At Happy Chapman's Apartment...
The toy collector has just donned in his football costume and he's just finishing up his phone call in an urgent tone. "Yeah, yeah, I'll be right there. And we're going to do this commercial in only one take, because, right now, I'm in the middle…of something really important!" Happy hung up his phone. He chuckles deviously through clenched teeth as he gazes evilly at SpongeBob in a glass case. "You, my little sponge friend, are gonna make me big bucks." Happy let out a roar of laughter.
Happy left his apartment, closing the door behind him.
SpongeBob comes to life, and pushes the door open and he jumps down onto the counter, then down onto the floor. He runs over to the double door, his torn arm flopping beside him. He desperately jumps up and down to reach the door handle, but it's too far up. He frantically looks around, and he sees the window. He runs over to the windows, and he climbs up onto a box, then onto a chair. He then leaps up to the windowsill, and pushes aside some blinds to see the landscape to see the indication on where he is. He looks down and gasped. He is nowhere NEAR home. SpongeBob had been taken into the big city, trapped in the highest penthouse apartment. Surviving a fall or jump this height would be treacherous for a toy to endure.
"Michael…"
Outside the apartment, Happy got in his car and muttered, "I can't believe I have to drive all the way to work on a Saturday. All the way to work!" Happy drove his car to his state of business, Happy's Toy Stadium, which is just across the street.
Back inside Happy's apartment, SpongeBob jumps down from the windowsill, and ran to a nearby air vent, believing to be the last option of escaping. He tried pulling it off, but the screws were too tight and he is only to one good arm. Using his good arm, he tries to get a screw loose, but no avail. He refused to give up, combing his plastic dexterity to open the air vent.
A noise erupted from behind, and SPongeBob turned to see a few Styrofoam peanuts scattered on the floor, a few of them trailing toward him.
"What...?" SpongeBob wondered. He was interrupted when he was abruptly picked up by something. WHOA!" SpongeBob cried, incredibly startled. It was muscular buckskin colored horse with a dark brown mane, a dark brown nose, dark black hooves a dark brown tail, and brown eyes. His name is Spirit.
In all the excitement, the horse galloped wildly around the room, causing the latter to scream hysterically. "HEY! STOP! HORSEY! STOP! STOP! SIT, BOY! STOP IT!" SpongeBob yelled. SpongeBob was forced to duck under a table to avoid hitting his head as they pass through it. "SIT, I SAID! WHOOOOA!"
That did the trick as Spirit skidded to a stop and tossed him off his back and tumbled across the floor, landing head-first.
The sponge didn't have too much time to relax as two girl toys landed in front of him. The first toy wore a fading-green tank with stripes, and khaki pants, and now has her hair in a pony tail. Her name was Cindy Vortex. The second toy wore a white suit, and with a yellow patch with an acorn on it. It also has two red, and a blue ring(s) on each sleeve. The suit comes with a big glass dome with a pink flower. She also wears boots with one red dot on each side of each boot. Underneath, she wears purple clothing, primarily a purple bikini top and a purple and green skirt like bottom.
"YEEEEE-HAAAAAAW!" Cindy cheered. SpongeBob tries to back away, but Cindy grabs him in a huge hug. "IT'S YOU! IT'S YOU! IT'S YOU, IT'S YOU, IT'S YOU!" Cindy gave SpongeBob a noogie on the head. "It's really you!"
"Uh, what's me?" SpongeBob asked.
Sandy ran over to greet him. "SpongeBob, it's so good to see you again!"
Cindy tosses SpongeBob out by his string, then pulled him back to listen to his recorded message in SpongeBob's voice box implanted in his body. "There's a copepod in my sock!"
"HA! It is you!" Cindy confirmed.
"Could you please stop saying that?' SpongeBob begged, freaked out. "What the heck is going on?!"
"Come on, you're just confused about meeting us newcomers. Allow us to introduce ourselves. I happen to be Sandy Cheeks, a female member of the Roundup gang!" Sandy said. She gestured to Spirit, "That there's Spirit, your trusty steed!"
Cindy added, "I'm Cindy Vortex. I am also a female member of this gang too!" She hugged him tightly off the floor and said, "Farquaad said someday you'd come!" She gasped and lets go of him, sending SpongeBob falling to the floor. "Sweet mother of George Washington! Lord Farquaad! He'll want to meet you!"
Cindy whistled for Spirit, and Spirit ran over to the big box and dove inside it. A smaller box came flying out and lands on the floor. The box's back depicts a picture of a diminutive man with a square jaw, a stubble across the lower part of his face, long shoulder-length black hair, and blue eyes. He wore red medieval clothing with puffy sleeves a belt with a sapphire at the buckle, yellow lines at the hem, a matching red cape, and a puffy red hat. At the bottom he also wore gray pants with black boots.
"Say hello to Lord Farquaad!" Cindy presented happily.
SpongeBob studied the box in utter disbelief. He deadpanned, "Uh...It's a box."
Cindy replied, "He's mint in the box. Never…been opened."
"Turn me around, Spirit so I can see." a voice said. Spirit turns the box around and a toy version of Farquaad is in the box. He gasped in happiness as he clasped his hands together, "Why, the prodigal son has returned."
"YEE-HAW!" Cindy cheered gleefully as SpongeBob flinched. "It's you, it's you, you're here!" Cindy hugs him more, but SpongeBob pulls himself out of Cindy's grip.
SpongeBob backed away nervously, "OK, I'm officially freaked out now."
"Oh, we've been waiting countless years for this day." Farquaad said gleefully, with Spirit pushing his box forward. "It's good to have you back, SpongeBob."
"Look, I don't know what….Hey, how do you know my name?" SpongeBob said.
"Everyone knows your name, Sponge-Bob." Cindy replied teasingly.
Sandy explained, "Don't you remember, SpongeBob? You've been the most important star of SpongeBob's Roundup, which first debuted in 1954. Even me, Cindy, Spirit and Farquaad are also stars of the show. We have been waiting for such a long time for the main character to come here, and now you're with us, which means you're reunited with the Roundup Gang!"
SpongeBob was unsure of what to think. He is at a loss for words, nor does know what to say.
"Why, you don't know who you really are, do you, huh?" Farquaad asked. "Spirit, why don't you show him?" Spirit nodded and ran over to a chair, and up a table. With his snout, he raises a dim switch and the lights go on in the room.
SpongeBob turns to where the lights shone, dropping his mouth in awe at what he saw: a wide spread of merchandise; lunchboxes, posters, games, knick-knacks, etc. "That's me." SpongeBob marveled. It was just SpongeBob; there were some other merchandise that depicted him with Cindy, Sandy, and Spirit. He sees himself with Cindy and Sandy on an old album cover. There's also a picture of SpongeBob and Spirit are on the front of a metal lunch box and drink thermos. There's even an old SpongeBob's Roundup radio. SpongeBob's blue eyes grow big in wonder as he sees a row of plates decorated with his face, along with Sandy, Cindy, Spirit and Farquaad the prospector. He backs into something. SpongeBob gazes up at a giant stand up SpongeBob's Roundup poster. He gazes up at a giant picture of himself standing brave like any sheriff would be. He is totally amazed.
"Wow!" SpongeBob said. He looks down and sees himself and Spirit on the cover of an old LIFE magazine. It showed SpongeBob riding on Spirit. A label on the cover reads: Saturday Morning's Favorite Sponge Cowboy: SpongeBob SquarePants! "Holy cow." SpongeBob whispered.
Sandy and Spirit take the opportunity to push a videotape into a VCR and Cindy eagerly turns on the old TV set and it began playing a 1950s TV show that has been recorded, and is in black and white. The show takes place in a Western Town called Bikini Gulch and it's about SpongeBob's job as a cowboy, and him and his posse are all marionette puppets. Western fiddle music begins playing and SpongeBob turns around, and begins walking toward the TV, as soon as he heard the violin music. On the screen is a cartoon-style barn as an announcer's voice rang out.
"Coral Crunchies, the only breakfast cereal that's sugar-frosted and dipped in chocolate, proudly presents…" The announcer chorused.
Chorus: SpongeBob's Roundup
Come on it's time to play
There's Cindy and Sandy, the yodeling cowgirls
(yodel-lee, yodel-lee, yodel-lee…)
The screen depicts two marionettes, Cindy Vortex and Sandy Cheeks both yodeling, then 2D animals approached them all around.
"Lookit, lookit! That's me!" Cindy replied proudly.
"And me too!" Sandy said.
Chorus: Spirit, he's SpongeBob's horse
(Neigh….he's a smart one!)
A marionette Spirit is seen playing horseshoes by tossing a horseshoe onto a stake. Spirit grins modestly as SpongeBob continued watching the TV curiously as the theme song went on..
Chorus: Farquaad the old prospector
The screen shows a puppet Farquaad exiting a gold mine. "Has anyone seen my pick?" TV Farquaad asked. The pick is stuck in his rear, and laughter rang out from the screen. SpongeBob turned to the toy version of Farquaad, who clutched the bridge of his nose in embarrassment. SpongeBob turned to the TV as the theme song reached its conclusion.
Chorus: And the guy himself, of course
It's time for Sheriff SpongeBob
The image of a puppet SpongeBob on TV opened saloon doors and he came out into town in a cowboy outfit. He leaped up and onto Spirit's back, who rears up. SpongeBob tips his hat to the camera, implying that he's greeting the young kids, such as the viewers.
He's the very best
He's the rootinest, tootinest cowboy
In the Wild Wild West
SpongeBob's Roundup
SpongeBob was overwhelmed and bursting with complete anticipation. Besides his dub of being the favorite toy of a kid, being a star of an old TV show was a different story. Overwhelmed with anticipation, he decided to watch the rest of the show with his new friends, the toy versions of The Roundup Gang. Why go home when he can relax with new friends for a while?