Bucket Sweet Bucket

Characters

• Sheldon J. Plankton
• Karen Plankton
• Patrick Star
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• Squidward Tentacles
• Human audience
• Eugene H. Krabs
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Synopsis

In the beginning of the episode, Plankton is tired of the Chum Bucket's lack of business, so he attempts to remodel it and fails due to size deduction. As a result, he tricks SpongeBob and Patrick into fixing it up by whimpering an excuse for him not to remodel. Soon, he realizes that they both have done everything wrong and breaks down sobbing about his failure, which attracts their loyalty towards him to make the Chum Bucket a success.

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Plankton bites off the bolt with his teeth and starts to crack.

Soon after seeing their progress, Squidward criticizes them and tells them that they are not painting correctly. He joins in and paints different, unexpected art on the front of the restaurant. Plankton sees Squidward's joining the experiment, as an opportunity to purloin the Krabby Patty secret formula, but Plankton sees that Squidward's art is paintings of himself, causing him to repaint it into a log cabin. SpongeBob requests something to drink, but Plankton says that his pipes are not working and he can't get water even if he wanted to, they were rusted shut. This causes SpongeBob and Patrick to start replacing every part of the Chum Bucket with parts from the Krusty Krab.

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SpongeBob and Patrick taking parts of the Krusty Krab.

When Plankton slides into the safe after the others are still working, he finds out that Mr. Krabs is nowhere to be seen and has replaced the formula with a to-do list. A furious Plankton bursts out of the safe, he sees the Krusty Krab is gone and in the place of the Chum Bucket. Mr. Krabs then returns and it turns out that he was on vacation (on a safari maybe) and keeps the formula in another safe while away (inside him). He sees the rearranging of his business and literally pushes the Krusty Krab back to its normal spot. He picks Plankton up and is about to tell Plankton the usual stay away from his restaurant speech. However, an exasperated Plankton cuts him off by finishing the sentence for him, as Mr. Krabs is confused. Plankton states they've done this many times and he saves Mr. Krabs the trouble, with Plankton launching himself back to the Chum Bucket, which is completely gone. He tells a frustrated Karen not to nag him after the day he just had.

After about 1 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 restaurant for the new wall areas, the walls of it for the central fountain, and Plankton's wife, Karen, like the computer.

The episode ends with a customer wanting to order a Krabby Patty for $25 until Mr. Krabs persuades him to get four of them for $100 because of the decorations.

Running gags

• Whenever someone uses the word "pizzazz," sparkles fall from their hands.
  • The former gag also happens in "Idiot Box," but when somebody said "imagination."
• SpongeBob and Patrick getting parts from the Krusty Krab.

Production

Release

• This episode is available on the Bikini Bottom Adventures, Season 5 Volume 1, First 100 Episodes, 2-Movies-Edition, The Underwater Stories, The Ultimate SpongeBob Box Set, SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 7, Complete Fifth Season, SpongeBob Adventures Pack, From the Beginning, Part 2, The SpongeBob SquarePants Collection, The SpongeBob SquarePants 8 Season DVD Collection, The Best of Bikini Bottom, The Best 200 Episodes Ever, and The Fifth & Sixth Seasons DVDs.

Trivia

General

• This episode was available on the Bikini Bottom Adventures DVD, released on June 5, 2007, a month and a half before it aired on American television.
• Karen implies it is the poor upkeep of the Chum Bucket that keeps customers away, but numerous other episodes imply that it is really the poor quality of the food.
• Squidward has headphones on when he is walking, but when he walks up to the Chum Bucket, the headphones have vanished.
  • It is possible that he removed it off-screen while he approaches the Chum Bucket.
• Squidward uses SpongeBob's line "Everyone's a critic" from "Frankendoodle."
• Throughout the entire episode, SpongeBob and Patrick don't know that they're helping Plankton steal the formula. They even take the entire Krusty Krab restaurant and build it over the Chum Bucket or the spot it used to be at.
• At the end of the episode, Squidward says he built a computer out of Karen, but in the scene, prior to that one, she is okay even after the Chum Bucket is destroyed.
  • It's possible that he built the computer out of Karen after the scene where the Chum Bucket is destroyed.
• This episode marks the first time the basement of the Krusty Krab is seen.
• This episode marks the first time Karen works at the Krusty Krab.
• This is the second episode to parody the phrase "home sweet home" in the title. The first is "Home Sweet Pineapple." Also, both episodes involve fixing the "home."
• This was Larry Leichliter's last episode as an animation director on SpongeBob SquarePants; he left to work on The Mighty B!, which is another Nickelodeon animated series.

Cultural references

• This episode's title is a pun of the phrase "home sweet home."
• The computer game SpongeBob plays at the end of the episode is Solitaire, a game that is pre-installed on Windows computers.

Errors

• After doors fall on Plankton, his eyebrow is missing for three seconds.

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SpongeBob's visible eyelashes mistake.

• When SpongeBob talks to Squidward and says, "He calls it 'pizzazz'," SpongeBob blinks his eyes, but his eyelashes are still seen for a split second.
• When Plankton and SpongeBob walk over to the window that Patrick made, it has eight bolts on it. However, after Plankton notices that the window is closed, it has six bolts on it. Then, when Patrick comments on how weird it is for Plankton wanting to see out the window, it has seven bolts. Finally, after Plankton bites off one of the bolts, eight spots are seen again.

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The incorrect writers are listed.

• In the Welsh dub, Luke Brookshier, Tom King, and Steven Banks are all listed as writers of this episode, even though none of them wrote this episode.
  • Brookshier and King are also erroneously listed as storyboard directors.

Videos

File:Nickelodeon Split Screen Credits (July 27, 2007)

File:Nickelodeon Split Screen Credits (August 3, 2007)