SpongeBob vs. The Patty Gadget

SpongeBob vs. The Patty Gadget
General
Production code:	151-515-4 (515b)
Season №:	5
Episode №:	88b
Airdate:	July 31, 2007 September 4, 2007 November 2, 2007 December 10, 2007 February 2, 2008 See more... June 14, 2007 July 11, 2007 October 10, 2007 October 24, 2007 October 28, 2007 December 15, 2007 January 5, 2008 March 1, 2008 March 7, 2008 (SRF ZWEI) May 11, 2008 May 28, 2008 May 30, 2008 (Orf 1) November 29, 2008 (Star Channel) December 4, 2008 December 4, 2008 February 2, 2009 (EBS) August 27, 2009 March 31, 2010 May 2, 2010 December 6, 2010 (QTV) February 7, 2012 (Nickelodeon) April 30, 2018 (PLUS PLUS) May 22, 2018 (TET) October 29, 2020 February 21, 2022 May 20, 2022
U.S. premiere time (ET):	5:00 pm
Copyright year:	2007
U.S. viewers (millions):	3.46
Running time:	4 minutes
Sister episode(s):	"Money Talks" "Slimy Dancing"
Credits
Guest(s):	Paul Tibbitt as King Neptune
Writer(s):	Luke Brookshier Richard Pursel
Supervising Producer(s):	Paul Tibbitt
Storyboard:	Luke Brookshier
Animation:	Alan Smart
Creative:	Vincent Waller
Chronology
Previous	"Money Talks"
Next	"Slimy Dancing"

"SpongeBob vs. The Patty Gadget" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 5. In this episode, Squidward builds a machine that cooks Krabby Patties.

Characters

• Patchy the Pirate ^(narrator)
• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Patrick Star
• Sandy Cheeks
• Patty Gadget ^{(single appearance)}
• Squidward Tentacles
• Eugene H. Krabs
• Incidentals
  • Anchovies
    • Incidental 114
    • Incidental 115
  • Incidental 48
  • Incidental 69
  • Incidental 92
  • Don the Whale
  • Incidental 14
  • Steven
  • Incidental 37A
  • Incidental 67
  • Incidental 5
  • Incidental 37B
  • Incidental 102
  • Incidental 41
  • Incidental 60
  • Incidental 46
  • Incidental 49
  • Incidental 73
  • Incidental 152
  • Incidental 45
  • Incidental 103
  • Charlie
  • Carol
  • Incidental 47
  • Sandals
  • Incidental 64
  • Incidental 108
  • Incidental 105
  • Incidental 107
  • Incidental 12
• King Neptune ^(cameo)

Synopsis

Squidward has his gadget go against SpongeBob.

Patchy the Pirate is back, and reads a story about Squidward and SpongeBob. Squidward invents the machine, that he calls the Patty Gadget, and he insists that Mr. Krabs should fire SpongeBob because it can make patties faster and Mr. Krabs does not have to pay for it. Then, SpongeBob declares a Krabby Patty war against the Patty Gadget.

First, SpongeBob seems to be faster, but the machine is not an easy challenge for him. Everyone is enjoying the fight, except for Patrick, who has to go to the bathroom.

The Patty Gadget explodes.

Squidward then gets worried and, in a state of panic, breaks the handle of the Patty Gadget, causing it to overload and for Squidward to run off. Despite this, SpongeBob keeps pace and eventually overwhelms the machine, causing it to explode in defeat. The blast from the explosion was so loud that the noise woke King Neptune up from his nap. However, SpongeBob collapses from exhaustion after winning the fight.

A short memorial service is held, giving the appearance that SpongeBob has passed. Tears come out of everyone, though Squidward is the most upset of all. Suddenly, after everyone leaves the grave, SpongeBob appears, briefly mourns, and celebrates his victory, revealing that the grave is for the Patty Gadget (which explains Squidward's own sadness). Patchy closes the book with the picture of the machine's tombstone and then a "The End" beside it. Patchy then mentions he has to go and polish his hook, as the episode ends.

Production

Music

( ‣ ) Production music

( • ) Original music

( ◦ ) SpongeBob music

 • Drunken Sailor - Nicolas Carr [Title card]
 • Fry Cook Ballad A - Nicolas Carr, Steve Marston [Opening/The patty gadget revealed]
 • Steel Licks 22 - Jeremy Wakefield [Squidward's acne]
 ‣ Tripping Upstairs - Brian Peters ["What is this contraption you've hauled into me place?"]
 • Fry Cook Ballad B - Nicolas Carr, Steve Marston ["The machine wanted his job."]
 ‣ Sea Battle [#49] - John Fox ["Squidward pulled the big lever, and sat back and watched feeling oh, so quite clever."]
 ‣ Sea Battle [#44] - John Fox [SpongeBob making Krabby Patties]
 ‣ The Jovial Buccaneers [#36.02] - John Fox ["I won't lose to that thing!"]
 ‣ Pirate Ship - David Farnon [gadget explodes]
 ‣ The Jovial Buccaneers [#38] - John Fox ["It was all over, finished and done."]
 ‣ The Jovial Buccaneers [#36] - John Fox [SpongeBob collapses.]
 • Shanty Dirge - Nicolas Carr, Steve Marston [tombstone]
 • Drunken Sailor Jig - Nicolas Carr, Steve Marston [patty gadget buried underground]
 • Fry Cook Ballad Closer - Nicolas Carr, Steve Marston [ending]

Release

• This episode is available on the Season 5 Volume 1, SpongeBob's Atlantis SquarePantis, SpongeBob's Pest of the West (UK version), SpongeBob StarPants, First 100 Episodes, Best of SpongeBob, Really Big Box Set, SpongeBob's Legendary Adventures, The Ultimate SpongeBob Box Set, SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 7, The SpongeBob Super Square Collection, Complete Fifth Season, From the Beginning, Part 2, The SpongeBob SquarePants Collection, Bikini Bottom Tales, Welcome Aboard, Time Travel, The SpongeBob SquarePants 8 Season DVD Collection, Favorite Episodes Volume 2, The Best 200 Episodes Ever, and The Fifth & Sixth Seasons DVDs.

Trivia

General

• At the beginning of this episode, Patchy opens a book. Its cover reads "The Legend of SpongeBob SquarePants". A similar book title is later seen on the "Legends of Bikini Bottom" episodes, and the title card of this episode is reused in those episodes as the frame for the title cards of the "Legends of Bikini Bottom" episodes.
• On the episode's title card, the title text on the book cover reading "The Legend of SpongeBob SquarePants", and "The End" text on the book's last page respectively, every beginning capital letter of a word is in red text, while the rest of the letters are blue.
• The story "The Legend of SpongeBob SquarePants" was not a real book, but it looked like one in this episode.
• This episode proves that Squidward does know the recipe for the Krabby Patty. In past episodes, Squidward says he does not know the recipe at all.
• Squidward is revealed to have a bad case of acne.
• Patchy narrates the story in a way similar to a poem, with words rhyming after every line.
• This is the first non-special episode to feature Patchy the Pirate.
  • This is also the only short to date with Patchy in it.
• This is the second episode to contain a title of two characters versing each other, the first being "Krabs vs. Plankton."
• Squidward and Mr. Krabs are the only characters to speak to each other in the episode. All of the other characters' dialogues, SpongeBob included, were interspersed with Patchy's narration.
• This episode marks one of few times where Patchy appears without Potty the Parrot.
• The clip of SpongeBob inhaling the patties at the grill was used in "Up next" bumpers from 2009-2012.

Dub facts

• In the Indonesian dub, Patchy is also confused when SpongeBob isn’t buried.

Cultural references

• The episode's plot is similar to the folktale "John Henry." In both cases, the main character races against a machine while performing the same task.
  • This is due to a proposition: SpongeBob battles the patty gadget to keep his job; John Henry fights a railway steam drill for an ownership of land being worked on.
  • Just like how SpongeBob faints after winning the battle, John Henry passed away due to exhaustion.

Errors

• Patchy says 20 patties, but there are actually 15.
  • Also, SpongeBob puts patties on the grill, but a few seconds later, the patties he put on the grill are gone and he puts on more.

The lever would be broken by now.

• In Squidward's final attempt to beat SpongeBob, he breaks the lever on the patty gadget, but just before the machine explodes, the lever is in one piece again.
• The amount of fish inside of the Krusty Krab changes throughout the episode.
• After the scene where SpongeBob faints, there is a normal-sized grave. In the next scene, it is smaller.
• The flowers on the grave slightly move when the camera pans down to the buried patty gadget.
• When Patchy says, "It was all over, finished and done," the patty gadget is completely destroyed. But later when he says, "You thought SpongeBob was buried down there? They just buried the gadget!," there are just some holes in it.
• In the closing credits to this episode, Tom Kenny, who played Patchy the Pirate, is uncredited.

Videos

Nickelodeon Split Screen Credits (July 27, 2007)

Nickelodeon Split Screen Credits (August 3, 2007)