Bucket Sweet Bucket

Characters

• Sheldon J. Plankton
• Karen Plankton
• Patrick Star
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• Squidward Tentacles
• Human audience
• Eugene H. Krabs
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• Kelpy G (music only)

Synopsis

In the beginning of the episode, Plankton is tired of the Chum Bucket's lack of business, so he attempts to remodel it and fails due to size deduction. As a result, he tricks SpongeBob and Patrick into fixing it up by whimpering an excuse for him not to remodel. Soon, he realizes that they both have done everything wrong and breaks down sobbing about his failure, which attracts their loyalty towards him to make the Chum Bucket a success.

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Plankton bites off the bolt with his teeth and starts to crack.

Soon after seeing their progress, Squidward criticizes them and tells them that they are not painting correctly. He joins in and paints different, unexpected art on the front of the restaurant. Plankton sees Squidward's joining the experiment, as an opportunity to purloin the Krabby Patty secret formula, but Plankton sees that Squidward's art is paintings of himself, causing him to repaint it into a log cabin. SpongeBob requests something to drink, but Plankton says that his pipes are not working and he can't get water even if he wanted to, they were rusted shut. This causes SpongeBob and Patrick to start replacing every part of the Chum Bucket with parts from the Krusty Krab.

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SpongeBob and Patrick taking parts of the Krusty Krab.

When Plankton slides into the safe after the others are still working, he finds out that Mr. Krabs is nowhere to be seen and has replaced the formula with a to-do list. A furious Plankton bursts out of the safe, only to see the Krusty Krab is gone and in the place of the Chum Bucket. Mr. Krabs then returns and it turns out that he was on vacation (on a safari maybe) and keeps the formula in another safe while away (inside him). He sees the rearranging of his business and literally pushes the Krusty Krab back to its normal spot. He picks Plankton up and is about to tell him to stay away from his restaurant, just like usual. However, an exasperated Plankton cuts him off by finishing the sentence for him, stating that they've done this many times, before launching himself back to the empty space where the Chum Bucket was to save the hassle. A frustrated Karen sarcastically tells him that he fixed the place up, and he responds not to nag him after the day he just had.

After about 1 day, Mr. Krabs is enjoying the remodeled medieval-themed Krusty Krab, which was remodeled by Squidward using parts of the Chum Bucket—the concrete foundation for the central fountain, the walls for the metal decorations, and Karen for the computer. The episode ends with a customer annoyed at having to pay $25 for a Krabby Patty until Mr. Krabs points out the classy atmosphere, after which the customer asks for four patties.

Production

It was added to the United States Copyright Catalog alongside its sister episode on February 2, 2007.

This episode was confirmed on March 26, 2007.

Art

• File:Solitare.jpg
• File:Bottle.jpg

Release

Broadcast

• This episode premiered in the first week of the SpongeBob's NEW Week event.

Distribution

• This episode is available on the Bikini Bottom Adventures, Season 5 Volume 1, First 100 Episodes, 2-Movies-Edition, Bob Esponja Cumple 10 Años, SpongeBob Pack: Volume 3, The Underwater Stories, The Ultimate SpongeBob Box Set, SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 7, Complete Fifth Season, SpongeBob Adventures Pack, From the Beginning, Part 2, The SpongeBob SquarePants Collection, The SpongeBob SquarePants 8 Season DVD Collection, The Best of Bikini Bottom, The Best 200 Episodes Ever, The Fifth & Sixth Seasons, and The Best 300 Episodes Ever DVDs.

Trivia

General

• This episode was available on the Bikini Bottom Adventures DVD, released on June 5, 2007, a month and a half before it aired on American television.
• This episode was originally titled "The Krabby Bucket" and "The Krusty Bucket." The second former title would later be used for a season 12 episode.
• Karen implies it is the poor upkeep of the Chum Bucket that keeps customers away, but numerous other episodes imply that it is really the poor quality of the food.
• Squidward uses SpongeBob's line "Everyone's a critic" from "Frankendoodle."
• Throughout the entire episode, SpongeBob and Patrick don't know that they're helping Plankton steal the formula. They even take the entire Krusty Krab restaurant and build it over the Chum Bucket or the spot it used to be at.
• After the scene where Mr. Krabs pushes the Krusty Krab back to its spot, Patrick is not seen again for the remainder of the episode.
• At the end of the episode, there are swords hanging on the wall. According to Vincent Waller on the audio commentary for this episode, Standards and Practices took issue with them being referred to as "swords," so instead they are referred to as "metal decorations" by Mr. Krabs in the final episode.
• This episode marks the first time the basement of the Krusty Krab is seen.
• This episode marks the first time Karen works at the Krusty Krab.
• This is the second episode to parody the phrase "home sweet home" in the title. The first is "Home Sweet Pineapple." Also, both episodes involve fixing the "home."
• This was Larry Leichliter's last episode as an animation director on SpongeBob SquarePants; he left to work on The Mighty B!, which is another Nickelodeon animated series.
• This episode is similar to "Wet Painters," as both episodes involve SpongeBob and Patrick painting a character's house (Eugene H. Krabs and Pearl Krabs' house/Chum Bucket). Though unlike "Wet Painters," Squidward also paints that character's house.

Dub facts

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The incorrect writers are listed.

• In the Welsh dub, Luke Brookshier, Tom King, and Steven Banks are all listed as writers of this episode, even though none of them wrote this episode.
  • Brookshier and King are also erroneously listed as storyboard directors.

Cultural references

• This episode's title is a pun of the phrase "home sweet home."
• The computer game SpongeBob plays at the end of the episode is Solitaire, a game that is pre-installed on Windows computers.
• Plankton getting angry and breaking safe door with huge muscles is a reference to The Incredible Hulk starring Lou Ferrigno.

Errors

• After doors fall on Plankton, his eyebrow is missing for three seconds.

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SpongeBob's visible eyelashes mistake.

• When SpongeBob talks to Squidward and says, "He calls it 'pizzazz'," SpongeBob blinks his eyes, but his eyelashes are still seen for a split second.
• When Squidward helps SpongeBob and Patrick paint the Chum Bucket, he is seen in his aerobic suit and headband, but when Plankton spots that Squidward painted himself, he is seen back in his regular shirt.
• When Plankton and SpongeBob walk over to the window that Patrick made, it has eight bolts on it. However, after Plankton notices that the window is closed, it has six bolts on it. Then, when Patrick comments on how weird it is for Plankton wanting to see out the window, it has seven bolts. Finally, after Plankton bites off one of the bolts, eight spots are seen again.
• At the end of the episode, Squidward says he built a computer out of Karen, but in the scene prior to that one, she is okay even after the Chum Bucket is destroyed.
• Squidward has headphones on when he is walking, but when he walks up to the Chum Bucket, the headphones have vanished.

Videos

File:Nickelodeon Split Screen Credits (July 27, 2007)

File:Nickelodeon Split Screen Credits (August 3, 2007)

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
French	Le Seau de l'enfer	The Chum Bucket
German	Schöner neuer Abfalleimer	Beautiful New Chum Bucket
Hungarian	Felújítás	Renovation
Italian	Rinnovo locale	Local Renovation
Russian	Баккет, милый Баккет Bakket, milyy Bakket	Bucket Sweet Bucket
Spanish (American)	Balde, dulce balde	Bucket Sweet Bucket
Spanish (European)	Cubo, dulce cubo	Bucket Sweet Bucket