"Gary & Spot" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 12. In this episode, Sandy narrates the nocturnal adventures of Gary and his secret pal - Spot.
Characters
- Sandy Cheeks (narrator)
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Gary the Snail
- Spot
- Farmer fish (single appearance)
- Patrick Star
- Squidward Tentacles
- Eugene H. Krabs
- Sheldon J. Plankton
- Karen Plankton
- Marvin (debut)
- Alice Wilson (single appearance)
- Mystery the Seahorse
- Guard worm
- Mary's ex-boyfriend
- Puffy Fluffy
- Larry the Snail
- Sea urchin
- Sea bear
- Blue anchovies
- Incidental 46
- Incidental 37B
- Incidental 42
- Brian Morante caricature fish
Synopsis
Sandy starts the episode with Gary waking up at the middle of the night and going outside SpongeBob's house. He eats some trash, but Patrick is also eating there and does not want to share. He roars at the starfish, causing him to get scared and run away.
The animal control appears and spots Gary, but he runs away before he can catch him. He goes to the Chum Bucket and goes inside through a secret entrance, where he meets up with Spot, his best friend.
The two go out of the restaurant and play with each other, but eventually get hungry and go to the Krusty Krab. While they are eating, Marvin, the animal control officer, arrives there and attempts to catch the two, but he fails and they escape. Mr. Krabs arrives and gets angry with the officer for tripping his silent alarm and thinks he made a mess of his restaurant.
Gary and Spot run away and hide at a sunken ship, but it turns out it had already been occupied. Thankfully, they were already friends with everyone in there, and they have a party. Marvin reaches them and starts dancing to the music, until it gets turned off due to the DJ getting shocked by the officer's presence.
He takes all the animals except Gary and Spot, so the two go to the Animal Shelter to rescue them. After getting in and releasing all the animals, Gary finds out that Marvin is sad, as he is lonely. He tells the others this, and they all set up a dinner with a woman made out of slime. He falls in love with her at first sight, and marries her soon after. He releases all the animals to thank them for bringing love into his life. Gary and Spot go back to their homes, and Sandy concludes the episode and tale.
Production
The episode was confirmed by Vincent Waller on October 22, 2018.[1]
Art
Music
| ( ‣ ) Production music |
| ( • ) Original music |
| ( ◦ ) SpongeBob music |
• Tentically Speaking - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Title card]
• Farm Living is the Life for Me - Nicolas Carr [Sandy introduces the story]
‣ Comic Walk - Sidney Torch [Gary escapes from SpongeBob's house and eats garbage outside Squidward's house]
‣ Man, Go Man! - Ralph Dollimore [Marvin arrives and tries to catch Gary]
‣ Hippomania - John Fox, Mac Prindy [Marvin's net gets tangled in his mouth]
‣ Droopy - Arthur Wilkinson [Gary checks his watch and leaves]
‣ Bridge 3 - Wilfred Burns [Gary goes to the Chum Bucket]
‣ Towerstreet 17 [#6] - Gerhard Narholz [Gary sneaks into Plankton's and Karen's bedroom to pick up Spot]
‣ The March of the Ants - Sidney Crooke [Gary and Spot play outside the Chum Bucket and enter the Krusty Krab]
• Credit Card Heaven - Nicolas Carr [Icebox is shown]
• Jovial Pirate's Jig - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr [Gary and Spot open the icebox]
‣ Playful Activity - Bernard Ebbinghouse [Gary and Spot eating all the food of the icebox]
• Sponge Burgler Revisited - Nicolas Carr [Animal control truck pulls up outside the Kruty Krab]
‣ Eight Dramatic Bridges - Ronald Hanmer [Marvin enters]
• Slippery When Wet - Nicolas Carr [Marvin slips on the food and falls]
• Steel Sting - Jeremy Wakefield [Krabs appears behind Marvin]
‣ Persuasion - Johnny Hawksworth [Marvin shows his ID badge to Krabs]
• Melodramatic Moments - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr ["I don't give a seafig about snails, you tripped me silent alarm!"]
• Sea Shanty in A Minor Key - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton [Krabs goes after Marvin]
‣ The Shock [#55.2] - Dick De Benedictis [Gary and Spot surrounded by other animals]
• Tentically Speaking - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Animals hug Gary and Spot]
• House Worming Party - Nicolas Carr [Techno dance music in the abandoned ship]
• Grass Skirt Chase - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Animals attack Marvin]
‣ Hippomania - John Fox, Mac Prindy [Animal control truck drives away]
• Hot Steel and Slide Licks 25D - Jeremy Wakefield [Gary and Spot follow the truck]
‣ Hiding Place - Marc Dall'Anese [Gary and Spot arrive at the animal shelter]
‣ Doloroso - Remastered - Paul Fenoulhet [Gary's eyes peek through the door]
‣ Danger - Jack Shaindlin [All the animals locked up in cages]
• Prison Blues Solo Harmonica - Nicolas Carr [Snail playing harmonica]
‣ Sea Battle [#44] - John Fox [Gary releases all the animals from their cages]
• In the Cooler Tension Build Up - Nicolas Carr [Gary peeks into Marvin's office]
• M'Wanna - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Marvin feels lonely and cries]
• ? - Nicolas Carr [Animals serve dinner for Marvin and make a slime fish for him]
• Sixty's Happy Times - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [Montage of Marvin and Alice at an amusement park]
• Wedding Sting - Nicolas Carr [Marvin marries Alice at the animal shelter]
• Hot Steel and Slide Licks 38 - Jeremy Wakefield [Animals cheering]
‣ Hula Festival - George Elliott [Marvin lets all the animals free]
‣ Happy Links 1-5 - Paul Fenoulhet [Gary returns to SpongeBob's house]
‣ Marching to Honolulu - Kapono Beamer [Ending]
Release
- This episode is available on the SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 20 and The Complete Twelfth Season DVDs.
Trivia
General
- This episode was originally titled "Gary and Spot."[2]
- This episode was paired up with "Gary's Got Legs" during the original American airing, but has since been re-airing with "FarmerBob."[3]
- Ironically, both are Gary-themed episodes.
- Plankton and Karen's bedroom from "Bottle Burglars" reappears in this episode.
- This is the only season 12 episode to air during Best Buddies Week.
- This episode is the first for many things:
- The first episode to use "Tentically Speaking" as the title card music since "Larry's Gym."
- The first episode that Andrew Overtoom has worked on since "Hello Bikini Bottom!" in 2012.
- The first episode to use the track "Steel Sting" since the season 8 episode "Smoothe Jazz at Bikini Bottom."
- The first episode where Sandy Cheeks narrates the episode and so far the only episode.
- This is the second episode to use ampersand symbol in the title instead of the word "and." The first one was "Mermaid Man & Barnacle Boy VI: The Motion Picture."
- A clip was used during the 2019 Nick So Much Summertime song.
- This episode marks Mystery the Seahorse's third appearance from the episode "My Pretty Seahorse."
- In February 2019, Vincent Waller accidentally released a video on his YouTube channel featuring the final storyboard of this episode. After two hours, Vincent took the video down. Reuploads of the video then started to pop up.[4]
- This is the second time a storyboard of an unaired episode has been leaked, with the first time being "Shopping List."
- This episode marks the second appearance and return of Pluffy Fluffy since "A Pal for Gary," his debut episode.
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