Dial Pearl for Murder

Dial Pearl for Murder

Pearl goes to jail for hiding her boyfriend, who broke out of jail, in the gang's house.

Season: 8 Episode: 11

Total Episode Count: 137

'''Prod. no.''': 7ACX12

Featuring: Squidward Tentacles, Pearl Krabs

Also Appearing: SpongeBob SquarePants, Sandy Cheeks, Patrick Star, Plankton, John Fishly, Karen, Mayor Johnny East, Bob Bobber, Barbara Winsky, Connie Resedes, Gina, Jenkins, Nort Goldman, Satan, Consueela, Rodrigo, Luke, Drunk Billy, Jeremy, Janine, Goofy, Jim Carey, Jenny McCarthy

Plot: SpongeBob gets more then he bargained for when he joins the rodeo. Believeing himself ready after practicing on Pearl and Patrick, he finds himself oermatched when he runs into a bear of a bull. Squidwardmakes the acquantance of the editor for Teen Fish and picks up a gig writing about the average American teenage girl. Followng Pearl as his subject, he finds she's sneaking off to the Bikini Bottom Adult Correctional Institute to converse with an inmate she made friends with as a pen pal. Squidward rats her out to the gang and they don't wnant her to talk with him again. Later, he escapes and comes to Pearl but Squidward finds out and alerts the gang. He is captured and Pearl goes to prison as an accessory for the escape. When she returns, the gang finds she is harder and meaner. Fed up with years of mistreatment, Pearl decides to hold up Goldman's pharmacy to get the money she needs to leae. Squidward intervenes and finds Pearl believes no one cares about her. Squidward shows her the story he wrote about her, proing that he cares for her just as she was. She is touched by his kindness and returns to normal relations with her friends.

Trivia

 * This is the only episode to show Pearl's bad side.

Rating
TV-14: DLSV

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