ChefBob

Characters

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  • ChefBob Template:Debut
• Squidward Tentacles
  • Hand puppet Squidward Template:Debut
• Eugene H. Krabs
  • Hand puppet Mr. Krabs Template:Debut
• Bikini Bottomites
  • Bubble Bass
  • Harold "Bill" Reginald
  • Harold (red fish)
  • Clay
  • Shubie
  • Tom
  • Nat Peterson
  • Fred
  • Nazz-Mimi
  • Nancy Suzy Fish

Synopsis

This episode begins at the Krusty Krab, where the customers are watching SpongeBob cook instead of spending money as Mr. Krabs desires. Mr. Krabs then realizes that SpongeBob has talent and decides to put on an open kitchen by smashing a hole in the wall. SpongeBob gets nervous and hides in the dressing room, but Mr. Krabs threatens to fire SpongeBob if he does not perform.

SpongeBob goes out to perform, but his stage fright can be visible from making a Krabby Patty with the wrong ingredients. SpongeBob hides under the grill, but while under the grill, he decides to make a puppet with a paper lunch sack that he finds. The puppet became an instant success, but it begins to make jokes that infuriate SpongeBob, Squidward, and Mr. Krabs. The puppet becomes alive and starts to make insulting jokes, which the customers appreciate as comedy.

After the puppet makes fun of Squidward, SpongeBob fights with the puppet, causing the customers to leave. Afterwards, the puppet is "fired" and gets kicked out of the restaurant by Squidward.

The episode ends with ChefBob having his own show even after clearly being torn to shreds outside, causing Mr. Krabs, Squidward, and SpongeBob to faint in shock.

Production

The episode was confirmed by Vincent Waller on March 23, 2018.

Reception

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Trivia

• This episode, along with "Patnocchio," premiered in Russia on July 27, 2018, exactly 13 days before it premiered in the US.
• "My leg!:" Fred screams this when Mr. Krabs tells SpongeBob to break a leg during his cooking show.
• This is one of the few episodes to have a "The End" card.
  • This time around, both sister episodes have a The End card.
• When SpongeBob went under the grill, an urchin can be found. This is possibly a reference to the episode "Eek, an Urchin!."
• This episode aired eight years after "You Don't Know Sponge" and "Hide and Then What Happens?" premiered and one year after "Plankton Retires" premiered in Latin America.
• SpongeBob having stage fright contradicts the fact that in many episodes, he is perfectly fine going on stage.
  • This episode likely takes place before those episodes, since SpongeBob would have a better time at performing in front of others.
  • SpongeBob also had a fear of public speaking in the episode "Oral Report."
• SpongeBob putting a shoe onto the Krabby Patty he nervously makes is a reference to the episode "Pickles."
• This is the least viewed episode in the series at 1.04 (in millions) U.S. viewers, surpassing the former holder, "High Sea Diving" with its 1.21 million U.S. viewers.
• This is the first episode since "Burst Your Bubble" to use a track from Warner/Chappell Production Music (CPM).

Cultural references

• ChefBob insulting the customers could possibly be referencing the famous chef Gordon Ramsay.
• The live-action audience at the end looks just like the scene from The Muppets Take Manhattan.

Errors

• When SpongeBob overhears ChefBob making offensive jokes to the customers, he is not wearing his chef hat.
  • SpongeBob also is not wearing his chef hat when he hides under the grill.
• When SpongeBob was ChefBob, the wall Mr. Krabs demolished is not there, but when ChefBob is seen on his own show, the wall is back, Mr. Krabs could have put it back together.

Running gags

• ChefBob insulting the customers.