This article is a transcript of the Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years episode "What About Meep?" from season 1, which aired on July 22, 2021.
- [The episode opens with a shot of Kamp Koral.]
- Narrator: Well, good morning, campers. Looks like another perfect day here at Kamp Koral.
- [Harvey is seen hung on a paddle. He wakes up and struggles. Bubble Bass is shoved in a trash can.]
- Narrator: Now, as we know, every cabin and camp has its unique characters, [pans to the jock cabin exercising] but there's only one cabin in all of camp whose occupants are unique in exactly the same way: [pans to the Barge cabin] the Barge cabin. Otherwise known as Anchovy Cabin.
- [An alarm clock goes off. Two giant cans of tuna unroll. Anchovies come out wearing nightgowns.]
- Anchovies: Meep. Meep. Meep. [they take each others' night clothes off]
- [The anchovies continue meeping and step outside in two lines. SpongeBob is blocked by them walking past.]
- SpongeBob: [trying to get past] Oh, I need to just-- if--if I could-- excuse me--I-- [gets swept up and carried away] Whoa!
- [In a baseball game, the anchovies are playing bat. They all swing and hit the ball at once. Sandy, on the pitcher's mound, watches.]
- Sandy: Whooo, doggie! That's in the weeds!
- [The anchovies drop their bats on Patrick, the catcher. They run the bases and knock over other campers, including Patrick again. The scoreboard ticks up, then goes to fast that it launches away.]
- [Cut to the anchovies all showering. Kevin and two other campers begin coughing.]
- [The anchovies all dive into a pool, then surface to form the word "MEEEEEEP".]
- [The anchovies get lunch from Plankton, who "meep"s in response.]
- Anchovy: Meep.
- Plankton: Meep.
- Anchovy: Meep.
- Plankton: Meep.
- Anchovy: Meep.
- Plankton: Meep.
- Anchovy: Meep.
- [When a brown anchovy (later named Chovy) arrives, he looks between two pots of slop, both of which are disgusting. He looks around and inhales deeply.]
- Chovy: Moop.
- [Everyone gasps.]
- Plankton: [sighs] Don't you mean "meep"?
- Chovy: [shakes head] Mm-mm. [points to other slop] Moop.
- Plankton: You want moop? I'll give you moop. Makes me no never mind. [pours it onto his plate] Moop du jour.
- [Chovy sits at a table of three blue anchovies, who point at their green slop.]
- Anchovies: Meep.
- [Chovy eats his slop.]
- Chovy: Moop.
- Anchovies: Meep! [walk away]
- Chovy: [eats the rest of his] Moop. Moop. Moop.
- [Chovy goes back to his cabin. He and the other anchovies are live-action puppets.]
- Chovy: Moop!
- Anchovies: Meep!
- Chovy: Moop!
- Anchovies: Meep!
- Chovy: ♪ Moop-oop-moop! ♪
- Anchovies: ♪ Meep meep! ♪
- Chovy: ♪ Moop-oop-moop! ♪
- Anchovies: ♪ Meep meep! ♪
- Chovy: ♪ Moop-oop-moop! ♪
- Anchovies: ♪ Meep meep! ♪
- Chovy: [moving around] ♪ Moop-moooooop, moop-moop moop-moop moop-moop! Moop-moop moop-moop moop-moop, moop! Moop-oop-moop! ♪
- Anchovies: ♪ Meep meep! ♪
- Chovy: ♪ Moop-oop-moop! ♪
- Anchovies: ♪ Meep meep! ♪
- Chovy: ♪ Moop-oop-moop! ♪
- Anchovies: ♪ Meep meep! ♪
- Chovy: ♪ Moop-moooooop, moop-moop moop-moop moop-moop! Moop-moop moop-moop moop-moop, moop! ♪ Moop. Moop. [the other anchovies disappear] Moop-oop-moop!
- [Chovy exits the cabin.]
- Chovy: [sadly] Moop, moop, moop.
- [Anchovies pop out around the cabin.]
- Anchovies: [meeping]
- [Chovy walks past Lady Upturn.]
- Chovy: Moop!
- Upturn: [offended] Oh! [hurries off]
- [Chovy walks to a loudspeaker.]
- Chovy: Moop!
- Perch: [over loudspeaker] Wait, what?
- [Chovy walks past Mo, who is doing sit-ups.]
- Mo: 97! 89!
- Chovy: Moop.
- Mo: 90 moop! [grunts, flexes, and screams]
- [Chovy walks past a sleeping monster.]
- Chovy: Moop.
- [The monster gets up and walks away.]
- [Chovy goes to the Clamphitheater.]
- Chovy: [deep] ♪ Mooooop! ♪
- [Chovy goes to Pearl.]
- Chovy: Moop!
- Pearl: [laughs]
- [Chovy appears in front of Roxy.]
- Chovy: Moop! [to little Roxy, higher pitched] Moop!
- [Chovy appears in Perch's watchtower.]
- Chovy: [over speaker] Moop!
- [Clams fly away as bird cawing sounds play. Bubble transition to SpongeBob painting a picture of the outhouse. Chovy walks by, and the toilet flushes.]
- Chovy: Moop.
- Patrick: [comes out of outhouse] Uh, I think you mean "poop." [sees SpongeBob] Hey, SpongeBob!
- SpongeBob: Hey, Patrick! [goes to Chovy] Ciao, anchovy. Meep.
- Chovy: Moop.
- SpongeBob: [to Patrick] Don't they usually say, "Meep?"
- Patrick: Let's not get involved. He's part of that cluck.
- SpongeBob: Clique.
- Patrick: Okay. [takes out a pen and clicks it a few times]
- Chovy: [mooping]
- [SpongeBob takes out glasses, a graduation cap, and a bubble pipe. He listens to Chovy.]
- SpongeBob: Ah! His name is Chovy. He says he's tired of being a carbon copy. He wants to be his own fish with his own personality. [pauses, to Patrick] I spent a summer abroad in Anchovia.
- Chovy: [shrugs] Moop moop.
- SpongeBob: But he doesn't know what kind of personality he wants to be. [removes cap, pipe, and glasses] Don't worry, Chovy. We'll help ya. [holds out hand] High five!
- [Chovy stares blankly, glances around, and kisses SpongeBob's hand.]
- SpongeBob: [looks at hand] Huh.
- Patrick: [angrily] Alright, I'll help too! Just as long as [pokes Chovy] he doesn't steal my friendly personality!
- [Patrick sulks. A close-up of him shows him looking angry. The frame zooms out to show it as a painting SpongeBob is nailing to the wall.]
- SpongeBob: [proudly] There!
- Patrick: They really complement each other.
- [SpongeBob leaves and looks around. He pulls out a red book.]
- SpongeBob: Hmm. Here's something that might help you out. I tried out a lot of different personalities before I picked the perfect one you see before you today.
- [Chovy flips through the books. There are pictures of an emo SpongeBob, a cowboy SpongeBob, a theater-performing SpongeBob, a sad clown SpongeBob, a Picasso-style painting, SpongeBob dressed as a stuffed animal, a cheerleader SpongeBob, a serious-looking SpongeBob, JimBob, and a kitchen sponge taped in on the last page.]
- Chovy: [pokes sponge] Moop. [flips page, which has pictures of Patrick] Ooh! Moop!
- Patrick: [angrily] Hey! I said, not me!
- [Chovy gets a stupid expression and wanders around the cabin, smacking into walls.]
- Chovy: Duh-moop, doy-moop, doi-moop. Doi-moop!
- Patrick: You're not even doing it right! It's like this!
- [Patrick begins acting stupid and babbling, just like Chovy. They crash into each other and fall over. SpongeBob laughs.]
- Chovy: [imitates SpongeBob's laugh] Moop!
- [SpongeBob and Chovy laugh back and forth. Patrick looks around and imitates their laughing. SpongeBob puts his arm around Chovy.]
- Squidward: [opens his door] Why are there twice as many SpongeBobs and Patricks in here?
- Chovy: [as Squidward] Moop! [mooping]
- Squidward: [impressed] Wow. Now that kid's got personality! You oughta listen to him.
- SpongeBob: Hmm, maybe...
- [He reaches into a hole and steals Squidward's clarinet.]
- Squidward: Hey!
- SpongeBob: Yoink!
- [He gives Chovy the clarinet. Chovy plays an upbeat clarinet tune that SpongeBob and Patrick dance around to.]
- SpongeBob: Oh, forget it. You don't sound at all like Mr. Tentacles. [puts clarinet back through hole]
- Squidward: Ow!
- [Sandy comes into the cabin through her tube.]
- Sandy: I thought I smelled anchovies! What y'all doin?
- Chovy: Moop?
- SpongeBob: Y'know, maybe a deep-sea diving squirrel from Texas is your personality, Chovy.
- [Patrick is drooling.]
- SpongeBob: Huh?
- [Chovy is inside Sandy's suit.]
- Chovy: Moop, y'all.
- Sandy: Uh, okay, this is weird.
- SpongeBob: Teach him something Texas, Sandy! [puts cowboy hat on them]
- Sandy: Hmm, well, how 'bout a little line dancing?
- [SpongeBob plays the violin as Patrick blows on a jug. Sandy and Chovy dance around the cabin.]
- Sandy: Now you're gettin' it!
- [Chovy dries up and gasps.]
- SpongeBob: Uh-oh. He's getting all dried out!
- [SpongeBob sticks a hose into the helmet and fills it with water.]
- Chovy: Moop!
- [Sandy flushes a handle to get the water and Chovy out of her suit.]
- SpongeBob: [picks up Chovy] Maybe Texas ain't for you.
- Chovy: Isn't.
- SpongeBob: Exactly. Now let's find another personality for ya!
- [SpongeBob and Patrick have Chovy next to a weight bench.]
- SpongeBob: The jock is a classic personality type.
- [Larry gives Chovy a weight, which is too heavy for him.]
- Chovy: Moop.
- Larry: Come on, moop that weight! [flexes] Shoulders should be boulders! I want you swole!
- [The weight crushes Chovy and sends his eyes into the air. He swallows them and they go into his arms as muscles. He kisses them.]
- Chovy: Moop muscle.
- [Chovy's eyes pop back out of his mouth and into his head.]
- Chovy: [sadly] Moop.
- [SpongeBob and Patrick glance at each other, looking unsure. Bubble transition to Chovy working in Plankton's kitchen.]
- SpongeBob: I bet a chef's personality will be a great fit for Chovy. Don't you, Patrick?
- Patrick: Don't I Patrick what?
- Plankton: [to Chovy] Hmm, I know what to do with you.
- [Plankton pulls down the shutters as grunts are heard. He opens them, giving a pizza box to SpongeBob.]
- Plankton: ♪ Delivery! ♪
- Patrick: [gives him money] Keep the change! [closes shutters]
- [They open the pizza to see Chovy on it.]
- Chovy: Moop.
- Patrick: He found himself! [takes out knife and fork] And I found an anchovy pizza.
- SpongeBob: Patrick, pizza's not a personality!
- [Patrick whimpers. Transition to a viewfinder showing different slides. Chovy, with an enlarged butt, looks at Bubble Bass.]
- SpongeBob and Patrick: Yes!
- Chovy: [sighs] Moop.
- [The viewfinder shows an angry Mr. Krabs looking at Chovy holding his money.]
- SpongeBob and Patrick: Yes!
- Chovy: Moop.
- [The viewfinder shows Pearl crying as Chovy sucks on her pacifier.]
- SpongeBob and Patrick: Yes!
- Chovy: Moop.
- [The viewfinder shows Chovy and Mrs. Puff both inflating.]
- SpongeBob and Patrick: Yes!
- Chovy: [exasperated] Moop.
- [The viewfinder shows SpongeBob, Patrick, and Chovy all lying in front of their cabin, exhausted.]
- SpongeBob: [sighs] We've tried everything. I don't know what else to try!
- Patrick: [takes out pizza] Let's try the pizza!
- Chovy: [sad sigh] Moop.
- [Chovy walks past a mop. He turns back and examines it.]
- Chovy: Moop? [removes stick and holds the mop] Moop.
- SpongeBob: [amused] Moop? Huh, no. Mop.
- Chovy: [sarcastically] Oh, yeah, mop. That's what I meant to say.
- [Chovy puts on the mop as a wig. He transports to Jelly Meadows at night, where jellyfish lift him up. He jumps on them and rwitls as glorious music plays. Cut back to the Barge cabin, where anchovies are meeping. They turn to Chovy when he enters. Chovy flips the mop like hair.]
- Chovy: Mop!
- Anchovies: Mop!
- [One anchovy puts a mop on.]
- Anchovy #1: Mop! [rocks out]
- Anchovy #2: Mop! [puts on mop and dances to surf rock music]
- Anchovy #3: Mop! [puts on mop and dramatically flips it back]
- Anchovies: [all wear mops] Mop, mop, mop!...
- [The anchovies all run out, wearing mops. Chovy, unamused, throws his mop away. He fluffs a pillow and lays in the cabin, alone.]
- Chovy: Meep.
- [The camera zooms out from the Barge cabin.]
- Narrator: [chuckles] [warmly] Well, well. Looks like after a full and difficult day of trying to find himself, our little fish friend has learned that sometimes it feels good to just be Meep.
- Patrick: You sure sound folksy tonight, SpongeBob.
- SpongeBob/Narrator: Hm? Folksy? Oh. [chuckles] I guess summer camp [normally] just does that to me, Patrick. Good night!
- [The slide falls away, showing another one that reads "The End."]