Drive Thru

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Characters

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• Eugene H. Krabs
• Squidward Tentacles
• Incidental 42
• Incidental 42's children Template:Debut
• Frankie Billy Steve ^{(purple; normal)}
• Lampreys ^(mentioned)
• French Narrator
• Dale
• Sheldon J. Plankton
• Ernesto Blindfish Template:Debut
• Pearl Krabs
• Pearl's friends
  • Peach orange fish Template:Debut
  • Light purple fish Template:Debut
• Larry the Lobster
• Incidental 22
• Susie
• Fred ^(blue)
• Incidental 31
• Incidental 46
• Incidental 63
• Monroe Timmy Tommy Billy
• Incidental 13
• Incidental 14
• Incidental 23
• Pilar Bruiser
• Incidental 40
• Incidental 49
• Abigail (light blue fish)
• Shubie
• Incidental 150
• Tyler Billy Timmy
• Officer Slugfish
• Mayor
• Anchovies
  • Mable-Monica
  • Lenny
• Incidental 155
• Dennis (citizen)
• Incidental 36
• Peterson Nat Tucker

Synopsis

The episode starts at the Krusty Krab when SpongeBob notices that Mr. Krabs is filling a hole in the wall with toothpaste. Suddenly, the toothpaste begins dripping and causes the hole to crack, making an even bigger hole in the wall. A fish and his children come to the Krusty Krab, and when they see the hole in the parking lot, he thinks it is a drive-thru and orders from the hole. This gives Mr. Krabs an idea to create a Krusty Krab drive-thru, using a simple menu written on napkins, a microphone made with tin cans, and a sign made from a noodle.

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Plankton in his car

Soon, a customer orders from the drive-thru but SpongeBob has trouble getting the food out of the window. He uses a trampoline to get the food to the customer but it hits his outfit. Then the customer gives Mr. Krabs the bill for his dry cleaning. Mr. Krabs subsequently makes the hole bigger with a hammer.

Later, Plankton drives by in his tiny car and tries to order a Krabby Patty with the secret formula, but no one sees him, so an old man runs him over. When Squidward replies to the old man's order, the man mishears and thinks they are closed, then proceeding to drive away in disappointment.

Later, Pearl and her friends pull up and decide to do a prank on Squidward by screaming through a megaphone and damaging his ear, making Mr. Krabs pay his bill. After that, Larry the Lobster shows up, accidentally breaking the drive-thru microphone with the side of his S.U.B. Mr. Krabs still bills Larry even though he has many tin cans to replace the broken one. Then, SpongeBob has trouble getting his food up to the window of his vehicle and drops it on his head, so Mr. Krabs hammers a second hole in the wall much higher than the first.

Mr. Krabs hears cars honking and sees a huge line through the entire town to go to the drive-thru. A police officer comes and seemingly fines Mr. Krabs for collapsing the traffic, only for the note on paper to be revealed as his order. The mayor then visits and is not happy about all the traffic, so Mr. Krabs solves this problem by breaking a hole on the right side of the Krusty Krab walls for another drive-thru. Then, SpongeBob and Squidward desperately try to feed all of the customers on both sides.

When Squidward asks Mr. Krabs what they will do, Mr. Krabs thinks it is not that bad but then the customers start to riot and Mr. Krabs breaks yet another hole. Due to the amount of pressure, the Krusty Krab cracks and collapses. SpongeBob claims they can fix it, but the tube of toothpaste from earlier runs empty, so he says they will need to buy more. The episode ends with Mr. Krabs crying.

Production

Release

• This episode is available on the SpongeBob's Frozen Face-Off, Disorder in the Deep, Complete Eighth Season, and Next 100 Episodes DVDs.

Trivia

General

• The sidewalls of the Krusty Krab are wooden instead of glass in this episode.
• Mr. Krabs makes a total of three drive-thrus.
• Mr. Krabs' drive-thru idea is nothing new. It is featured in a previous episode, "Driven to Tears." The difference is that Mr. Krabs had a real drive-thru window and microphone in the earlier episode.
• There was a small drive-thru window in the first three seasons. After Template:Data:Links, the window disappeared, with the exception of "What Ever Happened to SpongeBob?"
• There is also a book with the same name as this episode with a similar plot, which was released seven years before this episode premiered.
• SpongeBob's originally suggested a more fancy microphone system and signs for the drive-thru before Mr. Krabs settled on cheaper variants.
• Squidward says that he wishes he had gone to college, but in "Atlantis SquarePantis," he said that he learned more about art in Atlantis than he did in four years of community college, indicating he did go to college.
• When Squidward says that his ear hurts, he looks at the screen and happens to talk to it, which breaks the fourth wall.
• SpongeBob refers to Larry's boatmobile as an S.U.B., which is ironic because while it means Sport Utility Boat, it spells SUB, an underwater vehicle that can dive very deep underwater.
• The green fish mayor from "Doing Time" and "The Great Snail Race" is shown rather than the purple fish mayor from "SpongeBob's Last Stand" and "Sponge-Cano!"
• Plankton is shown pulling up to the drive-thru in a tiny boatmobile.
• Earlier, due to Squidward's complaining, Mr. Krabs moves SpongeBob and the grill to his office and moves his desk to the kitchen. At the point where Mr. Krabs tells SpongeBob to get the order for the policeman, the grill and office desk have suddenly returned to their original spots; SpongeBob appears through the kitchen window and remains in the kitchen for the remainder of the episode.
• The Chum Bucket hat Plankton wears is similar to the one he wears in "Komputer Overload."
• This is the second episode where a "telephone" made out of two cans and a string is used. The first is "Fools in April."
• This is the second episode in which chum nuggets are seen. The first is "Chum Caverns." However, in this episode it is just shown as average chum clop with external organs, whereas in "Chum Caverns" they moreso have the shape of chicken nuggets.
• This is the first episode where "Greenhorn Rag" plays.

Errors

• When the green and blue fish collide with their car, the green fish's underarm is orange for a second.

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The green fish's underarm is orange for a second.

• SpongeBob is shown carrying a small bag full of equipment for the drive-thru, which are revealed to be a microphone system and an order sign, however there is no way they could have fit in there without breaking or tearing the bag apart.
• Mr. Krabs' desk is shown in front of the refrigerator in the back of the kitchen when he first moves it there, but in the next shot of kitchen it is moreso located next to the condiment stand.
• SpongeBob would not have been able to cook patties in the office because the grill is not plugged in.
• Squidward is shown wearing bandages over his left ear following the incident with Pearl's friends, but once he appears during Larry's order, the bandages are gone despite the fact that he could not have recovered or been treated by a doctor in such a short time span.
• Template:Data:Links is listed in the credits for this episode. However, he is neither seen nor heard in this episode or its sister.
• Mr. Krabs creates a hole for SpongeBob to get to Larry, but when Squidward tells SpongeBob that he has 26 more orders, the hole is not there.

Running gags

• Mr. Krabs smashing holes into the Krusty Krab with a mallet.
• Pearl's purple friend saying, "Being a teenager and all!"
• Plankton getting run over and squished by an elderly fish.

Video

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