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The episode was written by Andrew Goodman, storyboarded by John Trabbic, and directed by Dave Cunningham, with Alan Smart and Tom Yasumi serving as animation directors. The episode is unique for the series as the majority of the episode is in black-and-white and 1.33:1 full screen, parodying the film noir genre. "Squid Noir" was met with decent ...
The episode originally aired on Nickelodeon in the United States on November 11, 2005. [2] [7] Prior to its premiere, Nickelodeon released a preview clip and bonus coverage of the episode on Nickelodeon's broadband online platform TurboNick, available on Nick.com. [7] [8] Nickelodeon also launched the "Trail of the Snail" Flash game. [7] [8]
The first season featured Tom Kenny as the voice of the title character SpongeBob SquarePants and his pet snail Gary. SpongeBob's best friend, a starfish named Patrick Star, was voiced by Bill Fagerbakke, [20] while Rodger Bumpass was the voice of Squidward Tentacles, an arrogant and ill-tempered octopus. [21]
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The Big One: Beach Party Cook-Off, a video game based on the episode, was released for Nintendo DS. [34] The game was published by THQ, and was released on March 3, 2009. [35] A book based on the episode was also released in 2009. The book titled Surf's Up, SpongeBob! was written by David Lewman, and was published by Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon.
Potty the Parrot (voiced by Stephen Hillenburg in seasons 2–3, Paul Tibbitt from seasons 4–8, Mr. Lawrence from seasons 10–present) is Patchy's green pet parrot, depicted as a crudely-made puppet with googly eyes. The character's name is a reference to "Polly wants a cracker," a phrase often used for parrots to vocally mimic. Potty is ...
SpongeBob and Sandy hold onto him while launching, and they land at SpongeBob's house. The trio then gets pulled into downtown Bikini Bottom and The Krusty Krab, crashing into Plankton's truck, destroying it, and freeing all of the jellyfish. Before Plankton can flee, a jellyfish shoots him with Sandy's net launcher, defeating him.
The season's executive producers were series creator Stephen Hillenburg and Paul Tibbitt, who also acted as the series' showrunner. [2] [3] Due to the success of the show, the New York Daily News reported that Nickelodeon picked up SpongeBob SquarePants for an eighth season on December 14, 2009, during the year which the show was celebrating its tenth anniversary on television. [4]