Shanghaied (Episode)

"Shanghaied" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 2. It premiered on March 7, 2001. Template:Spoiler Time Cards Shown:

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Brief Summary: SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidward became servants for the Flying Dutchman.

Main Characters

Minor Characters

Bikini Bottom Citizens
Patchy the Pirate

Plot

It is an average day in Bikini Bottom, until a giant anchor demolishes SpongeBob SquarePants' pineapple house and Squidward Tentacles' Easter Island head. Squidward climbs the rope, ready to complain. SpongeBob goes too, as does Patrick. They find out that the ship belongs to the Flying Dutchman, and they are forced to be part of his crew forever.

Squidward is sent to "The Fly of Despair"(A huge zipper that is gateway to an other-world,) for his sarcastic remarks, while SpongeBob and Patrick have to help the Flying Dutchman scare people. They can't do it and Patrick's poor steering also causes extensive damage to the Dutchman's ship and he ultimately decides to eat them. They're locked in their room, and the Flying Dutchman decides to eat them. So they escape through the perfume department. They take the Flying Dutchman's dining sock because he can't eat without wearing it. SpongeBob and the Flying Dutchman fight for the sock, tug 'o war style, but when it is about to reach its elastic limit, the Flying Dutchman decides to grant them three wishes.

The episode ends with Sponge, Pat and Squid turned into fruit and the vegetarian Dutchman chasing them around his ship which was turned into a hippie van.

Wishes

Patrick: "Wishes? I wish we had known that earlier!"

SpongeBob: "How exciting! I wish Squidward were here to see this!"

Spongebob: "I wish the Dutchman was a vegetarian!"

Trivia/Goofs

On the Series 2 DVD box set, instead of saying Shanghaied, it said its original name, You Wish/Shanghaied.
This was the first ever SpongeBob special to be shorter than a double length (22 minutes), but longer than a regular episode (10-15 minutes), at a length of 16 minutes. It was paired with the episode Gary Takes a Bath.
Actually, without the Patchy the Pirate parts, this episode is about 13 minutes.
Despite being only thirteen minutes long, this episode is considered a double length.
This episode aired on March 7, 2001, then it was released on the third SpongeBob SquarePants DVD volume, Sea Stories, which was also the fourth SpongeBob SquarePants VHS volume, which only featured Patchy the Pirate in VHS copies of the volume, and re-aired as a Patchy the Pirate special in 2003. This could be the third direct-to-video episode.
The 3 endings for the episode are shown above, the SpongeBob SquarePants ending is the main ending, but on the Sea Stories DVDs it shows all 3 endings
This episode was originally titled "You Wish", but was changed to "Shanghaied".
There are three alternate endings to this episode. The main ending is where SpongeBob wishes that the Dutchman was a vegetarian with the result that they are turned into fruit. The other endings include Patrick wishing for eternal minty fresh gum, and Squidward wishing that he never knew SpongeBob and Patrick which causes him to make their acquaintance all over again.
The Flying Dutchman's "dining sock" was first seen and mentioned in "Your Shoe's Untied."
The scene where the Flying Dutchman's head turns all the way around is a reference to the film The Exorcist.
Patrick says "SpongeBob, how long are you going to stay in your little fantasy world?", but the original captions say "You are in your little fantasy world." On the "Sea Stories" DVD and VHS and the Season 2 DVD box set, the captions are corrected.
When Spongebob and Patrick return to their cabin on the ship after their scaring spree you are able to see their ice skates (from when they goofed up their final scare) hanging on the wall.
After Spongebob is chosen to get the last wish, Squidward knows that they are about to be eaten, even though he wasn't present when Spongebob and Patrick were informed.
In the Spongebob computer game, Lights, Camera, Pants!, one of the rooms in the ship was Spongebob and Patricks bunk bed, skates and all. When you click on the skates, Spongebob replies "Hockey anyone?"
It's the second time we see Patchy the Pirate; the first time we saw him was in the episode Christmas Who?
If you look closely, you'll notice that sometimes Patchy's words don't match his lips.

Quotes

Patrick: Hey SpongeBob, the sky had a baby!

Spongebob: "But the door is locked, and the only way out is through (horrifingly) the "PERFUME DEPARTMENT"!

Patrick: Let's do it. (Spongebob gulps in fear, followed by a comical short of Spongebob and Patrick trying to run through the perfume department shortcut, avoiding perfume samples, eventually leading to the exit near The Dutchman's office.) Spongebob: Ugh, I've always hated going in there.