282a. Arbor Day Disarray

[Shark Tale]

Premieres: Tuesday, June 26th at 1pm ET/PT

Plot: Sandy gives her friends special saltwater trees, but they need more attention than she expected.

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[Dragonball Z]

It seems that Mrs. Puff now has a phobia of police sirens (although given the amount of times she's gone to jail ALREADY, one can hardly blame her). Seems like a pretty interesting episode concept so far; we'll find out for sure soon enough.

[Dragonball Z]

If anybody is confused as to why Squidward has his clarinet in THIS episode, it's because THIS episode was SUPPOSED to come out BEFORE "Mandatory Music". I can't BELIEVE the people in charge of programming didn't notice that! Anyways, it might have taken 12 seasons LONGER than it should have, but at long last; Bikini Bottom FINALLY celebrates Arbor Day! In order to prevent the holiday from being an underwhelming one (since Sandy has the only REAL tree in Bikini Bottom), Sandy uses her technological know-how, to create a brand new breed of tree, that can SURVIVE, completely immersed in sea water! In fact, the only requirement Sandy gives the citizens who decide to take a tree, is that they should TALK to the trees! Mrs. Puff not only does THAT, but she takes HER tree for a ride, and tells HER tree something about a "Shell City Job". (I wonder if that's related to WHY she had to MOVE to Bikini Bottom in order to start a NEW Boating School with her CURRENT name?) Squidward plays his clarinet (and even a TREE doesn't like it); Mr. Krabs just makes HIS tree be the new "Complaint Department" so that he doesn't have to deal with the constant complaints of customers; Spongebob at least TRIES to do right by his tree by reading a bedtime story to it; while Patrick winds up being the ONLY one who can keep HIS tree at peace, by just watching television with it, and being oblivious to the tree's insults to him! One by one, the trees begin talking BACK (which Sandy chalks up to making the trees TO salty), and begin turning against their owners! In order to STOP the chaos from escalating any further, Sandy decides to host an Arbor Day Log-a-palooza, where if you're a TREE, you get in for FREE! And the tree that volunteers to be the FIRST for Sandy's make-over, is Patrick's tree! Even though Patrick's tree gets turned into a CHAIR, the tree winds up HAPPIER as a chair, than it was as a tree! So all the trees allow themselves to be turned into pieces of furniture, and the furniture (while still sentient), seem to be a lot more amicable to the citizens of Bikini Bottom as furniture, than they were as chairs...well; MOST of them anyways! I'd give this episode a 9 out of 10. Enough said, true believers!