Hello Bikini Bottom! (Episode)

Hello Bikini Bottom!
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Episode No.:	178
Season:	8/2011
Airdate:	October 8, 2012
Previous Episode:	Move It or Lose It
Next Episode:	Extreme Spots
Characters	Voice actors
SpongeBob SquarePants	Tom Kenny

Hello Bikini Bottom! is the last episode of Season 8.

Info

Characters

Places

Plot

Surprisingly, SpongeBob and Squidward form a band (thanks to Mr. Krabs)! Squidward plays his clarinet and SpongeBob plays the ukulele. Everything seems to be going great from here, but doing this will be harder than they thought!

Trivia/Goofs

This episode has brought the final of many things:
- The last episode written by Sean Charmatz before he went to work at DreamWorks Animation.
- Andrew Overtoom's last episode as an animation director until "Gary & Spot" in season 12.
- The last episode written by Dani Michaeli until he came back to write the season 10 episode "Lost and Found."
- The last double-length episode for half hour special of season 8.
- The last SpongeBob special filmed completely in 4:3 fullscreen
- The last appearance of the Bikini Bottom Supermarket to date.
- The last episode in Japan that Rokurō Naya voices Squidward before his death on November 17, 2014.
- The last episode written by Aaron Springer before he went to direct on the Disney Channel animated series Gravity Falls..
- The last SpongeBob episode to be produced in 480i standard-definition full screen. The next episode, "Extreme Spots," and onward, are produced in widescreen high-definition.
  - however, in premire order, Move It or Lose It was the last episode to air in Standard-Definition.
This is one of the only episodes when Squidward puts up with SpongeBob
In the promo for this episode the episode is called SpongeBob on Tour. Also in the promo you can here the song We Will Rock You by Queen.
The elderly fish who keeps saying "Too loud!" is the fish who kept running over Plankton in Drive-Thru.