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 episode "Welcome to the Chum Bucket," 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 face of when controlled.
Role in series
"Welcome to the Chum Bucket"
SpongeBob is forced to wear the bucket helmet by Plankton, as he was working for the Chum Bucket.
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
Plankton uses the bucket helmet to take over the minds of the Bikini Bottomites. He then uses them as slaves to make Bikini Bottom into Planktopolis, but at the end of the movie, SpongeBob destroys the bucket helmets with intense level of Rock and Roll, frees the minds of the Bikini Bottomites, and turns Planktopolis back into Bikini Bottom. Meanwhile, Plankton was arrested for brainwashing all the people of Bikini Bottom.
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie video game
Most enemies in the game and the background characters in Planktopolis wear mind-control bucket helmets.
"Chum Bucket Supreme"
Customers wear Chum Bucket bucket helmets around their necks to consume the eponymous food inside them.
Trivia
- They are mentioned on the 52 and 53rd page 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) | |
|---|---|
| Owner: | Sheldon J. Plankton |
| Current employees: | Karen Plankton • Spot |
| Former employees: | SpongeBob SquarePants • Patrick Star • Squidward Tentacles • Stanley S. SquarePants |
| Variations: | Krusty Bucket • Chum Caverns • Chum Caverns Gift Shop • Chum Coliseum • Crumb Basket • Cookie Bucket • Chumporium |
| Machines: | Cashina • Chumbot • Ghost extracting machine • Transmogrifier • Simmy • SpongeBot SteelPants • Tally • Robot Krabs • Robot SpongeBob • Plankton's robot • Karen 2 • Majestic Sizzlemaster • Baby gas |
| Food: | Chum • Chum Bucket Supreme • Chum nuggets • Chumstick • Chum Fricassee • Chumbalaya • Chum Patties • Chum Burger • Crispity Crunchities • Free Sample Krabby Patty • Raw Sewage |
| Other: | Chum Bucket glove • Chum detonator • Chum Bucket bucket helmet • Sea ants • Cave dwellers |
