Friend or Foe

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Characters

Synopsis

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 When Patchy finds out that he's been replaced by a gorilla, he calls it a "smelly, hairy fleabag" which the gorilla responds to by throwing patties at Patchy.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.

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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 Mr. 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 and apologize, until Plankton takes the formula from his pocket. SpongeBob and Krabs start chasing Karen and Plankton in circles as the episode ends.

Production

Art

Music

( ‣ ) Production music
( • ) Original music
( ◦ ) SpongeBob music

‣ Er Indoors - Johnny Hawksworth [Patchy flipping burgers]
‣ Clarion Call - Eric Winstone ["Just like our hero, SpongeBob SquarePants!"]
‣ Tripping Upstairs - Brian Peters [Patchy's boss]
‣ Bell Hop (a) - John Shakespeare [new pirate patties]
‣ Sailor's Sting 7 - Michael Bolger, Brain Peters [The Patchy Patty]
‣ Of Love and Destiny - Leighton Lucas ["You are never supportive of me!"]
‣ Botany Bay (b) - Robert Alexander White [Patchy crying]
• Hawaiian Trax - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [title card]
• Vibe Q Sting - Nicolas Carr [birthday cake]
‣ Steel Licks (a) - Jeremy Wakefield ["For me?"]
• Steel Licks - Jeremy Wakefield ["Don't you find this a tad suspicious?"]
‣ Against the Law (c) - Wilfred William Burns [Plankton pops out of the cake]
‣ Blondes and Bullets (a) - Ron Goodwin ["Don't forget your condiments, Plankton!"]
‣ Crime Doesn't Pay - Jack Beaver ["You'll rue the day we were born, Krabs!"]
‣ Hawaiian Cocktail - Richard Myhill ["Why, Mr. Krabs?!"]
‣ Fates - Gregor F. Narholz [Krabs says he and Plankton used to be best friends]
‣ Musical Box (a) - Dave Hewson ["Even as wee ones."]
‣ Willy Nilly - Cyril Watters [Krabs and Plankton in grade school]
‣ The Dreadnought Tea Clipper (b) - Tim Laycock, Robert Alexander White ["Darn tootin'!"]
‣ Lonely Violin - Dick Stephen Walter ["I did get me clothes from the trash."]
‣ Mississippi Blues - Saul Broudy, Zan S. Mc Leod [Krabs' mom making him an outfit]
‣ ? ["Oops, I missed a spot."]
‣ Roses from the South - Johann Strauss Jr, George Wilson [Krabs and Plankton at the carnival]
‣ Drama Link (d) - Hubert Clifford ["What in Neptune's name is that?!"]
‣ Heavenly Voices (b) - David Farnon [choir]
‣ Roses from the South - Johann Strauss Jr, George Wilson [Krabs buys Plankton a balloon]
‣ Beach Party - Harry Bluestone [exterior of Stinky Burgers]
‣ Lonely Heart's Club (a) - David Bell, Otto Sieben ["Valuable customers coming through."]
‣ Long Way Home - Gregor F. Narholz [Stinky's speech]
‣ Sailor's Sting 6 - Nicolas Carr, Robert Alexander White [Stinky refuses to serve Krabs and Plankton]
‣ Organ a Go Go - Syd Dale [quitting time]
‣ Sailor's Sting 6 - Nicolas Carr, Robert Alexander White ["Did you hear that, Krabs?"]
‣ Drama Link (h) - Hubert Clifford ["Who needs skill when science is on your side?"]
‣ Terror by Night - Hubert Clifford ["We will rule the school!"]
‣ Silent Tears - Keith Nichols [Patchy looking at old photos]
‣ Bell Hop (a) - John Shakespeare [Potty promoted to assistant manager]
‣ Shopping Spree - Laurie Johnson [Patchy chopping vegetables]
‣ Frankenstein's Niece A - Gregor F. Narholz [mad scientist]
‣ Shopping Spree - Laurie Johnson ["Me patty's done!"]
‣ Keel Row - Brian Peters ["I order you to walk the plank!"]
‣ Lynda's Music Box - Peter Dennis [SpongeBob's first patty]
‣ The Achterhoek Dances - Jan Rap ["A perfect patty on the first try!"]
‣ ? [exterior of dump]
‣ Worker's Symphony - Hans May [Krabs and Plankton making their own burger]
‣ Fanfare (b) - David Farnon [fanfare]
‣ ? [Stinky Burgers closed down]
‣ Gay Activity - Clive Richardson [Krabs and Plankton open their own restaurant]
• Gator - Steve Belfer ["Your burgers are even worse than Stinky's!"]
‣ ? [sick customers]
‣ Drama Link (k) - Hubert Clifford ["Soon I will be ruling their MINDS!"]
‣ Verve - Jack Shaindlin ["I'm talking about ruling the world!"]
‣ ? [Krabs and Plankton fight over the recipe]
‣ Wooden Bear - Gil Flat, Tony Tape, Florian Voelxen ["I'm terribly sorry, Eugene, I couldn't hear you."]
‣ Dramatic Cue (b) - Ronald Hanmer [Krabs ejected]
‣ Dramatic Impact 2 - Ivor Slaney ["Lies!"]
‣ Tristesse - Gerhard Trede ["Very touching, but completely false!"]
‣ Like Strange - Kenny Graham ["First, we rule their stomachs."]
‣ Frankenstein's Niece A - Gregor F. Narholz ["And then... their money!"]
‣ ? [they fight over the recipe]
‣ Wooden Bear - Gil Flat, Tony Tape, Florian Voelxen ["This isn't about money, Eugene."]
‣ Dramatic Cue (b) - Ronald Hanmer [Plankton ejected]
• Vibe Q Sting - Nicolas Carr ["Huh?"]
‣ Steel Licks (b) - Jeremy Wakefield ["Gosh, Mr. Plankton."]
‣ Dramatic Impact 1 - Ivor Slaney [Karen enters]
‣ Creepy Sting 4 - W. Merrick Farran ["I was just starting out as a security system."]
‣ Sleazy Sax - Richard Myhill ["Plankton and I met when he installed me."]
‣ Hello Sailor (b) - Richard Myhill ["Now that's a handsome looking burger!"]
• Lap Steel - Nicolas Carr [no customers]
‣ ? [banjo music]
‣ Dramatic Impact 6 - Ivor Slaney [Plab Patty KO's Old Man Jenkins]
‣ Steel Licks (d) - Jeremy Wakefield ["I can't believe we poisoned that sweet old guy!"]
‣ Like Strange - Kenny Graham [they fight over the recipe]
‣ Heavenly Voices (c) - David Farnon ["I've done it!"]
‣ Comic Walk - Sidney Torch [Krabs and Plankton compete for customers at school]
‣ Orchestral Flourish 4 and 6 - Gregor F. Narholz [everyone loves Krabby Patties]
‣ Dramatic Cue (e) - Ronald Hanmer ["I'll show you, Krabs!"]
‣ The Tip Top Polka/The Cliff Polka - Chelmsford Folk Band ["Whoo-hoo!"]
‣ Woe is Me! - Richard Myhill [Plankton and Krabs make up]
‣ Kamakani B - Kapono Beamer ["Doesn't this warm your heart, Karen?"]
‣ Keystone Chaos - Ron Aspery [Plankton takes the formula]
‣ Bell Hop (a) - John Shakespeare [Patchy got fired]
‣ Drama Link (b) - Hubert Clifford [gorilla flipping burgers]
‣ Chase Me Chester - Roger Roger [ending]

Release

This episode is available on the Season 5 Volume 1, Complete 5th Season, Friend or Foe?, and First 100 Episodes DVDs.

Reception

This episode is #6 on Tom Kenny's worst episodes list, with #1 being The Original Fry Cook.

Trivia

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The episode uses the Rashomon Effect, which is the effect of the subjectivity of perception on recollection, by which observers of an event are able to produce substantially different but equally plausible accounts of it.
SpongeBob is surprised when Mr. Krabs tells him that he and Plankton were friends back then, but in Krabs vs Plankton, SpongeBob asks Plankton why he visited the Krusty Krab, to which he said he was going to visit his old friend, SpongeBob is not surprised. It's possible that this episode takes place before Krabs vs Plankton or SpongeBob thought Plankton was lying.
It is revealed that Plankton and Mr. Krabs were born on the same day. But in Grandpappy the Pirate, Mr. Krabs said he was born with his grandfather.
This is the first time Mr. Krabs is on the title card. The second is Oral Report.
Young Krabs is only wearing rags, while his mother is still wearing nice clothing seen through other episodes.
It was shown that an orange younger version of Old Man Jenkins (different version from the one shown helping Mr. Krabs) was the teacher for Posidon Elementary.
Posidon Elementary will appear again in the episode Triton's Revenge.
Mr. Krabs is portrayed as rich when he was young in "Krusty Krab Training Video", but in this episode he is very poor possibly making it before he sold the sandwiches.
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, but to be fair, that episode was aired before this one, Mr. Krabs could have been lying, then again in Dunces and Dragons, it's revealed that the Krabby Patty recipe was passed on since medieval time, but that was likely just the result of SpongeBob and Patrick causing a time paradox.
The pictures of Plankton as a baby show that he is normal size, however, in "Goo Goo Gas", Plankton was shrunk to baby size and turned microscopic.
Running Gags: The students and Plankton calls Krabs "rag boy", Plankton being launched by a student, the boys fighting over their recipe and Krabs being teased by Plankton and the students.
The restaurant Mr. Krabs and Plankton built is seen in the game Globs of Doom in the dump level of Bikini Bottom.
This is the first episode Casey Alexander and Zeus Cervas were paired together for.
The fish who said that they don't like Stinkey and that they respect him is has similar colors and clothes to the chocolate fish from Chocolate With Nuts. He could even possibly be him as a child. Johnney (the fish who tried Plankton's burger at the end of the episode) also has a similar appearance and clothing.
This is the fourth appearance of primates in the show. The first being Your Shoe's Untied, the second being I Had an Accident, the third being Chimps Ahoy, and the fifth will be Mooncation.
Plankton could have gotten the ingredients from the security footage but instead, rather steal the recipe for the Krabby Patties; this implies he has a code of honor, or just didn't know about the footage.
When Johnny was trying out the Chum Burger, it only had buns and a chum patty but when he was throwing it out, it had tomatoes, lettuce and pickles. Although the vegetables are in the chum to not be confused.
In the Krusty Krab Training Video, Mr. Krabs founded the Krusty Krab himself and bought a retirement home.
All this time, despite the recipe calling for only "a pinch of chum", Plankton's been making food entirely out of chum.
In this episode Mr. Krabs reveals one of the ingredients by saying to Plankton, "It was you who put to much seaweed sauce", since the batter was not replaced this is an ingredient in Krabby Patties.
As of this episode, there is no ambient water effect heard in the background.
This is the first episode for Season 5.
This episode reveals Mr. Krabs and Plankton's friendship.

Cultural References

Poseidon Elementary is based on the fictional ocean liner, SS Poseidon and the ancient Greek god of the sea.
This episode's title is a pun on the phrase on "friend or foe" which describes a certain character as an ally or an enemy.

Errors

When the young Mr. Krabs says, "What in Neptune's name is that?", Sandals was eating popcorn in the background disappears and transports to the end of the screen.
When Plankton says his story the hole in the ceiling is still there even though Mr. Krabs was ejected through the ceiling and Mr. Krabs threw him by the window.
Mr. Krabs is a kid in this episode, but his mother still appears old.
When Mr. Krabs and Plankton finished their burger it had nothing between its buns except for a patty but later they reveal it with two patties and lettuce. While approaching Stinky Burgers, it had a single patty and a slice of cheese.
Mr. Krabs said that his first dollar was from selling his and Plankton's patty, but when Stinky drove off, he took a dollar that flew off of his limo. However, he could have meant it was his first dollar that he earned.
In the scene before Mr. Krabs grabbed the penny on the ground at Glove World, the fish in the background disappeared before the next scene
When Karen enters the Krusty Krab, SpongeBob's hat was on, Karen entered, the hat was gone, Karen rolls up, and the hat is back on SpongeBob's head. This may be because Plankton was on SpongeBob's head.
During the Plankton story, when Plankton flew out the window, there was a hole in the roof. This is a mistake because Mr. Krabs flew out of the roof, which created the hole, in Mr. Krabs' story.
When Mr. Krabs is being lifted by the kids there is a kid who looks like Old Man Jenkins from My Pretty Seahorse, he is young, but he has grey eyebrows.
The first time Mr. Pirateson appears, he has two hooks but later, he has only one hook.
In the first half, Plankton's mouth is red, but in the second half, it is similar to New Leaf and Best Frenemies.
In the flashbacks, Mr. Krabs' eyelashes disappear a few times in the course of the episode, including when he and Plankton look in the oven when making their burger.
In the part where Patchy The Pirate makes the patty walk the plank and right after the SpongeBob birthday video Potty's assistant manager clothes are gone but right after Patchy and Potty make wried faces at each other Potty's assistant manager clothes are on.
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.

External links

Friend or Foe website

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