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SpongeBob SquarePants episode

"The Secret Box"

Season №:

Episode №:

35a

Production №:

035

Airdate:

September 7, 2001

Credits

Guest(s):

None

Writer(s):

Walt Dohrn
Paul Tibbitt
Merriwether Williams

Storyboard Artist(s):

Carson Kugler
William Reiss
Erik Wiese

Supervising Producer:

None

Directors

Main:

None

Storyboard:

Walt Dohrn
Paul Tibbitt

Animation:

Tom Yasumi

Creative:

Derek Drymon

Technical:

None

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"The Secret Box" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season two.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Brief summary: Patrick shows SpongeBob a box. He calls it the secret box, because its contents are a secret. He describes it as "the secretest of all secrets". SpongeBob is tempted to see what's inside the box, and in the end, he does...

Time/Date: Unknown

Time cards shown: None

Characters Present:

Songs: None

1 Plot
2 Cultural References
3 Trivia/Goofs
4 Quotes

[edit] Plot

SpongeBob is running towards Patrick's house, ready to go jellyfishing. Patrick says he'll go with him, and then says he has to put away his 'secret box' first. SpongeBob asks him what's inside the box, but Patrick refused to let SpongeBob show inside the box. Despite repeated attempts, SpongeBob is unable to trick Patrick into opening the box (unusual considering Patrick's low intelligence). Undeterred, SpongeBob tries to sneak a peek while Patrick sleeps. Patrick wakes up to catch him in the act (not due to the unintentional clamor created by the less than stealthy SpongeBob, but by the fairly quiet comment "Gee, Patrick sure is a heavy sleeper.") Nevertheless, Patrick forgives him and opens the box. Inside, there is just a piece of string ("A secret string!" as Patrick describes it). SpongeBob comments on how he "should've known", but when he leaves, Patrick reveals to the audience the real secret. If you pull the string, a secret compartment opens in the box, revealing an embarrassing photo of SpongeBob at "that Christmas party". The photo remained unshown until a commercial done in clay aired during Christmas time. It was of SpongeBob ripping his pants. (commercial unaired since 2004, but still seen on "TurboNick")

[edit] Cultural References

Clips from this episode appeared in the 2005 version of War of the Worlds while Rachel was channel surfing. These clips were either repeated or out of order. Also the clips are synched very badly as the audio is at least 30 seconds off from the animation.

[edit] Trivia/Goofs

SpongeBob reveals that he wears two different socks everyday, he has never been late for work and he was wearing three pairs of underwear at the time. He also likes to dance to "Loading zone" announcements.
When SpongeBob sneaks over to Patrick's house, Squidward's house is absent.
In this episode, SpongeBob is drawn as a lighter shade of yellow.
During the first few months after release, they revealed the embarrassing picture of SpongeBob before cutting to the credits. This picture wasn't the picture taken by Squidward in "Christmas Who?", it was a photo of Spongebob with a lampshade over his head. If Christmas Who was the first Christmas in Bikini Bottom, why would there be a party?
The picture that Patrick had in his box may have come from the Nickelodeon holiday promo shown here. [1]
When Spongebob's arms are taken off, they don't grow back like in "Graveyard Shift".
This is one of the few episodes when Gary speaks a word of English ("Hmmm... no").
When Patrick mistakes Spongebob for his secret box, he pulls on Spongebob's tongue, hinting that you need to pull the secret string to reveal the embarrassing photo.
One of SpongeBob's secrets he tells to Patrick is he has never been late for work. But in the episode Hooky, Mr. Krabs tells him, "You're two minutes late".
There is a book called "The Secret Box".
When Spongebob crashes on Patrick's wall right before commenting on Patrick Star being a sound sleeper after tripping on his own shoelaces, a picture of Spongebob and Patrick lands on Spongebobs head and divides into two pieces, with Spongebob on one piece and Patrick on another piece. This could be interrupted as a literally foreshadowing of the moments following when Patrick wakes up, the distrust that Spongebob envys onto his best friend.
Patrick makes a reference to peeping tom by saying "Hands off peeping bob!".
It is revealed that Squidward's house actually has a sentient mind of itself or Squidward probably is "controlling" the house to look inside Patrick's box.

[edit] Quotes

Patrick: If only you could see what was inside this box. It would CHANGE YOUR LIFE!

Spongebob: I've got a gazillion secrets. Uhh...I've got my secret socks on! And my secret Gary's bowl! My secret TV! With my secret TV channel! (shows blank screen like the one in the end of the fake Lost episode)

Spongebob: Well, it's no secret that the best thing about a secret is secretly telling someone the secret, thereby adding another secret to their secret collection of secrets...secretly.

(Patrick looks stupid and drools )