Bunny Hunt

Characters

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  • SpongeBob's teeth
• Squidward Tentacles
• Gary the Snail
• Patrick Star
• Squidward Tentacles' house ^{(as a character)}
• Bunny Wunny Template:Single appearance
• Female sea bunny Template:Single appearance
• Baby sea bunnies Template:Single appearance
• Animal control fish Template:Single appearance
• Mermaid Man Template:Cameo
• Barnacle Boy Template:Cameo
• Man Ray Template:Cameo
• Dirty Bubble Template:Cameo
• Jumbo Shrimp Template:Cameo
• Clam Head Candy Cad Template:Cameo
• Margaret SquarePants Template:Cameo
• Harold SquarePants Template:Cameo

Synopsis

The episode begins with Squidward making a vegetable version of himself. However, he forgot the parsley, so he goes to get some from his backyard. When he tries to take it out, he ends up getting pulled underground by a bunny. Meanwhile, Squidward's meal gets burned due to sitting in the oven for too long. This makes Squidward want to get rid of the bunny.

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Squidward's house burns.

After failing to attack the bunny, Squidward hides in a large carrot so he can call animal control so they can take the bunny. They come, but SpongeBob prevents them from taking the bunny and decides to raise it himself.

SpongeBob brings the bunny to his house and tries to feed it. However, since the bunny only wants vegetables, SpongeBob goes to the Barg'N-Mart to get something. While he is there, the bunny starts looking for food, only to make a mess in SpongeBob's living room. SpongeBob puts hot sauce everywhere to prevent the sea bunny from doing this again, but the bunny eats the hot sauce and causes fires around the room. Thankfully, SpongeBob stops the fires and prevents the bunny from burning anything else.

Later, SpongeBob tries to have the bunny live in a cage, but he does not want to live in it and hides underneath the wallpaper of the walls. Afterwards, SpongeBob finds Patrick in his couch and asks him to get the bunny out, but he gets stuck in the wallpaper. SpongeBob decides to get a girl bunny from the store for the bunny to fall in love with, and this succeeds.

When the two sea bunnies go into the laundry basket, they start to multiply. SpongeBob and Patrick chase the bunnies until they end up reaching Squidward's house. The house gets completely flooded by bunnies, until the house itself gets destroyed and the bunnies form a look-alike house out of themselves. The episode ends with Squidward losing his sanity and turning into a bunny as the animal control officer tries to capture him, while one of the bunnies turns into Squidward and plays his clarinet.

Production

John Trabbic posted two early versions of Fred Osmond's doodles that would take form as SpongeBob's wild "teeth" take on Tumblr on November 22, 2016, alongside other rough board artist doodles. One of them was in black-and-white, the other was in color.

The episode was confirmed by Vincent Waller on July 4, 2017.

Art

• Drawn by Fred Osmond.

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Background design

• Designed by Hena Hong.

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Release

Format	Title	Region
DVD	The Complete Eleventh Season	United States
	Squid Noir	Japan
Box set	Another 100 Episodes	United States
	The Best 300 Episodes Ever	United States
Digital release	SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 18	Global
	SpongeBob Schwammkopf, Staffel 11, Vol. 2	Germany

Trivia

General

• This episode was paired up with a rerun of "Moving Bubble Bass" during the episode's original American airing, but since it has re-airing with "Sanitation Insanity."
• In the real world, sea bunnies are a species of sea slug scientifically named Jorunna parva. They live in the Indian Ocean and in Papua New Guinea.
  • A realistically-drawn sea bunny appears in the title card.
• A few clips from this and its sister episode were released on Nick Israel's Facebook account on December 19, 2017 and Instagram on January 25, 2018.
• Barg'N-Mart is called "Grocery" in this episode. It is also revealed they sell pets.
• A villain named Clam Head Candy Cad from "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy" makes a reappearance after nearly 19 years of absence by reappearing on a comic book cover.
• When Squidward is talking to the wooden dummy, he says "Sacré bleu!" This translates to "Damn it!" in English.
  • He also says another French phrase "C'est la vie" during his garden funeral, which translates to "That's life" in English and is usually used to express acceptance of something that is disappointing or not as expected.
• Bunny Wunny can be seen playing "Puka" on his ukulele, thus breaking the fourth wall.
• In the real world, sea bunnies are hermaphrodites and would not need a partner to reproduce. This makes the bunnies depicted act more like actual rabbits instead.
• This is the first episode to feature Carlos Alazraqui as a voice actor since "Mermaid Man vs. SpongeBob" back in season 5.

Episode references

• The shed from "The Curse of Bikini Bottom" is seen again at the end when all the bunnies ambush Squidward's house.
• When Bunny Wunny rips Squidward's mustache off, Squidward has the exact same face when SpongeBob and Patrick interrupt his bath from "Have You Seen This Snail?"
• Gary's toy ball from "Gary's New Toy" reappears on a shelf.

Cultural references

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  According to this episode's supervising director, Adam Paloian, this episode is an intentional homage to the Looney Tunes franchise, specifically, the Bugs Bunny cartoons.
  • Bunny Wunny acts like Bugs Bunny from Looney Tunes.
• One of the paintings in Squidward's house is a spoof of The Scream.

Errors

• A picture of Gary can be seen when SpongeBob is in his home, but after getting groceries, a different picture appears in place of it.
• In the scene where Squidward puts his creation in the oven and kisses it, his back straps to his apron appear to be missing.
• When Patrick comes out from under the wallpaper, he is completely dark blue.
• When Squidward calls animal control for the second time, he has no wrinkles.

• Blue Patrick.
  Blue Patrick.
• Repeated removal of hot sauce.
  Repeated removal of hot sauce.
• Wrinkless Squidward.
  Wrinkless Squidward.

Videos

• File:SpongeBob SquarePants - "Bunny Hunt" Official Promo 1
• File:SpongeBob SquarePants - "Bunny Hunt" Official Promo 2
• File:SpongeBob SquarePants - "Bunny Hunt" Official Promo 3
• File:SpongeBob SquarePants - SpongeBob Adopts a Sea Bunny!
• File:SpongeBob SquarePants - Fire Bunny - Nickelodeon UK
• File:SpongeBob and Patrick HUNT a Sea Bunny! 🐰 - "Bunny Hunt" Full Scene - SpongeBob

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
German	Seehasenjagd	Sea Hare Hunt
Russian	Охота на кролика Okhota na krolika	Bunny Hunt
Spanish (American)	Cacería de conejos	Rabbit Hunting
Spanish (European)	La caza del conejito	The Hunt for the Bunny