Whelk Attack (Episode)

Whelk Attack
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Episode No.:	148b
Season:	7
Airdate:	2 October 2010
Previous Episode:	The Masterpiece
Next Episode:	You Don't Know Sponge
Characters	Voice actors
SpongeBob SquarePants	Tom Kenny

Whelk Attack is an episode from Season 7.

Plot

The episode starts out with Jellyfish Fields. SpongeBob and Patrick are Jellyfishing, when suddenly they see a herd of whelks stampeding towards them.Before they get the chance to run,they are trampled.Spongebob noticed they must warn Bikini Bottom of the whelks,but in the distance they hear screams and see the town attacked by the beasts.Spongebob and Patrick run to help and Patrick tries to prove he is not afriad by blowing a very,very,very,very,very long rasberry,but only ends up running for his life with Spongebob from the whelks.They barely make it to the Krusty Krab with their body parts still intact.Mr. Krabs wants to sell them something,but Squidward,Spongebob and Patrick see a giant whelk monster 2 times the size of the Krusty Krab.Squidward and Mr. Krabs,due to carelessness,is taken by the monsters as well.Spongebob and Patrick run away to Sandy's treedome.After another whelk attack,the three are surrounded by hungry whelks in minutes.Patrick is willing to try to battle the creatures to help his friends escape,but Sandy is taken by the giant.spongebob and Patrick have nowhere to run,and are taken away.they land in the stomach of the giant and see everyone is safe.Sandy says the whelks are sick and have a disease that make them rage over the sea and grow huge.Spongebob uses his absorbant powers to suck the ick out of the giant and soon,the smaller ones.It is shown that the "giant" is actually a mother of the younger ones.The episode ends with everyone laughing at a slime covered Squidward.

Trivia/Goofs

This is the first time Sandy's treedome is destroyed.
It is revealed that SpongeBob's mother's maiden name is Bubblebottom.
Suds is mentioned in this episode.
When SpongeBob is cleaning up the whelks, in the first shot, the mother is in his right hand, but in the next shot, as he's finished cleaning the baby whelks, the mother isn't in his hand, but on the ground.
When Sandy says "If I can analize it, I might be deduce the cause of their behavior!", she has five toes instead of three.