Mind the Gap (Episode)

Mind the Gap
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Episode No.:	252a
Season:	12
Airdate:	September 14, 2019
Previous Episode:	Senior Discount
Next Episode:	Dirty Bubble Returns
Characters	Voice actors
SpongeBob SquarePants	Tom Kenny
Squidward Tentacles	Rodger Bumpass

Mind the Gap is a season 12 episode.

Info

Characters

SpongeBob SquarePants
- CoolBob SmoothPants
Squidward Tentacles
Patrick Star (cameo)
Nancy Suzy Fish
Tina
Peterson

Plot

At the Krusty Krab, SpongeBob is whistling while working, and Squidward gets increasingly annoyed until he finally snaps back at SpongeBob. He then tells SpongeBob he is concerned about his health. SpongeBob freaks out and wants to know what is wrong with his health. Squidward says there is something wrong with the gap in his teeth, and that something can get caught in there and obstruct his breathing. So SpongeBob demands a doctor, but Squidward offers to be his dentist.

He takes SpongeBob to the kitchen and forces his two teeth together, but this causes SpongeBob's voice become deeper and more smooth-sounding. SpongeBob notices his new change in voice as a jazz singer and starts to sing. Squidward and the customers in the Krusty Krab take notice of the singing. They crowd around to listen to his music. Squidward notices this as a chance to be cool as well. So he asks SpongeBob to join him in going to his favorite Jazz club, Blow Your Top Lounge. SpongeBob accepts the offer.

That night, Squidward barges into the club and attempts to act cool, but everyone else is not impressed. Then SpongeBob comes in and everyone is impressed at how cool he is. So, they are surprised Squidward is his friend and guess if he is a friend of SpongeBob, he is cool. The only person skeptical of Squidward is kicked away by him. Squidward encourages SpongeBob to start singing, and so he goes on stage. Also, Squidward follows along with his clarinet, only to be tricked into putting a cork in his clarinet.

SpongeBob once again wows them with his music. But his teeth separate while singing, changing his voice back to normal, forcing Squidward to take teeth from another fish and put them in SpongeBob's mouth. The teeth fall out and shatter at the end of the performance. Squidward wants to leave the club and says to everyone that they will return again tomorrow. He takes him back to the Krusty Krab and cements his teeth back together. Then they return to the club to play. Once again, his teeth separate. So Squidward once again cements his teeth together. Then SpongeBob allows Squidward to do a solo with his clarinet. Squidward eventually blows so hard he launches the cork out, turning back to the music the club hates.

A bodyguard then grabs him and throws him outside. Oblivious to his lack of talent but angry at being overlooked, Squidward goes back to make the gap again. He charges with a hammer, only to be blown away by SpongeBob's music bubbles. He crashes into the lights and sandbags, which fall to the ground, all missing SpongeBob. That is, until he runs into a sandbag still hanging and crashes to the ground. SpongeBob then realizes his gap is back. So Squidward comes out and calls him a fraud, but SpongeBob does not seem to mind now that he has his whistle back, and so he whistles.

Everyone else in the club is impressed, and they slam their heads to make gaps in their teeth. Squidward attempts to leave, only to be stopped by the bodyguard and the manager tells him to pay for the damages done to the building when SpongeBob blew the roof off with his singing.

Trivia

This episode, along with Dirty Bubble Returns, were accidentally released on Amazon Prime Video on July 29, 2019. It was taken down a few minutes later.
This episode first aired in the UK and Ireland on September 10, 2019.
The UK airings of this episode cuts out the following scenes:
- Squidward using a drill to close the gap between SpongeBob's teeth. The scene is edited to make it look like Squidward pushing together SpongeBob's two teeth was enough to close it, as opposed to it failing and knocking Squidward back.
  - Because of this edit, in the scene where SpongeBob's normal voice temporarily returns after his teeth become undone, the screw holding the teeth together is removed.
- SpongeBob drinking bubble soap before singing.
This episode was released on Amazon Prime Canada and Netherlands on September 21, 2019, before being taken down on September 29.