"Drive Thru" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 8. In this episode, after Mr. Krabs finds a hole in the walls of the Krusty Krab, he transforms it into a drive-thru.
Characters[]
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Eugene H. Krabs
- Squidward Tentacles
- Lampreys (mentioned)
- French Narrator
- Sheldon J. Plankton
- Ernesto Blindfish (debut)
- Pearl Krabs
- Incidentals
- Incidental 42
- Incidental 103
- Incidental 102
- Incidental 107 (purple; normal)
- Dale
- Incidental K2 (peach orange)
- Pearl's cyan friend (lavender)
- Carol
- Incidental 153
- Incidental 1D
- Incidental 31
- Incidental 46
- Incidental 63
- Incidental 13
- Incidental 14
- Charlie
- Incidental 106
- Incidental 40
- Incidental 49
- Incidental 48
- Incidental 45
- Incidental 150
- Incidental 151
- Incidental 34
- Anchovies
- Incidental 155
- Incidental 92
- Incidental 36
- Incidental 41
- Incidental 7
- Larry the Lobster
- Cop
- Mayor
Synopsis[]
At the Krusty Krab, SpongeBob notices that Mr. Krabs is filling a hole in the wall with toothpaste. Suddenly, the toothpaste begins dripping and causes the hole to crack, making an even bigger hole in the wall. A fish and his children come to the Krusty Krab, and when they see the hole in the parking lot, he thinks it is a drive-thru and orders from the hole. This gives Mr. Krabs an idea to create a Krusty Krab drive-thru, using a simple menu written on napkins, a microphone made with tin cans, and a sign made from a noodle, rather than use the more elaborate arrow sign, menu, and microphone system that SpongeBob bought.
Soon, a customer orders from the drive-thru, but SpongeBob has trouble getting the food out of the window. He uses a trampoline to get the food to the customer, but it hits his outfit. Then the customer gives Mr. Krabs the bill for his dry cleaning. Mr. Krabs subsequently makes the hole bigger with a hammer.
Plankton in his car.
Later, Plankton drives by in his tiny car and tries to order a Krabby Patty with extra secret formula, but no one sees him, so an old man runs him over. When Squidward replies to the old man's order, the man mishears and thinks they are closed, then proceeds to drive away in disappointment.
Later, Pearl and her friends pull up and decide to do a prank on Squidward by screaming through a megaphone and damaging his ear, making Mr. Krabs pay his bill. After that, Larry the Lobster shows up, accidentally breaking the drive-thru microphone with the side of his S.U.B. Mr. Krabs still bills Larry, even though he has many tin cans to replace the broken one. Then, SpongeBob has trouble getting his food up to the window of his vehicle and drops it on his head, so Mr. Krabs hammers a second hole in the wall much higher than the first.
Mr. Krabs hears cars honking and sees a huge line through the entire town to go to the drive-thru. A police officer comes and seemingly fines Mr. Krabs for collapsing the traffic, only for the note on paper to be revealed as his order. The mayor then visits and is not happy about all the traffic, so Mr. Krabs solves this problem by breaking a hole on the right side of the Krusty Krab walls for another drive-thru. Then, SpongeBob and Squidward desperately try to feed all of the customers on both sides.
When Squidward asks Mr. Krabs what they will do, Mr. Krabs thinks it is not that bad, but then, the customers start to riot, and Mr. Krabs breaks yet another hole. Due to the amount of pressure, the Krusty Krab cracks and collapses. SpongeBob claims they can fix it, but the tube of toothpaste from earlier runs empty, so he says they will need to buy more. The episode ends with Mr. Krabs crying over the destruction he caused.
Production[]
The episode was confirmed and added to the US Copyright Office on December 12, 2010,[1] along with its sister episode "The Hot Shot."
Art[]
Music[]
| ( ‣ ) Production music |
| ( • ) Original music |
| ( ◦ ) SpongeBob music |
• Greenhorn Rag - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Title card.]
• Krusty Krab Jig - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr [Mr. Krabs fills a hole in the wall with toothpaste.]
• Steel Licks 22 - Jeremy Wakefield [The hole becomes bigger.]
‣ Cocksure Capers - Phil Green [A family drives to the Krusty Krab.]
• Birth of the Krabby Patty - Nicolas Carr ["We are putting in a drive-thru!"]
• Hawaiian Solo Steel - Jeremy Wakefield ["Oh, nonsense, we'll build it for free!"]
• Lopey Sailor's Jig - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr [SpongeBob and Mr. Krabs reveal their choices for the microphone system and signs.]
• Earls Revenge - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob struggles to deliver the food through the small hole.]
‣ Clumsy A - Bernd Gesell [The customer gives Mr. Krabs his cleaning bill.]
• Jovial Pirate's Jig - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr ["SpongeBob, two large, two medium. I hate my job."]
• Steel Licks 54 - Jeremy Wakefield ["Problem solved!"]
‣ Zelle 501 - Gerhard Trede [Plankton approaches the drive-thru.]
‣ Untitled Tune - Jack Shaindlin [Plankton tries to order a Krabby Patty.]
• Steel Licks 48 - Jeremy Wakefield [Plankton weakly raises his arm.]
• Surf'N Sponge No Voc Mix - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [later...]
• Steel Licks 33 - Jeremy Wakefield [Squidward screams.]
• Another Krusty Krab Day - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr [Squidward gives Mr. Krabs his bill for his ear-replacement surgery.]
• Jolly Little Roger - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr ["Hey! You delinquent!"]
• Tension Bits - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob struggles to give Larry his food.]
• Happy Sack Shanty - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr ["Mr. Krabs, I'm concerned."]
• Steel Licks 43 - Jeremy Wakefield ["There, problem solved."]
• In a Minor Mood Jig - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr [The long line of boatmobiles is revealed.]
• Bikini Bottom Police - Nicolas Carr [A cop appears at the Krusty Krab.]
• Salty Krab Jig - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr ["Oh, sure, right."]
• Bikini Bottom Police - Nicolas Carr ["You're welcome."]
‣ Hall of Fame [#1] - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin [The mayor enters the Krusty Krab.]
• Salty Krab Jig - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr ["Don't you worry, Mr. Mayor. There's an answer for that, too."]
• Greenhorn Rag - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob and Squidward frantically serves the customers.]
‣ Befuddled Gent - Phil Green [Plankton sells chum nuggets in the middle of the line.]
‣ Untitled Tune - Jack Shaindlin [The old guy runs over Plankton again.]
• Steel Licks 41 - Jeremy Wakefield [Plankton's arm falls off.]
‣ Armed Attack - Jean Clero ["They're everywhere!"]
‣ Cloak And Dagger [#70] - Phil Green ["Mr. Krabs, we gotta do something!"]
• Greenhorn Rag - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [The Krusty Krab collapses.]
• Traveling Along in the Key of D No Organ - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [The ending.]
Release[]
- This episode is available on the SpongeBob's Frozen Face-Off, Disorder in the Deep, The Best 200 Episodes Ever, The SpongeBob SquarePants Collection, The SpongeBob SquarePants 8 Season DVD Collection, SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 12, Kids Double Pack: Volume 2, Complete Eighth Season, Next 100 Episodes, and Seventh & Eighth Seasons DVDs.
Trivia[]
General[]
- This is the only episode where the sidewalls of the Krusty Krab are wooden instead of glass.
- Mr. Krabs makes a total of three drive-thrus.
- Mr. Krabs' drive-thru idea is not new. It is featured in a previous episode, "Driven to Tears." The difference is that Mr. Krabs had a real drive-thru window and microphone in the earlier episode.
- There was a small drive-thru window in the first three seasons. After season 4, the window disappeared, with the exception of "What Ever Happened to SpongeBob?"
- There is also a book with the same name as this episode with a similar plot, which was released seven years before this episode premiered.
- When Squidward says that his ear hurts, he talks to the camera, which breaks the fourth wall.
- The green fish mayor from "Doing Time" and "The Great Snail Race" is shown rather than the purple fish mayor from "SpongeBob's Last Stand" and "Sponge-Cano!"
- In this episode, it is revealed that Squidward never went to college.
- The Chum Bucket hat Plankton wears is similar to the one he wears in "Komputer Overload."
- This is the second episode that chum nuggets are seen. The first was "Chum Caverns." However, in this episode, it is just shown as an average chum clop with external organs, whereas in "Chum Caverns," they more so have the shape of chicken nuggets.
Episode references[]
- Squidward saying "I'm not faking it you know.. that really hurt" could be a reference to "Accidents Will Happen," when he faked a leg injury.
Errors[]
Missing antenna.
- During the beginning, when the fish is driving around the Krusty Krab, the antenna is missing.
- Mr. Krabs' desk is shown in front of the refrigerator in the back of the kitchen when he first moves it there, but in the next shot of the kitchen, it is more so located next to the condiment stand.
- Squidward is shown wearing bandages over his left ear following the incident with Pearl's friends, but once he appears during Larry's order, the bandages are gone for the rest of the episode, despite the fact that he could not have recovered or been treated by a doctor in such a short time span.
- Earlier, due to Squidward's complaining, Mr. Krabs moves SpongeBob and the grill to his office and moves his desk to the kitchen. At the point where Mr. Krabs tells SpongeBob to get the order for the policeman, the grill and office desk have suddenly returned to their original spots; SpongeBob appears through the kitchen window and remains in the kitchen for the remainder of the episode.
His tux button has the wrong color.
The side walls are made of wood instead of glass.
- When the mayor is saying, "That should work perfectly," the gold button on his tux becomes white for a split second.
- When the policeman hands Mr. Krabs a ticket, two of the small stalks on Mr. Krabs' right eye turn gray for a split second during his shocked expression before cutting to the policeman again.
SpongeBob's leg is white for a split second.
- While SpongeBob carries the trays for the customers, for a split second, his leg is white.
The green fish's underarm is orange for a second.
- When the green and blue fish collide with their car, the green fish's underarm is orange for a second.
- At the end, when Squidward is telling Mr. Krabs that the customers are rioting, the boat in the back has a yellow flag. In the next scene, the flag is gone.
- After Incidental 42 notices there's toothpaste on the hole, SpongeBob's body overlaps with his arm.
His body overlaps with his arm.
- Tom Kenny is credited as playing Gary the Snail. However, Gary is neither seen nor heard in this episode.
