Baby Prunes

“	Chocolate, I remember when they first invented chocolate. Sweet, sweet chocolate. I always hated it!	”
	— Mary's mother, "Chocolate with Nuts"

Character

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Appearances

Mary's mother is an extremely old, hard-of-hearing fish who appears in the episodes "Chocolate with Nuts", "Ink Lemonade" and has her first major role in "Biddy Sitting." She lives with her elderly daughter, Mary.

Description

She is ancient compared to just about anyone in Bikini Bottom. She even remembers the time when chocolate was invented. She is shriveled up to the point where she appears to be merely a head and a spine and thus must get around by a wheelchair. She has a severe hearing disability and no physical eyeballs left.

Personality

She is often bad-tempered and impatient, often irritating her daughter. Due to having a hearing disability, she has to have people repeat themselves for her a number of times and with a tone of voice as loud as possible. She despises chocolate, though develops an interest in it after being falsely told that rubbing it on oneself causes the user to live forever; from this instance, it is revealed that she wants to be immortal.

Role in series

"Chocolate with Nuts"

When Template:Data:Links and Template:Data:Links come to Mary's doorstep, her mother comes forth to see what they are selling. Mary is forced to scream at the top of her lungs that they are selling chocolate bars, after which her mother reminisces on when chocolate was invented and how much she hated it. SpongeBob and Patrick - conforming to their profit gimmick - falsely advertise the chocolate they're selling as skin enhancers that lead their customers into a state of immortality. This changes her opinion on chocolate and she agrees to buy a bar, intent on living forever.

At the end of the episode, Mary and her mother double-date Patrick and SpongeBob at Fancy! after they become rich from selling their all their chocolate to Tom.

"Ink Lemonade"

As the Bikini Bottomites are looking for a place to throw up after realizing that Template:Data:Links's ink is used to make black lemonade, Mary can be seen pushing her mother through the crowd of people going into Squidward's house.

"Biddy Sitting"

Template:Spongebob Squarepants and Patrick Star babysits Mary's Mother on her 137th birthday

Trivia

• "Biddy Sitting" reveals that she is 137 years old, which is strange, considering that some elderly characters like Great Grandpa Krabs and Great Grandpa Jenkins are also over 100 years old and they don't look like her.