Feral Friends

Characters

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• Sandy Cheeks
• Patchy the Pirate
• Potty the Parrot
• Patrick Star
• Squidward Tentacles
• Eugene H. Krabs
• Mrs. Puff
• Larry the Lobster
• Pearl Krabs
• Sheldon J. Plankton ^{(rough storyboard)}
• Karen Plankton ^{(rough storyboard)}
• French Narrator ^{(physically seen)}
  • Dan Southworth
• King Neptune ^(mentioned)
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  • Lenny
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  • Highway Speed Patrol officer
  • Other feral fish (single appearance)
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• Bacteria

Synopsis

Patchy arrives on a boat to the water above Bikini Bottom, saying that he and Potty are there to witness an event happening once every 100 years. He has a little argument with Potty before taking a telescope to look underwater.

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Sandy is having a birthday party with her friends at Jellyfish Fields. SpongeBob made Sandy a birthday cake, but Patrick eats it in one bite, so SpongeBob brings a backup cake. Before Patrick tries eating her backup cake, Sandy karate-chops a slice for everyone. Squidward asks SpongeBob if it contains nuts since he is allergic. Though SpongeBob says that it doesn't, he doesn't count walnuts as nuts, causing Squidward to have an allergic reaction.

A sudden earthquake happens. A big, shiny green rock arises out of a nearby volcano and is seen floating in the sky. Everyone notices it as the moon. Sandy, however, says that the moon comes out only at night. The green moon floats above a group of fish playing with a ball, turning them into biologically-accurate sea creatures. Sandy notices that every sea creature, including her friends, are enchanted by the green moon. Another fish, flying a kite, turns into a realistic fish and eats the kite. SpongeBob and Patrick run toward the green moon, turning into a realistic sea sponge (albeit a kitchen-sponge shaped one) and a real sea star. Sandy tries to warn the rest of her friends to hide from the green light and run to the shade; however, they are enchanted by the light and do not follow. Mrs. Puff and Mr. Krabs are de-evolved by the green light into a puffer fish and scavenger crab, respectively.

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Pearl the natural whale.

Pearl is seen talking on her cellphone, saying that her friends should go outside and see the light. She takes a picture with her phone, then turns into a realistic sperm whale by the green light and eats the phone. Then the green light turns Larry into a realistic lobster, now unable to lift weights.

The green light floats above Sandy and she fears it will turn into a natural squirrel, but when it crosses her, it does nothing to her. She assumes it happens only for sea creatures, yet she doesn't understand why this green moon turns all the sea creatures into wild fish.

Sandy starts questioning if she's the only one left normal, then Squidward comes out of the bathroom. She runs towards him and puts him under a rock away from the green light. Squidward demands an explanation.

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All Bikini Bottomites except Sandy transform into realistic undersea animals.

Sandy calls the French Narrator, who's in a submarine in the ocean, seen on screen in a scuba-diver suit. The French Narrator stops Sandy in the middle of her sentence, saying he was looking at the green moon's actions all day. He explains about Neptune's moon and that it happens every 100 years, with its effects lasting for 2 hours.

As Sandy is talking to the French Narrator, Squidward peeks out from under the rock and sees several giant fish eating each other. Squidward runs in panic to his house (and towards the moon) to save himself from being eaten, but falls over as a big, purple fish approaches and is about to eat him. Luckily, Neptune's moon is passing over, turning Squidward into a big, realistic octopus, who eats the purple fish.

Sandy is afraid that Squidward will eat the rest of her friends if she doesn't act quickly. She collects them all in a net and rides on Pearl's tail. During the ride, Sandy bumps into Pearl's breathing-hole, only being blown to the air and hit by an airplane. The airplane contains only non-anthropomorphic fish, including the pilots, who are unable to control the plane and cause it to crash. Sandy lands back on Pearl's tail.

Neptune's moon reaches the center of Bikini Bottom. Sandy tries to warn all of the fish, but no one seems to notice. An officer asking for a driving license from a driver is seen, when both fish are turned by the green light into realistic fish.

Pearl is leaving the town and goes up. Sandy warns everyone to hold on. Then, Pearl approaches Patchy's boat, who is afraid of the coming whale. He tries to sail away, but doesn't make it, and Pearl jumps above Patchy's boat. The jump splashes water into the boat, and Patchy tries to get the water out. He unsuccessfully asks Potty for help, then decides to do it all by himself. Pearl goes back down, and Sandy jumps off her tail when she reaches her house.

Sandy puts her friends, minus Pearl and Squidward, in an aquarium at her treedome. Sandy picks up another phone call with the French Narrator, asking him to explain more about her fish friends. He begins to explain every creature, but, while explaining about the scavenger crab and the puffer fish, Mr. Krabs and Mrs. Puff fight for a while, until Sandy picks them up, saying that she knows she would have to set them apart. The French Narrator continues explaining about the creatures and Sandy takes a picture of the primitive sponge.

Squidward suddenly shows up at Sandy's treedome and starts to climb on top of It. The French Narrator explains about the octopus. Sandy says that her dome is made of pressure-resistant glass, but the French Narrator warns that giant octopuses can cut through hard materials using their beaks. Squidward cuts a hole in the dome with his beak, filling the dome with water. Sandy's aquarium friends start to float around. Squidward further breaks Sandy's dome and tries to eat her and her friends. Sandy throws her friends into her tree, then tries to escape.

Squidward succeeds to hold Sandy and to insert his mouth and teeth into her tree, getting her aquarium friends cornered. The French Narrator says something about the climax of the battle. The French Narrator reminds Sandy she must remember who the giant octopus's natural enemy is. Then she remembers, frees herself from Squidward and uses her tail to create echolocation and summon the natural enemy of the octopus, the whale. As Pearl and Squidward are fighting, Sandy's aquarium friends run towards her.

Sandy notices the 2 hours are up. The French Narrator says that Neptune's moon goes to the other volcano and that they'll see it again in 100 years. Then, he yells "Goal!" like in soccer.

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Sandy is now a natural squirrel.

Everyone turns back to normal, but due to the effects of Neptune's moon, their clothes disappeared and end up naked. Everyone except SpongeBob and Patrick run away and SpongeBob asks Sandy why her treedome is broken and everyone's naked. Sandy responds that it has been the most interesting birthday that she ever had. The French Narrator says that Neptune's moon is followed by Neptune's sun. Another earthquake happens, followed by a red and yellow ball floating out of a volcano. However unlike earlier, this time it affects Sandy, and she turns into a realistic squirrel.

Back at the island above Bikini Bottom, a live-action Sandy water skis on the surface of the water, passing by Patchy's boat. Patchy's boat is sinking and has a shark fin around it. He says to Potty that he never thought he would end as a shark's meal. They both accept their end, when they realize the shark fin is actually the French Narrator in his scuba-suit.

The French Narrator says to Patchy that he came to warn him about Neptune's sun, but it is too late, and goes away. However, Patchy has never heard of "Neptune's sun". Then, Neptune's sun appears above his boat, turning Patchy into a caveman and Potty into a pterodactyl. Prehistoric Potty thinks Patchy is a patty, so he picks Patchy up and flies away.

Production

On July 1, 2016, Brian Morante posted this episode's script on Tumblr, mostly censored by a Post-it note doodle of his featuring SpongeBob, Patrick, Squidward's eyes, nose and mouth, and Plankton.

This episode name was confirmed in a tweet by Vincent Waller on November 12, 2016.

Art

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Script

• Script doodle by Brian Morante.

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Storyboards

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Behind-the-scenes

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Release

• This episode is available on the SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 17, The Legend of Boo-Kini Bottom (UK version only), SpongeBob Schwammkopf, Staffel 11, Vol. 1, The Complete Tenth Season, Sleepy Patrick, Another 100 Episodes, and The Best 300 Episodes Ever DVDs.

Trivia

General

• Along with "Don't Wake Patrick," this episode was originally set to premiere on June 24, 2017 for the Do the New Saturday Mornings event, but it was replaced with "Spot Returns" and "The Check-Up" due to this episode being in post-production at the time.
• Like "Shanghaied" and "Back to the Past," this episode is longer than a regular episode, due to the Patchy segments. However, this episode is shorter than 22 minutes and it is not a SpongeBob special, either.
  • This is why "Don't Wake Patrick," its sister episode, is 6 minutes long.
• It is revealed that Squidward is allergic to nuts.
• The original storyboard featured a deleted scene with Plankton and Karen. In the scene, Plankton is waiting for Karen to bring his dinner, but Neptune's moon turns him into a feral copepod. When Karen brings his food over, she mistakes Plankton for a bug and squashes him with a flyswatter. She then flicks the splattered remains away.
• As a real sea sponge, SpongeBob is shown filter feeding, being the first time that he does this since "I Had an Accident."
• This episode reveals that Patchy and the French Narrator know each other.
  • This episode also reveals that Sandy and the French Narrator know each other.
• This episode debuts Doug Lawrence as the third voice of Potty the Parrot.
• This episode marks the first appearances of Patchy and Potty in live-action since the on-air sequences in the original airings of the Legends of Bikini Bottom episodes, though they both appear in the episode "It's a SpongeBob Christmas!" in stop-motion.
• This is the second time that Patchy visits Bikini Atoll. The first is "Truth or Square."
• This is the second physical appearance of the French Narrator. The first is "No Free Rides."
  • However, in this episode, the French Narrator wears an old-fashioned diver's suit instead of modern-day diving gear.
  • He also resembles the Cyclops from the first movie.
• This is the second episode where Patchy wears caveman clothes. The first is "Ugh."
• This is the third episode where Squidward lies down with a bone and can on the ground. The first is "Mutiny on the Krusty" and the second is "Out of the Picture."
• This is the third episode where Squidward is allergic to something. The first was "Restraining SpongeBob," when he is allergic to seaberry pie, and the second was "Sanctuary!," when he is allergic to snails.
• This is the first episode in production order to use tracks from the JW Media Music library.
• When this episode aired on July 8, 2020, it was paired up with a prior airing of "Who R Zoo?".

Episode references

• Towards the ending, some references from "Ugh" are featured in this episode:
  • Potty becomes a pterodactyl from Neptune's sun and Patchy plans for him to be a pterodactyl in that episode.
  • The track that plays when Patchy and Potty become prehistoric is the same track that is played mostly throughout the Patchy segments in that episode.
  • The way that Patchy acts is similar to Cavey.

Cultural references

• The French Narrator's submarine looks very much like one of Germany's U-boats used during World War II.

Dub facts

• This episode along with its sister episode, are the only episodes since season 1 to be low-pitched, as well as the only episode since season 6 to be in a different pitch in the Dutch dub.

Errors

• After the crowd finishes singing happy birthday to Sandy, the squirrel on the birthday cake is missing.
• Incidental 115 is supposed to be an anchovy, however they do not turn into an anchovy but into a different kind of fish.

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Sandy's miscolored neck.

• When Sandy says, "Nobody's going to eat you guys on my watch," her neck is white instead of brown.
• When Squidward and Pearl turn back to normal, the latter's right fin and foot are transparent for a split-second.

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Pearl's missing heart lip.

• When Sandy is looking at Pearl running naked, Pearl's heart lip is missing.

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Sandy's tail error.

• When Sandy turns into a land squirrel, she has two tails; one is on her "feral" body, and the other is still in her suit.
• When the French Narrator is above water, in the reflection of his helmet, the set for the water can be seen. A blue screen can be seen in the reflection.
• In the Patchy scenes, Patchy is seen twice without his hook.

Videos

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Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
German	Verwilderte Freunde	Feral Friends
Russian	Дикие друзья Dikiye druz'ya	Feral Friends