Fore Sponge Father

Fore Sponge Father
When SpongeBob wants to prove he can be a good father, he takes care a hyperactive Tyler, prepping him to be a great golfer.
Season: 2 Episode: 21
Total Episode Count: 28
Prod. no.: 2ACX16
Featuring: SpongeBob SquarePants, Tyler Smith, Patrick Star
Also Appearing: Plankton, Squidward Tentacles, Sandy Cheeks, Pearl Krabs, Tom, Fred, John Fishly, Nat Fishly, Karen, Evil Sea Monkey, Paddy Tanniger, Bob Bobber, Robot SpongeBob, Mrs. Rechid, Christof
Plot: SpongeBob and Patrick accompany John, Nat, Tom, and Tyler on a father-son camping trip. John's gung ways and his derisive remarks, coupled with Patrick's inability to be responsible for the campsite, cause SpongeBob to doubt his influence on Patrick. SpongeBob decides he has to teach Patrick some responsibility.
SpongeBob decides that the best way to teach Patrick some responsibility is to get him a job as a gold ball shagger at the public golf course. Having done that, SpongeBob believes himself to be the model father, prompting him to take Tyler under his wing. Tyler has such a natural athletic talent and a knack for golf that SpongeBob showers attention on him, essentially forgetting about Patrick.
Patrick, feeling abandoned by SpongeBob, begins to hang out with Fred, who tries to show him a good time. While they're at a st**p club, Patrick confides in one of the dancers, and she encourages him to give his friend another chance. Meanwhile, SpongeBob and Tyler decide to enter a "man-boy" golf tournament. But just when Tyler is on the verge of winning, he loses focus. Tom tells SpongeBob that perhaps he's better off tending to his own friend, which leads to a heartfelt (and deadly) reconciliation between SpongeBob and Patrick.
Meanwhile, Plankton goes to the pediatrician for his physical. He endures it quite well until he has to get his immunizations, at which point he regresses into being a terrified organism.
After a while, Plankton gets a fever from the immunizations, which Squidward convinces him was actually an injection of a mind control serum. Plankton's fears about what nefarious deed Sandy is trying to perpetrate on him with these shots, combined with the fever result in a series of wild hallucinations.
==Cutaways==
#Male bonding
#SpongeBob's own world
#Nat becomes a man
#Robbed by a goldfish
#Teaching Patrick to be a man montage
#Lost in Space
#Alone with mom
#Robot SpongeBob
==Trivia==
*The last episode where Tyler has any speaking lines.
===Censorship===
*The beginning where the gang watches Little House on the Prairie (with the entire gang playing pranks on their blind daughter) is cut from the FOX version.
==Reception==
In his 2009 review, Ahsan Haque of IGN, rating it a 9.3/10, called "Fore Sponge Father" a "strong episode, and a fantastic way to close out the second season".
==Rating==
TV-14: DS
==Gallery==
Pad.jpg|French title card
Fc.jpg|Japanese title card
EAP.jpg|Spanish title card
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