Chum Bucket

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The Chum Bucket

The Chum Bucket is a failing restaurant directly across the street from the Krusty Krab. It is run by Sheldon J. Plankton and Karen. The Chum Bucket consists of a dining area, a laboratory (marked "Kitchen" from the outside), a room with a giant video screen, and a hidden room with beds for both Plankton and Karen. It first appears in Plankton!

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Location

The Chum Bucket is on Bottom Feeder Lane, located across the street from the Krusty Krab. It is occasionally visible from the Krusty Krab’s front window, but this varies from episode to episode. The only time in which the restaurant appears without Plankton or Karen is in No Hat for Pat.

Rooms and Menu

Rooms

  • Cafeteria: This is where you order food, and eat it. The only person that comes to the Chum Bucket to eat Chum on his own was Nat Peterson, in the episode Plankton’s Regular.
  • Kitchen/Evil Laboratory: This is where Karen’s wall form resides and where Plankton conducts evil experiments. He never actually cooks food here.
  • Office: A working place where Plankton sometimes sleeps, complete with a tiny table and a desktop form of Karen. It is first seen in Sleepy Time.
  • Bedroom: A somewhat extravagant hidden room where Plankton and Karen sleep in purple beds. It is first seen in Bottle Burglars.
  • The Lab Room: Essentially just a room where a Labrador Retriever is shown on a huge video screen. It is only seen in "Plankton!" and the video game Nicktoons Unite!.
  • The Krusty Krab Replica: A kitchen that looks exactly just like the Krusty Krab’s, only seen in Welcome to the Chum Bucket.
  • Meeting Room: This is where meetings are held with any employees. It is only seen in Chum Bucket Supreme.

Exterior

It is essentially just a gray bucket, sometimes with some windows. There are two brown doors, both with windows, and the stacked words "ChUM BUCkET", in red, near the top of the bucket. The bucket’s handle is held by a blue fist. In "Komputer Overload," it is shown to also have a drive-thru.

Menu

The menu first appeared when SpongeBob comes in the Chum Bucket in the episode "Plankton!" The items on the menu are Chum Burger, Chum Fries, Chumbalaya, Chum Pie, Chumstick, Chum Chili, Chum Shake and Chummy Joes. In Komputer Overload, Plankton states that there are two drinks on the menu: Bucket Bubbler and Chum Cherry Blast.

Employees

Inventions Made in the Chum Bucket

  • The Analyzer: A sand clock-like zapping machine that will discuss the 2 recipes of a Krabby Patty. The object scanned and analyzed by this invention will send it into Karen (example: "Seaweed: 50% sea, 50% weed").
  • RobotBob SpongeChefPants: A robot that is controlled by SpongeBob’s brain.
  • Plankton Robot: or Chumbot: A giant robot used to steal Mama Krabs and also snatch people and place them in the Chum Bucket, to convince them to buy some food. The plans did not work out as expected. There is also a smaller robot copy of Plankton, known as Robot Plankton, in Battle for Bikini Bottom, Truth or Square and the former game’s remaster.
  • Mr. Krabs Robot: A Mr. Krabs-shaped robot built by Plankton to receive the Krabby Patty formula. Karen’s system is built into the robot and her voice announces when the robot will self-destruct.
  • Switch Lives Just to Know What It’s Like-O-Mogrifier: An invention that Plankton nearly forgot about, until Karen reminded him of it. It allows the user to switch lives with a dolphin, mermaid, jellyfish or crab as seen in the episode "The Algae’s Always Greener".
  • T-119A Compumatic: A talking toaster with wheels, antennae, and a claw.
  • Noxious Enterprise’s Super SPU-31 Liquid-Cooled Mobile Processing Unit: A large, bulbous liquid-filled glass robot with four jointed legs.
  • Command Module: An old hairdryer taped to the back of a miniature windmill on wheels.

Metamorphoses

  • Fear of a Krabby Patty: In an attempt to convince SpongeBob to reveal the formula, the Chum Bucket was turned into a psychology lab simply by adding some curtains and two chairs. It’s unknown what happened to this version after Plankton’s plan failed.
  • New Leaf: The Chum Bucket was converted into a gift shop to make Mr. Krabs think that Plankton had given up.
  • "Bucket Sweet Bucket": Plankton manipulated SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidward into remodeling the Chum Bucket, asking them "You wouldn’t want to disappoint my Karen now, would you?" Meanwhile, he tried to steal the formula. The Chum Bucket, to Plankton’s shock, was eventually merely turned into the Krusty Krab (more on that below), and his plan was then foiled by Mr. Krabs, who had just came back from a vacation.

Destruction

  • Dying for Pie: It may be one of the buildings destroyed by the bomb.
  • Imitation Krabs: After the self-destruction system is activated, Plankton screams a drawn-out "Help!" as he wheels back to the Chum Bucket, but explodes when he gets inside.
  • Spy Buddies: Plankton invites SpongeBob and Patrick into the Chum Bucket building, but Patrick’s laser pants become so destructible that it starts carving holes everywhere and destroys the Chum Bucket. Not long after, the floor opens up and a blimp emerges with Plankton controlling it from the inside.
  • "Bucket Sweet Bucket": The Chum Bucket was merely replaced with the Krusty Krab, and parts of it were used by Squidward as decorations for the Krusty Krab. Even though it wasn’t destroyed, it is still in the "Destruction" Category.
  • "Stanley S. SquarePants": Stanley destroys it by touching the inside.
  • Spongicus: Plankton destroys it with a wrecking ball and replaces it with a coliseum. Later, when trying to get away from the lion, he runs outside, but the lion punches a hole through it and creates a larger hole.
  • Slide Whistle Stooges: Squidward drives a gas truck while playing his slide whistle and drives through the Chum Bucket.
  • Operation: Krabby Patty: At the end of the "Wrong Side" story, the self destruct videotape blows up the Chum Bucket. Then Plankton pulls over his music player and instead of listening to his music, he listens to the nursery rhyme "Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star".

LEGO set

Chum Bucket (LEGO Set)

Slogan

The never-syndicated slogan "Chum is Metabolic Fuel!"
  • Chum Is Metabolic Fuel! (original slogan that never got syndicated; "Chum Bucket Supreme")
  • Chum Is Fum! (1st slogan; "Chum Bucket Supreme", SpongeBob’s Last Stand)
  • Fum Is Chum! (2nd slogan; "Chum Bucket Supreme")
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