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The hash-slinging slasher is the main character in a ghost story told by Squidward in the episode "Graveyard Shift."
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Description[]
He has a rusty spatula for a left hand and has glowing red eyes and a black hunch-backed body.
Role in series[]
"Graveyard Shift"[]
Squidward creates the character of the "hash-slinging slasher" in a ghost story in order to scare SpongeBob as a form of entertainment during their 24-hour night shift.
According to Squidward's story, the hash-slinging slasher was a clumsy former fry cook who worked at the Krusty Krab before SpongeBob. One night, the slasher accidentally severed one of his hands by mistake while cutting Krabby Patty meat. As the slasher was not a sponge, his hand did not grow back and he replaced it with a rusty spatula.
Later, when he was going home, he was fatally run over by a bus and "fired" at his funeral. Out of vengeance, his ghost returns to the restaurant every Tuesday night via the bus that killed him and "gets" unsuspecting victims. However, his presence is announced by flickering lights, a phone call with nobody on the sending line, and the arrival of the bus that killed him, stopping just outside the Krusty Krab.
Squidward later confesses that he fabricated the story in response to SpongeBob's almost-frenetic-and-melodramatic screams of terror. Later that night, however, it seemed that the events of his story were coming true. Eventually, it is revealed that the hash-slinging slasher, or who they thought was him, actually came to apply for a job at the Krusty Krab. He was also revealed to be the cause of the latter two "signs" signaling the hash-slinging slasher's arrival, with Nosferatu switching the lights on and off.
SpongeBob's Truth or Square[]
He is seen in the Rock Bottom level.
SpongeBob SquigglePants[]
The hash-slinging slasher appears in Squidward's stage (B-Movie) which was a prank by SpongeBob and Patrick to scare Squidward. If the player loses all of their lives, SpongeBob and Patrick reveal themselves and scare Squidward, but if the player wins, SpongeBob and Patrick fall, with Squidward looking in annoyance.
SpongeBob Freestyle Funnies 2018[]
He appears on the comic's cover as part of the angry crowd of villains staring at SpongeBob.
Trivia[]
- The hash-slinging slasher was co-created by Dan Povenmire. Aside from working on Spongebob Squarepants, he is also one of the co-creators of shows Phineas and Ferb, Milo Murphy's Law, and Hamster and Gretel. According to Karalynn Dunton, he also created of the Minions. This is supposedly untrue and has been denied by Dan Povenmire many times.
- The hash-slinging slasher's name is often mispronounced by SpongeBob, and to a lesser extent, Squidward.
- During the scene where Squidward tells his ghost story of the Hash-Slinging Slasher to SpongeBob, Paul Tibbitt just puts a pair of vampire teeth, a vampire cape, and a pair of demon horns on Squidward's voice actor Rodger Bumpass, and handed him a flashlight and asked him to try the attire and flashlight, so he could tell the scary story and he did with the flashlight in front of his face while hamming the story up and recording it in one take.
- In the Croatian dub, the hash-slinging slasher's name is "Jack Konobarosjek," (roughly translated as "Jack the Waiter-Cutter") which is a parody of "Jack the Ripper" (Jack Trbosjek in Croatian).[citation needed]
- In the Russian dub, the hash-slinging slasher's name is "Гарри Рубленое Мясо," which translates to "Harry Chopped Meat."[citation needed]
- In the Brazilian dub, the hash-slinging slasher's name is "Famoso Zé do Picadinho," which translates to "Famous Joe of Stew."[citation needed]
- In the European Portuguese dub, the hash-slinging slasher's name is "Homicida da Espátula," which translates to "Spatula Killer."
- The hash-slinging slasher is a parody of famous horror slasher film villains such as Freddy Krueger from A Nightmare on Elm Street and Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th. However, he shared much in common with The Hookman, a serial killer from urban legends as they replaced one of their hands with weaponized prosthetic (in The Hookman's case, a sharp hook).
- In the Indonesian airing of the episode, the hash-slinging slasher was given a different origin story: After replacing his missing hand with a spatula, he suddenly lost his mind and died in a fire.[citation needed]
- To "sling hash" means to work at a restaurant, mainly a fast food one.