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{{Cquote2|<center>The sash-ringing, the trash-singing, mash-flinging...</center>|{{Link|SpongeBob SquarePants}}|"[[Graveyard Shift]]"}}
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{{Character
|name = The hash-slinging slasher
|image = Hashslingingslasher.png
|residence = [[Bikini Bottom]], [[Pacific Ocean]]
|occupation(s) = Fry cook (formerly)
|gender = Male
|eye-color = Dark red
|species = Ghost
|first-appearance = "[[Graveyard Shift]]" (mentioned)
|latest-appearance = ''[[What DoodleBob would've done in the Smitty Werbenjägermanjensen episode from SpongeBob! -shorts]]''
}}
The '''hash-slinging slasher''' is the main character in a ghost story told by {{Link|Squidward}} in the episode "[[Graveyard Shift]]."

==Description==
He has a rusty [[spatula]] for a left hand and has glowing red eyes and a black hunch-backed body.

==Role in series==
==="Graveyard Shift/"''[[Another Day, Another Sand Dollar]]''/''[[Super SpongeBob comic strip Vol.9: Patty Hype]]''===
Squidward creates the character of the "hash-slinging slasher" in a ghost story in order to scare {{Link|SpongeBob}} as a form of entertainment during their 24-hour night shift.

According to Squidward's story, the hash-slinging slasher was a clumsy former fry cook who worked at the [[Krusty Krab]] before SpongeBob. One night, the slasher accidentally severed one of his hands by mistake while cutting [[Krabby Patty]] meat. As the slasher was not a sponge, his hand did not grow back and he replaced it with a rusty spatula.

Later, when he was going home, he was fatally run over by a [[bus]] and "fired" at his funeral. Out of vengeance, his ghost returns to the restaurant every Tuesday night via the bus that killed him and "gets" unsuspecting victims. However, his presence is announced by flickering lights, a phone call with nobody on the sending line, and the arrival of the bus that killed him, stopping just outside the Krusty Krab.

Squidward later confesses that he fabricated the story in response to SpongeBob's almost-frenetic-and-melodramatic screams of terror. Later that night, however, it seemed that the events of his story were coming true. Eventually, it is revealed that the hash-slinging slasher, or [[Richard|who they thought was him]], actually came to apply for a job at the Krusty Krab. He was also revealed to be the cause of the latter two "signs" signaling the hash-slinging slasher's arrival, with [[Nosferatu]] switching the lights on and off.

===''[[SpongeBob's Truth or Square]]''===
He is seen in the [[Rock Bottom (city)|Rock Bottom]] level.

===''[[SpongeBob SquigglePants]]''===
The hash-slinging slasher appears in Squidward's stage (B-Movie) which was a prank by SpongeBob and {{Link|Patrick}} to scare Squidward. If the player loses all of their lives, SpongeBob and Patrick reveal themselves and scare Squidward, but if the player wins, SpongeBob and Patrick fall, with Squidward looking in annoyance.

===''[[SpongeBob Freestyle Funnies 2018]]''===
He appears on the comic's cover as part of the angry crowd of villains staring at SpongeBob.

===''[[SpongeBob Tower Defense]]''===
He appears as a unit in the [https://spongebobtd.fandom.com/wiki/Chests chests].

==="[[What DoodleBob would've done in the Smitty Werbenjägermanjensen episode from SpongeBob! -shorts]]"===
[[DoodleBob]] gets him, [[Reg]], [[Flats the Flounder]], and the [[Flying Dutchman]] at [[Scare Camp]].

==Trivia==
*The hash-slinging slasher's name is often mispronounced by SpongeBob, and to a lesser extent, Squidward.
*During the scene where Squidward tells his ghost story of the Hash-Slinging Slasher to SpongeBob, [[Paul Tibbitt]] just puts a pair of vampire teeth, a vampire cape, and a pair of demon horns on Squidward's voice actor [[Rodger Bumpass]], and handed him a flashlight and asked him to try the attire and flashlight, so he could tell the scary story and he did with the flashlight in front of his face while hamming the story up and recording it in one take.
*In the [[Spužva Bob Skockani|Croatian dub]], the hash-slinging slasher's name is "Jack Konobarosjek," (roughly translated as "Jack the Waiter-Cutter") which is a parody of "{{W|Jack the Ripper}}" (Jack Trbosjek in Croatian).{{Citation needed}}
*In the [[Губка Боб Квадратные Штаны|Russian dub]], the hash-slinging slasher's name is "Гарри Рубленое Мясо," which translates to "Harry Chopped Meat."{{Citation needed}}
*In the [[Bob Esponja Calça Quadrada|Brazilian dub]], the hash-slinging slasher's name is "Famoso Zé do Picadinho," which translates to "Famous Joe of Stew."{{Citation needed}}
*In the [[SpongeBob SquarePants (European Portuguese)|European Portuguese dub]], the hash-slinging slasher's name is "Homicida da Espátula," which translates to "Spatula Killer."
*In the Persian dub(Qualima), the hash-slinging slasher's name is "قاتل معتاد," which translates to "Addicted killer."
*In the Persian dub(TDH), the hash-slinging slasher's name is "قصاب گوشت خردکن," which translates to "butcher, the meat chopper."
*The hash-slinging slasher is a parody of famous horror slasher film villains such as {{W|Freddy Krueger}} from ''{{W|A Nightmare on Elm Street}}'' and {{W|Jason Voorhees}} from ''{{W|Friday the 13th (franchise)|Friday the 13th}}''. However, he shared much in common with {{W|The Hook|The Hookman}}, a serial killer from urban legends as they replaced one of their hands with weaponized prosthetic (in The Hookman's case, a sharp hook).
*In the Indonesian airing of the episode, the hash-slinging slasher was given a different origin story: After replacing his missing hand with a spatula, he suddenly lost his mind and died in a fire.{{Citation needed}}
*To "sling hash" means to work at a restaurant, mainly a fast food one.
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