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* This is more of a question than a headscratcher, but I just wanted to know: is [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome 'Sweet Victory']] a real song, or was it made up for [=SpongeBob=]? 'Coz that would be crazy if it was, [[CrazyAwesome in an awesome sort of way.]]

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* This is more of a question than a headscratcher, but I just wanted to know: is [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic 'Sweet Victory']] a real song, or was it made up for [=SpongeBob=]? 'Coz that would be crazy if it was, [[CrazyAwesome in an awesome sort of way.]]

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** Probably to extrort money out of visitors who want a snack or drink. It's not his job to pay for their amenities!

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** [[{{Greed}} He's greedy]]. Probably to extrort extort money out of visitors who want a snack or drink. It's not his job to pay for their amenities!amenities!
** Or maybe it's to cheat Pearl out of her allowance?
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** Get Squidward to force-feed it to you.
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** Spongebob could potentially lie about how things are going over the phone.

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** Spongebob could potentially lie exaggerate about how things are going over the phone.
** Also, Squidward wanted to see the condition of the Krusty Krab in-person, back when "Squid's Day Off" aired we didn't have smartphones that came with FaceTime or video chat allowing you to see the person you're talking to.
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* In "Truth or Square", Patchy is informed [=SpongeBob=] isn't coming to the tenth anniversery special. How come it never occurred to anyone to tell Patchy that he's not coming because [=SpongeBob=], oh, I don't know, '''DOESN'T EXIST?'''

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** Go back and watch "Walking Small", Plankton sees that [=SpongeBob=] cannot stand up for himself against bastards who do things like sit on him and steal his ice cream.
-->'''[=SpongeBob=]''': But I'm a sp--
-->'''Plankton''': [[BigShutUp DON'T SAY IT]]!
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* In Karate Star, we are shown that Patrick's limbs can regenerate very quickly. Why didn't his head regenerate in Patrick SmartPants?
** Likely because Patrick requires his brain to regenerate. Remember in Spy Buddies where two Patricks appear at the end? Could the other brain from Patrick SmartPants have generated a new body? Then again, the other hand regenerated a body...

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* In Karate Star, we are shown that Patrick's limbs can regenerate very quickly. Why didn't his head regenerate in Patrick SmartPants?
"Patrick [=SmartPants=]"?
** Likely because Patrick requires his brain to regenerate. Remember in Spy Buddies where two Patricks appear at the end? Could the other brain from Patrick SmartPants [=SmartPants=] have generated a new body? Then again, the other hand regenerated a body...



*** Speaking of sharks, wouldn't they ''like'' chum? And thus become customers of Plankton's ''Chum Bucket''? Never mind, [[Tropers/{{Crion87}} this troper]] hasn't seen [=SpongeBob=] in ''quite a while''...

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*** Speaking of sharks, wouldn't they ''like'' chum? And thus become customers of Plankton's ''Chum Bucket''? Never mind, [[Tropers/{{Crion87}} [[@/Crion87 this troper]] hasn't seen [=SpongeBob=] in ''quite a while''...



* '''Just who the dickens is running the Krusty Krab when [=SpongeBob=], Mr. Krabs and Squidward are out having adventures?''' Many times it's obviously a mealtime (like when Mr. Krabs took Mrs. Puff out on a date), prime moneymaking time for any restaurant! I worked in fast food (McD's) for three years, and this point continues to perplex me.

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* '''Just who the dickens is running the Krusty Krab when [=SpongeBob=], Mr. Krabs and Squidward are out having adventures?''' Many times it's obviously a mealtime (like when Mr. Krabs took Mrs. Puff out on a date), prime moneymaking time for any restaurant! I worked in fast food (McD's) [=(McD's)=] for three years, and this point continues to perplex me.



** If the episode in question is "Patty Caper", then your assumption is wrong. Krabs framed SpongeBob for stealing the Krabby Patty secret "ingredient", not the formula, and it was for $1.99 instead of $1.25.

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** If the episode in question is "Patty Caper", then your assumption is wrong. Krabs framed SpongeBob [=SpongeBob=] for stealing the Krabby Patty secret "ingredient", not the formula, and it was for $1.99 instead of $1.25.



** ViewerTranslatorConvention. Seriously.

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** ViewerTranslatorConvention.Viewer TranslationConvention. Seriously.



** Real Music/{{Metallica}} song, OrSoIHaveHeard.

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** Real Music/{{Metallica}} song, OrSoIHaveHeard.OrSoIHeard.



* Am [[Tropers/{{Spinosegnosaurus77}} I]] the only one who's noticed that Painty the Pirate (the guy who sings the theme song) has an eye on his left cheek?

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* Am [[Tropers/{{Spinosegnosaurus77}} [[@/{{Spinosegnosaurus77}} I]] the only one who's noticed that Painty the Pirate (the guy who sings the theme song) has an eye on his left cheek?



** Actually the BehindTheScenes for Atlantis Squarepantis shows that its just a hole cut into the painting where the mouth's supposed to be.

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** Actually the BehindTheScenes SetBehindTheScenes for Atlantis Squarepantis shows that its just a hole cut into the painting where the mouth's supposed to be.



** Besides, [[Troper/DangerArtistNexus60 this troper]] lives in a neighborhood with two [=McDonalds=] and I had tolerated it.

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** Besides, [[Troper/DangerArtistNexus60 [[@/DangerArtistNexus60 this troper]] lives in a neighborhood with two [=McDonalds=] and I had tolerated it.



* In the episode "Squid's Day Off", why didn't Squidward just call the Krusty Krab's phone to check in on SpongeBob? We know from other episodes that the restaurant has one.

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* In the episode "Squid's Day Off", why didn't Squidward just call the Krusty Krab's phone to check in on SpongeBob? [=SpongeBob?=] We know from other episodes that the restaurant has one.
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** The police aren't terrified of him. If he strangle Spongebob in public there's the possibility they'll see him and arrest him.
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** Considering that the Krusty Krab is not a pizzeria, maybe he was glad he got a pizza at all. He also didn't look to see what condition it was in, so for all he knew it was fresh but took a long time to make.
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* In "Pizza Delivery", how is the customer upset that there is no drink, but doesn't seem to care the pizza is hours late, and virtually inedible ([=SpongeBob=] having thoroughly tampered it, even using it as a parachute)?
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* In 'The Tattle Tale Strangler', why does the Strangler care about strangling in public? He's already a wanted criminal and a murderer (you don't get that name without having strangled some people), that no one will touch because they're absolutely terrified of him. He shouldn't care about being seen, because the people either wouldn't do anything, or they'd just become his next victims...
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* Why does Barnicle Boy look like a human version of Squidward? Is there a reason for this, or is it coincidence? Their voices sound similar, and they are both deadpan snarkers.
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* In "Shanghaied!", Squidward told [=SpongeBob=] to wish for something that could get [=SpongeBob=], Patrick, and Squidward out of being eaten. But Squidward hadn't been around to hear that the Flying Dutchman was going to eat Sponge and Pat; how did he know?
** He probably read a story about how the Dutchman would eat people after they were sent down that evil tunnel of doom. Not a believer, he assumed it was fiction.
** In "Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost," Squidward has a comic book about the origins of the Flying Dutchman. Perhaps he read about the Flying Dutchman and the comic mentioned that the Dutchman eats people who displease him?
* In "Rock Bottom", [=SpongeBob=] doesn't have change for the bus, but then later when he gets hungry, he has enough money for a Kelp Nougat Crunch snack in the vending machine.
** It was probably an 'exact change' sort of thing.
** Bus fare costs a lot in Rock Bottom?
** He had enough money the whole time, it's just that he was trying so hard to find it that he kept smacking the bus driver around with his balloon and was told to sit down already, and later kicked off with no regrets.
* Wouldn't Plankton's business do better if he relocated in a shark-heavy area?
** For that matter, Bikini Bottom does have some shark species within the populace. Why they haven't discovered the Chum Bucket despite being so close to the Krusty Krab is anyone's guess.
** Maybe he's afraid the sharks will eat ''him.'' He was scared of Pearl (not a shark, but still) in "One Coarse Meal", after all.
*** He was afraid of Pearl because she's a whale and whales (at least the ones with baleen teeth, which this troper always assumed Pearl was) eat plankton and other small aquatic organisms. Sharks (i.e the big scary ones that everyone is familiar with) do not, so they wouldn't be much interested in Plankton.
** Going with the FridgeHorror that chum is actually dead sapient fish, the sharks probably knew that, and sapient sharks wouldn't likely eat sapient fish.
*** Well, it's been shown that a few fish species are equivalent to the "animals" of Bikini Bottom, like lionfish=non-anthropomorphic lions and seahorses=non-anthropomorphic horses, so Plankton's chum may not be made with sentient beings.
** Plankton is a LethalChef. In one episode, Squidward became a chef at the Chum Bucket, and everyone loved it even more than Krabby Patties.
* That episode where Patrick prepares his house for a visit from his parents really bugs me. If the couple that first came to visit Patrick were not only not his real parents, but also remembered that they had no son to begin with, how were they aware of Patrick's previous blunders? It also doesn't help that Patrick clearly doesn't know who these people are after their names are revealed.
** Maybe they were really his aunt and uncle who hadn't seen him since he was little, and he didn't remember them?
*** It could be that they play out this same routine ''every year'', and then forget about it afterwards.
** They had a daughter named Patricia and confused the two?
* In the episode Bubble Buddy, it seems the fish buried in the sand drowned in the high tide. How could a fish drown? The same thing for Sponge On Duty, regarding [=SpongeBob=], Patrick, and the random fish drowning. Why couldn't Patrick and [=SpongeBob=] swim in the first place if they're really fish?
** This is because the Goo Lagoon is a beach made of 'goo' not water.
*** Goo doesn't have tides. Brine lakes, however, do and can be found underwater. But they're toxic, so a fish swimming in it doesn't make sense.
* Karate Island, specifically the part where [=SpongeBob=] gets tied to a chair. Udon reaches into his robe & a clicking noise is heard, much to [=SpongeBob's=] horror. It was a pen, but clearly [=SpongeBob=] thought it was a gun. Why was he afraid of Udon shooting him when [[NighInvulnerability nothing seems to kill him]]?
** Because getting shot with a gun really freaking hurts. Nothing, short of drying up, has ever seemed to be a real threat to [=SpongeBob=]'s life... but though he may not need to fear death, he fears pain. Sure, his nature as a sponge keeps him alive through ridiculous injury, but it's clear that he feels most of it, if not almost all, and has a very, very low pain threshold to boot. (Exhibit A: "I'll have you know I stubbed my toe last week when watering my spice garden, and I only cried for 20 minutes.")
*** But the real kicker is, the universe he's in won't allow him to die. He can live through the most horrific mutilations of his body (like his face being almost fully shaved off by a door) in the name of the "rule of funny" and though a normal human would've died from shock about that point, [=SpongeBob=] just has to live with it.
*** What does any of this have to do with humans? He's a sponge. He can regrow body parts, so his face being shaved off shouldn't injure him.
*** [=SpongeBob=] can re-grow body parts relatively quickly, depending on what kind of injuries he's sustained or what the plot demands, but that doesn't mean he likes being injured. He's extremely intolerant of any kind of pain (this is the guy who outright stated that he cried for 20 minutes after stubbing his toe,) and he gets scared easily. Just because he's a sponge and can re-grow body parts, doesn't mean that he wouldn't be traumatized and in agonizing pain if someone walked up to him and shot him in the face.
* In "Patty Hype", after his Pretty Patties stand becomes a huge hit, [=SpongeBob=] claims that the one thing he misses the most about the Krusty Krab is "that tiny squeaky sound you get when you rub two pickles together". However, Pretty Patties are basically just painted Krabby Patties, so wouldn't [=SpongeBob=] still have plenty of pickles to rub together? In fact, this raises another question: where is he getting all the ingredients from to make the Pretty Patties, and where is he keeping them? Never mind the ingredients, he'd need a lot of paint as well.
** He was perhaps referring to the way it happens in the Krusty Krab. As for the second point; There's something called food dye. And [=SpongeBob=] never ''officially'' quit the Krusty Krab in that episode; so he was getting his resources from Mr. Krabs...which would mean that [=SpongeBob=] [[FridgeHorror was stealing from his boss?]]
* If the show takes place underwater...
** Why does Goo Lagoon exist? Answer: Mud
*** I don't think mud would have a tide...
** How are fish able to drown? Answer: Mud in gills choking them
** The events of "[=SpongeBob=] vs. the Big One" never would've been logical.
** How are they able to [[WaterIsAir start fires]]? ''[[[PuffOfLogic fire immediately dies]]]''
* Why is Plankton not in jail for serving chum? It's literally dead fish! [[FridgeHorror He has to get the ingredients somehow...]]
** Plankton's specific version of chum from "Jailbreak!" is made of old socks, banana peels, used tissues, and other random garbage, nowhere near the realm of actual, dead-fish chum. It's like when a kid drinks ketchup and calls it blood.
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* If the Krusty Krab doesn't serve pizza, where did Mr. Krabs find the pizza box?
** Hammerspace. Also, many restaurant brands have places they can get their custom-designed pizza boxes, so Krabs may have found one someplace else & got them to design it.
** Or maybe Mr. Krabs did eat pizza before the episode began, kept the box and used that for the delivery to give to Squidward.
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** I've never seen Little Yellow Book, but maybe whatever caused Spongebob to act this way around plaid happened sometime after he met Sandy's cousin.
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* In "Little Yellow Book" (season 9), it is revealed that [=SpongeBob=] starts clucking like a chicken every time he sees plaid. However, in "Stanley S. Square Pants" (season 5), [=SpongeBob=] briefly met Sandy's Scottish cousin, who was wearing a kilt and a matching plaid hat, and he didn't act like a chicken at all.


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** Original responder, yeah it's a USA thing then. Over here you can be single regardless of whether or not your were previously married, and people who have gotten divorced can say they're "single again" without it being strange.
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** He's very well trained.
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** Different poster than above. I don't know what country you're from, but in the US, "single" is generally used as a term meaning (probably a misuse knowing us) "not currently married or dating anyone". I guess the reason why the writers didn't say "widow" is due to either NeverSayDie, a mistake or as a way for [=SpongeBob=] to confirm that in addition to not currently having a husband, Mrs. Puff is also not dating anyone else.
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** Spongebob specifically told Sandy that he loves air and can't get enough of it (to which she acts surprised and says "No kidding?") so she might have thought he ''was'' some kind of amphibian. It's not like Spongebob looks like an actual sea sponge. Even when he realized what air was, he insisted he was okay with it and he later said, ''again'', that he was okay when she asked if something was wrong. So she probably didn't want to be rude and assume he was lying. For the second part, I dunno--she was either distracted by the flowers, thought when he said water he meant for the flowers, or she just didn't hear him because he was speaking with a dry throat and very quiet.
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** Also, calling someone "kid" isn't necessarily literal; I've seen plenty of adults being called "kid". It's much relative to the age of the person who calls them "kid"; if Mr. Krabs called him kid, it wouldn't be weird because he's middle-aged and SpongeBob is considerably younger. I think WordOfGod said somewhere SpongeBob is in his mid-20's (a fairly young age to be a manager), but I could be wrong about that.

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** Also, calling someone "kid" isn't necessarily literal; I've seen plenty of adults being called "kid". kid. It's much relative to the age of the person who calls them "kid"; kid; if Mr. Krabs called him kid, it wouldn't be weird because he's middle-aged and SpongeBob Spongebob is considerably younger. I think WordOfGod said somewhere SpongeBob Spongebob is in his mid-20's (a fairly young age to be a manager), but I could be wrong about that.
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** Also, calling someone "kid" isn't necessarily literal; I've seen plenty of adults being called "kid". It's much relative to the age of the person who calls them "kid"; if Mr. Krabs called him kid, it wouldn't be weird because he's middle-aged and SpongeBob is considerably younger. I think WordOfGod said somewhere SpongeBob is in his mid-20's (a fairly young age to be a manager), but I could be wrong about that.
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* How come Gary can read the newspaper (Rock-a-Bye Bivalve) and pay the bill (Jellyfish Hunter), but he can't use the bathroom (Sponge Out of Water) or feed himself? (Clams)

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* How come Gary can read the newspaper (Rock-a-Bye Bivalve) and pay the bill bills (Jellyfish Hunter), but he can't use the bathroom (Sponge Out of Water) or feed himself? (Clams)
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* How come Gary can read the newspaper (Rock-a-Bye Bivalve) and pay the bill (Jellyfish Hunter), but he can't use the bathroom (Sponge Out of Water) or feed himself? (Clams)
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** (Original Poster) What I didn't get is why [=SpongeBob=] would say that Mrs.Puff is single when it's obvious that she's been married at some point of her life. In my country, being single means one person has never been married. Otherwise this person is married, in a civil union, divorced or a widow/ widower. By your explanation I understand he was encouraging Mr. Krabs to ask her for a date, but still sounds weird for me. Here we would never call "single" a divorced or widow lady unless we wanted to deliberately lie about her status.

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** (Original Poster) What I didn't get is why [=SpongeBob=] would say that Mrs.Puff is single when it's obvious that she's been married at some point of her life. In my country, being single means one person has never been married. Otherwise this person is married, in a civil union, divorced or a widow/ widower. By your the above explanation I understand he was encouraging Mr. Krabs to ask her for a date, but still sounds weird for me. Here we would never call "single" a divorced or widow lady unless we wanted to deliberately lie about her status.
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** (Original Poster) What I didn't get is why [=SpongeBob=]says Mrs.Puff is single when it's obvious that she's been married at some point of her life. In my country, being single means one person has never been married. Otherwise this person is married, in a civil union, divorced or a widow/ widower. By your explanation I understand he was encouraging Mr. Krabs to ask her for a date. It still sounds weird for me though. Here we would never call "single" a divorced or widow lady unless we wanted to deliberately lie about her status.

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** (Original Poster) What I didn't get is why [=SpongeBob=]says [=SpongeBob=] would say that Mrs.Puff is single when it's obvious that she's been married at some point of her life. In my country, being single means one person has never been married. Otherwise this person is married, in a civil union, divorced or a widow/ widower. By your explanation I understand he was encouraging Mr. Krabs to ask her for a date. It date, but still sounds weird for me though.me. Here we would never call "single" a divorced or widow lady unless we wanted to deliberately lie about her status.
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** (Original Poster) What I didn't get is why [=SpongeBob=]says Mrs.Puff is single when it's obvious that she's been married at some point of her life. In my country, being single means one person has never been married. Otherwise this person is married, in a civil union, divorced or a widow/ widower. By your explanation I understand he was encouraging Mr. Krabs to ask her for a date. It still sounds weird for me though. Here we would never call "single" a divorced or widow lady unless we wanted to deliberately lie about her status.


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* In the episode "Squid's Day Off", why didn't Squidward just call the Kristy Krab's phone to check in on SpongeBob? We know from other episodes that the restaurant has one.

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* In the episode "Squid's Day Off", why didn't Squidward just call the Kristy Krusty Krab's phone to check in on SpongeBob? We know from other episodes that the restaurant has one.



* [=SpongeBob=] has an entire Patty Vault that holds hundreds (or thousands) of ready-to-eat Krabby Patties and yet he cooks fresh, new ones on the grill in this episode?

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* In "Just One Bite", [=SpongeBob=] has an entire Patty Vault that holds hundreds (or thousands) of ready-to-eat Krabby Patties and yet he cooks fresh, new ones on the grill in this episode? grill?



* Wouldn't the Patty Vault's patties have to be completely diverse to suit the customers' differing and varying tastes? Like what if a customer is lactose intolerant (no cheese) or is allergic to tomatoes or like in the beginning, the customer wants his Krabby Patty double fried in batter?

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* Wouldn't Also in "Just One Bite", wouldn't the Patty Vault's patties have to be completely diverse to suit the customers' differing and varying tastes? Like what if a customer is lactose intolerant (no cheese) or is allergic to tomatoes or like in the beginning, the customer wants his Krabby Patty double [[HollywoodHeartAttack deep fried in batter?batter]]?
* Why isn't there a lock on the Patty Vault in case someone like Plankton tries breaking in and stealing some patties? A lock would save the trouble of having to install a gas-and-match security alarm that could end up burning down the dining section of the Krusty Krab.
** Could be because [=SpongeBob=] guards the Patty Vault so heavily (even coming in real early in the morning to count sesame seeds) that he decided a lock would only hamper his presence in the vault, and so he either did away with the lock or requested Mr. Krabs to do so.

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