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Encyclopedia > The Chaperone
SpongeBob SquarePants episode
"The Chaperone"
Season №: 1
Episode №: 12a
Production №: 012
Airdate: October 2, 1999
Credits
Writer(s): Sherm Cohen
Aaron Springer
Peter Burns
Storyboard Artist(s): Aaron Springer
Directors
Storyboard: Sherm Cohen
Animation: Sean Dempsey
Creative: Derek Drymon
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"The Chaperone" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season one. 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: When Pearl's boyfriend dumps her, SpongeBob is forced to take her to the prom. Things work out, but not for long...


Time/Date:

  • 4:00 PM: Pearl throws a tantrum

Time cards shown: None


Characters Present:


Main Characters:

Major Characters: Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: SpongeBob SquarePants SpongeBob SquarePants is the principal character in the animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants, which first aired on May 1, 1999 on Nickelodeon. ... Pearl Krabs is a fictional character in the Nickelodeon animated series, SpongeBob SquarePants. ... Eugene H. Mr. ...

Minor Characters: Gary the Snail is a character in the Nickelodeon animated series series SpongeBob SquarePants, which first aired in July 1999. ...

  • 7 Freds
  • Octavius Rex
  • Billy Fishkins
  • Everyone else at prom

Unseen Characters: The Krusty Krab is a fictional restaurant in the city of Bikini Bottom in the animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants. ...

Song and dance: Patrick Star is a fictional animated character in the hit Nickelodeon animated series, SpongeBob SquarePants. ... Patrick is a male name, derived from the Latin name Patricius, which means nobleman. ... Squidward Tentacles is a fictional character in the Nickelodeon animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants. ...

  • The Sponge
"All right you invertebrates! I'm gonna teach you how to do the Sponge!"
Well, first you take your leg and you stick it in the air
And then you take the other one and jam it right up there
You twist yourself around
And do a great big lunge
Now you're doing the Sponge
Do the Sponge, Sponge
Do the Sponge

Plot

At the Krusty Krab, Pearl is crying hard out. Mr. Krabs asks her whats wrong, and she replies that her boyfriend (Octavius Rex) has just dumped her, and the prom is tomorrow night. Mr. Krabs suggests taking Squidward or himself to go, however SpongeBob is the one that has to go with her. Pearl hates being embarrassed, and doesn't want to be embarrassed by SpongeBob, but her wish not to be embarrassed doesn't get granted. SpongeBob wears a wig and makes artificial legs under his already existing ones to make himself look "long, tan and handsome" for Pearl. At the prom he spills fruit punch everywhere and causes hilarious disaster wherever his tall sponge-ish legs take him. He can't seem to control his crazy costume and makes Pearl unpopular. SpongeBob, after having broken everything at the prom, runs off into the restroom sobbing and absorbing. A bunch of lady fish run off embarrassed (because he went into the ladies' bathroom), and then Pearl manages to successfully understand SpongeBob's gibberish. Then she lets him still wear the wig and they do the Sponge Dance. More havoc occurs, including several fish being chased by giant tomatoes and being hauled off, and an angry mob lifts them into the air. Where the tomatoes came from is unknown, and it seemed that more disaster occurred than was actually even possible. SpongeBob and Pearl think that means they're popular until someone says "Go wreck someone else's prom will ya?". Pearl is VERY embarrassed. SpongeBob apologizes, then Pearl says even though it was a disaster it was really fun. Then right as they almost embrace and kiss, Mr. Krabs appears, armed with a shovel, and tells SpongeBob not to step on "his flower" on the ground. Pearl once again gets very embarrassed thinking that Mr. Krabs was telling SpongeBob to stay away from Pearl. Pearl tells SpongeBob good night, and tries to get SpongeBob's attention, but as she walks out the door SpongeBob appears to be frozen, but it's really only his dummy that he made earlier on. The alleged "fake/real" SpongeBob that appeared earlier didn't even go to the prom, it was his "realistic" dummy, and he carries the dummy off roaring with laugher, indicating that he's used the dummy many other times in other episodes as well.


Cultural References

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Trivia

  • It is revealed that Patrick took his mother to his prom.
  • The character Billy Fishkins as mentioned in this episode bears a close resemblance to Napoleon Dynamite.
  • Billy Fishkins also appears in the episode "Whale of a Birthday", only he looks different.

  Results from FactBites:
 
Chaperone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (738 words)
Many chaperones are heat shock proteins, that is, proteins expressed in response to elevated temperatures or other cellular stresses.
Chaperones were co-discovered by Art Horwich, now a professor at Yale University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Ulrich Hartl.
New functions for chaperones continue to be discovered, such as assistance in protein degradation and in responding to diseases linked to protein aggregation (see prion).
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