Boss for a Day

Characters

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  • SpongeBob's slices
• Patrick Star
• Squidward Tentacles
• Eugene H. Krabs
  • Mr. Krabs' claw
• Pirates
  • Pirate captain
• Bikini Bottomites
  • Fred
  • Lenny
  • 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
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  • Baby
  • Cara
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  • Sadie
  • Jennifer Millie
  • Dennis
  • Billy
  • Frankie Billy
  • Frank the fish
  • Joe
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  • Billy (lime fish)
  • Evelyn Annette
  • Incidental 3
  • Incidental 2
  • Sheldon (fish)
  • Ivy (gray)
  • Medley (green fish)
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  • Mary Walker
  • TV shark
  • Shark woman Template:Debut
  • Shark girl Template:Debut

Synopsis

The episode begins with a montage of Mr. Krabs satisfying lots of customers and being an outstanding boss, but he is interrupted by pirates. Mr. Krabs manages to defeat them while still working. He compliments himself for being able to keep the Krusty Krab in shape.

Mr. Krabs then finds a penny, which he happily picks up, however SpongeBob then opens the door to the kitchen, where Mr. Krabs was standing by, and Mr. Krabs gets launched across the Krusty Krab, eventually outside, and getting himself injured. Mr. Krabs gets severely injured and decides to choose who gets to be in charge of the Krusty Krab. So he chooses Squidward, but Squidward grabs SpongeBob to think that he's going to be in charge, and Mr. Krabs is sent to the hospital. SpongeBob is excited that he's now boss of the Krusty Krab, but Squidward thinks he's gonna ruin everything, so SpongeBob decides to act like Mr. Krabs.

The Doctor brings Mr. Krabs, who's in a body cast and can't speak, to see the Krusty Krab on a wheelchair. SpongeBob opens the doors which makes the wheel chair tip over. Mr. Krabs fears that SpongeBob made new changes that will ruin Krusty Krab, but to his relief, he did nothing to the place. However, he also hired Patrick for cooking and patty flipping, making Mr. Krabs freak out again. SpongeBob then wheels him out of the kitchen, while Patrick grills a ketchup dispenser for some reason, which makes it explode in Squidward's face, annoying him.

SpongeBob proceeds to satisfy all the customers that need help, which leads him to telling off Squidward for yelling at a customer. SpongeBob then gets Squidward to put on a helmet-thing that forces him to smile. This freaks out the customer, who orders, then runs off. Squidward then snaps at SpongeBob, before being interrupted by a grinding noise. When SpongeBob goes to investigate, he sees Patrick shredding a brick with the deli slicer. SpongeBob asks Patrick what he's trying to do, and he says that he's cleaning the slicer. SpongeBob then says that Patrick's cleaning it incorrectly, and asks Patrick to get back to frying, while he finishes cleaning. Patrick agrees, but throws the brick behind him, and into the slicer, where it flies off it through the window-type thing and hits Mr. Krabs in the head.

What follows is a montage of SpongeBob telling Patrick that he's not doing something right and Patrick having to do it, getting more frustrated and more frustrated until he snaps and leaves, leaving the door spinning. SpongeBob tries to chase after him to ask him to come back, but when he hits the door he starts spinning wildly, until he falls off, but his face keeps spinning. When the door settles, SpongeBob realizes that a sentient slice of him came off from the door. SpongeBob then asks if the slice could man the grill, and the slice gets working. SpongeBob leaves the kitchen proud of himself, only to see Squidward getting yelled at by a mob of angry customers, and then quits and leaves. The mob then turns to SpongeBob, who doesn't know what to do. SpongeBob then gets an idea, and creates another slice to man the register. This satisfies the customers and SpongeBob, until he sees a lot of customers complaining about different things, which panic him on how he's going to manage everything. He then sees Mr. Krabs, who looks angry at the madness that's happening, which panics SpongeBob more, until he yells "everybody stop!"

SpongeBob then runs to the kitchen, and slices off loads of slices to do jobs. They works as they're supposed to, and all is going well until Patrick shows up, saying he's just there to clean out his desk. He then randomly takes some customers' patties and leaves, leaving the door open. This lets in a gust of wind, which blows the slices around the restaurant. SpongeBob tries to stop them, and manages to grabs a leg, however he ends up flying with them, and eventually they all fly into the fan, which shreds the slices all over the place, disgusting the customers and making them leave the Krusty Krab.

Mr. Krabs, who can handle no more of this, breaks out of his body cast in rage. He then sees SpongeBob, who's tangled up in the fan, and SpongeBob says that he's sorry for letting him down and that he just wanted to be a good boss. Mr. Krabs says that it's okay and that no-one's exactly like him. He then says that SpongeBob also saved him months inside the body cast, and that if it weren't for the rage he felt watching him destroy the Krusty Krab, he wouldn't have been able to force his body to heal so quickly. SpongeBob then says that in a way, what he did was good, but Mr. Krabs says that this isn't true and that SpongeBob was the worst boss ever. He goes on to say that this is going to come out of SpongeBob's pay, then he turns on the fan and walks off. SpongeBob thanks Mr. Krabs for some reason, then starts spinning wildly, ending the episode.

Production

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

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 does in "Gone" and "Mimic Madness."
• When Patrick is substituting for SpongeBob, his clothing is almost the same as the clothes he wore in "Big Pink Loser."
  • This is also the third episode in which Patrick dresses up as SpongeBob. The first time being in "Boating School" and the second being in the former.
• 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 plots of those episodes are quite different.
  • Additionally, in "Gullible Pants," Mr. Krabs lets SpongeBob be in charge on purpose, instead of by accident like in this episode.
  • Squid's Day Off takes place on a Sunday which is when the Krusty Krab is usually closed.
• When a piano falls on Mr. Krabs, it references "Fear of a Krabby Patty" when SpongeBob drops a piano on Plankton.
• In this episode, Mr. Krabs is horrified to find out that SpongeBob hired Patrick as the fry cook, even though Mr. Krabs hired him temporarily back in "Bummer Vacation."
• This is the third episode in which SpongeBob has been cloned, the first being in "Overbooked" and the second being in "CopyBob DittoPants."
  • There are actually numerous episodes where more than one SpongeBob appear, but these episodes are the only three where he is cloned for more purpose than as a gag.
• This episode accidentally premiered in Russia instead of "My Two Krabses."

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• Squidward puts on a helmet to make him smile is a reference to "Truth or Square."

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.
• SpongeBob's helmet that makes Squidward smile is a reference to The Ren & Stimpy Show episode "Stimpy's Invention."

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.
  • This error also occurred in "Funny Pants," "Boating Buddies, and "A Pal for Gary."

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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.

Running gags

• SpongeBob morphing into Mr. Krabs.
• Mr. Krabs getting even more upset over time after SpongeBob messes something up.