File:Blackened Sponge 052.pngSpongeBob hitting himself in the eye with a monkey wrench, thus giving him a black eye afterwards.
As the episode begins, SpongeBob has a dream where he has to save someone from being tied up on railroad tracks while being big and strong with huge muscles and wearing a tan brown shirt. He encounters a fish named Jack M. Crazyfish. They play rock-paper-scissors and SpongeBob wins, but Jack M. Crazyfish cheats and they have an argument, which is stopped by the woman warning them of the train. As SpongeBob is about to get ran over by a train, he wakes up and realizes that it was just a nightmare. His dreams disturb Gary's sleep all night. When SpongeBob puffs his chest out and goes to his bathroom to brush his teeth, he cannot open his toothpaste, so he uses a wrench to open it. However, he accidentally gets the wrench stuck in his eyelid and gets a hideous black eye from the accident. When he tells how he got it to Gary, it causes Gary to almost laugh at him and leaves in an instant, so he vows not to tell anyone to avoid being laughed at and humiliated.
Whenever people notice SpongeBob's black eye, he lies and tells them that he was fighting Jack M. Crazyfish, and he got the black eye from doing that. Later, at the Krusty Krab, SpongeBob is suspicious when one of the customers describes Jack M. Crazyfish fluently; soon after, Jack M. Crazyfish arrives at the Krusty Krab, revealing he was real all along, and says he is looking for SpongeBob, the customers telling Crazyfish the story SpongeBob said. SpongeBob is very afraid and wants to tell him the truth, so he goes back home and gets the wrench and the toothpaste.
SpongeBob demonstrates to Jack M. Crazyfish what really happened to him. SpongeBob gets a second black eye in the process. Jack M. Crazyfish tells him that he came to the Krusty Krab because he heard that SpongeBob makes great Krabby Patties, and he is hungry for one.
SpongeBob then serves him Krabby Patties. But because he has two black eyes, he cannot see very well. The patties then start flying toward Jack M. Crazyfish. Jack M. Crazyfish loses his temper and challenges SpongeBob to a game of rock-paper-scissors. SpongeBob wins the first time, but doesn't realize that Jack M. Crazyfish had cheated because his eyes are closed. And when SpongeBob opens his eyes, he yells, "No!", at the end of the episode.
This episode was originally called "The Black Sponge."[2]
SpongeBob tells Patrick that Jack M. Crazyfish is about 60 feet tall. 60 feet would be about 4-6 stories high, or the length of a bowling lane. This is ironic, considering that he throws a bowling pin at SpongeBob.
Manatees, also known as sea cows, make their only appearance in this episode.
File:Blackened Sponge 062.pngSpongeBob and his pink glasses.The shot where SpongeBob leaving his house with pink sunglasses became a meme.
Technically, in a way, there is such a thing as a pain gland called nerves.
The seahorse that SpongeBob rides in his dream and the seahorse that Sandy rides while galloping the manatees, or sea cows, seems to look like Mystery from "My Pretty Seahorse" from season 3.
SpongeBob tells Sandy he got the black eye in a fight with Jack M. Crazyfish. However, when he tells the story, he says that he got the black eye by "miscalculating the trajectory of the cup, and the straw jabbing him in the eye," and that doesn't involve Jack M. Crazyfish.
Incidental 155 says to SpongeBob that sponges don't have eardrums. But in "The Inside Job," SpongeBob has an eardrum.
This episode marks the second appearance of SpongeBob's wringer. The previous appearance is "Suds."
This is the only season 5 episode where the track "The Mob" plays.
This was Greg Miller's only episode as a writer and storyboard director.
The episode title refers to SpongeBob's black eye and him fearing his reputation will be "blackened" from the bathroom accident.
This is the only episode where Greg Baldwin voices Jack M. Crazyfish.
Dub facts
In the Indonesian dub, the scene where Gary tries to restrain from laughing at SpongeBob's black eye was cut from the episode.
In the Welsh dub, Luke Brookshier, Tom King, and Steven Banks are all listed as writers of this episode, even though none of them wrote this episode. Brookshier and King are also erroneously listed as storyboard directors.[4]
In the Filipino dub, Gary doesn't make a sound in the entire episode.
Cultural references
When SpongeBob throws some things on Gary, he throws a shirt with the inscription "I'm with stupid." The phrase was also previously referenced in the season 2 episode, "I'm with Stupid."
SpongeBob's dream is a reference to an archetypal western.
SpongeBob uses Krust toothpaste, which is a parody of the real life toothpaste brand, Crest.
SpongeBob's alarm clock goes off at a lower pitch than usual in this episode.
When SpongeBob is talking to Gary and says, "No, no, Tuesday night was the one with the 30-foot librarian," one of his white teeth turn yellow for a split second.
In SpongeBob's bathroom, when he turns muscular and tries to open the toothpaste, the bubbles by his hand stop moving for a moment.
When SpongeBob looks at himself through the mirror after getting hit in the eye with the toothpaste cap, the wrench is in his left hand. However, when he slips on the cap and hits one of his eyes with the wrench, it's in his right hand.
When SpongeBob says, "Oh, I mean I..." and Patrick says, "I know what you mean," there appears to be a few frames of animation cut with Patrick's expression suddenly changing, which implies there may have been a deleted scene animated. However, it was removed in the final cut.
Sandy refers to the manatees as "fishies". In reality, manatees are actually mammals.
When SpongeBob says, "Hi, Sandy," part of his white shirt is black.
In the scene where Jack M. Crazyfish throws a tire at SpongeBob, they're on a sidewalk. But when Jack M. Crazyfish runs away crying, the sidewalk disappears.
When SpongeBob tells his story to Sandy, in the prologue, SpongeBob doesn't have a hat on. However, when Jack M. Crazyfish ran all the way home leaving behind a pool of tears, SpongeBob is wearing his Krusty Krab employee hat, but there is no anchor on that hat. And when SpongeBob drinks the tears, he doesn't have a hat on again.
When a close-up of the clam sign is shown, the Krusty Krab sign is misspelled as "Krysty Krab." Also, the y is backwards.
The Krusty Krab sign also looks darker than usual.
When Incidental 107 first appears and Mr. Krabs comments about how late SpongeBob is, he is in his normal color scheme, but when SpongeBob walks past him and Incidental 14, Incidental 107 has a different color scheme similar to Incidental 62.
Sandy's cheeks are colored slightly darker than usual throughout most of the episode.
When SpongeBob spills mustard on Jack M. Crazyfish's shirt, the mustard is still there. After they were playing rock-paper-scissors, the mustard is gone.
When Mr. Krabs says, "He's right", and turns to Harold after the latter says that sponges don't have eardrums, Mr. Krabs' head is colored slightly brighter than normal.
Since SpongeBob has two black eyes, he wouldn't have been able to make a Krabby Patty for Jack M. Crazyfish.
If SpongeBob hadn't kept his eyes closed, he would've realized that Jack M. Crazyfish cheated.
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