Production code:
2515-101
"Tea at the Treedome " is the third segment of the first episode of SpongeBob SquarePants . It is notable for being the first appearance of Sandy Cheeks .
Synopsis [ ]
While out jellyfishing in Jellyfish Fields, SpongeBob spots a young female squirrel wrestling with a giant clam. He thinks that she is in trouble and goes to wrestle the clam himself. The squirrel manages to escape the clam, and SpongeBob ends up inside of it, but the squirrel rescues him and throws the clam out of the area. SpongeBob introduces himself to the squirrel, who says that her name is Sandy Cheeks . When SpongeBob inquires about the helmet she wears, Sandy tells him that it's her air helmet. SpongeBob does not know what air is, but does not tell her this, instead saying that he loves air. Sandy, surprised that SpongeBob is fond of air, invites him to her "Treedome" for "Texas tea" and cookies.
SpongeBob quickly runs over to Patrick 's rock and tells him what happened. Patrick tells him that "putting on airs" is fancy talk. He then tells SpongeBob if he wants to be fancy, to hold his pinky finger high above him.
When SpongeBob arrives at Sandy's Treedome, he notices that the water level inside drops. This causes him to panic, but he claims to Sandy that there isn't any problem and tries his hardest to breathe, not realizing that sea creatures like himself need water to survive. Sandy gives him a tour of her Treedome, showing him that she has an oak tree and a bird bath. During this, SpongeBob quickly sneaks over to the bird bath, which is filled with water, as he now knows he needs water to breathe properly. He gives Sandy some flowers, and she goes to get a vase for them. Patrick, watching from outside the treedome, tells SpongeBob to keep his pinky finger up. Sandy returns and places the flowers in a vase, filled with ice cold water, on the picnic table. SpongeBob tries to resist drinking the water while Sandy goes to get the tea and cookies. He eventually gives in, drinks the water, and runs for the door, declaring that he is a quitter. Patrick, thinking he is being shy around Sandy, enters the Treedome and tries to convince him to stay. But after a moment, Patrick soon finds himself dehydrating as well. The two struggle to get out of the treedome, but are unsuccessful.
When Sandy comes back, she shrieks as she spots both Patrick and SpongeBob dried up on the grass. She helps them by giving them water-filled helmets. In the end, Sandy proposes a toast to new friends, and they drink their tea. SpongeBob and Patrick drink by gulping the tea-filled water in their new helmets, with their pinky fingers pointing up.
Home video releases [ ]
VHS
SpongeBob SquarePants: Deep Sea Sillies
DVD
SpongeBob SquarePants: Tales from the Deep
SpongeBob SquarePants: The Complete 1st Season
SpongeBob SquarePants: 10 Happiest Moments
SpongeBob SquarePants: The First 100 Episodes
Trivia [ ]
This episode is number 17 on Tom Kenny 's Top 20 on iTunes.
This episode was ranked #46 in The 100 Greatest Nicktoon Episodes countdown.
This was the first episode to be written by Paul Tibbitt , show runner and writer for the series.
In this episode, the water helmets have two openings. However, in later episodes, there is only one.
SpongeBob and Patrick are shown to dry up without water. However, in "Pressure ", "Survival of the Idiots ", and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie , they manage to survive without it, even going above water in two of those examples. This is supposedly because of moisture in the air, with snow in "Survival of the Idiots" and mist and the sea spray on the island and the beach.
This is the first time SpongeBob is seen jellyfishing.
External links [ ]
SpongeBob SquarePants episodes
Season 1
"Help Wanted " / "Reef Blower " / "Tea at the Treedome " • "Bubblestand " / "Ripped Pants " • "Jellyfishing " / "Plankton! " • "Naughty Nautical Neighbors " / "Boating School " • "Pizza Delivery " / "Home Sweet Pineapple " • "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy " / "Pickles " • "Hall Monitor " / "Jellyfish Jam " • "Sandy's Rocket " / "Squeaky Boots " • "Nature Pants " / "Opposite Day " • "Culture Shock " / "F.U.N. " • "MuscleBob BuffPants " / "Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost " • "The Chaperone " / "Employee of the Month " • "Scaredy Pants " / "I Was a Teenage Gary " • "SB-129 " / "Karate Choppers " • "Sleepy Time " / "Suds " • "Valentine's Day " / "The Paper " • "Arrgh! " / "Rock Bottom " • "Texas " / "Walking Small " • "Fools in April " / "Neptune's Spatula " • "Hooky " / "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy II "
Season 2
"Your Shoe's Untied " / "Squid's Day Off " • "Something Smells " / "Bossy Boots " • "Big Pink Loser " / "Bubble Buddy " • "Dying for Pie " / "Imitation Krabs " • "Wormy " / "Patty Hype " • "Grandma's Kisses " / "Squidville " • "Pre-Hibernation Week " / "Life of Crime " • "Christmas Who? " • "Survival of the Idiots " / "Dumped " • "No Free Rides " / "I'm Your Biggest Fanatic " • "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy III " / "Squirrel Jokes " • "Pressure " / "The Smoking Peanut " • "Shanghaied " / "Gary Takes a Bath " • "Welcome to the Chum Bucket " / "Frankendoodle " • "The Secret Box " / "Band Geeks " • "Graveyard Shift " / "Krusty Love " • "Procrastination " / "I'm with Stupid " • "Sailor Mouth " / "Artist Unknown " • "Jellyfish Hunter " / "The Fry Cook Games " • "Squid on Strike " / "Sandy, SpongeBob, and the Worm "
Season 3
"The Algae's Always Greener " / "SpongeGuard on Duty " • "Club SpongeBob " / "My Pretty Seahorse " • "Just One Bite " / "The Bully " • "Nasty Patty " / "Idiot Box " • "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV " / "Doing Time " • "Snowball Effect " / "One Krabs Trash " • "As Seen on TV " / "Can You Spare a Dime? " • "No Weenies Allowed " / "Squilliam Returns " • "Krab Borg " / "Rock-a-Bye Bivalve " • "Wet Painters " / "Krusty Krab Training Video " • "Party Pooper Pants " • "Chocolate With Nuts " / "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V " • "New Student Starfish " / "Clams " • "Ugh " • "The Great Snail Race " / "Mid-Life Crustacean " • "Born Again Krabs " / "I Had an Accident " • "Krabby Land " / "The Camping Episode " • "Missing Identity " / "Plankton's Army " • "The Sponge Who Could Fly " • "SpongeBob Meets the Strangler " / "Pranks a Lot "
Season 4
"Fear of a Krabby Patty " / "Shell of a Man " • "Krabs vs. Plankton " / "The Lost Mattress " • "Have You Seen This Snail? " • "Skill Crane " / "Good Neighbors " • "Selling Out " / "Funny Pants " • "Dunces and Dragons " • "Enemy In-Law " / "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy VI: The Motion Picture " • "Patrick SmartPants " / "SquidBob TentaclePants " • "Krusty Towers " / "Mrs. Puff, You're Fired " • "Ghost Host " / "Wishing You Well " • "Chimps Ahoy " / "Whale of a Birthday " • "Karate Island " / "All That Glitters " • "New Leaf " / "Once Bitten " • "Bummer Vacation " / "Wigstruck " • "Squidtastic Voyage " / "That's No Lady " • "Hocus Pocus " / "The Thing " • "Driven to Tears " / "Rule of Dumb " • "Born to Be Wild " / "Best Frenemies " • "The Pink Purloiner " / "Squid Wood " • "Best Day Ever " / "The Gift of Gum "
Season 5
"Friend or Foe " • "Night Light " / "The Original Fry Cook " • "Rise and Shine " / "Waiting " / "Fungus Among Us " • "Spy Buddies " / "Boat Smarts " / "Good Ol' Whatshisname " • "New Digs " / "Krabs à la Mode " • "Roller Cowards " / "Bucket Sweet Bucket " • "To Love a Patty " / "Breath of Fresh Squidward " • "Money Talks " / "SpongeBob vs. the Patty Gadget " / "Slimy Dancing " • "The Krusty Sponge " / "Sing a Song of Patrick " • "A Flea in Her Dome " / "The Donut of Shame " / "The Krusty Plate " • "Atlantis SquarePantis " • "Picture Day " / "Pat No Pay " / "BlackJack " • "Blackened Sponge " / "Mermaid Man vs. SpongeBob " • "The Inmates of Summer " / "To Save a Squirrel " • "Le Big Switch " / "Goo Goo Gas " • "20,000 Patties Under the Sea " / "The Battle of Bikini Bottom " • "Pest of the West " • "The Two Faces of Squidward " / "SpongeHenge " • "Banned in Bikini Bottom " / "Stanley S. SquarePants "
Season 6
"Spongicus " / "Suction Cup Symphony " • "House Fancy " / "Krabby Road " • "Penny Foolish " / "Nautical Novice " • "Not Normal " / "Gone " • "The Splinter " / "Slide Whistle Stooges " • "A Life in a Day " / "Sun Bleached " • "Giant Squidward " / "No Nose Knows " • "Patty Caper " / "Plankton's Regular " • "Grandpappy the Pirate " / "Cephalopod Lodge " • "Squid's Visit " / "To SquarePants or Not to SquarePants " • "Shuffleboarding " / "Professor Squidward " • "Boating Buddies " / "The Krabby Kronicle " • "The Slumber Party " / "Grooming Gary " • "SpongeBob SquarePants vs. The Big One " • "Truth or Square " • "Porous Pockets " / "Choir Boys " • "Krusty Krushers " / "The Card " • "Dear Vikings " / "Ditchin' " • "Pineapple Fever " / "Chum Caverns " • "Shuffleboarding " / "Professor Squidward " • "Pet or Pests " / "Komputer Overload " • "Gullible Pants " / "Overbooked " • "No Hat for Pat " / "Toy Store of Doom " • "Sand Castles in the Sand " / "Shell Shocked " • "Pineapple Fever " / "Chum Caverns " • "The Clash of Triton "
Season 7
"Tentacle-Vision " / "I ♥ Dancing " • "Growth Spout " / "Stuck in the Wringer " • "Someone's in the Kitchen with Sandy " / "The Inside Job " • "Greasy Buffoons " / "Model Sponge " • "Keep Bikini Bottom Beautiful " / "A Pal for Gary " • "Yours, Mine and Mine " / "Kracked Krabs " • "The Curse of Bikini Bottom " / "Squidward in Clarinetland " • "SpongeBob's Last Stand " • "Back to the Past " / "The Bad Guy Club for Villains " • "A Day Without Tears " / "Summer Job " • "One Coarse Meal " / "Gary in Love " • "The Play's the Thing " / "Rodeo Daze " • "Gramma's Secret Recipe " / "The Cent of Money " • "The Monster Who Came to Bikini Bottom " / "Welcome to the Bikini Bottom Triangle " • "The Curse of the Hex " / "The Main Drain " • "Trenchbillies " / "Sponge-Cano! " • "The Great Patty Caper " • "That Sinking Feeling " / "Karate Star " • "Buried in Time " / "Enchanted Tiki Dreams " • "The Abrasive Side " / "Earworm " • "Hide and Then What Happens? " / "Shellback Shenanigans " • "The Masterpiece " / "Whelk Attack " • "You Don't Know Sponge " / "Tunnel of Glove " • "Krusty Dogs " / "The Wreck of the Mauna Loa " • "New Fish in Town " / "Love That Squid " • "Big Sister Sam " / "Perfect Chemistry "
Season 8
"Accidents Will Happen " / "The Other Patty " • "Drive Thru " / "The Hot Shot " • "A Friendly Game " / "Sentimental Sponge " • "Frozen Face-Off " • "Squidward's School for Grown-Ups " / "Oral Report " • "Sweet and Sour Squid " / "The Googly Artiste " • "A SquarePants Family Vacation " • "Patrick's Staycation " / "Walking the Plankton " • "Mooncation " / "Mr. Krabs Takes a Vacation " • "Ghoul Fools " • "Mermaid Man Begins " / "Plankton's Good Eye " • "Barnacle Face " / "Pet Sitter Pat " • "House Sittin' for Sandy " / "Smoothe Jazz at Bikini Bottom " • "Bubble Troubles " / "The Way of the Sponge " • "The Krabby Patty That Ate Bikini Bottom " / "Bubble Buddy Returns " • "Restraining SpongeBob " / "Fiasco! " • "Are You Happy Now? " / "Planet of the Jellyfish " • "Free Samples " / "Home Sweet Rubble " • "Karen 2.0 " / "InSPONGEiac " • "Face Freeze! " / "Glove World R.I.P. " • "Squiditis " / "Demolition Doofus " • "Treats! " / "For Here or To Go " • "It's a SpongeBob Christmas! " • "Super Evil Aquatic Villain Team Up is Go! " / "Chum Fricassee " • "The Good Krabby Name " / "Move It or Lose It " • "Hello Bikini Bottom! "
Season 9
"Extreme Spots " / "Squirrel Record " • "License to Milkshake " / "Squid Baby " • "Patrick-Man! " / "Gary's New Toy " • "Eek, An Urchin! " / "Squid Defense " • "Little Yellow Book " / "Bumper to Bumper " • "Jailbreak! " / "Evil Spatula " • "It Came from Goo Lagoon " • "Safe Deposit Krabs " / "Plankton's Pet " • "Don't Look Now " / "Séance Shméance " • "Kenny the Cat " / "Yeti Krabs " • "SpongeBob You're Fired " • "Lost in Bikini Bottom " / "Tutor Sauce " • "Squid Plus One " / "The Executive Treatment " • "Pull Up a Barrel " / "Company Picnic " • "Sanctuary! " / "What's Eating Patrick? " • "Patrick! The Game " / "The Sewers of Bikini Bottom " • "SpongeBob LongPants " / "Larry's Gym " • "The Fish Bowl " / "Married to Money " • "Mall Girl Pearl " / "Two Thumbs Down " • "Sharks vs. Pods " / "CopyBob DittoPants " • "Sold! " / "Lame and Fortune " • "Goodbye, Krabby Patty? " • "Sandy's Nutmare " / "Bulletin Board " • "Food Con Castaways " / "Snail Mail " • "Pineapple Invasion " / "Salsa Imbecilicus " • "Mutiny on the Krusty " / "The Whole Tooth "
Season 10
"Whirly Brains " / "Mermaid Pants " • "Unreal Estate " / "Code Yellow " • "Mimic Madness " / "House Worming " • "Snooze You Lose " / "Krusty Katering " • "SpongeBob's Place " / "Plankton Gets the Boot " • "Life Insurance " / "Burst Your Bubble " • "Plankton Retires " / "Trident Trouble " • "The Incredible Shrinking Sponge " / "Sportz? " • "The Getaway " / "Lost and Found " • "Patrick's Coupon " / "Out of the Picture " • "Feral Friends " / "Don't Wake Patrick "
Season 11
"Cave Dwelling Sponge " / "The Clam Whisperer " • "Spot Returns " / "The Check-Up " • "Spin the Bottle " / "There's a Sponge in My Soup " • "Man Ray Returns " / "Larry the Floor Manager " • "The Legend of Boo-Kini Bottom " • "No Pictures, Please " / "Stuck on the Roof " • "Krabby Patty Creature Feature " / "Teacher's Pests " • "Sanitation Insanity " / "Bunny Hunt " • "Squid Noir " / "Scavenger Pants " • "Cuddle E. Hugs " / "Pat the Horse " • "Chatterbox Gary " / "Don't Feed the Clowns " • "Drive Happy " / "Old Man Patrick " • "Fun-Sized Friends " / "Grandmum's the Word " • "Doodle Dimension " / "Moving Bubble Bass " • "High Sea Diving " / "Bottle Burglars " • "My Leg! " / "Ink Lemonade " • "Mustard O' Mine " / "Shopping List " • "Whale Watching " / "Krusty Kleaners " • "Patnocchio " / "ChefBob " • "Plankton Paranoia " / "Library Cards " • "Call the Cops " / "Surf N' Turf " • "Goons on the Moon " • "Appointment TV " / "Karen's Virus " • "The Grill is Gone " / "The Night Patty " • "Bubbletown " / "Girls' Night Out " • "Squirrel Jelly " / "The String "
Season 12
"FarmerBob " / "Gary and Spot " • "The Nitwitting " / "The Ballad of Filthy Muck " • "The Krusty Slammer " / "Pineapple RV " • "Gary's Got Legs " / "King Plankton " • "Plankton's Old Chum " / "Stormy Weather " • "Swamp Mates " / "One Trick Sponge " • "The Krusty Bucket " / "Squid's on a Bus " • "Sandy's Nutty Nieces " / "Insecurity Guards " • "Broken Alarm " / "Karen's Baby " • "Shell Games " / "Senior Discount " • "Mind the Gap " / "Dirty Bubble Returns " • "Jolly Lodgers " / "Biddy Sitting " • "SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout " • "SpongeBob in RandomLand " / "SpongeBob's Bad Habit " • "Handemonium " / "Breakin' " • "Boss for a Day " / "The Goofy Newbie " • "The Ghost of Plankton " / "My Two Krabses " • "Knock Knock, Who's There " / "Pat Hearts Squid " • "Lighthouse Louie " / "Hiccup Plague " • "A Cabin in the Kelp " / "The Hankering " • "Who R Zoo? " / "Kwarantined Krab " • "Plankton's Intern " / "Patrick's Tantrum " • "Bubble Bass's Tab " / "Kooky Kooks " • "Escape from Beneath Glove World " • "Krusty Koncessionaires " / "Dream Hoppers "
Season 13
"A Place for Pets " / "Lockdown for Love " • "Under the Small Top " / "Squidward's Sick Daze " • "Goofy Scoopers " / "Pat the Dog " • "Something Narwal This Way Comes " / "C.H.U.M.S. " • "SpongeBob's Road to Christmas " • "Potato Puff " / "There Will Be Grease " • "The Big Bad Bubble Bass " / "Sea-Man Sponge Haters Club " • "Food PBFFT! Truck " / "Upturn Girls " • "Say Awww! " / "Patrick the Mailman " • "Captain Pipsqueak " / "Plane to Sea " • "Squidferatu " / "Slappy Daze " • "Welcome to Binary Bottom " / "You're Going to Pay…Phone " / "A Skin Wrinkle in Time " • "Abandon Twits " / "Wallhalla " • "The Salty Sponge " / "Karen for Spot " • "Arbor Day Disarray " / "Ain't That the Tooth " • "Ma and Pa's Big Hurrah " / "Yellow Pavement " • "The Flower Pot " / "SpongeBob's on Parade " • "Delivery to Monster Island " / "Ride Patrick, Ride! " • "Hot Crossed Nuts " / "The Sir Urchin and Snail Fail Show! " • "Friendiversary " / "Mandatory Music " • "Dopey Dick " / "Plankton and the Beanstalk " • "Gary's Playhouse " / "Funbelievable " • "Spatula of the Heavens " / "My Friend Patty " • "The Goobfather " / "Swimming Fools " • "SquidBird " / "Allergy Attack " • "Big Time Flop " / "Sandy, Help Us! "