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SpongeBob SquarePants episode
""Snowball Effect""
Season №: 3
Episode №: 46
Best Day Ever Rank: #20
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"Snowball Effect" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season three. This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ...

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Brief summary: It starts snowing in Bikini Bottom, and SpongeBob and Patrick have a snowball fight. Squidward thinks that snowball fights are immature until he participates, then he finds out how fun they are.


Time/Date: Unknown


Time cards shown: None


Characters Present:

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Plot

As an iceberg travels across the surface of the water to Bikini Bottom, the temperature goes lower and lower, until it snows. Everyone is having fun, building things out of snow. Spongebob Squarepants and Patrick Star decide to have a snowball fight. Meanwhile, Squidward Tentacles is relaxing at home with a cup of tea. They try to convince him to come out and play with them, both trying to get him on their own side.


Squidward decides that, as entertainment, he will watch them fight, hoping they will get hurt. Spongebob and Patrick realize that snowball fights are for children, and they sign a peace treaty. Squidward tries to convince them to continue, but gets hit with a snowball. He decides to join in the fight. He makes a small fort and hits everyone with snowballs. Soon Squidward's fort has grown into a tower.


After Spongebob and Patrick figure out that Squidward is taking it far too seriously, SpongeBob and Patrick go away, leaving a paranoid and riled-up Squidward to wreak havoc to nobody--except an overhead palm branch that keeps dropping gobs of snow on his head, as they relax in the pineapple watching TV with hot chocolate and popcorn warming up. Look up Palm in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...


Trivia/Goofs

  • "The Snowball Effect" is also the title of a famous short story by Katherine MacLean.
  • This episode also goes by "The Snowball Effect", adding "the" onto the title.
  • This episode marks the fourth appearance of snow. The first is "Bubble Buddy", then "Christmas Who?", then "Survival of the Idiots".
  • When the saw and hammer sounds are played, in the first scene Patrick was making the hammer sound and SpongeBob is making the saw sounds and their actions are also as such, but in the second scene, the close-ups, the situations are vice-versa.
  • Running gag: Squidward's fireplace is put out three times by a stray snowball fired once by Patrick (on the second floor), once by Spongebob (on the first floor, which makes no sense), and once by Squidward himself.
  • What the narrator said about snow breaking off of glaciers then heading toward more tropical waters and causing snow underwater is obviously scientifically inaccurate.
  • In the beginning, the realistic fish head says "It seems old man winter paid us a visit late last night". This is incorrect, because the iceberg just came that same day, but they don't know that.
  • When it is snowing, the sky is gray, instead of blue.
  • A few Christmas songs can be heard in this episode.
  • At the end of the episode, if you listen carefully, the news guy says "Bring out those coats and shovels..."
  • This is the first episode with snow but no Sandy (second if you count that Sandy was mentioned in Bubble Buddy)
  • When Squidward is relaxing in his house drinking tea and sitting next to his fireplace, you can see Squidward's head hanging on a plaque on a wall. This is obviously a gag because this head has moose antlers on it. This may be one of Squidward's many artistic creations.
  • Instead of circles, Patrick makes a square snowball, a pyramid snowball, and a DNA shaped snowball. Later in the episode, a pile of square snowballs are seen next to Patrick's fort.
  • In This episode, Patrick can't make a snowball. However, in Survival of the Idiots, he made a perfect snowball. (It's possible he was just trying to trick Spongebob into making one for him, as he immediately throws it in Spongebob's face. Spongebob cries, "Patrick, how could you?", and Patrick replies, "It's a snowball fight, remember?".)

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Quotes

  • Plankton: What's this? Drops of rain frozen into ice crystals? I shall harness their energy and rule the worl- (snow starts to fall on him) No! Wait! Stop! I wish to rule you!(Disappears under the snow)
  • Patrick: (Gets hit with a snowball thrown by SpongeBob) Ouch! Thanks a lot SpongeBob! While you were standing there whistling, someone threw a snowball at me like this.
SpongeBob: Oh really, Patrick? (Chuckles) Did the snowball look like this? (Hits Patrick with another snowball
Patrick: Yes, like that! This is serious, SpongeBob! Someone's after me! I think I'd better leave town!
  • Squidward: Ok. I, Squidward, am now part of this war.
SpongeBob: If you're in this war than where's your fort?
Squidward: I- I don't have one, OK?
Patrick: You've got to have a fort, Squidward.
SpongeBob: Forts win wars, Squidward!
Squidward: You wanna fort? (Piles some snow together) There. There's your fort.
Patrick: That fort is too small, Squidward.
Squidward: It's OK, Patrick, it's just a demonstration.
SpongeBob: That thing will never protect you it's downright puny!
Squidward: Not if I crouch down! Look, down here I am perfectly- (Patrick hits Squidward with a snowball)
Spongebob: Exposed.
Squidward: (Gets up) Would you two please- (Hit with a snowball) -stop throwing- (Hit with a snowball) -snowballs! (Surprised that they stopped until Patrick hits him with another snowball)
  • Squidward: Patrick, pretend I'm SpongeBob.
Patrick: Then who am I?
Squidward: You're Patrick.
SpongeBob: Can I be Mr. Krabs?
Squidward: NO! Wait, why?
SpongeBob: He's a good leader.
Squidward: Will you butt out?!
Patrick: Hey, you can't talk to Mr. Krabs like that, Squidward!
Squidward: I'm Spongebob, You're Patrick (Throws snowball at Patrick) Now, what are you going to do?(Patrick throws the snowball at Squidward)
Squidward: Patrick, why didn't you hit SpongeBob?
Patrick: You said you were SpongeBob, SpongeBob.
Spongebob: (Imitating Mr. Krabs) Argh, it's true Mr. Squidward. Now back get to work!
  • Patrick: (After being hit by snowball by Squidward) Spongebob! I think Squidward is taking this really seriously! That last one had his clarinet in it!
  • Squidward: I'm not going to stay here watching you two knock each other's brains out! Ha ha... (Squidward thinks about what it would be like).
Spongebob: (After getting hit with a snowball, launching his brain out of his head) Okay Patrick, it's out!


Preceded by:
"Frankendoodle"		 SpongeBob SquarePants episodes Followed by:
"One Krab's Trash"


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