Cretins of the Night

Characters

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• Patrick Star
• Squidward Tentacles
• Eugene H. Krabs
• Kidferatu
• Jimmy Blobfish
• Roxy
• Preda Tory
• Nurse Helga

Synopsis

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SpongeBob and Patrick as vampires.

SpongeBob and Patrick are watching a horror movie with the Trawlers, but sympathize with the vampire antagonist over the main characters. SpongeBob and Patrick think about how cool being a vampire would be and ask Kidferatu if he can turn them into vampires, which he initially disagrees to. They beg him and he agrees to make them temporary, mortal vampires, shoving them into coffins and having them come out as vampires. Kidferatu teaches them the basics of being a vampire, from how to fly properly to transforming into a bat. SpongeBob and Patrick, as bats, repeatedly fly into a bug zapper and attract Mr. Krabs' attention.

Kidferatu brainwashes Krabs into being his thrall and makes him dance. Squidward comes out of the bathroom, so SpongeBob and Patrick hypnotize him. SpongeBob makes him smile, but is creeped out and asks him not to. He tells him to dance, and Patrick has Squidward dance to the kitchen and bring him a sandwich. However, Patrick cannot eat regular food as a vampire, needing to drink blood instead. Kidferatu tells them that they do not feed off their friends, and takes them to the first aid cabin, where they raid a refrigerator full of blood bags, where they drink and spray each other.

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Helga hunting down SpongeBob and Patrick.

Nurse Helga comes in and tries to hunt the two vampires down. SpongeBob and Patrick try to evade her, but she always manages to follow them. Afraid, SpongeBob and Patrick beg Kidferatu to turn them back to normal, which he does. Nurse Helga tells them to get to bed, and it is revealed that she teamed up with Kidferatu all along to scare them. Kidferatu remarks that SpongeBob and Patrick are nice kids, but annoying vampires, and he and Helga go to watch a horror movie. Meanwhile, a hypnotized Krabs and Squidward are still dancing around the camp.

Production

The plussed storyboards were finished on December 2, 2022.

According to the metadata of the files on John John Bajet's website, this episode was in the color design stage by February 25, 2023.

This episode was confirmed on December 25, 2023.

Art

Prop design

• Designed by David Brueggeman.

• A bowl of popcorn
  A bowl of popcorn
• A blood box
  A blood box

Character design

• Color design by John John Bajet.

• Vampire SpongeBob
  Vampire SpongeBob
• Vampire Patrick
  Vampire Patrick

Storyboards

• Written by Mike Bell, rough boarded by Kurt Snyder, supervised by Keith Silva, and plussed by April "Pinkie" Davis, Christian White, Eliza Herndon.

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Production notes

Eliza Herndon

• "Working on the Sponge shows, I find myself saying “I have no idea how we got away with this” very often. That is true x1000 for this episode where we got to draw SB and Pat having a blood fight. I remember Keith telling me to make sure the blood was a realistic enough color so that everyone knew what we were getting into HAHA. Definitely one of the most memorable episodes I’ve been a part of for that reason! I also loved getting to draw SB and Pat in their adorable little vampire garb"

Christian White

• "Here's a sequence I boarded for "Cretins of the Night". In this sequence, SpongeBob and Patrick are vampires running from vampire hunter Nurse Helga for raiding the first aid blood packs. I was able to sneak in a reference to The Ring and Malignant. Keith Silva came up with the funny Freddy Krueger angle at the end."

Trivia

General

• Kidferatu speaks in this episode through using a hand puppet.
• The sandwich prop in this episode is re-used from "In a Nut's Shell."

Cultural references

• Nurse Helga's pursuit of SpongeBob and Patrick contains references to various classic horror movies.
  • Helga crawling out of the TV is a reference to The Ring.
  • The scene where SpongeBob parts Patrick's hair to see Helga hiding inside is a reference to Malignant, where Madison's parasitic twin brother Gabriel is revealed the same way.
  • Helga's finger razors are a reference to Freddy Krueger from Friday the 13th.
• Kidferatu says, "Listen to them! The children of the night! What embarrassments they are!" This is a reference to a line from Dracula: "Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!"

Video

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Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
German	Vampir sein muss schön sein	Being a Vampire Must Be Nice
Russian	Ночные чудаки Nochnyye chudaki	Night Weirdos
Spanish (American)	Necios nocturnos	Nocturnal Fools
Spanish (European)	Los cretinos de la noche	Cretins of the Night