Graveyard Shift
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| "Graveyard Shift" | |
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| Information | |
| Season №: | 2 |
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| Episode №: | 36a |
| Airdate: | September 6, 2002 |
| Best Day Ever Rank: | #64 |
| Credits | |
| Writer(s): | Doug Lawrence Jay Lender Dan Povenmire |
| Directors | |
| Storyboard: | Robert Moody Dan Povenmire |
| Animation: | Sean Dempsey |
| Creative: | Derek Drymon |
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"Graveyard Shift" is an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants from season two.
Brief Summary: The Krusty Krab is now open 24 hours a day. On their first all night shift, Squidward tries to scare SpongeBob with the story of the "Hash-Slinging Slasher".
Characters:
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Squidward Tentacles
- Mr. Krabs
- "Hash Slinging Slasher" (Actually a fish holding the spatula asking for a job application)
- Krusty Krab customers
- Patrick Star
- Nosferatu
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Plot
At 8:00 p.m., the Krusty Krab is closing, and Squidward is excited. As he gets ready to leave, a fish comes to the door and makes an order. Squidward tells him that they're closed, and the customer says "Well, fine! If you don't want my money!" Upon hearing this, Mr. Krabs jumps to the door and proclaims that the Krusty Krab is now open 24 hours a day. SpongeBob is excited at this, while Squidward is furious. A bit later, the Krusty Krab still has customers. Squidward decides to scare SpongeBob with tales of the Hash-Slinging Slasher. SpongeBob mistakes his name with different arrangements, which annoys Squidward. Squidward then goes on to tell him that the Hash-Slinging Slasher worked at the Krusty Krab years ago as a fry-cook, just like SpongeBob, only clumsier. One night, when he was cutting the patties, he cut off his own hand and replaced the hand with a spatula. He was later hit by a bus and killed, and fired at his funeral. Every Tuesday (Squidward asked what day it was to come up with this) night, his ghost comes to "wreak his horrible vengeance". There are three signs of his arrival, which are: 1. The lights will flicker on and off, 2. The phone will ring, and there will be nobody there, and 3. The Hash-Slinging Slasher will arrive in the ghost of the bus which ran him over, slowly approaches the counter, and "gets" you. SpongeBob is terrified by this, and begins screaming repeatedly while Squidward laughs. When SpongeBob does not stop screaming, the annoyed Squidward tells him that he was joking and that the story isn't true. SpongeBob then starts laughing continuously in the same manner as his screaming.
Later that night, at 3:00 AM, every customer is long gone. Squidward begins hearing strange noises, and starts becoming afraid. He quickly tells himself that there is no Hash-Slinging Slasher, but soon the lights start flickering and the phone rings with no answer. Soon, SpongeBob and Squidward see a bus appear outside, and comment that buses don't run this late. The Hash-Slinging Slasher appears from the bus and starts walking toward them. They begin panicking, believing that they will die, until the "Hash-Slinging Slasher" reaches them, and is revealed to be a normal person who wants a job application, and hung up on the phone because he was nervous.
However, this still does not explain the lights flickering. Suddenly, they begin flickering again, and everybody looks around and see Nosferatu (in a doctored image) rapidly flipping the light switch. Everybody points at him with a friendly "Nosferatu!", after which Nosferatu (in another doctored image) smiles at them mischievously as the episode ends.
Transcript
Quotes
- Squidward: Open twenty four hours, what a stupid idea! Who wants a Krabby Patty at three in the morning?
{Patrick's house}
{Alarm goes off}
Patrick: Oh boy! THREE AM! (starts eating a Krabby Patty) - Tom: Are you open?
Squidward: Read the sign! {it says "closed"}
Tom: I'll have a Krabby Patty deluxe, and a double chili kelp fries. - Squidward: SpongeBob, no matter what I said, I always sort of liked you!
SpongeBob: Squidward, I use your clarinet to unclog my toilet!
Squidward: Huh? - person: Can I get a job application? I've brought my own spatula. I've called earlier and then hung up 'cause I was nervous.
SpongeBob: well, do you have any references?
Squidward: Wait... if that was you on the phone and you on the bus... and who was flickering the lights? (the lights flicker on and off again and they saw Nosferatu in a black and white image flickering the lights)
everybody: Nosferatu! (Nosferatu in black and white smiles at them)
Trivia/Goofs
- The walls oozing green slime is possibly a reference to one of the phenomena reported at 111 Ocean Avenue, Long Island, in the Amityville Horror.
- Count Orlok from Nosferatu makes an appearance in this episode.
- The episode contains music used in {W|Night of the Living Dead}}.
- The story where Squidward talks about the Hash Slinging Slasher is a parody of the 1962 novel Cape Fear, where the villainous Max Cady stalks a family for revenge on putting him in jail.
- SpongeBob's "Night song" has the tune of a Baseball Charge Stadium Organ song.
- This episode is number 10 on Tom Kenny's Top 20. His description says:
"'Night, night, night, night.' Having Nosferatu, the vampire from the 1922 silent German Expressionist horror film appear in a Nicktoon is exactly the kind of 'what the?' moment that sets this series apart from more conventional animated shows!"
- SpongeBob screams 27 times, and laughs 8 times.
- The Galley Grub sign reads "Gally Grub" at one point in the episode. At another point, the Order Here sign reads "Order Hear".
- To "sling hash" means to work in a restaurant.
- An "Open Forever" sign is seen on the Krusty Krab in one shot. However, when the Hash_Slinging Slasher approaches the Krusty Krab, the sign is gone.
- The garbage bin outside the Krusty Krab is by the street in this episode, but it is in the back of the building in "Sailor Mouth", which aired just two episodes after this one.
- The DVD Nautical Nonsense and Sponge Buddies features Tom Kenny and Rodger Bumpass recording the scene. It also includes storyboards of the episode and a deleted scene, in which SpongeBob delivers the mail to "Floorboard Harry" "at night". Floorboard Harry was also originally going to be the one responsible for flickering the lights, not Nosferatu.
APM music identification
- Queen's Aloha Oe (c) - "Ah, the Krusty Krab. Bikini Bottom's premiere daytime eatery, where it to be closing time right...about..." / "Now! 8:00!"
- Hello Sailor (b) - "You mean, if we stayed open later, you'll give us your money?"
- On the Beach - "Isn't this great, Squidward? Just you and me together for hours and hours and hours and then the sun'll come up and it'll be tomorrow, and we'll still be working! (gasp) It'll be just like a sleepover, only we'll be sweaty and covered with grease!"
- Moloka'I Nui (a) - SpongeBob laughs repeatedly.
- Hawaiian Link A - The Hash-Slinging Slasher is revealed to be a fry cook asking for a job application.l
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