


It can also result in getting reckless in trying to one-up the other, which can hurt everyone and everything involved.

Torches and Pitchforks: Happens to Pearl and SpongeBob at the very end of the episode due to The Sponge causing chaos.

He tans himself in a toaster, puts on a toupee for the handsome part and wears stilts to make himself taller (which make it difficult for him to walk). Tall, Dark, and Handsome: SpongeBob makes himself like this as Pearl's date.Soundtrack Dissonance: While "Doing the Sponge" fits perfectly with SpongeBob and Pearl finally having a fun time, it's also overlaid to the prom falling apart at the seams and the students getting clinically injured.Shout-Out: The scene where a girl in a white dress is chased by a giant apple is a reference to Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!.The two would actually have kissed had it not been for Mr. Ship Tease: The episode is well known for blatantly teasing that SpongeBob and Pearl apparently love each other.Scoring Points: A part of the choreography for The Sponge has Pearl shoot a basketball-shaped SpongeBob into a hoop.SpongeBob appearing to freeze, only for him to walk in on the other side and reveal the other SpongeBob is a realistic dummy of himself.Krabs yells at SpongeBob to "keep away from his precious little flower!" Then reveals that SpongeBob almost stepped on a literal sea flower. Ocular Gushers: Pearl's tears flood the Krusty Krab.In the end, it is implied that the dummy SpongeBob is the one who went with Pearl. Krabs asks SpongeBob to take Pearl to her prom, but then the real SpongeBob appears and shows him the exact replica of himself he made, which is whom Krabs was talking to. Mind Screw: Was it SpongeBob's dummy that took Pearl to the prom? If it did, how did it move, talk, destroy things.?.Intelligible Unintelligible: Pearl is able to understand SpongeBob through his Inelegant Blubbering.
