Who R Zoo?

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Characters

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Patrick Star
• Squidward Tentacles
• Eugene H. Krabs
• Karen Plankton
• Sheldon J. Plankton
• Bikini Bottomites
  • Ryan Timmy's sister ^(debut)
  • Ryan Timmy
  • Zookeeper ^(debut)
  • Frankie Billy
  • Jimmy Gus
  • Dave Frank Percy Isabelle Harold Scooter
  • Old Man Walker
  • Tyler
  • Fred
  • Tom
  • Harold Bill Reginald Scott
  • Anchovies
    • Lenny
    • Mable-Monica
  • Nancy Suzy Fish
  • Monroe Timmy Billy ^(cameo)
  • Shubie Peterson ^(cameo)
  • Peterson Nat Tucker
  • Scooter
  • Male judge ^(cameo)
  • Horace
  • Incidental 2
  • Incidental 3
  • Incidental 4
  • John
  • Incidental 28
  • Billy (brown fish)
• Zoo animals ^(debut)
  • Scallops and clams
  • Sea elephant ^(debut)
  • Sea giraffe ^(debut)
  • Sea bear
  • Sea hippo ^(debut)
  • Sea monkeys
  • Sea urchins
  • Lion fish
  • Sea tiger ^(debut)
  • Zoo monster ^(debut)
  • Sea baboons ^(debut)
  • Cantankerous Moray Eelius
• Bubble zoo animals ^(debut)
  • Elephant bubble
  • Bubble hippo
  • Bubble goat ^(debut)
  • Bubble sea monkey ^(debut)
  • Bubble penguins ^(debut)
  • Bubble rooster ^(debut)
  • Bubble pig ^(debut)
  • Duck bubble
  • Bubble piranha ^(debut)
  • Bubble flamingo ^(debut)
  • Bubble birds ^(debut)
  • Bubble giraffe ^(debut)
  • Rhinoceros bubble ^(debut)
  • Frogfish bubble ^(debut)
  • Seal bubbles ^(debut)
  • Bubble sea monster ^(debut)

Synopsis

The episode begins with SpongeBob playing with the zoo animals at the Bikini Bottom Zoo, until the zookeeper stops him from doing so and puts an ankle alarm on him to prevent him from going into the animal enclosures. SpongeBob tries to evade this by keeping the foot with the ankle alarm outside the enclosures, but this fails and he along with Patrick get kicked out of the zoo.

SpongeBob is crying on Patrick's rock until he gets the idea of building a bubble zoo after creating a snot bubble. They create many bubble animals as well as the zoo itself using Extra Strength Bubble Soap. The zoo is visited by many people and it's a success.

Meanwhile, Squidward wakes up from his nap and goes outside, only to get trapped inside one of the bubble animals. After he is released, one of the bubble animals eats his clothes, causing Squidward to panic and pop the entire bubble zoo. The bubble animals get angry at SpongeBob and at the same time, invade the Krusty Krab and the Chum Bucket.

While SpongeBob and Patrick are cornered by the bubble animals, the former calls the animals from the real zoo to defeat the bubble animals. The animals come and the bubble animals get scared by the sea monster, causing them to hide in the Extra Strength Bubble Soap canister. The episode ends with the zoo manager letting SpongeBob back in the zoo for bringing back his animals as well as bringing new, bubble animals.

Production

The episode was confirmed by Vincent Waller on June 29, 2019.

Art

Storyboard

Storyboard of the episode.

Music

( ‣ ) Production music

( • ) Original music

( ◦ ) SpongeBob music

 ‣ Old Hilo March - Kapono Beamer [Title card]

 ‣ Unknown Track 105 - Opening at the Bikini Bottom Zoo
 ‣ Zoo Doings - Jack Shaindlin [SpongeBob getting into the zoo's animal enclosures]
 ‣ Hippomania - John Fox, Mac Prindy [Zoo manager puts an ankle alarm on SpongeBob's foot]
 ‣ Playful Activity - Bernard Ebbinghouse [SpongeBob sneaks into an animal enclosure]
 ‣ Tension Bits - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield ["That's it! You are banned from the zoo!"]
 ‣ Danse Comique - Kenny Graham [Patrick leaves the zoo with SpongeBob]
 ‣ Unknown Hawaiian Sting (a) - Transition to next scene
 • Salt Water Works - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob crying on Patrick's rock]
 ‣ Harp Ding - Nicolas Carr [Snot bubble comes out of SpongeBob's nose, giving him an idea]
 • Salt Water Works - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield ["Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"]
 ‣ Marching to Honolulu - Kapono Beamer [SpongeBob blows three different bubble animals]
 ‣ Five More Comical Cuts - Ronald Hanmer [Extra strength bubble soap]
 ‣ Exit Right - David Lindup [SpongeBob blows a bubble penguin]
 • Hot Steel and Slide Licks (X) - Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob continues blowing bubble animals]
 ‣ Toad in the Hole - Harold Smart [Different bubble animals are created]
 ‣ Happy-Go-Lucky - Ernest Tomlinson [Bubble Zoo is created]
 ‣ The Baby Whale Walk - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [SpongeBob trying to feed the bubble sea monsters]
 ‣ Lap Steel - Nicolas Carr [Audience cheers]
 • Tentically Speaking - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Squidward wakes up from his nap]
 ‣ Dramatic Cue (a) - Ronald Hanmer [Squidward screams from inside the bubble sea monster]
 ‣ Slap and Tickle - Roger Roger ["Hey, Squidward! I see you're playing with my sea monsters."]
 • Hot Steel and Slide Licks (m) - Jeremy Wakefield [Bubble egg with Squidward inside]
 • Hot Steel and Slide Licks (a) - Jeremy Wakefield ["And Squidward is reborn!"]
 ‣ Nude Sting - Nicolas Carr [Bubble goat rips off Squidward's clothes]
 • Slide Whistle Stooges - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [All bubble animals escape from Bubble Zoo]
 ‣ Hot Steel and Slide Licks - Jeremy Wakefield [Transition to next scene]
 ‣ My Reason - Joel Rayner, Helen Shields [Bubble animals invade the Krusty Krab]
 ‣ Death Trap - Gregor Narholz [Bubble penguins invade the Chum Bucket]
 ‣ African Adventure - Peter Hope [Animals from Bikini Bottom Zoo arrive]
 • Hot Steel and Slide Licks (v) - Jeremy Wakefield ["You guys saved our lives!"]
 ‣ Playful Activity - Bernard Ebbinghouse [Ending]

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Release

• This episode is available on the SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 20 DVD.

Trivia

General

• The title is an obvious parody of the phrase "Who are you?"
• The plot for this episode is similar to "Bubbletown" as both episodes involve a place made entirely out of bubbles.
• The title card background consists of zoo cage bars.
• This was the first regular-length episode to premiere in 2020 and the 2020s decade. And it was the first episode to be made in that year.
• When this episode first premiered, it was paired with "Biddy Sitting."
• This was the last episode with any involvement from Adam Paloian. However, he did not direct this episode.
  • Instead, Marc Ceccarelli and Vincent Waller directed this episode.

Species unknown can be seen in this episode

• The "Species Unknown" area from "The Thing" can be seen in this episode.
• The frogfish from The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie reappears as a bubble.
• Some of the bubble animals shown in this episode have appeared previously. They are as follows:
  • The elephant bubble
  • The duck bubble
  • The Bubble hippo
• The male judge can be seen in a crowd cameo at the zoo.
• The Extra Strength Bubble Soap is similar to the Jumbo Bubble Fun from "It Came from Goo Lagoon" as both are giant bubble canisters.
• A pencil that resembles the Magic Pencil from "Frankendoodle" and "Doodle Dimension" is among the many items seen in the live-action close-up of Old Man Walker's box.
• Squidward wears underwear in this episode when he regularly does not even wear pants. However, he wore them underneath his farmer's uniform which doubled as regular pants.
• Irony: SpongeBob could've just cut off his leg and grown a new one when he got an ankle monitor.
• When it premiered in the UK and Ireland at the end of this episode an image from "The Kwarantined Krab" has been revealed by accident.
• This is the only episode where the title shortens the word, "are," to, "R."

  

  Image accidentally shown of "The Kwarantined Krab."

Cultural references

• At the beginning of the episode, SpongeBob yells like Tarzan.
• The See 'n Say pull-string toy produced by Mattel is referenced in the scene where SpongeBob identifies the zoo animals ("The elephant says...") and they make noises similar to the animals on the toy.

Errors

• When SpongeBob pets the zoo monster, the spiked ball on its antennae is red, but when the monster scares the bubble animals near the end of the episode, the ball is purple.

SpongeBob’s eyelashes are missing.

• When SpongeBob lets the kid inside the Bubble Zoo, his eyelashes are missing.
• The Krusty Krab is thin in this episode.

Running gags

• The bubble goat eating people's pants.
• The bubble rhinoceros poking his sharp horn into Squidward's nose.