"One Krabs Trash" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 3. In this episode, Mr. Krabs sells SpongeBob a soda drink hat but after hearing how valuable it is, he decides to try and get it back.
Characters
- Eugene H. Krabs
- Ghost of soda drink hats (debut)
- French narrator
- Incidental 92
- Queen of Switzerland (mentioned)
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Patrick Star
- Collectors (debut)
- Incidental 154
- Shelley
- Owl clam (debut)
- Scallop bats (debut)
- Black snail (debut)
- Squidward Tentacles
- Diver Dan (name on tombstone)
- Stupid (name on tombstone)
- Smitty Werben Man Jensen (debut)
- Spiders
- Army of the Living Dead (debut)
- Buzzards (mentioned)
- Errol Fin (mentioned)
- Woman Fish (debut)
Synopsis
As the episode begins, Mr. Krabs starts a yard sale and tricks a man into buying one of his items by saying it is an antique. SpongeBob and Patrick come by, and Mr. Krabs tricks them into buying a soda drinking hat and a plunger respectively. When they leave, some business people come by and find out Mr. Krabs has been selling the soda drinking hat, unaware that it was already sold. After each of them offers a large sum of money to him for the hat, Mr. Krabs runs to SpongeBob to get the hat back.
Mr. Krabs finds SpongeBob, who has converted the hat to blow bubbles. He first tells him he looks like a girl with the hat, but he thinks it was a compliment. He then tries to offer him other hats in exchange for the soda drinking hat, but he declines the offer. At night, he draws a ghost on a paper and uses a fishing net to tell SpongeBob that he must give back the hat to the owner, named Smitty Werben Jaeger Man Jensen. However, Krabs' plan backfires when it turns out there to be an actual dead person with that name and SpongeBob just buried the hat in his tomb. Krabs goes to the cemetery to retrieve it. He goes looking for the grave until finally finding Smitty's grave.
He digs it out and takes the hat out, only for Smitty to rise up and tell him to give the hat back. When he refuses, he gets the army of the living dead to attack him. Fortunately, he successfully defeats all the skeletons and runs back to the business people to get his money. Unfortunately, they had found out there was a whole warehouse of those hats and they are all worthless. They see SpongeBob wearing a hat with clapping hands and chase after him to buy the hat from him. Mr. Krabs breaks down at losing money, while Squidward passes by watching Mr. Krabs cry and ironically calls his boss a baby as the episode ends.
Production
Art
Rough Sketches
Music
| ( ‣ ) Production music |
| ( • ) Original music |
| ( ◦ ) SpongeBob music |
‣ Tripping Upstairs - Brian Peters [title card]
‣ Mostly the Charleston A - Paul Lenart, Bill Novick [Krabs having a yard sale]
‣ Mirandas Minuet [#6] - Bob Barratt, Colin Michael Frechter, Krieger [soup ladle]
‣ Drop Me Off at 42nd St. E - Paul Lenart, Bill Novick [soda drink hat]
‣ Drop Me Off at 42nd St. A - Paul Lenart, Bill Novick [soda drink hat]
• SpongeBob Theme - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob finds 68 cents]
‣ Hawaiian Cocktail - Richard Myhill ["Thanks, Mr. Krabs!"]
• Idea Vibe - Nicolas Carr ["I understand you're selling this rare novelty drink hat."]
‣ Terror by Night - Hubert Clifford [everyone offering large amounts of money for the hat]
‣ Hawaiian Cocktail - Richard Myhill [SpongeBob blowing bubbles]
• Dream Sting - Nicolas Carr ["Not after all we've been through."]
‣ Hawaiian Link (A) - Richard Myhill ["I'm not?"]
‣ Ulkereien - Gerhard Trede [bag of novelty hats]
‣ Like Strange - Kenny Graham [drawing of ghost]
‣ Finders Creepers - Paddy Kingsland [Krabs pretending to be a ghost]
‣ Supernatural 1 [#1] - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin [Krabs in the cemetery]
‣ Supernatural 2 [#4] - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin ["Hold yourself together, Krabs. It's just a boneyard... filled with bones..."]
‣ Evil Alien Attack 1 [#15] - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin [Krabs screams]
‣ Deep Grief 1 - Otto Sieben [Squidward with flowers]
• Church Bell - Nicolas Carr [tombstone]
‣ Graveyard - Johnny Pearson [Krabs looking for Smitty's grave]
• ? Vibes - Nicolas Carr [Mr. Krabs tries to remember SpongeBob's words.]
• Cym Swell - Nicolas Carr [Faint cymbal as Mr. Krabs finds the grave]
‣ Hollywood Christmas [#70.02] - Gregor F. Narholz [he finds it]
‣ The Dreadnought Tea Clipper (B) - Tim Laycock, Robert Alexander White [Krabs defiles the grave]
‣ Frankenstein's Niece A - Gregor F. Narholz ["Hey, man, that's my hat."]
‣ A Pirate's Life for Me (A) - Ron Goodwin [sword fight]
‣ Chief Taravana - Kapono Beamer [ending]
Release
- This episode is available on the Fear of a Krabby Patty DVD and VHS, Complete 3rd Season, SpongeBob Goes Prehistoric (Russian only), Sea Stories (Danish and norwegian only), SpongeBob vs. The Big One (Greek only), Bundled Up in Bikini Bottom, First 100 Episodes, Really Big Box Set, The Ultimate SpongeBob Box Set, SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 4, Complete Third Season, From the Beginning, Part 1, The SpongeBob SquarePants Collection, The SpongeBob SquarePants 8 Season DVD Collection, Favorite Episodes Volume 2, 2-Season TV Pack, The Third & Fourth Seasons, and The Best 200 Episodes Ever DVDs.
Trivia
General
- Soda drink hats are famous headgear normally worn by baseball players for when they get thirsty during a game.
- In addition, the soda drink hat in this episode says "#1" on the front, in reference to the numbers used to identify baseball players, on both hats and jerseys.
- The grave stone markings read:
- Here lies Squidward's hopes and dreams
- R.I.P. Stupid
- I'm with Stupid
- Diver Dan
- Rest in Peace
- Old Salty lies beneath
- Smitty Werben Man Jensen
- This is the fourth episode where its title card is animated, the first being "SB-129," the second being "Prehibernation Week," and the third being "Idiot Box."
- This was the last episode to use the 1986 Paramount logo until "Ghoul Fools."
- On YouTube Poops, the tombstone that reads "Here lies Squidward's hopes and dreams" has been used very often.
- This, "Help Wanted," "Pickles," "Employee of the Month," and "Best Day Ever" are the only five episodes to have SpongeBob's bed placed on the right side of his room and not the left.
- Floater's Cemetery is a pun and reference to how fish float when they die.
- Patrick pays Mr. Krabs $7.00, but the toilet plunger costs $5.00, so Mr. Krabs owed him $2.00 in change. However, due to Mr. Krabs' greed and Patrick's idiocy, Mr. Krabs said nothing and made a 140% gain on his sale with Patrick, while Patrick believes himself to be a smart shopper.
- Mr. Krabs tells SpongeBob that the curse will descend on him unless he returns the hat to its "owner," referring to himself. Mr. Krabs is not the owner of the hat, because SpongeBob bought the hat from him, making him the new owner.
- Mr. Krabs also stole trash from around the area, making the true original owner of the hat the person who threw it away.
- This also should have foreshadowed the value of the hat to Mr. Krabs. Finding the hat in the garbage should have indicated the worthlessness of the hat due to the overstocked warehouse full of them. However, as the title indicates, One Krabs Trash is Another Man's Treasure.
- Mr. Krabs also stole trash from around the area, making the true original owner of the hat the person who threw it away.
- In the Polish dub, the episode's title is "Bezcenny śmieć Kraba," which translates to "Priceless Krab's Trash."
- In the Czech dub, the episode's title is "Krabsovy poklady," which translates to "Krabs' Treasures."
- In the Croatian dub, the episode's name is "Klještićevo smeće," which translates to "Krabs' Trash."
- In the dub, instead of saying that the umbrella belonged to the queen of Switzerland, Mr. Krabs says that it belonged to the president of Bikini Bottom, to which fish replies, "We do not have a president!"
- On the June 12, 2017 airing, this episode aired with the Nick Jr. on Nick screen bug instead of the original Nickelodeon screen bug.[2]
Cultural references
- The name of the episode is a pun on the saying "One man's trash is another man's treasure."
- Ironically, the French Narrator says exactly the same phrase at the beginning of the episode when referencing Mr. Krabs' yard sale.
- One of the grave stones markings is read "I'm with Stupid," a reference to an eponymous phrase on novelty T-shirts and a season 2 episode of the same name.
- While he is fighting the skeletons, Mr. Krabs says "Look at me! I'm Errol Fin!" This is a reference to Errol Flynn's sword-fighting as Robin Hood in the 1938 film The Adventures of Robin Hood.
- Mr. Krabs says, "I've seen this on the Late Show," referencing the CBS talk show of the same name. However, in this episode, the Late Show he is talking about appears to be a horror show.
Errors
SpongeBob's bedroom is on the first floor.
- In this episode, SpongeBob's bedroom is on the first floor, when it should be on the third.
- The same happened to Squidward's house in "Plankton!"
- When SpongeBob gives Mr. Krabs a bill and then goes home to search for more money, he comes back with two bills in his hand.
- When SpongeBob's head turns as the shopping list ghost scares him, the #1 on the hat turns backward.
Squidward's house is missing.
- When Mr. Krabs leaves SpongeBob's house and heads to the cemetery, Squidward's house is not there.
- Before Mr. Krabs tries to remember what SpongeBob told him, there are headstones all around him. However, when he sees Smitty's headstone, there are no other headstones around.
- When Smitty is dead, he has neck bones, but when he is not dead, he only has one bone for the neck.