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"Prehibernation Week" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 2. In this episode, Sandy and SpongeBob play extreme sporting games before Sandy has to hibernate.

Characters

Synopsis

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Sandy raking the leaves.

At Sandy's treedome, Sandy is raking her tree's autumn leaves into a pile that forms the shape of Texas. SpongeBob is also raking leaves, but his tiny rake does minimal work. Sandy tells SpongeBob to do something else while she continues her own chores at a brisk pace. SpongeBob doesn't understand why Sandy is hurrying, so she reminds him that she starts hibernating the following week. With 168 hours left, Sandy has many activities she's desperate to do. SpongeBob promises to commit all the time he doesn't work to do Sandy's activities, an offer she enthusiastically takes him up on.

Their activities include sand-boarding, knocking each other off the top of the Sea Needle with pugil sticks, "extreme jacks," and "find the hay in the needle stack." These prove to be extremely dangerous, and SpongeBob, much less hardy than Sandy, injures himself and avoids death several times. Not wanting to do anymore dangerous activities with Sandy, he goes into hiding under Patrick Star's house to escape from her, and Sandy, panicking for his safety, forces everyone in Bikini Bottom to form a search party for SpongeBob.

Sandy has them search in dangerous places such as sulfur fields, a leech farm, and a poison sea urchin cove. After days of searching with no success, they all want a break, but she does not relent. They ask for time to take care of their children, but Sandy merely suggests to have the children crawl into places that adults cannot reach. With the dissent growing, Sandy angrily demands that no one leaves until they find SpongeBob. The townspeople try in vain to fool Sandy with objects in SpongeBob's shape and color like a cereal box and a banana. One fish points to SpongeBob supposedly up in the sky, but as Sandy looks up and turns back in confusion, she finds that everyone has gone, taking their chance to also hide under Patrick's rock.

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"I'm ready, I'm ready!"

Still frantic, Sandy starts literally destroying the city in her search for SpongeBob. The townspeople express how safe they feel under the rock, as does SpongeBob, whom they unceremoniously throw out for Sandy to find. Hearing this, Sandy rushes to SpongeBob as he desperately tries to hide again, to no avail. Sandy joyfully pulls SpongeBob for a hug before tugging him along to go "atom smashing," but he pleads for her to wait and listen to him. SpongeBob finally explains to her that he can no longer play the dangerous games she wants to play and begs for her to remain his friend. However, he realizes that Sandy has already fallen sound asleep, and the relieved and exhausted SpongeBob falls asleep as well. Patrick returns home from the grocery store to find the townspeople (and Squidward) staring out from under his rock and frantically yells, "Who are you people?!"

Production

Art

Model sheets

Sketches

Storyboards

Music

( ‣ ) Production music
( • ) Original music
( ◦ ) SpongeBob music

 • Pre-Hibernation - Pantera [Title card]
 ‣ Real Western Steel - Bobby Black [The opening.]
 ‣ Harry's Back - Hans Ehrlinger ["I am 100% ma-male."]
 ‣ Real Western Steel - Bobby Black ["Enough chitter-chatter, SpongeBob!"]
 • Pre-Hibernation - Pantera [Sand Mountain]
 ‣ Rococo Rondo - Tedeusz Rozycki ["Uh... I can explain."]
 • Pre-Hibernation - Pantera ["I'm hotter than a hickory-smoked sausage!"]
 ‣ Hawaiian Link (B) - Richard Myhill [Later...]
 • Solo Steel 3 - Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob dragging himself home]
 • Pre-Hibernation - Pantera [SpongeBob launched out of bed./Sandy and SpongeBob playing Extreme Jacks/Sandy and SpongeBob at the Sea Needle.]
 ‣ Holiday Playtime - Cedric King-Palmer [Bike ride]
 • Pre-Hibernation - Pantera [Industrial Park]
 • Drum Drop - Nicolas Carr [Rimshot]
 • Vibe & Harp Hits - Nicolas Carr ["Wait a minute, I gotta talk my way out of this."]
 • Pre-Hibernation - Pantera [Hay in the needle stack]
 ‣ Danger Zone - Mike Sunderland ["SpongeBob's tie!"]
 ‣ Gruesome - The Surfdusters [The search party]
 ‣ Death Trap [#25] - Gregor F. Narholz [Sandy looking for SpongeBob]
 ‣ Rococo Rondo - Tedeusz Rozycki ["Uh, I can explain."]
 ‣ Death Trap [#25] - Gregor F. Narholz [Sandy continues looking for SpongeBob.]
 • Thats It ! - Nicolas Carr ["SpongeBob?"]
 ‣ Real Western Steel - Bobby Black [Sandy hugs SpongeBob]
 • Pre-Hibernation - Pantera ["Sandy, wait!"]
 ‣ Stack of Leis - Kapono Beamer ["I just can't take the games!"]
 ‣ Reflets D'Honolulu - Daniel J. White [Sandy is asleep]

Release

Distribution

Reception

  • "Prehibernation Week" was ranked #28 during the Best Day Ever event from November 9–10, 2006.
  • "Prehibernation Week" was ranked #46 during the SpongeBob's Top 100 event in the UK and Ireland from June 4-8, 2012.

Trivia

General

  • According to production art, this episode was originally titled "Sardines."
  • Several from this episode have become memes on the Internet, including:
    • The fish saying, "Uh, I can explain."
    • Patrick saying, "Who are you people?!"
    • Frank saying, "This is a load of barnacles."
    • Sandy saying, "No, you ain't."
    • Squidward looking at Mr. Krabs, smiling.
    • Extreme Jacks.
    • The burning fish.
  • This is the first episode for two things:
  • This is the second episode for a few things:
    • The second episode to have an animated title card. The first is "SB-129."
    • The second episode to have a comedy drummer gag. The first is "Culture Shock."
    • The second episode where SpongeBob says, "This squirrel's trying to kill me." The first is "MuscleBob BuffPants."
  • The poster Fred puts up has the same drawing seen on the cover of the pitch bible and the creator's credit at the end of the original version of Help Wanted.
  • This episode was referenced in "Clams" because SpongeBob tells Sandy he should get home before Gary chews up the sofa again, which he does in the former episode.
  • The background in the scene where SpongeBob and Sandy play "hay in the needle stack" is reused for the title card for "Bubble Troubles."
  • Sandy mentions the episode's main title when she says, "I gotta say, I'm impressed with you, SpongeBob. You're making this the best Prehibernation Week ever."
  • There is a coloring book based on this episode named You Snooze, You Lose.
  • This is one of four episodes transcribed as a comic into the SpongeBob SquarePants/Tokyopop book Tales from Bikini Bottom. The other three were "Home Sweet Pineapple," "F.U.N.," and "I'm Your Biggest Fanatic."
  • SpongeBob breaks the fourth wall by noticing the ostensibly non-diegetic heavy metal music when Sandy is preparing to pedal the bike.
  • During The Complete 2nd Season's audio commentary for this episode,[2] C.H. Greenblatt says when SpongeBob gets on the bike, he looks right when the music starts to play. He is supposed to actually look after it starts playing, as a visual cue. This was an animation error.
    • Also in the audio commentary,[2] one of the people in the commentary makes fun of the Industrial Park by calling it "post-apocalyptic Bikini Bottom." Ironically, 10 years after this commentary was recorded, Bikini Bottom actually did become post-apocalyptic in The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water.
    • The audio commentary also reveals[2] that Aaron Springer performed the real-life drummer. The same commentary also revealed that it took a whole morning to set up the real-life drummer scene.
  • This was Edgar Larrazábal's last episode as an animation director. He was replaced by Frank Weiss.
  • The song "Pre-Hibernation" performed by Pantera is part of a solo featured in their song "Death Rattle;" it starts at 2:31 and ends at about 2:43.
  • Even though this episode features the special guest band Pantera, it does not feature Pantera's drummer, Vinnie Paul; instead, the drums in this episode are played by Paul Tibbitt.[citation needed]
  • During the search party scene where the Bikini Bottomites are searching for SpongeBob, one fish is heard whistling and saying, "Here, boy!" as if he was calling a dog.
  • During the scene with the sea elephant, there are two Incidental 41 models; one goes into the elephant and the other stands near Sandy.
  • When one of the needles stabs SpongeBob's noses, his voice sounds like Squidward's when he says "ow."
  • Patrick says, "Who are you people?!" again in "I'm with Stupid," referring to his fake parents in that episode.
  • The audio clip of SpongeBob saying "Yeah…" after sliding down the mountain was recycled from "MuscleBob BuffPants".
  • On the November 10, 2006 airing, this episode was paired with "Pizza Delivery."[3]
  • Pantera guest stars in the episode. In fact, the season 3 episodes SpongeBob Meets the Strangler and Pranks a Lot aired two months before Dimebag Darrell's death.

Dub facts

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  • In the German dub, the title card's background is the same as the one from "The Smoking Peanut."
  • In the Filipino dub, at the final scene, Patrick says "Ba't andiyan kayo sa bahay ko? (What are you doing at my house?)" instead of "Who are you people?"[4]
  • In the Latin American dub, SpongeBob, after crashing the two kids' sandman, says "It was full of life, and life's extreme!" instead of "Life is as extreme as you wanna make it!".

Cultural references

  • The game "Find the hay in the needle stack" is a switch on "find the needle in the hay stack."
  • The Sea Needle is a parody of the Space Needle in Seattle, Washington.
  • Two kids building a sandman and singing a song in hopes of him coming to life is a reference to the song "Frosty the Snowman."
  • The scene where SpongeBob says Sandy's dangerous activities are tearing him apart is a reference to the movie Rebel without a Cause.

Errors

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Sandy without the bikini bottoms underneath her skirt
  • When Sandy goes over to paint her fence, the green bikini bottom she wears underneath her skirt is gone.
  • The outline of Sandy's tongue is colored black throughout the episode, as opposed to red.
  • When SpongeBob's pants get stuck on the shell, his sweatband falls off as well. However, in the next shot when Sandy appears, the sweatband is missing.
  • There is a column left of "Sunday" on the calendar in Sandy's treedome.
  • The calendar that Sandy pulls down when she and SpongeBob are frozen in the lake only has 20 days and only has five days a week.
  • After Charlie asks if he can go home and Sandy looks angry, her neck is the same color as the lower side of her face.
  • In the closing credits, Aaron Springer, who performed the real-life drummer, is uncredited.
  • When Sandy lifts up the building to reveal a guy on a bike holding a lollipop, her tail is gone.
  • In the same shot, the acorn on Sandy's badge is not filled in.
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Sandy's beige neck.
  • When SpongeBob yells "You don't understand!," his pupils turn black in the animation smear.
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SpongeBob without eyelashes
  • When SpongeBob crashes into the snowman, his eyelashes are gone.
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  • In the nighttime shot of SpongeBob's house, the green steps on the path to his house are missing.
    • This error also occurs in "Suds."
File:Prehibernation Week 103.png
SpongeBob's shoes are cut off.
  • In one of the shots that SpongeBob is melted, the front part of his shoes is cut.
File:Prehibernation Week 174.png
Sandy's missing tail and unfilled acorn.
File:Prehibernation Week 144.png
Sandy with a white badge.
  • When Sandy looks for SpongeBob in the cave, her badge is white instead of yellow-tan.
  • The audio for this episode and its sister episode are low-pitched on 2019–present Nicktoons airings in the United States, as well as when it aired on the main Nickelodeon channel on March 13, 2025.[5]
    • This also used to be the case with Paramount+ before it was fixed. However, this error still persists on some international versions of Paramount+, such as the United Kingdom.
    • A possible reason for this error may have been due to the fact that it was converted back to NTSC from a PAL master (which has been pitch corrected) used in Europe.
  • In the shot following SpongeBob holding the shaving razor, it disappears, then briefly reappears in SpongeBob's hands for a few frames.
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Patrick's red mouth
  • One of the buildings that Sandy throws into the air is very clearly cut off.
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Cut off building
  • Before Patrick shouts "Who are you people?," his mouth is colored red instead of black.


Video

File:Nickelodeon Commercial Breaks (May 4, 2001)

Names in other languages

Language Name Meaning
Finnish Siunattu Talviuni Blessed Hibernation
French Le sport avant le sommeil Sports Before Sleep
German Bis zur Erschöpfung To the Point of Exhaustion
Hungarian Téli álom Hibernation
Italian Il pre-letargo! Prehibernation!
Polish Przed hibernacją Prehibernation / Before Hibernation
Russian Последняя неделя перед зимней спячкой
Poslednyaya nedelya pered zimney spyachkoy		 Last Week Before the Hibernation
Spanish (Latin America) Semana de prehibernación Prehibernation Week
Spanish (Spain) Semana prehibernación Prehibernation Week

References

  1. ↑ Cable Guide (UK) May 2001 - pg. 46
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Audio Commentary for this episode
  3. ↑ November 10, 2006 - Nickstory
  4. ↑ 5 Iconic SpongeBob Scenes IN 34 DIFFERENT LANGUAGES!
  5. ↑ March 13, 2025 - Nickstory
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