Line #29 Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS3E9KrabBorgRockAByeBivalve


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:'''''ROBOT, OH MY GOSH!''''']]
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4	'''Krab Borg'''
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6	'''Original air date:''' 3/29/2002 ''(produced in 2001)''
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8	After watching a scary movie about a robot invasion, [=SpongeBob=] starts to believe that Mr. Krabs is a robot, and once convincing evidence starts piling up, so does Squidward.
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10	!!"Krab Borg" contains examples of:
11	* AnAesop:
12	** Don't make assumptions about someone solely based on a set of coincidences.
13	** Movies are works of fiction, and you shouldn't think it is real.
14	*** On that note, if you know a movie's scary or is bound to give you anxiety, you probably shouldn't watch it so late at night that it'll give you nightmares and make you paranoid the next day.
15	** If you act as someone's accomplice to mischief, be prepared to face consequences for it.
16	* AIIsACrapshoot: [=SpongeBob=] is scared to the core after watching a sci-fi movie about this trope. He then confuses the entirely fictional movie to be telling the truth, and after some time he is able to convince Squidward that robots have taken over the world. ''[[{{Beat}} (beat)]]'' OUR WORLD!
17	* ApopheniaPlot: [=SpongeBob=] and Squidward are convinced Mr. Krabs is a robot; he has batteries in his pocket after replacing the batteries in his radio, is holding tongs, and has red eyes from getting salt in them while boiling an egg. [=SpongeBob=] claims that robots can't show love, laugh or cry, so they tie up Mr. Krabs and begin smashing his "robot friends" (various appliances). When Mr. Krabs starts crying over losing all the expensive appliances, they realize he isn't a robot after all.
18	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking:
19	** Among the items [=SpongeBob=] and Squidward collect for Mr. Krabs' interrogation are a book that instructs how to torture, a rope, a hammer and saw... and then a stack of comedy albums and a record player.
20	** "Why did you lock the door? Why do you have that rope?! [[SkewedPriorities WHO'S WATCHING THE CASH REGISTER?!]]"
21	* ArtisticLicenseBiology: After getting salt in his eyes, Mr. Krabs goes to the bathroom to rinse his eyes, but he is saltwater tolerant.
22	* BehindTheBlack: After Squidward threw [=SpongeBob=] through the kitchen window, [[TheCatCameBack he somehow appeared back in Squidward's booth]]. This causes Squidward to do several {{Double Take}}s as he tried to figure out how [=SpongeBob=] did that.
23	* BigNo: Mr. Krabs when Squidward smashes the blender, then the toaster, and lastly, the coffee machine, before going after the cash register, prompting Krabs to burst into tears.
24	* BigWhat: Mr. Krabs again after [=SpongeBob=] calls him a robot.
25	-->'''Mr. Krabs:''' ''WHAT?! YOU THINK I'M A '''ROBOT?!'''''
26	* BottleEpisode: Most of the episode is set at the Krusty Krab, save for a brief scene in [=SpongeBob=]'s house at the beginning.
27	* CassandraTruth: No matter how many times Mr. Krabs says that he's the real guy, [=SpongeBob=] and Squidward are not convinced in the slightest.
28	* CoincidentalAccidentalDisguise: [=SpongeBob=] tells Squidward that robots have piercing red eyes, metal pincer hands, and batteries. Squidward sarcastically asks if Mr. Krabs looks anything like that... only for Krabs to burst out of his office, his eyes bloodshot from spilling salt in them, metal tongs placed firmly in his claws, and batteries in his back pocket. This convinces Squidward that Krabs is a robot.
29	* CrocodileTears: [=SpongeBob=] uses this when he claims that Squidward was never hugged by his father to see if Mr. Krabs will cry at it, proving that he's not a robot.
30	* DistantReactionShot: After [=SpongeBob=] leaves Squidward to endure the furious Mr. Krabs in the end, the camera cuts to outside the Krusty Krab as we hear Mr. Krabs [[SayMyName scream Squidward's name]].
31	* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Series writer/executive producer Paul Tibbitt wrote the "Electric Zoo" song Mr. Krabs listens to.
32	* DontExplainTheJoke: Squidward when he tells Mr. Krabs a joke where an 11-year-old couldn't go to an "Arr!"-rated pirate movie.
33	-->'''Squidward:''' Because it's... about... pirates.
34	* EarWorm: "Electric Zoo" is advertised as the number one song in Bikini Bottom. Mr. Krabs has its beat memorized, but he forgets the title when he calls the radio station to request it.
35	-->'''Mr. Krabs:''' Hey, that's pretty catchy. Bee-bee-boo-bop, bee-bee-boo-beep. Yeah, that's not bad! I love this young people's music.
36	* ExplainExplainOhCrap: After getting confirmation that Mr. Krabs isn't a robot, Squidward asks [=SpongeBob=] how the movie he watched ended. [=SpongeBob=] recalls that the ending was great; the robot invasion was just in the characters' imagination and that there were no robots after all. In mid-sentence, [=SpongeBob=] realizes he made the exact same mistake and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere flees]].
37	-->'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' The movie? Oh, yeah! The ending was great! Turns out there weren't any robots after all. It was just their... imagination. ''(laughs nervously before checking his watch)'' Hey, [[INeedToGoIronMyDog it's time to feed Gary]]!\
38	''(runs off, leaving Squidward to take the heat)''
39	* EyeScream: Mr. Krabs is cooking a hard-boiled egg for lunch in his office when [=SpongeBob=] calls for him again, which startles him and ends up getting a whole salt shaker poured into his eyes by accident, leaving his eyes bloodshot red and him screaming in pain. This, along with the metal pincers he was holding the egg with and the dead batteries in his pocket, makes Squidward believe [=SpongeBob=] that Krabs is a robot.
40	* FailedASpotCheck: After removing the salt from his eyes, Mr. Krabs is so relieved that his eyes don't hurt anymore, that he doesn't seem to notice that the Krusty Krab is now empty.
41	* ForInconveniencePressOne: When [=SpongeBob=] tries to call the Navy, he gets the Navy's automated phone service.
42	-->'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' Squidward, the robots are running the navy!\
43	'''Squidward:''' NOT THE NAVY!
44	* GilliganCut: When [=SpongeBob=] watches the scary robot movie:
45	-->'''Gary:''' Meow.\
46	'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' What do you mean I shouldn't watch this? Scary movies don't always freak me out!\
47	''(cut to [=SpongeBob=] in bed, too scared to sleep)''
48	* HypocriticalHumor: [=SpongeBob=] calls out Mr. Krabs for not laughing at Squidward's pirate joke, even though he didn't laugh either.
49	* ICantBelieveImSayingThis:
50	-->'''Squidward:''' I never thought I'd say this, but [=SpongeBob=]... let's get that poop!
51	* INeedToGoIronMyDog: After realizing that Mr. Krabs isn't a robot after all and they just tied him up and destroyed his property for nothing, [=SpongeBob=] says he needs to feed Gary (in the middle of the workday) [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere and wisely makes a run for it]].
52	* IdiotHoudini: [=SpongeBob=] says he has to feed Gary and runs home, avoiding the punishments Squidward likely received instead.
53	* InterrogationByVandalism: [=SpongeBob=] and Squidward break Mr. Krabs' belongings to try and make him confess he's a robot. It doesn't work because Mr. Krabs isn't a robot, and the interrogation ends up proving this when he breaks down crying after they threaten to destroy his beloved cash register (because robots don't cry according to [=SpongeBob=]).
54	* JobStealingRobot: [=SpongeBob=] believes this is the case when he tries to call the Navy and gets their automated phone service instead.
55	* LamePunReaction: "I'm not paying you to do stand-up, Mr. Squidward!"
56	* MediumBlending: The robot movie, as well as [=SpongeBob=]'s nightmare.
57	* MistakenForAnImposter: [=SpongeBob=] and Squidward mistakenly think Mr. Krabs has been replaced by a robot impostor.
58	* TheNewRockAndRoll: {{Inverted\|Trope}} and [[PlayingWithATrope played with]]. As it turns out, Mr. Krabs ''loves'' music made for the younger generation, but in an ironic twist of fate, said music is what corrupts [=SpongeBob=] and Squidward into believing that Mr. Krabs is a robot through unfortunate happenstance.
59	-->'''Mr. Krabs:''' Yeah, that's not bad! I love this young people's music.
60	* NightmareFace: Mr. Krabs' bloodshot eyes, a result of him getting a salt shaker poured on them.
61	* OffscreenTeleportation: Happens while [=SpongeBob=] is trying to convince Squidward that Mr. Krabs is a robot.
62	-->'''Squidward:''' That's great, [=SpongeBob=]. Why don't you work on this problem... ''back in the kitchen?!'' ''(chucks [=SpongeBob=] through the service window and laughs smugly)''\
63	'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' ''(appears back in Squidward's booth, to the latter's bewilderment as he looks around where [=SpongeBob=] came from)'' I'm serious, Squidward! Mr. Krabs is a robot! And I can prove it, too!\
64	'''Squidward:''' ''(utterly confused)'' [[LampshadeHanging How did you...?]]
65	* OhCrapSmile: Squidward gives one upon learning Mr. Krabs was not a robot at all and he is left to endure his incoming wrath after [=SpongeBob=] runs off.
66	* OutOfContextEavesdropping: At one point, [=SpongeBob=] overhears Mr. Krabs making beeping sounds while talking on the phone. What he doesn't know is that his boss is trying to describe a song to a radio DJ.
67	* RageBreakingPoint: When [=SpongeBob=] flees, Squidward is left to deal with Mr. Krabs, with Mr. Krabs angrily screaming Squidward’s name.
68	* ARareSentence:
69	-->'''Squidward:''' [[ICantBelieveImSayingThis I never thought I'd say this]], but [=SpongeBob=]... [[ItMakesSenseInContext let's get that poop!]]
70	* RedEyesTakeWarning: The evil robots from the movie are described as having piercing red eyes.
71	* RunningGag: [=SpongeBob=] realizing that the things Mr. Krabs does seems suspicious causing the sponge to assume that he's [[ExactWords A ROBOT... Nah!]]
72	* SayMyName: ''"SQUIDWAAAAAAAAAAAAARD!!!"''
73	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After [=SpongeBob=] and Squidward destroy Mr. Krabs’ possessions, [=SpongeBob=] says the robots he saw in the movie were just someone’s imagination, then says it’s time to feed Gary and runs out of Mr. Krabs’ office, leaving Squidward to deal with Mr. Krabs, who didn’t seem like he was going to let Squidward get away with it.
74	* ShaggyDogStory: When Squidward asks [=SpongeBob=] how the robot movie he saw had ended, it turns out that, in the movie, the robots weren't RealAfterAll and that it was just someone's [[ExplainExplainOhCrap imagin...ation.]] [[INeedToGoIronMyDog Hey, it's time to feed Gary!]]
75	* SpecialGuest: LA-based DJ Rodney Bingenheimer (of KROQ fame) as the DJ.
76	* UnusualEuphemism: According to the movie, [[ToiletHumour "poop"]] is a codeword for information gained through interrogation.[[note]]As it turns out, this is [[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/poop#Etymology_2 an actual bit of American slang]], deriving from the term "poop sheet" (circa 1930).[[/note]] Squidward doesn't immediately get it, as expected.
77	-->'''Squidward:''' They... ''poop...'' on the robot?
78	* {{WPUN}}: The name of the radio station which Mr. Krabs calls to replay "Electric Zoo" is called "KRUM 50 FM" if the background is anything to go by.
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81	[[caption-width-right:350:Parents of the [[TurnOfTheMillennium millennium]].]]
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83	'''Rock-A-Bye Bivalve'''
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85	'''Original air date:''' 3/29/2002 ''(produced in 2001)''
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87	When [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick find a baby scallop, they decide to take care of it until it learns to fly. But tension boils when Patrick does not do his share when it comes to caring for the scallop.
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89	!!"Rock-A-Bye Bivalve" contains examples of:
90	* AnAesop:
91	** Both parents have responsibilities when it comes to raising a baby.
92	** Be ready to investigate sudden changes in a person's employment status. Patrick was previously unemployed, yet [=SpongeBob=] never questioned what Patrick's new "job" was, until the very end.
93	* AmusingInjuries: Patrick gets hit in the head by a coconut by Junior.
94	* BaitAndSwitch: At first, it appears that [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick are sleeping in the same bed together. It zooms out to reveal that they're sleeping on different layers of mattress.
95	* BottleEpisode: This episode takes place entirely at Conch Street.
96	* BumblingDad: Patrick becomes one. He watches TV as his “job” and then more TV back at home and is apathetic to Junior and all his needs.
97	* CoconutMeetsCranium: Patrick keeps watching a show where someone gets hit on the head with a coconut -- and at least once, two coconuts. In the end, it's Patrick himself who gets hit with one. Currently provides the page quote.
98	* ComfortFood: Turns out this is what Patrick's briefcase was filled with.
99	-->'''[=SpongeBob=]''': By the way, you forgot your... '''BRIEFCASE!''' ''(opens up Patrick's briefcase filled with assorted donuts, an ice cream fudge banana split and a milkshake topped with whipped cream, then spitefully dumps the entire contents on Patrick)''
100	* ComicallyMissingThePoint:
101	-->'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' Do you remember what you said to me this morning?\
102	'''Patrick:''' Something about root beer, right?
103	* CueTheSun: The sun comes up when Junior grows up and flies away and [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick watch him go.
104	* TheDiaperChange: First started by Patrick when Junior starts crying, which Patrick interprets that he needs this, and promptly puts Junior in a diaper. How'd he know? [[GooGooGetup Because he wears diapers himself]]. For the rest of the episode though, it's [=SpongeBob=] who changes Junior. Trope also leads right into the MemeticMutation quote by Patrick:
105	-->'''Patrick''': He's only this big! How many diapers could he possibly use?
106	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick act like a married couple in this episode, complete with them having spats and hardships taking care of a child. Then there's the final line...
107	-->'''Patrick:''' Let's have another. ''([[OhCrap SpongeBob looks shocked]])''
108	* TheDogBitesBack:
109	** Junior drops a coconut on Patrick's head as payback for the latter's constant negligence.
110	** Similarly, [=SpongeBob=] throws a bunch of donuts and ice cream on Patrick upon realizing what his [[LazyBum "work"]] really is.
111	--->'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' By the way, you forgot your '''briefcase'''! ''(dumps the junk food in the briefcase on Patrick's head)''
112	* ExplainExplainOhCrap: When Junior suddenly interrupts [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick's argument we get this dialogue.
113	-->'''Patrick''': There's that stupid noise again!\
114	'''[=SpongeBob=]''': Oh, that's not a stupid noise. That's just Junior about to jump out of that two-story window.\
115	''([=SpongeBob=] and Patrick see Junior teetering on the edge of the window of [=SpongeBob=]'s house, ready to fly.)''\
116	'''Patrick''': Oh...\
117	'''Both''': ''[[EyePop (their eyes bulge in horror)]]'' '''''[[SayMyName JUNIOR!!!]]'''''
118	* {{Foreshadowing}}: There are some hints that Patrick didn’t have a real job.
119	** The day after Patrick becomes the "dad," he mentions he suddenly has a job, which [=SpongeBob=] wasn't aware about.
120	** Patrick never mentioned anything about what his job is like, including the location, name, or atmosphere of the job. Patrick also never came home with any paychecks.
121	** Whenever Patrick arrived at [=SpongeBob's=] house after "work," he went straight to the television.
122	** It’s also safe to assume that Patrick wouldn’t be able to survive a full work shift because of how lazy he is. After all, he couldn't even take care of Junior, so how could he be able to handle a job?
123	* GooGooGetup: Downplayed, but Patrick states that he learned how to change diapers by wearing diapers himself. He reveals this by dropping his pants to show the diaper he's wearing underneath.
124	* HereWeGoAgain: In the end after Junior leaves, Patrick says, "Let's have another," which [=SpongeBob=] doesn't seem to take well.
125	* HypocriticalHumor: Patrick chides [=SpongeBob=] for offering Junior a whole Krabby Patty to eat claiming that's not proper baby food. Then Patrick offers Junior a donut (twice), much to Junior's disgust.
126	* IdiotBall: [=SpongeBob=] didn't think it through when Patrick says he has to go to work ([=SpongeBob=] knows well that Patrick doesn't have a job), and never once did he even ask Patrick what type of work he does or what's in the briefcase.
127	* IllKillYou: As he's being fed to Junior, the worm pathetically tries to struggle out of [=SpongeBob=]'s grasp and threatens, "WE WILL BURY YOU!!"
128	* JerkassBall: Patrick holds it bigtime. His laziness and stupidity here cross over into extreme neglect of both [=SpongeBob=] and the baby scallop. The entire situation comes uncomfortably close to making Patrick look like a {{Domestic Abuse}}r as his deadbeat ways leave his "family" to fend for themselves, creating enormous friction in the house.
129	* JerkassRealization: Subverted. Patrick, after seeing how much work Junior requires, apologizes for not doing his part and promises to come early from work the next day at 6 PM. to help [=SpongeBob=], but ends up coming back at ''midnight'' apparently from a wild party, much to [=SpongeBob=]'s fury.
130	* LamePunReaction: After [=SpongeBob=] uses his pants as a bed for the scallop, he jokes that it's "the best ''seat'' in the house." This is followed by Gary playing a RimShot on the drums.
131	* LampshadeWearing: Patrick comes home late with a lampshade on his head.
132	* LaserGuidedKarma: Patrick slacks off looking after Junior by just watching a show about coconuts dropping on people's heads. Junior drops [[RunningGag a coconut]] on his head as payback for negligent parenting along with a (insincere) kiss.
133	* LazinessCallout: [=SpongeBob=] spends a good chunk of the episode calling out Patrick for not helping take care of Junior. Later, when [=SpongeBob=] learns about Patrick's "job," he's naturally not pleased to learn that Patrick has been goofing off all day while he's been taking care of the baby.
134	* LazyBum: Patrick. His idea of going to work is going into his house watching television and eating junk food.
135	* LazyHusband: Patrick plays this role to a T. He leaves [=SpongeBob=] all alone to raise Junior while doing nothing but watching TV and later on it turns out his "job" is just him doing the same at his own house.
136	* LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand: The background music becomes progressively slower as [=SpongeBob=] becomes more exhausted.
137	* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick act like this the ''whole episode''.
138	* MinimalistCast: [=SpongeBob=], Patrick and Gary are the only main characters to appear, aside from a confused fish couple and the talking apple worm.
139	* NightmareFace: '''"OVERTIME!?!?!?"'''
140	* ParentalAbandonment: Junior has no parents, forcing [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick to step in.
141	* ParentalNeglect: Demonstrated by Patrick to Junior.
142	* PlatonicCoParenting: The episode has Spongebob and Patrick [[ParentsForADay raise a baby scallop]] (the equivalent of a baby bird) as if it were an infant. Spongebob takes the maternal role while Patrick plays a (very unhelpful) dad.
143	* PlotHole:
144	** [=SpongeBob=] pleads Junior to "come to daddy", when he is established to be the matriarch.
145	** [=SpongeBob=] stays all day on his home for many days to take care of Junior while Patrick "works". Doesn't he have to work at the Krusty Krab?
146	* RageBreakingPoint: When [=SpongeBob=] finds out what Patrick’s “job” is, he dumps everything inside the briefcase on Patrick (which was full of junk food), and then angrily bellows the word “overtime” when Patrick says that's the thanks he gets for working overtime.
147	* RebusBubble: "Sponge + Starfish = Scallop?"
148	* RevealShot: When trying to stop Junior's crying, [=SpongeBob=] starts making funny faces, then the camera zooms back to reveal he's using a lifelike puppet of himself.
149	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When [=SpongeBob=] berates Patrick for breaking his promise of coming home early to help with Junior, Patrick decides he doesn't want to help take care of Junior anymore and goes "back to work" which [[spoiler: turns out was really just Patrick watching T.V. at his house the whole time-his briefcase being full of junk food.]]
150	* SeriesContinuityError: [=SpongeBob=] points out Patrick never wears a shirt, but in "Valentine's Day" and "I'm with Stupid", he does. Although [=SpongeBob=] probably meant that Patrick ''usually doesn't'' wear a shirt.
151	* ShoutOut:
152	** "Hey, I'm missing ''[[Creator/MarxBrothers The Coconuts]]''!"
153	** The worm's last words, "We will bury you!" are a reference to ousted Soviet Union leader Khrushchev threatening the Western capitalist powers of the United States and Europe.
154	* SuddenAnatomy: [=SpongeBob=] grows extra arms to handle all the housework and the baby all at once.
155	* UngratefulBastard: [=SpongeBob=] ''[[WellThisIsNotThatTrope isn't]]'' this, but Patrick tries to paint him as such when he's drenched in his donuts and milkshakes from [=SpongeBob=] dumping out his briefcase, despite his "work" being sitting on his ass all day watching TV while the latter looks after their "child" without any help. Needless to say, [=SpongeBob=] is livid.
156	-->'''Patrick:''' ''[[TranquilFury Oh...]]'' So, ''this'' is the thanks I get for working overtime?
157	--> '''[=SpongeBob=]:''' '''''OVERTIME?!!'''''
158	* WeAreNotGoingThroughThatAgain: [=SpongeBob=]'s shocked reaction when Patrick suggests having another scallop suggests he does not want to go through all the parental trouble Patrick put him through again.
159	* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: The poor apple worm. It's not only sentient and capable of speech, but seems to be very friendly and happy. However, it's still chosen to feed the scallop. And it receives no empathy even as it's begging for mercy while being EatenAlive.
160	* WhatTheHellHero: [=SpongeBob=] gives two of these to Patrick. One for watching TV too much and the other for breaking his promise.
161	* WormInAnApple: While trying to find things for the scallop to eat, [=SpongeBob=] offers an apple. Out of the apple comes a worm saying "I bring greetings from Apple World!" The scallop starts begging and [=SpongeBob=] realizes that scallops eat worms, so he plucks out the worm and feeds it to the scallop while the worm begs for its life.
162	* WouldHurtAChild: Patrick tries to step on the baby scallop to stop it from making noise.
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164	There, end of page.
165	->'''Patrick:''' Let's have another. ''([=SpongeBob=] reacts surprised)''

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