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"Big Sister Sam" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 7. In this episode, Patrick's big sister Sam comes to visit him.

Characters[]

Synopsis[]

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Sam Star.

The episode opens with SpongeBob and Gary sleeping. Patrick is cleaning his rock with a mop then wakes them up. SpongeBob asks him why he is doing it and he responds by saying his sister Sam Star, is coming. Patrick also reveals that they were lost in the surf when they were only kids. Squidward screams angrily and demands peace and quiet, but Sam then arrives in a bus and punches the door down. She is revealed to be a huge starfish. Sam hugs and almost suffocates Patrick. Patrick introduces SpongeBob to Sam and Sam, mistaking SpongeBob to be a danger, protects Patrick by throwing SpongeBob. Patrick suggests that they go inside to "play," but Sam explains how the house is too small. Sam then takes a briefcase filled with sand and constructs a new house, made of sand. Patrick thanks her. However, Squidward complains that his house is filled with sand. Again, Sam feels overprotective and moves Squidward's house with only her bare hands. Squidward makes jokes about Sam saying, how she is bigger, and dumber than Patrick. Sam responds by getting angry and then starting to cry because she already knows it is all true. Her giant tears throw both Squidward and SpongeBob.

After that, Patrick becomes overprotective of Sam by saying that SpongeBob and Squidward are "meanies" and saying that they should "blecorate" (decorate) the rock. However, she uses parts of Squidward's house to decorate it, damaging it greatly. Then Squidward gets angry and calls her a thief. Then SpongeBob tries to talk some sense into Patrick, but Patrick does not care that Sam deliberately dismantled Squidward's house. Then he starts crying, thinking SpongeBob has become a traitor and gets head-butted by Sam along with Squidward back to their houses, damaging his house further. Squidward gets angry and drops a rock on the house, ruining the "spiffy." In response, Sam and Patrick come out of the house and Sam chews up the loose parts and spits them at Squidward's house, completely destroying it.

In the last act of retaliation, Squidward then drives a bulldozer at Patrick, Sam, and the house, trying to destroy it in a crazed rage. SpongeBob tries to stop him but to no avail. Sam, who throws the bulldozer at SpongeBob's house, stops Squidward (who suddenly disappears for the rest of the episode). After that, SpongeBob finally becomes upset at the destruction of his house, making Patrick finally see what SpongeBob means. Patrick tries to tell her to control her temper, but she gets very angry and destroys her own home while Patrick sacrifices himself to save the house. Patrick lays there unconscious but SpongeBob successfully wakes him up by using cookie dough. Sam feels very guilty and explains that she must leave (she is late for a manicure and shows them her nails). As Sam leaves on the bus, SpongeBob and Patrick laugh about their experience with Patrick's sister as the episode comes to a close.

Production[]

This episode's pitch storyboard was completed on January 14, 2009.[1]

This episode was confirmed and added to the US Copyright Office on October 6, 2010,[3] along with its sister episode "Perfect Chemistry."

Storyboards[]

  • Rough boarded by Casey Alexander and Zeus Cervas.[1]

Music[]

 ) Production music
 ) Original music
 ) SpongeBob music

  Coconut Cream Pie Dry Mix - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Title card]
  Skipping to School - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Patrick cleaning his rock]
  Fates [#61] - Gregor Narholz ["Nobody does."]
  Skipping to School - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield ["Hey, I'll make sure her visit here will be extra super special, no matter what!"]
  Clumsy A - Bernd Gesell [Big Sister Sam arrives/"Yellow square touch brubber! Make sister Sam mad!"]
  Earls Revenge - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [making Patrick's house bigger]
  Comic Capers B - Charlie Brissette, Norman Mamey [Sam pushes Squidward's house away]
  Steel Licks 46 - Jeremy Wakefield ["That oaf makes a better bulldozer than a sister!"]
  Harry the Hippo - Phil Green [Sam getting angry/Sam crying]
  Hillbilly Home - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield ["Golly-doo-diddley, Clem, that was a nice toss."]
  Light Conversation 1 No Percussion - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [redecorating]
  Dramatic Impact (3) - Ivor Slaney ["My house!"]
  Clumsy C - Bernd Gesell ["How dare you call my sister a thief, just because she took some of your things?"]
  Hawaiian Cocktail - Richard Myhill [Patrick cries]
  Dachshund Walk - John Fox, Mac Prindy [Squidward's angry]
  Harry the Hippo - Phil Green ["Who makes noise?!"]
  Lap Steel - Nicolas Carr [Squidward's house destroyed]
  New Vibe Hits - Nicolas Carr ["Huh?"]
  Death and Destruction 1 - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin [Squidward driving a bulldozer]
  Goofy Conversation 2 - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony ["I think your sister's temper is getting out of control."]
  Down in Davie Jones Locker - Nicolas Carr [Patrick nervous]
  Gargantuan - Harry Lubin [Sam destroys Patrick's house]
  Dramatic Cue (E) - Ronald Hanmer [Patrick unconscious]
  Parting of the Clouds Sting - Nicolas Carr [shot of cookie dough]
  Aloha Lui Lui - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield ["Patrick okay!"]
  Marlin March - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Ending]

Release[]

Reception[]

  • "Big Sister Sam" was ranked #7 during the SpongeBob's Top 100 event in the UK and Ireland from June 4-8, 2012.

Trivia[]

General[]

  • According to this episode's production number, 223-752, this is the last season 7 episode in production order.
  • This episode was paired up with "New Fish in Town" during the original airing, but has since been re-airing with "Perfect Chemistry."[4]
  • The title card background for this episode is similar to that of "The Clash of Triton," except this one is a light yellow instead of light blue and there are flowers added.
  • Like in "Opposite Day" and "New Fish in Town," Squidward appears driving a bulldozer.
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Back of her head

Errors[]

  • When Sam throws Patrick and he lands into his rock, Patrick's rock is on the right of the screen. However, when Patrick and Sam go to his rock, they travel to the left of the screen and the rock is located much farther than they were standing.
  • The first time that Sam pushes Squidward's house away, SpongeBob's house does not appear.
  • When Sam "spiffs" up the house, she adds the front door from Squidward's house. The doorknob is on the right, but in a few scenes later, it is on the left.
  • When Sam destroys SpongeBob's house with the bulldozer, Squidward suddenly disappears, and he isn't seen again for the remainder of the episode. It’s possible that Squidward might have freaked out as Sam's tremendous strength was no match for him or he just gave up on competing with Sam.
  • Sam pushed Squidward's house towards the right, closer to SpongeBob's house, and it didn't seem to go very far. Later, it seemed as though Squidward's house was pushed backward, and was pushed very far back.
  • During the episode, Sam has no nails, but at the end of the episode, she says that she has to go because she's late for her manicure.
  • The size of when Patrick jumps onto the sand rock and when he is on the rubble of Sam's rock is a bit different.
  • In the first scene, Gary is much larger than usual. In the same scene, Patrick's house is seen to be much smaller; both Patrick and SpongeBob are taller than it. Later, in the scene when Sam arrives, the house is much larger. Throughout the episode, Sam also changes size.
  • At some point during this episode, SpongeBob is a darker shade of yellow.

Videos[]

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SpongeBob SquarePants - "Big Sister Sam" Official UK Promo 1

SpongeBob_SquarePants_-_"Big_Sister_Sam"_Official_UK_Promo_2

SpongeBob SquarePants - "Big Sister Sam" Official UK Promo 2

References[]

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