Karate Choppers
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| SpongeBob SquarePants episode | |
| "Karate Choppers" | |
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| Information | |
| Season №: | 1 |
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| Episode №: | 14b |
| Airdate: | December 31, 1999 |
| Best Day Ever Rank: | #44 |
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| Guest(s): | - Tom Kenny as Hot sauce drop |
| Writer(s): | Aaron Springer Erik Wiese Merriwether Williams |
| Storyboard Artist(s): | Erik Wiese |
| Directors | |
| Storyboard: | Aaron Springer |
| Animation: | Tom Yasumi |
| Creative: | Derek Drymon |
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"Karate Choppers" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season one.
Brief summary: When SpongeBob becomes addicted to doing karate with Sandy, he cannot stop thinking about it. It distracts him from his work, so Mr. Krabs tells him to give up karate, or else be fired.
Characters Present:
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Sandy Cheeks
- Mr. Krabs
- Squidward Tentacles
- Customers at Krusty Krab
- Patrick Star
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Plot
SpongeBob and Sandy are practicing karate against each other. SpongeBob is carefully going around his house looking for her, until she jumps out. They fight, and have lots of fun. Sandy tells him that she will sneak up on him and fight him tomorrow. At the Krusty Krab the next day, SpongeBob thinks anyone or anything can be Sandy, so he is cautious and does not work much. When he strikes Squidward, Mr. Krabs demands to know what is going on, so SpongeBob explains to him that he is doing karate. He pronounces it: (kɑrɑteɪ), and Mr. Krabs says he should be making him money ([mʌni.eɪ]), with his spatula (spætuleɪ).
Therefore, Mr. Krabs tells him to stop doing karate, or he will be fired. Sandy attacks him, and though SpongeBob attempts to explain Mr. Krabs's warning, Sandy refuses to listen. At that moment, Mr. Krabs comes out of the Krusty Krab and promptly fires SpongeBob (even though he was just standing there and doing nothing). Sandy explains it to him, and he gives him his job back.
The two attempt to forget about karate, and go to the park. However, while slicing sandwiches, they begin doing karate again, Mr. Krabs catches them. However, he finds that karate chops can replace knives, and has Spongebob and Sandy slice Krabby Patties this way, earning him more money.
Transcript
Quotes
- Squidward: SpongeBob, did you get the bathrooms mopped yet?
- SpongeBob: Yes ma'am. I mean sir. I mean boss. I mean poobah!
- Squidward: GO!
- SpongeBob: Sandy! Wait! Victory is yours.
- Fred: My Leg!
- SpongeBob: Thought you could sneak up on me at work, did you? Well, you can't! Because I'm fast, I'm mean, and I can do this! (swivels hands around) (He hisses, and fighting sounds are heard)
- SpongeBob: Took care of her, yes I did. [Runs into Mr. Krabs] Uh, Ahoy, sir!
- Mr. Krabs: What was that?
- SpongeBob: But sir, she snuck up on me. In my own dojo!
- Mr. Krabs: Are you on some new allergy medication, boy?
- SpongeBob: No, sir. Just practicing my karate, sir. Or kare-ah-tay, as some like to call it.
- Mr. Krabs: Kare-ah-tay? You should be making me money-ay! With your spatu-lay!
- Hot Sauce Drop: By the powers of naughtiness, I command this particular drop of hot sauce to be really, REALLY hot!
- SpongeBob: Karate sure is dumb. I feel dumb thinking about it. D'oh! I'm stupid! I like karate!! Doi!!
- SpongeBob: Nice hairpiece, Squidward. (His hairpiece is actually a bunch of Krabby Patties arranged on his head.)
- Sandy: I love Karate.
- SpongeBob: I love Kare-ah-tay.
- Mr. Krabs: I love money-ay.
- Squidward: I hate all of you.
- Spongebob: I know! We can act like plants! (lays down on his back) Photosynthesis, photosynthesis.
Trivia/Goofs
- There is a game on [1] based on this episode.
- On The Complete 1st Season DVD, this episode, along with "Plankton!", has a cast commentary. The voice actors faked laughing when SpongeBob bumped on his pineapple house door and punched it.
- This is the last episode to premiere in 1999.
- A second window was added to SpongeBob's pineapple home near the lower right corner. Before, there was only one window on the upper left corner.
- In one scene where SpongeBob and Sandy are karate chopping each other, Sandy karate kicks SpongeBob into the background. SpongeBob yells "curses" and Sandy appears to be moving her mouth as though she is also saying it.
- When Spongebob rolls Sandy into a ball, her helmet and flower disappear.
- The face on the hot sauce drop is Tom Kenny's face.
- When Spongebob is caught off guard when Squidward asks Spongebob if he mopped the bathrooms, and Spongebob goes on a rant, saying all the terms adressing a higher workman to Squidward, Squidward says, "Go!", but the captions say, "D'oh!"
- At the very end, if you look on couple of the trays that the fish have, there are forks. Why would they need forks to eat a Krabby Patty when people use their hands?
- Why did Spongebob adress Squidward like an upperworkman when they are technically the same rank? Spongebob should adress Mr. Krabs by those names.
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