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• Episode aired Mar 22, 2000
• GG
• 24m

SpongeBob and Patrick try to help Sandy out when she feels homesick. / Plankton tries to get SpongeBob to be mean.SpongeBob and Patrick try to help Sandy out when she feels homesick. / Plankton tries to get SpongeBob to be mean.SpongeBob and Patrick try to help Sandy out when she feels homesick. / Plankton tries to get SpongeBob to be mean.

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Funniest episodes ever in season 1

In "Texas", the funniest part of it is that the last lyrics of Sandy's "Going Home to Texas" that Sandy lowers her tone of her voice, then, when Sandy got mad at SpongeBob and Patrick, they're having a run through The Krusty Krab. However, Patrick got caught by Sandy's rope and he got exploded.

In "Walking Small", the funniest part of it that Plankton announces the visitors of Goo Lagoon Beach about his restaurant to the future, which was "The Mega Bucket", then he makes loud squeaking sound which it can make me laugh out loud. Also, when SpongeBob tries to finish his Ice-Cream Cone, Plankton yelled at his name with his megaphone, it make me laugh so hard and loud. And Plankton had a doll who can say "Mama", he put it to his briefcase. LOL!

• kristoferm
• Nov 5, 2016

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"Texas" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 1. In this episode, Sandy feels homesick and wants to return to Texas.

Characters

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Patrick Star
• Sandy Cheeks
• Jellyfish
• Bulls (debut)
• Horse (debut)
• Scallops and clams
• Eugene H. Krabs
• Squidward Tentacles
• Mrs. Puff
• Farley the Flatfish
• Pearl Krabs
• Larry the Lobster
• Incidentals
  • Incidental 32
  • Incidental 23
  • Incidental 22
  • Incidental 42
  • Incidental 30
  • Incidental 5
  • Incidental 11
  • Scooter
  • Incidental 12
  • Incidental 16
  • Incidental 18

Synopsis

Sandy singing the song "Texas."

The episode starts up at Goo Lagoon where SpongeBob, Patrick, and Sandy are playing in the sand. Sandy makes some sand in the shape of Texas, which is soon destroyed by the goo tide. A despondent Sandy walks off sadly, while SpongeBob tries to cheer her up and offers to play with her, but Sandy explains that she is just feeling a little homesick. SpongeBob and Patrick then blindfold her and take her to her treedome, which only adds to Sandy's depression. She begins crying, and runs off.

Both SpongeBob and Patrick are confused until they hear Sandy singing a song from on top of her treedome about how much she misses Texas. They decide to cheer up Sandy by throwing a Texas-themed party for her at the Krusty Krab. They go to Sandy's house to ask her to come to the Krusty Krab with them, but she tells them that she is leaving Bikini Bottom to move back to Texas. SpongeBob is shocked by this, and tries to convince her to go to the Krusty Krab, but fails. Sandy gets into a bus out of Bikini Bottom and leaves. Patrick insults Texas by calling it dumb, asking what is so great about it.

Suddenly, the bus comes back and Sandy returns, then angrily berates Patrick for badmouthing her hometown. Patrick then asks if he can say that people from Texas are dumb, which angers her even further. This gives SpongeBob an idea to lure Sandy to the Krusty Krab. He and Patrick continue insulting Texas, and an enraged Sandy begins chasing them. They intend to lead Sandy to her surprise party at the Krusty Krab. Patrick continuously insults Texas, thinking Sandy is too slow to catch up to them, only to soon realize that she is very fast and catching up to them.

A 'Happy Texas' party is held at the Krusty Krab.

Sandy lassos Patrick and pulls him to her, and a nuclear explosion is shown in the background as he disappears. SpongeBob, still hoping to reach the Krusty Krab, begins screaming as he runs as fast as he can. Sandy's lasso reaches SpongeBob the instant he reaches the door of the Krusty Krab, and she attempts to pull him to her as he holds the door with his pinkie finger. Eventually, this causes the entire front of the building to be torn off, revealing the party inside. Then everyone says, "Howdy, y'all!"

Sandy realizes how much her underwater friends care about her, and that Bikini Bottom has become her true home, and decides to stay. The crowd is happy about this and starts cheering (with an exception of Squidward). Suddenly, Patrick once again insults Texas and as the episode ends with the shown off-screen cutting back to Bikini Atoll, Sandy gets angry once again, and Patrick asks if he should start running again.

Running gags

• Sandy filling her helmet with water when she is crying or laughing.
• SpongeBob and Patrick calling Texas dumb.

Production

Art

Music

Promo art for the episode.

 • Texas Title Card - Junior Brown [Title card.]
 • IM1 - Junior Brown [Opening.]
 ‣ Real Western Steel - Bobby Black ["Can't you see? It's Texas!"]
 • IM2 - Junior Brown ["Oh, it's nothing but a memory now."]
 • IM3 - Junior Brown [SpongeBob trying to cheer Sandy up]
 • IM4 - Junior Brown ["I guess I'm just feeling a little homesick"]
 ‣ Hawaiian Link (A) - Richard Myhill ["Mm-mmm..."]
 • IM5 - Junior Brown ["Almost there!"]
 ◦ I Wanna Go Home - Sherm Cohen, Vincent Waller, Junior Brown
 ‣ Vibe Link (B) - Richard Myhill ["That's it! Patrick, your genius is showing."]
 • IM6 - Junior Brown [Transition to next scene]
 • IM7 - Junior Brown [SpongeBob and Patrick playing leapfrog]
 • IM8 - Junior Brown ["I'm going back home to Texas."]
 • IM9 - Junior Brown ["..it'll be too sad."]
 ‣ Blue Dobro (A) - Richard Myhill [Sandy gets angry at Patrick]
 • IM10 "Texas" - Junior Brown [SpongeBob and Patrick making fun of Texas.]
 ‣ The Poker - The Langhorns [Sandy puts down her bags]
 • IM11 - Junior Brown ["We did it, we got her!"]
 • IM12 "The Chase" - Junior Brown [SpongeBob and Patrick running from Sandy.]
 ‣ Hawaiian Link (B) - Richard Myhill ["Don't cry anymore, Sandy."]
 • IM13 - Junior Brown [Sandy at the Krusty Krab.]
 ‣ Hawaiian Link (A) - Richard Myhill [Ending]

Release

• This episode is available on the Nautical Nonsense and Sponge Buddies, Complete 1st Season, Fools in April, Valentine's Day, Aaarg!, Sponge Crazy, First 100 Episodes, Splash from the Past!, Really Big Box Set, The Ultimate SpongeBob Box Set, SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 2, Employee of the Month, The Complete First Season, From the Beginning, Part 1, The SpongeBob SquarePants Collection, The SpongeBob SquarePants 8 Season DVD Collection, The First & Second Seasons, Movies & TV Collection, and The Best 200 Episodes Ever DVDs and SpongeBob SquarePants Volume 3 on GBA Video.
• This episode is available on the Nautical Nonsense and Undersea Antics Volume 1 VHS tapes.
• This episode is also available on the It's a SpongeBob Christmas! Blu-ray.

Reception

• "Texas" was ranked #73 during the Best Day Ever event from November 9–10, 2006.
• "Texas" was ranked #36 during the SpongeBob's Top 100 event in the UK and Ireland from June 4-8, 2012.

Trivia

General

• Original airings of this episode when combined with "Walking Small" contained a version of the main theme song sung by Junior Brown that played over the end credits ending with various cow noises over the Nickelodeon and United Plankton Pictures logos. [2]
  • After Nickelodeon began using split-screen credits, the song could not be heard and was also replaced with the regular ending theme on home media and streaming releases. The Nick en Español channel on Pluto TV retains the original song however.
• Vincent Waller, one of the writers and storyboard artists, was born in Texas.
  • He is also the writer of this episode and the Texas Song (also known as "I Wanna Go Home").
• The scene where Patrick gets blown up by Sandy has become an internet meme.
  • The scene where SpongeBob turns into Texas while Patrick calls him stupid has also become an internet meme.
• Jellyfish Fields is shown to be located right next to Goo Lagoon in this episode.
• The fact that Sandy thought that the Bikini Bottomites ate jellyfish is similar to Plankton's belief of them in "F.U.N."
• Innuendo: When SpongeBob says to Patrick that his genius is showing, Patrick immediately asks "Where?" and covers his crotch.
• Despite his weak muscular system that is exposed in several episodes, SpongeBob is able to tear off the entire front half of the Krusty Krab with only his finger and is able to throw a whale up and over his head from behind.
• SpongeBob's misinterpretations of the things Sandy misses from Texas include Flats the Flounder holding a cube for "square dancing," "peas-in-a-can pies" for pecan pie, large water containers being worn over the head as "10-gallon hats," and Barbed Qs for barbecues.
• When Sandy decides to stay in Bikini Bottom and everyone gathers around her, everyone is excited and cheering except for Squidward, who does not cheer at all, except towards the end of the cheering, when he says, "Woopty doo."

Stock art of SpongeBob thinking.

The origin of the screenshot from this episode.

• The close-up of SpongeBob thinking prior to making fun of Sandy was later used for a stock art of his.
• This is the first episode in the series where a map of Texas is shown.
• This is the first time where Sandy is shown crying.
• This is the first time Sandy is heard singing.
• This is the second appearance of Flats the Flounder, who first appeared in "Sandy's Rocket."
  • "The Bully" is Flats' first non-cameo appearance.
• This is the third episode where the German dub uses the exact same title card as the English version. The first was "Plankton!" and the second was "F.U.N."
  • The Japanese dub also retains the episode's English title, albeit translated to Katakana. [citation needed]
• During the Mighty Girls of Nick marathon, this episode was paired with "Sandy's Rocket."[3]
• During the FairlyOke SongPants Day marathon, this episode was paired with "Sing a Song of Patrick."
• Pearl makes a non-speaking cameo.

Cultural references

• The background of the title card is the flag of Texas.
• SpongeBob sings a snippet of the parlor song "Home! Sweet Home!"
• "Maybe it's a squirrel thing" is a pun on the phrase "It's a girl thing."
• The Texas Song is a parody of Hank Williams' "Long Gone Lonesome Blues."
• The Texas Song is written in a modified version of the 12-bar blues progression.
• Patrick mangles the lyrics of the cowboy song "Git Along, Little Dogies."
• SpongeBob sings a parody of the song "Deep in the Heart of Texas."
• Sandy says, "Y'all best apologize, or I'm gonna be on you like ugly on an ape!," which is a reference to a quote from the character Jimmy James from the TV show NewsRadio. In episode 9, Season 5,[4] Jimmy says, "Max, if you try any of that mind-trick stuff on me, I'll be on you like ugly on a ape."[5]

Errors

Textless logo on Nicktoons UK and Ireland.

• At the end of the intro, the show's logo is textless. This error seems to be common on most of the foreign TV airings of this episode.
• Whenever Patrick and SpongeBob try to catch jellyfish, Sandy's outline turns green.
• When Sandy is singing her song, it seems the music notes are going toward her instead of away from her.
  • Also, when Junior Brown sings the last line of the song, Sandy's mouth is moving when it is not supposed to when Junior Brown sings the line off-screen.

Sandy's miscolored neck.

• During the Texas Song when Sandy says, "I miss my twenty acres, barbecues, and pecan pies, oh, why?," her neck is white instead of brown for a few frames.

SpongeBob's double lip.

• Right before SpongeBob and Patrick start walking around in a circle, SpongeBob has two bottom lip outlines.
• Some of the cells are tinted blue during the scenes where SpongeBob and Patrick are running from Sandy.
• When Sandy is holding a rope and chasing after SpongeBob and Patrick, she is panting, but her mouth does not move.
• When Patrick gets captured by Sandy and says, "AHHHH! SpongeBob!," his voice is out of sync with the animation.
• When SpongeBob is almost at the Krusty Krab, his pants are a darker shade of brown.

References

1. ^ http://youtv.vn/lich-chieu/1-10-2016.imc
2. ^ https://youtu.be/FJ7TD28U0-M
3. ^ https://nickstory.fandom.com/wiki/February_10,_2001
4. ^ "NewsRadio" Boston (TV Episode 1998) - IMDb. IMDb.
5. ^ Jimmy James (Character) - Quotes. IMDb.

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