"Kooky Cooks" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 12. In this episode, Mr. Krabs makes SpongeBob and Squidward cook a fancy meal for Mrs. Puff, but every dish becomes a dispute.
Characters[]
- French Narrator
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Eugene H. Krabs
- Mrs. Puff
- Squidward Tentacles
- Pearl Krabs
- Snooty tang (single appearance)
- Incidentals
- Fancy dandy fish
Synopsis[]
Mr. Krabs and Mrs. Puff's date.
The episode begins with Mr. Krabs and Mrs. Puff's date at Fancy! As the waiter gives them their menus, Mr. Krabs gets nervous at the food prices. Mrs. Puff places the order for them, which causes Mr. Krabs to panic at the threat of spending a lot of money. He uses a dinner roll in an attempt to make the waiter slip and spill soup on him so he can get his meal for free, but the waiter lands the soups successfully. Mr. Krabs then tricks the waiter by telling him an eyelash is in his soup, which the waiter pulls on and unveils SpongeBob, who tells Mrs. Puff that Mr. Krabs brought him along for a free meal.
Mrs. Puff gets furious and leaves the restaurant, while the waiter kicks out Mr. Krabs afterwards since he did not want to pay the bill. Mr. Krabs goes after Mrs. Puff to apologize to her, as she is mad at him for being cheap again. He offers to make it up to her by offering a date at his house, which Mrs. Puff agrees to. Mr. Krabs asks SpongeBob to help him with this date.
SpongeBob and Squidward arrive at Mr. Krabs' house the following night. Mr. Krabs originally offers SpongeBob to cook food on the date, but after Squidward speaks against it, he is assigned to help SpongeBob. Mr. Krabs asks Pearl to serve the food. Mrs. Puff arrives soon after, and Mr. Krabs accompanies her to their table.
SpongeBob starts cooking.
SpongeBob and Squidward prepare several foods to serve, but all of which have problems that Mr. Krabs notices, and he takes the food away from Mrs. Puff. She soon gets frustrated at Mr. Krabs for denying her food, and he scolds SpongeBob and Squidward out of desperation for them to prepare a decent meal. When it seems SpongeBob has prepared a good dish, he fumbles it and it lands on Squidward's face, which erupts a food fight between the two. SpongeBob ends up sliding into butter and lands in the stove afterwards.
After SpongeBob is set on the counter table, Pearl serves it to Mr. Krabs and Mrs. Puff. Mr. Krabs wants to do a quality check on the dish, but Mrs. Puff quickly denies him out of wanting to eat. Squidward informs Mr. Krabs and Pearl that the dish is SpongeBob, and all three try to prevent Mrs. Puff from eating him, but Mrs. Puff ends up doing so. Squidward, Mr. Krabs, and Pearl inform Mrs. Puff that she ate SpongeBob, to which she asks for an operation to remove him from inside her. After the operation, SpongeBob serves Mrs. Puff a Krabby Patty at the Krusty Krab, but Mrs. Puff is still hungry and goes after SpongeBob. The episode ends with the French Narrator saying "Bon appétit."
Production[]
The episode was confirmed by Vincent Waller on June 29, 2019.[1]
Art[]
Character design[]
- Drawn by Ian Vazquez.[2]
Storyboards[]
- Rough boards by Fred Osmond, plussed by Ian Vazquez.[3][4] Who painted the Fried SpongeBob found in the plussed boards is unknown.[2]
Music[]
| ( ‣ ) Production music |
| ( • ) Original music |
| ( ◦ ) SpongeBob music |
• Greenhorn Rag Remix No Whistle - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Title card]
• Chez Fancy - Nicolas Carr [Mr. Krabs dating Mrs. Puff at Fancy! restaurant]
• Oh My Neptune! - Nicolas Carr ["Do something, Krabs! You're gonna go broke!"]
• Chez Fancy - Nicolas Carr ["Hehehe. I'll get soup all over me nice shoot and our meal will be free."]
‣ Ta-ra A - Sammy Burdson, John Charles Fiddy [Krabs and Mrs. Puff get their bowl soup given]
• Chez Fancy - Nicolas Carr [Mrs. Puff discovers Krabs took SpongeBob to the Fancy! restaurant to get a free meal]
• Hot Steel and Slide Licks 22B - Jeremy Wakefield [Waiter kicks Krabs out of Fancy! restaurant]
• Saltwaterworks - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Mrs. Puff gets angry at Krabs for ruining their date because of his cheapness]
• Hot Steel and Slide Licks 20D - Jeremy Wakefield [Krabs eats the soup]
• In a Minor Mood Jig - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr [Krabs orders SpongeBob to cook a fancy dinner for him and Mrs. Puff]
• Parting of the Clouds Sting - Nicolas Carr ["Fancy pants for a fancy meal."]
• Credit Card Heaven - Nicolas Carr ["Fancy pants for a fancy meal."]
• In a Minor Mood Jig - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr ["Ha! SpongeBob can't cook anything but grease trap muck, he's not a gourmet like moi."]
• Hot Steel and Slide Licks 11D - Jeremy Wakefield ["I once made a Krabby Patty with three buns."]
• Galley Cooks Shanty - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr [Krabs orders Squidward to be the food supervisor and Pearl to be the waiter]
• Drunken Sailor Solo Accordion - Nicolas Carr [Sailors escape from Krabs' oven]
• Hot Steel and Slide Licks 31A - Jeremy Wakefield [Krabs runs to open his house's door to Mrs. Puff]
• Lounging and Fine Dining - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [Krabs receives Mrs. Puff at his house]
‣ The Dreadnought Tea Clipper (B) - Robert Alexander White, Tim Laycock [SpongeBob makes two "fancy" salads for Krabs and Mrs. Puff]
• Lounge O Rama - Billy Lincoln, Michael Gurley [Krabs discovers the "fancy" salads have dish soap on them]
• Melodramatic Moments - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr [Krabs scolds SpongeBob and Squidward for adding dish soap in the "fancy" salads]
• Fooling Around 2 w e gtr - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [SpongeBob makes "soup" for Krabs and Mrs. Puff]
‣ Lazybones - Xavier Edmunds, Zoltan Biscotti [Krabs avoiding Mrs. Puff to eating the food made by SpongeBob]
• Melodramatic Moments - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr ["You two better come up with something tasty, or you're both double fired!"]
• Hot Steel and Slide Licks 7A - Jeremy Wakefield ["Just make something eatable!!"]
• Humorous Conversation Full Mix - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [SpongeBob takes a dessert from the oven]
• Greenhorn Rag - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob and Squidward having a food fight which ends with SpongeBob covered with batter and baked in the oven]
‣ Impending Danger - Otto Sieben [Pearl serves the "dessert" to Krabs and Mrs. Puff]
‣ Like Strange - Kenny Graham [Mrs. Puff grabs Krabs' claw and throws him on the floor]
‣ Horror-Scope - Ronald Hanmer [Closeup of the baked SpongeBob]
• Porous Pursuit - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Krabs, Squidward and Pearl trying to avoid Mrs. Puff to eat the baked SpongeBob]
• Hot Steel and Slide Licks 37A - Jeremy Wakefield ["Uh... Puffykins... I don't know how to say this but..."]
• Skipping to School - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Mrs. Puff realizes she ate SpongeBob]
• Lap Steel - Nicolas Carr [One operation later...]
• Accordeon Ta-Da 1-4 - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr [SpongeBob serves a Krabby Patty to Mrs. Puff at the Krusty Krab]
• Credit Card Heaven - Nicolas Carr [Closeup of the Krabby Patty with three buns]
• Another Krusty Krab Day 2 - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr [Mrs. Puff eats the Krabby Patty with three buns]
• Porous Pursuit - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Ending]
Release[]
- This episode is available on the SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 21 digital collection and The Complete Twelfth Season DVD.
Trivia[]
General[]
- Despite this episode being advertised, its sister episode "Bubble Bass's Tab" premiered first during the original airing.
- This episode was released on The Complete Twelfth Season DVD on January 12, 2021, almost three months before airing on American television.
- The title card is similar to those of "Lame and Fortune," "Plankton Retires," and "Insecurity Guards," but the flowers are absent.
- Despite being one of the first episodes being copyrighted in the 2020s, this is the final episode to be copyrighted in 2019, as well as the 2010s decade.
- This is the third episode where Mrs. Puff and Mr. Krabs go on a date at Fancy! The first was "Krusty Love," and the second was "My Two Krabses."
- This is also the second episode in season 12 where Mr. Krabs and Mrs. Puff go on a date at Fancy!
- Incidental F9's old model is used in this episode.
- This is the first episode directed by Bob Camp, filling the spot of former director Adam Paloian.
- In the Hebrew version, the "Zee Next Morning" and "One Operation Later" time cards are not translated.[citation needed]
- The Hebrew version of the title card translates to "Madness in the Kitchen."[citation needed]
- A clip from this episode was released in "Top 5 Funniest Moments from New Episodes" video on the official Nick Poland on November 22, 2020,[5] Russia and Asia Facebook account on November 24, 2020,[6][7] Hungary on November 29,[8] Turkey on December 20,[9] and France on January 2, 2021.[10]
- A clip from this episode was used in "Funniest Moments from NEW SpongeBob Episodes! 😂" on the Nickelodeon Cartoon Universe channel on March 19, 2021.[11]
- In the Indonesian dub, this is the last episode to be dubbed by Iphie Lubis before his death on February 17, 2022. Starting the next episode, it's dubbed by Ade Kurniawan.
- Originally, this was Ian Vazquez's final episode on the series,[4] (prompting him to draw Mrs. Puff as unrestrained as possible during his plussed scenes[12]) but he would eventually return with "SpongeBob's Road to Christmas."
Episode references[]
- When Mr. Krabs blows a bubble, a message is heard after it pops. This is likely a callback to "Naughty Nautical Neighbors."
- SpongeBob adding soap to the salads when says he can't forget the special sauce is likely a callback to "The Inside Job" when SpongeBob mistakenly uses dish cleaning items to make a Krabby Patty and Plankton says, "Soap is the special sauce?"
- The way Squidward pronounces salad as "sal-lad" is a callback to "Bossy Boots" where SpongeBob mispronounces it the same way.
- When Mrs. Puff sucks a fried SpongeBob in-between her belly, one of her poses references Patrick's "big fat meanie" drawings from "New Student Starfish."[13]
- Mrs. Puff's burp following her consumption of SpongeBob is a reference to when Mr. Krabs eats SpongeBob's boots and burps at the end of "Squeaky Boots."[14]
Cultural references[]
- Squidward's understated expression following SpongeBob getting eaten references a "favorite terrible under-reaction" from the 1991 animated film, The Christmas Tree and Doug Walker's impression of it with the dramatic music.[2][15]
Errors[]
Mr. Krabs' mouth is missing.
- In one frame, Mr. Krabs' mouth is missing.
Cropped Mr. Krabs.
- For a split second, Mr. Krabs is strangely cropped while drinking soda.
- Just before Pearl takes the now-fried SpongeBob, he is not shown with an apple, but when she places it on the table, there is somehow an apple in his mouth.
Krabs' detached claw.
- After Mr. Krabs is flipped by Mrs. Puff, his claw detaches from his arm for a frame.
Incorrectly painted background on the time card.
- In the Korean dub, the "One Operation Later..." time card was dubbed with an incorrectly painted background.
- When Squidward takes out the baked SpongeBob from the oven, the apple isn't in SpongeBob's mouth. But when Mrs. Puff takes out the tray from the plate, the apple reappears.
Videos[]
References[]
- ^ Vincent Waller on Twitter - "All real"
- ^ a b c Ian Vazquez on Twitter - "Plussing SpongeBob's fried corpse..."
- ^ Ian Vazquez on Twitter - "Amd now a Kooky Cooks..."
- ^ a b Ian Vazquez on Twitter - "So. The ENDING. Of Kooky Cooks. Has..."
- ^ Nickelodeon Polska on Facebook - "NO BOKI ZRYWAĆ"
- ^ Nickelodeon Russia on Facebook
- ^ Nick Asia on Facebook - "It's time for another top..."
- ^ Nickelodeon Hungary on Facebook - "Szerintünk ezek a..."
- ^ Nickelodeon Turkey on Facebook - "Yeni bölümlerden..."
- ^ Bob l'éponge on Facebook - "Tu veux bien arrêter..."
- ^ Funniest Moments from NEW SpongeBob Episodes! 😂 | Nickelodeon Cartoon Universe - YouTube
- ^ Ian Vazquez on Twitter - "Going from DETAILED..."
- ^ Ian Vazquez on Twitter - "Big Fat Meanie"
- ^ Ian Vazquez on Twitter - "the deed is done"
- ^ Ian Vazquez on Twitter - "The original Squidward..."