*[[Margaret SquarePants]] {{Sup|(first name revealed)}}
*[[Squidward]] (Cameo at beginning)
*{{Link|Incidentals}}
*[[Plankton]] (Cameo at beginning)
**[[Billy (Pickles)|Billy]]
*[[Pearl]] (Cameo at beginning)
**[[Incidental 31]]
*[[Sandy Cheeks]] (Cameo at beginning)
**[[Don the Whale]]
*[[Karen]] (Cameo at beginning)
**[[Incidental 14]]
*[[Larry the Lobster]] (Cameo at beginning)
**[[Steven]]
*[[Mrs. Puff ]](Cameo at beginning)
**[[Frank]]
*Giant Fruit Fly (debut)
**[[Incidental 105]]
*[[Officer John]]
**[[Harold (Inc 36)]]
*[[Officer Rob]]
**[[Incidental 40]]
*[[Officer Nancy]]
**[[Incidental 9]]
*[[Patty Caper]]
**[[Incidental 27]]
*[[Highway Speed Patrol]]
**[[Incidental 68]]
*The [http://www.igcd.net/vehicle.php?id=12329&PHPSESSID=c18ff1&width=1024 3 police cars] (Cameo at beginning)
**[[Incidental 37B]]
**[[Incidental 41]]
**[[Incidental 60]]
**[[Putzy]]
**[[Old Man Walker]]
**[[Incidental 28]]
**[[Sandals]]
**[[Incidental 45]]
**[[Incidental 8]]
**[[Tom]]
**[[Incidental 12]]
**[[Carol]]
**[[Incidental 102]]
**[[Incidental 103]]
**[[Incidental 47]]
**[[Incidental 69]]
**[[Fred]]
**[[Incidental 13]] {{Sup|(light blue; normal)}}
**[[Incidental 37A]]
**[[Incidental 49]]
**[[Anchovies]]
***[[Incidental 30]]
***[[Incidental 115]]
***[[Billy Fishkins]] {{Sup|(blue)}}
***[[Teen 4A]]
**[[Incidental 2]] {{Cameo}}
**[[Incidental 16]]
**[[Charlie]]
**[[Incidental 152]]
**[[Incidental 64]]
**[[Angry Jack]]
*Baytona 400 announcer {{Sup|(heard only)}}
*[[Live-action cow]]
*Mechanic {{Debut}}
*[[Jellyfish]] {{Cameo2|in picture}}
*[[Mysterious Red Kelp Forest/Inhabitants|Forest Inhabitants]]
**Giant blue anemone {{Debut}}
**Loud creature {{Debut}}
**[[Giant fruit fly]] {{Debut}}
**Flower creatures {{Debut}}
**Octodecapede {{Debut}}
**Triclops {{Debut}}
**Cyclops creature {{Debut}}
**Rock creatures {{Debut}}
==Synopsis==
===Act 1===
In the beginning of the episode, everybody gets special invitations from SpongeBob, promising each the thing they love most in life. For example, SpongeBob says to Mr. Krabs that he will have free money, says to Squidward that he will have a latte sipping contest, and says to Sandy that she will have a science experiment. Everyone goes to his house, only to be surprised and disappointed that they are going to see vacation slides, which they do not care about. They are about to leave, but SpongeBob persuades them back.
[[File:A SquarePants Family Vacation 119.png|thumb|200px|"Let's All Sing The Road Song!"]]
The adventure starts with Patrick squirting the [[Cheese Fizz]] on the camera. SpongeBob's parents pull up and get him and Patrick in. SpongeBob looks at a brochure and Patrick suggests a game- Hide and Seek. Patrick gets on the windshield of the boat and Harold yells "Egad!!!"' and loses control. They slide and burst into The Outskirts Outlet Mega-Mall, and Basscar Racing Stadium. Then, they fling off the stadium and head straight into space where a floating cow gets hit by them and lands on the moon. Then, they fall back down to the Earth and slide down a rocky cliff onto the road. SpongeBob then suggests they sing a road song. Everyone sings the road song, and at the end of the song, the engine blows up. They move the boat to a local service station. They wait in an outhouse. Margaret sees a playground and offers SpongeBob and Patrick to play on it. They do, but they slide down a sewer pipe and onto a small puddle.
===Act 2===
When they get up, they try to get back up, but they cannot. They enter a mysterious red kelp forest with many mushrooms. They hear a hollering noise and run. It turns out it is a small creature. They jump over a cliff, onto an anemone and onto a mushroom. Behind Patrick is a giant fruit fly. They run away and go behind a rock. They hear a noise. It came from a gift shop. SpongeBob wastes his money on useless knick-knacks. They sing the road song wearily. Then, SpongeBob decides to play the road song on a flute he bought at the gift shop.
[[File:A SquarePants Family Vacation 279.png|thumb|200px|Giant fruit fly.]]
They walk along past Harold and Margaret and into the forest again. Animals follow them. The animals suddenly run away because the giant fruit fly is behind them. SpongeBob stops playing. When they turn around, they see the fruit fly wants to give them a lift. They then sing the above the road song. He drops SpongeBob and Patrick off. SpongeBob's parents call them over, but SpongeBob and Patrick just fall asleep. Margaret says "Do something Harold!" while Harold says "He's your son, Margaret, he's your son..." As the episode ends.
==Production==
This episode was in production on {{Time|September 30}}, {{Time|2010}}.<ref name="ginny" />
During a tour of {{W|Rough Draft Korea}} for students of Yongsan International School of Seoul in 2016, various SpongeBob color background books were discovered for many episode segments. One of the books found was created for the second half of "A SquarePants Family Vacation," confirming that it was shipped to Korea sometime during October 2010.<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/YISSGuardians/posts/thank-you-scott-mansz-rough-draft-korea-for-hosting-our-students-today-what-a-tr/473910899463481/ Yongsan International School of Seoul on Facebook - "Thank you, Scott Mansz..."]</ref>
This episode was confirmed and added to the United States Copyright Catalog on {{Time|June 6}}, {{Time|2011}}.<ref>https://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=195&ti=226,195&SEQ=20231112003205&Search%5FArg=SpongeBob%20SquarePants&Search%5FCode=TALL&CNT=25&PID=_nIHwLWqRbNucgfwB11w_fPu91SGu&SID=2</ref>
[[File:12967920 473910576130180 5318106348810033595 o.png|260px|thumb|A picture of various SpongeBob color background books, going as far back as episode #507, "Best Day Ever."]]
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*This episode is available on the [[SpongeBob's Runaway Roadtrip (DVD)|SpongeBob's Runaway Roadtrip]], [[Bikini Bottom Getaways]], SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 13, [[High Tides and Wild Rides]], [[The Complete Eighth Season|Complete Eighth Season]], [[On the Road]], [[The SpongeBob SquarePants Collection]], [[3 DVD Value Pack]], [[The SpongeBob SquarePants 8 Season DVD Collection]], [[The Next 100 Episodes|Next 100 Episodes]], [[The Best 200 Episodes Ever]], [[The Seventh & Eighth Seasons]], and [[The Best 300 Episodes Ever]] DVDs.
'''Song(s):'''
==Trivia==
*The Road Song
===General===
*Above the Road
*This episode was initially called "A SquarePant's Family Vacation,"<ref name="family" /> which included the grammatically incorrect placement of an apostrophe.
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdQY7BusJNU&ob=av3e Time After Time]
**In the UK, this episode was known as "SpongeBob SquarePants Runaway Roadtrip Part 1."<ref name="sbuk" />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBmRYwczXFA ★ MCLA |★ Offical Cops ★ Theme song ★ Bad boys |★ Music Video ★]
*This is the only special after [[season 3]] to take up one production code, labeling parts one and two as "268-815A" and "268-815B."
*This episode was available on the SpongeBob's Runaway Roadtrip DVD, released earlier in {{Time|2011}}, before it aired on television.
*This episode on iTunes was paired with the short "[[Sandy's Vacation in Ruins]]."
*The original title for this episode was "Runaway Roadtrip." The [[SpongeBob's Runaway Roadtrip|DVD cover]] and [[SpongeBob's Runaway Roadtrip (event)|the premiere event]] use this title.
*This is the first episode of the SpongeBob's Runaway Roadtrip miniseries.
*When SpongeBob and Patrick jump off the cliff, it is similar to what they do in ''[[The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie]]''.
*The episode was promoted as "Runaway Roadtrip" in the UK and Ireland, but the actual episode is still called "A SquarePants Family Vacation."{{Citation needed}}
*This episode is listed and called "SquarePants Family Vacation" in Turkey.{{Citation needed}}
*SpongeBob's mother's first name is revealed to be Margaret.
*This is the first episode in the series where Harold and Margaret both play a major role.
*This is the first episode to be rated PG in Canada.{{Citation needed}}
*This episode reveals that Margaret SquarePants knits.
[[File:The Great Barrier Reef Billboard in A SquarePants Family Vacation.png|thumb|260px]]
[[File:The Great Barrier Reef Billboard in SpongeBob Simulator.png|thumb|260px]]
*The Great Barrier Reef billboard later appears in ''[[SpongeBob Simulator]]''.
*This episode preceded the premiere of a new season of "Camp Orange: The Lost Kingdom" in the UK and Ireland.<ref name="sbuk" />
[[File:Runaway ratings.jpeg|250px|center|thumb|Ratings charts provided by BARB]]
**The episode received exactly 100,000 viewers on its United Kingdom premiere and was the third most viewed program on Nick UK for the week ending {{Time|August 19}}, {{Time|2012}}.
{{Clear}}
==Plot==
===Cultural references===
The episode starts out with everybody getting invitations from SpongeBob. They go to his house to be suprised that they are going to see vacation slides. The adventure starts with Patrick squirting liquid cheese fizz on the camera. SpongeBob's parents pull up and get SpongeBob and Patrick. SpongeBob looks at a brochure and Patrick suggests a game- Hide and Seek. Patrick gets on the windshield of the car and Harold yells "Egad!!!"' and looses control. They silde and burst into The Oustskirts Outlet Mega-Mall, and Basscar Racing Stadium. Then they fling off the stadium and heads staight into space where a floating cow gets hit by them and lands on the moon. Then they fall back down in the Earth and slide down a rocky cliff onto the road. SpongeBob then suggests they sing the road song. Everyone sings the road song and at the end of the song the engine blows up. They move the car to a local servise station. They wait in an outhouse. Margret sees a playground and offers SpongeBob and Patrick to play on it. They do, but they slide down a sewer pipe and onto a small puddle.
*When the boat is sent flying into space, there is a cow jumping over the moon, which is an allusion to the nursery rhyme "{{W|Hey Diddle Diddle}}."
*Baytona and Basscar are parodies of {{W|Daytona}} and {{W|NASCAR}}.
** The Baytona 400 is a race parody of the {{W|Daytona 500}}.
*When the Service Station Worker is explaining what's wrong with the car, he repeats word-for-word an exact copy of what the mechanic in ''[[w:c:madmax:Mad Max 2|Mad Max 2]]'' says what's wrong when another character asks about the condition of a semi-truck.
When they get up, they try to get back up, but they can't. They enter a mysterious red kelp forest with many mushrooms. They hear a hollering noise and run. It turns out its a small creature. They jump over a cliff and onto an anenome and onto a mushroom. Behind Patrick is a giant fruit fly. They run away and behind a rock. They hear a noise. It came from a gift shop. SpongeBob wastes his money on useless knicknacks. They sing the road song wearily. Then SpongeBob decides to play the road song on a flute he bought at the gift shop. They walk along past Harold and Margret and into the forest again. Animals follow them. The animals suddenly run away because the giant fruit fly is behind them. SpongeBob stops playing. When they turn around they see the fruit fly wants to give them a lift. They then sing the above the road song. He drops SpongeBob and Patrick off. SpongeBob's parents call them over but SpongeBob and Patrick just fell asleep. The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBmRYwczXFA|This song is also used on Dora The Explorer's "Lost and Found" episode at www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC7c46qyn4g].
===Errors===
*When SpongeBob says, "I'm so glad you all could make it...," Mr. Krabs does not have any legs.
*When Squidward reads the invitation letter, SpongeBob's house is gone.
*When the boat is crashing through the [[Bikini Bottom Outskirts Outlet Mega-Mall]], two incidentals who are walking near the edge disappear too early.
*When SpongeBob walks towards the outhouse, one of his blue eyes turns white for a split-second.[[File:SpongeBob's white eye mistake in A SquarePants Family Vacation.png|thumb|260px|The white eye.]]
*When SpongeBob is on the seesaw while laughing, both of his blue eyes turns white for a split-second.
[[File:SpongeBob's white eyes mistake in A SquarePants Family Vacation.png|thumb|260px|The white eyes.]]
*When SpongeBob and Patrick stand in the Grayground puddle, they have waves around their feet, but Margaret does not have them.
*When SpongeBob says, "For a second I thought it was some scary monster coming to eat us," his left arm goes missing for a frame.
**Also, in the same scene, his left arm partially goes behind his body for another frame.[[File:SpongeBob is missing an arm error in A SquarePants Family Vacation.png|thumb|260px|SpongeBob's missing left arm.]] [[File:SpongeBob's right arm going behind his body error in A SquarePants Family Vacation.png|thumb|260px|SpongeBob's left arm going partially behind his body.]]
*When the swing breaks, Patrick is seen bouncing down the hill, When he is next seen, he is rolling and the broken chair disappears.
*Pearl's red lips are missing when she comes to SpongeBob's house.
[[File:Pearl's red lips missing error in A SquarePants Family Vacation.png|thumb|260px|Pearl's missing red lips (left), and when they came back after everyone says "I knew it was too good to be true!" (right).]]
*When SpongeBob and Patrick are falling, Patrick's eyebrows disappear.[[File:A SquarePants Family Vacation 259.png|thumb|260px|Patrick's missing eyebrows.]]
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*This is another spoof of the level in ''Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3'' [http:// Davis Family Vacation Davis family vacation]
==Names in other languages==
*The title of this episode sounds the same parody as the film, ''[[wikipedia:RV|RV]], [[wikipedia:Runaway Vacation|Runaway Vacation]], [[wikipedia:Rat Race (film)|Rat Race]], and [[wikipedia:Johnson Family Vacation|Johnson Family Vacation]]''.
{{Foreign names
*This is the first time [[Officer John]] was in jail.
|Fre = Des vacances en famille
*The Road Song is a parody to the Theme song "Holoday Road" from the movie National Lampoons Vacation.
|FreM = Family Vacations
*The DVD was released on September 20, 2011 before it aired on television one month and fifteen days from its release.
|Ger = Einmal Chaos und zurück
*The original title for this was Runaway Roadtrip. The DVD cover still has it. (However it is possible that the special will have two titles as most specials do)
|GerM = Chaos and Back Again
*Mrs. SquarePants name is Margret Bubblebottom-SquarePants.
|Ita = Vacanze in famiglia
*When the car is sent flying into space, there is a cow jumping over the moon, which is an allusion to the nursery rhyme "The Cat and the Fiddle".
|ItaM = Family Vacation
*In the episode, this is the second time Mrs. SquarePants' hair is in a bun. First was [[Truth or Square|Truth or ]][[Truth or Square|Square]].
|Rus = В отпуск всей семьёй
*In the begining of this episode there was a hint that Sandy was interested into Spongebob's invitation. Which made her have a tiny crush on Spongebob.
|RusR = V otpusk vsey sem'yoy
*This is the fifth and the final of the five episode miniseries to air on Nickelodeon.
|RusM = To Vacation with the Whole Family
*SpongeBob mentioned the Great Barrier Reef in [[The Masterpiece]] and Mr. Krabs in [[Wet Painters]].
|SpaE = Las vacaciones de la familia Esponja
*The Great Barrier Reef is an actual giant ring of Coral Reefs located in Australia.
|SpaEM = The Sponge Family Vacation
*This had a 10 hour marathon leading up to this episode starting from 7 a.m.
|SpaA = Una vacación familiar a lo Bob Esponja
*In the Baytona 500, it appears that the SquarePants family car won the race and was faster than the other cars.
|SpaAM = A SpongeBob Family Vacation
*After Spongebob begins the story, everyone except he and Patrick weren't seen or mentioned again, so it's unknown if they liked the story or not after hearing it.
|Hun = Kockanadrág családi vakációja
*When the car is up in the sky (in the clouds), it looks like it's moving slower.
|HunM = SquarePants Family Vacation}}
*When Partrick was repeating 'road', it references what he did in "The Spongebob Squarepants Movie" , when he and SpongeBob lost the Patty Wagon.
*This is the first time we hear Mrs. Squarepants sing.
*Spongebob's parents seem to like Patrick in this episode, as in past episodes they got annoyed by him.
*The outhouse is much bigger on the inside than the outside.
*This episode could be an allusion to 1987 film, ''[[wikipedia:Planes, Trains and Automobiles|Planes, Trains and Automobiles]]'', the 2005 film, ''[[wikipedia:Are We There Yet?|Are We There Yet?]]'', and the 1994 film, ''[[wikipedia:Dumb and Dumber|Dumb and Dumber]]''.
*This is the second time it is mentioned that Mrs. Squarepants's maiden name was Bubblebottom. The first time was in "Whelk Attack".
*Baytona and Basscar are references to Daytona and Nascar.
*When SpongeBob and Patrick jump off the cliff, it is similar to what they did in [[The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie]]. They might have even referenced it when Patrick said he saw it in a movie.
*It was weird that the fruitfly could breathe underwater.
*How did It (The Fruitfly) get so huge?
*Even though the Krabs mailbox had only one letter, which was for Mr. Krabs, Pearl goes to Spongebob's house.
*How could Patrick be sitting in the car and then suddenly end up on the car's front window?
*There is a sign that says "Probably Pretty Far".
*The outhouse's interior resembles that of a sauna.
*Spongebob playing the ocarina and causing animals to follow him may be a reference to two things: the game, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. In one part of the game, Link uses the ocarina to get cucco chicks to follow him around. But another possibility is It's a parody of the 'Pied Piper Of Hamelin'.
*In this episode Patrick is claustophobic but in [[Wishing You Well]] he shows nothing of claustophobia.
**It is possible that he developed claustophobia overtime.
*In [[Driven to Tears]] SpongeBob's parents didn't have car but in this episode they have a station wagon. It could be possible they bought the station wagon overtime.
*This is the second episode where Patrick is mistaken as luggage.
*When Patrick spelled his name "Pat" the p is backwards due to his stupidy.
[[File:Spongebob-comic-con-2011-interview-road-trip-sneak-peek.jpg|thumb|left|Spongebob and Patrick in their car while they look at the brochure]]
In the beginning of the episode, everybody gets special invitations from SpongeBob, promising each the thing they love most in life. For example, SpongeBob says to Mr. Krabs that he will have free money, says to Squidward that he will have a latte sipping contest, and says to Sandy that she will have a science experiment. Everyone goes to his house, only to be surprised and disappointed that they are going to see vacation slides, which they do not care about. They are about to leave, but SpongeBob persuades them back.
The adventure starts with Patrick squirting the Cheese Fizz on the camera. SpongeBob's parents pull up and get him and Patrick in. SpongeBob looks at a brochure and Patrick suggests a game- Hide and Seek. Patrick gets on the windshield of the boat and Harold yells "Egad!!!"' and loses control. They slide and burst into The Outskirts Outlet Mega-Mall, and Basscar Racing Stadium. Then, they fling off the stadium and head straight into space where a floating cow gets hit by them and lands on the moon. Then, they fall back down to the Earth and slide down a rocky cliff onto the road. SpongeBob then suggests they sing a road song. Everyone sings the road song, and at the end of the song, the engine blows up. They move the boat to a local service station. They wait in an outhouse. Margaret sees a playground and offers SpongeBob and Patrick to play on it. They do, but they slide down a sewer pipe and onto a small puddle.
Act 2
When they get up, they try to get back up, but they cannot. They enter a mysterious red kelp forest with many mushrooms. They hear a hollering noise and run. It turns out it is a small creature. They jump over a cliff, onto an anemone and onto a mushroom. Behind Patrick is a giant fruit fly. They run away and go behind a rock. They hear a noise. It came from a gift shop. SpongeBob wastes his money on useless knick-knacks. They sing the road song wearily. Then, SpongeBob decides to play the road song on a flute he bought at the gift shop.
They walk along past Harold and Margaret and into the forest again. Animals follow them. The animals suddenly run away because the giant fruit fly is behind them. SpongeBob stops playing. When they turn around, they see the fruit fly wants to give them a lift. They then sing the above the road song. He drops SpongeBob and Patrick off. SpongeBob's parents call them over, but SpongeBob and Patrick just fall asleep. Margaret says "Do something Harold!" while Harold says "He's your son, Margaret, he's your son..." As the episode ends.
During a tour of Rough Draft Korea for students of Yongsan International School of Seoul in 2016, various SpongeBob color background books were discovered for many episode segments. One of the books found was created for the second half of "A SquarePants Family Vacation," confirming that it was shipped to Korea sometime during October 2010.[2]
This episode was confirmed and added to the United States Copyright Catalog on June 6, 2011.[3]
The episode was promoted as "Runaway Roadtrip" in the UK and Ireland, but the actual episode is still called "A SquarePants Family Vacation."[citation needed]
This episode is listed and called "SquarePants Family Vacation" in Turkey.[citation needed]
SpongeBob's mother's first name is revealed to be Margaret.
This is the first episode in the series where Harold and Margaret both play a major role.
This is the first episode to be rated PG in Canada.[citation needed]
This episode reveals that Margaret SquarePants knits.
The episode received exactly 100,000 viewers on its United Kingdom premiere and was the third most viewed program on Nick UK for the week ending August 19, 2012.
Cultural references
When the boat is sent flying into space, there is a cow jumping over the moon, which is an allusion to the nursery rhyme "Hey Diddle Diddle."
Baytona and Basscar are parodies of Daytona and NASCAR.
The Baytona 400 is a race parody of the Daytona 500.
When the Service Station Worker is explaining what's wrong with the car, he repeats word-for-word an exact copy of what the mechanic in Mad Max 2 says what's wrong when another character asks about the condition of a semi-truck.
Errors
When SpongeBob says, "I'm so glad you all could make it...," Mr. Krabs does not have any legs.
When Squidward reads the invitation letter, SpongeBob's house is gone.
