The Way We Were

The Way We Were is the first Basket Sponge short from Season 4. It aired on October 21, 2018.
*Written by: The Imperial Ghost
*Directed by: The Imperial Ghost & TheJasbre202
*Title-Card created by: TheJasbre202
==Plot==
After battling the Manchester Mermen. SpongeBob, Patrick and Lexi stay back in the gym to give a bit of a nostalgic tour or so they think on the memories they've shared over their time together.
==Transcript==
[Short begins with SpongeBob coming into the gym and finding Patrick on a bench in the gym, looking at a wall.]
SpongeBob: Hey, Pat? What’s up with you this week?
Patrick: I’ve been looking at this wall since July.
SpongeBob: July? Pat. You do realize it’s only been an hour since we beat the Manchester Mermen.
Patrick: The wall keeps telling me it’s July.
SpongeBob: Speaking about walls, do you remember the good ol’ days?
Patrick: What’s good ol’ days? Is it a retirement plan? Cause I could sure go for being reckless and retired right now!
SpongeBob: Erm, Pat. We’re not THAT old yet. But I was thinking, whilst you’re still staring at the wall.
Patrick: The wall wants me to sign a contract.
SpongeBob [ignoring him]: Well look, let’s see how much I remember from the good ol’ days.
[we look up into the now foggy ceiling.]
Cleaner: Fog’s comin’ in, lads. I better close these dang windows before something too spooky comes out.
SpongeBob: Oh, okay. I don’t think anything spooky will come in at this point in time.
[someone outside throws a ball with a face on the outside. Patrick nearly picks it up.]
SpongeBob: Patrick! Don’t pick it up! Remember when LeBron went wacko cause he touched a ball that he found.
Patrick: But I wanted to see if it was those surprise eggs that I watched.
SpongeBob: Oh no, Pat! Don’t tell me you watched those surprise egg videos on YouTube again?!
Patrick: They call me to every night, SpongeBob. I can’t help it!
[SpongeBob slaps Patrick.]
SpongeBob: Sorry Pat, old buddy. But c’mon... I need to get that ball away from you, now!
[the gym doors open, it’s Lexi from outside.]
Lexi: Oh there it is.
[she walks over to the ball.]
Lexi: Hey guys, what did I miss?
SpongeBob: Patrick’s been hypnotized by that ball of yours.
Lexi: Not again, look... I’ve been using it all day, it hasn’t made me do anything weird again.
SpongeBob: Yeah, why did that happen?
Lexi: I dunno. I guess Halloween that year was just too spooky for all of us. What are you guys talking about?
SpongeBob: The good ol’ days?
Patrick: SpongeBob? Are we at the retirement home yet?
Lexi: Oh! Those good ol’ days? I loved those ones.
SpongeBob: Because you were dating Patrick?
Lexi: Phbbt... no. I just loved being a part of the team.
SpongeBob: But it was just Patrick as well.
Lexi: Well, I got a man and a hobby that year, you can’t beat anything than that.
SpongeBob: Hey, Lexi? Where did you come from before meeting us?
Lexi: Hmm? Oh. About that.
[we cut to a flashback of Lexi with a dress on a boat as she steals the identity of someone from their wallet.]
Lexi: Let’s look at whose identity I stole this time!
[she looks at the driver’s license.]
Lexi: Larry Finn? Ha! That would do nicely for myself. Now to rob the jewels of Japan!
[she then walks off the boat’s plank for a couple of seconds before looking down.]
Lexi: Oh bummer...
[she falls into the ocean, with the wallet floating back up.]
Lexi: Dang it! That was the only way to getting my jewels!!!!
[she starts to close her eyes before she nearly drowns, someone has then given her a glass bowl to breathe in.]
Lexi: Wha-? Who?
[She looks at the person next to her, it’s a muscular Larry style version of Patrick.]
Lexi: Who... are you?
Patrick: I’m the one who saved you! I must be... your husband.
Lexi [not in the flashback]: Hold on! THAT never happened! I’m not a jewel thief! Who was dreaming that?
[we cut back to the gym with the three of them.]
[Lexi tries to look in Patrick’s memories. He’s having another dream.]
Demonic Kinder Surprise Egg Voice: BOW DOWN BEFORE ME AND OPEN MY...
[she escapes that dream without answering any questions.]
Lexi: Anyways, good ol’ days. I want to see them again.
SpongeBob: Well, let me set the scene.
[we cut to a scene where LeBron used to be the coach.]
LeBron: Alright team. Surprisingly, that was a good practice. Especially you SpongeBob.
SpongeBob: Aw thanks coach. You know I try my upmost best!
Squidward: Yeah SpongeBob, even you beat me!
SpongeBob: Wow. Squidward actually liked me for once.
Mr Krabs: SpongeBob me boyo! You’ve got to teach me some of ya sweet sweet moves! If you do, I’ll give you a raise of a dollar!
SpongeBob: Oh! A raise! I could do with that!
Larry: SpongeBob! What stuff have you been taking? Seriously. I need some of that stuff!
SpongeBob: Well, it’s a trade secret Larry. Can’t tell you.
Plankton: SpongeBob! You have to tell me what you were doing. If you explain VERY carefully, me and you could RULE THE BASKETBALL COURT!
SpongeBob: That sounds good.
Lexi: Hey SpongeBob, look. If you want someone new, I can dump Patrick straight away.
SpongeBob Well that sounds nice.
Lexi: Does it?
SpongeBob: What the?
[cut to SpongeBob falling over the bench as he has been startled by Lexi in the dream.]
Lexi: SpongeBob! Who do you think I am? Alex?
SpongeBob: No. I just liked it when everything was good for me, okay!
Lexi: I know, so did I.
[Patrick stands up.]
Patrick: What’s in the surprise today? We must never find out the surprise! DON’T TELL ME!
SpongeBob: Lexi! Have you got a Kinder Surprise Egg?
Lexi: Hmm? Oh... yes I do!
[she takes it out of her pocket and throws it over to SpongeBob who feeds Patrick it.]
SpongeBob: How come you had one in your pocket?
Lexi: Free sample. The one thing I would steal.
[Patrick eats the whole Kinder Surprise Egg.]
Patrick: No. You made me eat one, SpongeBob! He probably had a family of two. I’m a monster!
Lexi: You know SpongeBob. Maybe we should all go back now. I think we’ve done something wrong this time.
SpongeBob: Well, that’s a change to the usual.
Lexi: You mean him mailing one of us to Cleveland? Yeah... I think I’ve seen that coming.
SpongeBob: Why can’t Patrick mail himself to Cleveland?
Lexi: Well, that wouldn’t make sense. Wouldn’t it?
SpongeBob: No it wouldn’t.
[The short ends as SpongeBob and Lexi haul Patrick out of the gym.]
==Trivia==
*This was supposed to be the second Basket Sponge short of the season, but because SBCA had not finished the short before this, this became the first one.
*This was actually the first thing that The Imperial Ghost had wrote after her transition as this was a test to see if she could still write for the series after her two-year break.
*There is a reference to Reckless and Retired, the first since Doctor Bugs's departure from Basket Sponge.
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