Characters[]

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Patrick Star
• Sandy Cheeks
• Eugene H. Krabs
• Glarg ^{(single appearance)}
• Larry the Lobster
• Kevin C. Cucumber ^(cameo)
• Harvey
• Bubble Bass
• Perch Perkins
• Narlene
• Nobby

Synopsis[]

Patrick is using breadsticks to search for an "underground pizza motherlode," which Sandy points out cannot exist. He then finds a bone sticking out of the ground, which excites Sandy. She starts an excavation site in hopes of discovering a new prehistoric creature from the remains. Unknown to her, Narlene and Nobby are dumping the bones into a quicksand pit, which wash up at the dig site. Krabs comes by, initially skeptical about the dig until Sandy explains they are finding a new species, which Krabs wants turn into a roadside attraction.

Narlene begins dumping more trash into the quicksand, which begins to wash up at the dig site. The campers stick the random bits of garbage onto Sandy's dinosaur skeleton. Bubble Bass, Harvey, and Krabs are come up with ways to make it sound more exciting, but Sandy exclaims they are not focused on the science, just the money, and storms off.

Sandy comes across Narlene and Nobby flushing their garbage down the quicksand hole. She realizes that the junk has been mistaken for parts of a skeleton and dumps in the quicksand herself to verify it. After she leaves, Narlene dumps in a huge pile toxic, expired Sugar Squeeze. Sandy comes out in the middle of a circus tent where Krabs has held the dinosaur skeleton. She tells Bubble Bass that he has mistaken the junk for dinosaur parts, but he does not listen. Patrick christens the dinosaur "the thing", smashing the radioactive Sugar Squeeze on it.

The dinosaur comes to life and begins rampaging around camp, horrifying the campers. However, it is not actually harming anyone; rather, it wants technology and parts of the camp's structures. It hooks them up to make a communication device and requests evacuation from two members of its species. A UFO arrives and picks it up, and it thanks SpongeBob, Patrick, and Sandy, explaining it was made from the parts of a crashed spacecraft. Sandy is still skeptical about this being science, even more so once SpongeBob, Patrick, Narlene, and Nobby finally unearth a fountain of underground pizza.

Production[]

This episode was confirmed on January 13, 2023.^[6]

Music[]

 ‣ Jack Tar's Hornpipe - John Leach [Title card and opening.]
 ‣ Drummers And Fifers - Roger Roger ["Science is baloney!"]
 ‣ Drama Link (B) - Hubert Clifford [Patrick pulls a bone out of the ground.]
 ‣ In the Twilight - Stuart Crombie ["That's not a rock, Patrick. It's a bone."]
 ‣ Grand Spectacular (C) - Ron Goodwin ["This could be our chance at finding an undiscovered prehistoric creature!"]
 ‣ Tomfoolery - David Snell [Harvey leaving crumbs on the dig site.]
 ‣ You Make Me Smile (d) - Bill Baylis, Simon Stewart [Narlene and Nobby dumping bones in a quicksand pit.]
 ‣ Comedy Link 30 - Robert Bruce Early [Bone travels to the digging site.]
 • Hgliss & Bell - Nicolas Carr [Sandy finds another bone.]
 ‣ Closing Tab 1 - Tommy Reilly, James Moody ["Just the bone I needed!"]
 ‣ Drama Link (D) - Hubert Clifford ["You know the graverobbin' badge was discontinued for legal reasons!"]
 ‣ Grand Spectacular (C) - Ron Goodwin [Sandy tells Krabs about the undiscovered creature.]
 ‣ The Rake Hornpipe - Robert White ["This is just the sorta roadsite attraction that'll make me rich!"]
 ‣ Reckless Rufus - Jerry Burnham, Stephen Wade, Tom Layton ["I love spring cleanin' in the summer, Nobby."]
 ‣ Circus Parade (B) - Dick Walter [Junk lands in the quicksand pit.]
 ‣ Say it with a Smile (E) - Dick Walter ["Looks like the junk is a little jammed again."]
 ‣ Hot 7 A - Paul Lenart, Bill Novick [Nobby enlarges his feet.]
 ‣ Lost John - Jerry Burnham, Stephen Wade, Saul Broudy [Narlene playing the banjo.]
 ‣ Domestic Fun (B) - Ernest Tomlinson [Nobby sinks.]
 ‣ Dog Gone - George French [Campers adding junk to the skeleton.]
 ‣ ? [Altosaxasaurus]
 ‣ The Bachelor Life (B) - Laurie Johnson ["And it probably evolved a plunger."]
 ‣ Jolly Clarinet - Ilan Harel [Camper adds a license plate.]
 ‣ Terror Sequence (I) - Dave Hewson [Sandy getting irritated.]
 ‣ Drama Link (F) - Hubert Clifford ["That's it! It's clearly not about the science anymore!"]
 ‣ Dangerous Seas - Joseph Engleman [Sandy storms off.]
 ‣ Reckless Rufus - Jerry Burnham, Stephen Wade, Tom Layton [Sandy finds Narlene and Nobby dumping junk.]
 ‣ Pandora - Marc-Oliver Dupin ["This quicksand pit must be connected to our dig site somehow."]
 ‣ Funeral Music - Alfred Kluten [Narlene and Nobby mourn Sandy.]
 ‣ Buffalo Gals - Pierre Bonjour, Rossiaux Claude Anthonioz [Narlene throws expired sugar squeeze into the pit.]
 ‣ Carrousel Du Diable - Jean-Michel Bernard [Campers lining up to see "the thing."]
 ‣ Closing Tab 2 - Tommy Reilly, James Moody ["That bone is Sandy!"]
 ‣ Closing Tab 1 - Tommy Reilly, James Moody [Expired sugar squeeze emerges.]
 ‣ Dramatic Chords And Bridges 2 - Remastered - Sten Clift ["Those ain't prehistoric thing parts!"]
 ‣ Time After Time - Paul Gerard ["I see you've come crawling back."]
 ‣ Stealth and Capture - Wilfred Burns [Thing comes to life.]
 ‣ Abject Terror - Paul Lewis [Thing breaks the scaffolding.]
 ‣ Fair Organ - Eddy Warner ["Step right up!"]
 ‣ Terror - Alan Braden [Thing destroys the circus tent.]
 ‣ Fun Bridge 9 - Ilan Harel ["Like anything can be that scary."]
 ‣ Stealth and Capture - Wilfred Burns [Campers frightened by the thing.]
 ‣ King of the Giants D - John Fox, Otto Sieben ["Attention campers!"]
 ‣ The Shock [#54] - Dick de Benedictis [Campers panicking.]
 ‣ Abject Terror - Paul Lewis [SpongeBob, Patrick, and Sandy hiding behind a log.]
 • Grass Skirt Chase - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Thing collecting items.]
 ‣ Deck Games - Tommy Reilly, James Moody [Glarg makes a call.]
 ‣ Heaveny Info - Paul Arnold, Andrew James Barnabas [Spaceship appears.]
 ‣ Astronauts March - Sam Spence [Ending.]

Trivia[]

General[]

• In Germany, this episode was originally going to premiere on February 6, 2024 at 5:00pm.
  • It was replaced with a rerun of "Code Yellow."^[7]

Names in other languages[]

References[]

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