Sandy's Rocket

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Locations:

Sandy's House
Rocket
SpongeBob's House

Plot

Book

SpongeBob visits Sandy's treedome, and sees that Sandy had built a rocket ship. Sandy explains to him that she is going to the moon, and SpongeBob begs her to take him with her. Although she insists that he cannot come, SpongeBob's begging ultimately convinces her to let him come.

That night, Patrick comes to SpongeBob's house and gives him some "Alien Repellent", which they sneak into Sandy's treedome to spray on the windows. Even though they agree to only spray the windows, Patrick inadvertently enters the rocket, and SpongeBob follows. After playing with the ship's various features, SpongeBob accidentally starts up the rocket, which loops over the moon and comes back to Bikini Bottom. SpongeBob and Patrick, convinced that they're on the Moon, think that the aliens are projecting their memories onto the environment to trick them. They begin catching everyone with Sandy's net guns (intended for harvesting moon rocks), believing they're aliens. Eventually, after capturing everyone in Bikini Bottom, including Sandy, who attempts to explain the truth to them, SpongeBob is convinced that Patrick is an alien. Patrick attempts to shoot him before he has a chance to capture him, but ends up shooting and capturing himself. SpongeBob starts the rocket again to return home, and crashes on the moon. SpongeBob looks out the window and realizes mistake. All the captured fish, who are being stored in the cargo hold of the ship, say "SpongeBob, we aliens would like a word with you." as the episode ends.

Trivia/Goofs

The rocket Sandy has would never make it to low earth orbit let alone the moon in real life. But of course, its a cartoon, so many scientific elements do not apply. in order for a rocket (thats not a wepon) to get to space it must be ethier multi staged (any rocket in the worlds arsonal minus the shuttle) have strap on solid/liquid rocket boosters (most space lanchers have these stock or a variant with them) or the decommisioned and intresting stage and a half desine (used on atlas 1 mercury this basicly ment the atlas 1s 2 outur engines and part of the rokets structure fell off but the inner engine stays).
for most rockets only the last stage and its payload (a sattlite, probe ,russian soyuz capsule ,chinese shenzoue capsule)make it to orbit the rest ends up on the ocean or in russians case the desert floor or thay burn up
This episode marks the first appearance of Flatts the Flounder, who would later appear in "Texas", and in "The Bully".
Though the net around the "aliens" is solid with no holes, you still see their eyes through the net. You can also see Sandy's mouth moving as if she has no helmet.
SpongeBob makes reference to "cowlicks" as evidence of aliens. This is most likely an homage to Pete and Pete, a very early Nickelodeon live action show.
When SpongeBob and Patrick first become weightless in the rocket, a book floats by with "2001" written on its cover. This is a reference to Arthur C. Clark's novel 2001: A Space Odyssey.
SpongeBob's belief that the "aliens" are projecting his and Patrick's memories of Bikini Bottom onto the lunar surface to put them into a false sense of security seems to be inspired from a short story, "The Third Expedition", from Ray Bradbury's book, the Martian Chronicles.
This is the first time a character is playing a video game. Second is I Had an Accident. Third is Bucket Sweet Bucket. The fourth time is The Great Patty Caper.
When SpongeBob looks out at the window towards the moon, the view of Earth from the Moon looks almost exactly like the famed Apollo 8 photograph.
During a Nickelodeon movie promotion in 1999, a set of scratch and sniff stickers were released at specified fast-food restaurants to be used with certain Nicktoons. One of them was used when Patrick squirts toothpaste in SpongeBob's peanut butter. Also, the symbol that signaled you to "sniff" at the bottom right part of the screen was accidentally filmed along with the episode, and not edited out until late 2002, almost 3 years after the scratch and sniff packs were put out of circulation. The "signal" part was also used with the video and theater releases of Rugrats Go Wild, which has pictures instead of stickers and came with the theater release and inside the case for the video.
In one scene where Sandy is showing SpongeBob how the net gun works, she blows on the bubbles coming out of the gun, despite having her helmet on.
A Lego SpongeBob SquarePants set is based on this episode, and was also the first Lego set to include Sandy as a minifigure.
A chapter book based on this episode features an extended ending: SpongeBob releases Patrick and Sandy from the bags, and Sandy shoots SpongeBob as punishment before flying the rocket back to Bikini Bottom. The book version also shows Plankton getting captured while stealing a Krabby Patty, also not seen in the TV version.
This is the first time that Mr. Krabs appears away from the Krusty Krab. His pet worm Mr. Doodles would also reappear in "As Seen on TV".
This is the first episode where Bikini Atoll is seen outside of the opening theme. Second time is Big Pink Loser. Third time is Pressure.
While SpongeBob and Patrick are in the ship playing around, they play with toothpaste and peanut butter and Patrick squirts toothpaste through the peanut butter, and SpongeBob says "You've got your toothpaste in my peanut butter", a reference to the Reese's chocolate commercial.
In this episode SpongeBob's alarm clock is at the left side at the bed, unlike in other episodes.
When Spongebob says "a present" his speech was cut off so it sounds like this: a prese-.
Sandy mentions Spongebob's incident with her whirlybird (helicopter), and then the camera shows a graveyard, indicating that spongebob accidentally killed people with her chopper.

Errors

Before throwing Sandy in the rocket to take to the moon, Patrick laughs, but his mouth does not move in the sync with the laugh.
In this episode, Spongebob says "Peanut Butter". But in other episodes, he and the other characters say "Seanut Butter".
When Spongebob asks Sandy what she is going to do on the moon, Spongebob says "Are we gonna hunt aliens on the moon?", but the captions say "Will we hunt aliens on the moon?".
Sandy could smell smoke from the rocket, even though it is outside her airtight treedome.
When the rocket first circles the moon, the rocket is almost as big as the moon. But at the end of the episode when Spongebob looks out the window, the moon is much bigger.
Spongebob and Patrick experience gravity turning on and off when leaving the water. But gravity wouldn't change until they left earth's atmosphere.
When Spongebob and Patrick are having a tough time fitting the "aliens" in the ship's hold, there are still many Bikini Bottomites left on the ground. However, when Sandy is captured, the ship's hold is nowhere near full.

Sandy's Rocket

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