Delivery to Monster Island

This is the page about the season 13 episode. For other uses, see Monster Island (disambiguation).

Characters

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• Sheldon J. Plankton
• Patrick Star
• Squidward Tentacles
• Eugene H. Krabs
• French Narrator
• Monster Island ^{(as a living character)}
• Deadly monsters Template:Single appearance
• Banana monster Template:Single appearance
• Banana baby Template:Single appearance
• Giant flies Template:Single appearance
• Snake monster Template:Single appearance
• Gary the Snail ^{(cameo; picture frame only)}
• Bubble Bass
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  • Old Man Walker
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• Seahorse

Synopsis

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"Patty, I don't think we're in Bikini Bottom anymore."

Patrick enters the Krusty Krab, but is unable to remember what he was going to order. Plankton is shown hiding on Patrick's back, sneaking into the kitchen in disguise. He finds a Krabby Patty left in the open while SpongeBob is preparing the ingredients. Plankton tries to take the Krabby Patty, but SpongeBob catches the patty sneaking away. SpongeBob wraps up the patty and puts it in his delivery bag, unaware that Plankton is inside as well. SpongeBob takes various modes of transportation for his delivery, and after 80 minutes, SpongeBob makes it to his destination, revealed to be right next to the Krusty Krab. Just as he makes the delivery, a wind blows SpongeBob away and he ends up on Monster Island.

SpongeBob catches the patty sneaking away again and soon realizes that Plankton was inside his delivery bag. SpongeBob, realizing that he and Plankton are stuck on the island together, figures that they should make the patty last by sharing it in order to survive on the island. SpongeBob offers Plankton the first bite of the Krabby Patty, but a monster eats it, and Plankton, before SpongeBob fights off the monster to get him out. The monster chases SpongeBob and Plankton until it gets tangled up between two trees.

Plankton makes a shelter for him and SpongeBob, but it is too small for both of them. They find what they think is shelter, but it is actually the inside of another monster. They then try to find food on the island, first finding a banana, but it is revealed to be the baby of a banana monster. SpongeBob and Plankton encounter another monster while finding a rock, successfully fending it off with a coconut that ends up in the monster's mouth.

SpongeBob and Plankton open The Coco-Hut restaurant and sell coconut patties to the monsters, which they enjoy. After a while, Plankton gets a plan for him and SpongeBob to leave the island, but they are surrounded by the monsters, who still want SpongeBob and Plankton to serve them at the restaurant. SpongeBob and Plankton distract the monsters by using part of the restaurant as a raft to ride away from the island, but the island is revealed to part of a sea turtle monster, and it catches up to SpongeBob and Plankton. They manage to get a jump boost off of Bubble Bass, who was relaxing at Goo Lagoon.

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Mr. Krabs decides to start selling Coco-Patties.

SpongeBob and Plankton manage to land in the Krusty Krab, and it turns out that they were stuck on the island for six years. Everyone runs out of the restaurant, thinking that an earthquake as occurred, but the sea turtle monster makes it back to the Krusty Krab and eats it. Patrick, seeing the island raft, decides that he wants a coconut patty, while SpongeBob discovers that Plankton is gone. Plankton is shown inside the sea turtle monster, enjoying the Krabby Patty, but the monster's stomach acid catches up to the restaurant, and Plankton ends up inside it, The episode ends with a bubble stomach acid blows a heart and pops splashes the green acid at the screen.

Production

This episode was confirmed by Cartoonlounge.de on December 20, 2022.

Trivia

General

• This episode marks the brief return of Adam Paloian, returning to the series as a storyboard director.
  • This episode also marks the first time where Adam Paloian serves as that role.
• Monster Island was previously a concept in the online games Monster Island, Return to Monster Island, and Monster Island Adventures, with Monster Island Adventures even being about working together on a delivery to Monster Island (specifically SpongeBob, Template:Data:Links, Template:Data:Links, and Template:Data:Links delivering an order of Template:Data:Links to Octavius Rex there.)
• This is the second episode of season 13 in which two enemies work together, the first being "There Will Be Grease."
  • This is the eighth episode of the series as a whole in which two enemies work together, including "Best Frenemies,", "Chum Bucket Supreme", "The Other Patty," "Chum Fricassee," "Plankton's Pet," "The Krusty Bucket," and "There Will Be Grease." SpongeBob SquarePants featuring Nicktoons: Globs of Doom and The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water also feature enemies working together.
• The title card background is nearly identical to "The Algae's Always Greener," "The Fish Bowl," and "Swamp Mates," only this one has monster eyes in the seaweed.
  • Also, the background from "Opposite Day" makes a return in a time card for the first time since "Drive Thru."
• This episode was paired up with a rerun of "Yellow Pavement" during the original American airing.
• This is the first episode since season 10 to make frequent usage of tracks from CPM Music. As a result, it marks the first usage of the following tracks:
  • "African Conflict" since "Sponge-Cano!"
  • "Evil Horror" since "Pineapple Invasion."
  • "Bloodbath" since "Burst Your Bubble."

Episode references

• SpongeBob's outfit while skiing down a mountain to make a delivery is the same one he wore when he had the suds in season 1's "Suds."
• Patrick struggles to order a Krabby Patty in a similar way he did in "Krusty Krab Training Video," continuously leaving his mouth agape in question.

Cultural references

• When SpongeBob arrives on Monster Island, he says to his Krabby Patty, "Patty, I don't think we're in Bikini Bottom anymore." This references Dorothy's iconic line, "Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore," from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.

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The monster that greatly resembles Shrek.

• One of the monsters in one scene has a very similar resemblance to Shrek, the main character from the franchise of the same name.

Errors

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SpongeBob's missing eyelashes error.

• When the banana monster roars, SpongeBob's eyelashes are gone.

Videos

File:SpongeBob SquarePants - "Delivery To Monster Island" Sneak Preview (Provided by LeakDB)

File:SpongeBob SquarePants - "Delivery to Monster Island" Official Promo 1