CopyBob DittoPants

Characters

• Karen Plankton
• Sheldon J. Plankton
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• 297 SpongeBob SquarePants clones Template:Debut
  • Me Two Template:Debut
  • Me Three Template:Debut
• Squidward Tentacles
• Short customer Template:Debut
• Boy fish
• Jellyfish ^(mentioned)
• Eugene H. Krabs
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  • Troutenheimer
  • Frank
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  • Tuck Tucker
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  • Incidental 8
  • Incidental 6
  • Harold
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• Patrick Star Template:Cameo
  • Nine mini Patricks Template:Cameo
• King Neptune ^(mentioned)

Synopsis

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The SpongeBob copies marching into the Krusty Krab.

When Plankton, Karen, and SpongeBob throw a party at the Chum Bucket, SpongeBob gets tricked into putting his face on a copy machine. Plankton puts the copier on "Scan" and it scans SpongeBob. He clicks print and makes a SpongeBob clone the next day and then colors the tie blue with a marker.

The next day, at the Krusty Krab, the copy walks over to the real SpongeBob, who befriends him and calls him "Me Two," and they work for Mr. Krabs. Squidward goes crazy because he thinks he is dreaming, causing him to beat up the customers and Mr. Krabs. To Plankton's shock, Me Two refuses to tell Plankton the formula because of the friendship he formed with SpongeBob, so Plankton makes another copy and tries again; however, SpongeBob ends up befriending that copy as well, calling him "Me Three," but he also refuses to tell the formula.

Plankton makes 305 more clones to ask for the formula, making sure they don't come into contact with the real one this time, but then, after they find out what the formula is twice, they intercept the real SpongeBob's chore duties. SpongeBob sees all the clones working and compliments on them. Suddenly, Me Two turns into a light gray hue and SpongeBob suggests he's getting sick and offers to take him home. Upon asking where he's from, Me Two tells SpongeBob he came from the Chum Bucket, causing SpongeBob to find out that one of his copies was made to steal the secret formula. SpongeBob confronts Plankton outside, but all of a sudden, Me Two scrunches up, then rolls up into the shape of a burrito in mid-air before vanishing out of existence. SpongeBob is shocked, Plankton revealing he used cheap toner to make the clones, before he asks the other copies about the formula, but is foiled when the other clones quickly vanish as well and SpongeBob cries for his loss of his friends. Mr. Krabs comes with the paychecks for the copies, and the final clone disappears. When Plankton comes out to find another SpongeBob, he asks for the formula before he disappears, but it was the real SpongeBob. SpongeBob is still sad for the loss of the clones, treating them like they were his friends, but Plankton says that the citizens are better with one SpongeBob.

Squidward, still believing he's in a dream, comes back and then squishes Plankton after trying to fly and Plankton says, "Right on my keys," as the episode ends.

Production

This episode's board draft script was completed on May 20, 2015.

This episode's rough storyboard was completed on July 19, 2015.

Kaz posted an image featuring a boxed section of the script on August 5, 2015.

Vincent Waller confirmed this episode on Twitter on April 18, 2016. A painting of background art from this segment was found a few weeks earlier during a tour of Rough Draft Korea, which was posted on Facebook on April 8, 2016.

Kaz posted this episode's script cover on May 3, 2016, saying it was all he could legally share from the episode at the time.

Script

• Posted and written by Kaz.

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Model sheets

• Designed by Dustin D'Arnault.

• Karen's hard drive
  Karen's hard drive
• Plankton's infared goggles
  Plankton's infared goggles

Art

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• Painting of the insides of the Chum Bucket
  Painting of the insides of the Chum Bucket

Storyboards

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  Revised by Dave Cunningham.
• Revised by Dave Cunningham.[8]
  Revised by Dave Cunningham.

Release

Distribution

Format	Title	Region
DVD	SeaSide Story	Australia, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Brazil, Spain, Japan
	The Complete Ninth Season	United States, Australia
Box set	The Next 100 Episodes	United States
	The Best 200 Episodes Ever	United States
	The Best 300 Episodes Ever	United States
Digital release	SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 16	Global

Trivia

General

• This episode confirms that Plankton has tattooed a picture of himself in a graduation gown, graduation cap, and eyeglass onto Karen's hard drive.
• This is the second episode where SpongeBob gets cloned. The first is "Overbooked."
• This is the second episode where Patrick gets shredded by a lawnmower. The first is "Born to Be Wild."

Dub facts

• In the Russian dub, after the original SpongeBob arrives to Krusty Krab, Squidward, instead of saying, "I said 'Whatever,'" says, "You already said that to me."

Cultural references

• Plankton's line "March, march, my pretties!" mimics The Wicked Witch of the West's line "Fly my pretties!" from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.
• Patrick's line "Life is but a walking shadow" is from "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare. In the original play, Macbeth says the line after the death of his wife, while Patrick says it after the SpongeBob copies disappear.

Errors

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The missing cup and reappearing cup.

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Karen's buttons and wheels error.

• When SpongeBob and Me Two first walk into the Krusty Krab, the cup behind Squidward on the boat is not there, but then appears after a customer orders.
  • Also, at the same time, one of Me Two's eyelashes has a different color, as well as part of his left eye.
  • The hat rack also disappears.
• During the scene where Squidward attempts to fly, the Krusty Krab clam sign is missing.
• In one scene, the front teeth of one of the SpongeBob duplicates disappears.
• The location of Karen's wheels changes throughout the episode. Occasionally, they are beneath the lower platform, but sometimes, they also appear outside the lower platform, like in other episodes.
• At one point, Karen is seen with red buttons, while they are normally light aquamarine throughout the rest of her scenes.

Video

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Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
French	Moi-aussi	Me Too
German	SpongeBob Kopiekopf	SpongeBob CopyPants
Italian	Le Spongecoppie	The SpongeCopies
Polish	KseroBob Kopioporty	PrinterBob CopyPants
Russian	Новый Боб Прежние Штаны Novyy Bob Prezhniye Shtany	NewBob FormerPants
Spanish (American)	Bob Esponja fotocopiado	Photocopied SpongeBob
Spanish (European)	FotoBob CopiaEsponja	PhotoBob CopyPants