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SpongeBob SquarePants episode
"Friend or Foe"
Chronology
Information
Season №: 5
Episode №: 81
Airdate: April 13, 2007 [1]
February 11, 2007 (Turkey)
May 14, 2007 (Latin America)
June 15, 2008 (UK)
Credits
Cast: Tom Kenny (SpongeBob/Patchy the Pirate/Kid #2/Kid #5)
Clancy Brown (Mr. Krabs)
Rodger Bumpass (Squidward)
Doug Lawrence (Plankton/Kid #4/Kid #5)
Bill Fagerbakke (Mr. Pirateson)
Dee Bradley Baker (Kid #1/Old Man Jenkins/Male #1/Kid #3)
Sirena Irwin (Kid #2/Kid #3/Mama Krabs)
Thomas F. Wilson (Stinky)
Jill Talley (Karen/Girl Fish/Customer)
Paul Tibbitt (Gorilla/Potty the Parrot)
Guest(s): None
Writer(s): Casey Alexander
Steven Banks
Zeus Cervas
Tim Hill
Dani Michaeli
Mike Mitchell
Paul Tibbitt
Supervising Producer: Paul Tibbitt
Directors
Main: Mike Mitchell
Storyboard: Casey Alexander
Zeus Cervas
Mike Mitchell
Animation: Alan Smart
Tom Yasumi
Technical: Vincent Waller
Episode List
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Friend or Foe is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season five. It is a double length episode, and a special event, called the "Foedown" occurred at Nickelodeon Hotel Suites leading up to the premiere. Burger King had a toy promotion to tie in with the episode.

Brief Summary: SpongeBob learns the origins of Mr. Krabs and Plankton's rivalry.

Characters (Patchy episode):

Characters (SpongeBob episode):

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Plots

Patchy episode

Patchy and Potty are working at a restaurant called "Poop Deck", hoping to be just like SpongeBob. Patchy has new ideas which Potty disagrees with, and after an argument with Potty, Patchy ends their friendship and goes home. He compares himself and Potty to Mr. Krabs and Plankton, starting the SpongeBob Plot.

Later, Potty appears to Patchy and tells him that he is now assistant manager. The two get into another argument, and Patchy starts throwing patties at Potty, but they keep missing, and one eventually hits Mr. Pirateson, the Owner of Poop Deck. Patchy then tells the viewers to watch the rest of the SpongeBob episode while he watches Potty get fired.

After the SpongeBob episode is over, Patchy claims he took some time off, but Potty then tells the viewers that Patchy actually got fired, and Patchy gets back at Potty by saying that he got fired too, which is also true (but Potty also got a golden parachute). Patchy then says that they cannot replace him, but Potty tells him that they already did. When Patchy finds out that he's been replaced by a gorilla, he calls it a "smelly, hairy fleabag" which the gorilla responds to by throwing patties at Patchy. The episode then ends.

SpongeBob episode

After yet another attack on the Krusty Krab by Plankton, SpongeBob asks Mr. Krabs why they hate each other so much. Mr. Krabs tells his side of the story, in a series of flashbacks:

Mr. Krabs and Plankton were best friends from birth, and did everything together. Both were outcasts, Plankton being a nerd and Krabs (ironically) being extremely poor. One day Krabs finds a penny at the carnival, his first exposure to money, which he spends on a balloon for Plankton. Later, they get enough money to buy a burger from Stinky's Burgers, which, despite having horrible food and literally being located in a dump, is very popular among the local children due to being the only place in town to get a burger. Mr. Stinky refuses to serve them, saying that freaks like them are bad for business, and tells them to "wait" at the back of the building. There, they witness Stinky retiring, having made millions from the stand. Plankton and Krabs decide to go into the burger business themselves, and create their own burger, but no one wants to try it. When Stinky's is closed by the local health department, the two open "Plabs Burgers" on his former site, which the children are now forced to eat at, despite it being even worse than Stinky's.

Plankton says that they are now ruling the stomachs of the children, and soon will be ruling their brains. Mr. Krabs argues that it should be about satisfying the customers, rather than power. Soon they get into an argument, and Krabs is ejected into a dump pile and tells Plankton that he will one day regret this.

Plankton comes in and disagrees with Mr. Krabs' story and tells SpongeBob his own version. His story is the same as Mr. Krabs', except that their roles during the fight at the end are reversed, with Krabs wanting to rule the money of the children.

Plankton and Krabs begin arguing about the story, until Karen arrives and tells the real story:

The restaurant initially has no customers, and Old Man Jenkins is the first to try one of their burgers. Upon taking a bite, he smiles, then collapses, having been knocked out by the patty. Krabs and Plankton become angry and accuse each other of tainting the patty. They begin fighting over the recipe, eventually tearing it in two, with Plankton getting the bottom half, which says "...and a pinch of chum." Their friendship over, Plankton storms out to pursue his own career in food. However, during the struggle, a shelf was knocked down, dumping various ingredients into the patty batter, creating the Krabby Patty recipe, which Krabs is left with. The two go their separate ways, each trying to open their own establishment. Mr. Krabs' "Krabby Patty" is great, while Plankton's Chum Burger is horrible.

After hearing the story, Plankton and Krabs begin to make up, until Plankton takes the formula from him pocket. The two start chasing after each other, and the episode ends.

Transcript

Main article: Friend or Foe (transcript)


Trivia/Goofs

  • This is the second episode to have characters in the title card. The first one was the "Krabby Kronicle", the third one was "What Ever Happened To Spongebob?", and the fourth one was "The Two Faces Of Squidward".
  • It is revealed that Plankton and Mr. Krabs were born on the same day.
    • Poseidon Elementary us based on the fictional ocean liner, SS Poseidon and the ancient Greek god of the sea.
  • When Old Man Jenkins first appears in the episode, he has green skin with a red hat. But when he tries the new burger, his skin is tan with a blue and white striped hat.
  • When Plankton and Mr. Krabs were children and friends, Mr. Krabs sold Krabby Patties for $1.00.
  • The first time Mr. Pirateson (Bill Fagerbakke) appears he has 2 hooks, but later he has only one hook.
  • In the flashbacks, Mr. Krabs' eyelashes dissapear a few times in the course of the episode, including when he and Plankton look in the oven when making their burger.
  • Mr. Krabs is portrayed as rich when he was young in "Krusty Krab Training Video", but in this episode he is very poor. Maybe it was after when Mr. Krabs' alias as Rag Boy ended when he got rich.
  • In this episode, Mr. Krabs and Plankton supposedly made the krabby patty together, but in "Enemy In-Law" Mr. Krabs says the recipe was passed down from his mother.
  • This is the last Patchy special until "Shadow".
  • Plankton breaks the fourth wall by talking to the French Narrator at the end of the episode.
  • Plankton and Mr. Krabs' friendship that turned them into arch-enemies in good and evil is similar to the Transformers' universe story, where Optimus Prime & Megatron used to care for each other as brothers but Megatron betrayed Optimus Prime and they both formed different teams of good and evil. Plankton betrays Mr. Krabs in good and evil too.

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