Original air date: 11/27/2009
Greasy Buffoons
Mr. Krabs and Plankton begin serving their customers grease.
"Greasy Buffoons" contains examples of:
- An Aesop:
- Be sure to properly dispose of your trash and not litter it on someone else's property.
- Fast food may be delicious at times, but can sometimes have a serious negative effect on your health, as most fast food places often don't have your best interests at heart.
- All Just a Dream: Subverted. Mr. Krabs wakes up outside to see all the grease gone and assumes the whole thing was just a dream. However, he sees SpongeBob had absorbed all the grease in his body so he can dispose of it properly.
- Cannot Spit It Out: Mr. Krabs and Plankton have a hard time saying the word "friends" when explaining to the health inspector.
- Everyone Has Standards: In another rare instance, SpongeBob once again proves even he has his limits when it comes to Mr. Krabs. Seeing Patrick so unhealthy from the grease war between the two restaurants is finally what causes him to snap and call a health inspector on the two.
- Evil Versus Evil: Mr. Krabs and Plankton for serving greasy food to the customers. It gets so bad that by the end of it, they both end up serving pure grease, making the customers sick. It took SpongeBob calling the health inspector to put a end to their conflict.
- Got Volunteered: Mr. Krabs tries to get SpongeBob and Squidward to clean the grease trap with no extra pay. Only SpongeBob helped as Squidward vanished.
- Idiosyncratic Wipes: The usual bubble transitions are replaced with grease.
- I Don't Pay You to Think: Mr. Krabs tells SpongeBob this after the latter tells him about the grease idea going overboard.SpongeBob: Actually, Mr. Krabs, I've been thinking. And well, don't you think maybe this whole grease thing has gone a bit to far?
Mr. Krabs: *laughs* You know what I think, SpongeBob? I think you should be thinking about NOT thinking and get back to work! - Impossibly Delicious Food: Apparently even soaking chum in grease makes it a lot more appetizing. Unfortunately, it also makes it incredibly unhealthy as well, and everyone eating between the two starts feeling the effects of it as it goes on, but are unable to stop because the food apparently tastes that good.
- Nutritional Nightmare: Many of them, thanks to Mr. Krabs and Plankton serving increasingly greasy food, to the point where Mr. Krabs is serving "Wow Soup", which is just grease on a paper plate.
- Oh, Crap!: "Oh no! Did somebody call a health inspector?"
- Only Sane Man: SpongeBob, in this case, felt that Mr. Krabs and Plankton competitively serving greasy foods to people has gone too far. What makes him call the health inspector was when he sees Patrick getting sick after eating the grease.
- Overly Long Gag: SpongeBob trying to say "They've been feeding people grease!" to the health inspector, but Mr. Krabs and Plankton keep interrupting him before he finishes the sentence. He finally completes his thought after falling down a hill in a trash can.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When Mr. Krabs says he needs help to dispose of the grease in the deposit (for no extra pay), Squidward vanishes.
- Stuffed into a Trashcan: Mr. Krabs and Plankton both stuff SpongeBob into a trashcan and roll him down a cliff to prevent him from squealing to the health inspector.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: As it turns out, serving increasingly unhealthy foods to people is liable to get a health inspector on you.
- Take That!: The entire episode is a rather blatant critique about how fast food companies often serve less than nutritious meals to their customers in the name of profit.
Model Sponge
SpongeBob mistakenly believes he's been fired as Krusty Krab fry cook, so he auditions to be in a kitchen sponge commercial instead.
"Model Sponge" contains examples of:
- An Aesop:
- Don’t take what you hear too seriously, as it may not really be about you.
- What you try out for might not be what you expected.
- Animation Bump: SpongeBob's reaction when he thinks Mr. Krabs is firing him is much more exaggerated and improved than his previous ones.
- Big "NO!": SpongeBob shouts one when he is about to be used to clean a toilet in the commercial.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: SpongeBob gets a modeling job, thinking all he'll have to do is demonstrate cleaning products. Then right before the camera starts rolling, SpongeBob has his clothes forcibly removed, leaving him nude as he is used as a model for a cleaning sponge.
- Dramatic Irony: The audience knows Mr. Krabs was actually letting his pet scallop go, but SpongeBob doesn't.
- Insignia Rip-Off Ritual: When SpongeBob makes a Krabby Patty out of money at the bank, the boss fires him by removing his name tag which makes him deflate like a balloon.
- Naked People Are Funny: SpongeBob is stripped nude just before filming of the New Sponge commercial begins.
- New Job Episode: The episode centers on SpongeBob trying to find a new job after mistakenly thinking that Mr. Krabs was planning to let him go.
- Oh, Crap!: SpongeBob's reaction when he realizes he is going to be the cleaning utensil in the commercial.
- Out-of-Context Eavesdropping: The episode starts with SpongeBob outside Mr. Krabs's office listening to him talk on the phone about "letting the little guy go". SpongeBob immediately assumes he's talking about him and leaves, missing the part where Mr. Krabs reveals he's talking about his pet scallop.
- Playing a Tree: SpongeBob ends up playing the sponge in the commercial.
- Poor Communication Kills: What kicks off the plot. The “little guy” that Mr. Krabs was letting go was his pet scallop, but SpongeBob thinks it’s him because he’s the smallest worker in the restaurant. In the end when he tells Mr. Krabs what he heard over the phone while begging him to keep him, Mr. Krabs forgets to tell SpongeBob he wasn’t the “little guy” as mentioned.
- Shout-Out: While auditioning for the modeling job, SpongeBob sings a parody of "When You Wish Upon a Star" from Disney's Pinocchio.
- Wingding Eyes: SpongeBob has stars in his eyes when he finds out he has the modeling job.
