Bossy Boots

If you were looking for the article about the song, then see Bossy Boots Song.

If you were looking for the article about the puppet version of this episode, then see Bossy Boots: Puppet Edition!.

If you were looking for the article about the season 1 episode, then see Squeaky Boots.

"Bossy Boots" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 2. In this episode, Pearl gets a job at the Krusty Krab and makes some major changes to the place.

Characters

• Sea urchins
• Eugene H. Krabs
• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Squidward Tentacles
• Pearl Krabs
• Barnacle ^(mentioned)
• Skeleton
• Brain crab creature ^(debut)
• Incidentals
  • Fred
  • Incidental 2
  • John
  • Incidental 7
  • Incidental 10
  • Incidental 11
  • Carol (Inc 22)
  • Incidental 27
  • Incidental 29
  • Incidental 35
  • Incidental 37B
  • Incidental 46
  • Incidental 69
  • Harris
  • Gale
  • Incidental 118
  • Incidental 141
  • Incidental 150 ^(debut)
• Monkey ^{(head as a pillow; stuffed animal)}
• Giraffe ^{(stuffed animal)}
• Bear ^{(stuffed animal)}
• Octopus ^{(stuffed animal)}
• Davy Jones ^(mentioned)
• Sea unicorn ^{(in picture)}
• Rabbit ^{(stuffed animal)}
• Spider
• Gary the Snail

Synopsis

At the Krusty Krab, Mr. Krabs holds a meeting with his employees, informing them that his daughter Pearl is going to be working at the Krusty Krab during her summer vacation and that she has lots of new ideas to improve the restaurant. Squidward does not like the idea of being told what to do by a teenager, and he and SpongeBob agree to stand up to her to protect their jobs.

Pearl soon arrives and SpongeBob's resolution quickly crumbles, adoring the flamboyant new uniform Pearl gives them. After exchanging many ideas, Pearl and SpongeBob agree to turn the Krusty Krab into the "Kuddly Krab," and re-purpose the restaurant into a hip café, all with Mr. Krabs' blessing.

Squidward remains the only holdout and shakes the newly designed sign in frustration. Two passersby are disappointed the Krusty Krab is seemingly gone and, thinking Squidward is a woman, ask him where a place to eat is. Enraged, Squidward quits on the spot and rips off his costume.

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"But where are the Krabby Patties?"

The Kuddly Krab quickly becomes a hit with the teenage crowd. SpongeBob is told to make a salad, which he never heard of, so he makes a Krabby Patty and shows it to Pearl. Disgusted, she orders him to take off the buns and the patty, leaving only tomatoes and lettuce. Upon returning to the kitchen, SpongeBob is horrified to see that his grill is gone. Pearl explains to him that Krabby Patties are no longer "hip," and that they now serve only tea and salad. SpongeBob is then given a humiliating mascot costume to wear out front, and this is the final straw for him. He goes to Mr. Krabs' office to complain.

Despite putting on a brave face, Mr. Krabs agrees with SpongeBob's complaints and admits that Pearl's renovations are losing them money. Though Mr. Krabs knows that Pearl needs to go, he can't bring himself to fire his own daughter, so he makes SpongeBob be the one to fire her. SpongeBob calls Pearl into the kitchen, dreading what he has to do. Before he can even say anything, however, Pearl breaks down crying and reveals to SpongeBob that she's really been trying to get herself fired since the beginning and hates working at the restaurant, only taking the job and pretending to like it to please her dad and doesn't want to risk disappointing him by quitting. After hearing all this, SpongeBob comes up with a plan to stage Pearl being fired outside of her dad's office.

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As Mr. Krabs listens in to the exchange, he debates with himself whether he should allow it to happen. The sight of his empty safe with a spider web finally prompts him to yell to SpongeBob to get on with it, but with the words, "Pearl, you're fired," the strain on Mr. Krabs' heart knocks him out cold. Pearl thanks SpongeBob for letting her go and kisses him on the cheek before dashing off to the mall with her friends.

SpongeBob enters Mr. Krabs' office to report his success, only to find him passed out on the floor. After being revived with a $20 bill, Mr. Krabs laments what's been done to Pearl—but SpongeBob assures his boss that Pearl's fine, claiming that she's off to bigger and better things. While he's glad that the situation is resolved, Mr. Krabs wonders how he'll get his money back for all of Kuddly Krabs' decorations/merchandise. SpongeBob buys all of them, costing him one year's salary, and puts them in his house for his enjoyment, much to Gary's chagrin.

Production

Sketches

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Paintings

• Title card background.
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Music

( ‣ ) Production music

( • ) Original music

( ◦ ) SpongeBob music

 ‣ Moloka'i Nui A - Kapono Beamer [Title card]
 ‣ The Tip Top Polka/The Cliff Polka - Chelmsford Folk Band [The opening.]
 ‣ Romeo & Juliet Overture - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Fiachra Trench ["The new spatulas are here!"]
 ‣ Family Tales H - Peter Balding, Otto Sieben [Teaching Pearl how to breach]
 ‣ Vibe Link (B) - Richard Myhill ["Hello? Daddy!"]
 ‣ Heavy Footsteps (a) - Paddy Kingsland ["SpongeBob, do you realize what this means?"]
 ‣ The Rake Hornpipe - Robert Alexander White ["Say hello to me Pearl!"]
 ‣ Furtive Footsteps - Paddy Kingsland ["Okay, this is it, SpongeBob. Now tell her how you really feel about that uniform."]
 ‣ Revelation - Dick Walter ["This is the greatest uniform ever!"]
 • 12th St Rag Slo - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield ["Oh, SpongeBob, you look so adorable."]
 ‣ On The Beach - Kapono Beamer [Squidward wearing the new uniform]
 • Thats It ! - Nicolas Carr ["Me? Really?"]
 ‣ Gorgeous Girl - Kurt Schick [SpongeBob and Pearl coming up with new names for the Krusty Krab.]
 ‣ Short Fanfare [#29.02] - Alfred Kluten [The King Krab]
 ‣ Conga [#61] - Sammy Burdson [The Kool Krab]
 ‣ Guitar Rag 1 - Herbert Wallace, Jerry Burnham, Joseph Wilson [The Kowboy Krab]
 ‣ Slipping Over - Dave Rogers, Paul Shaw [The Kurly Krab]
 ‣ Shock - Cornelus Joh Bolten [The Kreepy Krab]
 ‣ Shock Horror (A) - Dick Walter [The Killer Krab]
 ‣ Hawaiian Link (B) - Richard Myhill [The Kuddly Krab]
 • Steel Licks 35 - Jeremy Wakefield [Squidward rips the uniform off]
 ◦ Bossy Boots Song - The Capsules [Inside the Kuddly Krab]
 ‣ Aloha - Dick Walter ["Okay, no buns."]
 ‣ Lovely Scenery C - Mladen Franko [SpongeBob sees that his grill is gone.]
 ‣ Hawaiian Link (A) - Richard Myhill [SpongeBob is seen wearing a crab costume.]
 ‣ Stiff Upper Lip - Paddy Kingsland ["I'm a fry cook, darn it!"]
 ‣ Kids Up and Go (b) - Steve Sidwell [Inside Krabs' office]
 ‣ What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor? - Okko Bekker ["It's hip! It's coral! It's...!"]
 ‣ Botany Bay (b) - Robert Alexander White ["It's losing money!"]
 • Idea Sting - Nicolas Carr ["That's it, boy!"]
 ◦ Bossy Boots Song - The Capsules ["...I'll wait in me office."]
 ‣ Vibe Link (A) - Richard Myhill ["How am I gonna break it to her?"]
 ‣ Island Romance - Jan Rap [Pearl cries]
 ‣ Orchestral Effect (F) - Dick Walter ["I've got it!"]
 ‣ Hawaiian Link (B) - Richard Myhill [Later...]
 ‣ Action Cut A - Gregor F. Narholz [SpongeBob pretending to fire Pearl]
 ◦ Bossy Boots Song - The Capsules ["Come on, gang, the mall waits!"]
 ‣ House Of Horror [#10.5] - W. Merrick Farran [SpongeBob screams]
 ‣ Hawaiian Breeze - Jon Jelmer ["How could we have done such a thing to me own flesh and blood?"]
 • Vibe & Harp Hits - Nicolas Carr ["Hmm..."]
 ◦ Bossy Boots Song - The Capsules [The ending.]

Release

Distribution

• This episode is available on the Tide and Seek, Complete 2nd Season, Squidward's Day Off, Imitation Krabs, Sponge Crazy, Your Shoe's Untied, First 100 Episodes, SpongeBob on DVD, The Ultimate SpongeBob Box Set, SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 2, The Complete Second Season, The SpongeBob SquarePants Collection, From the Beginning, Part 1, Tales of a Teenage Whale, SpongeBob, You're Fired!, I'm Your Biggest Fan, The SpongeBob SquarePants 8 Season DVD Collection, The First & Second Seasons, The Best 200 Episodes Ever, and The Best 300 Episodes Ever DVDs.
• This episode is also available on the Tide and Seek VHS and Sponge-a-Rama VHS tapes.

Reception

• "Bossy Boots" was ranked #93 during the Best Day Ever event from November 9–10, 2006.

Trivia

General

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• This episode was originally titled "Working Pearl," but was later changed to the final title. Comcast had still listed it with the original title, but this has since been fixed, and DirecTV originally used it too, but it was also soon fixed.
  • The title is a reference to the 1988 film Working Girl.
  • During the Best Day Ever marathon, it was referred to by its original title by Patchy the Pirate.
  • The iTunes version still has "Working Pearl" as the name of the episode, but when watched the correct name is displayed.

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    Working Pearl on iTunes

• This is the first episode for a few things:
  • The first episode in which the Krusty Krab has been remodeled.
  • The first episode in which the Krusty Krab grill is removed from the kitchen.
  • The first episode in which Incidental 7 is seen without lipstick or nostrils. However, in one scene, she does have nostrils.
  • The first time Squidward quits his job.
  • This along with its sister episode were the first episodes to use the 2000-2006 Nickelodeon Productions logo at the end.
• This is the second episode to feature chrome. The first is "SB-129."
• This is one of eight Season 2 episodes to use the Season 1 character model for SpongeBob, the others being "Your Shoe's Untied," "Squid's Day Off," "Big Pink Loser," "Imitation Krabs," "Life of Crime," "Dumped," and "I'm Your Biggest Fanatic."
• The ideas Pearl and SpongeBob come up for the new Krusty Krab are:
  • Pearl: The Kutie Krab
  • Pearl: The Kooky Krab
  • SpongeBob: The Khaotic Krab
  • Pearl: The Kissy Krab
  • SpongeBob: The King Krab
  • Pearl: The Kandy Krab
  • SpongeBob: The Kool Krab
  • SpongeBob: The Kowboy Krab
  • SpongeBob: The Kurly Krab
  • SpongeBob: The Kreepy Krab
  • SpongeBob: The Killer Krab
  • Both: The Kuddly Krab
• When Incidental 27 drives by SpongeBob and then insults him, he inadvertently insults himself: by saying, "... I was just on my way to the big doofus convention!" he implies that he will be attending as a doofus as well.
• The image of SpongeBob, Mr. Krabs, and Squidward with mustaches is featured on the protective case of The SpongeBob SquarePants Experience: A Deep Dive into the World of Bikini Bottom. Squidward's head appears on a different part of the case.
• This is Pearl's only major role in season 2.
• Oddly, SpongeBob uses his season 1 design in this episode, with his more trapezoidal head shape and legs bent backwards. The season 1 design also appears in the episodes "Big Pink Loser," "Imitation Krabs," "Life of Crime," "Dumped," "I'm Your Biggest Fanatic," "Shanghaied," and various scenes in "Welcome to the Chum Bucket."
• During the Best Day Ever marathon, this episode was paired up with "Welcome to the Chum Bucket."
• Frames from this episode was later used in "Friendiversary" when SpongeBob remembers Squidward.
• After Squidward quits and gets a ticket for indecent exposure from ripping off his uniform, he is not seen again for the rest of the episode even though he was mentioned a few times.
• SpongeBob's Kuddly Krab uniform features as a playable costume in The Cosmic Shake.

Dub facts

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German title card.

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French title card.

• In the German dub, the background for the title card is the exact same background from "Squidville."
• In the French dub, the background for the title card is the exact same background from "Bubble Buddy."

Cultural references

• Mr. Krabs' blue stress toy is a direct reference to Panic Pete, a novelty toy created by John M. Auzin in the 1950s.

Errors

• When SpongeBob and Squidward are in Mr. Krabs' office, his door has a porthole window, but when he leaves and they are shaking hands, the porthole is gone and there is a life ring instead.

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  No sign.

• When Squidward is outside after SpongeBob and Pearl go inside, a car is seen beside the Krusty Krab. When Squidward shakes the Kuddly Krab sign, it disappears.

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  Missing Chum Bucket

  When Squidward is shaking the sign and then two people ask him where they can get something to eat, there is no Chum Bucket across the street.

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  The K's briefly aren't rounded.

  The "K"s on Mr. Krabs' new uniform are rounded, but when it zooms into the scene of him lying on the floor, they are straight.

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  SpongeBob without sleeves.

  SpongeBob's sleeves are gone during one shot of the new menu.
• When SpongeBob enters the Kuddly Krab office, the sea unicorn has a horn, but when Mr. Krabs points it out, the horn is gone. It then returns when Mr. Krabs cries on his desk.

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  Pearl with black eyes.

  When SpongeBob bumps into Pearl, her eyes are black rather than blue.
• When SpongeBob walks into the kitchen to fire Pearl, on a close-up on his face, he is missing his K's on his uniform.
• When Pearl kisses SpongeBob after he "fired" her, her eyelids are gray instead of light violet.

Pearl's gray eyelids.

• Mr. Krabs' blue stress toy is on his desk before SpongeBob comes over. When SpongeBob comes over and the view zooms out, the toy is gone.

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Squidward's eyelids reverting to their season 1 color.

• In some scenes, Squidward's eyelids go back to the seafoam color they were in season 1 rather than the teal they had become in season 2.

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SpongeBob's visible eyelashes mistake.

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SpongeBob's uniform without the "K"

• At the ending when SpongeBob says, "Isn't this great, Gary? And it only cost me one year's salary!," SpongeBob blinks his eyes, but his eyelashes are still seen.

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Purple pupil outline.

• When SpongeBob tries to fire Pearl, his left pupil's outline becomes purple for a split second.
• Fred's voice is different than any other episode.

Videos

File:What’s That Smell?!👃 ThrowbackThursdays SpongeBob

File:The Kuddly Krab IRL! 🧸 - "Bossy Boots" ...with Puppets! - SpongeBob

File:בובספוג מכנסמרובע 🍍 עונה 2 פרק 2 - ניקלודיאון

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
French	Pearl et ses idées	Pearl and Her Ideas
German	Die Kuschel-Krabbe	The Kuddly Krab
Hungarian	Erőszakos cipők	Violent Shoes
Italian	Perla al lavoro	Pearl at Work
Polish	Nowa szefowa	New Girl Boss
Russian	Малышка босс Malyshka boss	Little Girl Boss
Spanish (Latin America)	La bota dominante	The Dominiant Boot
Spanish (Spain)	Botas mandonas	Bossy Boots