[first lines]
[We see a live traffic jam on a busy expressway. Patchy is in one of the cars in it. He is also wearing sunglasses.]
Let's go! [honks his horn] Hey, kids. Rush hour traffic here in Encino is a real bringdown. [grumbles in frustration] A little music should soothe me jangled nerves. At least my in-dash hi-fi still works. [Patchy puts a cassette tape in the radio, which breaks and the music stops. Patchy shows the broken cassette tape.] Oh! Me ultra-rare "Frampton Comes Alive" 8-track destroyed! [Tosses it into the car] And I'm gonna miss the new SpongeBob cartoon if this traffic doesn't move soon! [Patchy growls and cries while he moans. Patchy's cell phone rings. The ringtone is SpongeBob's piccolo from the theme song] Who's calling? [answers the phone] Yes, Patchy here. Start squawkin'.
[squawks] Hey, Patchy, the new SpongeBob cartoon's about to start. Where are you, brawk?
Stuck on the 101. Be a dear and record it for me, would you?
Oh, I threw out that old Betamax machine in the garbage. [squawks]
Potty, you know how important this cartoon is to me. [someone honks his horn at him] Do you mind?! I'm trying to talk to my parrot! [the man looks at Patchy in shock as he gets back on his phone to talk to Potty] Sorry, Potty. Just some landlubber. [Potty hangs up] Potty? Hello, hello, hello, hello!? [looks at his phone's screen. It says "call dropped" with a Jolly Roger symbol; groans] Dropped again. [closes his phone] Curse this traffic! [the traffic starts moving again] Ooh! [pulls up his anchor, much to the man's confusion. He drives into a desert-like area] Arrgh! Home at last! What the--? [his eyes pop out from behind his pair of sunglasses, breaking them] Encino...it's gone. No! [sobs] You know, kids, this kinda reminds Patchy of an old story. Another story of a...lost city. Why don't you check it out? [as he continues sobbing] Oh, Encino.
[Patchy reappears, he is still in a desert area, he looks around, but Encino's missing, and his sunglasses still broke]
Well, bad news, kids. Encino's still lost. [The radio starts playing] Oh! But, at least I got me radio fixed! [Patchy snaps his fingers while listening to it, then it explodes] Well, enjoy the rest of the show.
LLRH
Well, shall we continue on with the rest of the tour?
Y'all head out without me. [goes back inside]
LLRH
Well, then, good luck, have fun. We'll see you at dinner. [to SpongeBob] Your friend Sandy certainly is an excitable one.
Somehow I knew I'd get stuck with you yahoos the longest.
[Patchy reappears]
[realizes that there is no water left] This is the end of Patchy. No water, no food, and still no Encino. And here come the vultures to pick me bones! [Potty flies up] Shiver me timbers! It's Potty! I wonder what parrot tastes like... Come back here! Uh-oh. Here come the hallucinations.
[laughs] Patchy, it's me. SpongeBob SquarePants. [Patchy is excited and laughs weakly] Don't lose hope. Everything will be all right when you get to Encino.
It's not gone, if you believe.
Believe, believe. [falls asleep. Wakes up and reads the sign] Welcome to Encino! It's back! [hugs the sign] SpongeBob was right! All I had to do was believe! [laughs cheerfully]
♪You got to believe. It was out of sight. You got to believe. I'm back in Encino. You got to believe. Everything's all right. The sky above, and the ground below. Bring me back into Encino. It was lost, some time ago, I'm just glad to be back home. You got to believe. I'm back in Encino. You got to believe. Everything's all right. You got to believe. I'm back in Encino. You got to believe. Everything's all right.♪
[Patchy is shown playing an instrumental by a man and woman at a bench, annoying them and making the latter's baby cry. They walk away as the chorus joins back in]
♪You got to believe. I'm back in Encino. You got to believe. Everything's all right. You got to believe. I'm back in Encino. You got--♪
[drops his ice-cream scoop and we hear strange sounds. Potty squawks, and then pokes Patchy] Ow! Ow! It was all a hallucination. Encino's still... gone! [Patchy groans] Ooh, a sandwich. Potty, you're a lifesaver. [opens a sandwich] Oh! Oh, Potty, you know I don't like mayo! [sees a vulture] Here, you want some? Go on. Uh... take it. I don't like the mayonnaise, you know. Once it gets up above 130, 135, the mayonnaise gets kind of... grody, you know.
Plankton's wrath tastes like ice cream!
SPSpongeBob and Patrick
Thanks, Plankton!
Ice cream? It shoots ICE CREAM?! [jumps out of the tank] Oversized ice cream maker! [childishly kicks the tank but hops around in pain] Yah! Ouch! Ouch!
LLRH
Look! A talking speck! This talking speck will make a fantastic [glares at SpongeBob and Patrick] replacement for our recently deflated national treasure! [looks at Plankton and speaks in a babyish tone] Won't you, little fella?
I'll destroy all of you...!
LLRH
[squeezes Plankton within his hands] Amazing! This is so much better than that dusty old bubble!
[is later seen in a baby bottle cage] You haven't seen the last of me! When I get out of here, I'll hunt you all down like a pack of... [someone takes a picture] Hey! Can't you read? [points at sign] No flash photography.
[Patchy reappears]
Pretty good story; eh, kids? [he bumps into something, revealing a glass-shaped dome with city things] I found Encino, but it's all tiny! Someone must've... [panics, sees aliens and screams]
NSNorblock's Mother
Sorry, sir. Our son Norblock Five was messing with his shrink-a-tron again.
No, no, no! I want Encino full-sized again! There's no place like home. There's no place like home.
NSNorblock's Mother
Okay. Hand it over, Norblock-5. [Norblock Five pulls out a remote and gives it to his mother] We'll fix your town, beardy.
[Patchy panics, and hollers in front of a gray sky background with objects]
[cues to a house in Encino]
Well, looks like everything's back to the right size; eh, Potty? [Potty was nowhere to be seen] Potty? [a giant Potty foot crushes him] Well, kids. I'm a little busy right now, but be sure to come back real soon for more of your old pal Patchy! Ow! And more SpongeBob Squarepants! Potty, will you get off of me?
