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SpongeBob on Parade

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"SpongeBob on Parade" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 13. In this episode, the Krusty Krab enters a float in the annual Bikini Bottom Parade.

Characters[]

Synopsis[]

SpongeBob sweeps the outside of the Krusty Krab while a fish places fliers for the Bikini Bottom Parade on the restaurant's front doors. Mr. Krabs is at first uninterested in the parade, but SpongeBob says that it can help with free advertising for the Krusty Krab, which convinces him. Mr. Krabs asks SpongeBob and Squidward to build a float, with Squidward as the designer and SpongeBob as the constructor.

The following morning, SpongeBob shows Squidward the finished float, consisting of several Krabby Patties and a giant secret formula bottle, with Squidward's drawing included on one. Sure enough, Plankton is shown spying on SpongeBob and Squidward's conversation, in which he hears that SpongeBob wrote the actual secret formula ingredients on the paper inside the bottle. Plankton decides to enter the parade as a result so he can steal the formula from the float.

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The Krusty Krab float enters the parade.

Perch Perkins and the Ice Cream King commentate on the parade, with the Bikini Bottom High School marching band the first to be introduced. While Plankton observes the parade, the Krusty Krew prepare their float to enter, as the other floats are presented, including Larry's Gym, Mrs. Puff as a balloon herself, Patrick's rock, Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy's invisible boatmobile, and Fred's "My leg" vehicle. The Krusty Krab float is the last to drive downtown.

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Plankton's float driving towards the Krusty Krab float.

Plankton, continuing to observe the parade, has finished his float, and drives towards the parade. He drives into the Krusty Krab float, resulting in SpongeBob losing control of the fryers and Squidward getting thrown off the wheel. The Krusty Krab float drives out of control, causing a chain reaction of the other floats crashing into each other. Plankton drives crazily towards the Krusty Krab float, the only one still standing, for the secret formula. Mr. Krabs and SpongeBob leave the float, and Plankton's float collides with the Krusty Krab's.

After the collision, Squidward reveals Plankton was chasing them because SpongeBob wrote down the actual secret formula for the bottle prop, which shocks Mr. Krabs. The giant secret formula bottle lands at Plankton's float, with him about to read the paper. Soon after, a gas station float enters the parade and it explodes upon contact from a lit match. The explosion results in the secret formula's bottle being ripped apart. Plankton gets one ingredient of the formula, shown to be salt, and thinks that he can obtain the formula by adding in other ingredients. As Perch Perkins prepares to close the parade, the Ice Cream King flies away on Mrs. Puff.

Production[]

Christian White finished plussing his storyboards for this episode by November ‎1, ‎2022.[3]

Amy Lewis did background painting for this episode between July 16[5] and July 31, 2022.[6]

This episode was confirmed by Cartoonlounge.de on December 20, 2022.[7]

It would be added to the US Copyright Office, along with its sister on March 23, 2023.[8]

Art[]

Prop design[]

  • Color design by John John Bajet.[2]

Background design[]

Storyboards[]

Production notes[]

Dylan 'Houston' King:

  • King said he "had a lot of fun with this one."[17]

Amy Lewis:

  • Lewis said they loved getting "close-up character" paintings for episodes. For this episode, they were assigned to paint a parade float of Plankton in a shed.[12]

Music[]

( ‣ ) Production music
( • ) Original music
( ◦ ) SpongeBob music

 ‣ Marching to Honolulu - Kapono Beamer [Title card.]
 • Peg Leg Waltz - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton [Opening at the Krusty Krab.]
 ‣ ? [Fish dancing while putting a flyer on the Krusty Krab door.]
 • Just Doing My Job - Nicolas Carr ["Avast! Keep your proposal and propaganda-ments away from me door!"]
 • Bikini Bottom High School Band Full Mix - Nicolas Carr ["Come one, come all to the big Bikini Bottom Parade tomorrow!"]
 • Hot Steel and Slide Licks 33 - Jeremy Wakefield ["Free?! That's me favorite assemblage of letters!"]
 ‣ Victory Chords - [ProjectSAM Symphobia Colours: Animator] [Krabs thinking.]
 • A Fishy Conversation - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [Krabs orders SpongeBob and Squidward to build a parade float.]
 • Heavenly - Nicolas Carr ["Imagination!"]
 • A Fishy Conversation - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [SpongeBob's "imagination" rainbow falls on Squidward.]
 • Hot Steel and Slide Licks 23B - Jeremy Wakefield ["Can't wait to see your masterpiece!"]
 • A Fishy Conversation - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [Squidward sketching a prototype for the float.]
 • Of Course - Nicolas Carr [Squidward gets stuck in his lawn chair.]
 • Silly Bob Conversation 2 - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [SpongeBob walking behind the Krusty Krab.]
 • Birth of the Krabby Patty - Nicolas Carr [SpongeBob sees the dumpster full of scrap materials.]
 • Nude Sting - Nicolas Carr [Close-up of SpongeBob staring at Squidward.]
 • Silly Bob Conversation 2 - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony ["What are you doing?!"]
 • Showbizzy March - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr ["I give you, the Krusty Krab parade float!"]
 ‣ Wacky Walk 1 - Sam Sklair, Otto Sieben ["It's moron-themed alright. You didn't even use my drawing!"]
 ‣ Towerstreet 17 [#6] - Gerhard Narholz [Plankton spying on SpongeBob and Squidward's conversation.]
 • Super Highway March 2 - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [The beginning of the Bikini Bottom Parade.]
 • The Nitwitting Song 2 Music Only - Kaz Prapuolenis, Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Perch Perkins introduces the Ice Cream King.]
 • B B High Marching Band Full Mix 3 - Nicolas Carr [Bikini Bottom High School marching band kicks off the parade.]
 • Cirque Du Cliche. Full Mix - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Empty Head Society members drive manically around the parade road.]
 ‣ Zelle 501 - Gerhard Trede [Plankton observing the parade from afar.]
 ‣ Horse Guards Parade A - Mark Cousins, Adam Saunders, Otto Sieben [SpongeBob, Squidward, and Mr. Krabs enter the parade.]
 ‣ The Soldier's Parade - Gerhard Trede [Bikini Bottom citizens showing off their parade floats.]
 ‣ Brickbat (Build-Up) - Laurie Johnson [Plankton laughs maniacally and enters his float.]
 ‣ Crazy Capers - Norman Dane [Plankton attacking the Krusty Krab float.]
 ‣ Battle at Sea - Johnny Pearson ["Ladies and gentlemen, this parade has careened into a calamitous catastrophe of crashing and chaos!"]
 • Hot Rod to Hell - Nicolas Carr [Plankton driving crazily towards the Krusty Krab float.]
 • Its Mine - Nicolas Carr ["It's mine! It's mine!"]
 • Vibraphone Bits and Pieces - Nicolas Carr ["Why does he want that useless prop anyway?"]
 ‣ Eccentric March - Peter Hope ["Because SpongeBob wrote the secret formula on that paper!"]
 ‣ The Merry Devil - Remastered - Ronald Hanmer ["I got something! An ingredient to the secret formula!"]
 • The Nitwitting Song 2 Music Only - Kaz Prapuolenis, Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Ending.]

Release[]

Format Title Region
DVD The Complete Thirteenth Season United States
Box set Another 100 Episodes United States
The Best 300 Episodes Ever United States
Digital release SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 23 United States

Trivia[]

General[]

  • This episode premiered as part of the 2023 event "Friday Nights on Nick."
  • This episode's premiere preceded a new episode of the Nickelodeon animated series Monster High.
  • This episode was paired up with a rerun of "Yellow Pavement" during the original airing.[18]
  • This episode was originally going to be titled "SpongeBob's on Parade." The only difference is that the apostrophe and "s" after "SpongeBob" were removed in the finalized title.
  • The title card background is nearly identical to those of "Band Geeks," "A Life in a Day," and "Patchy's Playlist."
  • According to supervising director Dave Cunningham, the light purple blotches on Perch Perkins' face during the makeup gag reference how he has been inconsistently portrayed as either purple or orange in various types of SpongeBob SquarePants media.[19]
    • In a response to a comment on the Twitter post in which he said this, Cunningham stated that Perch has been more recently seen as orange due to that being the color choice for his CGI rig in Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years.[20]
  • Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy make cameo appearances in this episode, but don't have any lines as their voice actors had passed away.
  • "My leg!:" - Fred's parade float is his leg. He says, "My leg! I'm in my leg!"
  • This episode reveals that salt is an ingredient in the secret formula.
    • Salt was also part of the formula in "The Great Patty Caper," along with flour, barnacle shavings, and turmeric.
    • And now, thanks to Plankton, he can now use salt, and reveals that he can obtain other ingredients to the secret formula.
  • This is the first episode to use "Marching to Honolulu" as the title card music since "Once Bitten" in season 4.
  • This is the first time that a gag involving fire and gasoline has been used since the deleted scene in "Just One Bite."

Episode references[]

  • When Mr. Krabs tells Squidward to use his imagination when creating the float with SpongeBob, the sponge repeats his "IMAGINATION" rainbow stint from the season 3 episode, "Idiot Box."
  • SpongeBob wears his construction outfit from the season 11 episode "Stuck on the Roof" when asking Squidward how to get materials for the float.
  • A spotlight shines on the dumpster on the back of the Krusty Krab. This is a reference to "The Play's the Thing" as part of the play.
    • Both episodes have an error during the dumpster scenes.
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Pearl and various other fish in their "Band Geeks" uniforms.

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The uniforms as seen in the original episode.

  • Pearl and multiple other identical incidental fish in the parade wear the uniforms they previously wore in the season 2 episode "Band Geeks."
  • Patrick Not-Star reappears in a sidewalk cameo. He previously appeared in the season 7 episode "Hide and Then What Happens?"


Cultural references[]

  • This episode's title is a play on wording to the song, "Bulls on Parade" by Rage Against the Machine.
  • The parade segments of this episode seem to mirror the real-life annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, with iconic characters (noteworthy Bikini Bottom citizens) having their own parade floats riding downtown, various high school and college bands, (Pearl taking charge of 20 combined bands featuring identical participants) observatory, trivial, or opinionated quips given by the event's hosts, (Perch Perkins' and the Ice Cream King's commentary) and things that may end in disaster and destruction (in this case, what happens to Bikini Bottom's parade yearly).
    • Ironically, SpongeBob has made appearances in the parade as a balloon since 2004.

Errors[]

  • Although the start of the episode takes place at night, the characters use their daytime colors.
  • After Squidward throws SpongeBob off the lawn chair, the chair suddenly snaps to being to Squidward's left.
The dumpster is tilted right, then left.
  • The dumpster full of construction materials switches directions between the initial shot of the back of the Krusty Krab and when SpongeBob notices it.
The gloves and sleeves disappear.
  • Bubble Bass is dressed as Mermaid Man with gloves on his fins, yet in the shot where he is being thrown, the gloves and sleeves are missing.
  • Fred is colored purple in some background shots.


Videos[]

Names in other languages[]

Language Name Meaning
German Die Bikini Bottom-Parade The Bikini Bottom Parade
Russian Губка Боб на параде
Gubka Bob na parade		 SpongeBob on Parade
Spanish (Latin America) Desfile de Fondo de Bikini Bikini Bottom Parade
Spanish (Spain) Bob Esponja desfila SpongeBob Parades

References[]

  1. ^ a b Dylan 'Houston' King on Twitter - "Some of my story notes..."
  2. ^ a b SpongeBob SquarePants | JohnJohnPortfolio
  3. ^ a b c SpongeBob - Parade | Christian White
  4. ^ Nickelodeon UK - October 28, 2023
  5. ^ Amy Lewis on Instagram - "Something crazy happened recently..."
  6. ^ Amy Lewis on Instagram - "Here are a small handful..."
  7. ^ SPONGEBOB SCHWAMMKOPF - EPISODE GUIDE
  8. ^ SpongeBob SquarePants : 284. Catalog.org - Public Catalog
  9. ^ Amy Lewis on Twitter - "Also Art Direction...
  10. ^ Amy Lewis Art - Backgrounds/Concept Art
  11. ^ Amy Lewis on Twitter - "Here are a small handful..."
  12. ^ a b Amy Lewis on Twitter - "Here's a cool little one..."
  13. ^ Amy Lewis Art - SpongeBob SquarePants
  14. ^ Amy Lewis on Twitter - "Not sure who the..."
  15. ^ Ibrahim J. Corona on Twitter - "As the year warps up, I would..."
  16. ^ Dave Cunningham on Twitter - "Tune in for tomorrow night's..."
  17. ^ a b Dylan 'Houston' King on Instagram - "Clips from..."
  18. ^ Nickstory - March 31, 2023
  19. ^ Dave Cunningham on Twitter - "Trivial bit -..."
  20. ^ Dave Cunningham on Twitter - "We had to settle..."
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