Written by Marc Ceccarelli, Luke Brookshier, and Mr. Lawrence (Jailbreak!) / Casey Alexander, Zeus Cervas, Blake Lemons, and Andrew Goodman (Evil Spatula)
Animation Director: Alan Smart (Jailbreak!) / Alan Smart and Tom Yasumi (Evil Spatula)
Original air date: 3/16/2013 (produced in 2012)
Plankton is in jail, but he teams up with his cellmates to break out, and steal the Krabby Patty formula.
"Jailbreak!" contains examples of:
- Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick:Plankton: So, honey, is you-know-what inside?
Karen: You mean flour, sugar, milk and eggs?
Plankton: No! The secret ingredient.
Karen: Awww...you mean love?
Plankton: I mean... the file. - Clown-Car Base: Mr. Krabs was somehow able to fit the entire Bikini Bottom police in his secret formula safe.
- Comically Missing the Point: When Plankton asks Karen if she put a file in the cake she brought him, Karen just laughs and asks who would put a file in a cake.
- Epic Fail: The guards, in attempting to stop the prisoners from escaping, used their own bodies to fill the hole in the wall. It worked too well that they can't get out at all, and Plankton decides they can just leave through the front door.
- Famed In-Story: Plankton is surprised to find the other prisoners view him as a hero. (A hero of criminals, but a hero nonetheless.)
- Great Escape: What Plankton planned to do in this episode. They do escape, but they are all recaptured when trying to steal the Formula.
- Jail Bake: Plankton snaps at Karen for not putting a file in the cake she brought him. Later when he's eaten by a prisoner, a slice of cake and a file can be seen in the prisoner's stomach.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: One of Plankton's jail inmates tells a backstory where he used chum as a disguise (deforming his face by rubbing chum on it). When he horrifies the cashier into giving out money, it is revealed that his face morphed to look like Squidward's face.
- Police Are Useless: One of the failed attempts by the security guards to stop the crooks from escaping. After a hole is blown through the wall, every cop blocks it by stacking themselves over one another. They end up getting stuck and the prisoners escape through the front door.
- This is later averted when the police, after somehow hiding inside a tiny safe, manage to re-arrest Plankton and his whole prison gang.
- Prison Episode: Also doubles as a Villain Episode since Plankton is the central character.
- Shout-Out: Plankton's prisoner number is #655321, which is a reference to Alex from A Clockwork Orange, who shares the same number.
- Use Your Head: The prisoners break into the Krusty Krab using the biggest one (a whale) as a battering ram.
- Villain Cred: As it turns out, every criminal in Bikini Bottom looks up to Plankton. They outright describe him as "criminal royalty."
Original air date: 3/9/2013 (produced in 2012)
Plankton gives SpongeBob a new spatula, and SpongeBob starts to believe that it's magic. However, the spatula is actually an invention of Plankton's to use him and gain his trust so he can tell him the krabby patty formula.
"Evil Spatula" contains examples of:
- Ash Face: SpongeBob and Mr. Krabs get a rather disturbing one at the beginning.
- Bait-and-Switch Comment: When it seems like Mr. Krabs is going to chew SpongeBob out for talking to his spatula.Mr. Krabs: What have I told you about talking to spatulas? Only do it...if it makes me money.
- Big Damn Heroes: Just as Squidward is on the verge of being attacked by the ravenous customers, SpongeBob begins churning out Krabby Patties, sparing his co-worker from an undeserved beating.
- Chekhov's Gun: The Disulfide bottle Mr. Krabs and SpongeBob were using. For good measure, Krabs tricks Plankton into pouring all of it, which blows up the Chum Bucket.
- Complexity Addiction: Plankton's plan this episode has seven phases in a very convoluted roadmap replacing SpongeBob's spatula and earning his trust with a new one. Karen lampshades how many phases his plan needs anyway.
- Deadpan Snarker: Plankton lampshades Karen's status as this in one line ("my sarcastic wife").
- Heroic BSoD: Instead of crying over his broken spatula, like he did in All That Glitters, SpongeBob screamed over it. He still mourns on it, though.
- Malicious Misnaming: Plankton calls SpongeBob "SpongeBoob" when SpongeBob goes back to the Krusty Krab with the Sizzlemaster.
- Oh, Crap!:
- Mr. Krabs when SpongeBob tells him the Sizzlemaster wants to learn the krabby patty formula, causing him to realize he's been tricked.
- Plankton when he finds out that a bottle he was using for an ingredient is explosive.
- Reimagining the Artifact: To most fans, this is All That Glitters done right.
- Secret Message Wink: Mr. Krabs realizes that SpongeBob's new spatula is part of Plankton's latest scheme after he hears that it needs the Krabby Patty secret formula. He plays along as giving SpongeBob a formula but instead hands over another recipe (his explosive money-cleaning formula) and winks.SpongeBob: Mr. Krabs, I think your blinker's broken.
Mr. Krabs: Just read it. - Smell Phone: Plankton learns the hard way that his Sizzlemaster spatula has this function, right after offering to help SpongeBob clean Gary's litterbox.Plankton: "EWW! Karen, I thought I told you not to put smell sensors on the spatula!"
- Too Dumb to Live: You'd think Plankton would actually look at the bottle he's holding and realize that he actually using an explosive substance, but it's only when Mr. Krabs speaks to him via the spatula does Plankton realize too late that he's been tricked.
- Unwitting Pawn: SpongeBob becomes this to Plankton through the use of the Sizzlemaster.
