Clams

Template:Episode "Clams" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season three.

Brief summary: Mr. Krabs becomes a millionaire, but then a clam eats the dollar that brought him this status. And what is more worse than Mr.Krabs not having his dollar back is never going back home!

Time/Date:

• 12:30 or near it: Mr Krabs mentions his MILLIONTH DOLLAR.
• 12:50: The Krusty Krew are in sea.
• 12:52: Mr.Krabs' dollar gets taken away.
• 12:53: Mr.Krabs goes INSANE!!!
• 1:00: They are waiting forever....

THREE DAYS LATER

• 1:01: Squidward and SpongeBob try to trick Mr.Krabs
• 4:00: Mr.Krabs gets his dollar back by giving his life.....and his body.

Time cards shown: None

Characters Present:

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Squidward Tentacles
• Mr. Krabs
• Krusty Krab Customers
• Old Bluelip
• Gary the Snail

Songs: None

Plot

At the Krusty Krab, a customer is consulting Squidward as to what he likes. Squidward says he doesn't like anything on the menu, then tells the customer to buy anything. Upon advice from SpongeBob, the customer buys some coral bits. It costs a dollar, and an alarm suddenly blares out. Squidward assures the customer that it is something stupid, and shouldn't bother taking any notice. Mr. Krabs then bursts out of his office and starts to dance with the dollar, to intense celebratory music. Mr. Krabs informs everyone that he's received his millionth dollar, and keeps the dollar in his pocket.

He pushes all of the customers out and tells SpongeBob and Squidward that they're going on a trip to celebrate. They do not go to Fancy Springs, Pamper Island, or the Bikini Bottom folk village. Instead, they go Clam fishing, and Mr. Krabs rents a cheap boat on a smelly lagoon. As they try their best, SpongeBob accidentally removes everything from the boat while he is casting his line, even Mr. Krabs' dollar. SpongeBob reels it in as quickly as he can. He gives the dollar to Mr. Krabs and an enormous clam jumps out of the water, over the boat and eats it. After Mr. Krabs goes crazy trying to get it back, SpongeBob and Squidward attempt to give Mr. Krabs an ordinary dollar and escape, and this results in becoming bait. When the clam leaps up, he jumps into its mouth. Mr. Krabs gets his dollar, although he traded half his body for it!

Quotes

• Squidward: (ripping off his beard) Thats it! I'm finish we've been here for three days and haven't gotten a nibble! This is hopeless!
• Spongebob: Yeah, and I gotta get home and feed Gary (Gary eating parts of Spongebob's house)
• Squidward: We're gonna die out here just because a clam ate Mr. Krabs' stupid dollar! (pulling out a dollar from his wallet) Well if he wants his dollar back, I say we give it to him. You know what I mean huh huh?
• Spongebob: Oh I get ya (laughing)

• Mr. Krabs: I trusted you and you gave me this! I can't believe me old crew would betray me like this! (he starts crying)
• Squidward: No, ah ah no, we will not be sway by tears anymore. (Mr. Krabs stops crying)
• Mr. Krabs: I see, then I guess I have no choice but to offer a reward.
• Squidward: You're kidding
• Spongebob: Whoo! Is it another fishing trip?
• Mr. Krabs: No, its this sandwhich (He nails the sandwhich to a pole)
• Squidward: A sandwhich? You expect me to break my back over a sandwhich
• Mr. Krabs: Not a sandwhich, these sandwhich (He dumps some sandwhiches overboard)
• Squidward: Whatever, we got plenty more to... (Squidward and Spongebob becomes shock when Mr. Krabs dump a refrigerator in the water)... eat.

Trivia/Goofs

• This episode is a spoof of Steven Spielberg's Jaws. The references to the film include the title card, the musical score, and three main characters on a boat chasing a larger than normal animal. Mr. Krabs is a play on Quint who was portrayed by Robert Shaw in the movie. The theme music which plays throughout the episode is similar to the famous Jaws theme.
• Even though boats are used for driving in Bikini Bottom, they were using a boat to fish.
• Note: It would appear Mr. Krabs had $999,999 before the customer ordered the coral bits. However, it could be possible that he earned (and spent) this amount.
• If Mr. Krabs knew that the music would make the clam come, how come he didn't do that in the first place?
• The fish who paid Mr. Krabs his millionth dollar never received his "coral bits" he paid for. That's because Mr. Krabs kicked him out.
• In the boat Mr. Krabs, SpongeBob and Squidward have beards. Mr. Krabs has a white one, SpongeBob has yellow one and Squidward has a gray one.
• The episode also features numerous references to Moby Dick (Krabs' obsessive pursuit of the clam, nailing the sandwich to the mast of the ship, etc.).
• In most recent airings, the dramatic music that plays when the big clam appears is different.
• Mr. Krabs breaks the fourth wall by acknowledging the existence of the dramatic music while SpongeBob reels his dollar in. He then opens a double-door on the ship which reveals an orchestra playing the same music. Later, when he's using them as bait, SpongeBob and Squidward question why the Clam would appear then when it wouldn't before. The camera pans to Mr. Krabs dressed as a conductor in front of the orchestra, revealing that it's the ominous background music that draws the Clam's attention.
• The boat is called the S.S. Cheapskate. This refers to Mr.Krabs.
• Squidward says he hates everything on the menu. But in Just One Bite, he says he loves Krabby Patties.
• It is revealed that clams in Bikini Bottom can live in both water and on land (In Tea at the Treedome Sandy was wrestling a clam on land, and in this episode, Mr. Krabs is trying to catch a clam that lives in water).
• When Mr. Krabs is crying, there are puddles of tears. But when he's done crying, the puddles disappear.
• When SpongeBob says "Yeah, and I have to go home and feed Gary.", he has a beard and hair. The next shot shows Gary eating the couch, but when it cuts back to the ship, SpongeBob's beard and hair disappear. It may be that they were wearing wigs because Squidward takes his off and throws it on the ground before it shows Gary.
• In Pre-Hibernation Week SpongeBob says, "I have to feed Gary before he eats the sofa again." In Clams Gary does, it was made after Pre-Hibernation Week.
• This is the first time Mr.Krabs cried like crazy and went insane. The second was Banned in Bikini Bottom.
• This is the first episode Mr. Krab's butt was seen(Second time was in Once Bitten), but not the first time we saw him out of clothes.
• When SpongeBob says, "I've never seen Mr. Krabs so broken." and the screen shows Mr. Krabs broken up, he is (In the next scene) put together again.
• Squidward's mentioned place Fancy Springs is a parody of Palm Springs.
• This episode has the same music as the episode "Frankendoodle."