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"Sleepy Time" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season one. In this episode, SpongeBob visits the dreams of others.

Characters

Synopsis

After settling for bed in the evening and sleeping, SpongeBob has a strange dream where he is driving a hot rod in a Krabby Patty-themed location and he has his driver's license, then crashes into a rock. However, Mrs. Puff appears and tears up SpongeBob's license, and he is then propelled out of his own dream.

He appears as a small, glowing version of himself in the outside world, where he sees himself sleeping. SpongeBob realizes that he has no dream to go to, until he sees Gary's dream cloud. He then jumps in, frightening Gary.

In his dream, Gary has a humanoid body who can speak English and resides in a huge library. Gary tells SpongeBob some limericks before SpongeBob goes out of Gary's dream cloud and into Patrick's. Patrick's dream is completely empty, except for a kiddy ride that he is riding on and a door resembling that of SpongeBob's front door that leads out of the dream. SpongeBob explains to him that in a dream, he can do whatever he wants, which he demonstrates by changing size and creating a million copies of himself. Patrick says he's already satisfied, and SpongeBob goes out of Patrick's dream cloud. The ride then stops and Patrick takes out a quarter but drops it in a sewer grid.

Next, he goes into Squidward's dream, where Squidward is playing his clarinet for a king in a theater. SpongeBob distracts the king by telling him a limerick that Gary recited in his dream, and Squidward stops, mad at SpongeBob for invading his dream. The king growls at him for not playing. After this happens several times, Squidward becomes so angry that he snaps his clarinet, but SpongeBob saves him by turning into a clarinet. It produces no sound, and SpongeBob just sings horribly, which surprisingly everybody applauds at. A crowd then picks up SpongeBob while throwing Squidward into a fruit cart, wondering how he can make such music. He then transforms back into his normal form and runs out the exit doors at the back of the theater. Squidward is knocked into the fruit cart by the audience and the king while they chase SpongeBob as he exits the dream.

SpongeBob goes into Sandy's dream, where they are skydiving and have to land on a painted target. SpongeBob asks if it's "kind of dangerous," and Sandy says "Not as long as you got a big ol' parachute." SpongeBob misunderstands her twice (such perceiving "pair of shoes" and "parakeet"), and while trying to explain to him, Sandy fails to open her own parachute in time and lands in a truck filled with clam manure. SpongeBob falls out of Sandy's dream and says to himself "All right, that's it. No more messing with people's dreams."

However, he then goes to what he thinks is Mr. Krabs' dream but actually is Pearl's dream, where she is having a tea party with her stuffed animals in a very childish and girlish setting.

After realizing this, he immediately goes to Mr. Krabs' dream, where he's fishing for money. Mr. Krabs instructs SpongeBob to pull out his money net from his back pocket, which turns out to be Mr. Krabs' wallet. SpongeBob and Mr. Krabs manage to catch Moby dollar, but it escapes and Mr. Krabs shoots SpongeBob out of the dream via a harpoon gun tied to SpongeBob.

He is launched directly into Plankton's dream. Plankton, in his dream, is a giant monster and can shoot lasers from his eye, and is destroying the city. SpongeBob realizes that it isn't a dream, but a nightmare. Once Gary is about to be crushed by Plankton, SpongeBob pricks his foot by turning into a pushpin, and Plankton deflates. The angry Bikini Bottomites close in on him and Plankton tells them that he guesses he has some explaining to do, but gets his punishment by being stepped on by everyone else. Plankton then wakes up in terror.

SpongeBob then goes back to his own dream cloud, where the angry faces of everyone who's dreams he entered appear around him. When he wakes up, everyone is in his house complaining that he's messed up their dreams and tells him to stay out. Patrick then appears and asks "Does anyone have a quarter?" then everybody looks at Patrick in confusion and the episode ends.

Production

Art

Music

( ‣ ) Associated production music

( • ) Original music

( ◦ ) SpongeBob music



‣ Island Romance - George de Fretes, Jan Rap [title card]

‣ Vibe Link (a) - Richard Myhill [SpongeBob falls asleep]

‣ Happy End - Gerhard Trede [start of SpongeBob's dream]

‣ Custom Cruiser - The Mel-Tones [SpongeBob driving]

‣ Bring Back [#18] - Lars-Luis Linek [Mrs. Puff takes away SpongeBob's license]

‣ Orchestral Effect (f) - Dick Stephen Walter [SpongeBob enters Gary's dream]

‣ Vibe Link (b) - Richard Myhill ["Gary?"]

‣ Mozart Concerto 21 In C, 2nd Mvt. - Jonathan Starkey, Wolfgang Mozart [Emily Dickinson poem]

‣ The Foot of the Hill - Miloslav Verner [Man from Peru]

‣ Mozart Concerto 21 In C, 2nd Mvt. - Jonathan Starkey, Wolfgang Mozart [SpongeBob leaves]

‣ Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (b) - Brian Gulland, Richard Harvey [Patrick asleep]

‣ Dombummel - Gerhard Trede [Patrick's dream]

• ? - Brad Carow [Squidward playing clarinet]

‣ Royal Entrance - Dick Stephen Walter ["Why do you stop playing, Wolfgang Amadeus Tentacles?"]

• ? - Brad Carow [Squidward continues playing clarinet]

‣ Majesty - Dick Stephen Walter ["Hey! I have not instructed you to stop!"]

‣ Dramatic Cue (d) - Ronald Hanmer [Squidward breaks his clarinet]

‣ Dämonen U. Urgewalten - Gerhard Trede ["I came here to hear beautiful music!"/King glares down at Squidward]

‣ Sleeping Beauty - David Farnon ["Why have you stopped playing that wonderful music?"]

‣ Mersey Mania [#26] - Ian Henry Marsh, Phil Pickett [audience chases SpongeBob]

‣ Dreaming of Paradise (b) - Helene C.E. Muddiman [Sandy asleep]

‣ Metal Boost - Mac Prindy [skydiving]

‣ Hawaiian Link (b) - Richard Myhill ["Hey! Mr. Krabs!"]

‣ In the Cradle (a) - Dick Stephen Walter [Pearl's dream]

‣ The Jovial Buccaneers [#32] - John Fox [Mr. Krabs' dream]

‣ Invincible Armada [#32.02] - Gregor F. Narholz [chasing Krabs' wallet]

‣ The Rake Hornpipe - Robert Alexander White ["This'll make a great fish story, eh, Mr. Krabs?"]

‣ Hawaiian Link (a) - Richard Myhill [Plankton's dream]

‣ Muscovite Rebellion - David Arnold, Paul Hart [giant Plankton zapping everyone]

‣ On the Beach - Kapono Beamer [SpongeBob returns to his own dream]

‣ Killer Birds [#36] - Gregor F. Narholz [SpongeBob surrounded by floating heads]

‣ On the Beach - Kapono Beamer [ending]



Release

Reception

"Sleepy Time" was ranked #70 during the Best Day Ever event from November 9–10, 2006.

Trivia

General

According to a picture of a workprint of the episode posted by storyboard artist Adam Paloian on his Twitter account [2] , SpongeBob's license was originally going to look a bit different, with a different picture of SpongeBob and a different signature signed "S. Squarepants" instead of "SpongeBob SquarePants."

, SpongeBob's license was originally going to look a bit different, with a different picture of SpongeBob and a different signature signed "S. Squarepants" instead of "SpongeBob SquarePants." This is the first episode SpongeBob is seen with a driver's license.

This episode's opening is similar to its sister episode's opening, "Suds," as both episodes start with SpongeBob having a dream.

There is a PowerTouch book based on this episode. [3]

Gary and Pearl were annoyed at SpongeBob, but SpongeBob didn't do anything in their dreams that caused trouble in any way.

In this episode, Plankton wakes up at an office desk. The desk reappears in "Truth or Square" and Creature from the Krusty Krab . According to the background artwork, the computer on the desk is "desktop" Karen.

. According to the background artwork, the computer on the desk is "desktop" Karen. SpongeBob's reaction is never shown to his friends admonishing him for ruining their dreams.





Cultural references

SpongeBob tells Gary, "Curiosity salted the snail," a reference to the old saying, "Curiosity killed the cat," as sea snails are portrayed as the cats of the sea.

Moby Dollar is a parody of Moby Dick .

. The name that Squidward has in his dream, Wolfgang Amadeus Tentacles, is a parody of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Also, the Andante from his Piano Concerto No. 21 is playing in the background while SpongeBob is in Gary's dream.

Sandy crashing into a truck of clam manure is a reference to the running gag from the Back to the Future movies where Biff Tannen crashes into a truck of manure.

movies where Biff Tannen crashes into a truck of manure. In one scene, when Gary and SpongeBob are walking along with the library, a book is shown close up. On the cover, the title reads Of Snails and Men , a parody of John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men . In addition, Gary references and quotes Emily Dickinson, one of history's most famous poets.

, a parody of John Steinbeck's novel . In Pearl's dream, Roughy Goulet and Ricky Marlin, parodies of singers Robert Goulet and Ricky Martin can be seen on album covers.

Gary's poem is a reference to "The Old Man of Peru," by Edward Lear.

Errors

When Gary puts SpongeBob's socks on his eyes, the stripes on top switch to blue when they're usually red, and the stripes on the bottom switch to red when they're usually blue.

When SpongeBob is outside Squidward's house, the window is shown open, but there is another window frame on the wall.

When SpongeBob comes to Pearl's dream, he enters at the left part of the house, but when he comes out, he exits from the middle of the house.

When everyone is standing around SpongeBob's bed at the end of the episode, at first Pearl's nightcap is missing. In the next shot, it is there. The same applies to her hair.

When SpongeBob turns into a skyscraper, his eyes are more pale than normal.

When SpongeBob's friends lash out for him ruining their dreams, they are at the end of his bed in a line. When viewed from the side, however, they aren't standing on either side.





Running gags

SpongeBob entering people's dreams but unknowingly ruining them.