To continue following this series, please go to The Spongebob Community Forum site. / (Part V) "Welcome 2 the Jungle." The Boom Vets were running along the last mile of their path in the hope of winning the challenge they had been asked to face. Spongebob asked: "So Reggie, if YOU won the $500,000 at the end of the contest, what would you do with it?" Reggie answers: "Simple. I'd use the money to purchase my own city and make it completely athletic-oriented in order to fit my image of a town filled with citizens who like to live to the extreme!" Rocko adds: "It would probably have to be a small city, though." Reggie asks: "Santa Barbara, California is a small city, right?" Rocko says: "I'd say it's relatively small." Reggie says: "Thank you, Rocko! (Kisses him) You have not only been an excellent navigator keeping us safe on this trail, you're also smart about cities!" Rocko romantically answers: "Thank you!" (Confessional) Rocko says: "The main difference between myself and Reggie versus Blue Arrow and Judy is unlike those two, we know how to pick the appropriate times of where and when to make out. Challenges are out of the question, but that doesn't mean I can't get a little kiss every now and then, and I sure do love it when Reggie kisses me." (End Confessional) Suddenly, Sandy says: "Look at what's in the clearing! The Nickelodeon Studios! This nightmare is almost over!" Treeflower says: "Don't look now, but there's something rustling over in the bushes!" Stimpy says: "We were SO close to winning!" The Network Noobs come out of the clearing and Haggis says: "You couldn't be more right!" Gerald adds: "And the time is right for us to win!" And the Network Noobs start running the last few yards toward where Sniz and Fondue are! Treeflower says: "This isn't HAPPENING!" Rocko says: "Run for it!" The Boom Vets try like crazy to outpace the Network Noobs, but it's a futile exercise. Fondue finally notices the teams and says: "Looks like we're going to determine a winner soon." Sniz is busy playing a Nintendo 3DS and says: "It's about time! I was getting bored of playing this advance copy of my Nintendo 3DS the Fairy Godparents wished up for us." The Network Noobs cross into the Nickelodeon Studio lots first and Dog says: "Hi ho diggity! We won!" Sandy says: "I can't believe we lost!" Marlene says: "Your biggest mistake was in thinking we were ALL like Blue Arrow and Judy." Craig adds, throwing his arms into the air: "But we're not, which is why your arrogance and overconfidence handed you a loss and handed us a win!" Sniz says in a sing-song voice: "Well not, exactly." Craig says: "Beg pardon?" Sniz goes over to Craig and puts his arms down for him, and Sniz says: "The team who comes back with ALL of their team-mates FIRST into the Nickelodeon Studios Lot wins today's challenge. Did I neglect to mention that earlier?" Skipper asks: "Excuse me, but where are we supposed to FIND our team-mates?" Sniz says: "If you checked your G.P.S. devices once in a while, it would give you a clue!"
Haggis checks his G.P.S. and says: "Goodness, gracious, great balls of fire! Here at the Nickelodeon Studios, there are a bunch of red and green dots bunched together, that's us. But at exactly half of a mile directly south of us, there's another bunch of red and green dots bunched together. That must be our lost team-mates!" Sandy says: "Then this challenge isn't over, not by a long shot! The Boom Vets WILL win this challenge yet!" And they start running back south through the jungle. Rhonda says: "Hey, you CAN'T do that! I thought you were going to work WITH us on this challenge!" Skipper says: "That's why you NEVER trust somebody on an opposing team. Sooner or later, they will ALWAYS try to betray you when you least expect it!" / At the bottom of the great lake, a battered, bruised, and very MUDDY General Barracuda emerges, still wearing his Dark Laser mask, and rises from the lake in a slow, angry, and maddened sense of hate, practically boiling his blood-stream with hate and enraged, says in his disguised voice: "Now it's PERSONAL!" / Patrick is wandering through the jungle calling: "Pearl! Pearl Krabs, where are you?! (BUMP!) Now who puts a--!" Patrick stops, looks up, and sees a relatively small-looking, but well fortified building. Patrick finishes: "Mini-fortress in the middle of a jungle?" (Confessional) Patrick says: "I might not be the smartest sea star in Bikini Bottom, but I can tell when something doesn't look right, if it looks like it shouldn't belong, it's probably holding a secret. And if my hunch is correct, I'm going to find my girlfriend and save her from that awful General Barracuda!" (End Confessional) Patrick says: "General Barracuda is smarter than I gave him credit for. No windows, no ventilation shafts, no chimneys that I can drop into. It looks like the only way to get in or out is through the front door. But what kind of a security system does this place have?" A computer screen suddenly comes to life on the front door of the Mini-fortress, and with Karen's voice says: "Welcome to the Cannibal Headhunter's hideout. Please say the correct password in order to gain entrance." Patrick says: "How about, 'Open Sesame?'" Karen groans: "Correct, you can go in." Karen opens the door and Patrick goes inside, but before he gets too far, he accidentally steps on a tile that is pressurized, and it releases something from behind him. Patrick turns his head around and says: "Gigantic rock!" And Patrick runs away like crazy, trying to get away from the rock, completely oblivious to the fact that he's managing to dodge poison arrows, ancient flamethrowers, shooting spears, falling columns trying to squish him, and snakes trying to bite him! Finally, Patrick leaps over a wide pit, and the giant rock falls into, and gets stuck into the pit, forming a way to walk across it! Patrick says: "I think I broke some records back there!" (Confessional) Patrick says: "I'd like to thank my mom and dad for giving me their unlimited support and never giving up on me, convinced that there was SOMETHING I'd excel in, and athletic skills are my forte. Thank you, mom and dad!" (End Confessional) Patrick says: "Now, to find Pearl and all the captured team-mates. Now, if I were General Barracuda, where would I hide kidnapped contestants?" And Patrick just picks a random direction, and goes to his left. / The Boom Vets arrive at the Mini-Fortress, and they quickly notice something is off. Stimpy says: "Does something strange strike you about this?" Stinky says: "What do you mean, dad?" Stimpy says: "The front door is already OPEN!" Sandy says: "But we never saw the Boom Vets running in front of us!" Rocko says: "It must be someone else in there. Someone really smart and brave!" Reggie says: "Or someone dumb and foolish!" Norbert says: "But an open door to me signifies only one thing; it smells like a trap." Treeflower says: "Trap or not, we've GOT to go in there, rescue our team-mates, and win this challenge." Sandy says: "Treeflower's right! Let's get her done! I don't plan on losing to the Network Noobs a second time!" Spongebob says: "Then lets go in before the Boom Vets DO catch up to us!" And as they run inside, the Boom Vets run into the clearing and catch sight of them! Craig says: "That's just great! There they go! They're already in!" Marlene asks: "How are we going to win now?" Rhonda says: "I say we stay right here! I've already had enough running for one day!" Dog says: "But we can't just stay here, we have to help our friends!" Darwin says: "But maybe the Boom Vets will face the dangers of the Mini-Fortress and save our friends for us!" Skipper says: "That's exactly what Manfredi and Johnson said right before Professor Blowhole caught them napping outside of one of his secret lairs. Now that deranged dolphin has two penguin slippers monogrammed M & J, and they don't stand for Michael Jackson!" Haggis McHaggis says: "Skipper, you're right. The fight isn't over yet. Just like Slyvester Stallone in "Rocky III and IV," we've got to get the eye of the tiger and a burning heart! We've got to go in there and finish this!" Gerald asks: "Do you EVER run out of song references?" Haggis says: "Not until they run out of good songs to write, I won't!"
And the Boom Vets run into the Mini-Fortress as well, failing to notice a creeping, crawling, hulk of a vicious General Barracuda crawling through the jungle reeds. General Barracuda: "My web will soon have you all ensnared! Now is the time for the spider to extinguish its prey!" / The Boom Vets are making a good headway through the Mini-Fortress as there are no more traps left to worry about. Treeflower says: "Some trap THIS is! It looks like somebody practically rolled out the red carpet for us." Sandy says: "I've studied a BUNCH of trap-filled places in movies and other real-life places in this great, big world of ours, and we should've had traps trying to kill us coming right and left by the truckload by now." Spongebob says: "Somebody must have already activated all the traps and set them off, and when they set off, they didn't reset again!" Norbert says: "But who would be athletic enough to do that?" Rocko chuckles and says: "I'm surprised I didn't think of this earlier, it's Patrick!" Reggie says: "Patrick?!" Rocko says: "Who else could it be? Larry was already captured, Blue Arrow has been nowhere to be seen, and I don't think Darwin has enough know-how of this place to evade all these traps. Patrick is the only one among us who would've tried to deal with a bunch of traps on his own!" Reggie says: "I can't believe Patrick is taking care of the perils of this mini-fortress by himself!" Spongebob says: "You see, Reggie, I KNEW Patrick was going to come in handy!" (Confessional) Rocko says: "Patrick has proved to be a really surprising help to us, and I think the reason that it's catching us all by surprise is because we never really got a chance to see his potential last season. But now that he's catching his stride, Patrick looks like he might make it past the team merge this time around!" (End Confessional) Stimpy says: "Well guys, Patrick may have disarmed the traps, but he didn't leave us a clue. There are four different paths. Which way did he go?" Stinky says: "A better question to ask is, which way WOULD he go?" Then all of a sudden, the Boom Vets hear a bunch of loud voices screaming off in the distance: "HELP! Help us, somebody! Help us!" Stimpy says: "It sounds like Ren, and Lil!" Reggie adds: "Not to mention Otto and all of the other captured team-mates!" Spongebob says: "Sandy, do you think you can use your knowledge to isolate where those screams are coming from?" Sandy says: "You better believe it, honey! (Kisses him!) Let's do this!" Spongebob romantically says: "All right, Sandy!" (Confessional) Spongebob says: "If I won the $500,000 at the end of the contest, I'm make a motion to the guys who make all of the Dictionaries in the world, and make it so that next to the words, romantic, and genius, you'd see Sandy's picture right next to those words! That's the least I can do for all of the things she has done for me!" (End Confessional) / Patrick comes to the end of the corridor he is walking down, to see a large, padded cell-door that has the defenses of the Alcatraz Prison. Patrick says: "I hope she's here! Pearl, are you in there?!" Pearl shouts: "Yes, Patrick! I am in here! And a bunch of other contestants here to! The Cannibal Head-Hunter bound us tight in ropes! You've got to find a way in here!"
Patrick says: "Unless you have some dynamite handy, I don't see how I can accomplish that." Rancid Rabbit says: "Oh come ON! Why don't you use your head for once?!" Patrick says: "That's it! I will USE my head!" And Patrick backs up, and runs with his head pointed to the door. Inside, Susie says: "Rancid, I don't think you should've told Patrick to--(CRASH!)--use his head!" Patrick, having busted through the wall, begins to untie Pearl. Patrick says: "I'm so glad I found you Pearl. I never stopped thinking about you!" Pearl begins to hug Patrick and says: "Oh, you're the sweetest thing ever!" Patrick says: "Thank you!" Patrick and Pearl begin to untie the others when the Boom Vets suddenly arrive in the corridor. Sandy says: "What in the world was THAT--(looks at the recently demolished wall Patrick ran through)--noise?" Ren says: "Stimpy, it's YOU! When did you get here?" Stimpy says: "We've only just arrived, Marlon." And as Stimpy unties Ren and Lil, the Network Noobs suddenly arrive in the corridor. Gerald says: "Is this a private party or can anyone join?" Rancid says: "It's NOT a party, we're prisoners here! Now hurry up and get us out!" And as Haggis unties Rancid, Haggis asks: "What about Larry? He's still frozen in the ice statue from the ice beam that was shot at him!" Rhonda says: "Serves him right, I should say! Anyone who wants to argue with our leader has no place in our team!" Spongebob says: "But he taught me to swim! Please Sandy, I know you don't like him, but can't you do him one TEENY favor, for me?" Sandy says: "Oh, all right. But you owe me for dinner after this one!" Spongebob says: "Absolutely Sandy!" And Sandy place a well-placed karate kick on Larry's frozen body, and the ice breaks off of Larry! Larry shivers and says: "Cold! So cold!" Lil says: "Well of course you're cold! You were frozen in ice!" Larry says: "And why am I not frozen now?" Judy says: "Sandy Cheeks." Larry looks at Sandy and Sandy says: "Don't thank me, it was Spongebob's idea." (Confessional) Larry is still shivering from his cold spell and says: "CURSES! To think I would owe my freedom to that yellow idiot! And Sandy didn't want to save me! I'm beginning to hate Sandy more than Spongebob!" (End Confessional) Blue Arrow says: "That's it! We're all free! Now let's all get out of here!" Then the disguised General Barracuda walks into the corridor and says with his disguised voice: "Correction, you are now ALL trapped! It was only a matter of time before I won like I ALWAYS do, you stupid FOOLS! And now, I'm going to catch ALL of you in one, fell SWOOP!" (Clicks his net gun, but nothing happens) Stimpy says: "We're not trapped?" General Barracuda yells: "Out of order?! Even in the future, nothing works!" Sandy says: "Looks like Lady Luck is once again on our side!" And everyone on both teams gang up and pound on the disguised General Barracuda like crazy, and when they are sure he has become too weak to follow them for quite some time, they run out of the Mini-Fortress! Otto says: "We are out of there!" Reggie says: "And we've got to run!" Lil asks: "But why?" Stimpy says: "No time to explain, it's to win!" Dog says: "How did those Boom Vets get ahead of us?"
Darwin says: "They must want to win this challenge BADLY!" Larry says: "Well guess what, I do to! After them!" And the two teams begin running for the Nickelodeon Studio Lots again. Fondue spots them and says: "They're coming again!" Sniz finishes drinking a Pina Colada and says: "Really? That went quicker than I thought!" And although both teams try hard, the Boom Vets just BARELY cross into the Nickelodeon Studios Lot with all of their team-mates first! Rocko says: "Yes! We won! Yes, yes, YES!" Larry yells: "NO! We lost to those guys, we LOST!" Sniz says: "And it's over! It's finally all over! Today's winners are the Boom Vets!" Sandy says: "Naturally! Contestants with our experience wouldn't just lose to a bunch of new guys!" Sniz says: "But there's no need to worry, Network Noobs. Since you DID technically enter the Nickelodeon Studios here first, even if it was WITHOUT all your team-mates, you receive the Second place prize!" Craig says: "Which is?" Sniz says: "A TWO team-member swap. Didn't see THAT coming, did you? Haggis McHaggis and Marlene, you're now on the Boom Vets team, Patrick Star and Lil Deville, you're now on the Network Noobs team!" Lil asks: "For how long?" Sniz says: "For the rest of the game! Or, until you're eliminated, whichever comes first!" Darwin says: "What about me? Don't I get a say in this thing?" Sniz says: "All right, I guess we can't forget about you. You will be going on the Network Noobs team to, but to make it fair, it will be AFTER the Network Noobs elimination ceremony, where they will have to eliminate TWO!" And the Network Noobs gasp. Sniz says: "That's right, I said TWO! I'm liking the TWO'S today. It must be TWO'S Day! (Everyone gives him the look) Yeah, we don't get paid much to write the jokes on these shows." (Confessional) Pearl says: "Well, at least one good thing comes out of losing. Patrick and I are FINALLY on the same team!" (End Confessional) (A rousing, jubilant theme plays, as spotlights shine on a Silver Sniz statue.) All of the contestants are now wearing proper clothes, and Sniz is now wearing a fancy bow-tie and says: "Thank you for listening to the Silver Sniz theme. Network Noobs, tonight, there are twelve contestants who will be vying to win a Silver Sniz, and inside the Silver Sniz statue, is a sculpture treat made of the most delicious, sweet Carob goodness known to humans. Tonight, twelve are voting, but only ten will continue on tomorrow when Darwin gets to be in your team. (Electronic devices pop up in front of the Network Noobs.) You will be voting by these electronic ballots. Tonight, you will choose the two people you'd most like off your team. Oh, and no peaking, or else its, bye-bye-bye! Vote!" (Electronic sounds are made as the contestants each push a button to select their choice.) Sniz says: "All votes have been cast. It's time to reveal the winners. (Fondue walks onstage in humiliation, dressed like Vanna White and hands Sniz a paper with the voting results on it.) Patrick, Lil Deville, Craig Mammalton, Dog, Gerald, Pearl, Skipper, Rancid, surprisingly Larry, and last but not least..." (Dramatic music plays, Rhonda tenses up with nervousness, Judy Funny moves her hand to hold onto one of Blue Arrow's hands for good luck for at least one of them.) Sniz finally says: "Rhonda!" Rhonda says: "Yes!" And she hugs the two closest contestants closest to her, who happen to be Blue Arrow and Judy Funny! When Rhonda realizes this she says: "Oops! I mean, sorry guys!" Blue Arrow and Judy get up out of their seats and Judy says: "But, I thought everyone liked us." Larry says: "Define, liked." (Confessional) Larry says: "I know EXACTLY who is going home today!" And Larry mimics Blue Arrow's and Judy Funny's kissing. / Pearl says: "Four words; Blue Arrow, Judy Funny." / Gerald says: "At least they'll have each other." (End Confessional) Sniz says: "Do the departing contestants have any final words they'd like to share before they drive off in the Limo of Losers?" Blue Arrow and Judy look at each other, and they simply kiss each other and hug as they walk towards the Lame-o-sine. Rancid says: "Gross!" Rhonda says: "No way!" Craig says: "Cutest couple ever!" And Blue Arrow and Judy fall into the open door of the Limo. It closes, and drives off into the night. Sniz says: "Darwin, you may now join the Network Noobs." And Darwin goes with the Network Noobs, eager to discuss long term game plans with them. Sniz says: "The rest of you are safe, for tonight. As for you out there in TV world, this has been one tough challenge! How will we TOP this?! How will the two team member swap affect the two teams? Will Patrick Star and Lil Deville PROVE to be valuable members to the Network Noobs? One thing's for sure, answers to these questions and many more await on the next episode of Total Cartoon Action! Sniz out!" / Episode Notes: Blue Arrow and Judy Funny are eliminated in the first double elimination of "Total Cartoon Action," the 1st officially sanctioned team swap in "Total Cartoon" history occurs when Patrick Star and Lil Deville switch places with Haggis McHaggis and Marlene. Darwin joins the Network Noobs. Enough said!