Wigstruck (SpongeBob SquarePants)

"Wigstruck"
"Wig-suck" is a more appropriate title.
Series: SpongeBob SquarePants Part of Season: 4 Episode Number: 74b (5574-428) Air Date: November 17, 2006 Writer: Luke Brookshier Tom King Dani Michaeli Previous episode: “Bummer Vacation” Next episode: The Thing (5574-429) Squidtastic Voyage

Wigstruck is the twenty-sixth episode in the fourth season of SpongeBob SquarePants.

Plot

SpongeBob finds a wig and starts wearing it.

ScumBob Qualities

1. The main problem is that SpongeBob is made fun of throughout the entire episode just because of a wig that he thought was his, but is actually from one of the band members from Ned and the Needlefish. What's so bad about wearing a wig?
2. Almost every character that appears here is unlikeable.
   • Patrick attacks SpongeBob upon seeing him and eats his wig.
   • Mr. Krabs also banned SpongeBob's wig from the restaurant.
   • The Bikini Bottomites are the worst in this episode. They constantly make fun of SpongeBob for wearing a wig that conveniently blew away in the wind and landed on his head, and then in the cinema, they chase him and start a riot because his wig was blocking the movie screen.
   • SpongeBob himself is too stupid to not realize people are making fun of him and thinks they're all praising his wig. Though, at the same time. It's not all that hard to blame him since he does not care about the people making fun of him for wearing a wig that blew away from someone's head.
3. The subplot with Ned and the Needlefish isn't any better. In the first scene, once Ned reveals his wig to the members of the band, they start throwing it around until they throw it out of the window (which is how SpongeBob finds it). In their next scene, their manager fires them from the band just because Ned isn't wearing his wig. That's stupid. And to get the cat out of the bag; the members blame Ned for losing his wig. This is considered playing the innocent because they were the ones that threw out his wig on the bus in the first place.
4. A couple gross out jokes are shown here in this episode, including Patrick wearing a wig as a place for his armpit, Patrick eating the wig and the infamously disgusting "hairy patty" close-up.
5. Terrible ending: As SpongeBob sadly walks without his wig, he notices a lot of the Bikini Bottomites are suddenly wearing the same wigs. They explain to him that "they're cool" which is hypocritical because they made fun of SpongeBob's wig earlier, so why are they wearing the same wigs as him?

Good Qualities

1. After SpongeBob throws his wig off a mountain, it flies to Ned, and his career is restored once again, giving him a good ending.
2. Mr. Krabs technically had a good reason to ban SpongeBob's wig as the hair got into the Krabby Patty (the aforementioned "hairy patty"), so one could argue that the ban is justifiable.
3. Some funny moments, like:
   • "So I can't have a wig or a butt?"
     • "No, SpongeBob, it means until you get rid of that wig, get your butt outta here!"
   • "I told you that movie was terrible."
   • "That's a great idea! Let's start a riot."
4. Ned and the Needlefish would later get a better episode, "Hello Bikini Bottom!".
5. SpongeBob is quite the pro for not caring about how the Townspeople are mocking him.

Reception

Despite receiving a 7.3/10 rating on IMDb, fans of the show generally hate this episode.

Trivia

• This is the first episode that Dave Cunningham said he worked on, although he credited as being a storyboard artist as early as "Chimps Ahoy," so it's likely that he did his revisions on storyboards out of production order.
• This episode was available on the Whale of a Birthday DVD, released on October 31, 2006, 17 days before it aired on American television.

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