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SpongeBob SquarePants Season 6 Episode 2

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AIRED: 3/4/08

SpongeBob is acting really weird all the time, so Squidward tells him to be normal. SpongeBob takes his advice and watches a video about being normal. Soon, SpongeBob is acting very normal. But SpongeBob wants to be weird again because he doesn't enjoy being normal and boring, so he tries to make himself not be normal.moreless

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SpongeBob try to become normal

9.0

By fsaenz0125, Jan 07, 2013

I thought this episode was superb. Speaking of the reception, this episode isn't treated very well. Even though I was surprised of the positive reviews here on other people on different websites seem to bash too often. This is one of the most underrated episode of an underrated season. In my opinion, I thought the plot was pretty enjoyable for most parts. My only cons here were a few gross out gags and the beginning when Squidward was a little mean to SpongeBob (mainly when he kicked him out). But the whole episode got better after that part. I really enjoyed the scenes where SpongeBob was being normal and he would often say "good day sir" "how' it's going" and "wonderful weather we're There were some parts that were funny like Patrick stretching himself (even though it was a gross humor), SpongeBob at Squidward's house, the water slide, and the ending. SpongeBob bring normal was quite a great idea and people couldn't be complaining about that cannot stand his high pitch voice in the newer episodes, he sounded deeper while normal. Overall while this may be the best episode of the season, it is quite an underrated one. 9/10moreless
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By jmbsonic555, Nov 03, 2011

SpongeBob is acting really weird all the time, so Squidward tells him to be normal. SpongeBob takes his advice and watches a video about being normal. Soon, SpongeBob is acting very normal. But SpongeBob wants to be weird again because he doesn't enjoy being normal and boring, so he tries to make himself not be normal.

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Great episode for season 6.

8.5

By fenway98, Jun 08, 2011

This is a really funny episode. I feel like I'm watching a season 3 episode. I love when Squidward says there are normal people, and then a fishtank appears. I didn't like Spongebob's normal personality. His voice was too deep and he looks real ugly. Some funny parts are when Spongebob catches Patrick reading a newspaper and then hides it. I also like how Spongebob printed out the Krabby Patties like paper. But soon Mr. Krabs fires Spongebob, so Spongebob needs Patrick to get him weird again. i love all the things he did to get weird. This is a very funny episode. B plus. 8.5 %moreless
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This episode was bad. Nuff' said.

2.9

By titiembe, May 31, 2011

As stated in the summary, one word describes this episode in great detail : bad. Spongebob and Squidward's characters were so OOC (out of character) I couldn't believe I was watching them in this episode. Basically Squidward tells Spongebob to be normal, then he watches some commerical and becomes normal. Absoutely normal. Boring. Non descript. Ugly. Very ugly. At this point the episode deserves a 6. But no, Spongebob has to tell Squidward he isn't normal, which makes Squidward makes hate him even more. To top that off, Spongebob has to get Patrick's help to make him weird. All that effort with no avail, until he sees Squidward's "normal" face which shocks him into seeing himself, and becoming weird once again. Pointless episode.moreless
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SpongeBob becomes normal

9.0

By tigerdude22, May 03, 2011

I thought that this was a superb episode of "SpongeBob SquarePants". I thought it was very funny when SpongeBob started to become normal. The only thing that made my score a little low was because I thought Squidward was a little harsh when he told SpongeBob to start acting normal and stop being abnormal and a couple of gross jokes that were in this episode such as Patrick's head all the way to his belly button and SpongeBob's eyeballs popping out of his eyes. I thought it was very funny when SpongeBob was watching a video on how to be normal. SpongeBob acting normal and starting to change such as him not being square and more was funny and pretty odd in a good way. I thought SpongeBob making krabby patties from the computer was funny. I thought it was funny when Patrick was teaching SpongeBob how to be weird so SpongeBob can be back to his own form again. I also thought that the very ending of this episode was hilarious when Squidward turned normal and was wearing pants. Overall, this was a superb episode of "SpongeBob SquarePants". 9/10moreless
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Tom Kenny	SpongeBob SquarePants/Narrator
Bill Fagerbakke	Patrick Star
Rodger Bumpass	Squidward Tentacles
Clancy Brown	Mr. Eugene H. Krabs

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Dee Bradley Baker	Video Narrator/Fish #81/Fish #15	Guest Star
Jill Talley	Woman Fish/Woman Fish #2/Little Girl Fish	Guest Star
Sirena Irwin	Girl Fish/Mom Fish	Guest Star

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TRIVIA (4)
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- When SpongeBob was talking backwards, his shoes were back to normal. But when he was eating some secret sauce, his shoes were his normal shoes.
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- SpongeBob's normal voice was diffrent when he asked Patrick for his help and when he was crying, because he became permanently normal.
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- Patrick's ideas too become weird:
  
  1. Do a slip and slide on the road in your underwear
  2. Use Patrick as a horse to catch jellyfish
  3. Lick the sand
  4. Be upside down and talk backwards
  5. Eat the secret Krabby sauce with your foot
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- While Patrick was showing SpongeBob how to be weird again, one of their steps was eating Secret Krabby Patty Sauce. It turns out they were eating the Secret Formula to the Krabby Patty.
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QUOTES (22)
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- SpongeBob: So, tell me, what are you doing cooped up in here when the weather outside is so normal?
  Squidward: Well, today is dusting day. The day I sweep my 483 self-potraits.
  SpongeBob: Wow, that's something you don't see in the "average" house.
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- SpongeBob: What you call dull, I call normal.
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- Squidward: Ooh... What the (groans) ...now?
  SpongeBob: La, la, la... (Squidward walks outside to SpongeBob's house) La-la-la, la, la-la-la...
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- Patrick: I'll see you on the other side, buddy.
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- SpongeBob: Maybe I've taken this normal too far.
  Mr. Krabs: No, boy, you're missing the point.
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- Mr. Krabs: Oh my, it's like printing money!
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- (upon finding that SpongeBob is permanently normal)
  Patrick: Go away! We're in mourning!
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- SpongeBob: Hi, how are ya?
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- Squidward: What could you possibly be trying to do this time?!
  SpongeBob: I'm not trying to do anything. I'm just having a decent morning.
  Squidward: By running around and screaming like a banshee?!
  SpongeBob: Squidward, a banshee screams like this. (screams like a banshee)
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- Fish on TV: Do people call you a freak, and throw you out of their homes?
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- SpongeBob: Let's do this.
  Patrick: I think I'll pass.
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- Squidward: (walks and sees a house) Who's house is this?
  SpongeBob: (walks by, and goes into the house) Hi, how are you?
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- SpongeBob: Teach me how to be me again!
  Patrick: It won't be easy, but I'll do it.
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- Patrick: SpongeBob, you're back to your square shape!
  SpongeBob: Wow, I guess Squidward's normal look scared me back to my original form.
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- SpongeBob: Oh, no! I guess I became permanently normal.
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- SpongeBob: (to Squidward) And you know what else is abnormal? Your nose. It's all bulbous and flappy. Your eyes are a little odd, too. Looks like your whole face could use some work.
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- SpongeBob: I lost my job and my best friend, and now too normal for Squidward.
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- SpongeBob: Now I'm utterly normal.
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- SpongeBob: From now on, I'm normal.
  Squidward: Normal, huh?
  SpongeBob: Yup.
  Squidward: Oh, really?
  SpongeBob: Yup.
  Squidward: Whatever. I know you're just waiting to say something stupid.
  SpongeBob: Wonderful weather we're having.
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- Mr. Krabs: Stop acting so dull!
  SpongeBob: What you call dull, I call normal.
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- Squidward: There are two kinds of people. There are people that are normal, and then there's you!
  SpongeBob: Really?
  Squidward: Yes, really! Maybe you should start acting a little more normal!
  SpongeBob: I'm not normal?
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- (SpongeBob knocks on Squidward's door)
  Squidward: (answers door) I never thought I'd hear myself say this, but please come in, SpongeBob.
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NOTES (9)
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- Goof: In the first pan inside the kitchen, when SpongeBob and Patrick are singing, SpongeBob's hat is not present. It is present in the following scenes, though.
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- Mr. Krabs makes his Season 6 debut.
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- When SpongeBob talks backwards, he says "Tap erus uoy era?", which means, "Are you sure Pat?"
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- This episode aired in a week of new episodes called: Gimme 5 Week.
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- This is the second time SpongeBob spoke backwerds. The first was in "Opposite Day."
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- Plankton and Sandy do not appear in this episode.
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- We learn that SpongeBob's shape changes if he acts normal. These were the changes:
  
  - SpongeBob's voice was lower
  - His square shape was gone
  - His nose was smaller
  - His legs and arms were little swelled
  - His front teeth were gone
  - His eyes weren't close to each other
  - His cheeks were gone
  - He lost his holes
  - He lost his freckles
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- SpongeBob makes Krabby Patties through a computer in this episode.
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- This episode premiered along with a rerun of "Krabby Road".
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ALLUSIONS (2)
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- SpongeBob's "normal" house instead of his pineapple looks like The Red House on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.
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- SpongeBob acting normal was almost like how Timmy Turner from Fairly OddParents was acting in the episode "Emotion Commotion."
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