A Cabin in the Kelp

Characters

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• Gal Pals
  • Karen Plankton
  • Sandy Cheeks
  • Mrs. Puff
  • Pearl Krabs
• Wolfworm Template:Debut
• Moose snail Template:Debut
• Flibberty Gibbet Template:Debut
• Saleslady Template:Debut
• Mable-Monica ^{(pictured on brochure)}
• Incidental 2 ^{(pictured on brochure)}

Synopsis

Outside Mrs. Puff's Boating School, the Gal Pals - Template:Data:Links, Template:Data:Links, and Mrs. Puff - are preparing for a camping trip. They load their trailer and afterwards attach it to the boat. Template:Data:Links, the newest member, plans to prank them by having Template:Data:Links scare them. When Pearl arrives, Sandy puts her backpack, which has SpongeBob in it, in the trailer. The Gal Pals start driving and sing a song. They run over a pothole and the trailer disconnects from the boat, crashing in a pit of mud. SpongeBob is able to get out before the trailer sinks, and he finds a lucky peanut.

At the cabin, Sandy notices that the trailer has disconnected. Pearl is sad about losing her backpack, but Karen says that they can buy a new one. The Gal Pals quickly redecorate the abandoned cabin, and Pearl leaves to call SpongeBob. She advises him to "follow the trees" to find the cabin, and he runs into the woods. At night, the Gal Pals are sitting around a campfire. Sandy gives Pearl a necklace, and she, Karen, and Mrs. Puff tell her a scary story about the former fourth Gal Pal to whom the necklace belongs, Flibberty Gibbet, who is still roaming around in the woods for revenge after an argument. Pearl is scared and throws away the necklace, and the other Gal Pals start laughing at her, having successfully pranked her. Pearl laughs as a hand grabs the necklace from the floor.

After a noise, Mrs. Puff and Sandy explain that the story of Flibberty Gibbet was actually true. Pearl thinks the noise is SpongeBob, who is still lost. Karen plans for all four of them to jump out and scare SpongeBob. A monster then appears, and they run into the cabin and plan to escape.

SpongeBob appears at the cabin and is grabbed by the monster. The Gal Pals run in to save him, only to find that the monster is actually a saleslady selling pinecones on sticks. Flibberty Gibbet appears, not intending any harm to the Gal Pals, and they get scared and run away. SpongeBob chases after them with his lucky peanut. The episode ends with a fourth wall break as the three girls crash into the screen. They slide down and a The End sign shows up.

Production

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

Release

• This episode is available on the SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 20 DVD.

Trivia

General

• When this episode premiered it was paired up with "The Ghost of Plankton," in reruns it is now paired up with "The Hankering."
• This is the first episode to use Part 1 of "House of Horror" since "Yeti Krabs."
  • This is also the first time Part 2 and Part 4 of track is played since "Sanctuary!"
    • This also marks the third episode where the track plays four out of five parts of the version
      • The first was "Graveyard Shift" and the second was "Sanctuary!"
• This is the second time that Karen, Sandy, and Mrs. Puff form their friend group, the Gal Pals, after "Girls' Night Out."
  • Pearl becomes the newest Gal Pal, making her the only non-adult member.
• This along with
• This is the third episode where Karen appears without Plankton. The first was "Mall Girl Pearl" and the second was "Don't Wake Patrick."
• In this episode, Kristen Morrison is credited as a storyboard artist, when they usually credit the storyboard director.
• In the Russian dub, the title card text is not narrated while it usually gets narrated. This mistake got fixed when the episode re-ran on Nick HD on March 25, 2020.
• This along with "The Ghost of Plankton" premiered 18 years after "Squid on Strike" and "Sandy, SpongeBob, and the Worm" premiered.
• This is the second episode where Michelle Bryan is the only animator, with the first being "My Two Krabses."
• This is the fourth episode in which Pearl appears, but Template:Data:Links does not. The first was "Tunnel of Glove," the second was "Patnocchio," and the third was "Goons on the Moon."

Cultural references

• The episode's title is a parody of the film The Cabin in the Woods.
• While swinging on a vine, SpongeBob shouts "I am SpongeZan of the brine apes!" This is a parody of Tarzan, lord of the apes.