SpongeBob Meets the Strangler/Pranks a Lot
- Episode aired Oct 11, 2004
- TV-Y7
- 23m
Spongebob unknowingly snitches on a notorious strangler, who vows revenge. Later, Spongebob and Patrick prank the whole town by pretending to be ghosts.Spongebob unknowingly snitches on a notorious strangler, who vows revenge. Later, Spongebob and Patrick prank the whole town by pretending to be ghosts.Spongebob unknowingly snitches on a notorious strangler, who vows revenge. Later, Spongebob and Patrick prank the whole town by pretending to be ghosts.
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- Pearl Krabs
- (voice)
- Cop #1
- (voice)
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- Mr. Krabs
- (voice)
- Patrick Star
- (voice)
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- Woman Fish #1
- (voice)
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- SpongeBob SquarePants
- (voice)
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- Sandy Cheeks
- (voice)
- Plankton
- (voice)
- Woman Fish #3
- (voice)
- Strangler
- (voice)
- Directors
- Paul Tibbitt
- C.H. Greenblatt(segment SpongeBob Meets the Strangler)
- Writers
- Stephen Hillenburg
- Paul Tibbitt(segment SpongeBob Meets the Strangler)
- Kent Osborne(segment SpongeBob Meets the Strangler)
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe voice of the strangler is Biff from Back To The Future.
- GoofsIn Pranks a Lot, Spongebob and Patrick had "Glued the door shut," but at the end the Krusty Krab is filled with fish. How did they get in?
- Quotes
SpongeBob SquarePants: Bodyguard, let me just take this opportunity to say that you're the best bodyguard a fella could hope to have.
Strangler: Alright, enough of the sappy talk. Open the door so I can strangle you- I mean, uh, uh, choke you, I mean, uh, crush you with my- Gahhhh! I mean...
SpongeBob SquarePants: Protect me?
Strangler: Uh, thanks.
SpongeBob SquarePants: Don't mention it, Strangler.
[He gasps]
SpongeBob SquarePants: I mean, bodyguard.
- Alternate versionsWhen the segment SpongeBob Meets the Strangler reran later after its original 2004 broadcast, Squidward was reanimated in the first party sequence with his top right tentacle redone. During its original broadcast, the ends of his top right tentacle are strangely cropped for at least 4 frames.
- SoundtracksSpongeBob SquarePants Theme Song
(uncredited)
Written by Stephen Hillenburg and Derek Drymon
Composed by Hank Smith Music
Performed by Patrick Pinney
SpongeBob Meets The Strangler is a masterpiece. It's kinda similiar to The Bully, except even more sadistic since the guy who's after SpongeBob wants to outright kill him. It sounds gruesome, but has the incredible twist of him unwittingly torturing the strangler with his stupidity. My favorite joke easily is him wearing spiked shoes for no reason at all and getting them stuck in his eyes... for 6 hours. I can't even imagine how horrible that must have been. Then there's the neverending string of parties as the strangler begs to be alone with SpongeBob and getting stalked by him as he still thinks he's his bodyguard. They really make him the most naive idiot ever, but that's the reason it's so great.
Pranks A Lot is really funny too. SpongeBob and Patrick take up pranking, and after scaring a guy with invisible spray, they start pretending they are ghosts. As usual with these kind of stories it's the reactions of the villagers that sells it. One that especially stands out is the montage of everyone screaming "Ghost!", except one guy who says "Toast!" instead oddly enough. They go really overboard scaring Mr. Krabs, going so far as to block all exits so he can't escape. The twist at the end where Krabs pretends he'll forget about the whole thing just to invite everyone to stare at them in the nude is a genius sadistic move.
Hillenburg would return for season 9, but as a finale to his original tenure it couldn't go out on a much stronger note.
- mattiasflgrtll6
- Oct 8, 2019
Details
- Runtime23 minutes