Home Sweet Pineapple

If you were looking for the article about the DVD, then see Home Sweet Pineapple (DVD).

If you were looking for the article about the VHS tape, then see Home Sweet Pineapple (VHS).

If you were looking for the article about the season 8 episode with a similar title, then see Home Sweet Rubble.

If you were looking for the article about the Japanese DVD with a similar title, then see Home Sweet Rubble (DVD).

If you were looking for the article about the short, then see Home Sweet Home.

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Characters

• Nematodes ^(debut)
• Sea urchins
• Fred ^(cameo)
• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Gary the Snail
• Shelley
• Squidward Tentacles
• Patrick Star
• Harold SquarePants ^(debut)
• Margaret SquarePants ^(debut)
• Herb Star and Margie Star ^{(indirectly mentioned)}

Synopsis

A bunch of hungry nematodes arrive in Bikini Bottom early in the morning. After eating a variety of large items, they make their way to SpongeBob's pineapple house. They pull out straws and start drinking the juice inside the house. SpongeBob and Gary wake up and realize what's going on as everything starts to shrink. SpongeBob frantically calls Squidward on the phone, but by the time he and Patrick arrive it is too late: the pineapple house is gone, reduced to a tiny pebble. Now that the house is no longer there, SpongeBob decides that he will have to move back in with his parents. However, Patrick tells SpongeBob that he can just build a new house and he won't have to leave.

After attempting to build a replacement house, SpongeBob tests it out but it just falls apart. They try to sleep with Patrick, but Patrick won't share his rock, which the two are using as a blanket, and they get into a tug-of-war. When Patrick begins drooling in his sleep, SpongeBob absorbs the saliva and stuffs a giant cork inside Patrick's mouth to get him to stop. Patrick then has a nightmare that spiders are attacking him, and hits SpongeBob repeatedly with the rock, forcing him away.

SpongeBob gives up sleeping with Patrick and goes to sleep with Squidward. Squidward at first seems welcoming of SpongeBob (seeing as how he's half-asleep), but once the realization kicks in he angrily kicks Gary and SpongeBob out of his house.

The next day, Squidward gets up early so he can see SpongeBob move back with his parents. When SpongeBob's parents arrive, Patrick begins crying hysterically and Squidward starts dancing and singing with joy. SpongeBob finds a small seed (the only thing left when the nematodes destroyed his house) and buries it where his house used to be. One of his tears falls on the seed, which creates a massive vine that shoots out of the ground. A new house sprouts from the vine and crushes Squidward, who was dancing on the remains of SpongeBob's house with joy. SpongeBob, Patrick, and his parents rush inside joyfully, and SpongeBob tells Squidward that his house is back forever, much to his dismay.

Production

Art

"Aw, Squidward, isn't this great? I'm back forever! Forever?"

Music

( ‣ ) Production music

( • ) Original music

( ◦ ) SpongeBob music

 ‣ Sunshine in Hawaii - Max Mahlmann [Title card]

 ‣ Me for You - George Callert [opening]
 ‣ Unpreventable - Gregor F. Narholz [SpongeBob's house shrinking]
 ‣ Me for You - George Callert [nematodes burp]
 ‣ Hawaiian Farewell - George Elliott [SpongeBob's house is gone]
 ‣ Buenos Aires B - Norman Candler [Squidward throws a party]
 • Gator - Steve Belfer [Patrick suggests building a new house]
 ‣ Orchestral Flourish 4 [#37.03] - Gregor F. Narholz [fanfare]
 ‣ Sunshine in Hawaii - Max Mahlmann [building montage]
 ‣ Hawaiian Link (b) - Richard Myhill ["Tartar sauce!"]
 ‣ Queen's Aloha Oe B - Kapono Beamer, Queen Lili'uokalani [Patrick suggests living with him]
 ‣ South Sea Island Lullaby - George Elliott [that night/Patrick gets back to sleep.]
 ‣ Lullaby - David Farnon [at Squidward's]
 ‣ Honolulu March - Hans Haider [the next morning]
 ‣ South Pacific Island II - Victor Cavini [SpongeBob's parents arrive]
 ‣ Good Bye Samba A - Ben Nabor [Squidward dancing/SpongeBob's house is back.]

Release

• This episode is available on the Home Sweet Pineapple DVD,and VHS, Complete 1st Season, The Complete First Season, Triple Pack 4, Big Hits: Volume 2, SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 1, SpongeBob SquarePants, iSponge Offer Pack, Beware the Hooks, Laugh Pack, From the Beginning, Pt.1, The 1st Season: Volume 1, The First & Second Seasons, Movies & TV Collection, The Best 200 Episodes Ever, First 100 Episodes, and Tea at the Treedome DVDs along with VideoNow.

Reception

• "Home Sweet Pineapple" was ranked #87 during the Best Day Ever event from November 9–10, 2006.

Trivia

General

• This episode is the first to have the title card's writing in a handwritten font.
• This is the first episode centered around Spongebob's pineapple.
• When the sped-up part of SpongeBob calling Squidward is slowed down, he says "...and the walls are closing in on me, Squidward. Gary is terrified too."
• The nematodes appear again in "Best Day Ever," where they consume the Krusty Krab and SpongeBob's pants.
• It is shown that Patrick has a hole in his home under the rock at the beginning of the episode, as do future episodes, but when SpongeBob spends the night, it is shown that under the rock is just leveled ground and Patrick uses the rock as a blanket.
• It is revealed that Patrick has a fear of spiders, also known as arachnophobia. In reality, arachnophobia is the most common fear among humans.
• When SpongeBob wears his cap, it's the same cap that he wore when show creator Stephen Hillenburg drew him as SpongeBoy.
• This is the first of four episodes transcribed as a comic into the SpongeBob SquarePants/Tokyopop book Tales From Bikini Bottom. The other three were "Prehibernation Week," "F.U.N." and "I'm Your Biggest Fanatic."
• This is the first episode to use the APM track "Unpreventable."
• In the Polish version, this episode is called "Nie ma jak w domu," which means "Home Sweet Home," the phrase that the episode title parodies.
• This episode hints at SpongeBob and Patrick's awareness of their annoyance towards Squidward, as Patrick says "Is it time already to ruin Squid's day?"
• This is the first time Patrick cries.
• After Squidward kicked SpongeBob and Gary out of his house, it is unknown where they went to sleep.
• The scene where Squidward's eyes pop open has become a popular internet meme.

  

  Squidward's eyes are opened

• When SpongeBob and Patrick are fighting over who has the rock, Gary, who is on the top of the rock, disappears. He could've down when SpongeBob and Patrick keep fighting over the rock.
• This is one of the instances that the fourth wall is broken.
• The background for the title card also appears in "Squid's Visit", "Home Sweet Rubble", and "Pineapple Fever".

Cultural references

• This episode's name is a pun on the phrase "Home Sweet Home."

Errors

• When SpongeBob sits upon his bed, the back disappears.
• When SpongeBob decides to be rock mates with Patrick, their skin is darker.
• When SpongeBob is shivering, he is missing about three of his teeth, then one second later he goes back to having just two buck teeth again.
• Spongebob yells "Oh no" even though Squidward's phone disappears.
• When SpongeBob is shivering, the red line under his mouth is gone for a split second.
• Before Squidward returned to bed after giving SpongeBob a glass of water before he returned, the pillow is squared, only to fit for one person, but when Squidward goes to bed with SpongeBob, the pillow gets wide enough for two people.
• When SpongeBob waits for his parents, he carries his luggage even though his house and furniture were still gone.
• When Squidward is saying goodbye to SpongeBob, he is taller than usual.
• Near the end of the episode, SpongeBob wears his hat when he's going to plant the seed. Yet, when he plants the seed, his face is seen in close-up, but without the hat. After planting it, the hat reappears.
• The opening credits spell Erik Wiese's name with a capital I.