Clams

Template:Episode "Clams" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season three.

Brief summary: Mr. Krabs becomes earns his millionth dollar, but when a giant clam eats it, he goes insane and threatens to starve Spongebob and Squidward until it is recovered.

Characters Present:

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Squidward Tentacles
• Mr. Krabs
• Krusty Krab Customers
• Old Bluelip
• Gary the Snail

Plot

At the Krusty Krab, a customer purchases an order of coral bits, and an alarm suddenly blares out. Squidward assures the customer that it is something stupid, and Mr. Krabs bursts out of his office and starts to dance with the dollar to intense celebratory music. Mr. Krabs informs everyone that he's received his millionth dollar, which is every crab's goal in life.

He kicks out all of the customers, and tells SpongeBob and Squidward that they're going on a trip to celebrate. They go Clam fishing on a cheap boat on a smelly lagoon, much to Squidward's disappointment. SpongeBob accidentally removes everything from the boat while he is casting his line, which Mr. Krabs doesn't mind, until Spongebob casts his dollar into the water. Dramatic music begins playing, signaling an incoming shark attack, and SpongeBob reels it in as quickly as he can. He gives the dollar to Mr. Krabs, and an enormous clam jumps out of the water and over the boat and eats it. Mr. Krabs goes insane, and threatens to starve Spongebob and Squidward until they recover his dollar. SpongeBob and Squidward attempt to give Mr. Krabs an ordinary dollar and escape, and when he discovers this, he uses them as live bait. He begins playing the music again to ensure the appearance of the clam, and when the clam leaps up, he jumps into its mouth. Spongebob and Squidward are left tied to each other, and believe Mr. Krabs to be dead, until he reappears, alive and well, with his dollar in hand. However, the camera then zooms out to reveal that he traded most of his body to the clam for it.

Quotes

• Squidward: (ripping off his beard) Thats it! I'm finish we've been here for three days and haven't gotten a nibble! This is hopeless!
• SpongeBob: Yeah, and I gotta get home and feed Gary (Gary eating parts of SpongeBob's house)
• Squidward: We're gonna die out here just because a clam ate Mr. Krabs' stupid dollar! (pulling out a dollar from his wallet) Well if he wants his dollar back, I say we give it to him. You know what I mean huh huh?
• SpongeBob: Oh I get ya (laughing)

• Mr. Krabs: I trusted you and you gave me this! I can't believe me old crew would betray me like this! (he starts crying)
• Squidward: No, ah ah no, we will not be sway by tears anymore. (Mr. Krabs stops crying)
• Mr. Krabs: I see, then I guess I have no choice but to offer a reward.
• Squidward: You're kidding
• SpongeBob: Whoo! Is it another fishing trip?
• Mr. Krabs: No, its this sandwhich (He nails the sandwhich to a pole)
• Squidward: A sandwhich? You expect me to break my back over a sandwhich
• Mr. Krabs: Not a sandwhich, The sandwhich (He dumps some sandwhiches overboard)
• Squidward: Whatever, we got plenty more to... (Squidward and SpongeBob becomes shock when Mr. Krabs dump a refrigerator in the water)... eat.

Trivia/Goofs

• This episode is a spoof of Steven Spielberg's Jaws. The references to the film include the title card, te title, the musical score, and three main characters on a boat chasing a larger than normal animal. Mr. Krabs fills the role of Quint, who was portrayed by Robert Shaw in the movie. The theme music which plays throughout the episode is similar to the famous Jaws theme.
• Even though boats are used for driving in Bikini Bottom, the boat in this episode is used as a real-life boat would be.
• The fish who paid Mr. Krabs his millionth dollar never received the coral bits he paid for, because Mr. Krabs kicked him out.
• In the boat Mr. Krabs, SpongeBob and Squidward have beards. Mr. Krabs has a white one, SpongeBob has yellow one and Squidward has a gray one.
• The episode also features numerous references to Moby Dick, including Krabs' obsessive pursuit of the clam and nailing a sandwich to the mast of the ship.
• In more recent airings, the dramatic music that plays when the big clam appears is different.
• Mr. Krabs breaks the Fourth wall by acknowledging the existence of the dramatic music while SpongeBob reels his dollar in. He then opens a double-door on the ship which reveals an orchestra playing the same music. Later, when he's using them as bait, SpongeBob and Squidward question why the Clam would appear then when it wouldn't before. The camera pans to Mr. Krabs dressed as a conductor in front of the orchestra, revealing that it's the ominous background music that draws the Clam's attention.
• The boat is called the S.S. Cheapskate, referring to Mr. Krabs.
• Squidward says he hates everything on the menu, but in "Just One Bite" he admits he loves Krabby Patties.
• When Mr. Krabs is crying, there are puddles of tears. But when he's done crying, the puddles disappear.
• When SpongeBob says "Yeah, and I have to go home and feed Gary.", he has a beard and hair. The next shot shows Gary eating the couch, but when it cuts back to the ship, SpongeBob's beard and hair disappear. However, Squidward takes his off and throws it on the ground before it shows Gary, showing that they were costumes.
• In "Pre-Hibernation Week" SpongeBob says, "I have to feed Gary before he eats the sofa again." In this episode, Gary is shown eating the sofa.
• This is the first episode Mr. Krab's butt is seen(the second time was in "Once Bitten"), but not the first time he is seen naked.
• This episode has the same music as the episode "Frankendoodle."