"The Ho! Ho! Horror!" is a Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years episode from season 1. In this episode, Santa Claus visits the children of Kamp Koral, who aren't quite sure what to make of the jolly giant.
Characters[]
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Santa Claus
- Patrick Star
- Squidward Tentacles
- Sandy Cheeks
- Mrs. Puff
- Eugene H. Krabs
- Sheldon J. Plankton
- Bubble Bass
- Kevin C. Cucumber
- Larry the Lobster
- Perch Perkins
- Margaret SquarePants (mentioned)
- Incidentals
- Elves
- Sea bunnies
- Rea
- Roh
Synopsis[]
While floating in the water, Santa checks his travel magazine to see that Bikini Bottom has been voted the happiest town in the sea for the second year in a row. This causes Santa to think that he has missed the town, so he checks for the residents and notices that they are all at Kamp Koral. Santa puts his suit off and gets on his reindeer, Bludolph, to fly to the camp. He gets ready to place presents inside the cabins, but is stopped by SpongeBob and Patrick, who each briefly step outside their cabin. When they go back inside, Santa prepares to throw the presents inside the cabins, and hides as soon as sunrise hits.
The next morning, Squidward trips on a log that Santa placed outside his cabin. Afterwards, he plays his clarinet poorly, resulting in Santa crossing Squidward off his list. The campers all notice their presents and head outside their cabins, but are unaware of who Santa is. SpongeBob gives his mom's advice to the other campers of not accepting gifts from strangers. Patrick wants to open his present, but SpongeBob stops him from doing so. The campers then burn their presents in the fire. Santa tries to explain himself to the campers, but they are scared away because of his echoing voice and his boot being on fire.
The campers go to Mr. Krabs for help as Santa approaches them again. His breath gets into the campers' faces before being attacked and tied up shortly after. Santa then uses his fingers to set Christmas lights on the cabins and feed candy to the campers. Squidward advises the campers to spit out the candy and run away from Santa. They try to figure out how to get rid of Santa, to which Mrs. Puff shows up for help. The campers inflate Mrs. Puff to aim to take down Santa, who gets ready to leave.
Mrs. Puff approaches Santa and attacks him, setting off a fight between them, destroying parts of the camp in process. During the flight, the hat that Santa placed over Sandy's dome earlier falls off, waking her. Sandy prepares her karate gloves and climbs up Santa, soon noticing him. Mrs. Puff attacks Santa, causing Sandy to fall off and slide towards the bush that the rest of the campers hid in. Sandy explains to the campers of her knowing about Santa, but the campers are still unaware of his true nature. Irritated, Sandy climbs on Mrs. Puff, telling her to stop attacking Santa. With Mrs. Puff not stopping, Sandy opens an air hole on Mrs. Puff, deflating her.
Sandy explains to the campers again that the presents are not dangerous, to which they finally agree. Later that night, the campers are shown enjoying their presents as Mrs. Puff apologizes to Santa for the misunderstanding. Santa gets ready to leave on Bludolph, wishing happy holidays to everyone. The screen zooms in on Santa's boot, revealing Plankton being stuck there, as the episode ends.
Production[]
This episode was in production prior to March 2020.[1]
In an interview with the Encyclopedia SpongeBobia Discord server on December 13, 2020, Dave Cunningham stated that there would be "more than one" holiday special coming up for the franchise. This episode ended up being one of them, alongside the other Christmas specials "SpongeBob's Road to Christmas" and "Just in Time for Christmas," as well as the Halloween specials "Are You Afraid of the Dork?" and "Terror at 20,000 Leagues."[2]
Promotional art[]
- Created by the SpongeBob social media accounts,[3][4] Eliza Herndon,[5] and Yeardley Wells.[6]
Art[]
Character design[]
- Preliminary doodle by Dave Cunningham.[7]
Storyboards[]
- Rough boarded "masterfully" by Brian Morante, "wonderful plussing work" by April "Pinkie" Davis[8] and Simon Edwards.[9]
Production notes[]
Brian Morante:
- Morante said that he "forgot about this [episode]," and he was "really looking forward to seeing how this one came out."[10]
Dave Cunningham:
- Cunningham said "it was a struggle plussing an already super plussed and funny rough board" and called Morante's work "amazing work as usual."[11]
Music[]
| ( ‣ ) Production music |
| ( • ) Original music |
| ( ◦ ) SpongeBob music |
• Christmas Island 2 Full Mix - Nicolas Carr [Opening]
‣ First Snow - Michael Reed, Thomas Howe [Santa rides to Bikini Bottom]
• Magic. - Nciolas Carr
‣ Sugar Plum Fairy (60) - Richard A. Harvey ["Stupid root beer, now I have to pee!"]
• Sophisticated Conversation - Daniel Stimac, Nicolas Carr [Squidward trips on a log.]
• Flash Gliss. - Nicolas Carr
• Revielle 1.0 - Brad Carow [Squidward plays a clarinet arrangement of "Reveille".]
‣ Good King Wenceslas (60) - Richard A. Harvey ["Well, I guess it's coal for Squidward."]
• Trouble - Billy Lincoln [Everyone confused after getting their presents.]
‣ Danger - Remastered - Paul Lewis ["Wait! My mother always said "Never take gifts from strangers!""]
• ? - Nicolas Carr [Everyone cheers, about to burn the presents]
‣ Bridge 2 - Remastered - Wilfred Burns [Perch Perkins screams.]
• Ho Ho Horror Cue 2 - Nicolas Carr ["It's a giant bearded lady!"]
‣ I Saw Three Ships (30b) - Richard A. Harvey ["I'm no lady! I'm Santa Claus!"]
• ? - Nicolas Carr [Santa catches his foot on fire]
• Hawaiian Steel Stings 1 - Jeremy Wakefield [Santa gets sad]
• ? - Nicolas Carr
• ? - Nicolas Carr
‣ Jingle Bells (60) - Richard A. Harvey [I'm Santa, you know...]
• ? - Nicolas Carr
‣ The Gift Box - Derek Zhao
‣ The First Flight - Adam Saunders, Mark Cousins
• More Majic. - Nicolas Carr
• Untitled Tracks - Nicolas Carr
‣ Drama Unlimited 2 - Remastered - Ronald Hanmer ["Candy from strangers!"]
‣ Grotesque Funeral - Piotr Moss [SpongeBob asks where he's gonna find a jolly giant killer now.]
‣ It's Our Time - Edward White [Mrs. Puff volunteers to be a jolly giant.]
• Sad Jingle Bells (ukulele & steel) - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [You tried Santa, but if the kids don't believe, they don't believe.]
• Untitled Tracks - Nicolas Carr [Santa turns around]
‣ Quirky and Quizzical Sting C Christmas Mix - Daryl Griffith [Santa turns around]
• Sophisticated Conversation - Daniel Stimac, Nicolas Carr ["I believe you just crossed the line, weird beard!"]
• Jingles - Nicolas Carr [Overlays "Sophisticated Conversation".]
‣ The Wild Bunch - Sam Spence [Mrs. Puff and Santa fighting.]
‣ Paroxysms J - Trevor Duncan ["This is the red giant's war zone! We're just living in it!"]
‣ Mini Prelude (3) - Johnny Pearson ["That's not a red giant!"]
‣ Good King Wenceslas (60) - Richard A. Harvey ["Well, it is!"]
‣ Pub Brawl - Johnny Pearson [Everybody cheers for Mrs. Puff.]
• Hawaiian Steel Stings 19 - Jeremy Wakefield [Santa recovers.]
• Hawaiian Steel Stings 20 - Jeremy Wakefield [Santa straining.]
‣ First Snow - Michael Reed, Thomas Howe [Sandy says the presents aren't dangerous.]
• Christmas Island Full Mix - Nicolas Carr [Everybody looking at their presents.]
• Untitled Tracks - Nicolas Carr [Ending.]
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Release[]
- This episode is available on the Kamp Koral Season 1, Volume 1 DVD.
Trivia[]
General[]
- This episode was paired up with The Patrick Star Show episode "Just in Time for Christmas" during the Nickelodeon premiere.[12]
- In this episode, Santa is a giant compared to the campers (most likely as a parallel between the human size and fish size), despite him being either roughly the same size as Bikini Bottomites or being only slightly larger than them in the original show.
- In "SpongeBob's Road to Christmas," it was revealed Santa has the power to shrink himself down which would explain the difference in size.
- Santa's role was originally planned to be played by a live-action actor just like the Santa in "Christmas Who?," but the part was never casted. This plan was scrapped due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1]
- According to Brian Ratchford, this was just one of many ideas for the series that were scrapped because of it.[13]
- Santa needs an air helmet to breathe underwater, despite the fact that in the original show he is perfectly fine breathing underwater.
- However, there's also the argument on how Santa's magic could allow him to breathe underwater.
- Harvey is referred on Santa's list as "that one nerd kid."
- Unidentified campers on Santa Claus' list include Alice, Hannah, Peter, and Wesley.
Episode references[]
- Santa marking out Squidward's name on the Nice List with a red pen is a reference to "Goons on the Moon," where it's revealed that Squidward is on the Naughty List.
Cultural references[]
- When Sandy holds out candy, Patrick says: "You had me at candy!" This references the line "You had me at hello." from the 1996 film Jerry Maguire.
- Bludolph the Blue-Nosed Reindeer is a reference to the character Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer from the 1964 TV special of the same name.
- Santa and Mrs. Puff's fight scenes were inspired by Godzilla's.[7]
Videos[]
References[]
- ^ a b Dave Cunningham on Twitter - "Fun fact: the role of Santa..."
- ^ File:Holidaysb.jpeg
- ^ SpongeBob on Twitter - "celebrating NEW episides..."
- ^ SpongeBob on Twitter - "'tis the season to be..."
- ^ Eliza Herndon on Twitter - "New premieres of The Patrick Star Show/Kamp Koral..."
- ^ Yeardley Wells on Twitter - "Excited to watch the new..."
- ^ a b Dave Cunningham on Twitter - "Prelim doodle of..."
- ^ April Pinkie Davis on Twitter - "SANTA'S COMING to Kamp..."
- ^ Dave Cunningham on Twitter - "Tonight at 7:15pm, the network premiere of..."
- ^ Brian Morante on Twitter - "I forgot all about this..."
- ^ Dave Cunningham on Twitter - "It was a struggle..."
- ^ Nickstory - December 3, 2021
- ^ Brian Ratchford on Twitter - "Oh I hate how many..."
