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Imitation Krabs (Episode)
"Imitation Krabs" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season two. It premiered on December 28, 2000.
Brief summary: After another scheme having been foiled, Plankton discovers that the Krabby Patty formula can only be discussed with Mr. Krabs in a private place. He then makes a robotic Mr. Krabs to fool SpongeBob, but he has to get rid of the real Mr. Krabs first.
Time/Date: Unknown
Time cards shown:
- 6 1/2 hours later
Characters Present:
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Mr. Krabs
- Sheldon Plankton
- Squidward Tentacles
- Krusty Krab Customers
- Mr. Krabs (robot)
Songs:
- Bikini Bottom National Anthem
- Oh, Bikini Bottom, we pledge our hearts to you
- As faithful, as deep, as true, as blue
- Bikini Bottom, we love you!
- Meatball, Meatball
- Meatball, Meatball
- Spaghetti underneath.
- Ravioli, Ravioli
- Great Barrier Reef!!
- Formuoli
- Ravioli, Ravioli,
- Give me the formuoli!
Contents |
Plot
A robotic fish designed to look like an ordinary customer walks into the Krusty Krab. It is a disguise used by Plankton to try and find out the Krabby Patty secret formula. But he doesn't ask for a Krabby Patty. He tells SpongeBob that he will win $1,000,000 if he tells him the Krabby Patty secret formula. Spongebob says that it can only be discussed with Mr. Krabs in private. Later, Plankton's robotic Mr. Krabs tells Squidward he can have the day off and tries to make SpongeBob tell him the secret formula. However, the real Mr. Krabs keeps on coming into the room they are in, so he has to hide and he emerges again when the real Mr. Krabs leaves. He throws a penny out the window and the real Mr. Krabs chases it. Afterwards, robot Krabs learns that for the secret recipe to be discussed, he must first do a secret handshake, a ridiculously long and complicated ceremony that takes around 7 hours to accomplish. SpongeBob is about to give him a bottle with the recipe inside, until the real Mr. Krabs comes in. SpongeBob gives them both a quiz about the Krusty Krab, threatening to blast the fake one with tartar sauce. The imitation Krab somehow guesses all the answers to the quiz correctly and Mr. Krabs somehow gets them all wrong. SpongeBob presumes that the robotic Mr. Krabs is the real one, and gives him a penny that he "dropped". The penny goes into the Robot's coin-operated self-destruct mechanism, blowing Plankton into the sky.
Quotes
- Mr. Krabs: Just remember the most important rule!
Spongebob: No free napkins?
Mr. Krabs: No! The other most important rule!
Spongebob: Only discuss the Krabby Patty Formula with Mr. Krabs!
Mr. Krabs: Arr! As long as you do that, the formula is safe!
Squidward: I thought the most important rule was why do today what you can put off tomorrow? (laughs)
Mr. Krabs: What is today but yesterday's tomorrow?
Squidward: Huh?
- SpongeBob: Hey Mr. Krabs, what happened to your metal pants?
- Mr. Krabs: Don't go all loopy on me, boy! I need your help. And where in the heist is Squidward?!
- Spongebob: You gave him the day off.
- Mr. Krabs: Day... OOFFFFFFF!!!!!!!!!! (Fire blows out the smokepipe on the roof of the Krusty Krab) I don't know the meaning of them horrible words!! Now quit laying around and take out that garbage! It's giving me a rash!
- Spongebob: Aye-eye, sir!
- Spongebob: (rapidly) The Krabby Patty formula is the sole property of the Krusty Krab and may only be discussed, in part or in whole, with its creator Mr. Krabs. Duplication of this formula is punishable by law. Restrictions apply. Results may vary.
- SpongeBob: QUIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Until I know who the real Mr. Krabs is...nobody move, and nobody gets hurt. (SpongeBob holds hose towards Plankton and Mr. Krabs)(Plankton and Mr. Krabs gasp)
Mr. Krabs & Plankton: Tartar Sauce!?
- Mr. Krabs: Plankton!
- Plankton: Krabs!
- Mr. Krabs: PLANKTON!
- Plankton: KRABS!
- Spongebob: Spongebob!
- Mr. Krabs: (gasp)
- Spongebob: (gasp)
- Penny: (gasp)
- Plankton: gasp.
- Plankton (Robo-Krabs eyes catch fire) whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Trivia/Goofs/Notes
- Plankton stated that he went to college.
- The title of this episode is based off of imitation crab meat.
- This is the fourth time Plankton tried to steal the formula (in the series).
- In this episode, Mr. Krabs says that he doesn't know the meaning of day off. But in the episode, "Bubble Buddy", SpongeBob had the day off.
- Running gag: Every time Plankton's robot Krabs says a lie, its engine backfires and smoke can be seen from the exhaust pipe.
- Some music were also used for the shows: Count Duckula and DangerMouse.
- The prices of the Krabby Patty as mentioned in the question below are the opposite prices used at McDonald's: $2.99 for burger, $0.99 on Wednesday.
- SpongeBob: How much does a Krabby Patty cost?
- Mr. Krabs: $2.99!
- SpongeBob: On Wednesday.
- Plankton: $0.99!
- SpongeBob (to Mr. Krabs): RIGHT! That's one strike, Mr. Fake!
- When SpongeBob asks the question only the really, real Mr. Krabs could answer, "If we're discussing the secret formula on the third Wednesday in January and it's not raining outside, after we gargle with vanilla pudding, what do we do?", the word "vanilla" is excluded in the captions.
- This is the second time we see a face on a coin actually move. The first time was in Squid's Day Off, when the dime winked at Mr. Krabs.
- SpongeBob, Plankton, and Mr. Krabs do the "Krabs-Plankton"-Chant again in the season four episode, Enemy In-Law. SpongeBob also ends that one.
- This is the first episode that Mr. Krabs is accused for being a robot. The other is Krab Borg.
- In New Leaf the robot Mr.Krabs is seen again in a pile of Plankton's old experiments, however in Spy Buddies, Mr. Krabs and Plankton have changed positions and Plankton uses the robot again.
- To date, this is the only SpongeBob episode still rated TV-Y.
- The captions were extensively modified for when SpongeBob told about the disclaimer for the Krabby Patty secret formula.
Transscripts and Songs
Episode Transscript: Imitation Krabs
Bikini Bottom National Anthem
The Spaghetti Song
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