When You Wish Upon a Fishstein

When a Wish Upon a Fishstein

SpongeBob attempts to convert Patrick to Judaism so he will become better at math, but Sandy stops him.

Season: 3 Episode: 22

Total Episode Count: 50

'''Prod. no.''': 2ACX05

Featuring: SpongeBob, Patrick, Max Fishstein

Also Appearing: Sandy, Pearl, Plankton, Squidward, Fred, Tom, Jim Kaplan, Luke ASkywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Tony Roobbins, Optimus Prime, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Seinfield, Jason Alexander, Woody allen, Louis Farrakhan, Sinbad, Ed McMahon, Brides of Christ, Penguin, Lenny Kravitz, Herschel & Mordecai

Musical Numbers: I Need a Jew

Plot: SpongeBob gives Sandy's "rainy day fund" to a scam artist selling volcano insurance. On that same night Plankton break's Pearl's contacts, because he hates being watched while he sleeps, and so Sandy tells SpongeBob that he needs to recover the money to buy their friend a new pair of contacts.

Depresses by his financial woes, SpongeBob is interested when Fred and Tom describe great financial successes attained after hiring men with Jewish-sounding names and decides that he needs a Jew to handle his money (though Tom pointedly tells SpongeBob the mans' relgion his not the point of the stories) in an elaborate musical number "I Need a Jew".

Trivia

 * This is the first episode to be banned by FOX but aired on Nick@Nite.

Trivia
TV-14: DLSV

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