Club SpongeBob

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

Brief summary: SpongeBob, Patrick and Squidward become stranded in a kelp forest.

Characters:

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Patrick Star
• Squidward Tentacles
• Picnic Supply Inc. pilots
• Forest Ranger
• Magic Conch Shell

Songs:

• The Club SpongeBob Initiation

Locations:

• Squidward's house
• Kelp Forest

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Kelp Forest

Plot

The episode begins with Squidward leaving his house and riding his bicycle to work. He rides past a tall tree, at the top of which is a small box where SpongeBob and Patrick are sitting and giggling profusely. They see Squidward below and talk to each other about this, beginning certain words with a "w" sound. Squidward approaches the base of the tree and asks what they are doing, and SpongeBob tells Squidward that he can't tell him because he is not a member of their club. Squidward mocks them, saying that he is more than qualified to join their club. SpongeBob tells Squidward he couldn't get in even if he tried. Squidward tells them that he is "a member of over 20 different exclusive clubs all across the sea bottom.", but SpongeBob and Patrick insist that he will not fit in. Enraged, Squidward tells them they know nothing of fitting in before he proceeds to climb the tree. SpongeBob and Patrick frantically tell Squidward to stop but he does not. Squidward crawls into their tiny box, and SpongeBob and Patrick explain that they literally meant that he wouldn't "fit in", and that he and Patrick have been stuck in the tree for three days. SpongeBob and Patrick begin Squidward's initiation into their "club", but Squidward stops them, and attempts to get out be pulling on a smaller tree. He manages to make the tree double over and is about to crawl out when the second tree snaps, launching them into the sky. They fly over a kelp forest, where a couple sees them and the man says "Make a wish, Honey."

The trio crash in a small clearing in a distant section of the kelp forest. SpongeBob and Patrick begin to jump and shout joyfully while Squidward panics at his situation of being lost and stuck with SpongeBob and Patrick. SpongeBob and Patrick try to comfort Squidward by telling him it could be worse, and that they will survive as a club and as long as they have the "magic conch shell", a Magic 8-Ball-like device which SpongeBob and Patrick treat as prophetic and all-knowing. They believe the magic conch should never be questioned and should always be consulted before any action is taken. SpongeBob asks it what they must do to escape the kelp forest, and the conch says, "Nothing". SpongeBob and Patrick sit on the ground doing nothing, and Squidward is enraged at their stupidity. He announces that he intends to escape the forest and get back to sanity by himself, and walks away. As Squidward tries to find an exit, he becomes lost and afraid and eventually comes back to where SpongeBob and Patrick are.

Even more time passes, and by now, Squidward has dismantled the box in order to build a shelter. He has a hat made out of some dried plant and is sitting by a small campfire. He is holding an empty frying pan over the fire. A small bug scurries past, but Squidward catches it and proceeds to cook it. He taunts SpongeBob with his "food", saying that they could have sided with him and survived, but instead listened to a talking shell. He proceeds to say, "As if the answers to all your problems will fall right out of the sky! (laugh) Fall right out of the sky!"

Above the forest, a damaged plane is seen falling right out of the sky, and the pilots drop their load of picnic supplies to avoid crashing. The equipment lands around SpongeBob and Patrick, who emerge from their state of doing nothing and praise the magic conch. Squidward is extremely shocked and walks over to the two, who are devouring a table full of delicious food. Squidward says he was only kidding earlier and asks if he is still a member of the club, and SpongeBob tells him that he is still a member. Squidward cannot decide what to choose, and forcibly follows SpongeBob's suggestion of asking the conch shell. It tells him he cannot have either of the two items he asked for. He tries another one, and the conch says no. He repeatedly asks it if he can have anything to eat, with the shell responding "no" every time. He becomes enraged and is about to go mad when a Park Ranger enters the clearing.

Squidward tells him he has been stranded with SpongeBob, Patrick, and the magic conch shell for weeks, and his mention of the "magic conch shell" prompts the ranger who pulls out an identical conch. SpongeBob and Patrick are delighted to meet a "club member", and the ranger tells them that his conch advised him to look for them. The three club members praise the magic conch before asking it how to get out of the kelp forest. It tells them, "Nothing." Following the conch's advice, they do nothing and assume sitting positions on the ground. Squidward, completely dumbfounded, praises the magic conch and sits down as well.

Quotes

• Squidward: Well, I'll have you know that I am a member of 20 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?

Trivia/Goofs

• The kelp forest is featured in the GBA version of Revenge of the Flying Dutchman, as well as Battle for Bikini Bottom.
• This is the first episode to be released on video before airing on television. It was featured on the "Sponge Buddies" VHS and the "Nautical Nonsense" and "Sponge Buddies" DVD, which were released on March 12 2002 117 days before it premiered on TV.
• The last time Squidward holds the conch and asks if he can have something to eat, he pulls the string. In the next shot, when it says, "No", his tentacle is yellow.
• SpongeBob, Patrick and Squidward were only shown to be in the kelp forest for one evening. However, Squidward says that Patrick hasn't eaten in days. At the end of the episode, Squidward says that they have been stranded for weeks.
• Squidward breaks the fourth wall when he says "Why must every 11 minutes of my life be filled with misery?", in reference to an episode's length. This was also referenced in "Nature Pants" and "Missing Identity".
• When the ranger arrives and shows his magic conch shell, the original conch disappears.
• This is the first episode where the closed captions are shown before the actual lines. Most subsequent episodes would continue this.
• This episode's plot is a little similar to that of the book, Hatchet.
• At the beginning of the episode, the tree and the clubhouse is facing to the road, and there were much trees seen. But after Spongebob and Patrick insults Squidward, the tree and the clubhouse is turned 90º to the right, and there are barely trees shown. When Squidward climbs the tree, it's facing back to the road, but when Squidward tries to get out of the clubhouse, it rotated 90º to the right again.
• Also, when Squidward tries to get out of the clubhouse, there is an additional skinny, tall tree that Squidward grabs on. It didn't appear in any scene before Squidward climbs into the clubhouse.
• Even if the conch was telling Squidward "no", he could have gotten something to eat anyway.
• When Spongebob and Patrick ate, they didn't ask the conch shell, but Squidward had to ask the shell.
• The Magic Conch Shell may be a reference to the Magic 8 Ball.
• At the End when Spongebob, Patrick and the Ranger sits down (Squidward sits too), the Rangers Eyes are not Facing Right.
• Because of Squidward doesn't get the food because he didn't does as Spongebob and Patrick do. At the end Squidward decides to sit with them.
• When Squidward rides on his bike he left his door open, as soon as squidward tires to get back down the door is shut.

APM Music Identification

• Me for You - Squidward rides his bike for work while SpongeBob and Patrick make fun of him.
• Silly Season (a) - "I do not now, nor will I ever, want to be a member of your stupid club!"
• Bashful Eyes - "Come on, guys, we're gonna be fine as long as we stick together. Remember we're a club."
• Comic Walk - Squidward walks away from SpongeBob and Patrick as they sit around and do nothing.
• Heavenly Voices - Squidward sees the light at the end of the tunnel and runs toward it.
• Hawaiian Link B - "There's no way out of here."
• Hawaiian Breeze - Squidward taunts SpongeBob and Patrick with his own club.
• Dramatic Cue G - "Dude, we're falling right out of the sky! We've gotta drop the load!"
• Hawaiian Link A - The bug that Squidward cooks hits him on the nose.
• O Makalapua (b) - Squidward looks at the food that dropped from the sky.
• Lonely Heart's Club - Patrick asks the Magic Conch if Squidward can have a sandwich.
• Dramatic Cue D - Squidward's face gets red after the magic conch shell tells him "No".