Encyclopedia SpongeBobia
Register
Encyclopedia SpongeBobia
Tag: rte-source
mNo edit summary
Tag: rte-wysiwyg
Line 58: Line 58:
 
*Many months later
 
*Many months later
 
*So much later that the old narrator got tired of waiting, and they had to hire a new one.
 
*So much later that the old narrator got tired of waiting, and they had to hire a new one.
  +
|timedate = *Course of the episode takes place longer than a year
|timedate = *After "[[Help Wanted]]", "[[Squid's Visit]]", "[[Christmas Who?]]", and "[[Krusty Krab Training Video]]"
+
*After "[[Help Wanted]]", "[[Squid's Visit]]", "[[Christmas Who?]]", and "[[Krusty Krab Training Video]]"
*Every other episode where Squidward has his job takes place before or after this episode.
+
*Every other episode where Squidward has his job takes place before or after this episode.}}
}}
 
 
*This is the first time the time card sequence broke the fourth wall. The second is "[[Wet Painters]]" when [[Patrick Star|Patrick]] ran out of cards. This one said: "So much later that the [[French Narrator|old narrator]] got tired of waiting, and they had to hire a new one."
 
*This is the first time the time card sequence broke the fourth wall. The second is "[[Wet Painters]]" when [[Patrick Star|Patrick]] ran out of cards. This one said: "So much later that the [[French Narrator|old narrator]] got tired of waiting, and they had to hire a new one."
 
*This is the second episode where [[SpongeBob SquarePants (character)|SpongeBob]] uses "crustaceous cheapskate" on Mr. Krabs. The first one was "[[Pickles]]," though in a desperate sense rather than an angry one.
 
*This is the second episode where [[SpongeBob SquarePants (character)|SpongeBob]] uses "crustaceous cheapskate" on Mr. Krabs. The first one was "[[Pickles]]," though in a desperate sense rather than an angry one.

Revision as of 15:30, 21 March 2016

Template:Episode/47b

Characters

Synopsis

Can You Spare a Dime? 42

Squidward in his cardboard-box shelter

When Mr. Krabs' first dime goes missing, he accuses Squidward of stealing it. After a heated argument with his boss, Squidward quits his job. SpongeBob meets Squidward outside of the restaurant, trying to convince Squidward otherwise. Eventually, after hearing of Squidward's great ambitions, SpongeBob leaves him be, insisting that if Squidward ever needs anything, he can seek help from him.

Time passes, and SpongeBob encounters Squidward again. Squidward is now homeless and begging for spare change, living in a cardboard box on the streets. Squidward, unable to find a new job has lost everything, and even his cardboard box is repurposed. SpongeBob takes Squidward into his own home in order to nurse him until he can look for a new job. One night, Squidward keeps on calling SpongeBob for various minute reasons each time, which ends with SpongeBob falling down the stairs. Gary tries to tell SpongeBob that Squidward is taking advantage of him, but SpongeBob is in denial.

Many months later (up to the point where time cards fly so much that the French Narrator gets tired of waiting and the producers are forced to hire a new one), Squidward has become completely dependent upon SpongeBob, turning him into a manservant of many sorts (he is even forced to wear a French maid outfit). SpongeBob is finally beginning to lose his patience, conveying several less-than-subtle hints to Squidward in order to push him towards finding work (for example, when serving Squidward a bowl of alphabet soup, SpongeBob arranges the letters to read "GET A JOB").

These hints are of no use, so when SpongeBob tries to make it as simple as he can by actually talking and not using hints, and Squidward still doesn't notice. Fed up, SpongeBob actually takes the bed Squidward is lying on, pushes it through the upstairs wall all the way to the Krusty Krab, and tries to convince Mr. Krabs to give Squidward his old job back. Mr. Krabs refuses, even after SpongeBob offers him more than just one dime, causing the latter to finally snap, grabbing Mr Krabs by the throat and yelling at him about how ridiculous the situation is, until he finds that his first dime (a large coin-shaped rock; Mr. Krabs explains that he has "been in business for a long time") was in his pocket the whole time. He restores Squidward's position, but then claims that it was Squidward who placed the dime in his pocket, beginning a new dispute. SpongeBob is shown putting on his maid outfit while the two are still arguing, anticipating the inevitable.

Can You Spare a Dime? 63


Production

Music

 ) Production music
 ) Original music
 ) SpongeBob music

  Puka A - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [title card]
  The Rake Hornpipe - Robert Alexander White [closing time]
  Tympup A - Sammy Burdson, John Charles Fiddy ["Where is it?"]
  Dramatic Cue (e) - Ronald Hanmer [Krabs' first dime is missing]
  Torn Apart - Mike Sunderland [Krabs holds up Interpretive Dance Quarterlies]
  Dramatic Climax (Mike Sunderland) - Mike Sunderland [Krabs accuses Squidward of stealing the dime]
  Stepping Into Danger - Mike Sunderland [Squidward quits]
  Harp Ding - Nicolas Carr ["Cookies!"]
  Space Critters A - Gregor F. Narholz [conjoined heart]
  World of Sport - Don Harper ["I could be a football player, or a king, or a spaceman."]
  Drowsy Reef - Jeremy Wakefield, Sage Guyton [Squidward homeless]
  Lonely Violin - Dick Stephen Walter [Squidward crying]
  Hawaiian Breeze - Jon Jelmer [Squidward at SpongeBob's house]
  Break-Thru - Gary Mills [SpongeBob taking care of Squidward]
  On the Beach - Kapono Beamer [three weeks later]
  Hawaiian Link (b) - Richard Myhill ["It's about time you got here!"]
  Lonely Heart's Club (a) - David Bell, Otto Sieben ["That's two things in this house that won't work."]
  Tomfoolery - David Snell [puppet show]
  The Tip Top Polka/The Cliff Polka - Chelmsford Folk Band [Krabs on the phone]
  I'll Never Fall in Love Again B - Paul Lenart, Bill Novick [Krabs' first dime]
  On the Beach - Kapono Beamer [ending]

Release

Trivia

Template:Trivia

  • This is the first time the time card sequence broke the fourth wall. The second is "Wet Painters" when Patrick ran out of cards. This one said: "So much later that the old narrator got tired of waiting, and they had to hire a new one."
  • This is the second episode where SpongeBob uses "crustaceous cheapskate" on Mr. Krabs. The first one was "Pickles," though in a desperate sense rather than an angry one.
  • This is one of four episodes to end in a question mark. The others are "Are You Happy Now?," "What's Eating Patrick?," "Christmas Who?," and "What Ever Happened to SpongeBob?"
  • This is one of the rare times when SpongeBob has expressed true anger at Mr. Krabs, as he did that by calling him a cheapskate and even grabbing him by the neck and choking him.
  • Running Gag: Mr. Krabs keeps accusing Squidward of something minor; SpongeBob doing what Squidward tells him to do.
  • The New Narrator is voiced by Dee Bradley Baker, who provides the voice of Squilliam Fancyson and many other characters on the show.
  • Squidward becomes obsessive-compulsive, especially when he fussed about the number of seeds he wanted in a lemon.
  • Coincidentally enough, "Idiot Box" aired one week before this episode did, and both episodes involve Squidward and a large box: In "Idiot Box," SpongeBob and Patrick buy a new TV set just so they could play with the box it came in, and Squidward eventually goes inside to play with it. This episode, Squidward ends up living in a box after he loses his home.
  • This title card background is similar to "Opposite Day."
  • Mr. Krabs dime was actually used as real currency in some parts of the world very long ago. However, these pieces of currency weren't the size of Mr. Krabs. They looked like a modern dime does and were not as big.
  • Odd that Mr. Krabs's first dime resembles "cavemen currency" as he states he has been in the business a long time. However, in the much later episode "Friend or Foe," Mr. Krabs sold his first Krabby Patty and received modern money.
    • He maybe was taking the 'first dime' thing literally if it was a very first dime or so.
  • When SpongeBob was delivering lemonade to Squidward, there was a picture of his pineapple and what it seems to be a portrait of Squidward. If you look very closely, there is also a photo that looks like Patrick.
  • When Mr. Krabs checked his register, he mentioned "applesauce," which is not even kept in the register. It's likely a mnemonic device, in which words are used to help him remember how to count his money.
  • Squidward says he is allergic to newsprint, but he has been seen reading the paper in other episodes. He may have been taking allergy medicine in the other episodes or he might have delevoped the allergy later in life. Although, it could have just been an excuse for him to not read the Job ads.
  • Squidward says he can't eat anything with an odd number because the lemon had three seeds in it.
  • SpongeBob's maid outfit appears again in "House Sittin' for Sandy."
  • As it was made apparent that Squidward hadn't left SpongeBob's house in "many months" or hadn't seen Mr. Krabs since he quit his job at the Krusty Krab, it could be presumed that either SpongeBob, Patrick (who has occasionally worked at the Krusty Krab) or someone else took Squidward's place as cashier.
  • In Indonesia, Mr. Krabs didn't say "One, you stole it; Two, Ya stole it; Or three, YOU STOLE IT!" Despite, he says "One, you stole it; Two, We stole it; Or three, YOU STOLE IT!"
  • This episode premiered one year after the premiere of Pressure and The Smoking Peanut.

Cultural references

  • Mr. Krabs' dime is a real form of currency called a Rai Stone. They were used by Pacific Islanders and some weigh several tons, so the dime that Krabs had was realistic in scale. The Stone Age natives lacked the resources to create other alternatives to this currency. And since it weighs so much, Squidward couldn't possibly even *move* the dime, let alone steal it.
  • When Mr. Krabs asks if Squidward's willing to swear "on a stack of Interpretive Dance Quarterlies," it's a reference to "swearing on a stack of Bibles," which means to be completely honest and tell the whole truth.
  • The episode name comes from the 1930s song Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?.

Errors

  • The boat disappeared while Mr. Krabs and Squidward were shaking hands.
  • After Squidward threw the soup, the blanket was pink.
  • The TV had a background, but when it showed SpongeBob, there was no background.
  • Squidward has no fingers, but when he squeezed Mr. Krab's eyes, it left a pattern like a human hand had squeezed them.
  • After Squidward claimed that he ate his paintings, we see one of them in his stomach. However, in the next scene, his body is back to regular.
  • SpongeBob was able to strangle Mr. Krabs and choke him out of rage, but Mr. Krabs has a shell, so SpongeBob shouldn't have been able to choke him.
  • Mr. Krabs says he keeps his special dime at the back of the register, though it cannot fit in the register, due to its size.
  • Squidward says there's three seeds in the lemon, but when it has a close-up shot of it, it appears to have two seeds.
  • When SpongeBob finished polishing Squidward's bald head, the holes in Squidward's head were missing, but they re-appeared when a back view of his head was shown.
  • SpongeBob claimed Squidward to have green skin when, however, his skin is actually light blue.
  • When SpongeBob goes to get Squidward's soup, he is wearing the maid suit, but when he comes back, he is wearing his normal clothes. However, he might have taken maid suit off.
  • SpongeBob, in this episode, is more aggressive than weak.
  • When Squidward claims that 4:00 clock is time for his "stories," it's nighttime, but in the next scene, when SpongeBob pushes the bed Squidward was sleeping in out of the side of his house, it's already daytime.
  • When SpongeBob's foghorn blows away at 4:00, it reads 11:40.
  • In the puppet show on SpongeBob's handmade TV, the green shirtless puppet's mouth changed to an open mouth, and then back to a closed mouth when the camera view was changed.
  • When SpongeBob cracked from anger and grabbed Mr. Krabs's neck right above his shirt so he can strangle him as revenge, it is shown that his two thumbs on each hand had penetrated right through Mr. Krabs' neck.
Wikipedia logo This page uses content from Wikipedia (originalauthors). Both Encyclopedia SpongeBobia and Wikipedia are licensed under the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported license.