Bulletin Board

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Characters

• Sweet old lady
• Eugene H. Krabs
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• Squidward Tentacles
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  • Incidental 30
  • Incidental 10
  • Steven
  • Incidental 8
  • John
  • Incidental 13
  • Incidental 6
  • Incidental 7
  • Incidental 17
  • Incidental 14
  • Charlie
  • Incidental 11
  • Steve
  • Incidental 27
  • Incidental 31
  • Carol
  • Incidental 63
  • Incidental 29
  • Troutenheimer
  • Incidental 2
  • Judy
  • Incidental 20
  • Incidental 18
  • Old Man Walker
  • Incidental 103
  • Dale
  • Scooter
  • Sandals
  • Incidental 102
  • Incidental 67
  • Incidental 151
  • Harris
  • Harold (Inc 40)
  • Incidental 153
  • Incidental 41
  • Tuck Tucker
  • Incidental 12
  • Stretch
  • Incidental 3
  • Incidental 42
  • Incidental 64
  • Gale
  • Incidental 46
  • Incidental 68
  • Incidental 8
  • Frank
  • Incidental 49
  • Incidental 60
  • Incidental 37B
  • Billy
  • Incidental 6
  • Incidental 21
  • Incidental 9
  • Incidental 47
  • Incidental 69
  • Incidental 81
  • Incidental 16
  • Incidental 28
  • Harold (Inc 36)
  • Incidental 7
  • Incidental 115
  • Mary
  • Mr. Mailman Template:Cameo
  • Incidental 119
  • Incidental 118
  • Incidental 157
  • Incidental 82
  • Incidental 152
  • Incidental 85
  • Incidental 91
  • Incidental 92
  • Incidental 15
  • Carol
• Pearl Krabs
• Sea unicorn Template:Cameo2
• Surfer dude
• Patrick Star
• Bubble Bass

Synopsis

In the opening, Mr. Krabs is talking to a sweet old lady about the service at the Krusty Krab while she is knitting a scarf. She says that it was great, but has to go, so she does not have time to tell anyone about it, making Mr. Krabs angry. SpongeBob gets an idea upon overhearing the discussion, and he grabs Mr. Krabs' corkboard and puts it up. After realizing what SpongeBob did, Mr. Krabs asks him what he was doing with it. SpongeBob says that they can use it as a bulletin board.

It quickly becomes very popular with the customers, who write reviews onto sticky notes, put up drawings, and a variety of other things. However, SpongeBob at one point sees a message that reads "When I eat at the Krusty Krab, all I get is a dark, empty feeling inside!" and at the bottom, it reads "P-Star7." SpongeBob is very surprised to see this, so he tells Mr. Krabs, who is even more shocked and decides to get rid of it. As he is about to though, the surfer dude tells him he cannot do it, with SpongeBob agreeing. He still believes in the bulletin board's power, so they agree to leave it up. Patrick then walks in and tells everyone that he is P-Star7, but nobody believes him. Slowly but surely, he puts up another note. SpongeBob, seeing the note, tries to write an apology note. After hours of SpongeBob cooking the perfect Template:Data:Links, P-Star7 finally responds with another mean note, saying that the Krabby Patties taste like old baseball gloves.

P-Star7 continues writing hurtful notes, including Sandals smelling bad, Gus' eye being too big, Bubble Bass not being able to chew with his mouth closed, Pearl's drawings being terrible, and that Squidward should not be able to stand behind a cash register. These notes make SpongeBob, Squidward, and Mr. Krabs furious, so they decide to wait in the Krusty Krab for P-Star7 to show up and write another one of his mean notes. When a shadowy figure enters the Krusty Krab, SpongeBob turns on the lights, revealing that it truly was Patrick. He puts up another note, causing Mr. Krabs to get mad and remove of all the notes in the Krusty Krab. SpongeBob then asks Patrick why he was P-Star7, so he explains that everyone kept misunderstanding his notes and that he was going to reveal himself in this last note. SpongeBob and Squidward understand, but Mr. Krabs is still furious at him, and he wants something to calm himself down. He then sees a flyer for a knitting circle class, and forces SpongeBob, Squidward, and Patrick to come with him. The teacher ends up being the sweet old lady and everyone thinks she is great, except Squidward, who wants Patrick to go back to being P-Star7, as the episode ends.

Production

During a tour of Rough Draft Korea for students of Yongsan International School of Seoul in April 2016, the front cover of the storyboard for this episode was found, and was posted onto Facebook on the 8th of that month. Vincent Waller later confirmed this episode on Twitter on May 17, 2016, and posted two images from the episode on July 13.

Art

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Background design

• Background design by Marco Cinello.

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Storyboards

• The storyboard cover can be seen on the bottom right of the image.
  The storyboard cover can be seen on the bottom right of the image.
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Release

Distribution

Format	Title	Region
DVD	SeaSide Story	Australia, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Brazil, Spain, Japan
	The Complete Ninth Season	United States, Australia
Box set	The Next 100 Episodes	United States
	The Best 200 Episodes Ever	United States
	The Best 300 Episodes Ever	United States
Digital release	SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 16	Global

Trivia

General

• The letters on the title card represent different-colored post-it notes.
• It is revealed that Squidward has a flower tattoo on his arm.
• The part where Patrick bites on the baseball glove is seen on the July 2016 premiere week commercials, even though this episode did not premiere during that week.
• This episode marks the first time "LOL" is said in an episode and the second time Internet slang acronyms are used in the series. The first is "F.U.N.."
• There are a few hints that P-Star7 was Patrick:
  • "P-Star7" shares the same initials as "Patrick Star," with the "7" referring to Patrick as a seven-letter name.
  • Patrick briefly mentions the Krabby Patties taste like baseball gloves, and SpongeBob reacts with surprise before Patrick says he didn't write it yet.
• This was the final episode to be written by Jack Pendarvis.
• On the Nickelodeon Play app for Australia and New Zealand, this episode is paired with "Sold!," which is known as its initial title, "Nick Fishkins: I'll Buy Your Home."
• In the UK and Ireland, Nickelodeon lists no plot for this and its sister episode after its premiere on April 4, 2017. Instead, it lists the show preview for season 9.

Episode references

• There is a gag in this episode where Patrick tries to eat his hand and puts salt on it. This is exactly what his distant ancestor does in "Ugh."

Cultural references

• This episode is a spoof of online trolling/cyberbullying in chatrooms and other general areas of internet communication. Instead of social media, P-Star7 uses the bulletin board to pick on everyone. The difference is that P-Star7's (Patrick's) comments were a misunderstanding.
  • Bulletin boards are often used to put flyers and advertisements up, which various characters did in this episode.
• Mr. Krabs attempting to censor a negative review is a reference to how certain people and companies attempt to censor negative reactions and reviews of their content and products.

Errors

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Bubble Bass' miscolored rims on his glasses.

• When Bubble Bass spits out his Krabby Patty after he reads a series of notes that read "Close your mouth when you eat!," the rims on his glasses turn from black to green.
• The Galley Grub sign changes positions throughout the episode.
• SpongeBob is seen having a conversation with Squidward behind the register, but when he runs out the kitchen, the latter is not seen behind the said register.

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Missing ropes.

• When SpongeBob is shrieking, the ropes on the windows are missing, making it look like the bulletin board is floating.

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Fry-Bashee139.

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There is no pin on the bottom part of the lowercase I.

• On the title card, there is a pin on the dot on the letter I, but no pin on the line.
• When Mr. Krabs says, "Okay, That's enough!," Incidental 41's hands are not shown.
• When the fishes are leaving the Krusty Krab, Incidental 104 is shown smiling, while the others are shown in their frowning faces.
• The dollar Mr. Krabs is shown putting on the wall is unaligned with the pattern shown around it.

Video

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Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
French	Le tableau d'affichage	The Bulletin Board
German	Das Anschlagbrett	The Bulletin Board
Italian	La bacheca	The Bulletin Board
Russian	Доска объявлений Doska obyyavleniy	Bulletin Board
Spanish (American)	Cartelera de anuncios	Bulletin Board
Spanish (European)	El tablón de avisos	The Bulletin Board