A Place for Pets

Characters

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• Patrick Star
• Eugene H. Krabs
• Pearl Krabs Template:Cameo
• Gary the Snail Template:Cameo
• Sandy Cheeks
• Sheldon J. Plankton
• Squidward Tentacles
• Sea snails
• Sea bear
• Worm hogs
• Mystery the Seahorse
• Larry the Snail
• Sea bunnies
• Clams
• Spot
• Old Man Jenkins
• Bubble Bass
• Health inspector
• Larry the Lobster
• Alaskan Bull Worm
• Craig Mammalton
• Nosferatu
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  • Incidental 37B
  • Incidental 41
  • Incidental 42
  • Mabel
  • Harold
  • Incidental 31
  • Incidental 60
  • Incidental 16
  • Old Man Walker
  • Incidental 68
  • Incidental 18
  • Steve
  • Frank
  • Gale
  • Carol
  • Incidental 160 ^{(as a disguise)}
  • Incidental 111
  • Incidental 27
  • Incidental 118C
• Lady Upturn
• Fifi
• Rocky
• Fire marshal Template:Single appearance
• King Neptune ^(mentioned)

Synopsis

While serving Template:Data:Links to customers, Squidward starts sneezing. Realizing that it was because of his pet allergy, he discovers that Lady Upturn snuck her pet worm Fifi into the Krusty Krab. He tells her that pets are not allowed, and Mr. Krabs confirms his statement. However, when she says that Krabby Patties are all that Fifi will eat, and that she would gladly pay double for them, Mr. Krabs changes his mind and declares that pets would be allowed to enter the restaurant from then on, much to Squidward's dismay.

Mr. Krabs gladly starts making more money than ever he has before. Just then, the health inspector comes in and tells him that he cannot serve both people and pets in the same restaurant, as it is unsanitary. He makes him decide on only one, and Mr. Krabs decides to pick pets, seeing them as more profitable than their owners. He kicks all of the people out, and says that they will still be paying for whatever their pets eat.

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The customers disguised as pets.

Due to the new rule established at the Krusty Krab, customers have no choice but to visit the Chum Bucket, upset that they do not have access to the first restaurant mentioned. Suddenly, Larry suggests that everyone should dress up as pets to enter the Krusty Krab and trick Mr. Krabs, and everyone reacts positively to the suggestion. Plankton decides to partake in this plan by going inside Spot, but is unfortunately digested. Back at the aforementioned restaurant, Mr. Krabs continues to earn immense amounts of money, to his surprise, some new "pets" arrive. Mr. Krabs does not notice anything strange, so he considers them as customers. The real pets and the fake ones do not manage to interact well, so the Krusty Krab turns into chaos. In an attempt to defuse the situation, SpongeBob unmasks the health inspector, who is also in disguise, much to everyone's surprise. Angry and confused, everyone demands the health inspector what is going on since the whole debacle was his fault. With a song, he explains that pets and people deserve to eat side by side, so he decides to make some changes to the rules, which makes everyone happy.

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"Pets Are People Too."

As a celebration, customers eat Krabby Patties with their pets, to which the fire marshal (disguised as Incidental 160) reacts by saying that the restaurant is over capacity for fire hazards. Due to that, he shuts down the restaurant and orders customers to leave the restaurant, leaving Mr. Krabs devastated. SpongeBob then tells him that he was buying a Krabby Patty for Gary and requests to be charged extra, cheering Mr. Krabs up a bit. The episode ends with an injured and infected Squidward falling down on the floor towards the ground, sneezing for the last time and causing a closing iris to catch his nose.

Production

The episode was confirmed by Vincent Waller on June 29, 2019.

Storyboards

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Release

Format	Title	Region
DVD	The Complete Thirteenth Season	United States
Box set	Another 100 Episodes	United States
	The Best 300 Episodes Ever	United States
Digital release	SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 21	United States

Trivia

General

• This episode, and "Lockdown for Love" preceded the series premiere of the Nickelodeon game show starring pets, Unleashed.
• This is Jennie Monica's first episode as a co-executive producer instead of a producer.
  • This is also the first episode to have three co-executive producers.
• This is the last episode to use the normal bubble wipe sound effect. Starting with "Lockdown for Love," a different sound effect is used.
• For unknown reasons, this episode and its sister rarely air on American television on Nickelodeon and Nicktoons.
• The scene of Mr. Krabs, SpongeBob, the customers, and their pets together was used for an interstitial promoting Nickelodeon: Our World.
• On the day this episode premiered, there was a marathon of Gary-themed episodes that led up to the premiere.
• Bubble Bass calls the sea bunnies lagomorphs, the family of land bunnies, despite sea bunnies being a part of the family Discodorididae, which is the family of sea slugs.
• This episode and "Lockdown for Love" are the only episodes to have the copyright trademark in the end credits use "ViacomCBS International Inc." The following episodes, "Under the Small Top" and "Squidward's Sick Daze," switched back to "Viacom International Inc."
• This episode was released on Amazon Prime Video in Canada on October 16, 2020 before airing in the United States.
• This episode and "Lockdown for Love" are the only season 13 episodes to be aired and copyrighted in 2020.
• This segment was originally confirmed as a season 12 episode and in production during the season 12 cycle (as evident by the initial production code), but it was pushed to season 13 due to being completed outside of the 26-episode order. Because of the push to season 13, the episode was given a new code (325-1301).
  • Despite this, it is under season 12 on TV guides and some streaming services, despite it being in season 13. This error was later fixed after the next episode aired.
• The plot of the episode is similar to a scene in "A Pal for Gary" where Mr. Krabs lets Incidental 107 bring his worm into the Krusty Krab with him, as both involve animals being brought as customers to the Krusty Krab with their owner.
  • Gary was seen briefly in the Krusty Krab in "Suds" and "Once Bitten" but Mr. Krabs did not kick him out. Gary was also seen inside the restaurant in "Fungus Among Us" but Mr. Krabs willingly made money off of his "de-icking" services.
• "My leg!": Fred screams this when a Template:Data:Links bites his leg.
• This is the second episode in which Squidward has a pet allergy. The first is "Sanctuary!"
• This is the third episode directed by Marc Ceccarelli and Vincent Waller. The first was "Who R Zoo?," and the second was "Plankton's Intern."

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• In Canada, this episode was originally going to air on October 19, 2020, but was later postponed, and got replaced with a rerun of "Cuddle E. Hugs" and "Pat the Horse."

Episode references

• The Alaskan Bull Worm, Nosferatu, Mystery, Craig Mammalton, Larry the Snail, and Rocky from the episodes "Sandy, SpongeBob, and the Worm," "Graveyard Shift," "My Pretty Seahorse," "Sun Bleached," "Dumped," and "The Great Snail Race" all reappear in this episode.
  • It is also revealed that Sandy has an Alaskan Bull Worm as her pet.
• Incidental 155 running resembles him doing the same in "Ripped Pants."
• The health inspector from "Nasty Patty" returns in this episode, but with a deeper voice and a mustache.

Cultural references

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Red Mist Squidward reference in this episode.

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Original "Red Mist" Squidward.

• When Squidward sneezes, he gets the soda cups he was carrying stuck on his eyes. His appearance here is a reference to the Creepypasta "Red Mist," which was previously referenced in the episode "SpongeBob in RandomLand."

Errors

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SpongeBob's miscolored thumb outline.

• When SpongeBob begins to play the piano, the outline of his thumb is colored yellow-green for a frame.
• In one scene, Spot has two eyes instead of one.

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Mr. Krabs' missing mouth.

• In one scene, Mr. Krabs' mouth disappears for a second.

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• While singing "Pets Are People Too," Mr. Krabs' eyelashes duplicate.
• When Mr. Krabs is kicking everyone out of the Krusty Krab, Larry's arm is colored green instead of red. However, this error was fixed in later airings.

Videos

• File:SpongeBob - "A Place for Pets" & "Lockdown for Love" + Unleashed Official Promo
• File:Letting Animals Loose at the Krusty Krab! 🐛 "A Place For Pets" Full Scene - SpongeBob
• File:SpongeBob SquarePants - Pets Are People Too! - Nickelodeon UK

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
German	Ein Platz für Haustiere	A Place for Pets
Russian	Питание для питомцев Pitaniye dlya pitomtsev	Nourishment for Pets
Slovenian	Gostilna za živalce	Restaurant for Animals
Spanish	Un lugar para las mascotas	A Place for Pets