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""The Great Snail Race""
Season №:	3
Episode №:	55a
Best Day Ever Rank:	#35
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Premiere Order Season 1 May 1, 1999 – April 8, 2000 1. Help Wanted / Reef Blower / Tea at the Treedome 2. Bubblestand / Ripped Pants 3. Jellyfishing / Plankton! 4. Naughty Nautical Neighbors / Boating School 5. Pizza Delivery / Home Sweet Pineapple 6. Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy / Pickles 7. Hall Monitor / Jellyfish Jam 8. Sandy's Rocket / Squeaky Boots 9. Nature Pants / Opposite Day 10. Culture Shock / F.U.N. 11. MuscleBob BuffPants / Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost 12. The Chaperone / Employee of the Month 13. Scaredy Pants / I Was a Teenage Gary 14. SB-129 / Karate Choppers 15. Sleepy Time / Suds 16. Valentine's Day / The Paper 17. Arrgh! / Rock Bottom 18. Texas / Walking Small 19. Fools in April / Neptune's Spatula 20. Hooky / Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy II Season 2 October 26, 2000 – November 30, 2001 21. Something Smells / Bossy Boots 22. Your Shoe's Untied / Squid's Day Off 23. Big Pink Loser / Bubble Buddy 24. Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy III / Squirrel Jokes 25. Christmas Who? 26. Dying for Pie / Imitation Krabs 27. Wormy / Patty Hype 28. Survival of the Idiots / Dumped 29. Grandma's Kisses / Squidville 30. No Free Rides / I'm Your Biggest Fanatic 31. Shanghaied / Gary Takes a Bath 32. Pressure / The Smoking Peanut 33. Pre-Hibernation Week / Life of Crime 34. The Secret Box / Band Geeks 35. Sailor Mouth / Artist Unknown 36. Jellyfish Hunter / The Fry Cook Games 37. The Bully / Just One Bite 38. Sandy, SpongeBob, and the Worm / Squid on Strike 39. Procrastination / I'm with Stupid Season 3 January 21, 2002 – October 11, 2004 40. Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV / Doing Time 41. Welcome to the Chum Bucket / Frankendoodle 42. Snowball Effect / One Krabs Trash 43. Nasty Patty / Idiot Box 44. As Seen on TV / Can You Spare a Dime? 45. No Weenies Allowed / Squilliam Returns 46. The Algae's Always Greener / SpongeGuard on Duty 47. Krab Borg / Rock-a-Bye Bivalve 48. Wet Painters / Krusty Krab Training Video 49. Party Pooper Pants 50. Chocolate With Nuts / Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V 51. Club SpongeBob / My Pretty Seahorse 52. Graveyard Shift / Krusty Love 53. New Student Starfish / Clams 54. The Great Snail Race / Mid-Life Crustacean 55. The Sponge Who Could Fly 56. Born Again Krabs / I Had an Accident 57. Plankton's Army / Missing Identity 58. SpongeBob B.C. 59. Krabby Land / The Camping Episode 60. SpongeBob Meets the Strangler / Pranks a Lot Season 4 May 6, 2005 – 2007 61. Fear of a Krabby Patty / Shell of a Man 62. The Lost Mattress / Krabs vs. Plankton 63. Skill Crane / Good Neighbors 64. Selling Out / Funny Pants 65. Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy VI: The Motion Picture / Enemy In-Law 66. Patrick SmartPants / SquidBob TentaclePants 67. Have You Seen This Snail? 68. Dunces and Dragons 69. Krusty Towers / Mrs. Puff, You're Fired 70. Chimps Ahoy / Ghost Host 71. Whale of a Birthday / Karate Island 72. All That Glitters / Wishing You Well 73. New Leaf / Once Bitten 74A. Squidtastic Voyage 75A. Bummer Vacation 76A. Best Day Ever 75B. Wigstruck 74B. That's No Lady 77. The Thing / Hocus Pocus 78. Driven to Tears / Rule of Dumb 79A. The Pink Purloinier 76B. The Gift of Gum 80. Rise and Shine / Waiting / Sing a Song of Patrick 79B. Squid Wood 81. Best Frenemies / Born to be Wild Season 5 2007 – TBA 82. Friend or Foe? 83. Night Light / The Original Fry Cook 84. Fungus Among Us / Spy Buddies Season 6 TBA – TBA Other 2001 – Present 1. Patrick the Snowman 2. Plankton's Holiday Hits 3. 12 Days of Nickmas 4. How You-Know-Who Stole You-Know-What 5. Nickelodeon Holiday Party 6. A Chuckie Finster Christmas 6. The Endless Summer 7. Nicktoons Battle
Production Order Season 1 1. Help Wanted / Reef Blower / Tea at the Treedome 2. Bubblestand / Ripped Pants 3. Jellyfishing / Plankton! 4. Naughty Nautical Neighbors / Boating School 5. Pizza Delivery / Home Sweet Pineapple 6. Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy / Pickles 7. Hall Monitor / Jellyfish Jam 8. Sandy's Rocket / Squeaky Boots 9. Nature Pants / Opposite Day 10. Culture Shock / F.U.N. 11. MuscleBob BuffPants / Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost 12. The Chaperone / Employee of the Month 13. Scaredy Pants / I Was a Teenage Gary 14. SB-129 / Karate Choppers 15. Sleepy Time / Suds 16. Valentine's Day / The Paper 17. Arrgh! / Rock Bottom 18. Texas / Walking Small 19. Fools in April / Neptune's Spatula 20. Hooky / Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy II Season 2 21. Your Shoe's Untied / Squid's Day Off 22. Something Smells / Bossy Boots 23. Big Pink Loser / Bubble Buddy 24. Dying for Pie / Imitation Krabs 25. Wormy / Patty Hype 26. Grandma's Kisses / Squidville 27. Pre-Hibernation Week / Life of Crime 28. Christmas Who? 29. Survival of the Idiots / Dumped 30. No Free Rides / I'm Your Biggest Fanatic 31. Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy III / Squirrel Jokes 32. Pressure / The Smoking Peanut 33. Shanghaied / Gary Takes a Bath 34. Welcome to the Chum Bucket / Frankendoodle 35. The Secret Box / Band Geeks 36. Graveyard Shift / Krusty Love 37. Procratination / I'm with Stupid 38. Sailor Mouth / Artist Unknown 39. Jellyfish Hunter / The Fry Cook Games 40. Sandy, SpongeBob, and the Worm / Squid on Strike Season 3 41. The Algae's Always Greener / SpongeGuard on Duty 42. Club SpongeBob / My Pretty Seahorse 43. The Bully / Just One Bite 44. Nasty Patty / Idiot Box 45. Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV / Doing Time 46. Snowball Effect / One Krabs Trash 47. As Seen on TV / Can You Spare a Dime? 48. No Weenies Allowed / Squilliam Returns 49. Krab Borg / Rock-a-Bye Bivalve 50. Wet Painters / Krusty Krab Training Video 51. Party Pooper Pants 52. Chocolate With Nuts / Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V 53. New Student Starfish / Clams 54. SpongeBob B.C. 55. The Great Snail Race / Mid-Life Crustacean 56. Born Again Krabs / I Had an Accident 57. Krabby Land / The Camping Episode 58. Plankton's Army / Missing Identity 59. The Sponge Who Could Fly 60. SpongeBob Meets the Strangler / Pranks a Lot Season 4 61. Fear of a Krabby Patty / Shell of a Man 62. The Lost Mattress / Krabs vs. Plankton 63. Have You Seen This Snail? 64. Skill Crane / Good Neighbors 65. Selling Out / Funny Pants 66. Dunces and Dragons 67. Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy VI: The Motion Picture / Enemy In-Law 68. Patrick SmartPants / SquidBob TentaclePants 69. Krusty Towers / Mrs. Puff, You're Fired 70. Ghost Host / Wishing You Well 71. Chimps Ahoy / Whale of a Birthday 72. Karate Island / All That Glitters 73. New Leaf / Once Bitten 74. Bummer Vacation / Wigstruck 75. Squidtastic Voyage / That's No Lady 76. Hocus Pocus / The Thing 77. Driven to Tears / Rule of Dumb 78. Born to Be Wild / Best Frenemies 79. The Pink Purloinier / Squid Wood 80. Best Day Ever / The Gift of Gum Season 5 81. Friend or Foe? 82. Night Light / The Original Fry Cook 83. Rise and Shine / Waiting / Sing a Song of Patrick 84. Fungus Among Us / Spy Buddies Season 6 TBA

"The Great Snail Race" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season three.

Brief Summary: Squidward's new pure-bred snail, Snellie, is going to enter the Great Snail Race. Even though Gary isn't a pure-bred, SpongeBob enters him, leading to disastrous consequences.

Time/Date:

• Saturday
  • 11:35 AM: SpongeBob wakes up
  • 11:40 PM: SpongeBob is shown in bed, training Gary
• Sunday

Time cards shown: 2 hours later

Characters Present:

Main Characters:

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Gary The Snail
• Snellie The Snail
• Squidward Tentacles
• Patrick Star
• Rocky the Snail/Rock (Rocky)

Major Characters:

• Mayor
• Lighting Larry Luciano the Snail

Minor Characters:

• Sandy Cheeks
• Perch Perkins
• Phil
• Spectators
  • Fred
  • Nancy
  • Evelyn
• Firefighters

The day starts when Squidward gets a package in the mail. He is excited, but then the mailfish accidentally pronounces his last name as Tennisballs, which makes him angry and ends his excitement. He opens the package, and a snail named Snellie is inside with some certificates. SpongeBob says "Gary, I think you've got a new playmate!" However, Squidward refuses, and says Snellie is a pure-bred. Patrick thinks that it means that she's "a snail made out of bread". So Squidward explains that it means Snellie is of the highest pedigree, and she's going to be entered in the great snail race. Patrick reads Snellie's pedigree certificate and misreads Squidward's name as Tentpoles, which makes Squidward angry, yet again. SpongeBob wants to enter Gary, but says he cannot because Sunday is laundry day. Squidward then tells SpongeBob that he cannot enter Gary and says that it's because Gary is a mutt, which offends SpongeBob. Patrick also decides to enter the competition, and gets a rock. Meanwhile, Sandy; who was walking along a street, senses SpongeBob calling Gary a lady (or more rather, "ladies") and then say that it's "to humiliate and demean him" - and says "I do not know why, but I think I will kick SpongeBob's butt tomorrow."

SpongeBob (wearing a fake mustache and a coach's outfit) over-trains Gary, so Gary is exhausted at the race the next day. Gary goes, but his eyes and shell explode, and it seems that he cannot stop. SpongeBob says he can stop now, but Gary keeps on going. SpongeBob runs onto the track, with the mustache and hat flying off, and the announcer says that it's an "automatic disqualification". Gary hits the wall and explodes completely. Snellie, who is almost at the finish line, turns around to help Gary. Squidward is shocked and Snellie and Gary are in love, and want to get married and have children. Squidward walks onto the track, and SpongeBob tells him "Looks like you and me are in-laws, eh, Squidward?". Squidward then sees that, much to his surprise, Patrick's rock won the race. Patrick laughs so hard that he cries. Squidward is upset that his pure-bred, which cost him $1700, lost to a rock. Patrick says he had the trophy engraved to Squidward, and gives it to him, knowing how much Squidward wanted to win. Squidward thanks Patrick and then reads "The 1st place Snail Racing cup presented to Squidward... TORTELLINI?!" He groans and says "Will I ever win?" SpongeBob, Patrick, and even Squidward laugh. But the trio's laughter is interrupted, however, when Sandy jumps into view and literally kicks SpongeBob's butt, sending him flying out of the stadium. SpongeBob screams in fright, especially because he is unaware of the reason that he got kicked in the first place. Sandy, shaking her fist, then yells "That's for yesterday, SquarePants!" Patrick and Squidward are left very confused, as neither of them know what SpongeBob did "yesterday", either.

• Patrick: Wow. A snail made out of bread!
  Squidward: No! No! No! Pure bred means she's of the highest pedigree.
• SpongeBob: Well, guess I cannot enter Gary on that race (silence for a while) Sunday's laundry day!
• SpongeBob: (to Patrick) Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
  Patrick: Yeah! I should get a snail and enter it in that race and beat Squidward! (runs out)
  SpongeBob: (to Gary) Are you thinking what I'm thinking? (Gary thinks of watching TV) No no no! I'm thinking about entering you in that race and beating Squidward's snail!
• SpongeBob: (to Gary while making a shake)...nails for toughness. Raw eggs 'cause they're cliché.
• Squidward: (to Patrick) Patrick, that's a rock.
  Patrick: Thanks I know. He's got nerves of steel. (referring to Rocky)
• Man in announcer booth: Hello, folks! And welcome to the annual snail races of which I am a huge fan! Seriously, I'm just a fan. I was on my way to my seat, the door was open and I-
  Announcer: Hey, what are you doing here?! (Chases the fan out) Sorry about that folks.
• Sandy: Hmm. I don't know why, but I think I will kick SpongeBob's butt tomorrow.
• Squidward: (Patrick hands him the Trophy) Gosh, Patrick. Thanks. The 1st place Snail Racing cup presented to Squidward... TORTELLINI?!! Will I ever win?
  (SpongeBob, Patrick, and even Squidward laugh.)
  Sandy: (Jumps in and Kicks SpongeBob Out of the Stadium, giving SpongeBob extreme fright) THAT'S FOR YESTERDAY, SQUAREPANTS!
• Patrick: You can run, but you cannot hide Squarepants!
• Squidward: (Patrick just got Squid's last name wrong) It's tennis balls! Oh, I mean tentacles!

• The music used in the title sequence and when Lightning Larry comes out is "Now That We're Men" from The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. (The music probably was not created specifically for the film. This is because this episode was released a year before the film.)
• The ending to the race (in which Snellie, about to win, goes back to comfort Gary after his horrific crash) is similar to the end of the final race in the movie Cars, in which Lightning McQueen, about to win, goes back to push Strip Weathers to the finish line after his horrific crash, although the episode aired 4 years prior to Cars release.
• When Gary crashes he is at the tire wall, but when SpongeBob goes to get him, he is on the middle of the track. (It is possible that after Gary tried to go into the track but failed.).
• A snail identical to Snellie appears in The Sponge Who Could Fly as Mrs. Puff's snail. However she states herself that, "I've had her since I was a little girl" this could not be Snellie.
• A running gag in the episode is that everyone messes up when they say Squidward's last name.
• All of the characters call SpongeBob by his last name, "SquarePants".
• In the computerized sequences, Gary's going a lot faster than in the non-computerized sequences. Perhaps this is a parody of NASCAR races.
• After Gary crashes, Snellie is about to reach the finish line, but a minute later, she is still going for it.
• Patrick's "snail," which is a rock, is called Rocky, which could be a reference to the 1970s movie Rocky, in which an underdog boxer makes it to the championship fight.
• There are two versions of this episode:
  1. Sandy kicks SpongeBob's butt, yells, and then walks away, laughing.
  2. The episode simply ends after Sandy kicks SpongeBob's butt and yells.
  Also, a deleted scene depicts SpongeBob being kicked out of the stadium to the pineapple house. It crashed open & Gary follows him.
• In a paperback book based on this episode, there is no sign of Sandy. This is most likely because the idea of Sandy kicking SpongeBob's butt, as well as her presence in the episode, are not in any way a part of the episode's actual plot, but more rather something put in to add humor, so that the viewers would be more amused by the episode. Furthermore, SpongeBob's remark of calling Gary a lady(s) was also removed from the said book, most likely for the same reason.
• This episode used to be mistaken to be rated TV-Y7, until word was spread that the whole show was now officially TV-Y7.
• Sandy kicks Spongebob again the same way as seen in the game Bubble Bust after he laughed too much.
• When Patrick said "Hey, look at Squidward's new snail!" the closed caption for this line disappeared into the next scene before it was even completed. It could also be seen in the DVD release of SpongeBob Goes Prehistoric.
• Spongebob was wearing red pants, but in the stadium, there is a close-up where Gary is in the floor, and you can see that Spongebob´s pants were blue.
• Squidward's pedigree says "Smellie" but the snail's real name is "Snellie". Plus, Squidward calls his snail Smellie.

Preceded by "Clams"

SpongeBob SquarePants episodes

Followed by "Mid-Life Crustacean"