The Camping Episode
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| Season №: | 3 |
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| Airdate: | April 3, 2004 |
| 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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- Unknown
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[edit] Things at the Beginning
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- The Campfire Song Song, performed by SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick Star
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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 automated tent, 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 and talent in general, 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.
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- 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.
- The audio for the Campfire Song was used in KIDSMix.
- 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-E. 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"
- The song Squidward tries to play on his clarinet is "Red River Valley", but the captions say that he was playing "Michael, Row the Boat Ashore".
- There are ways to attract a sea bear: playing a clarinet badly, wearing a sombrero in a goofy fashion or a hoop skirt, clown shoes, waving your flashlight around since flashlights are their natural prey, eating cheese (cubed, sliced is fine), stomping since they take that as challenge, screeching like a chimpanzee, running, limping, or crawling. To protect yourself from a sea bear, draw an "Anti Sea Bear circle" across the dirt. The sound of a sea bear attack attract sea rhinocerous and an "Anti Sea-Bear" circle can't stop them. You need to wear "Anti Sea-Rhinocerous undergarments".
- Part of this episode was portrayed on the Family Guy episode Road to Rupert.
- In the Best Day Ever rankings, this episode was the highest ranked episode (#7) not from season 4.
- On Squidward's calender, his drawings of Patrick and Spongebob do not have clothes on.
| Preceded by "Krabby Land" |
SpongeBob SquarePants episodes | Followed by "SpongeBob Meets the Strangler" |
