Selling Out (SpongeBob SquarePants)

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SpongeBob SquarePants episode

""Selling Out""

Airdate:

September 23, 2005

Best Day Ever Rank:

Credits

Writer(s):

Zeus Cervas
Erik Wiese
Tim Hill

Directors

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"Selling Out" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season four.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Brief Summary: Mr. Krabs decides to sell the Krusty Krab, because of Howard Blandy's money offer, which puts SpongeBob and Squidward in the hands of an insane new management.

Time/Date:

11:55 AM: Mr. Krabs is shown lying in his hammock.

Characters Present:

SpongeBob SquarePants
Squidward Tentacles
Eugene Krabs
Carl (Krabby O'Mondays Manager)
Howard Blandy
Pearl Krabs
Howard Blandy's 2 Partners
Human Resources Guy
Krabby O' Mondays Customers, including:
- Evelyn
- Tom
- Joe

Songs:

Cha-Ching

Cha-Ching, Cha-Ching, Cha-Chingaree

Money oh money, how I love thee

Cha-Ching, Cha-Chong, Cha-Changaroo

From pennies to dollars, any amount'll do

Cha-Ching, Cha-Ching, it's no contest

There's only one thing that I love the best

From every sight I've ever seen to the sweetest sound I've heard

I'd gladly give up everything for all the money that I've earned

Cha-Ching, Cha-Ching, Cha-Chingaree

There's nothing on Earth like the feeling of greed

There's nothing on Earthhhhhh like the feeling of greeeeeed

(chortles)

Krabby O'Mondays Birthday Song (Never finished)

Happy-Happy Birthday

[edit] Plot

An extremely rich man named Howard Blandy comes into the restaurant and asks Eugene H. Krabs to retire for a large sum of money. Mr. Krabs happily accepts, leaving SpongeBob SquarePants and Squidward Tentacles with a simple "See you around," causing SpongeBob to cry hysterically. Afterwards, a new manager called Carl the Fish comes to them, renaming the Krusty Krab "Krabby O'Monday's." Mr. Krabs drives by, but ignores it, instead going to the newly opened Bikini Bottom Hook Museum, then when he is trying to paint a bowl of fruit, he actually paints a bowl of Krabby Patties, followed by a round of golf, however, he then realizes that he hates golf. Mr. Krabs has done everything he wanted to do and decides to go home, where he realizes he has nothing to do. He tries to talk to his daughter Pearl, but Pearl kicks Mr. Krabs out of the house and tells him to get a job. Downtrodden, Mr. Krabs goes to the beach to look for a job, but hits a glass door, with a sign saying "Help Wanted." It is one of the glass doors of the Krabby O' Monday's, so he goes inside to take a look at what job is vacated.

Meanwhile, Carl wants Squidward to have more spirit, so he threatens Squidward with a muscular Human Resources guy if he doesn't continually smile. Fearful, Squidward continues his work with a forced smile. Mr. Krabs gets a job at the Krabby O'Mondays working as a busboy, listening to SpongeBob complain about the problems. The problems are that the patties are processed and there is an automated cash register, with no-one watching it. Angered, Mr. Krabs complains, only to be ignored by Carl. He also finds out how the new patties are synthetically engineered, fake and disgusting. Now furious, Mr. Krabs shows the customers what the food is actually made of and the customers find out that the patties are made out of gray material. So they run away, making the restaurant unpopular. Mr. Krabs plugs the fake patty maker up, but escaping, processing slush and the pressurized air inside cause the whole restaurant to explode. Mr. Krabs retakes ownership of the restaurant by giving all his money back to Howard Blandy and renames it to "The Krusty Krab", saying that he got back the love of his "two best friends", that is, until the episode ends with a demand for Squidward and SpongeBob to clean up the mess.

[edit] Trivia

Krabby O'Mondays is possibly a cross between the fictional Krusty Krab and real-life casual dining restaurants like O'Charley's and especially TGI Fridays. The employees all wear colorful lapel buttons on their vests.
C.H. Greenblatt voices Carl, manager of the Krabby O'Mondays. This may be a possible reference to Greenblatt's first name, Carl.
The "Cha-Ching, Cha-Ching" song is a parody of the song in Mary Poppins, "Chim Chimeney"; the lyrics are very similar.
Blandy bears a passing resemblance to billionaire Donald Trump, even wearing his blonde hair in a combover hairstyle.

[edit] Quotes

Carl: The less you know, Eugene, the better!

Carl: (Speaking into radio transmitter) Mr. Blandy? Code red! Free thinker!

Carl: (Floating away in the substitution Krabby Patty river) (To Howard Blandy) Does this mean I won't get that raise, sir?

Mr. Krabs: (Putting on a golf green) Wait a minute! I hate golf!

Mr. Krabs: (Lying Down at home, depressed) Well, I've done everything I can think of. (Pick up clock) And it's not even noon.

Mr. Krabs: Hey, Carl, what have you done with me restaurant? Processed Krabby Patties?! COMPUTERIZED REGISTERS?!?!

Carl: Look around you. Our customers are quite content with the contrived, and the mediocre.

(A customer falls asleep in his seat.)

Mr. Krabs: That's because they don't know what they're eating!

Mr. Krabs: (To a grinning SpongeBob) Uh, okay, son, you're starting to creep me out.

(Mr. Krabs sees how the Krabby Patties are being administered on a conveyor belt.)

Mr. Krabs: (Furious) This is obscene!

Pearl Krabs: I'm talking on the Phone!

Howard Blandy: Mr. Krabs, is there a problem?

Mr. Krabs: You better believe there's a problem! I used to kiss the ground you walked on, Blandy, but after seeing this, I wouldn't even *spit* in your direction! Krabby Patties are supposed to be made by hand, one at a time! Not on a conveyor belt!

(An alarm sounds just then. Gray matter oozes out from beneath the closed kitchen door.)

Carl: Oh, my.

Howard Blandy: Allow me to introduce myself. (Giving Mr. Krabs a business card) Howard Blandy, President of the Blandy Franchising Company.

Mr. Krabs: You mean Howard Blandy? The Howard Blandy that mastered the hostile takeover of every single family owned business in Bikini Bottom? That Howard Blandy? I WORSHIP YOU!

Howard Blandy: (Slaps him) Get it together a little, man.

Mr. Krabs: Sorry. It's just that...(Whispers) you're rich.