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In the film, Mr. Krabs opens up a second Krusty Krab restaurant, and [=SpongeBob=] is heavily anticipating being promoted to manager of the new restaurant. But to his dismay, Squidward gets the job instead because [=SpongeBob=] is supposedly not mature enough for the job. Meanwhile, Plankton finally stops fooling around and enacts his greatest plan to steal the secret Krabby Patty formula - he steals King Neptune's crown, brings it to the dangerous Shell City, and frames Mr. Krabs for it. When Neptune finds his crown missing, he crashes the Krusty Krab 2 and charges Krabs for the theft, but [=SpongeBob=] is willing to travel to Shell City to retrieve the crown, so Neptune gives him six days to find it, during which he has Krabs frozen. While [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick head off on their adventure, Plankton makes it past the frozen Krabs and successfully steals the Krabby Patty formula. He then gives away bucket-helmets with all the Krabby Patties he sells, which then turn his customers into his monument-building slaves. Can [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick successfully retrieve Neptune's crown and save Bikini Bottom?

* BadassMustache: Mindy makes a pair of these out of seaweed to convince [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick that they have become men.

* DemotedToExtra: Sandy Cheeks only shows up for like two scenes.
** Heck, pretty much anyone who isn't [=SpongeBob=], Patrick and Plankton. Squidward only shows up a few times, and Mr Krabs spends the entire movie frozen.

* LoveAtFirstSight: Patrick is infatuated with Mindy.

[[caption-width-right:299:For a ''[=SpongeBob=]'' movie, it's much darker than this poster makes it look.]]

** Also, when Plankton reads over his final plan to steal the Krabby Patty formula. "It's evil, it's diabolical, *sniffs* it's lemon-scented!

* SeasonFauxnale: This film was meant to serve as the closing to the show, but Nickelodeon insisted on putting the series back in production.

* GrandFinale: Subverted. This film was meant to serve as the closing to the show, but Nickelodeon insisted on putting the series back in production.
** However, according to WordOfGod, all episodes made after the movie take place before it, so it's still (chronologically) the GrandFinale.
* GrossoutShow

* LowerDeckEpisode: A ''NickelodeonMagazine'' special promoting the film included a comic story showing Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy trying (and failing) to stop Plankton during the events of the movie.

* ToiletHumor

[[caption-width-right:299:For a ''Spongebob'' movie, it's much darker than this poster makes it look.]]

* ComicallySmallBribe: Spongebob attempts to bribe Dennis with "Goober Dollars". He isn't impressed.

** Heck, pretty much anyone who isn't Spongebob, Patrick and Plankton. Squidward only shows up a few times, and Mr Krabs spends the entire movie frozen.

* NeverSayDie: Averted. The words "Kill" and "die" are used several times.

** I don't know about you, but from what I hear dying of dehydration is pretty painful.

** I heard it secondhand, but apparently according to WordOfGod, all episodes made after the movie take place before it, so it's still the GrandFinale.

** Then used in a throwaway gag courtesy of Dennis; he notes the obviously fake mustaches, pulls them off the pair's faces, and then shows them what a real mustache looks like. He pulls down his bandana, revealing his clean-shaven face. He then proceeds a particularly bushy one through sheer force of will in an instant.

* CompleteMonster: Dennis.
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijiNOxYgHPI "I'M A GOOFY GOOBER!" '''ROCK!''']]
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The [=SpongeBob=] theme... [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA3Sk8AgXD4 as performed by the London Symphony Orchestra]].
** As mentioned above, the Goofy Goober rock song.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: Unlike the rest of the series, this movie is considerably a lot darker and has plenty of horror elements. There's Plankton who crosses the MoralEventHorizon, [[CompleteMonster Dennis]], the seriously threating thugs, the bucket helmets, the skull infested area, the horrible looking monsters, the trench, the diver, and the climax involving drying up in a gift shop. Worse than all of that, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking ALL HAIL PLANKTON!!!]]

* NightmareFuel: The debut of the bucket helmets.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: "I'M A GOOFY GOOBER!" '''ROCK!'''

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: Unlike the rest of the series, this movie is considerably a lot darker and has plenty of horror elements. There's Plankton who crosses the MoralEventHorizon, [[CompleteMonster Dennis]], the seriously threating thugs, the bucket helmets, the skull infested area, the horrible looking monsters, the trench, the diver, and the climax involving drying up in a gift shop. Worse than all of that, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking ALL HAIL PLANKTON]]!!!

* FridgeLogic: How is a bucket helmet able to fit over Sandy's helmet? Or even ''effect her'' for that matter?

* FridgeLogic: How is a bucket helmet able to fit over Sandy's helmet?

* LiveActionBookends: In which a pirate crew comes to the theater to watch the movie. There's a brief cut back to them during [[spoiler:[=SpongeBob=] and Patrick's DisneyDeath]].