High and Dry

Characters

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Patrick Star
• Squidward Tentacles
• Sandy Cheeks
• Incidentals
  • Elwood
• Jellyfish
• Butterflies ^{(single appearance)}
• Dana Dinsmore ^{(single appearance)}
• Turtle ^{(pictured) (single appearance)}
• Bug
• Worm ^{(pictured) (single appearance)}
• Humans
• Lamb ^{(pictured) (single appearance)}
• Eugene H. Krabs
• Sea urchin ^(pictured)

Synopsis

SpongeBob, Patrick, Sandy, Squidward, and Elwood are going for a trip outside onto the surface. He uses a buddy system, pairing SpongeBob with Elwood and Patrick with Sandy. They head to the island, put on their helmets, and walk onto the shore. The buddy system works out well, and Squidward consults the survival guide and orders the campers to find a good spot to establish camp. He sets out a lawn chair under a palm tree, while Sandy uses her own invention to pitch a tent and campfire.

Squidward tells them to forage for food. Sandy finds a giant coconut and drops the shell onto Squidward by accident. Patrick tries to crack the shell with an egg he found. He flings it into the air, where SpongeBob walks by with a frying pan he found. They fry the egg and eat it, then go to bed for the night.

The next morning, they are suddenly attacked by a seagull swooping down. Sandy realizes they must have ate one of its eggs, and Squidward looks in the survival guide for ideas. Their first idea is to hide under the coconut shell, but the seagull finds its way under there. Next, they try burrowing underground, but Patrick goes too far and ends up elsewhere on the surface. Finally, they send a decoy to lead the bird away from everyone else, drawing straws to determine who it is. It ends up being Elwood, who Squidward sends outside.

Elwood is captured by the bird, and the others run back to the shore. SpongeBob stops them, saying they need to save Elwood. They wield their weapons and get ready to attack the seagull. Sandy takes them to the seagull's nest, where they find it is a makeup artist named Dana Dinsmore who was giving Elwood a makeover. SpongeBob, Patrick, Sandy, and Squidward are won over by the pitch for her cosmetics and return home with heavy makeup. They run into Krabs, who they try to give a makeover, to his horror.

Production

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

Garvin Beltz did the rigging on Dana Dinsmore.^[7]

Art

Concept art

• By an unknown artist.^[8]

Look development

• Island textures done by Kayley Weston.^[9][8]

Storyboards

• Revised by Joann Chang.^[10]

Production notes

• Kayley Weston:
  • "On Kamp Koral, I had the honor of texturing the famous island! I created all of the textures for this set, aside from the water. Most textures were painted in Substance Painter, and the material for the bark on the palm trees was created using Substance Sampler."^[8]
  • "On Kamp Koral, I textured this Seagull featured in Season 2. No fur generation was used - the textures were hand painted in Substance Painter and some hair cards were used. The palm leaves and nest were texture by me using 8k textures. I used a combination of painting and generating these in Substance Painter but also tiled textures using a layered approach."^[11]

Music

 • ? - Ego Plum [Title card and opening.]
 ‣ One Over the Eight - Len Stevens ["Pipe down and listen up!"]
 ‣ Top Dog - Tommy Reilly, James Moody [Squidward pairs everyone into a buddy system.]
 • Idea Sting - Nicolas Carr [Squidward notices that the elevator is out of order.]
 ‣ Smartie - Tommy Reilly, James Moody [Everybody runs up the stairs.]
 ‣ Simply Magical - Magnum Opus ["We've never been out of the water before."]
 ‣ Astronauts March - Sam Spence ["Well, that's my world up there."]
 ‣ Beyond The Deep Blue Sea - Lisa Doby, Lionel Wendling [SpongeBob, Patrick, Sandy, and Elwood arrive on shore.]
 • More Hawaiian Steel Stings 9 - Jeremy Wakefield [Butterflies faint from Sandy's stink.]
 ‣ Jolly Clarinet - Ilan Harel [Squidward is exhausted from walking up the stairs.]
 ‣ On The Beach - Kapono Beamer [Buddy system.]
 ‣ Sneeky - Gregor F. Narholz [Squidward reads the survival guide.]
 ‣ ? ["Yes sir, Counselor Squidward"]
 ‣ Trade Wind Hornpipe - Tommy Reilly, James Moody [The Dinghy campers finding a spot to camp.]
 ‣ Aquarium - Bernard Rabaud, Eric Gemsa [Squidward mesmerizes.]
 ‣ Trade Wind Hornpipe - Tommy Reilly, James Moody ["The perfect spot."]
 ‣ Pay Off - Tommy Reilly, James Moody [Sandy's invention.]
 • Hgliss & Bell - Nicolas Carr ["Perfect!"]
 ‣ Cuica Player - Gilles Cardoni, Tercio Borges Palmerston [Sandy foraging for food.]
 ‣ Shooting The Rapids - Tommy Reilly, James Moody ["Let's do it!"]
 ‣ Royal Jester - Tommy Reilly, James Moody [Sandy finds a large coconut.]
 • Gator - Steve Belfer [Patrick finds a seagull egg/"No, it's egg-shaped!"]
 ‣ Drama Link (D) - Hubert Clifford ["Oh no!"]
 ‣ Royal Jester - Tommy Reilly, James Moody ["Sorry everybody, I couldn't find anything except this non-stick pan."]
 ‣ Kangaroo Valley - Don Harper [The Dinghy campers eating the egg.]
 ‣ Beauty Queen - Tommy Reilly, James Moody [Bedtime.]
 ‣ Disturbances - Gerhard Trede [Seagull swoops down.]
 ‣ Fierce Fight - Gerhard Trede ["What is that thing?!"]
 ‣ Desolate Danger - Cecil Milner ["How to escape from a crazy seagull that has you trapped in a tent."]
 ‣ Sneaking Around You - Didier Francois Goret [Sandy breaks open a coconut/Everyone screams and runs away.]
 ‣ Desolate Danger - Cecil Milner ["Escape tip two."]
 ‣ Oh My Goodness - Benjamin Starnberg [Patrick digs a tunnel.]
 ‣ Broadway Bustle - Leslie Manson [Patrick in a busy city.]
 ‣ Desolate Danger - Cecil Milner ["We need a sacrifice."]
 ‣ Mini Prelude (3) - Johnny Pearson [Squidward sacrifices Elwood to the seagull.]
 ‣ Serious Situation - Gerhard Trede [SpongeBob, Patrick, Sandy, and Squidward run for the shore.]
 ‣ Tabu - Daryl Griffith ["I can't leave without my buddy!"]
 • More Hawaiian Steel Stings 9 - Jeremy Wakefield ["Typical."]
 ‣ Landsknechtsmusik - Gerhard Trede [SpongeBob, Patrick, and Sandy gearing up.]
 ‣ Serious Situation - Gerhard Trede [SpongeBob, Patrick, Sandy, and Squidward climb up a tree.]
 ‣ Bobmatisme - Achille Alberto Scotti [Avion Cosmetics.]
 ‣ Top Dog - Tommy Reilly, James Moody [Back at camp.]
 ‣ Horror Cue 5 C - Gregor F. Narholz [Krabs gasps.]
 ‣ Stealth and Capture - Wilfred Burns [Ending.]

Trivia

General

• This episode premiered as part of the 2025 event "Friday Night Hits."
• In Germany, this episode was originally going to premiere on January 24, 2024 at 5:00 PM. It was then updated with the following chronologically:
  • It was replaced with a rerun of "Food Con Castaways."^[12]
  • After that, it was then pushed back to premiere on January 28, 2024 at 4:50 PM, before being pulled again and being replaced with a rerun of "Camp Crossbones."^[13][14]
  • It was then pushed back once again to premiere on February 12, 2024 at 4:50 PM, before being pulled for a third time.^[15]
  • It was then pulled for a rerun of SpongeBob SquarePants.^[16]

Cultural references

• The title of the episode may be a reference to the song by Radiohead of the same name.

Errors

• When everyone jumps for joy, Patrick's eyebrows disappear.

Names in other languages

References

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