The Smoking Peanut (Episode)

"The Smoking Peanut" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season two. It premiered March 8, 2001. Template:Spoiler Brief summary: SpongeBob throws a peanut at a sleeping oyster, Clamu (He wants her to wake up and perform tricks) at Oyster Stadium in the Bikini Bottom Zoo, then she goes on a rampage. Everyone is wondering who did it, and SpongeBob has to turn himself in.

Time/Date: Unknown

Time cards shown: None

Main Character(s):

Major Character(s):

Clamu
Mr. Krabs
Sandy Cheeks
Squidward Tentacles
Gary the Snail
Zookeepers
- Joe
Audience
- Tom
Policefishes

Songs: None

Plot

SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick Star go to the Oyster Stadium to see Clamu the Clam perform tricks. Apparently, Clamu is sleeping and SpongeBob and Patrick want to see a show. When Patrick leaves, SpongeBob tries to wake Clamu up by throwing a peanut. Clamu wakes up and goes on a rampage as she attacks people and cries. Apparently, the cry is so loud that it can be heard all over the world (even above the surface). Everyone is angry and annoyed and they all want to find who did the crime. Patrick starts to do some investigating to find out who did it. SpongeBob feels the grief and guilt and decides to turn himself in. A trainer of Clamu sees that Eugene H. Krabs stole Clamu's pearl which happens to be an egg (that's really why she was crying when SpongeBob threw the peanut), which means Clamu is now a mother. Mr. Krab's excuse for the crime is that it's free day at the Bikini Bottom Zoo. To be punished for his crime, Mr Krabs has peanuts thrown at him, to see how he likes it.

Quotes

Patrick: (excited) WHY ARE WE HANGING AROUND WATCHING A CHEAP IMITATION?! LET'S GET OVER THERE!!!
- SpongeBob and Patrick: THIS IS THE GREATEST DAY OF OUR LIVES!!! (They see Clamu sleeping)
  Patrick: This is the greatest day of our lives?
Fish on P.A.: Attention zoo patrons. Clamu, the giant oyster is on an emotional rampage! Please scream and run around in circles.
- ( all screaming )
  Fish on P.A.: Thanks for coming!
SpongeBob: There it is. Oyster Stadium. Not only do they have the largest oyster held in captivity, it also does tricks. He spits a giant pearl 100 feet in the air!! Like a cannonball!! [Takes his hat, rolls it into a shape of a ball, puts it in his mouth, and spits it out. Letting it soar into the air. But then it lands into a kid's ice cream.]

Patrick This grain of sand looks pretty suspicious... so does this rock! And I have a few questions for this blade of grass.
Patrick All of the pieces are falling together. I followed these footprints right to where you are standing. And I found this bag of peanuts! I'm so close to solving this, I can almost taste it (Patrick licks what appears to be SpongeBob's face but the camera zooms out to reveal that the object he was licking is a yellow popsicle) Boy, crime-fighting sure makes me hungry and this yellow popsicle sure hits the spot!

Police Officer: Is your name SpongeBob SquarePants?
SpongeBob: Yes!
Police Officer: Put those eyeballs back son. We got a few questions to ask from you. Were you at the oyster stadium at the time of the incident ?
SpongeBob: Yes!
Police Officer: Did you not take part in various activities of zoo-time merriment?
SpongeBob: Yes!
Police Officer: And are you familiar (shows the peanut in a specimen bag) with this peanut?
SpongeBob: YES!
Police Officer: Just one more question, is it true that you were at the oyster stadium with a Mr.Patrick Star?
SpongeBob: YES!(Starts crying) IT'S TRUE EVERYTHING IT'S TRUE, THE MERRIMENT!, THE PEANUT!, THE PATRICK! IT'S ALL TRUE!
Police Officer: That's all we need to know, let's book him!
Patrick: (Putting the hand cuffs on Patrick) Wow you guys are good, I am the last person I would have suspected, but I was looking for me the whole time! It's the perfect crime!
Police Officer: Yeah, Yeah tell it to the judge pinky!

SpongeBob I have come to reveal the truth. They say that truth will be rewarded with understanding and forgiveness. I have come to trim the branches of deception from the tree of life, to shave the unkempt sideburns from the face of truth, to...
Audience member Oh just get on with it!

Trivia/Goofs

Right before that on YTV airings of this episode, Mr. Krabs says "But it's Free Day!" but captions say "But it's pretty!".
When Patrick says "Hey Spongebob" in the evil tone, his eyelids are pink instead of their regular purple color.
A tune from Danger Mouse is used.
The title takes its name from the phrase "caught with the smoking gun."
When the zookeeper pulls Mr. Krabs pants off, the belt buckle colors are reversed to yellow on the inside and black on the outside, although in the next scene it reversed back to normal.
Clamu is a reference to the popular Shamu in Seaworld.
In every other episode, Bikini Bottom has blue and white police cars (similar to NYPD's old squad car color scheme). However, in this episode the police cars are black and red.
There is a book to tie-in with this episode, but called Zoo day disaster.