"Ripped Pants" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 1. In this episode, SpongeBob jokes about ripping his pants.
Characters[]
- French Narrator
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- SpongeBob's swim trunks (debut)
- Sandy Cheeks
- Squidward Tentacles (indirectly mentioned)
- Larry the Lobster (debut)
- Chef (debut)
- Sports guy (debut)
- Incidentals
- Fred
- Incidental 2 (debut)
- Incidental 3
- Steven (debut)
- John (debut)
- Tom (debut)
- Incidental 7 (debut)
- Incidental 8 (debut)
- Incidental 9 (debut)
- Incidental 10 (debut)
- Priscilla (debut)
- Incidental 13 (debut)
- Incidental 14 (debut)
- Incidental 15 (debut)
- Incidental 16 (debut)
- Incidental 17 (debut)
- Incidental 18 (debut)
- Incidental 19 (debut)
- Incidental 20 (debut)
- Incidental 21 (debut)
- Carol (debut)
- Incidental 23 (debut)
- Incidental 24 (debut)
- Incidental 24A (debut)
- Incidental 27 (debut)
- Incidental 28 (cut debut)
- Incidental 29 (debut)
- Incidental 30
- Incidental 31 (debut)
- Don the Whale (debut)
- Crowd (debut)
- Incidental 35 (debut)
- Harold (debut)
- Tuck Tucker (debut)
- Scooter (debut)
- Scooter (debut)
- Incidental 39 (debut)
- Fish eating burger (debut)
- Fish at snack bar (debut)
- Fish at snack bar (debut)
- Judy (debut)
- Incidental 46 (debut)
- Sadie (debut)
- Incidental 48 (debut)
- Incidental 49 (debut)
- Lifeguard (debut)
- "Loser" incidentals (debut)
Synopsis[]
One day, SpongeBob and Sandy are having a good time at Goo Lagoon. A lobster named Larry comes by and asks them if they want to do some weights. They accept, even though SpongeBob is not in the mood to do weights. Larry and Sandy do several impressive weight stunts, while SpongeBob tries to pick up a stick. When SpongeBob strains to pick up a stick with two marshmallows on the sides, he accidentally rips his pants.
This causes everyone to laugh, prompting SpongeBob to continue making ripped pants jokes. After a while, though, SpongeBob's jokes start to annoy the people in Goo Lagoon. At some point, SpongeBob fakes himself drowning in order to make a ripped pants joke, but this proves to be too far, as it causes everyone, most importantly Sandy, to get disgusted with SpongeBob and continue playing without him.
SpongeBob tries to figure out more ripped pants jokes as the last one did not work but realizes nobody is paying attention to him, and tears off his pants during the course of one of these jokes. The pair of pants suddenly takes on a personality and deserts SpongeBob as well. He sees some other people who make big mistakes. SpongeBob decides to sing a song about how he lost his friends due to ripping his pants. Sandy forgives SpongeBob for what he did, and he rips his underwear while signing Larry's shorts, making him embarrassed.
Production[]
This episode was in production in 1999. The finished master was delivered to Nickelodeon Animation Studio on May 23, 1999.
Cels[]
Layouts[]
Storyboards[]
Sketches[]
Model sheets[]
Paintings[]
Music[]
( ‣ ) Production music |
( • ) Original music |
( ◦ ) SpongeBob music |
• You're Nice - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Title card]
• Hawaii Bob (delayed strings) - The Blue Hawaiians [The opening]
‣ Fun at the Seaside - Syd Dale [Lifting weights]
‣ Side Drum [#52.05] - Mark Nolan [SpongeBob lifts a twig.]
‣ Side Drum [#52] - Mark Nolan ["Y'all watch this."]
‣ Entry of the Gladiators - Dick Stephen Walter [Sandy lifts anchors.]
‣ The Land Is Ours - Gregor F. Narholz [Larry lifts the audience.]
‣ Timpani Signal 1 [#44] - Sammy Burdson [SpongeBob adds marshmallows to the twig.]
‣ Timpani Signal 1 [#44.2] - Sammy Burdson [SpongeBob adds marshmallows to the twig.]
‣ Timpani Roll [#48] - Sammy Burdson [SpongeBob prepares to lift the twig.]
‣ Caesar's Entry [#7] - Gregor F. Narholz [SpongeBob struggles to lift the twig once/SpongeBob struggles to lift the twig twice/SpongeBob struggles to lift the twig again.]
‣ Hawaiian Cocktail - Richard Myhill [Everyone laughs at SpongeBob.]
‣ Orchestral Effect (f) - Dick Stephen Walter [SpongeBob smiles.]
‣ Stars and Games - Alf Saro [Volleyball/Everyone laughing at SpongeBob again.]
‣ Surf Buggy - The Surfdusters [Frisbee]
‣ Timpani - Glissandos (a) - Gary Kettel ["Except I ripped my pants!"]
‣ Showtime Fill (h) - Gary Kettel [rimshot]
‣ Showtime Fill (g) - Gary Kettel [rimshot]
• Grass Skirt Chase - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Later...]
‣ Showtime Fill (i) - Gary Kettel [rimshot]
‣ Side Drum [#52.07] - Mark Nolan [rimshot]
‣ Showtime Fill (a) - Gary Kettel [rimshot]
‣ Side Drum [#52.05] - Mark Nolan [rimshot]
• 12th St Rag - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob annoys people.]
‣ Return of the Surfin' Headhunters - The Mel-Tones [Surfing]
‣ Dramatic Impact 5 - Ivor Slaney ["Holy fish paste, it's a guy!"]
‣ Hope & Glory - Thomas Blug, Mark Scholz ["Why? Why?! Why?!"]
‣ Beautiful Moonlit Night - George Wilson ["Come closer... I need..."]
‣ Timpani Glissando (b) - Gary Kettel [Everyone walks away.]
‣ Ups And Downs (D) - Richard Myhill [Everyone walks away.]
‣ Botany Bay (b) - Robert Alexander White ["Dude..."]
‣ Timpani - Military (d) - Gary Kettel ["Come on, SpongeBob, you're losing 'em."]
‣ Side Drum [#52.02] - Mark Nolan ["Hey, everybody!"]
‣ Entry of the Gladiators - Dick Stephen Walter [SpongeBob's pants get ripped off.]
‣ Stars and Games - Alf Saro [Sandy plays volleyball with Larry.]
‣ Aloha - Dick Stephen Walter ["Oh no, everybody's gone!"]
◦ Ripped Pants - Peter Strauss, Paul Tibbitt
‣ Moloka'i Nui A - Kapono Beamer [Ending]
Release[]
- This episode is available on the Nautical Nonsense and Sponge Buddies, SpongeBob Schwammkopf Folge 1, SpongeBob on DVD Volume 1, Complete 1st Season, Home Sweet Pineapple, Absorbing Favorites, The 1st Season: Volume 1, Tea Under The Tree, The Best of SpongeBob SquarePants, Tea at the Treedome, The Best of Nickelodeon: Summer Adventures, Sponge Crazy, First 100 Episodes, SpongeBob SquarePants, iSponge Offer Pack, The Super Celebrations, Two for One with Nickelodeon!, Two for One with Nickelodeon! Volume 2, Two for One with Nickelodeon! Volume 3, Ripped Pants, Really Big Box Set, The Ultimate SpongeBob Box Set, SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 1, Employee of the Month, The Complete First Season, From the Beginning, Part 1, The SpongeBob SquarePants Collection, Splash from the Past!, 3 DVD Pack, The SpongeBob SquarePants 8 Season DVD Collection, Triple Pack 4, The First & Second Seasons, Movies & TV Collection, Big Hits: Volume 2, The Best 200 Episodes Ever, and The Best 300 Episodes Ever DVDs along with SpongeBob SquarePants Volume 1 on GBA Video and on VideoNow.
- This episode is available on the Nautical Nonsense, Undersea Antics Volume 1, Home Sweet Pineapple, and Absorbing Favorites VHS tapes, making it the episode with the most appearances on VHS.
- This episode is also available on the It's a SpongeBob Christmas! Blu-ray.
Reception[]
- "Ripped Pants" was ranked #3 during The Ultimate SpongeBob SpongeBash event from July 17–19, 2009.
- Also, during The Ultimate SpongeBob SpongeBash, actor Nathan Kress said this was his favorite episode.
- "Ripped Pants" was ranked #6 in the "Top 100 Moments in Nicktoons History" event.
- "Ripped Pants" is one of Tom Kenny's favorite episodes. He says "I think one of my favorite episodes is..., "Ripped Pants," the one where SpongeBob rips his pants by mistake and gets a laugh out of it, and then overplays his hand by doing it...too many times, and people get bored with it, and he realizes that jokes have a lifespan. And I think that's something that happened to me a lot as a kid, where you would accidentally hit on something that was really funny and you would just do it over and over and over again, and when people stopped laughing, it was kind of like a slap in the face, it kinda hurt, and then you had to go out and find something else stupid to..., get attention and laughs from your classmates."
- However, this episode is not included on The Tom Kenny Collection on iTunes and Amazon.com.
Trivia[]
General[]
- This is the first episode for several things:
- This marks the first episode where SpongeBob does his signature laugh.
- This is the first appearance of Larry the Lobster.
- This is the first appearance of Goo Lagoon.
- This is the first episode where SpongeBob's house doesn't appear.
- This episode marks the first instance of differing bubble transitions.
- This is the first episode that uses the trademark SpongeBob font on the title card, albeit only on the letters "R," "i," "e," and "ants."
- This is the first episode to use the tracks "Stars and Games," "Botany Bay (b)," and "Beautiful Moonlit Night."
- This is the first episode to have an original song.
- This also marks the first episode when SpongeBob is voiced by someone other than Tom Kenny, having Peter Straus' voice used for SpongeBob's singing of that song.
- This is the first episode in packaging and release order to use the track "Grass Skirt Chase."
- However, this track was not used for a chase scene in this episode.
- The episode "Jellyfishing" features the track in a chase scene, and began production earlier.
- This is the first episode to play a "Dramatic Impact" (#5).
- This is the first episode to use "You're Nice" as title card music.
- in the italian dub the song of the same name is cut
- The scene where Incidental 155 is annoyed to discover that SpongeBob faked drowning to trick him into saving him became an internet meme known as "Serious Lifeguard Fish."
- When Incidental 155 and the other fish walk away in annoyance, there are two Incidental 16 models in the background.
- The Nautical Nonsense and Sponge Buddies DVD and Nautical Nonsense VHS tape covers are based on this episode.
- In the Nick Scene It? DVD game, "Caesar's Entry" can be heard when SpongeBob tries to lift the twig with marshmallows.
- Some of the storyboard frames can be seen on the booklet for SpongeBob's Greatest Hits.
- There are two books based on this episode, titled Ripped Pants and I Ripped My Pants!, respectively.
- There is a toy produced by Fisher-Price based on this episode that consists of a SpongeBob whose pants can rip and can sing the "Ripped Pants" song. However, Tom Kenny sings the song instead of Peter Strauss. The song is also shortened and the verse: "When big Larry..." was cut out.
- SpongeBob saying "Oops!" was reused in the online game Crater Crossing.
- SpongeBob goes surfing in this episode, but in "SpongeBob SquarePants vs. The Big One," he doesn't know how to surf.
- SpongeBob addresses the flying disk as a "Frisbee" when reviewing his checklist, but in "Sand Castles in the Sand," he calls the flying disk "Small plastic disc that you throw" as a joke to the fact the term "Frisbee" is trademarked.
- This episode's title is mentioned four times.
- The first time is when SpongeBob says to Incidental 40, "Ripped... pants."
- The second time is when SpongeBob says to two fish, "Ripped pants a la mode."
- The third time is when SpongeBob asks to the fry cook, "Delivery! Did you order twenty cases of ripped pants?"
- And the last time is when SpongeBob says, "Hey, everybody! Not ripped pants! Pants ripped off! Huh? Someone call the police. There's a pants thief on the loose!"
- This episode was paired up with different episodes in different marathons:
- During the Nicktoons Butt-Kicking Marathon, this episode was paired up with "Karate Choppers."[1]
- During the SpongeBob vs. The Goo marathon, this episode was paired up with "MuscleBob BuffPants."[2]
Cultural references[]
- The song that SpongeBob sings is similar to the 1963 song "Be True to Your School" by The Beach Boys.
Errors[]
- In the original airing of this episode, Paul Tibbitt's name is misspelled as "Paul Tibibitt" with an extra I between the Bs when credited as storyboard director in the opening credits. However, his name is spelled correctly when later credited as a writer. This error also happens with Mark O'Hare whose name is misspelled as "Mark O'hare" with a lowercase 'h'. These errors were corrected on later American reruns, international non-US airings, the Amazon Prime Video version (except for From the Beginning, Part 1, SpongeBob SquarePants, iSponge Offer Pack, SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 1, and the Paramount+ version.) and the Splash from the Past! release, the VideoNow versions, most VHS tape releases except for Nautical Nonsense and Undersea Antics Volume 1, and most DVD releases except for Nautical Nonsense and Sponge Buddies and Sponge Crazy.
- When the first view of the weightlifters is shown, there are two huts, but when it goes to a close-up on the weightlifters, the huts are gone.
- When Larry lifts the seats the Bikini Bottomites were sitting on, the background moves in such a way on the close-up on the Bikini Bottomites that it looks like the camera is panning down to the bottom of the seats instead of it looking like the seats are lifting up.
- After SpongeBob rips off his pants, he still has his sleeves on for the rest of the episode, save for one shot.
- SpongeBob rips off his swimsuit, revealing his underwear, but when the camera zooms out as the other "losers" join him for the "Ripped Pants" song, SpongeBob is seen wearing with a soaking wet costume again.
- In several scenes, SpongeBob rips his pants, then in the next scene, they are no longer ripped.
- When the five female fish listen to the song, the yellow fish is on the left and the green fish is on the right, but in the next scene, they are switched.
- After he rips off his pants, SpongeBob's cuffs disappear when he looks toward Sandy and Larry, but they reappear when it cuts back to him.
- When SpongeBob and the others were singing the song, they ripped their pants. After the song, they are not ripped.
- During the "Ripped Pants" song, several scenes still have SpongeBob with his swim trunks on.
- In the "Ripped Pants" song, Frank the Whale's eyes are missing in a few shots.
- Before Sandy says, "That wasn't funny, SpongeBob! Y'all have me worried sick!," her mouth moves, when it's not supposed to.
Videos[]
Names in other languages[]
Language | Name | Meaning |
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Arabic | السروال الممزق alsirwal almumazaq |
Ripped Pants |
Danish | Hul i bukserne | Ripped Pants |
Romanian | Pantalonii rupți | Ripped Pants |
Russian | Порванные штаны Porvannyye Shtany |
Ripped Pants |
Spanish | Pantalones rotos | Ripped Pants |