"I'm stuck here while me ship is being repaired. Until then... I'm gonna haunt ya'!"
Ghost Host
Original air date: 5/5/2006 (produced in 2005)
The Flying Dutchman takes residence in SpongeBob's house after his ship gets wrecked and scares SpongeBob silly, but his scariness wears off, so SpongeBob agrees to help him get it back.
"Ghost Host" contains examples of:
- An Aesop: Don't always use the same tricks everytime you do something like scares, pranks, and so on. They'll get repetitive and stale over time.
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: The Flying Dutchman haunts Squidward with a series of freakish nightmares, including of his own mother asking why he hasn't called her and then melting, and a giant SpongeBob dissolving into a pile of spiders. The scene ends with the Flying Dutchman doing the old severed finger magic trick, to which Squidward screams "No! Noooo! That's impossible!" and runs away terrified.
- Big "NO!": Squidward does one when the Flying Dutchman finally manages to scare him.Squidward: NOOOO!! THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!!!
- Broken Record: The motivational video has various monks saying "The power within" over and over.
- Conditioned to Accept Horror: The Flying Dutchman makes a habit of scaring SpongeBob when he stays with him while his ship gets repaired. Eventually, SpongeBob gets less scared of the Dutchman's antics to the point where he becomes unfazed at even his most elaborate horrors.
- Delayed Reaction: A customer falls asleep on a mattress being sold to him. The Flying Dutchman comes in and tries to scare the sleeping dude, but no matter how much he tries, he won't wake up. Only when the Flying Dutchman gives up and the salesman comes back does the customer wake up and scream in terror.
- Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: "Squiddums loves his Mama!"
- Eye Scream: Towards the climax of the episode, the Flying Dutchman appears as a huge snake with a huge, grotesque baby's head, which melts, turning into an effigy of SpongeBob, whose eyes elongate into hideous wiggling white worms and squiggle onto the floor. As well as the fact that spiders came out his eye sockets and mouth.
- Failure Montage: The Dutchman spooking SpongeBob suddenly deteriorates into this, when the sponge starts reacting to his scares rather boredly as he's grown tired of him.
- Get Out!: SpongeBob screams this in fury to get the Dutchman's friends to leave the pineapple.
- Immune to Jump Scares: SpongeBob, who eventually begins to get used to the Dutchman's scares so much that he isn't scared one bit. Provides the page image.
- In One Ear, Out The Other: While the Flying Dutchman is scaring Squidward, he sticks his clarinet through his ears like a hook and twirls Squidward around.
- Ominous Music Box Tune: Plays while the Flying Dutchman does his severed-finger trick to scare Squidward.
- Rapid-Fire "No!": SpongeBob lets out a long string of big ones when he has enough of the Dutchman crashing his house.
- Series Continuity Error: Squidward claims to not believe in ghosts, but has encountered the Flying Dutchman numerous times before.
- Shout-Out:
- After the Flying Dutchman's failed attempt to scare SpongeBob, he takes the form of a horrible, worm-like monster with the head of J. R. "Bob" Dobbs, complete with pipe.
- While the Flying Dutchman scares Squidward, the face of Squidward's mother appears in a cloud of smoke, which is a reference to The Lion King.
- The Thing That Would Not Leave: The Flying Dutchman. When he does leave, he reveals that his ship has been repaired for 3 months.
- You Need a Breath Mint: When the Dutchman attempts to scare an old woman, she mistakes him for her husband and complains about his breath.Old woman: Lonnie, there's this great, new product called toothpaste! I think you should try it.
"Frankly, I'm beginning to question the economic benefits of underwater treedomes. Doesn't make much sense, when you get right down to it."
Chimps Ahoy
Original air date: 5/5/2006 (produced in 2005)
SpongeBob and Patrick help Sandy build an invention that will impress her bosses, otherwise she will have to leave Bikini Bottom forever.
"Chimps Ahoy" contains examples of:
- Advanced Tech 2000: SpongeBob and Patrick invent "the Automatic Back Scratcher, Hair Comber, Nose Picker, and Ukulele Tuner 9000".
- Alternate Universe: Parodied when Patrick invents a portal to an alternate universe, but SpongeBob points out that it's just a mirror. When Patrick complains, an image of SpongeBob appears and speaks in a German accent, "Well, I thought it was a pretty good idea."
- Bait-and-Switch: When SpongeBob shows off the Goofy Goober backscratcher, Patrick wants to try it out. He seems to be scratching his back with it... until SpongeBob points out that it's actually his arm.
- Black Comedy Burst: SpongeBob tests out one of Sandy's inventions, a helmet that lets the user talk to nuts. Then Sandy shows him her nut-achino machine, which can blend nuts into coffee. She puts the peanut in the machine and it screams in agony as SpongeBob looks incredibly forlorn and takes off the helmet while Taps plays.
- Broken Ace: Sandy can’t come up with a new invention to impress her bosses, so she decides to run away.
- Call-Back: This marks the first mention of Goofy Goober since The Movie.
- Continuity Nod: This wasn't the first time Sandy sings a sad song which eventually brings SpongeBob and Patrick to tears.
- Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance: Patrick claims that before Sandy showed up, he "used to be dumb".
- Intelligent Primate: The episode revolves around Sandy having to impress a group of beneficiaries in order to secure further funding for her science experiments and stay in Bikini Bottom. Said sponsors are a group of eloquent and sharply-dressed chimpanzees who speak in stereotypical British accents.
- It's Been Done: While trying to come up with new inventions, Patrick comes up with a pencil, a lightbulb, and a parallel universe. The last one is a subversion when SpongeBob claims it's a mirror (It looks just like one and he sees his reflection in it). Then Patrick storms away from SpongeBob and pulls it out again despairing that he had beaten to the punch when SpongeBob's reflection comes back and, in a different accent, tells Patrick that he "thought it was a pretty good idea".
- Melancholy Musical Number: Sandy sings a sad song about how much she'll miss Bikini Bottom if she has to leave.
- Noodle Incident:Lord Reginald: An automatic back-scratching, hair-combing, nose-picking ukulele tuner? Yes, well, I've heard that claim before.
- Odd Name Out: The Chimps are named Professor Percy, Lord Reginald, and Doctor Marmalade.
- Overly Long Name: "That's MISTER Doctor Professor Patrick to you!"
- Shout-Out:
- The title is a parody of "Chips Ahoy", a popular cookie snack.
- The chimps arrive in a yellow submarine. This is a possible reference to The Beatles song "Yellow Submarine."
- Special Guest: Christopher Ryan, Rik Mayall, and Nigel Planer as the chimps.
- Spiritual Antithesis: In a sense, this is an inverted sequel to the episode Texas. Instead of pining for her home, and singing a sad song about it, Sandy doesn’t want to leave Bikini Bottom and her sad song is about how she'll miss her new home and her friends. SpongeBob and Patrick try to stop her leaving, not by throwing a Texas-themed party, but by trying to impress her bosses with an invention.
- Surprisingly Happy Ending: Just as Sandy is about to leave Bikini Bottom for good, Dr. Marmalade stays behind and takes out a banana; suddenly, the nearby nutcracker robot re-activates and peels it perfectly. The chimps recognize the robot as the banana peeler they have been searching for 117 years, and they are so impressed that they renew Sandy's contract and raise her salary, allowing her to stay at last.
- The Reveal: This episode explains why Sandy moved to Bikini Bottom.
- Toilet Humour: The chimps want Sandy to build them an automatic poop-throwing machine.
- With a Foot on the Bus: Sandy nearly gets on the bus out of Bikini Bottom.
