Home Sweet Pineapple

"**Home Sweet Pineapple**" is a *SpongeBob SquarePants* episode from season one. In this episode, SpongeBob's house is destroyed by nematodes.

## Synopsis

A crowd of hungry nematodes arrives in Bikini Bottom early in the morning. They eat through a variety of items, such as coral and a driving boatmobile with Fred still in it. They then make their way to SpongeBob's pineapple house. They pull out straws and start eating and drinking his house. Meanwhile, SpongeBob and Gary are inside, sleeping, as everything starts to shrink. SpongeBob and Gary wake up, run outside the house, now reduced to what SpongeBob thinks is a small pebble, and see what the nematodes have done. SpongeBob calls Squidward on the phone, and Squidward asks if it is time for SpongeBob to ruin his day. Then Patrick gets up and says "Is it already time to give Squidward a positive outlook on his day?" When Squidward sees that SpongeBob's house is gone, he starts saying goodbye to SpongeBob, but throws a party inside his house, with confetti and streamers flying out of his front windows. Now that the house is no longer there, SpongeBob says that he will have to move back in with his mom and dad. However, Patrick tells SpongeBob to build a new house and SpongeBob agrees with Patrick.

Later, SpongeBob and Patrick attempt to build another pineapple house, but things fail. SpongeBob and Gary try to sleep with Patrick, but Patrick won't share his rock, which the two are using as a blanket, and they get into a tug-of-war. After Patrick's snoring makes SpongeBob put corks in his ears, he begins drooling in his sleep. SpongeBob absorbs the drool and waddles over to Patrick. He then puts a giant cork inside his mouth. Later, Patrick has dreams that spiders are attacking him, and hits SpongeBob repeatedly with the rock, crushing him. SpongeBob gives up sleeping with Patrick and goes to sleep with Squidward. from Patrick. Just then, a giant spider comes towards Patrick, so he pounds it with his rock some before going back to sleeping the way he normally does.

At Squidward's house, SpongeBob asks for a glass of water, and Squidward, who is still half-asleep, brings him one. They each say goodnight to each other 2 times, but when SpongeBob says goodnight to Squidward a third time, he kicks Gary and SpongeBob out of his house, leaving them without a place to stay for the rest of the night.

The next day, Squidward gets up early so he can see SpongeBob move back with his parents. When SpongeBob's bus arrives, Patrick begins crying hysterically and attempts to drag the bus to a stop, and Squidward starts dancing and singing. SpongeBob finds a small pebble (the only thing left when the nematodes destroyed his house), and buries it where his house used to be, because it holds too many memories. He begins to tear up, and one tear falls on the spot where the pebble was planted. However, the "pebble" is actually a seed, and SpongeBob's tear waters the pineapple seed, which creates a massive beanstalk on the ground, and sprouts the house out before retreating underground, crushing Squidward, who was dancing on the remains of SpongeBob's house with joy. SpongeBob is happy his house came back as he, Gary, some jellyfish, some scallops, and Patrick rush over to go inside and everything is back to where it belongs. SpongeBob then goes over to tell Squidward, who is underneath the floor, that his house is back forever, much to Squidward's dismay.

## Cast (in order of appearance)

* Charles Nelson Reilly (US)/John Hurt (UK)/Keith Scott (AUS) as the Nematode leader
* Tom Kenny, Tim Lagasse, Noel MacNeal, Dana Snyder, Cree Summer, Jill Talley and Frank Welker as the other Nematodes
	+ Welker also voices Gary, the giant spider and the bus driver.
* Rob Paulsen as Fred
* Paul Winchell as SpongeBob
* Wilfrid Hyde-White as Squidward
* Bob Weighton as Patrick

## Production

### Music

**‣** Sunshine in Hawaii - Max Mahlmann *[Title card]*

**‣** Me for You - George Callert *[opening]*

**‣** Unpreventable - Gregor F. Narholz *[SpongeBob's house shrinking]*

**‣** Me for You - George Callert *[nematodes burp]*

**‣** Hawaiian Farewell - George Elliott *[SpongeBob's house is gone]*

**‣** Buenos Aires B - Norman Candler *[Squidward throws a party]*

**•** Gator - Steve Belfer *[Patrick suggests building a new house]*

**‣** Orchestral Flourish 4 [#37.03] - Gregor F. Narholz *[fanfare]*

**‣** Sunshine in Hawaii - Max Mahlmann *[building montage]*

**‣** Hawaiian Link (b) - Richard Myhill *["Tartar sauce!"]*

**‣** Queen's Aloha Oe B - Kapono Beamer, Queen Lili'uokalani *[Patrick suggests living with him]*

**‣** South Sea Island Lullaby - George Elliott *[that night/Patrick gets back to sleep.]*

**‣** Lullaby - David Farnon *[at Squidward's]*

**‣** Honolulu March - Hans Haider *[the next morning]*

**‣** Daytime Drama [#11] - Geoff Bastow *[SpongeBob's bus arrives/Squidward dancing]*

**‣** Good Bye Samba A - Ben Nabor *[SpongeBob's house is back.]*

### Release

* This episode is available on the Complete 1st Season, Home Sweet Pineapple, The 1st Season: Volume 1, Tea at the Treedome, First 100 Episodes, SpongeBob SquarePants, iSponge Offer Pack, SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 1, The Complete First Season, Beware the Hooks, From the Beginning, Pt.1, Laugh Pack, Triple Pack 4, The First & Second Seasons, Movies & TV Collection, Big Hits: Volume 2, and The Best 200 Episodes Ever DVDs.
* This episode is also available on a VideoNow Disc and Home Sweet Pineapple (VHS) tape.

### Reception

* "Home Sweet Pineapple" was ranked #87 during the Best Day Ever event on November 9–10, 2006.

## Trivia

### General

* Going by production order, this is the eighth episode of the first season.
* This is the first of three episodes to be directed by Paul Winchell's daughter, April Winchell. The others are "Culture Shock" and "Christmas Who?"
* This episode is the first to have the title card's writing in a handwritten font.
* This is the first episode centered around Spongebob's pineapple.
* When the sped-up part of SpongeBob calling Squidward is slowed down, he says "...and the walls are closing in on me, Squidward. Gary is terrified too."
* The nematodes appear again in "Best Day Ever," where they consume the Krusty Krab and SpongeBob's pants.
* It is shown that Patrick has a hole in his home under the rock at the beginning of the episode, as do future episodes, but when SpongeBob spends the night, it is shown that under the rock is just leveled ground and Patrick uses the rock as a blanket.
* It is revealed that Patrick has a fear of spiders, also known as arachnophobia. In reality, arachnophobia is the most common fear among humans.
* This is the first of four episodes transcribed as a comic into the SpongeBob SquarePants/Tokyopop book *Tales From Bikini Bottom*. The other three were "Prehibernation Week," "F.U.N." and "I'm Your Biggest Fanatic."
* This is the first episode to use the APM tracks "Unpreventable" and "Daytime Drama [#11]," with the latter being an extended cut that goes from one minute to two minutes and thirty seconds.
* In the Polish version, this episode is called "Nie ma jak w domu," which means "Home Sweet Home," the phrase that the episode title parodies.
* In the Russian version, this episode is called "Ананасы и нематоды," which means "Pineapples and Nematodes."
	+ This makes sense, given that the nematodes are the reason SpongeBob had to find a new home before eventually having to move back to his parents' house.
* In the Japanese version, this episode is called "この新しい家," which means "This New House."
* This episode hints at SpongeBob and Patrick's unawareness of their annoyance towards Squidward, as Patrick says "Is it already time to give Squidward a positive outlook on his day?"
* This is the first time Patrick cries.
* After Squidward kicked SpongeBob and Gary out of his house, it is unknown where they went to sleep.
* The scene where Squidward's eyes pop open has become a popular internet meme.
* When SpongeBob and Patrick are fighting over who has the rock, Gary, who is on the top of the rock, disappears. He could've down when SpongeBob and Patrick keep fighting over the rock.
* This is one of the instances that the fourth wall is broken.
* The background for the title card also appears in "Squid's Visit", "Home Sweet Rubble", and "Pineapple Fever".
* This is the final episode until "Lost in Bikini Bottom" where Squidward has his iconic mustache. According to Stephen Hillenburg, the reason for the removal of the mustache was because he wanted to have Squidward show his mouth in full. After this episode, Squidward didn't appear again until "SB-129," possibly to hide the fact that the mustache was removed.

### Cultural References

* This episode's name is a pun on the phrase "Home Sweet Home."
* The Japanese name for this episode, "This New House," is a reverse of the American home improvement media brand "This Old House."

### Errors

**[Please note that all of these errors were fixed on home media and digital releases as well as international airings unless otherwise noted.]**

* When SpongeBob sits upon his bed, the back disappears.
* When SpongeBob decides to be rock mates with Patrick, their skin is darker.
* When SpongeBob is shivering, he is missing about three of his teeth, then one second later he goes back to having just two buck teeth again.
* Spongebob yells "Oh no" even though Squidward's phone disappears.
* When SpongeBob is shivering, the red line under his mouth is gone for a split second.
* Before Squidward returned to bed after giving SpongeBob a glass of water before he returned, the pillow is squared, only to fit for one person, but when Squidward goes to bed with SpongeBob, the pillow gets wide enough for two people.
* When SpongeBob waits for the bus, he carries his luggage even though his house and furniture were still gone.
	+ However, it's most likely that he saved most of his belongings and put them in the suitcases.
* When Squidward is saying goodbye to SpongeBob, he is taller than usual.
	+ This height would later be used for the Octopus in the Beaver Hat in "Bikini Bottom After Midnight," which presented him as tall, giant (in comparison to most other characters, at least), evil being.
* Near the end of the episode, SpongeBob wears his hat when he's going to plant the seed. Yet, when he plants the seed, his face is seen in close-up, but without the hat. After planting it, the hat reappears.
	+ On home media and digital releases, the hat was removed entirely, while on international airings, the hat stayed.
* The opening credits spell Erik Wiese's name with a capital I.

## Transcript

You can view the script for this episode here!