Fiasco!

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Characters

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Squidward Tentacles
• Patrick Star
• Gary The Snail
• Eugene H. Krabs
• Sheldon J. Plankton
• Fiasco
• Farfel Bainbridge ^(debut)
• Nancy Suzy Fish
• Officer John (brief cameo)
• Evelyn
• Billy (lime fish) (brief cameo)
• Patrick Star
• Gary
• Shelia (brief cameo)
• Squidward Tentacles
• Tom (brief cameo)
• Tommy (cameo)
• Fred (brief cameo)
• Vera (cameo)
• Buddy
• Old Man Jenkins (brief cameo)
• Dale
• Nat
• Harold
• Scotter Rechid
• Henry-Bart

Synopsis

The scene opens up with Patrick, dressed in a business suit, asking where he can get something to eat. Squidward walks in, and tells him the answer is before him: the Krusty Krab. Mr. Krabs, dressed in a leotard, jumps out of the Krusty Krab, and SpongeBob slides down a rainbow to his side, and Squidward, who rides a dolphin while holding a plate with Krabby Patties, which Patrick eats. Suddenly, SpongeBob describes Patrick's actions, then the scene turns to him and Mr. Krabs in front of a storyboard planned for a commercial. Mr. Krabs asks why he is in a leotard, and he says it is because he is the mascot. Mr. Krabs does not like this, and tears up the storyboard, telling him he needs a "masterpiece". Sad and sighing, he walks to Squidward's counter, sighing. When Squidward ignores him, he sighs repeatedly, each sigh more drawn-out than the one before, until Squidward gets so annoyed he asks what is troubling him. He tells him about his problems, but Squidward does not care. As he walks into the dining area, Squidward notices a patron squirting ketchup onto a pile of Krabby Patties.

The patron slaps the Krabby Patties off the plate. He asks Squidward for mustard, which he squirts onto a plate. When the patron leaves, Squidward looks at the plate and recognizes it as the art style of Fiasco. Mr. Krabs is about to throw it away when Squidward tells him it is actually a masterpiece. People run over to him, offering to buy it, but Mr. Krabs, seeing an opportunity to make money, tries to take the artwork from Squidward, and they argue over who really owns it. Just then, Farfel Bainbridge, an art evaluator, comes in and declares the work to be a national treasure, thus meaning neither Mr. Krabs nor Squidward own it. Mr. Krabs will allow people to view it in his restaurant free, provided they buy Krabby Patties (2 each).

Later, Plankton sees the artwork, and mistakes it for garbage. Planning to reverse-engineer the recipe, he steals it. Police officers immediately chased him. They dog him every step of the way, from a movie theater, a grocery store, and a satellite in space. When he loses them, he is baffled as to why police are chasing him, rather than Mr. Krabs. At night, he knocks on Patrick's rock, but when Patrick answers, he angrily tells him that he has a busy day of doing nothing tomorrow. Plankton goes to SpongeBob's house, using a spoon to hold SpongeBob and Gary hostage, and demands an explanation as to why the police are after him. SpongeBob explained that what he has stolen is in fact a work of art. Plankton gets the idea to sell the artwork, and declared SpongeBob and Gary to be accomplices to his crime. Patrick comes in, and yells at everyone for making so much noise as to keep him awake, while eating something.

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Patrick's Stomach.

SpongeBob asks what it is that Patrick ate, and Patrick reveals it was the artwork, which he mistook for hors d'oeuvres. Plankton declares him an accomplice as well. Suddenly, Squidward bursts in with the police, having called them because of all the noise. When they see Plankton, they immediately arrest him, along with Squidward and everyone else until they could figure this whole situation out. At the police station, Plankton is locked away. Gary, Patrick, and SpongeBob are free since Mr. Krabs explains they were not involved with the theft. However, since the artwork is now in Patrick's stomach, Mr. Krabs has him stand behind an X-Ray machine, which shows the artwork inside him. Fiasco is moved by Patrick's style, stating he will never make art again. The scene changes to show Squidward, behind bars, asking about his phone call.

Production

Music

( ‣ ) Production music

( • ) Original music

( ◦ ) SpongeBob music

 ‣ SpongeBob Theme - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton and Jeremy Wakefield [title card]
 ‣ Busy Life - Cedric King-Palmer [opening]
 • ? - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr [Mr. Krabs tells SpongeBob about the storyboard]
 • Steel Sting - Jeremy Wakefield [Mr. Krabs places SpongeBob near Squidward]
 • ? - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr [SpongeBob complains]
 ‣ Harp Ding - Nicolas Carr ["Great idea Squidward!"]
 • Steel Licks - Jeremy Wakefield ["Of course he actually has one."]
 ‣ ? [Fiasco making a messing plate]
 • Vibe Sting - Nicolas Carr ["What's this?"]
 ‣ ? [Squidward tells customers about Fiasco]
 • ? - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr ["Hold it!"]
 ‣ ? [Farfel tell the police to secure the art piece]
 ‣ Sailor's Sting 4 - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr [The customers line up]
 ‣ Cell 501 - Gerhard Trede [Plankton is showing spying]
 • ? - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr [Mr. Krabs sniffs money]
 ‣ Cloak and Dagger [#70] - Phill Green [Plankton runs away with the art]
 ‣ ? [Plankton hiding at Movie Theater]
 ‣ ? [police still chasing Plankton]
 ‣ ? [Plankton hiding at Market]
 ‣ ? [police still chasing Plankton again]
 ‣ Blue Danube Waltz - Johann Strauss [The police catch Plankton in outer space]
 ‣ ? [Plankton tried from chasing with the police]
 • Vibe Sting - Nicolas Carr ["Wait, what?"]
 ‣ ? [Plankton tell SpongeBob to hands in air and explain]
 ‣ Tympup B - Sammy Burdson and John Charles Fiddy [SpongeBob and Plankton gasp]
 • Hawaiian Sting - Nicolas Carr [SpongeBob and Plankton gasp]
 ‣ Cloak and Dagger [#70] - Phill Green ["Now Patrick is harboring stolen merchandise in his belly!"]
 ‣ The Mob - Nicolas Carr [The cops finally catch Plankton stealing the piece of art]
 ‣ Hawaiian Sting 13 - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Plankton gets put in jail]
 • ? - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr [ending]

Release

• This episode is available on The Complete 8th Season DVD.

Trivia

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• This is the first appearance of Fiasco. The second was in Are You Happy Now?.
• The Old Man Jenkins from My Pretty Seahorse makes a cameo.
• This is the third time Squidward goes to jail. The first was in Good Ol' Whatshisname, the second was Professor Squidward, and the fourth was Squid Defense.
• In this episode, Squidward was blamed in the most unfair, ridiculous way possible. He never did anything as a crime. In fact, he actually helped the police by turning in Plankton.
  • However, the police may have turn in Squidward for being a tattletale. Back in the episode Driven to Tears, when SpongeBob tried to tell on Patrick to the cops saying he was going over the speed limit, the police officer actually threatened to run SpongeBob in with him then saying "tattletale."
    • It is possible that Squidward’s arrest was for calling the police on SpongeBob and Patrick for nothing when it was Plankton they were after.
• When Plankton hides from the police in the movie theater, the movie that is playing is Goo Lagoon, which is a spoof of The Blue Lagoon.
• This is the fourth time Plankton goes to jail. The first was The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. The second was Krabby Road, and the third was Sweet and Sour Squid.
• This is another instance where Patrick does something stupid, which causes people to think he has artistic talent. A previous instance was The Googly Artiste, in which he simply glued Googly eyes onto rocks and other objects, which were considered great art.
• Mr. Krabs calls Farfel Bainbridge "Farkle".
• Patrick ate something he should not have before in Back to the Past; he ate the tartar sauce Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy were going to use against Man Ray, which allowed the villain to win, thus altering the future.
• Fiasco is a pun on Picasso.
• Plankton reveals that he has pollen allergies when he sneezed and said, "Blasted pollen allergies!"
• This is second time Plankton meets Gary. The first was in Shellback Shenanigans.

Errors

• Old Man Jenkins had two looks. First, when Plankton went in the store, and different when he left.
• Dale had a blue shirt, not a red one like the one he usually wears.
• Captions error: "artiste" misspelled as "Ar-teest".