Jump to content

Wet Painters

From SpongeBob Wiki
Revision as of 16:27, 15 August 2025 by imported>Gonzingismyfant (→Cultural references)
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
If you were looking for the article about the puppet version of this episode, then see Wet Painters: Puppet Edition!.

"Wet Painters" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 3. In this episode, SpongeBob and Patrick paint the inside of Mr. Krabs' house.

Characters

Synopsis

SpongeBob and Patrick are tearing the Krusty Krab down and getting themselves hurt because Squidward tricked them into thinking it would attract customers. Mr. Krabs figures this out and sentences the two to do a "super, special, secret assignment" - to paint the inside of his house. But Mr. Krabs warns them that the paint they are using is permanent and threatens that if they get even the smallest drop on anything but the wall, he will cut off their rear ends and place them above his fireplace as punishment. As they go inside the house, SpongeBob sees that Mr. Krabs has so many possessions, and tells Patrick he decides to move them first. Patrick says that there is no need to move the things because they are not getting paid to move them.

File:Wet Painters 063.png

After placing tarps and carefully opening the cans of paint with a screwdriver, SpongeBob takes out a huge brush, but decides to use a tiny brush. SpongeBob takes it out, then six hours later carefully paints a drop onto the wall, which begins dropping. In a panic that it may get onto an item, SpongeBob continuously blows on it to change direction in order to keep it from touching the items it heads for. He eventually blow dries it to make it stop moving, but accidentally blows a giant paint bubble in the process. Patrick blows another giant bubble shortly after, merging the two into an even bigger bubble, then inflates the bubble with a pump, causing it to burst and cover Mr. Krabs' whole house in paint, without getting a drop on anything... except on Mr. Krabs' first dollar.

File:Wet Painters 117.png
SpongeBob's and Patrick's butts being cut off and pasted on Mr. Krabs fireplace.

SpongeBob tries wiping the tiny stain off with his tie, but only ends up spreading the paint over the entire dollar. SpongeBob ends up fearing about what they did to his dollar, meaning that Mr. Krabs will cut their butts off & mount them on the wall just like what he said before they started painting his house. Then they try a couple more things to get it off, including washing it in a washing machine, spraying it, using a saw, beating it up with a club, and smashing it with a computer, but all fail. Then they decide to put another dollar on the wall. Patrick takes out a dollar from his wallet, but uses it to buy a chocolate bar from Mr. Krabs' candy machine instead.

At that moment, Mr. Krabs comes home, to find his house's lights turned off. He turns them on and sees that his house is tidy with no sign of bubbles. SpongeBob and Patrick are about to leave, but Mr. Krabs panics, and they think Mr. Krabs found out about the stained dollar. They apologize, but Mr. Krabs is just surprised that they dusted his knickknacks. He panics again, so SpongeBob and Patrick apologize again, but he is surprised about the painted floor molding. He panics once again because he finds out that one of the dolls in his Doll-a-Rama isn't upright. He says that they are free to go now, but then bumps into a big stack of paintings jutting from the wall where his dollar usually goes and throws them off of the wall one by one as he mentions not remembering any of them at all to find SpongeBob covering his first dollar.

Mr. Krabs takes SpongeBob out of the way to find his first dollar stained by paint along with a smiley face and two dollar signs drawn on it by crayon (which Patrick mentions he thought Mr. Krabs might buy it). It seems that Mr. Krabs is going to follow through with his threat and chop SpongeBob and Patrick's behinds off, but instead, he licks the dollar and the paint (including the crayon marking) comes off. The two are confused, and Mr. Krabs reveals the paint comes off with saliva. SpongeBob concludes that Mr. Krabs lied about the paint being permanent so they would be extra careful, but Mr. Krabs said he tricked them just for fun, and laughs at his jest, prompting SpongeBob and Patrick to storm out in disgust. Unfortunately, Mr. Krabs laughs so hard that he accidentally spits all over the place, causing all the paint to melt from the walls. He groans in disappointment as he realizes this, and mutters to himself that he needs to learn how to "say it, not spray it."

Production

Art

Model sheets

Animatic

File:SpongeBob SquarePants - Wet Painters (storyboard)

Music

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

 ‣ Keel Row - Brian Peters [Title card]
 • Circus Suspense Snare - Nicolas Carr ["Two ordinary Krabby Patties..."]
 ‣ Superquick B - Daniel Jean Jeannin ["A one-way ticket to pain!"]
 ‣ The Tip Top Polka/The Cliff Polka - Chelmsford Folk Band ["What the devilfish is going on out here?"]
 ‣ The Main Event - Gregor F. Narholz [SpongeBob and Patrick assigned to paint Krabs' house]
 ‣ Terror by Night - Hubert Clifford ["This here paint is absolutely permanent."]
 ‣ Ta-ra C - Sammy Burdson, John Charles Fiddy [Setting out the tarp]
 • Thats It ! - Nicolas Carr ["Now that's what I'm talking about!"]
 ‣ Unease - Dick Stephen Walter [Opening paint cans]
 ‣ On Fire - Gregor F. Narholz [Patrick hits the paint can with an axe]
 ‣ House Of Horror [#10.3] - William Merrick Farran [SpongeBob and Patrick scream as the drop of paint goes out of the pot]
 • Flextone Sting - Nicolas Carr [SpongeBob plucks one of his nose hairs (mute)]
 ‣ Tympup B - Sammy Burdson, John Charles Fiddy [Patrick makes a paintbrush out of nose hair (mute)]
 ‣ House Of Horror [#10.2] - William Merrick Farran [SpongeBob tries to warn himself of being careful with the permanent paint]
 ‣ House Of Horror [#10.5] - William Merrick Farran [The paint starts going down the wall/Giant paint bubble]
 • Love Harp Gliss - Nicolas Carr [Paint across the room]
 ‣ House Of Horror [#10.5] - William Merrick Farran [Drop of paint on Krabs' dollar]
 ‣ Dramatic Impact (5) - Ivor Slaney [Drop of paint on Krabs' dollar]
 ‣ Graveyard - Johnny Pearson ["We're dead, Patrick!"]
 ‣ Stepping into Danger - Mike Sunderland ["And we got paint on it!"]
 ‣ Shock - Cornelus Joh Bolten [SpongeBob smears the paint with his tie]
 ‣ Dramatic Impact (3) - Ivor Slaney [SpongeBob and Patrick's butts mounted on the wall]
 ‣ Lovely Scenery C - Mladen Franko [SpongeBob and Patrick's butts mounted on the wall]
 ‣ Secret Service - Syd Dale [Trying to get the paint off]
 • Idea Sting - Nicolas Carr ["Hey, a dollar!"]
 ‣ The Beast Within - Paddy Kingsland [Patrick puts the dollar in a candy machine]
 ‣ Dramatic Cue (B) - Ronald Hanmer [SpongeBob screams]
 ‣ Finders Creepers - Paddy Kingsland ["You both look like you got a dirty little secret."]
 ‣ Tales From The Swamp (C) - Ron Goodwin ["Flipping fish fossils! Look what you did!"]
 ‣ Finders Creepers - Paddy Kingsland ["You dusted all my knickknacks!"]
 ‣ Tales From The Swamp (C) - Ron Goodwin ["Great Barrier Reef! What's this?!"]
 ‣ Finders Creepers - Paddy Kingsland [Floor molding]
 ‣ Tales From The Swamp (A) - Ron Goodwin ["Criminy jim jam! You messed up my dollar... rama!"]
 • Steel Licks 46 - Jeremy Wakefield ["Oh well, I guess no harm done."]
 ‣ Footsteps of Horror - William Merrick Farran [Stack of paintings]
 • Thats It ! - Nicolas Carr ["There we go, good as new."]
 • Steel Licks 40 - Jeremy Wakefield ["But, but, but, but..."]
 • Steel Licks 41 - Jeremy Wakefield ["This paint actually comes off with saliva."]
 ‣ Try On and On A - Hans Ehrlinger [Ending]
 ‣ Quest for the Best 1 - David Reilly [closing credits; (Along with its sister episode)]

Release

Distribution

Reception

Trivia

General

  • The title card background is similar to those of "Shanghaied" and "Club SpongeBob," except with a paint splatter.
  • Here is the order the paintings on the stack:
    • A clown with a teardrop
    • A car race with the red car winning
    • Some shapes that are similar to art made by Piet Mondrian
    • 2 other paintings (15 as seen by the stack in the first scene)
    • A banana
    • Painty the Pirate
    • SpongeBob hanging from the wall (not really a painting but rather SpongeBob shape-shifting just to prevent Mr. Krabs from finding out they got paint on his dollar)
  • Mr. Krabs is heard saying "You messed up my Doll-a-Rama" rather than his usual pirate-like "me."
  • This is the second episode where SpongeBob and Patrick are given the job to paint something by Mr. Krabs. The first was "Sailor Mouth."
  • One of the backgrounds Mr. Krabs is laughing in is a blank version of the title card of "Reef Blower."
  • It is later revealed how Mr. Krabs got his first dollar in "Friend or Foe."
  • At one point, Mr. Krabs sings "Blow the Man Down," the sea shanty on which the SpongeBob SquarePants Theme Song is based.
  • The way that SpongeBob says "Yeah" after blowing the steam with the hairdryer is the same way he says it in "MuscleBob BuffPants" and "Prehibernation Week."
  • In the storyboard version featured on the Sponge for Hire DVD, SpongeBob says, "I dedicate this crash to my old pal Squidward!" This line was cut.
  • This is C.H. Greenblatt's first episode as a storyboard director instead of a storyboard artist.
File:Wet Painters 137.png
"Hey, a dollar!"
  • The following scenes in this episode have become popular memes across the internet:
    • The scene where Patrick says "We have technology."
    • The scene where Patrick blows two giant paint bubbles.
    • The scene where the paint gets everywhere is very popular in YouTube Poop parody videos.
    • The scene where SpongeBob screams at Mr. Krabs' "ruined" first dollar.
    • A smiling face drawn with green crayon by Patrick on Mr. Krabs' dollar.
    • The scene where SpongeBob screams "Flopping flotsam! What's that?" became viral in the Latin Spanish dub.
  • A pink version of Mr. Krabs and a yellow version of Pearl can be seen in one of the photos in Mr. Krabs' house.
    • A portrait of Squidward can also be seen.
  • Even though Patrick is not normally depicted with a nose, he has a nostril in this episode. He could also smell Junior's diaper previously in "Rock-a-Bye Bivalve."
  • The computer featured has a CRT monitor.
File:Wet Painters 071.png
Patrick holding a time card.
  • Fourth wall break: After a long line of time cards, Patrick is shown holding the last one, and he even tells SpongeBob to move along because he is all out of them.
File:Wet Painters 068.png
"Two Hours Later" from "Wet Painters"
File:Sun Bleached 108.png
"Two Hours Later" from "Sun Bleached"


Cultural references

  • One of the pictures on the wall is very similar to the paintings of the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian, who was one of the pioneers of 20th-century abstract art.
  • A picture of Popeye is visible among the pictures in Mr. Krabs' house.
  • SpongeBob and Patrick's butts being hung as plaques over the fireplace is similar to how the heads of some animals, especially moose and stags, are hung as plaques over fireplaces.
    • In "Snowball Effect," Squidward owns a similar plaque over his fireplace. It is a replica of Squidward's head, but with moose antlers.

Errors

  • Patrick crashes into the wall at the Krusty Krab, causing the window in Mr. Krabs' office to break off, revealing a solid wall behind it. This is an error, as the glass previously showed the outside.
  • The door at Mr. Krabs' house switches left to right. When he advises SpongeBob and Patrick, he opens the door, but after, the handle switches to the right.
    • Also, in the first scene when that happens, the doorknob is missing.
  • After SpongeBob rubs the dollar with his tie the second time, there is still some green on the dollar. In the next shot, it is completely covered with paint.
File:Wet Painters 185.png
  • When SpongeBob and Patrick try to wash the paint off of the dollar with the laundry machine, the wall is not painted. When they use a fan, the wall is painted. When SpongeBob uses a bat on Patrick, the wall is not painted again, and when Patrick smashes the dollar with the computer, the wall is painted again.
File:Wet Painters 181.png
Note the glass case on the bottom left.
File:Wet Painters 183.png
Note the glass case on the left side, inconsistent with the previous shot.
  • In the scene depicting SpongeBob hanging on Mr. Krabs' wall alongside various decorations, one of these resembles a glass case displaying 3 clam shells. In the next scene, the glass case instead seems to display 3 coins.
  • In the scenes before and after Mr. Krabs screams at SpongeBob and Patrick about them drawing on the dollar with crayon as a sketching supply, the crayon is not usually seen. It only appeared in one scene when Mr. Krabs mentions it.
  • When SpongeBob and Patrick jump up and say "Yay!," Patrick's mouth disappears for a frame.


Videos

Names in other languages

Language Name Meaning
Finnish Maalarit Painters
French Les peintres du dimanche Sunday Painters
German Anstreicher Painters
Hungarian Mázolók Painters
Italian La vernice indelebile The Indelible Paint
Japanese 壁塗りは大変
Kabe-nuri wa taihen		 Painting Walls is Hard Work
Russian Маляры
Malyary		 Painters
Spanish (Latin America) Pintores mojados Wet Painters
Spanish (Spain) Los pintores The Painters

References

  1. ↑ Nick UK - New Spongebob episodes in January - Nickdisk - December 24, 2002
  2. ↑ Disney Feature Animation And SpongeBob Squarepants Earn Double Gold - Animation World Network
  3. ↑ April 19, 2004 - Nickstory
  4. ↑ November 9, 2006 - Nickstory
  5. ↑ September 27, 2019 - Nickstory
  6. ↑ January 3, 2020 - Nickstory
  7. ↑ July 29, 2020 - Nickstory
  8. ↑ July 31, 2020 - Nickstory

es:Pintores Mojados hu:Mázolók id:Wet Painters nl:Natte schilders pl:Świeżo malowane pt-br:Pintores Molhados ru:Маляры

Retrieved from "https://spongebob.wiki/index.php?title=Wet_Painters&oldid=288051"