When the scene of the Flying Dutchman deciding who gets the last wish came up, the episode paused and Patchy informed the viewers that it was now time to call in and cast their vote, at which point the show went to commercials.Īfter the commercial break, before proceeding to the winning ending (in which SpongeBob got the wish), Patchy played the other two alternate endings that did not get the most votes: When this episode first aired, the segments with Patchy the Pirate were much longer, and had Patchy hosting a poll in which the viewers would decide between three possible endings to the episode, with a different character receiving the final wish in each ending. Potty and Patchy are blown up and Patchy decides to sign off the show. Unfortunately, Potty shows up with a fuse in his head from an evidently unplanned explosives stunt. After a totally random outburst in which he tells the audience to walk the plank, he announces that they are going to read a fan letter. The episode itself ends and Patchy returns to greet the audience. But then, SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidward are turned into fruit and are chased by the Dutchman, who is now a hippie, around his ship which turned into a hippie van. SpongeBob wishes that the Flying Dutchman turns into a vegetarian, which at first seems to work in the trio's favor.
The trio begin arguing over who should get the last wish, until the Dutchman calls a halt to their fight and decides to randomly pick which one of them gets the last wish, ultimately picking SpongeBob. Sure enough, Squidward, who has just made it out of the Fly of Despair and back into his bedroom, is immediately transported back to the Dutchman's ship. SpongeBob then excitedly blurts out that he wishes Squidward was here to see this. Patrick says he wishes that they'd learned about this sooner, thus wasting the first wish. SpongeBob and the Dutchman begin fighting over the sock, until the Dutchman decides to grant them three wishes in exchange for it. SpongeBob and Patrick reluctantly decide to escape through the ship's live-action "perfume department" (filmed at a real department store), where perfume is constantly sprayed in their faces as they walk through.Īfter getting through the perfume department, SpongeBob and Patrick overhear the Dutchman saying that that he can't eat without his dining sock, and promptly steal it, but the Dutchman catches the two as they try to escape. He locks them in their room, as he prepares for his dinner.
However, they cause more harm than good for the Dutchman, and he eventually tells him that he has decided to eat them for dinner instead. The Flying Dutchman then has SpongeBob and Patrick help him go around Bikini Bottom and scare people. Frightened by what just happened to their unfortunate friend, SpongeBob and Patrick surrender to the Dutchman's order. Squidward keeps complaining about this, however, so the Dutchman throws him through a zipper-like portal into a nightmarish dimension he calls the "Fly of Despair". The Dutchman then tells the three that, since they set foot on his ship, they shall now be forced to work as his ghostly crew for all eternity. When he tells SpongeBob and Patrick that he will do the same to them, they repeatedly attempt to jump over board, but land back on the ship every time.
SpongeBob and Patrick tell the Dutchman of Squidward's intentions to complain to him, and he repeatedly burns Squidward with fire from his nostrils. When the trio set foot on the ship, the Flying Dutchman emerges from his cabin, terrifying Squidward. Up in the sky, they find out that the anchor was dropped from the Flying Dutchman's ghostly pirate ship. Squidward begins climbing up the anchor's rope to go complain to the owner, and SpongeBob and Patrick follow. Suddenly, the anchor moves, crashing in to Squidward's house as well. He and Patrick alert Squidward that "the sky had a baby", and he explains that it is an anchor. The actual episode starts with SpongeBob opening a box of Kelpo cereal, trying to find "one of eight essential prizes inside", when a giant anchor suddenly crashes into his house. Patchy tells the audience that today they will be watching his favorite episode, "Shanghaied", but Potty shoots him out of a cannon. The episode begins with a short Patchy the Pirate segment.