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Synopsis

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"Hey, Squidward! Wanna blow some bubbles?"

The episode begins with SpongeBob walking outside to breathe in the peacefulness of the neighborhood in the morning. Suddenly, he begins to loudly build a bubble stand, much to the annoyance of Squidward, who demands SpongeBob to be quiet while he is practicing his clarinet-playing. SpongeBob stops for a time, takes a few tentative taps of his hammer, and then quickly finishes construction before Squidward has a chance to complain again.

At the newly built stand, SpongeBob offers customers an opportunity to blow a bubble for twenty-five cents. Patrick comes by and asks to try it out. However, he does not have any money, so he "borrows" a quarter from SpongeBob to pay for it. Unfortunately, Patrick's strained blowing fails to produce a bubble. SpongeBob offers to teach him for an extra quarter, which he happily "loans" to Patrick. SpongeBob then demonstrates his somewhat peculiar, yet effective, bubble-blowing technique. SpongeBob's technique produces, among others, a massive elephant-shaped bubble that gets stuck in Template:Data:Links and pops.

The fuming Squidward comes out and approaches the now ostensibly closed bubble stand. He demands to know how they can cause so much disruption just by blowing bubbles. SpongeBob explains that he is creating art and utilizing his technique to its fullest potential. Squidward scoffs at SpongeBob's ideas of art and marketing, sending SpongeBob and Patrick back to their homes in a sad mood. Still snickering, Squidward begins to examine the bubble wand out of growing curiosity. As he tries to blow a bubble himself, SpongeBob quickly comes out and tells Squidward to pay a quarter, shocking him. Squidward reluctantly lays down a quarter for the bubble, suggesting that it is a very simple feat.

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Squidward's house encapsulated by a giant bubble.

Squidward attempts to impress the two with his skill, to no avail. All the while, SpongeBob and Patrick try to convince him to use the technique. Fed up and annoyed, Squidward furiously and mockingly copies their technique, finally screaming into the wand in anger. His screams end up producing a giant bubble, thoroughly impressing SpongeBob and Patrick.

Squidward heads back inside his house and begins to play his clarinet once more, with SpongeBob and Patrick chanting his name while dancing. However, the giant bubble descends and encapsulates Squidward's house, unearthing it and floating with it up in the air.

When at last Squidward looks outside to greet his "fans," he sees himself high above the ground with SpongeBob and Patrick little more than specks. The bubble then pops with explosive force, prompting SpongeBob and Patrick to look at each other nervously and retreat to their houses.

Once Squidward's house floats back down to the ground, Squidward ends the episode by letting out a few final feeble notes from his clarinet.

Running gags

SpongeBob blowing bubble art.
SpongeBob offering 25 cents for bubble lessons.
SpongeBob biting into quarters.
The methods of SpongeBob's technique.
Squidward constantly failing to blow bubbles without the technique.

Production

Sketches

Cels

Storyboards

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Paintings

Trivia

General

According to Stephen Hillenburg's pitch bible, the title was originally supposed to be "Bubbles."^[1]
This is the first episode to have a title that is only one word.
- In the Croatian dub, this episode's title is "Mjehurići," whose meaning retains the original title.^{[citation needed]}

File:SpongeBob SquarePants 2001 Burger King commercial

A clip from this episode was used in a 2001 Burger King commercial promoting SpongeBob toys at the time. The commercial even references the bubble-blowing technique.
A clip of the scene where SpongeBob shapeshifts into an "O" during the bubble-blowing technique demonstration was used in a 2017 Honey Nut Cheerios commercial to represent the shape of the cereal.^[2]
The Waikikis, Prince Paul, and Wordsworth made a song based on this episode called "Prince Paul's Bubble Party," which can be heard on The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie - Music from the Movie and More... soundtrack album (though not the first movie itself).

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Hold it.

SpongeBob's technique for blowing bubbles:
- "Go like this" (Lifting the left foot up off the ground).
- Spinning around a couple of times and stopping.
- "Double-take" (dart the head to the side) three times.
- Pelvic thrust (Thrusting the entire body left and right, pelvis first) and stop on your right foot. "DON'T FORGET IT."
- Spinning the upper body and "bring-it-a-round-town."
- Bouncing on the back twice.
- Shape-shifting into various surreal shapes and forms.
- Proceeding to blow the bubble.
SpongeBob's quote "Now it's time to bring it around town. Bring-it-a-round-town," has enjoyed constant renown as an internet meme.
- It is also used in the online games Hooked on You! and Delivery Dilemma.
- It is also used as a celebration dance when SpongeBob completes a tile puzzle in the video game Revenge of the Flying Dutchman.
- It is also used as an idle animation in Legend of the Lost Spatula.
- It is also used in the Pixter game SpongeBob SquarePants: Aqua Adventure.
SpongeBob's bubble-blowing technique from this episode was used in a 2012 Yosicle commercial.^{[citation needed]}
The ship bubble has the same foghorn as SpongeBob's alarm clock.
The bubble that enters Squidward's house was originally going to be a tugboat and not an elephant.^[1]

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A clip from the episode in the 2005 movie Zathura: A Space Adventure

The "It's a giraffe!" scene is shown in the 2005 movie Zathura: A Space Adventure (also simply known as Zathura) before Walter switches it to SportsCenter.
Patrick's line "It's a giraffe!" was recycled in the video games Battle for Bikini Bottom and its remake and SpongeBob's Game Frenzy.
In "Wormy," SpongeBob doesn't know what a butterfly is and thinks that Wormy (who transformed into a butterfly) is a monster, but in this episode, he blows a butterfly bubble.
- In addition in "Tea At The Treedome," a butterfly is shown just as SpongeBob enters the Treedome for the first time and in "Your Shoe's Untied," the Flying Dutchman shows him the butterfly knot; in all three occurrences however, he is not afraid. Coincidentally, two of the three episodes were animation-directed by Tom Yasumi.
When Squidward's house is in the air, an upright glass bottle the size of other buildings in Bikini Bottom is visible. The only other building seen throughout the series that uses a glass bottle as part of the structure is the Fancy! restaurant, which is on its side.
SpongeBob collects quarters in this episode, but the amount continues to change throughout the episode. It is likely SpongeBob kept the other quarters.
At the end of the episode, when Squidward starts playing his clarinet very weakly, a portion of the scene is cut on all Nickelodeon USA broadcasts. This is due to the screen fading to black when this happens. Despite this unusual edit, all Nicktoons USA and Nick@Nite broadcasts, all digital and streaming releases on Amazon Prime Video, Paramount+, and iTunes, the VideoNow versions, The Seascape Capers VHS tape release, and DVD releases retain this scene.
This episode is the first of many things:
- The first episode to introduce the APM tracks "Maui Beach" and "Old Hilo March."
- The first episode that Ennio Torresan, Jr. and Erik Wiese worked on together.
- The first episode (and only standard-length episode) to have five writers.
  - This episode is currently tied with "Friend or Foe," "The Clash of Triton," and "Frozen Face-Off" for having the most writers of an episode.
- The first episode where Patrick plays a major role.
- The first episode to play "The Rake Hornpipe" outside of a scene involving the Krusty Krab or Mr. Krabs.
- The first episode to show the inside of Squidward and Patrick's houses.
- The first episode in the series without any known deleted scenes.
- The first episode in which Squidward is seen playing the clarinet, and playing it well.
- Being part of the first full episode to not introduce any new characters (as "Help Wanted" and "Tea at the Treedome" are still parts of episode one).

This is the last episode ever written by Stephen Hillenburg before his death on November 26, 2018.
There is an online game based on this episode called SpongeBob's Bubblegram Game.
In the Polish dub, this episode is called "Bańki mydlane," which translates to "Soap Bubbles."^{[citation needed]}
This episode was paired up with different episodes for certain marathons:
- On the November 10, 2006 airing, this episode was paired with "Rock Bottom."^[3]
- This episode was paired up with "Sing a Song of Patrick" during the Best Buddies Week.^[4]
Four of the poses SpongeBob and Patrick make when cheering Squidward after he blows a giant bubble were eventually redrawn as various stock art.

Cultural references

The bubble-blowing technique includes references to "The Time Warp" from The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
The song that Squidward plays (poorly) on his clarinet at the end of the episode is "Mary Had a Little Lamb."
SpongeBob biting the quarters is a reference to a common trope in older films, especially Westerns, where people would bite on coins as a means to test their authenticity.

Errors

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SpongeBob's walkway is missing the rocks.

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Squidward's house without glass windows.

At the very beginning, on the long shot, SpongeBob's walkway looks like the road instead of a rocky walkway.
When Squidward says, "Can we lower the volume, please? I can't work with all that racket going on!" to SpongeBob in the beginning, there is not any glass in his windows.

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SpongeBob's door is missing.

When Patrick's rock opens, SpongeBob's pineapple is missing its front door.
- Similarly, in one scene, Squidward's door is missing.

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SpongeBob's eye color is washed off.

When SpongeBob is talking to Patrick and says, "Good morning to you, sir. Would you care to blow a bubble?" his eyes are so washed off that it looks as if SpongeBob does not have an eye color.
When Patrick yells, "It's a giraffe!" he is on the left side of SpongeBob, but when the bubble goes into Squidward's house, he is on the right side of him.
When Squidward leaves his house, the interior of his doorway has a similar appearance to the red wall found on the second floor. Later, when he enters his house, the interior of the first floor has its normal green wall appearance instead of red.
When SpongeBob repeats the bubble-blowing technique to Squidward again as he is trying to blow bubbles, he looks three times to the left instead of right.
Before SpongeBob spins, his house is missing one of its windows.

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After SpongeBob spins while Squidward tries to blow a bubble, right before it cuts back to Squidward, there is a transparent picture of a person's hand holding a clapboard, which only appears for about a frame. This occurs again right after SpongeBob says, "Don't forget the woo!" right before it cuts back to Squidward. It is likely a picture of some draft or production code for this episode.

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SpongeBob's house is missing.

When SpongeBob and Patrick chant Squidward's name, SpongeBob's house is nowhere to be seen.
Squidward disappears after SpongeBob and Patrick shout out his name one more time near the end. His clarinet was still heard however.

Videos

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File:Nickelodeon Commercial Breaks (July 12, 1999)

References

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[2] Cheerios Good Goes Round - Anthem

[3] November 10, 2006 - Nickstory

[4] July 27, 2020 - Nickstory

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