CopyBob DittoPants

Characters

• Karen Plankton
• Sheldon J. Plankton
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• 297 SpongeBob SquarePants clones Template:Debut
  • Me Two Template:Debut
  • Me Three Template:Debut
• Squidward Tentacles
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• Repeller Beanie Boy Template:Debut
• Jellyfish ^(mentioned)
• Eugene H. Krabs
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  • Fred ^(blue)
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  • Incidental 37A
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  • Incidental 49
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• Patrick Star Template:Cameo
  • Nine mini Patricks Template:Cameo
• King Neptune ^(mentioned)

Synopsis

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The SpongeBob copies marching into the Krusty Krab.

When Plankton, Karen, and SpongeBob throw a party at the Chum Bucket, SpongeBob gets tricked into putting his face on a copy machine. Plankton puts the copier on "Scan" and it scans SpongeBob. He clicks print and makes a SpongeBob clone the next day and then colors the tie blue with a marker.

The next day, at the Krusty Krab, the copy walks over to the real SpongeBob, who befriends him and calls him "Me Two," and they work for Mr. Krabs. Squidward goes crazy because he thinks he is dreaming, causing him to beat up the customers and Mr. Krabs. To Plankton's shock, Me Two refuses to tell Plankton the formula because of the friendship he formed with SpongeBob, so Plankton makes another copy and tries again; however, SpongeBob ends up befriending that copy as well, calling him "Me Three," thus he also refuses to tell the formula.

Plankton makes 305 more clones to ask for the formula, making sure they don't come into contact with the real one this time, but then, after they find out what the formula is twice, they intercept the real SpongeBob's chore duties. SpongeBob sees all the clones working and compliments on them. Suddenly, Me Two turns into a light gray hue and SpongeBob suggests he's getting sick and offers to take him home. Upon asking where he's from, Me Two tells SpongeBob he came from the Chum Bucket, causing SpongeBob to find out that one of his copies was made to steal the secret formula. SpongeBob confronts Plankton outside, but all of a sudden, Me Two scrunches up, then rolls up into the shape of a burrito in mid-air before vanishing out of existence. SpongeBob is shocked, Plankton revealing he used cheap toner to make the clones, before he asks the other copies about the formula, but is foiled when the other clones quickly vanish as well and SpongeBob cries for his loss of his friends. Mr. Krabs comes with the paychecks for the copies, and the final clone disappears. When Plankton comes out to find another SpongeBob, he asks for the formula before he disappears, but it was the real SpongeBob. SpongeBob is still sad for the loss of the clones, treating them like they were his friends, but Plankton says that the citizens are better with one SpongeBob.

Squidward comes back and then squishes Plankton after trying to fly and Plankton says, "Right on my keys," as the episode ends.

Production

Vincent Waller confirmed this episode on Twitter on April 18, 2016. A painting of background art from this segment was found a few weeks earlier during a tour of Rough Draft Korea, which was posted on Facebook on April 8, 2016.

Art

• Painting of the insides of the Chum Bucket
  Painting of the insides of the Chum Bucket

Storyboards

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Release

• This episode is available on the SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 16, SeaSide Story, Complete Ninth Season, Next 100 Episodes, and The Best 200 Episodes Ever DVDs.

Trivia

General

• When Plankton tries to convince SpongeBob he has yellow jaundice and cannot go to work, he is presumably referring to SpongeBob's "skin color." However, yellow jaundice causes the sclera (white part of the eyes) to be yellow, and this is interesting as characters on the show, including Plankton, have a yellow sclera.
• In the Russian dub, after original SpongeBob arrives to Krusty Krab, Squidward, instead of saying, "I said "Whatever," says, "You already said that to me."
• This episode confirms that Plankton has tattooed a picture of himself in a graduation gown, graduation cap, and eyeglass onto Karen's hard drive. It can possibly be assumed that Plankton built Karen in school, possibly college, as evidenced from episodes such as "Friend or Foe" and "Komputer Overload" that he built Karen, and episodes such as "Plankton!," "Pineapple Invasion," and "Karen's Baby" that he went to college, and likely had his graduation picture tattooed onto her hard drive.
• This episode confirmed that at the time, Plankton never had children.
  • However, this is later contradicted in "Karen's Baby" with the introduction of Chip Plankton II.
  • This is still technically true, since Plankton doesn't have any biological children.
• The SpongeBob clones disappearing as a result of Plankton trying to save money on ink is a reference to how expensive his inventions and experiments can be, which begs the question as to how he can afford to pay for them all, as he has no customers and was revealed in "Move It or Lose It" to be in debt, possibly broke.
• This episode marks Karen's first speaking role since The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water.
• This is the first episode in the series to have a title card with the title words being repeated more than twice.
• This is the second episode in the series where SpongeBob gets cloned. The first was "Overbooked."
• This is the second episode in the series where Patrick gets shredded by a lawnmower. The first was "Born to Be Wild."
• This was the fourth episode to premiere for the May 2016 premiere week.
• In the Polish dub, this episode is called "KseroBob Kopioporty," which translates to "PhotocopyBob CopyPants."

Cultural references

• Patrick's line "Life is but a walking shadow" is from "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare. In the original play, Macbeth says the line after the death of his wife, while Patrick says it after the SpongeBob copies disappear.

Errors

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The missing cup and reappearing cup.

• When SpongeBob and Me Two first walk into the Krusty Krab, the cup behind Squidward on the boat is not there, but then appears after a customer orders.
  • Also, at the same time, one of Me Two's eyelashes has a different color, as well as part of his left eye.
  • The hat rack also disappears.
• The SpongeBob copies are able to each get a Krusty Krab employee hat even though Plankton is not shown cloning the hats and Mr. Krabs is never shown giving the copies their own hats.
  • Likewise, Plankton colors the first SpongeBob copy's (Me Two) tie blue, but the other copies already have a blue tie when they are sent out of the Chum Bucket.

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Parts of the background aren't drawn in.

• When Squidward slams his head against the register, unfinished parts of the background can be seen.

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The Krusty Krab sign is missing.

• During the scene where Squidward attempts to fly, the Krusty Krab clam sign is missing.
• In one scene, the front teeth of one of the SpongeBob duplicates disappears.
• The location of Karen's wheels changes throughout the episode. Occasionally, they are beneath the lower platform, but sometimes, they also appear outside the lower platform, like in other episodes.

Video

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