Back to the Past

Template:Episode Back to the Past is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season seven.

Brief summary: - Spongebob, Patrick, Mermaid Man, and Barnacle Boy time travel to old Bikini Bottom and accidentaly change the future by accidentaly changing the past.

Characters present:

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Patrick Star
• Mermaid Man
• Barnacle Boy
• Man Ray
• Squilliam Fancyson (cameo)

Plot

SpongeBob and Patrick are strolling through Bikini Bottom and see Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy in the Invisible Boat Mobile, without any gas. Spongebob and Patrick push the boat over several hills. Barnacle Boy invites them into their warehouse full of memoribillia from their T.V. show. Barnacle Boy shows them a time machine which they have never used, and warn them to not use it. But Patrick mistakes it for a vending machine, and all of them are transported to a time period where Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy are young. They see Man Ray tormenting old Bikini Bottom. Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy are unsuccessful at foiling Man Ray due to Patrick eating the tartar sauce they were originally going to trap him in. Spongebob and Patrick escape old Bikini Bottom, leaving their Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy behind. When Spongebob and Patrick return to Bikini Bottom, it is no longer called Bikini Bottom, but Man-Ray-Opolis. They go to the Krusty Krab which now has no name. The superheroes from their time are now dead and buried inside of the restaurant. While the past superheroes now work there. Mermaid Man is the fry cook, Spongebob's position, and Barnacle Boy is the cashier, Squidward's position. They go back to stop Patrick from eating the tartar sauce, but the heroes who were sent their by accident believe they are imposters. The Mermaid Men fight which creates the perfect distraction for Man Ray. The young Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy attempt to foil Man Ray with the tartar sauce, but the two Patricks end up eating it. Another warehouse appears. Spongebob and Patrick from a different time period emerge from the warehouse screaming "Patrick, don't eat the tartar sauce!" Another warehouse appears above of Man Ray and out fall Spongebob and Patrick. Yet another one appears with Spongebob saying to Patrick "I told you we had to go back further!" Another one pops to Man Ray's left with Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy leaping out of it exclaiming " Up,up and away!" They both fall headfirst into the ground. Another one appears above of the previous warehouse with the superheroes. Spongebob and Patrick appear and throw a batch of tartar sauce over the fallen superheroes from the previous warehouse. Another one appears next to the pair of warehouses. Ray Man flies out of it,destroys it, and leaves. All of the warehouses appearing in random locations confuses Man Ray. Man Ray sits down on a log and thinks about what is happening, but gets arrested by the superheroes. Then all of a sudden many warehouses appear all over the planet, all of them containing multiple copies of Spongebob and Patrick.

Trivia

• The title of this episode is a reference to the movie Back to The Future
• In this episode, Barnacle Boy refers to the Invisible Boat Mobile as "The Invisiboat".
• This is the first episode to feature Squilliam without showing Squidward also.
• "Back to the Past" aired in the UK on April 2, 2010.
• This is probably the most confusing episode as several duplicates of Spongebob, Patrick, Mermaid Man, Barnacle Boy, and Man Ray show up from nowhere for no clear reason other than all the various time periods the clones come from were most likely disrupted in the same way the episode's original time period was.
• Technically, the original Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy shown in all other past episodes are dead.
• This and the episode it is paired with could be renamed and called Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy VII.
• The original past when Man Ray is brought to justice via tarter sauce can be referenced to Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy 3 where Man Ray is shown to be entombed in frozen tarter sauce.
• Patrick mentions Crunchity Munchitys, which Plankton sold in Chum Bucket Supreme.
• Running Gag: Whenever there was tarter sauce, Patrick would eat it up.
• In Imitation Krabs, tartar sauce acts like an acid to sea creatures, but Patrick in this episode is able to eat it without problem.
• The title card is similar to "The Patty Caper"
• The young version of Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy are voice by Adam West and Burt Ward, who play Batman and Robin in the 1966 TV series.
• As in Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V and the other MM/BB episodes, Manray wears the tickle belt as his normal costume.
• At the very beginning of this episode when SpongeBob and Patrick are walking Patrick doesn't have any tarter sauce. But when Spongebob bumps into the Invisible boatmobile Patrick has a jar full of tarter sauce

APM Music Identification

• Dramatic Impact 6 - Mermaid Man realizes that he's out of tarter sauce.