Big Sister Sam

Characters

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• Gary the Snail
• Patrick Star
• Squidward Tentacles
• Sam Star Template:Debut
• King Neptune ^(mentioned)
• Incidentals
  • Fred ^{(named Clint)}
  • Incidental 41 ^{(named Tucker)}

Synopsis

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Sam Star.

The episode opens with SpongeBob and Gary sleeping. Patrick is cleaning his rock with a mop then wakes them up. SpongeBob asks him why he is doing it and he responds by saying his sister Sam Star, is coming. Patrick also reveals that they were lost in the surf when they were only kids. Squidward screams angrily and demands peace and quiet, but Sam then arrives in a bus and punches the door down. She is revealed to be a huge starfish. Sam hugs and almost suffocates Patrick. Patrick introduces SpongeBob to Sam and Sam, mistaking SpongeBob to be a danger, protects Patrick by throwing SpongeBob. Patrick suggests that they go inside to "play," but Sam explains how the house is too small. Sam then takes a briefcase filled with sand and constructs a new house, made of sand. Patrick thanks her. However, Squidward complains that his house is filled with sand. Again, Sam feels overprotective and moves Template:Data:Links with only her bare hands. Squidward makes jokes about Sam saying, how she is bigger, and dumber than Patrick. Sam responds by getting angry and then starting to cry because she already knows it is all true. Her giant tears throw both Squidward and SpongeBob.

After that, Patrick becomes overprotective of Sam by saying that SpongeBob and Squidward are "meanies" and saying that they should "blecorate" (decorate) the rock. However, she uses parts of Squidward's house to decorate it, damaging it greatly. Then Squidward gets angry and calls her a thief. Then SpongeBob tries to talk some sense into Patrick, but Patrick does not care that Sam deliberately dismantled Squidward's house. Then he starts crying, thinking SpongeBob has become a traitor and gets head-butted by Sam along with Squidward back to their houses, damaging his house further. Squidward gets angry and drops a rock on the house, ruining the "spiffy." In response, Sam and Patrick come out of the house and Sam chews up the loose parts and spits them at Squidward's house, completely destroying it.

In the last act of retaliation, Squidward then drives a bulldozer at Patrick, Sam, and the house, trying to destroy it in a crazed rage. SpongeBob tries to stop him but to no avail. Sam, who throws the bulldozer at SpongeBob's house, stops Squidward (who suddenly disappears for the rest of the episode). After that, SpongeBob finally becomes upset at the destruction of his house, making Patrick finally see what SpongeBob means. Patrick tries to tell her to control her temper, but she gets very angry and destroys her own home while Patrick sacrifices himself to save the house. Patrick lays there unconscious but SpongeBob successfully wakes him up by using cookie dough. Sam feels very guilty and explains that she must leave (she is late for a manicure and shows them her nails). As Sam leaves on the bus, SpongeBob and Patrick laugh about their experience with Patrick's sister as the episode comes to a close.

Running gags

• Sam crushing Patrick.
• Sam pronouncing "brother" as "brubber."

Production

Storyboard

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Release

• This episode is available on the Complete Seventh Season, SpongeBob and Friends: Patrick SquarePants, The Krabby Patty Recipe Theft, It's a SpongeBob Christmas! (UK version), The SpongeBob SquarePants Collection, The SpongeBob SquarePants 8 Season DVD Collection, Patrick's Day, SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 12, The Best 200 Episodes Ever, and Next 100 Episodes DVDs.

Reception

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Trivia

General

• When this episode premiered, it was paired up with "New Fish in Town," but it has been re-airing with "Perfect Chemistry."
• According to this episode's production number (5572 - 752), this was the last season 7 episode in production order.
• Like in "Opposite Day" and "New Fish in Town," Squidward appears driving a bulldozer.
• This is the third episode where Patrick appears cleaning his residence. The first is "I'm with Stupid" and the second is "No Nose Knows."
  • This time, he feels more eager and more prepared to meet a family member.
• This is the fourth episode where Squidward's nose comes off. The first is "Squid's Day Off," the second is "Artist Unknown," and the third is "Clams."
• While Sam is spinning the tractor, the back of her head does not have a face. However, later, it does.

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Back of her head

• On November 24, 2017, this episode had a rare airing on TeenNick. Until May 10, 2021, this was considered special since SpongeBob among other cartoons rarely air on TeenNick.
• The title card of this episode is similar to the one of "The Clash of Triton," though it is a light yellow instead of light blue and there are flowers added.

Errors

• When Sam throws Patrick and he lands into his rock, Patrick's rock is on the right of the screen. However, when Patrick and Sam go to his rock, they travel to the left of the screen and the rock is located much farther than they were standing.
• At some point during this episode, SpongeBob is a darker shade of yellow.
• The first time that Sam pushes Squidward's house away, SpongeBob's house does not appear.
• When Sam "spiffs" up the house, she adds the front door from Squidward's house. The doorknob is on the right, but in a few scenes later, it is on the left.
• When Sam destroys SpongeBob's house with the bulldozer, Squidward suddenly disappears, and he isn't seen again for the remainder of the episode. It’s possible that Squidward might have freaked out and ran away from Sam since her tremendous strength was no match for him.
• Sam pushed Squidward's house towards the right, closer to Template:Data:Links, and it didn't seem to go very far. Later, it seemed as though Squidward's house was pushed backward, and was pushed very far back.
• In the first scene, Gary is much larger than usual. In the same scene, Patrick's house is seen to be much smaller; both Patrick and SpongeBob are taller than it. Later, in the scene when Sam arrives, the house is much larger. Throughout the episode, Sam also changes size.
• During the episode, Sam has no nails, but at the end of the episode, she says that she has to go because she's late for her manicure.
• The size of when Patrick jumps onto the sand rock and when he is on the rubble of Sam's rock is a bit different.