Bubble Buddy Returns

Characters:

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Bubble Buddy
• Shiny (debut)
• Squidward Tentacles
• Mr. Krabs
• Gary (cameo)
• Patrick Star (mentioned)

Plot

The episode begins with a bubble with a letter inside flying to SpongeBob's house while causing mischievous antics. It finally flies into SpongeBob's kitchen, who is enjoying a bowl of Kelpo cereal with Gary. SpongeBob opens the letter, which is from his old friend Bubble Buddy asking him to babysit his son Shiny. Shiny appears out of the bubble holding the letter SpongeBob introduces himself and takes Shiny to meet Squidward. Unfortunately, Shiny caused mayhem in Squidward's house and SpongeBob couldn't find him. Shiny kept flying again in Squidward's house and destroying furniture. Eventually SpongeBob catches him and takes Shiny to The Krusty Krab. Then he went into Mr. Krabs's office and flew everywhere around him. Mr. Krabs was shiny and clean from the bubble soap and told SpongeBob to let Shiny play in the dirty dishes. Then while SpongeBob was cooking Krabby Patties, Shiny once again gets into mischief by sliding around, making the Krusty Krab floors slippery. All the customers kept slipping, Mr. Krabs kicked them out. Then Shiny flew into the city and got into lots of trouble. He went into the pin factory, the scissor works, and he went into the pitchfork pantry. Then SpongeBob decided to go to the pillow pantry and he found out that was a dangerous place too. When they got home, he fed Shiny a hotdog. But then he popped, and SpongeBob had the bubble soap to repair him. Finally when he blew another Shiny, he grew two heads. Then Bubble Buddy came to his house to pick up Shiny. SpongeBob begins to apoligize about Shiny, but Bubble Buddy says that it was okay, because that sometimes it had happen to Shiny. Then he traps Shiny into a bottle of bubble soap. As they were leaving on a plane Shiny is normal again blew a raseberry out from the bottle and they went into the plane and flew away.

Trivia

• This is the first time the title card was reused. The only difference is that the word "Returns" was added to it.
• This is the final episode of the series with the 2002 Paramount logo.
• This is the last episode of 2011. It's also currently the latest episode made. The next two episodes will be Inspongeiac and Planet of the Jellyfish.
• This is the second appearance of Bubble Buddy, 11 years after his debut in Season 2.
• The bubble plane was first on the ground, but was lifted into the sky. The same thing happens to the taxi at the end of the episode "Bubble Buddy".
• Shiny showed no signs of life until the end, just like his father in "Bubble Buddy".
• This is the first sequel to any episode other than the Mermaidman and Barnacle Boy episodes.
• In the letter from Bubble Buddy, it says "We don't want him to go pop like his late Uncle Raymond". This is the first mention of any relatives of Bubble Buddy.
• Gary does not say "meow" in this episode
• The title card music is the same as "A Day Without Tears" and "You Don't Know Sponge".
• As opposed to logic, the electricity from the broken light bulb at Squidward's house doesn't shock the entire ocean, rather only SpongeBob.
• It is revealed that Nancy wears a wig.
• When Spongebob says Shiny is "full of soap and vinegar", it's a pun on the phrase "full of piss and vinegar". "Piss" was likely changed to "soap" due to the fact that piss is an inappropriate word for a cartoon.(With the exception of 1 regular show episode)
• When Spongebob says "Downsie Daffodil", it's a reference to "Upsie-Daisy".
• When Shiny wiped the moustache he painted on Squidward's self-portrait, he washed away the head and revealed its brain and spinal column. In real-life, this would mean that Squidward painted the brain and spinal column on the canvas, then painted his head over them.
• Squidward painted his self-portrait to resemble Napoleon Bonaparte.
• As seen in other episodes, bubbles in the Spongebob Squarepants universe have properties more similar to inflated balloons than bubbles. For example, when Shiny was caught in the blades of Squidward's fan, he wasn't popped. Instead, he spun around them, the way a helium-filled balloon would if caught in the same situation.
• The way Spongebob follows Shiny into dangerous situations to keep him from getting hurt is similar to the plot of the SNES game, Rocko's Modern Life: Spunky's Dangerous Day.
• Figuratively speaking, Shiny is Spongebob's grandson! because Spongebob created Bubble Buddy and Shiny is Bubble Buddy's son!
• This marks the first appearance of the new character Shiny.

Errors

• After SpongeBob reads the letter from Bubble Buddy, the spots on Gary's shell swap colors.