Rock Bottom (Episode)

Rock Bottom
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Episode No.:	17b
Season:	1
Airdate:	March 15, 2000
Previous Episode:	Arrgh!
Next Episode:	Texas
Characters	Voice actors
SpongeBob SquarePants	Tom Kenny
Patrick Star	Bill Fagerbakke

Rock Bottom is an episode from Season 1.

Info

Characters

SpongeBob SquarePants
Patrick Star

Rock Bottom
Bus Driver
Grandpa SquarePants (debut; mentioned and acted by SpongeBob)
Rock Bottomites (debut)
Gary the Snail (mentioned)

Places

Glove World (debut)
Rock Bottom (debut)
Outside SpongeBob's House

Plot

SpongeBob and Patrick board a bus to get home from Glove World, a glove-themed amusement park, they have apparently gotten on the wrong one and head off a large cliff. The cliff leads to a sort of aphotic zone called Rock Bottom, inhabited by anglerfish-like creatures. Patrick gets on a bus home but accidentally leaves SpongeBob behind. After several unsuccessful attempts to get on the bus, he heads to the bus station and gets in a very long line. By the time he gets to the front, he finds out that the last bus to leave for the night is already gone, and he's stuck there until morning. He gets scared by a raspberry sound coming from nowhere, and he dashes back to the cliff.

Patrick: What? Did somebody say something? (a car with five ladies drives up to him)

Ladies: Hey, there!

Lady #1: Is that tan for us?

Patrick: What? (they bring him into the boat and they drive off)

SpongeBob: Uh, Patrick, it's time for me to get out. (begins to dry out, speedos loosening. Time card appears)

French Narrator: Two hours later. (The boat then drives back up to Patrick's house)

Lady #2: Do you really have to go Patrick?

Patrick: Afraid so. Bye, girls.

Ladies: Bye, Pat.

Lady #3: Huh, he's so leathery. (Patrick turns off the tanning bed, then SpongeBob comes out with loose speedos, and he's "Sun Bleached")

The raspberry sound's maker reveals himself to be a friendly

-looking anglerfish creature, which

has SpongeBob's balloon from Glove World. The creature blows up the balloon, ties it to SpongeBob's wrist, and allows him to float up

the cliff and back to Bikini Bottom.

Unfortunately, Patrick thinks SpongeBob is still in Rock Bottom and goes back, causing bad luck for Patrick!

Trivia/Goofs

When SpongeBob looks at the vending machine, it is facing him. But when he is choosing the candy he wants, it is facing the opposite side of the road that is at a 90 degree angle.
The background of the title card is similar to that of "Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost" and "Graveyard Shift," only it is forward instead of upside down.
This is the first of two episodes SpongeBob’s grandfather has been mentioned. The other is the episode The Sponge Who Could Fly
In the video game Battle for Bikini Bottom if SpongeBob goes up to the vending machine the bus will show up then leave, a reference to this episode.
It is revealed that the residents of Rock Bottom speak by blowing a raspberry as evidenced when the person at the counter does not understand SpongeBob's "accent".
After departing the bus from Rock Bottom, Patrick is absent for the majority of the episode until the end.