Krusty Kleaners
"Krusty Kleaners" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 11. In this episode, after spilling a milkshake during a delivery, SpongeBob vows to return and clean the entire building.
Characters
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Patrick Star
- Mr. Krabs (Latin American Spanish title only)
- Female boss (debut)
- Trash bot (single appearance)
- Incidentals
- Davy Jones (skeleton)
- Copier (single appearance)
- Coffeemaker (single appearance)
- Soda machine (single appearance)
- Microwave oven (single appearance)
- Pencil sharpener (single appearance)
- Shredinator 3000 (single appearance)
- Fridge (single appearance) (only sentient in deleted scene)
Synopsis
The episode starts with SpongeBob delivering a Krabby Patty meal to the boss at an office. However, he accidentally drops the meal and makes a mess. Despite the boss telling him it is fine, SpongeBob vows to clean the mess at night.
SpongeBob brings Patrick along to help, and the two start cleaning the office, unaware that a trash bot is also cleaning the office. After accidentally toppling all the cubicles, the two put them back up, but accidentally get themselves lost within it. Eventually, they meet the trash bot, who tries to put Patrick inside of it as he ate a candy wrapper.
Eventually, SpongeBob gets a hold of the trash bot and locks him inside a broom closet so they can clean the office in peace. SpongeBob and Patrick finally reach the original chocolate milk stain the former made and try to clean it using their tongues. However, the trash bot escapes the broom closet and starts getting other machines in the office to attack SpongeBob and Patrick.
The machines start attacking the two and the walls of the office start falling apart. However, when SpongeBob and Patrick realize the company makes tanks, they utilize one of their tanks to defeat all the machines. Eventually, the trash bot surrenders, and the episode ends with SpongeBob and Patrick leaving the office in a wrecked state.
Production
The episode was confirmed by Vincent Waller on February 28, 2018.[2]
Art
Storyboards
Music
| ( ‣ ) Production music |
| ( • ) Original music |
| ( ◦ ) SpongeBob music |
‣ Old Hilo March - Kapono Beamer [title card]
• 12th St Rag Slo - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob arrives to a building with a delivery.]
‣ Market Day - Kurt Rehfeld [SpongeBob gets inside the office.]
‣ Dramatic Cue (C) - Ronald Hanmer [Bag slips out of SpongeBob's hands.]
‣ Epic Struggle - Fredric Bayco [Delivery falls to the floor, dirtying the carpet.]
‣ Inferno - Fredric Bayco [SpongeBob tries to clean up the mess.]
• Hot Steel and Slide Licks 13D - Jeremy Wakefield ["Here! You can drink it from here! See?"]
‣ Fates [#62] - Gregor Narholz ["It's too late. I did all I could, but it wasn't enough."]
• Spatula Sepuku - Nicolas Carr ["In ancient times, one would fall under sword by way of apology."]
• Proud to be a Fish - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [SpongeBob vows to clean all the building.]
• Hot Steel and Slide Licks 12C - Jeremy Wakefield ["No need, we have a cleaning robot that does that all at night."]
• Skipping to School - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Security guard leaves the building.]
• Cream Pie - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob and Patrick arrive at the building.]
‣ Subversion - Ralph Dollimore [Trash bot picks up a chewing gum wrapper.]
• Cream Pie - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob and Patrick exit elevator.]
• Tentacally Speaking - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob and Patrick "cleaning" office.]
‣ Mutations (a) [#53] - Trevor Duncan [Trash bot picking the trash that SpongeBob and Patrick have thrown.]
• Tentacally Speaking - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob vacuuming.]
• Hot Steel and Slide Licks 31C - Jeremy Wakefield ["We'll just put 'em all back up the way they were."]
• Cubicle Pacman - Nicolas Carr ["Uh, how do we get out of here?"/SpongeBob and Patrick navigate Pac-Man-like maze.]
‣ Menace from the Deep - Robert Cornford [Trash bot tries to pick up a candy wrapper.]
• Shark Frenzy - Steve Marston [SpongeBob and Patrick get chased by trash bot.]
• Hot Steel and Slide Licks 22E - Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob and Patrick in kitchen.]
‣ Invasion - Alfred Ralston [Trash bot enters kitchen.]
• Hot Steel and Slide Licks 6B - Jeremy Wakefield ["I don't know what we did to you, but I made a Krusty Krab pledge to your boss to clean these offices."]
‣ Invasion - Alfred Ralston [Trash bot picks Patrick up.]
• Hot Steel and Slide Licks 7A - Jeremy Wakefield [Patrick appears trashy.]
• Spongemonger - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob fights the trash bot.]
• Cream Pie - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob and Patrick enter main office.]
• African Savanna - Nicolas Carr [SpongeBob and Patrick licking spilled milkshake in carpet.]
‣ Rescue - Cecil Milner [Trash bot escapes from closet and recruits different appliances.]
• Hot Steel and Slide Licks 25A - Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob still licking spilled milkshake.]
‣ Armed Attack - Jean Clero [Coffeemaker and soda machine attack SpongeBob and Patrick.]
• Greenhorn Rag - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob gets attacked by photocopier and paper shredder.]
‣ Battle at Sea - Johnny Pearson [SpongeBob and Patrick use a tank.]
‣ Battle March Link (3) - Keith Mansfield [Paper shredder gets shot.]
‣ Battle March Link (1) - Keith Mansfield [Building collapses.]
• Slide Whistle Stooges 2 No Whistle - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Trash bot surrenders.]
• Kailua Jubilee - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Ending.]
Release
| Format | Title | Region |
|---|---|---|
| DVD | The Complete Eleventh Season | United States, Australia |
| Box set | Another 100 Episodes | United States |
| The Best 300 Episodes Ever | United States | |
| Digital release | SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 19 | Global |
Trivia
General
- This episode's original titles were "Clean Livin'," "The Krusty Cleaners," and "The Krusty Kleaners." Sky, Digiturk, and the Nickelodeon website still uses "Clean Livin'."[2]
- The title card background is similar to those of "Dumped," "Patrick SmartPants," "Mrs. Puff, You're Fired," "Ditchin'," "Stuck in the Wringer," "Gramma's Secret Recipe," "Two Thumbs Down," and "Fun-Sized Friends."
- In this episode, SpongeBob's unicycle has a metal wheel with a tire instead of its usual paddle wheel. It also has a brown seat instead of a black seat.
- In Channel 5 airings in the UK and Ireland, two scenes were edited: firstly, the scene where SpongeBob nearly drops the Krusty Krab delivery bag, but then catches it, was edited to darken the screen (it was unedited in Nicktoons UK airings), and secondly, the scene where SpongeBob stabs himself with his spatula was edited to remove a sword sound effect when the action happens.[3]
- This marks the first appearance of a reef blower since "Squidville."
- This is also the first episode to feature a reef blower, but not play the track "War Blower."
- This episode was paired up with "Burst Your Bubble" during the SpongeBob Code-Catcher Challenge marathon.
- This episode saw the return of the track Menace from the Deep, which was previously a season 1-exclusive track.
Dub facts
- In Latin America, this episode is called "Limpieza Don Cangrejo," which translates to "Cleaning Mr. Krabs," even though Mr. Krabs does not appear in the episode, likely a translation error.
Cultural references
- Davy Jones' skeleton could be a reference to the actual Davy Jones who died in 2012.
- Davy Jones appears as himself in "SpongeBob SquarePants vs. The Big One" in the scene where he throws socks from his locker to the Flying Dutchman. During that scene, he also sings a part from the song "Daydream Believer" from his band The Monkees, which was also used as the closing credits theme for that episode.
- The scene where SpongeBob stabs himself with his spatula references seppuku.
- The scene where SpongeBob and Patrick are trying to find a way out of the maze references the video game Pac-Man.
Errors
- When SpongeBob and Patrick ride into the elevator, Patrick has no eyebrows.
- When trash bot attempts to burn Patrick, the microwave oven can be seen mistakenly colored with a white outline on the rim of the door instead of black.
- In one of the pictures of SpongeBob made by the copier, one of his eyes is closed, but his eyelashes are still seen.
- During the scene when the trash bot and its recruits attack SpongeBob and Patrick, the microwave oven wasn't shown, although it is visible when trash bot recruits it and shown as they move along with others before the cut to SpongeBob and Patrick.
Videos
Names in other languages
| Language | Name | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| French | Livrer, tacher, nettoyer | Deliver, Stain, Clean |
| German | Der Saubermann | The Cleaning Man |
| Italian | Pulizie notturne | Night Cleaning |
| Russian | Чистая жизнь Chistaya zhizn' |
Clean Life |
| Spanish (Latin America) | Limpieza Don Cangrejo | Cleaning Mr. Krabs (translation error) |
| Spanish (Spain) | Limpieza crujiente | Krusty Cleaning |
References
es:Limpieza Don Cangrejo pl:Ekipa sprzątająca ru:Чистая жизнь