Missing Identity
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| SpongeBob SquarePants episode | |
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| Season №: | 3 |
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| Episode №: | 58b (for production), Episode 57b (for premiere) |
| Production №: | 058 |
| Airdate: | January 19, 2004 |
| Best Day Ever Rank: | #75 |
| Credits | |
| Guest(s): | None |
| Writer(s): | Ennio Torresan Erik Wiese Stephen Hillenburg Derek Drymon Tim Hill |
| Storyboard Artist(s): | Erik Wiese |
| Supervising Producer: | None |
| Directors | |
| Storyboard: | Ennio Torresan |
| Animation: | Tom Yasumi |
| Creative: | Derek Drymon |
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"Missing Identity" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season three.
Brief summary: SpongeBob recounts the story of when he loses his identity. At work, Squidward tells him to retrace his steps, so that he can find his name-tag. However, there is only one hour until a uniform inspection.
Characters Present:
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Patrick Star
- Squidward Tentacles
- Mr. Krabs
- Gary
- Chef
- Waiter
- Krusty Krab Customers
- Snail Po Employees
- Peterson
- Old Man Jenkins
- Tough guys who threw SpongeBob into the dumpster
[edit] Plot
SpongeBob SquarePants is at a diner, late at night. It is a dark and weary day, and the rain is pouring down. A patron is solving a crossword puzzle, and realises he had lost his pen. A waitress says he can borrow hers, and does. SpongeBob says he once lost something more important than a pen. He once lost his identity.
He recounts the events of last Monday. He wakes up, and throwing his blanket into the air, says "Hello world, and all who inhabit it!" The blanket falls on him and SpongeBob, not being able to see, falls off his bed and his alarm clock falls on top of his head. He falls down the stairs and the alarm propels him into the window. He feeds Gary, and realises that he has been feeding Gary snail food for years and doesn't even know what it tastes like. He tastes a little bit, and is horribly disgusted, and even his disgust is even heard at the headquarters of the company that makes SpongeBob's snail food. He looks at the clock and realises that he's late for work, so he quickly gets changed and skips to work.
While he skips to work, he says hello to Patrick Star, says hello to Old Man Jenkins, then places an apple on Eugene H. Krabs' desk. Then, two guys throw him into the dumpster.
Later, as SpongeBob serves food to a customer, the customer tells him that he should wear a name-tag so that she can thank him in a sophisticated and civil manner. He assures her that he is wearing a name-tag, but then sees nothing but a shirt. He immediately hyperventilates, and tells Squidward that he has lost his name-tag. SpongeBob faints almost immediately. When he wakes up, he asks Squidward what happened. His response is that he fainted because he lost his name-tag. Squidward assures him that his name-tag is not that important, but just as he says that Mr. Krabs informs them that there's a uniform inspection in one hour. Squidward tells SpongeBob that he should retrace his steps.
SpongeBob does, but fails in finding it. Patrick suggests looking in the dumpster, and they go searching there. Patrick finds SpongeBob's name-tag, but it seems to keep disappearing. SpongeBob is confused, but all the mysteries are cleared when Patrick says "At least I don't wear my shirt backwards!" SpongeBob then realises that he had his name-tag all along, his shirt was just backwards. At the uniform inspection, Mr. Krabs smells SpongeBob and is horribly disgusted. He kicks SpongeBob out of the Krusty Krab.
SpongeBob finishes telling his story, and thanks the waitress for listening, calling her "Betty." She says that her name isn't Betty, she just borrowed someone else's uniform while hers is getting cleaned. When SpongeBob learns this, he ends the episode doing a Jack Benny double-take.
[edit] In Popular Culture
- The scene where the Snailpo executive feels a disturbance after Spongebob tastes a can of Snailpo is persumably parody of the scene in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope where Obi-Wan Kenobi feels a disturbance after Alderaan is destroyed.
[edit] Trivia/Goofs
- The fourteenth episode that had flowers on the title card.
- When this episode first aired, Plankton's Army was shown first, then Missing Identity. For today's arings, Missing Identity airs first, then Plankton's Army.
- This is the third time that reference is made to the 11-minute length of an episode, the first being in the Season 1 episode, Nature Pants and Club SpongeBob by Squidward and being referred to by the waitress in Missing Identity.
- When SpongeBob imagines the bankrobber entering the store with his name-tag, the robber yells "ATTICA!", in a reference to what the robber yells in the film Dog Day Afternoon.
- When SpongeBob and Patrick are shown in the dumpster looking for SpongeBob's name tag, it is shown as being much larger than when they were shown standing outside of it.
- We learn that Patrick likes Stingray 5000.
- In this episode SpongeBob says, "I've been feeding this to Gary for years and I don't even know what it tastes like", but in the episode I Was a Teenage Gary, SpongeBob eats all of Gary's food. Perhaps this episode takes place before I Was a Teenage Gary. However, Spongebob says this was a story about how he once lost his identity, which could've taken place before I Was a Teenage Gary.
- It is shown that SpongeBob has a pet clam in this episode.
- This episode is part of a group of final season 3 episodes that are hardly ever aired.
| Preceded by: "Plankton's Army" |
SpongeBob SquarePants episodes | Followed by: "Ugh" |
