Bubble Troubles

If you were looking for the article about the book, then see Bubble Trouble.

Characters

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• Sandy Cheeks
• Patrick Star
• Squidward Tentacles
• Eugene H. Krabs
• Pearl Krabs
• Squidward's bonsai
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  • Frank
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Synopsis

In the beginning of the episode, SpongeBob and Patrick are blowing bubbles, but soon, they get bored. SpongeBob suggests they "spice up" their bubble blowing. Patrick is struck with an idea and takes out a bottle of hot sauce. He dunks his bubble wand into the bottle and blows spicy bubbles into SpongeBob's eyes. SpongeBob screams as his eyes glow red and disintegrate, then grow back. Then, he blows a spicy bubble into Patrick's eyes, doing the same thing to him. Patrick wonders if hot sauce is bad for their eyes. Then, they say "Nah" and laugh. They burn each other's eyes repeatedly and the effect goes again.

Meanwhile, in his house, Squidward is clipping his likeness into a bonsai of himself. Just as he is about to clip off a straggler leaf, they scream and he lops off the entire head. The beheaded bonsai requests that Squidward avenges it. Squidward angrily yells at them out the window, but SpongeBob blows a big spicy bubble and it pops next to him, burning him to ashes and crippling him.

SpongeBob and Patrick go to Template:Data:Links, where she is outside fixing an air tank. They tell her about their new discovery, with Patrick convinced he is a genius for his new idea, even thinking he is smarter than Sandy. She tells them she is busy fixing a clog in the airtank. Patrick suggests she breathes water like a "smart person." Sandy explains that land creatures need air. Patrick simply dismisses her as "stupid." SpongeBob tries to help clear the blockage by blowing spicy bubbles onto the airtank, but it melts.

Water rushes into the treedome, filling it completely. Sandy only has a little bit of air left in her suit, so she goes to her submarine, which has enough air to go to the surface and replenish the air supply for her treedome. However, SpongeBob opens the door and water rushes in. Sandy tasks SpongeBob with driving the submarine to the surface, as the low amount of air is making her woozy. As they make their way to the surface, the lack of air in Sandy's suit causes her to act crazy and hallucinate, doing crazy things such as licking Patrick, seeing atoms. and thinking she has spider webs on her face.

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When they reach the surface, a delirious Sandy suddenly gets a craving for a Krabby Patty and drives the submarine through the roof of the Krusty Krab. Her suit's air supply is finally depleted and she removes her helmet. She takes a patron's Krabby Patty and eats it, but it is later spat out by SpongeBob pulling her tail. Mr. Krabs appears, wanting to know what is going on, and SpongeBob explains everything.

Pearl saves Sandy.

SpongeBob and Patrick try to help Sandy get air and they notice air bubbles from the submarine on the ceiling. SpongeBob uses a line of straws to reach them. Patrick sucks them in, then blows into Sandy's mouth. SpongeBob suggests Mr. Krabs might have air in him, telling him Squidward says he is "full of hot air" (which Squidward nervously denies). Mr. Krabs says he indeed has an air bubble or two and pulls in his eyestalks so Sandy can breathe them in. Pearl comes in and SpongeBob suggests she could help give air to Sandy because she is a mammal, just like Sandy. Pearl agrees, saying "I guess we mammals gotta stick together."

Sandy puts her mouth over Pearl's blowhole, and Pearl exhales, inflating her like a balloon. SpongeBob figures he can go to the surface and fill a bubble with air. Using an oxygen tank (which neither of them realizes could be used to help Sandy), he rockets to the surface, covers himself with bubble soap, and inhales to create a giant air-filled bubble, then he puts it into the treedome.

Sandy wakes up in the treedome with SpongeBob and Patrick. SpongeBob explains that he saved her with bubbles and she remembers that it was bubbles which caused all the trouble in the first place. Sandy tells them not to blow bubbles around her treedome anymore, but it turns out SpongeBob already blew one giant bubble around it, which lifts it away, as the episode ends.

Production

Art

Character design

• Sandy's model sheet, alongside poses from the episode of her struggling to breathe.
  Sandy's model sheet, alongside poses from the episode of her struggling to breathe.

Release

Broadcast

• This episode premiered as part of the 2011 Thanksgiving Weekend event, where it served as a lead-in to two other SpongeBob episodes, "The Krabby Patty That Ate Bikini Bottom" and "Bubble Buddy Returns."

Distribution

• This episode is available on the Complete Eighth Season, Ghouls Fools (Japanese release only), SpongeBob on Tour, The Best 200 Episodes Ever, SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 13, The SpongeBob SquarePants Collection, The SpongeBob SquarePants 8 Season DVD Collection, Next 100 Episodes, The Seventh & Eighth Seasons, and The Best 300 Episodes Ever DVDs.

Trivia

General

• According to a Futon Critic listing, this episode was initially supposed to have the packaging code of 166b, but it was later switched around with its sister episode, "The Way of the Sponge." The original airing however, keeps this packaging code, with this episode airing second, then "The Way of the Sponge" first. All other airings, streaming services, and DVD versions uses the normal packaging code.
  • This episode was also initially supposed to be called "Bubble Trouble," without the 's.'
• This episode was originally supposed to premiere on October 8, 2012 at 4:30pm in the UK and Ireland, but it was pulled for unknown reasons.
• The title card's background is reused art from the inside of the needle stack seen in "Prehibernation Week."
  • This is also the first time that it is shown that Sandy's suit has an oxygen gauge on it.
  • It is also the only time an air supply is shown to be connected to Sandy's treedome.

Errors

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No jar of hot sauce.

• In the beginning, when Patrick blows a bubble, his eyebrows are missing for a frame.
• The bubble Patrick blows goes into Sandy's treedome, but when Sandy is revived, the bubble appears on the outside.
• Sandy turns the wrench counterclockwise, but the nut is getting tighter instead of looser.
• When the bubble goes inside the dome, the hole of the air tank is missing.
• When showing a view of SpongeBob and Patrick blowing bubbles from Squidward's window, there is not a jar of hot sauce on the ground, but an ordinary jar of soap bubbles.
• When the bubble outside Sandy's treedome floats to the surface, SpongeBob can be seen talking, but his voice is not heard.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
French	Des bulles pimentées	Spicy Bubbles
Hungarian	Bajos buborékok	Problematic Bubbles
Italian	Problema di bolle	Bubble Problem
Russian	Всё дело в пузырях Vsyo delo v puzyryakh	It's All About Bubbles
Spanish (American)	Problemas de burbuja	Bubble Problems
Spanish (European)	Problemas burbujeantes	Bubbling Problems