Trivia / SpongeBob SquarePants S 1 E 13 "Scaredy Pants" / "I Was a Teenage Gary"

• First Appearance: Of the Flying Dutchman.
• Pop-Culture Urban Legends: Many fans swear up and down that in the original airing, there was a scene of Squidward transforming into a snail when he accidentally injects himself with the snail plasma that was either later cut for time or it was considered too scary; many usually point to the transition wipe being a traditional screen wipe instead of the usual bubble curtain. This was debunked when a VCR recording of the original 1999 airing surfaced online, but further rumors claimed that the scene was intact in Polish airings of the episode, which was also debunked by a resurfaced home taping. The truth is that no such scene was ever even scripted or storyboarded.

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