Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie is a film based on Nickelodeon's hit TV show SpongeBob SquarePants. In this movie, when Bikini Bottom is suddenly scooped out of the ocean, Sandy Cheeks and SpongeBob journey to Sandy's home state of Texas, where they meet Sandy's family and must save Bikini Bottom from the hands of an evil CEO.

Characters[]

• SpongeBob SquarePants
  • Bits of SpongeBob ^{(single appearance)}
  • SpongeBob's brain
• Sandy Cheeks
• Ma Cheeks
• Fishy
• Granny Cheeks
• Pa Cheeks
• Randy Cheeks
• Sparky ^{(single appearance)}
• Sue Nahmee
• Rowdy Cheeks ^{(single appearance)}
• Rosie Cheeks
• Cowboy #1 ^{(single appearance)}
• Boy ^{(single appearance)}
• Girl ^{(single appearance)}
• Patrick Star
• Squidward Tentacles
• Eugene H. Krabs
• Sheldon J. Plankton
• Karen Plankton
• Pearl Krabs
• Mrs. Puff
• Gary the Snail
• Larry the Lobster
• Sea snail
• DoodleBob ^{(Cameo on Sandy's equations)}
• Cuda ^{(single appearance)}
• Kyle ^{(single appearance)}
• Phoebe ^{(single appearance)}
• Rattlesnakes
• Incidentals
  • Fred
  • Incidental 2
  • Incidental 3
  • Steven ^(storyboard)
  • Tom
  • Incidental 7
  • Incidental 8
  • Incidental 9 ^(storyboard)
  • Incidental 10
  • Incidental 11 ^(storyboard)
  • Priscilla
  • Incidental 13
  • Incidental 15 ^(storyboard)
  • Incidental 17 ^(storyboard)
  • Incidental 18 ^(storyboard)
  • Incidental 21
  • Carol
  • Incidental 23
  • Incidental 24
  • Incidental 28 ^(credits)
  • Incidental 30
  • Incidental 30A
  • Incidental 31 ^(credits)
  • Scooter
  • Scooter ^(storyboard)
  • Harold
  • Incidental 41 ^(storyboard)
  • Incidental 42 ^(storyboard)
  • Judy ^(storyboard)
  • Incidental 49A
  • Incidental 60 ^(storyboard)
  • Incidental 64 ^(storyboard)
  • Billy
  • Incidental 67 ^(storyboard)
  • Incidental 69 ^(storyboard)
  • Harris ^(credits)
  • Incidental 81 ^(storyboard)
  • Incidental 82
  • Incidental 90 ^(storyboard)
  • Incidental 92 ^(storyboard)
  • Incidental 93 ^(storyboard)
  • Victoria Ellen ^(storyboard)
  • Incidental 103 ^(storyboard)
  • Frank ^(storyboard)
  • Incidental 106 ^(storyboard)
  • Steve
  • Incidental 150 ^(storyboard)
  • Sandals ^(storyboard)
  • Incidental 157 ^(storyboard)
  • Incidental A1
  • Incidental A20
  • Incidental A36

Synopsis[]

Act 1[]

The film opens with Sandy stepping out of her treedome, then singing a song about herself. She rides her robot horse, Sparky, around town while analyzing pieces of sea life for her marine biology career. She stops in front of Conch Street, where SpongeBob comes out of his house to show her a jellyfishing technique he has been practicing. Suddenly, a giant claw descends upon the town. Sandy takes SpongeBob to safety, but Sparky loses his back half. SpongeBob watches in horror as Patrick, Gary, and all his friends are lifted up out of the ocean. Sandy uses binoculars to see a logo for B.O.O.T.S., a lab based in Galveston, Texas, which she works for.

As SpongeBob cries, Sandy contacts her fellow scientists at B.O.O.T.S., Kyle and Phoebe. However, the transmission reveals that her lab has now been affiliated with Gushing Falls Water Park, Sea Pals toys, and is now managed by Sue Nahmee, with the message then being cut off. Sandy decides to go to Texas with SpongeBob to see what is really happening, and the two ride a thermal vent up to the surface. They take a ride on the wing of a passing plane until they pass over Galveston, at which point Sandy glides like a flying squirrel and brings SpongeBob to the ground.

Back in B.O.O.T.S., the Bikini Bottom citizens are frightened, realizing they are now trapped in a tank of water. Mr. Krabs goes out of the Krusty Krab to investigate and comes in contact with Phoebe, making him panic and tell the others what he has found. Phoebe and Kyle use the computer to ensure everyone is in the tank, only to be told that SpongeBob and Sandy are missing. Sue enters, with her own rap theme song, and pampers her mutant pet fish, Fishy.

Meanwhile, SpongeBob and Sandy are ganged up on by a group of evil rattlesnakes. They try to fight them off, but when Sandy is poisoned, she realizes she needs to call for help. Using a special whistle, she summons her family, consisting of her mother, father, grandmother, brother Randy, and twins Rowdy and Rosie. The family use various circus tricks to defeat the snakes, and Ma cures Sandy of her poison. They prepare for a road trip, but Sandy explains to her family why she has come back to Texas.

Act 2[]

Sue explains to her employees the goal of her experiment: as a way to make fish a more popular pet, she is launching a Sea Pals toy line, with SpongeBob being the flagship of it. The phases are to feed the Bikini Bottomites paste to enable genetic modification, modify them to breathe on land, then clone and sell them. She orders Kyle and Phoebe to find begin phase one, and find SpongeBob.

Later that night, SpongeBob hangs out with Randy, who helps him fix the Cheeks family car. Sandy reminisces on her days at the circus, which she acted when she was younger while doing a waterski act. Over breakfast, Ma tells Sandy that they are okay with her not being in the circus as long as she stays in Texas, to Sandy's hesitation. However, SpongeBob and Randy soon arrive, lightening the mood.

Meanwhile, Plankton and Karen overhear that the Bikini Bottomites will be cloned. Karen points out that Plankton's own cloning machines have never worked, so Plankton is excited that he might finally be cloned successfully. The Bottomites eat the genetic modification paste. After this, Mr. Krabs, Patrick, and Squidward are put in tubes that modify them to breathe air. Plankton is disappointed that he was not chosen and walks back to the Chum Bucket. Squidward rejoices with a song, and a test with two children proves the popularity of Sea Pals.

The Cheeks family get back on the road, but they are chased by the police since Randy has loaded up stolen nuts in the van. They attempt to escape using a tornado, but are still followed. When they realize they are close to Galveston, Pa loads SpongeBob and Sandy in a cannon and fires them away. Then land in Gushing Falls, where Sue's dog, Cuda, chases them around as they search for the lab. They run from the dog, going through the sewers and winding up in the sink of the B.O.O.T.S laboratory. SpongeBob recognizes his friends and reunites with Gary, Mr. Krabs, Squidward, and Patrick.

Act 3[]

Kyle takes SpongeBob and prepares to clone him. Sandy confronts Sue, but she is picked up by her and locked in a cage. Giving a monologue, Sue reveals her lifelong affinity for fish, and how she always wanted to keep one as a pet. After her body was eaten by piranhas, she was forced to move her head onto a robot, revealing her true form. Sue reveals that Sandy's own research has allowed the Sea Pals plan to become a reality, saddening her and making her friends lose faith in her.

SpongeBob is put into the cloning machine and split into thousands of tinier versions of himself. Mr. Krabs distracts Sue, as her dog runs and tips over the machine. The tiny SpongeBobs run around the lab. One comes up to Sandy and gives her a pep talk, pointing out how much she matters to them and saying that they count her as family. Kyle and Phoebe, realizing that Sue has mistreated them, help Sandy escape by lining up her tank as she runs in her hamster wheel.

Sandy takes down Sue, knocking her robot head off her body. It flies into the mouth of Fishy, at which point she realizes she has technically become a fish herself, satisfying her. Squidward, Sandy, Krabs, and Patrick learn that the miniature SpongeBobs can be squished together to reassemble the real one. Sandy tells them they have to get Bikini Bottom back into the each, and she and SpongeBob realize they can get the Cheeks family to help. Sandy lost a tooth from the fight against Sue, leaving her unable to whistle, so SpongeBob does it instead.

When Sandy's family arrives, everyone teams up to build a device using Sparky's parts that will propel the tank containing Bikini Bottom back to the ocean. With the power of everyone running to charge it, an electrical blast launches it back into Bikini Bottom and the glass shatters, restoring everything. The Cheeks family move their circus underwater, holding a special show in the Krusty Krab. Sandy joins her family in a song, doing circus acts as her friends watch in amazement. Kyle, Phoebe, and Cuda have been shrunken down their size to watch and given water suits, while Sue herself swims as a part of Fishy.

Production[]

Main article: Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie/production

Promotional images[]

Officially posted by Netflix as these promotional images are screenshots from the movie.

Music[]

( ‣ ) Production music

( • ) Original music

( ◦ ) SpongeBob music

 ‣ Aloha - Dick Walter [Opening.]
 • My Name is Sandy Cheeks - ? [Sandy goes about her day.]
 ‣ Old Hilo March - Kapono Beamer [SpongeBob repeatedly trying to catch a toy jellyfish.]
 ‣ Digger Claw Attack - Moniker [Bikini Bottom gets scooped out of the ocean.]
 ‣ Old Hilo March - Kapono Beamer ["9 out of 10 sponges prefer Sandy Cheeks' Super Hydration Libation."]
 • She Makes Waves - Chantal Claret [Sue Nahmee appears.]
 ‣ Stack of Leis - Kapono Beamer [The Cheeks have breakfast.]
 ◦ The Amazing Flying Cheeks - Linda Perry, Rhodes Gilbert-Perry [The Cheeks family on the road to Galveston.]
 ‣ Focus Group - Moniker [Bikini Bottomites eat the modification paste.]
 ◦ Squidward Breathes - Linda Perry, Tom Strein [Squidward sings about his feelings.]
 ‣ Focus Group - Moniker [Kids play with Squidward and Mr. Krabs.]
 ‣ Hawaiian Calypso - Jo Van Wetter [SpongeBob tickling swimmers' feet at the water park.]
 ‣ On The Beach - Kapono Beamer [SpongeBob reunites with Gary, Patrick, Mr. Krabs, and Squidward at the research facility.]
 ‣ Blast Off - Moniker [Sandy and her family launch Bikini Bottom back to the ocean.]
 ‣ Aloha - Dick Walter [Bikini Bottom returns to its original spot.]
 ‣ Dancing The Hula - Kapono Beamer ["I'll take one."]
 ◦ This Squirrel's Done Good - Tami Neilson [Ending scene.]
 ◦ Sandy Cheeks Theme - Tami Nelson, Kaz [Closing credits — part 1]
 ‣ Focus Group - Moniker [Closing credits — part 2]
 ‣ ? - [Closing credits — part 3]
 ‣ Blast Off - Moniker [Closing credits — part 4]
 ‣ Squidward Breathes - Linda Perry and Tom Strein [Closing credits — part 5]
 ‣ The Amazing Flying Cheeks - Linda Perry and Rhodes Gilbert-Perry [Closing credits — part 6]

Reception[]

Main article: Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie/reception

Soundtrack[]

Main article: Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

The Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie Original Motion Picture Soundtrack was officially released on August 2, 2024, the same day the movie was released. The soundtrack features most of the original soundtrack for the movie.

Trivia[]

General[]

• This movie is part of the SpongeBob 25 campaign and is the fourth hybrid animated SpongeBob SquarePants movie.
• The film was originally set to be released on Paramount+ only in the United States,^[5] but was then moved to releasing it on Netflix.^[6]
  • This makes the second SpongeBob film to be released on Netflix, the first being The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run, which was released on the service internationally (except in the United States, where it was released on Paramount+ in the United States instead).
    • This makes SpongeBob SquarePants the sixth Nicktoon to have a film released exclusively on Netflix after Rocko's Modern Life, Invader Zim, The Loud House, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and The Casagrandes.

• The designs of the Cheeks family in this film are later used in stop-motion in the season 14 episode "Sandy's Country Christmas." However, in the episode, they are stop-motion instead of being animated in CGI in this movie.
  • As well as this, the episode also had some references to this movie such as the Cheeks family whistle being reused when SpongeBob and Sandy are in the treedome and the police submarine coming for Randy when he sees Sandy, which is a reference to the police car chase scene in the movie.

• This film was originally set to release sometime in 2023 but was delayed a year later for unknown reasons.
  • The film was completed in 2023, hence the copyright year of 2023 in the closing credits.
• This is the first film April "Pinkie" Davis has ever worked on^[7] and Eliza Herndon's first movie production.^[8]
• This is the second time Johnny Knoxville worked on the franchise after guest starring in the season 9 episode "Extreme Spots" 12 years ago, where he did the voice of Johnny Krill.
• This movie reveals that Sandy is a flying squirrel.
• This movie marks Grey DeLisle's debut voicing in the SpongeBob SquarePants series.
• This is the second Nickelodeon film to feature Wanda Sykes, after Barnyard.
• This film is the last time that Luis Pérez Pons and Jürgen Kluckert voice Mr. Krabs in the Latin American Spanish and German dubs respectively.
  • According to Luis Carreño, Luis Perez Pons recorded all of his dialogues before the latter passed away.
• This film is the last time that Taiki Matsuno voices SpongeBob SquarePants in the Japanese dub.
• This film marks the first fully detailed appearance of Sandy's home state of Texas within the series.
  • Overall, this is the second time that SpongeBob, Patrick, and Sandy have ever visited Texas since the episode "Rodeo Daze." In that episode, they are all depicted as photos of real-life animals along a backdrop of horse a racetrack.

	Rewrite It has been requested that this article should be rewritten. Reason: Not the second time ever; they have also visited Retroville, Texas in some crossover video games

• My leg!: Fred's legs are damaged by the Krusty Krab's clam sign twice, he gets trampled by people running for the free genetic modification paste, and his leg is injured during the circus performance.
• This is the first SpongeBob SquarePants movie where Patrick does not play a major role.
  • This is the first SpongeBob SquarePants movie where Plankton and Karen do not play a major or supporting role.
• This is the first SpongeBob SquarePants movie not to feature SpongeBob's name.

• Pearl appears in two scenes, but she does not have any separate lines. This marks the first time in the movie franchise that Lori Alan did not record lines for Pearl.
• This is the first film without the involvement of the series creator Stephen Hillenburg due to his death in 2018.
• Sandy's job is revealed to be a marine biologist just like Stephen Hillenburg. This also confirms a longtime theory of Sandy being a marine biologist.
• The music that plays at the start of the trailer of this movie is titled "Morning Mood."

Episode references[]

• The stoplight gag from "Wormy" returns as the Bikini Bottomites panic while their city is picked up out of the ocean by a giant claw.
• Sandy's Tree Dome Enterprises Limited employment from "Chimps Ahoy" was in the Sequence 004 "BOOTS" Part 1 section's first draft.^[9]

• When fighting the rattlesnakes, Sandy wears her karate suit from "Karate Island."
• Patrick references the "Is mayonnaise an instrument?" line from "Band Geeks" when he says, "Is mayonnaise a wire?"
• Sandy's battle with Sue Nahmee is the same thing she does when fighting her robot self in Battle for Bikini Bottom and its eventual remake.
• The start of the credits uses the Sandy Cheeks version of the series theme song, which they did for Patrick, Mr. Krabs, and Squidward in "Truth or Square."
• SpongeBob getting cloned is a canon reference to "Sleepy Time" where, when he goes in Patrick's dream and tell him "I can make... SpongeBob multiples A MILLION OF ME!," "Boss for a Day," where is does everything he can to help everyone in the Krusty Krab and "CopyBob DittoPants" which Plankton does everything he can to get the cloned SpongeBobs to get the Krabby Patty secret formula, yet fails due to the ink he used was cheap, resulting them to disappear. DoodleBob in "Doodle Dimension" drew tons of him to catch SpongeBob and Patrick in said dimension.

Cultural references[]

• SpongeBob makes a reference to video-on-demand streaming services, breaking the fourth Wall.

• SpongeBob fears that B.O.O.T.S.'s evil experiment is to sew all his friends together, referencing The Human Centipede.
• When Squidward is singing his song, he is alluding to the musical, Singin' in the Rain.
• The Apple computer (actual computer brand) tells Kyle to stop cooking toaster pasties, which look like pop-tarts.

Errors[]

• When Sandy and Sparky stop at SpongeBob's house, Bikini Bottom is missing from the background but later appears when the giant claw goes down into the ocean to scoop Bikini Bottom.
• The buildings in Bikini Bottom keep changing positions when it is seen in B.O.O.T.S such as when Mr. Krabs screams back to the Krusty Krab when Phoebe, the Conch Street houses are seen on the same street on the Krusty Krab and Chum Bucket but when Bikini Bottom returns to its original spot, those buildings are not anywhere near the Krusty Krab and Chum Bucket.
• When Karen said "Good, then maybe why don't you take out the garbage," she was voiced by Grey DeLisle instead of Jill Talley.

• When Sandy and SpongeBob get to B.O.O.T.S, SpongeBob goes to Gary as Gary is near the Chum Bucket but when Patrick, Squidward, and Mr. Krabs see SpongeBob, SpongeBob is bigger than the Chum Bucket, which is a size error.

• When Bikini Bottom was returned to its original spot, Sandy and her family were seen underwater without any air helmets as they did not drown.

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References[]

1. ^ https://x.com/PinkieToons/status/1749806833152536905
2. ^ ^{a b} https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/saving-bikini-bottom-the-sandy-cheeks-movie-to-release-on-netflix-in-2024/
3. ^ https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/saving-bikini-bottom-the-sandy-cheeks-movie-release-date-photos-news
4. ^ ^{a b c d} https://x.com/netflix/status/1798824182194565389
5. ^ Paramount+ on Twitter
6. ^ https://media.netflix.com/en/only-on-netflix/81221340
7. ^ https://twitter.com/PinkieToons/status/1651012634744094723
8. ^ https://twitter.com/duck_twacy/status/1651329915227078657
9. ^ https://x.com/JayLender1/status/1820633855080243298
10. ^ https://www.heydude.com/collections/spongebob-collection

External links[]

• Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie on Wikipedia

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Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie (V • E)
Characters:	Sandy Cheeks • Pa Cheeks • Ma Cheeks • Granny Cheeks • Randy Cheeks • Rowdy Cheeks • Rosie Cheeks • Sparky • Rattlesnakes • Sue Nahmee • Fishy • Kyle • Phoebe • Cuda
Locations:	Texas • Galveston • Gushing Falls Water Park • B.O.O.T.S.
Objects:	Sea Pals
Songs:	My Name is Sandy Cheeks • The Amazing Flying Cheeks • She Makes Waves • Squidward Breathes • This Squirrel's Done Good • Sandy Cheeks Theme
Actors:	Wanda Sykes • Craig Robinson
Other:	Original Motion Picture Soundtrack • The Amazing Cheeks Circus