"Plankton's Intern" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from Season 12. 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.
Contents
Characters
- Sheldon J. Plankton
- Karen Plankton
- Queue
- Bowled black haired fish
- Nixie
- Incidental 18
- Teen 9 (blue)
- Incidental K1
- Incidental 73 (kid)
- Bryan Flounder (blue)
- Incidental 174
- Incidental 68
- Incidental 65
- Jock (purple)
- Incidental 169
- Billy Fishkins (blue)
- Patrick Star
- Pearl Krabs
- Pink squid monster (debut)
- Mr. Krabs
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- King Neptune (mentioned)
Synopsis
The episode opens with Karen leaving The Chum Bucket to go see her mother board. She tells Plankton she put up fliers for an intern, which leads to many people trying out, but leaving when they hear the minimum wage portion. Patrick tries out, (making clone of himself) and then Pearl joins. Pearl wants to leave because Plankton isn’t letting her do the “fun stuff”. Mr. Krabs tells Pearl she should just listen to her boss, no buts about it. She does, and Plankton said that if she helps him steal the secret formula, she can do the fun stuff. They sneak in, and find Spongebob “sleep cooking”. Spongebob gets thrown in the garbage can, waking up. He calls Mr. Krabs, and Mr. krabs comes running. Plankton and Pearl get caught, and Pearl and Mr. Krabs make a deal...Mr. Krabs has to triple her allowance. The end of the episode shows Karen back from seeing her mother board, and comes in to see the Patrick Clones working around the lab.
Running gags
- Plankton forcing Pearl to clean a failed invention.
Production
The episode was confirmed by Vincent Waller on June 29, 2019.[5]
Storyboard
Music
| ( ‣ ) Associated production music |
| ( • ) Original music |
| ( ◦ ) SpongeBob music |
‣ Old Hilo March - Kapono Beamer [Title card]
• A Simple Conversation 1 - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [Opening at the Chum Bucket]
‣ Buying Spree - William Loose [Patrick offers to be Plankton's intern]
• Lap Steel - Nicolas Carr [Transition to next scene]
‣ Stealthy Panto Creep - Max Saunders [Plankton orders Patrick to put a coin in his double maker's chamber]
• Grass Skirt Chase - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Many doubles of Patrick come outside from the double maker]
• Clowning Around Again Short - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [Plankton kicks all of Patrick's doubles out of the Chum Bucket]
• Hot Steel and Slide Licks 28 - Jeremy Wakefield ["Ah... Great, not a single applicate left."]
‣ Hippomania - John Fox, Mac Prindy [Pearl shows up at the Chum Bucket frightening Plankton]
• Clowning Around - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [Pearl tells Plankton she wanna have the intern job and Plankton hires her]
• Clowning Around Again - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony ["As the junior intern of Chum Bucket Labs you're responsable for extremely important tasks."]
• Hot Steel and Slide Licks 1A - Jeremy Wakefield [Plankton uses Pearl as a ladder to finish with his evil robot]
‣ Mutations (a) [#53] - Trevor Duncan [Plankton controls his evil robot and ends up destroyed]
• Clowning Around Again - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony ["No one asked you, junior intern."]
• Hot Steel and Slide Licks 11C - Jeremy Wakefield [Pearl gets hit in the face with a broom]
‣ Alien Spacecraft A - Gregor Narholz ["The power of my mighty, eh..."]
‣ Arnold Is Back 1 - Gregor Narholz [Plankton shows Pearl his laser]
• Hot Steel and Slide Licks 17A - Jeremy Wakefield [Safe box gets melted]
• Hot Steel and Slide Licks 2B - Jeremy Wakefield [Pearl goes cleaning the safe box's melts]
• Hot Steel and Slide Licks 10 - Jeremy Wakefield [Transition to next scene]
‣ Alien Spacecraft A - Gregor Narholz [Plankton pours monster maker's powders into a tank full of water]
‣ The Creature (a) - Gregor Narholz [Big monster emerges from the tank full of water/Monster grabs Plankton and launches him away]
• What's This - Nicolas Carr [Laser shoots the monster and explodes]
• Hot Steel and Slide Licks 15 - Jeremy Wakefield ["Ew! Gross!"]
• Hot Steel and Slide Licks 28 - Jeremy Wakefield ["You're gonna need a mop."]
• Sad Sailor Waltz - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr [Pearl complains Krabs about his boss]
‣ Fraidy Cat - Fredric Bayco [Plankton working on a machine at the Chum Bucket the next day]
• The Pollywog Strut - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [Pearl asks Plankton if she can work on science]
• Parting of the Clouds - Nicolas Carr ["What?! You can get me..."]
• Birth of the Krabby Patty - Nicolas Carr ["... Krabs' secret formula?!"]
• The Pollywog Strut - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [Plankton realizes Krabs is Pearl's father]
‣ Hide And Seek - Arthur Wilkinson [Pearl tells Krab she got a promotion to work at night]
• Hot Steel and Slide Licks 25B - Jeremy Wakefield ["Remember! The boss always knows best!"]
• Mission Improbable - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [Pearl gives Plankton a boost so he can enter at the Krusty Krab]
‣ Hide And Seek - Arthur Wilkinson [Pearl and Plankton hide on a closet of the Krusty Krab after SpongeBob shows up]
‣ Comic Walk - Sidney Torch [SpongeBob sleep-cooks Plankton at the Krusty Krab kitchen]
‣ Deep Cover - Carlo Giacco [Pearl and Plankton approach Krabs' office]
• Hot Steel and Slide Licks 28 - Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob wakes up inside the trash can]
‣ Deep Cover - Carlo Giacco [SpongeBob sees Pearl and Plankton entering Krabs' office]
• Krusty Krab Tango - Steve Marston [SpongeBob calls Krabs to tell him Plankton is trying to steal the secret formula]
‣ Hercule Poirot - Gerhard Trede [Pearl opens Krabs' safe and takes the secret formula outside]
‣ Battle March Link (1) - Keith Mansfield [Krabs and SpongeBob show up at the office]
‣ Comedy Punctuations And Bridges 3 - Fredric Bayco [Pearl takes off the ski mask]
‣ Tales From The Swamp (C) - Ron Goodwin ["Pearl?!! What are you doing with me bitter enemy?!"]
‣ Hawaiian Party - Peter Dennis ["I was just doing what you said. Remember? A good employee follows her boss's orders."]
‣ Increase B - Dick De Benedictis [Pearl gives Krabs a condition to give him the formula back]
‣ Uh Oh Flutter-Eyed - [ProjectSAM Symphobia Colours: Animator] ["Triple?!"]
• Hot Steel and Slide Licks 21 - Jeremy Wakefield [Krabs accepts Pearl's condition and gets his secret formula back]
• You're Nice - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Pearl quits working for Plankton and boosts him back to the Chum Bucket]
‣ Domestic Fun (A) - Ernest Tomlinson [Karen comes back to the Chum Bucket]
‣ Domestic Fun (C) - Ernest Tomlinson [Ending]
Release
- This episode is available on The Complete Twelfth Season and SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 21 DVDs.
Trivia
General
- This episode was paired up with a rerun of "Knock Knock, Who's There?" during the original American airing.
- This episode was released on The Complete Twelfth Season DVD on January 12, 2021, three months before airing on American television.
- The episode's premise is similar to "Mall Girl Pearl," as both episodes have to do with Pearl getting a job.
- Continuity: 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. He might not have been afraid since the whale cellmate was working for him, or that he was able to overcome his fear of whales.
- Plankton also does not seem to know that Pearl is Mr. Krabs' daughter in this episode until she says that he is her father. In "The Algae's Always Greener" and "One Coarse Meal," however, he does know that Pearl is Mr. Krabs' daughter.
- At the end of this episode, the bubble transitions didn't change to a different background. It remained mostly the same while it transitioned to seeing Karen returning from her vacation.
- A clip from this episode was used for a COVID-19 promo from around April 2020.[6]
- Another clip from this episode was used for a Patrick marathon in November 14, 2020 with a new episode of It's Pony.[7]
- This is the second episode Marc Ceccarelli and Vincent Waller directed. The first was "Who R Zoo?"
- Additionally, both episodes use "Old Hilo March" as the title card music.
Videos
References
- ^ https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/695260869885558835/698555587851452426/image0.png
- ^ https://www.dstv.co.za/whats-on/news/articles/spongebob-squarepants-and-patrick-star-best-besties-ever-marathon-on-nickelodeon-305/
- ^ https://tv24.se/kanal/paramount-network/2020-09-23
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20210203222954/https://www.telsu.fi/paavo-pesusieni/5
- ^ https://twitter.com/VincentWaller72/status/1144975599636627456
- ^ https://youtu.be/jt54WGT-wtA
- ^ https://youtu.be/eQdv0vpDePI
