The Secret Box (Episode)

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The Secret Box
Episode No.:	35a
Airdate:	7.9.2001
Season:	Season 2
Previous Episode:	Frankendoodle
Next Episode:	Band Geeks

"The Secret Box" is an episode from season 2

Info

Characters

SpongeBob

Patrick pulls SpongeBob's tongue, mistaking it for the string in his box.
Patrick
Gary
Squidward's House
Patrick's Secret box

Places

Plot

SpongeBob is running towards Patrick's house, ready to go jellyfishing. Patrick says he'll go with him, and then says he has to put away his 'secret box' first. SpongeBob asks him what's inside the box, but Patrick refused to let SpongeBob show inside the box. Despite repeated attempts, SpongeBob is unable to trick Patrick into opening the box (unusual considering Patrick's low intelligence). Undeterred, SpongeBob tries to sneak a peek while Patrick sleeps. Patrick wakes up to catch him in the act (not due to the unintentional clamor created by the less than stealthy SpongeBob, but by the fairly quiet comment "Gee, Patrick sure is a heavy sleeper.") Nevertheless, Patrick forgives him and opens the box. Inside, there is just a piece of string ("A secret string!" as Patrick describes it). SpongeBob comments on how he "should've known", but when he leaves, Patrick reveals to the audience the real secret. If you pull the string, a secret compartment opens in the box, revealing an embarrassing photo of SpongeBob at "that Christmas party".

Cultural References

Clips from this episode appeared in the 2005 version of War of the Worlds while Rachel was channel surfing. These clips were either repeated or out of order. Also the clips are synched very badly as the audio is at least 30 seconds off from the animation. This has caused some anger to SpongeBob fans.

Trivia/Goofs

One time when this episode was aired, the picture Patrick had in the box was SpongeBob in his underwear.
SpongeBob reveals that he wears two different socks everyday, he has never been late for work and he was wearing three pairs of underwear at the time. He also likes to dance to "Loading zone" announcements.
When SpongeBob sneaks over to Patrick's house, Squidward's house is absent.
In this episode, SpongeBob is drawn as a lighter shade of yellow.
During the first few months after release, they revealed the embarrassing picture of SpongeBob before cutting to the credits. This picture wasn't the picture taken by Squidward in "Christmas Who?", it was a photo of SpongeBob with a lampshade over his head. If Christmas Who was the first Christmas in Bikini Bottom, why would there be a party?
The photo Patrick had was remained unshown until a commercial done in clay aired during Christmas time. It was of SpongeBob ripping his pants.
When SpongeBob’s arms are taken off, they don't grow back like in "Graveyard Shift".
This is one of the few episodes when Gary speaks a word of English ("Hmmm... no").
When Patrick mistakes SpongeBob for his secret box, he pulls on SpongeBob’s tongue, hinting that you need to pull the secret string to reveal the embarrassing photo.
One of SpongeBob's secrets he tells to Patrick is he has never been late for work. But in the episode Hooky, Mr. Krabs tells him, "You're two minutes late".
There is a book called "The Secret Box".
When SpongeBob crashes on Patrick's wall right before commenting on Patrick Star being a sound sleeper after tripping on his own shoelaces, a picture of SpongeBob and Patrick lands on SpongeBob’s head and divides into two pieces, with SpongeBob on one piece and Patrick on another piece. This could be interrupted as a literally foreshadowing of the moments following when Patrick wakes up, the distrust that SpongeBob envys onto his best friend.
Patrick makes a reference to peeping tom by saying "Hands off peeping bob!".
It is revealed that Squidward's house actually has a sentient mind of itself or Squidward probably is "controlling" the house to look inside Patrick's box.
The episode is a reference to the film Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
When Patrick says "its the Clamburglar!", it is a reference the the Hamburglar from the McDonalds franchise.
SpongeBob slides his face on the backside of his head, but how can he do that?
SpongeBob's shoelaces weren't untied when he was sneaking to Patrick.
This is the first episode where SpongeBob is seen as a baby