Buried in Time

Characters

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• Eugene H. Krabs
• Squidward Tentacles
• Fish on the Plate
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• French Narrator
• Patrick Star
• Rocky
• Bikini Bottom Construction Company
  • Construction foreman
• Sheldon J. Plankton
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  • Incidental 34
  • Incidental 41
    • Daydream Incidental 41
  • Dale
    • Daydream Dale
  • Incidental 107
    • Daydream Incidental 107
  • Incidental 42
  • Incidental 105
  • Troutenheimer
    • Daydream Troutenheimer
  • Incidental 40
  • Incidental 106
    • Daydream Incidental 106
  • Incidental 49
  • Tom
  • Incidental 48
    • Daydream Incidental 48
  • Daydream Incidental 37A
  • Daydream Incidental 40
  • Daydream Incidental 102
  • Daydream Incidental 103
  • Daydream Incidental 47
  • Daydream Incidental 45
  • Daydream Incidental 153
  • Daydream Incidental 8
  • Incidental 46
    • Daydream Incidental 46
  • Incidental 60
  • Future Incidentals
    • Future Fred ^(orange)
    • Future Clint
    • Future Incidental 31
    • Future Incidental 18
    • Future Scooter
    • Future Incidental 158
    • Future Incidental 105
    • Future Incidental 106
    • Future Dale
    • Future Incidental 37B
    • Future Incidental 63
    • Future Don the Whale
    • Future Incidental 37A
    • Future Tom
    • Future Incidental 28
    • Future Incidental 30
    • Future Incidental 103
    • Future Incidental 69
    • Future Incidental 107
    • Future Incidental 20
    • Future Incidental 11
    • Future Incidental 13
    • Future Incidental 48
    • Future Incidental 65
    • Future Incidental 16
    • Future Incidental 67
    • Future Charlie
    • Future Incidental 154
    • Future Incidental 3
    • Future Incidental 9
    • Future Incidental 2
    • Future Incidental 27
    • Future Incidental 12
    • Future Steven
    • Future Incidental 64
    • Future Incidental 25
    • Future Incidental 40
    • Future Harris
    • Future Carol
    • Future Incidental 14
    • Future Incidental 49
    • Future Incidental 41
    • Future Incidental 42
    • Future Joe ^(38-colored)
• Swordfish trucker
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• Squidward Followers
• Karen Plankton

Synopsis

The episode starts at the Krusty Krab when SpongeBob realizes they are out of tartar sauce, but when he checks the vat, he realizes it is empty and it has been there for 50 years. When Mr. Krabs yells at him to get back to work, SpongeBob explains the situation. Mr. Krabs gets an idea to start a time capsule.

The next scene shows the tartar sauce vat next to a hole with a large stage next to it. A huge line of people are in line to make contributions to the time capsule by handing things in, and Mr. Krabs tells SpongeBob and Squidward to handle them while he sells souvenirs. It shows several people making contributions, which Squidward critiques, but SpongeBob finds everything amazing. Mr. Krabs sells cheap souvenirs for outrageous prices. Patrick comes to make a donation of his favorite rock. Believing that this item is too ridiculous for a time capsule, Squidward tries to seize the break from Patrick. The struggle makes the rock fly in the air and it puts the wood behind him, flinging Squidward, SpongeBob, and Patrick into the time capsule, trapping them in and burying them alive. Mr. Krabs puts a copy of the Krabby Patty secret formula in the capsule, making Plankton interested.

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In the time capsule, the three of them imagine what the future would be like until Squidward gets knocked out. Patrick then finds shaving cream which he mistakes for whipped cream, so he tastes it and finds it awful. Plankton drills into the capsule, hitting the shaving cream that sprays Patrick, which gives him a beard and Patrick sprays SpongeBob and Squidward. Squidward wakes up, thinking it has been 50 years due to the beard, and escapes through the hole Plankton created. The "future" is not what Squidward wanted, so he goes back to the time capsule, unknowingly stepping on the formula bottle on his way back, shoving it inside Plankton.

The episode ends with Plankton, now constipated with his body shaped like a bottle, sitting on a toilet in the Chum Bucket and trying to get the formula out of his body. Karen says "Don't hurt yourself, poopsy", and Plankton asks for more prunes.

Production

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Release

Broadcast

• When this episode premiered, it was paired with "Shellback Shenanigans," but it has since re-aired with "Enchanted Tiki Dreams."

Distribution

• This episode is available on the Complete Seventh Season, SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 11, Rockin' Bikini Bottom, Season 7 Volume 4, Sweet & Sour Squidward, The SpongeBob SquarePants Collection, The SpongeBob SquarePants 8 Season DVD Collection, Next 100 Episodes, The Best 200 Episodes Ever, The Seventh & Eighth Seasons, and The Best 300 Episodes Ever DVDs.

Trivia

General

• The title card background for this episode is similar to those of "Sandy's Rocket," "Wormy," and "Fungus Among Us."
• The time capsule date has the year of 1960 on it and this episode aired in 2010. At the beginning, when SpongeBob sees the date on the time capsule as May 1, 1960, he infers that it has been there for 50 years. It is therefore implied that the episode takes place the year it aired.
  • The month and day on the capsule is May 1, a reference to the airdate of the first episode.
• This is the last episode of the main show to play the APM track "Chief Taravana." However, it later plays in the Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years episode "To Pop a Bubble."
• The real life city imagined by Patrick is in Los Angeles, California. One depicts Bull Creek, and another has a visible advertisement for Ramsey-Shilling.
• This episode is similar to season 4's "Wishing You Well," as both episodes involve SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidward being trapped in an enclosed space.

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SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidward do not attempt to escape the capsule.

• When Mr. Krabs opens the time capsule to insert the copy of the formula, SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidward can be seen reacting to the light, however they do not attempt to escape.
• When SpongeBob imagines Bikini Bottom, in the future, everything is chrome, like it was in SB-129.

Cultural references

• Pretzel Pals is a parody of Twister.
• Squidward waking up with a "beard" and thinking he had slept for 50 years is a reference to the tale of "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving.

Errors

• The fish with plate's eyes briefly disappear for a frame.

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Fish with plate's missing eyes.

• Throughout the scenes where fish are putting things in the capsule, the red ribbon which runs from the stand to the Krusty Krab repeatedly disappears and reappears.
• In the crowd outside the time capsule, there are duplicated fish.

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Incidental 40 with a straw overlapping his mouth.

• In Plankton's vision of a popular restaurant, Incidental 40 can be seen drinking with a straw overlapping his mouth.
• When Mr. Krabs throws the formula in the capsule, the capsule was full to the brim, but when the scene cuts back to SpongeBob and company, it is barely full and a lot wider.
• When SpongeBob throws the plate, it breaks, but when they are trapped inside, the plate is back together again.
• When everyone is putting things into the capsule, it is next to a sign, but when Squidward is getting out of the capsule, it is next to the road.
• Future Incidental 41's eyes disappeared when Spongebob and the Future Fish were teleporting.

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Perch Perkins is mistakenly credited here.

• Perch Perkins is listed in the credits for this episode, but he is neither seen nor heard in the episode.

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The door appears taller.

• When the scene switches to Plankton trying to get the formula out of his body, the door appears taller.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
French	La capsule temporelle	The Time Capsule
German	Nach uns die Nachwelt	After Us, Posterity
Hungarian	Jelen van a jövő	The Future Is Now
Italian	La capsula del tempo	The Time Capsule
Russian	Затерянные во времени Zateryannyye vo vremeni	Lost in Time
Spanish	Enterrados en el tiempo	Buried in Time