"Wormy" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 2. In this episode, Patrick and SpongeBob think Sandy's pet caterpillar Wormy is a dangerous monster when he becomes a butterfly.
Characters[]
- French Narrator
- Sandy's pets
- Patrick Star
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Sandy Cheeks
- Sea urchins
- Squidward Tentacles
- Eugene H. Krabs
- Incidentals
- Fred
- Incidental 2
- Incidental 3
- John
- Tom
- Incidental 7
- Incidental 8
- Incidental 9
- Incidental 10
- Incidental 11
- Priscilla
- Incidental 15
- Incidental 16
- Incidental 17
- Incidental 18
- Incidental 20
- Incidental 21
- Carol
- Incidental 23
- Incidental 25
- Incidental 27
- Incidental 30
- Incidental 31
- Don the Whale
- Incidental 33
- Incidental 34
- Harold
- Tuck Tucker
- Scooter
- Lou
- Harold
- Incidental 41
- Incidental 42
- Judy
- Incidental 46 (Normal; yellow with blue stripes)
- Sadie
- Incidental 48
- Incidental 49
- Incidental 60
- Incidental 64
- Billy
- Incidental 67
- Incidental 68
- Incidental 69
- Harris
- Incidental 82
- Incidental 85
- Incidental 91
- Incidental 92
- Incidental 93
- Incidental 115
- Incidental 150
- Mr. Mailman
- Incidental 157
- Fish guy (debut)
- Fire fish
- Realistic Fish Head (voice only)
Synopsis[]
As the episode commences, SpongeBob and Patrick are given the task of pet-sitting Sandy's pets while she is out of town. One of the many animals left in their care is a small Monarch caterpillar named Wormy. Despite him requiring the least attention, SpongeBob and Patrick quickly befriend the caterpillar and enjoy a day of play together. As the two leave, they vow to have even more fun with Wormy the next day.
Overnight, Wormy undergoes a quick metamorphosis and becomes a monarch butterfly. When they return the following morning, SpongeBob and Patrick search for their new friend, but merely see what looks like a beautiful winged creature instead. Upon opening the jar and finding only Wormy's discarded chrysalis and best friend ribbon inside, Wormy flies onto SpongeBob's helmet who gets a close up of a frightening bug. SpongeBob and Patrick scream in horror as they come to the grim conclusion that this "horrific beast" has devoured Wormy and is now on the loose. They try to trap the supposed monster by disguising Patrick as bait. When this fails after Patrick sees it up close, SpongeBob manages to encase the butterfly in a bubble and releases him outside the treedome, in an attempt to "save" Sandy's pets. However, now the butterfly is loose in Bikini Bottom, so SpongeBob and Patrick chase after him.
Beating the creature to the Krusty Krab, SpongeBob interrupts Squidward's photoshoot of Mr. Krabs with the very first dollar he earned at the Krusty Krab, so he could warn Mr. Krabs and Squidward, both of whom scoff at the tiny insect. Squidward and Mr. Krabs have a look and they both laugh until they sees the butterfly's close-up. Upon seeing this, they both scream in terror as their teeth and eyes fall out. The two are scared senseless and run away, leaving their discarded undergarments behind. This causes SpongeBob and Patrick to believe that they were also eaten.
SpongeBob and Patrick begin to spread news of the "terrible monster" throughout Bikini Bottom. Mass chaos erupts with every tiny flap of his wings, and as a result of the people's hysteria, the whole town ends up destroyed in a fire.
A few days later, Sandy arrives back at the ravaged town, saying that it looks like a twister hit it and wonders where everyone is. Wormy then flies up to her and she recognizes him, saying that he was not supposed to change until her return, unzips her suit, grabs a jar, and places him inside. As the episode concludes with all the townsfolk cheering and celebrating the capture of the so-called monster, Sandy believes it to be just because they missed her that much and thinks maybe she should go out of town more often.
Production[]
Model sheets[]
Paintings[]
Sketches[]
Music[]
( ‣ ) Production music |
( • ) Original music |
( ◦ ) SpongeBob music |
• 12th St Rag - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Title card]
‣ Dreamy Hawaii - Terry Day [Opening]
• Earls Revenge - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Sandy's pets]
‣ Children 2 - Dave Hewson ["Hey, little fella."]
• Puka A - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Playing hide, seek]
◦ That's What Friends Do - Peter Straus
‣ Youthful Days - Mike Sunderland ["Gee, SpongeBob, I don't want today to end ever."]
‣ Code "Dead End" - Gregor F. Narholz [Wormy turning into a butterfly]
‣ On The Beach - Kapono Beamer ["Here I come, Wormy!"]
‣ House Of Horror [#10.2] - W. Merrick Farran ["I think something bad happened to Wormy."]
‣ House Of Horror [#10.5] - W. Merrick Farran [SpongeBob and Patrick scream.]
‣ Flight in Panic 1 - Gregor F. Narholz [SpongeBob and Patrick running to the door/SpongeBob and Patrick running backwards]
‣ Hangman (B) - Dave Hewson ["Now what?"]
‣ Action Cut A - Gregor F. Narholz ["He's eaten Patrick!"]
‣ Footsteps of Horror - W. Merrick Farran [Phone in jar/Patrick on a dinner plate/Patrick runs away]
‣ Death Trap [#26.03] - Gregor F. Narholz [SpongeBob traps the butterfly in a bubble]
‣ Bridgehead Alt. End - Sam Fonteyn ["Yeah!"]
‣ Lovely Scenery C - Mladen Franko ["...headed straight for the Krusty Krab!"]
‣ Hit and Run - Sam Spence [Secret entrance]
‣ Frankenstein's Niece A - Gregor F. Narholz [SpongeBob warns Krabs about the "monster"]
‣ A Sad Affair - Mike Sunderland [SpongeBob and Patrick crying]
‣ Frankenstein's Niece A - Gregor F. Narholz ["That's the monster?"]
‣ The Rake Hornpipe - Robert Alexander White ["Get a load of the scary monster."]
‣ Frankenstein's Niece A - Gregor F. Narholz [Squidward and Krabs scream/"It ate them! And there it goes!"]
• Thats It ! - Nicolas Carr [Thumbs up]
• Seaweed 2 - Steve Belfer [SpongeBob, Patrick warning everyone]
• 12th St Rag - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Everyone running from the butterfly]
‣ Bridgehead Alt. End - Sam Fonteyn [Ending]
Release[]
- This episode is available on the Nautical Nonsense and Sponge Buddies, Complete 2nd Season, Sponge Buddies, The Best of SpongeBob SquarePants, Imitation Krabs, Sponge Crazy, First 100 Episodes, Really Big Box Set, The Ultimate SpongeBob Box Set, SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 2, Complete Second Season, SpongeBob SquarePants Has Hit Rock Bottom, From the Beginning, Part 1, The SpongeBob SquarePants Collection, Christmas (Polish only), The SpongeBob SquarePants 8 Season DVD Collection, The First & Second Seasons, The Best 200 Episodes Ever, and The Best 300 Episodes Ever DVDs.
- This episode is available on the Sponge Buddies and Undersea Antics Volume 1 VHS tapes.
- This episode is also available on the It's a SpongeBob Christmas! Blu-ray.
Reception[]
- "Wormy" was ranked #57 during the Best Day Ever event from November 9–10, 2006.
- "Wormy" was ranked #43 during the SpongeBob's Top 100 event in the UK and Ireland from June 4-8, 2012.
Trivia[]
General[]
- This is the 50th episode segment in the series in both production and premiere order.
- This episode was originally going to be titled "Shoo Fly."[2]
- The title card background for this episode is similar to that of "Sandy's Rocket," except this one is mismatched and has bubbles in it.
- At the beginning, Patrick whistles and SpongeBob remarks "I didn't know you spoke bird," to which Patrick replies, "No, that's Italian, SpongeBob." In the Italian dub, he says that it is Spanish.[3]
- From a production standpoint, this episode marks Sandy's return after her ten-month hiatus in "Fools in April."
- Additionally, both episodes use "12th St Rag" as title card music.
- However, in airing order, Sandy appeared in between the two episodes in "Christmas Who?"
- When Wormy is about to transform, he is depicted with a stock image of a caterpillar. The stock image of Wormy and the Chrysalis' were all edited to look green, in order to match the colors used for Wormy when he is animated.
- Despite the intended left-side pupation process, Wormy was unexpectedly flipped to the right-side during skin splitting. It is interesting to note that Wormy typically transitions towards the left side as it commences the skin-splitting phase of its metamorphosis.
- As Wormy progresses into its chrysalis, a subtle movement to the left can be observed just after it reaches the precise anchor point from which Wormy will eventually emerge. This shift indicates a pivotal stage in Wormy's transformation process, reflecting its gradual metamorphosis within the protective cocoon.
- Wormy is able to complete the full transformation from a caterpillar to butterfly in just one night. In real life, this is impossible, and the length varies with different species of butterfly. In Wormy's case, Monarch butterflies spend 10 to 16 days in the chrysalis stage when changing into a butterfly.
- Sandy lampshades this by saying, "You weren't supposed to change 'till I got back."
- While Wormy's transformation was supposed to be a beautiful miracle of nature, we hear the background score gradually getting spine-chilling—a foreshadowing of things to come.
- In this episode, SpongeBob and Patrick act like they don't know what butterflies are and don't know about their metamorphosis; however in "Bubblestand," SpongeBob blew a butterfly bubble, and in "Tea at the Treedome," SpongeBob saw a butterfly briefly when he realized there was no water in the treedome.
- When Wormy's face is viewed as a close-up in butterfly form, a stock footage of a horse fly is used instead of an actual butterfly.
- Wormy's close up became a popular internet meme and created a crossover video edits where other characters from other series reacting to Wormy.
- The live-action insect footage used throughout this episode are all royalty-free, and owned by Oxford Scientific Films. All of the footage can be found on Getty Images.[4]
- The emerging butterfly footage was also used in Microsoft Encarta '95.[5]
- The infamous cleg fly close-up footage was also used in the Bill Nye the Science Guy episode "Insects."
- The live-action butterfly clips (i.e. when Wormy emerges and the news bulletin about the "monster" attacking) depict a female Monarch butterfly with thicker wing veins, compared to male Monarchs having thinner wing veins. This suggests Wormy may have actually been a female butterfly, as it is very hard to determine a Monarch caterpillar's gender until it metamorphoses into an adult butterfly (and thus Sandy assumed that the caterpillar was male).
- Patrick's line "Why does this keep happening to me?!" is reused in the online game Dirty Bubble Busters.
- In this episode, it is revealed that Patrick has green eyes during the close-up as Wormy crawls down Patrick's helmet.
- SpongeBob's bubble blowing in this episode resembles the sound of Wormy by a little bit.
- It is revealed that Mr. Krabs still has the very first dollar he earned since the Krusty Krab first opened, as it is seen during Squidward's photoshoot.
- After running away from the Krusty Krab, neither Squidward nor Mr. Krabs appear again for the remainder of the episode.
- The warning poster SpongeBob and Patrick put up depicts a viceroy butterfly, while Wormy is actually a Monarch butterfly. Viceroys belong to a different family group of butterflies and are smaller and less common than the Monarchs. The reason why Viceroys resemble Monarchs is due to Müllerian mimicry, in which two separate species that share a certain predatory defense mechanism (in this case, tasting bad and to birds) also share very similar warning patterns.
- It is very likely that SpongeBob and Patrick did not know the difference between the two species, having never seen a butterfly up close until now.
- When SpongeBob stands on a treasure chest, warning people about the butterfly, the word "Dogs" can be seen on a building in the background, despite the fact that dogs live on land (and the sister episode, "Patty Hype," implies that they aren't well-known underwater).
- "My leg!:" After seeing a butterfly that is attacking Bikini Bottom on the newscast, Fred runs out of his house and falls on the ground.
- When SpongeBob says, "We did it, Patrick!" during the destruction scene, a meteor can be seen flying down until it falls off-screen in the background for a few seconds later, at which point a flash can be seen in the background, referencing the landing explosion.
- 12th St Rag nearly bookended this episode, but Bridgehead Alt. End takes its place for the ending.
- This is the first episode for a few things:
- This is the first episode to permanently feature Patrick's new "Z" shaped eyebrows.
- This is the first episode were Sandy's tail is out of her diving suit, right after season 1 as her tail was inside of her diving suit.
- This is the first episode to play "Code "Dead End"." This soundtrack would not be used again until "The Donut of Shame."
- This is the first episode to feature a shortcut to the Krusty Krab.
- This episode marks the second time that the Krusty Krab cash register boat operates like a vehicle. The first time was in the episode "F.U.N."
- This episode was paired up with different episodes in different marathons:
- On the November 3, 2001 airing, this episode was paired up with "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy."[6]
- During the Best Day Ever marathon, this episode was paired up with "No Weenies Allowed."[7]
- On the July 9, 2008 airing, this episode was paired up with The Mighty B! episode "Woodward and Beesting."[8]
- During the Craziest Creatures marathon, this episode was paired up with "Frankendoodle."[9]
- This episode was paired up with "Survival of the Idiots" during the Massive Monster Mayhem Marathon.[10]
- There are three books based on this episode, titled Wonderful Wormy, Salty Sea Stories, and Wormy, respectively.
- In the LeapPad adaption of this episode, there is an extra scene at the end where Sandy reveals that the "monster" was Wormy all along, and SpongeBob and Patrick are relieved.
Dub facts[]
- The "That's What Friends Do" song was cut on GTV in Indonesia and in Italy and just cuts to the last scene of the song where SpongeBob and Patrick are lying on the grass.[11]
- This episode and "Patty Hype" were banned in some countries including Indonesia and Italy, due to Wormy's face being a cleg fly close-up frightening young viewers.[12]
Errors[]
- When SpongeBob says, "Uh sorry, I don't speak Italian," his eyelashes disappear for a split second.
- When the final shot of Sandy is shown in her bikini before she leaves the treedome, in the next shot, she is wearing her spacesuit and helmet.
- When SpongeBob points at Wormy, his other tooth goes missing.
- This error also occurs in "Big Pink Loser."
- As mentioned above, when Wormy's face is viewed as a close-up in butterfly form, the wrong insect is shown. As Wormy is a butterfly, there are enormous, rainbow-colored, shimmering eyes and sharp mouthparts are seen, distinctive to that of a cleg fly (a kind of horsefly), instead of circular black eyes and a proboscis (tongue). Furthermore, butterflies do not make buzzing sounds, which (again) is a characteristic of flies.
- When SpongeBob and Patrick are about to hide behind the picnic table from Wormy, SpongeBob's left arm disappears for a couple frames.
- After Wormy's first close-up is shown, SpongeBob and Patrick scream and run in opposite directions from each other. Then in the very next scene, they are shown hiding from Wormy in the exact same spot behind the picnic table that is tipped over.
- When SpongeBob collects the bubble soap with his bubble wand, the cap is still on the container and he is never shown taking it off either.
- SpongeBob is able to blow a bubble in Sandy's treedome, despite the fact that he is wearing a water helmet.
- SpongeBob does not take off his helmet when he is wearing a cheerleader outfit.
- SpongeBob's teeth turn yellow for a couple frames while he tells Patrick that Sandy's pets are safe from Wormy and during the shot of him saying, "I can't watch!" seconds before he pushes his eyes into his head while being in the order boat at the Krusty Krab.
- This also occurs in "SpongeBob Meets the Strangler."
- During some of the high-speed actions that take place in Sandy's treedome throughout, bubbles are seen floating around. This is incorrect as Sandy's treedome is not filled with water.
- The path from Sandy's treedome incorrectly leads to the Krusty Krab in this episode. Due to this, the Chum Bucket and its pathway across from the restaurant are missing.
- Squidward's Krusty Krab employee hat is missing when Mr. Krabs asks "What's the meaning of this, SpongeBob?!"
- When Squidward and Mr. Krabs take a closer look at Wormy, Squidward stands to his right and Mr. Krabs to his left. After Wormy's third close-up is shown, they are standing on opposite sides before running off.
- After Mr. Krabs and Squidward run away from Wormy, two pairs of underwear can be seen laying on the floor. This is also incorrect as Squidward does not wear pants or underwear.
- At the end of the Krusty Krab scene, SpongeBob's front teeth are connected for a few frames.
- The wings of a postman butterfly can briefly be seen on the stock footage playing on the TV, despite there being no other butterflies in this episode besides Wormy.
- When the fish guy's eyes sink into his mouth while freaking out from watching TV, his long and curved dorsal fin transforms into a short and spiky dorsal fin.
- At the part where SpongeBob and Patrick run away from Wormy along with everyone else, the city is destroyed, but when they reach a traffic light while being chased, the city is perfectly fine.
- Incidental 7's dress changes from yellow to gray at one point when the Bikini Bottomites are being chased by Wormy.
- Upon Sandy's return to Bikini Bottom, she unzips her suit and reached inside to retrieve a jar. However, instead of feeling the familiar texture of her bikini and belly, it shows the inner lining of her suit. Despite this unexpected encounter, Sandy was grateful for the overwhelming support she received from the residents of Bikini Bottom as her suit was already fully zipped up at the next scene.
- When Patrick is with the people holding up SpongeBob and Sandy, he does not have eyebrows. In another shot during the same scene, he does not have eyes.
- Also, SpongeBob's buck teeth and Sandy's left arm disappear for a split second.
- In addition, he is floating and Sandy's badge is also gone.
- Fred's eyes become transparent while carrying Sandy and SpongeBob at the end.
- Some objects disappear, specifically:
- The glass jar that lands on the grass after the first close-up of Wormy is shown.
- SpongeBob's left arm when he and Patrick are about to hide behind the table from Wormy.
- The apple inside Patrick's water helmet when he says, "I really don't taste that good, Mr. Monster."
- Squidward's Krusty Krab employee hat and two pairs of underwear that are laying on the floor right before Squidward's workstation sails out of the Krusty Krab.
- A few characters who appeared in this episode have their mouths synced incorrectly, specifically:
- SpongeBob's mouth when he begs Wormy not to eat him.
- Mr. Krabs and Squidward's mouths when they scream.
- Patrick's mouth when he warns everyone about the "monster."
Names in other languages[]
Language | Name | Meaning |
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Spanish | Gusanito | Wormy |
References[]
- ^ Date confirmed by SpongeBob Exposed!, The First 100 Episodes, and the iTunes listing.
- ^ https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/29951-Wormy
- ^ SpongeBob on Twitter
- ^ GettyImages - Oxford Scientific Video Insects
- ^ Microsoft Encarta 95 - Butterfly (1995)
- ^ Nickstory - November 3, 2001
- ^ Nickstory - November 10, 2006
- ^ Nickstory - July 9, 2008
- ^ Nickstory - October 7, 2017
- ^ w:c:nicktoonsglobearchives:October 25, 2017
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eOOkBSpFJ0
- ^ 11 Pieces of Useless Trivia About Spongebob Squarepants. PlayBuzz.
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