Barnacle Face

Characters

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• Pearl Krabs
• Eugene H. Krabs
• Patrick Star ^(mentioned)
• Nat Peterson
• Harold "Bill" Reginald
• Tina Fran
• Judy
• Other fishes at Bikini Bottom High School

Synopsis

The night before the big school dance, Pearl gets a barnacle on her face. After requesting expensive treatment to get rid of the blemish, Mr. Krabs refuses and asks Template:Data:Links to help Pearl remove the barnacle. He tries prying the barnacle out with his spatula, then a shovel, then a jackhammer, all to no avail. Then, when Pearl washes her face with soap, more barnacles sprouted up. Thinking all hope is lost, she locks herself in the restroom and cries violently.

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SpongeBob trying to remove Pearl's barnacles.

SpongeBob then decides to simply hide the barnacles under a layer of facial cream, which ends up making Pearl's face look severely deformed and causing her to be unable to talk. Finally, Pearl asks SpongeBob to get her more soap from the basement, where he finds Mr. Krabs producing the house's soap. Mr. Krabs explains to SpongeBob that he make all of his soap out of leftover Krabby Patties. Pearl overhears this and, realizing that she's been washing her face with grease, screams at her father and gives up trying to remove the barnacles. SpongeBob, inspired by something she said, resolves to cover up the barnacles with Mr. Krabs' precious jewels. Pearl's friends are dazzled by her sparkling face, and they happily depart for the school dance. Mr. Krabs, furious that Pearl is wearing his diamonds, desperately sprints after her, as the episode ends.

Production

Release

• This episode is available on the Sweet & Sour Squidward and Complete Eighth Season DVDs.

Trivia

• The barnacles are like zits, pimples, and acne.
• The barnacles on Pearl's face appear to be Acorn Barnacles.
• If SpongeBob mentioned that Hypnosis was used to get rid of a barnacle on Patrick, it is unknown why he didn't use it in the first place on Pearl's barnacle.
• It was impossible for SpongeBob to remove Pearl's barnacles. However, in "Accidents Will Happen," Mr. Krabs and Squidward both had to pop back barnacles off of each other.
• This is the third episode that takes place mostly at Mr. Krabs' house. The first was in "Wet Painters" and the second was in "The Slumber Party."
• In this episode, it is revealed that SpongeBob knows how to swim. In "SpongeGuard on Duty," SpongeBob does not know how to swim, but he probably had learned swimming because at the end of that episode, Larry teaches Patrick and him to swim. So, this episode probably takes place after "SpongeGuard on Duty."
• This is the second episode where hypnosis was used/mentioned. The first being "Fear of a Krabby Patty."
• Both this episode and its sister episode "Pet Sitter Pat" have a scene where SpongeBob is swimming through an unusual amount of water.
• This was Andrew Goodman's first episode as a writer.
• This is the only episode (excluding its sister episode) where realtime captioning is used. This is likely because they didn't have time to get offline captioning, but they still air the realtime captioning in reruns.
• This episode premiered on Amy Poehler's 40th birthday, eight years after the Krusty Krab Adventures book was released, and six years after The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie was released in Greece.

Errors

• Just after the customers leave for the Chum Bucket across the street and Mr. Krabs and SpongeBob are standing in front of the Krusty Krab doors, the Chum Bucket isn't there.
• The clock in the background when Pearl is crying looks like it would say 3 o'clock, but it's really 4.
• When Mr. Krabs opened his vault of jewels, he opened the door to the right. When he was horrified to learn his jewels were taken, the door opened to the left.
• The closed captions are very slow and sometimes incorrect in this episode, along with the paired episode, "Pet Sitter Pat."

Video

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