Bossy Boots

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Characters

• Sea urchins
• Eugene H. Krabs
• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Squidward Tentacles
• Pearl Krabs
• Barnacle ^(mentioned)
• Skeleton
• Brain Crab Creature ^(debut)
• Fred
• Jennifer-Millie
• Officer Rob
• Paco
• Shelia
• Molly
• Shelly Fishbowl ^(debut)
• Monkey (Head as a Pillow; Stuffed Animal)
• Archie ^(cameo)
• Debbie Rechid ^(cameo)
• Nazz-Mimi ^(cameo)
• Nancy Suzy Fish ^(cameo)
• Cara ^(cameo)
• Giraffe (Stuffed Animal)
• Bear (Stuffed Animals)
• Octopus (Stuffed Animal)
• Davy Jones ^(mentioned)
• Jimmy Gus ^(cameo)
• Franco
• John
• Sea Unicorn (in picture)
• Rabbit (Stuffed Animal)
• Spider
• Gary the Snail ^(cameo)

Synopsis

At the Krusty Krab, Mr. Krabs is holding a meeting, saying that Pearl is going to be working at the Krusty Krab during her Summer vacation and that she has lots of new ideas to help improve profits for the restaurant. Pearl immediately arrives, and Mr. Krabs comes out of the office to greet her. Squidward does not like the idea of being told what to do by a teenager, and he and SpongeBob agree to stand up to her to protect their jobs, but SpongeBob quickly falls through on this, and loves the flamboyant new uniform that Pearl gives them. After exchanging many ideas, Pearl and SpongeBob agree to turn the Krusty Krab into the "Kuddly Krab," and from a restaurant into a teen hangout cafe. This gets Squidward frustrated and shakes the sign, while two spouses on a car surprised the Krusty Krab is gone, and thinking Squidward is a woman asking him where to eat. This rages Squidward to quit, rips his costume off leaving him naked, a police officer makes a note and puts it on Squidward as a loincloth.

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The Kuddly Krab quickly becomes a hit, but when SpongeBob is told to make a salad, which he has never heard of, he makes a Krabby Patty and shows it to Pearl. She tells him to take off the buns and the patty, leaving only tomatoes and lettuce. Upon returning to the kitchen, SpongeBob is horrified to see that his stove is gone. Pearl explains to him that Krabby Patties are no longer "hip," and that they now serve only tea and salad.

SpongeBob goes into Mr. Krabs' office to complain, and Mr. Krabs admits that they are indeed causing the restaurant to lose money. He agrees that Pearl has to be fired, but can't bring himself to actually fire his own daughter, and asks SpongeBob to fire her for him ("It's okay if she hates you!"). When SpongeBob calls Pearl into the kitchen to fire her, Pearl starts crying and reveals the truth to SpongeBob: she hates working at the Krusty Krab and has been trying to get herself fired since the beginning, but did the job anyway to please her father. After hearing this, SpongeBob comes up with an idea and he and Pearl stage her being fired outside of Mr. Krabs' office. Mr. Krabs hears this from his office and, not knowing that Pearl and SpongeBob are simply acting it out and not being serious, keeps having a fight with himself on whether to go with it or stop SpongeBob, and has a heart attack upon hearing Pearl being fired after shouting at SpongeBob to get on with it because of his empty safe.

Pearl thanks SpongeBob and kisses him on the cheek for helping her, and then she goes to hang out at the mall with her friends. After Pearl leaves, SpongeBob enters Mr. Krabs' office to report his success, and sees him passed out on the floor. He revives him with a twenty dollar bill, and Mr. Krabs is initially mad at SpongeBob for what he did, but SpongeBob assures him that Pearl's happy with her life outside of the family business. However, Mr. Krabs does not know how to get his money back for the Kuddly Krab's decorations, and SpongeBob buys it all for one year's salary.

Production

Music

( ‣ ) Production music

( • ) Original music

( ◦ ) SpongeBob music

 ‣ Moloka'i Nui A - Kapono Beamer [title card]
 ‣ The Tip Top Polka/The Cliff Polka - Chelmsford Folk Band [opening]
 ‣ Romeo & Juliet Overture - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Fiachra Trench ["The new spatulas are here!"]
 ‣ Family Tales H - Peter Balding, Otto Sieben [teaching Pearl how to breach]
 ‣ Vibe Link (b) - Richard Myhill ["Hello? Daddy!"]
 ‣ Heavy Footsteps (a) - Paddy Kingsland ["SpongeBob, do you realize what this means?"]
 ‣ The Rake Hornpipe - Robert Alexander White ["Say hello to me Pearl!"]
 ‣ Furtive Footsteps - Paddy Kingsland [new Krusty Krew uniform]
 ‣ Orchestral Ending (d) - Dick Stephen Walter ["This is the greatest uniform ever!"]
 • Twelfth Street Rag - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield ["Oh, SpongeBob, you look so adorable."]
 ‣ On the Beach - Kapono Beamer [Squidward wearing the new uniform]
 ‣ Harp Ding - Nicolas Carr ["Me? Really?"]
 ‣ Gorgeous Girl - Kurt Schick [coming up with new names for the Krusty Krab]
 ‣ Short Fanfare [#29.02] - Alfred Kluten [The King Krab]
 ‣ Conga [#61] - Sammy Burdson [The Kool Krab]
 ‣ ? [The Kowboy Krab]
 ‣ ? [The Kurly Krab]
 ‣ Creepy Sting 5 - W. Merrick Farran [The Kreepy Krab]
 ‣ Shock Horror (a) - Dick Stephen Walter [The Killer Krab]
 ‣ Hawaiian Link (b) - Richard Myhill [The Kuddly Krab]
 ‣ Steel Licks (f) - Jeremy Wakefield [Squidward rips the uniform off]
 • Bossy Boots - The Capsules [inside the Kuddly Krab]
 ‣ Aloha - Dick Stephen Walter ["Okay, no buns."]
 ‣ Lovely Scenery C - Mladen Franko [the grill's gone]
 ‣ Hawaiian Link (a) - Richard Myhill [SpongeBob in a crab costume]
 ‣ Stiff Upper Lip - Paddy Kingsland ["I'm a fry cook, darn it!"]
 ‣ Kids Up and Go (b) - Steve Sidwell [inside Krabs' office]
 ‣ What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor - Okko Bekker* [sea unicorn wall hangers]
 ‣ Botany Bay (b) - Robert Alexander White ["It's losing money!"]
 • Vibe Sting - Nicolas Carr ["That's it, boy!"]
 • Bossy Boots - The Capsules ["Totally rude, SpongeBob."]
 ‣ Vibe Link (a) - Richard Myhill ["How am I gonna break it to her?"]
 ‣ Kaili Aloha - George de Fretes [Pearl cries]
 ‣ Orchestral Effect (f) - Dick Stephen Walter ["I've got it!"]
 ‣ Hawaiian Link (b) - Richard Myhill [later...]
 ‣ Action Cut A - Gregor F. Narholz [SpongeBob pretending to fire Pearl]
 • Bossy Boots - The Capsules ["Come on, gang, the mall waits!"]
 ‣ House of Horror - W. Merrick Farran [SpongeBob screams]
 ‣ Hawaiian Breeze - Jon Jelmer ["How could we have done such a thing to me own flesh and blood?"]
 ‣ Vibe Q Sting - Nicolas Carr ["Hmm..."]
 • Bossy Boots - The Capsules [ending]

*removed from APM site

Release

• This episode is available on the Tide and Seek, Complete 2nd Season, First 100 Episodes, and SpongeBob, You're Fired! DVDs.

Reception

• "Bossy Boots" was ranked #93 during the Best Day Ever event from November 9–10, 2006.

Trivia

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• This episode has been mistaken as "Squeaky Boots" by some fans.
• This episode was originally called "Working Pearl," but was later changed to this title. Comcast still lists the original title, and DirecTV originally used it too, but it was soon changed to this title. During the Best Day Ever marathon, it was referred to the original title by Patchy the Pirate.
• This is the second episode with the word "Boots" in the title. The first was "Squeaky Boots."
  • Because many fans has actually get the plot of these episodes mixed up thinking 1 is the other.
  • Both episodes feature Mr. Krabs, SpongeBob & Pearl as characters.
• The ideas Pearl & SpongeBob come up for the new Krusty Krab are:
  • Pearl: The Kutie Krab
  • Pearl: The Kooky Krab (The word "Kooky" is a parody of Nick Jr.'s Wow Wow Wubbzy gag "That's Kooky.")
  • SpongeBob: The Khaotic Krab (The word "Khaotic" is a parody of the TV series Chaotic.)
  • Pearl: The Kissy Krab (The word "Kissy" is a reference to Kissy (the Kissing Fish) from the 2005 animated feature Romeo & Juliet: Sealed with a Kiss.)
  • SpongeBob: The King Krab
  • Pearl: The Kandy Krab
  • SpongeBob: The Kool Krab
  • SpongeBob: The Kowboy Krab
  • SpongeBob: The Kurly Krab
  • SpongeBob: The Kreepy Krab
  • SpongeBob: The Killer Krab (Pearl got scared by this one)
  • Both: The Kuddly Krab (They used this one)
• When Jimmy drives by SpongeBob and then insults him, he is also insulting himself because he says "... I was just on my way to the big doofus convention!". This means that if he was on his way to the convention, he would be a doofus as well.
• All-caps captioning ceased until "Best Day Ever" when they went back to all-caps captioning. However, every episode from "Help Wanted" to this had text in explanation brackets in non-caps to make it stand out, and then, as of "Best Day Ever," the text in explanation brackets are in all-caps. These days, when it comes to captioning on "SpongeBob," the captions don't put text in explanation brackets in all-caps to make it stand out.
• This is the first time SpongeBob's grill is removed. The second was "Krusty Dogs." Pearl did it this time, Mr. Krabs did it in the letter.
• This is the second episode to feature Chrome. The first is "SB-129."
• In Polish, this episode titled Nowa szefowa (A New Manageress).

Errors

• When SpongeBob and Squidward are in Mr. Krabs' office his door has a porthole window, but when he leaves and they're shaking hands, the porthole is gone and there's a life ring instead.
• When Squidward is outside after SpongeBob & Pearl go inside, a car seen beside Krusty Krab. When Squidward shakes The Kuddly Krab sign, it disappears.
• When SpongeBob walks into the kitchen to fire Pearl, on a close-up on his face, he's missing his K's on his uniform.
• In captioning, "Krabby Patty " is written "Crabby Patty."
• When SpongeBob bumps into Pearl, her eyes are black.
• SpongeBob's sleeves are gone during one shot of the new menu.
• The "K"s on Mr. Krabs new uniform are rounded, but when it zooms in to the scene of him lying on the floor, they are straight.
• Fred's voice sounds a lot older than other episodes.
• In 1 of the final shots, SpongeBob's house is shown, but not Squidward's.
• When Pearl said to SpongeBob, "SpongeBob, order up!," captions said "Order up!."
• When SpongeBob is in Mr. Krabs' office he said, "Sure Mr. Krabs, but I've got some bad news," captions said "I've got some bad news."
• When Mr. Krabs tells SpongeBob and Squidward to get to his office, at the end, there is the noise that a walkie talkie or electronic megaphone makes before and after one talks into it. However, Mr. Krabs was using an non-electronic megaphone.
• When SpongeBob knocks on Mr. Krabs' office door, the knock sounds like a knock from a wooden door instead of a metal door.
• When SpongeBob enters the Kuddly Krab office, the Sea Unicorn has a horn, but when Mr. Krabs points it out, the horn is gone. It then returns when Mr. Krabs is crying on his desk.