Sun Bleached (SpongeBob SquarePants)

"Sun Bleached"
"I'm sorry, this is just a Family Guy gag" - NICKtendo
Series: SpongeBob SquarePants Part of Season: 6 Episode Number: 6b (106b) (193–612) Air Date: June 5, 2008 Writer: Luke Brookshier Nate Cash Richard Pursel Director: Luke Brookshier Nate Cash Previous episode: A Life in a Day Patty Caper (193-611) Next episode: Giant Squidward House Fancy (Airing order) Slide Whistle Stooges (193-613)

Sun Bleached is the second segment of the 6th episode of the sixth season of SpongeBob SquarePants, is the 12th episode of that season and is overall the 206th (207th if counting the lost episode "The Sponge Who Could Fly") episode of the series.

Plot

SpongeBob and Patrick try to go to a beach party hosted by a seal name Craig Mammelton, but they realize they're not tanned.

Why It Should Get Burnt to a Crisp

1. First of all, the idea of getting a tan just to get into a party is very stupid, and it also pushes unhealthy body standards.
2. Craig Mammelton is an incredibly unlikable character as he gives out racist implications as he doesn't let SpongeBob and Patrick go to the party because of their skin color and makes this pointless rule that only tanned people can go.
   • Harold even makes an offensive comment about SpongeBob having white skin.
     • On the subject of Craig Mammelton, his design feels very out-of-place and looks more like something out of a jungle-theme cartoon show then a SpongeBob show.
3. This episode encourages tanning beds are a good thing, which is not as tanning can cause skin cancer and they can kill you.
4. Patrick is stupid enough to go to a party with girls than caring about SpongeBob's safety and he doesn't even care about leaving him in the tanning bed for hours, he also abandons SpongeBob after his caramel hardens.
   • He was also stupid enough to ignore the instructions to let SpongeBob out after 15 seconds have passed.
5. Squidward had no reason to appear in this episode because he serves as filler and a plot device. Also, he makes fun of SpongeBob's white skin, making him a racist as well.
6. This episode teaches kids several bad morals:
   • It teaches kids how being racist is ok, thinking insulting black people or white people is a joke.
   • As said above, it's okay to stay in a tanning bed and not care about the safety and harms of people.
7. Hypocrisy: Even though the episode teaches a bad moral to kids that they should go to tanning salons and stay in tanning beds for a long process of time, the episode goes out of its way to scare kids into not wanting to step foot into a tanning salon by showing SpongeBob and Patrick’s sun bleaching in a horrifying way.
8. The sun-bleached forms (by Robertryan Cory) of SpongeBob look very disturbing, horrifying, and disgusting to look at.
9. The plot is poorly done like most Season 6-8 episodes, like SpongeBob getting skin cancer is a bad concept and story, making feel like Richard Pursel don't even care about originality and are just lazy.
10. There are multiple animation errors that are glaring throughout the episode. For example, during the scene where Squidward mocks SpongeBob for being sun bleached, Squidward’s neck is missing from his head and body, making Squidward’s head look like it is floating mid-air.
11. There's an infamous scene near the climax of the episode that contains child abuse. In it a woman tries to get her son named Tyler into the party by proclaiming that he is the perfect shade of tropical tan, implying that she had her son tanned while he is under the age to be tanned. However, Craig rejects Tyler and throws him into a trash bin because Tyler did not get his butt tanned, with Tyler’s mom angry at her own son for it. In real life, forcing your kid to get tanned in considered child abuse, meaning that Tyler’s mother should have been arrested.
    • On that note, Craig should have also gotten arrested for not only pulling down a kid's pants, but also throwing a kid into a trash can.
12. This episode is also somewhat of a SpongeBob torture episode, as he goes though many mistreatment moments such as getting Sun Bleached, gotten made fun of by Squidward, getting beaten up by a woman after seen her baby and later on getting stuck in caramel when it hardens.
13. Incredibly disturbing ending: After Craig Mammelton worships SpongeBob for his Sun Bleach, they crank up the sun lights to be like SpongeBob, which cause all of them, including SpongeBob and Patrick, to become ash.
14. There are several plot holes in the episode:
    • First off, concerning the child abuse scene on Tyler, Craig somehow knew that Tyler did not get his butt tanned and pulled down Tyler’s pants to prove that Tyler was not suitable for the party. However, the pants Tyler was wearing were not transparent. How did Craig know that Tyler didn’t get his butt tanned?
      • On that note, even though Craig rejected Tyler from the party because he wore pants while getting tanned, Craig does not reject anybody who wore something around their crotch, including SpongeBob and Patrick, who were seen wearing swim briefs while getting tanned, which makes Craig a hypocrite and have something against kids.
    • Animal inaccuracy: Also concerning Craig’s species, Craig is a seal, and seals need oxygen to breathe because they are mammals. This is shown with Sandy and her three bosses, who are a squirrel and three monkeys respectively, with Sandy needing her oxygen suit and helmet whenever she leaves her house because Bikini Bottom is a underwater town or else she will drown, and her three bosses having helmets. Craig has lungs to breathe, yet he does not drown. How can Craig breathe underwater?

Redeeming Qualities

1. SpongeBob is a likable character and isn't flanderized like he usually is.
2. Patrick did try to help SpongeBob after he was in the tanning bed for too long.
3. The ending can be good, despite being disturbing.
4. The scene were Craig worships SpongeBob for his Sun Bleached is a well written scene.
5. The X-Treme Soda cutaway gag is actually quite funny, despite there not being many comedic moments in this episode.
   • This would also appear in "Welcome to Binary Bottom".
   • "It's Radical! Radical! Drink it!"

Trivia

• Craig Mammelton, later appears on the spin-off series, "Kamp Koral".

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