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SpongeBob SquarePants episode
"Selling Out"
Chronology
Information
Season №: 4
Episode №: 65a
Airdate: September 23, 2005
Best Day Ever Rank: #9
Credits
Writer(s): Zeus Cervas
Erik Wiese
Tim Hill
Directors
Episode List
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"Selling Out" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season four.

Brief Summary: Mr. Krabs decides to sell the Krusty Krab, because of Howard Blandy's money offer, which puts SpongeBob and Squidward in the hands of an insane new management.

Time/Date:

  • 11:55 AM: Mr. Krabs is shown lying in his hammock.

Characters Present:

Songs:

  • Cha-Ching
Cha-Ching, Cha-Ching, Cha-Chingaree
Money oh money, how I love thee
Cha-Ching, Cha-Chong, Cha-Changaroo
From pennies to dollars, any amount'll do
Cha-Ching, Cha-Ching, it's no contest
There's only one thing that I love the best
From every sight I've ever seen to the sweetest sound I've heard
I'd gladly give up everything for all the money that I've earned
Cha-Ching, Cha-Ching, Cha-Chingaree
There's nothing on Earth like the feeling of greed
There's nothing on Earthhhhhh like the feeling of greeeeeed

(chortles)

  • Krabby O'Mondays Birthday Song (Never finished)
Happy-Happy Birthday
Happy-Happy Birthday

Contents

Plot

An extremely rich man named Howard Blandy comes into the restaurant and asks Eugene H. Krabs to retire for a large sum of money. Mr. Krabs happily accepts, leaving SpongeBob SquarePants and Squidward Tentacles with a simple "See you around," causing SpongeBob to cry hysterically. Afterwards, a new manager called Carl the Fish comes to them, renaming the Krusty Krab "Krabby O'Monday's." Mr. Krabs drives by, but ignores it, instead going to the newly opened Bikini Bottom Hook Museum, then when he is trying to paint a bowl of fruit, he actually paints a bowl of Krabby Patties, followed by a round of golf, however, he then realizes that he hates golf. Mr. Krabs has done everything he wanted to do and decides to go home, where he realizes he has nothing to do. He tries to talk to his daughter Pearl, but Pearl kicks Mr. Krabs out of the house and tells him to get a job. Downtrodden, Mr. Krabs goes to the beach to look for a job, but hits a glass door, with a sign saying "Help Wanted." It is one of the glass doors of the Krabby O' Monday's, so he goes inside to take a look at what job is vacated.

Meanwhile, Carl wants Squidward to have more spirit, so he threatens Squidward with a muscular Human Resources guy if he doesn't continually smile. Fearful, Squidward continues his work with a forced smile. Mr. Krabs gets a job at the Krabby O'Mondays working as a busboy, listening to SpongeBob complain about the problems. The problems are that the patties are processed and there is an automated cash register, with no-one watching it. Angered, Mr. Krabs complains, only to be ignored by Carl. He also finds out how the new patties are synthetically engineered, fake and disgusting. Now furious, Mr. Krabs shows the customers what the food is actually made of and the customers find out that the patties are made out of gray material. So they run away, making the restaurant unpopular. Mr. Krabs plugs the fake patty maker up, but escaping, processing slush and the pressurized air inside cause the whole restaurant to explode. Mr. Krabs retakes ownership of the destroyed restaurant by giving all his money back to Howard Blandy and renames it to "The Krusty Krab", saying that he got back the love of his "two best friends", that is, until the episode ends with a demand for Squidward and SpongeBob to clean up the mess.

Transcript

Main article: Selling Out (transcript)

Trivia

  • This episode and the episode paired with it are the first paired episodes to not air at the same date.
  • Krabby O'Mondays is possibly a cross between the fictional Krusty Krab and real-life casual dining restaurants like O'Charley's and especially TGI Friday's. The employees all wear colorful lapel buttons on their vests. The restaurant also has red-and-white pinstripe tables, which used to be a trademark of TGI Friday's.
  • C.H. Greenblatt voices Carl, manager of the Krabby O'Mondays. This may be a possible reference to Greenblatt's first name, Carl.
  • The "Cha-Ching, Cha-Ching" song is a parody of the song in Mary Poppins, "Chim Chimeney"; the lyrics are very similar.
  • Howard Blandy bears a passing resemblance to billionaire Donald Trump, even wearing his blonde hair in a combover hairstyle.
  • "Where's the love?" is a possible reference to "Where's the beef?".
  • This is the only episode to show wood on the title card other than "The Krusty Sponge".
  • In the scene were they show customers in the K.O.M, the Survival of the Idiots title theme comes on.
  • Despite the fact that the characters are all fish or mollusks, the Krabby O'Mondays has a "Human Resources" department, apparently manned by a heavily muscled thug of a fish. Maybe the writers thought that "Fish Resources" would just sound too weird.

Quotes

  • SpongeBob: Mr. Krabs? Where are you going?
  • Mr. Krabs: I'm retirin', lad!
  • SpongeBob: Retiring?
  • Mr. Krabs: Sure! I'm free to do whatever I want! Like..visit the new hook museum, or paint BOWLS OF FRUIT! Aren't ye happy for me?
  • SpongeBob: I sure I am, Mr. Krabs! (Crying) Have fun, sir.
  • Squidward: Heaven knows I won't.
  • Squidward: They're watching us.(Carl stares at him, while a dramatic theme plays in the backround)
  • Mr. Krabs: What have you done with the real Squidward??
  • Carl: The less you know, Eugene, the better!
  • SpongeBob: (About the Krabby Patties made out of grey goo) Where's the love?
  • Carl: (Speaking into radio transmitter) Mr. Blandy? Code red! Free thinker!
  • Carl: (Floating away in the substitution Krabby Patty river) (To Howard Blandy) Does this mean I won't get that raise, sir?
  • Mr. Krabs: (Putting on a golf green) Wait a minute! I hate golf!
  • Mr. Krabs: (Lying Down at home, depressed) Well, I've done everything I can think of. (Pick up clock) And it's not even noon.
  • Mr. Krabs: Hey, Carl, what have you done with me restaurant? Processed Krabby Patties?! COMPUTERIZED REGISTERS?!?!
  • Carl: Look around you. Our customers are quite content with the contrived, and the mediocre. (A customer falls asleep in his seat.)

Mr. Krabs: That's because they don't know what they're eating!

  • Mr. Krabs: (To a grinning SpongeBob) Uh, okay, son, you're starting to creep me out.
  • (Mr. Krabs sees how the Krabby Patties are being administered on a conveyor belt.)
  • Mr. Krabs: (Furious) This is obscene!
  • Pearl Krabs: I'm talking on the Phone!
  • Howard Blandy: Mr. Krabs, is there a problem?
  • Mr. Krabs: You better believe there's a problem! I used to kiss the ground you walked on, Blandy, but after seeing this, I wouldn't even *spit* in your direction! Krabby Patties are supposed to be made by hand, one at a time! Not on a conveyor belt!
  • (An alarm sounds just then. Gray matter oozes out from beneath the closed kitchen door.)
  • Carl: Oh, my.
  • Howard Blandy: Allow me to introduce myself. (Giving Mr. Krabs a business card) Howard Blandy, President of the Blandy Franchising Company.
  • Mr. Krabs: You mean Howard Blandy? The Howard Blandy that mastered the hostile takeover of every single family owned business in Bikini Bottom? That Howard Blandy? I WORSHIP YOU!
  • Howard Blandy: (Slaps him) Get it together a little, man.
  • Mr. Krabs: Sorry. It's just that...(Whispers) you're rich.

Carl:(holding up a manual)Eugene you're in violation of your contract.

APM Music Identification

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