Bucket Sweet Bucket

Characters

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Patrick Star
• Squidward Tentacles
• Sheldon J. Plankton
• Eugene H. Krabs
• Karen

Synopsis

Plankton is tired of the Chum Bucket's lack of business. So he tricks SpongeBob and Patrick into fixing it up, horribly. Squidward criticizes them, and tells them that they weren't painting correctly, He joins in, and paints different art on the front of the restaurant. Plankton sees this as an opportunity to purloin the Krabby Patty formula, as Mr. Krabs is on vacation. However, when Plankton slides into the safe, he finds out that Krabs has replaced the formula with a to do list and reveals that he keeps the formula in another safe when he goes on vacation. When Plankton comes out of the safe, The Krusty Krab is out of its place, on The Chum Bucket's foundation! Mr. Krabs sees this and literally pushes the Krusty Krab to its normal spot, with Plankton going back to the Chum Bucket, now gone. After about a day, Mr. Krabs is enjoying the remodeled Krusty Krab, which was remodeled by Squidward who used parts of the Chum Bucket, including the floors of the Chum Bucket for the new wall areas, the walls of the Chum Bucket for the central fountain, and Plankton's wife for the computer. The episode ends with a customer wanting to order a Krabby Patty, until Mr. Krabs persuades him to get 4 of them for $100.

Production

Release

• This episode is available on the Bikini Bottom Adventures, Season 5 Volume 1, Complete 5th Season, and First 100 Episodes DVDs.

Trivia

• Running Gag: Whenever someone uses the word "pizazz", sparkles fall from their hands. They appear to take physical form.
• Amazingly, Squidward shows almost no hostility to SpongeBob, Patrick, or Plankton in this episode.
  • This also happens in the episode Krabby Road as Squidward isn't hostile toward SpongeBob, Patrick, or Plankton.
• The computer game SpongeBob was playing was Solitaire, a game that is pre-installed on Windows computers.
• Karen implies it's the poor upkeep of the Chum Bucket that keeps customers away, but it's really the poor quality of the food. In fact, she often suggests Plankton come up with new recipes to attract customers.
• Squidward uses SpongeBob's line, "Everyone's a critic" in "Frankendoodle".
• It is very exaggerated when Mr. Krabs kicks his own throat security box of the secret formula, would have been more reasonable had taken the bottle of formula in one of his bags of luggage.
• Like in the episode Krabby Road, SpongeBob, Patrick, Squidward, and Plankton are all the main characters.
  • The plot is also very similar as Plankton uses SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidward (without them knowing) in a way to help him steal the Secret Formula.
• This is the first time Karen is working at the Krusty Krab. The second is in Karen 2.0.
• This is the last time that animation director Larry Leichliter has been on the show and later moves on to The Mighty B!, another Nick show.
• This is the third time SpongeBob and Patrick are painting a building, in this episode's case, the Chum Bucket. The first was Mr. Krabs' house back in the episode Wet Painters, and the second time was the Krusty Krab and Mama Krabs' house in Sailor Mouth.
• Many fans confuse this episode's name with "Home Sweet Bucket" which the name is similar to the episodes Home Sweet Rubble and Home Sweet Pineapple.

Cultural References

• This episode's title is a pun of the phrase "Home Sweet Home".

Errors

• When Plankton is talking to SpongeBob before entering the Chum Bucket, SpongeBob has paint on him but in the next shot there's no paint on him.
• When Squidward sees the Chum Bucket being painted he is in his 'walking out-fit', but while he's painting, he's back to his normal clothes.
• In this episode, Plankton seems bigger than usual.