Shanghaied (SpongeBob SquarePants)

"Shanghaied"
SpongeBob SquarePants episode
Promotional image for the episode featuring SpongeBob and Patrick running from the Flying Dutchman
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 13a
Directed by	Aaron Springer (storyboard director) C.H. Greenblatt And Zeus Cervas (storyboard artists) Peter Bennett And Andy "Spike" Clark (Backgrounds Colors) Frank Weiss (animation) Alan Smart (supervising) Derek Drymon (creative)
Written by	Aaron Springer C. H. Greenblatt Merriwether Williams
Production code	5571-165
Original air date	March 9, 2001 (2001-03-09)
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"Shanghaied", also known as "You Wish",^[1] is an episode of the American animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants. It is the first part of the 13th episode of the second season, and the first half of the 33rd episode overall. It was directed by Aaron Springer and written by Springer, C. H. Greenblatt, and Merriwether Williams, with the animation directed by Frank Weiss. Greenblatt also served as the storyboard artist.

The series follows the adventures and endeavours of the title character and his various friends in the underwater city of Bikini Bottom. In this episode, SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidward encounter the Flying Dutchman, a ghostly pirate who seeks to acquire a new eternal crew to scare the residents of Bikini Bottom. As SpongeBob and Patrick do a poor job as his crew, the pirate considers devouring them instead, leading the two to try to figure out how to thwart his plan.

"Shanghaied" originally aired as a television special on Nickelodeon in the United States on March 9, 2001, and featured a poll where viewers can vote on the outcome of the episode; subsequent broadcasts have since shown a revised version which removed references to this voting feature. The episode received critical acclaim from online pop culture critics for its extensive and hilarious gags, and is generally ranked highly among their lists for the best SpongeBob SquarePants episodes. The original broadcast version was released on "The First 100 Episodes" DVD of the series in 2009 while the revised version was released on "The Complete Second Season" DVD set in 2004.