A Skin Wrinkle in Time

Characters

Synopsis

The episode begins with the French Narrator walking to the screen. He quickly recaps the previous episode and decides to tell a story of a grandpa adrift in space and time. Just as he walks off, GrandPat starts flying through the wormhole, avoiding various junk on his way. However, he stops when he notices a huge Painty the Pirate on his way, flying into his mouth and replacing SpongeBob in his theme song. He wants to get out of the theme song, and luckily finds a time closet door nearby, flying into the Wild West era, where the two cowboys are engaging in a stand-off. It's interrupted by GrandPat, who flies out of the time closet and grabs the second cowboy, leaving with him. The two fly through the wormhole again, seeing a baby version of GrandPat on the way. Their trip ends when they notice a seahorse on the way, with the cowboy telling that it's his as he jumps on it and flies away. After a while, GrandPat finally arrives in his home timeline, but as he sits down to watch TV, he notices that his family became fly-like beings. He doesn't mind that and continues to watch the French Narrator on TV, until he turns it off, to GrandPat's disdain. Template:Section-expand

Production

This episode was confirmed by Cartoonlounge.de on August 2, 2022.^[1]

Music

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Trivia

General

This episode premiered as a part of "The Tidal Zone" special event.
This episode was originally scheduled to premiere on Friday, November 25, 2022 in the United States sometime between 7:00 PM and 7:30 PM,^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] but it instead got replaced with the premiere of the 2021 Nickelodeon film The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run.^[6]^[7]
This is the first third segment since "BlackJack" in season 5 and the seventh third segment overall after "Tea at the Treedome," "Fungus Among Us," "Good Ol' Whatshisname," "Slimy Dancing," "The Krusty Plate," and "BlackJack."
This is SpongeBob's fourth non-speaking appearance after "Reef Blower," "Whale Watching," and "Lockdown for Love." Unlike in the other three (where he silently mouths a "You!" subtitle, laughs, and pants and groans in a crowd respectively), he does not even make any noise.
This is the sixth episode of the main SpongeBob SquarePants series to feature a character from a spin-off series. The first was "Something Narwhal This Way Comes," the second was "Upturn Girls," the third was "Slappy Daze," the fourth was "Welcome to Binary Bottom," and the fifth was "You're Going to Pay...Phone."
This is the second episode that features an animated character on the title card. The first was "Trident Trouble," which featured all the members of the Greek chorus speaking to the viewers.
The SpongeBob SquarePants Theme Song is featured in this episode with a new recording, but all instances of SpongeBob's name are changed to GrandPat's name.
- This is, as well, the fourth time someone else does the theme song besides SpongeBob. The previous instances are Squidward, Patrick, and Mr. Krabs in "Truth or Square."
This is the second episode to have no onscreen credits, following "Reef Blower."
This is the first episode to not only play instantly after another episode, but to have the title card play after the intro and first scene.

Cultural references

This episode's title is a pun of the 1962 novel A Wrinkle in Time.

Errors

At the end of the theme song, when the camera pans to GrandPat, a white border can be seen at the bottom of the screen.

Videos

References

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[1] SPONGEBOB SCHWAMMKOPF - EPISODE GUIDE

[2] SpongeBob SquarePants Episode Listings - The Futon Critic

[3] November 2022 on Nickelodeon USA - NickALive!

[4] Nickelodeon's First-Ever SpongeBob Universe Crossover Event, "SpongeBob SquarePants Presents The Tidal Zone," to Debut Friday, November 25 - 02

[5] Nickelodeon's First-Ever SpongeBob Universe Crossover Event, "SpongeBob SquarePants Presents The Tidal Zone," to Debut Friday, November 25 - 01

[6] Weeknights on Nickelodeon Promo - November 2022

[7] November 25, 2022 - Nickstory

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