SpongeBob Meets the Strangler

SpongeBob Meets the Strangler is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 3

Brief summary: SpongeBob gets the Tattle-tale strangler caught for littering, but he escapes. Now the Tattle-tale Strangler wants revenge by strangling SpongeBob...

Time/Date:

• July 14, 2004 (according to TV.com)
  • When SpongeBob continuously watches the clock, it is 6:59/7:00 AM

Time cards shown:

• Twenty minutes later
• Six hours later

Main character(s):

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• The Tattle-Tale Strangler a.k.a. The Strangler

Major character(s):

• Patrick Star
• Gary the Snail
• Squidward Tentacles
• Mr. Krabs
• Larry T. Lobster
• Pearl Krabs
• Sheldon J. Plankton
• Sandy Cheeks
• Mrs. Puff

Minor character(s):

• Everyone else at party

Songs: None

Template:Spoiler SpongeBob meets the Tattle-Tale Strangler. After calling the police on the Strangler for littering, the Strangler escapes, looking for Spongebob. Spongebob looks for a bodyguard for protection, but no one would take the job when they found out the Strangler was after him. The Strangler later finds out and takes the job to kill him. He dons a disguise (a fake mustache) and finds Spongebob.

He then realizes he needs a quiet place to kill him, but Spongebob needs to run some errands first. They are faced by every possible delay, and they finally get to Spongebob's house. Spongebob realizes he lost his key and looks for it in his pockets for 20 minutes. The Strangler decides to get though a window a bit high up and asks Spongebob to climb on his shoulders. Spongebob, now with sharp cleats on his shoes, attempts to jump on his shoulders, instead landing directly in his eyes. He struggles to pull them out for 6 straight hours, finally pulling them out.

After that Spongebob says he had a key under the mat he forgot about. The Strangler then locks the doors and starts to choke Spongebob. The lights then turn on, revealing a 100% on-time average surprise party. The party goes on for a considerable length of time. The Strangler then attempts to choke him again, but they guests come back for a birthday party for Spongebob. Finally alone, he tries again, but then Patrick show up for some odd reason. The Strangler tries to get rid of him, saying:"He could be the strangler in disguise". Patrick then runs off to turn himself in thinking he was the strangler.

Spongebob then says he doesn't need a bodyguard anymore since he also thinks Patrick was the Strangler. The real Strangler, enraged, reveals Patrick wasn't the Strangler, he was, and reveals himself (by taking off his fake mustache), but Spongebob still doesn't resist, finding out Patrick wasn't the strangler and amazed how he ripped off his Mustache.

The Guests return overhearing the word "party" (he got the mustache at a party store). The Strangler runs away, but Spongebob goes after him. He takes a series of escape vehicles (taxi, plane, parachute) but Spongebob catches up every time. He lands in the police department in a jail cell. and Spongebob learns the truth. Soon after, the Strangler finds Patrick in his cell.

Trivia

• The Tattle-tale strangler's phone number is 555-1220.
• This is the third episode to take place in the same day, July 14, which is SpongeBob's birthday, and this time, his birthday party is seen. Which means that SpongeBob is 16 years old in the cartoon according to TV.com. The first two episodes to take place in the same day were "Sleepy Time", where SpongeBob jumped into his friends' dreams, and "I Had An Accident", where his butt was broken and he refused to come out of his house.
• "SpongeBob Meets The Strangler" and "Pranks a Lot" premiered together as a double direct-to-video episode. They have become the eighth and ninth direct-to-video episodes before they aired together on Monday, October 11, 2004.