Pilot

"Pilot" is the first episode of the KM TV animated series SpongeBob SquarePants Reborn.
==Synopsis==
Annoyed that Patrick spends more time watching television then playing with his friends, SpongeBob suggests that Patrick should get a driver's license, after it was revoked in Driven to Tears. Patrick reluctantly agrees, but instead of heading to Mrs. Puff's Boating School, Patrick hotwires Squidward's boatmobile, and challenges other drivers to a race in the process. Distracted, Patrick crashes the boatmobile into a main cable television transmitter, knocking out reception for the entire city of Bikini Bottom. Once Patrick arrives at SpongeBob's house with the transmitter still attached to the car, SpongeBob becomes petrified and furious. Meanwhile, Plankton steals the satellite dish in a plan to create a weather control device capable of destroying the world's supply of Krabby Patty's.
Suffering withdrawal syndrome from the lack of cable, Patrick straps a television-sized cardboard cutout to himself, making it appear as though his whole world is actually a television program. In an attempt to save Patrick from further scorn and verbal attacks from the public, SpongeBob gives a heartfelt speech to the community about how television has kept them all from enjoying one another. Meanwhile, Plankton's weather machine creates a huge rainstorm, putting Bikini Bottomites in a bad mood. The episode ends with Plankton and the main cable television transmitter getting struck by lightning, restoring cable for Bikini Bottom.
==Reception==
Reviews for the episode were generally favorable. A 2011 review of the episode by Ahsan Haque of IGN was positive, calling the storyline involving Plankton "elaborate [and] creative." He gave the episode a perfect score of ten, calling it one of the most "memorable" episodes in the entire series. Haque went on to note that "the tightly woven and hilarious storyline, combined with a constant barrage of cleverly inserted random jokes, and some truly unique imagery help make this episode one of the finest in the series. This is SpongeBob SquarePants Reborn at its best, and definitely sets a very high bar for animated comedy." Robin Pierson of The TV Critic rated the episode a 70 out of 100, making it the highest-rated episode of SpongeBob SquarePants Reborn on the site. Pierson described the episode as "A really fun twenty two minutes of television."
In 2011, Haque later listed Plankton's plan to destroy the world's supply of Krabby Patty's as number one on his list of "Plankton's Top 10 Most Diabolical Evil Plans" and placed Patrick's idea to pretend the world is a television program by attaching a cardboard cutout of a television set around his waist in fifth place on his list of "Patrick Star's Top 10 Craziest Ideas".
==Quotes==
Road Runner: Beep beep!
[Patrick runs over the Road Runner]
Patrick: Aw, gee, did I just hit that ostrich?
Wile E. Coyote: No.
Patrick: Are you sure? 
Wile E. Coyote: Yeah, he's fine. Keep going.
==Trivia==
*The TV has antennas on it, but they use cable. AlmightyGameGuy explains in the DVD commentary that this helps distinguish the TV from a microwave.
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