Snail plasma is a slime produced by sea snails used to move about. Sometimes, it is required to inject some into a sick snail, but if injected into a being other than a snail, they will turn into a snail, albeit only temporarily. It appears in the episode "I Was a Teenage Gary" and the book Meow...Like a Snail?!

Description[]

It is an injection in the form of a violet purple swirly shell.

Role in episode[]

Incidental 116 tells SpongeBob to inject his pet snail Gary with snail plasma to cure him, and the injection must be carefully administered. However, Squidward accidentally injects SpongeBob with it, changing and mutating the latter's DNA and turning him into a snail.

Later, Squidward accidentally injects himself when SpongeBob is chasing him, trying to get help, which causes total chaos wrecking the house, turning him into a snail too while being injured.

It is unknown how SpongeBob and Squidward got back to normal afterward.

Effects[]

It is supposedly used as medicine to help cure snails, similar to booster shots.

If the plasma is used on a non-snail, this will gradually alter and mutate the victim's DNA and make them exhibit snail behavior, such as eating snail food, meowing mid-sentence, and can only move slowly. The final stage will result in the subject's outer appearance changing to match that of a snail's, such as their eyes sticking out on stalks, unable to stand up, losing their arms and legs, and their backs or pants hunching to form a snail shell. The victim will also tilt their eyes, lose their ability to talk, and can only communicate through meowing in the snail language.

Trivia[]

• SpongeBob and Squidward technically should not have turned into snails by the snail plasma because the medicine in it was never injected; the bit was only jabbed into their noses without pushing the syringe down, as the doctor demonstrated before.