SB-129

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"SB-129" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season one.

Brief summary: Squidward flees to the Krusty Krab in search of quiet and winds up in frozen in the freezer. When he finally thaws, he finds himself far in the future and wonders how to get back.

Time/Date:

• Present: Sunday, March 6, 2017
• *5:58:23 AM: Squidward says "I think I'll treat Bikini Bottom to some real music."
• *5:59:47 AM: SpongeBob's alarm clock is shown after Squidward says the line above
• *6:00:00 AM: SpongeBob's alarm clock goes off, it is 6:00:00 AM
• Future: Monday, March 6, 4017 (according to the calendar you can see when Squidward is in the future)
• Past: Basic Prehistoric Era

Time cards shown:

• 2000 years later

Characters Present:

• Squidward Tentacles
• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Patrick Star
• SpongeTron
• SpongeTron X
• SpongeTron Y
• SpongeTron Z
• Pattron
• Primitive SpongeBob
• Primitive Patrick
• The other 483 SpongeTrons (mentioned, but not actually shown)
• Chrome spray-painter
• Ammonite
• Tapeworm
• Trilobites
• Disembodied voices

Songs: None

Plot

The day starts off quite well for Squidward. He is about to practice his clarinet when SpongeBob's alarm clock (facing out the window) knocks the clarinet inside Squidward's mouth, and SpongeBob asks Squidward if he wants to go jellyfishing. Squidward tries to reply, but because his clarinet is in his mouth, anything he says is incomprehensible, and SpongeBob thinks he said "yes". After Squidward takes his clarinet out of his mouth, Squidward is constantly bothered in his house by SpongeBob and Patrick who want to go jellyfishing with him. Squidward, in an attempt to stop SpongeBob and Patrick bothering him, tells SpongeBob that he should be at work, but SpongeBob tells him that it's a Sunday, and the Krusty Krab is closed on Sundays.

Squidward tells SpongeBob and Patrick to stay where they are, and goes out the back door of his house and goes into the Krusty Krab. He sees SpongeBob and Patrick looking for him, and goes into the kitchen. SpongeBob and Patrick are still looking for him, so he goes into the freezer. After SpongeBob and Patrick go away, Squidward is frightened to find that the handle is jammed, and that he is stuck inside the freezer. He assures himself that someone will find him.

2000 years later, the door falls down and a frozen Squidward is defrosted by 'SpongeTron', a descendant of SpongeBob. Squidward finds out that everything in the future (except for people) is made entirely of chrome, and all organic life forms that aren't people (such as seaweed or kelp) are simply spray-painted chrome. SpongeTron introduces Squidward to his clones, X, Y, and Z. Spongetron informs Squidward that there are 486 Spongetrons in response to a question by Squidward. Squidward had asked "Are the other letters of the alphabet involved, here?", meaning that the English alphabet has been expanded, merged with another character set, or (most likely) it was hyperbole by the animators to make the future more complex. Squidward, deciding that he hates the future, uses a time machine (shortly after meeting Patron, a two-headed descendant of Patrick) to travel to the prehistoric past.

He meets Primitive SpongeBob and Primitive Patrick, whom are the ancestors of SpongeBob and Patrick. Squidward tells them about jellyfishing because they keep on torturing themselves with jellyfish. They seem to be interested, but are driven crazy by Squidward's clarinet, and chase after him. He goes into the time machine, but it malfunctions, and he goes to a very strange place with abstract shapes and no characters or setting (it is possibly an alternate universe, another dimension, or a time warp, but Squidward calls it 'nowhere'). After he finds the time machine, he begs it to return to the present, which it does, but Squidward finds out that in his travels, he invented jellyfishing. The episode ends when Squidward says "I'm Going Back."

Quotes

• Squidward: You don't know how happy I am to see you guys.

SpongeBob: Does this mean you wanna go...(along with Patrick) Jellyfishing?

Squidward: NOOOO! Sheesh, who was the barnacle head that invented that game anyway?

SpongeBob and Patrick: You are, Squidward! (start laughing)

Squidward: I'm going back!

Trivia/Goofs

• The episode, which arises from Squidward time travelling and inventing the game of jellyfishing while seeking to avoid Spongebob and Patrick as they want him to jellyfish with them, is an example of a time paradox known as a causal loop. Thus, a person is inpired or driven by an event to time travel and, whether or not intentionally, causes the event which will facilitate their intial time travelling trip.
• The date of the first airing of the episode (12/31/1999) was intended to coincide with the eve of the new millennium since the plot focuses on life in the future since at the time there were concerns regarding Y2K and the perspective of what would occur in the 21st century and millennium.
• This was the first of two episodes to have the opening credits the same theme as the title slide. The second is Krusty Krab Training Video.
• This episode was originally called "SpongeBob 3000"
• The episode 'Ugh' (also marketed as SpongeBob Goes Prehistoric or SpongeBob B.C. Before Comedy) must be set after this time period, because of the more advanced clothing and the fact that they have invented a language, and discovered fire.
• This was the first episode to only feature Squidward as the main character.
• The title, SB-129 was believed to be a parody of the ever popular science fiction TV series, Stargate SG-1, but is really the production code for the episode.
• This is one of the few episodes in which the Krusty Krab is seen in the episode but Mr. Krabs is not.
• Tom Kenny voiced all of the SpongeBobs. (SpongeBob, Primitive SpongeBob, SpongeTron, SpongeTron X, SpongeTron Y, and SpongeTron Z)
• The DVD this episode is included on shows a recording session of Tom Kenny and Bill Faggerbakke recording as Primative SpongeBob and Patrick.
• A calendar in the future Krusty Krab is dated 4017, and if this is 2000 years later, this means the show takes place in the year 2017.
• The words "past," and "future" switch places from when Squidward first enters the time machine and when he goes in from the past.