Biddy Sitting

Characters

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• Patrick Star
• Squidward Tentacles
• Female spokesmodel
• Eight unnamed babies Template:Single appearance
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  • Incidental 20
  • Billy
  • Incidental 67
  • Fred
  • Incidental 64
  • Incidental 42
  • Tom
  • Mary
  • Victoria Ellen
  • Incidental 93
  • Incidental 24 Template:Cameo
  • Incidental 107 Template:Cameo
  • Dale Template:Cameo
  • Frank Template:Cameo
  • Sandals Template:Cameo
  • Incidental 47 Template:Cameo
  • Incidental 45 Template:Cameo
  • Incidental 49 Template:Cameo
  • Incidental 60 Template:Cameo
  • Harris Template:Cameo
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• Baby Prunes
• Bakery fish
• Gramma
• Sweet old lady
• French Narrator
• Awesome Eddie
• Big G
• Twitch
• Boxer

Synopsis

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SpongeBob and Patrick babysit some babies.

SpongeBob and Patrick start a babysitting business, and a woman calls them down to babysit her kids. They successfully take care of her kids and start going around town, trying to find more people who need babysitting help.

An old woman asks SpongeBob and Patrick to help babysit her baby, and when they accept, she runs off happily. When they go inside, they realize the supposed baby is extremely ugly and can talk, but they still treat her like a regular baby and name her Baby Prunes.

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Baby Prunes tries to escape.

The two feed, play games, and put Baby Prunes to bed, and afterwards, SpongeBob goes into the bathroom preparing a bath for her. In there, he finally realizes that Baby Prunes is actually an extremely old woman, after spotting her last 137th birthday card. Unfortunately, a sleepy Patrick accidentally lets her run free due to him thinking she is a dog, before SpongeBob can tell him that she is not a baby. The two get worried and try looking for her, only to end up in a sewing circle, where the old women in there spit on their cloth and rub it on them.

Meanwhile, Baby Prunes is doing extreme sports and activities, until eventually, SpongeBob and Patrick reach her again. They are happy to see her again, but Baby Prunes is mad at them for treating her like a baby and beats them up with a game of boxing. This makes Baby Prunes tired and fall asleep, and the episode ends with the pair walking into the distance with Baby Prunes in her wheelchair.

Production

The episode was confirmed by Vincent Waller on June 29, 2019.

Release

• This episode is available on the SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 20, The Complete Twelfth Season, Another 100 Episodes, and The Best 300 Episodes Ever DVDs.

Trivia

General

• Before this episode premiered on February 8, 2020, Amazon accidentally released it on July 31, 2019, alongside with its sister episode "Jolly Lodgers" until it was taken down by Nickelodeon a few days later.
  • This is the third time in a row that an episode was released by Amazon until it got taken down by Nickelodeon. The first was "Surf N' Turf" and the second was "Jolly Lodgers."
• The title is a pun on "babysitting," referencing the babysitting theme of the episode and the elderly woman's irritability.
• This episode, alongside "Gary & Spot," "Sandy's Nutty Nieces," "Broken Alarm," "Karen's Baby," "Shell Games," "Mind the Gap," "SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout," "SpongeBob in RandomLand," and "Handemonium" serve as the 20th anniversary special episodes.
• This episode was paired up with "Who R Zoo?" during the original American airing, but has since been re-airing with "Jolly Lodgers."
• Promos claimed that this episode was going to air first, however the unveiled episode that was pairing aired first while this aired second.
• This episode marks the first appearance of Mary's mother in 18 years since "Chocolate with Nuts."
  • Also, both episodes are written by Kaz.
• This is the second episode where Old Man Jenkins' barn appears without Old Man Jenkins. The first was "High Sea Diving."
• Some of the surfers from "SpongeBob SquarePants vs. The Big One" briefly reappear in this episode when they are surfing on lava out of a volcano.
• This episode reveals that Mary's mother is at least 137 years old.
• According to Kaz, this episode takes place before "Chocolate with Nuts" in the series' "timeline."
  • In this episode, SpongeBob and Patrick didn't know Mary's mother was not a baby, while in "Chocolate with Nuts," they did.
• This episode was originally going to premiere in Australia and New Zealand on February 15, 2020, but got delayed to February 22 to coincide with the Best Besties Ever event.

Errors

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First there were eight babies.

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Now there are only six babies.

• SpongeBob and Patrick were assigned to babysit eight babies. In the montage of them babysitting, there are six.

Videos

• File:SpongeBob SquarePants - "Biddy Sitting" Official Promo 1
• File:SpongeBob SquarePants - "Biddy Sitting" + New It’s Pony Official Promo 2
• File:SpongeBob SquarePants Babysitters Nickelodeon UK
• File:Return of the Old Chocolate Lady! 👵🍫 - Biddy Sitting - SpongeBob

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
German	Schwammkopf und Star, Babysitter	SquarePants and Star, Babysitter
Russian	Няньки для старушки Nyan'ki dlya starushki	Babysitters for Old Woman