Dorsal Dan
| “ | Hey, I'm a teacher too! I teach all kinds of things. Safe cracking, burglary, getaway driving... | ” |
— Dorsal Dan, "The Getaway" |
Dorsal Dan
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Burglar[1]Physical appearance
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Clancy Brown ("The Krusty Slammer")
Rodger Bumpass ("Captain Pipsqueak")
Dorsal Dan is a character who first appears in the episode "The Getaway."
Description[]
Dorsal Dan is a light orange fish with periwinkle eyes, red-orange fins and lips, and buck teeth that come out of his mouth. He has a zig-zag shaped mustache and wears a blackish gray turtleneck jumper with black pants. He has eyebrows that hover over his eyes.
Role in series[]
SpongeBob SquarePants[]
"The Getaway"[]
When he first appears, he tellsMrs. Puff thatSpongeBob andSticky Fins Whiting have escaped. Mrs. Puff feels some attraction to him, and even more later.
Later, when Dorsal Dan and Mrs. Puff find Sticky Fins and SpongeBob, Dorsal along with Sticky Fins are found by the police and are both sent to a solitary cell.
"The Krusty Slammer"[]
He makes a cameo in theKrusty Slammer.
"Potato Puff"[]
Dan is one of the prisoners clinging to SpongeBob's boatmobile after he drives through theBikini Bottom Jail.
"Captain Pipsqueak"[]
He is one of the villains auditioning for the League of E.V.I.L.
"Ain't That the Tooth"[]
He breaks intoPatrick'shouse and tries to rob his money from his wallet until both degrade due to being made of sand. Patrick "sleep-punches" Dorsal and he gets caught into a mess causing him to accidentally cosplay as theTooth Fairy.
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The Patrick Star Show[]
"Patrick's Prison Pals"[]
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Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years[]
"End of Summer Daze"[]
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Role in books[]
Find a Missing Star[]
He,Sticky Fins Whiting, and theTattletale Strangler are hired byKaren to bury a bomb near theKrusty Krab as part of an elaborate plot to blow it up as a gift forPlankton, and kidnapPatrick due to witnessing their bomb planting. SpongeBob andSquidward discover the criminals' hideout uponMount Climb-Up-And-Fall-Off and are quickly captured.
After realizing that the bomb will blow up the people attending themayor's party, Karen commands Dan and the others to defuse it but they refuse, with him stating that it'd be dangerous to try it. Soon after, Dan and the other criminals leave their cave hideout and are blown up by the bomb flung by Plankton's invention.
Trivia[]
- "Potato Puff" and "Ain't That the Tooth" are the only instances where Dorsal Dan appears withoutSticky Fins Whiting.
References[]
- ^"Ain't That the Tooth."SpongeBob SquarePants. Nickelodeon. June 28, 2023. Television.