Sponge for Hire (DVD)

Sponge for Hire
© Nickelodeon / © Paramount Global
Content:	Episodes from Season 3
Language(s):	English, Spanish
Rating:	General
Running Time:	104 minutes
Release Date(s):	November 2, 2004
Disc Amount:	1

Sponge for Hire is a SpongeBob DVD that contains 8 episodes from Season 3, five of which were also on the VHS equivalent.

Episode List

#	Titlecard	Title	Airdate	Description	Screenshot
50b		Krusty Krab Training Video	May 20, 2002	A training narration of the Krusty Krab, demonstrating what work is like and how it takes place at the Krusty Krab.
47b		Can You Spare a Dime?	March 8, 2002	Mr. Krabs thinks Squidward stole his first dime, so Squidward quits his job and ends up having to live at SpongeBob’s House.
58a		Missing Identity	January 19, 2004	SpongeBob finds out that he lost his nametag and goes crazy. He tries to retrace his steps but Patrick keeps ruining it for him.
57a		Krabby Land	April 3, 2004	Mr. Krabs sets up Krabby Land Park, a cheap, poor-quality outdoor playground located behind the Krusty Krab. He hopes to use Krabby Land to lure children to the restaurant, but it instead causes huge problems for SpongeBob and many other people!
50a		Wet Painters	May 10, 2002	SpongeBob and Patrick are hired to paint Mr. Krabs' house, but are told not to get paint on anything except the walls or they lose their butts.
53a		New Student Starfish	September 20, 2002	Patrick says he has nothing to do when SpongeBob is at boating school so SpongeBob decides to let Patrick come to school with him.
55b		Mid-Life Crustacean	January 24, 2003	Mr. Krabs spends the evening out with SpongeBob and Patrick to be "cool" and be hip in his mid-life crisis.
57b		The Camping Episode	April 3, 2004	SpongeBob, Patrick, decide to camp only 10 feet away from SpongeBob’s house and Squidward comes out to camp with them with the mysterious Sea Bear and Sea Rhinoceros lurking...

Special Features

• Nicktoons Recipe Book (PC Rom Feature)
• Storyboards
  • "Missing Identity"
  • "Krabby Land"
  • "Wet Painters"
  • "New Student Starfish"

Trivia

• This is the first SpongeBob DVD in which all episodes were from a single season.
  • This wouldn’t happen again until the 2006 release of Lost in Time.
  • Likewise, the VHS equivalent only contains season 3 episodes. No subsequent VHS would only contain episodes from one season until 2005 with the second-to-last VHS, Where’s Gary?
• This is also the final SpongeBob DVD to have the episode titles appear at the beginning of the closing credits, as DVDs from Home Sweet Pineapple onward would have each episode’s title card appear before the credits.
  • As such, this is the last SpongeBob DVD to have silent versions of the United Plankton Pictures logo and Nickelodeon "Haypile" endcap (DVDs from Home Sweet Pineapple until the "Haypile" endcap was retired would use the closing theme over both).
• This is the first SpongeBob DVD that does not use the animated Paramount DVD logo since that logo’s introduction.
  • Only the first two movies used the Paramount DVD logo from there on.

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