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"Rock Bottom" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 1. In this episode, SpongeBob gets stuck in Rock Bottom after taking the wrong bus home.

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Synopsis[]

SpongeBob and Patrick board a bus to get home from Glove World!, a glove-themed amusement park that they enjoy. They accidentally board the wrong bus, which takes them down a cliff. The cliff leads to a sort of aphotic zone called Rock Bottom, inhabited by multiple unusual and strange deep-sea animals. SpongeBob tells Patrick to wait while he goes to try and find a bus schedule. While SpongeBob is gone searching, Patrick gets on the bus to go home but accidentally leaves SpongeBob behind. SpongeBob tries to find a bus that will take him home but nothing happens.

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Rock Bottom.

After various unsuccessful attempts to get on a bus, SpongeBob heads to the bus station and waits in a very long line. By the time he gets to the front, after finding they blow raspberries in between words and must talk that way, he finds out that the last bus to Bikini Bottom will leave in a few seconds, but before he has time to react, it pulls away from the station.

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"This is advanced darkness."

The Ticketmaster tells SpongeBob that it was the last bus until morning and leaves for the night, shutting off the lights in the process. SpongeBob, who is starting to show fear and anxiety, takes out his glove flashlight, but the battery shorts out, leaving him in "advanced darkness." As he stands alone in the station giving himself a pep-talk, he hears the familiar raspberry sound echoing and makes a mad dash back to the cliff. The raspberry sound is getting closer, and SpongeBob cowers in fear, yelling out a weak threat. As the creature closes in, a bright light engulfs SpongeBob, and he lets out a scream. He is relieved when he noticed the light is coming from a friendly-looking anglerfish creature who found SpongeBob's lost glove balloon. SpongeBob sarcastically thanks him for solving the balloon problem but begins rambling about his other problem: trying to get home. The anglerfish blows up the balloon and ties it to SpongeBob's wrist. SpongeBob makes another sarcastic comment about how the balloon already has enough air while closing his eyes and blowing raspberries. He opens his eyes to see he is floating in the air and understands the anglerfish was helping him using the unorthodox method of balloon travel. He thanks the anglerfish for his help, who replies with a polite "you're welcome" and waves goodbye.

SpongeBob travels back to Bikini Bottom using the balloon and lands in front of his house before the balloon pops. Patrick rides on a bus back to Rock Bottom, thinking that SpongeBob is still stuck there.

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Music[]

 ) Production music
 ) Original music
 ) SpongeBob music

  Moon Walk - John Fox [Title card]
  Roll Up Waltz [#11.05] - Andrew J J Hall [opening at Glove World!]
  Closing Theme 2 - Steve Belfer [SpongeBob and Patrick on the bus]
  Missile Disaster - John Fox [Bikini Bottom City Limits]
  On Fire - Gregor F. Narholz [Bus drives down a cliff]
  Moon Walk - John Fox [SpongeBob and Patrick in Rock Bottom]
  Mavericks - The Woodies [SpongeBob chasing the bus]
  Hawaiian Link (B) - Richard Myhill [Waiting for next bus]
  Vibe Link (B) - Richard Myhill ["Uh-oh, shoe's untied."]
  Hawaiian Link (A) - Richard Myhill [SpongeBob still waiting]
  Grass Skirt Chase - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [The wind blows SpongeBob's balloon away]
  Hawaiian Adventures aka SpongeBob Theme - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Someone chases SpongeBob's balloon.]
  Kamakani B - Kapono Beamer ["Well, there goes another one."]
  Orchestral Effect (f) - Dick Stephen Walter [Glove candy dispenser]
  Gator - Steve Belfer [SpongeBob sees a candy machine]
  Pell-Mell - Sam Spence [Pushing buttons on machine]
  Tension Bit - Nicolas Carr [SpongeBob reaches toward the candy bar]
  Deadline - Sam Spence [SpongeBob goes to the bus station]
  Hawaiian Cocktail - Richard Myhill [329th in line]
  On The Beach - Kapono Beamer [Clock ticking]
  Menace from the Deep - Robert Cornford [Lights turned off]
  Death Trap [#25] - Gregor F. Narholz [Someone approaching]
  Royal Hawaiian Hula - Kapono Beamer [SpongeBob's balloon travel home]
  Honolulu March - Hans Haider [Ending]

*On The Complete 1st Season and The First 100 Episodes DVDs, "Mavericks" is replaced with "El Dementia" by The Surfdusters while on the Amazon Prime Video, iTunes and Paramount+ versions of this episode has the "Mavericks."

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Reception[]

  • This episode and "Arrgh!" won a Golden Reel award in 2000 for Best Sound Editing in Television: Animation - Sound Editing.[4]
  • "Rock Bottom" was ranked #79 during the Best Day Ever event from November 9–10, 2006.
  • "Rock Bottom" was ranked #41 during the SpongeBob's Top 100 event in the UK and Ireland from June 4-8, 2012.

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General[]

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Squidina Pulls Pranks with Rock Bottom Locals! 😈 - Full Scene - @SpongeBobOfficial


Dub facts[]

  • In the Spanish (Latin American) dub, after SpongeBob shouts 'Tartar sauce' (Salsa tartara), instead of speaking gibberish afterward, he shouts "...las percebes, tentaculos, medusas" ([the] barnacles, tentacles, jellyfish) then speaks gibberish.[20]

Cultural references[]

  • Rock bottom is a figure of speech that means at the lowest possible level, fitting the city's location.

Errors[]

  • At the beginning of this episode, when SpongeBob says, "Another fun-tastic day at Glove World!," his lips do not move when he says the "Glove World" part.
    • This error was fixed on The Complete 1st Season and The First 100 Episodes DVDs.
  • If the scene when SpongeBob and Patrick are boarding the bus is played frame-by-frame, SpongeBob's right arm is missing but appears for a brief moment.
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SpongeBob's right arm is missing.

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The belt portion of SpongeBob's pocket is brown.

  • The second time when SpongeBob checks for money in his pants, the pocket is fully brown.
  • When SpongeBob looks at the vending machine, it is facing him, but when he is choosing the candy he wants, it is facing the opposite side of the road at a 90-degree angle.
  • When Patrick asks SpongeBob where "Leaving Bikini Bottom" is, SpongeBob has one of the gloves that Patrick got for his glove action figure on his nose. When he looks out of the bus window to see where they are going and then gets out of said window, the glove on his nose is gone.
  • When SpongeBob yells at the man at the bus station, a sign that reads "Information" can be seen above the window, but when the lights shut off, the sign disappears.
  • When SpongeBob and Patrick arrive at Rock Bottom, there is no candy machine.
  • When SpongeBob and Patrick get on the bus, there is a fish sleeping on one of the seats, but when they arrive at Rock Bottom, he is gone.
  • When SpongeBob looks for a bus schedule, he has his balloon, but when he chases after the bus, the balloon is not in his hands. Then, in the next scene, he has his balloon again.
  • When SpongeBob is first seen dialing the letters on the candy machine, the sign titled "BUZ" disappears. It reappears in the next scene.
  • When SpongeBob chases the bus, his running animation shows him running forward. However, he actually runs to the side.
  • When the cardboard SpongeBob is at the candy machine, it does not smile, but it smiles when it falls.
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The cardboard cutout on the left is not smiling, but the one on the right is smiling when the cardboard cut out begins to fall.

  • When the bus stops in Rock Bottom, the bubbles behind it freeze in mid-air.
  • The distance between the bus stop and when the road goes up varies between scenes.
  • The storyboard artists are not credited in this episode. Only the storyboard directors are credited.
  • When SpongeBob chases after the bus Patrick is in, the exit in Rock Bottom is a greater distance away than it was in the prior scenes.
  • In one scene when SpongeBob is sneaking up on the bus, his holes are missing.
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    His holes are missing.

  • In the bus station, when the lights turn off, the !ИFθRNNA|-'iθИَ sign disappears, but a few scenes later, it reappears.
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His house is next to Bikini Bottom, Squidward's and Patrick's house are missing, and the pineapple is poorly edited.

  • There are a few errors during the scene in which SpongeBob flies above Bikini Bottom.
    • SpongeBob's house is shown in downtown Bikini Bottom, next to many townspeople's houses. When he gets to his house, his house is no longer surrounded by the townspeople's houses.
    • Patrick's and Squidward's houses are missing, but in the next scene, they reappear.
    • SpongeBob's pineapple is colored differently than the surrounding area, showing that the image was digitally inserted onto a pre-existing background.


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Names in other languages[]

Language Name Meaning
French Les bus farceurs Prank Buses
German Bus verpasst Missed the Bus
Italian Rock Bottom -
Polish Skalisko Dolne Rock Bottom
Russian Каменная бездна
Kamennaya bezdna
Rocky Abyss
Spanish (Latin America) El abismo The Abyss
Spanish (Spain) Fondo de Roca Rock Bottom

References[]

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