"Something Smells" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 2. In this episode, SpongeBob makes a sundae that gives him bad breath.
Characters
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Gary the Snail
- Shelley (cameo)
- Incidental 108
- Incidental 106
- Incidental 107
- Incidental 154 (debut)
- Incidental 42
- Female crossing guard (debut)
- Fish children
- Marching band
- Didgeridoo player
- Patrick Star
- Mirror SpongeBob (debut)
- Incidental 115
- Incidental 114 (debut) (orange)
- Dark green fish
- Incidental 118
- Purple leech creature (debut)
- Squidward Tentacles
- Fred (blue)
- Incidental 36
- Scooter (purple)
- Incidental 2
- Incidental 8
- Incidental 31
- Incidental 6
- Incidental 48
- Incidental 27
- Incidental 7
- Incidental T8
- Incidental 37B
- Incidental 41
- Incidental 30
- Mailfish impersonator
- Sam Star (indirectly mentioned)
- Other Bikini Bottomites
Synopsis
SpongeBob wakes up one morning, realizes that it is Sunday, and decides to have an ice cream "sundae" for breakfast. However, he sees he has no ice cream and finds standard toppings like bananas and cherries to be blasé, so he instead creates a new type of sundae made from onions, ketchup, and the contents of a nearly dead potted peanut plant. Unbeknownst to SpongeBob, the result of eating the sundae is intense halitosis.
"You know what they say, Gary, I'm easy like Sunday morning."
After breakfast, SpongeBob begins his Sunday to-do list, which consists of saying "Hi!" to everyone in town. Unfortunately, the townspeople are universally disgusted by the smell of SpongeBob's rancid breath and run away from him. SpongeBob is very confused by this and asks Patrick if he notices anything wrong with him. Patrick, not having a nose, can't discern the foul odor. After running down a list of possibilities, Patrick concludes that SpongeBob is simply ugly. SpongeBob is dismayed by this revelation and isolates himself in his home.
"We stink! We stink! We stink! We stink! We stink! We stink!"
Later, Patrick visits SpongeBob, who has resigned to become a hermit. Patrick tells SpongeBob the story of The Ugly Barnacle, which fails to cheer him up. Patrick then encourages him to take pride in his ugliness. It works, and SpongeBob's confidence grows, so they decide to go see a movie at the Reef Cinema.
As they take their seats, all of the movie-goers still try to avoid SpongeBob, which angers Patrick and sends him into a tirade. Patrick forces the other viewers to look at SpongeBob. With every word SpongeBob speaks, the viewers panic and flee, soon leaving no one in the auditorium. Patrick gets hungry, so they go to the lobby to buy a snack. However, no one is at the counter. Instead, SpongeBob pulls some of his sundaes out of his pocket and gives it to Patrick. After eating it, Patrick feels a sudden urge to use the bathroom.
While washing his hands, Patrick asks a fish next to him for some soap, but he quickly runs away. Upon finding no one will stay within his vicinity, Patrick fears he has caught "the ugly" from SpongeBob and hides in a stall with a paper bag over his head.
Eventually, SpongeBob smells Patrick's extremely foul breath and tries to tell the rambling Patrick before shouting at him to get his attention. He then tells Patrick that it is not his appearance, but his breath which stinks, much to Patrick's relief. SpongeBob then asks what he ate, after being told it was the sundae SpongeBob made. The latter realizes that they are not ugly, but simply have bad breath from the sundae.
Immensely relieved their appearance wasn't the problem, the two begin to run around shouting, "We stink!", causing their noxious breath to melt down the theater. SpongeBob and Patrick run into Squidward, looking at wigs in a window display. SpongeBob cries out in joy, "Guess what, Squidward? We stink!" as they hug him, leaving Squidward staring blankly as SpongeBob and Patrick start running away laughing and cheering, ending the episode.
Production
Music
| ( ‣ ) Production music |
| ( • ) Original music |
| ( ◦ ) SpongeBob music |
‣ Dangerous C - Mladen Franko [Title card]
‣ Hawaiian Hula - Terry Day [Opening]
‣ Lonely Violin - Dick Stephen Walter [Gary playing violin]
‣ Hawaiian Hula - Terry Day [Peanut plants]
‣ On the Beach - Kapono Beamer [SpongeBob has bad breath after finishing the sundae]
‣ Nostalgic Hawaii - George de Fretes, Jan Rap [SpongeBob saying hi to everyone]
• Fish March - Nicolas Carr [parade]
‣ ? [didgeridoo player]
‣ Shock (f) - Dave Hewson [Everyone runs away]
• Gator - Steve Belfer [SpongeBob finds Patrick sitting on a bench]
‣ Harry's Back - Hans Ehrlinger ["Maybe it's the way you're dressed."/"You gotta be kiddin' me.."]
• Steel Licks 1 - Jeremy Wakefield [Reflection test]
‣ The Nightmare Begins (a) - John Devereaux [SpongeBob asking people if he is ugly]
‣ Hawaiian Link (b) - Richard Myhill ["I'm ugly...!"]
‣ The Last Judgement - Peter Lea-Cox [Organ music]
• ? - Nicolas Carr [Organ glissando downwards]
‣ Monster Chords (c) - Peter Lea-Cox [Organ music]
• ? - Nicolas Carr [Organ upward gliss overlays "Monster Chords (c)"]
‣ A Day by the Sea [#20] - Dick Stephen Walter [The Ugly Barnacle]
‣ Hawaiian Cocktail - Richard Myhill [Spiraling]
‣ Me for You - George Callert ["Okay, now, say it."]
‣ The Land is Ours - Gregor F. Narholz [SpongeBob saying he is ugly and proud]
‣ Hawaiian Link (a) - Richard Myhill [Movie theater exterior]
‣ Legends of Hollywood (a) - Ron Goodwin ["Pardon me, ugly sponge coming through."]
‣ Hawaiian Link (b) - Richard Myhill ["I'm not always as confident as I look."]
‣ On Fire - Gregor F. Narholz ["What is wrong with you people?!"]
‣ Vibe Link (b) - Richard Myhill ["Oh wait, Patrick, I just remembered."]
• SpongeBob Closing Theme - Steve Belfer, Nicolas Carr [SpongeBob saved some of the sundae]
‣ Samoa Hotel - Salvatore Assenza, Franco Zauli [Inside the bathroom]
‣ Shock (c) - Dave Hewson ["I caught the ugly!"]
‣ Samoa Hotel - Salvatore Assenza, Franco Zauli ["Patrick, is everything okay in here?"]
‣ Hawaiian Breeze - Jon Jelmer [Patrick with a bag over his head]
‣ Shock (p) - Dave Hewson ["You gave me the ugly!"]
• Gator - Steve Belfer [SpongeBob smells Patrick's breath]
‣ Vibe Link (b) - Richard Myhill ["Sundae..."]
‣ Hawaiian Link (a) - Richard Myhill ["We're not ugly, we just stink!"]
‣ Chief Taravana - Kapono Beamer [Ending]
Release
- This episode is available on the Nautical Nonsense and Sponge Buddies, Complete 2nd Season, First 100 Episodes, From the Beginning, Pt.1, SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 2, Sponge Crazy, Really Big Box Set, The Ultimate SpongeBob Box Set, The SpongeBob SquarePants Collection, The SpongeBob SquarePants 8 Season DVD Collection, Imitation Krabs, Complete Second Season, The First & Second Seasons, and The Best 200 Episodes Ever DVDs.
- This episode is available on the Nautical Nonsense and Undersea Antics Volume 1 VHS tapes.
- This episode is also available on the It's a SpongeBob Christmas! Blu-ray.
Trivia
General
- In airing order, this is the first SpongeBob episode to be animated with digital coloring.
- Patrick mentions that he does not have a sister in this episode. However, this is later proven false by the episode "Big Sister Sam," where he is indeed revealed to have a sister.
- This is due to his stupidity since he forgets who his parents are in "I'm with Stupid", and only remembers them when his fake parents refer to themselves as Marty and Janet.
- A few scenes from this episode have become popular internet memes. These include:
- The scene where Patrick holds SpongeBob up and shouts "Look at it!" This meme is called "Patrick Wants You To Look At It," where something else replaces SpongeBob.
"Once there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died. The end!"
- The Ugly Barnacle story told by Patrick.
Deuueaugh!
"Look at it!"
- The shot where Fred is seen screaming "Deuueaugh." Several videos include him screaming this phrase for long periods of time. There are also videos of the scream in multiple languages.
- The scene where Patrick holds SpongeBob up and shouts "Look at it!" This meme is called "Patrick Wants You To Look At It," where something else replaces SpongeBob.
- This is the first episode where Patrick's eyebrows are "Z" shaped. With the exception of "Big Pink Loser" and "Your Shoe's Untied," all future episodes will feature this design instead of the original sideways "M" shape.
- In the audio commentary on the season 2 DVD, it is mentioned at the end of this episode that Squidward had a deleted line. After SpongeBob and Patrick hug him and run away, he would say "Ugly and smelly, two for one," but it was cut due to the whole screen fading to black at the end.
- This is the first episode that Aaron Springer and C.H. Greenblatt worked on together, as mentioned in the audio commentary.
- This is also the first episode written by Greenblatt.
- At the beginning of the episode's audio commentary, it is revealed that the episode was originally going to start with SpongeBob going out to buy every gallon of ice cream in town and he did not know the brand of ice cream he bought was onion; he then eats it and gets bad breath. But they later decided that he would make his sundae with ketchup, raw onions, and peanut plants with dirt.
- The giant calendar that SpongeBob is flung into by his bed at the beginning is a gag reused from "Boating School."
- "My leg!:" The marching band gets irritated with the stench of SpongeBob's breath after they bump into buildings that they got thrown into.
- This episode has a pretty high kill count:
- Norton's body layers fall apart.
- SpongeBob's reflection commits suicide by smashing himself with a hammer.
- Two fish commit suicide by reeling themselves up with a hook.
- SpongeBob causes a car to explode, killing the driver.
- SpongeBob's bad breath causes two fish to go belly-up in the movie theater.
- Another fish gets her face destroyed by SpongeBob's breath.
- There is an online game based on this episode titled Stinky Swagger.
French title card
- In the French dub, the background for the title card is the exact same background from "Big Pink Loser."
- This episode marks the first time that a "Steel Licks" track plays.
- This is the first episode where "Chief Taravana" plays in its normal pitch.
Cultural references
- After SpongeBob finishes his sundae, he says to Gary, "You know what they say, Gary... I'm easy like Sunday morning," a reference to the chorus of The Commodores' 1977 song "Easy."
- The shot with SpongeBob playing the organ and wearing a mask is a reference to The Phantom of the Opera.
- The Ugly Barnacle is a reference to The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen.
- The glasses SpongeBob wears in this episode are a parody of Groucho Marx.
Errors
Duplicate fishes
- In one shot, SpongeBob has sleeves. In the next shot, they disappear.
- In the movie theater there are duplicate fish watching a movie.
- After SpongeBob goes from his bedroom to his kitchen to make the sundae, when he opens the door, his bedroom wallpaper is shown instead of his living room; SpongeBob's bedroom is not located next to his kitchen.
- When SpongeBob opens the giant ketchup bottle and squeezes it into his sundae bowl, his right hand is on backwards.
- When Patrick sees SpongeBob in his house, playing the organ, SpongeBob has a mask on, but after SpongeBob turns around and Patrick lifts him, the mask is gone.
Should be written as "Edgar Larrazábal"
Edgar Larrazábal spelled correctly in later reruns
- In the opening credits, when Edgar Larrazábal is credited as an animation director, his name is misspelled as Larrazabla. This error was fixed in later airings of this episode and the iTunes version.
- At Reef Cinema, SpongeBob and Patrick first sit in the front row. But later, when Patrick lifts SpongeBob, they appear to be in the middle row.
- When SpongeBob talks to the blue woman in the red dress, the fish in the background change colors from blue to green to red.
- When Patrick says "Don't worry about him, SpongeBob," the fish turns back to green.
Two fishes in the background change color between scenes.
- When SpongeBob and Patrick get into the theater, it has six seats per row but when SpongeBob and Patrick take a seat, there appears to be more seats per row.
- In the theater, multiple duplicate fish can be seen: When the duo walks into the theater, the same few fish are duplicated. When Patrick says "Look at it!", two blue Incidental 1 models and two Incidental 6 models can be seen.
- After Patrick shouts "I want all of you to look at it!", seemingly everyone abandons the theater, leaving it completely empty. However, later, when Patrick goes to the bathroom, people are still there.
- In all Nickelodeon USA airings of this episode and the iTunes version, SpongeBob walks up to a building and says, "Hi, building!" which causes the building to flee from SpongeBob's breath. He goes up to Patrick and says, "I just don't get it!" and Patrick says, "I don't either."
- However, on all DVD releases, the Nautical Nonsense and Undersea Antics Volume 1 VHS tapes, the Nick Scene It? DVD game, Canadian airings on YTV and Nickelodeon Canada, Polish airings, UK airings, and Australian airings, the scene instead goes like this:
- SpongeBob: [walks up to a building and waves] I just don't get it! [the building flees]
- Patrick: [off-screen] I don't, either. [SpongeBob walks up to Patrick; the rest of the scene goes as normal, resulting in the same lines being repeated].
- According to the audio commentary on the season 2 DVD, this was a sound mixing error. The music also repeats itself incorrectly at that point. It is made obvious since SpongeBob's mouth still clearly says the intended line. However, the closed-captioning on the Nautical Nonsense and Sponge Buddies and Season 2 DVDs still use the original correct line. But on The First 100 Episodes DVD, the closed-captioning has been updated to match the incorrect audio.
- However, on all DVD releases, the Nautical Nonsense and Undersea Antics Volume 1 VHS tapes, the Nick Scene It? DVD game, Canadian airings on YTV and Nickelodeon Canada, Polish airings, UK airings, and Australian airings, the scene instead goes like this:
- When SpongeBob walks to Patrick when Patrick is on the bench, Patrick's legs are missing.
- At the theater, when SpongeBob and Patrick arrive in the theater, it is in a wide-shot and Tom is next to the red fish, Harold. However, when SpongeBob and Patrick get to Harold, he is sitting next to the red-haired fish.
- Also upon arriving, almost every seat has someone in it, but when SpongeBob gets to the front row, very few seats are filled.
- In the bathroom, when SpongeBob first opens the stall door, Patrick's reflection does not move.
SpongeBob's missing pores but his pores can be seen in his reflection
- For a split second when SpongeBob yells "Patrick!," a majority of his holes are missing. However, the reflection on the floor has holes.
Running gags
- People running away when SpongeBob talks due to his horrible breath.
