Fear of a Krabby Patty

Template:Episode "Fear of a Krabby Patty" is the Emmy nominated opening episode of SpongeBob SquarePants season four.

Brief Summary: Mr. Krabs makes the Krusty Krab open 24 hours a day, and after over a month of nonstop working, SpongeBob begins to lose his sanity and develops a fear of Krabby Patties.

Characters:

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Plankton
• Mr. Krabs
• Squidward Tentacles
• Krusty Krab Customers
• Tom
• Man Ray
• Gary

DVD:

• Fear of a Krabby Patty

Plot

When Mr Krabs sees that the Chum Bucket is opening 23 hours a day, he announces that the Krusty Krab is opening 24 hours, to be better than the Chum Bucket. This was all part of Plankton's plan, of course. Then Plankton makes an order to the Krusty Krab addressing himself as Peter Lankton for 10,000 Krabby Patties. After 43 days of nonstop service, SpongeBob cracks up and can not finish the order because everywhere he looks, he sees killer Krabby Patties. SpongeBob gets a flyer from Dr. Peter Lankton who specializes in Krabby Patty phobias. SpongeBob goes there, smashing Lankton(Plankton) with a piano 2 times in a row. Then SpongeBob gets hypnotized by Plankton and falls deeply asleep. Plankton tries waking him up to tell him the formula but to no avail...SpongeBob is in too deep of a sleep.

In SpongeBob's dream, he is jellyfishing when a giant Krabby Patty appears and eats him. He then finds himself in bed, and a giant Krabby Patty enters the room. The Krabby Patty turns out to be friendly and gives SpongeBob a cookie-pizza and chocolate milk, thus curing his fear. SpongeBob wakes up and says he's cured, and goes back to the Krusty Krab as Plankton begs him to return and reveal the formula to him, insisting that he is still sick.

Reception

The episode was nominated for a 2005 Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour) along with Family Guy's "North by North Quahog", Samurai Jack's "The Four Seasons of Death", South Park's "Best Friends Forever" and The Simpsons' "Future-Drama". It lost to South Park.

APM Music Identification

• Dramatic Impact 6- "The Chum Bucket is open 23 hours?!"
• Twilight Zone -
• Like Strange- SpongeBob enters the Chum Bucket.

Cultural References

• In SpongeBob's dream, the Krabby Patty tells him that he'll always be with him (in his arteries), a reference to the 1982 film, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, complete with the glowing finger.
• The title is a reference to the Public Enemy album Fear of a Black Planet.

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The dvd

Trivia/Goofs

• This is the first episode to use 3-D computer coloring rather than digital ink and paint or traditional cel animation.
• In this episode Mr. Krabs eyes are smaller.
• Mr. Krabs previously made the Krusty Krab open 24 hours a day in "Graveyard Shift".
• Since June 2009, Charter Communications and Time Warner Cable labeled this episode along with Shell of a Man as "Sponge Bob Fun", which is said to supposed to be a shopping show. It's unknown how this mistake happened, since there's no shopping show called Sponge Bob Fun, but as of April 2010, the mistake has been corrected.
• The Background of the DVD cover is from the episode Just One Bite where Squidward eats the patties at the patty vault.

External links

• Emmy Nomination