Ugh

Episode Information

"Ugh" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from [[season {{{seasonnumber}}}]]. In this episode, .

"Ugh", also known as "SpongeBob B.C. (Before Comedy)" and "SpongeBob Goes Prehistoric" is a special SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season three.

Brief Summary: In Encino, California (As it was 100 million years ago), Patchy is trying to host a prehistoric themed show. However, Potty is convinced that the future is cooler than the past, and engages in a "war" between the future and the past, threatening Patchy's control over the show. Meanwhile, in a prehistoric Bikini Bottom, the ancestors of SpongeBob, Patrick and Squidward discover fire.

Characters:

• Patchy The Pirate
• Potty the Parrot
• French Narrator
• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Mr. Krabs
• SpongeGar
• Patar
• Squog
• Gary
• crabs
• Cavey
• Robot Android Cyborg DX-294888
• Alarm fish
• T-Rex

Time cards shown:

• Meanwhile
• Please Stand By

Songs:

• When Worlds Collide

DVD:

• SpongeBob Goes Prehistoric

Plot

The French Narrator introduces another SpongeBob SquarePants special, hosted from Encino, California as it was 100 million years ago. From his cave-house, Patchy the Pirate, in a caveman costume, is introducing prehistoric times and talking about how great they were. However, Potty, in a futuristic robot costume, appears and says that prehistoric times were lame and the future is "where it's at". They begin arguing over whether SpongeBob himself likes prehistory or the future better, and while working at the Krusty Krab, SpongeBob feels a disturbance, and tells Mr. Krabs that "I've got the strangest feeling, that somewhere a pirate and parrot are arguing about me. And the parrot is winning." As Patchy and Potty continue to argue, Patchy begins the SpongeBob episode.

The cartoon features prehistoric versions of SpongeBob, Squidward and Patrick, named "SpongeGar", "Squog" and "Patar", respectively. SpongeGar, who is sleeping in his pineapple-shaped cave, it awaken by a distant herd of monstrous purple creatures, who produce a sound identical to that of SpongeBob's foghorn. SpongeGar takes his version of Gary, who is almost as big as the house itself, out for a walk, and he leaves a slime trail all over Squog's front yard. Squog comes out to complain to SpongeGar, but slips on the slime trail, sliding into Patar's rock, awakening its occupant, and eventually crashing back into his own house. SpongeGar and Patar begin to play, and SpongeGar uses a hollow log to blow a bubble. It then starts raining, and eventually lightning strikes the log, setting it on fire. The three cavemen experiment with it, and soon realize that it can be used to cook food, and begin cooking various items with it.

Over the commercial break, Patchy and Potty continue to fight, now keeping score between the future and the past. Patchy brings in a real live caveman, but Potty brings in a futuristic robot who begins repeatedly shooting the caveman with lasers.

At the end of the day, SpongeGar, Patar and Squog start fighting over who will keep the fire. They continue fighting until it starts raining again, putting the fire out. SpongeGar and Patar apologize to each other for fighting, but Squog blames them for putting it out and attempts to hit them over the head. Before he can do so, however, lightning strikes him and SpongeGar and Patar cook marshmallows over his charred body.

After the cartoon, Patchy is shown sitting outside his cave, apparently having lost to Potty. However, Potty comes outside and invites him back in, where Cavey the Caveman and the Robot Android Cyborg DX-294888 sing a song called "When Worlds Collide". The song montage features scenes from SpongeBob B.C. and "SB-129". The episode ends with Potty giving Patchy a "gift": a Tyrannosaurus Rex which begins chasing and eating him.

Caveman language

SpongeGar, Patar and Squog speak in a primitive language similar to English. Many words and sounds are taken from or based on English words/sounds.

Known meanings:

• Banooga Ready! - I'm Ready!
• Kabonga - Come on
• Polinka - brain
• Dumbo - dumb
• Taila Foo! - art
• Tay - make
• na - no
• Mowanga - excellent, yummy
• fwee fwee - fire
• pooga - slime
• pooca - idiot
• unga - love
• paila fo - art
• monga - stupid
• tonga - go away!
• toga - give me
• wa - watch
• bolapa - burp
• gonaga - good night
• forgata - forgot
• at wanna - but why

Trivia/Goofs

• The cavemen versions of SpongeBob and Patrick seen in this episode are different from the ones in "SB-129". The primitive sponge and starfish from that episode bore little resemblance to their modern-day counterparts, were savagely primitive, and had no spoken language. It is likely that this episode takes place at a later time period than the prehistoric scene in "SB-129".
• The scene in which SpongeGar takes a piece of coral out of the fire using a stick is a parody of a scene from the Dawn of Man sequence from 2001: A Space Odyssey. The music played during this scene is a parody of the famous title theme of 2001.
• The song "When Worlds Collide" takes its' name from the novel of the same name, although this is likely coincidental.
• Patchy has brown eyes throughout the episode, but when his eyes bulge out of his head, they are blue in color.
• Squog says "Wait a minute" at one point, the only English sentence spoken by any of the Cavemen.
• Among the things eaten by SpongeGar, Patar and Squog are a group of small crabs found under a rock, which say nothing but "Money!" This is an obvious reference to Mr. Krabs.
• Scenes from "SB-129" are seen during the "When Worlds Collide" sequence.
• Also, scenes from "VeggieTales: Esther" are seen during the "When Worlds Collide" special.
• One of the foods SpongeGar cooks is a Krabby Patty replica made of sand.
• The original captions spell Patar's name as "Pathar".
• The YTV captions spell Squog's name as "Squd".
• The caveman that Patchy found and thawed out is played by Bill Fagerbakke, who voices Patrick. Incidentally, Potty's robot is voiced by Tom Kenny, the actor for SpongeBob and Patchy.
• When Gary gets a snail-trail on Squog's rocks, it is on the one closest to his house, but when Squog looks out the window, it is on the third one from his house.
• Squog doesn't have a door on his house until he takes the fire to his house.
• In original and DVD or VHS captions, SpongeGar's line "Banooga ready!" (which means "I'm ready!") is written as "(speaking gibberish)" or "Ready!".
• On the DVD/VHS cover, SpongeGar has two sleeves, while he has only one in the actual episode.
• This episode has different theme and background for the end credits. The only other episode to have this feature is "Christmas Who?"
• The opening credits on the title card are also unique. This is the fourth time this has happened, the first three being "SB-129", "Prehibernation Week" and "Krusty Krab Training Video".
• One of the singers is a woman wearing a fake moustache.
• After the three are done with the fire, they walk home with bulged out stomachs. When they go back to get the fire, their stomachs are normal.
• Like Nature Pants, Life of Crime, and Prehibernation Week, fire is able to exist underwater.

Quotes

Potty: (squawk) You’re wasting your time, old man. Prehistoric stuff is lame. Everybody knows the future’s where it’s at.

Patchy: What?! (laughs nervously) That’s not true! Don’t mind him, folks. Why even SpongeBob SquarePants knows that prehistoric stuff is, what the kids say, (air quotes) cool.

Potty: (squawk) No he doesn’t.

Patchy: Yes he does.

Potty: Nope.

Patchy: He most certainly does.

Potty: No he doesn’t.

Patchy: Yes he does!

Potty: No.

Patchy: (angry) I know for a fact that he does!

Potty: …not. (Patchy fumes. Cut to a screen reading…)

Narrator: Meanwhile. (cut to SpongeBob at the grill, very nervous. Mr. Krabs comes in)

Mr. Krabs: SpongeBob! What’s wrong?

SpongeBob: I don’t know, Mr. Krabs, but I’ve got this strangest feeling that somewhere out there, a pirate and parrot

are arguing about me. (close-up on SpongeBob) And the parrot is winning. (cut to Patchy and Potty)

Patchy: Does.

Potty: Doesn’t.

Patchy: Does.

Potty: Doesn’t.

Patchy: Does.

Potty: Doesn’t.

Patchy: Does! Uh, look, while we’re arguing, why don’t you folks go ahead and watch some prehistoric SpongeBob! Roll

the cartoon! …does.

Potty: Doesn’t. (Patchy fumes)