Barnacle Face

Characters

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• Pearl Krabs
• Eugene H. Krabs
• Patrick Star ^(mentioned)
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• Fish wife
• Other fish at Bikini Bottom High School

Synopsis

The night before the big school dance, Pearl gets a barnacle on her face. After requesting expensive treatment to get rid of the blemish, Mr. Krabs refuses and asks SpongeBob to help Pearl remove the barnacle. He tries prying the barnacle out with his spatula, then a shovel, then a jackhammer, all to no avail. Then, when Pearl washes her face with soap, more barnacles sprouted up. Thinking all hope is lost, she locks herself in the restroom and cries violently.

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SpongeBob trying to remove Pearl's barnacles.

SpongeBob then decides to simply hide the barnacles under a layer of facial cream, which ends up making Pearl's face look severely deformed and causing her to be unable to talk. Finally, Pearl asks SpongeBob to get her more soap from the basement's soap press, where he finds Mr. Krabs producing the house's soap. Mr. Krabs explains to SpongeBob that he makes all of his soap out of leftover Krabby Patties. Pearl overhears this and, realizing that she's been washing her face with grease, screams at her father and gives up trying to remove the barnacles.

SpongeBob, inspired by something she said, resolves to cover up the barnacles with Mr. Krabs' precious jewels. Pearl's friends are dazzled by her sparkling face, and they happily depart for the school dance. Mr. Krabs, furious that Pearl is wearing his diamonds, desperately sprints after her, as the episode ends.

Production

Release

• This episode is available on the Sweet & Sour Squidward, Complete Eighth Season, and Next 100 Episodes DVDs.

Trivia

General

• The barnacles are meant to parody acne, a common skin disease in humans that generally develops during puberty.
• The title card is meant to represent the barnacles on Pearl's face.
• The barnacles on Pearl's face appear to be acorn barnacles.
• The glue SpongeBob uses for the jewels is Patrick's Forever Glue from "Stuck in the Wringer."
• It is impossible for SpongeBob to remove Pearl's barnacles. However, in "Accidents Will Happen," Mr. Krabs and Template:Data:Links both have to pop back barnacles off of each other.
• This is the second time Pearl gets a condition. The first was in "Growth Spout."
• This is the third episode to take place mostly at Mr. Krabs' house. The first is "Wet Painters" and the second is "The Slumber Party."
• In this episode, it is revealed that SpongeBob knows how to swim. However, in "SpongeGuard on Duty," he does not know how to.
• This is the second episode where hypnosis is used/mentioned. The first is "Fear of a Krabby Patty."
• Both this and its sister episode, "Pet Sitter Pat," have a scene where SpongeBob is swimming through an unusual amount of water.
• This was Andrew Goodman's first episode as a writer.

Errors

• Just after the customers leave for the Chum Bucket across the street and Mr. Krabs and SpongeBob stand in front of the Krusty Krab doors, the Chum Bucket is not there.
• The clock in the background when Pearl is crying looks like it would say 3 o'clock, but it is really 4.
• When Mr. Krabs' jewels are first shown, they are in multiple colors, but when SpongeBob glues them on Pearl, they are all in one color.
• When Mr. Krabs opens his vault of jewels, he opens the door to the right. When he is horrified to learn his jewels were taken, the door opens to the left.
• At the end of the episode, all the stones are glued to the Pearl, but in fact all of them clearly did not fit there, and even more so there are about 20 of them, when at the first show there were many more stones.

Running gags

• Pearl using the soap and getting more barnacles.

Video

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