Chimps Ahoy

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Chimps Ahoy is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season four. In this episode, Sandy's bosses visit.

Time/Date

• 3 days after Artist Unknown.
• 1 day before "What Ever Happened To SpongeBob?".

Characters

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Patrick Star
• Sandy Cheeks
• Squidward Tentacles (voice only) (cameo)
• Chimpanzees
  • Professor Percy
  • Dr. Marmalade
  • Lord Reginald
• Mailman
• Nat Peterson
• Alternate-Universe SpongeBob

Plot

The Chimpanzee beneficiaries of Sandy’s undersea treedome are paying a visit to see what progress she has made with her inventions. But Sandy doesn’t think any of her work will satisfy the chimps, and if they don’t like what she’s invented Sandy could lose her funding forcing her to leave Bikini Bottom. SpongeBob and Patrick decide to help their distraught friend by taking over her work and finishing her inventions. At first, Patrick has ideas of things that have already been invented, such as a pencil and a mirror (which ironically is actually a parallel universe). After hours of hard work, SpongeBob and Patrick invent a back scratching, hair-combing, nose-picking ukelele-tuner. When the Chimps arrive, Lord Reginald is the first to test it (though never wanted to, as Patrick forced him). Shockingly, the invention works, but when tuning the ukelele, the machine malfunctions, hits Reginald with the Ukelele, slaps him, then starts attacking him with all sorts of weapons. Meanwhile, Sandy hears the screaming of Reginald, and arrives just as the machine spits out Reginald. The Chimps decide to close down the Treedome, but when Dr. Marmalade holds out a banana, Sandy's "nutcracker" peels it for him. It is revealed that this is an invention that Chimps have been searching hundreds of years for. Soon they decide to let Sandy stay for 20 more years, including a higher salary. After the Chimps leave, Patrick decides to test out the machine that injured Reginald, which, of course, malfunctions on him, yet he still yells out "All right!"

Cultural References

• This episode title is a parody of Chips Ahoy!, a popular cookie snack.
• Christopher Ryan, Rik Mayall and Nigel Planer are best known for their roles as Mike, Rick and Neil on The Young Ones (TV series).
• During the title card, the music is the same as in the episode title card, Selling Out.
• The helmet Sandy invented is similar in style and design to the helmet worn by Noodle, fictional guitarist for Gorillaz, during Phase 1
• Lord Reginald appears to be a parody and resemblance of Cranky Kong from the Donkey Kong Country series.
• The chimps arrive in a yellow submarine. This is a possible reference to the Beatles song Yellow Submarine.
• The Hasbro toy Barrel of Monkeys appear on the title card.

Trivia

• An element of this episode, Sandy's funding potentially being cut, bears similarities to the Mystery Science Theatre 3000 episode "Laserblast", in which Dr. Clayton Forrester's funding is cut, forcing him to disconnect the Satellite of Love and leaving Mike Nelson and the Bots to what Dr. Forrester thinks will be an eventual demise.
• The back scratcher that SpongeBob buys in the beginning of the episode costs him 52 boxtops.
• Sandy will be able to remain in Bikini Bottom for 20 more years, before her next expiration on October 23, 2026.
• When the peanut gets shredded, it has the voice of Squidward
• This is the first episode to have actual land mammals in it (besides Sandy).
• Based on the comparative size of Spongebob and Patrick when compared to the humans depicted in The Spongebob Squarepants Movie, the monkeys depicted in this episode would only be 2 - 3 inches tall.
• The monkeys have been searching for the banana-peeling nutcracker since 1889.
• After Sandy's song ends, SpongeBob and Patrick start crying just like in Texas.
• At one moment, Sandy is not in her breathing suit.
• The things holding SpongeBob's invention together:
  • Bandages
  • Screws driven into bottlecaps
  • Pieces of tape made into an X
  • A taped down lollipop
  • Chewed bubble gum
• The phrase on SpongeBob's invention says "Dr. Professur Patrick Rulez!" However the invention was finished before Patrick started calling himself "Mr. Dr. Prof. Patrick".
• The towns for those that have nowhere else to go, as mentioned by the bus driver, in which the bus makes stops to:
  • Quittersville
  • Failuretown
  • Loserburg
• SpongeBob's invention is called "The Automatic Back-Scratcher, Hair-Comber, Nose-Picker and Ukulele-Tuner 9000".
• The peanut SpongeBob talks to says, "It's dark in here".
• The inventions Patrick thinks of:
  • Pencil: (A stick that can be used to draw or write stuff with)
  • Lightbulb: (A glass ball that lights up so the user can see in the dark)
  • Mirror: (A parallel universe)
• In this episode, SpongeBob and Patrick's water helmets are worn with the openings facing up, like they wore them in "Tea at the Treedome".
• The list of items shown when "The Automatic Back-Scratcher, Hair-Comber, Nose-Picker and Ukulele-Tuner 9000" goes haywire include:
  • An electric saw with a circular blade
  • A flamethrower
  • A pair of scissors
  • A corkscrew
  • An aerial poison dart
  • A tazer
• Inventions the chimps have been searching for many years:
  • Banana peeler
  • Poop thrower
• The chimps exclamed they searched 117 years for a banana peeler, so they should be older than that, making the chimps the oldest mammals in the show.
• This episode first aired on YTV on October 23, 2006.
• The music from Squeaky Boots can be heard.
• 32nd time Squidward doesn't appear (except his voice.)
• The first reference to the Goofy Goober Ice Cream Shop, outside the film, is made. (the second being Born to Be Wild. The third is Chum Bucket Supreme.
• When the machine spits out Lord Reginald, he is bald from the accident. But when Professor Percy says to invent the Poop Thrower, Lord Reginald 's hair is all grown back.
• When Spongebob and Patrick say "It's here!", captions say "It's Eric!.
• When Sandy sings her "birds that fly upon the ground" line, a manta ray swims by, releasing a bird call. This is strange, because most birds are depicted as scallops.
• Patrick often insultingly refers to SpongeBob as an "unpaid intern" in this episode. Strangely, he is perfectly fine with actually being an unpaid intern (and referred to as so) in Bummer Vacation.
• When SpongeBob talked to Patrick about the his mouth moved before the reflection.
• This is the fifth time a mirror showed more than the reflection. The first was "Something Smells", the second was "Squid's Day Off", the third was "Wet Painters", the fourth time was "Ghost Host", and the sixth time would be in Rule of Dumb. The seventh and final time was in "Roller Cowards".
• When SpongeBob looks in the mirror, he is wearing his water helmet, but in the mirror it is gone.
• If you look at Sandy playing her guitar, you see she's playing with her left hand. However, in other episodes like Band Geeks, she plays with her right.
• In Sandy's song, you can hear string squeaks camouflaged in the background of her music. Although in "Texas ", you can hear that the guitar strumming sounds distorted, so the string squeaks can't be heard.
• The title is a reference to a famous cookie "Chips Ahoy".
• Running Gag: Patrick wants people to call him "Mr. Dr. Prof. Patrick".
• When Patrick said SpongeBob was an unpaid Intern, like in Phineas and Ferb when the character Major Monogram says that Carl as an unpaied intern frequently in the show.
• The sound heard when the machine breaks is the same sound heard after Patrick ates SpongeBob's sundae in Something Smells.
• Sandy said in the beginning of the episode that the chimps were coming that afternoon. When SpongeBob and Patrick want to help, they work all night, and the chimps come the next day.
• This episode takes place the day before "Whatever Happened To SpongeBob?".

APM Music Identification

• Dramatic Impact 5 - Sandy hears screaming coming from her treedom.
• Dramatic Cue D - Sandy gasps.