Big Top Flop

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"Big Top Flop" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 13. In this episode, when the circus comes to town and steals his customers away, Mr. Krabs tries to sabotage the show

Characters

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Squidward Tentacles
• Patrick Star
• Eugene H. Krabs
• Incidentals
  • Incidental 151
  • Incidental 152
  • Incidental 153
  • Audience inc 2
  • Audience inc 3
  • Audience inc 5
• Ringmaster crab ^{(single appearance)}
• Big fish four-eyes
• Clown
• Motorcyclist
• Fish cowboy
• Dancers
• Ringmaster's assistant
• Canonball Jenkins
• Sea bears
• Giraffes

Production

This episode was confirmed on January 13, 2023.

Music

( ‣ ) Production music

( • ) Original music

( ◦ ) SpongeBob music

 ‣ Good Old Dixie - Peter Winslow [Title card.]
 • Cheap and Frozen Short - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr [Opening.]
 • Humorous Conversation Full Mix - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [Krabs checks the calendar.]
 ‣ Broken Ride - Harry Bluestone [Krabs hears the circus.]
 ‣ Bridge 3 - Wilfred Burns
 ‣ Roll Up For The Show [#34] - David Graham Farnon
 ‣ Show Fanfare 1 - David Lindup
 ‣ Circus Rag - David Farnon
 ‣ Circus Story - Kamel Baibout [Squidward as a mime.]
 ‣ Fools Rush In - John Charles Fiddy, Grahame Roy Maclean
 ‣ Calling All Clowns - David Lindup

Release

• This episode is set to be available for the upcoming The Complete Thirteenth Season DVD.

Trivia

General

• This is the third episode to have a circus play a major role in its plot after "Don't Feed the Clowns" and "Under the Small Top."
  • Coincidentally, "Under the Small Top" is another season 13 episode.
• This will be the first episode in the franchise to premiere on Halloween in the United States.
• This is the first episode for the opening credits to credit Ian Vazquez as a supervising director instead of a storyboard supervisor.
• The track "Broken Ride" returns after not being used for 11 years.

References

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