SpongeBob's Runaway Roadtrip (event)

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SpongeBob's Runaway Roadtrip was a five-day event comprised of a miniseries within the show, featuring daily vacation-themed episodes. It aired at 5:00pm EST during the second week of November 2011 in the United States, while it was spread out as a Sunday morning event in the United Kingdom and Ireland, premiering new episodes from August 19 through September 16 at 9:00am.

Premieres

United States

Title card	#	Title	U.S. airdate	U.S. viewers (millions)
File:Walking the Plankton title card.png	160b	"Walking the Plankton" (tr • ga)	November 7, 2011	2.97
	Mr. Krabs and SpongeBob go on a free cruise, and Plankton follows them.
File:Patrick's Staycation title card.png	160a	"Patrick's Staycation" (tr • ga)	November 8, 2011	3.01
	SpongeBob comes up with a solution when Patrick cannot afford a vacation.
File:Mr. Krabs Takes a Vacation title card.png	161b	"Mr. Krabs Takes a Vacation" (tr • ga)	November 9, 2011	3.14
	Mr. Krabs takes a vacation from work.
File:Mooncation title card.png	161a	"Mooncation" (tr • ga)	November 10, 2011	2.83
	Sandy takes SpongeBob to the moon for a vacation.
File:A SquarePants Family Vacation title card.png	159	"A SquarePants Family Vacation" (tr • ga)	November 11, 2011	3.57
	Patrick goes on vacation with SpongeBob's family to the Great Barrier Reef.

United Kingdom and Ireland (and production order)

Title card	#	Title	Airdate	Viewers (millions)
File:A SquarePants Family Vacation title card.png	159	"A SquarePants Family Vacation" (tr • ga)	August 19, 2012	0.10
	Patrick goes on vacation with SpongeBob's family to the Great Barrier Reef.
File:Patrick's Staycation title card.png	160a	"Patrick's Staycation" (tr • ga)	August 26, 2012	N/A
	SpongeBob comes up with a solution when Patrick cannot afford a vacation.
File:Walking the Plankton title card.png	160b	"Walking the Plankton" (tr • ga)	September 2, 2012	N/A
	Mr. Krabs and SpongeBob go on a free cruise, and Plankton follows them.
File:Mooncation title card.png	161a	"Mooncation" (tr • ga)	September 9, 2012	N/A
	Sandy takes SpongeBob to the moon for a vacation.
File:Mr. Krabs Takes a Vacation title card.png	161b	"Mr. Krabs Takes a Vacation" (tr • ga)	September 16, 2012	N/A
	Mr. Krabs takes a vacation from work.

Trivia

General

• In the United States, these premieres served as lead-ins to five world premiere episodes of Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness.
• "A SquarePants Family Vacation":
  • preceded the premiere of a new season of "Camp Orange: The Lost Kingdom" in the UK and Ireland.

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Ratings charts provided by BARB

• • received exactly 100,000 viewers on its United Kingdom premiere and was the third most viewed program on Nick UK for the week ending August 19, 2012.
  • was the only episode to be double-length during this event.
• This is the first and only premiere week to debut a whole miniseries.
• All of the episodes premiered as a direct-to-video release a month and a half prior to this event's premiere, before airing on American television.
• All of the episodes in this miniseries were rated PG in Canada.
• All of the episodes that premiered in this event are on both the On the Road and Bikini Bottom Getaways digital collections.
• All of the episodes begin with a prologue of the main character showing a slideshow of the vacation which is presented as a flashback; that scene was never revisited at the end of the episode.
• Squidward was the only main character who did not have a vacation episode.

Errors

• The premiere of "Mr. Krabs Takes a Vacation" mistakenly did not use a "NEW SPONGEBOB" screenbug.

Merchandise

• SpongeBob's Runaway Roadtrip (book)
• SpongeBob's Runaway Roadtrip (DVD)
• SpongeBob's Surf & Skate Roadtrip
• Oh Snap! Road Trip!

Gallery

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November 7, 2011

• 5:00pm ("Walking the Plankton")
  5:00pm ("Walking the Plankton")

November 8, 2011

• 5:00pm ("Patrick's Staycation")
  5:00pm ("Patrick's Staycation")

November 9, 2011

• 5:00pm ("Mr. Krabs Takes a Vacation")
  5:00pm ("Mr. Krabs Takes a Vacation")

November 10, 2011

• 5:00pm ("Mooncation")
  5:00pm ("Mooncation")

November 11, 2011

• 5:00pm ("A SquarePants Family Vacation")
  5:00pm ("A SquarePants Family Vacation")

Videos

• File:SpongeBob SquarePants - Season 8 Official Promo 2
• File:SpongeBob's Runaway Roadtrip - Official Promo 1
• File:SpongeBob's Runaway Roadtrip - Official Promo 2
• File:SpongeBob's Runaway Roadtrip and Kung Fu Panda Legends of Awesomeness - Official Promo 3
• File:SpongeBob SquarePants - "A SquarePants Family Vacation" Official Promo
• File:Nickelodeon Split Screen Credits (October 22, 2011)