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I feel like this episode plot had the EXACT opposite plot of "Don't Wake Patrick!" Instead of trying to KEEP Patrick from being awoken, Patrick can't seem to fall asleep when he WANTS to! Poor guy! At least he's SMART enough to at least TRY logical stuff that SHOULD help someone to fall asleep! It's interesting that HIS "Godzilla Threshold" is LISTENING to Squidward's LIFE story; of which Squidward has already written a preliminary GIANT book manuscript, and it's ONLY Volume 1! Eventually, Spongebob suggests that Patrick seek the Sandman! Don't get me wrong, Tom Kenny does a good enough job of voicing the Sandman; but COME ON!!!! That guy has already done WAY more work than anyone EXCEPT Mel Blanc and Frank Welker! Can't you give some OTHER actors some voice work?! In any case, Patrick seeks the Sandman, but only finds frustration and hallucination! Eventually, Spongebob suggests that since Patrick can't SEEM to sleep; he should put his abilities to good USE, by becoming an all-night truck driver! And of course, as soon as Patrick gets on the road, he FINALLY falls asleep; this time thanks to the Sandman for REAL! I'll give this episode a 9.9 out of 10, only because there were a couple of gross things I could've LIVED with this episode NOT having! Enough said, true believers!

I'll build a snow Spongebob that looks like that.

To quote Chuck Berry: "Run, run, Rudolph!"

Here's a cool ice trick!

You get the Dog HALF of Catdog (be thankful you didn't get the Cat half!) I put in one of Cat's nine lives into the Magical Vending Machine!

Maybe it's just me, but this feels like the first episode that Sherm Cohen has worked on in a LONG time...and it kind of shows. After all, since when has SPONGEBOB ever actually needed to HAVE a Lucky Tie Clip in order to really function through HIS day?! I KNOW this show wavers back and forth on it's "Continuity", but still...a little more BUILD-UP would be nice, sometimes! In any case, on a day when Spongebob HAS his Lucky Tie Clip; everything seems to go his way, such as Bubble Bass liking everything about his meal! On a day when Spongebob can't FIND his Lucky Tie Clip; everything seems to go WRONG!!!! He gets tied up in a jump rope, he gets hit by a car, he gets blasted like a rocket by a hot dog cart, an old lady ROBS him, and by the time he finally arrives to the Krusty Krab LATE; he's a nervous wreck! Unfortunately, that's only the BEGINNING of Spongebob's problems; as he seems to have trouble JUST getting a Krabby Patty onto the grill, but even Bubble Bass can't be satisfied; because the fries are TOO oily, the soda is too FLAT, and the Krabby Patty tastes TOO...BLAND!!!! While Mr. Krabs takes the whole luck thing seriously, by ordering everyone out of the restaurant while he gets the bad luck vibes out of the air, Squidward seems to be RELISHING in Spongebob NOT having any good luck! Spongebob tries to ask Patrick for help, but Patrick says that he wouldn't TOUCH him with a ten foot pole while TOUCHING him with a pole...although, thanks to "Exact Words", it turns out HIS pole is an ELEVEN foot pole! But Patrick DOES suggest that Spongebob TRY to find another lucky charm! Spongebob tries to find a four leaf Kelp, but it gets bulldozed to make room for a new FREEWAY!!!! Spongebob tries a lucky sea bunny's foot, but it's STILL attached to the sea bunny! Meanwhile, Squidward's luck seems like it couldn't GET any better, as he has FINALLY grown his blonde hair back, and is playing great! Spongebob CRIES at his misfortune, until his Lucky Tie Clip suddenly pops out from INSIDE him! Spongebob initially thinks that Squidward was right when he told him that luck IS inside his head...until a safe drops on Spongebob, and he immediately puts his lucky tie clip on, LITERALLY causing the safe to reverse direction! And with Spongebob's luck back on track, Squidward's luck IMMEDIATELY goes to POT!!!! I'll give this episode an 8.5 out of 10, try a little more build-up next time!

You get the scent of a skunk...because the Magical Vending Machine is INSULTED that you only put in a penny! I put in $10 worth of the money that I got.

You get this weird, trick M & M cookie! I let the Magical Vending Machine suck up ten pounds of my own body weight, in exchange for what it would be worth on the open market.

"Patty Poo" explores the concept of the "Kid Appeal Character", and technically deconstructs "The Scrappy"; BOTH in the same episode! When Patrick accidentally has one of his HANDS cut off, Patrick actually REMEMBERS what happened from the time it happened to him in "Kamp Koral", he WAS able to regenerate himself! However, just like in a Call-Forward to "The Karate Star", the hand grows a life of its own...only as a cute, ADORABLE; little baby sea star that Patrick decides to call, Patty Poo! (Well, that's ONE way Patrick CAN get a kid of his own, if he ever WANTS one again!) Patty Poo is quickly put into the spotlight as the star, thanks to his NATURAL clumsiness and adorableness! Patty Poo quickly brings in the ratings, and everything is going just swell! Unfortunately, because "Status quo is God" has to find a way to kick in SOMEHOW; Patty Poo ends up quickly OUTGROWING his role, after Patrick ACCIDENTALLY feeds him a lot of "Plant Growth Juice Fertilizer", which causes Patty Poo to grow into a giant! And as a giant, Patty Poo CAN'T replicate the same feats that he could when he was small, to the same degree as success! And when Patty grows so BIG; he LITERALLY fills the WHOLE TV studio, he feels like his whole LIFE has been a mistake! And so, in the vein of Paul Bunyan; he decides to go out into the world and help others to the best of his abilities! In a nice Aversion to "Aesop Amnesia", Patrick actually REFUSES to WILLINGLY chop off one of his own limbs AGAIN, when the audience actually demands ANOTHER Patty Poo...too bad the audience won't LET him say, "No!" I'll give that episode segment a 9.9 out of 10, only because the audience were JERKS for chopping Patrick up! / "Swaptoberfest" was previously alluded to in "Squidina's Holidaze Special"; but here, it's given a full-fleshed look! Swaptoberfest is a Klopnodian holiday going back 200 years, and Bunny forces EVERYONE in her family; even GRANDPAT, to celebrate it, whether they like it or not! As the name implies, they swap identities with each other; by trading a key element of themselves with each other! First, Patrick is GrandPat; GrandPat is Squidina; Squidina is Dad; Dad is Mom; and Mom is Patrick! Patrick is Grandpat looks like he will have to take a visit to the OTHER PLACE when Death comes to collect him; but Patrick ends up enjoying the experience SO much, Death CLEARLY gets more than he bargained for! GrandPat as Squidina, regales Pearl with the time he won the Klopnodian Civil War all by himself; CLEARLY with his self-serving memory; only for Pearl to inform him that the Klopnodians were the ones who actually WON that war! Although in GrandPat's defense, they only won on a technicality! Squidina as Dad TRIES to mow the lawn; but without her GLASSES, she can't actually see (meaning that she hasn't gotten the eye surgery that she WILL get before "Spongebob Squarepants" happens), so she ends up DRIVING the car into the house! Dad as Mom TRIES to vacuum the room, but because he's NOT used to it; he ends up placing the suction power TOO high, and vacuums up Tinkle, his water, and even the actual COLORS of the BACKGROUND in the house! Finally, Mom as Patrick doesn't WANT to be dirty; but feels like she MUST in order to keep with Klopnodian heritage, she MUST be dirty! So she starts by ONLY moving ONE poster SLIGHTLY askew, but it quickly devolves into "The Mind Is a Plaything of The Body", as Mom quickly devolves into making practically EVERYTHING in Patrick's room messy! Than when it's time to swap, we only see a LITTLE of the next swap. Mom as Squidina PROVES that she is STILL one of the girls, when she decides to have a pillow-fight with Pearl! Patrick as Dad is TRYING to drive the car, only for Squidward to inform him that he's NOT even DRIVING! Of course, Squidward SHOULDN'T have done this as Patrick figures out HOW to drive (nice "Call-Forward" as to how he was easily ABLE to get his Driver's License in "Spongebob Squarepants"), and Patrick drives the car OUT of the house, and accidentally OVER Squidward! A few swaps later (including some with characters who AREN'T even PART of the Star family), and everyone ends up looking like GrandPat! And at a time when who of all characters EXCEPT Granny Tentacles decides to go on a DATE with GrandPat?! All of the Stars (EXCEPT for GrandPat), go on a date with Granny Tentacles; and because they are nice and actually LISTEN to Granny Tentacles' stories, and actually talk about themselves in a MEANINGFUL conversation, she actually decides to get married to the REAL GrandPat...along with all the OTHER GrandPat's!!!! MAN!!!! Sometimes, it's SCARY about how PSYCHIC I can end up being! Of course, when it comes time to exchange their vows, by this point; Granny Tentacles is revealed to be SLAPPY in disguise! While the Minister delivering the vows reveals HIMSELF to be Death! But GrandPat figures out a way to finally ENJOY Swaptoberfest, as he swaps his OWN identity with Slappy; free to continue living for the foreseeable future! I'd give this episode segment an 11/10!!!! (Yes, it's THAT good!!!!) Enough said, true believers!

You get... ...WONDER WOMAN!!!! (The joke works better if you KNOW her original creation!) I put in those COOL bracelet blockers that Wonder Woman wears!

Sometimes, it seems like Squidward just can't WIN from losing! Now, was it WRONG for Spongebob and Patrick to be running around in the middle of the night; TRYING to find aliens and unintentionally disturbing Squidward's sleep? Yes, it was. Did that give Squidward 'Carte blanche' to SQUASH all of their dreams by making a MOCKERY of their passion? ABSOLUTELY NOT! Of course, it seems like the universe just can't STAND to see Squidward get AWAY with being a jerk...even when he KIND of has a good reason to do so! It doesn't take Squidward TOO long to have some REAL alien visitors visit him...and oddly enough, they look like miniature aliens with the Tiki heads from Easter Island, like his OWN house! Squidward OF COURSE, thinks that it's Spongebob and Patrick in disguise...until he SEES them still dressed up as Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy in SPONGEBOB'S house! Squidward AND his house than get TAKEN up into a giant spaceship! Squidward DEMANDS to be taken to their leader...only for them to not even PRETEND to be interested in anything that SQUIDWARD cares about, and they decide to PROBE him! They apparently do it SO much, they even have a dedicated 'Probe' celebration button to celebrate it! Squidward of course TRIES to escape...which is very hard to do when you're up IN outer space without any air or WATER to be in, in Squidward's case! Squidward gets captured again...but luckily for him, the aliens want to probe him with QUESTIONS...EXACT words!!!! But apparently, Squidward's repressed memories are SO long, and SO arduous to listen to, the aliens don't even LAST to when Squidward was THREE, before they send both him AND his house back! And despite Spongebob and Patrick SEEING Squidward being dumped by the aliens, they REFUSE to believe it when Squidward says that aliens truly ARE real, and he WAS wrong! I'll give this episode a 9.9 out of 10, only because I felt like the episode could've been tightened up a little, and that Spongebob and Patrick should've found out that they really WERE right in the FIRST place! Enough said, true believers!

This episode segment FINALLY answers the question, what WOULD happen if Squidward's musical talents were EVER recognized as being great (even if it was by only ONE influential member of society)? Well, when Lady Upturn is disappointed by efforts in the visual arts to impress her; she goes for a walk (or rather, has Regigilled CARRY her through) Jellyfish Fields, only to STOP when she hears the great MUSIC coming from Squidward! Naturally, Squidward gets REALLY egotistical REALLY fast, as he tells Mr. Krabs, in no uncertain terms; to take his job and SHOVE it!!!! Mr. Krabs stares with his mouth agape at the very LONG limo that comes to pick Squidward up, all the way UNTIL the next time he is seen! Squidward is given a very SPACIOUS room in Lady Upturn's mansion, where he is allowed to write and create to his heart's content! Squidward even gets to look like Andy Warhol (during his later years), and like Elton John, during his historic 1975 Dodger Stadium Concert Performance! Squidward ONLY returns to the Krusty Krab, to invite Spongebob and Mr. Krabs to attend his concert! But despite Lady Upturn finding Squidward's music great, nobody ELSE at the concert DOES...until Regigilled discovers why it IS that Lady Upturn finds the music good! There was a JELLYFISH hiding in Lady Upturn's wig, PLUGGING up her EARS and making it so Lady Upturn wasn't actually HEARING the music the way that everyone ELSE was! Upon realizing this, Lady Upturn ACTUALLY ADMITS her mistake (usually, you have to pay EXTRA for a rich woman to do that), and Squidward is quickly STRIPPED of his fancy clothes! Meanwhile, in a BRICK JOKE 13 seasons in the making, Lady Upturn is WOWED when Patrick comes onstage, and PLAYS Mayonnaise as an instrument! Although everyone else leaves, Spongebob and Mr. Krabs remain, because THEY have jellyfish covering their ears now! Squidward, decides to take what he can get, and finishes playing his concert for them! I'd give this episode a 9.9 out of 10! Enough said, true believers!

Snoopy!

Weird Al Yankovic: "Okay, FINE; I'll take THAT!!!!"

You get some Skittles (what else do you EXPECT for just 25 cents?!) Speaking of...I put in some Skittles!

I like Apple Fritters, Maple Bars, and Cinnamon-covered doughnuts the BEST!

Note to Squidina; for future reference, NEVER work on a project for three sleepless nights TRYING to work on a Christmas Play (unless she only HAD three nights to work with, but STILL...)! Second, ALWAYS type your written stuff on a computer so that you can PRINT more copies easily, and ALWAYS save it ON your computer! Third, never, ever, EVER give a copy of your play to Patrick, or his INEVITABLE clumsiness and stupidity will inevitably RUIN all your hard work! To his credit, Patrick SOMEHOW was ABLE to write a completely brand-new, improvised play rather fast!...Too bad he has no IDEA what holidays are really about! And the situation gets even WORSE when one of the FIRST things that Patrick's script calls for, is for all the KID actors to board on a prop school bus, to be BLASTED around the world on a rocket! Needing to improvise, Squidina quickly gathers some back-up actors from WITHIN the auditorium, to help her tell her story! Patrick is Baby New Year, Grandpat is Father Time. Sandy and Perch Perkins play as the Groundhog and its shadow, and they have a battle supreme in order to determine whether it will be spring or winter! Next, Bubble Bass is HORRIFIED when he THINKS that for Valentines Day, he will have to fall in LOVE with Baby Prunes! Thankfully, she's ONLY the Cupid; and Bubble Bass' romantic partner is Granny Tentacles, which Bubble Bass DOES admit is an IMPROVEMENT! But before they can even TRY to kiss, Patrick's descendant interrupts the proceeding, in trying to DESTROY Cupid's Sweetheart treats! Next, St. Patrick's Day is celebrated, with Mr. Krabs as St. Patrick, fighting the evil Leprechaun played by Plankton! This episode really COULD'VE been an hour long episode at least; I would've LOVED to see Easter, and some of the OTHER holidays explored in more detail! In any case, it looks like Spongebob will save the day dressed up as Santa...until Spongebob's OWN clumsiness kicks in, and ruins HIS costume! Than the situation goes from bad to worse, when the rocket bus with all the kid actors returns, and SMASHES into the auditorium, and the Kid Actors get into a fight with the substitute actors for stealing their roles! But luckily, Patrick ACTUALLY gets an idea! He and Spongebob somehow manage to get Santa HIMSELF to come to a play...apparently, because he owes Spongebob and Patrick a couple of favors! Even though Patrick and Bubble Bass are ON the Naughty List, he decides to ignore it, and let EVERYONE have a BIG present for Christmas! I'd give this episode a 9.9 out of 10! (The only reason it's NOT perfect, is because some of the holidays weren't EXPLORED in as much detail as they could've been.) Enough said, true believers!

WOW!!!! They REALLY improved the Stop-Motion Visual effects from the LAST Stop-Motion Holiday Special! While I know that Lewis Black returned as Santa, I can't exactly tell who Johnny Knoxville played as...I'm surprised they DIDN'T get him to reprise his role as Johnny Krill. In any case, we FINALLY get to meet Sandy's family officially; although we don't get to see her nutty nieces. (Although to be fair, there was already PLENTY enough antics and trouble in THIS special already!) Using her super science skills, Sandy is DETERMINED to perfect a new formula that will INSTANTLY create a PERFECT Christmas tree! She succeeds; but unfortunately, because her niece and nephew (belonging to her brother Randy), decide that they want to have a really TALL Christmas Tree; they decide to add some MORE of the formula into it, and it grows VERY tall! So tall, that it now blocks the very PATH that Santa is traveling on, and knocks him out of the sky! Even worse, slamming into the tree scrambles Santa's senses, so he doesn't know who he is or what DAY it is! Luckily, Sandy's niece and nephew DO find Santa's presents in the sleigh up in the tree! And although the sleigh is busted, Spongebob and the rest of the Cheeks family all work in order to repair it! And using the power of a holiday song (and using it to help give ENOUGH Christmas cheer to the last bit of the Holiday formula), they are able to power up the sleigh enough so that it CAN make all the deliveries to Bikini Bottom in time, and SAVE Christmas! Thankfully, by the time they are done; Santa has recovered his senses, and thanks Spongebob for saving Christmas in Bikini Bottom for him! Even though the Bikini Bottom citizens KNOW that it was Sandy and Spongebob who made the deliveries, they STILL appreciate the deliveries! And Sandy decides to put her really TALL Christmas Tree to good use, and decides to make it the REST of her family's new home, and sends it off to Texas with them on it! I'd give this Christmas Special a 9.4 out of 10! (It lost some points, due to Sandy's Niece and Nephew not REALLY getting in trouble for CAUSING the problem in the first place!) Enough said, true believers!

I thought I was the only one HERE who remembered Frosty from the "Clayfighter" video game series...I wonder if anyone is EVER going to start up THAT video game franchise again?!

For putting in a counterfeit bill! I put in these very words into the Vending Machine, and wonder what I will receive in return!

You get a very HOT (literally) full-grown Demon! I put in a receipt from a local burger restaurant, just out of curiosity!

Maybe it's just me, but it seems like the show introduction for this episode played a little bit slower than it has for the other episodes that have aired so far. In any case, we finally get to learn a little bit more about Bunny's side of the family. For instance, her mother is named Agnes; and Bunny also has a squid sister named Miranda! And while Miranda fancies herself as the far MORE successful sibling; she DOES use magic to make herself APPEAR to be more successful than she ACTUALLY is! And Miranda ALSO has kids of her own, a dimwit squid counterpart to Patrick, and a smart sea star counterpart to Squidina! Poor Cecil, all he WANTS to do is to impress his step-mother, but Agnes just won't LET him! Meanwhile, Agnes decides to send GrandPat on a WILD turkey hunt just to get HIM out of HER house; while Bunny and Miranda get into a little sibling rivalry! Meanwhile, Miranda's kids CONVINCE Patrick and Squidina that it's also TAKESGIVING, where you take stuff from OTHER people's houses! Naturally, Squidina finds this suspicious, while Patrick just wants to do something interesting! Eventually, Agnes gets SO fed up with Cecil TRYING to be useful; that she BLATANTLY BREAKS her promise to Bunny to be NICE to Cecil, and she turns him into a SEA Turkey, and GrandPat tries to hunt him down! Needless to say, Squidina looks WORRIED when two Klopnodian cops bust into Agnes' house...only for them to reveal that TAKESGIVING actually IS real in Klopnodia, and they TAKE Agnes' latest EX-HUSBAND who has been turned into a couch, in order to prove it! Meanwhile, Agnes THINKS that Thanksgiving is ruined, when all SHE has to show for her efforts is a COOKED Sea Turkey Cecil...causing poor Squidina to faint! But wanting one last chance to prove himself, Cecil tears off one of his OWN Sea Turkey legs to give to Agnes to try, causing Squidina to faint yet AGAIN!!!! While Agnes DOES find it dry, she DOES admit that it's not bad; meaning that Cecil FINALLY got the compliment that he had been WANTING for so long! And as for all the side dishes, it turns out that Patrick's HUGE appetite came in handy, as in a "Brick Joke", all the food that Patrick packed WITH him, ended up being all the (somehow fancy) Thanksgiving meal that the family all got to eat! I'd give this episode a 9.4 out of 10. (It lost points due to Agnes actually taking a bite out of Cecil's sea turkey leg, and NOT turning him back to normal). Enough said, true believers!

You get... Two Gold Doubloons! I put in the blaster that Han Solo used to destroy the intercom, right before he said; "Boring conversation anyways!"

You get SOME jerkwad spraying THEIR water bottle into YOUR face! I put in a 1-Up toy mushroom!