Plankton's Intern

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"Plankton's Intern" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season twelve. In this episode, Plankton needs help to steal the secret formula, so he hires an intern who knows more about Mr. Krabs than anyone else.

Characters

• Sheldon J. Plankton
• Karen Plankton
• Queue
  • Brackets fish
  • Nixie
  • Incidental 18
  • Teen 9 ^(blue)
  • Incidental K1
  • Incidental 73 ^(kid)
  • Bryan Flounder ^(blue)
  • Bobbed brunette fish
  • Incidental 65
  • Jock ^(purple)
  • Incidental 169
  • Billy Fishkins ^(blue)
• Patrick Star
• Pearl Krabs
• Mr. Krabs
• SpongeBob SquarePants
• King Neptune ^(mentioned)

Production

The episode was confirmed by Vincent Waller on June 29, 2019.^[1]

Music

 ‣ Old Hilo March - Kapono Beamer [Title card]
 • A Casual Conversation - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [Opening at the Chum Bucket]
 ‣ Buying Spree - William Loose [Patrick offers himself to be Plankton's intern]
 • Lap Steel - Nicolas Carr [Transition to next scene]
 ‣ ? [Plankton explains what Patrick must do as an intern]
 • Grass Skirt Chase - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Multiple clones of Patrick appear]
 • Clowning Around Again Short - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [Plankton ejects all of the clones out]
 • Hot Steel and Slide Licks 26 - Jeremy Wakefield [Plankton sighs]
 ‣ Hippomania - John Fox, Mac Prindy [Pearl shows up]
 • Clowning Around - Barry Anthony [Pearl says she wants to be Plankton's intern]
 • Clowning Around Again - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [Plankton showing the Chum Bucket to Pearl]
 • Hot Steel and Slide Licks 1 - Jeremy Wakefield [Plankton's robot is shown]
 ‣ Mutations (a) [#53] - Trevor Duncan [Plankton activates his robot and it ends up destroyed]
 • Clowning Around Again - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [?]
 • Hot Steel and Slide Licks 10 - Jeremy Wakefield [Pearl gets hit with a broom]
 ‣ Alien Spacecraft A - Gregor Narholz [?]
 ‣ Arnold is Back 1 - Gregor Narholz [Plankton presents his laser to Pearl]
 • Hot Steel and Slide Licks 16 - Jeremy Wakefield [Safe box explodes]
 • Hot Steel and Slide Licks 2 - Jeremy Wakefield [Pearl goes to clean the remains of the safe box]
 ‣ Alien Spacecraft A - Gregor Narholz [Plankton pours monster maker flakes into water]
 ‣ The Creature (a) - Gregor Narholz [Big monster emerges from the water]
 • What's This - Nicolas Carr [Monster explodes]
 • Hot Steel and Slide Licks 14 - Jeremy Wakefield [Pearl gets covered with the monster's goo]
 • Hot Steel and Slide Licks 26 - Jeremy Wakefield [Plankton gives the broom to Pearl]
 • Sad Sailor Waltz - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr [Pearl talking with Krabs at his house]
 ‣ Fraidy Cat - Fredric Bayco [Plankton working on a machine the next day]
 • The Pollywog Strut - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [Pearl talking to Plankton]
 • Parting of the Clouds - Nicolas Carr [?]
 • Birth of the Krabby Patty - Nicolas Carr [?]
 • The Pollywog Strut - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [Pearl and Plankton continue talking]
 ‣ Hide and Seek - Arthur Wilkinson [Pearl leaves his house that night with a ski mask]
 • Hot Steel and Slide Licks 23 - Jeremy Wakefield [Krabs says goodbye to Pearl]
 • Mission Improbable - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [Pearl assists Plankton in entering the Krusty Krab]
 ‣ Hide and Seek - Arthur Wilkinson [Pearl and Plankton hide in the kitchen after SpongeBob appears]
 ‣ Comic Walk - Sidney Torch [SpongeBob sleepwalking]
 ‣ Deep Cover - Carlo Giacco [Pearl and Plankton approach Krabs' office]
 • Hot Steel and Slide Licks 26 - Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob wakes up inside the trash can]
 ‣ Deep Cover - Carlo Giacco [SpongeBob sees Pearl and Plankton]
 • Krusty Krab Tango - Steve Marston [SpongeBob calls Krabs to tell him he saw Plankton]
 ‣ Hercule Poirot - Gerhard Trede [Pearl opens Krabs' safe box and takes the secret formula]
 ‣ Battle March Link (a) - Keith Mansfield [Krabs and SpongeBob enter at the office]
 ‣ Comedy Punctuations and Bridges 3 - Fredric Bayco [Pearl takes off the ski mask]
 ‣ Tales from the Swamp (c) - Ron Goodwin ["PEARL!!"]
 ‣ Hawaiian Party - Peter Dennis [Pearl gives Krabs explanations about the incident]
 ‣ Increase B - Dick De Benedictis [?]
 • Hot Steel and Slide Licks 19 - Jeremy Wakefield [Krabs takes the formula back]
 • You're Nice - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Pearl launches Plankton back to the Chum Bucket]
 ‣ Domestic Fun (a) - Ernest Tomlinson [Karen comes back to the Chum Bucket]
 ‣ Domestic Fun (c) - Ernest Tomlinson [Ending]

Trivia

General

• Plankton still has his fear of whales in this episode like he did in "One Coarse Meal" and "The Ghost of Plankton"; however, in "Jailbreak!," Plankton was not afraid of the whale cellmate.
• A clip from this episode was used for a COVID-19 promo from around April 2020.^{[citation needed]}
• This is the second episode Marc Ceccarelli and Vincent Waller directed. The first was "Who R Zoo?"
  • Coincidentally, both episodes use Old Hilo March as title card music.
• This is John Trabbic's last episode as a storyboard director before leaving to work on own his show entitled Middlemost Post.^[2]

Running gags

• Plankton forcing Pearl to clean a failed invention.

References