Episode Synopsis

When Mermaidman andBarnacleboy go away for the weekend, they ask SpongeBob and Pat to house sitfor them. Inside the house, SpongeBob and Pat discover the evil super villain,Man-Ray frozen in a tank. SpongeBob can’t help but unfreeze him and he consthem into setting him free by convincing them they have re-habilitated him.Once SpongeBob and Pat set him free, they find out that Man-Ray was onlypretending and they take on the roles of Mermaidman and Barnacleboy themselves inorder to re-capture the villain and save Bikini Bottom. In an idiotic showdown, we learn that Man-Ray only thinks he hasn’t turned good, but actuallySpongeBob and Pat did change him and he gives up his evil ways.

When SpongeBob andPat go to a jellyfishing convention, SpongeBob tries to join an exclusive,elitist jellyfishing club. Secretly, the club president thinks SpongeBob isn’tworthy, but for his own amusement he makes SpongeBob pass a series of gruelingtests in order to join the club. The tests end up backfiring on him andSpongeBob learns that talking about jellyfishing isn’t nearly as cool as justdoing it.

SpongeBob attemptsand fails his driving test again, but a ragged and fed up Ms. Puff wants himout of her classroom so she makes up some bogus extra credit for him so he canpass the test. This all backfires on Ms. Puff and the only way she can stopSpongeBob from menacing Bikini Bottom’s roadways is to steal SpongeBob’s boatso he can’t drive it.

One day, Gary starts following Pataround and SpongeBob can’t figure out why. Slowly he grows more and more jealous and becomes determined to win Gary back. Pat thinksSpongeBob should just accept that Gary’swith him now and move on with his life. SpongeBob tries to replace Gary with new pets, butnone of them are the same. SpongeBob becomes more and more pathetic as he triesto win back Gary’s affection and in a surpriseending, we understand that Garyis as loyal as a pet can be.

While Sandy is hibernating forthe winter, SpongeBob and Pat are fascinated by the snow they see inside theTree Dome and want to play in it. When they try to sneak inside, Sandy warns them in apre-taped video not to disturb a mammal when she’s hibernating. SpongeBob andPat, of course, ignore the warning, play in the snow, wake up Sandy and then have to contend with thesleepwalking and sleeptalking savage beast she's become. When they finally gether back to sleep, they realize the lock to the door is frozen shut and they’llhave to spend the winter there. Freezing, they pluck off all of Sandy’s hair in order tokeep warm and when she wakes up, it's payback time.