Barnacle Face

Characters

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• Pearl Krabs
• Eugene H. Krabs
• Patrick Star ^(mentioned)
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  • Incidental 41
  • Incidental 40
  • Incidental 8
  • Incidental K2
  • Teen 15
• Pearl's cyan friend
• Teen 15's boyfriend Template:Debut
• Other fish at Bikini Bottom High School

Synopsis

On the night before the big school dance, Pearl gets a barnacle on her face. After requesting expensive treatment to get rid of the blemish, Mr. Krabs refuses and asks SpongeBob to help Pearl remove the barnacle. He tries prying the barnacle out with his spatula, then a shovel, then a jackhammer, all to no avail. Then, when Pearl washes her face with soap, more barnacles sprout up. Thinking all hope is lost, she locks herself in the restroom and cries violently.

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SpongeBob trying to remove Pearl's barnacles.

SpongeBob then decides to simply hide the barnacles under a layer of facial cream, which ends up making Pearl's face look severely deformed and causing her to be unable to talk. Finally, Pearl asks SpongeBob to get her more soap from the basement's soap press, where he finds Mr. Krabs producing the house's soap. Mr. Krabs explains to SpongeBob that he makes all of his soap out of leftover Krabby Patties. A furious Pearl overhears this and, realizing that she has been washing her face with grease, screams at her father (because he was saving all his money he loves) and gives up trying to remove the barnacles.

SpongeBob, inspired by something she said ("The Bikini Bottom High School Dance was supposed to be my chance to sparkle."), resolves to cover up the barnacles with Mr. Krabs' precious jewels. Pearl's friends are dazzled by her sparkling face, and they happily depart for the school dance. Mr. Krabs, having discovered that Pearl is wearing his jewels, desperately sprints after her, as the episode ends.

Production

Art

Character design

• Various school teens
  Various school teens

Release

Distribution

• This episode is available on the Sweet & Sour Squidward, Complete Eighth Season, Tales of a Teenage Whale, SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 13, The SpongeBob SquarePants 8 Season DVD Collection, The SpongeBob SquarePants Collection, Next 100 Episodes, The Best 200 Episodes Ever, The Seventh & Eighth Seasons, and The Best 300 Episodes Ever DVDs.

Trivia

General

• The barnacles are meant to represent acne, a common skin disease in humans that generally develops during puberty.
• The title card is meant to represent the barnacles on Pearl's face.
• The barnacles on Pearl's face appear to be acorn barnacles.
• This is the second episode in which Pearl gets a medical condition. The first is "Growth Spout."
• This is Andrew Goodman's first episode as a writer.

Episode references

• The glue SpongeBob uses for the jewels is Patrick's Forever Glue from "Stuck in the Wringer."

Errors

• Just after the customers leave for the Chum Bucket across the street and Mr. Krabs and SpongeBob stand in front of the Krusty Krab doors, the Chum Bucket is not there.
• The clock in the background when Pearl is crying looks like it would say 3 o'clock, but it is really 4.
• When Mr. Krabs' jewels are first shown, they are in multiple colors, but when SpongeBob glues them on Pearl, they are all in one color.
• When Mr. Krabs opens his vault of jewels, he opens the door to the right. When he is horrified to learn his jewels were taken, the door opens to the left.

Videos

File:Nickelodeon Split Screen Credits (September 23, 2011)

File:SpongeBob SquarePants - Barnacles be gone Nickelodeon

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
French	Des pustules en pagaille	Pustules Galore
Italian	La tragedia dei brufoli	Pimple Tragedy
Russian	Прилипалы на лице Prilipaly na litse	Clings on Face
Spanish	Cara de percebe	Barnacle Face