Fiasco!

"Fiasco!" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 8. In this episode, Plankton mistakenly swipes a piece of art instead of a Krabby Patty

Characters

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Squidward Tentacles
• Patrick Star
• Gary The Snail
• Eugene H. Krabs
• Sheldon J. Plankton
• Fiasco
• Farfel Bainbridge (Debut)
• Nancy Suzy Fish
• Officer John (Brief Cameo)
• Evelyn
• Billy (lime fish) (Brief Cameo)
• Shelia (Brief Cameo)
• Tom (Brief Cameo)
• Tommy (Cameo)
• Fred (Brief Cameo)
• Vera (cameo)
• Buddy
• Old Man Jenkins (Brief Cameo)
• Dale
• Nat
• Harold
• Scotter Rechid
• Henry-Bart

Synopsis

The scene opens up with Patrick, dressed in a business suit, asking where he can get something to eat. Squidward walks in, and tells him the answer is before him: the Krusty Krab. Mr. Krabs, dressed in a leotard, jumps out of the Krusty Krab, and SpongeBob slides down a rainbow to his side, and Squidward, who rides a dolphin while holding a plate with Krabby Patties, which Patrick eats. Suddenly, SpongeBob voice is heard describing Patrick's actions, then the scene turns to him and Mr. Krabs in front of a storyboard planned for a commercial. Mr. Krabs asks why he's in a leotard, and he says it's because he's the mascot. Mr. Krabs does not like this, and tears up the storyboard, telling him he needs a "masterpiece". Sad and sighing, he walks to Squidward's counter, sighing. When Squidward ignores him, he sighs again and again, each sigh more drawn-out than the one before, until Squidward gets so annoyed he asks what's troubling me. He tells him about his problems, but Squidward doesn't care. As he walks into the dining area, Squidward notices a patron squirting ketchup onto a pile of Krabby Patties.

The patron slaps the Krabby Patties off the plate. He asks Squidward for mustard, which he squirts onto a plate. When the patron leaves, Squidward looks at the plate and recognizes it as the artstyle of Fiasco. Mr. Krabs is about to throw it away when Squidward tells him it's actually a masterpiece. People run over to him, offering to buy it, but Mr. Krabs, seeing an opportunity to make money, tries to take the artwork from Squidward, and they argue over who really owns it. Just then, Farfel Bainbridge, an art evaluator, comes in and declares the work to be a national treasure, thus meaning neither Mr. Krabs nor Squidward own it. Mr. Krabs will allow people to view it in his restaurant for free, provided they buy Krabby Patties (two each).

Later, Plankton sees the artwork, and mistakes it for garbage. Planning to reverse-engineer the recipe, he steals it. He is immediately chased by police officers who dog him every step of the way, from a movie theater, a grocery store, and a satellite in space. When he loses them, he is baffled as to why police are chasing him, rather than Mr. Krabs. At night, he knocks on Patrick's rock, but when Patrick answers, he angrily tells him that he's got a busy day of doing nothing tomorrow. Plankton goes to SpongeBob's house, using a spoon to hold SpongeBob and Gary hostage, and demands an explanation as to why the police are after him. SpongeBob explained that what he has stolen is in fact a work of art. Plankton gets the idea to sell the artwork, and declared SpongeBob and Gary to be accomplices to his crime. Patrick comes in, and yells at everyone for making so much noise as to keep him awake, while eating something.

SpongeBob asks what it is that Patrick ate, and Patrick reveals it was the artwork, which he mistook for hors d'oeuvres. Plankton declares him an accomplice as well. Suddenly, Squidward bursts in with the police, having called them because of all the noise. When they see Plankton, they immediately arrest him, along with Squidward and everyone else until they could figure this whole situation out. At the police station, Plankton is locked away. Gary, Patrick, and SpongeBob are free since Mr. Krabs explains they were not involved with the theft. But since the artwork is now in Patrick's stomach, Mr. Krabs has him stand behind an X-Ray machine which shows the artwork inside him. Fiasco is moved by Patrick's style, stating he will never make art again. The scene pans to Squidward, behind bars, asking about his phone call.

Production

Music

( ‣ ) Production music

( • ) Original music

( ◦ ) SpongeBob music

 • SpongeBob Theme - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [title card]
 ‣ Busy Life - Cedric King-Palmer [opening]
 • ? - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr ["Why am I dressed in a leotard?"]
 • Steel Sting - Jeremy Wakefield [Krabs kicks SpongeBob out of the kitchen]
 • ? - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr [SpongeBob sighs]
 ‣ ? ["Great idea, Squidward!"]
 • ? - Jeremy Wakefield ["Of course he actually has one."]
 ‣ ? [Fiasco introduced]
 • Vibe Sting - Nicolas Carr ["What's this?"]
 ‣ ? ["Something's familiar about those ketchup swirls."]
 • ? - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr ["I'll take a million for it."]
 ‣ ? ["It belongs to neither of you."]
 • ? - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr [long line of people at Krusty Krab]
 ‣ Zelle 501 - Gerhard Trede [Plankton spying]
 • ? - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr [Krabs sniffing money]
 ‣ Cloak and Dagger [#69] - Phillip Green ["I'd know that scream anywhere... it's me profits dying!"]
 ‣ Big City Sidewalks - Sam Spence [Krabs calls the cops]
 ‣ Grand Pastures - Harry Bluestone [Plankton at the movies]
 ‣ Crime & Danger Sign No. 3 - Hans Conzelmann, Delle Haensch [cops chase Plankton out of the theater]
 ‣ ? [at the supermarket]
 ‣ Crime & Danger Sign No. 3 - Hans Conzelmann, Delle Haensch [chase resumes]
 ‣ Blue Danube Waltz - Johann Strauss Jr [Plankton in space]
 ‣ Animal Antics - Phillip Green [Plankton knocks on Patrick's rock]
 • Vibe Sting - Nicolas Carr ["Wait, what?"]
 ‣ Apprehensive 2 - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin [Plankton interrogates SpongeBob]
 ‣ Desperate Situation - Phillip Green ["Now you've gone too far!"]
 ‣ Tympup A - Sammy Burdson, John Charles Fiddy [SpongeBob and Plankton gasp]
 • ? - Nicolas Carr [SpongeBob and Plankton gasp]
 ‣ Cloak and Dagger [#70] - Phillip Green ["Now Patrick is harboring stolen merchandise in his belly!"]
 ‣ ? [cops arrive]
 • ? - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Plankton in jail]
 • ? - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr [ending]

Trivia

• Fiasco is the name of the artist who burned Squidward's sculpture in Are You Happy Now.
• A new movie theater debuts.
• During the movie theater scene, a fictional film is playing called, The Goo Lagoon. This film doesn't just share the same name with a local beach, but this film is a spoof to an existing film called "The Blue Lagoon". These two films have similar plots, and similar looking characters.
• Mr. Krabs calls Farfel Bainbridge "Farkle".
• It's revealed that Plankton has pollen allergies when he sneezed and said "Blasted allergies!"
• If you look closely at the beginning of the episode when SpongeBob is showing Mr. Krabs his storyboards, they are the exact same storyboards that Zeus Cervas and Casey Alexander made for this episode while the episode was being made. They are also used for the acters when they record voces, as SpongeBob is a storyboard written show, much like the old Warner Bro. cartoons were writen.

Errors

• Old Man Jenkins had two looks. First, when Plankton went in the store, and different when he left.
• Captions error: "artiste" misspelled as "Ar-teest".