- When two halves of an ancient medallion reunite, SpongeBob and his friends find themselves in the city of Atlantis, where the king gives them a tour.
- Atlantis Squarepantis: SpongeBob finds the missing half of an ancient medallion believed to be a relic from the lost city of Atlantis. He brings his find to the Bikini Bottom Museum where the other half is on display. The two sides are reunited, and suddenly a magical van appears that beckons to take SpongeBob to the legendary city. Patrick, Sandy, Squidward and Mr. Krabs all join him in the van and head for Atlantis. Each passenger is eager to experience the many riches the city is rumored to contain: Mr. Krabs wants to dive into Atlantis' gold and jewels, Squidward wants to absorb all of the Atlantean culture, Sandy wants to study the advanced technology, and SpongeBob and Patrick just want to see the city's most prized possession, The Oldest Living Bubble. Plankton, who has secretly stowed away in the van's glove compartment, plans to take advantage of Atlantis' weaponry. When the van finally arrives at the city everyone is greeted by Atlantis' king himself, Lord Royal Highness, who spares no time in taking the visitors on a tour. Atlantis proves to be even more wonderful than anyone could have imagined. For SpongeBob and Patrick, their most joy-filled moment arrives when they finally get to behold to the Oldest Living Bubble. This moment is quickly ruined however when a flash from Patrick's camera causes the bubble to burst. Now SpongeBob, Patrick, Mr. Krabs, Sandy and Squidward are on the run from the Atlantean Guards. Just to make their escape even more difficult, Plankton emerges with an enormous Atlantean tank. The Atlanteans are instantly in awe of Plankton's diminutive size, so as compensation for bursting the bubble relic, Plankton is offered up as a replacement and put on display at Atlantis' museum. SpongeBob and company return home with memories from their adventure and one souvenir: a photograph of the Oldest Living Bubble.—NAS
- SpongeBob's plot (All airings):
In the beginning of the episode, SpongeBob and Patrick are in Jellyfish Fields blowing bubbles. Patrick tries to take pictures of the bubbles, but they keep popping immediately before the picture is taken. SpongeBob sings a song. SpongeBob sings about how he wants to blow a bubble that would last all day. SpongeBob blows a bubble so big that it engulfs them both and carries them into a nearby cave. The bubble suddenly pops as it makes an impact with an ancient piece of gold.
Eager to discover what exactly it is, they decide to take it to the Bikini Bottom Museum, where they run into Squidward, who is painting pictures that relate to Atlantis. At first, Squidward thinks that SpongeBob and Patrick were planning to steal the first half of the amulet, which is housed in the museum, but upon attempting to return it to its spot, he realizes that what Patrick and SpongeBob had was, in fact, the missing half. At this point, Mr. Krabs (who secretly, but unofficially, takes admission as a museum employee to make more money) and Sandy (who is touring the museum while looking for an exhibit for land stuff) join them.
The pieces of gold are then reunited, which summons a luxurious bus (or 'van' as Squidward calls it) piloted by a robot and it's fueled by "song." During the song to fuel the bus, it is revealed that Plankton, who was sneaking into the museum for a heist for an exhibit perfect for destroying the Krusty Krab but was distracted and overhearing the gang's conversation about Atlantis, has stowed away in a compartment at the front of the bus, and plans to control the lost weapons of Atlantis and use them to steal the formula, much to the surprise of the viewers.
Once they arrive there, (accidentally crash-landing in a topiary garden) they meet the king of Atlantis, Lord Royal Highness, LRH for short, who shows them the riches, knowledge, and art of Atlantis. Meanwhile, Plankton escapes from the compartment and sneaks into the vault storing the weapons. After looking around at the weapons, he chooses to commandeer a tank (seemingly at random) to start his diabolical scheme.
Meanwhile, Mr. Krabs enjoys the money vault, Sandy enjoys the science lab, and Squidward enjoys the hall of art (the rooms each had been planning to see). In the money vault, money, gold, and prized objects are found and mostly stashed in Mr. Krabs' pants pockets. In the science lab, Sandy enjoys the devices, a biomass-converting device that turns any household object into ice cream (a bug the Atlanteans have not worked out), a germ-fighting, interactive, micro video game, and makes an automatic feeding device. In addition, in the Hall of Arts, Squidward journeys through paintings, is modeled by painters, and even makes his own painting, claiming to have learned more about art in his short time in Atlantis than he did in four years of college.
However, everything goes wrong when SpongeBob and Patrick are left alone with the world's oldest living bubble. The flash from Patrick's camera when he takes a picture of themselves with the bubble causes it to burst, they are terrified, and the pair goes to dinner and insist on leaving. When Patrick reveals their mistake, LRH first doesn't believe it, and considers it dark humor. SpongeBob confirms it isn't a joke, to which LRH tells them that the bubble they popped was a prop for tourists like them, but when he shows them the real bubble, Patrick takes a picture of it, once again, with flash, and it also pops. LRH gets furious, drops the glass container, which shatters, and summons the Atlantean Royal Guards to seize the gang, Sandy uses Patrick like a boomerang, SpongeBob as a shield, Mr. Krabs as a claw, and Squidward as a shotgun, they escape almost to which Plankton appears with a giant tank.
Plankton lets out a huge speech about his victory with the collecting of the Atlantean arsenal, then he fires the tank at SpongeBob, the gang, and the Atlantean Royal Guards, but is foiled when it is revealed that the weapon he had chosen only shoots strawberry ice cream. He jumps out of the tank and in frustration, yelling "OVERSIZED ICE CREAM MAKER!" he kicks it, injuring himself. However, LRH seems delighted, saying, "This talking speck will make a fantastic replacement for our recently deflated national treasure!"
He grabs Plankton and puts him in a jar like the one for his bubble. Tourists start taking photos to which Plankton yells "HEY! Can't you read?! No flash photography!" They refuse.
Finally, LRH loads SpongeBob and his friends back onto the bus and removes the amulet, giving it to one of his soldiers to dispose of to ensure no more "visitors like these." SpongeBob is the only one eager to return to Bikini Bottom and sings. His friends (including Squidward, Mr. Krabs, Sandy, and even Patrick) get sad throughout the song. Squidward, Sandy, Mr. Krabs, and Patrick start crying near the end of the song, but SpongeBob ignores the sadness and sings all along.
Patchy the Pirate's plot (reruns after the original airing):
Patchy, wearing sunglasses, is stuck in a rush-hour traffic jam on the US 101 in Encino, California. Patchy is very upset and states how it's a real bring down. He then realizes music could probably calm him down from how stressful traffic is, as his Hi-Fi radio still works. He goes to turn up the volume, but his rare 8 track of Frampton Comes Alive pops out and is destroyed. He yells angrily about how he'll miss the new SpongeBob special if he doesn't get home in time. Then, his cell phone rings, and Potty warns him that the new cartoon is about to start, and he asks where he is. Patchy asks Potty to be a dear and record the episode for him, but Potty tells Patchy, "Oh, I threw out that old Betamax machine in the garbage." Patchy gets infuriated and questions if Potty even knows how important the cartoon is to him. A car behind him starts beeping repeatedly. Patchy yells at the driver for honking at him because he is trying to talk to his parrot on the phone. The man has no idea what Patchy is trying to say, and is shocked, Patchy then apologizes to Potty, who hangs up on him. Patchy yells out loud "Curse this traffic!" Finally the traffic line opens up. Then, after Patchy gets his anchor in the boat, he drives off, but suddenly, he finds himself nowhere, he realizes that Encino is gone. He screams "No!" Then, he cries that this is not the only time a lost city had been experienced. He introduces the episode as he suffers.
After Plankton finds an arsenal of weapons, the scene cuts back to Patchy who states the bad news, that Encino is still lost, but at least he got his eight-track radio fixed, to which he begins snapping his fingers to a beat, but not for long when it explodes again and produces smoke and sets on fire, he states "Well, enjoy the rest of the show,"
Patchy has now questionably landed in a desert, and is struggling with a tire full of water. He runs out. Claiming it's the end of him, and that vultures will pick his bones. Potty drops in out of nowhere, and he tries to eat him, Potty flies away in fear. Patchy realizes what's happening, and says "Uh oh, here come the hallucinations." SpongeBob is laughing and a pineapple fades in, then a man dressed in a tall SpongeBob outfit, tells him that he is SpongeBob in real-life form and that Patchy will return to Encino, and everything will be alright. He states that it's gone, to which Hallucination SpongeBob states that it is NOT gone, if he believes, leading into Patchy fainting, and dreaming that he's home, where he hugs a blue sign reading "WELCOME TO ENCINO!" he starts to happily cry knowing the hallucination was right. All he had to do was believe, and a happy, fast-paced musical montage of Patchy dancing begins. He is running around, jumping, walking with an umbrella, then going to throw away a crumpled up piece of paper, having a picnic by himself, throwing a beach ball, getting a watermelon pelted at him hard and driving an old man reading a magazine, a mother and her baby crazy. Then, after Patchy accidentally drops his strawberry ice cream onto the grass, he starts to have goosebumps, to which Potty wakes him up after Patchy mistakenly thinks Encino is back, which was all just a hallucination, as mentioned. Patchy begins to eat a sandwich, which Potty brings to him, but he finds mayonnaise on it, which he doesn't like because mayonnaise gets disgusting in high temperatures. He tries to give it to a vulture, and explains to it how much he despises mayo in hot weather.
At the end of the SpongeBob sequence, we come back to Patchy who returns to the original middle of nowhere location he was originally in, which may have implied he was hallucinating the dehydrated desert situation. He asks the kids if the story they watched was good, Patchy then steps on something, and it's revealed he found Encino shrunk to a very small size. Then, three aliens teleport to the location, and explain that their son, Norblock Five, was playing with a "Shrinkatron" again. Patchy yells at them that he wants his town back in full size and keeps saying, "There's no place like home." Sympathetic over Patchy's loss, Norblock Five's mother gets the Shrinkatron given from her son and she presses a big red button control, making a tornado disaster to fix it up. The scene then cuts to Patchy in his real home, sitting in a chair, Patchy is glad to be really back home, with everything back to its original size watching the new SpongeBob cartoon he thought he was going to miss, he states that it looks like everything's back to normal, and asks if Potty agrees, Potty doesn't answer, he questions if Potty's even home, he hears Potty go "BRRRRRRRRRR" and a giant Potty the Parrot's foot stomps on him, implying Norblock Five had possibly once again used his Shrinkatron to make Potty huge. Patchy, crushed by the foot, reminds the audience to come back real soon for more new segments featuring him as well as more new SpongeBob episodes. He then attempts to get Potty off of him, but the episode finishes there.
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