Patrick-Mr. Krabs relationship

This article is about the interaction between Patrick and Mr. Krabs.

Overview

Patrick, in his esteem of eating, likes to eat Krabby Patties, which in several cases, benefits Mr. Krabs. Patrick is one the Krusty Krab's number-one customers from such cases. However, there have been episodes where Mr. Krabs is intolerant of Patrick's stupidity, as well as those where he tries to take advantage of him. Mr. Krabs also sells Patrick to Bubble Bass in "High Sea Diving." Overall though, despite this, Patrick considers Mr. Krabs as one of his friends.

Episodes as friends

Patrick and Mr. Krabs singing a Krusty Krab jingle.

• "One Krabs Trash": SpongeBob and Patrick stumble upon Krabs' antique sale. Patrick checks upon the toilet plunger, but Mr. Krabs reassures him that it is a ladle is. Patrick asks the cost, which Krabs tells him $5. Patrick pays him $7 and gets both the "ladel" and his underwear-attached lollipop.
• "Bummer Vacation": To save a dime, Mr. Krabs makes SpongeBob go on vacation and hires Patrick as his substitute. Patrick joyfully accepts this and Krabs defends his post from SpongeBob every time the latter decides to go back to work.
• "Chum Bucket Supreme": As the Krusty Krab is back in business at the end of the episode, Mr. Krabs tells Patrick to keep up the good work.
• "Truth or Square": Mr. Krabs hires Patrick as a bouncer to celebrate the Krusty Krab's 117th anniversary.
• "Food Con Castaways": At the beginning of the episode, Mr. Krabs calls Patrick "strong" and they also work together to prevent SpongeBob from eating their one Krabby Patty since Patrick ate all of their other ones. He eats it in the end, however.
• "Spot Returns": Patrick becomes Mr. Krabs' pet after being offered by SpongeBob.
• "The Patrick Show Sells Out": Mr. Krabs advertises on Patrick's show, and Patrick and Squidina let him do so. Patrick also participates in singing a Krusty Krab jingle with Mr. Krabs.

Episodes as enemies

• "Arrgh!": After overhearing the two about sharing when they find the Flying Dutchman's treasure, Mr. Krabs tells them that the treasure is all his. SpongeBob and Patrick reassure him that they found it together, demanding a share and they fight until they wake the Flying Dutchman.
• "Hooky": Even after Krabs tells them to never go on these hooks, Patrick had his fingers crossed and tells SpongeBob that Mr. Krabs is a big dummy, stating that playing on the hooks never got them injured and decide to continue. This gets him in a tuna can at the end of the episode.
• "Sailor Mouth": Upon hearing the two saying bad word #11, Krabs scolds them about it and tells them not to do it again, but once they end up doing so, Krabs punishes the pair by making them paint his mother's house from top to bottom. Unfortunately, after tripping his foot on a rock, he uses all 13 bad words assuming he doesn't care if he cusses or if SpongeBob and Patrick cuss. SpongeBob and Patrick then decide to snitch on Krabs to his mom, despite his pleas that she cannot take that kind of pressure.
• "Wet Painters": Mr. Krabs makes SpongeBob and Patrick paint his house white and if any of the paint gets on his dollar, he will mount their rear ends on his firesides, scaring them. However, in the end, the paint is revealed to be removable by saliva and Krabs tells them that he was just messing with them. SpongeBob and Patrick leave in a betrayed notion out of his house.
• "Pranks a Lot": SpongeBob and Patrick, still invisible from the Invisible Spray, try to haunt Mr. Krabs so they would have completed haunting everyone in Bikini Bottom. Krabs at first is unfazed by this, but the two manage to pressure him into being scared, gluing the doors shut, replacing the glass with rubber, and clogging the toilets. Once they tried to scorch his dollar, Krabs douses the fire, revealing SpongeBob and Patrick. While Krabs claims it was okay, he manages to prank them in retaliation, revealing their nudity to everyone they pranked, much to their embarrassment.
• "That's No Lady": After seeing Patrick as a female starfish named Patricia, Mr. Krabs develops a crush on him and does several dating offers. Eventually, Patrick becomes bothered, stating that these two were this nice to him as his actual self. Krabs and Squidward then continue offering him to which he says "no." Eventually, after SpongeBob mentions that Patricia is Patrick, the two become disgusted. As Patrick removes his disguise, Krabs fires him in slight scarred horror.
• "Rule of Dumb": After seeing that Patrick had been declared King of Bikini Bottom, Krabs, thinking that he's rich, lets Patrick eat at The Krusty Krab in hopes of getting a lot of money. However, Patrick reveals that as King of Bikini Bottom he is allowed to get anything he wants all for free. Krabs angrily kicks Patrick out and tells him no one eats at his restaurant for free, royalty or not.
• "Pat No Pay": After hearing that Patrick has no money to pay for a lot of Krabby Patties, Krabs then puts Patrick on labor. As Patrick kept on screwing up, Krabs then makes him throw garbage down and threatens him that he will never get another Krabby Patty, again if he screws that up. Patrick then works hard with SpongeBob's help, but misinterpreting Mr. Krabs' money bag as another garbage bag, he throws it down, clogging the shredder. Krabs checks up on Patrick, but the Krusty Krab is destroyed, his money is finally decimated in the intact disposal, and he gets angered by the dollar shreds.
• "No Hat for Pat": Patrick begs Mr. Krabs to hire him so he can get a hat. Krabs reluctantly agrees right after seeing him fall which amused customers. After Krabs gave him his hat, Patrick keeps falling. Eventually, SpongeBob becomes worried about this. During the climax, Krabs then increases the level of injury to Patrick to a diving board with a bucket of sea urchins. As Patrick tries to dive with his hat off, Krabs complains to Patrick about this. However, in the end, Patrick realizes that the hat makes him top-heavy, and with only Squidward injured, the customers assault Mr. Krabs for a refund. Krabs then harshly fires Patrick, stating that as long as he is still around, he will never let him wear this hat.
• "Restraining SpongeBob": Mr. Krabs yelled at Patrick for bothering Squidward, called him an idiot and yelled at him to get back to work.
• The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water: During the end credits, Mr. Krabs pulls Patrick's wallet out of his pocket.
• "What's Eating Patrick?" Mr. Krabs forced Patrick to participate in the Krabby Patty eating contest and deprived him of tasting the patties during training. After Patrick said he didn't want to be in the contest any more because of his taste buds, Mr. Krabs gave him a bill for all the Krabby Patties he ate during training and tells him they will become plain eating patties if he quit, much to Patrick's displeasure.
• "Patrick's Coupon" Mr. Krabs takes advantage of Patrick's dim-wittedness and tries to con him out of his coupon, only to be stopped by Squidward.
• "Pat the Horse" When Patrick decides to be a horse, Mr. Krabs saw this as an opportunity to make money, and he charged kids $10 to ride Patrick. He also challenged him and SpongeBob to a dangerous horse race against him and Squidward, and he tried to stop Patrick from winning the race in a bunch of deadly attempts. At the end of the episode, Patrick decides to be a crab and steals Mr. Krabs's arms.
• "High Sea Diving": Bubble Bass rips off Patrick's arm, and Mr. Krabs sells him for ten dollars.
• "Plankton Paranoia": Due to his mentally insane behavior, Mr. Krabs came to the conclusion that Patrick was secretly working for Plankton. In the end, it turns out that he, along with and the rest of the gang were planning a surprise party for him. Mr. Krabs felt remorseful for his actions and apologized to his friends for banning them in the first place.
• The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie: Mr. Krabs chokes Patrick for making King Neptune reduce the number of days SpongeBob had to retrieve the royal crown.

Episodes where Patrick eats at the Krusty Krab

• "Help Wanted"
• "Your Shoe's Untied"
• "Pressure"
• "Sandy, SpongeBob, and the Worm"
• "Krusty Krab Training Video"
• "Rule of Dumb"
• "Money Talks"
• "SpongeBob vs. The Patty Gadget"
• "Pat No Pay"
• "Greasy Buffoons"
• "Yours, Mine and Mine"
• "The Executive Treatment"
• "What's Eating Patrick?"
• "The Whole Tooth"
• "Mermaid Pants"
• "Larry the Floor Manager"
• "Stuck on the Roof"
• "Patnocchio"
• "Plankton Paranoia"
• "The Night Patty"
• "My Two Krabses"
• "Delivery to Monster Island"
• "Kitchen Sponge"

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