Dunces and Dragons

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Characters

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  • Sir SpongeBob
• Patrick Star
  • Sir PatrickTemplate:Debut
• Medieval Moments trumpeters Template:Debut
• Medieval Moments guards Template:Debut
• Medieval Moments announcer Template:Debut
• Medieval Moments audience
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  • Incidental 37B
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  • Fred
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  • Sandals
  • Scooter
• King Morrie Template:Debut
• Morrie's Queen Template:Debut
• Seahorses
• Knights Template:Debut
• Dungeon master Template:Debut
• Squidly Tentacles Template:Debut
  • Squidward Tentacles (mentioned)
• Dragon jellyfish Template:Debut
• Citizens of Bikini Bottomshire
• King Krabs Template:Debut
  • Mr. Krabs (mentioned)
• Princess Pearl Template:Debut
• Leech Template:Debut
• Executioners Template:Debut
• Planktonamor Template:Debut
• Blacksmith Template:Debut
• Karen the Crystal Ball Template:Debut
• Dark Knight Template:Debut
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• King Neptune ^(mentioned)

Synopsis

Act 1

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SpongeBob and Patrick inside Medieval Moments.

In the beginning of the episode, SpongeBob and Patrick are running up to the Medieval Moments stadium/restaurant to watch the jousting tournament. Upon their arrival, Morrie announces the tournament of The Horse Fight and asks for two volunteers to take part in the jousting, choosing SpongeBob and Patrick. Unaware that they are actually going to be in the tournament, and not just watching up close, they are forced to mount seahorses and start jousting against each other. They are both launched off of their seahorses into the air and land in a small field in 12th Century Bikini Bottom.

A large group of knights on seahorses surround the duo. They lock SpongeBob and Patrick in the dungeons, because they think they are evil. There they see an octopus playing a clarinet and failing. He expresses displeasure at this and promptly curses his descendant should he continue to fail. They think it is Squidward, but the octopus' name is actually Squidly. In the meantime, SpongeBob and Patrick still think this is part of the Medieval Moments tournament, until Squidly tells them about a Dragon Jellyfish zapping around the village, making SpongeBob and Patrick realize they went back in time.

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SpongeBob and Squidly being released from the dungeon.

Later, SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidly are sent to King Krabs, who orders them to be executed because of an insulting song they sing in front of him. However, Princess Pearl reminds her dad of a prophecy in a stained glass window, which says that two brave knights will fall from the sky and will be sent by the king and defeat the dragon controlled by the evil wizard Planktonamor that is destroying the kingdom. Just then, the Dragon Jellyfish smashes through the wall with the prophecy on it.

Under Planktonamor's orders, it kidnaps Pearl in order to kill her and effortlessly flicks King Krabs into the guillotine, smashing it just before SpongeBob can be executed. The dragon flies away, and King Krabs, who realized they are the chosen ones, begs SpongeBob and Patrick with forgiveness and tells them to rescue his daughter, treating them like royalty, and Squidly comes along as well after orders from King Krabs.

Act 2

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SpongeBob running up the stairs.

On the way, they stop off at the Blacksmith's shop to get some armor and weapons, only to find that all of the weapons are too heavy except for the jellyfish net. As they reach the bridge to Planktonamor's tower, they are attacked by a Dark Knight, who guards the bridge. The Dark Knight is revealed to be none-other than a medieval Sandy. A duel ensues, with SpongeBob ultimately winning due to his karate prowess. After the battle, SpongeBob decides to spare her life. Amazed, the Dark Knight decides to follow SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidly on their quest and learn a trifle of karate, according to her.

Back at the King's castle, Krabs receives a note saying that Princess Pearl will die if he does not hand over the village and his throne. SpongeBob, Patrick, Squidly, and the Dark Knight make an incredibly long journey to the top of the tower, where SpongeBob distracts Planktonamor while Patrick, Squidly, and the Dark Knight try to rescue Pearl. However, the Dragon soon arrives and manages to zap the heroes. Just as the Dragon is about to finish off SpongeBob, he pulls out a Krabby Patty he had been saving for lunch. The Dragon eats it and likes it so much that it becomes obedient to SpongeBob, zapping Planktonamor. The heroes return to the village to have their victory celebrated, and King Krabs is seen cooking Template:Data:Links for the dragon. However, as soon as Squidly starts playing his clarinet, everybody hates it, and someone throws a rock at him. He bumps into the seahorses behind him, scaring them and launch SpongeBob and Patrick into the air.

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Squidly squashed by Patrick.

They land back at the jousting tournament in the present, where SpongeBob thinks and tells Patrick that all of this was just a dream. However, Patrick sits up revealing he had squashed Squidly, who is accidentally sent to the present as well, as the episode ends.

Production

• Promotional artwork.
  Promotional artwork.
• A ad for the Lost in Time DVD feature in a Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi comic. [1]
  A ad for the Lost in Time DVD feature in a Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi comic.
• A ad for the special in the same Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi comic.
  A ad for the special in the same Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi comic.
• Promotion Art posted on Sherm Cohen's Twitter.[2]
  Promotion Art posted on Sherm Cohen's Twitter.

Deleted scene

On the Season 4 Volume 1 DVD, The Complete Fourth Season, 2-Season TV Pack and The Third & Fourth Seasons DVDs, the storyboard shows SpongeBob and Patrick making sure they are okay after falling out of the sky. The rough storyboard also included a scene in which human-like "doppelgängers" of SpongeBob and Patrick appear. Patrick's doppelgänger wears a pointed hat and SpongeBob's doppelgänger has a neat, square-trimmed haircut.

Art

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Release

• This episode is available on the Lost in Time DVD and VHS, Season 4 Volume 1, Nick Picks Volume 5, The SpongeBob SquarePants Collection, The SpongeBob SquarePants 8 Season DVD Collection, Favorite Episodes Volume 2, Double Feature Volume 2, Simply Patrick, First 100 Episodes, 2-Season TV Pack, SpongeBob Schwammkopf Folge 31, The Ultimate SpongeBob Box Set, SpongeBob SquarePants Specials Collection, Vol. 1, Bob Esponja Vol. 1, SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 6, Complete Fourth Season, From the Beginning, Pt.2, Best of SpongeBob, On the Road, SpongeBob and Friends: Patrick SquarePants, Tales of a Teenage Whale, Calling All Heroes!, The Third & Fourth Seasons, and The Best 200 Episodes Ever DVDs and on VideoNow.

Reception

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• Vincent Waller did not enjoy the episode, and felt that it would have been better as an 11-minute episode.

Trivia

General

• This episode had 8.5 million viewers during its premiere, making it until today, the second most-watched episode of SpongeBob SquarePants beating "The Sponge Who Could Fly" with 7 million viewers, the most-watched one being "Atlantis SquarePantis."
• This episode was first seen in a New Year's 2006 commercial.
• Unlike her descendant, medieval Sandy can breathe underwater without an air helmet.
• King Krabs' castle looks like the Krusty Krab in design.
• It is revealed that Template:Data:Links and Template:Data:Links are related to royalty.
• It is revealed that Template:Data:Links was cursed by his ancestor to be terrible at playing the clarinet, although Squidward's in fact cursed by Squog of the prehistoric era in Ugh.
• SpongeBob's snickering from "Naughty Nautical Neighbors " can be heard during "King is Bad."
• Most of SpongeBob's friends have an ancestor, but neither SpongeBob or Patrick have a medieval relative who appears only in a deleted scene.
• There is an an online game of the same name based on this episode.
  • There are also two books based on this episode named Lost in Time: A Medieval Adventure and Good Knight SpongeBob.
• This was the first episode to be aired simulcast in the United States and Latin America in the same date, as it was promoted as a "world premiere."
• This was Robertryan Cory's first episode as the character designer.
• This was the first special to not be written by Paul Tibbitt.
• A clip from this episode was seen in the 2011 Numa Numa music video re-uploaded since 2020.
• A clip from this episode was seen in the Attack of the SpongeBob DVDs promo from 2008-2009.
• This is the second and last half-hour special of season 4. The first was "Have You Seen This Snail?."
• This is the second episode to involve time traveling. The first was "SB-129", although they didn't use a time machine as they fly through the air which sends them to the past.
• This episode marks the second time a reference to Dungeons and Dragons is used. The first time was in "Mid-Life Crustacean" with "P & P."
• This is the second 22-minute special to not feature Patchy the Pirate and Potty the Parrot after "Have You Seen This Snail?", However, they do make a cameo in the SpongeBob SquarePants special opening of the latter, others being Pest of the West and What Ever Happened to SpongeBob?.

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SpongeBob Doppelgänger voiced by Rodger Bumpass.

• According to the end credits and the animatic version, there was supposed to be a "SpongeBob Doppelgänger" who would have been voiced by Rodger Bumpass.
• This episode was aired alongside various specials from SpongeBob and The Fairly OddParents, leading up to the Nickelodeon movie 100 Things to Do Before High School.
• Before the episode's premiere, Nickelodeon released a preview clip of the episode on TurboNick.
• Burger King released a promotional toyline based on this episode in 2006. It consisted of 20 different figures and rolled out a global promotional sweepstakes called "Lost in Time With SpongeBob SquarePants," which offered customers a trip to one of the countries visited by SpongeBob in the episode.
• This is the first episode where "Parting of the Clouds" plays.
• Squidly is playing clarinet in the Middle Ages, although the clarinet was invented in the 1800s, which is after the Middle Ages, this was only made in their imaginative Middle Age.
• This is the third episode where everything was a dream, the first two being "Procrastination" and "Doing Time".
• Plot twist: When Patrick squashed Squidly at the end, is really in fact Squidward in a jester costume and he's not really Squidly.

Cultural references

• The title of the episode is a parody of the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons. One of the characters in this episode is the Dungeon Master, which is also a reference to the game.
• The name of the stadium/restaurant, Medieval Moments, is a spoof of the restaurant chain Medieval Times.
• Bikini Bottomshire is a parody of the names of British lands that formed during the Middle Ages, known as Shires.
• Planktonamor's Tower resembles the Eye of Sauron from The Lord of the Rings, besides the fact that the eye is not in between the spikes.

Errors

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One of the scenes where Patrick's cheeks' outline is black instead of pink.

• Patrick's cheeks' outline turns black multiple times throughout the episode.
• Before the Dark Knight rubs SpongeBob against the rock, Squidly and Patrick are behind it. However, they immediately disappear out of nowhere once Sandy reaches the spot.
• One of SpongeBob's eyelashes gets torn off, but later, it comes back.
• In the end credits to this episode, Doug Lawrence, who played Planktonamor, is not credited as a cast member.
• When SpongeBob and Patrick returned to the jousting tournament, as they took Squidly with them, it's impossible that Squidly is left behind in the past when the villagers throws a rock at the seahorse while they kicked SpongeBob and Patrick out in the air.

Videos

• File:SpongeBob SquarePants Lost in Time - Original Airing Live Coverage (February 20, 2006)
• File:Nickelodeon Monday Knight Slimetime Promo Over SpongeBob SquarePants Credits 2006
• File:Nickelodeon Split Screen Credits (February 20, 2006)
• File:SpongeBob SquarePants Lost in Time Promo - Nickelodeon (2006)