Original air date: 7/22/2021
All of the anchovies in the Barge cabin have the same lifestyles, hobbies, and appearances. However, one nicknamed Chovy wants to be his own person. SpongeBob and Patrick help him find a unique identity.
"What About Meep?" contains examples of:
- Bait-and-Switch: We get a close-up of an angry-looking Patrick, which looks like one of the show's usual Gross-Up Close-Up jokes. Then we zoom out to see that SpongeBob painted it in the previous scene and is currently hanging it on the wall.
- Bittersweet Ending: The one unique thing Chovy can work with, wearing a mop on his head, is quickly appropriated by the other anchovies, leaving him the same as everyone just again. However, Chovy throws his mop away and realizes that being the only anchovy not wearing a mop once again makes him unique, while also letting him be his regular self.
- Busby Berkeley Number: The anchovies perform an elaborate sequential dive into a pool. They surface forming the word "MEEEEEEP".
- Failure Montage: A brief montage of viewfinder slides shows some of Chovy's failed attempts to find a new personality.
- I Just Want to Be Special: Chovy wants to stand out from the others in his cabin. However, none of the other archetypes he tries work.
- Medium Blending: Live-action puppets are used for the song scene involving the anchovies.
- Narrator All Along: The episode has an opening and closing narration. At the end, it's revealed to be SpongeBob unknowingly putting on a voice, once Patrick points out that he's talking differently.
- Suddenly Speaking: Chovy can only say "moop" in different tones, and once corrects SpongeBob by saying "isn't". Towards the end of the episode, he suddenly speaks a full sentence after seeing a mop:Chovy: Moop? (takes mop) Moop.
SpongeBob: Moop? Huh, no. Mop.
Chovy: (sarcastically) Oh, yeah, mop. That's what I meant to say. - Questioning Title?
Original air date: 7/22/2021
Patrick wrecks Mr. Krabs' prized ship in a bottle, and SpongeBob gets sent to Time Out for it. Not wanting his buddy to take the blame, Patrick has to break SpongeBob out before he goes insane from the isolation.
"Hard Time Out" contains examples of:
- Big Ball of Violence: SpongeBob and Patrick get into a brawl in the time out room, creating a huge cloud of dust. Mr. Krabs uses a fan to blow it away.
- Brick Joke: One of the things Patrick does to get in trouble is drive the outhouse into the lake. When SpongeBob needs to use the bathroom after his time out is done, Patrick tells him, "The lake's this way."
- Can't Get in Trouble for Nuthin': Patrick's antics get SpongeBob sent to Time Out, leading Patrick to try to get sent there too to keep his friend company. When he spills a trash can, Krabs doesn't care because he found a fully wrapped candy bar inside. Patrick then releases a swarm of urchins, but they eat all the trash and leave the camp cleaner than before. Even him wrecking the outhouse by driving it into the lake doesn't bother Krabs because it needed to be cleaned anyways. Patrick then throws his neckerchief on the ground, and this is what gets him in time out.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: Between lifting balloon weights, tattooing himself in crayon, and writing Tally Marks on the Prison Wall, the way SpongeBob acts after a while in time out is clearly an analogy to a hardened criminal.
- Pet the Dog: Even when sentencing SpongeBob to time out, Mr. Krabs at least gives him a pillow and offers some snacks.
- Prison Episode: Time out is treated as prison in this episode. Mr. Krabs asks SpongeBob if he's ready to "pay your debt to society" by doing it, SpongeBob is portrayed as a tough criminal after his time there, and Patrick refers to his attempts to get sent to time-out as a "crime spree".
- Tally Marks on the Prison Wall: After a minute in time out, SpongeBob has begun tallying down the seconds he's been in time out.
- Time Out: SpongeBob gets sentenced to time out, and undergoes Sanity Slippage after being cooped up in there for less than a minute.
