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
• Giant snail monster Template:Single appearance
• Giant teal fish monster 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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  • Harris
  • 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 has 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.

Production

This episode was in production sometime during 2022.

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

Art

Prop and FX design

• Color design by John John Bajet.

• A leaf tent and The Coco-Hut stand
  A leaf tent and The Coco-Hut stand
• The monster's stomach acid
  The monster's stomach acid

Background design

• Art direction by Peter Bennett, designed by Sterling Richter, traditionally painted in gouache by Amy Lewis, with lines drawn digitally on top.
• Monster Island from afar
  Monster Island from afar
• Monster Island jungle pan shot
  Monster Island jungle pan shot
• The Coco-Hut's locker room
  The Coco-Hut's locker room
• The giant snail monster's mouth
  The giant snail monster's mouth
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  Process photo #1
• Process photo #2
  Process photo #2

Storyboards

• Rough boarded by Adam Paloian. Cropped board plussed by Zach Heffelfinger.

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• Rough design of Monster Island monster board #1
  Rough design of Monster Island monster board #1
• Rough design of Monster Island monster board #2
  Rough design of Monster Island monster board #2
• Rough design of Monster Island monster board #3
  Rough design of Monster Island monster board #3
• Rough design of Monster Island monster board #4
  Rough design of Monster Island monster board #4

Deleted scenes

• These monsters went unused in the final episode, likely to be used during the "Too many monsters!" scene.

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Production notes

Adam Paloian:

• Paloian had a lot of fun doing freelance storyboards for this episode in 2022, getting to design "a ton of creatures" and "a whole collection of monsters."
• While designing the monsters, Paloian was "pulling inspiration from the sea monsters on old sailor maps to stay on theme with SpongeBob." He also "combined that influence with Where the Wild Things Are and a little bit of Ultraman.
• Paloian originally designed the big turtle monster as a "classic, giant sea monster (ala Monstro) but when [he] heard about an upcoming Moby Dick premise, [he] axed the whale idea in favor of the turtle concept in the script.

Release

• This episode is available on the SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 23 digital collection and The Complete Thirteenth Season DVD.

Trivia

General

• This episode premiered as part of the 2023 event "Friday Nights on Nick."
• This episode's premiere preceded a new episode of the Nickelodeon animated series Monster High.
• This episode was paired up with a rerun of "Yellow Pavement" during the original airing.
• The title card background is nearly identical to those of "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."
• 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 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.
• 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."
• This episode is one of the rare times after the second half of season 9 where a episode was storyboard driven, as it was originally outlined by Andrew Goodman, a previous outline writer, and written and storyboard directed by Adam Paloian.
  • This is the second episode of the season to utilize the storyboard-driven format, following "Lockdown for Love." It would later happen in "Spatula of the Heavens."

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The Coco-Hut in SpongeBob Simulator.

• The Coco-Hut location from this episode would later appear in SpongeBob Simulator in the Vacation World zone.

Episode references

• 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.
• SpongeBob's outfit while skiing down a mountain to make a delivery is the same one he wore when he had the suds in the season 1 episode "Suds."

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 when The Coco-Hut opens has a very similar resemblance to Shrek, the main character from the franchise of the same name.
• One of the monsters looks like Godzilla.

Errors

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The Chum Bucket and the path leading to it are missing.

• At the start of the episode, the Chum Bucket and its path are missing.

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SpongeBob's missing eyelashes error.

• When the banana monster roars at SpongeBob and Plankton, SpongeBob's eyelashes are gone.
• When SpongeBob and Plankton run away from the snake monster, SpongeBob's left shoe is transparent for one frame.

Videos

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• File:SpongeBob SquarePants New Episode Promo 2 - June 19, 2023 (Nickelodeon U.S.)
• File:Monster Island Coconut FRENZY! 🥥 - "Delivery to Monster Island" Full Scene - SpongeBob