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Synopsis

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Krusty Towers

Both Squidward and SpongeBob are walking to work, and SpongeBob tells a story about overcooking the fries (although it turns out he didn't), much to Squidward's annoyance. In the meantime, Squidward realizes the Krusty Krab has dramatically changed. Mr. Krabs has turned the restaurant into a hotel and renamed it the Krusty Towers, with the original building now on top of a large tower. Mr. Krabs explains that while he was on vacation, he was shocked by his outrageously high hotel bills, tallying up to $345.00 (mostly shocked at a twenty-five dollar charge for a hamburger he had), and realized how much money hotels can make. He says that the employees there lived by a code: "We shall never deny a guest even the most ridiculous request," which was on a gold plaque above a fireplace in the hotel he stayed at. He put that one for the Krusty Towers.

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"This is a hotel?"

A customer enters to buy a Double Krabby Patty with cheese, then leaves when Mr. Krabs tells him that he must book a hotel room to order room service to eat their food. Patrick soon arrives and becomes the hotel's first actual guest. After signing the register, which he believed was a test, Squidward carries Patrick's bags (which instantly appeared and were full of rocks for unknown reasons), and he tries to take the guest elevator, but Mr. Krabs stops him and explains that he must take the "employee elevator," which is in fact, a staircase. Patrick then requests Squidward several more times for ridiculous reasons. Whenever Squidward got to the bottom of the hotel, Mr. Krabs told him to go back up to do something that Patrick wants. After being ordered to give Patrick a "bubble bath," Squidward states he's had enough. He angrily says to a protest Mr. Krabs, “I quit!”

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Squidward returns as a guest.

He walks out the door and immediately comes back as a guest, instead of an employee. He decides to take advantage of Mr. Krabs' rules by demanding a room on the top floor and that Mr. Krabs to carry him to get there, which he gets by paying him and using the plaque. Then he ordered a Krabby Patty with cheese, nose hair, and toenail clippings, and forced Mr. Krabs to eat for humor. Also, Patrick had all the cheese all over his room (because he requested his room with cheese) which was supposed to be on that Krabby Patty. Squidward then wanted his cookies like the ones his mother makes which Mr. Krabs resentfully had to get, with SpongeBob coming with him. Then, he wanted Mr. Krabs and SpongeBob to repaint his room and change his furniture only to get it back to its original state. He then wanted an indoor pool. After getting the indoor pool, Patrick jumps in, and the force causes the hotel to collapse, leaving only the original Krusty Krab standing.

Patrick, SpongeBob, Squidward and Mr. Krabs luckily survive, but end up in the hospital with massive injuries. When Mr. Krabs sees the hospital fee ($15,000), he scraps the idea of a hotel and tells Squidward, SpongeBob, and Patrick that they are going to medical school, much to Squidward's dismay and SpongeBob and Patrick's delight.

Production

Art

Music

 ) Production music
 ) Original music
 ) SpongeBob music

  You're Nice - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [title card]
  Vibe Sting - Nicolas Carr ["SpongeBob..."]
  The Wheels of Industry - Robert Sharples [hotel revealed]
  Harp Gliss 1 - Otto Sieben ["Remember when I went to that fast food convention..."]
  Orchids and Roses - Joyce Cochrane ["...and stayed in that fancy hotel?"]
  Drama Link (b) - Hubert Clifford ["25 dollars for a hamburger!"]
  Steel Sting - Jeremy Wakefield [Krabs gives the hamburger back]
  The Tip Top Polka/The Cliff Polka - Chelmsford Folk Band ["Imagine how much I could charge for a lousy Krabby Patty!"]
  Poppin' Around - Bruce Campbell [inside the hotel]
  Seaweed - Steve Belfer [Patrick checks in]
  The Tip Top Polka/The Cliff Polka - Chelmsford Folk Band ["Squidward, you can take Patrick's bags up to his room."]
  Woe is Me! - Richard Myhill [Krabs mocks Squidward]
  Comic Walk - Sidney Torch ["Fine! Let's go, Patrick."]
  Curley Shirley - Otto Sieben [Krabs at the elevator]
  Comic Walk - Sidney Torch [Squidward walks angrily to the employee elevator]
  Dramatic Cue (d) - Ronald Hanmer [Stairs]
  Curley Shirley - Otto Sieben [Patrick gets off the elevator]
  Comic Walk - Sidney Torch [suitcase full of rocks]
  Spindlelegs - Cedric King-Palmer [Patrick's room]
  On the Beach - Kapono Beamer [Unclogging Patrick's toilet]
  Curley Shirley - Otto Sieben [Squidward gets off the elevator]
  Steel Licks 9 - Jeremy Wakefield [Squidward quits...]
  Hawaiian Calypso - Jo Van Wetter [...then returns as a guest]
  Lap Steel - Nicolas Carr [shot of plaque]
  Tomfoolery - David Snell [Krabs carries Squidward to his room]
  Tympup A - Sammy Burdson, John Fiddy [Krabs eats patty with toenails and nose hair]
  ? - Krabs sticks tongue out
  Tomfoolery - David Snell [Patrick's room covered with cheese]
  Wooden Bear - Gil Flat, Tony Tape, Florian Voelxen [cookies]
  Primitive Force - Raymond C. Jones [SpongeBob and Krabs go to Squidward's mother's house/Krabs and SpongeBob in ski masks]
  The Jitters - Raymond C. Jones [Squidward's mother scream.]
  Primitive Force - Raymond C. Jones [Krabs trying to get a big sack in the trunk]
  Steel Licks 8 - Jeremy Wakefield ["Allow me, boy."]
  Steel Licks 9 - Jeremy Wakefield ["There's room for you to sit up front."]
  Marching to Honolulu - Kapono Beamer ["Let's go bake some cookies, boys!"]
  Unknown Track 44 - "We shall never deny a guest even the most ridiculous request."
  Fanfare for a King - Sam Fonteyn [redesign #1]
  Tea Dance - Norman John Warren [redesign #2]
  ? [redesign #3]
  Lap Steel - Nicolas Carr ["Perfect!"]
  Cream Pie - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [indoor pool]
  Evil Mind 8 - Dick de Benedictis [hotel destroyed]
  Lazy Afternoon - Jan Rap, Peter Smid [ending]

Release

Reception

  • "Krusty Towers" was ranked #4 during the Best Day Ever event from November 9–10, 2006.

Trivia

General

Season 4 Volume 1 Disc 2

This DVD cover artwork is based on this episode.

  • Although Patrick said he didn't like the crust on the patties, but when he eats the patties with SpongeBob, he didn't mind the crust.
  • Season 4 Volume 1 disc 2 has a case with a cover based on this episode.
  • This episode premiered six years after the premiere of "Fools in April" and "Neptune's Spatula."
  • When Squidward said "Too bad we couldn't take the elevator" a sign can be seen saying "FLOOR 17." Since that he requested a room on the top floor, it's possible that the seventeenth floor may be the top floor.
    • However, it's possible that Squidward wasn't taking him seriously, so there might be more than seventeen floors.
    • Squidward's room number is 1721.
  • One of Squidward's suitcases has what appears to be the Taiwanese flag.
  • This is the third time Squidward quits his job, with the first being in "Big Pink Loser" and the second being in "Can You Spare A Dime?"
  • In the Croatian dub, the episode title is "Rakov Toranj" translating to "Krab's Tower."
  • In Russian dub, the episode title is "Красти взмывает ввысь" is translated as “Krusty soars up”.
  • It's unknown if the Krusty Krab was still operating atop the towers. However, this may explain where the hotel's food comes from.

Cultural references

  • The title is a parody of a UK series Fawlty Towers, which was also about a hotel and its owners.
  • Patrick's drawing is a reference to monster movies such as King Kong or Godzilla.
  • The order of hotel room with cheese is a reference to a hotel room covered with melted cheese which was made at Washington Jefferson Hotel in 1999. 

Errors

  • Despite the episode and the building being named "The Krusty Towers," there is only one building.
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12 instead of 17.

  • The Krusty Towers has seventeen floors (as shown when Squidward says, "Too bad we couldn't take the elevator...), but every time it is shown outside, there are twelve floors.
    • In addition to this, in the DVD cover based on this episode, the Krusty Towers has only 6 floors. Although this may have been done because it would be hard to fit all 12 floors of the Krusty Towers on the background of the DVD cover artwork.
  • In the DVD cover based on this episode, SpongeBob can be seen wearing a red employee outfit in the front cover where it should be blue.
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    SpongeBob wearing a red hotel uniform in the DVD Season 4 Volume 1 Disc 2 but in the actual episode his hotel uniform is blue.

  • At the front desk on the first floor, there are 16 room keys displayed, but counting all the rooms from the outside of the building, there are 36 rooms (18 seen in the front, and 18 unseen behind), at least 20 keys short.
  • Despite Squidward and Patrick both gaining a room key from Mr. Krabs, the number of keys displayed on the bulletin board are the same.
  • When SpongeBob says "How may I serve you, sir?" he has no eyelashes, until when he salutes, then they appear in the rest.
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    SpongeBob eyelashes are gone.

  • In the first clip showing Mr. Krabs saying, "That hotel was a bad idea," it showed bandages on his feet, but when he says "forget hotels" they were gone, then when he said "pack your bags, boys" they were shown again.
  • When Mr. Krabs first served Squidward and took him upstairs, he was wearing blue clothes. When he went back to the reception desk, the former was wearing a black suit. When he once again went upstairs to assist Squidward, he was in his blue clothes.
  • Squidward's room number changes: it is first 1721, and in another scene it is 1722.
  • The Krusty Towers is on the wrong side of Conch Street. It is usually on Patrick Star's House side.
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No turns on the staircase.

  • Patrick said he doesn't like the crust on his Krabby Patty, but he ate Krabby Patties with crust on them when he split them with SpongeBob.
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SpongeBob's miscolored lip.

  • When Squidward pulls SpongeBob out of the toilet, his bottom lip is miscolored black instead of red.
  • When ranting about Squidward giving him stupid demands, Mr. Krabs asks, "Or make a back scratcher out of me own spine?" Crabs are invertebrates, so Mr. Krabs doesn't have a spine.
  • When Squidward takes the staircase, there seems to be no turns which means the staircase can't fit inside the building.
    • It could be that the turns aren't visible at the bottom of the staircase.
  • When Mr. Krabs responds to Squidward's demand to carry him to his room, the end appears to be cut, causing Mr. Krabs' arm to return to his side with no animation.


Running gags

  • Patrick keeps on forgetting where he is, saying, "This is a ______?".
  • Mr. Krabs receiving overpriced bills.
  • Mr. Krabs and Squidward mentioning the hotel's code.

References

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