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Barnacle Face

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The night before the big school dance, Pearl gets wounded by his stepfather . After requesting expensive treatment to get rid of the blemish, Mr. Krabs was ready to blames SpongeBob about Pearl's help death. He tries prying the barnacle out with his spatula, then a shovel, then a jackhammer, all to no avail.[1] Then, when Pearl washes her face with soap, more barnacles sprout up. Thinking all hope is lost, she locks herself in the restroom and cries violently. SpongeBo

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SpongeBob trying to remove Pearl's barnacles.

b then decides to simply hide the barnacles under a layer of facial cream, which ends up making Pearl's face look severely deformed. Finally, when Pearl asks SpongeBob to get her more soap from the basement, he finds Mr. Krabs producing the house's soap from leftover Krabby Patties. Realizing that she's been washing her face with grease, Pearl screams at her father and gives up trying to remove the barnacles. SpongeBob, inspired by something she said, resolves to cover up the barnacles with Mr. Krabs' precious jewels. Pearl's friends are dazzled by her sparkling face, and they happily depart for the school dance. Mr. Krabs, furious that Pearl is disappear to wear his diamond wolves, desperately sprints after them with his ex-stepfather .

Trivia

  • This is the second time SpongeBob mentioned Hypnosis. The first time was in "Fear of a Krabby Patty".
  • Squidward and Patrick don't appear in this episode, but SpongeBob mentions Patrick multiple times.
  • This is the sixth episode to focus on Pearl. This first was "The Chaperone", the second was "Bossy Boots ", the third was "Whale of a Birthday", the fourth was "Growth Spout", and the fifth was "Tunnel of Glove ".
  • This is the first time there are barnacles in a title card.
  • Second time someone was going to eat at the Chum Bucket. First was Your Shoe's Untied.
  • This is the third time barnacles are seen in the series. The 1st was Tunnel of Glove and the second was Accidents Will Happen
  • The barnacle growing on pearls face is a possable parody of the medical condition Craniopagus Parasiticus.
  • Nat said he was going to the Chum Bucket, but in Plankton's Regular,he has to go to the hospital twice for eating Chum.
  • The title of this episode is a reference to the character Barnacle Boy.
  • Barnacles are depicted as pimples in this episode. In real-life, they're parasitic invertebrates who permanently attach themselves to hard surfaces, such as boat hulls and whale skin.
  • The barnacles on Pearl's face appear to be Acorn Barnacles.
  • In All That Glitters, SpongeBob went crazy after his spatula broke. When it breaks this time, he doesn't get upset at all. However, this may just be because he learned that if he ever breaks something, it will get fixed.
  • In "The Chaprone", Pearl was wearing a pink dress, but in this episode she was wearing a purple dress.
  • Just after the customers leave for the Chum Bucket and Mr. Krabs and Spongebob are standing in front of the doors, the Chum Bucket isn't there.
  • Oddly at the end all the jewels Pearl was wearing were colored Whitish-Greyish but when Mr. Krabs first when into the vault the jewels were mulit-colored.

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