Anchor Arms

Template:OTab Template:Object Anchor Arms are a pair of inflatable rubber fake biceps that SpongeBob uses on his arms in the episode, "MuscleBob BuffPants."

Description

The settings are as follows:

• Strong
• Veiny
• Hairy (for the ladies)

The levels of air pressure are as follows:

• Normal (Green)
• Strong (Yellow)
• Super (Orange)
• Jerk (Red—Inflating to this limit means over-inflation. SpongeBob eventually blows them exceeding Jerk as he's struggling against the anchor competition, causing them to overstretch and explode)

Role in the series

MuscleBob BuffPants

SpongeBob notices that he is very weak compared to Sandy and she offers to give him exercise training. After failing at it, SpongeBob goes home with painful arms. He lies in his arm, when a commercial on TV starts. Donald the Shark tells the audience why to buy the product. SpongeBob is then convinced and buys some. He goes to Goo Lagoon to show off his fake muscles. He convinces everyone, including Sandy. Thinking that he is really strong, she signs them up for an Anchor Toss competition. When it is SpongeBob's turn to go, the Anchor Arms started to break down due to SpongeBob overinflated them into the Jerk size while struggling to lift the anchor (even the Arms can be seen over-stretching with its "veins" bulging out and causes the air to blow up SpongeBob's body). Eventually, they popped and deflate, revealing that the muscles are just fake.

Battle for Bikini Bottom

A variant of the anchor arms is used to repair SpongeBot SteelPants, after the real SpongeBob temporarily destroys him.

Trivia

• It is a reference to part of an anchor called the "arm," which is the part that curves out from the bottom end of the main part and ends in the pointed part.
• In the scene where the Anchor Arms blow up, it is then deflating in a similar manner as a rubber balloon - floating randomly as it loses air and making a characteristic noise.
  • This is probably an oversight (or possibly for comical effect) since the Arms actually exploded, thus it would be completely blown up instead of deflating.
• It is shown that SpongeBob appears to hide his real arms inside his body while using the Anchor Arms, as seen after the Arms blow up, he pops his arms out as Sandy looks at him.
• According to Donald himself, the Anchor Arms is actually a rubber glove, as he say "it fits in like a glove". In addition, the Arms themselves look like long gloves when not inflated.