Firehouse Bob

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"Firehouse Bob" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 15. In this episode, SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidward feel the heat when they become volunteer firefighters

Characters

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Patrick Star
• Squidward Tentacles
• Larry the Lobster
• Gary the Snail
• Sheldon J. Plankton
• Spot
• Incidentals
  • Incidental 6
  • Incidental 25
  • Incidental 41
  • Old Man Walker

• Eugene H. Krabs ^(mentioned)

Synopsis

SpongeBob is looking for Gary around his house, then finds him stuck in a tall tree. He tries to get Gary to jump down, but to no avail. He pulls an emergency lever at the trunk of the tree, and the Fire Department immediately arrives. Old Man Walker slowly begins to climb a ladder to the tree branch Gary is on. Gary slides down the ladder. SpongeBob thanks Larry for saving Gary, and asks if he could be a firefighter. but Larry says there are no openings available.

Old Man Walker then slips on the slime Gary produced on the ladder and falls to the ground, shattering his skeleton. He is carried away by an ambulance. Seeing this, Larry reluctantly hires SpongeBob. The next day, SpongeBob arrives at the Fire Department Building with Gary, now with his shell painted as a Dalmatian. Larry gives SpongeBob a tour of the building, showing him hoses and the bunkroom. As SpongeBob is bouncing on the beds, he finds Patrick is under one of them. Patrick is eager to start fires, but Larry quickly tells him that their job is to put out fires.

SpongeBob runs over and sees the first fire which Larry reveals is the first fire they ever got called to. SpongeBob and Patrick try to slide down the poles, but Larry insists he tells them where each of them go. Patrick goes down the pole that leads to the bathroom. Larry shows SpongeBob the "mystery pole," which never goes to the same place twice.

Despite Larry's warning, SpongeBob goes down the pole, which leads him to a dark void with several people and creatures screaming, through a human firefighter's ears, and a dancing alien. He goes through several science tubes, slides past a group of people partying, a monkey, and eventually makes it to the top of a rollercoaster. He slides back down again, knocking off a person who is standing on the pole, to finally an imploding planet. SpongeBob returns back to Bikini Bottom, mortified. Larry snaps SpongeBob out of his daze by blowing his whistle.

Larry has all the volunteer firefighters line up, which now includes Squidward. He tells SpongeBob that Mr. Krabs was court mandated for this, but sent him in his stead. Larry begins Squidward, SpongeBob, and Patrick's training, which involves firehose skills and saving people inside buildings. Despite all their mistakes, Larry says they passed their training and makes them volunteer firefighters. Larry gets a call and tells them they have their first assignment, saving a pet in a tree.

They arrive to find Spot stuck in a tree. Plankton tries to send SpongeBob away, but he ignores him. Patrick attempts to go up the ladder and save Spot, but Spot vomits over him, knocking him off. SpongeBob calls Larry and informs them of their troubles, to which Larry laughs and bangs on the wall. This causes the first fire's containment to shake. Gary barks at Spot, and he comes down.

SpongeBob hears a fire alarm go off somewhere, and arrives to find the Fire Department up in flames. Larry screams for help and says the first fire escaped. They position a trampoline below Larry, but when he jumps, he only bounces to a higher place on the building. They then try to work the firehose, which they lose control of and land on the top of the building with Larry. They seem to have managed to put out the fires, but the roof they're standing on collapses, and the fire begins again.

Gary calls in Old Man Walker for help. He arrives from the back of his ambulance and busts open the entrance to the Fire Department. He arrives from the smoke with SpongeBob, Patrick, Squidward, and Larry on his back. He takes the firehose and easily puts out all the fires. SpongeBob comes back out of the building saying he saved the first fire. He immediately drops its containment and it bounces free, vaporizing the car and the Fire Department. Larry wonders if he should move to doing medical experiments, to which SpongeBob says he is also a volunteer doctor. Larry screams and runs away, SpongeBob chasing after him.

Production

This episode was in production during spring 2024, as that was when Brandon Warren temporarily joined the main series.

This episode was confirmed by Cartoonlounge.de on July 29, 2024.

Music

( ‣ ) Production music

( • ) Original music

( ◦ ) SpongeBob music

 ‣ Where’s the Fire? - John Fiddy, Otto Sieben [Title card.]
 ‣ Kitsch Comedy - Peter Jeffries [Opening.]
 • Whats This Sting - Nicolas Carr [Emergency lever.]
 • ? - Nicolas Carr [SpongeBob pulls the lever.]
 ‣ Super Hero - Tony Hymas [The firefighters appear.]
 ‣ Sex Kitten - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin [Gary escapes the tree.]
 ‣ Horror Strike [#44] - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin [Old Man Walker slips.]
 ‣ Horror Strike [#45] - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin ["I think I shattered my skeleton..."]
 ‣ Horror Strike [#46] - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin ["...Again."]
 ‣ Sex Kitten - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin [Larry offers SpongeBob a position.]
 • Lap Steel-spce_01 - Nicolas Carr ["The next day…"]
 ‣ Super Hero - Tony Hymas [Larry posing heroically.]
 ‣ Odyssey - Sam Spence [Gary as a "snailmatian."]
 ‣ Screw on the Loose - Tony Lowry [Tour of the firehouse.]
 ‣ Now Is The Time (a) - David Robidoux [The first fire.]
 ‣ Crepe Suzette - Cyril Watters [Fire poles.]
 ‣ Imminent Attack - Harry Lubin [The mystery pole.]
 • ? - Nicolas Carr ["Alright, line up!"]
 ‣ Happy As You Go [#65] - Harry Lubin [Squidward appears.]
 ‣ Eccentric March - Remastered - Peter Hope [At the training area.]
 ‣ Chicago Stomp - Keith Nichols [Training sequence.]
 • Hot Steel and Slide Licks 35 - Jeremy Wakefield ["The mother!"]
 ‣ Astronauts March - Sam Spence ["Congratulations, men. You passed your training."]
 • Hot Steel and Slide Licks 23A - Jeremy Wakefield [Larry gives Squidward party supplies.]
 ‣ Creeping Up [#63] - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin [Larry receives a call.]
 ‣ Dignity - Peter Yorke ["Look alive, men!"]
 ‣ Dot And Dash - David Morse [Spot stuck in a tree.]
 ‣ Punctuations - Ralph Dollimore [SpongeBob hears a fire alarm.]
 ‣ Where’s The Fire? - John Fiddy, Otto Sieben [Fire truck drives away.]
 ‣ On Fire - Gregor F. Narholz [Firehouse on fire.]
 ‣ Super Hero - Tony Hymas [Old Man Walker puts out the fire.]
 • Clownfish Capers - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Ending.]

Trivia

General

• This marks the 600th episode segment of the series in packaging order.
• This is one of two episodes from the main series that Brandon Warren, a former supervising director on Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years, worked on, the other being "Delivery of DOOM!".
• This episode was originally titled "The Bikini Bottom Volunteer Fire Department."
• This episode marks the return of the music track "Super Hero" in the main series after over 22 years. It was last played in season 3's "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V."

Episode references

• The tree that Gary and Spot get stuck in is the same one from season 2's "Gary Takes a Bath."
• SpongeBob being a volunteer doctor may be a reference to season 10's "Code Yellow."

Cultural references

• The stock footage of Medusa featured during the mystery pole scene is taken from the 1981 film Clash of the Titans.

References

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