The Camping Episode
SpongeBob and Patrick decide to go camping outside Squidward’s house. Squidward is very disappointed and exasperated with them because he was expecting a quiet weekend by himself.
After getting ready, the gang begins roasting marshmallows while imitating astronauts, but Squidward dismisses them as “just not fitting the camping spirit.” He plans to get a can opener from his house so he can eat a can of Swedish Barnacle Balls. However, he is stopped by the gang saying that it “just doesn’t seem to fit the camping spirit.”
He then grudgingly eats the marshmallows but Patrick repeatedly blows on them and sends them flying into his face. After that, SpongeBob plays the “Campfire Song Song.” Squidward dislikes it and begins playing “Kumbaya” badly on his clarinet.
Squidward gets burnt from the spit that Patrick throws at him, is beaten up by the sea bear multiple times, and is protected inside SpongeBob and Patrick’s anti-sea bear circle, but is menaced by a sea rhinoceros in the end.
Dan Povenmire, who was the director on Family Guy’s “Road to Rupert”, wrote the song in this episode. It was also featured in a parody scene of “Road to Rupert” where Peter Griffin watches the Camping Episode and sings it himself.
The “Campfire Song Song” was actually an earlier version of the original song that Dan Povenmire wrote for Family Guy, but the songwriters changed it in this episode so that the lyrics and music were more suitable for SpongeBob.