"Procrastination" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from Flavor 2. In this episode, SpongeBob procrastinates on writing an 800 give-and-take essay for Boating School.
Contents
1Characters
iiSynopsis
3Production
3.aneDeleted scenes
3.iiMusic
iii.2.oneOct 2001 to mid-2005; October 2019 to Nowadays
3.2.twoMid-2005 to Oct 2019
3.threeRelease
3.4Reception
ivTrivia
4.1General
four.2Cultural references
4.iiiErrors
5References
Characters
Mrs. Puff
SpongeBob SquarePants
Dream SpongeBob
Mr. Sun (debut)(cameo)
Squidward Tentacles (cameo)
Scallops (cameo)
Jellyfish (cameo)
Gary the Snail (cameo)
Patrick Star
Sandy Cheeks (cameo)
Bikini Bottomites
Incidental 27
Incidental viii
Incidental 41
Incidental 12
Incidental x
Incidental 28
Incidental 37B
Incidental 24
Incidental 47
Incidental 48
Incidental 73
Incidental 150
Incidental 153
Scooter
Fish on the Ferris wheel and the rollercoaster
Live-activeness racer
Alive-action people near the race track
Dream Incidental 154
Other mail carriers (mentioned)
Dream Realistic Fish Head
SpongeBob'southward dream living room chair
SpongeBob's dream pants
Dream snail clock
Flame (debut)
Dream SpongeBob'south house
Synopsis
"You hear that!? 800 words!"
The episode starts at Mrs. Puff'due south Boating School, where SpongeBob'due south class receives an assignment for an 800-word essay on what not to do at a stoplight, due the following morning. SpongeBob cannot wait to go started and, upon arriving home, prepares his materials and workspace. Nonetheless, he has trouble thinking of what to write, and gets distracted by his friends playing outside.
Fourth dimension passes every bit SpongeBob tries to create the right mood for writing. He does some calisthenics, feeds Gary, cleans his kitchen, and takes copious breaks in betwixt. Information technology somewhen becomes articulate that SpongeBob is only looking for excuses to avert the essay. Even Patrick points it out when SpongeBob calls to chat with him in the middle of the dark.
"Time'south up, SpongeBob..."
While wasting more time deciding on the proper breadstuff to use for making himself a sandwich, SpongeBob hears a knock at the door and rushes to greet the mailman delivering a package. When SpongeBob attempts to engage in small talk, the mailman cuts him off and suggests that SpongeBob has an essay to write. Suspicious, SpongeBob slowly heads back inside to find a newscaster on Telly reporting on SpongeBob's unfinished essay. He soon discovers that many of his possessions, at present suddenly alive, are conspiring against him to prevent the completion of his work. Their interference results in the immolation of his house which, besides suddenly alive, begs SpongeBob every bit it burns to, "Finish wasting time."
Finally waking up and realizing much of his procrastination was part of a nightmare, SpongeBob looks first at his woefully incomplete essay, and so at the clock, marking five minutes before form time. In desperation, he suddenly realizes that everything he did (or imagined doing) up to that signal was something that should not be washed at a stoplight, and and then he quickly writes it all downwardly to fulfill the 800-word requirement.
Excitedly bringing the finished essay to schoolhouse, SpongeBob finds the classroom empty. Mrs. Puff arrives and explains that she tried to call SpongeBob to requite him an update. Due to a teachers' convention she must attend, Mrs. Puff has canceled the assignment and will instead take the class on a field trip the following week to see a stoplight. Left behind with his grin frozen in identify (when he realized that he crammed in vain to consummate his consignment), SpongeBob then rips his essay in half earlier he splits himself in half, ending the episode.
Production
Deleted scenes
Come up on, SpongeBob!
I'll be one footstep closer to my driver'south license!
The following scenes were removed by Nickelodeon in Mid-2005 and accept not been shown on the network ever since. Withal, later years of airing the cut version, Nicktoons began airing the episode with the cut scenes restored on October 3, 2019.[4][5]
A scene where SpongeBob looks out the window and sees all his friends enjoying themselves, including Patrick rubbing Sandy with sun balm while saying, "Come on, SpongeBob!". This scene was virtually likely removed because information technology looked like Patrick was unhooking Sandy'southward bikini.
A scene where SpongeBob imagines i mean solar day having his license, followed by archival footage of a drag race machine crashing into a wall. This was removed well-nigh likely because Nickelodeon considered the scene to exist trigger-happy, fearing that a viewer might try to imitate the crash.
A scene where SpongeBob practices calisthenics was removed because the up-and-down motion of SpongeBob'southward olfactory organ could be viewed as obscene.
All DVD releases and VideoNow disks which include this episode, the Christmas VHS tape, Amazon Prime Video, Paramount+, Nicktoons and all international broadcasts retain the cut scenes. Formerly, the scenes were left intact for the Nickelodeon broadcasts from 2001 to 2005.
Early on Nickelodeon airings before May 2005 (along with current Nicktoons reruns, etc.):
SpongeBob: Gee, this is harder than I idea...
He gets upwardly from his seat, heads toward the window and sees all his friends exterior. Patrick is applying sun balm to Sandy's soldiers while facing SpongeBob's window.
Patrick: Come on, SpongeBob!
SpongeBob goes back to his desk.
How about some calisthenics?
SpongeBob: It should be confronting the law to accept to write an essay on such a super sailorific, sunshiny twenty-four hour period! Oh! Simply I must press onward, because with this pencil, and the completion of this essay, I'll exist ane step closer to my commuter's license!
Alive-action archival footage of a elevate race is shown. A machine hits a wall, tumbles and gets support.
SpongeBob: Oh, yes. This'll be no problemo. Why, I've got plenty of time. It'south only 6:00 PM! Okay, okay hither we go, here we go.
SpongeBob struggles to write.
SpongeBob: I know, I just need to get claret pumpin' in the old noodle. How about some calisthenics?
SpongeBob does calisthenics. While doing it, he recites, "Hup Hoo," several times. His nose and eyelashes separately move in sequence while making the aforementioned breathing sounds in different tones.
SpongeBob: I tin feel those juices pumpin' now!
Nickelodeon reruns since May 2005 (and former Nicktoons reruns until October 2019):
I tin feel those juices pumpin' now!
SpongeBob: Gee, this is harder than I thought...
The photographic camera immediately cuts to him sitting happily in his chair.
SpongeBob: I tin feel those juices pumpin' now!
The rest of the episode resumes normally from here.
Music
October 2001 to mid-2005; October 2019 to Present
(‣ ) Production music
(• ) Original music
(◦ ) SpongeBob music
• How-do-you-do Blues - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield[Title card] ‣ Horlepiep - January Rap[opening] ‣ On The Beach - Kapono Beamer["I'm near to write the greatest essay of all time."] ‣ Music, Calliope - [20th Century Studios Sound Effects][Carnival] ‣ Glory Road - Sam Fonteyn["But I must press onward, considering with this pencil and the completion of this essay..."] ‣ Glissando (G) - Skaila Kanga, Richard Myhill["...I'll be one step closer to my driver'southward license!"] ‣ Glissando (H) - Skaila Kanga, Richard Myhill["Oh, yeah..."] • Tension Snr Roll - Nicolas Carr[drum scroll] • Tense Tymp Ringlet - Nicolas Carr[drum scroll] • Idea Vibe - Nicolas Carr["I know!"] ‣ Steve's March - Sam Spence[calisthenics] ‣ Mambo Fantastico - Gerhard Narholz[squeaking chair] ‣ Sunny Samoa - George de Fretes, Jan Rap[feeding Gary] ‣ Four & Iii - Harold Geller[SpongeBob cleaning his kitchen.] ‣ Dramatic Cue (H) - Ronald Hanmer["x:00?!"] ‣ Dance of the Fumblers - Sam Spence[montage of SpongeBob writing] ‣ Tympup A - Sammy Burdson, John Charles Fiddy["The..."] ‣ Raspberry C - Sammy Burdson, John Fiddy["The..."] ‣ Stepping into Danger - Mike Sunderland["Let's see, only 799 words to go."] ‣ Chief Taravana - Kapono Beamer[SpongeBob calls Patrick] ‣ Stepping into Danger - Mike Sunderland[SpongeBob choking] • Hi Blues - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield[SpongeBob looks in the refrigerator / mail man comes to the door] ‣ Dramatic Cue (E) - Ronald Hanmer["How did he know I'm supposed to be writing an essay?"] ‣ Strange Goings-On - Dick Stephen Walter[SpongeBob goes back into his house] ‣ The Plot Thickens - Dick Stephen Walter[news on TV] • ? Vibes - Nicolas Carr["Hey, SpongeBob, over hither!"] ‣ Terror past Night - Hubert Clifford[SpongeBob running back to his desk-bound/"Ah! My pants!"] ‣ Flight in Panic 1 - Gregor F. Narholz[SpongeBob'southward house on fire] ‣ Unpreventable - Gregor F. Narholz["It's almost 9:00!"] • Harp! - Nicolas Carr["Feeding your snail is something not to do at a stoplight!"] ‣ Horlepiep - January Rap["Mrs. Puff, I'thousand finished!"] ‣ Keel Row - Brian Peters[ending]
Mid-2005 to October 2019
• Hello Blues - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield[Title card] ‣ Horlepiep - Jan Rap[opening] ‣ On The Beach - Kapono Beamer["I'm most to write the greatest essay of all fourth dimension."] ‣ Steve'due south March - Sam Spence["I can feel those juices pumping now!"] ‣ Mambo Fantastico - Gerhard Narholz[squeaking chair] ‣ Sunny Samoa - George de Fretes, Jan Rap[feeding Gary] ‣ Four & Iii - Harold Geller[SpongeBob cleaning his kitchen.] ‣ Dramatic Cue (H) - Ronald Hanmer["10:00?!"] ‣ Trip the light fantastic of the Fumblers - Sam Spence[montage of SpongeBob writing] ‣ Tympup A - Sammy Burdson, John Charles Fiddy["The..."] ‣ Raspberry C - Sammy Burdson, John Fiddy["The..."] ‣ Stepping into Danger - Mike Sunderland["Allow'south see, simply 799 words to go."] ‣ Chief Taravana - Kapono Beamer[SpongeBob calls Patrick] ‣ Stepping into Danger - Mike Sunderland[SpongeBob choking] • Hullo Blues - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield[SpongeBob looks in the refrigerator / postal service man comes to the door] ‣ Dramatic Cue (E) - Ronald Hanmer["How did he know I'm supposed to be writing an essay?"] ‣ Foreign Goings-On - Dick Stephen Walter[SpongeBob goes back into his firm] ‣ The Plot Thickens - Dick Stephen Walter[news on Tv set] • ? Vibes - Nicolas Carr["Hey, SpongeBob, over here!"] ‣ Terror past Night - Hubert Clifford[SpongeBob running dorsum to his desk/"Ah! My pants!"] ‣ Flight in Panic one - Gregor F. Narholz[SpongeBob's business firm on burn] ‣ Unpreventable - Gregor F. Narholz["It's nearly 9:00!"] • Harp! - Nicolas Carr["Feeding your snail is something not to practice at a stoplight!"] ‣ Horlepiep - Jan Rap["Mrs. Puff, I'yard finished!"] ‣ Keel Row - Brian Peters[catastrophe]
Release
The original version of this episode is available on the Christmas, Consummate 2nd Season, From the Outset, Office 1, The Ultimate SpongeBob Box Set, Holidays with SpongeBob 3-DVD Gift Ready, Christmas DVD Double Pack, Ripped Pants, Complete Second Season, Holiday Cruise Collection, Collection Triple, I'm with Hazo, The SpongeBob SquarePants viii Season DVD Drove, The Ultimate SpongeBob Box Set, The SpongeBob SquarePants Collection, SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 3, The First & 2nd Seasons, The Best 200 Episodes Ever, Nick For the Holidays! and First 100 Episodes DVDs.
This episode is available on the Christmas VHS tape.
Reception
"Procrastination" was ranked #100 during the All-time Twenty-four hour period Ever issue from November 9–10, 2006.
Trivia
General
This is one of three episodes with a famous deleted scene. The others are "Just One Bite" from season iii and "SpongeBob in RandomLand" from flavor 12.
However, the cuts to "Merely One Seize with teeth" remain in all countries except for Canada and Korea.
When SpongeBob cleans his kitchen, it turns chrome, similar to how the futurity world looks in the episode "SB-129."
SpongeBob clip in Ted (2012 pic).
The scene from this episode where SpongeBob says, "Do I dare look at the clock?" is shown at the beginning of the 2012 Seth MacFarlane R-rated comedy film Ted, fittingly equally John is procrastinating going to work.
This is the last episode to have Doug Lawrence credited equally a writer until the flavour 7 episode, "I ♥ Dancing."
This is the beginning episode where "Terror past Night" and "Keel Row" play.
This is the only flavour 2 episode to use the rails "Howdy Dejection."
It is also the just episode to date to use that track in a title card.
Screenshots from the scene where Nat Peterson mocks SpongeBob by saying "Did you lot hear that?! 800 words!" and SpongeBob replies, "Yeah, I know!" accept become pop on the Internet.
Innuendo: One of SpongeBob'southward entries on the essay is "Shooting breeze" with the mailman.
The way SpongeBob says, "Yeah, I know!" in this episode is identical to the way he says information technology in "Dying for Pie."
SpongeBob writes down all the things he did during his procrastination dream every bit part of his essay on things non to do at a stoplight, which are as follows:
Feeding Gary
Talking to friends
Drinking h2o
Making a sandwich [never completed, conclusion on bread interrupted past doorbell]
Calling his friends [Patrick]
"Shooting cakewalk" with the mailman
Lighting candles
Karate-chopping the Tv
Falling asleep
In most episodes, SpongeBob has a shellphone in his house. In this ane, however, his phone is shaped like a rotary phone.
This is the first episode where Sandy wears her bikini and air helmet without the rest of her diving gear outside the treedome. The second was "Karate Isle."
The snail clock resembles Gary.
Patrick and the mailman reminding SpongeBob nearly his essay foreshadows his procrastination being a dream.
How much of the episode is in fact SpongeBob's dream is unclear. It is conceivable he might have discussed the essay consignment with Patrick offscreen (leading Patrick to remind him), and even that he well-nigh choked on eraser shavings, but the suggestion from the mailman (who is a stranger) that SpongeBob has an essay to write immediately precedes scenes clearly inside the dream, such as the newscaster reporting on SpongeBob and various objects coming to life to conspire confronting him.
This is the second episode where a character imagines a building setting on fire. The first was "Squid'south Day Off" when Squidward imagines the Krusty Krab existence set on fire due to SpongeBob falling asleep at the cash register.
On the Official SpongeBob SquarePants account on Facebook and Twitter, it says that in 2003, SpongeBob began to write the essay, just the episode aired in 2001.[6]
The close-upward of SpongeBob smile and laughing from moving his chair back and forth was used for Nickelodeon'south "Up side by side" banners from 2010 to 2012.
It popped up during the premiere of "And the Winner Is...," the 6th episode of The Legend of Korra on May 12, 2012. Specifically during a scene in which the protagonist was in a life-threatening autumn, this banner showed up.[seven]
Since and so, the banner has become an cyberspace meme. The format of the meme would evidence the banner overlaid on a screenshot of an emotional scene of a TV serial or film, to mock poorly timed cross-promo ads during broadcasting. SpongeBob's expression combined with the drama of the scene would often brand viewers joke near SpongeBob being mean.
It was also used from the Gimme 5 event.
For unknown reasons, this episode and its sister episode were rated thirteen+ on Amazon Prime Video in Baronial 2020. [citation needed]
This has since been corrected every bit of October 2020, and the episode is back to beingness rated its original TV-Y7 rating on Amazon Prime Video, like most other episodes.
This episode was paired with different episodes in different airings:
On the May 17, 2003 airing, this episode was paired with "Graveyard Shift."[8]
On the Best Day Ever marathon, this episode was paired with "Hall Monitor."[9]
The audio effect of SpongeBob's chair squeaking is actually of an former typewriter.[citation needed]
Cultural references
In SpongeBob'south nightmare when he runs through a hall, and on the episode's championship card background, in that location are deformed, melted, and melting clocks. This is a reference to The Persistence of Memory, a painting by Salvador Dalí.
In one scene, SpongeBob says "Hey, hey, hey" to Gary. This is a reference to Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids.
Errors
A done out and less saturated championship card.
Since mid-2005 (or before), the edited version of this episode, equally currently ambulation on Nickelodeon, Nick@Nite, and TeenNick (and formerly airing on Nicktoons until October 2019), appears to be done out and less saturated.
The desaturation and loss of colour could take been an fault with three scenes beingness removed, though this remains unconfirmed. This also occurred to it's sister episode, since they are originally paired together.
On Amazon Prime Video, the entire episode is slightly darker in color. The same error occurs with its sis episode, "I'thousand with Stupid."
2 errors in ane: The "K" in Carson Kugler's name is lowercased and Erik Wiese's surname is misspelled as "Weise."
In the opening credits, the 'G' in Carson Kugler's surname is lowercase instead of capitalized.
Erik Wiese has the "I" and the get-go "E" in his surname swapped.
For the virtually office, SpongeBob's source of low-cal is an electrical lamp with a coconut as a base, sitting on his desk-bound. However, when SpongeBob is locked out of his house, the lamp is replaced with a candle.
After SpongeBob says "And now pencil, get gear up to do your stuff because here nosotros go!," the clock shows 5 to 4. Some seconds after, the same clock shows 5 to 3.
It says spotlight instead of stoplight.
On his essay, SpongeBob misspells "stoplight" as "spotlight."
If one were to look closely on DVD prints of this episode, when the glissando ripple effect comes in as the race car footage goes back to SpongeBob, his color appears equally a normal shade of yellowish, but shortly before it goes back to normal, information technology goes dorsum to the washed out yellow color on the episode's DVD print.
In the Latin American Spanish version, SpongeBob:
Only says, "Hup-hoo," one time instead of three; his nose and eyelashes are silent during the practice.
Tin be unheard gulping the water.
Does non say, "Burning!" instead his Castilian vocalisation actor appears to exist saying, "¡Oy!"
When SpongeBob'south nose and eyelashes are exercising, his right arm is missing.
When SpongeBob is moving dorsum and along on his chair while writing his essay, there is no pencil on the desk-bound, only when he goes back to piece of work on the essay, there is.
Rough Draft Korea on the screen for about a frame.
While SpongeBob is cleaning in the kitchen, right before the scene changes to the adjacent in a bubble transition, there is a Rough Draft Korea screen that says "iv:12" which was made erstwhile in 2001.
When SpongeBob is at the sink, drinking water, ii parts of his black belt turn yellow for a carve up second. In that aforementioned scene, there are visible light-green drops.
SpongeBob's missing eyelashes
When SpongeBob says, "Rye or pumpernickel," his eyelashes are missing.
SpongeBob's missing mouth.
Before SpongeBob is locked out of his house, his mouth disappears for a split 2d every bit the door slams shut.
The pencil is on SpongeBob's desk-bound when the candle is withal lighting and he looks at the window, just disappears when Flame jumps out of the desk.
When SpongeBob says, "Burning," his mouth syncs incorrectly.
The essay paper is burned past Flame; despite this, the paper is all the same on the desk when Flame jumps off the desk.
As mentioned to a higher place, the entire scene of SpongeBob'due south house catching on fire and various objects coming to life was revealed to all simply exist a dream, withal SpongeBob is never shown falling asleep prior to this, making it seem like an actual function of the episode, or the entire episode all existence a dream until SpongeBob wakes upward and finally writes his essay.
When SpongeBob wakes up from his nightmare and looks at the paper before looking at the clock, only the discussion "the" is shown, and "What Not to practice at a Spotlight by SpongeBob SquarePants" is missing from the top.
References
^ Date confirmed by SpongeBob Exposed!, The First 100 Episodes, and the iTunes listing.
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