A Friendly Game

Characters

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• Patrick Star
• Squidward Tentacles
• Squidward Tentacles' house ^{(as a character)}
• Gary the Snail
• French Narrator
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  • Troutenheimer
  • Incidental 2
  • Incidental 45
  • Incidental 48
  • Incidental 107
  • Charlie
  • Incidental 40
  • Incidental 42

Synopsis

In the beginning of the episode, SpongeBob goes over to Template:Data:Links so they can play a game of golf. However, before their game can begin, it starts to rain. Patrick tries to tell the rain to stop, but he winds up getting struck by lightning and screams. While hearing the noise outside, Squidward opens his window and tells them to keep it at a low rumble. While it is raining outside, SpongeBob and Patrick decide to build a golf course in SpongeBob's house. While they are building, the noise wakes Squidward up. Squidward tells SpongeBob and Patrick to not make any more noise "Or else." Patrick does everything he can to distract SpongeBob and make him lose. SpongeBob and Patrick's golf balls smash through SpongeBob's window after they hit them too hard and land right in Squidward's window.

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Squidward angry at SpongeBob and Patrick.

SpongeBob decides to end the game, but Patrick ignores him and enters Template:Data:Links to look for his ball. While searching, Patrick stops to rummage through Squidward's fridge and eats most of his food including some kelp salad, only to discover he has also eaten SpongeBob's ball, which was hiding in it. SpongeBob offers to get the ball out, but he declines and tells Patrick he has to "play the ball where it lands." After hitting his ball out of Patrick's body, Patrick finds his ball stuck in his bum, SpongeBob reminds him again that he must "play it where it lands." Patrick gets a hole in one and SpongeBob tells him he could do it blindfolded, so Patrick hands him a blindfold. Patrick helps SpongeBob find his ball by playing hot or cold, but since SpongeBob cannot see, he accidentally breaks Squidward's furniture and paintings. It turns out Patrick also took a shower in Squidward's bathroom while accidentally giving SpongeBob bad directions. Finally annoyed with Patrick's laziness, SpongeBob drags him out and they go off to search the house.

They soon find both balls have landed in Squidward's room, Patrick's golf ball is on Squidward's head and SpongeBob's golf ball is in his mouth. Just as they are about to hit their balls, Squidward wakes up and screams as SpongeBob hits his golf ball out along with Squidward's dentures. SpongeBob and Patrick both get a hole in one and leave Squidward's house, planning to have a rematch next Saturday. The episode ends with Squidward's house collapsing and falling apart to the ground, while crushing him.

Production

Production for this episode and its sister episode finished on January 10, 2011.

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Art

• Title card.
  Title card.
• "Brief Construction Montage" time card.
  "Brief Construction Montage" time card.
• Concept art for this episode from supervising storyboard director Tuck Tucker.
  Concept art for this episode from supervising storyboard director Tuck Tucker.

Release

Broadcast

• This episode was paired with "Oral Report" during the original American airing, but has since been re-airing with "Sentimental Sponge."

Distribution

Format	Title	Region
DVD	SpongeBob's Frozen Face-Off	United States
	Disorder in the Deep	Germany, United Kingdom, Japan
	Deep-Sea Games	Europe, Australia, South Africa
	Home Sweet Rubble	Japan
	The Complete Eighth Season	United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Box set	The SpongeBob SquarePants Collection	Australia
	Kids Double Pack: Volume 2	Europe
	The SpongeBob SquarePants 8 Season DVD Collection	Germany and Australia
	The Seventh & Eighth Seasons	United States
	The Next 100 Episodes	United States
	The Best 200 Episodes Ever	United States
	The Best 300 Episodes Ever	United States
Digital release	Mighty Sporting of You	Global
	SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 12	Global

Trivia

General

• All of the known holes built in SpongeBob and Patrick's custom mini-golf course:
  • Hole 1: A course where the ball must be shot through Template:Data:Links's shell, followed by a right turn towards a toilet paper ramp that has the hole inside a life ring. Patrick almost makes it, but misses and the ball ends up back to the start. SpongeBob gets a hole-in-one.
  • Hole 2: Putt through the windmill and through a passage of metal pipes that leads to the hole. Patrick gets a hole-in-one, while SpongeBob misses at first as Patrick sabotaged his turn.
  • Hole 3: Hit up and around the metal slopes into the barrel tower, which will land the ball in the hole behind the golfer. Both SpongeBob and Patrick succeed, although SpongeBob does it with a different technique.
  • Hole 4: Unknown, Patrick stands in the way of the putt which he claims has a "water hazard." SpongeBob misses and excessively hits it out the window into Squidward's house, which Patrick does as well.
  • Hole 5: Contains a butter sculpture of Squidward. The head is destroyed after SpongeBob's mishap.
  • Unknown hole: Hit the ball off the ramp into the toilet hole, which is connected to a pipe that sends the ball to the hole. SpongeBob aims here accidentally which causes his ball to hit the ramp too hard and break through the window.
  • Unknown hole: Putt over a red ramp.
  • Unknown hole: A relatively easy hole that simply involves putting the ball into a curvy red wall.
  • Unknown hole: The same barrels seen in hole 3 are used as a tunnel to send the ball to the hole.
  • Unknown hole: Hit the ball just right over the slope with a red arrow on it into the pipe which will lead it to the hole.
• This is the first season 8 episode in airing order.
• The letters of the title card are a red plaid, similar to SpongeBob's outfit in the episode.
• Just like in "Funny Pants," Squidward's house has giant hands to plug its ears.
  • However, unlike in "Funny Pants," this time, it is made of sand.
• This episode reveals that Squidward has dentures as teeth.
• This is the second episode where the same time card appears twice in the same episode. The first was "Sun Bleached."
• This is the first (and second) time where the French Narrator says something different other than what is written on the time card. He does it twice in this episode.
• SpongeBob mentions the episode title when he says "Well, you're just in time to indulge in a friendly game of indoor miniature golf."
• This episode and its sister episode "Sentimental Sponge" only have Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, and Rodger Bumpass credited as voice actors.
• In this episode, SpongeBob and Patrick play miniature golf; however in "Sportz?," they don't know what golf is.
• In "Little Yellow Book," SpongeBob clucks like a chicken whenever he sees plaid; however in this episode, he does not cluck when he wears his plaid golfing uniform.

Cultural references

• At some point in the episode, Patrick acts like a golf reporter with a crowd of people watching him, alluding to any golf program getting positive reactions and feedback when a golfer gets a perfect, good, or a nice shot to the hole from a distance.

Errors

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The windows were first in the gallery, then in the bedroom.

• When SpongeBob says, "Let's get this game teed off," he is not next to a starting point, but when he gets the golf balls and is still standing in the same place when he did, he just bends down, and a starting place is there.
• Although Patrick says he and SpongeBob are a tie, "three strokes to three," on SpongeBob's third stroke, he just misses the hole, so it would be at four strokes to three.

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Hole four is open space.

• Hole four is shown to be in the middle of nowhere, as there are no walls or obstacles in sight.
• When SpongeBob and Patrick hit their balls into Squidward's house, they break a window. However, when SpongeBob walks around blindfolded and destroys Squidward's things, he breaks the same window even though the window was already broken.
• SpongeBob breaks Squidward's house's eye windows in the gallery, but later in the episode, Patrick does more destruction to the same windows, only when Patrick does it, the windows were not in the gallery like earlier in the episode; they were in Squidward's bedroom.
• In the shot when Patrick breaks the wall, he breaks the wall at the front of the house. In the next shot, the hole is at the side facing SpongeBob's house.

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Hole 3's obstacles change throughout the episode.

• Hole 3's obstacles throughout the episodes are misplaced until they go play there.
• When Squidward shouts at SpongeBob and Patrick when Patrick did some calisthenics, when he says "down!" the animation says it before the voice does.
• When the balls smash through SpongeBob's window and SpongeBob goes out looking for them, the upstairs window is broken and not the downstairs window.
• Sometimes, Squidward's dentures are shown to have all teeth in several airings. But sometimes, in some airings, they would show the dentures without any teeth.

Video

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Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Finnish	Minigolfia	Minigolf
French	Une super partie amicale	A Great Friendly Game
German	Sportsfeinde	Sports Enemies
Hungarian	Barátságos meccs	A Friendly Match
Italian	Una partita fra amici	A Game Between Friends
Russian	Товарищеский матч Tovarishcheskiy match	A Friendly Match
Spanish (American)	Un juego amistoso	A Friendly Game
Spanish (European)	La partida amistosa	The Friendly Match