Spongebob finds a magazine called "Fancy Living Digest" in his mail, which depicts the lifestyles of the extremely wealthy. Squidward shows up and takes the magazine, which was actually for him, and Spongebob and Patrick ask him how people can get so rich. He decides to sell chocolate bars to raise money in hopes of achieving the fancy lifestyle.
However, no one initially wants to buy any. The first person who was Tom they visit goes berserk upon hearing the word "chocolate", and begins chasing them while madly screaming "CHOCOLATE!!!!" He stalks them throughout the episode, appearing and causing them to run away at several points.
Along the way, Spongebob and Patrick are also convinced to purchase candy bar carrying bags by a con artist who is only known as The Con Man. He later scams them again, selling them "candy bar bag carrying bags". The next person was Sadie but SpongeBob couldn't find her candy bar making her impaitent. Eventually, after seeing an advertisement for "Barnacle Chips", Spongebob and Patrick decide to increase the appeal of their product by "stretching" the truth. The first customers they use this tactic on are an old lady and her EXTREMELY old mother. They claim that the chocolate will make one immortal by rubbing it on their skin, which the extremely old mother is delighted by.
The duo continue this strategy, making several absurd promises about the chocolate. Their lies culminate in them dressing in bandages and pretending to be badly injured and in need of an operation. However, the customer they go to is himself in far worse shape than they claim to be, and must sell chocolate to pay his medical bills. Feeling extreme sympathy for the man, Spongebob and Patrick buy a huge amount of chocolate from him with all the money they had just made. However, the man is then revealed to be the same con artist who had scammed them twice before.
Spongebob and Patrick are soon attacked by Tom, who catches them off guard and makes them fall down and drop their chocolate. He says that he has been trying to catch them all day, and seems intent on killing them before saying that he would simply like to buy all their chocolate, which leaves Spongebob and Patrick speechless. Spongebob and Patrick
SpongeBob: Okay Patrick, this is it - the first step on our road to livin' fancy. (They ring the doorbell and Tom answers)File:180px-Random fish with chocolate.jpgSpongebob and Patrick trying to sell chocolate.
SpongeBob: Good Afternoon, sir. Could we interest you in some chocolate?
Tom: Chocolate? Did you say chocolate?
Patrick: Yes Sir, with or without nuts!
Tom: Chocolate?! CHOCOLATE?!!! (screaming) CHOCOLATE!!! CHOCOLATE!!! (Terrified, SpongeBob and Patrick make a run for it.)
SpongeBob:(Next scene) Okay, that first guy didn't count.
(Outside)
SpongeBob: Remember, Patrick. Flatter the customer, make him feel good!
Customer: Hello?
Patrick: I love you! (Customer slams the door in disgust)
(Diner)
SpongeBob: We need a new approach.
Patrick: Hmm...Yeah...I've got it! Let's get naked!!
SpongeBob: No, lets save that for when we're selling real estate.
Tom:CHOCOLATE!!!!!![SpongeBob and Patrick are terrified, begging Tom not to hurt them.] AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! FINALLY!! I've been trying to catch you boys all day! NOW THAT I'VE GOT YOU RIGHT WHERE I WANT YOU.....[Holds up a LARGE wad of cash] I like to buy all your chocolate. [Chocolate bars fall out of Patrick's pants. And a Hershey's Kiss falls out last. Then, SpongeBob and Patrick melt into a puddle.]
SpongeBob: (Monotone voice) Thank you for your patronage.
Patrick: (Patrick's eyes just got slammed into a customer's door.) Nice place you got here.
(At Mary's and her Mother's Home)
Spongebob:Hello, young lady (Wink) Were selling chocolates is your mother here?
Mary's mother: What, What!! What's all that yelling, you just can't wait for me to die can you?
Mary’s Mother: You just can’t wait for me to die can you!
Mary: There selling chocolates!
Mary’s Mother: Chocolates.
Mary: Yeah!
Mary’s Mother: What? What there selling what?
Mary: Chocolates!!
Mary’s Mother: What?
Mary: Chocolate?
Mary’s mother: I can’t hear you?
Mary: there selling chocolate
Mary’s mother: There selling chocolates!!
Mary: Yeah!
Mary’s mother: Aw chocolate, I remember when they first invented chocolate,… sweet, sweet, chocolate… I ALWAYS HATED IT.
SpongeBob: O, but this chocolate is not for eating it’s for...For…..
Patrick: …….you rub it on your skin and it ll make you live forever
Mary (panicking) No, No, No (Shak:ing her hands)
Mary’s mother: Forever huh, ill take one
SpongeBob: (hands a chocolate bar)
Mary’s Mother: common you lazy Mary start rubbing chocolate
Mary: I hate you
SpongeBob: If we keep stretching the truth well be fancy living in no time!!
Mary: (To Spongebob and Patrick) I hate you. (Then slams the door)File:Mary.gifMary
SpongeBob: Let's change our names to Why and Bother.
Trivia
This episode is #12 on Tom Kenny's Top 20 on iTunes. His description says:
"A very sick episode, masterminded by the underground cartoonist KAZ. You can spend hours theorizing about what these eleven minutes says about truth, lies, Big Business, entrepreneurship, and consumerism. All that, plus that creepy old lady who's basically just a head and a spinal cord. Eeeyeu!"
"Chocolate with Nuts" is one of the most popular Spongebob episodes of all time. The scene where Tom goes insane upon hearing the word "chocolate" is particularly famous, and has become an internet meme.
Claims Spongebob and Patrick make about their chocolate bars:
Make you live forever
Makes your hair grow (A bald Fred says "Great! My wife's trying to grow a beard!)
Makes you sound smart (Hillbilly Fish says "I'll take Twenty!")
Keeps your face from getting any uglier (Said by Patrick to a man who looks identical to him and says "Just in time!")
Makes you fly
Makes you fall in love
Brings world peace
Gives the ability to walk through walls
Makes you rule the world
SpongeBob and Patrick are injured and in dire need of an operation
There is a picture of SpongeBob's front lawn in one customer's house.
The chocolate bar on the title card reads Net Wt. 1.75 oz. (67 g) in small print.
The top of the cover of Fancy Living Digest reads "December 02" (The same day the episode first aired).
Patrick buys ten pictures of a customer at 13, when he was extremely fat, but only five are visible in the next scene.
The scene where Patrick says "I love you," to the one fish has been parodied on YouTube.
The title screen for this episode looks like a Hershey's chocolate bar
Fred, says that his wife is trying to grow a beard, and his usual and current wife is Sadie Rechid, so she is trying to grow a beard. She was going to buy a Chocolate, in a different colored house.
Patrick says they'll buy 20 candy bar bag carrying bags, but only two are visible in the next scene.
A Hershey's Kiss can be seen coming out of Patrick's shorts.
Some people hear Patrick say "Eat sperm!" when he and Spongebob are stammering. It is not completely clear what he really said, but it may have been "Please, sir!"
APM Music Identification
Dancing the Hula - Title card; Patrick wheelbarrows all the money he and SpongeBob earned.
Comic Walk - Squidward takes the issue of Fancy Living Digest out of SpongeBob's hands.
Marching to Honolulu - SpongeBob and Patrick walk out of Barg 'n' Mart with many chocolate bars.
Heavenly Voices - "It's specially designed to cradle each candy bar in velvet-maligned comfort."
Hawaiian Link A - The con man is shown counting the money he earned.
