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— Incidental 157, "Accidents Will Happen"
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Incidental 157[1], also known as Incidental city crowd 1, and BusinessFish 17, are a quartet of incidental characters who share the same incidental number. They first appear in the episode "F.U.N." and they may be classified as inbetween-type incidentals, considering the fact that they are anchovies like Incidentals 30 and 30A, who are "inbetweens" themselves.
Description[]

Evolution of Incidental 157's default design.
They are a quartet of anchovies that each have their own appearance:
- One is colored brown with a light blue shirt and a dark teal tie, light gray striped pants, and black shoes. He also carries a dark red suitcase.
- One is colored light blue with a yellow dress shirt with a teal tie, army green striped pants, and black shoes.
- One is colored brown with a white dress shirt and a red tie, dark blue striped pants, and black shoes.
- One is colored light blue with a pale gray dress shirt and a lavender tie, dark gray striped pants, and black shoes.
In their older appearances, they each had different colors:
- One is colored brown with a light blue shirt and a dark teal tie, light gray striped pants, and black shoes. He also carries a black suitcase.
- One is colored light tan with a light yellow dress shirt and a teal tie, army green striped pants, and black shoes.
- One is colored orange with a white dress shirt and a red tie, dark blue striped pants, and black shoes.
- One is colored light tan with a pale gray dress shirt and a lavender tie, dark gray striped pants, and black shoes.
Incidental city crowd 1[]

Incidental city crowd 1.
The debut design of Incidental 157. They appear with the same old colors but with bigger eyes and curved mouths.
BusinessFish 17[]

BusinessFish 17.
Two blue Incidental 157s and one brown Incidental 157 are identified as "BusinessFish" incidentals. While the appearance of their clothing is currently unseen, they is indeed identified to be a "BusinessFish" incidental due to being among the other "BusinessFish" incidentals in "The Executive Treatment."
Names[]

Leonard.
Incidental 157 has been given ten names throughout the franchise:
- In Employee of the Month, a redesigned Incidental 157 is named Leonard. Two other redesigned Incidental 157s that exactly resemble Leonard are named Petro and Ryan in this game. They are also all brothers with each other.
- In SpongeBob's Boating Bash, seven are named A. Fish, A. Fishman, Dee Fish, Dr. Fishberg, I.M. Fish, Mr. Fisher, and Señor Pescados.
Other[]
- In "The Krusty Slammer," an unmarked group of eleven inmates at the Krusty Slammer including one Incidental 157 are named Stretch, Chuckles, Bingo, Blammy, Wheels, Boogie, Red, Trip, Winks, Skeeter, and Stinky.
Role in series[]
Incidental 157 are somewhat underused incidentals. They don't make a lot of major roles in the series. They can commonly be seen all together but sometimes one of them could be found standing alone. They can even appear as a large horde of anchovies with multiple duplicates of themselves. They were firstly designed to be pedestrians in downtown Bikini Bottom where they were originally known as Incidental city crowd 1.
Major roles[]
SpongeBob SquarePants[]
"Can You Spare a Dime?"[]
One of them passes by Squidward while he asks Bikini Bottom citizens to spare him some change.
"Have You Seen This Snail?"[]

SpongeBob handing two Incidental 157s flyers.
SpongeBob gives two of them flyers of Gary the Snail missing and tosses their newspapers aside.
"The Inmates of Summer"[]

Incidental 157 holding a container of Chum with Incidental 6 and Incidental 37B.
One Incidental 157 appears as a prisoner at Inferno Island.
"Accidents Will Happen"[]

A horde of Incidental 157s appearing in front of the Krusty Krab cash register.
When Mr. Krabs mans the cash register, a horde of Incidental 157s suddenly appear in front of the register, much to Mr. Krabs' dismay.
"Drive Thru"[]
A single Incidental 157 is seen glaring at Squidward through the Krusty Krab drive-thru when he yells "SpongeBob! Order up!" while another single Incidental 157 appears complaining in the Krusty Krab drive-thru with Incidental 108 and Incidental 115.
"Jailbreak!"[]
One Incidental 157 is one of the caged prisoners at the Bikini Bottom Jail that is seen during the opening of the episode. He also appears as one of the prisoners that help Plankton get the Krabby Patty secret formula at the Krusty Krab.
"SpongeBob's Place"[]
A single Incidental 157 briefly appears as one of the Krusty Krab customers Mr. Krabs tries to impress.
"The Krusty Slammer"[]
One Incidental 157 appears as a prisoner at the Krusty Slammer.
Major roles in games[]
Operation Krabby Patty[]
Their sprites appear during the "Boating School 101" mini game, running around as SpongeBob drives through the course.
Employee of the Month[]
Four different Incidental 157s appear as NPCs in the game, one appearing in each chapter. SpongeBob assumes the four Incidental 157s he met to all be the same person until he discovered that they were really identical twins with a grand total of them being 4,133. Several Incidental 157s can later be seen attending Neptune's Paradise along with other characters at the end of the game.
Battle for Bikini Bottom/Battle for Bikini Bottom: Rehydrated[]
He appears as NPCs in the game.
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie[]
He appears at the Krusty Krab and Goofy Goober's Ice Cream Party Boat in the PC port.
SpongeBob's Boating Bash[]
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Trivia[]
- Their model number, Incidental 34's model number, Incidental 37's model number, Incidental 50's model number and the original Incidental 160's model number are the only incidental model numbers who have more than one character that shares the same model number.
- Although unlike Incidental 34, 37, and the original 160, the characters who share the model number "157" are not each labeled by letters. The same goes for the characters who share that same model number "50."
- They make their first speaking role in Employee of the Month.
- They are similar to the anchovie incidental who are both a quartet of two blue and brown anchovies.
- If the individual Incidental 157 anchovies' names are all counted together, they are currently the incidental character with the most given names, tied with Incidental 41.
References[]
- ^ Incidental model sheet 3