Original air date: 10/12/2019
The Gal Pals take Pearl to a cabin in the woods for a weekend of silly pranks.
"A Cabin in the Kelp" contains examples of:
- Camping Episode: The Gal Pals go camping in a cabin in the woods.
- Fine, You Can Just Wait Here Alone: The Gal Pals get an idea to prank SpongeBob.Karen: Yeah, let's hide behind this tree and scream when he shows up.
Sandy: You coming, Pearl?
Pearl: Well, I'm certainly not staying by myself in the dark! - Girl's Night Out Episode: The second episode to focus on the "Gal Pals" (Karen, Sandy, and Mrs. Puff), only Pearl is included this time.
- Initiation Ceremony: Pearl expects to go through the embarrassing kind, but the Gal Pals just give her a friendship necklace and state they never intended to do that.
- Innocently Insensitive: Pearl cries about losing her backpack that contained SpongeBob. Karen comforts her by saying it's just a backpack, and it's not like losing a friend.
- Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title: Possibly of The Cabin in the Woods
- Real After All: The story of the original fourth Gal Pal that Sandy, Mrs. Puff, and Karen tell Pearl to scare her turns out to be real. However, she turns out not to be crazy and is quite forgiving for what happened between them.
- Sequel Episode: To "Girls' Night Out".
- Tempting Fate:
- After SpongeBob gets lost in the woods, he decides to wait to be rescued since he has plenty of food and blankets in the trailer, which immediately sinks into the mud afterwards.
- Then again he has a peanut so... win?
- The End: The episode ends with the heads Gal Pals bumping into the screen and saying "The End".
- Your Make Up Is Running: Mascara runs down Pearl's eyes as she cries about her lost backpack.
Original air date: 11/30/2019
Mr. Krabs has a secret taste for something... surprising.
"The Hankering" contains examples of:
- Batter Up!: Plankton holds up a baseball bat to attack whoever's going through his garbage. But since he's small, the bat falls on top of him when he tries to swing it.
- Big Eater: Mr. Krabs eats a bucket full of chum to beat Plankton to the formula and accidentally eats him. This ruins Krabs’ taste for chum.
- Big Ball of Violence: Plankton and Mr. Krabs get into a fight over the Krabby Patty Formula until the formula gets thrown into a giant bucket of chum.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: After using this giant Chum Bucket glove to trap Mr. Krabs and SpongeBob and states "This time, I have the upper hand." Plankton then turns to the camera and says, "Get it? "Upper hand?""
- Brick Joke: Near the beginning of the episode, Sal leaves the chum business to pursue a career as a movie star. At the end of the episode, SpongeBob, Mr. Krabs, Karen, and Plankton are watching a movie that Sal is staring in.
- Call-Back: Mr. Krabs's time in the navy is mentioned. Some of his navy buddies from "Shell of a Man" are seen.
- Compressed Vice: This episode shows that, ever since his days in the Navy where he had to eat it, Mr. Krabs has been keeping an irrepressible hankering for chum in check by secretly seeing a chum cook. When he quits to get into movies, Mr. Krabs grows desperate because nothing else satisfies him like chum does.
- The Door Slams You: Spongebob tries to open the door of Mr.Krabs’s office, only to be squashed with it by the latter.
- Eaten Alive: Happens to Plankton after Mr. Krabs eats an entire vat of chum that Plankton is swimming in to get the formula.
- G-Rated Drug: Chum is this for Mr. Krabs.
- Green Around the Gills: Happens to SpongeBob when Mr. Krabs tells him the ingredients for chum. He also goes into Color Failure at one point.
- Growling Gut: This happens to Mr. Krabs whenever he craves chum.
- Guilty Pleasure: Mr. Krabs loves chum, but he hides it from anyone (especially Plankton).
- Hypno Pendulum: Plankton uses a piece of chum like this to tempt Mr. Krabs with trading him the formula for it.
- Jaw Drop: Upon finding out that Mr. Krabs is addicted to chum, Plankton's jaw hits the floor, and his skeleton falls out of his mouth.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Plankton takes advantage of Mr. Krabs' craving for chum, and then attempts to double cross him when Krabs comes through with the formula. For his troubles, he ends up accidentally eaten alive by Mr. Krabs.
- Mind-Control Eyes: Mr. Krabs gets these when he first gets hooked on chum, and when Plankton tempts him with chum.
- Mock Meal: SpongeBob can't make chum for Mr. Krabs due to being disgusted by the ingredients, so he makes him some "chum-free chum", which looks like the real thing, but is made with different ingredients such as krabby patties, snail litter, and love.
- Noodle Incident: While taking out an X-ray to show Plankton inside Mr. Krabs's stomach, Karen remarks "This isn't the first time this has happened."
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Mr. Krabs is so desperate to eat some chum that he's willing to trade the secret formula to Plankton for a lifetime supply of chum.
- Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title: Possibly of The Happening.
- Radish Cure: After devouring an entire vat of the stuff Mr. Krabs thinks he's been cured of his chum cravings.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After Mr. Krabs kicks everyone out of the Krusty Krab, SpongeBob tells him that he and Squidward don't want to leave early, only to notice that Squidward has already started taking off.
- Shout-Out: The movie Sal stars in is a James Bond parody.
- Special Guest: Gilbert Gottfried as Sal.
- Underside Ride: Mr. Krabs clings to the bottom of a taxi to secretly get to his chum restaurant. SpongeBob does the same to follow Mr. Krabs, but afterwards is scuffed up and injured.
- Unreliable Voiceover: As Mr. Krabs is explaining to SpongeBob the origin of his taste for chum, he claims it was because he got separated from his navy buddies and had returned to find all their food and supplies stolen. In reality, it was because he had slept the entire time while the crew ate everything, and by the time he finally woke up, all that was left was chum.
- Villain Ball: Mr. Krabs comes crawling to Plankton for chum, and Plankton immediately jumps to the conclusion that he should make a deal with Krabs, giving him a lifetime supply of chum in exchange for the formula. Later he double-crosses Krabs when he tries to flatten him with the Chum Bucket's giant glove, even though he already had what he wanted (the formula). It never occurs to him that he could just, you know, sell chum to Krabs and have himself a regular customer. Having regular customers is supposedly the reason Plankton wants the formula in the first place.
- The Un-Reveal: We never find out what the recipe for chum is. But judging from SpongeBob's reaction, we're better off not knowing. note
