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— The mantra uttered by those who wear activated bucket helmets in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.
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The Chum Bucket bucket helmet is a hat worn by either employees or customers of the Chum Bucket, depending on which story it is being used in.
It first appears in the SpongeBob SquarePants (pitch bible), then in the episode "Welcome to the Chum Bucket," and then in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie and its video game adaptation, where it is used as a mind-control device.
Description[]
"Welcome to the Chum Bucket"[]
This version is a light gray bucket with the Chum Bucket's initials written in red text in the center above the visor.
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie[]
This version is a dark gray bucket with the Chum Bucket's initials written in red text in the center. This device is used to change the mindset of the fish wearing it, which the helmet covers the head of when controlled.
Role in movies[]
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie[]
Plankton uses the Chum Bucket helmets for his restaurant for anyone who got Krabby Patties. But when Squidward tries to report King Neptune about Plankton who stole the crown and the formula, Plankton uses the bucket helmet to take over the Bikini Bottomites' minds, turning them into slaves. Due to this, they are forced to do anything Plankton tells them to do. The enslaved Bikini Bottomites then seize Squidward, turning him into a slave. Plankton then forces his slaves to turn Bikini Bottom into Planktopolis. Plankton later used a king-sized bucket helmet to brainwash King Neptune as well. But at the end of the movie, SpongeBob destroys the bucket helmets with intense level of rock and roll, frees the minds of King Neptune and the Bikini Bottomites, and turns Planktopolis back into Bikini Bottom. Meanwhile, Plankton was arrested as punishment for brainwashing all the people of Bikini Bottom.
Plankton: The Movie[]
In the Chum Bucket basement, one of the helmets lands on SpongeBob's head and he proceeds to mimic the helmets mind control effects.
Role in series[]
SpongeBob SquarePants[]
"Welcome to the Chum Bucket"[]
SpongeBob is forced to wear the bucket helmet by Plankton, as he was working for the Chum Bucket. Unlike the bucket helmets in the movie, this one can't mind control its wearer.
"Chum Bucket Supreme"[]
Customers wear Chum Bucket bucket helmets around their necks to consume the eponymous food inside them.
The Patrick Star Show[]
"The Patrick Show Sells Out"[]
Patrick and Plankton wear bucket helmets when they sing a song advertising the Chum Bucket. When Mr. Krabs interrupts with his own song, he takes the bucket off Patrick's head and throws it away.
Role in games[]
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie video game[]
Most enemies in the game and the background characters in Planktopolis wear mind-control bucket helmets.
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2[]
In the game's Campaign mode, one of the enemies the player can encounter in act 2 of a run are fish wearing mind-control bucket helmets, referred as "Chum Slaves".
SpongeBob Simulator[]
It is used on one of the obtainable jellyfish.
Trivia[]
- They are mentioned on the 52nd and 53rd pages of the book Are We There Yet?
- According to Plankton, the helmets cannot handle extreme levels of rock and roll, which explains how SpongeBob manages to destroy them in the first movie.
| Chum Bucket (V • E) | |
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| Residents: | Sheldon J. Plankton • Karen Plankton • Spot |
| Former employees: | Patrick Star • SpongeBob SquarePants • Squidward Tentacles • Stanley S. SquarePants |
| Variations: | Chum Caverns • Chum Caverns Gift Shop • Chum Coliseum • Chumporium • Cookie Bucket • Crumb Basket • Grease Bucket • FlowerPot Florist • Krusty Bucket • Spud Bucket |
| Machines: | Baby gas • Cashina • Chumbot • Ghost extracting machine • Karen 2 • Majestic Sizzlemaster • Petunia • Plankton's robot • Robot Krabs • Robot SpongeBob • Simmy • SpongeBot SteelPants • Tally • Transmogrifier |
| Food: | Chum • Chumbalaya • Chum Bucket Supreme • Chum Burger • Chum Fricassee • Chum nuggets • Chum Patties • Chumstick • Crispity Crunchities • Free Sample Krabby Patty • Raw Sewage |
| Other: | Chum detonator • Cave dwellers • Chum Bucket bucket helmet • Chum Bucket glove • Sea ants |