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Original air date: 9/30/2011

House Sittin' for Sandy

Sandy attends an invention convention and leaves SpongeBob and Patrick to watch her house.

"House Sittin' For Sandy" contains examples of:

  • Artistic License: The beaker SpongeBob drops somehow rolls in a long straight line into the robot warehouse; in reality due to its shape, it would've rolled in a tight circle for a shorter period of time then stopped.
  • Bait-and-Switch:
    • When Patrick arrives at the treedome, SpongeBob shows a surprising degree of saviness to Patrick's tendency wreck things, prompting him to have Patrick sit on a stool and not touch anything. Instead of Patrick, however, SpongeBob ends up being the one to wreck the treedome when he inadvertently caused a Disaster Dominoes effect that spiraled into disaster. Lampshaded by Patrick after the fact.
      Patrick: Wasn't me!
    • After Sandy returns home and sees all the destruction, she pulls out a ray gun and aims it at SpongeBob and Patrick, who fear she will kill them for destroying everything...but then she fires it at all the rubble, undoing all the damage, and reveals that her ray gun is actually a Rubble Reverser.
  • Batman Gambit: SpongeBob's job at watching the treedome, followed by his and Patrick's recklessness causing the robots to destroy it, was all part of Sandy's plan to test the Rubble Reverser she made at the convention. She tells the boys while she was going to destroy it herself, she admits no one else destroys stuff like they do.
  • Complexity Addiction: Sandy reveals that she wanted SpongeBob to destroy her home all along so she can test out her new invention. She admits that she could've just smashed everything herself, but states that nobody can destroy stuff like SpongeBob.
  • Disaster Dominoes: SpongeBob drops a beaker, which rolls all the way into the shed containing Sandy's robots, turning them on and causing them to go on a rampage, destroying everything in the treedome.
  • Five-Second Foreshadowing: Note that Sandy sounds very stilted when she sees the damage to her treedome, as if she expected it, hinting that she knew SpongeBob and Patrick would destroy it so she can test the Rubble Reverser Ray she made at the convention which she reveals not long after.
  • French Maid Outfit: SpongeBob wears one while dusting Sandy's knick-knacks.
  • Here We Go Again!: After Sandy fixes all the damage in her treedome, SpongeBob drops the beaker again, causing all the robots to turn on and destroy everything again. However, before Sandy can fix everything again, one of the robots smashes her Rubble Reverser.
  • Idiot Ball: SpongeBob has no excuses to not run and pick up the beaker as it rolls across the grass to the robot warehouse.
  • Luminescent Blush: Sandy does this after SpongeBob compliments her.
  • Oh, Crap!: After a robot smashes Sandy's Rubble Reverser, SpongeBob remarks that she has another one to fix all the damage. When it becomes clear that she doesn't, SpongeBob and Patrick quickly book it.
  • Reminder of Impossibility: SpongeBob spends the first half of the episode walking around the treedome without the water helmet. Then when Patrick comes in wearing his water helmet and reminds SpongeBob that they cannot breathe air, SpongeBob promptly dries up and becomes unable to breathe.
  • Say My Name: The episode ends with Sandy shouting SpongeBob's after he and Patrick run away to avoid her wrath.
  • Ship Tease: Sandy blushes when SpongeBob compliments her.
  • Tranquil Fury: When Sandy sees her treedome destroyed, she barely raises her voice as it appears she's going to kill SpongeBob and Patrick with an invention she shows, when really, she was expecting them to destroy the treedome so she could use the invention to fix everything.


Smoothe Jazz At Bikini Bottom

SpongeBob and Squidward try to sneak backstage into a Kelpy G concert after losing their backstage passes.

"Smoothe Jazz At Bikini Bottom" contains examples of:

  • Big Eater: Patrick is portrayed at this. He even extends to eating non-food items.
  • Butt-Monkey: Squidward. His concert tickets and backstage pass get eaten by Patrick, and even when he manages to sneak backstage and meet his Kelpy G, he ends up getting rejected by his idol in favor of SpongeBob's ukulele playing.
  • Concert Episode: The episode focuses on SpongeBob and Squidward attending a Kelpy G concert.
  • Crowd Surfing: Patrick does this to avoid getting caught by security.
  • Diabolus ex Machina: Patrick randomly shows up at the concert, eats Squidward's backstage pass and then eats SpongeBob's when he offers it to Squidward, despite not liking the taste of the first one.
  • Idiot Houdini: Patrick sneaks into the concert, eats Squidward and SpongeBob's backstage passes, and disrupts Kelpy G's performance, yet he doesn't suffer any punishment for it.
  • Radio Contest: Squidward tries to win tickets to a Kelpy G concert this way, but fails. SpongeBob ends up winning them instead.
  • Spanner in the Works: If Patrick hadn't snuck into the concert, SpongeBob and Squidward wouldn't have lost their passes in the first place.
  • Throw the Dog a Bone: Squidward actually gets a little bit of enlightenment when SpongeBob wins the concert tickets and shares one with him.
  • Two Words: I Can't Count: SpongeBob is surprised to see Patrick at the Kelpy G concert and asks his friend why he's here, and Patrick splits "nachos" into two words.
    Patrick: Two words: Na-chos.

 
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House Sittin' for Sandy

Um, SpongeBob? May Patrick remind you that you went a long time without your water helmet? The treedome is full of air, and sea creatures can't breathe air as they'll dehydrate?

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