20,000 Patties Under the Sea

This is the page about the season 5 episode. For other uses, see 20,000 (disambiguation).

Characters

• Jellyfish
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• Patrick Star
• Squidward Tentacles
• Skeleton
• Eugene H. Krabs
• Sheldon J. Plankton
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  • Incidental 42
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  • Incidental 118C ^(blue)
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  • Judge 2
• Karen Plankton ^{(voice only)}
• Family
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  • Trucker
  • Mary
• Jack M. Crazyfish Template:Cameo
• Sea monster Template:Debut

Synopsis

While jellyfishing in Jellyfish Fields, SpongeBob and Patrick encounter an object sticking out of the ground in the beginning of the episode. They decide to dig it up, and they discover an old submarine. Meanwhile, at the Krusty Krab, Squidward and Mr. Krabs think of an idea to bring the Krusty Krab to the customers. SpongeBob and Patrick drive the submarine into the Krusty Krab, which gives the idea to Mr. Krabs to have SpongeBob and Patrick take the submarine and sell Template:Data:Links to any passersby. Seeing this, Plankton gets upset since he had the idea years ago. He takes the fist of the Chum Bucket and uses it as a mobile Chum Bucket.

SpongeBob and Patrick are unsuccessful with their first customers, so SpongeBob offers to pay them to take the Krabby Patties, which they agree to. Meanwhile, Plankton attempts to sell food to a child, whom he then insults out of impatience. All of a sudden, the child's parents, great-grandmother, and various other fish start throwing rocks at Plankton after he insults them as well. Soon, the mob runs out of rocks, but since Patrick was not paying attention to the Krabby Patties, they burned and hardened. SpongeBob and Patrick are able to sell the burnt patties to the mob for them to throw, and the two friends head off.

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"Who are you calling dark and depressing?"

Later on, SpongeBob and Patrick fall into an abyss and wake up a ginormous sea monster who has been asleep for the past 79 years. Starved after his hibernation, the monster purchases 640 Krabby Patties. However, just as SpongeBob and Patrick are running out of patties, Plankton's Chum Bucket vehicle comes crashing into the submarine. Chum squeezes through the cracks of the submarine, so SpongeBob and Patrick decide to use the chum to make the burgers, which the monster ends up enjoying even more than the Krabby Patties. Plankton sees the sea monster hand SpongeBob and Patrick giant dollar bills in exchange for the chum burgers, and he attempts to get the monster to refuse the food. However, Plankton is mistaken for a chocolate éclair and the monster chases him away. Meanwhile, because they are down in the abyss, SpongeBob and Patrick have to let go of all the money they have earned to float back up to the surface. Instead of money, they bring back 37,000 pounds of decorative undersea rocks, much to Mr. Krabs' disappointment.

Production

Model sheets

• File:SB 97A Prop Krusty krab periscope.jpg
• File:SB 97A Char one eye monster.jpg
• File:SB 97A Prop exploding chum.jpg
• File:SB 97A Prop kk submarine open.jpg

Art

Background design

• File:SB 97A BG bomb bay doors REVISED.jpg

Storyboards

File:EP539 storyboards.mp4

Source

File:20,000 Patties Under the Sea storyboard.jpg

Drawn by Sean Charmatz.

Release

Broadcast

• This episode was paired up with "SpongeHenge" during its first airing in the Super Stuffed Nicktoons Weekend 2007, but has since re-aired with "The Battle of Bikini Bottom."

Distribution

• This episode is available on the SpongeBob's Pest of the West, SpongeBob's Atlantis SquarePantis (UK version), Season 5 Volume 2, SpongeBob StarPants, First 100 Episodes, The Super Celebrations, Really Big Box Set, SpongeBob Adventures Pack, The Fifth & Sixth Seasons, The Ultimate SpongeBob Box Set, SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 8, The SpongeBob Super Square Collection, The Best 300 Episodes Ever, Complete Fifth Season, Beware the Hooks, From the Beginning, Part 2, The SpongeBob SquarePants Collection, On the Road, The Inmates of Summer, The SpongeBob SquarePants 8 Season DVD Collection, and The Best 200 Episodes Ever DVDs.

Reception

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Trivia

General

• This episode is similar to one of the story ideas found in the SpongeBob pitch bible, where Mr. Krabs turns the Krusty Krab into a mobile restaurant and pilots it all around town with SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidward.
  • However, Squidward is not in the traveling restaurant with them.
    • 15 years after this episode premiered, that idea would be used for "Food PBFFT! Truck" from season 13, now with Squidward in the traveling restaurant with them, except Patrick is not now.
  • It is also similar to "Chocolate with Nuts," as both episodes involve SpongeBob and Patrick selling a certain type of food. Unlike said episode, Mr. Krabs and Plankton are added in.
  • The con man from "Chocolate with Nuts" returns in this episode and cons SpongeBob and Patrick one more time, this time without even trying, as they hand him money for trying some Krabby Patties. It seems like he remembers SpongeBob and Patrick since he says, "Hey, thanks again, guys."
• Stock footage from "Jellyfishing" is used at the start of the episode.
  • This marks the fifth episode to use footage from a past episode. The first is "Can You Spare a Dime?", the second is "Ugh," the third is "The Sponge Who Could Fly," and the fourth is "Mrs. Puff, You're Fired."
• The scene of Plankton's telescope shaking is reused animation from "Krabs à la Mode."
• This episode was on TurboNick two days before it premiered on TV.
• This is the second episode to contain a number in its title, with the first being "SB-129," not counting the Roman numerals in the Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy episodes.
  • This is the first episode where the title starts with a number.
    • This makes this the first episode of this series in alphabetical order, if numbers and symbols were to come before "A."
    • However, the first episode of the entire SpongeBob franchise in alphabetical order would be The Patrick Star Show's "10 & 1 Toilets."
• Plankton's line "Someone should put you in a box, floating down the river, grandma!" has become a popular meme on YouTube.
• There is a coloring book based on this episode.
• Jack M. Crazyfish, who first appears in the episode "Blackened Sponge," can be seen hurling things at Plankton. His voice sounds different in this episode than in his debut.
• The sea monster is voiced by Gene Simmons, who is well known for being the bass player for the band KISS.
  • The mother who is insulted by Plankton is voiced by Simmons' wife, Shannon Tweed.
• In a way, SpongeBob and Patrick helped the Chum Bucket more than the Krusty Krab because the sea monster preferred Plankton's chum over the Krabby Patties.
• During the Craziest Creatures marathon it was paired up with "Giant Squidward."
  • This episode was paired with "Safe Deposit Krabs" during the Massive Monster Mayhem Marathon.
• SpongeBob confirms that the Krusty Krab does not have desserts on the menu.
  • The closest thing is a triple Krabby Patty with five scoops of ice cream, which later appears in the episode "Drive Happy."
    • Another closest thing is the shake, which previously appears in the episode "Pickles."
• When the monster mistakes Plankton for dessert, he breaks the fourth wall by looking at the screen and saying, "Now that looks like dessert to me!"
• This is the first episode where SpongeBob is unaware that Plankton is in the same area as he is. The second is "Banned in Bikini Bottom" and the third is "Free Samples."
• This is the only episode where Tom Kenny voices Jack M. Crazyfish.

Dub facts

• In the Indonesian dub, the scene where Plankton gets thrown/SpongeBob and Patrick selling burnt Krabby Patties was skipped to SpongeBob and Patrick finding an abyss. This was done either due to time constraints or throwing rocks scene was deemed too violent.

Cultural references

• The title is a spoof of Jules Verne's 1870 novel 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, which revolves around its characters traveling the ocean in a submarine and encountering strange creatures.
  • This novel is also referenced in "Scavenger Pants" and "Terror at 20,000 Leagues."
• After SpongeBob says Roger, Patrick says Ringo which is reference to Ringo Starr, the drummer of The Beatles.

Errors

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Glasses lens in the wrong shape.

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Correct glasses.

• At one point, the lens of SpongeBob's glasses are the wrong shape.
• There is a short distance between the grass in Jellyfish Fields to the submarine stuck in the ground, but later, the grass does not appear.
  • In addition, it is shown in numerous episodes there is not any grass around SpongeBob's and Patrick's houses.
• As SpongeBob and Patrick are running away from the jellyfish, SpongeBob's left shirt sleeve is not colored in for a split second.
• Usually, the series is shown that any underwater creature is much smaller than anything on the surface, but in this episode, it is shown that the submarine and the human skeleton are the same sizes as SpongeBob and Patrick.
• In the Krusty Krab, in one shot, the cashier boat is floating, but it is on the ground in the next shot.
• When the sea monster takes the submarine off his head, the periscope at the top of the submarine is missing.
• When Plankton says, "Ah, who needs that old rust bucket anyhow?," his voice is out of sync with the animation.

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Water is flowing through the holes in the sub, but it is already filled with water (hence SpongeBob and Patrick being able to breathe).

Videos

File:Nickelodeon Split Screen Credits (November 22, 2007)

File:Nickelodeon (Partial) Commercial Breaks (November 23, 2007)

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
French	Le restaurant itinérant	The Traveling Restaurant
German	20000 Burger unter dem Meer	20,000 Burgers Under the Sea
Hungarian	20000 herkentyűburgerrel a tengerszint alatt	20,000 Krabby Patties Under Sea Level
Italian	20.000 panini sotto i mari	20,000 Sandwiches Under the Sea
Russian	20,000 крабсбургеров под водой 20,000 krabsburgerov pod vodoy	20,000 Krabsburgers Underwater
Spanish (American)	20,000 hamburguesas submarinas	20,000 Burgers Underwater
Spanish (European)	20,000 hamburguesas bajo el mar	20,000 Burgers Under the Sea