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===Characters===
*{{Link|SpongeBob SquarePants}}
**Dream SpongeBob
*[[Seahorse]]
**Dream Seahorse
*[[Jack M. Crazyfish]] {{Debut}}
**Dream Jack (single appearance)
*[[Gary the Snail]]
*30-foot librarian {{Mentioned}}
*[[Patrick Star]]
*[[Sandy Cheeks]]
*Sea cows/Manatees {{Debut}}
*Cat snake {{Mentioned}}
*[[King Neptune]] {{Mentioned}}
*[[Eugene H. Krabs]]
*{{Link|Incidentals}}
**[[Incidental 14]]
**[[Incidental 107]] {{Sup|(normal; dark gray)}}
***Dream Incidental 107 {{Sup|(female)}}
**[[Incidental 42]]
**[[Incidental 105]]
**[[Sandals]]
**[[Incidental 41]]
**[[Incidental 46]]
**[[Gramma]] {{Debut}}
**[[Incidental 104]]
**[[Incidental 47]]
**[[Incidental 106]]
**[[Dale]]
*[[Squidward Tentacles]]
==Synopsis==
[[File:Blackened Sponge 052.png|thumb|200px|SpongeBob hitting himself in the eye with a monkey wrench, thus giving him a black eye afterwards.]]
As the episode begins, SpongeBob has a dream where he has to save someone from being tied up on railroad tracks while being big and strong with huge muscles and wearing a tan brown shirt. He encounters a fish named Jack M. Crazyfish. They play rock-paper-scissors and SpongeBob wins, but Jack M. Crazyfish cheats and they have an argument, which is stopped by the woman warning them of the train. As SpongeBob is about to get ran over by a train, he wakes up and realizes that it was just a nightmare. His dreams disturb Gary's sleep all night. When SpongeBob puffs his chest out and goes to his bathroom to brush his teeth, he cannot open his toothpaste, so he uses a wrench to open it. However, he accidentally jabs the wrench on his eye and gets a hideous black eye from the accident. When he tells how he got it to Gary, it causes Gary to almost laugh at him and leaves in an instant, so he vows not to tell anyone to avoid being laughed at and humiliated.
[[File:Blackened Sponge 176.png|thumb|200px|Jack M. Crazyfish]]
Whenever people notice SpongeBob's black eye, he lies and tells them that he was fighting Jack M. Crazyfish, and he got the black eye from doing that. Later, at the Krusty Krab, SpongeBob is suspicious when one of the customers describes Jack M. Crazyfish fluently; soon after, Jack M. Crazyfish arrives at the Krusty Krab, revealing he was real all along, and says he is looking for SpongeBob, the customers telling Crazyfish the story SpongeBob said. SpongeBob is very afraid and wants to tell him the truth, so he goes back home and gets the wrench and the toothpaste.
SpongeBob demonstrates to Jack M. Crazyfish what really happened to him. SpongeBob gets a second black eye in the process. Jack M. Crazyfish tells him that he came to the Krusty Krab because he heard that SpongeBob makes great Krabby Patties, and he is hungry for one.
SpongeBob then serves him Krabby Patties. But because he has two black eyes, he cannot see very well. The patties then start flying toward Jack M. Crazyfish. Jack M. Crazyfish loses his temper and challenges SpongeBob to a game of rock-paper-scissors. SpongeBob wins the first time, but doesn't realize that Jack M. Crazyfish had cheated because his eyes are closed. And when SpongeBob opens his eyes, he yells, "No!", at the end of the episode.
==Production==
===Storyboards===
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Blackened Sponge storyboard.jpg|Plussed by Sean Charmatz.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/sean_charmatz/p/rYhkAmxiht/ Sean Charmatz on Instagram - "A panel I did from when..."]</ref>
{{OM|Steel Licks 18|Jeremy Wakefield|Sandy sees SpongeBob's black eye}}
{{APM-article|Tomfoolery|David Snell|SpongeBob says he got it in a fight}}
{{APM-article|Dramatic Impact (6)|Ivor Slaney|"He was the notorious outlaw, Jack M. Crazyfish!"}}
{{OM|Sneaky Panther Pants#Sneaky Panther Pants Faster Longer{{!}}Sneaky Panther Pants Faster Longer|Nicolas Carr|"I was walking home from work, alone, when all of a sudden..."}}
{{APM-article|Towerstreet 17{{!}}Towerstreet 17 [#4]|Gerhard Narholz|"...Crazyfish sprung up out of nowhere!"}}
{{APM|w|West Point|Larry Hochman|"He ran all the way home, leaving behind a pool of tears."}}
{{APM-article|Witty Fellow|Gerhard Trede|Straw jabs SpongeBob in the eye}}
{{OM|Lap Steel|Nicolas Carr|"Adios!"}}
{{APM-article|The Tip Top Polka/The Cliff Polka|Chelmsford Folk Band|Exterior of Krusty Krab}}
*This episode is available on the [[To Love a Patty (DVD)|To Love a Patty]], [[Season 5 Volume 2]], [[The First 100 Episodes|First 100 Episodes]], [[The Fifth & Sixth Seasons]], [[The Ultimate SpongeBob Box Set]], [[Kids Double Pack: Volume 6]], [[The SpongeBob SquarePants Collection]], [[Bob Esponja Cumple 10 Años]], [[SpongeBob Pack: Volume 3]], [[The Best 300 Episodes Ever]], [[The SpongeBob SquarePants 8 Season DVD Collection]], [[From the Beginning, Part 2]], [https://itunes.apple.com/us/tv-season/spongebob-squarepants-vol-8/id509626778 SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 8], [[Holidays with SpongeBob 3-DVD Gift Set]], [[The Complete Fifth Season|Complete Fifth Season]], and [[The Best 200 Episodes Ever]] DVDs.
*[[Jack M. Crazyfish]] (debut)
*It is also a bonus feature on the [[w:c:barnyard:Lights, Camera, Moo! (DVD)|Back at the Barnyard:Lights, Camera, Moo! DVD]] in the UK.
*[[Patrick Star]]
*[[Sandy Cheeks]]
*[[Squidward Tentacles]]
*[[Eugene H. Krabs]]
*[[Gary the Snail]]
*Lady tied to railroad tracks
*[[Dale]]
*[[Frank (disambiguation)|Frank]]
*[[Sally]]
*Grandma (Mother of [[Mrs. SquarePants]])
[[File:StrongSponge.jpg|thumb]]
===Reception===
==Plot==
*{{Rank2|Blackened Sponge|T100=58}}
The episode starts off SpongeBob dreaming that he tried to beat Jack M. Crazyfish at his own game to save the woman tied on the train lines (Actually in a game of scissors, pa[[File:Blackenedeye.jpg|thumb|SpongeBob's Black Eye]]per, rock). SpongeBob eventually jumps in from of the train but just as it is about to him him he wakes up. Soon after, SpongeBob gives himself a black eye due to an attempt to open up some toothpaste. He lies to Patrick, Sandy and the [[Krusty Krab]] customers describing that he defeated an outlaw. However, Crazyfish arrives at the Krusty Krab, which makes SpongeBob tell the truth and giving himself another black eye in the process. but Crazyfish just claims he just came to the Krusty Krabs because he heard SpongeBob makes good Krabby Pattys. at the end after he accidentally threw the food to Crazyfish face they play a game of scissors, paper, rock. and Crazyfish then cheats in the game as SpongeBob screams ending the episode.
[[File:Blackenedsponge.jpg|thumb|Black Eye.]]
==Trivia==
==Trivia==
*When [[SpongeBob SquarePants|SpongeBob]] was lying to [[Sandy Cheeks|Sandy]], you can see the anchor from SpongeBob's [[The Krusty Krab|Krusty Krab]] [[Krusty Krab Employee Hat|hat]] is missing when [[Jack M. Crazyfish|Jack]] was crying a river of tears through the town streets and SpongeBob wasn't wearing his hat during the fight.
===General===
*SpongeBob uses '[[Krust]]' toothpaste, obviously a parody of Crest.
*This episode was originally called "The Black Sponge."<ref>[[:File:black spongite.jpeg]]</ref>
*Krust toothpaste is probably a combination of Crest (as mentioned above) and the fact that toothpaste forms a crust if it is left out too long.
*SpongeBob tells Patrick that Jack M. Crazyfish is about 60 feet tall. 60 feet would be about 4-6 stories high, or the length of a bowling lane. This is ironic, considering that he throws a bowling pin at SpongeBob.
*SpongeBob tells Sandy he got the black eye in a fight with Jack M. Crazyfish (the summary before the story). Then he told the story, but he said that he got the black eye by "miscalculating the trajectory of the cup, and the straw jabbing him in the eye" and not from the fight with Crazyfish.
*Manatees, also known as sea cows, make their only appearance in this episode.
*Manatees make their only appearance in this episode. They act like cattle.
*[[File:Blackened Sponge 062.png|thumb|200px|SpongeBob and his pink glasses.]]The shot where SpongeBob leaving his house with pink sunglasses became a meme.
*The music on when SpongeBob tries to open the toothpaste is not the usual Hawaiian guitar, but has a harpsichord, and a bassoon.
*Technically, in a way, there is such a thing as a pain gland called nerves.
*This is the first time Jack M. Crazyfish has appeared in an episode. The second was ''[[20,000 Patties Under the Sea]]'', only to make a cameo appearance with a different voice.
*The seahorse that SpongeBob rides in his dream and the seahorse that Sandy rides while galloping the manatees, or sea cows, seems to look like [[Mystery the Seahorse|Mystery]] from "[[My Pretty Seahorse]]" from [[season 3]].
*In SpongeBob's bathroom when he turns muscular and tries to open the toothpaste, the bubbles by his hand stop moving for a moment.
*SpongeBob tells Sandy he got the black eye in a fight with Jack M. Crazyfish. However, when he tells the story, he says that he got the black eye by "miscalculating the trajectory of the cup, and the straw jabbing him in the eye," and that doesn't involve Jack M. Crazyfish.
*While SpongeBob was getting his wrench to pry open his toothpaste, his feet squeaked, despite that he wasn't wearing his shoes.
*Incidental 155 says to SpongeBob that [[sponge]]s don't have eardrums. But in "[[The Inside Job]]," SpongeBob has an eardrum.
*In SpongeBob's bathroom when it shows the toothpaste cap bouncing off of everything, one of the thing it bounces off of is the wringer, later seen in ''[[Stuck in the Wringer]]''.
*This episode marks the second appearance of SpongeBob's wringer. The previous appearance is "[[Suds]]."
*In SpongeBob's dream sequence the song "Galloping Gertie" can be heard. It can also be heard on ''[[wikipedia:Family Guy|Family Guy]]'' when a vaudeville team finishes an act and he says "Play me off, Johnny!"
*This is the only season 5 episode where the track "[[The Mob]]" plays.
*When SpongeBob accidentally drops the [[Krabby Patty]] on Crazyfish he wipes the mustard off his face. Mustard is still on his shirt, but when he and SpongeBob play rock, paper, scissors the mustard on his shirt vanishes.
*This was [[Greg Miller]]'s only episode as a writer and storyboard director.
*This is the 3rd time SpongeBob is shown with a black eye. The first two were ''[[No Weenies Allowed]]'' and ''[[Krabby Land]]''.
*The episode title refers to SpongeBob's black eye and him fearing his reputation will be "blackened" from the bathroom accident.
*When the screen shows a close up of the clam, it says KRYSTY KRAB and not KRUSTY KRAB.
*This was the last episode to play "[[12th St Rag Slo]]" until "[[Burst Your Bubble]]."
*Jack M. Crazyfish has the same voice as Professor Calamitous on Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius.
*On the {{Time|November 6}}, {{Time|2009}} airing, this episode was paired with "[[Tentacle-Vision]]."<ref>[[w:c:nickstory:November 6, 2009|November 6, 2009 - Nickstory]]</ref>
*It's strange how nobody realized he was lying especially because of the MAJOR discontinuity between his stories, you'd think at least two people would figure it out, then again maybe none of the characters were anywhere near each other even off screen.
*This is the only episode where [[Greg Baldwin]] voices Jack M. Crazyfish.
*Jack M. Crazyfish's hat is strikingly similar to a Dr. Seuss hat except that it is roughly monochromatic and tiny.
*One of SpongeBob's Jack M. Crazyfish stories is strikingly similar to an archetypical western (the one where the lady fish is tied to railroad tracks).
===Dub facts===
*This is an episode where SpongeBob is shown to be extremely weak others are: ''[[MuscleBob BuffPants]]'', ''[[Help Wanted]]'', ''[[Employee of the Month]]'', etc.
*In the [[SpongeBob SquarePants (Indonesian, GTV)|Indonesian dub]], the scene where Gary tries to restrain from laughing at SpongeBob's black eye was cut from the episode.
*Technically, in a way, there is a such thing as a pain gland. They're called nerves.
*In the Welsh dub, [[Luke Brookshier]], [[Tom King]], and [[Steven Banks]] are all listed as writers of this episode, even though none of them wrote this episode. Brookshier and King are also erroneously listed as storyboard directors.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE3cyP9mxzA SpongeBob SquarePants: Blackened Sponge - Title Card (Welsh)]</ref>
*SpongeBob got injured 4 times in this episode (2 black eyes and 2 misc. fall injuries).
*In the [[SpongeBob SquarePants (Filipino series)|Filipino dub]], Gary doesn't make a sound in the entire episode.
*SpongeBob's story changes with each retelling.
*[[Eugene H. Krabs|Mr. Krabs]]'s skin turned lighter like in Help Wanted when he said he's right.
===Cultural references===
*During the telling of his story in the Krusty Krab SpongeBob said, "I emerged from my fruit-shaped bungalow fresh as a bee" but we have seen from numerous episodes that his house has more than one floor so cannot be considered a bungalow.
*When SpongeBob throws some things on Gary, he throws a shirt with the inscription "I'm with stupid." The phrase was also previously referenced in the [[season 2]] episode, "[[I'm with Stupid]]."
*This episode is somewhat similar to [[BlackJack|BlackJack.]]
*SpongeBob's dream is a reference to an archetypal western.
*In Indonesia, Jack M. Crazyfish is called Jack the Evilface or Jack and the Evilface or just Evilface.
*SpongeBob uses [[Krust]] toothpaste, which is a parody of the real life toothpaste brand, {{W|Crest}}.
*When there is Spongebob story to Sandy, when in the prologue Spongebob doesn't wear a heat. But, when Jack M. Crazyfish is crying when his wig is falling, Spongebob wearing Krusty Krab hat, but there is no anchor in that hat. When Spongebob want drink the Jack's cry, he doesn't wearing hat.
**This also appears in the episode "[[The Krusty Bucket]]."
*Spongebob would have been killed when he accidentally pierced his eye with a wrench, almost similar to the movie "Final Destination 2", and when the cap shot his eye just like in "The Final Destination".
===Errors===
*SpongeBob's alarm clock goes off at a lower pitch than usual in this episode.
*When SpongeBob is talking to Gary and says, "No, no, Tuesday night was the one with the 30-foot librarian," one of his white teeth turn yellow for a split second.
*In SpongeBob's bathroom, when he turns muscular and tries to open the toothpaste, the bubbles by his hand stop moving for a moment.
*When SpongeBob looks at himself through the mirror after getting hit in the eye with the toothpaste cap, the wrench is in his left hand. However, when he slips on the cap and hits one of his eyes with the wrench, it's in his right hand.
*When SpongeBob says, "Oh, I mean I..." and Patrick says, "I know what you mean," there appears to be a few frames of animation cut with Patrick's expression suddenly changing, which implies there may have been a deleted scene animated. However, it was removed in the final cut.
*Sandy refers to the manatees as "fishies". In reality, manatees are actually mammals.
*When SpongeBob says, "Hi, Sandy," part of his white shirt is black.
*In the scene where Jack M. Crazyfish throws a tire at SpongeBob, they're on a sidewalk. But when Jack M. Crazyfish runs away crying, the sidewalk disappears.
[[File:Image0-14.jpg|thumb|The anchor of the Krusty Krab employee hat is gone.]]
*When SpongeBob tells his story to Sandy, in the prologue, SpongeBob doesn't have a hat on. However, when Jack M. Crazyfish ran all the way home leaving behind a pool of tears, SpongeBob is wearing his [[Krusty Krab employee hat]], but there is no anchor on that hat. And when SpongeBob drinks the tears, he doesn't have a hat on again.
[[File:Blackened Sponge 115.jpg|thumb|260px|The Krusty Krab sign is misspelled as Kr'''y'''sty Krab, and it looks darker than usual.]]
*When a close-up of the clam sign is shown, the Kr'''u'''sty Krab sign is misspelled as "Kr'''y'''sty Krab." Also, the y is backwards.
**The Krusty Krab sign also looks darker than usual.
*When Incidental 107 first appears and Mr. Krabs comments about how late SpongeBob is, he is in his normal color scheme. But when SpongeBob walks past him and Incidental 14, Incidental 107 has a different color scheme that is similar to Incidental 62.
*Sandy's cheeks are colored slightly darker than usual throughout most of the episode.
*When SpongeBob spills mustard on Jack M. Crazyfish's shirt, the mustard is still there. After they were playing rock-paper-scissors, the mustard is gone.
*When Mr. Krabs says, "He's right", and turns to [[Harold (Inc 42)|Harold]] after the latter says that sponges don't have eardrums, Mr. Krabs' head is colored slightly brighter than normal.
*Since SpongeBob has two black eyes, he wouldn't have been able to make a Krabby Patty for Jack M. Crazyfish.
*If SpongeBob hadn't kept his eyes closed, he would've realized that Jack M. Crazyfish cheated.
*[http://SpongeBob.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Associated_Production_Music/g#Galloping_Gertie Galloping Gertie] - 'Muscular' SpongeBob is seen riding a seahorse.
[[pt-br:Esponja Roxa]]
*[http://SpongeBob.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Associated_Production_Music/d#Dirty_Work_at_the_Crossroads Dirty Work at the Crossroads] - The heroine screams for help.
[[ru:Губка с подбитым глазом]]
*[http://SpongeBob.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Associated_Production_Music/r#Rescued Rescued] - "There, there. You're safe now, little lady."
*[http://SpongeBob.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Associated_Production_Music/v#Villains_and_Vampires_.28a.29 Villains and Vampires (a)] - Jack M. Crazyfish appears and challenges 'Muscular' SpongeBob.
*[http://SpongeBob.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Associated_Production_Music/r#Runnaway_Piano Runaway Piano] - 'Muscular' SpongeBob cracks his fingers to commence the fight.
*[http://SpongeBob.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Associated_Production_Music/s#Spot_1 Spot 1] - 'Muscular' SpongeBob lands on the train track and tears off his costume to stop the train and save the heroine.
*[[Cartoon Capers (b)]] or [http://SpongeBob.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Associated_Production_Music/e#Editor.27s_Falling_Over_C Editor's Falling Over (c)] - The toothpaste cap ricochets across the bathroom.
*[[Cartoon Collection (c)]] or [http://SpongeBob.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Associated_Production_Music/e#Editor.27s_Falling_Over_F Editor's Falling Over (f)] - The toothpaste flies and hits SpongeBob's right eye.
*[http://SpongeBob.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Associated_Production_Music/e#Editor.27s_Falling_Over_A Editor's Falling Over (a)] - SpongeBob falls over backwards.
*[http://SpongeBob.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Associated_Production_Music/e#Editor.27s_Falling_Over_G Editor's Falling Over (g)] - SpongeBob slipped on the toothpaste cap and lands his eye on the wrench.
*[http://SpongeBob.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Associated_Production_Music/h#Hawaiian_Cocktail Hawaiian Cocktail] - SpongeBob looks in the mirror at his black eye.
*[http://SpongeBob.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Associated_Production_Music/d#Drama_Link_D Drama Link (d)] - "Hey, SpongeBob!" SpongeBob screams.
*[[The Stalking]] - "Nngg...it was Jack M. Crazyfish!"
*[http://SpongeBob.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Associated_Production_Music/b#Blood_in_the_Gutter Blood in the Gutter] - SpongeBob explains to Patrick about Jack M. Crazyfish.
*[http://SpongeBob.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Associated_Production_Music/a#American_Odyssey_.28a.29 American Odyssey (a)] - Sandy is seen leading a herd of sea cows.
*[http://SpongeBob.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Associated_Production_Music/t#Tomfoolery Tomfoolery] - SpongeBob tells Sandy how he got his black eye.
*[http://SpongeBob.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Associated_Production_Music/d#Dramatic_Impact_6 Dramatic Impact 6] - "He was the notorious outlaw: Jack M. Crazyfish!"
*[http://SpongeBob.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Associated_Production_Music/t#Towerstreet_17_4 {#4} Towerstreet 17] - "...Crazyfish sprang up out of nowhere! He threw a giant tire at the back of my head then he stood over me to gloat! I jumped up and karate-chipped his hairpiece right off of his snaps!"
*[http://SpongeBob.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Associated_Production_Music/w#Witty_Fellow Witty Fellow] - "I had miscalculated the trajectory of my cup and the straw jabbed me in the eye, giving me this awful shiner."
*[http://SpongeBob.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Associated_Production_Music/t#The_Tip_Top_Polka.2FCliff_Polka The Tip Top Polka/Cliff Polka] - #1: "SpongeBob is 13 1/2 minutes late for duty! I hope for his sake this means he was in a horrible accident."
*[[The Mob]] - SpongeBob bursts the doors of the Krusty Krab open and struts across the Krusty Krab interior.
*[http://SpongeBob.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Associated_Production_Music/m#Moving_Target Moving Target] - A shot of SpongeBob's mother putting down ketchup.
*[http://SpongeBob.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Associated_Production_Music/u#Unease Unease] - "Now I suppose all of you are wondering how I got this black eye."
*[http://SpongeBob.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Associated_Production_Music/m#Man_from_the_Ministry Man from the Ministry] - "...shining trophy of my glorious triumph over the forces of evil! Oh, I know what you're thinking: 'Who in the name of Neptune would want to tangle with a guy like SpongeBob SquarePants?' Well, I'll tell you who."
*[http://SpongeBob.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Associated_Production_Music/d#Dr._Death Dr. Death] - #1: "...when a wanton cry of distress pounded against my eardrum!"
*[http://SpongeBob.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Associated_Production_Music/d#Dr._Death Dr. Death] - #2: SpongeBob carries on telling the story on how he got his black eye.
*[http://SpongeBob.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Associated_Production_Music/d#Dramatic_Impact_1 Dramatic Impact 1] - Jack M. Crazyfish appears at the door.
*[http://SpongeBob.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Associated_Production_Music/f#Fates Fates] - "Mr. Crazyfish, please don't skin me alive! I made all that stuff up! I was just kidding about whopping ya'! Right, folks? you remember?"
*Unknown - A chase theme that is in a lot of episodes. SpongeBob shows how he really got his black eye(s).
*[http://SpongeBob.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Associated_Production_Music/t#The_Tip_Top_Polka.2FCliff_Polka The Tip Top Polka/Cliff Polka] - #2: SpongeBob gives Crazyfish a 'Super Hot and Delicious Custom Order Krabby Patty with Extra Sauce' and accidentally spills it on Crazyfish.
File:Blackened Sponge 052.pngSpongeBob hitting himself in the eye with a monkey wrench, thus giving him a black eye afterwards.
As the episode begins, SpongeBob has a dream where he has to save someone from being tied up on railroad tracks while being big and strong with huge muscles and wearing a tan brown shirt. He encounters a fish named Jack M. Crazyfish. They play rock-paper-scissors and SpongeBob wins, but Jack M. Crazyfish cheats and they have an argument, which is stopped by the woman warning them of the train. As SpongeBob is about to get ran over by a train, he wakes up and realizes that it was just a nightmare. His dreams disturb Gary's sleep all night. When SpongeBob puffs his chest out and goes to his bathroom to brush his teeth, he cannot open his toothpaste, so he uses a wrench to open it. However, he accidentally jabs the wrench on his eye and gets a hideous black eye from the accident. When he tells how he got it to Gary, it causes Gary to almost laugh at him and leaves in an instant, so he vows not to tell anyone to avoid being laughed at and humiliated.
Whenever people notice SpongeBob's black eye, he lies and tells them that he was fighting Jack M. Crazyfish, and he got the black eye from doing that. Later, at the Krusty Krab, SpongeBob is suspicious when one of the customers describes Jack M. Crazyfish fluently; soon after, Jack M. Crazyfish arrives at the Krusty Krab, revealing he was real all along, and says he is looking for SpongeBob, the customers telling Crazyfish the story SpongeBob said. SpongeBob is very afraid and wants to tell him the truth, so he goes back home and gets the wrench and the toothpaste.
SpongeBob demonstrates to Jack M. Crazyfish what really happened to him. SpongeBob gets a second black eye in the process. Jack M. Crazyfish tells him that he came to the Krusty Krab because he heard that SpongeBob makes great Krabby Patties, and he is hungry for one.
SpongeBob then serves him Krabby Patties. But because he has two black eyes, he cannot see very well. The patties then start flying toward Jack M. Crazyfish. Jack M. Crazyfish loses his temper and challenges SpongeBob to a game of rock-paper-scissors. SpongeBob wins the first time, but doesn't realize that Jack M. Crazyfish had cheated because his eyes are closed. And when SpongeBob opens his eyes, he yells, "No!", at the end of the episode.
This episode was originally called "The Black Sponge."[2]
SpongeBob tells Patrick that Jack M. Crazyfish is about 60 feet tall. 60 feet would be about 4-6 stories high, or the length of a bowling lane. This is ironic, considering that he throws a bowling pin at SpongeBob.
Manatees, also known as sea cows, make their only appearance in this episode.
File:Blackened Sponge 062.pngSpongeBob and his pink glasses.The shot where SpongeBob leaving his house with pink sunglasses became a meme.
Technically, in a way, there is such a thing as a pain gland called nerves.
The seahorse that SpongeBob rides in his dream and the seahorse that Sandy rides while galloping the manatees, or sea cows, seems to look like Mystery from "My Pretty Seahorse" from season 3.
SpongeBob tells Sandy he got the black eye in a fight with Jack M. Crazyfish. However, when he tells the story, he says that he got the black eye by "miscalculating the trajectory of the cup, and the straw jabbing him in the eye," and that doesn't involve Jack M. Crazyfish.
Incidental 155 says to SpongeBob that sponges don't have eardrums. But in "The Inside Job," SpongeBob has an eardrum.
This episode marks the second appearance of SpongeBob's wringer. The previous appearance is "Suds."
This is the only season 5 episode where the track "The Mob" plays.
This was Greg Miller's only episode as a writer and storyboard director.
The episode title refers to SpongeBob's black eye and him fearing his reputation will be "blackened" from the bathroom accident.
This is the only episode where Greg Baldwin voices Jack M. Crazyfish.
Dub facts
In the Indonesian dub, the scene where Gary tries to restrain from laughing at SpongeBob's black eye was cut from the episode.
In the Welsh dub, Luke Brookshier, Tom King, and Steven Banks are all listed as writers of this episode, even though none of them wrote this episode. Brookshier and King are also erroneously listed as storyboard directors.[4]
In the Filipino dub, Gary doesn't make a sound in the entire episode.
Cultural references
When SpongeBob throws some things on Gary, he throws a shirt with the inscription "I'm with stupid." The phrase was also previously referenced in the season 2 episode, "I'm with Stupid."
SpongeBob's dream is a reference to an archetypal western.
SpongeBob uses Krust toothpaste, which is a parody of the real life toothpaste brand, Crest.
SpongeBob's alarm clock goes off at a lower pitch than usual in this episode.
When SpongeBob is talking to Gary and says, "No, no, Tuesday night was the one with the 30-foot librarian," one of his white teeth turn yellow for a split second.
In SpongeBob's bathroom, when he turns muscular and tries to open the toothpaste, the bubbles by his hand stop moving for a moment.
When SpongeBob looks at himself through the mirror after getting hit in the eye with the toothpaste cap, the wrench is in his left hand. However, when he slips on the cap and hits one of his eyes with the wrench, it's in his right hand.
When SpongeBob says, "Oh, I mean I..." and Patrick says, "I know what you mean," there appears to be a few frames of animation cut with Patrick's expression suddenly changing, which implies there may have been a deleted scene animated. However, it was removed in the final cut.
Sandy refers to the manatees as "fishies". In reality, manatees are actually mammals.
When SpongeBob says, "Hi, Sandy," part of his white shirt is black.
In the scene where Jack M. Crazyfish throws a tire at SpongeBob, they're on a sidewalk. But when Jack M. Crazyfish runs away crying, the sidewalk disappears.
When SpongeBob tells his story to Sandy, in the prologue, SpongeBob doesn't have a hat on. However, when Jack M. Crazyfish ran all the way home leaving behind a pool of tears, SpongeBob is wearing his Krusty Krab employee hat, but there is no anchor on that hat. And when SpongeBob drinks the tears, he doesn't have a hat on again.
When a close-up of the clam sign is shown, the Krusty Krab sign is misspelled as "Krysty Krab." Also, the y is backwards.
The Krusty Krab sign also looks darker than usual.
When Incidental 107 first appears and Mr. Krabs comments about how late SpongeBob is, he is in his normal color scheme. But when SpongeBob walks past him and Incidental 14, Incidental 107 has a different color scheme that is similar to Incidental 62.
Sandy's cheeks are colored slightly darker than usual throughout most of the episode.
When SpongeBob spills mustard on Jack M. Crazyfish's shirt, the mustard is still there. After they were playing rock-paper-scissors, the mustard is gone.
When Mr. Krabs says, "He's right", and turns to Harold after the latter says that sponges don't have eardrums, Mr. Krabs' head is colored slightly brighter than normal.
Since SpongeBob has two black eyes, he wouldn't have been able to make a Krabby Patty for Jack M. Crazyfish.
If SpongeBob hadn't kept his eyes closed, he would've realized that Jack M. Crazyfish cheated.
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