Blood is Thicker Than Grease

Characters

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• Sheldon J. Plankton
• Karen Plankton
• Plankton family
  • Clem
  • Granny Plankton
• Eugene H. Krabs
• Squidward Tentacles
• Patrick Star
• Bubble Bass
• Larry the Lobster
• Regigilled
• Health Inspector Andy Yellowtail
• Trucker
• Elmer

Synopsis

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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.

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.

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Mama Plankton telling Plankton that he can work for them.

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.

Production

This episode was confirmed on September 5, 2023.

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.
• 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.

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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 sister episode "Don't Make Me Laugh."
• This episode accidentally premiered on Nicktoons on February 21, 2024 at 2:27 PM EST.
  • 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."
  • 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).
• This is the first time Regigilled was shown in the main SpongeBob series.
  • 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!"
• 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.
• 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.
• 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."
• This is the first episode to use the track "Traveling Along in D1" since "CopyBob DittoPants" in season 9.
  • It is also the first episode to use the track "Tragic Tale of Woe" since "Mr. Krabs Takes a Vacation" in season 8.

Episode references

• Several of Plankton's family members previously appeared in "Plankton's Army" when he was imagining what they looked like.

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."