SpongeBob SquarePants Volume 2

**SpongeBob SquarePants Volume 2** is the second volume of the SpongeBob SquarePants lineup of the GBA Video brand. It features four episodes, which are ***Mermaidman & Barnacleboy***, ***Pickles***, ***Hall Monitor***, and ***Jellyfish Jam***.

## **Description**

*Now you can watch the wild underwater antics of **SpongeBob SquarePants** on your Game Boy® Advance! Bring four of the very best episodes with you, anywhere you go!*

## **History**

**SpongeBob SquarePants Volume 2** was first released in stores of the United States on May 15th, 2004, in the initial release of the Game Boy Advance Video brand with the first two volumes of such as SpongeBob SquarePants Volume 1, and 2, The Fairly Odd Parents! Volume 1 and 2, as well as Dora The Explorer Volume 1.

These first five titles are the vanguard of a 12 title release that includes: Strawberry Shortcake Volume 1, All Grown Up! Volume 1, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius Volume 1, Nicktoons Collection Volume 1 (includes a single episode of *All Grown Up!*, *The Fairly OddParents* and *SpongeBob SquarePants*), Cartoon Network Collection Volume 1 (includes a single episode *Courage the Cowardly Dog*, *Ed, Edd 'n Eddy*, *The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy* and *Johnny Bravo*), Codename: Kids Next Door Volume 1, and Sonic X Volume 1.

## **Episode Description**

### **Mermaidman and Barnacleboy**

* "SpongeBob and Patrick hear that their beloved TV superheroes, *Mermaidman and Barnacleboy*, are living in a nearby retirement home. The aging duo discover their toughest challenge yet will be resisting pressure to "un-retire."

### **Pickles**

* "SpongeBob loses his self-confidence and perfect work record when a customer wrongfully claims SpongeBob forgot to put pickles on his Krabby Patty. SpongeBob quits but soon learns the Krusty Krab is in dire straits and needs his help!"

### **Hall Monitor**

* "As the new Hall Monitor at Mrs. Puff’s Boating School, the overzealous SpongeBob assumes authority and extends his jurisdiction to the unsuspecting citizens of Bikini Bottom!"

### **Jellyfish Jam**

* "After taking a wild jellyfish home, SpongeBob discovers that jellyfish multiply quickly and they take over his house!"

## **Trivia**

* There is an alternate printing of the Volume 2 box, but rather than advertising the episodes **Hall Monitor** and **Jellyfish Jam**, it advertises *Bubblestand* and *Ripped Pants*. It is unknown if a Volume 2 containing these two episodes actually exists. Aside from this change, they are the same boxes.
	+ They still advertise **Mermaidman and Barnacleboy** and **Pickles** on the box.
	+ Funnily enough, this is the opposite of the Volume 1 misprint, which states that **Hall Monitor** and **Jellyfish Jam**, instead of its episodes, *Bubblestand* and *Ripped Pants,* are included.
	+ The box art on both versions also features a picture from the **Ripped Pants** episode, which implies it might be or have been included in the cartridge at some point.
* Some Spongebob SquarePants episodes, in fact, do indeed appear in all of the first, second, and third volume of the Nicktoons Collection lineup. This is how SpongeBob SquarePants was very popular over its course of the GBA Video brand.