SpongeBob Saves the Day!

SpongeBob Saves the Day
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General
Developer(s):	Seven2
Publisher(s):	Nickelodeon
Genre(s):	Point and click
Modes:	Single player
Hardware
Media:	Online

SpongeBob Saves the Day is an online point-and-click game in which SpongeBob tries to help Mr. Krabs, Patrick, Squidward, and Sandy have their "Best Day Ever." It was developed by Seven2 and published by Nickelodeon.

Gameplay

SpongeBob shows Gary that he is celebrating his Best Day Ever, and Gary suggests that he start with Patrick. When SpongeBob visits Patrick, he must open up Patrick's rock and collect the Krabby Patty inside. Next, he must change Junior's diaper by collecting a clean diaper off the head of a Jellien in Jellyfish Fields. He can then put the clean diaper in the trash, driving away jellyfish and letting him collect jellyfish jelly. SpongeBob must put the jelly on the Krabby Patty and feed it to Patrick. Patrick is satisfied after a trophy is delivered to him, unlocking the rest of the areas.

The game branches out into multiple paths, where SpongeBob can go to any area he wants. At Squidward's house, SpongeBob must help Squidward find his clarinet. A banana can be found behind the pink pillow, and a food dish is sitting on a shelf. SpongeBob can break a vase by playing the TV, which reveals the Volcano Sauce. SpongeBob can enter Squidward's gallery and flip three paintings right-side up, and then talk to Patrick Not-Star. In Squidward's backyard, SpongeBob must feed Bunny Wunny the food after covering it in Volcano Sauce, driving him away from the garden and dropping a clarinet reed.

At Sandy's treedome, SpongeBob must equip a water helmet from outside before he can enter. Items here include a ray gun behind a karate glove, Anchor Arms hanging on an exercise machine, a jar with a head and flea collar inside, and a shrinking potion. SpongeBob has to open the jar by first equipping the Anchor Arms, and then can give it to Sandy. To demonstrate her robot, SpongeBob must fix it with the ray gun and give a banana to the robot. This impresses Dr. Marmalade, Lord Reginald, and Professor Percy, SpongeBob gets ice cream, and Sandy is happy.

Next, SpongeBob must visit the Krusty Krab. Mrs. Puff has lost her boat keys, and after SpongeBob finds them under a table, he can return them to her. Mrs. Puff leaves and her chair tips over, revealing a hydro-dynamic spatula. Inside the kitchen, Pearl is crying over not being good at cooking patties, and needs a special spatula. SpongeBob has to open a door, revealing a giant Krabby Patty, and shrink it with the potion to reveal the port and starboard attachments, then combine them with the spatula and give it to Pearl. A Chum Bucket helmet rolls in, and SpongeBob must go outside. Plankton and Karen are outside with a tape of a Krusty Krab commercial. After collecting Bold and Brash, SpongeBob has to give Plankton the bucket helmet, electrocuting him and causing Karen to retreat and drop the tape. After SpongeBob gives Mr. Krabs the tape, he is satisfied and gives SpongeBob a broken spatula.

Finally, SpongeBob must return to Squidward's house and add Bold and Brash to Squidward's collection. Patrick Not-Star leaves, having seen the full collection of Squidward's art, and SpongeBob can open a safe behind a painting. It contains the clarinet, which SpongeBob can combine with the reed and give to Squidward, who rewards him with a clarinet record.

With all his friends happy, they throw a party for SpongeBob at his house. SpongeBob notices the Gary is missing. First, SpongeBob must put Squidward's record on a record player, and use Mr. Krabs's broken spatula as a handle. This reveals Gary's food bowl, and SpongeBob has to combine Sandy's ice cream and Patrick's cookie to make an ice cream sandwich, then put it in the bowl. Gary, who had been trapped behind the wallpaper, is freed and SpongeBob celebrates while telling the player how long they took to complete the game.

Characters

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Gary the Snail
• Squidward Tentacles
• Eugene H. Krabs
• Sandy Cheeks
• Patrick Star
• Junior
• Jellyfish
• Jellien
• Squilliam Fancyson
• Bunny Wunny
• Dr. Marmalade
• Lord Reginald
• Professor Percy
• Nut-cracking robot
• Wormy
• Fleas
• Bubble Buddy
• Mrs. Puff
• Pearl Krabs
• Sheldon J. Plankton
• Karen Plankton
• Brown fish
• Giant Krabby Patty
• Pink fish (cameo)
• Gray fish (cameo)
• Realistic Fish Head (cameo)
• Kevin C. Cucumber (cameo)
• Queen jellyfish (cameo)
• Zeus the Guitar Lord (cameo)
• Larry the Lobster (mentioned)

Items

• Krabby Patty
• Jellyfish jelly
  • Jelly Patty
• Clean diaper
• Dirty diaper
• Banana
• Roast a la Squidward
• Volcano Sauce
  • Roast a la Squidward with Volcano Sauce
• Worm incubator
• Rubble-reducing ray
• Jar
• Anchor Arms
  • Flea collar
• Shrinking potion
• Hydro-dynamic spatula
• Port and starboard attachments
  • Hydro-dynamic spatula with port and starboard attachments
• Bold and Brash
• Chum Bucket helmet
• Krusty Krab commercial tape
• Clarry
• Clarinet reed
  • Clarry with reed
• Clarinet record
• Snail-Po ice cream
• Cookie
  • Ice cream sandwich

Unused content

In the game's strings.xml file, there are multiple dialogue tags that are empty: DinersDialogue, MarbleDialogue, SandyWheelDialogue, GardenDialogue, BubbleBuddyDialogue, ArmsHangingDialogue, BookshelfDialogue, BookshelfFrontDialogue, DollDialogue, WormJarDialogue, PillowDialogue, BucketDialogue, HouseDialogue, RocketDialogue, ShelfDialogue, and StatueDialogue. Most of these correspond to used objects in the game, hinting that they would have had dialogue for being clicked on.

In the files for the area outside Sandy's house, a graphic of Sandy's suit being ripped up on the ground is present. An employee at Seven2, the company that developed SpongeBob Saves the Day, confirmed that this was intended as a hint for SpongeBob needing to find a helmet to go inside the treedome.

YUM, a sprite of a 3D human head with realistic eyes, ears, and mouth can be found in the graphics for the Krusty Krab's dining room. Its filenames are "t_tmpYummer" and "t_tmpYummer2," and its hands have separate graphics. On May 23rd, this graphic was found, and YouTuber "oddheader" investigated. Contact info for a Seven2 dev was found, and on June 3rd, oddheader posted the intent behind the sprite on Twitter. Named "YUM," it originated from a 3D model test, and was used in the company as a placeholder graphic to indicate what still needed to be finished. As SpongeBob Saves the Day was made to celebrate the show's 20th anniversary, they wanted to have a familiar character popping out from behind a support beam in the Krusty Krab and used YUM as a placeholder. This idea was scrapped, and YUM remains in the files.

References to other episodes

• This game's plot is loosely based on "Best Day Ever," as it centers on SpongeBob helping his friends on his Best Day Ever. Additionally, both the game and the episode use a plot of Squidward's clarinet missing its reed. In SpongeBob Saves the Day, SpongeBob says that the reed looks like his tooth, while in "Best Day Ever," he pulls out his tooth for Squidward to use as a reed.
• While idle, SpongeBob may make his surprised face from The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.
• When using a wrong object, SpongeBob may say "That didn't work! We've been smeckledorfed!" "Smeckledorfed" is a word he invents in "Nasty Patty."
• One of SpongeBob's hints is "Time to go to work! Another day, another nickel!" Squidward uses this joke in "Funny Pants."
• A pair of anti-sea rhinoceros undergarments, mentioned in "The Camping Episode," appears on top of Patrick's rock.
• Patrick having a cookie in his back pocket is derived from the ending of "Dumped."
• SpongeBob describes the Krabby Patty in Patrick's house as "one of Patrick's 3 AM Krabby Patties." Patrick is shown to eat Krabby Patties at 3 AM in "Graveyard Shift."
• Patrick earning a trophy for "doing nothing longer than anyone else" is a plot point in "Big Pink Loser."
• Patrick's secret box from "The Secret Box" and hooks from "Hooky" are found outside Patrick's rock.
• Kevin C. Cucumber appears chasing the queen jellyfish in the background of Jellyfish Fields, which references "I'm Your Biggest Fanatic."
• A Jellien from "Planet of the Jellyfish" appears at Jellyfish Fields.
• The smiley face on SpongeBob's calendar is a black-and-white version of the one on the "Great!" sticky note in "Bulletin Board."
• Inside Squidward's house is the pillow from "Squid's Visit," canned bread from "Squidville," and the eyelash sweater from "Dying for Pie."
• The shows on Squidward's TV are Fab and Fancy! and The Guitar Lord from "Tentacle-Vision."
• Paintings from the episodes "Out of the Picture," "Artist Unknown," "Bunny Hunt," "Atlantis SquarePantis," "Squid's Visit," "Not Normal," "Chatterbox Gary," and "Unreal Estate" are in Squidward's gallery.
• Mini Squidward from "Squid Wood" and the shed from "The Curse of Bikini Bottom" are in Squidward's backyard.
• Sandy's house contains her worm incubators and artifacts from "House Sittin' for Sandy," the giant soybean from "The Krabby Patty That Ate Bikini Bottom," her exercise wheel and Arm Cruncher from "MuscleBob BuffPants," Wormy (in caterpillar form) from "Wormy," and the invention SpongeBob and Patrick build in "Chimps Ahoy."
• The canned socks from "Truth or Square" can be found in the Krusty Krab and SpongeBob's house.
• After getting the tape, SpongeBob may say, "I'll give this to Mr. Krabs for the lost and found." The Krusty Krab's lost and found is shown in "Lost and Found."
• The image on the TV at the Krusty Krab is a frame from "Mutiny on the Krusty," edited to add Krabby Patties.
• The party background at SpongeBob's house is from "Party Pooper Pants." Eels and Escalators from "Sailor Mouth," the chocolate bar from the title card of "Chocolate with Nuts," and a poster for The Dark Tide Rises from "SpongeBob LongPants" appear in the house.

Errors

• During the party scene, SpongeBob will continue to give the player hints about looking at the checklist, despite it not being available at the moment.
• At Patrick's house, SpongeBob may give the hint "Maybe I can check Jellyfish fields?" Jellyfish Fields is improperly capitalized.
• When SpongeBob enters the party, his line "It's so dark! Who turned out the lights Gary?" is missing a comma.
• SpongeBob's comment after hearing the record, "Oh Boy! This sure sounds...like Squidward" has the word "boy" incorrectly capitalized.
• SpongeBob's line "I'll help you find your video tape Mr. Krabs!" is missing a comma.
• Plankton says, "Nice try, Squarepants!" "SquarePants" is improperly capitalized.
• After getting the Anchor Arms, SpongeBob says, "These make any square as strong as a Larry the Lobster!" As Larry is a specific character, "a Larry the Lobster" is incorrect.
• Squidward does not capitalizes SpongeBob's name correctly in the line "Not now Spongebob, I lost Clarry, my precious CLARINET."
• Internal data refers to Mrs. Puff as "Ms. Puff."
• Some of the filenames for characters' icons are spelled wrong: Squidward's is Squidworth, Mr. Krabs's is Krabbs, SpongeBob's is Spongebob, and the group one is called Freinds. Additionally, the Realistic Fish Head's icon is named JohnnyElaine, a fan-made name taken from Encyclopedia SpongeBobia.

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External links

• Play at nick.tv