"Big League Bob" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 15. In this episode, SpongeBob is recruited to cook in the big leagues, but first, he must prove his worth in the test kitchen.
Characters[]
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Patrick Star
- Squidward Tentacles
- Eugene H. Krabs
- Turtle (single appearance)
- Shrimp (single appearance)
- Eel (single appearance)
- Restaurant manager (single appearance)
- Fondue man
- Fancy guy
- Incidentals
- Fred
- Incidental 8
- Incidental 13
- Incidental 16
- Incidental 31
- Scooter
- Harold
- Incidental 42
- Judy
- Incidental 60
- Incidental 63
- Incidental 64
- Incidental 67
- Harris
- Incidental 93
- Reporter flute
- Incidental 104
- Steve
- Dale
- Incidental 115
- Billy
- Incidental 164
- Incidental 180
- Teen 7
- Teen 12
- Incidental F19
- Unknown "Teen" 2
Synopsis[]
The restaurant manager arrives at the Krusty Krab.
A restaurant manager makes his way to the Krusty Krab, attempting to find one more candidate for his new stadium restaurant. He sees SpongeBob fancily preparing a Krabby Patty and complements his cooking. After eating the Krabby Patty, the manager thinks that SpongeBob can be his next culinary superstar at his restaurant. He gives Mr. Krabs a fortune of money to take SpongeBob to his restaurant. Despite SpongeBob not wanting to leave the Krusty Krab, Mr. Krabs finds the manager's offer too good to turn down, as the manager leaves with SpongeBob.
At the tryouts kitchen, the manager gives SpongeBob and three other chefs cooking tests to decide who will be his chef at the stadium, with those who are eliminated forced to sell hot dogs on the freeway. The manager first assigns the chefs to cook soup. The sea turtle sabotages SpongeBob and the eel chef, but SpongeBob soon gets the idea to use his tie, and he dips it in his soup. As the manager judges the soups, he eliminates the eel chef after noticing the nails that were poured by the sea turtle as sabotage. At the end of judging, he declares SpongeBob the winner of the round.
SpongeBob wins the final round.
The manager's next test for the chefs is pizza. The sea turtle apologizes to SpongeBob for sabotaging him earlier, but he proceeds to trick him with a "special pizza dough" made of chewed gum. The shrimp chef tries to issue payback to the sea turtle, who threw nails at him prior, by putting nails on his pizza, but the sea turtle notices him. The manager soon proceeds to judge the pizzas and eliminates the sea turtle after noticing the nails on his pizza. The sea turtle declares revenge on SpongeBob while he is eliminated. The manager tastes SpongeBob's pizza, which had the shrimp chef inside. The manager complements the pizza for its unique flavor and declares SpongeBob the winner of the competition.
At the Culinary Stadium, SpongeBob prepares to go on. SpongeBob manages to handle the orders with his skills and precision, but unbeknown to him, the sea turtle shows up at the stadium with a timed bomb, attempting to once again sabotage SpongeBob. Meanwhile, Mr. Krabs and Squidward arrive and are surprised that only the wealthy customers get to eat the food SpongeBob eats while everyone is forced to sit and watch the show. Now under pressure from time, SpongeBob panics as the food on stage starts to fall apart. Mr. Krabs, in the stands, gives SpongeBob an order of Krabby Patties to help him win. SpongeBob successfully prepares Krabby Patties and serves them to the customers outside the premium seats.
The manager stops the competition due to Krabby Patties not fitting his standard of quality food, as SpongeBob forfeits, wanting to go back to the Krusty Krab. Patrick instructs SpongeBob to go back on stage as the crowd cheers for him in the background. The bomb, still active on the stage, explodes, and launches SpongeBob into the stands, as Patrick catches him and reminds SpongeBob of his high status among the customers.
Production[]
This episode was confirmed on June 23, 2024.[1]
Art[]
Background design[]
- Supervised by Ann Lee and Lucy Tanashian-Gentry, traditionally painted in gouache by Amy Lewis and Abril Aello Fregozo. Scanned in with lines painted digitally on top.[2][3]
Workprint[]
- Posted by Abril Aello Fregozo.[4]
Music[]
| ( ‣ ) Production music |
| ( • ) Original music |
| ( ◦ ) SpongeBob music |
‣ All Star March - Larry Hochman [Title card.]
‣ ? [Opening.]
• Lopey Sailor's Jig with Bones - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr [SpongeBob cooking.]
‣ Too Hot - David Morse [SpongeBob swings on a rope.]
‣ Dramatic Cue (A) - Ronald Hanmer [SpongeBob screams.]
• Credit Card Heaven 2 - Nicolas Carr [Restaurant manager gasps.]
‣ Star Prize 2 - Syd Dale ["Is there anything wrong, he says."]
• On Fire - Nicolas Carr ["What's all the rumpus in here?"]
‣ ? [Manager introduces himself.]
‣ All Star Parade [#51] - Maurice Dupre ["It's a bold new concept."]
‣ Swinging Link 7 - Harry Bluestone [Manager offers to recruit SpongeBob.]
• Hot Steel and Slide Licks 20A - Jeremy Wakefield ["Not deplorable."]
• Hot Steel and Slide Licks 19E - Jeremy Wakefield ["Delicious!"]
• Drunken Sailor Solo Accordion-2 - Nicolas Carr [Manager offers Krabs money.]
• Hot Steel and Slide Licks 28A - Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob cries.]
• Another Krusty Krab Day 2 - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr [Manager leaves with SpongeBob.]
‣ Alley Cats - David Morse ["Go get 'em, hotshot."]
‣ Winning Team - Philip Green, William Loose, Emil Cadkin [At the tryouts kitchen.]
• Hot Steel and Slide Licks 20A - Jeremy Wakefield [Vendor selling hot dogs.]
‣ Happy As You Go [#64] - Harry Lubin ["Looks like fun."]
‣ Daring Dexters - Sidney Torch ["Let's go, go, go, you goofy gourmets."]
‣ Chaos In The Kitchen - Bob Sharples [Chefs start cooking soup.]
• ? - Nicolas Carr [Accordion music.]
‣ Chaos In The Kitchen - Bob Sharples [Turtle pours nails in the eel's soup.]
‣ Eccentric March - Remastered - Peter Hope [Manager tastes the soups.]
• ? - Nicolas Carr [Eel gets eliminated.]
• Hot Steel and Slide Licks 31E - Jeremy Wakefield [Eel selling hot dogs.]
‣ Marching On - Wilfred Burns ["Not bad. Not good, but not bad."]
• ? - Nicolas Carr [Turtle grumbling.]
‣ Eccentric March - Remastered - Peter Hope ["The next challenge is pizza!"]
‣ Cartoon Cameo 8 - Remastered - Ronald Hanmer [Chefs making pizza.]
• Lap Steel-spce_01 - Nicolas Carr [Transition to next scene.]
‣ Comedy Punctuations And Bridges 6 - Fredric Bayco ["What happened to the shrimp?"]
‣ Comedy Punctuations And Bridges 7 - Fredric Bayco [Manager eats the turtle's pizza.]
‣ Comedy Punctuations And Bridges 6 - Fredric Bayco [Manager eliminates the turtle.]
• Hot Steel and Slide Licks 19E - Jeremy Wakefield [Turtle selling hot dogs.]
‣ Comedy Punctuations And Bridges 7 - Fredric Bayco [Manager eats SpongeBob's pizza.]
‣ Leap For Joy - Remastered - Cedric King-Palmer [SpongeBob wins the big league tryouts.]
‣ Vaudeville Knees Up [#43] - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin [At the Culinary Stadium.]
‣ Vaudeville Knees Up [#46] - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin ["The cooking is about to begin."]
‣ Vaudeville Knees Up [#44] - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin [SpongeBob's stage.]
‣ Alley Cats - David Morse ["Hey, kid. Knock it out of the park."]
• Vibe Q Sting - Nicolas Carr [SpongeBob shrugs.]
‣ Grand Slam - Jack Shaindlin [SpongeBob cooking on stage.]
‣ Vaudeville Knees Up [#42] - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin [SpongeBob cooking Krabby Patties.]
• A Simple Conversation 1 - Barry Anthony, Nicolas Carr [SpongeBob forfeits.]
‣ Alley Cats - David Morse ["Hey, kid. You're blowing up big time."]
• Vibe Q Sting - Nicolas Carr ["Take your final bow."]
‣ Alley Cats - David Morse [Patrick grabs his toothpick.]
• Bikini Bottom High School Band Full Mix - Nicolas Carr [SpongeBob takes a bow.]
• Grass Skirt Chase - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [The bomb explodes.]
‣ Alley Cats - David Morse [Ending.]
Trivia[]
General[]
- This episode was originally called "Welcome to the Big Leagues."
- The title card background is similar to those of "Dying for Pie," "The Krusty Sponge," "Someone's in the Kitchen with Sandy," and "Company Picnic," except for the plate, fork, spoon, and knife.
The 2024 Nickelodeon Productions logo, seen at the end of the credits. Notice the lack of copyright info.
Copyright info is placed in the actual credits rather than the Nickelodeon Productions logo.
- Along with its sister episode, this is the first episode in airing order to use the 2024 Nickelodeon Productions logo at the end of the credits to represent the splat rebrand. In packaging order, however, "Sandy's Country Christmas" is the first.
- Because of the Paramount byline in the Nickelodeon Productions logo, the copyright info is baked into the credits, after the Executive in Charge of Nickelodeon credit.
- This is the second time SpongeBob participates in a cooking competition, the first being "Neptune's Spatula."
Sammy Suckerfish and Big League Bob listed as season 14 episodes on Nick.com.
Sammy Suckerfish and Big League Bob listed as season 14 episodes on Amazon.
- This episode was originally produced in the production cycle of season 14. However, Nickelodeon split the packaged season in half during production, thus becoming a season 15 episode.
- The episode, alongside "Sammy Suckerfish" were called season 14 episodes in TV guides on their premiere, subsequent reruns, Amazon, and Nick.com.
- Some of the fancy food SpongeBob serves up is re-used models from earlier episodes: two plates of gum food from "Lost and Found" and the Krabby Pâté from "Krusty Katering."
Episode references[]
- Oyster Stadium bears the snail race sign from "The Great Snail Race."
- The banner shown at the final tournament features the show's 1999-2008 logo, alongside a redraw of a SpongeBob stock art piece, with a few alterations, including the change to a chef's outfit.
Cultural references[]
- The restaurant manager bears a resemblance to Phil Silvers from The Phil Silvers Show.
Videos[]
Names in other languages[]
| Language | Name | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Russian | Губка Боб Кулинарные Штаны Gubka Bob Kulinarnyye Shtany |
SpongeBob CulinaryPants |
| Slovenian | Spuži v veliki ligi | SpongeBob In The Big Leagues |