SpongeBob vs. The Patty Gadget

"SpongeBob vs. The Patty Gadget" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 5. In this episode, SpongeBob engages in a heated cook-off with a machine that cooks Krabby Patties.

Characters

• Patchy the Pirate ^(narrator)
• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Patrick Star
• Sandy Cheeks
• Patty Gadget ^{(single appearance)}
• Squidward Tentacles
• Eugene H. Krabs
• Incidentals
  • Anchovies
    • Incidental 114
    • Incidental 115
  • Incidental 48
  • Incidental 69
  • Incidental 92
  • Don the Whale
  • Incidental 14
  • Steven
  • Incidental 37A
  • Incidental 67
  • Incidental 5
  • Incidental 37B
  • Incidental 102
  • Incidental 41
  • Incidental 60
  • Incidental 46
  • Incidental 49
  • Incidental 73
  • Incidental 152
  • Incidental 45
  • Incidental 103
  • Charlie
  • Carol
  • Incidental 47
  • Sandals
  • Incidental 64
  • Incidental 108
  • Incidental 105
  • Incidental 107
  • Incidental 12
• King Neptune ^(cameo)

Synopsis

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Squidward has his gadget go against SpongeBob.

Patchy the Pirate is back, and reads a story about Squidward and SpongeBob. Squidward invents the machine, that he calls the Patty Gadget, and he insists that Mr. Krabs should fire SpongeBob because it can make patties faster and Mr. Krabs does not have to pay for it. Not accepting this, SpongeBob declares a Krabby Patty war against the Patty Gadget.

First, SpongeBob seems to be faster, but the machine is not an easy challenge for him. Everyone is enjoying the fight, except for Patrick, who has to go to the bathroom.

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The Patty Gadget explodes.

Squidward then gets worried and, in a state of panic, breaks the handle of the Patty Gadget, causing it to overload and for Squidward to run off. Despite this, SpongeBob keeps pace and eventually overwhelms the machine, causing it to explode in defeat. The blast from the explosion was so loud that the noise woke King Neptune up from his nap. However, SpongeBob collapses from exhaustion after winning the fight.

A short memorial service is held, giving the appearance that SpongeBob has passed. Tears come out of everyone, though Squidward is the most upset of all. Suddenly, after everyone leaves the grave, SpongeBob appears, briefly mourns, and celebrates his victory, revealing that the grave is for the Patty Gadget (which explains Squidward's own sadness). Patchy closes the book with the picture of the machine's tombstone and then a "The End" beside it. Patchy then mentions he has to go and polish his hook, as the episode ends.

Production

It was added to the United States Copyright Catalog alongside its sister episodes on February 2, 2007.

This episode was confirmed on May 13, 2007.

Model sheets

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Music

( ‣ ) Production music

( • ) Original music

( ◦ ) SpongeBob music

 • Drunken Sailor - Nicolas Carr [Title card]
 • Fry Cook Ballad A - Nicolas Carr, Steve Marston [Opening/The patty gadget revealed]
 • Steel Licks 22 - Jeremy Wakefield [Squidward's acne]
 ‣ Tripping Upstairs - Brian Peters ["What is this contraption you've hauled into me place?"]
 • Fry Cook Ballad B - Nicolas Carr, Steve Marston ["The machine wanted his job."]
 ‣ Sea Battle [#49] - John Fox ["Squidward pulled the big lever, and sat back and watched feeling oh, so quite clever."]
 ‣ Sea Battle [#44] - John Fox [SpongeBob making Krabby Patties]
 ‣ The Jovial Buccaneers [#36.02] - John Fox ["I won't lose to that thing!"]
 ‣ Pirate Ship - David Farnon [gadget explodes]
 ‣ The Jovial Buccaneers [#38] - John Fox ["It was all over, finished and done."]
 ‣ The Jovial Buccaneers [#36] - John Fox [SpongeBob collapses.]
 • ShantyDirge - Nicolas Carr, Steve Marston [tombstone]
 • Drunken Sailor Jig - Nicolas Carr, Steve Marston [patty gadget buried underground]
 • Fry Cook Ballad Closer - Nicolas Carr, Steve Marston [ending]

Release

Broadcast

• This episode premiered in the second week of the SpongeBob's NEW Week event.

Distribution

• This episode is available on the Season 5 Volume 1, SpongeBob's Atlantis SquarePantis, SpongeBob's Pest of the West (UK version), SpongeBob StarPants, First 100 Episodes, Best of SpongeBob, Really Big Box Set, 2-Movies-Edition Volume 2, SpongeBob's Legendary Adventures, The Ultimate SpongeBob Box Set, SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 7, The SpongeBob Super Square Collection, Complete Fifth Season, From the Beginning, Part 2, The SpongeBob SquarePants Collection, Bikini Bottom Tales, Welcome Aboard, Time Travel, The SpongeBob SquarePants 8 Season DVD Collection, Favorite Episodes Volume 2, The Best 200 Episodes Ever, The Fifth & Sixth Seasons, and The Best 300 Episodes Ever DVDs.

Trivia

General

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• This episode was originally called "SpongeBob vs. Krabby Gadget." The title might actually be "SpongeBob vs. the Krabby Gadget" considering the current title of the episode, as the same title is seen on a German guide for the show from 2007, featuring some titles that aren't fully translated or updated.
• At the beginning of this episode, Patchy opens a book. Its cover reads "The Legend of SpongeBob SquarePants." A similar book title is later seen on the "Legends of Bikini Bottom" episodes, and the title card of this episode is reused in those episodes as the frame for the title cards of the "Legends of Bikini Bottom" episodes.
• On the episode's title card, the title text on the book cover reading "The Legend of SpongeBob SquarePants," and "The End" text on the book's last page respectively, every beginning capital letter of a word is in red text, while the rest of the letters are blue.
• The story "The Legend of SpongeBob SquarePants" only exists in-unverise and not in reality.
• This episode proves that Squidward does know the recipe for the Krabby Patty. In past episodes, Squidward says he does not know the recipe at all.
• Squidward is revealed to have a bad case of acne.
• A clip of SpongeBob inhaling the patties and shooting them onto the grill was used during the "Up next" Nickelodeon bumpers from 2009 to 2011.
• Patchy narrates the story in a way similar to a poem, with words rhyming after every line.
• Squidward and Mr. Krabs are the only characters to speak to each other in the episode. All of the other characters' dialogues, SpongeBob included, were interspersed with Patchy's narration.
• This is the first non-special episode to feature Patchy the Pirate.
  • This is also the only short to date with Patchy in it.
• This is the second episode to contain a title of two characters versing each other, the first being "Krabs vs. Plankton."
• This episode marks one of few times where Patchy appears without Potty the Parrot.
• This is King Neptune's first episode appearance since "Neptune's Spatula."
  • Beginning with this episode, he is depicted with four fingers on each hand as opposed to five.
  • This is also the only episode where he is voiced by Paul Tibbitt.

Dub facts

• In the Indonesian dub, Patchy is also confused when SpongeBob isn't buried.

Cultural references

• The episode's plot is similar to the folktale "John Henry." In both cases, the main character races against a machine while performing the same task.
  • This is due to a proposition: SpongeBob battles the patty gadget to keep his job; John Henry fights a railway steam drill for an ownership of land being worked on.
  • Just like how SpongeBob faints after winning the battle, John Henry passed away due to exhaustion.

Errors

• Patchy says 20 patties, but there are actually 15.
  • Also, SpongeBob puts patties on the grill, but a few seconds later, the patties he put on the grill are gone and he puts on more.

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The lever would be broken by now.

• In Squidward's final attempt to beat SpongeBob, he breaks the lever on the patty gadget, but just before the machine explodes, the lever is in one piece again.
• The amount of fish inside of the Krusty Krab changes throughout the episode.
• After the scene where SpongeBob faints, there is a normal-sized grave. In the next scene, it is smaller.
• The flowers on the grave slightly move when the camera pans down to the buried patty gadget.
• When Patchy says, "It was all over, finished and done," the patty gadget is completely destroyed. But later when he says, "You thought SpongeBob was buried down there? They just buried the gadget!," there are just some holes in it.
• In the closing credits to this episode, Tom Kenny, who played Patchy the Pirate, is uncredited.

Videos

File:Nickelodeon Split Screen Credits (July 27, 2007)

File:Nickelodeon Split Screen Credits (August 3, 2007)

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
French	La machine à pâtés	The Patty Machine
German	SpongeBob gegen den Burger-Aparillo	SpongeBob vs. The Burger Machine
Hungarian	SpongyaBob és a herkenytűsütő küzdelme	The Fight of SpongeBob and the Krabby Patty Maker
Italian	SpongeBob contro la macchina dei Patty	SpongeBob vs. The Patty Machine
Russian	Спанч Боб против крабсбуроделки Spanch Bob protiv krabsburodelki	SpongeBob vs. The Krabby-Patty-Maker
Spanish (Latin America)	Bob Esponja contra el cangreburgerizer	SpongeBob vs. The Crabburgerizer
Spanish (Spain)	Bob Esponja contra el chisme de las hamburguesas	SpongeBob vs. The Burger Gossip