Club SpongeBob

Template:Episode"Club SpongeBob" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season three.

Brief summary: SpongeBob and Patrick's clubhouse has no room for Squidward. Literally. But Squidward forces his way in, 'propelling' the clubhouse into the middle of nowhere. Hopelessly lost, Squidward begins to panic. But SpongeBob and Patrick trust in the 'magic conch'.

Time/Date:

• Tuesday

Time cards shown: None

Characters Present:

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Patrick Star
• Squidward Tentacles
• Picnic supply Inc. pilot
• Picnic supply Inc. co-pilot
• Club member/Forest Ranger
• Bug
• Couple in forest
• The Magic Conch

Songs:

• The Club SpongeBob Initiation

Plot

As Squidward is going to work, he hears SpongeBob and Patrick talking in a secret code. They refuse to tell him what they mean because he's not in their club. They also tell him that he can't get in, and that "you and your big nose would never fit in." Their clubhouse is sitting upon a giant stalk, and Squidward tries to get in. When SpongeBob and Patrick said he couldn't get in, they meant it literally. It's too small, so Squidward grabs another stalk by reaching out the window, and pulls himself down. At the bottom, the stalk snaps, and the clubhouse flies off into the kelp forest. Squidward starts panicking, while SpongeBob and Patrick stay calm and trust in the 'magic conch'. Squidward keeps telling them that it's a toy. It tells them to do nothing, so SpongeBob and Patrick just sit down and do nothing. Squidward, after trying to escape and failing, now just tries to survive, setting up his own shelter and campfire. He criticizes them for believing in a shell, saying "As if the answers to all your problems, will fall right out of the sky".

In a typical moment of cartoon humor, a Picnic Supplies plane is losing control, flying over the Kelp Forest. The pilot panics, saying that the plane is falling right out of the sky. As a result, the pilot drops the load i.e. food, a tent, benches, and a camp fire. Whilst SpongeBob and Patrick eat and sanctify their conch, Squidward, who realizes that he is the loser in the situation, tries to grovel his way back into the club. SpongeBob, ostensibly unaware that Squidward is apologizing purely out of selfishness, tells him that if you're once a member, you're always a member. Squidward's true intentions become clear when he mocks the conch, and when he is persuaded to ask the shell what he should eat, the conch tells him that he can't eat anything, numerous times, almost mocking him. Then, a forest ranger appears, who said his magic conch shell told him to go and look for the trio. As an owner of the the magic conch, SpongeBob and Patrick declare him a member of the club. In order to escape, his conch tells them to do nothing. The forest ranger, SpongeBob, and Patrick proudly sit down and do nothing. Squidward gives up all hope of survival and also does nothing.

Apperantly, the commands of the conch saved them. As they somehow manage to return to civilization, with no explanation given as to how.

Trivia/Goofs

• This is the first episode to world premiere on DVD first, on the Nautical Nonsense/Sponge Buddies DVD. 117 days later, it premiered on TV.
• When Squidward holds the conch and asks if he can have something to eat, he pulls the string. There is a close-up of the conch and when it says, "No," his tentacle is yellow.
• This is the fourth episode where the laws of science are defied and there is a fire underwater. The first three were Patty Hype, Life of Crime, and Procrastination.
• The clubhouse disappears later on. It could be, however, that Patrick built the coffins out of the wood. Or Squidward could have built his shelter out of it.
• It appears that they were only in the kelp forest for one evening. However, Squidward says that Patrick hasn't eaten in days. It is later changed to weeks when Squidward says that they have been stranded for weeks.
• Squidward says "Why must every 11 minutes of my life be filled with misery?" This is a reference to an episode's length. This was also referenced in Nature Pants and Missing Identity.

Quotes

• Squidward: Well, I'll have you know that I am a member of twelve exclusive clubs all across the sea bottom!
• Patrick: What did he say?
• SpongeBob: I don't know, something about his nose?
• Squidward: Why must every eleven minutes of my life be filled with misery?! Why?
• SpongeBob: Cheer up, Squidward. It could be worse.
• Patrick: Yeah, you could be bald and have a big nose.
• Screen zooms in on Squidward, with his bald head and big nose.
• Patrick: The shell knows all!
• Magic Conch Shell: No...
• Squidward: Well, this is the end.
• SpongeBob: No it's not, Squidward.
• Patrick: (Building coffins) it's not?