"The Smoking Peanut" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 2. In this episode, SpongeBob throws a peanut at a clam, causing it to throw a tantrum.
Characters[]
- French Narrator
- Eugene H. Krabs
- Patrick Star
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Clamu (debut)
- Incidentals
- Fred
- Incidental 2
- Incidental 3
- John
- Incidental 6
- Incidental 10
- Incidental 13
- Incidental 15
- Incidental 16
- Charlie
- Incidental 25
- Joe (name originated)
- Incidental 28
- Incidental 29
- Incidental 30
- Incidental 31
- Incidental 34
- Tuck Tucker
- Incidental 41
- Incidental 42
- Incidental 49
- Incidental 64
- Billy
- Incidental 67
- Incidental 68
- Harris
- Incidental 92
- Incidental 103
- Frank
- Dale
- Incidental 118 (two)
- Incidental 150
- Incidental 151
- Incidental 152
- Sandals
- Incidental 153 (debut)
- Creature on the PA (voice only)
- Gary the Snail
- Realistic Fish Head
- Live-action people
- Hans
- Squidward Tentacles
- Sandy Cheeks
- Judge (mentioned)
- Baby oyster (debut)
- King Neptune (mentioned)
- Other Bikini Bottomites
Synopsis[]
It is the annual "Free Day" at the Bikini Bottom Zoo, and Mr. Krabs helps himself to anything he can get his claws on. Meanwhile, SpongeBob and Patrick go to Oyster Stadium to see Clamu the giant oyster perform tricks. Unfortunately, as they enter the arena, they find Clamu is sleeping. Patrick prepares to leave, but SpongeBob tries to wake Clamu up by throwing a peanut at her, followed by her wailing loudly. SpongeBob calls Patrick back in anticipation of the show, only for Clamu to cause mayhem and thrash around and attack the zookeepers, crying inconsolably all the while.
After being questioned by one of the zoo attendants, SpongeBob and Patrick leave the park. SpongeBob feels very guilty and thinks that he caused the incident. Patrick decides to investigate the crime, determined to discover the culprit of Clamu's distress. At home, SpongeBob laments what he's done, but tells himself that the incident will soon blow over. But when he turns on the TV, the oyster incident is the top news story. The Realistic Fish Head reports that Clamu's sobs are so powerful that they can be heard all around the world (even above the surface).
With his guilt growing, SpongeBob goes to Squidward and Sandy for advice, but just like Patrick, both are concerned with finding and punishing the culprit. To make matters worse, Patrick reveals that he found an incriminating bag of peanuts left near SpongeBob's home, stating that he is getting close to solving the mystery.
Eventually, policemen enter SpongeBob's house and question him on the incident. SpongeBob admits to everything they ask him, but instead of arresting him, they conclude from their evidence that Patrick is falsely the culprit, and drive away with him. SpongeBob is shocked at what has happened to his friend, and dashes after the car.
SpongeBob is confessing it is not Patrick's fault for the peanut.
Patrick is taken to Oyster Stadium, where he is chained to a platform in the middle of Clamu's enclosure and vengefully pelted with peanuts by the angry audience for his supposed crime. Unwilling to let Patrick take the blame, SpongeBob arrives at the stadium and asks everyone to stop. He finally confesses to having thrown the peanut, apologizing to Clamu, Patrick, and the people of Bikini Bottom. The fish in the audience, upon hearing this confession, refuse to accept his apology, somehow concluding that he is merely Patrick's accomplice. They decide to throw peanuts at both of them, but before they can, a zookeeper (possibly the one from earlier in the episode) stops them, announcing that he has captured the real culprit — Mr. Krabs, much to SpongeBob, Patrick, and everyone's shock.
Mr. Krabs is punished for his "Free Day" crimes.
The zookeeper also reveals that the true cause of Clamu's distress was not the thrown peanut, but that Mr. Krabs stole her pearl while she was asleep from last night; the peanut only made her wake up and notice that her pearl was nowhere to be seen. The zookeeper returns the pearl to Clamu. To everyone's surprise, the pearl turns out to be an egg, hatching into a baby oyster. Having been reunited with her offspring, Clamu is finally happy again. With the truth of the case finally revealed, SpongeBob and Patrick's names are cleared. The crowd is moved by the touching scene before angrily glaring at Mr. Krabs for stealing Clamu's offspring and his greedy actions. Rather than admitting what he did was wrong, Mr. Krabs makes a pathetic excuse that it is Free Day and he's promptly buried in a pile of peanuts the audience throws at him, much to his discomfort.
Production[]
This episode was in production in 2000 and early 2001.
Art[]
Model sheets[]
Music[]
| ( ‣ ) Production music |
| ( • ) Original music |
| ( ◦ ) SpongeBob music |
‣ Zelle 506 - Gerhard Trede [Title card]
‣ Hawaiian Train - Victor Cavini ["Ah, the Bikini Bottom Zoo is having its annual 'Free Day.'"]
‣ Circus Overture - Daniel Jean Jeannin ["He spits a giant pearl 100 feet in the air!"]
‣ Lavender's Blue (a) - Brian Douglas Gulland, Richard A. Harvey [Clamu asleep]
• Steel Licks 41 - Jeremy Wakefield [Patrick leaves]
‣ Burglar Bill [#7.04] - Andrew J J Hall [SpongeBob throws a peanut at Clamu]
• Featuring SNR. - Nicolas Carr ["The show is about to begin."]
‣ Shark Attack A - John Charles Fiddy [Clamu goes berserk]
‣ Hawaiian Link (B) - Richard Myhill ["Stupid Patrick. I didn't do anything wrong."]
• Bikini Bottom News Theme - Nicolas Carr [news on TV]
‣ Paradise Isle - Jan Rap ["This is getting a little out of hand."]
‣ Wooden Bear - Gil Flat, Tony Tape, Florian Voelxen [SpongeBob goes to Squidward for advice]
‣ Footsteps of Horror - W. Merrick Farran [Sandy rips phone book in half/SpongeBob twitches]
‣ Flight In Panic 1 - Gregor F. Narholz [SpongeBob running home]
‣ House Of Horror [#10.1] - W. Merrick Farran ["This is it! All of the clues are coming together!"]
‣ Zelle 506 - Gerhard Trede [police at the door]
‣ The Pursuit of Power (a) - Keith Mansfield [everyone throwing peanuts at Patrick]
‣ The Pursuit of Power (b) - Keith Mansfield ["Wait! Hold your peanuts!"]
‣ Dramatic Cue (A) - Ronald Hanmer [Mr. Krabs is the real criminal]
‣ Dramatic Cue (D) - Ronald Hanmer ["Behold!" (showing Mr. Krabs' clothes)]
‣ Dramatic Cue (E) - Ronald Hanmer ["The oyster's pearl!"]
‣ Tribute to the King - Gregor F. Narholz [everyone cheers]
‣ Nostalgic Hawaii - George de Fretes, Jan Rap [ending]
Release[]
- This episode is available on the Seascape Capers, Complete 2nd Season, The SpongeBob Super Square Collection, The Ultimate SpongeBob Box Set, Underwater Driving, The SpongeBob SquarePants Collection, SpongeBob on DVD, Bob Esponja Cumple 10 Años, The SpongeBob SquarePants 8 Season DVD Collection, The Best 300 Episodes Ever, The First & Second Seasons, The Best 200 Episodes Ever, The Complete Second Season, SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 3, From the Beginning, Part 1, Mighty Sporting of You, and First 100 Episodes DVDs.
- This episode is also available on the UK version of The Seascape Capers VHS tape.
Trivia[]
General[]
- The countries that are seen outside of Bikini Bottom are Egypt, India, and likely the Netherlands, because of the Giza Pyramid and Sphinx, the Taj Mahal, and a windmill.
- Since August 2019, the scene where SpongeBob goes to sit down while holding a remote to watch TV has become an internet meme. The screenshot makes it look like SpongeBob is getting up from his chair and the captions are added saying "Ight Imma Head Out" along with a scenario.
- The scene where SpongeBob confesses to the police has become a meme. SpongeBob would instead say "Police, I swear to God, not simping for a child." The actual lyric is "Policemen swear to God, love seeping from their guns" from the 2017 song "Little Dark Age" by MGMT.
- Clips from this episode were used during "Up next" and "Coming up" Nick bumpers in 2009-2011.[3]
- SpongeBob and Patrick running into Oyster Stadium.
- SpongeBob turning his eyeballs around.
- Sandals has a Cockney accent (sounding identical to Incidental 40 in "Squirrel Jokes" and "Band Geeks") in this episode instead of his usual American accent spoken in a wavy voice.
- In all other episodes, Bikini Bottom has blue and white police cars. In this episode, the police cars are black and red.
- There is a book called Zoo Day Disaster, which is based on this episode.
- This is the first episode for a few things:
- The first appearance of the Bikini Bottom Zoo.
- The first episode where the tracks "Wooden Bear," "Bikini Bottom News Theme," and "Steel Licks 41" play.
- "Jiggery pokery" is a term that refers to dishonest behavior, or trickery.
- This episode, "Naughty Nautical Neighbors," and "The Whole Tooth" are the only episodes to date to use "Hawaiian Train" outside a title card. Unlike the other two, "The Smoking Peanut" plays the track exclusively outside the title card.
- This is the last episode for a few things:
- The last episode showcased on both The Seascape Capers DVD and The First 100 Episodes Disc 4.
- The last episode, alongside "Pressure," to premiere on Nickelodeon during the SNICK block.
- The show would soon switch over to premiering new episodes on Friday nights as part of the Totally Twisted Telly block, starting with "The Secret Box"/"Band Geeks."
- For unknown reasons, this episode and its sister episode were rated 13+ on Amazon Prime Video in August 2020.[citation needed]
- This has since been corrected as of October 2020, and the episode is back to being rated its original TV-Y7 rating on Amazon Prime Video, like most other episodes.[citation needed]
- This episode was paired with different episodes in different airings:
- During the When Good Toons Go Bad event, this episode was paired with "Sailor Mouth."[4]
- During the Bikini Bottom's Most Wanted, this episode was paired with "Hall Monitor."[5]
Cultural references[]
- The episode is a reference to a "smoking gun," a conclusive piece of evidence in a criminal investigation. The "smoking gun," in this case, is the peanut.
- Clamu's name is a parody of the late SeaWorld's orca Shamu.
- Patrick's yellow popsicle is similar to the real life SpongeBob SquarePants Popsicle.
- Bikini Bottom Yellow Pages is a reference to the real-life phone book The Yellow Pages.
Errors[]
Rough Draft Korea?
- In the opening credits, the "S" in "Storyboard directed by" is capitalized instead of lowercase.
- While SpongeBob is running to Sandy's treedome saying, "I'll ask Sandy, she'll know what to do," a bubble transition starts, a blue card from Rough Draft Korea can be seen for split second.
- When Clamu's loud wailing makes SpongeBob and Patrick fly to their seats, the peanuts in SpongeBob's bag fly out, but when Patrick says, "Now this is a show!" his bag is full of peanuts again.
The animators forgot to draw the Patrick's house...
- When SpongeBob knocks on Squidward's door, Patrick's house is nowhere to be seen.
Patrick's miscolored eyelids.
- Patrick's eyelids are usually purple, but when he says, "Hey, SpongeBob!" when SpongeBob is trying to open his door, his eyelids are pink instead of purple.
- Oyster Stadium is in a walled zoo, but SpongeBob can see the stadium, top-to-bottom, clearly from his house.
- When SpongeBob is telling everyone he threw the peanut and not Patrick, Clamu's oyster pearl can be seen in front of Clamu in one of the shots.
- When SpongeBob is about to go inside his house after Patrick says he will investigate, the lights are off, but when he enters, they are on.
- When the zookeeper pulls Mr. Krabs' pants off, his belt buckle colors are reversed to yellow on the inside and black on the outside, but in the next scene, the belt is back to normal.
- When the zookeeper holds up the oyster's pearl, the close-up of the pearl shows it in front of a sky background despite the zookeeper being surrounded on all sides by the stadium's walls.
The animators mis-colored the SpongeBob's belt.
- When SpongeBob remarks on how the pearl is actually an egg, part of his belt is not filled in.
- Clamu's pearl starts to crack like an egg to reveal that the baby oyster is hatched from Clamu's pearl, leaving the bottom part of Clamu's pearl under the baby oyster and some pieces of Clamu's pearl around the baby oyster. However, in the scene where Clamu and the baby oyster embrace each other, the bottom part of Clamu's pearl is gone and the number of pieces of Clamu's pearl around the baby oyster becomes lower compared to the previous scene.
- When SpongeBob and Patrick are running in to see the oyster, Patrick is on the right, but in the next shot, he is on the left.
- In a Latin American Spanish print of this episode, Patrick's line "Ouch." was muted.[6]
Names in other languages[]
| Language | Name | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Dutch | De Pinda | The Peanut |
| Polish | Orzeszek | The Peanut |
| Russian | С арахисом наголо S arakhisom nagolo |
With Drawn Peanut |
| Spanish (American) | El maní de la discordia | The Peanut of Discord |
| Spanish (European) | El cacahuete | The Peanut |
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