A SquarePants Family Vacation

Template:Infobox episode Characters:

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Patrick Star
• Mrs. SquarePants
• Harold SquarePants
• Mr.Krabs (Cameo at beginning)
• Squidward (Cameo at beginning)
• Plankton (Cameo at beginning)
• Pearl (Cameo at beginning)
• Sandy Cheeks (Cameo at beginning)
• Karen (Cameo at beginning)
• Larry the Lobster (Cameo at beginning)
• Mrs. Puff (Cameo at beginning)
• Giaht Fruit Fly (debut)

Song(s):

• The Road Song

Plot

The episode starts out with everybody getting invitations from SpongeBob. They go to his house to be suprised that they are going to see vacation slides. The adventure starts with Patrick squirting liquid cheese on the camera. SpongeBob's parents pull up and get SpongeBob and Patrick. SpongeBob looks at a brochure and Patrick suggests a game- Hide and Seek. Patrick gets on the windshield of the car and Harold looses control. They burst in The Oustskirts Mega-Mall, and Basscar stadium. They slide down a rocky cliff onto the road. SpongeBob then suggests they sing the road song. At the end of the song the engine blows up. They move the car to a local servise station. They wait in an outhouse. Margret sees a playground and offers SpongeBob and Patrick to play on it. They do, but they slide down a sewer pipe and onto a small puddle.

When they get up, they try to get back up, but they can't. They enter a mysterious red kelp forest with many mushrooms. They hear a hollering noise and run. It turns out its a small creature. They jump over a cliff and onto an anenome and onto a mushroom. Behind Patrick is a giant fruit fly. They run away and behind a rock. They hear a noise. It came from a gift shop. SpongeBob wastes his money on useless knicknacks. They sing the road song wearily. Then SpongeBob decides to play the road song on a flute he bought at the gift shop. They walk along past Harold and Margret and into the forest again. Animals follow them. The animals suddenly run away because the giant fruit fly is behind them. SpongeBob stops playing. When they turn around they see the fruit fly wants to give them a lift. They then sing the above the road song. He drops SpongeBob and Patrick off. SpongeBob's parents call them over but SpongeBob and Patrick just fell asleep.

Trivia/Goofs

• The title of this episode sounds the same parody as the film, RV, Runaway Vacation, Rat Race, and Johnson Family Vacation.

• The DVD was released on September 20, 2011 before it aired on television one month and fifteen days from its release.
• The original title for this was Runaway Roadtrip. The DVD cover still has it. (However it is possible that the special will have two titles as most specials do)
• Mrs. SquarePants name is Margret Bubblebottom-SquarePants.
• In the episode, this is the second time Mrs. SquarePants' hair is in a bun. First was Truth or Square.
• This is the fifth of the five episode miniseries to air on Nickelodeon.
• SpongeBob mention the Great Barrier Reef in The Masterpiece. And Mr. Krabs in Wet Painters.
• The Great Barrier Reef is a real live thing.
• This had a 10 hour marathon leading up to this episode starting from 7 a.m.
• When Partrick was repeating 'road', it references what he did in "The Spongebob Squarepants Movie" , when he and SpongeBob lost the Patty Wagon.
• This is the first time we heard Spongebob's mom sing.
• Spongebob's parents seem to like Patrick in this episode, as in past episodes they got annoyed by him.
• The outhouse is much bigger on the inside than the outside.
• This episode could be an allusion to 1987 film, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, the 2005 film, Are We There Yet?, and the 1994 film, Dumb and Dumber.
• This is the second time it is mentioned that Mrs. Squarepants's maiden name was Bubblebottom. The first time was in "Whelk Attack".
• Baytona and Basscar ar references to Daytona and Nascar
• It was weird that the fruitfly could breathe underwater.
• Even though the Krabs mailbox had only one letter, which was for Mr. Krabs, Pearl goes to Spongebob's house.
• The outhouse's interior resembles that of a sauna.
• Spongebob playing the ocarina and causing animals to follow him may be a reference to the game, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. In one part of the game, Link uses the ocarina to get cucco chicks to follow him around.

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Spongebob and Patrick in their car while they look at the brochure

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