Just One Bite

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""Just One Bite""

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Episode №:

43b

Best Day Ever Rank:

#21

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Guest(s):

Tom Wilson

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"Just One Bite" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 3.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Brief Summary: SpongeBob attempts to get Squidward to eat a Krabby Patty.

Time cards shown: None

Time/Date: Unknown

Characters Present:

Nancy

Songs: None

1 Plot
2 Quotes
3 Scene Removal
4 Cultural References
5 Trivia/Goofs

[edit] Plot

When SpongeBob finds out that Squidward has never tried a Krabby Patty, he starts begging for him to try it until he does. Squidward tries a tiny bite of the patty and instantly falls in love with it, although he denies it to SpongeBob and puts the patty under a grave. This disappoints SpongeBob.

Squidward gets the Krabby Patty out from underneath the grave and then says "Still alive!" He then eats it, and says "So delicious!" He tries to eat another patty and fails twice. The first time is when Squidward asks for a Triple Krabby Supreme and SpongeBob eats it. The second time is when Squidward tries to eat a patty from the garbage can and SpongeBob cremates it. After the second time, Squidward cries.

That night, Squidward craves more Krabby Patties. He has a dream that a giant Krabby Patty enters his house. In the dream, he marries the Krabby Patty. Upon waking up from the dream, Squidward decides that he must have more Krabby Patties.

So Squidward goes to the Krusty Krab and breaks in. While entering, he discovers a burglar alarm — a bucket filled with gasoline, which, at first, Squidward assumes is water. This type of alarm is also present on the door to the kitchen. While these alarms are set off, he still makes it to a vault filled with Krabby Patties, of which he has a giant feast. However Nickelodeon occasionally broadcasts the edited version which was edited because of the September 11, 2001 attacks, which doesn't show the above scene description and just has Squidward heading straight to the Patty Vault.

During this feast, SpongeBob arrives at the Krusty Krab to "count the sesame seeds" and opens the vault to see Squidward in there holding a Krabby Patty behind his back. SpongeBob knows what Squidward is in there for, and tells them that he can't eat as many as he did. Squidward asks "What's gonna happen? Am I gonna blow up?" SpongeBob replies "No, worse, it'll go right to your thighs..." "My thighs?" Squidward asks, and looks down at his thighs, which now appear to be filled with Krabby Patties. SpongeBob says "...and then you'll blow up!"

Squidward's thighs explode and he is sent to the hospital. The show is ended with a doctor saying "Yeah... I remember my first Krabby Patty."

[edit] Quotes

Squidward: There it is!
Squidward: TRY one of those radioactive sludgeballs you call food?!? Next I suppose you'll want me to go square dancing with Patrick!
SpongeBob: (to Patrick in a cowboy suit.) Sorry, Patrick...
(Patrick moans and sulks away.)

Squidward: GOOD FOR YOU?!? That thing is a heart-attack on a bun!
SpongeBob: No Squidward, I meant... good for your soul!
(SpongeBob turns into an angel, with heavenly music playing and a cloud background)
Squidward: Oh, PUH-LEEZE!! I have no soul.
(The background turns to a shot of a fictional scene of Hell, with evil laughing.)

SpongeBob: Sorry, Squidward. It's just so funny! You know what they say...
(The kitchen becomes filled with the customers.)
Customers: THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO DON'T LIKE A KRABBY PATTY HAVE NEVER TASTED ONE!
Squidward: That's me. Never had one, never will. :0

[edit] Scene Removal

The scene shown in the edited episode just shows Squidward saying "There it is!" with his face pressed to the door followed by a zoom-in at the Patty Vault with Squidward already there with no explanation.

When this episode was originally aired, it depicted Squidward entering the Krusty Krab, but setting of the "security alarm" which happened to be was a pail of gasoline that fell onto the floorboards as Squidward opened the door. A robotic hand dropped a match near Squidward and an explosion occurs. This was later cut out, although a reason was never officially announced by Nickelodeon. Some believe that a more likely reason it was cut, is simply that it showed children that gasoline can be ignited by a match and would encourage children to play with fire. Another belief is, it was thought to feature a form of sneaky terrorism. The version included on the "Tales From the Deep" and "The Complete Third Season" DVD compilations is the edited version, but VideoNow versions still have this scene intact. Originally, the uncut version was shown on television for the first few airings. Today, however, on Nickelodeon, only the edited version is shown and on YTV, the uncut episode is still aired. The deleted scene as is follows:

Squidward: There it is, unguarded! All I have to do is...wait. It's too easy. There must be some form of (liquid drips) ...security? This is our burglar alarm? A bucket of water? Ha-ha-ha! (opens the door thus spilling the bucket over) That was too easy! (sniffs the liquid) Hey, this isn't water. This is...gas! (A robot arm drops a lit match into the gas, resulting in a huge explosion. Squidward enters the kitchen setting off another burglar alarm. The kitchen bursts into flames for a few seconds. Then, he walks over to the Patty Vault.)
Edited version:
Squidward: There it is! (cuts to interior of Krusty Krab with camera zooming in through window to the Patty Vault. Squidward approaches it as he did in the original version. The rest of the episode goes normally.)

[edit] Cultural References

The part where SpongeBob attempts to make Squidward try a Krabby Patty in different locations is similar to the popular children's book, Green Eggs and Ham where Sam I am attempts to make Sam try Green Eggs and Ham in different locations.
SpongeBob calls the Krabby Patty an absolute good which is a similar reference to the list of Jews written down said to be life and also an absolute good by Itzhak Stern in Schindler's List.

[edit] Trivia/Goofs

When Squidward ran to the Krusty Krab, he ran the opposite way that it was usually located in. Normally, SpongeBob ran to the left when departing for the Krusty Krab, but Squidward did not go that way. (According to the Bikini Bottom Map in The Essential Guide to SpongeBob, the Krusty Krab is a few blocks behind SpongeBob's house, giving him a choice to go either way)
In the removed scene, a robot arm dropped a "lit" match in the gas. the match couln't have been lit if it was underwater.
In the Latin American second season DVD box set they replaced "Just One Bite" with "Frankendoodle" and "The Bully" with "Welcome To The Chum Bucket".
Squidward claims he has never had a Krabby Patty, but in the episode Your Shoe's Untied, Squidward had dozens of Krabby Patty's thrown down his throat.
In "As Seen on T.V.", Squidward ate a krabby patty without refusing to eat it.