Broken Alarm

Characters

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• Eugene H. Krabs
• Squidward Tentacles
• Patrick Star
• SpongeTom ^{(single appearance)}
• Gary the Snail
• Loser
• Bubble Bass
• Bikini Bottomites
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  • Anchovies
• Con man
• Yacht seller fish ^{(single appearance)}

Synopsis

In the Krusty Krab, all of the customers are suffering from hunger because SpongeBob is not at work. Mr. Krabs suggests that SpongeBob is dead, so he, Squidward, and the customers decide to go into his house and check it out. It turns out that SpongeBob was sleeping because his alarm clock was not plugged in, causing him to sleep late. When SpongeBob tries to turn it on, it is too heavy and topples over, causing it to bounce around, and eventually break into pieces.

At first, SpongeBob tries to fix it, but Patrick, trying to help his friend, breaks it completely, forcing SpongeBob to buy another one at the alarm clock store. In the store, the seller tells SpongeBob that his alarms are no longer being produced, so SpongeBob decides to buy the whole store in order to choose a suitable alarm clock from the set.

However, not one of the alarms can wake SpongeBob, making him late for work every time. This forces Mr. Krabs to tell SpongeBob that if he is late again, he will fire him and hire another chef. At home, SpongeBob invents and creates a mechanism that will prevent him from being late for work, and as a plus, he will be able to sleep while this mechanism makes Krabby Patties. However, the mechanism breaks, but Mr. Krabs does not fire SpongeBob, he warns if he does not show up, he will have to open and close the Krusty Krab an hour later. At the same moment, Patrick brings SpongeBob his old alarm clock. Even though he repaired it, it still does not work, so Patrick has to make the noise of the alarm to wake up SpongeBob every morning.

Running gags

• SpongeBob being late.

Production

The episode was confirmed by Vincent Waller on March 23, 2019.

Storyboard

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Release

• This episode is available on the SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 20 and The Complete Twelfth Season DVDs.

Trivia

General

• The title card features SpongeBob's bedroom in an explosion banner.
• This episode was paired with "Squid's on a Bus" when it premiered in Russia.
• The scream from The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water is reused when the broken parts of the clock are behind Squidward's forehead.
• SpongeBob's alarm clock also broke in "Gary's New Toy," but he was able to fix it in that episode.
• He is similar to the drifter and Girly Teengirl in that both characters look like SpongeBob, but are not related to him.
• This episode was paired up with "Senior Discount" during the original American airing, but has since been re-airing with "Karen's Baby."
• His name is derived from his voice actor, Tom Kenny.
• Mr. Krabs says that SpongeBob has never been late for work in his life, but he has been late to work on various occasions, the other examples being the episodes "New Digs" and "Pet or Pests."
• In the Russian dub, the line "Why won't you fix?!" is not dubbed.
• The storyboard of this episode has many things not featured in the final version:
  • Instead of Squidward's head being stuck in SpongeBob's clock, he smokes on it like a pipe before it crashes into pieces.
  • SpongeBob screams at Mr. Krabs instead of normally asking him why would he not be alive.
  • Instead of jellyfish flying from SpongeBob's clock and zapping him, he has a volcano alarm clock that splashes lava on him.
• This is one of the few episodes where the late rule is shown.
• This is the first episode where bacon is shown on a Krabby Patty.
• Bubble Bass' love for pickles is shown once again when he orders a large amount of them on his burger.

Cultural references

• The Persistence of Memory, made by Spanish artist Salvador Dalí, appears when SpongeBob's Rube Goldberg machine is transporting SpongeBob to work.
  • This is the second episode where this painting has been referenced, after "Atlantis SquarePantis."

Errors

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18 instead of 14 pickles.

• Bubble Bass claims that his burger only contains 14 pickles. However, the close-up actually reveals 18.
• In the scene with the large beeping clock reading "6:00," the cart in front of SpongeBob's bed is missing until the next shot, when it is not missing in the storyboard.

Videos

• File:"Broken Alarm" ⏰ Animatic SpongeBob SquarePants
• File:3 NEW SpongeBob Animatics! ft. SB-129 ✏️ Sketch to Screen!
• File:SpongeBob SquarePants Late Nickelodeon UK
• File:SpongeBob's Broken Alarm Clock ⏰ Full Scene "Broken Alarm"