Shanghaied/Gary Takes a Bath

On March 9th, 2001, the official air date of the episode, Nickelodeon held a voting contest where the viewers could choose how the cartoon ended. Patchy the Pirate and Potty hosted the event, as they usually do their comedic routines, then Patchy would tell the viewers what to do. Then, as the Dutchman is about to choose who gets the last wish, Patchy interrupts and tells the viewers to vote for either Squidward, Patrick, or SpongeBob to get the last wish. After a commercial break, before announcing the winner, Patchy ran down the losers, Patrick and Squidward, and their endings, then show the winner, SpongeBob's ending. Nowadays, when Nickelodeon reruns the episode, the SpongeBob ending will be shown, along with the Patchy segments edited as Patchy's Pick, and the voting segments removed. The three endings are as follows:

• SpongeBob wishes the Dutchman was a vegetarian.
• Squidward wishes he never knew SpongeBob and Patrick.
• Patrick wishes for bubble gum.

After the flying dutchman says he is about to eat Spongebob and Patrick, They escape through the perfume department, Spongebob steals the Dutchman's sock, and for him to get it back he grants Spongebob 3 wishes. Spongebob uses one to summon Squidward there, who was thrown in the fly of despair and had been separated from spongebob before these events. Having wasted their next wish, Squidward, having had no knowledge of these previous events, says to Spongebob that he has one wish and pleads to wish they don't get eaten despite Squidward having no knowledge of the previous events.

The original version, "You Wish", excluded "Gary takes a Bath" and instead was a whole 30-minute episode. The Patchy the Pirate segments were much longer, and involved voting for the episode's ending, which you could choose. The other two endings were shown as well as the chosen ending. Most of the Patchy footage was re-dubbed for lated airings as "Patchy's Pick".

Featured in SpongeBob SquarePants: Sea Stories (2002)