Line #9 Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS2E16GraveyardShiftKrustyLove


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:"Tuesday night, [the Hash-Slinger Slasher's] ghost returns to the Krusty Krab to wreak... his ''horrible'' vengeance."]]
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4	'''Graveyard Shift'''
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6	'''Original air date:''' 9/6/2002 ''(produced in 2001; first aired in Canada on 1/24/02)''[[note]]"Graveyard Shift" was released by itself on the ''Nautical Nonsense and Sponge Buddies'' DVD set on 3/12/02.[[/note]]
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8	Mr. Krabs declares the Krusty Krab open 24 hours a day, much to [=SpongeBob's=] delight. Annoyed, Squidward plays a joke on [=SpongeBob=] by telling him a GhostStory about a former fry cook who returns to haunt the Krusty Krab. But Squidward then gets scared by his own story when it seems to be coming true...
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10	!!'''The Trope-Slinging Slasher!'''
11	* AccidentalTruth: As the episode continues, it seems as if Squidward's story had more truth to it than even he realized... But then it turns out [[SubvertedTrope it was all just coincidental]]: the seemingly menacing figure was actually a job seeker who'd earlier called but immediately hung up out of nervousness, and the lights were being flickered by Nosferatu.
12	* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Graf Orlok AKA Nosferatu seems here to be a harmless, good-natured prankster instead of the feral, sadistic monster he was in [[Film/{{Nosferatu}} his debut movie]].
13	* AfterlifeExpress: The Hash-Slinging Slasher is supposed to arrive on the ghost of the bus that ran him over.
14	* AllThereInTheScript: According to the credits, the wannabe fry cook is named Richard.
15	* AnArmAndALeg: According to Squidward, the Hash-Slinging Slasher cut off his own hand by mistake while slicing patties, and so had to replace it with a rusty spatula.
16	* AnswerCut: Squidward acidly complains about the Krusty Krab's new all-night hours, since why would anybody come to buy fast food at three in the morning? The scene then cuts to Patrick, excitedly waking up at 3 AM to eat a Krabby Patty.
17	-->'''Squidward:''' "Open 24 hours a day", what a stupid idea! Who wants a Krabby Patty at three in the morning?\
18	''(cut to Patrick's house as his alarm clock goes off)''\
19	'''Patrick:''' Oh boy, 3 AM! ''(pulls a Krabby Patty out from under his blanket and starts eating it)''
20	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: According to Squidward's story, the Hash-Slinging Slasher cut off his hand, replaced it with a rusty spatula, got hit by a bus, and ''got fired at his funeral''.
21	* ArtificialLimbs: The Hash-Slinging Slasher had to replace his amputated hand with a spatula.
22	* BaitAndSwitchSilhouette: A dark figure enters the Krusty Krab who bears a strong resemblance to the Hash-Slinging Slasher, the character from the horror story Squidward had told [=SpongeBob=]. [=SpongeBob=] and Squidward are scared, but when the figure moves into the light, he is revealed to be a young kid looking for a job at the restaurant.
23	* BottleEpisode: The entire episode is set at the Krusty Krab (except for a cutaway involving Patrick in bed).
24	* CantYouReadTheSign: A customer arrives just as Squidward is closing the Krusty Krab. Squidward points to the "closed" sign, but the customer reads the ''[[ComicallyMissingThePoint menu's sign]]'' and insists on asking for a Krabby Patty anyway, then actually has the nerve to be upset when they won't take his order.
25	* CowardlyLion: [=SpongeBob=] makes his way outside in the dark to take out the trash while frantically screaming at the top of his lungs while running to the Dumpster to take out the trash and dashing back inside the restaurant.
26	* {{Ectoplasm}}: Subverted. Squidward tries to claim that the green slime oozing from the walls means a vengeful ghost called the Hash-Slinging Slasher will arrive, but then says, "Oh, wait, they always do that".
27	* ElectromagneticGhosts: One of the signs that the Hash-Slinging Slasher is coming is that the lights will flicker on and off. Subverted when it turns out there is no ghost, and the lights were flickering due to a vampire.
28	* EvilCripple: The Hash-Slinging Slasher appears to be a hunchback with a turtle-like head, but it turns out to be a potential fry cook with a large head and a bulbous nose.
29	* ExplainExplainOhCrap: It doesn't dawn on [=SpongeBob=] that Squidward isn't pretending to be the Hash-Slinging Slasher until the latter points out to him that they can't be at two places at once. ''Then'', he freaks out.
30	* FantasticallyIndifferent: [=SpongeBob=], Squidward and the potential fry cook's reaction to finding out that Nosferatu was flickering the lights is to playfully scold him.
31	* FingerWag: At the end, [=SpongeBob=] admonishingly wags his finger at Nosferatu for messing with the lights.
32	* {{Foreshadowing}}: The first sign of the Hash-Slinging Slasher approaching is the lights flickering on and off. When the lights in the Krusty Krab begin to do so, a light switch is heard clicking, meaning the lights are being messed with by someone rather than the electricity shorting out, hinting there's not really a Hash-Slinging Slasher.
33	* GainaxEnding: The one responsible for the flickering lights? [[HarmlessVillain Just that old prankster]] Film/{{Nosferatu}} (aka Count Orlok).
34	* GhostStory: The Story of the Hash-Slinging Slasher.
35	* [[invoked]]IAmNotShazam: [=SpongeBob=], Squidward, and that other guy all call the vampire Nosferatu when really his actual name is Count Orlok.
36	* InsaneTrollLogic: [=SpongeBob=]'s way of dismissing the Hash-Slinging Slasher as a myth when the signs are there that he's real. Squidward even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this.
37	-->'''Squidward:''' ''(as [=SpongeBob=] starts to cry)'' At last, you understand! We're doomed!\
38	'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' No, that's not it. ...I am just ''so'' touched that you would go to the trouble to dress up as a ghostly frycook and stand on the other side of the street, just to entertain me! You must ''really'' like me!\
39	'''Squidward:''' [=SpongeBob=], there are two problems with your theory. One, [[BrutalHonesty I]] ''[[BrutalHonesty hate]]'' [[BrutalHonesty you]]. And two, [[ArmorPiercingQuestion how can that be me... when I'm standing]] ''[[ArmorPiercingQuestion right here?!]]''
40	* IronicEcho:
41	** [=SpongeBob=] gets the Hash-Slinging Slasher's name wrong when trying to repeat the Hash-Slinging Slasher as Squidward tells him the story. Later, when the Hash-Slinging Slasher apparently shows up for real, a terrified Squidward gets his name wrong as he tries to say "The Hash-Slinging Slasher".
42	** Earlier in the episode, Squidward says, "I can't hang out here all night! I've got a life." This line is later repeated by Mr. Krabs after he leaves the restaurant.
43	* IronicEchoCut: Squidward complains he doesn't know anybody who would want to eat a Krabby Patty at 3:00 AM, we cut to Patrick, who has set his alarm to that exact time to eat a Krabby Patty.
44	* ItsAllAboutMe: {{Jerkass}} Tom tries to force Squidward to serve him after business hours and even has the nerve to get mad at Squidward for refusing him service.
45	* KarmaHoudini: Mr. Krabs gets away with forcing the 24 hour shift on his employees at the literal last second as well as having the nerve to gloat about how he's going to enjoy his time off. The only solace is that StatusQuoIsGod and the Krusty Krab doesn't actually stick to the shift.
46	* KilledMidSentence: In Squidward's story about the Hash-Slinging Slasher.
47	-->'''Squidward:''' Most people just call him the Ha-- ''(GASP)'', because that's all they have time to say before he... ''gets them!''
48	* LastDisrespects: The Hash-Slinging Slasher was apparently fired at his own funeral.
49	* MeanBoss: Mr. Krabs for making his employees work 24/7 and not even paying them overtime. He also springs the 24 hour shift on his employees at what was until moments beforehand closing time and forces them to stay to work their new shift. However, he doesn't work the night like his employees, gloating that he has a life outside of work.
50	* MediumShiftGag: The appearance of Film/{{Nosferatu}} at the end.
51	* MoodWhiplash: While Squidward tells the signs of the Hash-Slinging Slasher's arrival, a customer randomly appears asking for some ketchup packs, interrupting the mood of the story. After Squidward fulfills the customer's request, he resumes the story and we're back at the same mood once more. Then later he interrupts the story himself to ask [=SpongeBob=] what day it is right when he was getting into when the Slasher reappears, and immediately resumes saying the Slash reappears on Tuesday nights when [=SpongeBob=] tells him it's Tuesday.
52	* NeverSayDie: Squidward never says the Hash-Slinging Slasher kills people, only that he [[DeadlyEuphemism "gets"]] them.
53	* NoAntagonist: Though we were led to believe the episode did have one.
54	* NothingIsScarier: Humorously subverted; around 3:00 AM Squidward starts hearing strange suction noises and we the audience are as unnerved as he is. That is until the camera pans up and we see it's just [=SpongeBob=] using plunger heads to help him walk on the ceiling in order to cleanse it. He still manages to give Squidward a jump scare before coming down.
55	* NotSoFinalConfession: As the Hash-Slinging Hasher approaches...
56	-->'''Squidward:''' [=SpongeBob=], no matter what I've said, I've always sorta liked you!\
57	'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' Squidward, I used your clarinet to unclog my toilet!\
58	'''Squidward:''' Huh?
59	* OhCrap: Squidward thrice. First when he hears [=SpongeBob=] walking on the ceiling with plunger heads and can't find the source of the noise (until [=SpongeBob=] reveals himself) and second when he realizes that it's not [=SpongeBob=] causing the lights to flicker. The third is when he sees the Hash-Slinging Slasher appear across from the restaurant and soon inspires one in [=SpongeBob=] himself after the former makes it clear that the being outside isn't a hoax.
60	* OhCrapSmile: [=SpongeBob=] does this after he confesses to having unclogged his toilet with Squidward's clarinet.
61	* OminousFog: Heralds the arrival of the ghostly bus that brings the Hash-Slinging Slasher.
62	* OverlyLongGag: [=SpongeBob=] screaming repeatedly in response of Squidward's Hash-Slinging Slasher story, which turns into laughter after he says he was joking.
63	* RapidFireNailBiting: [=SpongeBob=] goes from biting his nails to ''eating'' his own arms (which grow back) to [[PassThePopcorn eating arms out of a bucket]].
64	* RealAfterAll: After making up the story of the Hash-Slinging Slasher, Squidward suddenly finds that the events he described are happening, and a mysterious figure enters the Krusty Krab. Subverted when the "slasher" turns out to be the new nighttime fry cook.
65	* RedEyesTakeWarning: The Slasher has glowing red eyes, [[SubvertedTrope which turn out to be]] the nostrils of the goofy looking fry cook.
66	* RewatchBonus: Knowing the signs of the Hash-Slinging Slasher. More specifically, that it's just someone messing with the lights and a nervous job applicant. Squidward says that the lights will flicker on and off, but you can hear an actual light switch rather than them fizzling in and out. The phone will ring and there will be no one there, but the call they got ''did'' have someone there, they just hung up without saying anything.
67	* RuleOfThree: There are three signs of the arrival of the Hash-Slinging Slasher.
68	* SicklyGreenGlow: Throughout the episode, the night sky has an ominous green tint to it. The fog that surrounds what appears to be the Hash-Slinging Slasher's bus is also a faint green.
69	* SoLongSuckers: Squidward says this as he prepares to exit the Krusty Krab.
70	* StatusQuoIsGod: The nighttime frycook never shows up again, and there's no mention of the Krusty Krab's 24 hour shift in later episodes. In "Fear of a Krabby Patty", the Krusty Krab being open 24 hours is treated like a new idea.
71	* SuperNotDrowningSkills: Nosferatu is not shown to need an air helmet or any other kind of breathing apparatus. Of course, he's presumably undead, and therefore might not need to breathe at all.
72	* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Squidward at first is alarmed that there is green slime oozing from the walls, then he remembers that they always do that. Likewise, when Film/{{Nosferatu}} is revealed to be the one who turned the lights on and off, the others react as if he were just a prankster.
73	* WingdingEyes: When [=SpongeBob=] is repeatedly screaming in reaction to the Hash-Slinging Slasher, his pupils briefly become screaming mouths.
74	* WhoWouldBeStupidEnough: "Who wants a Krabby Patty at 3 in the morning?"
75	-->'''[[BigEater Patrick]]:''' Oh boy, 3 AM!
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78	[[caption-width-right:350:Krabs and his scrumptious, curvy cutie out on their first date.]]
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80	'''Krusty Love'''
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82	'''Original air date:''' 9/6/2002 ''(produced in 2001; first aired in Canada on 1/24/02)''
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84	Mr. Krabs begins dating Mrs. Puff with [=SpongeBob=] acting as his "financial adviser". Things seem to go smoothly until Mr. Krabs starts forcing [=SpongeBob=] to buy various gifts for Mrs. Puff.
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86	Not to be confused with "[[Recap/FuturamaS2E5WhyMustIBeACrustaceanInLove Why Must I Be A Crustacean In Love]]", which is an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''.
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88	!!"Krusty Love" provides examples of:
89	* {{Angrish}}: [=SpongeBob=] when he snaps at Mr. Krabs especially when he [[ClusterFBomb starts spouting gibberish]] [[InformedObscenity which is apparently a bunch of swear words]].
90	** Exaggerated in the Dutch dub, where [[ClusterBleepBomb actual bleeps are interspersed between his gibberish]].
91	* AnswerCut: Mr. Krabs asks, "What happened to Mr. Puff?" Cut to live-action footage of a pufferfish used as a lampshade.
92	-->'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' She doesn't like to talk about it.
93	* AstonishinglyAppropriateInterruption: A rare instance where Mr. Krabs provides a fitting interruption for ''himself''.
94	-->'''Mr. Krabs:''' Oh, nothing in all the seven seas could matter more! Not even that- ''(sees Mrs. Puff) scrumptious'', curvy cutie...
95	* BewareTheNiceOnes: [=SpongeBob=] absolutely loses it after Mr. Krabs keeps getting furious and chewing him out for spending his money on gifts for Mrs. Puff that ''Mr. Krabs himself'' requested, giving his boss one heck of a verbal beatdown.
96	* BriefAccentImitation: [=SpongeBob=] copies Mr. Krabs' voice when quoting him saying "Argh, [=SpongeBob=], yer spendin' all me money!", even stretching his eyeballs out through the top of his head and shaping his hands like claws to get a physical resemblance going, too.
97	* CallingTheOldManOut: [=SpongeBob=] calls Mr. Krabs out for spending all his money when he wasn't supposed to in the first place.
98	* GibberishOfLove: When trying to ask Mrs. Puff on a date for the first time, Mr. Krabs is so nervous that he can't speak clearly and [=SpongeBob=] has to translate for him.
99	* GlassShatteringSound: When Mr. Krabs realizes how much money he's spent, he screams so loudly that the giant glass bottle surrounding the restaurant shatters.
100	* GrossUpCloseUp: Mr. Krabs' dirty clothes before [=SpongeBob=] takes him to meet Mrs. Puff.
101	* HiddenDepths: As Mrs. Puff points out,[=SpongeBob=]'s vocabulary contains some surprisingly colorful words.
102	* {{Hypocrite}}: [=SpongeBob=] is asked to be Mr. Krabs' financial adviser after a date that landed him in a HUGE amount of debt after Mr. Krabs spends '''$100,000''' on '''''the very first date''''' due to being blinded by love, thus Mr. Krabs would not be able to impulse-buy for Mrs. Puff. While that idea sounded good on paper, it doesn't last too long and Krabs proceeds to do ''exactly that''. Out of loyalty to his boss, [=SpongeBob=] obeys... but the minute that [=SpongeBob=] returns with the requested item, Mr. Krabs proceeds to lash out at ''him'' when it was Mr. Krabs who asked him to buy said gifts in the first place. And while he attempted to own up to it, Mr. Krabs contradicts himself a few moments after apologizing and again, has [=SpongeBob=] shopping for things Mrs. Puff didn't even need... [[NeverMyFault all the while blaming [=SpongeBob=] for spending his money]].
103	* IgnoredEpiphany: Mr. Krabs actually does acknowledge at one point that he [[LoveMakesYouDumb isn't thinking clearly]] and that it isn't fair for him to be putting so much pressure on [=SpongeBob=] to buy things for Mrs. Puff, [[InsaneTrollLogic only to blow up at him a few seconds later for just doing as he asks]]... right before launching into a montage that ends with Mrs. Puff's front yard absolutely '''flooded''' with gifts.
104	* InterspeciesRomance: Mr. Krabs (crab) and Mrs. Puff (pufferfish), obviously.
105	* JawDrop: Mr. Krabs has a hilarious one after [=SpongeBob=] gives him a profane rant.
106	* JerkassHasAPoint: Despite his unpleasant behavior, Mr. Krabs does have leg to stand on in that he explicitly asked [=SpongeBob=] not to let him spend any money, [[NoMatterHowMuchIBeg no matter what he might say or do to convince him otherwise]]. The problem is, [=SpongeBob's=] UndyingLoyalty, and his tendencies to be something of an ExtremeDoormat really don't leave him equipped for a task like that. And Mr. Krabs tells him that he can't help it if [=SpongeBob=] keeps spending people's money.
107	* LoveMakesYouDumb: Mr. Krabs' M.O. for the episode, constantly impulse-buying in an effort to please her.
108	* MediumShiftGag: When Mr. Krabs asks what happened to Mr. Puff, the camera cuts to a live-action puffer fish lamp, then back to [=SpongeBob=] saying "She doesn't like to talk about it." Also, the "imported music" played during Krabs' and Puff's date is played by a live actor playing the piano while wearing scuba gear.
109	* MondegreenGag: While deciphering Mr. Krabs' GibberishOfLove for Mrs. Puff, [=SpongeBob=] manages to mishear "take you on a date" as "hit you with a rake" and "try to guess your weight" before figuring out what he's actually saying.
110	* MsRedInk: [=SpongeBob=] never attempts to keep himself from spending Mr. Krabs' money each time he's asked to, despite initially being asked to keep Mr. Krabs from spending his money. When Mr. Krabs points this out to him after [=SpongeBob=] had already been worked to the brink, [=SpongeBob=] {{Rage Quit}}s and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere leaves]].
111	* NeverMyFault: What eventually pushes [=SpongeBob=] to his RageBreakingPoint.
112	-->'''Mr. Krabs:''' Lad, ''I'' can't help it if ''you're'' loose with other people's money.
113	* NoMatterHowMuchIBeg: Mr. Krabs gives [=SpongeBob=] his wallet to keep him from spending any money on Mrs. Puff. The date doesn't last one minute before Krabs starts begging [=SpongeBob=] to buy something.
114	* NoodleIncident: The fate of Mr. Puff. All we know is that he's a lamp now and Mrs. Puff "doesn't like to talk about it".
115	* OhCrap: Mr. Krabs is outraged when he sees that his restaurant bill is one hundred dollars, and the waiter realizes he handed him the wrong bill. Mr. Krabs is relieved...until he sees his bill is ''one hundred thousand dollars''.
116	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: After Mr. Krabs asks him to buy gifts for Mrs. Puff only to get mad at him for spending money one too many times, [=SpongeBob=] absolutely ''snaps'' and launches a '''''furious''''' tirade at Mr. Krabs before storming off in anger, leaving Mr. Krabs [[JawDrop in a shocked stupor]] and Mrs. Puff commenting that she didn't know [=SpongeBob=] "[[{{Understatement}} had such a colorful vocabulary]]".
117	* OpenFlyGag: During the GrossUpCloseUp, Mr. Krabs's fly is down.
118	* RageBreakingPoint: [=SpongeBob=] loses it after he has to zigzag back and forth buying stuff for Mr. Krabs to give Mrs. Puff, then being berated for buying said gifts.
119	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech:
120	** A small but satisfying one, from [=SpongeBob=] to Mr. Krabs.
121	--->'''Mr. Krabs:''' SPONGEBOB! I'm glad I've caught ya! I want you to buy Mrs. Puff--\
122	'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' ''[[BigShutUp WAIT! DON'T TELL ME!]]'' You want me to run down to the store and buy Mrs. Puff something ''she doesn't need''! Then you want me to run back here so you can say, ''(imitates Mr. Krabs)'' [[NeverMyFault "Argh, SpongeBob, you're spendin' all me money!"]] And then I'll [[CallingTheOldManOut say]], "But Mr. Krabs, I'm only doing ''WHAT YOU '''SAID!'''''" Then you'll say, "We're not talking about this ''(draws a triangle)'' or ''this (draws a square)'', we're talkin' about '''THISSSSS!'''" ''[[SanitySlippage (draws a ton of directionless squiggly lines)]]''
123	** And when Mr. Krabs yells at [=SpongeBob=] for [[IResembleThatRemark buying Mrs. Puff a washing machine, then asks if she'd want a dryer to go with it]], [=SpongeBob=] launches into a... [[ClusterFBomb "colorful" response]].
124	* RightForTheWrongReasons: Mr. Krabs ends up being right that his bill of [[ShockinglyExpensiveBill $100]] is wrong... but only because his ''actual'' bill is [[FromBadToWorse $100,000]].
125	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After being run ragged by Mr. Krabs and delivering one ''hell'' of a verbal beatdown to his boss for trying to blame him for wasting all his money, [=SpongeBob=] storms off in a huff, cursing Mr. Krabs under his breath.
126	* SeriousBusiness: Mr. Krabs being a penny short!
127	* SexyFigureGesture: Parodied. Mr. Krabs traces the figure of Mrs. Puff in the air... but since she's a pufferfish, he traces a perfect circle.
128	* ShockinglyExpensiveBill: When Krabs gets the $100 bill for his dinner, he insists that it must be a mistake. The waiter realizes that it is and gives him the real bill... which is apparently ''$100,000''.
129	* StatingTheSimpleSolution: After [=SpongeBob=] storms off, Mrs. Puff calmly shares her own feelings on Krabs' impulse-buying and offers to go Dutch, which he accepts.
130	* ThisIsGonnaSuck: When Mr. Krabs tells her that [=SpongeBob=] will be their personal assistant, Mrs. Puff sheepishly says that she has to go call her insurance agent.
131	* TranquilFury: "Well, Mr. Krabs. Do you wanna know what ''I'' think?" Said calmly and stoically by [=SpongeBob=] moments before ''exploding'' at Mr. Krabs out of frustration.
132	* TraumaButton: Just hearing [=SpongeBob=]'s voice at the Krusty Krab is enough to send Mrs. Puff into a traumatic flashback to one of their disastrous boating lessons. It's one of the few times [=SpongeBob=] acknowledges his appalling driving as he repeatedly snaps his fingers to bring her back to reality with concern.
133	-->"Wait, Mrs. Puff! We're not driving."
134	* WingdingEyes: Mr. Krabs has little hearts in his eyes when he gives Mrs. Puff flowers and chocolates.

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