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"Imitation Krabs"
Chronology
Information
Season №: 2
Episode №: 24b
Airdate: December 28, 2000
Best Day Ever Rank: #77
Credits
Writer(s): Walt Dohrn
Paul Tibbitt
Doug Lawrence
Directors
Main: Walt Dohrn
Paul Tibbitt
Storyboard: Chris Headrick
Chuck Klein
Animation: Tom Yasumi
Creative: Derek Drymon
Episode List
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"Imitation Krabs" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season two.

Brief summary: After having another scheme foiled, Plankton discovers that the Krabby Patty formula can only be discussed with Mr. Krabs in a private place. He then makes a robotic Mr. Krabs to fool SpongeBob, but he has to get rid of the real Mr. Krabs first.

Time cards shown:

  • 6 1/2 hours later

Characters Present:

Songs:

  • Bikini Bottom National Anthem
Oh, Bikini Bottom, we pledge our hearts to you
As faithful, as deep, as true, as blue
Bikini Bottom, we love you!
  • Meatball, Meatball
Meatball, Meatball
Spaghetti underneath.
Ravioli, Ravioli
Great Barrier Reef!!

Contents

Plot

A robotic fish controlled by Plankton and designed to look like an ordinary customer walks into the Krusty Krab. He tells SpongeBob that he will win $1,000,000 if he tells him the Krabby Patty secret formula. SpongeBob says that it can only be discussed with Mr. Krabs in private. Later, Plankton creates a robotic version of Mr. Krabs in order to make Spongebob reveal the formula to him. He tells Squidward he can have the whole day off to get rid of him, and tries to make SpongeBob, who is working in the supply room, tell him the secret formula. However, the real Mr. Krabs keeps on coming into the room they are in, so he has to hide and he emerges again when the real Mr. Krabs leaves. Eventually, Plankton throws a penny out the window and the real Mr. Krabs runs after it, thus completely distracting him. Afterwards, robot Krabs learns that for the secret recipe to be discussed, he must first do a ridiculously long and complicated ceremony that takes around 7 hours to accomplish. SpongeBob is about to give him a bottle with the recipe inside when the real Mr. Krabs comes in right after the penny (the one Plankton threw earlier) emerges inside the kitchen. SpongeBob gives them both a quiz about the Krusty Krab, threatening to blast the fake one with tartar sauce. The imitation Krab somehow gets all the answers to the quiz correctly and Mr. Krabs somehow gets them all wrong. SpongeBob squirts Mr. Krabs with tarter sauce and rolled him out the door. SpongeBob presumes that the robotic Mr. Krabs is the real one, and gives him a penny that he "dropped". The penny goes into the Robot's coin-operated self-destruct mechanism, blowing Plankton into the sky right after he makes a frantic run for the Chum Bucket with the secret formula bottle still in his possession. With the secret formula bottle rolling down torwards SpongeBob, he then realizes that it was Plankton and that he threw out the real Mr. Krabs. He saves Mr. Krabs, who is being attacked by a live-action hand with a plastick fork held on, and rolls him back into the Krusty Krab. SpongeBob apologizes, and Mr. Krabs forgives him, but tells SpongeBob that the penny is coming out of his paycheck, with SpongeBob asking Mr. Krabs "Really?" at the end.

Transcript

Main article: Imitation Krabs (transcript)

Quotes

Mr. Krabs: Just remember the most important rule! SpongeBob: No free napkins? Mr. Krabs: No! The other most important rule! Regarding the secret formula. SpongeBob: Only discuss the Secret Recipe with Mr. Krabs! Mr. Krabs: Arr! As long as you do that, the secret is safe! Squidward: I thought the most important rule was why do today what you can put off ‘til tomorrow? (laughs) Mr. Krabs: What is today but yesterday's tomorrow? Squidward: Huh?


  • SpongeBob: Hey Mr. Krabs, what happened to your metal pants?
Mr. Krabs: Don't go all loopy on me, boy! I need your help. And where in the high seas is Squidward?!
SpongeBob: You gave him the day off.
Mr. Krabs: Day… OOFFFFFFF!!!!!!!!!! (Fire blows out the smokepipe on the roof of the Krusty Krab) I don't know the meaning of them horrible words!! Now quit laying around and take out that garbage! It's starting to give me a rash!
SpongeBob: Yes sir, Mr. Krabs sir!


  • SpongeBob: (rapidly) The Krabby Patty formula is the sole property of the Krusty Krab and may only be discussed, in part or in whole, with it's creator, Mr. Krabs. Duplication of this formula is punishable by law. Restrictions apply. Results may vary.
  • SpongeBob: QUIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Until I know who the real Mr. Krabs is… nobody moves, nobody gets hurt. (SpongeBob holds hose towards Plankton and Mr. Krabs)(Plankton and Mr. Krabs gasp)
  • Mr. Krabs & Plankton (aka Robot Krabs): Tartar Sauce!?


  • Mr. Krabs: Plankton!
Plankton: Krabs!
Mr. Krabs: PLANKTON!
Plankton: KRABS!
SpongeBob: SpongeBob.
  • Mr. Krabs: (gasp)
SpongeBob: (gasp)
Penny: (gasp)
Plankton: Gasp!
Mr. Krabs: How could you do this to me, SpongeBob?! Giving me formula to this… impostor?!
Plankton: Don't listen to him SpongeBob. Remember: Ravioli, ravioli, give me the formuoli.
  • Plankton (Robo-Krabs eyes catch on fire) Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?!
  • SpongeBob: Now only the really real Mr. Krabs can answer this. If we're discussing the secret formula on the third Wednesday in January and it's not raining outside after we gargle vanilla pudding, what do we do?

Trivia/Goofs/Notes

  • When SpongeBob told Mr. Krabs he was going to ask a question, in the next scene the clipper on SpongeBob's nose disappears.
  • The title of this episode is based off of imitation crab meat.
  • This is the fifth time Plankton tries to steal the formula in the series.
  • In this episode, Mr. Krabs says that he doesn't know the meaning of "day off". However, in the episode "Bubble Buddy", SpongeBob had the day off. Mr. Krabs even insists to let Spongebob be excused from work until he can think straight again in "Pickles".
  • Running gag: Every time Plankton's robot Krabs says a lie, its engine backfires and smoke can be seen from the exhaust pipe.
  • The prices of the Krabby Patty as mentioned in the question below are the opposite prices used at McDonald's: $2.99 for burger, 99¢ on Wednesday.
  • SpongeBob: How much does a Krabby Patty cost?
  • Mr. Krabs: $2.99!
  • SpongeBob: On Wednesday.
  • Plankton: 99¢!
  • SpongeBob (to Mr. Krabs): RIGHT! That's one strike, Mr. Fake!
  • This is the second time in the series that the face on a coin actually moves. The first time was in Squid's Day Off, when the dime winks at Mr. Krabs.
  • SpongeBob, Plankton, and Mr. Krabs do the "Krabs-Plankton"-Chant again in the season four episode, "Enemy In-Law". SpongeBob also ends that one.
  • Mr. Krabs is again accused of being a robot imposter in "Krab Borg".
  • In "New Leaf", the robot Mr. Krabs is seen again in a pile of Plankton's old experiments. In "Spy Buddies", when Mr. Krabs and Plankton change positions, Plankton uses the robot again.
  • This was the only episode to be rated TV-Y. However, it is now rated TV-Y7.
  • This episode was on the "Halloween" DVD.
  • Although "tartar sauce" is commonly used as a minced oath in the series, this is the first episode to actually show the sauce. Tartar Sauce is a kind of sauce eaten with seafood.
  • When Squidward goes to take an inspection, one of the boxes say "Chum Sauce", which may possibly be the secret sauce used in the Krabby Patty secret formula.
  • When Plankton goes into the Krusty Krab as the Mr. Krabs robot, for the few seconds the door is open, the Krusty Krab is dark.
  • When SpongeBob asks the question "Only the really, real Mr. Krabs could answer this. If we're discussing the secret formula on the third Wednesday in January and it's not raining outside, after we gargle with vanilla pudding, what do we do?", the word "vanilla" is excluded in the captions.
  • The captions were extensively modified for when SpongeBob told about the disclaimer for the Krabby Patty secret formula.

APM music identification


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