Drive Thru
Original air date: 7/19/2011 (produced in 2010)
Mr. Krabs finds a creative use for a hole in the Krusty Krab: he transforms it into a drive-thru.
Drive Thru contains examples of:
- An Aesop: It saves money in the long run to buy proper tools and professional help for renovations. DIY solutions can easily fail or break more often than a proper job, especially if you don't know what you're doing.
- Bad Boss: Among other things, Mr. Krabs refuses to pay the bill to Squidward's ear surgery, or use the drive thru items let alone buy a real microphone and speaker (even when it would not cost him any money at all) so it wouldn't happen again.
- Big Honking Traffic Jam: The drive-thru causes a standstill in traffic that is so bad a police officer and the mayor came to reprimand Mr. Krabs about it. His solution is to have another drive-thru window at the other end of the restaurant, which just makes the problem worse.
- Bottle Episode: The entire episode is set at the Krusty Krab.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: Squidward does this after his ear gets damaged by Pearl's friends using a megaphone at the drive-thru. He looks at the camera and says, " I'm not faking it, you know. That really hurts. A lot."
- Cutting Corners: Mr. Krabs does this all throughout the episode, such as fixing the holes in the wall with toothpaste and rejecting the microphone, speaker, and sign SpongeBob brings for the drive-thru in favor of tin cans on a string and napkins (despite that using the drive thru items would not cost Krabs any money at all since they’re already paid for). Near the end of the episode, he smashes more holes to make Spongebob and Squidward, who are already overworked, service more customers in the hopes of earning more money, which results in the Krusty Krab collapsing due to a lack of structural support.
- Didn't Think This Through: Mr. Krabs thinks it’s a good idea to keep smashing more and more holes in the walls to make things “easier” for Spongebob and Squidward, but he didn’t consider that too many holes would cause the restaurant to collapse due to losing too much structural support.
- Downer Ending: Eventually all the holes Mr. Krabs makes to his restaurant causes it to cave in on itself and get destroyed. To rub salt to the wound, they ran out of "toothpaste" to patch the damage too.
- Drive-Thru Antics: Having a drive-thru at the Krusty Krab leads to several issues: SpongeBob struggles to fit the food through the window and spills it on a customer, Pearl uses a megaphone to shout her order as a prank, and the ridiculous length of the drive-thru causes lengthy traffic and overwhelms SpongeBob and Squidward.
- Irony: Mr. Krabs refuses to use the drive-thru gear that SpongeBob brought because it isn't free, despite the fact SpongeBob was the one who paid for them.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Mr. Krabs cutting corners even after his stubbornness damages Squidward's hearing ends up causing the the whole Krusty Krab to collapse putting him in an even bigger financial hole than had he just put in the proper equipment
- Negative Continuity: The Krusty Krab was shown to have a drive-thru before in "Driven To Tears".
- Oh, No... Not Again!: Plankton says this after he is about to be run over by the old man.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: The customers are so ravenously hungry that they not only scare Squidward into doing his job properly rather than slacking off, but he ends up agreeing with SpongeBob when the fry cook gets concerned about the customers rioting.
- Plot-Irrelevant Villain: Plankton's attempts to steal the formula are even more futile than usual, and SpongeBob, Squidward and Mr. Krabs never notice him.
- Running Gag:
- Mr. Krabs smashing holes in the wall with a mallet.
- Plankton getting run over and squished by an elderly fish.
- Series Continuity Error: Not only has the Krusty Krab always had large windows in each of its sides rather than being all wood, there has also always been a drive-thru
on that wall. Although usually in the background, SpongeBob uses it to take Patrick's order in "Driven To Tears". - Teens Are Monsters: Pearl and her friends go through the drive-thru just to prank Squidward by shouting into the tin can phones with a megaphone, damaging Squidward's ear.
- Tempting Fate: When a police officer complains about the amount of traffic caused by the drive-thru, Mr. Krabs gives him his food free of charge. The police officer accepts the bribe and hopes that the mayor doesn't find out about the mess. It then shows the mayor walking in just as he leaves.
- Tin-Can Telephone: Mr. Krabs uses this for the drive-thru rather than paying for a microphone and speaker.
The Hot Shot
Original air date: 6/18/2011 (produced in 2010)
SpongeBob gets driving lessons from the son of a legendary race-car driver.
The Hot Shot contains examples of:
- An Aesop: You have to learn to ease up on driving, but not so much as to break the law.
- Bait-and-Switch Comment: Done at the end before the No, You comment:Mrs. Puff: Well class, I regret to inform you that Tony Jr. is no longer with us...
Crowd: *Gasp!*
Mrs. Puff: He was transferred to another school. - Curse Cut Short: "Tony Jr. when I get my hands on you, I'm gonna-!"
- Inner Monologue Conversation: Happens after Mrs. Puff sees what a great driver Tony Jr. is.Mrs. Puff: (If he's really that good, maybe there's a chance, just a chance, some of that good could rub off my incorrigible student SpongeBob SquarePants!) Yes!
SpongeBob: Mrs. Puff?
Mrs. Puff: Yes SpongeBob?
SpongeBob: What does "Incorrigible" mean? - Insult Backfire: The street racers who pull up next to SpongeBob and Tony Jr.Street Racer: That's quite a fancy speed boat you got right there! For a couple of squares!
Female Passenger: What he said! (All three laugh)
SpongeBob: Thank you! And may I say how lovely your speed boat is too! For a bunch of circles! And by circles, I mean well-rounded individuals! - No, You: Done at the end:Mrs. Puff: I would think that Tony Jr. taught us all a valuable lesson.
SpongeBob: Oh! Oh! Oh! Never argue and drive?
Mrs. Puff: Close. The lesson is: Never let you drive. - Not So Above It All: Mrs. Puff tells everybody that Tony Jr. will be treated like any other student, and immediately afterward asks for his autograph.
- Oh, Crap!: After pretending not to hear SpongeBob's warnings of the police chasing them, Tony Jr. has this reaction when SpongeBob warns him that his father is now chasing them.
- Poor Communication Kills:SpongeBob: Oh no! The cops are after us! What are we going to do?!
Tony Jr: What?! Sorry, I couldn't hear you over that siren!
SpongeBob: Now there's a helicopter after us!
Tony Jr: What's that?! I couldn't hear you over that helicopter!
SpongeBob: Now your dad is after us!
Tony Jr: Sorry I couldn't hear you, my... my... My dad is after us! What're we gonna do?! - Rage Breaking Point: When Tony Jr. continues telling SpongeBob to "let go, be cool", SpongeBob finally snaps and points out all the stuff that's happened to them because of said advice.
- Shout-Out: Tony Fast Jr. is a mixed parody of Tony Stewart and Dale Earnhardt Jr., two NASCAR legends.
