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"Krusty Krab Training Video" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 3. In this episode, the Krusty Krab is featured in an instructional video for future employees.

Characters[]

Synopsis[]

For every new Krusty Krab employee, the ultimate career goal is to create a mouth-watering Krabby Patty by hand. However, before one can even think of picking up a spatula, one must thoroughly learn the ropes of the restaurant game, and the Krusty Krab Training Video is the perfect tool for fine-tuning the fresh new cog enthusiastically entering the service industry machine.

1: From Humble Beginnings
Eugene H. Krabs, from his childhood to his post-war years, has always had an eye for finance. Despite his long battle of depression since the war, his apt business sense leads to him converting a bankrupt retirement home into the restaurant one may know as the Krusty Krab.

2: The Krusty Krab Today
With the number of technological breakthroughs involved with today's restaurant, a new worker not yet in the know can quickly become overwhelmed. Thankfully, SpongeBob is ready and willing to guide the way to being a good employee, while the less thoroughly prepared employee, tentatively called "Squidward," shall at least provide a clear example of what not to be.

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"But what does P.O.O.P. mean?"

3: Training
For a new employee woefully ignorant of what the customer has come to expect from their Krusty Krab dining experience, learning the meaning of P.O.O.P. (People Order Our Patties) will make things quite clear and concise.

4: Personal Hygiene
The requirements for both cleanliness and personal appearance that an employee is obligated to adhere to are stringent. With diligence and enough soap, however, any employee can learn how to enter each new shift as clean as a whistle.

5: Your Workstation
Keeping the cooking and service areas clear of detritus is also very important, and while SpongeBob illustrates how to maintain the order of his tools and ingredients, Squidward demonstrates the trouble a poorly kept station leads to.

6: Interfacing with Your Boss
One should never fear to ask the proprietor for a raise because the answer will always be the same. This section also covers interacting with the equally important "Krustomers" for optimally profitable results.

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Plankton trying to steal a Krabby Patty.

7: Emergency Situation
In the event of attempted theft, especially by one Sheldon J. Plankton, this section clearly details the proper protocol for protecting a Krabby Patty in peril. The narrator also reminds Squidward to remember P.O.O.P.

Once these lessons have been grilled to perfection into the new employee's brain, he or she shall be ready to reverently receive the secret and sacred method of preparing a Krabby Patty for consumption.

Production[]

This episode was shipped to Nickelodeon Animation Studio on March 15, 2002.

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Storyboards[]

Rough sketches[]

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Original design for child Mr. Krabs.

Paintings[]

Model sheets[]

Music[]

 ) Production music
 ) Original music
 ) SpongeBob music

  Waltzing Flutes - Gerhard Narholz [Title card]
  Quest for the Best 1 - David Reilly [Opening montage]
  The Wheels of Industry - Robert Sharples ["Welcome aboard!"]
  Blow the Man Down (c) - Robert Alexander White [After the war]
  The Wheels of Industry - Robert Sharples [Retirement home]
  Quest for the Best 1 - David Reilly [The Krusty Krab Today]
  Street Scene - Robert Farnon [Fast food technology]
  Screw on the Loose - Tony Lowry [P.O.O.P.]
  Hustle and Bustle - Jack Beaver [Personal Hygiene]
  So Tired - Sammy Burdson, John Charles Fiddy ["Remember, no employee wants to be a Squidward."]
  Crepe Suzette - Cyril Watters [Your Work Station]
  So Tired - Sammy Burdson, John Charles Fiddy [Squidward's workstation]
  Crepe Suzette - Cyril Watters [Interfacing With Your Boss]
  Life or Death - Jack Beaver [Emergency Situation]
  Zelle 506 - Gerhard Trede [Plankton is thrown back to the Chum Bucket]
  Crepe Suzette - Cyril Watters [Checking in on Squidward]
  Great Achievements - Nick Glennie-Smith [Preparing the Krabby Patty]
  Quest for the Best 1 - David Reilly [Closing credits]

Release[]

Reception[]

  • Currently retired critic David Ryan of the DVD Verdict praised the episode in a review of Sponge for Hire for its "upbeat narration, cheesy corporate music, and PowerPoint-like chapter titles." "This episode deviates from a "normal" SpongeBob episode in its style and presentation and will be most appreciated by adults who've sat through any corporate rah-rah or training video at some point in their lives." He also regarding the ending scene as "one of the best endings of any SpongeBob SquarePants episode produced to date."[2]
  • "Krusty Krab Training Video" was ranked #15 during the Best Day Ever event from November 9–10, 2006.
  • This episode is number 15 on The Tom Kenny Collection on iTunes and Amazon.com. His description says:
"'P.O.O.P. – People Order Our Patties.' Need I say more? That word being said repeatedly makes me laugh. Boy, am I mature, or what? A clever, outside-the-box episode."

Trivia[]

General[]

  • The scene where the SpongeBob clones say, "I'm ready" and get splattered by the fly swatters was used in a 2018 Nicktoons Up Next bumper.
  • According to the episode's Pop-Up Trivia Facts found on The Complete 3rd Season DVD Special features, this is one of the most popular episodes in season three and the series.[citation needed]
  • Atlantis is mentioned in this episode.
  • According to production art, this episode was going to be called "All Aboard."
  • This is the last episode to have aired on the Friday Night Party with the Nicktoons event.
  • According to The Ultimate SpongeBob SpongeBash marathon's Celebrity Favorites, this is Keke Palmer's favorite episode.
  • This marks the 100th episode segment of the series in production order.
  • Both this episode and its sister episode "Wet Painters" feature Mr. Krabs humming "Blow the Man Down."
  • Apparently, Mr. Krabs has a fleeting fear of robot overlords, which prevents him from adding much technology to the Krusty Krab.
  • Plankton's bot burger is also in Plankton, The Art of Evil character art PKTN 16,[3] SpongeBlogger (part of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie marketing campaign's Nickelodeon support)[4] Plan W,[5] Lights, Camera, Pants! Flippin' Out, The Chum Bucket LEGO set, SpongeBob's Atlantis SquarePantis SquareOff bot_burger.swf, Gary's Adventure, the Krusty Krab Attack Mega Bloks set, Pick-a-Path, and SpongeBob Simulator.
  • When Mr. Krabs picks up Plankton to flick him out of the restaurant, the latter's sped-up voice slowed down can be heard saying, "Felicitations, malefactors! I am in town to find my minions. And I know just how to speak their lang-" before being flicked.
    • This dialogue is later reused at its original speed in "Plankton's Army." It should be noted that the line featured in this episode is different than the line in "Plankton's Army," which is, "I'll canvas all the seediest lowbrow dives in town to find my minions. And I know just how to speak their language! Felicitations, malefactors! I am endeavoring to misappropriate the formulary for the preparation of affordable comestibles!"
    • The Malay version of this scene is rather different. Instead of having the scene being sped up, Plankton says "Beg to me, me, me, me, me... aaah!"[citation needed]
  • The "Training Manual" has the Hungarian flag colors.
  • SpongeBob is revealed to own a tape of the training video in "Appointment TV."
  • This is the first episode for a few things:
    • The first episode to be based as a training video. "Boat Smarts" is similar to this, though instead tackling the subject of a boater's education.
    • The first episode to reveal Mr. Krabs' naval past as a war veteran. However, it is never revealed which war he fought in.
    • The first episode where the closing credits use a different font and background.
      • During the closing credits, the words and names are now in a generic credit font and scroll up over a solid black background.
  • This is the second episode for two things:
    • The second episode to have a title card with a solid black background. The first was "F.U.N."
      • However, this title card is much more simplistic than any other episode's title card in the series.
    • The second episode where the opening credits are unique. The first was "SB-129."
  • This is the fourth episode for two things:
  • The fourth wall is broken a few times in this episode, mainly during the scenes in which the characters acknowledge the narrator.
    • SpongeBob asking or getting excited whenever the narrator brings up how to make a Krabby Patty, only for the narrator to stop him.
    • After the narrator refers to Squidward as the not so good employee, he is able to hear him and looks slightly offended.
    • Patrick getting scared when he hears the narrator's voice and referring to him as the "talking ceiling."
    • When Patrick is unable to decide what he wants to order, the narrator asks Squidward to remember the P.O.O.P. abbreviation, to which he acknowledges.
  • The following scenes from this episode have become internet memes:
    • SpongeBob checking his files so he can check if the ingredients are out of place.
    • The P.O.O.P. abbreviation.
    • Plankton's line "Not when I shift into maximum overdrive!"
    • The narrator introducing how to prepare the Krabby Patty.
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Plankton saying, "Eugene Harold Krabs" in the Only the Clonely comic strip.

  • Mr. Krabs' full name is revealed in this episode as Eugene H. Krabs.
  • Due to the nature of this episode parodying company training videos, the music used is mostly orchestral, with no Hawaiian-themed cues, and only one sea shanty cue, "Blow the Man Down," when briefly talking about Mr. Krabs' naval career.
  • The font used on the title card and credits is Arial Bold.
  • In the Malay dub, instead of having SpongeBob saying "Mr. Krabs, may I have a raise?," he asks "Mr. Krabs, may I ask?"[citation needed]
  • In the Polish dub, the episode's title is "Film szkoleniowy," which translates to "The Training Video."[citation needed]
    • In the German dub, this episode is called "Das Ausbildungsvideo," which also translates to "The Training Video."[citation needed]
    • In the Croatian dub, the episode's name is "Obuka za Rakovu Poslastic," which translates to "Training for Krusty Krab."[citation needed]
    • In the French dub, this episode is called "Tout ce qu'un employé doit savoir," which translates to "Everything an employee needs to know."[citation needed]
  • A clip from the episode where the narrator is talking about how the employees should always wash their hands before work was used in a 2020 bumper called "How To Wash Your Hands" that was made to remind people to wash their hands and be safe from the COVID-19 pandemic.[6]
  • For unknown reasons, this episode and its sister episode were rated 13+ on Amazon Prime Video in August 2020.
    • This has since been corrected as of October 2020, and the episode is back to being rated its original TV-Y7 rating on Amazon Prime Video.
  • Due to time constraints and the amount of commercials, when the episode was first aired in the Filipino dub in the channel ABS-CBN, some scenes were cut, such as the giraffe, the "Hoopla!" fish scene, the scenes with Patrick and Squidward, and the realistic Krabby Patty zooming were cut out.[citation needed] The last of these scenes were aired normally in the Yey! version.[citation needed]
  • In TV airings from 2002 to 2006, the logo from the Nickelodeon animated series Rugrats - the 1998 Klasky Csupo logo, which features their mascot Splaat - appears instead of the normal United Plankton Pictures, Inc. logo. The reason the wrong logo was inserted is that the show's closing credits were electronically inserted alongside promos from other Nickelodeon programming and the show's closing logos. When the data was entered for this episode, the wrong credits were programmed in. Video evidence can be seen here.
  • On the November 10, 2006 airing, this episode was paired with "F.U.N.."[7]
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The flashback of Mr. Krabs as a kid as seen in "Ain't That the Tooth."

Cultural references[]

  • The music playing during two photo montages of the Krusty Krab being shown is "Quest for the Best 1," which is a parody of "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor.
  • At one point, a young Mr. Krabs is humming the tune of "Blow the Man Down," the sea shanty on which the SpongeBob SquarePants theme song is based off.
  • The sign in the bathroom written in English ("Please Wash Your Fins") and Spanish ("Lave Las Aletas") is a parody of other similar signs found in public retail stores.
  • When Mr. Krabs says "The money is always right," it is a parody of "The customer is always right," a common phrase in business used to prevent profit-damaging quarrels between customers and staff.

Errors[]

  • The narrator says, "The store closes at six," but the Krusty Krab is a restaurant, not a store. So, he should have said, "The restaurant closes at six."
    • Mr. Krabs makes the exact same mistake in "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V."
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Krasty Krab.

  • In the Bengali dub's title card, "Krusty Krab" is misspelled as "Krasty Krab."
  • In the Filipino dub, the secret formula is called Lihim na Formula (secret formula). In other episodes, it is called Sikretong Sangkap (secret ingredient).
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Two enter signs.

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SpongeBob's smaller nose.

  • In the first exterior shot of the Krusty Krab, there appears to be two enter signs.
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Krusty Suprem.

  • In the very beginning, on the Galley Grub, "Krusty Supreme" is misspelled as "Krusty Suprem." There is no price for the "Krusty Supreme" and the text is distorted.
  • The graph, which shows the financial performance of the Krusty Krab, has the axis featuring the profits inverted, so the Krusty Krab's profits are actually going down.
    • However, the X-axis on the graph is labeled power rather than time, and the y-axis is entirely unlabeled. While the graph initially seems to display profit, it actually seems to display nothing at all.
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The Krabby Patty sign is shown on the Rusty Krab window on the left; The Galley Grub is also seen.

  • The Rusty Krab has a Krabby Patty sign in the window, even though it was not being sold at that time. The Galley Grub sign can be seen also with the kitchen window.
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Krabby Pattie.

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The customers, along with Patrick and Squidward are missing.

  • In the second montage of still photos of the Krusty Krab, the ninth picture shows the menu that has "Krabby Patty" misspelled as "Krabby Pattie."
    • This exact error also occurs in "Pickles."
  • When the spatula, cash register, straw, and ketchup packets begin to spin around, SpongeBob's nose is much shorter during the close-up shot.
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The Galley Grub is missing.

  • When Incidental 40 is ordering a Krabby Patty, the "Galley Grub" is missing.
  • The sign in the bathroom that reads "Please Wash Your Fins" and "Lave Las Aletas" has a slight translation error. The Spanish phrase "Lave Las Aletas" translates to "Wash The Fins," while it should read "Por Favor Lave Las Aletas," which translates to "Please Wash The Fins," or for a more accurate translation, "Por Favor Lave Sus Aletas," which translates to "Please Wash Your Fins."
  • When four robotic arms come out from the bot burger which starts to walk, the bot burger neither just simply falls nor jumps from the table to the floor. Instead, it just simply walks straight from the table to the floor.
  • In this episode, Plankton's eyelid is dark green, but in other episodes from the first three seasons, it is the same color as his deep-green body.
    • Plankton's dark green eyelid would become standard from Season 4 onwards.
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Plankton's dark green eyelid.

  • When Mr. Krabs throws Plankton back to the Chum Bucket, nobody is seen running the register, nor are there any customers, but in the next shot, Squidward and Patrick are seen.
    • In the same shot, Plankton's mouth is not moving even though he is still heard speaking.
  • When SpongeBob acts like a dog, his tongue detaches from his mouth for a couple of frames.


Videos[]

References[]

Awards and nominations for SpongeBob SquarePants VE

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Best Sound Editing in Television Animation – Music

Nominees: Stephen Hillenburg, Donna Castricone, Nicholas R. Jennings, Alan Smart, Peter Burns, Doug Lawrence, Derek Drymon, Alex Gordon, Donna Grillo, Jennie Monica, Krandal Crews, Jim Leber, Justin Brinsfield, Tony Ostyn, Nicolas Carr (for "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy"/"Pickles;" 2000)Nicolas Carr (for "Fools in April"/"Neptune's Spatula" in 2001; for "Jellyfish Hunter"/"The Fry Cook Games" in 2002; for "Wet Painters"/"Krusty Krab Training Video" in 2003; for "The Great Snail Race"/"Mid-Life Crustacean" in 2004) • Jimmy Lifton, D.J. Lynch, Jeff Hutchins, Tony Ostyn and Paulette Lifton (for "Mid-Life Crustacean;" 2004)

Best Sound Editing in Television Animation – Sound

Nominees: Nicolas Carr (for "Karate Choppers;" 2000) • Andrea Anderson, Jimmy Lifton, Monette Holderer, D.J. Lynch, Vincent Gutisetti, Jeff Hutchins and Gabriel Rosas (for "Rock Bottom"/"Arrgh!;" 2001)

Best Sound Editing in Television – Animation

Nominees: Timothy J. Borquez, Jeff Hutchins and Daisuke Sawa (for "The Secret Box"/"Band Geeks;" 2002)

Best Sound Editing in Television Animation

Nominees: Jimmy Lifton, Jeff Hutchins, Tony Ostyn and Chris Gresham (for "Nasty Patty"/"Idiot Box;" 2003)

Best Sound Editing in Television: Animated

Nominees: Jimmy Lifton, Nicolas Carr, D.J. Lynch, Jeff Hutchins, Tony Ostyn, Chris Gresham and Paulette Lifton (for "Pranks a Lot"/"SpongeBob Meets the Strangler;" 2005) • Vincent Gutisetti, Jimmy Lifton, Nicolas Carr, Monique Reymond, D.J. Lynch, Mark Howlett, Jeff Hutchins, Aran Tanchum, Mishelle Smith and Paulette Lifton (for "Have You Seen This Snail?;" 2006)Nicolas Carr, Mishelle Fordham, Monette Becktold, Jeff Hutchins, Timothy J. Borquez, Tom Syslo, Jason Stiff, Tony Orozco and Kimberlee Vanek (for "SpongeHenge;" 2008)

Best Sound Editing: Television Animation

Nominees: : Chiho Oyamada Carr, Nicolas Carr, Mishelle Fordham, Daisuke Sawa, Monette Becktold, Jeff Hutchins, Timothy J. Borquez, Tom Syslo, Eric Freeman, Dan Cubert, Lawrence Reyes, Jason Stiff, Tony Orozco and Kimberlee Vanek (for "Suction Cup Symphony;" 2009) • Chino Oyamada Carr, Nicolas Carr, Mishelle Fordham, Monette Becktold, Jeff Hutchins, Timothy J. Borquez, Eric Freeman, Tom Syslo, Keith Dickens, Jason Stiff, Sergio Silva, Tony Orozco and Kimberlee Vanek (for "SpongeBob SquarePants vs. The Big One;" 2010)

Best Sound Editing – Sound Effects, Foley, Dialogue and ADR Animation in Television

Nominees: Devon Bowman, Justin Brinsfield, Nicolas Carr, Andrea Anderson, Mishelle Fordham, Monette Becktold, Jeff Hutchins, Eric Freeman, Tony Orozco and Danny Tchibinda (for "Gary's New Toy;" 2013) • Mishelle Fordham, Monette Becktold, Jeff Hutchins, Timothy J. Borquez, Tom Syslo, Eric Freeman, Bobby Crew, Keith Dickens, Gabriel Rossas and Tony Orozco (for "It's a SpongeBob Christmas!;" 2013)

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