Ripped Pants

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Time/Date: After the episode: SpongeBob SquarePants vs. The Big One (possibly)

Characters:

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Sandy Cheeks
• Larry the Lobster (debut)
• French Narrator
• Goo Lagoon Beachgoers
  • Scooter (debut)
  • Harold (debut)
  • Frank (debut)
  • Blue Lifeguard (debut)
  • Fred
  • Tom (debut)
  • Nat Peterson (debut)
  • Nancy Suzie Fish (debut)
  • Don the Whale (debut)
  • Evelyn (debut)
  • Millie (debut)Template:Fact
• Perch Perkins (debut; character model)
• Lou Vendor (debut)
• Lifeguard
• Snack Bar Chef
• Horace

Plot

The Narrator introduces Goo Lagoon, a popular beach in Bikini Bottom, where SpongeBob and Sandy are playing. SpongeBob puts on a show by making sand sculptures, which makes Sandy laugh. Larry the Lobster comes and asks if they want to lift weights, which Sandy quickly accepts, while SpongeBob mopes behind them. When they arrive at the weight lifting area, Sandy lifts a bar weight and the crowd cheers. SpongeBob tries to get them to do something else, but Larry continues. He lifts a bar weight with six weights and the crowd cheers. Attempting to impress the crowd, SpongeBob lifts a stick but the crowd falls asleep. Sandy then lifts two anchors and is cheered. Larry then lifts the entire audience and bleachers, and once again the crowd cheers.

SpongeBob is left out, and tries to get more attention by lifting a stick with marshmallows on the ends, which he actually struggles to do. However, he accidentally rips his pants in the process, and the crowd laughs hysterically. Feeling embarrassed, SpongeBob sadly leaves the weight lifting area, as the people continue to laugh at him, until one fish compliments him for the good laugh. When Sandy agrees, SpongeBob decides to use this to his advantage. He rips his pants again while playing volleyball, then while playing frisbee. SpongeBob and Sandy then proceed to get some ice cream, where he again uses his ripped pants joke. He gets carried away and uses the joke at the snack bar and a kitchen.

While at the surfing competition, SpongeBob rips his pants while surfing, which bores everyone. Realizing this, SpongeBob pretends to drown. When he washes up on the beach, a crowd gathers around him. He tells the lifeguard that he needs a tailor, because he ripped his pants. Everyone gets upset and leaves, including Sandy.

He attempts to revive the joke by ripping his entire pants off, but it fails. After he realizes that he has driven all his friends away, he asks himself if he is the biggest loser on the beach. This question is answered by three other beachers, who each believe they are the biggest losers on the beach: one who forgot to put on sunscreen, one who got sand in burger buns, and a whale who was buried in the sand and forgotten. They ask SpongeBob what happened to him, and he tells his story through a song. Everyone on the beach hears his song, and understands how he feels and that he apologizes. Sandy tells SpongeBob that if he wanted her to be his friend, he should have been himself. Larry asks him to sign his pants, and SpongeBob accepts. He bends down to sign, but his underwear rips off completely, and SpongeBob blushes in embarrassment.

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Music

Songs

• Ripped Pants

APM Music Indentification

• Unknown Tracks 4 - Title card
• Fun at the Seaside - Lifting weights
• Caesar's Entry - SpongeBob attempts to lift a stick with two marshmallows, only to rip his pants
• Hawaiian Cocktail - SpongeBob scuttles off, embarrassed.
• Stars and Games - The volleyball scene
• Dramatic Impact 5 - "Holy fish paste! It's a guy!"
• Botany Bay (b) - After SpongeBob pretends to drown.
• Aloha - "We blew it, pants"
• Moloka'I Nui A - The ending
• Beautiful Moonlit Night - Carl Maria Von Weber, George Wilson - ???
• Timpani Signal 1 - Sammy Burdson - ???

Reception

"Ripped Pants" is one of Tom Kenny's favorite episodes. He says:

"I think one of my favorite episodes is uh, "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 one 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 uh, get attention and laughs from your fellow classmates".

Cultural references

• The song that SpongeBob sings is similar to the Beach Boys song, "Be True to Your School".
• There is a toy produced by Fisher-Price based on this episode that consists of a SpongeBob whose pants can be made to rip.

Trivia/Goofs

• The live-action waves seen during the lines "Now I learned a lesson I won't soon forget, So listen and you won't regret" are also used in the end credits of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.
• SpongeBob's sleeves are still there although his pants are ripped off. A similar error occurs in Procrastination.
• SpongeBob is seen surfing for the first time. In SpongeBob SquarePants vs. The Big One, he said he doesn't know how to surf.