Bunny the Barbarian

Characters

• Patrick Star
• Cecil Star
• Bunny Star
• Squidina Star
• GrandPat Star
• Barbarian woman Template:Single appearance
• Pat The Hapless Template:Debut
• Sir Urchin
• Snail Fail
• Incidental 30A
• Foot dresser ^{(as a a living character)}
• Dust Demon Template:Single appearance
• Lizard Mutant B Template:Single appearance
• Dust Demon's children ^{(single appearance)}

Synopsis

In the living room of the Star house, Bunny blows on a conch shell and calls the rest of the family to meet with her. Bunny announces that it is family movie night, but also tells the family that they need to get their weekly chores done. Cecil is assigned to cut the grass; GrandPat to put out the radio; Squidina to work on the house's floors; and Patrick on garbage duty. Bunny herself decides to do vacumming. After she finishes her chore, she runs into the time closet and decides to go to the barbaric age.

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Bunny looks at the temple.

While inside the barbaric environment, she finds a temple and steps into line, encountering a barbarian woman. After questioning Bunny about her outfit, the warrior whistles to bring in a reptile troop, and she and Bunny switch clothes in the background, with Bunny now wearing the warrior's armor and the warrior wearing Bunny's outfit. Bunny gets an idea from the warrior to take the dust demon's treasure at the top of the temple. The gatekeeper interrogates Bunny, who brings up her proudest honor of being a mother. The gatekeeper lets Bunny into the temple after mentioning he never had the feeling of having a mother.

Back at the house, GrandPat, Cecil, and Squidina are shown waiting for movie night to start. Patrick says that movie night should only start when the entire family is available. He chains himself to the TV as the rest of the family threaten to attack him. Meanwhile, Bunny climbs up the temple. A demon approaches her, but Bunny gets past him after vacuuming off his nose germs. She opens the door at the top of the stairs by vacuuming off the lock and bolts from it.

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Bunny faces the dust demon.

Bunny soon reaches the top of the temple, finding the jewel treasure. She tries to vacuum the jewels, which a warms the dust demon. The dust demon attempts to deal with Bunny by producing a shag carpet, which has no effect. The demon steps on the carpet, creating several dirty spots, but Bunny uses the scrubbing abilities of her vacuum to clean them, as well as the demon's feet. The dust demon then brings in a refrigerator encased by an iron maiden and prepares to drink milk out of the carton, which gets Bunny's attention, causing her to vacuum the carton and pour the milk in a glass. The dust demon then threatens to wipe his mouth with curtains. Lighting soon strikes into Bunny's vacuum, with her soon scaring off the dust demon, with him landing in the walls. However, Bunny immediately vacuums him up.

The demon children are seen at the top of the temple, wondering what happened to their dad. Bunny gives them the bag, which has him inside. She glides away on a flying dragon, with the reveal that the family was watching the events on TV. Bunny comes home to find the family, but soon returns to the temple to clean up the remaining specks. The family get tired of waiting for her, so they change the channel to The Sir Urchin & Snail Fail Show!, as the episode ends with them laughing.

Production

This episode was in production during January 2021.

This episode was confirmed by the British TV guide DigiGuide on October 5, 2021.

Model sheets

• Designed by Chris Tabares.

• Lizard Mutant B model sheet
  Lizard Mutant B model sheet

Art

Character design

• Designs by Chris Tabares and Ian Vazquez.

• Sketch of an early design for "Pat the Hapless"
  Sketch of an early design for "Pat the Hapless"
• Sketch of a character from the episode
  Sketch of a character from the episode
• Barbarian Woman
  Barbarian Woman
• Sketch of the Dust Demon
  Sketch of the Dust Demon

Storyboards

• Rough boarded by Brian Morante and plussed by Ian Vazquez, with some poses of Bunny drawn by Benji Williams.

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Production notes

Ian Vazquez:

• Vazquez said that Cree Summer (the voice of Bunny) puts so much fun into her performance that he can't help drawing it out as a part of the storyboard, such as a squeak on the word "it's" early in the episode.
  • Summer's read on the word "back-sass" was his "favorite delivery I have ever had the privilege to draw to, that is all."
• Vazquez stated that the barbarian woman had some of the most fun faces to draw, saying it "was fun having her go from scary to gripped by the JOY OF DANCE."
• Vazquez said that it took many lines to draw the "Dust Demon." He subsequently stated that "The Dust Demon was a fun challenge for the shots I drew him, he had to look scary, big, imposing and like he ain't got no bones...because he's just a big mean hunk of dust bunnies. I liked having him talk out of the side of his mouth to go with his Bluto-esque voice!"

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• The storyboard artist said that this scene was a "good example of the no-bones as he calls upon all the powers of dustiness to do very bad things." Vazquez tried to make him look like an out of shape Chernabog here.

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• Ian intended for the barbarian woman to serve as a younger version of Baby Prunes: "No this isn't a joke, this is actually how I started the design and who I intended it to be back in January. You wish I was joking. JANUARY."

Chris Tabares:

• According to Tabares, the original design concept for Pat the Hapless was a barbarian warrior, but was scrapped later on to be a bit pudgier. Despite that, he still thought that "he was a blast to design and draw."

Release

• This episode is available on The Patrick Star Show Season 1, Volume 1 DVD.

Trivia

General

• This is the fifth episode of the SpongeBob SquarePants franchise where Template:Data:Links is completely absent, as he does not make an appearance and he is not mentioned.
• The barbarian woman was originally seen in the rough storyboards as skinny with pufy hair, but she was later changed into a buff warrior.

Episode references

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The original clip.

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The clip in "Bunny the Barbarian."

• The Sir Urchin & Snail Fail Show! returns from "Library Cards" with the opening clip of them being used as well.
  • This was also the show's first appearance on The Patrick Star Show, and it later appears sporadically throughout the series' run.

Cultural references

• This episode's title is a parody of Conan the Barbarian.
  • This marks the second time a Nicktoon series has referenced this, the first being "Timmy the Barbarian" from The Fairly OddParents.
• The barbarian woman's inspiration takes inspiration from not only Baby Prunes, but Grace Jones from Conan the Destroyer.
• The Dust Demon's design is a reference to the goblins' in the Rankin/Bass adaption of The Hobbit.

Video

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