Since it is the 20th anniversary year of "Spongebob Squarepants" and the Halloween episode of the series is also 20, and it's Halloween season it's time to talk about Scaredy Pants.
This episode is only 11 minutes long. Yeah, they weren't doing longer specials during season 1 but, still needed to get their holidays covered. This is not saying that the length of time is bad it's the furthest from that.
The episode sets up that Spongebob is nervous about well... everything. It seems Halloween isn't his night. Mr.Krabs decides to tell Spongebob a story about the flying dutchman, a ghost that is supposed to haunt the sea. (I like that Mr. Krabs defies physics and has a lit fire ready to go) The story is mostly there to scare Spongebob because they notice that he is easy to scare. They even call him the episode name.
I like seeing the underwater aesthetic to Halloween this episode gives us, it's such a nice touch. Spongebob's goal is to be scary. Patrick comes in to help him find a scary costume. The attempt didn't work since they think he's a haunted mattress (which is my band name). Spongebob gets the idea that he needs to be round to be a scary looking ghost so, he gets Patrick to shave him down and make him round. (yes!)
Spongebob tires to scare people and thinks he doing a good job because why not. He goes to the party at the Krusty Krab. His scaring plan goes south and this causes the real flying Dutchman to appear because of course the Flying Dutchman is real. He's offended by Spongebob's depiction of him. (This is where Twitter got the idea to be offended by things)
The Flying Dutchman is going to steal everyone's souls and explains what is scary. Then he takes off Spongebob's sheet (context) and notices something that scares him away. (What a Weenie) Yep Patrick shaved most of Spongebob's sponge stuff to a stem with his brain showing causing everyone to run away. Patrick took a little while to figure it out and then he runs too. (Did he not see it earlier some how?)
This is a real fun episode of Spongebob for Halloween giving us a nice bit of Halloween feel and some good comedy in one episode. It's not the most comedic episode of Spongebob but that doesn't detract from the strength. They did make another Spongebob Halloween episode, this one being a special, that we may cover in the future.
That's it for now. Tune in next time when Spongebob learns about Thanksgiving.
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