Graveyard Shift (SpongeBob SquarePants episode)

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SpongeBob SquarePants episode
"Graveyard Shift"
Season №: 2
Episode №: 36a
Production №: 036
Airdate: September 6, 2002
Best Day Ever Rank: #64
Credits
Writer(s): Mr. Lawrence
Jay Lender
Dan Povenmire
Directors
Storyboard: Jay Lender
Dan Povenmire
Animation: Sean Dempsey
Creative: Derek Drymon
Episode List
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Premiere Order
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"Graveyard Shift" is an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants from season two.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Brief Summary: The Krusty Krab is now open 24 hours a day. On their first all night shift, Squidward tries to scare SpongeBob with tales of the 'Hash-Slinging Slasher'. As things begin to go bump in the night, Squidward starts believing his own twisted tale!

Date/Time:

  • Tuesday
    • 8:00 PM: The Krusty Krab closes, but then Mr. Krabs decides to keep it open 24 hours.
    • 11:15 PM: Squidward tells SpongeBob about the Hash Slinging Slasher.
  • Wednesday
    • 3:00 AM: Patrick's alarm clock goes off and he eats a Krabby Patty.
    • 3:55 AM: The "Hash Slinging Slasher" arrives
    • 3:58 AM: Count Orlock appears

Characters Present:

Contents

[edit] Plot

It's finally 8:00 PM, and the Krusty Krab is closing, so Squidward is excited. Mr. Krabs realises that more profit would be gained if it was open 24 hours a day, so he does that. SpongeBob is really excited, while Squidward is extremely annoyed. A bit later (probably at around 10:00 PM to 11:00 PM), the Krusty Krab is still full of happy, wide awake customers. Squidward decides to scare SpongeBob with tales of the Hash-Slinging Slasher, which most people call him the "Haoua...!" because that is all they have to say before he gets them. He worked at the Krusty Krab years ago as a fry-cook, just like SpongeBob, only clumsier. One night, when he was cutting the patties, he cut off his own hand by mistake. It never grew back. He replaced the hand with a spatula. He was later killed by a moving bus and died. He was then fired at his funeral. Every Tuesday night, his ghost comes to 'wreak his horrible vengeance'. There are three signs of his arrival, which are:

  • 1 - The lights will flicker on and off.
  • 2 - The phone will ring, and there will be nobody there.
  • 3 - He will arrive in the ghost of the bus which ran him over, and he crosses the road without looking both ways, because he's already dead. He opens the door, he slowly goes near the counter. Then, he kills every employee.

SpongeBob is scared of the story, and screams repeatedly, while Squidward laughs. Squidward is annoyed because of SpongeBob's screaming. He tells him to stop screaming and says that he was joking. SpongeBob says "Oh...", then starts laughing hysterically.

Later that night, at 3:00 AM, every customer is long gone. It is a dark night, with strange moaning noises that can be heard in the empty, ghostly streets. Squidward is reading a book when all of a sudden he hears a suction-cup like sound out of nowhere with a slippery-like noise, and it stops leaving Squidward to not care about. Then the sound goes off again, and Squidward beings to get scared, and the sound stops again and Squidward goes back to reading. Suddenly he hears the sound again and is really afraid. The camera zooms out and it shows SpongeBob with suction-cups attached to his shows with a mop and bucket on the ceiling (without falling), meaning Spongebob is mopping the ceiling because there's never time to do it during the day. Spongebob looks down behind Squidward, and startles him. Now, everything that Squidward said that would happen earlier in the story actually happens. The lights flicker, the phone rings, and for a reasonable answer, the walls oozie in green slime because they always do that. Then a bus comes, and he and Spongebob are suspicious (seeing as the busses don't run that late), then comes out the Hash-Slinging Slasher. As soon as they see him they panic, but Spongebob only does after a minuite orso because he believes it's actually Squidward playing as the ghost, to which Squidward denies it and proves he isn't, Spongebob realises it's really the Hash-Slinging Slasher. He and SpongeBob are really scared, until they find out that the so-called Hash-Slinging Slasher is actually a person who wants a job application, and hung up on the phone because he was nervous.

This last revelation seems to explain everything, but suddenly the lights begin flickering on and off again! Everybody looks around, panicked, when suddenly they see... Count Orlok, a.k.a. Nosferatu (in a doctored image) rapidly flipping the light switch. Everybody points at him and shouts a friendly "NOSFERATU!", after which Orlok (in another doctored image) smiles at them mischievously.

[edit] Cultural References

  • The walls oozing green slime is possibly a reference to one of the phenomena reported at 111 Ocean Avenue, Long Island, in the Amityville Horror.

[edit] Trivia/Goofs

  • Things SpongeBob does at night:
    • Working in the kitchen
    • Chopping lettuce
    • Swabbing the bathrooms
    • Burning his hand
    • Taking out the trash
    • Mopping the ceiling
  • SpongeBob mistakes the Hash-Slinging Slasher for:
    • Slash-Bringing Hasher
    • Sash-Wringing
    • Trash-Singing
    • Mash-Flinging
    • Flash-Springing
    • Wringing
    • Crash-Dinging
    • Uhhh....
  • The DVD Nautical Nonsense and Sponge Buddies features Tom Kenny and Rodger Bumpass recording the scene. It also includes storyboards of the episode and a deleted scene.
  • SpongeBob's limbs can seemingly regenerate instantaneously. Also, they are somewhat edible, as SpongeBob was seen munching on a whole barrel of them whilst listening to Squidward's tale of the Hash-Slinging Slasher.
  • Before Squidward told SpongeBob, he thought all animals could regenerate their arms.
  • Despite being part of season two, this episode was shown with season three.
  • Right after SpongeBob takes out the trash and runs into the Krusty Krab, he heavily breathes. However, he gets bigger when he breathes out, which is incorrect. He should get bigger because of more air going into his lungs when he breathes in.

[edit] Quotes

  • (At the Krusty Krab)
Tom: (Knocks at door) Are you open?
Squidward: Read the sign! (Points to the sign, clearly marked "closed")
Tom: I'll have a Krabby Patty Deluxe, and a Double Chili Kelp Fry.
Squidward: No, you won't! I can't hang out here all night! I've got a life.
Tom: Well, fine, if you don't want our money...
Mr. Krabs: Money?! (He falls down from the ceiling and lands on Squidward) You mean if we stayed open later, you'd give us some money?
Tom: (He and two people take out some money) Sure.(Money icons appear on his eyes)
Mr. Krabs: Mr. Squidward, welcome to the night shift! From now on, the Krusty Krab is open 24 hours a day!
  • Squidward: Who wants to eat a Krabby Patty at three in the morning?! (Inside Patrick's rock, Patrick is woken up by his alarm clock at 3:00 AM)
Patrick: Oh, boy, 3:00 AM! (pulls off his blanket to reveal a Krabby Patty and eats it)
  • (The Hash Slinging Slasher is about to get SpongeBob and Squidward)
Squidward: SpongeBob? No matter what I've said, I always sort of liked you!
SpongeBob: Squidward, I used your clarinet to unclog my toilet.
Squidward: Huh?
SpongeBob: NO! GET AWAY! I'M TOO YOUNG TO DIE! AHH HE'S GONNA FLIP ME! GET AWAY! GET AWAY! YOU'RE NOT WELCOME HERE!!!! (the Hash Slinging Slasher reveals itself to be a harmless nerd fish)
Nerd Fish: Can I apply for a job application? I brought my own spatula. (Sleeve falls down revealing he has a hand that was holding the spatula) I called earlier, but then I hung up because I was nervous.
  • Squidward: (Nervously) "Okay, what was it? There was the lights, (Lights flicker) the phone, (Phone rings) and... (Squidward turns around to see green ooze coming from the walls) THE WALLS WILL OOZE GREEN SLIME?!?! Oh wait, they always do that. But what was the third thing?" (A bus pulls up)
SpongeBob I didn't know the buses ran this late.
Squidward They don't.
SpongeBob Well, they're dropping someone off.(The bus drops off a hunchbacked guy with a spatula where his hand should be)
Squidward AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! The Sash-Ringing : The Flash-Singing : The Bash-P-Pinging . . . .
SpongeBob The Hash-Slinging Slasher! Ooohh . . . (starts crying)
Squidward At last you understand? We're doomed!
SpongeBob No, that's not it. I am just so touched that you would go to the trouble to dress up as a ghostly fry-cook and stand on the other side of the road just to entertain me! You must really like me!
Squidward SpongeBob, there are two problems with your theory. One, I hate you; and two, how can that be me, if I'm STANDING RIGHT HERE??!!
  • Squidward: And then, when he was hopping the patties, cutting the patties , it happened.
SpongeBob: He forgot the secret sauce?
Squidward: No.
SpongeBob: He didn't wash his hands?
Squidward: No.
SpongeBob: Irregular portions?
Squidward: NO!! He cut of his own hand by mistake!
SpongeBob: You mean like this? (pulls out his arm, and another one grows back) Or this? (Repeats the same thing) Or this? But what about this? Or this? Or this?
Squidward: Except he wasn't a sponge.
SpongeBob: (Arms towered over him) So?
Squidward: SO THEY DIDN'T GROW BACK!!!!!!!
SpongeBob: (SpongeBob and his arms that were pulled out jump in fear) OOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHH NNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! (arms run away)
  • SpongeBob: Isn't this great, Squidward? There's never time to wash the ceiling during the day!
  • Squidward: Wait,if that was you on the phone and you on the bus...then,who was flickering the lights?(camera pans over to Orlok flickering the light switch)
All: NOSFERATU!!!!



Preceded by:
"My Pretty Seahorse"		 SpongeBob SquarePants episodes Followed by:
"Krusty Love"


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