Betsy Krabs

Betsy "Mama" Krabs

Betsy "Mama" Krabs is Eugene Krabs's mother and Pearl Krabs's grandmother. The episodes that have featured her have shown her to be very strict and no-nonsense. In "Sailor Mouth", she makes Mr. Krabs, SpongeBob, and Patrick repaint her pink anchor home as punishment for foul language, and in "Mid-Life Crustacean", she grounds her son for the night after he steals her bloomers. In "Enemy In-Law", she briefly dates Plankton, but turns down his marriage proposal. She is voiced by Paul Tibbitt in her first two appearances, and by Sirena Irwin in all later appearances. Voiced by Irwin, her voice sounds younger and has more of a Scottish accent. Her phone number is 791347. In the episode "Friend or Foe" she was shown younger, without wrinkles or gray hair and her name was revealed to be Betsy. She makes two minor appearances in "Spongicus", in the Krusty Krab and at the Chum Coliseum,. She had a male voice in Sailor Mouth.

In the same manner by which all octopi on the show are modeled after Squidward, Mrs. Krabs is very similar to her son in terms of appearance. She has wrinkly skin, wears a purple dress and large blue glasses, and has a small patch of fluffy white hair. In "Friend or Foe", which takes place around 50 years in the past, she looks no younger than in her other appearances. In Mid-Life Crustacean, she also had a male voice.

Trivia/Goofs

• In "Stanley S. SquarePants", in a throwaway scene, three nephews of Mr. Krabs are shown, who are a parody of Disney's Huey, Dewey and Louie. This would imply that Betsy Krabs has another son or daughter.
• A portrait of her married to her husband is shown in the episode "Mid-Life Crustacean" when she is disciplining Mr. Krabs.
• She was evidently a poor woman in the mid-to late 1940s, as she had no money to buy Eugene clothes. Old Man Jenkins spared some car-washing rags from the trash can to fix him what to wear. However, she still wore kind-of formal clothes.
• Mama Krabs has a laugh strikingly similar to Popeye the Sailor Man.
• In the episode "Sailor Mouth" Betsy Krabs' voice sounds older (while played by Tibbitt), while in the episode "Enemy In-Law", "Spongicus", "Friend or Foe", etc. she had a different voice (while portrayed by Irwin).
• It is shown in the episode "Enemy In-Law" she has large muscles after she learns that Plankton tricked her to get the Secret Formula.
• She appeared in the book Mother Knows Best with a different appearance. She wore a pink dress, lipstick, and no glasses and looked about the same age as her son.

Quotes

• "Am I really that pretty?" (Enemy In-Law)
• "You should all be ashamed!" (Sailor Mouth)
• "I think you scallywags have earned a glass of lemonade. Ag-gah-gah-gah!" (Sailor Mouth)
• "If you're going to talk like sailors, then you're going to work like sailors!" (Sailor Mouth)
• "Boring! I like to see some body parts!" (Spongicus)
• "Eugene, what are you doing with my bloomers?!" (Mid-Life Crustacean)