The Monster Who Came to Bikini Bottom

The Monster Who Came to Bikini Bottom
General
Production code:	223-743
Season №:	7
Episode №:	140a
Airdate:	November 16, 2010 January 28, 2011 January 29, 2011 February 5, 2011 March 21, 2011 April 15, 2011 See more... February 3, 2011 (Nicktoons) February 10, 2011 March 2, 2011 March 12, 2011 March 12, 2011 (Nickelodeon) March 17, 2011 March 18, 2011 March 19, 2011 March 19, 2011 March 19, 2011 March 19, 2011 March 20, 2011 June 19, 2011 December 31, 2011 (QTV) February 20, 2012 January 10, 2013 (Nickelodeon) June 27, 2015 July 11, 2018 (TET) August 2, 2018 (PLUS PLUS) October 12, 2018 January 12, 2021 March 19, 2022 May 4, 2022 September 24, 2022
U.S. premiere time (ET):	8:30 pm
Copyright year:	2010
U.S. viewers (millions):	6.05
Running time:	11 minutes, 44 seconds
Sister episode(s):	"Welcome to the Bikini Bottom Triangle"
Credits
Writer(s):	Aaron Springer Dani Michaeli
Supervising Producer(s):	Paul Tibbitt
Storyboard:	Aaron Springer
Animation:	Andrew Overtoom
Creative:	Vincent Waller
Chronology
Previous	"The Cent of Money"
Next	"Welcome to the Bikini Bottom Triangle"

"The Monster Who Came to Bikini Bottom" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 7. In this episode, Patrick befriends a monster.

Characters

• Patchy the Pirate ^{(original airing only)}
• Potty the Parrot ^{(original airing only)}
• Patrick Star
• Rrarrg ^(debut)
• French Narrator
• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Gary the Snail
• Snail on the All Organic Snail Nibbles package
• Krill ^(mentioned)
• Squidward Tentacles
• Eugene H. Krabs
• Incidentals
  • Incidental 41
  • Incidental 42
  • Incidental 107
  • Incidental 40
  • Incidental 118
  • Incidental 1D
  • Incidental 108 ^(cameo)
• Fish on magazine covers
• Seagull ^(mentioned)

Synopsis

Rrarrg.

In the beginning of the episode, Patrick is playing around one day, when he stumbles upon a few jugs of radioactive waste. He pulls out the rubber stopper, saying he could add it to his rubber stopper collection. This allows the green goo to pour out and contaminate the coral around the jugs. Patrick then starts playing with a snow globe until a big coral monster hovers above him. Patrick hands the snow globe to the monster, showing him how to work it. The monster seems to have just as much fun as Patrick did with it. Then, Patrick and the monster smell each other's armpits, just to pass the time, and then they play a short game of hide and seek.

After playing a few rounds of coral ring toss, Patrick jumps in the monster's mouth and rides over to SpongeBob's house. SpongeBob sees Patrick in the monster's mouth and thinks he is being eaten by him. He then has a flashback to a problem "just as bad" the day before, when the soda machine at the Krusty Krab ran out of ice. Patrick then introduces the monster to SpongeBob, who finds out the monster's name is Rrarrg. Patrick says Rrarrg can live under his rock, but Rrarrg tries it and smashes Patrick's house. Patrick and SpongeBob then accidentally encourage him to go and smash SpongeBob's house. Gary escapes the house right before it is destroyed.

He then smashes Squidward's house and is put under captivity by the police. When a cop sneezes in the megaphone, Rrarrg goes berserk. He then goes through Bikini Bottom and the police finally catch him, with the chief angrily threatening to sneeze in the megaphone and make him to berserk again if he takes one more step before he gets captured. After Patrick tries, but fails to save him, they drive him out of town. However, SpongeBob has an idea. They transport Rrarrg and Patrick to a snowy mountain to get ice for the customers at the Krusty Krab. Whenever a customer needs ice, SpongeBob just calls Patrick for Rrarrg to smash a big block of it and to throw the cubes to the Krusty Krab when the ice machine is broken. The customer thanks SpongeBob for the ice and SpongeBob asks him to thank Rrarrg, leaving the customer in confusion, as the episode ends.

Production

Around January 2010, Vincent Waller rough sketched press art for the Legends special episodes, including one for "The Monster Who Came to Bikini Bottom."

This episode was added to the United States Copyright Catalog on August 23, 2010, alongside the other 5 episodes from the SpongeBob's Legends of Bikini Bottom event. It was confirmed on October 22, 2010.

Art

Character design

• Designed by Virginia Hawes.

Model sheets

Press art

• Rough sketched by Vincent Waller, cleaned up by Kenny Pittenger, Peter Benett, and Brad Vandergrift.

Music

( ‣ ) Production music

( • ) Original music

( ◦ ) SpongeBob music

 ‣ The Creature [#44] - Gregor F. Narholz [Title card]
 • Another Best Day Ever - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Opening]
 ‣ Dramatic Encounter - Gregor F. Narholz [toxic waste]
 • Slide Whistle Stooges 2 No Whistle - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [snow globe]
 ‣ Dramatic Encounter - Gregor F. Narholz [loud stomping]
 ‣ The Creature (a) - Gregor F. Narholz [Monster revealed/Monster takes Patrick's snow globe]
 • Goofy Conversation Continued Thin Mix - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony ["No wonder you're angry."]
 • Lap Steel - Nicolas Carr ["Much, much later..."]
 • Goofy Conversation Continued Thin Mix - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [Patrick and Rrarrg still laughing]
 • Goofy Conversation Continued - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [Patrick smells the monster's armpit]
 • Goofy Conversation Continued Thin Mix - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [Patrick asks the monster if he likes to play tag]
 • FlexTone Sting - Nicolas Carr [Patrick gets an idea]
 ‣ Clumsy C - Bernd Gesell [playing hide-and-seek]
 • Seaweed 2 - Steve Belfer [coral ring toss]
 • Tentacally Speaking - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob feeding Gary]
 ‣ Straight from Hell - Gregor F. Narholz [Rrarrg approaching SpongeBob's house]
 ‣ Harry the Hippo [#56] - Phil Green ["Hey, SpongeBob! Hey, up here!"]
 ‣ Straight from Hell - Gregor F. Narholz ["Gary, this is even worse than yesterday!"]
 • Jovial Pirate's Jig - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr [Yesterday...]
 ‣ Epic Tragedy - Gerhard Trede ["No! Why?! Why?! Why?! Why?!"]
 • Lap Steel - Nicolas Carr [Patrick at the door]
 ‣ Harry the Hippo - Phil Green [Patrick introduces SpongeBob to the monster]
 • Hello Blues - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Rrarrg smashes Patrick's house]
 ‣ Terror Hunt - Phil Green ["He's going to smash my house?!"]
 ‣ High Hazard - Philippe Pares [Rrarrg smashes SpongeBob's house]
 • Spongemonger - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Rrarrg smashes Squidward's house]
 ‣ Crime And Danger Sign #3 - Delle Haensch, Hans Conzelmann [cops arrive]
 • Bikini Bottom Police - Nicolas Carr ["Hold it, buddy. Where are you going?"]
 ‣ Horror Crash - Harry Lubin ["Pile of gravel?!"]
 ‣ Lazybones - Xavier Edmunds, Zoltan Biscotti [Rrarrg waves at Squidward]
 ‣ Someone Coming - Raymond C. Jones [cop sneezes into megaphone]
 ‣ The Creature (a) - Gregor F. Narholz [Rrarrg escapes]
 ‣ Epic Adventure - Dick Stephen Walter ["Quick, everybody into the... Quick, everybody into the squad car!"]
 ‣ Domestic Fun (B) - Ernest Tomlinson [magazine stand]
 ‣ Drama Link (G) - Hubert Clifford [Rrarrg gets cornered by the police]
 ‣ No Fear OL - Udi Harpaz [Patrick saves Rrarrg]
 ‣ Befuddled Gent - Phil Green ["Actually... just let me to talk to him for a minute."]
 ‣ Poem Of Crickets - Katsutoshi Nagasawa ["And so as the lowly snail sheddeth his shell, and the lofty gull molteth his feathers, the brightest of friendships must dimmeth..."]
 • A Kabuki Moment - Nicolas Carr ["...as the setting sun."]
 • Aloha Lui Lui - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Rrarrg leaves]
 ‣ Yodel Of Joy - Martha Wild, Renato Bui [making ice cubes]
 • Jovial Pirate's Jig - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr [Ending]

Release

• This episode is available on the Legends of Bikini Bottom, Complete Seventh Season, SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 12, Season 7 Volume 2, SpongeBob SquarePants Has Hit Rock Bottom, Terror on Nickelodeon, The SpongeBob SquarePants Collection, Triple Pack 3, The SpongeBob SquarePants 8 Season DVD Collection, The Best of Bikini Bottom, Sunđer Bob Kockalone DVD 6, Kids Double Pack, Kids Double Pack: Volume 3, Next 100 Episodes, Big Hits: Volume 2, The Best 200 Episodes Ever, The Seventh & Eighth Seasons, and The Best 300 Episodes Ever DVDs.

Trivia

General

• This episode, as well as the other episodes in the miniseries, was available on the Legends of Bikini Bottom DVD, released on November 16, 2010, two months before it aired on American television.

Patchy's story.

• To promote the premiere of this episode, the Nickelodeon website featured a story from Patchy about Rrarrg. Viewers could ask Patchy questions on the former Nick.com message boards.
• Right before the premiere of this and the other episodes of the anthology series on TV, a Patchy introduction would air, where he finds the The Legends of Bikini Bottom book, to tell as bedtime stories for Potty. These Patchy segments however were cut for the digital releases, streaming services, DVD releases, and rerun versions.
• The Paramount+ streaming release merges this episode, "Welcome to the Bikini Bottom Triangle," "The Curse of the Hex," "The Main Drain," "Trenchbillies," and "Sponge-Cano!" into a one-hour and seven minute long compilation.
• This episode is similar to "Sandy, SpongeBob, and the Worm," as both episodes involve a monster coming to Bikini Bottom.
• In "Hide and Then What Happens?," Patrick does not know how to play hide and seek, but in this episode, he does.

• The "Yesterday" time card is similar to the "Blackened Sponge" title card.
• This is the first episode in the Legends of Bikini Bottom anthology miniseries.
• This is the first episode where a time card goes before in time instead of after in time.
• This is the only season 7 episode to use the track "Another Best Day Ever" outside a title card.

Dub facts

• In the Arabic dub, on MBC 3 airings, the title card incorrectly reads "مثلث قاع الهامور," which translates to "The Bikini Bottom Triangle" (the sister episode) despite it being read aloud as "وحش قاع الهامور" ("The Bikini Bottom Monster").

Errors

• When Rrarrg drools on Patrick, there are three puddles, but when he roars and snatches his snow globe, they are gone.
• When Patrick is in Rrarrg's mouth with the ring toss ring, it is behind Rrarrg's teeth, but when Rrarrg moves, the ring is in front of Rrarrg's teeth.

Size error.

• When Rrarrg is in the cage, he looks bigger than before. While in the town, he looks much smaller from his earlier appearances.
• The blue policeman has the megaphone, but then about three seconds later, the tan policeman has it.
• In some scenes, Patrick talks but his lips do not move.

Videos

SpongeBob SquarePants - "Legends of Bikini Bottom" Official Promo 1

SpongeBob SquarePants - "Legends of Bikini Bottom" Official Promo 2

SpongeBob SquarePants - "Legends of Bikini Bottom" Official Promo 3

Nickelodeon Split Screen Credits (January 25, 2011)

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Russian	Монстр, который пришёл в Бикини Боттом Monstr, kotoryy prishyol v Bikini Bottom	The Monster Who Came to Bikini Bottom
Spanish (American)	El monstruo que vino a Fondo de Bikini	The Monster That Came to Bikini Bottom
Spanish (European)	El monstruo que llegó a Fondo de Bikini	The Monster That Arrived at Bikini Bottom