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"Prehibernation Week" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season two. In this episode, Sandy and SpongeBob play extreme sporting games.

Characters

Synopsis

At Sandy's treedome, Sandy rakes her tree's autumn leaves into a pile that forms the shape of Texas. Sandy goes to tell SpongeBob she is finished but finds herself stepping on the leaves SpongeBob was meant to rake up. SpongeBob demonstrates his inability to rake the leaves quickly due to his miniature rake. Sandy tells SpongeBob to move on to something else as she continues her own chores at a brisk pace. SpongeBob can't understand why Sandy's in such a hurry, so she reminds him that she's hibernating the following week. She explains further that it's when she goes to sleep for the entire winter, a "mammalian thing" that sea creatures don't need to worry about. With only 168 hours left to go before then, Sandy has many activities she's desperate to do. SpongeBob promises to commit all the time he's not working for Mr. Krabs to play with Sandy, an offer she enthusiastically takes him up on.

Their activities that run day and night include sand-boarding, trying to knock each other off the top of the Sea Needle with giant ear cleaners, "Extreme Jacks," and "Find the Hay in the Needle Stack." These prove to be extremely dangerous, and SpongeBob, much less hardy than Sandy, can just barely avoid getting killed. He goes into hiding under Patrick Star's house to escape from her, and Sandy, overly worrying for his safety, forces everyone in Bikini Bottom to form an unnecessary search party for SpongeBob.

Sandy has them search in dangerous places such as sulfur fields, leech farm, and a poison sea urchin cove.After days of searching with no success, they all want a break, but she won't relent. They ask for time to take care of their children, but Sandy merely suggests to have them crawl into places that anyone can't reach. With the dissent growing, Sandy goes mad saying that no one is leaving until they find SpongeBob. The townspeople try to fool Sandy with objects in SpongeBob's shape and color like a cereal box and a banana, but she doesn't buy any of that. One fish points to SpongeBob supposedly up in the sky, but as Sandy looks up and turns back in confusion, she finds that everyone has gone, taking their chance to also hide under Patrick's rock.

Still frantic, Sandy starts literally destroying the city in her search for SpongeBob. The townspeople express how safe they feel under the rock, as does SpongeBob, whom they unceremoniously throw out for Sandy to find. Sandy rushes to SpongeBob as he desperately tries to hide again, to no avail. Sandy joyfully pulls SpongeBob for a hug before tugging him along to go "atom smashing," but he pleads for her to wait and listen to him. SpongeBob finally explains to her that he can no longer play the dangerous games she wants to play and begs for her to remain his friend. However, he realizes that Sandy has already fallen sound asleep, and the relieved and exhausted SpongeBob falls asleep as well. Patrick, eating ice cream and carrying a grocery bag, returns home to find the townspeople staring out from under his rock and yells, "Who are you people?!"

Production

Art

Music

( ‣ ) Associated production music

( • ) Original music

( ◦ ) SpongeBob music



• Pre-Hibernation - Pantera [Title card]

‣ Real Western Steel - Bobby Black [Opening]

‣ Harry's Back - Hans Ehrlinger ["I am 100% ma-male."]

‣ Real Western Steel - Bobby Black ["Enough chitter-chatter, SpongeBob!"]

• Pre-Hibernation - Pantera [Sand Mountain]

‣ Rococo Rondo - Tedeusz Rozycki ["Uh... I can explain."]

• Pre-Hibernation - Pantera ["I'm hotter than a hickory-smoked sausage!"/"Life's as extreme as you want to make it!"]

‣ Hawaiian Link (b) - Richard Myhill [Later...]

• Solo Steel 3 - Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob dragging himself home]

• Pre-Hibernation - Pantera [SpongeBob launched out of bed/Extreme Jacks/Sandy and SpongeBob at the Sea Needle]

‣ Holiday Playtime - Cedric King-Palmer [Bike ride]

• Pre-Hibernation - Pantera [Industrial Park]

• Vibe Q Sting - Nicolas Carr ["Wait a minute, I gotta talk my way out of this."]

• Pre-Hibernation - Pantera [Hay in the needle stack/SpongeBob hides of Sandy in Patrick's rock]

‣ Danger Zone - Mike Sunderland ["SpongeBob's tie!"]

‣ Gruesome - The Surfdusters [The search party]

‣ Death Trap - Gregor F. Narholz [Sandy looking for SpongeBob]

‣ Rococo Rondo - Tedeusz Rozycki ["Uh, I can explain."]

‣ Death Trap - Gregor F. Narholz [Sandy continues looking for SpongeBob.]

• Idea Sting - Nicolas Carr ["SpongeBob?"]

‣ Real Western Steel - Bobby Black [Sandy hugs SpongeBob]

• Pre-Hibernation - Pantera ["Sandy, wait!"]

‣ Stack of Leis - Kapono Beamer ["I just can't take the games!"]

‣ Reflections of Honolulu - Daniel J. White [Sandy is asleep]



Release

Reception

"Prehibernation Week" was ranked #28 during the Best Day Ever event from November 9–10, 2006.

"Prehibernation Week" was ranked #46 during the SpongeBob's Top 100 event in the UK and Ireland from June 4-8, 2012.

Trivia

General





Cultural references

The game "Find the hay in the needle stack" is a switch on "find the needle in the hay stack."

The Sea Needle is a parody of the Space Needle in Seattle, Washington.

Two kids building a sandman and singing a song in hopes of him coming to life is a reference to the song "Frosty the Snowman."

SpongeBob says all the extreme sports are "tearing [him] apart!," a famous quote said by James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause.

Errors

When Sandy goes over to paint her fence, the green bikini she wears underneath her skirt is gone.

Even though Sandy paints entirely over SpongeBob's water helmet with white paint, his eyes are still visible.

Throughout the entire episode, Sandy's acorn is black rather than its usual color.

There were two Nats once. One goes into the three-eyed sea elephant and another is standing near Sandy.

When Sandy busts into the Krusty Krab, she points to Frank, the muscular fish, saying that he and whoever is on his side is on Alpha team go look for SpongeBob. However, Frank screams "Gold team rules!"

When Sandy and SpongeBob are playing extreme jacks, Sandy blows the whistle with her helmet on.

There is a column left of "Sunday" on the calendar in Sandy's treedome.

The calendar that Sandy pulls down when she and SpongeBob are frozen in the lake only has 20 days and only has five days a week.

After Charlie asks if he can go home and Sandy looks angry, her neck is the same color as the lower side of her face.

In the closing credits, Aaron Springer, who performed the real-life drummer, is uncredited.

When Sandy lifts up the building to reveal a guy on a bike holding a lollipop, her tail is gone.

When SpongeBob yells "You don't understand!," his pupils turn black in the animation smear.

When SpongeBob crashes into the snowman his eyelashes are gone.



Running gags

A guy on a bike holding a lollipop, having random things happening to him, usually just saying "Uh... I can explain..."

SpongeBob getting hurt from the various activities he and Sandy did.

The Bikini Bottomites using various things that are square or yellow to make Sandy think they found SpongeBob.