The Splinter

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Characters

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Squidward Tentacles
• Eugene H. Krabs
• Patrick Star
• Nat Peterson
• Billy

Synopsis

The Krusty Krab opens at a seemingly average morning and SpongeBob is extremely happy. He gets the Krabby Patties ready and soon gets an order of two Krabby Patties plus an insult from Squidward, which is to no effect. His excitement eventually causes him to accidentally throw his spatula into the ceiling and when trying to get it out, he falls, nearly being injured by scissors and swords.

Upon landing, all is well but he trips on tartar sauce. His thumb drags across the wooden floor and rams into a small slab that breaks in half, giving him a splinter that immediately makes his thumb red and swollen. His weak arms keep him from getting it out and even biting it doesn't work. The customer that ordered earlier is turning impatient and the splinter keeps SpongeBob from holding the spatula needed to serve him. He decides to tie it on his nose and Squidward soon finds out about it.

Squidward then convinces SpongeBob that he will get sent home by Mr. Krabs if he sees the splinter and flushes his hat and spatula down the toilet. SpongeBob begs Squidward not to get him sent home, but is unsuccessful. Squidward also hints that he'll tell Mr. Krabs about the splinter. After Squidward gets his full enjoyment about the situation, Mr. Krabs drives a customer away with his cheap behavior.

SpongeBob calls Patrick to get treated for it, but the treatment only ends up with his splinter further into his thumb, making it swell more and even infecting it. SpongeBob soon runs into Mr. Krabs and Squidward. Mr. Krabs soon sees the splinter and takes it out, curing him and causing an eruption of pus to impact Mr. Krabs.

Squidward discovers that he could get sent home early and still get paid by getting injured, called worker's compensation, so he tries to injure himself, only to find out that his shift had ended two minutes ago.

Production

Music

( ‣ ) Production music

( • ) Original music

( ◦ ) SpongeBob music

 ‣ SpongeBob Theme (Version 2) - Jeremy Wakefield, Sage Guyton [title card]
 ‣ Sailor's Sting 5 - "Open for business!"
 ‣ Tripping Upstairs - Brian Peters [SpongeBob enters the kitchen]
 ‣ Vibe Q Sting - Nicolas Carr ["Hmm..."]
 ‣ Comic Walk (Nicolas Carr Version) - Nicolas Carr [SpongeBob trying to pull the spatula off the ceiling]
 ‣ ? - swords
 ‣ Drama Link (g) - Hubert Clifford [SpongeBob falls]
 ‣ Comic Capers B - Charlie Brissette, Norman Mamey ["I guess this is it."]
 ‣ Lap Steel - Nicolas Carr [SpongeBob stops falling]
 ‣ Terror by Night - Hubert Clifford [SpongeBob gets a splinter in his thumb]
 ‣ Rasping Brass - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin ["Hey, a splinter."]
 ‣ Steel Sting (Original Version) - Jeremy Wakefield ["You have got to go... now."]
 ‣ Drama Link (d) - Hubert Clifford [SpongeBob trying to remove the splinter]
 ‣ ? - SpongeBob bites the splinter
 ‣ Steel Licks (Original Version) - Jeremy Wakefield ["Okay, fine, stay."]
 ‣ The Tip Top Polka/The Cliff Polka - Chelmsford Folk Band [SpongeBob ties the spatula to his nose]
 ‣ Cockney Capers - Ray Davies* ["Can I ask you something?"]
 ‣ Grass Skirt Chase - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob explains how he got the splinter]
 ‣ Vibe Sting - Nicolas Carr [Squidward gets an idea]
 ‣ Monocle and Pocket-Watch - Brian Douglas Gulland [Squidward tells SpongeBob he'll get sent home early]
 ‣ Hawaiian Cocktail - Richard Myhill [SpongeBob cries]
 ‣ Monocle and Pocket-Watch - Brian Douglas Gulland ["No, no, no, no, no, no..."]
 ‣ Dramatic Impact 2 - Ivor Slaney ["Well, maybe."]
 ‣ Monocle and Pocket-Watch - Brian Douglas Gulland ["...because he already knows."]
 ‣ House of Horror (5) - W. Merrick Farran [SpongeBob screams]
 ‣ Unease - Dick Stephen Walter ["It's almost as if... he can smell it."]
 ‣ The Dreadnought Tea Clipper (b) - Tim Laycock, Robert Alexander White [Krabs sniffing around]
 ‣ Seaweed - Steve Belfer [SpongeBob calls Patrick]
 ‣ Murder Scene 2 - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin ["We're gonna make it go away."]
 ‣ Menace (1) - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin [Patrick pounds the splinter in further]
 ‣ Dramatic Cue (e) - Ronald Hanmer [SpongeBob's thumb swells up]
 ‣ Steel Licks (a) - Jeremy Wakefield [Patrick smears garbage on it]
 ‣ Dramatic Cue (e) - Ronald Hanmer [SpongeBob's thumb gets infected]
 ‣ Vibe Sting - Nicolas Carr [Patrick's watch beeps]
 ‣ Steel Licks (Original Version) - Jeremy Wakefield ["Call me in the morning, if you can still dial the phone."]
 ‣ Dramatic Impact 6 - Ivor Slaney [SpongeBob gasps]
 ‣ Drama Link (c) - Hubert Clifford [SpongeBob's hat covering his thumb]
 ‣ Voodoo Victim - Gilbert Vinter ["Have you always had three legs?"]
 ‣ Drama Link (b) - Hubert Clifford [swollen thumb revealed]
 ‣ Drama Link (f) - Hubert Clifford [Squidward faints]
 ‣ Dramatic Climax (Harry Bluestone and Emil Cadkin) - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin [Krabs pulls out the splinter]
 ‣ ? - David Farnon [choir]
 ‣ The Tip Top Polka/The Cliff Polka - Chelmsford Folk Band ["I thought I was gonna have to pay you workman's compersation."]
 ‣ Tympup A - Sammy Burdson, John Charles Fiddy [Squidward's eyes open]
 ‣ Marlin March - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [ending]

*removed from APM site

Release

• This episode is available on the To SquarePants or Not to SquarePants, Season 6 Volume 1, and Complete Sixth Season DVDs.

Trivia

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• When this episode premiered, a re-run of "Suction Cup Symphony" was paired with this episode.
• When this episode premiered, the credits of "Spongicus" and "Suction Cup Symphony" were at the end of this episode.
• It's unknown as to why the Krusty Krab has a box of swords. 
• When Patrick puts SpongeBob's foot in his mouth, you can see his shoe and sock is removed. When the scene cuts back to SpongeBob and Patrick, the sock is still on his foot, and when Patrick removes the foot from his mouth, the shoe is also on.
• This is the second time SpongeBob has something stuck in the kitchen, the first time was in "Employee of the Month." Ironically, both started at the grill and became stuck on the ceiling.
• This is the second time Patrick impersonates a doctor. This first was "Suds." At both times, he is confident on how to do his job. Though, Patrick should be arrested for impersonating a doctor (for being a quack doctor), as Sandy says in "Suds."
• In "Suction Cup Symphony," SpongeBob would be the doctor instead and Patrick doesn't know this during "The Splinter."
• If one would look closely when the spatula is in the freezer getting the Krabby Patties, there is a frozen caveman.
• When Squidward finds out that SpongeBob got injured on the job, he flushes SpongeBob's hat and spatula down the toliet. After getting an "appointment" with Patrick, SpongeBob hears Mr. Krabs coming. When Squidward and Mr. Krabs enter in the kitchen, SpongeBob hid his right hand in his hat, so SpongeBob must have had a spare hat.
• This is one of the few episodes where SpongeBob's skeleton is shown despite being an invertebrate ("Squid on Strike" is another example, where this happens twice in that episode).
• This episode premiered three years after SpongeBob SquarePants 4-D: Ride opened and two years after the premiere of All That Glitters and Wishing You Well.

Cultural References

• When Squidward is squishing his "hand" together, pretending to crush the customers head, this is a reference to something people sometimes do when they are bored. It was started by the comedy scout "Kids in the Hall," on an episode of a show with the same name.

Errors

• When Patrick put the garbage compress on SpongeBob's thumb, it turned dark purple and green pus came out of it. However, when SpongeBob later showed Mr. Krabs and Squidward his thumb, it was red in color.
• When SpongeBob opens the box he took out from his pants, it was halfly in the table, but there clearly wasn't a hole there before he put the box down.
• The kitchen ceiling suddenly became much higher when SpongeBob realizes his spatula was stuck in the ceiling.
• At first SpongeBob made 2 Krabby patties but in a later scene, they disappeared.
  • Nat Probably grabbed them when the camera was not facing.
• Squidward said that Mr. Krabs knows about the splinter even though Squidward never left the scene.
• At first when Patrick changed, his mouth turned brown. It changed to red in the next shot.

External links

Watch the full episode here