Reef Blower

**"Reef Blower"** is the second episode of *SpongeBob SquarePants* episode from season one. In this episode, SpongeBob attempts to move a shell off of his lawn with the reef blower.

## Plot

﻿The episode starts out when Squidward walks outside and sees a tiny shell on his front lawn. He believes that it ruins the appearance of his lawn, so he kicks it onto SpongeBob's lawn on purpose.

Suddenly, SpongeBob pops out of his window and sees the shell. He also believes that it ruins the appearance of his front lawn, so he gets his "reef blower" (an underwater version of a leaf blower) out of his garage. He turns it on, much to the annoyance of Squidward. Squidward plugs his ears and SpongeBob struggles to blow the shell away.

After failing attempts, he angrily blows a large column of sand onto Squidward. To fix this problem, SpongeBob blows the sand off, which irritates Squidward's eyes. SpongeBob peers over at his sidewalk and sees a pile of sand. A subtitle "You" appears as SpongeBob points at the pile (no dialogue is heard).

He then sucks the pile of sand into the reef blower, which begins to malfunction. The sand and a few mechanical gears blow out. So, SpongeBob unzips the reef blower and puts them in himself. The reef blower sneezes.

When the reef blower refuses to start, SpongeBob pulls the cord to an extreme distance and before finally starts. However, this causes it to suck in all of the water in the ocean.

The reef blower then explodes, returning the water and leaving piles of sand all over Squidward's lawn, while SpongeBob's lawn is perfectly clean. Satisfied, SpongeBob gets out of a pile of sand and then goes back inside, while the shell lands on Squidward's nose.

## Characters

* SpongeBob SquarePants
* Squidward Tentacles
* Bikini Bottomies
	+ Fred (*debut, cameo*)
	+ Incidental 3 (*debut, cameo*)

## Locations

* Conch Street
	+ SpongeBob's House
	+ Squidward Tentacles' House
	+ Patrick Star's House

## Trivia

### General

* This was the first episode for several things:
	+ The first appearances of Fred and Incidental 3.
	+ The first episode to use original music.
	+ The first episode not to play any APM tracks.
	+ The first episode of the series produced in 1999, while the previous episode was produced two years prior as a pilot for the series in 1997
	+ The first episode where the characters go out of water.
	+ The first episode where the title card does not have music. Instead, the title card music is replaced with seagulls.
	+ The first episode to show SpongeBob and Squidward being neighbors; even though their houses are shown together in "Help Wanted," it is never stated in that episode that they live next to each other.
	+ The first episode where an incidental appears.
	+ The first episode to only have two of all ten main characters present. In this case, Squidward and SpongeBob.
	+ Tom Yasumi's first episode as an animation director, although there are no opening credits in this episode.
		- He would later be credited as an animation director in the next episode, "Tea at the Treedome."
	+ The first episode where Patrick, Gary, and Mr. Krabs do not appear.
		- However, Patrick's rock is seen in multiple scenes.
	+ SpongeBob's first non-speaking appearance. He does not have any lines in "Whale Watching," but he laughs in said episode.
		- As such, this is the only episode to date where Tom Kenny does not play a voice role.
* This is the only episode for three things:
	+ The only episode in season 1 to not have any bubble transitions.
	+ The only episode that does not feature any spoken dialogue.
		- However, SpongeBob says, "You!," with a subtitle appearing at the bottom of the screen, but there is still no audio.
			* This line is voiced in the Latin American Spanish, French, Dutch and Polish dubs of the episode.
		- Recording equipment was damaged.
* According to the Complete 1st Season Disc 1 and the First 100 Episodes Disc 1 descriptions of this episode, the reef blower in this episode is new.
* This episode only contains two music tracks, the least of any episode in the series.
* "Reef Blower" aired as part of SpongeBob SquarePants ' pilot episode after the *1999 Kids' Choice Awards* on May 1, 1999.
* Sometimes, on TV guides, this episode is known as "Reef Blowers."

An official reimagined version of the episode as a 1920's style cartoon.]]

* On June 4, 2021, a reanimated version of the entire episode was uploaded by the official SpongeBob YouTube channel. The reanimated version was done in a black-and-white rubber hose style from the 1920s