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Episode Information
General
Season №:	4
Episode №:	65a
Airdate:	September 23, 2005
Best Day Ever Rank:	#9
Credits
Writer(s):	Zeus Cervas Erik Wiese Tim Hill
Chronology
Previous:	Good Neighbors
Next:	Funny Pants
List of episodes
Select show to expand. Season 1 1. Help Wanted / Reef Blower / Tea at the Treedome 2. Bubblestand / Ripped Pants 3. Jellyfishing / Plankton! 4. Naughty Nautical Neighbors / Boating School 5. Pizza Delivery / Home Sweet Pineapple 6. Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy / Pickles 7. Hall Monitor / Jellyfish Jam 8. Sandy's Rocket / Squeaky Boots 9. Nature Pants / Opposite Day 10. Culture Shock / F.U.N. 11. MuscleBob BuffPants / Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost 12. The Chaperone / Employee of the Month 13. Scaredy Pants / I Was a Teenage Gary 14. SB-129 / Karate Choppers 15. Sleepy Time / Suds 16. Valentine's Day / The Paper 17. Arrgh! / Rock Bottom 18. Texas / Walking Small 19. Fools in April / Neptune's Spatula 20. Hooky / Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy II Season 2 21. Your Shoe's Untied / Squid's Day Off 22. Something Smells / Bossy Boots 23. Big Pink Loser / Bubble Buddy 24. Dying for Pie / Imitation Krabs 25. Wormy / Patty Hype 26. Grandma's Kisses / Squidville 27. Prehibernation Week / Life of Crime 28. Christmas Who? 29. Survival of the Idiots / Dumped 30. No Free Rides / I'm Your Biggest Fanatic 31. Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy III / Squirrel Jokes 32. Pressure / The Smoking Peanut 33. Shanghaied / Gary Takes a Bath 34. Welcome to the Chum Bucket / Frankendoodle 35. The Secret Box / Band Geeks 36. Graveyard Shift / Krusty Love 37. Procrastination / I'm with Stupid 38. Sailor Mouth / Artist Unknown 39. Jellyfish Hunter / The Fry Cook Games 40. Squid on Strike / Sandy, SpongeBob, and the Worm Season 3 41. The Algae's Always Greener / SpongeGuard on Duty 42. Club SpongeBob / My Pretty Seahorse 43. The Bully / Just One Bite 44. Nasty Patty / Idiot Box 45. Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV / Doing Time 46. Snowball Effect / One Krab's Trash 47. As Seen on TV / Can You Spare a Dime? 48. No Weenies Allowed / Squilliam Returns 49. Krab Borg / Rock-a-Bye Bivalve 50. Wet Painters / Krusty Krab Training Video 51. Party Pooper Pants 52. Chocolate with Nuts / Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V 53. New Student Starfish / Clams 54. Ugh 55. The Great Snail Race / Mid-Life Crustacean 56. Born Again Krabs / I Had an Accident 57. Krabby Land / The Camping Episode 58. Missing Identity / Plankton's Army 59. The Sponge Who Could Fly 60. SpongeBob Meets the Strangler / Pranks a Lot Season 4 61. Fear of a Krabby Patty / Shell of a Man 62. The Lost Mattress / Krabs vs. Plankton 63. Have You Seen This Snail? 64. Skill Crane / Good Neighbors 65. Selling Out / Funny Pants 66. Dunces and Dragons 67. Enemy In-Law / Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy VI: The Motion Picture 68. Patrick SmartPants / SquidBob TentaclePants 69. Krusty Towers / Mrs. Puff, You're Fired 70. Ghost Host / Chimps Ahoy 71. Whale of a Birthday / Karate Island 72. All That Glitters / Wishing You Well 73. New Leaf / Once Bitten 74. Bummer Vacation / Wigstruck 75. Squidtastic Voyage / That's No Lady 76. The Thing / Hocus Pocus 77. Driven to Tears / Rule of Dumb 78. Born to Be Wild / Best Frenemies 79. The Pink Purloiner / Squid Wood 80. Best Day Ever / The Gift of Gum Season 5 81. Friend or Foe 82. The Original Fry Cook / Night Light 83. Rise and Shine / Waiting / Fungus Among Us 84. Spy Buddies / Boat Smarts / Good Ol' Whatshisname 85. New Digs / Krabs à la Mode 86. Roller Cowards / Bucket Sweet Bucket 87. To Love a Patty / Breath of Fresh Squidward 88. Money Talks / SpongeBob vs. the Patty Gadget / Slimy Dancing 89. The Krusty Sponge / Sing a Song of Patrick 90. A Flea in Her Dome / The Donut of Shame / The Krusty Plate 91. Goo Goo Gas / Le Big Switch 92. Atlantis SquarePantis 93. Picture Day / Pat No Pay / BlackJack 94. Blackened Sponge / Mermaid Man vs. SpongeBob 95. The Inmates of Summer / To Save a Squirrel 96. Pest of the West 97. 20,000 Patties Under the Sea / The Battle of Bikini Bottom 98. What Ever Happened to SpongeBob? 99. The Two Faces of Squidward / SpongeHenge 100. Banned in Bikini Bottom / Stanley S. SquarePants Season 6 101. House Fancy / Krabby Road 102. Penny Foolish / Nautical Novice 103. Spongicus / Suction Cup Symphony 104. Not Normal / Gone 105. The Splinter / Slide Whistle Stooges 106. A Life in a Day / Sun Bleached 107. Giant Squidward / No Nose Knows 108. Patty Caper / Plankton's Regular 109. Boating Buddies / The Krabby Kronicle 110. The Slumber Party / Grooming Gary 111. SpongeBob SquarePants vs. The Big One 112. Porous Pockets / Choir Boys 113. Krusty Krushers / The Card 114. Dear Vikings / Ditchin' 115. Grandpappy the Pirate / Cephalopod Lodge 116. Squid's Visit / To SquarePants or Not to SquarePants 117. Shuffleboarding / Professor Squidward 118. Pet or Pests / Komputer Overload 119. Gullible Pants / Overbooked 120. No Hat for Pat / Toy Store of Doom 121. Sand Castles in the Sand / Shell Shocked 122. Chum Bucket Supreme / Single Cell Anniversary 123. & 124. Truth or Square 125. Pineapple Fever / Chum Caverns 126. The Clash of Triton Season 7 127. Tentacle-Vision / I ♥ Dancing 128. Growth Spout / Stuck in the Wringer 129. Someone's in the Kitchen with Sandy / The Inside Job 130. Greasy Buffoons / Model Sponge 131. Keep Bikini Bottom Beautiful / A Pal for Gary 132. Yours, Mine and Mine / Kracked Krabs 133. The Curse of Bikini Bottom / Squidward in Clarinetland 134. SpongeBob's Last Stand 135. Back to the Past / The Bad Guy Club for Villains 136. A Day Without Tears / Summer Job 137. One Coarse Meal / Gary in Love 138. The Play's the Thing / Rodeo Daze 139. Gramma's Secret Recipe / The Cent of Money 140. The Monster Who Came to Bikini Bottom / Welcome to the Bikini Bottom Triangle 141. The Curse of the Hex / The Main Drain 142. Trenchbillies / Sponge-Cano! 143. The Great Patty Caper 144. That Sinking Feeling / Karate Star 145. Buried in Time / Enchanted Tiki Dreams 146. The Abrasive Side / Earworm 147. Hide and Then What Happens? / Shellback Shenanigans 148. The Masterpiece / Whelk Attack 149. You Don't Know Sponge / Tunnel of Glove 150. Krusty Dogs / The Wreck of the Mauna Loa 151. New Fish in Town / Love That Squid 152. Big Sister Sam / Perfect Chemistry Season 8 153. Accidents Will Happen / The Other Patty 154. Drive Thru / The Hot Shot 155. A Friendly Game / Sentimental Sponge 156. Frozen Face-Off 157. Squidward's School for Grown Ups / Oral Report 158. Sweet and Sour Squid / The Googly Artiste 159. A SquarePants Family Vacation 160. Patrick’s Staycation / Walking the Plankton 161. Mooncation / Mr. Krabs Takes a Vacation 162. Ghoul Fools 163. Mermaid Man Begins / Plankton's Good Eye 164. Barnacle Face / Barnacle Face 165. House Sittin' for Sandy / Smoothe Jazz at Bikini Bottom 166. The Way of the Sponge / Bubble Troubles 167. The Krabby Patty That Ate Bikini Bottom / Bubble Buddy Returns 168. Restraining SpongeBob / Fiasco! 169. Are You Happy Now? / Planet of the Jellyfish 170. Free Samples / Home Sweet Rubble 171. Karen 2.0 / InSPONGEiac 172. Face Freeze! / Glove World R.I.P. 173. Squiditis / Demolition Doofus 174. Treats! / For Here or To Go

Selling Out is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season four. In this episode, Mr. Krabs retires and leaves the Krusty Krab under new management.

Time/Date:

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

Characters Present:

• Mr. Krabs
• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Carl (debut)
• Squidward Tentacles
• Howard Blandy
• Howard Blandy's Partners
• Pearl Krabs
• Human Resources Guy
• Krusty Krab Customers
• Krabby O' Mondays Customers
  • Mable
  • Lenny
  • Lifeguard fish
  • Vera (paid $1 to Eugene H. Krabs)

Songs:

• Cha-Ching

• Krabby O'Mondays Birthday Song

Contents 1 Plot 2 Transcript 3 Quotes 4 Trivia/Goofs/Errors

PlotEdit

An extremely rich man named Howard Blandy (The show's parody of Donald Trump) 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. Then Mr Krabs presses the cash register when dollar bills appear in the whole screen, making it black and the episode ends.

TranscriptEdit

Main article: Selling Out (transcript)

QuotesEdit

• 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 ride that bicycle I got 30 years ago... or visit the new hook museum downtown, or even paint bowls of fruit! Aren't ye happy for me?

SpongeBob: I sure 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: (angrily) 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! (kisses the ground before him)

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.

Trivia/Goofs/ErrorsEdit

• This episode and the episode paired with it are the first paired episodes not to air on 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, Beef O,Brady'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 reference to Greenblatt's first name, Carl.
• During when Mr. Krabs was singing, you will notice a bird in the ocean.
• Howard Blandy bears a passing resemblance to billionaire Donald Trump, even wearing his blonde hair in a combover hairstyle.
• In this episode, Carl mentions to Squidward that if he does not provide service with a smile, he will be sent to Human Resources. However, almost every character in the show itself is a fish or other kind of sea creature, so this was most likely an error.
• This is the only episode to show wood on the title card other than "Wet Painters" and the "The Krusty Sponge".
• In the scene were they show customers in the K.O.M, the Survival of the Idiots title theme comes on.
• When this episode aired, it used the UPPI logo. But when Funny Pants aired, the a.k.a. Cartoon logo was accidentally used in a closing logo flaw. Today, both episodes are using the United Plankton logo.
• When the Krabby O'Mondays is being flooded by the Synthetic Patties, it is revealed that Mable wears a wig.
• This is the 125th single episode.
• The synthetic patties may be clam or jellyfish manure as the substance closely relates to the manure seen in Sleepy Time and Pest of the West.
• 39th time Patrick doesn't appear.
• When Howard Blandy and his partner said: (Howard: It's ruined! Partner: We'll have to sell it. We'll be lucky if we get a fraction of what we paid for it. [Mr. Krabs drives up with boat full of suitcases] ) And Mr.Krabs said: I'll buy it for full price. Didn't he spend some of those buying hooks, playing golf?
• World of Goo is a game by 2D Boy, Ron Carmel and Kyle Gabler. The scene where World of Goo Corporation is destroyed, it actually resembles this episode where the Krabby O' Mondays gets destroyed, this was previously used in Employee of the Month.
• Mr. Krabs asked Blandy "Do I still get the money?", Blandy said "Of course", but the subtitles say "Yes".
• Since Mr. Krabs is obsessed with money, it's unusual that he'd buy back his restaurant at full price, when Howard Blandy had just suggested a lower cost (a fraction). Add to this the great sum of money needed to repair the damages.
• When Mr. Krabs sings, he suggests that he loves money and greed more than Pearl.
• Cha-Ching is a parody of the "Mary Poppins" song, "Chim Chim Cher-oo".
• The Krabby O'Mondays patties being made with grey glop may be a reference to McDonald's using "pink slime" in their burgers. However, McDonald's discontinued the use of pink slime, and other fast-food chains followed suit.
• This is the first episode where spongebob's eyes are not blue.