Wormy (Episode)

"Wormy" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season two. It premiered on February 17, 2001. Template:Spoiler Brief summary: Sandy's taking a trip and puts SpongeBob and Patrick in charge of her pet caterpillar, Wormy (which they think is a worm). When the caterpillar turns into a butterfly overnight, SpongeBob and Patrick are convinced this new creature ate Wormy and is now after them and the rest of Bikini Bottom.

Time/Date: First Day

12:20 PM: Sandy demonstrates to take care of her pets
12:30 PM: Sandy leaves her house.
12:32 PM: SpongeBob and Patrick plays with Wormy.
2:00 PM: Spongebob and Patrick leaves the treedome of Sandy.

Second Day

12:00 AM: Wormy became a crysalis.
12:07 PM: Wormy became a butterfly.
7:00 AM: SpongeBob and Patrick wakes up.
7:25 AM: SpongeBob and Patrick went back to the treedome.
4:10 PM: Wormy (as a butterfly) enters the Krusty Krab.
5:00 PM: SpongeBob and Patrick start crying.
5:10 PM: Patrick starts the boat.
5:20 PM: Sandy went back to Bikini Bottom and put Wormy back in the jar. The people was happy to Sandy because the tragedy stopped.

Time cards shown: None

Characters Present:

Songs:

That's What Friends Do

A friend is a friend,

Til the end of the end

That's forever,

and a day

Stay by your side,

won't hear me say goodbye,

Come what may

Cos that's what friends do,

That's what friends do

Cos that's what friends do,

That's what friends do

Cos that's what friends do,

That's what friends do

Plot

Sandy Cheeks is taking a trip somewhere, so she leaves SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick Star in charge of her pets. Their favorite one is a caterpillar named Wormy. They play with him for a long time. They do not want the day to end, because they want to play more with Wormy. SpongeBob gives him a 'best friend ribbon' and he and Patrick promise to come back the next morning.

Overnight, Wormy turns into a butterfly. The following day, SpongeBob and Patrick find the butterfly in Wormy's jar. They let it go, and then come to the conclusion that it must have eaten Wormy (they do not realize that it actually is Wormy having gone through metamorphosis). They start panicking and set up traps, but they do not work, until SpongeBob blows a bubble to trap the butterfly. It goes out of Sandy's treedome and heads towards the Krusty Krab, where Squidward Tentacles is about to take a picture of Eugene H. Krabs with his first dollar. SpongeBob and Patrick go through the 'secret entrance', and hide inside the boat/counter. They tell them about the 'monster', but Squidward and Mr. Krabs think it's harmless. They look closer, and see a frightening buzzing creature (an extreme closeup of a horsefly), and run away. SpongeBob and Patrick think that the butterfly's eaten them, and warn Bikini Bottom. It's only then that the destruction starts, with a conflagration similar to the one that struck London in the 1600s. It's not until Sandy gets back that the terror/tragedy ends.

Quotes

Spongebob: Gee, Patrick, I didn't know you spoke bird.
Patrick: No, that's Italian, Spongebob.

Sandy: This here's my cricket. Look, he's saying "hi" to you. Ain't he cute?
Spongebob: Umm, sorry, I don't speak Italian.

SpongeBob: There's a monster outside!
Mr. Krabs: Oww, is he a paying customer?
SpongeBob: Oh, no Mr. Krabs, it doesn't want to eat Krabby Patties, it wants to eat you!
Patrick: Just like it ate Wormy!
Squidward: Ah, Wormy? Well, let me just check on this "monster". (sees butterfly) That's the monster?
Patrick: Pretty scary, huh?
Squidward: Aww, it's kinda cute.

Trivia/Goofs

Wormy is a Monarch butterfly.
Wormy's stage of metamorphosis could not have been completed in one night; it takes a very long time for it to turn into a butterfly. In this case, Monarch butterflies usually spend ten to fifteen days in pupation.
The close up of the butterfly shows the head of a buzzing horse-fly.
During the news flash about the "monster," the live-action stock footage shown suggests that Wormy is actually a female butterfly, due to the thick veins on its wings.
Wormy as a butterfly is trapped in a bubble blown by SpongeBob while they are in the Treedome. How does he blow the bubble with his water helmet on?
When Patrick is with the people holding up SpongeBob and Sandy, he does not have his eyebrows. And later on at one part there, when Sandy's arm is in the way, Patrick's eyes aren't drawn on him.
When Spongebob and Patrick first discover Wormy was a butterfly, they both run in different directions, but end up at the same table in the middle of Sandy's treedome.
When Patrick says, "Why does this keep happening to me!?", tears are shown in his eyes, but he has a water helmet on, thus making it seem unnecessary.
In some times, during quick action in Sandy's treedome, bubbles are seen, although there cannot be bubbles if there's no water.
When Sandy catches the bubble with Wormy inside, it shows her shoving the bubble in the container, thus causing it to pop. Sandy was outside the treedome when she did it, however, no water rushed into the jar.
In the Krusty Krab scene, after Squidward and Mr. Krabs freak out and run away, two pairs of underwear are seen left behind, but Squidward doesn't wear underwear.