Buried in Time

Characters

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• Eugene H. Krabs
• Squidward Tentacles
• Fish on the Plate
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• French Narrator
• Patrick Star
• Rocky
• Bikini Bottom Construction Company
  • Construction foreman
• Sheldon J. Plankton
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  • Incidental 34
  • Incidental 41
    • Daydream Incidental 41
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    • Daydream Incidental 107
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  • Incidental 105
  • Fred ^(blue)
    • Daydream Fred
  • Incidental 40
  • Incidental 106
    • Daydream Incidental 106
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  • Incidental 6
  • Incidental 48
    • Daydream Incidental 48
  • Daydream Incidental 37A
  • Daydream Incidental 40
  • Daydream Incidental 102
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  • Daydream Incidental 153
  • Daydream Incidental 8
  • Incidental 46
    • Daydream Incidental 46
  • Incidental 60
  • Future Incidentals
    • Future Fred
    • Future Incidental 31
    • Future Incidental 18
    • Future Scooter
    • Future Incidental 158
    • Future Incidental 105
    • Future Incidental 106
    • Future Incidental 108
    • Future Incidental 37B
    • Future Incidental 63
    • Future Incidental 32
    • Future Incidental 37A
    • Future Incidental 6
    • Future Incidental 28
    • Future Incidental 30
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    • Future Incidental 20
    • Future Incidental 11
    • Future Incidental 13
    • Future Incidental 48
    • Future Incidental 65
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    • Future Incidental 23
    • Future Incidental 154
    • Future Incidental 3
    • Future Incidental 9
    • Future Incidental 2
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    • Future Incidental 12
    • Future Incidental 4
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    • Future Incidental 25
    • Future Incidental 40
    • Future Incidental 73
    • Future Incidental 22
    • Future Incidental 14
    • Future Incidental 49
    • Future Incidental 41
    • Future Incidental 42
    • Future Incidental 26 ^(38-colored)
• Swordfish trucker
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• Squidward Followers
• Karen Plankton

Synopsis

The episode starts at the Krusty Krab when SpongeBob realizes they are out of tartar sauce, but when he checks the vat, he realizes it is empty and it has been there for 50 years. When Mr. Krabs yells at him to get back to work, SpongeBob explains the situation. Mr. Krabs gets an idea to start a time capsule.

The next scene shows the tartar sauce vat next to a hole with a large stage next to it. A huge line of people are in line to make contributions to the time capsule by handing things in, and Mr. Krabs tells SpongeBob and Squidward to handle them while he sells souvenirs. It shows several people making contributions, which Squidward critiques, but SpongeBob finds everything amazing. Mr. Krabs sells cheap souvenirs for outrageous prices. Patrick comes to make a donation of his favorite rock. Believing that this item is too ridiculous for a time capsule, Squidward tries to seize the break from Patrick. The struggle makes the rock fly in the air and it puts the wood behind him, flinging Squidward, SpongeBob, and Patrick into the time capsule, trapping them in and burying them alive. Mr. Krabs puts a copy of the Krabby Patty secret formula in the capsule, making Plankton interested.

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In the time capsule, the three of them imagine what the future would be like until Squidward gets knocked out. Patrick then finds shaving cream which he mistakes for whipped cream, so he tastes it and finds it awful. Plankton drills into the capsule, hitting the shaving cream that sprays Patrick, which gives him a beard and Patrick sprays SpongeBob and Squidward. Squidward wakes up, thinking it has been 50 years due to the beard, and escapes through the hole Plankton created. The "future" is not what Squidward wanted, so he goes back to the time capsule, unknowingly stepping on the formula bottle on his way back, shoving it inside Plankton.

The episode ends with Plankton at the Chum Bucket constipated with his body shaped like a bottle and him sitting on a toilet, trying to get the formula out of his body. Karen calls him "poopsy" and Plankton asks for more prunes.

Production

Release

• This episode is available on the Complete Seventh Season, SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 11, Rockin' Bikini Bottom, Season 7 Volume 4, Sweet & Sour Squidward, The SpongeBob SquarePants Collection, The SpongeBob SquarePants 8 Season DVD Collection, Next 100 Episodes, and The Best 200 Episodes Ever DVDs.

Trivia

General

• When this episode premiered, it was paired with "Shellback Shenanigans," but since it has re-airing with "Enchanted Tiki Dreams."
• The title card background for this episode is similar to those of "Sandy's Rocket," "Wormy," and "Fungus Among Us."
• The time capsule date has the year of 1960 on it and this episode aired in 2010. At the beginning, when SpongeBob sees the date on the time capsule as May 1960, he infers that it has been there for 50 years. It is therefore implied that the episode takes place the year it aired.
  • It also was dated May 1, 1960. May 1, 1999 was when the series premiered.
• This marks Fred's 150th appearance.
• Due to its removal from APM Music, this is the last episode to play the APM track "Chief Taravana."
• The real life city imagined by Patrick appears to be Burbank, CA, home of Nickelodeon Animation Studio.
• This episode is very similar to season 4's "Wishing You Well," as both episodes involve SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidward being trapped in an enclosed space.

Cultural references

• Pretzel Pals is a parody of Twister.
• Squidward waking up with a “beard” and thinking he’d slept for 50 years may be a reference to the tale of Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving.
• This episode could likely be inspired by a real life time capsule from Nickelodeon that was originally buried at Nickelodeon Studios in Orlando, Florida on April 30, 1992 and expected to be opened on April 30, 2042, which is exactly 50 years later, the same number of years the time capsule in the episode is supposed to stay buried.

Errors

• The fish with plate's eyes briefly disappear for a frame.

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Fish with plate's missing eyes.

• Throughout the scenes where fish are putting things in the capsule, the red ribbon which runs from the stand to the Krusty Krab repeatedly disappears and reappears.
• In the crowd outside the time capsule, there are duplicated fish.

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Incidental 40 with a straw overlapping his mouth.

• In Plankton's vision of a popular restaurant, Incidental 40 can be seen drinking with a straw overlapping his mouth.
• When Mr. Krabs throws the formula in the capsule, the capsule was full to the brim, but when the scene cuts back to SpongeBob and company, it was barely full and seemed to be a lot wider.
• When SpongeBob throws the plate, it breaks, but when they are trapped inside, the plate is back together again.
• When everyone is putting things into the capsule, it is next to a sign, but when Squidward is getting out of the capsule, it is next to the road.

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Perch Perkins is mistakenly credited here.

• Perch Perkins is listed in the credits for this episode, but he is neither seen nor heard in the episode's plot.
• In the Latin American dub, when SpongeBob says "After you then!", he is not voiced by his usual dub actor (Luis Carreño).

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The door appears taller.

• When the scene switches to Plankton trying to get the formula out of his body, the door appears taller.