The Camping Episode
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| Season №: | 3 |
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| Best Day Ever Rank: | #7 |
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"The Camping Episode" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season three.
Brief summary: This weekend, SpongeBob and Patrick are camping, and Squidward is excited. However, they are only camping 10 feet from their homes, much to Squidward's disappointment.
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- The Campfire Song, by SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick Star
[edit] Plot
Squidward looks forward to a weekend of peace and quiet when SpongeBob and Patrick decide to go camping. However, he's disappointed to learn that they decided to camp in SpongeBob's front yard, right outside his window.
Squidward decides to camp too, after he mistakenly gets the impression that SpongeBob and Patrick think he's somehow not manly or qualified enough to camp. After he's unable to set up his yuppie, REI-styled, equipment, he decides to sleep on the ground.
SpongeBob and Patrick start talking about sea-bears. Squidward attempts to disprove their existence by doing all the things that supposedly would attract a sea-bear. Sure enough, he is eventually attacked. SpongeBob and Patrick make an 'anti sea-bear circle', of which Squidward is also skeptical. After being attacked several times, he attempts to make a circle, but it's actually an oval which offers no protection. (Part of the long running gag about Squidward's lack of artistic talent, e.g., episode Artist Unknown.) He jumps into SpongeBob and Patrick's circle where he is not attacked. Unfortunately, a sea-rhinoceros, which is attracted by the sound of the sea-bear attacks, appears and grunts at Squidward, who is not wearing his anti sea-rhinoceros undergarments.
[edit] Trivia
- Things that attract sea bears are playing the clarinet badly outside, eating cubed cheese (sliced is fine), wearing a sombrero in a goofy fashion (i.e. upside-down), waving a flashlight around outside (flashlights are their natural prey), wearing clown shoes or a hoop skirt, stomping your feet (they take that as a challenge), and screeching like a chimpanzee.
- Sea bears hate people running, limping more than running, and crawling.
- The drawing of Spongebob and Patrick on Squidward's calender don't have clothes on.
- What prevents sea bear attacks are making an anti-sea bear circle.
- Sea rhinos are attracted by the sound of a sea bear attack. The only thing that can prevent sea rhino attacks are anti-sea rhino undergarments.
- The episode was originally going to be titled Squid Gets Mauled, but was later changed to The Camping Episode for being too violent.
- Patrick is revealed to be left-handed.
- Patrick can play drums and he does so just as talented as in Band Geeks.
- In the episode "Idiot Box", Squidward finds a sombrero when he looks for a box and says: "Why haven't I worn this yet?" Later, in "The Camping Episode" Squidward wears his sombrero.
- In that episode in Hebrew, in "The Campfire song" song they sing it "ש-י-ר ה-מ-ח-נ-ה. שיר המחנה" which means "C-A-M-P-F-I-R-E S-O-N-G, the campfire song" instead of "C-A-M-P-F-I-R-E S-O-N-G song"
- In the Best Day Ever, this was the highest ranked episode not from season 4.
- In the credits for this episode, along with "Krabby Land", Mr. Lawrence as Larry the Lobster is credited, although Larry is in neither of those episodes.
| Preceded by: "Krabby Land" |
SpongeBob SquarePants episodes | Followed by: "SpongeBob Meets the Strangler" |
