Have You Seen This Snail?

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SpongeBob SquarePants episode

"Have You Seen This Snail?"

Season №:

Episode №:

Production №:

Airdate:

November 11, 2005

Best Day Ever Rank:

#10

Credits

Guest(s):

Amy Poehler (Grandma)
Stew (performer of Gary's Song)

Writer(s):

Aaron Springer
Paul Tibbitt

Supervising Producer:

Paul Tibbitt

Directors

Storyboard:

Aaron Springer

Animation:

Jay Lender

Creative:

None

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"Have You Seen This Snail?" is a 22 minute special of SpongeBob SquarePants from season four.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Brief summary: While trying to break a paddleball record, SpongeBob forgets to feed Gary - for 10 days. Feeling neglected, Gary runs away. Taken in by a sweet old woman who mistakes him for her own snail, Gary is showered with love, attention, and lots of food. Will Gary make it out of Grandma’s house before he explodes?

Time/Date:

7:30 PM: Grandma takes Gary to bed

Characters Present (Patchy segments):

Characters Present (SpongeBob episode):

Characters Mentioned:

Songs: Gary's Song

1 Plot
2 Cultural References
3 Trivia/Goofs
4 Quotes

[edit] Plot

SpongeBob gets a new Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy paddleball set in the mail and decides to take the Dirty Bubble challenge by hitting the ball 29,998,559,671,349 times in a row. In doing this, he neglects to feed Gary for ten days. Gary then runs away, feeling neglected. But when Patrick arrives, SpongeBob snaps out of it and can't find Gary. So he searches his - and Squidward's - house to find him. However, in the mail he reads a letter from Gary (written in scribbles, somehow SpongeBob can understand it), saying that he has left in search of a new owner.

Meanwhile, a kind old grandma takes Gary in to her house and gives him a surname, "Miss Tuftsy". Gary is showered with love and food while SpongeBob goes to work, depressed that Gary hasn't shown up. Mr. Krabs says: "Any problem you have can be solved with a little hard work," trying to encourage him to work. But SpongeBob misunderstands him and takes the day off to look for Gary. He puts up posters and signs everywhere, in the hope of finding Gary.

Gary, at grandma's house, has been fed a lot and needs to go to the bathroom, so Grandma puts out fresh sheets, which are flyers given to her by Patrick. Gary reads them and knows that SpongeBob wants him back, but Grandma is making some meat loaf. Gary, looking for the exit, runs into a closet filled with dusty snail shells, which are empty. Grandma says that the meat loaf is not ready, so she offers Gary some cookies. Gary has been fed too much that his shell breaks and he gets fat. Because of this, the snails in the photo with grandma unanimously tell him to RUN (suggesting that the grandma eats snail), and he does. As Gary runs for the exit, grandma says that if Gary doesn't want cookies, she will give him deviled eggs too. She chases him so she can "feed him up". But Gary quickly finds a decoy; a snail on the street, which the grandma takes instead.

SpongeBob tries to forget Gary by taking a walk, but his memories of Gary upset him. The streets are filled with advertisements for Gary. SpongeBob then hears a meow - at first SpongeBob thinks he is imagining Gary's there, but when he turns round to find Gary at his side, he is overjoyed.

[edit] Cultural References

Grandma seems to be a parody of the witch from Hansel and Gretel, since she constantly overfeeds Gary, which it is constantly referenced that the grandma would eat him.
When Gary and Grandma are driving in the car, Grandma says "Set phasers to fun!" The Crimson Chin from The Fairly Oddparents said the same thing in the episode "Boy Toy".
"Set phasers to fun" could also be a reference to "set phasers on stun" from Star Trek.

[edit] Trivia/Goofs

There is a game on Nick.com based on this episode, named The Snail Trail.
When Patrick tells Spongebob to "let it all out", Spongebob states he cannot cry anymore, but when Patrick says "Earlier today at the craft store, I saw... these huge chunks of balsa wood, they were awesome!", Spongebob starts to cry.
Originally, this episode was going to be a TV movie premiere, but it was later decided to be a 30 minute special.
Commercials for this episode referred to it as Where's Gary?. Similar to Dunces and Dragons (Lost in Time), Plankton's Army (Plankton's Revenge), Party Pooper Pants(Spongebob's House Party), and SpongeBob B.C. (Spongebob goes Prehistoric).
If one looks closely on the package SpongeBob receives, the manufacturer reads Nickelodeon Inc..
In recent airings, there is a short Patchy the Pirate segment, except it is entirely animated in Flash Animation.
Around the time this episode aired, Cartoon Network had a snail resembling Gary in the bottom of the screen. The joke was that Gary had run away from Nickelodeon to Cartoon Network.
This episode had some of the highest ratings of 2005 Nickelodeon specials.
Patrick states that he has won the Dirty Bubble challenge 'many years ago', but lost the trophy they sent him. According to the episode Big Pink Loser, he has never won anything, and the way he says 'many years ago...I TOOK THAT CHALLENGE!' states that it would have before Big Pink Loser. Or it could be possible that he won the trophy after the episode "Big Pink Loser", meaning that "Big Pink Loser" took place many years ago. However, Big pink loser was aired in the year 2000, 5 years before Where's Gary.
When they are in the plane, SpongeBob says Pat, no!, but captions say AAh, no!

[edit] Quotes

SpongeBob: Take the dirty bubble challenge; hit the paddle ball 29,998,559,671,349 times in a row.
Patrick: (During the search for Gary, SpongeBob is sky-writing "Gary, please come home!") I want peanuts. (Presses a button)

SpongeBob: PAT NO! (Both scream as the plane flies out of control, erasing the message and creating one that says "Lisa, will you marry me?" as a fish couple sees the message)

Girlfriend/Wife Fish: Who is this "Lisa" person?

Boyfriend/Husband Fish: What? (Girlfriend/Wife slaps him)

Snails in photo: (When Gary sees Granny with the cookies, he looks at the photo) RUN!!!!!
Patrick: (Patrick is comforting SpongeBob) Just let it all out buddy, that's it.

SpongeBob: I can't cry any more, Patrick. When Gary left, he took all my tears with him.

Patrick: Did you just say Gary? SpongeBob, I just remembered! Earlier today at the craft store, I saw . . . these huge chunks of balsa wood, they were awesome!

SpongeBob: Gary loved balsa wood! (starts crying)

SpongeBob: Pat?

Patrick: Yeah?
SpongeBob: How long was I taking the Dirty Bubble challenge?
Patrick: 'Bout a week.
SpongeBob: A week!? Are you sure?
Patrick: Hmm. (Patrick lifts his glass of seahorse milk) Well . . . (he turns it upside down. Slowly, a gooey lump slides out. He picks it up, sniffs at it, chews and swallows it. It slowly slides down his throat and he grimaces as an acidic sound is heard in his stomach)
Patrick: Yeah, that's about a week, maybe ten days.

Spongebob: So let's get this straight, Gary! You don't want me to defeat the Dirty Bubble! You know, the Dirty Bubble, terror of the ocean seas, arch nemesis of my favorite TV superheroes, Mermaidman & Barnacle Boy,...and apparently...renowned paddle ball champion...?

Dirty Bubble: (shows his picture on the paddle ball box playing paddle ball) ha ha ha ha!