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SpongeBob SquarePants episode
"Krab Borg"
Chronology
Information
Season №: 3
Episode №: 49a
Airdate: March 29, 2002
Credits
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 believes that Mr. Krabs is a robotic impostor.

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Plot

SpongeBob watches a scary robot movie at night with Gary, and is terrified. He begins fearing a robot invasion, even asking Gary if he's a robot, and has a nightmare where robots are taking over the world and are chasing him. At work, he is very paranoid, and is under the impression that robots are "everywhere". He later sees Mr. Krabs "speaking" in a robot language (actually humming to a song called "Electric Zoo" on the radio) and wearing batteries in his pocket (his radio broke and he was planning give the batteries to Pearl for her Christmas.), and suspects that he is a robot impostor. He then sees 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 the egg), which "confirms" his suspicions.

After collecting enough evidence, he convinces Squidward that Mr. Krabs is a robot. They tie Mr. Krabs up, interrogating him on location of the "real" Mr. Krabs. When he gives them no answers, they begin interrogating his machines, such as a blender, and destroying them, which greatly upsets Krabs, as the machines cost him money. When they come to the cash register, Mr. Krabs cries for it, which robots are incapable of doing, revealing that he isn't a robot. SpongeBob reveals the end of the movie, in which the robots were all in their imagination, and runs off, leaving Squidward in trouble.

Transcript

Main page: Krab Borg (transcript)

Trivia

  • This episode is similar to the VeggieTales episode "Larry-Boy and the Rumor Weed", and is mentioned in a commentary for the aformented VeggieTales episode by Phil Vischer and Mike Nawrocki, the creators of VeggieTales.
  • According to SpongeBob, the robots in the movie:
    • Can't laugh
    • Can't cry
    • Can't love
    • Are equipped with piercing red eyes and metal pincers
    • Run on batteries
  • KRUM, the radio station Mr. Krabs listens to, is the name of a real radio station.
  • 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, the supposedly "hard-boiled" egg breaks and splatters like a raw 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, customers are visible through the window.
  • Mr. Krabs was previously accused of being a robot in "Imitation Krabs".
  • 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" reads: "SpongeBob sells candy bars door-to-door. Later, Mr. Krabs is accused of being a robot." The former line is the description for "Chocolate with Nuts".
  • The song "Electric Zoo" was featured on The Yellow Album.
  • In the "Friend or Foe" marathon, this episode aired with "Dying for Pie".
  • When Squidward tells Mr. Krabs the joke, SpongeBob says Mr. Krabs not laughing is evidence of him being a robot. SpongeBob himself did not laugh at the joke.
  • Ever though Mr. Krabs is a saltwater animal, his eyes are still burned by salt.
  • In the begining there was no cashregister,but when Mr.Krabs goes to bathroom or something the cashregister was back.

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.
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 song again.
DJ: Hmm, which one man?
Mr. Krabs: The one that goes: Be boop boop bop.
DJ: No man, you're thinking of: Beep boop boop bop boop boop bop.
Mr. Krabs: Beep boop boop beep bop?
DJ: (Gibberish)
Mr. Krabs: Beep, boop boop bop.
DJ: (Gibberish)
Krabs: (Mr. Krabs starts dancing to techno music)
  • 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 customers are uninterested) OUR WORLD! (Customers start panicking)

APM music identification


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