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Not to be confused with Alarm Clock.
If you were looking for the article about the robot variety, then see SpongeBot's alarm clock robot.
Wake up!
 
— SpongeBob's alarm clock, "SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout"
Object

SpongeBob's alarm clock, also known as Alarmy[1], is a 740 Foghorn Wake-'em-Up Grand alarm clock in SpongeBob SquarePants' bedroom. It appears in various episodes, starting with "Help Wanted," and plays its biggest role in the episode "Broken Alarm."

It going off has become a commonly used sound effect throughout the series.

Description[]

It appears to be a repurposed, white foghorn and is kept on top of a barrel next to SpongeBob's bed. It has a light gray corner around its circular opening. It also has a red clock on the bottom that has a transparent blue glass screen. There is a switch behind the clock to set the time.

In some of its appearances, it is depicted with a red snooze button.

Role in series[]

The alarm clock makes numerous appearances throughout the series and is typically heard going off near the start of an episode in the morning right before SpongeBob wakes up. It typically blows air near SpongeBob's direction while going off and has transported him to his various destinations after he wakes up, as seen in "Something Smells," "Missing Identity," and "Life Insurance."

"Blackened Sponge"[]

SpongeBob's alarm clock wakes him up from his dream just as a train hits him. The train's noise is shown to just be the blaring of the alarm clock.

"Truth or Square"[]

It appears in the "Rubber Hose Rag" song, singing along with the other anthropomorphized objects about SpongeBob being ready to go to work.

"Gary's New Toy"[]

SpongeBob's alarm clock nearly loses its power, as evidenced by its sentient coughing from a lack of oxygen, which was caused by Gary chewing on it among other things in SpongeBob's house. SpongeBob uses duct tape to fix it, but the alarm clock just falls backward.

"Unreal Estate"[]

Squidward sneaks into SpongeBob's room at night to fill his alarm clock with pepper to deceive him with the conclusion that he is allergic to his own home and thus force SpongeBob to move away.

"Don't Wake Patrick"[]

SpongeBob turns up the volume on his alarm clock and sets it to the waking hour in an attempt to wake Patrick from sleepwalking. The noise is so loud that it wakes up several citizens and causes worms to start barking, however it fails to wake up Patrick, as he continues sleepwalking.

"Broken Alarm"[]

When everyone investigates what happened to SpongeBob, it turns out that he overslept due to his alarm clock being unplugged. He tries to plug it in, but the clock falls over and starts bouncing around, eventually destroying itself.

Later, SpongeBob tries to reassemble his clock. Patrick notices what SpongeBob is doing and tries to help, but gets frustrated and destroys it even further. SpongeBob takes the remains to Clock World and tries to get it replaced, but the owner reveals that his model of the alarm clock is not produced anymore. SpongeBob buys various other clocks to replace his old one.

Near the episode's end, Patrick reveals to SpongeBob that he has shoddily fixed the alarm clock. The next morning, the alarm clock sounds and wakes SpongeBob up, and it is shown that Patrick is in the clock making the blaring sound.

"SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout"[]

SpongeBob's alarm clock once again gains a mouth to shout at him to wake up.

"Sandy, Help Us!"[]

SpongeBob calls Sandy for help because he cannot turn his alarm clock off. Sandy realizes that SpongeBob's fingers are too soft and squishy to apply enough pressure to the button. She snaps his finger to expose a bone, and when SpongeBob tries to shut off the alarm, he creates a hole.

Trivia[]

  • In some episodes, SpongeBob has to press a button on the alarm clock to stop it. In other episodes, the alarm clock stops by itself.
  • There have been a few episodes where SpongeBob's alarm clock is inexplicably absent when his room is seen, which was more common in the earlier seasons.
  • When the alarm clock is animated, parts of the foghorn are colored grey. However, when the alarm clock is painted onto the background, the foghorn usually is entirely colored white.
  • The foghorn sound of the alarm clock is produced by a ship bubble blown by SpongeBob and Patrick in "Bubblestand." It is also used as the censor for one of the swear words Mr. Krabs says in "Sailor Mouth."
  • SpongeBob's ancestor SpongeGar had a Dorudon wake him up back in prehistoric times.
  • SpongeBob mishears the customers' cheering as the sound of his alarm clock near the end of his dream in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.
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Digital alarm clock instead of foghorn clock, as seen in "The Donut of Shame"

Kenny the Cat 103
Gary's Got Legs 109
  • SpongeBob has had other alarm clocks (even before "Broken Alarm"):
  • SpongeBob's alarm clock goes off at a lower pitch than usual in the episode "Blackened Sponge."
  • In "It's a SpongeBob Christmas!," it plays the intro to "Santa Has His Eye on Me" instead of the usual honking sound.
  • In "Broken Alarm," the clock salesman reveals the alarm clock model as the 740 Foghorn Wake-'Em-Up Grand.
  • Based on frames from the show, SpongeBob's alarm clock usually goes off at 8:00am.
  • The alarm clock is referenced in the Loud House episode "Road Trip: Bizarritorium", where Luan's alarm clock has a foghorn similar to it.
  • Many believe that the sound of the foghorn was derived from a scrapped French liner called SS France, but the Great Lake Freighter called Algolake was thought to be another origin.[citation needed]
  • The alarm clock was featured as a furniture in Nickverse.


References[]

  1. ^ "Picture Day." SpongeBob SquarePants. Nickelodeon. August 2, 2007. Television.
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