Hooky is the Nth episode in the series.
Plot synopsis[]
Here's where you put the description of the plot. Doesn't have to be very detailed. A couple sentences will be enough for starters. You can expand it later. Mr. Krabs rushes to the Krusty Krab shouting and panicking like a maniac, telling of the return of the hooks. The other fish ignore him, while SpongeBob is confused, and Mr. Krabs tells him that he has to try not to go near a hook, or he will be brought up to the surface and eaten or sold at a gift shop. Patrick shows up, saying that the carnival has come to town and insisting that SpongeBob comes with him. He agrees, assuming that he's not quitting work but just taking a break.
The two friends go to the carnival, but much to SpongeBob's horror, the "carnival" is really the site of the hooks that Mr. Krabs warned everyone about. Patrick deliberately hooks himself and shoots up towards the surface on it. SpongeBob panics, wails, and cries, until he sees Patrick again, who explains that he jumped off and floated down before he reached the surface of the sea. They both played hooky together.
Meanwhile, at the Krusty Krab, Squidward wasn't making the patties, and Mr. Krabs told him what happened. He said that SpongeBob took a break and he wasn't back yet. Mr. Krabs thought Squidward was playing around with him, and he asks Squidward to repeat what he said. After hearing this the second time, Mr. Krabs runs over to the hooks and runs to SpongeBob and Patrick to catch them, with Squidward being mauled by the angry mob. He misses the first time, but once SpongeBob and Patrick float down, Mr. Krabs catches them and makes them promise to never go near the hooks again. However, the next day, Patrick persuades SpongeBob to play "hooky" again. SpongeBob denies the request, but he goes to the hooks anyway. SpongeBob was walking to the KK, but when he gets near a hook he first looks very sneaky and almost touches the hook, but then realizes he is doing the wrong thing and walks away like nothing happened. However, SpongeBob comes back and plays on the hook, and then...
SpongeBob gets his clothes caught on the hook, and, terrified, runs to the Krusty Krab for help. Mr. Krabs tells SpongeBob that the only way to get the hook off is to take off his clothes right in front of Pearl and her friends. He first takes off his pants, revealing his underwear. SpongeBob doesn't want to take off his underwear, and Mr. Krabs told him he will find another fry cook. SpongeBob pulls on The Krusty Krab sign and the hook takes his underpants away. SpongeBob was relieved, but the sign flung him into the door. Pearl and her friends laugh at SpongeBob for being naked. He screams and runs away from the Krusty Krab into his house. SpongeBob was never seen ever since the siege of the Krusty Krab.
However, it is then revealed it was Squidward who hooked SpongeBob and got him naked, and that Mr. Krabs told him to do that just because SpongeBob needed to learn his lesson. When Squidward pulls the ripped underwear into the Krusty Krab, Mr. Krabs congratulates him and Squidward tells Mr. Krabs that he thinks that SpongeBob will remember this for a long time as he will. Both Squidward and Mr. Krabs laugh. The episode ends with Patrick, trapped in a tuna can was dropped off from the bus shortly after SpongeBob ran home too scared to cry and he asks "Does anybody have a can opener?"
Appearances[]
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- French narrator
- Fishermen Debut
- John Lurie
- Jim Jarmusch
- Squidward Tentacles
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Fred Cameo
- Archie
- John
- Anchovy
- Barnacle Template:Mentioned
- Harold "Bill" Reginald
- Eugene H. Krabs
- Nat Peterson
- Norma Rechid
- Vera Fishbowl
- Lloyd-Rich Debut
- Tom
- Scooter
- Patrick Star
- Kid who was at Fish Hooks Park Mentioned
- Harold (red fish)
- Henry-Bart
- Fred's children Mentioned
- Clay
- Gary the Snail (voice only)
- Sea urchins
- Pearl Krabs
- Nancy Suzy Fish
- Evelyn
- Sadie
- Green female fish
Notes & trivia[]
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- "Hooky" is a term for skipping somewhere that one has to be at (usually used for school, but in this episode, it is used for work), making a pun on the episode's central theme.
- There is a plug-and-play TV game of SpongeBob Games by Jakks Pacific that includes a mini-game based on this episode. In the game, SpongeBob must protect everyone, even an unusually large Plankton, from the hooks. Many players are fooled by Plankton's appearance however, and let him get hooked, which ends the game.
- A brief clip from this episode appears in a 2003 Burger King commercial promoting SpongeBob toys at the time.
- There is a SpongeBob song based on this episode called "Ridin' the Hook."
- While promoting Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, the title character of the said movie appeared in the lower-right-hand corner on the day of its premiere, and using one of his inventions he temporarily transformed the cartoon into a puppet show during the scene where Mr. Krabs is making SpongeBob and Patrick recite an oath that he is giving.[1]
- Mr. Krabs says that nobody has taken a break at the Krusty Krab since the "Chum Famine of '59," but SpongeBob had taken a break in "F.U.N.," and Squidward even went on vacation in "Squeaky Boots."
- In the French version, this episode called "La Pause," which translates to "Break." This translated title change refers to the part where Patrick says "It's just taking a break."
- The music playing during one scene is actually from a short segment of Flubber.
- When SpongeBob fruit snacks first came out, an advertisement for them featured the snacks acting out a part of this episode along with scenes from episodes of other Nicktoons.[2]
- Hooks are also featured in many Template:SBSP video games and other episodes, such as the video games Battle for Bikini Bottom, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie video game, Dutchman's Dash, and numerous others.
- There's a online game based on this episode called Jelly Jumpin' Jamboree.
- This episode was on The Fisher Price Interact TV DVD Krusty Krab Adventures (Interact TV DVD).
- Independent film stars John Lurie and Jim Jarmush cameo as fishermen. The live-action footage for said cameo are excerpts from Lurie's Bravo serial, Fishing with John.
- Patrick mentions the episode title when he says "You're not going to work today. We're going to go play hooky."
- The lines "My sandwich tastes like a fried boot" and "My sandwich is a fried boot" have become popular internet memes.
- This episode premiered on Biz Markie's 36th birthday.
- This was Sherm Cohen's last episode as a writer.