Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy VI: The Motion Picture

Template:SpongeBob episode"Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy VI: The Motion Picture" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season four. Template:Spoiler Brief summary: SpongeBob, Sandy, Pearl, Mr. Krabs, Plankton, Patrick and Squidward make a movie starring Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy.

Characters Present:

• SpongeBob SquarePants: the Director/sponge thing
• Patrick Star: the Cameraman
• Sandy Cheeks: the Boom-Operator
• Squidward Tentacles: the make-up artist
• Pearl Krabs: the leading lady/the boatmobile
• Eugene Krabs: the owner of the krusty krab
• Mermaid Man: the co-star of the film/Sandy Cheeks
• Barnacle Boy: the co-star of the film
• Plankton: the boom operator
• Kelp Thing (the real villain)/SpongeBob SquarePants
• Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy Fan Club Members
• Actors
• Nerd from Weenie Hut Jr's from No Weenies Allowed
• Retired men and women
• Phil

Plot

SpongeBob and Patrick are at a Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy fan club meeting, where they learn a new movie will be made based on the heroes...played by younger actors. SpongeBob tells the people they must boycott the movie, but he and Patrick just get thrown out of the building. Instead, the boys go to Shady Shoals and tell Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy that Drippy Brothers Studios is making a movie about them with new actors. The heroes find the news horrible. Patrick suggests they make their own movie. Everybody likes the idea.

After coming up with ideas at the Krusty Krab, SpongeBob and the crew (Sandy, Pearl, Mr. Krabs, Patrick, Squidward, Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy) meet to make the movie. SpongeBob is in charge of the movie. Squidward, the makeup artist, prepares the actors for the movie. Sandy is in charge of using the dynamite for explosion scenes. Patrick's the cameraman and Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy act. Plankton auditions for Manray, but can't have the part because the villain's not in the movie, so he works the microphone instead. Mermaid Man has trouble with one of his lines and it takes 5,003 takes to get it (almost) right.

A scene is filmed where Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy ride their boat mobile (Pearl on wheels) to Kelp-Thing's hideout. Pearl is too heavy to pull, so the actors and the man pulling her speed off the mountain, crashing into the sets. Everything is destroyed, and there's no footage because Patrick filmed it with the lens cap on. SpongeBob goes berserk knowing the movie's ruined. Mermaid Man convinces him to finish the movie.

Mr. Krabs has a premiere night for SpongeBob's production in his restaurant, hoping to make a bundle from the movie. Members of the Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy Fan Club do pay a lot of money on opening night, but only because the Drippy Bros. production is sold out, and they don't like it because it is poorly made. However, Mermaid Man is glad that SpongeBob proved he and Barnacle Boy had "action" left in their old bones.

Trivia/Goofs

• Running Gag: Sandy blowing dynamite whenever she hears the word "boom," even if she's not supposed to. Her running gag was just like Crazy Harry from the classic The Muppet Show. Another Running Gag is whenever SpongeBob says "actors", a close-up of his mouth (which are Tom Kenny's lips) says the word.
• The camera lens is on after the crash, and they find out it was there the whole time, but as Patrick is filming, it's off.
• In this episode, it took 5003 takes to make the scene where Mermaid Man tells Barnacle Boy "We have to get back the stolen Krabby Patties", this is similar to the simple line goofing by Marilyn Monroe and her line "where's the Bourbon?".
• In some close-up scenes of SpongeBob, he appears more green than yellow.
• Drippy Brothers Studios is a parody of Warner Bros. Pictures, a division of Time Warner.
• The Patty Vault from Just One Bite appears in the final film.
• Mermaid Man gets a boom mike stuck in his mouth. Ironically John Kricfalusi had to redo a similar gag from a Ren and Stimpy episode only a decade before because Nick censors felt it looked too suggestive.
• This episode is the bases on Spongebob's video game Lights, Camera, Pants.
• In the bingo scene, the caller says "A29". Right after that, Mermaid Man erroneously says "Banko" instead of "Bingo". There is no A in Bingo but there is in "Banko".
• The nerd from No Weenies Allowed can be seen in this episode.
• This is the only episode in the Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy mini-series to have a title card that's different than the usual title card.
• Mermaid Man's belt is purple since Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV.
• Mermaid Man tries to say "We have to get back those stolen Krabby Patties.". But, if you listen closely, the second time, he says "We have to get back to those stolen Maggy Daddies" , even if he said it wrong.