The Complete 1st Season

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The Complete 1st Season
General information
Discs:	3
Running time:	474 minutes (7 hours, 54 minutes)
Episodes:	40
Specials:	5
Bonus features:	7
Released:	October 28, 2003

The Complete 1st Season is a SpongeBob SquarePants DVD box set that contains 40 episodes from season 1. It was released on October 28, 2003.

Episodes

Disc 1

Episode

1b - "Reef Blower"

1c - "Tea at the Treedome"

2a - "Bubblestand"

2b - "Ripped Pants"

3a - "Jellyfishing"

3b - "Plankton!"

4a - "Naughty Nautical Neighbors"

4b - "Boating School"

5a - "Pizza Delivery"

5b - "Home Sweet Pineapple"

6a - "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy"

6b - "Pickles"

7a - "Hall Monitor"

7b - "Jellyfish Jam"

8a - "Sandy's Rocket"

8b - "Squeaky Boots"

List of home videos

Disc 2

Episode

9a - "Nature Pants"

9b - "Opposite Day"

10a - "Culture Shock"

10b - "F.U.N."

11a - "MuscleBob BuffPants"

11b - "Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost"

12a - "The Chaperone"

12b - "Employee of the Month"

13a - "Scaredy Pants"

13b - "I Was a Teenage Gary"

14a - "SB-129"

14b - "Karate Choppers"

15a - "Sleepy Time"

15b - "Suds"

16a - "Valentine's Day"

16b - "The Paper"

List of home videos

Disc 3

Episode

17a - "Arrgh!"

17b - "Rock Bottom"

18a - "Texas"

18b - "Walking Small"

19a - "Fools in April"

19b - "Neptune's Spatula"

20a - "Hooky"

20b - "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy II"

List of home videos

Special features

Specials

• The Origin of SpongeBob SquarePants
• The First Season Crew on...
• Everybody's Talking: The Voices Behind SpongeBob SquarePants
• The Bikini Bottom's Up Tour
• In Key of Sea: Krusty Krab Karaoke
• Drawing the Goo Lagoon
• SpongeBob's Life Strategies
• Violent Femmes Sing SpongeBob
• SpongeBob Scaredy Pants Music Video
• SpongeBob Dancin' Pants Music Video

Audio commentaries

Episode

- "Plankton! (audio commentary)"

- "Karate Choppers (audio commentary)"

List of home videos

Music videos

• In the Key of Sea: Krusty Krab Karaoke
• Violent Femmes Sing SpongeBob
• SpongeBob ScaredyPants
• SpongeBob Dancin' Pants

Other

• The Bikini Bottom's Up Tour

Reception

• Jason Bovberg of DVDTalk.com, said in a review that "whether you should purchase this set depends on what level of fan you are and how many of the 'theme' sets you've already purchased." He praised the extras and the video quality, although he noticed the lack of new home video releases of episodes in the set (at the time of its release, only 14 out of the 40 episodes in the set weren't released before). He also criticized the lack of the pilot episode "Help Wanted," describing the set as "annoying" for missing it.
• Bill Treadway of the DVD Verdict, praised the video and audio quality on the set, comparing it to other "television shows get lackluster treatment on DVD,: saying that "there is much to enjoy, even in the lackluster episodes." However, he also slightly criticized the absence of the pilot.

Trivia

• The following episodes on this DVD set have their music score changed due to copyright issues:
  • "Sandy's Rocket"
  • "Culture Shock"
  • "MuscleBob BuffPants"
  • "Employee of the Month"
  • "Karate Choppers"
  • "Rock Bottom"
• The first disc contains a preview for SpongeBob VHS tapes and DVDs.
• The following disc covers are based on the episodes that are:
  • Disc 1
    • "Hall Monitor"
  • Disc 2
    • "F.U.N."
  • Disc 3
    • "Hooky"
• "Help Wanted," the pilot episode of the series, was not included on this DVD set due to copyright issues with Tiny Tim's song "Livin' in the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moonlight" being played in this episode. According to Derek Drymon, this is because Nickelodeon did not want to pay Tiny Tim's estate for the rights. However, it is included as a bonus feature on disc 3 of The Complete 3rd Season, The Third & Fourth Seasons, and 10 Happiest Moments DVDs. It is also available as a normal episode on The First 100 Episodes, SpongeBob, You're Fired!, The Pilot a Mini-Movie and the Square Shorts, and The Best 200 Episodes Ever DVDs.
• This is the first SpongeBob DVD with multiple discs.
• This DVD release was rated PG in Canada for brief and mild violence. This marks the first seasonal DVD release in that country to have this rating. Seasons 2-9 are rated G in Canada.
• This is the first SpongeBob season DVD to not contain any double-length episodes.

Errors

• On the back of disc 1, "Sandy's Rocket" is mistakenly listed as "Sandys Rocket," missing the apostrophe.
• The description of "Plankton!" says, "It's another evil scheme by that schemer of evil, Plankton," but that episode was Plankton's debut. This error also happens on the Lost at Sea DVD, The Sponge Who Could Fly VHS tape, and The 1st Season: Volume 1 UMD Video.
• In the Disc 2 episode description of "I Was a Teenage Gary," there is a part that reads, "Gary medicine," instead of "Gary's medicine."
• In the Disc 3 episode description of "Neptune's Spatula," there is a part that reads "Worlds Greatest Fry Cook," instead of "World's Greatest Fry Cook," thus forgetting the apostrophe.

An image from "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy III" instead of "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy II."

• In the episode selection on disc 3, the image for "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy II" is not from that episode. The image is actually from "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy III," which is not on this DVD.
  • This error also happens on the Lost at Sea DVD.

Bill Faberbakke

• In the closing credits for "Reef Blower" and "Tea at the Treedome," Bill Fagerbakke's name is misspelled as "Bill Faberbakke."

Covers

Disc covers

Disc 1 (UK cover)

Disc 2 (UK cover)

Disc 3 (USA cover)

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Alternate covers

2012 re-release cover

iTunes cover

Amazon video cover

UMD Video cover

French cover

Spanish release cover

Australian release cover

Australian re-release cover

Japanese release cover

Japanese re-release cover

Arabic release cover

Dutch release cover

UK release cover

Romanian release cover (the actual set contains episodes from seasons 6 and 7)

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Disc menus

Disc 1 Main Menu

Disc 2 Main Menu

Disc 3 Main Menu

Disc 1 Episode Selection - 1 (excluding 1a), 2

Disc 1 Episode Selection - 3, 4

Disc 1 Episode Selection - 5, 6

Disc 1 Episode Selection - 7, 8

Disc 2 Episode Selection - 9, 10

Disc 2 Episode Selection - 11, 12

Disc 2 Episode Selection - 13, 14

Disc 2 Episode Selection - 15, 16

Disc 3 Episode Selection - 17, 18

Disc 3 Episode Selection - 19, 20

Special Features (Disc 1)

Audio Commentary Menu for "Plankton!" (Disc 1)

Special Features (Disc 2)

Audio Commentary Menu for "Karate Choppers" (Disc 2)

Special Features (Disc 3)

More Special Features (Disc 3)

Krusty Krab Karaoke Menu (Disc 3)

Vocals Option Menu (Disc 3)

Bikini Bottom's Up Tour Menu (Disc 3)

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Commercial

SpongeBob The Complete 1st Season DVD Box Set Commercial

References

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