SB-129

"**SB-129**" is a *Maggie Muffin* episode from season 1. In this episode, Helen accidentally freezes himself to the future.

## Characters

* English Narrator
* Helen Luggins
* Maggie Muffin
* Kira Moonhead
* MaggieTron (debut)
* KiraTron (debut)
* Primitive Muffin (debut)
* Primitive Moon (debut)

## Synopsis

Early one Sunday morning, Helen goes to his window to play his clarinet. However, Maggie's alarm clock goes off at the same time, jamming Helen's clarinet in his throat. Maggie asks Helen if he'd like to go jellyfishing, taking Helen's squeals of protest as a "yes." After dislodging the clarinet from his throat, Helen finds Maggie and Kira waiting for him. When he refuses to come out, Kira realizes he doesn't want to play with them, but Maggie believes it is because he is still preparing to play with them and repeatedly asks him if he is ready.

Helen asks Maggie why he is not at work, to which Maggie replies that the Krusty Krab is closed on Sundays. Helen tells them to wait for him, closes the door, then sneaks out the back and heads for the Krusty Krab. It is indeed deserted, but Maggie and Kira soon arrive calling for Helen. He runs to the kitchen and hides in the storage freezer. When Maggie and Kira cannot find him, they assume he is already at Jellyfish Fields and leave. Helen tries to exit the freezer but finds that the door is locked; he assures himself that someone will find him soon enough.

2,000 years later, Helen is still stuck in the freezer, frozen in a block of ice. The door's rusted hinges give way and Helen falls to the floor. SpongeTron, a robotic descendant of Maggie, sees the frozen cephalopod and thaws him out. Helen is shocked to discover that he is in the future and begs for a way to get back to his own time, so SpongeTron directs him to a time machine. Helen decides that he will travel to a time before Maggie has born, simply referred to as "the past."

The time machine arrives in the primordial sea. Helen hopes that he can finally play his clarinet in peace, but he soon runs into a primitive sponge and starfish. The two remain curious about Helen, but are soon distracted by a jellyfish, which they are frightened of. Taking his chance to get away, Helen tries to play once more but is constantly interrupted by the screams of the primitives, who are zapping themselves with the jellyfish. Helen has them tear pieces off their loincloths and proceeds to fashion jellyfish nets for them. Amazed by Helen's demonstration of jellyfishing, the primitives take the nets in earnest.

Helen begins to play at last. However, the wailing of the clarinet aggravates the primitives and they chase him down. Barely making it back to the time machine, Helen frantically jams the lever up and down and accidentally snaps it off, sending the machine hurtling through time and space before arriving in a world of emptiness.

Helen is glad to have found a place where he can be alone, but hearing several disembodied voices repeating the word "alone," prove too much for him to bear. He frantically tries and fails to escape (repeatedly coming back to the same spot where he started). Desperate, he stomps on the ground in frustration and crashes through the floor and back into the time machine. Helen breaks down sobbing and begs the time machine to take him home, saying that he even misses Maggie.

At his words, the time machine returns Helen to Conch Street, where Maggie and Kira await him. When they ask him if he is finally ready for jellyfishing, Helen refuses and demands to know who invented such a foolish game. They remind him that it was, in fact, he who invented it, and Helen, realizing he has inadvertently caused a temporal paradox, states that he is going back to rectify his mistake.