Gary Currency Flow

"Gary Currency Flow" is an episode of the KM TV animated series SpongeBob SquarePants Reborn.
==Synopsis==
Bikini Bottom is in the grip of an unusual heat wave and, not having air conditioning, SpongeBob and his friends are suffering. SpongeBob learns of an upcoming pet show offering a top prize of $500, which he sees as the perfect way to be able to buy an air conditioner. He persuades a reluctant Gary to participate. Gary performs his tricks at the pet show. However, SpongeBob starts to teach Gary to act like the "good snail" and Gary finds this demeaning and becomes angry, so he refuses to perpetuate the stereotype of the "good snail", as well as SpongeBob saying he is embarrassed that Gary would not comply. Gary subsequently exits in a huff.
On the way home, SpongeBob and Gary argue until Gary gets out of the boatmobile. The police give Gary a ticket, for which SpongeBob has to pay $10, for violating the local leash law, which only widens the rift between SpongeBob and Gary. Another argument ensues and SpongeBob mentions that he found Gary on the road as a stray snail. Angry that SpongeBob brought that up and becoming more angry when SpongeBob then demands that Gary "stop being a bad snail", Gary leaves the house, whereupon he is treated badly and unfairly by the community, and is ultimately forced to sleep at the bus station. SpongeBob buys a new snail which turns out to be mischievous and abusive (similar to Lary the Snail); SpongeBob gets rid of it and searches for Gary. By the time SpongeBob decides to apologize to Gary, Gary has been kicked out of a restaurant and a public store and chased by the police when he was found drinking from a water fountain. Gary becomes homeless, having actually attacked a man on the street for treating him as a drunken hobo and for not believing that he was a good snail. He is subsequently taken away by the police and awaits his death sentence via a lethal injection.
SpongeBob works on Gary's appeal, Gary decides to study the laws as much as he can and goes to court to defend his own case, but when he finally gets the chance to plead his case, the court decides that "it is stupid" to listen to a snail. During Gary's parole hearing, he references the court case Plessy v. Ferguson. Just when he is about to be dismissed, SpongeBob steps in and delivers a last-ditch emotional appeal on his behalf. The city council members hearing the case are still not on Gary's side, but SpongeBob promises to give them each $20, which convinces them to free Gary. The charges against Gary are finally dropped and the town shows him new respect, allowing him to finally drink out of a water fountain, showing his status to be the same as that of the other citizens of the community. The episode ends with the family returning home.
==Trivia==
*SpongeBob references The Match Game when he asked "How hot is it?" in response to Patrick's comment about the heat.
*When Gary is hiding from the police, a scene which parodies Raiders of the Lost Ark, he finds Joyce DeWitt.
*During Gary's parole hearing, he references the court case Plessy v. Ferguson, an infamous U.S. Supreme Court case that approved segregation in 1896.
*The final scene, in which Gary drinks from the "people" water fountain, is a reference to the ending of the novel and TV movie, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, in which the title character, a black woman in the segregated South, does the same at a "white" water fountain.
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