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Synopsis

File:Blood is Thicker Than Grease 053.png

The Spud Bucket.

Plankton shows Karen his new "tootsie-trampler" invention, which can be used like a pogo stick to crush civilians, but it backfires on him. Suddenly, Plankton hears a noise from outside. A pickup truck with a grand mansion-like trailer appears. Plankton's parents step out, having moved to the city after winning the lottery. After showing Plankton around their trailer, they reveal they have come to start their own restaurant similar to the Chum Bucket: the Spud Bucket. The customers from the Krusty Krab all leave to visit the new restaurant. Plankton goes to Krabs' restaurant to gloat, and the latter is about to give up the formula. Karen questions Plankton, mentioning that having the formula likely means nothing since nobody wants Krabby Patties. Upon realizing this, Plankton decides to sabotage the Spud Bucket.

His first plan is to call a health inspector, but this backfires when the Planktons are able to bribe him into giving the Spud Bucket a good grade. Next, he gets Patrick to eat customers' food, but his parents use him to help make mashed potatoes. Then, he throws a grenade at a potato delivery truck, but the potatoes explode into French fries. After his failures, Plankton's dad invites him to work at the restaurant, which Plankton agrees to, left with no other options.

File:Blood is Thicker Than Grease 169.png

Ma Plankton telling Plankton that he can work for them.

In the kitchen, Plankton prepares a baked potato, which he tops with chum. Bubble Bass tastes it and goes to complain. After Plankton reveals the "special ingredient" to him, Bubble Bass warns everyone, with the other customers also having eaten the chum-laced dishes. They are disgusted and run back to the Krusty Krab. Plankton's parents accept defeat and have their cousin, Cletus, blow up the restaurant, before heading off in their trailer. Mr. Krabs walks up, and brags that his formula is worth something again, but Cletus detonates another box of TNT around him and Plankton, ending the episode.

Production

This episode was confirmed on September 5, 2023.^[1]

Despite being copyrighted in 2024, this episode was completed in late 2023.^[2]

Art

Background design

Art direction by Peter Bennett, layouts designed by George Nachev and Rebekie Bennington, traditionally painted by Amy Lewis in gouache, lines drawn digitally in Adobe Photoshop.^[3]^[4]

Ma and Pa Plankton's trailer

Ma and Pa Plankton's trailer
Side-by-side outhouse

Side-by-side outhouse
Process photo

Process photo

Music

Release

Format	Title	Region
DVD	The Complete Fourteenth Season	United States
Box set	Another 100 Episodes	United States
Box set	The Best 300 Episodes Ever	United States

Trivia

General

File:BITTG Image on Nick website.png

File:Plankton Family.png

The full image.

An image of this episode was accidentally released on the Nick.com website on February 13, 2024, being used as the thumbnail for the link to its sister episode, "Don't Make Me Laugh." This also happened on DirecTV.
This episode accidentally premiered on Nicktoons on February 21, 2024 at 2:27 PM EST. This was 5 months prior to its proper airing on Nickelodeon.
- This makes it the third time an episode premiered on Nicktoons before airing on the main Nickelodeon channel, the other two being "Gary Takes a Bath" and "Buff for Puff."
- Because it wasn't meant to air, YouTube TV removed the scheduled 3 hour recording of "The Curse of Bikini Bottom"/"Squidward in Clarinetland" that the episode aired during.
This episode would later be referenced in Plankton: The Movie, where the Plankton family's potato business is shown and plays a large part in powering Mega Karen.
This episode is stylized as "Blood i$ Thicker Than Grease" with a dollar symbol in place of "S."
The title card is very similar to that of "All That Glitters," only there is no shine and it is in widescreen.
Patrick laughs and claps like a seal, which he also does in "The Whole Tooth," "Jolly Lodgers," and "Pet the Rock."
Due to the heavy usage of Plankton, Karen and all of the Plankton family, SpongeBob has a very minor role and only has three lines in total.
This episode, alongside "Squidiot Box," "PL-1413," "In the Mood to Feud," "Mooned!," "Hysterical History," "Kreepaway Kamp," "Snow Yellow," and "Sandy's Country Christmas" serve as this season's 25th anniversary specials.
- In its press listing, it is listed as a "sequel episode," likely to Plankton's cousins from "Plankton's Army" appearing.
This episode marks the first appearance of Plankton's dad in the main series. Plankton's dad was previously seen in the book Hooray for Dads!, though he had a very different design.
- Similarly, Ma Plankton had previously been seen in "Something Narwhal This Way Comes," using Ma Angler as a base. She has a new design here, resembling Bunny Star.
This and its sister episode "Don't Make Me Laugh" mark the first episode pairing in which both segments premiered unannounced and not labeled as such on the TV guides.
This episode was paired up with "PL-1413" during the original American airing.
This is the first episode to have unknown ratings.

Episode references

Several of Plankton's family members previously appeared in "Plankton's Army" when he was imagining what they looked like.
Characters constantly doing a quick spit was a recurring gag in "Salty Sponge."
Cletus' gag "Did somebody say surprise?" routine and blowing something up is reminiscent of Template:Data:Links's gag "Did somebody say boom?" routine in "Mermaid Man & Barnacle Boy VI: The Motion Picture."

Cultural references

This episode's title is a pun on the phrase "blood is thicker than water," a proverb in English meaning that "familial bonds are strongest."
Plankton refers to Patrick as "The Insatiable Bulk," referencing The Incredible Hulk.

Errors

File:Blood is Thicker Than Grease 100.png

Squidward is seen in the register boat.

File:Blood is Thicker Than Grease 107.png

But in the scene after, he and the bonsai are gone.

File:Blood is Thicker Than Grease 195.png

The Krusty Krab and the path leading up to it are missing.

Squidward is seen cutting a bonsai tree in the register boat. In the scenes after, both he and the bonsai are gone without explanation.
The health inspector's rating is already visible outside the restaurant before he issues it.
At the end of this episode, the Krusty Krab is missing from across the street.

Videos

File:New SpongeBob SquarePants + Rock Paper Scissors Promo - Starting July 15, 2024 (Nickelodeon U.S.)

File:Plankton's Parents Open A NEW Restaurant! 🥔 - "Blood is Thicker Than Grease" Full Scene - SpongeBob

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
French	Plankton en a gros sur la patate	Play on the French expression en avoir gros sur la patate (to feel unhappy) and patate, "potato"
German	Der Erdapfel-Eimer	The Potato Bucket
Russian	Картофельные узы Kartofel'nyye uzy	Potato Ties
Spanish (American)	La grasa llama	The Grease Calls
Spanish (European)	La sangre es más espesa que la grasa	Blood is Thicker Than Grease

References

[1] File:295-98.jpeg

[2] SpongeBob SquarePants : 297. Catalog.org - Public Catalog

[3] Amy Lewis on Twitter - "new SpongeBob episodes aired this week!..."

[4] Amy Lewis on Twitter - "A few more SpongeBob background paintings..."

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 ==Synopsis==
-[[File:Spud Bucket 2.png|thumb|200px|The Spud Bucket.]]
+[[File:Blood is Thicker Than Grease 053.png|thumb|200px|The Spud Bucket.]]
-At the start of the scene, after Plankton shows Karen his new tootsey-trampler to her, Plankton then hears a noise that comes from outside. A pickup truck with a grand mansion-like trailer appears. Plankton's parents came here to stay, after they won a huge lottery. They started their own restaurant similar to the Chum Bucket, the [[Spud Bucket]]. The customers from the Krusty Krab started to find out a new restaurant is serving potatoes. This in result for Mr. Krabs lose all customers from his restaurant. With that, Plankton finds an idea in order to shut down the Spud Bucket is to give him the secret formula. This was until Karen thought that world domination would be worthless.
+Plankton shows Karen his new "tootsie-trampler" invention, which can be used like a pogo stick to crush civilians, but it backfires on him. Suddenly, Plankton hears a noise from outside. A pickup truck with a grand mansion-like trailer appears. Plankton's parents step out, having moved to the city after winning the lottery. After showing Plankton around their trailer, they reveal they have come to start their own restaurant similar to the Chum Bucket: the [[Spud Bucket]]. The customers from the [[Krusty Krab]] all leave to visit the new restaurant. Plankton goes to Krabs' restaurant to gloat, and the latter is about to give up the formula. Karen questions Plankton, mentioning that having the formula likely means nothing since nobody wants Krabby Patties. Upon realizing this, Plankton decides to sabotage the Spud Bucket.
-The second idea came with the health inspector checking out the Spud Bucket. It failed again. Another one came with a customer that would eat potatoes from what customers are already having, which appears to be Patrick. Unfortunately, Plankton's parents thanked him that this customer was a taster master they'd ever seen. The fourth one came with Plankton trying to explode the load of potatoes coming from a truck. Unfortunately, the potatoes would later become potato fries, thus making Plankton's fourth plan a failure.
+His first plan is to call a health inspector, but this backfires when the Planktons are able to bribe him into giving the Spud Bucket a good grade. Next, he gets Patrick to eat customers' food, but his parents use him to help make mashed potatoes. Then, he throws a grenade at a potato delivery truck, but the potatoes explode into French fries. After his failures, Plankton's dad invites him to work at the restaurant, which Plankton agrees to, left with no other options.
-[[File:Mama Plankton telling Plankton that he can work for them.png|thumb|200px|Mama Plankton telling Plankton that he can work for them.]]
+[[File:Blood is Thicker Than Grease 169.png|thumb|200px|Ma Plankton telling Plankton that he can work for them.|left]]
-Since none of his plans work, Plankton then decided to work at the Spud Bucket. Suddenly after, the customers realizing the taste of the potatoes were made out of chum, thanks to Bubble Bass saying that Plankton was responsible for that horrible flavor. They get disgusted and had to go back to the Krusty Krab. With that, Plankton's parents realized that the Spud Bucket was a huge failure and had to shut it down by having their cousin destroy it with a TNT. Soon after Plankton's parents head out and buy a football team, Mr. Krabs tells Plankton that the secret formula works something after all, before the same cousin launch the TNT to them, thus ending the episode.
+In the kitchen, Plankton prepares a baked potato, which he tops with [[chum]]. Bubble Bass tastes it and goes to complain. After Plankton reveals the "special ingredient" to him, Bubble Bass warns everyone, with the other customers also having eaten the chum-laced dishes. They are disgusted and run back to the Krusty Krab. Plankton's parents accept defeat and have their cousin, Cletus, blow up the restaurant, before heading off in their trailer. Mr. Krabs walks up, and brags that his formula is worth something again, but Cletus detonates another box of TNT around him and Plankton, ending the episode.
 ==Production==
 This episode was confirmed on {{Time|September 5}}, {{Time|2023}}.<ref>[[:File:295-98.jpeg]]</ref>
+Despite being copyrighted in {{Time|2024}}, this episode was completed in late 2023.<ref>[https://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=9&ti=1,9&Search%5FArg=SpongeBob&Search%5FCode=TALL&CNT=25&REC=0&RD=0&RC=0&PID=3h2TJSq8Q_0o7NPj8rrD1WWO-iZa&SEQ=20240811191640&SID=15 SpongeBob SquarePants : 297. Catalog.org - Public Catalog]</ref>
+===Art===
+====Background design====
+*Art direction by [[Peter Bennett]], layouts designed by George Nachev and Rebekie Bennington, traditionally painted by Amy Lewis in gouache, lines drawn digitally in Adobe Photoshop.<ref>[https://x.com/AmyLewis_Art/status/1814399080572817427 Amy Lewis on Twitter - "new SpongeBob episodes aired this week!..."]</ref><ref>[https://x.com/AmyLewis_Art/status/1814399685769212248 Amy Lewis on Twitter - "A few more SpongeBob background paintings..."]</ref>
+<gallery widths="180" captionalign="center" position="center">
+background 1.jpeg|Ma and Pa Plankton's trailer
+background 2.jpeg|Side-by-side outhouse
+process photo.jpeg|Process photo
+</gallery>
 ===Music===
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-{{OM|Traveling Along in the Key of D#Traveling Along in D 1{{!}}Traveling Along in D 1|Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield|Plankton's family arrives at the Chum Bucket.}}
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+===Release===
+{| class="wikitable sortable"
+!Format
+!Title
+!Region
+|-
+|DVD
+|[[The Complete Fourteenth Season]]
+|United States
+|-
+|rowspan=2|Box set
+|[[Another 100 Episodes]]
+|United States
+|-
+|[[The Best 300 Episodes Ever]]
+|United States
+|}
 ==Trivia==
 ===General===
-*The title card is very similar to that of "[[All That Glitters]]," only there is no shine and it's in wide screen. It also shares similarities with "[[Code Yellow]]" and "[[Sandy's Nutmare]]," just that it is darker.
+[[File:BITTG Image on Nick website.png|thumb|260px]]
-*This is the first episode to be copyrighted in 2024.
-*This episode, alongside "[[Squidiot Box]]," "[[PL-1413]]," "[[In the Mood to Feud]]," and "[[Kreepaway Kamp]]" serve as this season's 25th anniversary specials.
-**However, this episode and "Squidiot Box" seem to also serve as standalone episodes.
-**In its press listing, it is listed as a "sequel episode," likely to "[[Plankton's Army]]."
-**Coincidentally, this episode, "PL-1413," and "In the Mood to Feud" all star Plankton.
-[[File:BITTG_Image_on_Nick_website.png|thumb|260px]]
 [[File:Plankton Family.png|thumb|260px|The full image.]]
-*An image of this episode was accidentally released on the Nick.com website on {{Time|February 13}}, {{Time|2024}}, being used as the thumbnail for the link to sister episode "[[Don't Make Me Laugh]]."
+*An image of this episode was accidentally released on the Nick.com website on {{Time|February 13}}, {{Time|2024}}, being used as the thumbnail for the link to its sister episode, "[[Don't Make Me Laugh]]." This also happened on DirecTV.
-*This episode accidentally premiered on [[Nicktoons]] on {{Time|February 21}}, 2024 at 2:27 PM EST.
+*This episode accidentally premiered on [[Nicktoons]] on {{Time|February 21}}, 2024 at 2:27 PM EST. This was 5 months prior to its proper airing on [[Nickelodeon]].
-**This makes it the third time an episode premiered on Nicktoons before the main Nickelodeon channel, the other two being "[[Gary Takes a Bath]]" and "[[Buff for Puff]]."
+**This makes it the third time an episode premiered on Nicktoons before airing on the main Nickelodeon channel, the other two being "[[Gary Takes a Bath]]" and "[[Buff for Puff]]."
-**Because it wasn't meant to air, YouTube TV removed the scheduled 3 hour recording of "[[The Curse of Bikini Bottom]]"/"[[Squidward in Clarinetland]]" that the episode aired during (this may have been due to the fact that the episode is only 30 minutes long but ordinarily they just fix the length of the recording).
+**Because it wasn't meant to air, YouTube TV removed the scheduled 3 hour recording of "[[The Curse of Bikini Bottom]]"/"[[Squidward in Clarinetland]]" that the episode aired during.
-*This is the first time Regigilled was shown in the main SpongeBob series.
+*This episode would later be referenced in ''[[Plankton: The Movie]]'', where the Plankton family's potato business is shown and plays a large part in powering [[Mega Karen]].
-**Additionally, this makes it the tenth episode of the main ''SpongeBob SquarePants'' series to feature a character from a spin-off series. The first was "[[Something Narwhal This Way Comes]]," the second was "[[Upturn Girls]]," the third was "[[Slappy Daze]]," the fourth was "[[Welcome to Binary Bottom]]," the fifth was "[[You're Going to Pay...Phone]]," the sixth was "[[A Skin Wrinkle in Time]]," the seventh was "[[Abandon Twits]]," the eighth was "[[Salty Sponge]]," and the ninth was "[[Sandy, Help Us!]]"
+*This episode is stylized as "Blood i$ Thicker Than Grease" with a dollar symbol in place of "S."
-*The plot of this episode is similar to the episodes "[[Plankton's Army]]," "[[Best Frenemies]]," and "[[The Other Patty]]," as all three episodes involve Plankton competing against another restaurant.
+*The title card is very similar to that of "[[All That Glitters]]," only there is no shine and it is in widescreen.
-*This marks the first time we see Plankton's dad in the main series. Plankton's dad was previously seen in the book ''[[Hooray for Dads!]]'', though he had a very different design.
+*Patrick laughs and claps like a seal, which he also does in "[[The Whole Tooth]]," "[[Jolly Lodgers]]," and "[[Pet the Rock]]."
-*Cletus' gag "Did you say surprise?" routine and blowing something up is reminiscent of Sandy's "Did you say boom?" routine in "[[Mermaid Man & Barnacle Boy VI: The Motion Picture]]."
+*Due to the heavy usage of Plankton, Karen and all of the Plankton family, SpongeBob has a very minor role and only has three lines in total.
-*This is the first episode to use the track "[[Traveling Along in the Key of D|Traveling Along in D1]]" since "[[CopyBob DittoPants]]" in [[season 9]].
+*This episode, alongside "[[Squidiot Box]]," "[[PL-1413]]," "[[In the Mood to Feud]]," "[[Mooned!]]," "[[Hysterical History]]," "[[Kreepaway Kamp]]," "[[Snow Yellow]]," and "[[Sandy's Country Christmas]]" serve as this season's [[SpongeBob 25|25th anniversary]] specials.
-**It is also the first episode to use the track "[[List of original music/t#Tragic Tale of Woe|Tragic Tale of Woe]]" since "[[Mr. Krabs Takes a Vacation]]" in [[season 8]].
+**In its press listing, it is listed as a "sequel episode," likely to Plankton's cousins from "[[Plankton's Army]]" appearing.
+*This episode marks the first appearance of Plankton's dad in the main series. Plankton's dad was previously seen in the book ''[[Hooray for Dads!]]'', though he had a very different design.
+**Similarly, Ma Plankton had previously been seen in "[[Something Narwhal This Way Comes]]," using [[Ma Angler]] as a base. She has a new design here, resembling [[Bunny Star]].
+*This and its sister episode "Don't Make Me Laugh" mark the first episode pairing in which both segments premiered unannounced and not labeled as such on the TV guides.
+*This episode was paired up with "PL-1413" during the original American airing.
+*This is the first episode to have unknown ratings.
 ===Episode references===
 *Several of Plankton's family members previously appeared in "Plankton's Army" when he was imagining what they looked like.
+*Characters constantly doing a quick spit was a recurring gag in "[[Salty Sponge]]."
+*Cletus' gag "Did somebody say surprise?" routine and blowing something up is reminiscent of {{Link|Sandy}}'s gag "Did somebody say boom?" routine in "[[Mermaid Man & Barnacle Boy VI: The Motion Picture]]."
 ===Cultural references===
-*This episode's title is a pun on the phrase "blood is thicker than water," a proverb in English meaning "that familial bonds are strongest."
+*This episode's title is a pun on the phrase "blood is thicker than water," a proverb in English meaning that "familial bonds are strongest."
+*Plankton refers to Patrick as "The Insatiable Bulk," referencing {{W|Hulk|The Incredible Hulk}}.
+===Errors===
+[[File:Blood is Thicker Than Grease 100.png|thumb|260px|Squidward is seen in the register boat.]]
+[[File:Blood is Thicker Than Grease 107.png|thumb|260px|But in the scene after, he and the bonsai are gone.]]
+[[File:Blood is Thicker Than Grease 195.png|thumb|260px|The Krusty Krab and the path leading up to it are missing.]]
+*Squidward is seen cutting a bonsai tree in the register boat. In the scenes after, both he and the bonsai are gone without explanation.
+*The health inspector's rating is already visible outside the restaurant before he issues it.
+*At the end of this episode, the Krusty Krab is missing from across the street.
+{{Clear}}
+==Videos==
+[[File:New SpongeBob SquarePants + Rock Paper Scissors Promo - Starting July 15, 2024 (Nickelodeon U.S.)|thumb|center|335px]]
+[[File:Plankton's Parents Open A NEW Restaurant! 🥔 - "Blood is Thicker Than Grease" Full Scene - SpongeBob|thumb|center|335px]]
+==Names in other languages==
+{{Foreign names
+|Fre = Plankton en a gros sur la patate
+|FreM = Play on the French expression ''[[wiktionary:en avoir gros sur la patate|en avoir gros sur la patate]]'' (to feel unhappy) and ''patate'', "potato"
+|Ger = Der Erdapfel-Eimer
+|GerM = The Potato Bucket
+|Rus = Картофельные узы
+|RusR = Kartofel'nyye uzy
+|RusM = Potato Ties
+|SpaA = La grasa llama
+|SpaAM = The Grease Calls
+|SpaE = La sangre es más espesa que la grasa
+|SpaEM = Blood is Thicker Than Grease
+}}
 ==References==
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