Christmas From Down Under
by bub1028
Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the pineapple,
not a creature was stirring, not a drop did ripple
For at a lone table, the trio sat,
writing out Christmas lists to a jolly man with a red hat.
Twas Spongebob’s idea, and so they all gathered,
(they had to force Squidward, but that’s beside the matter.)
Spongebob asked for a hunk of balogna,
Patrick asked for a kind green pony.
Squidward, however, asked to go home.
“And out by my house, may you never again roam”
So, with Spongebob a crying...
And Patrick a sighing,
Squidward left the pineapple home.
Later on, in the dead of the night,
A loud THUNK! awoke all with a fright,
a small, thin old man,
with a large bag in his hand
fell, fell far from his flight.
He was short, and he wasn’t that fat,
and he stared at the two under his Santa Claus hat,
he said in a low voice,
“What are you doing? I’ll give you a choice!”
“Go back to bed and I’ll deliver,
Stay up and disrupt and I’ll make you all quiver!”
Spoke the Santa Claus, filled with greed,
Wanting to do his evil deed,
with a couple of knocks on the head
they went back to bed
and he cackled evily.
He tore off his beard and he took off his hat,
he spun around to look this way and that,
it was a short figure with one big eye,
much worse than any burglar, fake, or spy,
it was Plankton! The extremely evil, deadly, sly
fake Santa had come to steal their Christmas.
He took all their jellyfish lights,
he took all their presents,
he took all their wreaths,
he took everything pleasant.
The last thing he did, still laughing with greed,
was grab their lit coral reef, and shoved it up the chimney!
When suddenly, he heard, a tiny sound,
a syllable worth, and he looked all around.
Sitting there, looking at him inquisitively,
sat the snail, the one whom they all called Gary!
Although it was difficult, he could still understand him,
he asked the one question, “Santa Claus, why are you so slim?”
Plankton froze, and caught in his evil deed,
realized the one true thing that wouldn’t allow him to succeed,
he was thin! And though grim,
no one would go for a slim Santa Claus.
The places he’d gotten so far!
He couldn’t let it go!
And it came to him, right through the open window.
He said “Result of underwater pressure, didn’t you know?”
And he thundered and cackled and shot zap after zap
from a deadly machine that would finish that sap,
and through all the noise,
Spongebob and Patrick awoke and sat up in a poise!
They ran downstairs, and saw the evil Plankton,
ready to execute the snail right in front of him,
He had the aim ready, there was nothing to do,
except for Patrick to burp, and it shot into
the fireplace, “RUN!” called the Sponge in horror,
with Patrick running to the kitchen for a glass of cold water,
“Santa”, meanwhile, did not notice a thing,
Only looking at the creature in front of him quivering,
Until Sponge grabbed Gary, and fled in a wink,
gave Plankton, only enough time to think.
Suddenly, there was a BANG!!!
As the burp and the fire clanged
Together to create a humongous explosion,
that rocked the streets of Bikini Bottom.
And Plankton went flying,
straight through the air,
His antenna flying behind him like hair,
He had been caught in lying,
All of those wasted hours of trying.
And Karen the “reindeer” hooked to the sleigh,
saw the explosion, and thundered away,
For the computer didn’t trust
Plankton anymore,
Making her climb all the hills, more and more.
And suddenly, Plankton, while flying through the air,
had a sudden flashback, to when he prepared,
He couldn’t stand all the noise
of the fish when they sang,
their voices, they rang,
up to the Chum Bucket,
abandoned, alone,
except where one being had his home.
“And perhaps,” thought Plankton,
“Christmas doesn’t come from a Barg N’ Mart,
Maybe Christmas,” he thought, feeling his beating heart,
“means a little greater than what I had thought,”
and he felt something grow, the love, the heart.
And so Spongebob and Patrick, with no where to go,
decided to spend Christmas with Squidward, so he wouldn’t be alone.
And they had a merry time, (especially Squidward),
their Christmas was saved, and I offer these words,
although you may hear,
To all a Merry Christmas, and to all a Happy New Year.
