Roller Cowards (Episode)


Roller Cowards
Episode No.:	86a
Airdate:	27.7.2007
Season:	Season 5
Previous Episode:	Krabs a la Mode
Next Episode:	Buck Sweet Bucket

"Roller Cowards" is an episode from Season 5.

Info

Characters

Patrick

The Glove World Theme Park makes its second apperance after Rock Bottom
SpongeBob
Glovie Glove
Larry
Tom
Harold
Nancy
Tina
Guy operating the Fiery Fist O' Pain
Old Man Jenkins
Patrick (Mirror World)

Places

Glove World

Plot

One night in Bikini Bottom, SpongeBob is just doing his things around his house, when Patrick bursts through the wall with a TV in his hands yelling, "SpongeBob, you gotta see this!" Then on the TV came news that a new ride at Glove World, The Fiery Fist O' Pain, was a dangerous and extreme ride, which excites them into vowing to ride it on the first day. That night, however, SpongeBob has a dream about them dying on The Fiery Fist O' Pain, which terrorizes SpongeBob.

The next morning they get on the bus to Glove World. After hearing gossip about the ride from fellow patrons, the two are terrified. They get off the bus and go up to the ticket patron. They check their pockets and, upon "finding" that they have no tickets they begin to go home, but the ticket patron spots where they hid their tickets and they enter. They are so scared, they decide ride the so-called, "baby rides," first. They find a ride called the Mitten, which is "suitable" for them. They get in the extremely small car and the man places a baby in their laps. SpongeBob and Patrick get scared every time they go up the small bump. They get off the ride whining, causing the baby to be angry at them.

They eventually get on line for The Fiery Fist O' Pain. They see an old man come out injured and they run off, however seconds later it was seen that the man just had a medical condition and could not get in to the ride. In order to waste time, they attempt to go to the bathroom in a marathon, but run into Larry who tells them about the stink under your arm when you go on the ride and Larry insist SpongeBob and Patrick to go to the ride immediately. SpongeBob and Patrick were so afraid getting in the ride they run off and Larry thinks he should stop making people smell his armpits. They then get some ice cream to soothe their nerves, causing Patrick to get ice cream all over his face, which prompts him to go to the bathroom and wash up. Meanwhile, SpongeBob talks to himself through his ice cream. SpongeBob and his ice cream had a fight and his ice cream beats him up. In the bathroom, Patrick's reflection calls him mean things such as calling him a cry baby because he is afraid to go on the ride. Patrick punches his reflection and returns to Spongebob.

Just before the two can admit to their fears, SpongeBob hears the loudspeaker say that Glove World closes in 5 minutes, and so they enter the ride. The ride starts but they have difficulties. They are relieved, but finds out the ride does not have a problem after all. and the operator hits the start button. They rocket off and, though they cried at the time, end up enjoying the ride, though they end the episode to find that they lost their spines.

Trivia/Goofs

Nat is the bus driver, even though the ticket collector and the operator of The Mitten is also Nat. How is that possible? It could be possible that there are in fact two fish identicle to Nat.
Glove World also appeared in Stephen Hillenburg's inspired episode "Rock Bottom"
Despite being invertebrates and therefore lacking spines, SpongeBob and Patrick were shown to have lost their spines after the ride.
If you pay close attention, then you will see that the Mitten had three laps. But after the small hill, they come back to the hill, but they couldn't go around that fast.
The Fist O' Pain first appeared in one of the artworks on the Friend or Foe DVD special features, despite the fact that Patrick's TV said it was going to open the next day. It is possible it was closed temporarily for safety reasons.
In episode Rock Bottom, which also featured Glove World, Glove World already has a roller coaster, which may have been the Fist or another, unrelated coaster.
All the rides in Glove World are gloves, mittens, or fists.
After SpongeBob and Patrick finished the ride, they said "Let's go again", but in the scene before, it said that SpongeBob and Patrick were the last people to go on the ride for the day.
SpongeBob's behavior when he was hitting himself with the ice cream cone was similar to that of Stewie Griffin from Family Guy.
When SpongeBob and Patrick were riding and went through the fire, their ride vehicle didn't catch on fire.
Later in A Life in a Day, Larry says SpongeBob and Patrick are spineless. This may be because they lose their spines after the ride, or perhaps just to be taken as they should have lacked spines to start with (see above fact).
If you look closely, when SpongeBob and Patrick's spines fly through the water, both of their spines go into the other's body (SpongeBob’s spine went to Patrick's body and vise versa). On the next scene their spines are back to normal.
This ride (Fiery Fist O' Pain) may cause:
- Crying
- Screaming
- Projectile Vomiting
- Amnesia
- Spine Loss
- Embarrassing Accidents
- Uncontrollable Gas
- Explosive Diarrhea
If you hear well enough when Patrick and SpongeBob got back from the Roller Coaster, the computer that mentions the ride is over sounds like Karen.
During the episode, Patrick gets scared of Glovie Glove but in I'm Your Biggest Fanatic, he sees Jeffrey Jellyfish costume in which, Patrick is not scared, also in Valentine's Day, there was a fish in a heart costume and yet, Patrick was not scared. Did Patrick had a secret fear of fish in a costume?
During the scene where Patrick gets a picture with Glovie Glove, there is a fence at the background. However, it vanishes when Patrick gets a picture of it.
Another goof with the picture is Patrick didn't freakishly point to Glovie Glove when SpongeBob took the picture. Or maybe, Patrick freakishly pointed at Glovie Glove during the flash.
This is Miranda Cosgrove's favorite episode from the The Ultimate SpongeBob Sponge Bash.
Why is SpongeBob reading his bedtime story in his living room?
When SpongeBob said to Larry the Lobster that he was hungry, he went one way. When Patrick said that he was hungry too, he went the other way when he should have went SpongeBob's way.
If the Fiery Fist O' Pain causes serious injuries so often and is so dangerous, it should have been taken down or have not been built at all as all the injured people should have complained and sued, and it is possible that the ride had killed some people too.

Controversy

People described the plot of this episode to be completely unclever. Other people, though, thought that the episode was good because it featured Glove World again.

This is the third time SpongeBob and Patrick went to a carnival. The first time was in the episode Valentine's Day, the second was in Rock Bottom, and the fourth was in Stuck in the Wringer.