Krab Borg
From SpongeBob SquarePants
| SpongeBob SquarePants episode | |
| "Krab Borg" | |
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| Season №: | 3 |
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| Episode №: | 49a |
| Airdate: | March 29, 2002 |
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| Guest(s): | Rodney Bingenheimer as The DJ |
| Writer(s): | Paul Tibbitt Kent Osborne Mark O'Hare |
| Storyboard Artist(s): | Carson Kugler William Reiss Mike Roth |
| Directors | |
| Storyboard: | Paul Tibbitt Kent Osborne |
| Animation: | Tom Yasumi |
| Creative: | Derek Drymon |
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"Krab Borg" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season three.
Brief summary: SpongeBob watches a silly robot movie and ends up convinced that his boss Mr. Krabs is a robot. He tries to convince Squidward, and somehow succeeds. Squidward and SpongeBob then decide to ask him some tough questions to find out where the real Mr. Krabs is.
Times/Date: 11:00P.M.:SpongeBob watches a robot film. 2:00PM: SpongeBob and Squidward rush Mr. Krabs's office and tie him up. 2:02P.M.: Squidward destroys $120.12 out of Mr. Krabs' money account with a baseball bat smashing his appliances.
Characters Present:
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Squidward Tentacles
- Mr. Krabs
- Gary the Snail
- DJ at KRUM
- Krusty Krab Customers
- Robot (on TV)
- Evelyn
- Patrick Star
Songs:
- Super Mario Parpade
- Electric Zoo
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[edit] Plot
SpongeBob watches a scary robot movie at night with Gary, and is freaked out. He keeps on fearing of a robot invasion, and even asks Gary if he's a robot. He has a nightmare that robots are taking over the world and are chasing him through town. At work, he is very cautious, and is under the impression that robots are "everywhere." He later finds evidence that Mr. Krabs is a robot, although the audience is informed that the evidence is accidental. SpongeBob sees Mr. Krabs "speaking" in a robot language (really just humming to a hit song called "Electric Zoo on CHR KRUM) and wearing batteries in his pocket (the batteries were dead and he was planning give them to Pearl for Christmas). He saw Mr. Krabs with metal pinchers (tongs he was holding an egg with) and glowing red eyes (he accidentally threw salt into his eyes while trying to salt a hard-boiled egg because SpongeBob screamed his name).
After collecting enough evidence, he tells and proves to Squidward that Mr. Krabs is a robot. They begin to interrogate some machines while Mr. Krabs is tied up, demanding the location of the "real Mr. Krabs." Since they don't reply, SpongeBob and Squidward start smashing them (In total, they smashed $120.12 worth of items excluding "the gift" - a coffee maker). When they come to the cash register, Mr. Krabs cries, and it is revealed that he isn't a robot. SpongeBob reveals the end of the movie (the robots were only their imagination), and runs off, leaving Squidward in trouble.
[edit] Cultural References
- This episode follows the same story as with the classic "VeggieTales" episode, "Larry-Boy and the Rumor Weed", where everyone thinks Alfred (played by Archibald Asparagus), Larryboy's faithful butler is a robot, but Larryboy always battles with the giant Rumor Weed. This episode is also mentioned in a commentary for said "VeggieTales" episode by Phil Vischer (Big Idea's founder, director, voice of Bob The Tomato, writer and Big Idea Top Tomato) and Mike Nawrocki (voice of Larry The Cucumber/Larryboy, Big Idea's co-founder, and animator), the VeggieTales creators.
- At the end of the story, "The Boy Who Cried Tomato", the church pastors go to church, they called it the radio boy, cause they said 36 is a "little buddy", in Montana, the main character named Percy walked off the plank. He's a rumor weed!
- This episode is similar to the Burgers Can't Sleep For Falling Into Chaos stories, aware with some differences from the episodes:
- 1. They watch the Robot movie in the factory and Brain the Parrot, Matt the Hippo, and Mark the Lion saw it at night in the rain.
- 2. At the burger shop, when school's out. Brain the Parrot thinks Mark and Matt were robots, before they jump into the box filled with clothes, and they say "WE'RE ROBOTS!", they make a quick joke, and jump back in the box wearing capes. Brain wore a red cape, Mark wore a blue cape, and Matt wore a green cape, they make parts for the Viking boat to make the Robotboat in each episode.
- The title is a reference through the Batman Borg, which were mugged robots and mugged up humans.
- The robot sounds Mr.Krabs had made on the radio was a reference to several TV series theme songs where lyrics are normal, such as the theme song for the TV series, The Love Boat. In The Love Boat: Signs, the future held no theme songs but it held cool ones.
- This episode is silimar to the movie, Linny's Terminator, a funny fairy tale classic.
- At the end of the movie "Strawberry Shortcake vs. the Big Robot" in 2006, she must discover that robots can't cry, laugh or love.
- At the beginning of the short "Strawberry Shortcake and the Pear" in 2002, she thinks that no other girls aren't playing with Barbie dolls, they had no arms, are green, and has brown eyes.
[edit] Trivia
- God is right when SpongeBob thinks that robots can't laugh, love or cry.
- Mr. Krabs was listening to "The Electric Zoo".
- SpongeBob knew Mr. Krabs was doing stuff that made him act like a robot, here's a list:
- 1. Mr. Krabs said he felt recharged because of the dead batteries inside his pocket
- 2. Mr. Krabs talked to his radio
- 3. Mr. Krabs made beeping sounds
- 4. Mr. Krabs jiggled like a dog
- 5. Mr. Krabs wiggled like a cat
- 6. Mr. Krabs danced like a robot to Electric Zoo.
- SpongeBob said that in the robot movie, robots:
- Can't laugh (Hint: they won't laugh)
- Can't cry (Hint: they won't cry)
- Can't love (Hint: they won't love)
- Are equipped with piercing red eyes and metal pincers (They're equipped with piercing red eyes and metal pincers, according to Spongebob)
- Run on batteries (They run on batteries, according to Spongebob)
- SpongeBob's tests for Mr. Krabs to prove he is a robot:
- Squidward tells him a joke. Mr. Krabs doesn't laugh, although Squidward claims he obviously heard the joke before.
- The joke is "Why didn't the 12th grade said they have to get into the Jonah movie? It was rated G." (No bugs in sandboxes with sandy sand too much of it, over age 18 during the story!).
- SpongeBob claims that Squidward's father never hugged him. Squidward complains to SpongeBob that his father loved him very much.
- SpongeBob claims that Squidward loves him.
- The Radio Station Mr. Krabs was listening and talking to was KRUM, a TOP 40 Station. It's dance style sounds similar to the Former dance formats of WKIE & KNRJ.
- Mr. Krabs' personal items cost:
- Food Processor: $24.95
- Plunger: $22.94
- Toaster: $32.50
- TV: $33.60
- Juicer: $62.67
- Coffee Maker: $34.60
- Chafin' dish: $32.70
- Pickled herring: $30.80
- Pickled garlic: $28.90
- In total: $270.06
- Squidward talks about his father in the past-tense, implying his father might be deceased.
- When SpongeBob calls for Mr. Krabs the fourth time and Mr. Krabs spills the salt in his eyes, you see the supposedly "hard-boiled" egg crack and splatter like a normal egg.
- After SpongeBob and Squidward evacuated the customers, Mr. Krabs comes out of the bathroom and goes back into his office. He doesn't seem angry or surprised that there is no one in the Krusty Krab.
- When SpongeBob and Squidward tie Mr. Krabs to a chair, you can see customers through the window.
- This was the second time Mr. Krabs was compared to a robot and then was accused of being one. The other time was in Imitation Krabs.
- During this episode, fans mentioned the Jonah movie
- On December 5, 2006, Drake Bell tinted the color of the episode orange, his favorite color, partway through the episode for a few seconds.
- Comcast's guide information for this episode and Rock-a-Bye Bivalve includes the line "SpongeBob sells candy bars door-to-door. Later, Mr. Krabs is accused of being a robot." The former line mistakenly came from Chocolate with Nuts.
- The song "Electric Zoo" was featured on "SpongeBob SquarePants: The Yellow Album."
- The robot in the movie is made of boxes.
- In the Friend or Foe marathon, this episode aired with Dying for Pie.
- When Squidward tells Mr. Krabs the joke, SpongeBob says Mr. Krabs didn't laugh. SpongeBob never laughed either.
- Ever though Mr. Krabs is a crab (a saltwater animal), he still burned his eyes with salt.
[edit] Quotes
- SpongeBob: I got an idea. Keep an eye on him, Squidward. Don't fall for any of his robot tricks. (Goes out of the office, Squidward is excited and SpongeBob returns holding a blender) If Robot Krabs won't tell us where the real Mr. Krabs is, maybe one of his little robot friends will.
Squidward: Uh, SpongeBob, that's a blender (a.k.a food processor).
SpongeBob: Yeah, but I saw Mr. Krabs talking to his radio earlier. He called it his "little buddy".
Squidward: Oh really? Put it on the table.
Mr. Krabs: You're going to interrogate my blender? You're crazy.
Squidward: We'll just see what your little buddy knows.
Mr. Krabs: Wait, what are you going to do with me blender? That cost me money!
Squidward: Where's Mr. Krabs? (The blender remains silent).Not talking huh?(Squidward smashes the blender with a baseball bat)
Mr. Krabs: No!!! That cost me 24.95!!!
SpongeBob: I guess it didn't know anything.
Squidward: Go get the toaster.
- (SpongeBob is listening outside of Mr. Krabs' Office)
- Mr. Krabs: Yes, hello, I was wondering if you could play that story again.
- DJ: Hmm, which one man?
- Mr. Krabs: The one that goes a Romans 12:10 scripture?
- DJ: No man, you're thinking of DON'T BE SELFISH!
- Mr. Krabs: DON'T BE SELFISH?
- DJ: Yeah!
- Mr. Krabs: I will save you, patients!
- DJ: Candy Moose!
- Krabs: Candy Moose!
- (Krusty Krab)
Squidward: I'll evacuate the customers, you call the Navy!
- SpongeBob: Hello operator, get me the Navy.
- Answering Machine: Hello, you've reached the Navy's automated phone service.
- SpongeBob: Squidward, the robots are running the Navy!
- Squidward: Not the Navy! (over intercom) Attention customers, robots have taken over the world! (The Krusty Krab, home of the Krabby Patty's customers uncover their eyes in the box) OUR WORLD! (Customers imaginary pillage and plunder with a cardboard boat and they accidentally run into each other, chaotically for their job.)
- Patrick: Maybe? (under grill) Ho, ho, ho! Merry Christmas, Krusty crew!
[edit] Transcript
Main page: Krab Borg (transcript)
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