Chimps Ahoy

Template:Episode "Chimps Ahoy" is an episode from Season 4 of SpongeBob SquarePants.

Brief summary: Chimps are coming over to Sandy's treedome for an inspection. However, Sandy doesn't think any of her work will satisfy the Chimps. If Sandy doesn't pass, she won't be able to live underwater anymore. Therefore, SpongeBob and Patrick decide to work on an invention to please the chimps.

Time/Date: Unknown

Time cards shown: None

Characters Present:

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Patrick Star
• Sandy Cheeks
• Chimpanzees
  • Professor Percy
  • Dr. Marmalade
  • Lord Reginald
• Mailman
• Bus Driver

Characters Heard:

• Squidward Tentacles

Songs:

• So Long Bikini Bottom

So long Bikini Bottom

I can't leave without a goodbye

But please don't think bad of me

If'n I start to cry

So long Bikini Bottom

There's so many things I'll miss

From your smoggy crowded city to your stinging jellyfish

This town is filled with many things that I've come to love

From the birds that fly upon the ground to the flowers up above

Farewell Bikini Bottom

Now I really hate to go

Because the things I'll miss the most of all are the friends I've come to know

Plot

The Chimpanzee beneficiaries of Sandy’s undersea treedome are paying a visit to see what progress she has made with her inventions. But Sandy doesn’t think any of her work will satisfy the chimps, and if they don’t like what she’s invented Sandy could lose her funding forcing her to leave Bikini Bottom. SpongeBob and Patrick decide to help their distraught friend by taking over her work and finishing her inventions. At first, Patrick has ideas of things that have already been invented, such as a pencil and a mirror. What SpongeBob and Patrick invent is a back- scratching, hair-cutting, ukulele-tuning, nose-picking machine. It goes wrong and Sandy nearly leaves. Her banana-peeling nutcracker won her 20 years of funding.

Cultural References

• This episode title is a parody of Chips Ahoy!, a popular cookie snack.
• Christopher Ryan, Rik Mayall and Nigel Planer are best known for their roles as Mike, Rick and Neil on The Young Ones (TV series).
• During the title card, the music is the same as in the episode title card, Selling Out.
• The helmet Sandy invented is similar in style and design to the helmet worn by Noodle, fictional guitarist for Gorillaz, during Phase 1
• Lord Reginald appears to be a parody and resemblance of Cranky Kong from the Donkey Kong Country series.

APM Music Identification

• Dramatic Impact 5 - Sandy hears screaming coming from her treedom.
• Dramatic Cue D - Sandy gasps.

Trivia

• The back scratcher that SpongeBob buys in the beginning of the episode costs him 52 boxtops.
• Sandy will be able to remain in Bikini Bottom for 20 more years, before her next expiration in 2026.
• The monkeys have been searching for the banana-peeling nutcracker since 1889.
• This episode has almost the same plot as Texas; even having Sandy singing a song that causes SpongeBob and Patrick to cry at one point.
• At one moment, Sandy is not in her breathing suit.
• The things holding SpongeBob's invention together:
  • Bandages
  • Screws driven into bottlecaps
  • Pieces of tape made into an X
  • A taped down lollipop
  • Chewed Bubble gum
• The phrase on SpongeBob's invention says "Dr. Professur Patrick Rulez!"
• The towns for those that have nowhere else to go, as bentioned by the bus driver, in which the bus makes stops to: Quittersville, Failuretown, and Loserburg.
• SpongeBob's invention is called "The Automatic Back-Scratcher, Hair-Comber, Nose-Picker and Ukulele-Tuner 9000".
• The peanut SpongeBob talks to says, "It's dark in here".
• The inventions Patrick thinks of:
  • Pencil: A stick that the user can draw or write stuff with
  • Lightbulb: A glass ball that lights up so the user can see in the dark
  • Mirror: A parallel universe (although it acted like a parallel universe)
• In this episode, SpongeBob and Patrick's water helmets are worn with the openings facing up, like they wore them in "Tea at the Treedome".
• The list of items shown when "The Automatic Back-Scratcher, Hair-Comber, Nose-Picker and Ukulele-Tuner 9000" goes haywire include:
  • An electric saw with a circular blade
  • A flamethrower
  • A pair of scissors
  • A corkscrew
  • An aerial poison dart
  • An electrocutioner
• Inventions the chimps have been searching for many years:
  • Banana peeler
  • Poop thrower
• Running gag: Patrick inventing something that was already invented, referring to SpongeBob as an unpaid intern, and himself as "Mr. Dr. Professor Patrick".
• This episode first aired on YTV on October 23, 2006.
• The music from Squeaky Boots can be heard.
• The first reference to the Goofy Goober Ice Cream Shoppe, outside the film, is made. (the second being Born to Be Wild.)
• When the machine spits out Lord Reginald, he is bald from the accident. But when Professor Percy says to invent the Poop Thrower, Lord Reginald's hair is all grown back.
• When Sandy sings her "birds that fly upon the ground" line, a manta ray swims by, releasing a bird call. This is strange, because most birds on SpongeBob SquarePants are depicted as scallops.
• Patrick often insultingly refers to SpongeBob as an "unpaid intern" in this episode. Strangely, he is perfectly fine with actually being an unpaid intern (and referred to as so) in Bummer Vacation.
• When SpongeBob talked to Patrick about the mirror his mouth moved before the reflection.
• This is the third time a mirror showed more then the reflection. The first was "Something Smells", and the second was "Wet Painters".
• When Spongebob looks in the mirror, he is wearing his water helmet, but in the mirror it is gone.
• This is the second time SpongeBob and Patrick are trying to prevent Sandy from leaving Bikini Bottom. The first one was Texas. (only to make her really angry afterwards.)