on his own life, and SpongeBob now realizes that he has helped a scallop, so Patrick decides to have another. (This is a joke!)

Controversy

Despite the show's popularity, SpongeBob has endured controversy, though this is not new for Nickelodeon; many of its cartoons, including Ren and Stimpy, Rocko's Modern Life, The Angry Beavers, Invader Zim and The Fairly OddParents, have sparked controversy in one way or another. SpongeBob's popularity has made its controversy more noticeable and larger scale.

SpongeBob was relatively uncontroversial during the first two seasons and the beginning of the third season. SpongeBob and Patrick's close friendship in many episodes (including an episode where they hold hands) led some viewers to the conclusion that SpongeBob and Patrick were homosexual. In the 2002 episode "Rock-A-Bye-Bivalve", SpongeBob and Patrick adopt a baby scallop, furthering the rumor because of its implications that the two make major life decisions together as a monogamous couple would. SpongeBob sometimes wears cosmetics and dresses in women's clothing, often cited as evidence of his homosexuality. Independent of assumptions, the cartoon's acceptance and optimism have made it popular within parts of the real-life gay community.

More recently, SpongeBob was featured in the pro-tolerance "We Are Family" commercial. The video has sparked controversy because some conservative Christian groups believe that the We Are Family Foundation was using it to promote the normalization of homosexuality in American schools. A spokesman for the foundation suggests that anyone who thought the video promoted homosexuality "needs to visit their doctor and get their medication increased. Many fans have also pointed to the fact that many more characters besides SpongeBob were featured in the commercial, and SpongeBob's appearance is only a few seconds long. It has been incorrectly reported that James Dobson, a leading figure among many conservative Christians, believes SpongeBob is homosexual or promotes a homosexual, but the creator of the character, Stephen Hillenburg, has denied that SpongeBob is gay and has said that he is in fact asexual.

Trivia

The episode is referenced to Rock-A-Bye Baby, a lullaby song.
This episode's original title was Spongy Dearest before changes were made.
SpongeBob tells Patrick that he never wore a shirt. This cannot be because Patrick was wearing a light blue shirt in that Fry Cook Museum in Neptune's Spatula, and he wore a sweater in My Pretty Seahorse. He also wore a Valentine's Day shirt in

Valentine's Day.

SpongeBob was holding a puppet sponge for a few seconds, but when Patrick was finished putting a diaper on Junior, the puppet was gone.
The first time SpongeBob is shown doing all the housework, he is ironing a shirt. However, the second time, he is not ironing anything.
After the time card tomorrow, you could see for no reason, if you look closely, SpongeBob's tie is color black.
SpongeBob is still cooking pancakes but breakfast is already finished.
This is the only season three episode in the Tide and Seek DVD of SpongeBob SquarePants.
After Patrick comes home at 12:00am and says he was at a party if he was only working at home, SpongeBob could have notice it but in this case he did not.
When SpongeBob grits his teeth and shouts: Overtime, his teeth are suddenly straight and the gap between it was suddenly vanished.
SpongeBob was wearing a dress but in the next scene when SpongeBob approaches Patrick, he was now then wearing his pants.