The Donut of Shame

"The Donut of Shame" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 5. In this episode, Patrick thinks he stole SpongeBob's donut.

Characters

• Patrick Star
  • Dream Patrick
• SpongeBob SquarePants
  • Dream SpongeBob
• Gary the Snail ^{(cameo in picture)}
• Angel donut ^{(single appearance)}
• Devil donut ^{(single appearance)}

Synopsis

The episode starts off with the morning after SpongeBob's tea party, Patrick wakes up and remembers the tea party. He says that he must have passed out in SpongeBob's kitchen on the ceiling. The screen zooms out and flips upside-down and Patrick falls back onto the floor. He remembers that the party lasted after 8:30 PM and says things get crazy then. (that was kind of proved when a flashback of the tea party they were both in at 8:35 PM that night) He looks around for SpongeBob and finds him in the living room with a donut in his hand. Since SpongeBob has also passed out, Patrick takes the donut.

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Angel Donut and Devil Donut.

When he arrives home, he wants to eat it, but just before he does, he needs fine china for the donut. He reaches his cupboard and nearly all of his plates, which stand upward, fall and break. Patrick uses the one that didn't fall, because it was sitting. He was going to eat it, but then he remembers SpongeBob saying, "This kind of donut can really make a guy happy..." He then thinks he has stolen SpongeBob's donut. Two angel-and-devil donuts appear beside him. The angel donut tells him not to eat because SpongeBob is his friend, while the devil donut tells him not to trust the angel donut because he has sprinkles. Patrick doesn't know who to trust so the devil donut gives him an idea by attaching a chain to it and saying that he can pull it out when SpongeBob wants it back. The angel donut admits that it is actually quite a good idea, and the donuts disappear. Patrick tests out his method, but when he pulls the chain, the donut does not come out with it. Panicking, he quickly coughs it back up.

His phone then rings. It is SpongeBob on the other line, who says that he will be right over to Patrick's house with a tape of the night before. Patrick realizes that the tape will show him taking SpongeBob's donut, so he runs around his house, trying to hide it. He tries under a rug, but he thinks that SpongeBob might step on it. He hides it in the toaster, but he worries that SpongeBob will want to make toast. He thinks of hiding it in the toilet, but he thinks that SpongeBob might want to use it. He then tries his "attic," but halfway up the stairs, he remembers he doesn't have one, and falls because there are no stairs either. He then forgets what just happened and tries the "attic" again, but simply falls once more.

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"Pretty good, huh."

SpongeBob finally arrives, and Patrick quickly hides the donut in the back of his pants. SpongeBob presents the videotape and prepares to watch it. Thinking the jig is up, Patrick breaks down crying and admits to taking the donut, but SpongeBob defends him and states that it was okay for him to do so. He shows Patrick the tape that shows him giving the donut to him as a present. A confused Patrick realizes the donut is his as SpongeBob tells him that the party was for his birthday. Patrick then recalls his birthday party and pulls the donut, now expired, from his pants, splits it in half, and asks SpongeBob if he wants to share. As the episode ends, SpongeBob accepts as he eats the half donut, only to make him sick as Patrick says, "Pretty good, huh?"

Production

It was added to the United States Copyright Catalog alongside its sister episodes on March 2, 2007.

Art

• File:Donuttextless.png
• File:SB donut.png

Music

( ‣ ) Production music

( • ) Original music

( ◦ ) SpongeBob music

 ‣ 20th Century Gothic (A) - Matthew Cang, London Symphony Orchestra [Title card]
 ‣ Through the Mist - Stuart Stirling [Opening]
 • Harp Glisses - Nicolas Carr [Harp overlay]
 ‣ Code "Dead End" - Gregor F. Narholz [Patrick wakes up]
 • Steel Licks 26 - Jeremy Wakefield ["Oh, yeah, the party."]
 • Nude Sting - Nicolas Carr [Patrick on the ceiling]
 • SpongeBob Flashback Vibes - Nicolas Carr [Start of flashback]
 • Toy Piano 2 - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [Tea party]
 • SpongeBob Flashback Vibes - Nicolas Carr [End of flashback]
 ‣ Dramatic Impact (3) - Ivor Slaney [SpongeBob asleep]
 • Parting of the Clouds Sting - Nicolas Carr [Shot of doughnut]
 • Seaweed 1 - Steve Belfer [Patrick tries to take it]
 • Vibe Q Sting - Nicolas Carr ["Oh..."]
 • Steel Licks 40 - Jeremy Wakefield ["It worked!"]
 ‣ Blaze Of Brass (D) - Cecil Milner ["A doughnut this nice deserves to be served on fine china!"]
 ‣ Stiff Upper Lip - Paddy Kingsland [The good plate]
 • Whats This Sting - Nicolas Carr [Patrick is about to eat the doughnut]
 ‣ Hawaiian Cocktail - Richard Myhill [Flashback to previous night]
 ‣ Dramatic Impact (6) - Ivor Slaney [Patrick gasps]
 ‣ Stepping into Danger - Mike Sunderland ["Wait! I -an't eat -is -onut!"]
 • Good vs Evil - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [Angel and devil donuts]
 • The Pollywog Strut - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [Patrick eats the doughnut]
 • PercussionAnouncement - Nicolas Carr ["And now..."]
 • The Pollywog Strut - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [Patrick coughs up the doughnut]
 ‣ Abject Terror - Paul Lewis, Westway Studio Orchestra [Patrick trying to hide the doughnut]
 • SpongeBob Flashback Vibes - Nicolas Carr [Patrick imagines SpongeBob stepping on the donut]
 ‣ Screw on the Loose - Tony Lowry ["Hey, Patrick."]
 ‣ Cellar Search - Philippe Pares, Westway Studio Orchestra [Patrick's first daydream]
 ‣ Abject Terror - Paul Lewis, Westway Studio Orchestra [Patrick puts the donut in the toaster]
 • SpongeBob Flashback Vibes - Nicolas Carr [Patrick's second daydream]
 ‣ Screw on the Loose - Tony Lowry [Patrick's second daydream]
 ‣ Drama Link (D) - Hubert Clifford [Patrick screams]
 ‣ Tympup A - Sammy Burdson, John Charles Fiddy [Doughnut dropped in toilet]
 ‣ Tympup C - Sammy Burdson, John Charles Fiddy [Daydream cloud disappears]
 ‣ Tales From The Swamp (E) - Ron Goodwin [Patrick running up to the "attic."]
 ‣ Editor's Falling Over (F) - Dick Stephen Walter [Patrick falls]
 • Thats It ! - Nicolas Carr ["Oh, I know, the attic!"]
 • Steel Licks 22 - Jeremy Wakefield [Patrick runs up, falls again]
 ‣ Perilous Position - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin [SpongeBob appears]
 ‣ Hawaiian Cocktail - Richard Myhill [Patrick confesses]
 ‣ Pua Paoakalani B - Kapono Beamer, Queen Lili'uokalani [Video of party]
 ‣ Bashful Eyes - Kapono Beamer [Ending]

Release

Broadcast

• This and its sister episodes premiered in the second week of the SpongeBob's NEW Week event.

Distribution

• This episode is available on the To Love a Patty, Season 5 Volume 2, Complete Fifth Season, The Fifth & Sixth Seasons, Holidays with SpongeBob 3-DVD Gift Set, Kids Double Pack: Volume 6, The Best 200 Episodes Ever, Bob Esponja Cumple 10 Años, The Ultimate SpongeBob Box Set, The SpongeBob SquarePants Collection, The SpongeBob SquarePants 8 Season DVD Collection, SpongeBob Pack: Volume 3, The Best 300 Episodes Ever, Easter with SpongeBob, SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 7, From the Beginning, Part 2, and First 100 Episodes DVDs.
• It is also a bonus feature on the Back at the Barnyard: Club Otis DVD in Europe and Australia.

Trivia

General

• This episode takes place on August 17, Patrick's birthday, which is celebrated in the episode.
• The classic castle thunder sound effect can be heard in the title card.
  • This is the second episode to have sound effects on a title card. The first is "Karate Island."
• Although Patrick's birthday is celebrated in the flashbacks and the video, it is unspecified how old he turned.
• In a flashback, SpongeBob and Patrick were having a tea party, and the same stuffed animals SpongeBob obtained from "Skill Crane" are a part of it.
  • Both episodes have an animated title card in any way.
• This episode shows SpongeBob with a digital alarm clock rather than his usual foghorn one.

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SpongeBob's season 1 design.

• Despite this being a season 5 episode, the portrait of SpongeBob hung on Patrick's wall depicts him in his classic season 1 design.
• This episode has a similar ending to "To Love a Patty," with SpongeBob eating a spoiled food item that makes him sick.
• This is the third episode in which most of the episode takes place inside Patrick's house. The first is "I'm with Stupid," and the second is "Rise and Shine."
• This is one of the few episodes where there is no bubble transition between the opening credits and the start of the episode. Instead, there is a wipe to Patrick's closed eyes.

Dub facts

• In the Hebrew dub, the title card was not dubbed.

Episode references

• Patrick falling repeatedly from his "attic" sleep is similar to him falling repeatedly from Mount Climb-Up-And-Fall-Off in "Valentine's Day."

Cultural references

• In the beginning of the episode, the scene where Patrick wakes up next to a pipe is a reference to the 2006 horror film, Saw III.

Errors

• When Patrick runs to his rock, he is not wearing his shorts. However, he suddenly is when he is about to eat the donut.
• The picture of SpongeBob has no eyelashes.

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• When Patrick imagines SpongeBob walking and stepping on the donut under the rug, SpongeBob's nose turns white for a split second.
• After the end of credits on the Amazon Prime Video release with its sister episodes, textless versions of the title cards, the international theme song, a textless version of the credits after the title card, and a textless version of the end credits play, likely due to erroneously including international production material after the episode.

Videos

File:Nickelodeon Split Screen Credits (July 27, 2007)

File:Nickelodeon Split Screen Credits (August 3, 2007)

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
French	Le beignet, calamité !	The Donut, a Calamity!
German	Donut der Schande	The Donut of Shame
Hungarian	Az én fánkom, a te fánkod	My Donut, Your Donut
Italian	La ciambella della vergogna	The Donut of Shame
Russian	Пончик стыда Ponchik styda	The Donut of Shame
Spanish (Latin America)	La rosquilla de la vergüenza	The Donut of Shame
Spanish (Spain)	El donut de vergüenza	The Donut of Shame