Fifteen Minutes of Whale Shame

Fifteen Minutes of Whale Shame
When the gang constantly embarrasses Pearl, she decides to put them on the TV show "Barbara" to embarrass them as comeuppance.
Season: 2 Episode: 12
Total Episode Count: 19
Prod. no.: 2ACX08
Featuring: Pearl, SpongeBob, Sandy, Plankton, Patrick, Squidward
Also Appearing: Johnny East, John Fishly, Nancy Fishly, Nat Fishly, Barbara, Tom, Sally, Fred, Miles "Chatterbox" Musket, The Magical Clam, Ronald McDonald, Lisa McDonald, God, Guillermo, Soccer Mom, Jim Kaplan, Beth, Chet Smith, Wilshard Watkins, Other Pearl, Tom Arnold, Fran Drescher, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Mary-Kate Olsen, Ashley Olsen, Bob Ross, Michael J. Fox, Meredith Baxter, Michael Gross, Tina Yothers, Justine Bateman
Plot: SpongeBob plays a magical clam in a historical re-enactment of Bikini Bottom's founding, because that was how Bikini Bottom was founded. But, when SpongeBob gets caught on a wave, his costumed washed away, leaving him to show up ashore naked, to which he does not even seem to mind, driving home and stopping at a gas station naked. Pearl is of course embarrassed by this, but when he embarrasses her at her slumber party, she decides to take action. She gets the gang (excluding Plankton and Squidward) invited on The Barbara Show instead of ending the embarrassment, this gets the gang their own reality show, The Real Live Gangers. Once Pearl gets tired of this she leaves the gang, and the show
Her replacement is a teenage *** symbol who steals the show. Pearl attempts to move in with Tom and later Fred, but mishaps in their homes causes Pearl to leave. SpongeBob and Sandy meet with Pearl secretly to tell her they can't be seen together due to the new Pearl. Eventually, when SpongeBob and Sandy miss Pearl, the whole gang is replaced after they fail to convince the producer to bring Pearl back, and they forced to live in a motel room until the reality show contract runs out.
==Message from Maureen4595==
This is my #2 favorite episode
==Cutaways==
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==Trivia==
*This is the first time Pearl is the main protagonist.
*This episode uses some footage from Dead Fish Has a Shadow.
===Censorship===
*A FOX rerun of this episode cuts the part where Pearl is at Fred's house and walks in on him having *** with a women on the kitchen counter (and Pearl runs out of the house).
==Reception==
In his 2009 review, Ahsan Haque of IGN, rating the episode a 9.9/10, called the episode an "instant classic" and "one of the funniest and most creatively constructed episodes of Family Sponge".
==Rating==
TV-14: DLS
==Gallery==
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