I Was a Teenage Gary
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3 Days Later...
SpongeBob has fallen asleep in his chair. When the rooster crows, he seems to be growing a beard. When he jumps off the chair, the beard is gone although the beard could have been a shadow.
This episode is known to scare younger viewers because of SpongeBob's transformation.
When his arm falls off, he doesn't regenerate his arm like he does in Graveyard Shift. This was likely because SpongeBob was unintentionally transforming into a snail. In Graveyard Shift, he pulls his arm off on purpose. Also when SpongeBob screams, his eyeballs turn into snail eyes, but in the next scene when SpongeBob says, "Gary, I'm fine." his snail eyes have eyelids on them. This may be due to an animation error.
SpongeBob eats Gary's snail food in this episode, but in the episode Missing Identity, SpongeBob states that he never knew what his food tasted like. It's possible that his mind was corrupted while he transformed into a snail, or that he changed Gary's food, and didn't know what the new one tasted like.
When SpongeBob's arm falls off he says "It's OK, I'm a lefty anyway." Yet it was his left hand that falls off. Although, in Neptune's Spatula, he mentions he has two left hands. Also, SpongeBob has said to be ambidextrous in The Splinter and You Don't Know Sponge.
When Squidward gets in bed he says he hopes that he never sees a snail again, but in later episodes he seems fine with snails like in the episode That Sinking Feeling he greets Gary and in The Great Snail Race he adopts a snail.
When Squidward exits his house to get a tan, he looks taller and more human-like than usual.
It is unknown how SpongeBob and Squidward recovered from this incident. It's possible that the snail plasma eventually wore off.
This episode might explain why Gary hates Squidward as he is the reason Gary almost dies.
SpongeBob (as a snail) out of both Gary and Squidward is the only one without a shell but his pants on the lump on his snail back which used to be his bottom could be considered a shell, otherwise he is considered a slug.
SpongeBob said that he had all of the cans of Gary's snail food marked, but it wasn't mentioned in closed captions.
The song that Gary, SpongeBob and Squidward meow is "Blow the Man Down".It can also be heard as the Theme Song
Squidward doesn't seem to know about Gary's existence in this episode, even though he has interacted with him in earlier episodes most notably "Culture Shock" when he introduced Gary to the audience.
The narrator does not pronounce the "3 days later" card. This is the first episode where that happens and the only time in the Hillenburg era (1999-2004). In the Filipino dub, he does pronounce the time card (in English)
In the "Lights, Camera, Pants!" game, there is a painting based on this episode.
The aftermath of the Snail SpongeBob chasing Squidward leaves Squidward's house a wreck. The sharp pointed end of his clarinet is seen going into a portrait of Squidward's nose. Coincidentally, the sharp pointed Snail Plasma item is caught on Squidward's nose a few seconds afterwards.
This the first time SpongeBob has transformed into another animal rather than a shape, the second time being during a Halloween promo for Nickelodeon in 2010 in which he transforms into a Moldy Sponge.
Much like Scaredy Pants, this episode is rarely aired because it is a Halloween-themed episode.
There was a scene of Squidward being transformed into a snail in the original airing. However, it was cut because it was too gruesome for younger viewers. It's still uncut in Polish airings.
In Polish version, this episode called Ślimaczy weekend which means Snail Weekend.
In Polish version, SpongeBob says he is a right instead of left-handed which eliminates the error.
Cultural References
The title of this episode is a parody of the of an old horror movie, I Was a Teenage Werewolf.
Errors
When Squidward said "Eat! Eat! Eat! You've gotta finish this food!", Gary was lip syncing to what Squidward was saying.
When SpongeBob says "That's okay, I'm a lefty anyway" when his arm disappears, the arm that disappears was his left arm.
In this episode, the snails are seen sitting on a wooden fence. However, there are no fences near the three houses.
SpongeBob says he is a left-handed in this episode but in You Don't Know Sponge, he says he is ambidextrous.
When SpongeBob played fetch with Gary, there was a watch on his arm, but when Gary returns the toy back to SpongeBob, it is gone permanently in the episode.
When SpongeBob says, "What a great friend you are, Squidward." the captions said, "You're a great friend, Squidward." This happens many times in SpongeBob episodes due to the fact that the dialogue in many episodes is mispronounced, the grammar is always fixed in close captioning.