Karen
From SpongeBob SquarePants
| Karen | |
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| General Information | |
| Gender: | Female |
|---|---|
| Birthday: | June 1972 ( re programed 1997) |
| Address: | Conch Street Chum Bucket Bikini Bottom |
| Occupation(s): | Security System (formerly), Chum Bucket (currently) |
| Family & Friends | |
| Family: | Sheldon J. Plankton (Husband) Mother (Single Cell Anniversary) |
| Other Informations | |
| Interests: | Helping Plankton and telling him what he's doing wrong |
| Series Information | |
| First appearance: | "Plankton!" |
| Portrayer: | Jill Talley |
Karen is Sheldon J. Plankton's "computer wife." She is the brain to Sheldon J. Plankton, supplying him with plots. She irritates him most of the time.
Plankton refers to her as W.I.F.E. (wired integrated female electroencephalograph). She has a Nag-chip installed in her. She was a security system when she was dating Plankton. Karen is usually put in a large-screen computer attached on Plankton's lab, but is somtimes put in a portable wheeled computer. She is voiced by Tom Kenny's wife, Jill Talley and she was first shown in the episode, "Plankton!". But when she was first aired on the show she was originally just Plankton's talking computer.
In Karen's first appearance, her analyzer program was being used to try to decipher the Krabby Patty formula. In the episode: Fear of a Krabby Patty, she had eyes, a nose, and mouth telling Plankton "I heard this joke before". Karen and Plankton always fight and even complain to themselves because Plankton had installed a nagging software to Karen. She thinks Plankton's first name is funny, as seen in Plankton's Army
In the movie, Karen had a minor role but this was the first time Karen is seen now a rolling computer and now even smaller. Plankton also installed a button into Karen that would help him succeed in Plan Z and take over Bikini Bottom. Plankton actually controlled his own wife to take over the local town until SpongeBob freed her in the movie.
She is somehow similar in structure of the 2001 Steven Speilburg film Artificial Intelligence, where a mother is forced to be adopted with a robot child who resembles a human, but is actually made of wires and metal. However, the main difference is that this is done as a robot wife instead of robot son. Plankton is angry that he has a computer wife, but despite this, he said that marrying Karen was the first greatest thing that happened to him. The second was his evil Plan Z succeeding. Karen also is angry that Plankton complains about what she is, and is often much smarter than him (similar to the crocodiles Patty and Larry in the comic strip Pearls Before Swine and Marge Simpson smarter than Homer in The Simpsons).
[edit] Species
Karen is not only noted as just a computer. She has also been in form of other technological inventions that were created in helping the economy for humans. In [[Goo Goo Gas]], she is shown as a calculator when Plankton sprayed her with [[Goo Goo Gas,]] and was turned into a baby, probably meaning that one of her parents is a calculator. Also, a hospital-heart-beat scanner machine as seen in All That Glitters looks exactly like Karen. Also, she is mainly a giant computer attached to the wall in the Chum Bucket. However, then she looked like a rolling computer with installations and programs in networks and computer wires. This is probably because before Friend or Foe and The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie.Also, at the end of [[Bucket Sweet Bucket]] Squidward destroyed Karens computer self so it is another reason in recent episodes she is now just a rolling computer.
[edit] Quotes
- "I heard this joke before!"
- "Seaweed: 50% Sea, 50% Weed
- "Plankton: 1% Evil, 99% Hot Gas."
- "I suppose it would, if I had one."
- "oh,boy"
- "Z, the letter after Y."
