Boss for a Day

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Characters

• SpongeBob SquarePants
  • SpongeBob Clones
• Patrick Star
• Squidward Tentacles
• Eugene H. Krabs
  • Krabs' Claw
• Pirates
  • Pirate captain
• Bikini Bottomites
  • Fred
  • Anchovy
  • Mable-Monica
  • Shubie
  • Tyler
  • Nat Peterson
  • Abigail
  • Charlie
  • Harold
  • Norma Rechid
  • Tina Fran
  • Harold (red fish)
  • Miss Shell
  • Nazz-Mimi
  • Lonnie
  • Frank (red shirt)
  • Thaddeus
  • Old Man Walker
  • Mable
  • Jimmy Gus
  • Worker Fish ^(debut)
  • Baby
  • Thirsty Fish ^(debut)
  • EMT Worker ^(debut)
  • Cara
  • Incidental 60
  • Sadie
  • Jennifer Millie
  • Dennis
  • Billy
  • Frankie Billy
  • Frank the fish
  • Joe
  • Billy (lime fish)
  • Evelyn Annette
  • Incidental 3
  • Incidental 2
  • Sheldon (fish)
  • Ivy (gray)
  • Medley (green fish)
  • Incidental 90
  • Mary Walker
  • TV shark
  • Shark woman ^(debut)
  • Shark girl ^(debut)

Production

The episode was confirmed by Vincent Waller on June 6, 2019.

Music

( ‣ ) Production music

( • ) Original music

( ◦ ) SpongeBob music

 ‣ Off Broadway - Werner Tautz [Title card]

 ‣ Sea Battle - John Fox [Opening.]
 ‣ ? [Baby trying to eat Krabby Patty.]
 ‣ Sea Battle - John Fox [Mr. Krabs cuts up Krabby Patty.]
 ‣ Another Krusty Krab Day - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr ["Takes a pretty steady claw to oversee this ship."]
 ‣ Hillbilly Dual - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Mr. Krabs' claw smells something.]
 ‣ Harp Ding - Nicolas Carr [Mr. Krabs finds a penny.]
 ‣ Krusty Krab Tango - Steve Marston [Mr. Krabs picks up the penny.]
 ‣ Greenhorn Rag - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Mr. Krabs knocked around and out of the Krusty Krab.]
 ‣ Dramatic Cue (a) - Ronald Hanmer [Ambulance arrives.]
 ‣ Vibe Sting - Nicolas Carr ["Wait, Mr. Krabs."]
 ‣ Sailor's Sting 20 - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr [Mr. Krabs chooses SpongeBob to be in charge.]
 ‣ Harps and Bells - Nicolas Carr ["I'm in charge!"]
 ‣ Sailor's Sting 22 - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr ["Just like you, Mr. Krabs!"]
 ‣ Lap Steel - Nicolas Carr [Transition to next scene.]
 ‣ Sailor's Sting 15 - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr [Nurse wheels Mr. Krabs back to the Krusty Krab.]
 ‣ Pineapple Luau - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield ["Mr. Krabs, I'm so glad your back!"]
 ‣ Jovial Pirates Jig - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr ["Everything's just how you left it!"]
 ‣ Evil Mind 3 - Dick De Benedictis [Mr. Krabs shocked.]
 ‣ Gator - Steve Belfer [Patrick is the new fry cook.]
 ‣ Jovial Pirates Jig - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr ["You'll have a better view of my managerial magic from over here."]
 ‣ Tension Bits - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield ["SpongeBob, you aggravating, obnoxious, lonesome, LITTLE--!"]
 ‣ Comic Walk - Sidney Torch [Patrick cleaning the deli slicer.]
 ‣ Joy Ride - Jack Coles [SpongeBob telling Patrick what to do.]
 ‣ Murder Scene - Alan Wynn [SpongeBob gets caught in door and a clone slices off.]
 ‣ Jolly Little Roger - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr ["Can you work the grill?"]
 ‣ Murder Scene - Alan Wynn [Customers angrily corner SpongeBob.]
 ‣ Harp Ding - Nicolas Carr [SpongeBob grabs a slicer.]
 ‣ Salty Krab Jig - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr [SpongeBob creates another clone of himself.]
 ‣ ? ["Oops, I spilled."]
 ‣ Project X - Cedric Palmer [SpongeBob panics.]
 ‣ Grass Skirt Chase - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob makes many clones of himself.]
 ‣ Off Broadway - Werner Tautz [Clones helping customers around the Krusty Krab.]
 ‣ Cream Pie - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Clones get shredded by ceiling fan.]
 ‣ Five Dramatic Bridges B - Kurt Rehfeld [Customers leave the Krusty Krab.]
 ‣ Vibe Q Sting - Nicolas Carr ["Mr. Krabs, you're all better!"]
 • Hot Steel and Slide Licks (e) - Jeremy Wakefield ["Sorry I let you down."]
 ‣ Another Krusty Krab Day - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr ["Nobody's just like me."]
 ‣ Off Broadway - Werner Tautz [Ending.]

Trivia

General

• The title card is similar to those of "Mrs. Puff, You're Fired," "Ditchin'," "Two Thumbs Down," "Fun-Sized Friends," and "Krusty Kleaners."
• SpongeBob imitates Mr. Krabs the same way he did in "Gone."
• When Patrick is substituting for SpongeBob, what he wears are almost the same as the clothes he wore in "Big Pink Loser."
• SpongeBob has been put in charge of the Krusty Krab before in "Gullible Pants," (and to an extent in "Squid's Day Off") although the plot of those episodes are quite different.
  • Additionally, in "Gullible Pants," Mr. Krabs lets SpongeBob be in charge on purpose, instead of on accident like in this episode.
• When a piano falls on Mr. Krabs, it possibly references "Fear of a Krabby Patty", where SpongeBob dropped a piano on Plankton.

Cultural references

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• One of the things that Mr. Krabs' eyes turn into are Pac-Man and a ghost, a reference to the game, Pac-Man.

Errors

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One instance where SpongeBob's belt turns white.

• Multiple times throughout the episode, when SpongeBob changes into Mr. Krabs and back to his normal form again, parts of his belt are miscolored as white.

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The frame where SpongeBob's teeth are "connected."

• When SpongeBob bolts in front of the front door of the Krusty Krab when Squidward is leaving, the bottom line of his two teeth are connected as one big line.
• When SpongeBob is twirling around in the circle of his slices, his leg appears white like his sock whenever he faces to the left.