Drive Thru

If you were looking for the article about the book, then see Drive Thru (book).

If you were looking for the article about the Krusty Krab drive thru, then see Krusty Krab drive-thru.

Characters

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• Eugene H. Krabs
• Squidward Tentacles
• Lampreys ^(mentioned)
• French Narrator
• Sheldon J. Plankton
• Ernesto Blindfish Template:Debut
• Pearl Krabs
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  • Incidental 42
  • Incidental 103
  • Incidental 102
  • Incidental 107 ^{(purple; normal)}
  • Dale
  • Incidental K2 ^{(peach orange)}
  • Pearl's cyan friend ^(lavender)
  • Carol
  • Incidental 153
  • Troutenheimer
  • Incidental 31
  • Putzy
  • Incidental 63
  • Incidental 13
  • Incidental 14
  • Charlie
  • Incidental 106
  • Incidental 40
  • Incidental 49
  • Incidental 48
  • Incidental 45
  • Incidental 150
  • Incidental 151
  • Incidental 34
  • Anchovies
    • Incidental 115
    • Incidental 157
    • Lenny
  • Frank
  • Incidental 92
  • Harold (Inc 36)
  • Incidental 41
  • Incidental 7
• Larry the Lobster
• Cop
• Mayor

Synopsis

At the Krusty Krab, SpongeBob notices that Mr. Krabs is filling a hole in the wall with toothpaste. Suddenly, the toothpaste begins dripping and causes the hole to crack, making an even bigger hole in the wall. A fish and his children come to the Krusty Krab, and when they see the hole in the parking lot, he thinks it is a drive-thru and orders from the hole. This gives Mr. Krabs an idea to create a Krusty Krab drive-thru, using a simple menu written on napkins, a microphone made with tin cans, and a sign made from a noodle, rather than use the more elaborate arrow sign, menu, and microphone system that SpongeBob bought.

Soon, a customer orders from the drive-thru, but SpongeBob has trouble getting the food out of the window. He uses a trampoline to get the food to the customer, but it hits his outfit. Then the customer gives Mr. Krabs the bill for his dry cleaning. Mr. Krabs subsequently makes the hole bigger with a hammer.

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Plankton in his car.

Later, Plankton drives by in his tiny car and tries to order a Krabby Patty with extra secret formula, but no one sees him, so an old man runs him over. When Squidward replies to the old man's order, the man mishears and thinks they are closed, then proceeds to drive away in disappointment and Squidward throws away the order due to not noticing Plankton.

Later, Pearl and her friends pull up and decide to do a prank on Squidward by screaming through a megaphone and damaging his ear, making Mr. Krabs pay his bill. After that, Larry the Lobster shows up, accidentally breaking the drive-thru microphone with the side of his S.U.B. Mr. Krabs still bills Larry, even though he has many tin cans to replace the broken one. Then, SpongeBob has trouble getting his food up to the window of his vehicle and drops it on his head, so Mr. Krabs hammers a second hole in the wall much higher than the first.

Mr. Krabs hears cars honking and sees a huge line through the entire town to go to the drive thru. A police officer comes and seemingly fines Mr. Krabs for collapsing the traffic, only for the note on paper to be revealed as his order. The mayor then visits and is not happy about all the traffic, so Mr. Krabs solves this problem by breaking a hole on the right side of the Krusty Krab walls for another drive thru. Then, SpongeBob and Squidward desperately try to feed all of the customers on both sides.

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The Krusty Krab is destroyed.

When SpongeBob asks Mr. Krabs what they will do, Mr. Krabs thinks it is not that bad, but then, the customers start to riot, and Mr. Krabs breaks yet another hole. Due to the amount of pressure, the Krusty Krab cracks and collapses. SpongeBob claims they can fix it, but the tube of toothpaste from earlier runs empty, so he says they will need to buy more. The episode ends with Mr. Krabs crying over the destruction he caused.

Production

The episode was confirmed and added to the US Copyright Office on December 12, 2010, along with its sister episode "The Hot Shot."

Art

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Release

Distribution

Format	Title	Region
DVD	SpongeBob's Frozen Face-Off	United States
	Disorder in the Deep	Germany, United Kingdom, Japan
	The Complete Eighth Season	United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Box set	The SpongeBob SquarePants Collection	Australia
	Kids Double Pack: Volume 2	Europe
	The SpongeBob SquarePants 8 Season DVD Collection	Germany and Australia
	The Seventh & Eighth Seasons	United States
	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. 12	Global

Trivia

General

• This is the only episode where the sidewalls of the Krusty Krab are wooden instead of glass.
• Mr. Krabs makes a total of three drive-thrus.

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• On Netflix, this episode is listed as "Drive-Thru."
• The sign made from the old noodle is knocked off when Mr. Krabs increases the size of the first hole and is not replaced.
• Mr. Krabs' drive-thru idea is not new. It is featured in a previous episode, "Driven to Tears." The difference is that Mr. Krabs had a real drive-thru window and microphone in the earlier episode.
• There was a small drive-thru window in the first three seasons. After season 4, the window disappeared, with the exception of "What Ever Happened to SpongeBob?"
• There is also a book with the same name as this episode with a similar plot, which was released seven years before this episode premiered.
• When Squidward says that his ear hurts, he talks to the camera, which breaks the fourth wall.
• The green fish mayor from "Doing Time" and "The Great Snail Race" is shown rather than the purple fish mayor from "SpongeBob's Last Stand" and "Sponge-Cano!"
• In this episode, it is revealed that Squidward never went to college.
• The Chum Bucket hat Plankton wears is similar to the one he wears in "Komputer Overload."
• This is the second episode that chum nuggets are seen. The first was "Chum Caverns." However, in this episode, it is just shown as an average chum clop with external organs, whereas in "Chum Caverns," they more so have the shape of chicken nuggets.
• At the end of the episode when SpongeBob asks Mr. Krabs what they should do when the customers start rioting, Squidward says, "for once, he's right", showing that he agrees with SpongeBob, which is extremely rare.
• Larry's S.U.B. is a parody of a real-life vehicle called an SUV.

Errors

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Missing antenna.

• During the beginning, when the fish is driving around the Krusty Krab, the antenna is missing.
• When Incidental 42 first shows up at the Krusty Krab and makes an order, there is toothpaste in the hole and on his arms, but when Mr. Krabs tells Squidward that they'll build the drive-thru for free, the toothpaste in the hole and on Incidental 42's arm disappears.
• Mr. Krabs' desk is shown in front of the refrigerator in the back of the kitchen when he first moves it there, but in the next shot of the kitchen, it is more so located next to the condiment stand.
• Squidward is shown wearing bandages over his left ear following the incident with Pearl's friends, but once he appears during Larry's order, the bandages are gone for the rest of the episode, despite the fact that he could not have recovered or been treated by a doctor in such a short time span.
• Mr. Krabs tells Squidward he doesn't want to buy a real microphone and speaker because it will cost him money, even though SpongeBob already bought a microphone system.
• Earlier, due to Squidward's complaining, Mr. Krabs moves SpongeBob and the grill to his office and moves his desk to the kitchen. At the point where Mr. Krabs tells SpongeBob to get the order for the policeman, the grill and office desk have suddenly returned to their original spots; SpongeBob appears through the kitchen window and remains in the kitchen for the remainder of the episode.

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His tux button has the wrong color.

• When the mayor is saying, "That should work perfectly," the gold button on his tux becomes white for a split second.
• When the policeman hands Mr. Krabs a ticket, two of the small stalks on Mr. Krabs' right eye turn gray for a split second during his shocked expression before cutting to the policeman again.

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SpongeBob's leg is white for a split second.

• While SpongeBob carries the trays for the customers, for a split second, his leg is white.

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The green fish's underarm is orange for a second.

• When the green and blue fish collide with their car, the green fish's underarm is orange for a second.
• At the end, when Squidward is telling Mr. Krabs that the customers are rioting, the boat in the back has a yellow flag. In the next scene, the flag is gone.
• After Incidental 42 notices there's toothpaste on the hole, SpongeBob's body overlaps with his arm.
• At the end of the episode when the Krusty Krab collapses and falls apart, Squidward is not seen coming out of the rubble with SpongeBob and Mr. Krabs.

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His body overlaps with his arm.

• Tom Kenny is credited as playing Gary the Snail. However, Gary is neither seen nor heard in this episode.

Video

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Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Hungarian	Autós büfé	Drive Thru
Russian	Не выходя из лодки Ne vykhodya iz lodki	Without Getting off the Boat
Spanish (American)	El autoservicio	Self-service
Spanish (European)	La ventanilla	The Window