Original air date: 8/1/2007 (produced in 2006)
A Flea in Her Dome
SpongeBob and Patrick try to help Sandy rid her treedome of fleas.
"A Flea in Her Dome" contains examples of:
- Comical Overreacting: Patrick does this when Sandy explains that a flea sucks out blood when it bites.Patrick: I'VE BEEN BITTEN BY A VAMPIRE FLEA! NOOOOOOOO! I'm gonna turn into a vampire now! It's already happening! (grunts, growls, and makes weird faces)
- Department of Redundancy Department: When Patrick complains to Sandy about all the fleas attacking him.Patrick: Okay, you know what? None of this would have happened if you didn't come back with your infestation! All you've brought us is fleas, and trouble and pain and itching and a rash! And pain and fleas and itching and... pain! So... much... pain! So much pain.
- Explosive Breeder: Sandy starts with one flea on her. By the end, her whole treedome explodes with waves of fleas.
- Eye Scream: At one point, Sandy screams when the flea gets into her eye.
- Flea Episode: When Sandy returns home from Texas, she picks up a flea, which quickly multiplies and makes her, SpongeBob, and Patrick itch.
- Freudian Slip: Happens during Sandy's party while she is itching like crazy.Sandy: (opens a gift box and takes out a purple sandboard) A new itch board? I mean, a new snowboard? Boy, I sure can't wait to scratch this down chafe mountain.
SpongeBob: Don't you mean ride this down Scab Mountain?
Sandy: Thank you very rawness, SpongeBob and Pat.
SpongeBob: Uh, you're welcome, Sandy. Hey, uh, are you still up for some karate chops?
Sandy: (Still scratching her neck) Rashy sore. I mean, sure. - Human Ladder: Patrick's idea of dealing with the fleas is, as usual, a useless one. He just wanted his friends to form a human ladder into the tree so he could get an apple.
- Ocular Gushers: Sponge Bob does this at the beginning of the episode when Sandy's gone for 2 whole days. Patrick also does this when he hears about that.
- Scissors Cuts Rock: Sandy attempts to keep the fleas at bay with a flea collar, but after fighting SpongeBob and Patrick over it she just wraps the collar around the three of them so the fleas can't get any of them. However, the fleas had already started to multiply enough that they had enough offspring to blitz through the three of them and eat the collar.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After the fleas start multiplying, SpongeBob and Patrick try to make a break for it. But the fleas block the exit.
- Series Continuity Error: SpongeBob is shown to not know what fleas are, but in "Squirrel Jokes" he mentions fleas in one of his jokes.
- Sudden Anatomy: Patrick grows a Squidward-esque nose when he mentions all the things he misses about Sandy (to which SpongeBob replies that he's thinking of Squidward). He later grows a Sandy-like nose during his Freak Out when the squirrel explains to him why a flea bites.
The Donut of Shame
Patrick takes SpongeBob's donut but can't stop feeling guilty for what he did.
"The Donut of Shame" contains examples of:
- An Aesop: Don't assume the worst about something you thought you took. It might've been yours all along.
- Bait-and-Switch: Upon waking up at SpongeBob's house, Patrick remembers they were up past 8:30, saying "things get real crazy after 8:30". We then see a flashback of SpongeBob and Patrick having a tea party with stuffed animals.
- Forbidden Fruit: Subverted with the donut. Patrick thinks he took it from SpongeBob, but SpongeBob reveals it was indeed meant for him.
- Good Angel, Bad Angel: An angel donut and a devil donut appear on Patrick's shoulders.
- Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress: One of Patrick's ideas to hide the donut is to put it in the attic. He starts running up the stairs (that don't exist), only to realize he doesn't have an attic. And falls. And then makes the same mistake again.
- Honesty Aesop: Patrick believes the donut he took was for SpongeBob and feels guilty over it, and tries to hide the truth; eventually he decides to let it all out once he comes over. To his surprise, SpongeBob is not mad he took the donut — it was for Patrick after all because the party they had was his own birthday.
- "Shaggy Dog" Story: After spending the whole episode feeling guilty that he took SpongeBob's donut from him. SpongeBob reveals that he gave the donut to him last night as a birthday present.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Patrick spends the entire segment trying to hide the donut, from burying it in the ground to flushing it down the toilet. By the time it's finally eaten by him and Spongebob, Spongebob starts convulsing due to how unspeakably soiled that donut was.
- Take a Third Option: Patrick imagines an angel and devil donut trying to convince him to eat/don't eat the donut; the two donuts argue until the devil donut suggests to put a chain on the donut so Patrick can eat it and take it out when Spongebob wants it. Even the angel donut has to admit that the devil donut's idea was pretty clever. Too bad the idea doesn't work because Patrick took the donut out too early.
- You Monster!: Patrick imagines SpongeBob saying this to him after stepping on his donut.
The Krusty Plate
SpongeBob tries to clean a nasty spot off of a Krusty Krab plate.
"The Krusty Plate" contains examples of:
- Artistic License – Physics: Since when do spots resist cleaning?
- Bittersweet Ending: Spongebob successfully manages to get the spot off the plate, but as a result of the overkill he had to resort to to get it off, he ends up destroying the Krusty Krab, with Mr. Krabs getting angry at him for it.
- Bottle Episode: The entire episode takes place at the Krusty Krab, outside of two brief cutaways at Mr. Krabs' house.
- I Will Show You X!: When SpongeBob finally gets the spot of the plate with the super laser, having destroyed the Krusty Krab in the process, just as Mr. Krabs shows up:Mr. Krabs: Oh, this time you've done it, boy! What have you got to say for yourself?
SpongeBob: [shows Mr. Krabs the clean plate] The platter's all clean, Mr. Krabs.
Mr. Krabs: Oh, I'll clean your platter! [chases SpongeBob around the ruins of the restaurant] Come here, you! - Made of Indestructium: The spot that won't come off the plate.
- Medium-Shift Gag: The live action Stock Footage of an underwater atomic explosion (from Dying For Pie) is reused in this episode.
- Minimalist Cast: SpongeBob and Mr. Krabs are the only two characters to appear in this episode, aside from a brief cameo of two customers leaving the Krusty Krab.
- Noodle Incident: The last time SpongeBob was left alone at the Krusty Krab, the whole place was on fire.Mr. Krabs: Should've never left you alone with a lit blowtorch and me roller skates.
- Shout-Out: When SpongeBob is talking to the plate before he fires the laser, his speech and accent are a reference to the James Bond movie Goldfinger.
- When SpongeBob says, "It may end life as we know it, but I am crossing the beams!," it is a reference to Ghostbusters (1984).
- Spit Shine: One of SpongeBob's attempts to clean the spot off the plate.
- There Is No Kill Like Overkill: SpongeBob eventually resorts to using a laser to clean the plate. Justified as he had tried everything else at that point.
- This Means War!: SpongeBob says this after failing to wipe away the spot.
