Atlantis SquarePantis

Template:Episode Atlantis SquarePantis is the first SpongeBob SquarePants TV movie. The movie first aired in the United States on November 12, 2007, following a 12-hour-marathon of SpongeBob SquarePants episodes. A DVD version was released the day after the show premiered. It attracted an estimated 8.8 million viewers.

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Characters Present:

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Patrick Star
• Plankton
• Lord Royal Highness
• Mr. Krabs
• Sandy Cheeks
• Patchy The Pirate
• Squidward Tentacles
• Potty The Pirate

SpongeBob Plot

SpongeBob and Patrick are in Jellyfish Fields blowing bubbles. Patrick tries to take pictures of the bubbles but they keep popping before the picture is taken. Spongebob decides to blow a bubble that would last all day. SpongeBob blows a bubble that engulfs them both, and carries them into a nearby cave. The bubble suddenly pops as it makes impact with an ancient piece of gold. Eager to discover what exactly it is, they take it to the Bikini Bottom Museum where they (literally) run into Squidward. At first, Squidward thinks that SpongeBob and Patrick were planning on stealing the first half of the amulet which is housed in the museum, but upon attempting to return it to its spot realises that what Patrick and SpongeBob had was in fact the missing half. At this point, both Mr Krabs and Sandy join them. The pieces of gold are then reunited which summons a luxurious bus (or 'van' as Squidward calls it) piloted by a robot and fueled by "song." During the song to fuel the bus, it is revealed that Plankton has stowed away in a compartment at the front of the bus and plans to control the lost weapons of Atlantis. Once they arrive there,(accidentally crash-landing in a topiary garden) they meet Lord Royal Highness who shows them the riches, knowledge, and art of Atlantis.

Meanwhile, Plankton escapes from the compartment and sneaks into the vault storing the weapons. After looking around at the weapons, he chooses to commandeer a tank (seemingly at random) to start off his diabolical scheme. While this is happening, Mr. Krabs enjoys the money vault, Sandy enjoys the science lab, and Squidward enjoys the hall of art (the rooms each had been planning to see). In the money vault, money, gold, and prized objects are found and mostly stashed in Mr. Krabs's pants pockets. In the science lab, Sandy enjoys the devices, a biomass converting device that turns any household object into ice cream (a bug the Atlanteans haven't worked out), a germ-fighting, interactive, micro video game, and makes an automatic feeding device. And in the Hall of Arts, Squidward journeys through paintings, gets modeled by artmakers, and even makes his own painting, claiming to have learned more about art in his short time in Atlantis than he did while at college.

But everything goes wrong when SpongeBob and Patrick are left alone with the World's Oldest Living Bubble. The flash from Patrick's camera when he takes a picture of themselves with the bubble causes it to burst, and the pair go to dinner and insist on leaving. When Patrick reveals their mistake, Lord Royal Highness tells them that the bubble they popped was a prop, but when he shows them the real bubble, Patrick takes a picture of it and it also pops. The Atlantean is furious and summons the Royal Guard to seize the gang, but Plankton appears. He fires the tank at SpongeBob, the gang, and the Atlantean Royal Guard, but is foiled when it is revealed that the weapon he had chosen only shoots ice cream. He jumps out of the tank and in frustration kicks it, injuring himself. However, Lord Royal Highness seems delighted - a talking speck will make a great replacement for the bubble. Finally, the Atlantean king loads SpongeBob and his friends back onto the bus and removes the amulet, giving it to one of his soldiers to dispose of to ensure no more "visitors like these". SpongeBob is the only one eager to return to Bikini Bottom, and he sings of his delight in returning home as everyone else cries in protest.

Patchy the Pirate Plot

Patchy is stuck in traffic at Encino, California. Then, his cell phone rings, and Potty warns that he's going to miss the movie. Patchy yells at the guy driving behind him for honking at him because he is trying to talk to his parrot. Patchy tells Potty to record the movie, but Potty tells him that he threw the videotape in the trash, making him mad. Then, the traffic lines moves, but suddenly, he finds himself nowhere, and yells out "Encino, it's gone.......NOOOOOO!" Then, he cries that this isn't the only time a Lost-City had occured. Then, he tells us that the episode is what we should watch instead of watching him suffer. Then, Patchy gets his radio fixed, but not for long when it explodes again and produces smoke. Patchy later gets the hallucinations, and he finds a boy dressed in a tall sponge outfit who cries out that he is SpongeBob in real-life form. Then, Potty wakes him up after he thought he is back in Encino, which is all just a dream. Patchy begins to eat a sandwich, but he finds mayonnaise on it. After this, he finds Three Aliens and the portrayal of Encino. The Three Aliens explain that their son Norbluckfive was playing with his Shrink-A-Tron again. Patchy yells at them that he wants his town back in full size, and he keeps saying There's no place like home!. Sympathetic by Patchy's crying that he wants to go home because he missed the entire story, Norbluckfive's mother gets the Shrink-A-Tron given from her son, and she presses the big red button control, making a tornado disaster to fix it up. Then, Patchy is glad to be back in Encino, but soon, a giant Potty the Parrot crushes him into the house, realizing that now he is shrunk into Encino, not that Encino became bigger.

Trivia/Goofs

• When spongebob,patrick and squidward were trapped in the game and sandy saves them, the

Mission Start Text is the same as Street Fighter.

• This episode establishes that Atlantis had been lost for centuries, yet in Neptune's Spatula, Neptune almost took SpongeBob to live there as the Royal Fry Cook, which meant that it was anything but lost less than a decade before this.
• One of the paintings in the museum in the backround is "The Scream" but instead of a man, it is a fish.
• The text style in the title card is the same as in Gumby 1983 episode "The Search".

Squidward's arts in the art room are:

• Van Gogh's Starry Night
• Nighthawks
• The Eiffel Tower
• The Princess & The Plumber Background Painting
• Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Matte Painting
• Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Digital Development Painting

• The videogame Wonder Pets: The Story of the Germ Warrior Sandy plays parodies these videogames:

• • Bubble Bobble Revolution(also known as Taito Legends) (for the popping bubble color machine)
  • Super Mario Bros(the monsters resembles the enemies of Super Mario, the digital crossing controls, and even a warp pipe)
  • Dance Dance Revolution (the arrow-dancing game)
  • Donkey Kong 3(Sandy rescuing SpongeBob after they are kidnapped)
  • Dr. Mario (A bottle-shaped puzzle is shown, as well as the obvious germ reference)

• The people of the Atlantis City are very similar of the Blue Meanies from the 1968 Beatles film Yellow Submarine. However, they also have very large differences and similarties against each other: the Atlanteans are kind scientists, but the Blue Meanies are angry villainous monsters.They both have blue skin,red lips and big noses.
• The part where Patchy goes all crazy in the tornado is a parody of the novel The Wizard of Oz. First, Dorothy gets to go home saying "There's no place

like home" while tapping her red shoes. Patchytaps his peg to his only boot yelling out "There's no place like home" and the aliens send him home.

• The scene where Squog gets frightened by the painting he drew coming to life is a reference to The Twillight Zone.
• Patchy's appearance was insulted for the second time because he has a beard by the three aliens.
• The boat-board on Patchy's boat says ARRRRRRRRRR!!!
• The scene in which SpongeBob tells Patchy that he can find Encino if he believes he will is the second time we see SpongeBob as a real-live humanoid sponge. The first episode is SpongeGuard on Duty, in which he was shown as a real-life lifeguard looking out onto the beach.
• The Patchy the Pirate plot did not air on TV together on November 12, 2007, the episode's debuting airdate. However, all the other broadcast viewings contained it.
• The film has several parodies of the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and Yellow Submarine.
• In the videogame "Wonder Pets: The Story of Germ Warrior", you can see a code that says 1993 @ Nickelodeon Inc., an Entertainment Rights group company.
• The green spiked-shell turtle Sandy fights is an obvious plagarization of Bowser (Koopa), an evil enemy of Mario from Super Mario Bros.
• When a creature is posing in the art room just before Squidward poses, the creature's hair is blonde. Then when you see him a few seconds later, his hair is purple.

Quotes

• Squidward: You boobs found the missing half of the Atlantean amulet!

SpongeBob: Whats an Atlantean Omelet?

Squidward: Amulet! Not omelet! It's the key to untold riches!

Mr. Krabs: Did Somebody Say Untold Riches?

Reception

Atlantis SquarePantis has been received negatively by critics and fans alike. Tom Shales, a television critic for The Washington Post, lambasted the movie in a November 12, 2007 review. In the review, titled Squeezing The Life Out of SpongeBob, Shales wrote that "the funniest thing about the film is its title" and "a typical episode has about as many laughs as this inflated version does". Shales criticized the amount of musical numbers in Atlantis SquarePantis, calling them "numbing". He concluded the review with the statement that the episode was "flat" and "unimpressive". On tv.com, this episode has the lowest score of all SpongeBob episodes. However, Atlantis SquarePantis recorded nine million viewers, beating every 8pm show on broadcast television that night except Dancing With the Stars.

But most of all, the movie was criticized for being only 45 minutes and the big ending was a huge criticizement by fans.

Z to A Countdown

In the weeks prior to the priemere of the epsiode, fans voted online for their favorite episodes. They world premiere in a marathon, starting on November 12, 2007 at 9:00 a.m. Each episode corresponding to a letter of the Alphabet. Starting with Z, for Plan Z, the SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. It will end with A, for Atlantis SquarePantis. Additionally, a countdown clock would appear on the bottom right corner of the screen, displaying the amount of time left until the premiere of Atlantis SquarePantis.

External links

• Official website
• Voting
• Atlantis SquarePantis Nets 9 million viewers