A Flea in Her Dome (SpongeBob SquarePants)

A Flea in Her Dome is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 5. In this episode, Sandy brings a flea back to her tree-dome.

"A Flea in Her Dome"

It's a flea story, alright...but hideous and revengeful.

Series:	SpongeBob SquarePants
Part of Season:	5
Episode Number:	10a (90a)
Air Date:	July 25, 2007 (Latin America and Brazil) August 1, 2007 (United States)
Writer:	Casey Alexander Zeus Cervas Steven Banks
Director:	Andrew Overtoom
Previous episode:	Sing a Song of Patrick Slimy Dancing (Airing order)
Next episode:	The Donut of Shame

Plot

At the beginning of the episode, SpongeBob and Patrick are crying, because Sandy has gone to Texas for two whole days. They decide to take the time until she comes home to prepare for and throw her a welcome home party. During their party, SpongeBob and Patrick notice that Sandy is scratching and biting her fur. Sandy explains that upon her return from a science convention in Texas, she unknowingly brought back a flea. Sandy asks SpongeBob to open her briefcase and take out the flea collar. The flea jumps out of her fur and lands on SpongeBob. SpongeBob gets bitten and grabs the collar. The flea then lands on Patrick and bites him, causing Patrick to take the collar. They then fight over the collar, which causes Sandy to grab the collar and wrap it around all three of them. The flea then reproduces, causing the flea collar to be eaten away, rending it useless. Fleas take over Sandy's tree dome, and no one can escape the dome. Patrick blames Sandy for bringing the flea and getting infected, then SpongeBob blames for throwing the party, which causes SpongeBob and Patrick to fight. Sandy breaks up the fight and tells them that arguing is not going to help save themselves as long as they work together. Patrick comes up with the idea of creating a tower to the tree, only to climb up and get an apple. Sandy is annoyed at Patrick's stupidity and the group takes refuge in the tree. But it proves to be useless as the fleas continue to spread all over the tree-dome. SpongeBob states they may be living in a sea of fleas instead of saltwater, thus giving Sandy an idea of how to get rid of the fleas. Sandy then crashes into the cauldron with fleas by infecting all their space in the dome with saltwater. This drowns and gets rid of the fleas, but all the Bikini Bottom citizens are stuck in the dome at the end. SpongeBob tells Sandy it's good to have her back, as the episode ends.

Why It Bites (No Pun Intended)

Stupid Fleas

For beginners, this is just a painful SpongeBob, Patrick, and Sandy torture episode.
The beginning with SpongeBob sobbing and moping around about Sandy being gone to Texas for two whole days is not a great way to start an episode.
- Not to mention, this is not even a remotely funny scene to watch. Having to watch SpongeBob cry over someone he knows being gone for two whole days like this is more childish than it is funny.
The fleas are extremely unlikable and creepy kind of characters to the point where they try to invade the trio's bodies.
- They even ate the collar just to torture and bite them severely. Then, they morph into cannons and round shot balls so that they can attempt to shoot Patrick, SpongeBob, and Sandy in anger.
  - Not to mention that the fleas' face designs are pretty creepy.
    - Even a scene where they morph into a resemblance of a supervillain is just plain creepy and very scary. This can scare little children.
The infamous scene where the flea inside Sandy's fur poops out two eggs from its butt, and more start to evolve, which is just plain disgusting and inappropriate.
- In fact, this scene was censored in Indonesia.
There's another infamous scene where the camera zooms into the Flea and the way that it screeches will most likely get on your last nerve.
The way that SpongeBob, Patrick, and Sandy beg for and snatch a flea collar (while it creates humor), is just generic.
Squidward is also a one-shot idiot in this episode, instead of helping our 3 main protagonists, he just ignores them making him useless to the point he had no impact on the story whatsoever. Not only that, he's also completely unlikable.
There's an unnecessary and childish argument scene where Patrick blames Sandy for bringing the fleas, and then he turns around on SpongeBob and blames him for the party which results in SpongeBob blaming Patrick about the party again. If this scene was removed, the episode would still go the same.
Patrick's plan in the scene where he asks Sandy to stay on the bottom, and SpongeBob in the middle, and Patrick goes on top is dumb.
The overall storyline is bizarre.
Bad ending: While the water was a good idea for the fleas, the problem was that the dome sucked up not just Bikini Bottom, but also the entire ocean. This is stupid because it would be impossible for Sandy's tree-dome to empty the entire sea, with or without the mass of the Bikini Bottomites.
- In reality, the tree-dome would just break apart if it tried to fit all of the ocean water inside of it.
Speaking of the ending, it also created a plot hole. Why didn't they think of using water on the fleas earlier?
Unfortunately, this episode can be considered a nightmare fuel episode (mainly in the latter half).

Redeeming Qualities

SpongeBob, Patrick, and Sandy (despite their arguments) are still likable.
The first few minutes, despite the scene where SpongeBob and Patrick are crying, were pretty decent.
At least they kinda got rid of the fleas.
Some funny moments like at the decorating scene when Patrick eats the cake and spits it out and it turns into Texas and when SpongeBob and Patrick are painting "welcome Sandy" on a banner, but they run out of room and it says "Welcomandy".
- "SO. MUCH. PAIN!"
The plot, despite being bizarre and scary, is interesting.
As mentioned above, the infamous birth scene was censored in Indonesia.
The title card does look cool, and the fact that it is in Sandy's treedome says a lot.

Videos

Trivia

This is the first time in the series that "Tentically Speaking" plays.
When Squidward is power walking, the song he is listening to sounds similar to the smooth jazz song from "The Thing".
This is one of the few episodes of SpongeBob to use the static Nickelodeon logo after the end credits.

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