BlackJack

"BlackJack" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 5. In this episode, SpongeBob thinks his cousin BlackJack has kidnapped his parents Characters:

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Gary the Snail
• BlackJack SquarePants (debut)
• Harold SquarePants
• Mrs. SquarePants
• Grandma SquarePants
• Captain Blue SquarePants (debut)

Synopsis

•SpongeBob receives a note from his cousin BlackJack, saying that he has been released from prison and is going to pay SpongeBob's parents a "visit". SpongeBob's grandma soon appears and tells him that BlackJack had recently called her. 

•SpongeBob seeks help from his uncle, Captain Blue SquarePants, a retired police captain. SpongeBob goes in to confront his foe and save his parents, but it is revealed that his parents were never in any danger, and that they are holding a party for BlackJack to celebrate his release. They explain to SpongeBob that BlackJack has renounced his "criminal" ways of littering, and that their house was closed off due to a krill infestation. BlackJack then enters the room, still intent on beating up SpongeBob, but SpongeBob is now prepared to stand up for himself. As BlackJack charges at SpongeBob, it is revealed that BlackJack is no bigger than SpongeBob's foot, and that he cannot any harm whatsoever. SpongeBob, his parents, and BlackJack all share a laugh.

Production

Music

CD Album Music

• K-55 - Title Card {The Woodies}
• Chill Out - #1: Flashback of SpongeBob getting beaten up by BlackJack. {The Surfdusters}
• Gruesome - #1: SpongeBob imagines BlackJack as a giant. {The Surfdusters}
• Gruesome - #2: SpongeBob imagines BlackJack using him as dental floss. {The Surfdusters}
• Chill Out - #2: BlackJack appears. {The Surfdusters}

APM Music

• Terror by Night - SpongeBob reads BlackJack's letter.
• Finger of Fear - SpongeBob packs his things.
• Where Danger Lurks - SpongeBob arrives at his parent's house.
• Happy Tune - SpongeBob imagines his parents watching TV.
• Abject Terror - SpongeBob's parents whimper.
• Unpreventable - SpongeBob runs to his Grandma's house.
• Spindlelegs - Grandma SquarePants appears.
• {#10} House of Horror - Grandma SquarePants explains to SpongeBob BlackJack's statements.
• When Daylight Shines/Captain Lenoe's - SpongeBob rushes exhaustly to Uncle Captain Blue.
• Against the Law (b) - SpongeBob explains the situation to Uncle Captain Blue.
• Six Powerful Cues (f) - Uncle Captain Blue drives SpongeBob to Blackjack's house.
• Old Creepy Feeling - "Uh...lock the door behind you, kid."
• Stealth by Night - #1: SpongeBob approaches BlackJack's front door.
• Stealth by Night - #2: "Uncle Captain Blue is right. I'm not cut out for this. I should just turn around and go home."
• Tales from the Swamp (a) - SpongeBob bursts in and rescues his parents

Trivia

• Second appearance of SpongeBob's grandmother, who first appeared in "Grandma's Kisses".
• SpongeBob's father's first name is revealed to be Harold.
• Comcast originally listed this episode as "In Search of Ma and Pa Sponge." This was corrected in 2009.
• 346 minutes is equal to 5 hours and 46 minutes. The writers most likely wrote it out this way to make it sound longer.
• SpongeBob's face deflates just like Squidward's did at the end of "Squid's Day Off."
• John DiMaggio does the voice of Blackjack.
• In the episode, the pineapple in which SpongeBob lives in was just referred to as "The Pineapple, Bikini Bottom".
• When SpongeBob builds the fence, he builds it all around Captain Blue SquarePants' house, but when he drives SpongeBob to BlackJack's house, the fence has an opening.
• When Uncle Captain Blue drives SpongeBob to BlackJack's house (who lives next door,) the fence SpongeBob built earlier in the episode is brown, instead of white. BlackJack's house is not seen when he builds the fence however.
• The return address that has been covered by saliva can be made out as "BlackJack, 133 Coral (?), Bikini Bottom".
• The door knocker on BlackJack's house has a hand attached to it with a bone sticking out. This hand resembles SpongeBob's hand.
• This episode only focuses on SpongeBob and his family, including Gary, with no other fish or characters involved.
• Uncle Captain Blue's boat is driveable in SpongeBob's Boating Bash
• Blackjack speaks in a manner similar to that of "Macho Man" Randy Savage.
• Blackjack being sent to jail over littering makes sense, as the Bikini Bottom police treat littering very seriously: in Summer Job, Mrs. Puff was sentenced to 2,529 days of prison just for littering, and in Driven to Tears, even though Patrick commits several moving violations, yet he's only charged with littering.
• This episode implies that SpongeBob was even smaller than BlackJack when he was a child. However, this contradicts the events of Truth or Square were he was shown to already be much larger than BlackJack while he was still in the womb.