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 flies 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 out of curiosity, but SpongeBob and Patrick return to ask payment. Squidward then has to give them 25 cents for the bubble.

Squidward then attempts to impress them with his technique, but instead fails, with each bubble falling to the ground. While Squidward still attempts to blow a satisfactory bubble (and, as a result, spends more money with each bubble he blows), SpongeBob and Patrick try to convince Squidward to use the technique. Finally, Squidward, furiously (though without realizing it) copies their technique in an attempt to mock them. However, he blows an enormous bubble. SpongeBob and Patrick then congratulate Squidward, saying that he is "amazing" and that his bubble was the best. Squidward thanks them sarcastically and leaves, walking back into his house. He begins to play his clarinet, with SpongeBob and Patrick chanting his name. However, the gigantic bubble floats and traps Squidward's house inside it, unearthing it, and sending it up in the air.

SpongeBob and Patrick try to warn Squidward, but Squidward thinks they're still chanting him and keeps playing, thinking he is "amazing". When he looks outside, he sees him way way above the ground with SpongeBob and Patrick specks from the ground. The bubble then pops, sending his house back to its original area, albeit with much force. SpongeBob and Patrick look at each other nervously and they retreat to their houses before Squidward could scold them.

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.
• Amazingly, near the end of this episode, Squidward plays a jazz song on his clarinet, and actually does it perfectly, making it one of the few times in the series where Squidward either wins, or he actually succeeds in what he's trying to do, and is actually happy.
• As Squidward is doing the technique, and says "And do this and this.." he has one eye for less than half a second. To see this you must have media in which pausing is possible. (see below)
• This episode, along with Ripped PAnts, marks the official premiere of Spongebob Squarepants
• A clip from this episode appears in the first SpongeBob Burger King commercial.

As SpongeBob is doing his bubble technique, 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. (see below)

• In the movie "Zathura", Danny watches this episode before Walter changes the channel to a sports channel.
• when this episode aired it had the UPP Logo but when Ripped Pants aired it had the Coumbia Tristar Televison logo

Gallery

• Squidward with one eye.
  Squidward with one eye.
• Spongebob with one eye.
  Spongebob with one eye.