Tea SpongeBob

Tea SpongeBob
SpongeBob joins the Tea Party and shuts down the government.
Season: 10 Episode: 21
Total Episode Count: 186
Prod. no.: 9ACX18
Featuring: SpongeBob SquarePants, Carter Cheeks
Also Appearing: Squidward, Plankton, Sandy, Pearl, Patrick, John, Fred, Nancy, Karl, Deamus, Mayor Johnny East, Bob Bobber, Joyce Kinney, Jenkins, Dr. Forrest, Angela, Adolf Hitler, Ryan Phillippe
Plot: At the grand re-opening of Goldman's Pharmacy, SpongeBob buys a "come in, we're open" sign and decides to go in to business for himself but John is forced to shut down for having an unlicensed business. SpongeBob tries to fight city hall but loses. SpongeBob finds sympathetic ear in Fred and when they see a news report about the Tea Party, they decide to join.
SpongeBob's new belief doesn't go over well with Squidward who informs him that the Tea Party is really a tool of big business. John tags along to a rally where Carter is posing as an everyday worker. When SpongeBob stops inside to use the restroom he finds Carter but is fooled into believing the two are separate and is enlisted to help get rid of the government. Despite the family's resistance, SpongeBob makes call for Carter on behaf of the Tea Party. In spite of SpongeBob's involvment, they successfully campaign to have Mayor East shut down the government.
As SpongeBob and the gang celebrate their new freedom from government, Squidward makes them aware of Carter's pollution and as time goes on, things get worse. SpongeBob goes to talk to Carter but finds he is unsympathetic. SpongeBob calls the town together and manages to reform the government although he manages to present it as an entirely new thing.
==Cutaways==
#Cheating wife
#Russian coat
#Just for Eagles
#SpongeBob's knitting club
#Japanese girls
#Going for a walk
#Not the Village People
#Half-asleep construction worker
#Driving to Vegas
#Pearl's Spanish teacher
#Going to Hell
#Tampon commercials
==Trivia==
*SpongeBob, John and Fred imitate The Spirit of '76 painting by Archibald Willard.
===Censorship===
*SpongeBob bleeped: "Who the f*** starts a conversation..."
*Bob Bobber's middle finger is blurred.
==Rating==
TV-14: DLSV
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