Basket Sponge: Season 1, Episode 11: When Commitments Conflict
Above water, in the land of Cleveland, the Calaviers basketball season is about to begin.
"Team, our season begins shortly. I understand the last couple months have been hard, with LeBron James going missing. Let's have a moment of silence for him and his family, as they struggle through this heartbreaking time of tragedy and despair." The Calaviers coach explains.
"The police still haven't been able to find him?" A random player inquires.
"I said a moment of silence! And no, he's believed to be dead." The Calavier Coach shouts as he throws a chair to that player.
In Bikini Bottom.
LeBron is at a party SpongeBob has thrown at his house. There is a DJ, people are dancing, getting wild, getting drunk...
"Yahooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!" LeBron roars as Patrick drinks an entire can of Whipped Cream as Mr Krabs throws money into the air and makes snow angels in the money.
"Woo-hoo! Money angels!" Mr Krabs shouts.
"Krabs! Get off me! You're CRUSHING me!" Plankton complains.
"Sandy, I have so many things to tell you." Squidward says as he grabs Sandy.
"Don't say a word. Let your mouth speak for you." Sandy says.
"Wait...that didn't make any sense!" Squidward explains to her.
"Use your mouth for something ELSE! You know exactly what I mean..." Sandy corrects his explaination as the two of them begin violently making out.
"Squidward! Did you invite our ex-teammate to SpongeBob's party?" Larry asks SpongeBob.
"Heh-heh...no?" Squidward tells him.
"Good...because if I EVER SAW THAT DOWNRIGHT DIRTY PIECE OF-". Larry says as Squidward sprays Larry in the face with whipped cream.
"AH! MY EYES!" Larry complains.
"Squidward, is that a Toon Tomahawks player?" LeBron asks as he notices Larry and Squidward.
"Ummm, ...no?" Squidward disagrees.
"You do realize I HATE THE TOMAHAW-." LeBron reminds him as Squidward sprays LeBron in the face with whipped cream. "This is whipped cream, Squid Boy. Is that all you got?"
"Go hide in the toilet." Squidward tells Sandy.
"Whatever." Sandy says as she opens the bathroom door, and Mrs. Puff is on the toilet.
"Nothing to see here, move along." Mrs. Puff tells Sandy as she shuts the door.
"Things have just gotten weird in the pineapple." Sandy says.
"Moowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!" Gary meows as he licks Luis who is sitting on the couch, texting his friends.
"LUIS! It's a party! Loosen up and have some fun!" SpongeBob reminds him.
"I am having fun. I just like the couch." Luis says.
"You should try THIS couch!" Patrick says as he is sitting on LeBron.
"I'm a COACH, Patrick." LeBron corrects him under his breath.
"Care to dance, Luis?" SpongeBob asks in French accent and puts a rose in his mouth.
"Let me think about it...no." Luis says as he declines to SpongeBob's offer.
"Eh, I'll ask Mr. Krabs!" SpongeBob tells him as Mr Krabs and Mrs. Puff are now both sitting on the toilet with the door open, making out.
"Eh...maybe not. He seems a bit occupied." SpongeBob says as Mr Krabs awkwardly closes the door.
"Everyone, I'd like to make a toast to my awesome coach, LeBron James!" SpongeBob says as he jumps on the table and shouts as everyone claps.
"TOAST? WHERE? I WANT SOME TOAST!" Patrick asks for toast as he eats Plankton.
"Ewwww, why is there a BRA in here?" Plankton asks about the location of a Bra as he is in Patrick's stomach.
"That was mine. I got kinda thirsty." Patrick says.
"There's too much acid in here! I have to survive in a BRA! Thanks a lot, Patrick!" Plankton complains as he snuggles in the bra.
"You're welcome." Patrick thanks Plankton
"Everyone, a toast to the Bikini Bottom Bulldogs! In celebration of winning 3 games in a row!" SpongeBob annouces as he clings a spoon on his glass cup.
Everyone claps.
"I just wanna let everyone here tonight know that I love my team, support my team, and would never do anything to hurt my team-" LeBron shouts as he stands up.
The scene cuts to LeBron screaming at his team after they lost the next day's game.
"Are you kidding me?! What the hell?! We played the worst team in the entire LEAGUE! The Daisy Town Dandelions! They're horrible! HOW THE HELL DID YOU GUYS LOSE OUT THERE!?" LeBron screams of why the team lost.
"That party last night...was...sooo...late." SpongeBob drones as he looks like a zombie. Patrick falls on the ground and goes to sleep.
"I don't know how you expected us to play good after a party so late." Squidward says.
"I told all of you to get a good night sleep or we'd lose!" LeBron reminds them.
"Well, we didn't go to sleep." Larry says.
"And we lost." Squidward continues.
"Come on! I just gave a speech at the party about how great you guys are! And now you let me down!" LeBron reminds them still.
"Sorry..." SpongeBob apolgizes.
"We'll do better next time!" Mr Krabs promises to LeBron.
"There IS no "we'll do better next time!" You ALWAYS say that! I train you, coach you, support you, and you're STILL a bunch of FAILURES! GET OUT OF MY SIGHT!" LeBron commands the team as he kicks the door, and throws a chair across the gym. "Now get home, and get some freakin' SLEEP!"
The team hung their heads low, and slowly sulked over to the door.
"Yes, sir." The whole team follow his rule as the door shuts.
"...damn it, I was too hard on them again! They probably hate me now! Grrrrrrrrrrrr!" LeBron angers himself as he rips down a curtain and punches the window before he begins breathing heavily, with fury in his eyes. "What's coming over me? I'm turning into a pyscho."
He pulls a picture out of his pocket, and begins crying. It is a picture of him and his kids outside playing, and his wife watching them, start gushing down his face. "I can't do it anymore! I gotta get home and see my family! Why am I living in some magical bikini fish land? I gotta get home to reality. I can't live with these fish people anymore...I gotta escape this mess!"
LeBron looks down at the floor.
"Hey, Luis dropped his phone." LeBron notices as he picks Luis's phone up. "That's weird, he was reading a news headline on the Internet."
The headline reads:
LeBron James Missing For 4 Months. Wife And Kids Devastated. Cleveland Calaviers Left Hopeless. The World Weeps.
"...I know exactly what I need to do." LeBron tells himself as he puts the phone down.
At the Bikini Bottom Airport.
"Hey, lady, listen, I need a flight to Cleveland." LeBron requests.
"LeBron James! You're the sexy coach of the Bikini Bottom Bulldogs!" A fat lady reminds him.
"Yes, yes, haha it's me. I'm also an NBA star, you know that, right?" LeBron asks her if she knows about his NBA days.
"Never heard of the NBA, I only know the POBA." The fat lady tells him.
"Of course you don't. Wait, why am I talking to a fish lady? I hate fish!" LeBron says to himself.
"You're in the ocean, Sir." The fat lady reminds him.
"Yes and I hate it! I'm going home to reality! Now give me plane tickets to Cleveland!" LeBron commands her.
"Never heard of this "Cleve Land." We only have 1 flight for all above-water location." The fat lady tells him.
"I'll take it! Whatever it is, I'll take it!" LeBron says.
Scene cuts to LeBron standing on the moon.
"Really? The only flight that can take me out of the ocean, takes me to the MOON?!" LeBron asks himself.
"Hello, Earthling. You have become the new coach of our soccer team!" An alien (like E.T, probabaly the same race, so we can add another E.T cameo after 'The Phantom Menace.') annouces to LeBron.
"No! Shut up!" LeBron shouts as he punches the alien.
"But we need a coach for our alien soccer team!" The alien tells him.
"I'm done coaching silly unrealistic teams!" LeBron complains to the alien.
"Eh, doc, ain't you seen Space Jam? Michael Jordan actually led us to victory!" Bugs Benny says as he munches a carrot.
"Yeah, but he's Michael Jordan. He can do anything! He's like, like...well...Bugs Bunny." LeBron compares.
"Exactly, doc." Bugs says as he muches the carrot. "What's troubling you, anyways?"
"Do you know SpongeBob SquarePants?" LeBron asks him.
"Yeah, doc, great friend of mine. Your point?" Bugs asks what his point is.
"I went to his hometown, Bikini Bottom, and now I'm the coach of the Bulldogs." LeBron says.
"Oh, they're a great team!" Bugs comments.
"Not the same Bulldogs as last season. They all quit. They've been replaced by a bunch of horrible, un-athletic, in-experienced players." LeBron tells him.
"Oh. And you came to the moon to escape?" Bugs asks him about why he wants to go to the moon.
"Haha, well not intentionally." LeBron says.
"I did." Bugs reveals.
"What are you escapin'?" LeBron inquires.
"Years after Looney Tunes ended, Cartoon Network created this horrible new series called The Looney Tunes Show, with new actors and everything. This new guy looks nothing like me! It makes me vomit. So I'm up here, and I won't come down until Warner Bros. takes the show off the air." Bugs explains the story to him.
"Wow. Hollywood." LeBron uses sarcasm to him.
"Tell me about it! But listen, if you made a commitment to the Bulldogs, no matter how terrible they are, you need to stick with 'em. I know they may get on your nerves, but deep down, you really love 'em." Bugs Benny explains that everyone should love everyone.
"That's true." LeBron agrees as he looks at his picture of him and his kids."But I love my family more. I miss playing for the Caviliers. Coaching underwater ball isn't my thing. Plus, the whole world thinks I'm dead. My poor wife thinks she's a widow with two fatherless kids."
"Well, tell ya what, doc. I'll go back down to Earth, and tell them you're okay." Bugs tells him.
"But they'll never believe me! About the whole underwater city thing!" LeBron says.
"I'll just tell them your a little busy, but you'll be back. As of now, LeBronny Boy, you need to get back to Bikini Bottom and get things straight with your team!" Bugs explains to him, a plan.
"You're right, Bugs Bunny! This was an odd and random pep talk...but how do I get back to Bikini Bottom? There's no plane up here!" LeBron complains after thanking Bugs Bunny.
"One, sec, doc." Bugs says as he picks up LeBron, spins around and flings him off the moon straight into the blue ocean of Earth.
886.4 billion lightyears later
"Coach should be here! Practice started 5 minutes ago!" SpongeBob notes as he looks at his watch.
"He was really pissed yesterday." Squidward comments.
"He's always pissed." Larry tells him.
"We shouldn't have let him down. We could have played a little better in that game." SpongeBob says.
"Maybe we've let him down for GOOD!" Mr Krabs tells him.
"What do you mean?" Patrick asks everyone.
"Maybe he packed his bags...and headed back for Cleveland." Mr Krabs notes.
"I wouldn't be surprised. It looks like he read my phone yesterday. He read the Internet news article about his strange disappearance. I'm sure he felt conflicted, but decided to leave." Luis explains to them.
"So this is it? You really think he decided to go home?" SpongeBob inquires.
"Well think about it! What would you do if you accidentally got transported to some strange other dimension! Wouldn't you go home, rather than sticking around and coaching basketball?" Plankton conjures up an idea.
"He has a point. LeBron really should've gone home to his family sooner." Larry says.
"Maybe you're right. But I sure am gonna miss him!" SpongeBob says as LeBron crashes through the ceiling at lightning speed, and lands on Patrick.
"Ouuuchhh! Now the COUCH is sitting on ME!" Patrick complains.
"Coach LeBron! You're here!" SpongeBob relieaves.
"I...see...stars..." LeBron says as he flops on the ground.
"I think he took quite a fall." Plankton says.
"Bugs Bunny threw me all the way down here from the moon." LeBron explains as he stands up.
"He's crazy..." Squidward whispers.
"Okay, well listen up, everybody. I understand I haven't been the greatest coach lately. I've lost my temper, expected great things from you guys, and have treated you unfairly. The truth is, you guys drive me insane. But I love each of you. And I promised you all that I would coach you for the season. And that's exactly what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna stick to my word!" LeBron explains and apoligizes to the team.
"But what about your home! Your wife and kids! Your Cleveland team!" SpongeBob says.
"Bugs Bunny will let them know I'm okay." LeBron says.
"You really have gone crazy..." Squidward tells him.
"Haha, okay. Group hug, everybody." LeBron explains as the entire team came together for a big group hug.
"I'm not going anywhere. You guys are my passion! ...wait, where's Luis?" LeBron inquires about Luis.
"Heh-heh...I might have mailed him to Cleveland." Larry reveals.
"You can MAIL things to Cleveland from here?" LeBron asks about the mail.
"Yup. I tied him up, put him in a box, and mailed him off. He's gonna join the Calaviers, and take your spot! Now we'll never see him again! Never, ever, EVER!" Larry explains as he smiles.
"What?! He was okay with that?" LeBron asks.
"Nah. I just shoved him in the box. See, everybody wins! You get to stay with us, and the Cleveland Calaviers get someone to take your spot!" Larry sasys.
"But Luis was our best player! He was our only hope of winning the tournament! Why would you mail him away?" LeBron asks him.
"Because he was better than me. Anyone who's better than me, I can't accept." Larry says.
"Is it too late to mail myself to Cleveland?" LeBron asks himself before he facepalms.
Author's Note:
What a brilliant episode, or according the leader of the group - Special. I think this is a great special that is underrated than other specials like... Tournament Terror, Army of Ghosts, The Team That Never Sleeps and Phantom's Uprising.
But you may ask who is this person editing here?
The Imperial Ghost is busy with a Christmas Special, so I'm taking over his Basket Sponge stuff for now.
See you later, dudes!
The Imperial Ghost JamesAdventures - December 11th, 2015.