"The Krusty Slammer" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 12. In this episode, Mr. Krabs turns the Krusty Krab into a jailhouse after Plankton breaks the law, but crime only pays for so long.
Characters[]
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Eugene H. Krabs
- Mr. Krabs' eyes
- Squidward Tentacles
- Sheldon J. Plankton
- Mermaid Man (cameo)
- Barnacle Boy (cameo)
- French Narrator
- Tattletale Strangler (cameo)
- Popeye fish
- Sticky Fins Whiting
- Dorsal Dan (cameo)
- Prisoner 2
- Prisoner 6
- Incidentals
- Incidental 65
- Incidental 103
- Incidental 2
- Incidental 151
- Incidental 7
- Incidental 9
- Incidental 46
- Incidental 152
- Incidental 45
- Incidental 67
- Incidental 63
- Incidental 91
- Incidental 153
- Incidental 115
- Incidental 92
- Incidental 49
- Dale
- Incidental 60
- Incidental 40
- Incidental 48
- Incidental 64
- Incidental 107
- Incidental 41
- Old Man Walker
- Incidental 104
- Harris
- Sandals
- Incidental 118D
- Fred
- Incidental 118A
- Incidental 37B (named Wobbles)
- Incidental 105
- BusinessFish 50
- Incidental 30A
- Incidental 95
- Incidental 118C
- Musician 3
- Incidental 150
- Incidental 47
- Incidental 6
- Incidental 16
- Incidental 68
- Incidental 73KID
- Shelley (cameo)
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Synopsis[]
In the beginning of the episode, Plankton vandalizes the Krusty Krab to make Mr. Krabs look like a jerk, but he soon gets arrested and sent to prison. An officer takes Plankton to the police station with Mr. Krabs tagging along. The officer realizes the station is full and lets go of Plankton, wishing there was another prison. Mr. Krabs says he will turn his restaurant into a prison, and rolls a bowling ball with Plankton on it into the Krusty Krab to start holding a prison.
Plankton as Mr. Krabs' prisoner.
Plankton, trying to get out of prison, tricks Mr. Krabs and tries to escape, but ends up failing. Mr. Krabs puts Plankton in SpongeBob's hole as a punishment for doing this, and at the same time, the same officer comes back to send more prisoners to the Krusty Krab. After that, the Krusty Krab starts having cells within the restaurant to hold all the prisoners. Mr. Krabs then lets Plankton get out of the hole, only to punish him again by putting him inside the secret formula bottle with the formula itself outside of it.
Having lost business, Mr. Krabs releases the prisoners angrily.
SpongeBob sends mail to all the prisoners, while Mr. Krabs continues to severely punish Plankton. The officer comes back again to tell Mr. Krabs that Plankton has served his punishment and is getting released. As he is walking out, Plankton tells Mr. Krabs that he hopes what he is doing is worth paying for. It turns out the prisoners are enjoying many luxuries due to SpongeBob taking care of them. Mr. Krabs gets angry and takes away all these luxuries from the prisoners. They get mad and start throwing tomatoes at Mr. Krabs, causing the regular customers at the restaurant to leave. This makes Mr. Krabs angry enough to release all the prisoners so he does not have to deal with them anymore.
Later that night, all the prisoners come to SpongeBob to tell him they miss being at the prison because of him. SpongeBob creates a plan to get them all back in the prison, and the next day, Mr. Krabs sees all the prisoners in his restaurant again. This makes Mr. Krabs mad because he just released them the other night, but SpongeBob tries to tell him that he should not say that, as the officer is eating at the restaurant right at that time and tells him releasing prisoners early is a crime. She then arrests Mr. Krabs for admitting his act, as he realizes his error until telling SpongeBob to set a massage appointment for him. The officer says the Krusty Krab is full, so she sends Mr. Krabs to another jail as he realizes where it is: the Chum Bucket. There, Mr. Krabs is placed in a cage, while a vengeful Plankton takes full advantage of this and happily feeds buckets of chum to the crying Krabs, as the episode ends.
Production[]
The episode was confirmed by Vincent Waller on December 11, 2018.[1]
Storyboards[]
Music[]
| ( ‣ ) Production music |
| ( • ) Original music |
| ( ◦ ) SpongeBob music |
• Ahoy Landlubbers - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr [Title card]
‣ Zelle 501 - Gerhard Trede [Plankton painting graffiti on the Krusty Krab]
• Bikini Bottom Police - Nicolas Carr [Plankton arrested]
• Galley Cooks Shanty 2 - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr ["Vandalism's a crime too. You've been caught red-handed, Plankton."]
‣ Hide and Seek - Arthur Wilkinson [Prison is full of prisoners]
• The Frycook's Jig - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr ["You got yourself a deal!"]
• Parting of the Clouds Sting - Nicolas Carr [Krabs takes police officer's money]
• Hot Steel and Slide Licks 20A - Jeremy Wakefield [Krabs throws Plankton on the iron ball to the Krusty Krab]
‣ Dramatic Cue (C) - Ronald Hanmer [Plankton and the iron ball rolls through the door of the Krusty Krab and hits Squidward]
• Jovial Pirate's Jig - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr ["Enjoy your ride, Plankton?"]
‣ Fight for Ol' Schaefer U. - Will Schaefer ["Oh, hooray! Prison!"]
• Jovial Pirate's Jig - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr ["Oh, big deal, I've been a prisoner here for years."]
‣ Comic Walk - Sidney Torch [Krabs puts Plankton in a cage]
• Missing Frycook - Nicolas Carr [Plankton screams in pain as he's caught in a trap]
‣ Blood In The Gutter - Laurie Johnson [Krabs frees Plankton from the trap]
‣ The Unknown - Ralph Dollimore [Krabs drops Plankton into SpongeBob's body]
‣ Drama Link (C) - Hubert Clifford ["And don't let him go nowhere!"]
• Hot Steel and Slide Licks 11D - Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob laughing as Plankton tickles him by punching]
• Bikini Bottom Police - Nicolas Carr [Police officer appears at the Krusty Krab]
• New Vibe Hits - Nicolas Carr ["More prisoners?"]
• The Sharks - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [Truck full of prisoners arrives at the Krusty Krab]
• Drunken Sailor Solo Accordion - Nicolas Carr ["I gotta go incarcerate all this cash."]
• Jail Break - Nicolas Carr [Prison cells around the Krusty Krab]
‣ Shock - Cornelus Joh Bolten [Plankton going nuts inside SpongeBob's body]
‣ Street Stalker - Norman Dane [Krabs puts Plankton inside the secret formula bottle]
• Jail Break - Nicolas Carr [SpongeBob delivers the mail to the prisoners]
• Hot Steel and Slide Licks 35 - Jeremy Wakefield ["What? But I have so many more punishments for him."]
‣ Daring Escape - Kenneth Essex [Plankton leaves the Krusty Slammer]
• Vibe Q Sting - Nicolas Carr ["Wonder what he means by that."]
‣ Hide and Seek - Arthur Wilkinson [Krabs sees Fred going to sleep in a luxury cell]
‣ Queen's Aloha Oe C - Kapono Beamer, Queen Lili'uokalani [Krabs sees prisoners having a good time inside their cells]
• Hawaiian Slide - Nicolas Carr, Jeremy Wakefield [Hot cocoa forms into dollar signs]
‣ Big Boss - Karl Lothar Mikulicz [Krabs takes the luxuries away from the prisoners]
• Grass Skirt Chase - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Prisoners throwing tomatoes]
• Hot Steel and Slide Licks 4A - Jeremy Wakefield ["Oh, I'm ruined!"]
• Jail Break - Nicolas Carr [Krabs releases all the prisoners]
• Cheap and Frozen Short - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr ["Oh, finally. The Krusty Krab is back to being a regular old money-making restaurant."]
‣ Drama Link (B) - Hubert Clifford [Prisoners enter SpongeBob's house at night]
• Aloha Lui Lui - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield ["We want to go back to the Krusty Krab. We were having fun in there with you."]
• Nude Sting - Nicolas Carr [Krabs gasps]
• Hot Steel and Slide Licks 22A - Jeremy Wakefield ["I set all these criminals free last night! What are they doing back in their cells?!"]
• Bikini Bottom Police - Nicolas Carr [Police officer arrests Krabs]
• Hawaiian Adventures aka SpongeBob Theme - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Ending]
Release[]
- This episode is available on the SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 21 digital collection and The Complete Twelfth Season DVD.
Trivia[]
General[]
- This episode was paired up with a rerun of "The Ballad of Filthy Muck" during the original airing, but has since been re-airing with "Pineapple RV."[2]
- For the rerun on February 14, 2020, this episode was paired up with "The Ghost of Plankton."[3] Their respective sister episodes didn't premiere until much later.
- This episode precedes the Nickelodeon animated series Rainbow Butterfly Unicorn Kitty, which is a show that aired on Nicktoons.
- On one of the prisoner's TVs, a scene from The Adventures of Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy can be seen.
- The Tattletale Strangler makes a cameo in a jail cell, but has no speaking role.
- This is the first episode in the series where Plankton defeats Mr. Krabs in the end, despite still failing to steal the Krabby Patty formula.
- This was the last episode to premiere during the Sunday SpongeDay event.
Dub facts[]
- This episode was initially set to premiere in Iberia on March 1, 2019, but was pulled for unknown reasons.
- This episode was initially set to premiere in Poland on May 28, 2019, but was replaced with its sister episode.
- This episode was initially set to premiere in Germany on August 2, 2019, but its sister episode was aired by mistake.
- When this episode premiered in Wallonia, a "Nieuwe Aflevering" (New Episode in Dutch) watermark was combined with the Nickelodeon screen bug.[4]
Episode references[]
- Plankton makes the surprised face from The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie when Mr. Krabs gets him out of SpongeBob's hole.
- Dorsal Dan and Sticky Fins Whiting appear for the first time since "The Getaway."
- Several prisoners from past episodes, particularly from "Jailbreak!," reappear.
Cultural references[]
- Mona Lisa and The Starry Night are seen hanging on the wall of a jail cell.
- One of the prisoners SpongeBob delivers mail to resembles German physicist Albert Einstein. The prisoner's name, Einstein, is also a reference to him.
Errors[]
- Fred and Incidental 92 switch between customers of the Krusty Slammer and prisoners throughout the episode.
- The red paint puddles at the beginning of the episode disappear and reappear when the camera zooms in and out from Plankton.
One of the cut-off animation frames.
Another one of the cut-off animation frames.
- When Plankton attempts to escape Mr. Krabs' office, there are a couple of frames where one of Plankton's legs is cut off at one end of the screen.
- When SpongeBob places the marshmallows in the hot chocolate, the liquid disappears and reappears through the animation sequence.
Videos[]
Names in other languages[]
| Language | Name | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| German | Das Krosse Kittchen | The Krusty Kitchen |