SpongeBob Meets the Strangler (Episode)

"SpongeBob Meets the Strangler" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season three. It premiered on October 11, 2004

Info

===Time Cards Shown===

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The Strangler !

• 20 minutes later
• 6 hours later

Characters

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• The Strangler
• Patrick Star
• Gary the Snail
• Squidward Tentacles
• Mr. Krabs
• Larry the Lobster
• Pearl Krabs
• Sheldon J. Plankton
• Sandy Cheeks
• Poppy Puff
• Everyone else at party

Plot

SpongeBob meets a stranger. After calling the police on the stranger for littering, Squidward says that the stranger is, in fact, the Tattle-Tale Strangler. Seconds later, the Strangler escapes, looking for SpongeBob. SpongeBob looks for a bodyguard for protection, but no one would take the job when they found out the Strangler was after him. The Strangler later finds out and takes the job to kill him. He dons a disguise (a fake, 5-cent Moustache) and finds SpongeBob. Spongebob says that he just hopes the strangler's hands aren't dirty, which then shows the strangler looking at his disgusting hands and laughing.

He then realizes he needs a quiet place to strangle him, but SpongeBob needs to run some errands first. They are faced by every possible delay, and they finally get to SpongeBob's house. SpongeBob realizes he lost his key and looks for it in his pockets for 20 minutes. The Strangler decides to get though a window a bit high up and asks SpongeBob to climb on his shoulders. SpongeBob, now with sharp cleats on his shoes, attempts to jump on his shoulders, instead landing directly in his eyes. He struggles to pull them out for 6 straight hours, finally pulling them out and then putting bandages on his damaged corneas.

After that SpongeBob says he has a key under the mat he has almost forgot about. The Strangler then locks the doors and starts to choke SpongeBob. The lights then turn on, revealing a "100% on-time average" surprise party. Spongebob acts surprised, asking how they knew, with Patrick saying that they just did what the invitations told them to do. The party goes on for a considerable length of time. The Strangler then attempts to choke him again, but the guests come back for a birthday party for SpongeBob. Finally alone, he tries again, but then Patrick shows up for some odd reason. The Strangler tries to get rid of him, saying:"He could be the Strangler in disguise". Patrick then runs off, breaking through the wall and leaving a hole the shape of a star so he can turn himself in thinking he was the Strangler.

SpongeBob is then confused and thinks that Patrick is the Strangler. The real Strangler, enraged, reveals Patrick isn't the Strangler, he is, and reveals himself (by taking off his fake mustache), but SpongeBob still doesn't resist, finding out that Patrick isn't the strangler and is amazed how he has ripped off his Mustache without shaving crea]. The Strangler says "Oh, it's a fake, you idiot! I bought it at the party store!"

The Guests return overhearing the word "party." The Strangler runs away, but SpongeBob goes after him, saying he still needs protection from the "strangler". He takes a series of escape vehicles (taxi, plane, a parachute made of SpongeBob) but SpongeBob catches up every time. He lands in the police department in a jail cell and SpongeBob learns the truth. The Strangler says "At least I'm safe from that yellow idiot!" Soon after, the Strangler finds Patrick (who still thinks he's the strangler) in his cell, who asks, "Hey mac, what're ya in for?". Once again the Strangler is stuck with another idiot, but a much dumber one.

Trivia/Goofs

• This episode was originally titled "Litterbug".
• It was thought that fish didn't have fingers. The Strangler has 10 fully functional separate fingers, similar to the doctor from Suds, who has eight fingers, like SpongeBob himself.
• If SpongeBob can't get his "butt" kicked by Flats in The Bully (Episode), it's doubtful that the Strangler could strangle him, although Flats was just punching Spongebob, and the Strangler would strangle Spongebob, so the Strangler could possibly strangle Spongebob.
• The pay check says the Strangler's moustache is from "The Phony Baloney Moustache Emporium". However, the Strangler says it's from the party store later on.
• When SpongeBob arrives with the Strangler at his house, the bamboo wallpaper is up. But when the party is revealed, the wallpaper changes to green with flowers. When the party members leave, it changes back to the old wallpaper, then back to the flower wallpaper when the party members arrive again.
• In the Korean version, the police don't say anything about SpongeBob being a tattle-tale.

• When the "20 minutes later" time card appears, its background is from the title card of Graveyard Shift.
• When Spongebob is in front of his house looking for his key, he doesn't have a mat, but when he gets the key the mat is there.

Quotes

Strangler: Be careful! For all we know, he could be the strangler!
Parick: I'm the Strangler? Oh, I should've known! I gotta turn myself in!
Spongebob: So Patrick's the Strangler. Who would have known? Thanks, Bodyguard.
Strangler: Listen, kid. I'm not a bodyguard! (struggling) I'm the Strangler yo! <be>

• Police Fish (After The Strangler landed in jail): Good job kid. You got the Strangler behind bars!
  
• Patrick: Hey Mac. What'ya in for?
  

• Strangler: Hey, you could get in through that window. Maybe you can clib up on my shoulders.
  
• Spongebob: Of course! With these spikey cleats, anything is possible!