Bubblestand

Characters:

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Patrick Star
• Squidward Tentacles

Plot

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Squidward's House begins to float away by a giant bubble.

SpongeBob walks outside and admires the peacefulness of the neighborhood. Suddenly, he loudly begins to make a stand where people have to pay 25 cents just to learn to blow bubbles like he does. It wakes up Squidward who demands SpongeBob to be quiet. Patrick comes out and then comes to the stand and asks to try it out and Patrick only buzzes his lips instead of blowing and fails so he requests SpongeBob to teach him for an extra quarter. SpongeBob says that he blows bubbles in a technique and when he shows Patrick he blows a duck bubble, an ice cube bubble, a caterpillar bubble, and a boat bubble.

Then after all the bubbles pop SpongeBob then uses two hands causing him to blow Bubblephant (Patrick calls it a "Giraffe") which flys into Squidward's house and pops in the house causing an explosion. Squidward is enraged and comes out and asks why they are just making so much noise just blowing bubbles. SpongeBob shows him the technique and he blows a butterfly bubble but Squidward angrily rejects SpongeBob's ideas and shoos SpongeBob and Patrick back into their houses in embarrassment. Squidward begins to blow a bubble but SpongeBob and Patrick return to ask payment and Squidward then has to give them 25 cents but he shows them his way of blowing bubbles but he fails and he sarcastically and meanly imitates their technique but only to discover that he blew a HUGE bubble. SpongeBob and Patrick congratulate Squidward and Squidward thanks them sarcastically and leaves. He begins to play his clarinet but SpongeBob and Patrick chant him until Squidwards gigantic bubble floats and traps Squidward's house inside it!

SpongeBob and Patrick try to warn Squidward but Squidward thinks they're still chanting him and he keeps playing and playing thinking he rocks but when he looks outside he sees him way way above the ground with SpongeBob and Patrick specks from the ground he says "Genius" before the Bubble pops shaking the Earth and SpongeBob and Patrick look at each other nervously and they retreat to their houses before Squidward could scold them, but he continued playing clarinet.

Music

Songs

• Squidward's clarinet solo

APM Music Identification

• Old Hilo March - Kapono Beamer - Title card
• Cierre Bob Esponja - Steve Bulfer - "Good morning."
• Entry of the Gladiators - Dick Stephen Walter and Julius Fucik - SpongeBob blows a bubble in the shape of an elephant.
• Baby Elephant - Dick Stephen Walter - SpongeBob and Patrick hide from an angry Squidward (appropriately, this plays after a bubble shaped like an elephant pops in his house).
• Honolulu March - George Kulokahai and his Island Serenaders - SpongeBob shows Squidward the "technique"; Squidward attempts to blow a bubble, while SpongeBob and Patrick try to remind Squidward about the "technique".
• Hawaiian Cocktail - Richard Myhill - "You should be ashamed of yourselves."; SpongeBob and Patrick run back to their homes.
• The Rake Hornpipe - Robert Alexander White - "Who would pay 25¢ to blow bubbles?"
• Moloka'I Nui A - Kapono Beamer - "I really did it, didn't I? You guys couldn't blow anything like that!"

Cultural references

• Clips from this episode appeared in the 2005 film, Zathura, while the main characters were fighting over what to watch on TV (SpongeBob SquarePants or SportsCenter.)
• Footage from this episode appeared in the 2003 episode, "The Sponge Who Could Fly", in the "Remembering SpongeBob" sequence.
• "Bring it around town" is featured in the game Delivery Dilemma at nick.com.

Trivia

• Prince Paul wrote a song about this episode. It can be heard on The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie soundtrack.
• The ending of Squidward's clarinet solo is similar at the end of the Thankfulness song.
• A clip from this episode appears in the first SpongeBob Burger King commercial.
• As SpongeBob is doing his bubble techinique, in the part where he says "Bring it around Town" SpongeBob has one eye for less than half a second. In order to clearly see this, one must use a DVD or any media in which pausing is possible.
• It is possible that this takes place before Help Wanted because he doesn't go to work and he makes money off of the stand so Spongebob works for stands before he got a job at the Krusty Krab.
• When Squidward is "Blowing" the bubble, he didn't blow it at all, instead he screamed.
• In the Spainish version of this episode, SpongeBob doesn't say "No".
• After the giant bubble holding Squidward's house popped, and SpongeBob and Patrick walk nervously to their houses, they were walking towards each others houses, but when the scene showed the entire street, the were walking torwards their own houses.

• When Squidward came out of his house, it was shown that he came out of his gallery room since it was in the 2nd floor.