Bossy Boots

Template:Episode "Bossy Boots" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season two.

Brief summary: At the Krusty Krab, Pearl is sharing ideas to help boost profits and turns the Krusty Krab into a hip local hangout. However, the ideas are slowly decreasing profits, and now they have to find out how to increase them again.

Time/Date:

• Summer

• 3:02 p.m.: Pearl asks SpongeBob to take the Krabby Patties he made to the kitchen
• 3:00 p.m.: SpongeBob is dancing at the end.

Time cards shown: Unknown

Characters Present:

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Squidward Tentacles
• Mr. Krabs
• Gary the Snail
• Pearl Krabs
• Customers at Krusty Krab
• Fish in boats
• Policefish

Songs: "Bossy Boots" by The Capsules

Plot

At the Krusty Krab, Mr. Krabs is holding a meeting. He says that Pearl has lots of new ideas to help improve profits, and is therefore going to work in the Krusty Krab during her summer vacation. Squidward does not like being told what to do by a teenager, and teams up with SpongeBob to protect their jobs. SpongeBob would rather prefer new spatulas, but tolerates Pearl's strange ideas. She issues the employees new pink floral uniforms. She also changes the name to the 'Kuddly Krab', and changes the whole place into a teen hangout (it looks more like a childcare centre though). SpongeBob is told to make a salad, but he has never heard of it and pronounces it wrong. He then makes a Krabby Patty and shows it to Pearl. She tells him to take off the buns and the patty, leaving only tomatoes and lettuce. The menu's changed, and there's only two things: salad and tea. Mr. Krabs tells SpongeBob that the new ideas are actually causing a loss, and Pearl has to be fired. He does not want to do it, so he asks SpongeBob to fire her. ("It's OK if she hates you!") When SpongeBob calls Pearl in the kitchen and is on the brink of firing her, Pearl tells him that she actually wanted to be fired, and she gets fired. However, Mr. Krabs does not know how to get the spent money back. SpongeBob finds a solution to this problem by buying everything in the Krusty Krab (it cost him one year's salary.)

Trivia/Goofs

• This episode was originally called "Working Pearl", but was later changed to "Bossy Boots." Still, Comcast shows it as "Working Pearl". It used to be like that on DirecTV, too, but it was soon changed to its normal title. During Nickelodeon's "The Best Day Ever" marathon, it was also referred to as "Working Pearl" by Patchy the Pirate.
• When SpongeBob had a piece of paper, it had the workers, with mustaches, on one side. When he turned around, there is nothing on either side of the paper.
• The alternative names Pearl and SpongeBob come up for the Krusty Krab and have different uniforms are:
  • The Kutie Krab
  • The Kooky Krab
  • The Khaotic Krab
  • The Kissy Krab - Pearl makes kissy lips
  • The King Krab - SponbeBobas a King
  • The Kandy Krab
  • The Kool Krab - SpongeBob as a Beatnik jazz player
  • The Kowboy Krab - SpongeBob in country-western attire
  • The Kurly Krab - SpongeBob as a curled up sponge
  • The Kreepy Krab - SpongeBob a mad scientist
  • The Killer Krab - SpongeBob as Tarzan
  • The Kuddly Krab
• Kuddly Krab Menu:
  • Salad… $2.00
  • Tea… $1.00
• SpongeBob's sleeves are gone when a shot of the menu is shown.
• In one of the final shots, SpongeBob's house is shown, but Squidward's house is nowhere to be seen.
• Pearl rang a bell to SpongeBob saying "SpongeBob, order up!" but captions are missing his name: 1. ( ''bell rings'' ), 2. Order up!
• When Fred says "Hey, lady, where can we get something to eat?" his voice sounds like a old person.
• Mr. Krabs' "five easy payments of only $9.95" line is missing a period at the end of the sentence in closed captions.
• When this episode was shown on DVD the title card music is completely different but with the same song.
• 22nd time Patrick doesn't appear.

APM Music Identification

• Shock Horror (a) - "The KILLER KRAB!!"