Once Bitten (SpongeBob SquarePants)
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| Season №: | 4 |
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| Episode №: | 73b |
| Airdate: | September 29, 2006 (US) July 26, 2006 (AU) |
| Best Day Ever Rank: | #39 |
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"Once Bitten" is an episode from the animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants, season four.
Brief summary: It's Sunday (not claimed) and Gary starts biting more than ever, and Patrick thinks Gary has a disease that Squidward (because Gary bit him on the hiney) will pass on to other people in Bikini Bottom.
Time/Date:
- Sunday
- 8:00 AM: Squidward walks out of his house
- 8:10 AM: Gary walks into the city and bites people
- 8:12 AM: News reports air, talking about the disease
- 8:15 AM: SpongeBob runs to the Krusty Krab
- 8:21 AM: Dr. Gill Gilliam appears, saying that the MAD SNAIL DISEASE doesn't exist
Main character(s):
Major character(s):
- Squidward Tentacles
- Dr. Gill Gilliam (Snail Diseases Expert and Snail Expert)
- Eugene H. Krabs
Minor character(s):
- Bikini Bottomites
- Fred
- Tom
- Nancy
- Old Man Jenkins
- Mary
- Mrs. Smith/Nurse Smith
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[edit] Plot
On Sunday (not claimed) in Bikini Bottom, Squidward walks out and slips in Gary's snail-trail. He gets mad and erects a fence of cheap splintery wood, then Gary bites him. Later, Squidward asks SpongeBob if Gary has had all of his shots. Patrick says that he has forgot to give him his mad snail disease shot. Just then, Gary runs off and starts to bite everybody in sight. Patrick tells SpongeBob and Squidward about the symptoms of the bite (including, but not limited to, turning into a zombie). Bikini Bottom gets burned and gets wrecked.
Soon, everybody gets bitten and turns into zombies and the rest of Bikini Bottom is trapped in the Krusty Krab. SpongeBob tries to get in but they think he is a zombie. He slips through the doors. The citizens think that Patrick and SpongeBob are zombies. Just then Gary comes in and everybody gets scared and Gary bites SpongeBob. The doctor comes in and says that the disease is just an urban legend and Gary was just suffering from a tree-sized splinter in his foot. The episode ends with Gary biting Mr. Krabs.
[edit] Quotes
- Patrick: (Talking to SpongeBob, thinking that he's a zombie) I've got my eye on you.
Old Man Jenkins: If you could take your eye out and put it on him, wouldn't that make you a zombie too?
- Patrick: (hesitates) YOU'RE RIGHT! I'M A ZOMBIE!
- Old Man Jenkins: Who is to say that we aren't all zombies?!?!? (Everyone runs around in panic)
[edit] Cultural References
- The episode may be a spoof of Cujo, due to the fact that Gary bites everyone and gives them the disease.
- The ending is similar to an Ed, Edd n Eddy episode where Johnny 2x4 pulls a rock out of Ed's shoe, curing Ed of his bad and destructive mood during the episode.
- The plot of this episode appears to be a parody of classic zombie movies such as 28 Days Later, Night of the Living Dead, and most notably, Shaun of the Dead, and Dawn of the Dead.
- Around the end, most people who wern't "infected" fled and locked themselves in the Krusty Krab. This is what happened in Dawn of the Dead.
- This episode is similar to the viral outbreak in the Resident Evil series, when Racoon City is infected with a virus and all of the citizens became zombies.
- Mad Snail Disease is a parody of Mad Cow Disease
- The people evacuating Bikini Bottom could be refrences to numerous movies notably Armageddon, Deep Impact, Independence Day, and War of the Worlds.
[edit] Trivia/Goofs
- Perch Perkin's original color was purple. He is orange in this episode.
- It is revealed that Bikini Bottom citizens are called "Bikini Bottomites."
- The Fry Cook Games re-aired with this episode when it originally aired.
- Music from Bubblestand and Jellyfishing is heard.
- Even though Squidward has tentacles, it is seen that he has both fingers and toes. (Fingers when he counts the snail diseases, Toes when Patrick says Squidward has "Severely untrimmed toenails.")
- When Perch Perkins was told that ticklish ribs were a symptom of Mad Snail Disease, another fish yelled that it spreads through the air. In this case, however, it does not spread through the air as they are all underwater.
- Symptoms of Mad Snail Disease:
A rash
Dry throat
Bloodshot eyes
Loss of balance
Ticklish ribcage
Messy pants
Severly untrimmed toenails
Become a zombie - Dr. Gill Gilliam's name wasn't revealed until now, although he's orange instead of the usual purple. Same with Perch Perkins. Maybe Bikini Bottomites change color over time.
- Gill Gilliam, for some reason, has orange human arms instead of fins.
| Preceded by: "New Leaf" |
SpongeBob SquarePants episodes | Followed by: "Bummer Vacation" |
