Best Day Ever

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SpongeBob SquarePants episode
""Best Day Ever""
Season №: 4
Episode №: 75
Production №: 76
Airdate: November 9/10, 2006 (marathon)
November 10, 2006 (episode)
Credits
Guest(s): None
Writer(s): Nate Cash
Tuck Tucker
Steven Banks
Supervising Producer: Paul Tibbitt
Directors
Storyboard: Nate Cash
Tuck Tucker
Animation: Larry Leichliter
Technical: Vincent Waller
Episode List
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"Best Day Ever" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season four. It first aired on November 10, 2006 after a 24 hour marathon with the same title, along with The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.

Brief Summary: SpongeBob sacrifices his perfect day to help his friends.

Time/Date:

Characters Present: (Patchy hosting segments)

  • Patchy the Pirate
  • Charlie (the announcer)
  • Teddy
  • Captain of Patchy's boat
  • Massage therapist
  • Kids

Characters Present: (SpongeBob episode)

Songs:

  • Best Day Ever[1]

Contents

[edit] Plot

Promotional image featuring SpongeBob singing "The Best Day Ever"
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Promotional image featuring SpongeBob singing "The Best Day Ever"

The episode starts out with the song, "Best Day Ever." Afterward, SpongeBob's "best day ever" doesn't turn out as he planned when he has to postpone his activities to help his friends with their problems. He wanted to work at the Krusty Krab, have some karate with Sandy, go jellyfishing with Patrick using his new high-tech jellyfishing net, and then go to Squidward's clarinet concert. First he ran over to the Krusty Krab, only to find that it was condemned due to a severe nematode infestation. Spongebob led them away by playing the flute on his nose, which caused them to become hypnotized and fall asleep, like the story of the Pied Piper. He then goes to Sandy's treedome for karate, but Sandy says that she is too busy with a leak in her dome that is letting water in. Spongebob fixes it with his sticky karate glove. Afterwards, he heads over to Jellyfish Fields to go jellyfishing with Patrick, but Patrick broke his net, and then broke SpongeBob's old net. Spongebob gives Patrick his brand-new net. SpongeBob meets up with Squidward, who says that he can't play in the concert because his clarinet reed is shot. SpongeBob pulls out one of his teeth to replace the reed. Finally, SpongeBob goes to Squidward's concert, but the doorman wont let him in without a ticket, which he doesn't have. He tries various methods of sneaking in such as a fake Spongebob marionette as a distraction, and cutting through the ceiling, but at last he is let in because he is on the VIP list. However, he gets in right as the concert is over. He is very mad that everything went wrong and gives a long and elaborate speech about how his Best Day Ever got ruined. But then, his friends tell him about how SpongeBob helped them with their problems out of his kindness and teach him it's not about "perfect days", it's about having friends. But to make it up to him, they hold a production in which SpongeBob preforms his song, "The Best Day Ever," to complete his real Best Day Ever with his friends by his side.

[edit] Cultural References

  • SpongeBob plays a tune on his nose to rid the Krusty Krab of nematodes. This is similar to the Pied Piper.

[edit] Trivia/Goofs

  • When Squidward said "I suppose if you haven't fixed my clarinet, the concert would have been a bust", Sandy's tail turns white.
  • This is the first time that the captions performer is not WGBH Media Access Group.
A promotional image of The Best Day Ever featuring SpongeBob riding a submarine/bicycle
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A promotional image of The Best Day Ever featuring SpongeBob riding a submarine/bicycle
  • Closed captions for this episode were typed in all capital letters; beginning early in season two, the show began using captions typed in lowercase letters, a standard practice with some shows today, as it makes the captions easier to read.
  • During the very end of the episode, when Spongebob is singing about "the perfect job starts his perfect day", the poorly painted 'Krusty Krab' sign changes to 'K.K.' after he flips the patty.
  • When Best Day Ever was rebroadcasted a second time, it had credits that said The Gift of Gum indicating that these episodes are paired together.
  • When Spongebob plays the tune on his nose, it is a refrence to the beggining, when he plays the tune on his nose.
  • The marathon and the episode are both called "Best Day Ever"; In Australia, the marathon is called "Non-Stop SpongeBob" which will premier on December 23, 2006.

[edit] Marathon

This episode aired on November 10, 2006 during a 24-hour marathon, in which Patchy the Pirate counted down the top 100 SpongeBob episodes, while on a boat in the New York City harbor. Fans voted weeks prior to the marathon on an online poll. The marathon started on November 9, 2006, and ran through November 10, 2006 and ended with the network premiere of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. The marathon raised Nickelodeon's ratings to an average of over 6.7 million viewers and became the network's most highest-rated day ever.[1]

During the Best Day Ever marathon for 24 hours, starting at 8 p.m. on November 9. During the marathon, the logo in the right bottom corner changed from Nick, to the Nick at Nite logo. At 6:00 a.m. it went back from the "Nick at Nite" logo to the "Nick" logo. If one were to look for episode information in their cable guide during the countdown, the message "A yellow sponge lives in subterranean Bikini Bottom" would appear in the "Info" box so as not to give away the rankings.

Repeats of the top 10 episodes (refered to as "The Best 10 Ever") were shown on November 22, November 25, and December 9.

[edit] Top 100 Episodes

Forty-three episodes will not make the countdown, as there are one hundred forty-three episodes prior to the marathon. The rankings on Turbo Nick are oddly different from the marathon order, and some have changed in the process. The Top 100 episodes are shown on the table below.

Rank Television TurboNick[2]
100 Procrastination Procrastination
Sailor Mouth
99 Hall Monitor Hall Monitor
98 Clams Clams
97 Tea at the Treedome Tea at the Treedome
Sailor Mouth
96 Sailor Mouth Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost
Tea at the Treedome
95 Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost I Had an Accident
Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost
94 Welcome to the Chum Bucket Bossy Boots
93 Bossy Boots[3] Wet Painters
92 Wet Painters My Pretty Seahorse
91 My Pretty Seahorse Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV
90 Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV[4] Rock-a-Bye Bivalve
89 Rock-a-Bye Bivalve Squid on Strike
88 Squid on Strike Home Sweet Pineapple
87 Home Sweet Pineapple Squirrel Jokes
86 Squirrel Jokes Shell of a Man
85 Shell of a Man Fools in April
84 Fools in April Krusty Love
83 Krusty Love Mrs. Puff, You're Fired
Dumped
82 Mrs. Puff, You're Fired The Smoking Peanut
Mrs. Puff, You're Fired
81 Dumped Bubblestand
Mrs. Puff, You're Fired
80 Bubblestand Rock Bottom
Bubblestand
79 Rock Bottom SquidBob TentaclePants
Rock Bottom
78 SquidBob TentaclePants[5] Survival of the Idiots
SquidBob TentaclePants
77 Imitation Krabs Imitation Krabs
76 Nasty Patty
[6]
Nasty Patty
(referred to as The Nasty Patty)
Missing Identity
75 Missing Identity Bubble Buddy
Nasty Patty
74 Gary Takes a Bath Gary Takes a Bath
73 (skipped) Texas
72 (skipped) MuscleBob BuffPants
71 (skipped) Party Pooper Pants
70 (skipped) Sleepy Time
69 (skipped) Krabs vs. Plankton
68 (skipped) Sandy's Rocket
67 (skipped) The Lost Mattress
66 (skipped) Plankton's Army
65 (skipped) As Seen on TV
64 (skipped) Graveyard Shift
63 (skipped) SpongeBob 129
62 (skipped) Idiot Box
61 Suds Suds
60 Whale of a Birthday Whale of a Birthday
59 The Fry Cook Games The Frycook Games
58 No Weenies Allowed No Weenies Allowed
57 Wormy Wormy
56 Hooky Hooky
55 New Student Starfish New Student Starfish
54 Opposite Day Opposite Day
53 Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy VI: The Motion Picture[7] Enemy In-Law
52 Dying for Pie Dying for Pie
51 SpongeBob Meets the Strangler SpongeBob Meets the Strangler
50 I Had an Accident I Had an Accident
49 Pressure Pressure
48 Culture Shock Culture Shock
47 Sandy, SpongeBob, and the Worm Sandy, SpongeBob, and the Worm
46 The Paper The Paper
45 Chocolate with Nuts Chocolate with Nuts
44 Karate Choppers Karate Choppers
43 Nature Pants Nature Pants
42 Neptune's Spatula Neptune's Spatula
41 I Was a Teenage Gary I Was a Teenage Gary
40 Jellyfishing Jellyfishing
39 Once Bitten Once Bitten
38 Band Geeks Band Geeks
37 Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy
36 Employee of the Month[8] Employee of the Month
35 The Great Snail Race[9] The Great Snail Race
34 Survival of the Idiots Survival of the Idiots
33 No Free Rides No Free Rides
32 Squid's Day Off Squid's Day Off
31 Krabby Land Krabby Land
30 Arrgh! Arrgh!
29 Pizza Delivery Pizza Delivery
28 Pre-Hibernation Week Pre-Hibernation Week
27 Pickles Pickles
26 Patty Hype Patty Hype
25 Your Shoe's Untied Your Shoe's Untied
24 Help Wanted/Reef Blower Help Wanted/Reef Blower
23 Bubble Buddy Bubble Buddy
22 Skill Crane Skill Crane
21 Just One Bite Just One Bite
20 Snowball Effect[10] Snowball Effect
19 Scaredy Pants Scaredy Pants
18 Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V[11] Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V
17 Grandma's Kisses Grandma's Kisses
16 SpongeBob B.C. SpongeBob B.C.
15 Krusty Krab Training Video Krusty Krab Training Video
14 F.U.N. F.U.N.
13 Big Pink Loser Big Pink Loser
12 All That Glitters All That Glitters
11 Fear of a Krabby Patty Fear of a Krabby Patty
10 Have You Seen This Snail?[12] Have You Seen This Snail?
9 Selling Out Selling Out
8 Patrick SmartPants Patrick SmartPants
7 The Camping Episode The Camping Episode
6 The New Leaf The New Leaf
5 Ghost Host Ghost Host
4 Krusty Towers Krusty Towers
3 Dunces and Dragons Dunces and Dragons
2 Wishing You Well Wishing You Well
1 Karate Island Karate Island

[edit] Patchy Segments

When the Best Day Ever countdown started, Patchy's hook was on his left side. After the next commercial, his hook was on the right side. It has since been relocated to his left hand. Patchy's hosting supposedly took place in real time alongside the marathon. A few times during the Best Day Ever marathon in the day, the Patchy commercials would take place at night. Some segments were shown several times. Before Squid on Strike, Patchy is seen reading a men's magazine on Jessica Alba. As Patchy reads a NYC guide book he can only remember two of the seven seas.

Patchy fell asleep at midnight and woke up at 8:00 AM, because he can't remember anything between #85, Shell of a Man (shown at midnight) and #43, Nature Pants (shown at 7:45 AM). However, in the middle of the night, Patchy woke up to announce #61, "Suds" and came up with the excuse that he was "resting his eyes". However, he was stumbling over his words in the process, showing that he was half-asleep and, ironically, skipped numbers 62-73. After that he went back to sleep.

A giant, sequined SpongeBob over New York Harbor was lowered as the #1 episode drew closer and closer, alas the famous New Years' Ball in Times Square.

[edit] Movie Premiere

Several promotional advertisements for the airing of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie showed the film in its original widescreen aspect ratio, however, the airing of the movie at 8:00 PM EST was in a cropped fullscreen aspect ratio / Pan & Scan version of the film.

During the airing of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie at the climax of the Best Day Ever marathon, the Nickelodeon logo changes to a semi-transparent version of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie logo.

[edit] Footnotes/References

  1. ^ "The Best Day Ever" song can be heard as the last song in the credits of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (although the song didn't make the final cut of the film's plot.
  2. ^ Rankings according to nick.com
  3. ^ "Bossy Boots" was referred to as Working Pearl during the marathon
  4. ^ "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV" was referred to as Mermaid Man IV during the marathon.
  5. ^ "SquidBob TentaclePants" was referred to as Squidward Tenticlepants during the marathon.
  6. ^ "Nasty Patty" was referred to as The Nasty Patty during the marathon
  7. ^ Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy VI: The Motion Picture was supposed to be Enemy In-Law during the marathon
  8. ^ Employee of the Month was supposed to be Neptune's Spatula during the marathon
  9. ^ "The Great Snail Race" was referred to as Great Snail Race during the marathon.
  10. ^ "Snowball Effect" was referrd to as The Snowball Effect during the marathon.
  11. ^ "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V" was referrd to as Super Friends during the marathon.
  12. ^ "Have You Seen This Snail?" was referrd to as Where's Gary? during the marathon.

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Preceded by:
"Wigstruck"
SpongeBob SquarePants episodes Followed by:
"The Gift of Gum"