A Skin Wrinkle in Time

Characters

• GrandPat Star
• French Narrator
• Painty the Pirate
• Hans
• Realistic Fish Head
• Cecil Star Template:Cameo
• Bunny Star Template:Cameo
• Patrick Star Template:Cameo
• Squidina Star Template:Cameo
• Cowboy 1 Template:Single appearance
• Cowboy 2 Template:Single appearance
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  • Incidental 64
  • Mabel
  • Incidental 6
  • Incidental 150
  • Incidental 7
• King Neptune ^(mentioned)
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Synopsis

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GrandPat making his way through the wormhole.

The episode begins with GrandPat flying through a wormhole, avoiding various junk on his way. However, he stops when he notices a huge Painty the Pirate on his way, flying into his mouth and replacing SpongeBob in his theme song. He wants to get out of the theme song, and luckily finds a time closet door nearby, flying into the Wild West era, where the two cowboys are engaging in a stand-off. It's interrupted by GrandPat, who flies out of the time closet and grabs the second cowboy, leaving with him. The two fly through the wormhole again, seeing a baby version of GrandPat on the way. Their trip ends when they notice a seahorse on the way, with the cowboy telling that it's his as he jumps on it and flies away. After a while, GrandPat finally arrives in his home timeline, but as he sits down to watch TV, he notices that his family became fly-like beings. He doesn't mind that and continues to watch the French Narrator on TV, until he turns it off, to GrandPat's disdain.

Production

Arielle Phillips drew promotional art referencing this episode for the Tidal Zone's San Diego Comic-Con poster during February and March 2022.

This episode was confirmed by Cartoonlounge.de on August 2, 2022.

An image from this episode was showcased at New York Comic Con on October 9, 2022.

This episode, along with "Welcome to Binary Bottom" and "You're Going to Pay...Phone" were officially completed in September 2022. However, they were delivered on December 2, 2022, because of the Kamp Koral Tidal Zone segment being completed and delivered on the same date.

Promotional art

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Comic-Con Tidal Zone poster, drawn by Arielle Phillips.

Storyboards

• Directed by Sherm Cohen, "funny roughs" by Fred Osmond, plussed by Zach Heffelfinger with "some help from Ted Seko on a couple scenes."

File:Skin Wrinkle Storyboards 1.mp4

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Workprint

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Production notes

Zach Heffelfinger:

• This episode was one of Heffelfinger's favorite assignments, as "[he] got to reimagine the SpongeBob Theme Song with [GrandPat] from "The Tidal Zone" Special."

Release

Format	Title	Region
DVD	The Complete Thirteenth Season	United States
	Kamp Koral Season 1, Volume 2	United States
	The Patrick Star Show Season 1, Volume 2	United States
Box set	Another 100 Episodes	United States
	The Best 300 Episodes Ever	United States
Digital release	The Tidal Zone	Global
	SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 22	United States

Trivia

General

• This episode premiered as a part of "The Tidal Zone" special event.
• This episode was originally scheduled to premiere on Friday, November 25, 2022 in the United States at 7:22 PM, but it instead got replaced with the Nickelodeon premiere of the 2020 film The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run.
  • This episode was later scheduled to premiere at the same exact time of 7:22 PM on Friday, January 13, 2023, but it instead premiered at 7:52 PM, mirroring its proposed chronological order in "The Tidal Zone."
• During the original airing and all subsequent "The Tidal Zone" re-airings, this episode segment, alongside "You're Going to Pay...Phone," were paired up with the Kamp Koral episode, "The Switch Glitch" and The Patrick Star Show episode, "Shrinking Stars."
• GrandPat questioning if he's reached the beginning of the universe as he's about to fly into Painty's lips is an in-joke on how the series' theme song serves as the "beginning" of the SpongeBob universe; it was also the first piece of series media to be released in full, with the song obviously playing prior to the premiere of "Help Wanted."
• The "GrandPat Sea Star" theme song is sung by Eban Schletter's children.

• Episode 279 copyright date.
  Episode 279 copyright date.
• Episode 553 (compliation special) copyright date.
  Episode 553 (compliation special) copyright date.

• When this episode is seen in its proper episode 279 pairing, it has a copyright date of 2022. However, when shown as a part of The Tidal Zone compilation special, it has a copyright date of 2023. The episode, ultimately, was produced during the former year.
• This is the first episode to not only play instantly after another episode, but to have the title card play after the intro and first scene.
• This is the first third segment since "BlackJack" in season 5.
• This is the second episode that features an animated character on the title card. The first was "Trident Trouble," which featured all the members of the Greek chorus speaking to the viewers.
• This is the second shortest episode in the series, only beaten out by "Reef Blower." This is also the second episode to have no onscreen credits, the first also being "Reef Blower."
• This is the second SpongeBob episode to share the exact same production code with another segment, with this and both "You're Going to Pay...Phone" using the production number of 325-1324.
  • For this reason, it appears as if the episode is not treated as a standalone segment production wise. The late scene number (SC106) during the midpoint of the episode's storyboards implies that it is merely an extension of the prior episode.
    • This also explains why this episode does not have upfront credits, and as such, Fred Osmond went uncredited.
    • In the closing credits, the cast for this episode and "You're Going to Pay...Phone" are listed together.
  • The fact that Zeus Cervas boarded the first half of #1324 and Fred Osmond did the second half indicates that it was done in a similar way to how "Sir Urchin and Snail Fail," "Plane to Sea," and "Friendiversary" shared two storyboard directors, where one did the first half of a segment's storyboard, and the other did the back half.
• This is SpongeBob's fourth non-speaking appearance after "Reef Blower," "Whale Watching," and "Lockdown for Love." Unlike in the other three (where he silently mouths a "You!" subtitle, laughs, and pants and groans as a part of Larry's jogging group respectively), he does not even make any noise.

Dub facts

• This is the last episode in the Dutch dub to have Jan Nonhof as Squidward.

Episode references

• The Krusty Kantina appears in the background of GrandPat's encounter with the two cowboys, which first appears in the season 5 double-length episode "Pest of the West."

Cultural references

• This episode's title is a pun of the 1962 science fantasy novel A Wrinkle in Time. The Patrick Star Show episodes "A Patty in Time" and "A Tinkle in Time" also reference this.

Errors

• At the end of the theme song, when the camera pans to GrandPat, a white border can be seen at the bottom of the screen.

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Krusty Kanting instead of Krusty Kantina.

• During a wider shot of the cowboys' stand-off, the font on the Krusty Kantina is hand written and spells "Krusty Kanting."

Videos

• File:⚠️ THE TIDAL ZONE IS COMING! ⚠️ SpongeBob Universe Special Trailer - 3-Night Crossover Event
• File:The Tidal Zone SpongeBob Universe Special Promo - January 13, 2023 (Nickelodeon U.S.)
• File:The Tidal Zone SpongeBob Universe Special Promo 2 - January 13, 2023 (Nickelodeon U.S.)
• File:The Tidal Zone SpongeBob Universe Special Promo 3 - January 13, 2023 (Nickelodeon U.S.)
• File:The Tidal Zone SpongeBob Universe Special Promo 4 - January 13, 2023 (Nickelodeon U.S.)
• File:The Tidal Zone SpongeBob Universe Special Promo 5 - January 13, 2023 (Nickelodeon U.S.)
• File:The Tidal Zone SpongeBob Universe Special Promo 6 - January 13, 2023 (Nickelodeon U.S.)
• File:The Tidal Zone SpongeBob Universe Special Promo 7 - January 13, 2023 (Nickelodeon U.S.)
• File:New on Nick in 2023 Promo 1 (Nickelodeon U.S.)
• File:SpongeBob Universe - "The Tidal Zone" Event Promo
• File:The Tidal Zone SpongeBob Universe Special Promo January 14, 2023
• File:GrandPat Sea Star Theme song
• File:GrandPat Sea Star Theme song (Instrumental version)
• File:GrandPat Sea Star vs SpongeBob SquarePants Theme song Side-By-Side Comparison

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
German	Sandroid	Sandroid
Russian	Морщины времени Morshchiny vremeni	Wrinkles of Time
Slovenian	Nagubana koža	Wrinkled Skin
Spanish (American)	Arrugas del Tiempo	Wrinkles of Time
Spanish (European)	Una arruga en el tiempo	The European Spanish name of the 1962 novel A Wrinkle in Time.