Man Ray Returns
Original air date: 9/30/2017
When Man Ray rents out Squidward's house for the weekend, SpongeBob and Patrick must put a stop to his evil vacation.
"Man Ray Returns" contains examples of:
- Brick Joke: When Man Ray complains about wanting to be on vacation, SpongeBob retorts, "Evil never takes a vacation." Man Ray likes the line so much that he asks if he can use it. When he repeats it later in the episode, SpongeBob and Patrick admit that it does sound a lot cooler when Man Ray says it.
- Comically Missing the Point: When SpongeBob reveals that Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy won't be able to fight for a week after being unfrozen, he asks Patrick if he knows what that means. Patrick responds, "I have to wait a week for my ice pops?"
- Department of Redundancy Department: "When they wake up in a week, they'll be weak...for a week!"
- Evil All Along: Despite Man Ray wanting to take a vacation, only for it to be disrupted by SpongeBob and Patrick, he confesses to them at the end that he gave Squidward a phony check.
- Eye Scream: Man Ray closes the window on SpongeBob's eye.
- Human Popsicle: Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy are shown cryogenically frozen.
- Hurricane of Puns: SpongeBob and Patrick unleash them as they fight Man Ray.
- Interactive Narrator: When the TV Announcer acknowledges Man Ray getting out of the cab, Man Ray tell him to keep it down because he's on vacation rather than doing anything evil.
- Insistent Terminology: Happens when Patrick finds a bra in Squidward's suitcase.Squidward: It's not a bra! It's a pectoral girdle!
- Medium Blending: When he leaves Squidward's house, Man Ray hops on a live-action plastic scuba diver that swims away.
- Oh, Crap!: Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy have this reaction after waking up from their cryo sleep when SpongeBob and Patrick steal their rings.
- Security Cling: When Man Ray, SpongeBob, and Patrick launch at each other, thunder strikes and they all cling to each other in fright before falling through the roof.
- Shout-Out: Man Ray exits on Scuber, a parody of the app Uber.
- The comic cover for Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy Issue #55 is a direct nod to Action Comics #1.
- Superhero Episode: The second Mermaid Pants and Barnacle Star episode.
- Villains Out Shopping: The episode focuses on Man Ray taking a vacation.
- Your Head Asplode: Squidward's head explodes when he gets angry at SpongeBob and Patrick rummaging through the clothes that fell out of his suitcase.
Larry the Floor Manager
Original air date: 9/30/2017
When Mr. Krabs goes away on a temporary vacation, he makes Larry the Lobster the temporary manager of the Krusty Krab.
"Larry the Floor Manager" contains examples of:
- Angrish: Mr. Krabs jabbers angrily while chasing Squidward in a boat for dropping a napkin on the floor.
- Bad Mood as an Excuse: Mr. Krabs gets violently snippy at SpongeBob and Squidward due to being overworked.
- Call-Back: Larry mentions the gym he now runs from "Larry's Gym".
- Disproportionate Retribution: Mr. Krabs trying to attack Squidward for dropping a napkin on the floor.
- Immediate Self-Contradiction: Mr. Krabs promises to be nice after blowing up at SpongeBob for wasting some ketchup, only to see Squidward drop a napkin on the floor and yell, “WASTER!” before trying to attack him.
- Jabba Table Manners: Larry is disgusted by the eating habits of the customers, not helped by SpongeBob doing the same in front of Larry.
- Letting the Air out of the Band: When SpongeBob tries the power shake, he spits it out in disgust at a boombox that shorts out, causing the background music to stop.
- Man on Fire: Squidward catches on fire after accidentally jumping on the grill. SpongeBob douses him with a bucket of water.
- Pet the Dog: After SpongeBob is close to tears following Mr. Krabs snapping at him for spilling a drop of ketchup, Mr. Krabs apologizes to him.
- Something We Forgot: When Larry and the gym guys finally leave, they take the equipment and the rope net with Squidward still tangled in it.
- Springtime for Hitler: SpongeBob's attempts to get Larry and his buddies to leave only make them more enthusiastic about staying at the Krusty Krab.
- Treadmill Trauma: At one point, Fred tries to place an order when Larry puts him on a treadmill. Unable to run on the treadmill and place his order at the same time, Fred falls off the treadmill and shouts "My leg!"
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Larry becomes this when he turns the Krusty Krab into a gym to help the customers get into shape, denying them the krabby patties they came for.
- Wingding Eyes: Mr. Krabs briefly gets hearts in his eyes when SpongeBob reminds him that "the customer is always right...when they have money".
