If you were looking for the article about the re-release, then see The Complete Third Season.
If you were looking for the article about the season, then see season 3.
The Complete 3rd Season is a SpongeBob SquarePants DVD box set that was released on September 27, 2005. It contains all 37 episodes from season 3 and one episode from season 1 as a special feature.
Episodes
Disc 1
| Episode | |
|---|---|
| 41a - "The Algae's Always Greener" | |
| 41b - "SpongeGuard on Duty" | |
| 42a - "Club SpongeBob" | |
| 42b - "My Pretty Seahorse" | |
| 43a - "Just One Bite" (edited version) | |
| 43b - "The Bully" | |
| 44a - "Nasty Patty" | |
| 44b - "Idiot Box" | |
| 45a - "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV" | |
| 45b - "Doing Time" | |
| 46a - "Snowball Effect" | |
| 46b - "One Krabs Trash" | |
| 47a - "As Seen on TV" | |
| 47b - "Can You Spare a Dime?" | |
| 48a - "No Weenies Allowed" | |
| 48b - "Squilliam Returns" | |
| List of home videos | |
Disc 2
| Episode | |
|---|---|
| 49a - "Krab Borg" | |
| 49b - "Rock-a-Bye Bivalve" | |
| 50a - "Wet Painters" | |
| 50b - "Krusty Krab Training Video" | |
| 51 - "Party Pooper Pants" | |
| 52a - "Chocolate with Nuts" | |
| 52b - "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V" | |
| 53a - "New Student Starfish" | |
| 53b - "Clams" | |
| 54 - "Ugh" | |
| 55a - "The Great Snail Race" | |
| 55b - "Mid-Life Crustacean" | |
| 56a - "Born Again Krabs" | |
| 56b - "I Had an Accident" | |
| List of home videos | |
Disc 3
| Episode | |
|---|---|
| 57a - "Krabby Land" | |
| 57b - "The Camping Episode" | |
| 58a - "Missing Identity" | |
| 58b - "Plankton's Army" | |
| 59 - "The Sponge Who Could Fly" | |
| 60a - "SpongeBob Meets the Strangler" | |
| 60b - "Pranks a Lot" | |
| List of home videos | |
Bonus
| Episode | |
|---|---|
| 1a - "Help Wanted" | |
| List of home videos | |
Specials
Bonus features
Pop-up trivia facts
Reception
Bryan Pope of the DVD Verdict, praised the video and audio quality on the set, as well as the episodes themselves, calling the season "the best one of the Nickelodeon mainstay." However, he questioned the inclusion of the pilot episode of the show in this set "now instead of in its natural spot with the first season,"[1] seemingly unaware of the copyright issues mentioned in the Trivia section below.
Trivia
General
- "Party Pooper Pants," "Ugh," and "The Sponge Who Could Fly" are all counted as double-length episodes.
- The reason that the episode "Help Wanted" appears on the Season 3 DVD box set despite it being a season 1 episode is because during the production of the Season 1 DVD box set, they had copyright issues over the song "Livin' in the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moonlight," which is featured in the episode, so they excluded it from the Season 1 DVD and promised to include it in a future DVD release.[2]
- In the Latin American version, "Just One Bite" and "The Bully" were replaced with "Welcome to the Chum Bucket" and "Frankendoodle" which are episodes from season 2.
- This is the first time the disc cases are thin rather than normal sized on a season DVD set.
- This is the first SpongeBob season DVD box-set to show more than one character on the front cover.
- For some reason, on disc 3, the theme song is a separate chapter instead of it being paired with the first episode on the disc in one chapter.
- The episodes the disc covers are based on are:
- Disc 1: "Squilliam Returns"
- Disc 2: "Ugh"
- Disc 3: "Plankton's Army"
- The floor on the disc 1 cover is dark gray. In "Squilliam Returns," the episode this disc cover is based on, it is dark blue.
- The UK version has no special features.
- The box-set cover shows Squidward wearing the sombrero he wears in "The Camping Episode."
- It also appeared in "Idiot Box."
- One of the backings has Plankton escaping out of a pried hole, continuing on from the previous season 2 boxset where he was breaking in.
- The Set Up and Special Features screens use images from the following episodes:
- Disc 1 Set Up: "New Student Starfish"
- Disc 1 Special Features: "Born Again Krabs"
- Disc 2 Set Up: "Plankton's Army"
- Disc 2 Special Features: "The Algae's Always Greener" and "Wet Painters"
- Disc 3 Set Up: "Missing Identity"
- Disc 3 Special Features: "Krabby Land"
- Pop-up trivia facts: "Fear of a Krabby Patty"
- The Japanese cover has SpongeBob in a Hawaiian outfit playing on the ukulele.
- Unlike the previous two season box sets, every episode from season 3 had been released on DVD at least once by the time this box set was issued.
Errors
- The pop-up trivia facts uses an image of "Fear of a Krabby Patty," which is a season 4 episode.
- The episode description for "Club SpongeBob" says that SpongeBob, Patrick and Squidward are stranded "In the middle of nowhere" but there actually in the Kelp Forest.
- The episode description for "The Algae's Always Greener" suggests that the Transmogrifier switches lives for just one day, but that is never said in the episode.
"Belly."
- In the closed-captioning version of "Plankton's Army," Plankton says that "United, the Plankton family could be a real pain in the fanny!, the closed captions say "belly" instead of "fanny."
- The same closed-caption mistake also occurs on the SpongeBob Goes Prehistoric and Absorbing Favorites DVDs.
- Like other seasons, the French dub's music can be lower-pitched.
Covers
Disc covers
Disc 1
Disc 2
Disc 3
Alternate covers
2012 re-release cover
Amazon Prime Video cover
iTunes cover
Apple TV cover
UK DVD cover
Spanish release cover
Australian release cover
Australian re-release cover
Japanese release cover
Japanese re-release cover
French cover
Latin cover
Spanish re-release Cover
Disc 1 Main Menu
Disc 2 Main Menu
Disc 3 Main Menu
Set Up Disc 1
Set Up Disc 2
Set Up Disc 3
Disc 1 Episode Selection - 41, 42a
Disc 1 Episode Selection - 42b, 43
Disc 1 Episode Selection - 44, 45a
Disc 1 Episode Selection - 45b, 46
Disc 1 Episode Selection - 47, 48a
Disc 1 Episode Selection - 48b
Disc 2 Episode Selection - 49a, 50a
Disc 2 Episode Selection - 50b, 51, 52a
Disc 2 Episode Selection - 52b, 53
Disc 2 Episode Selection - 54, 55
Disc 2 Episode Selection - 56
Disc 3 Episode Selection - 57, 58a
Disc 3 Episode Selection - 58b, 59, 60a
Disc 3 Episode Selection - 60b
Special Features (Disc 1)
Special Features (Disc 2)
Special Features (Disc 3)
Pop-Up Trivia Menu for 42b, 48a, and 50b (Discs 1 & 2)
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Commercial
SpongeBob SquarePants Season 3 DVD Commercial (2005)
Reception
- ^ Pope, Bryan (2006-02-08). Review - Spongebob Squarepants: The Complete Third Season. DVD Verdict. Archived from the original on 2013-09-22. Retrieved on 2019-07-15.
- ^ http://cartoonician.com/the-oral-history-of-spongebob-squarepants/
