SpongeBob You're Fired

SPONGEBOB TORTURE! This contains torture to SpongeBob SquarePants, so if you're a fan of him, look away NOW.

SpongeBob You're Fired
The worst decision Mr. Krabs would ever make.
Season	9
Episode No.	189
Main Reason for being ScumBob	Almost everyone is extremely unlikable, especially Mr. Krabs. Ultra SpongeBob torture Slow paced, boring, and tons of filler Rips off numerous episodes The extremely clichéd and predictable ending The funemployment scene Generic title

SpongeBob You're Fired is a HYPER-infamous episode from Season 9 of SpongeBob SquarePants. In this episode, Mr. Krabs fires SpongeBob to save money and SpongeBob must look for a new job.

Why This Episode Should Be Fired

1. In order to quickly get the big, fat, greedy and harsh boss out of the business, this is just yet another HUGE SpongeBob torture episode, as he gets fired by Mr. Krabs so he could save a nickel, gets mocked by Squidward because he got fired, gets manipulated by Patrick into making humilliating acts, gets fired by the other bosses that are mentioned below and later gets kidnapped and tortured by them. As a result of this, SpongeBob gets tortured in MOST of the episode, and it is unpleasant to watch.
2. It rips off a ton of elements in different episodes, which includes the following:
   1. The idea of SpongeBob getting fired from the Krusty Krab has already been done before in parts of episodes like "Karate Choppers" and "Squid on Strike", thus making it a useless premise.
   2. Squidward being unemployed, as well as other plots (Can You Spare a Dime?)
   3. SpongeBob crying a lot (A Day Without Tears, All That Glitters, and You Don't Know Sponge)
   4. SpongeBob cooking other foods (Squilliam Returns)
   5. SpongeBob not working at the Krusty Krab (Bummer Vacation)
   6. SpongeBob not working at the Krusty Krab and looking for jobs (Model Sponge)
   7. SpongeBob not knowing how to cook other foods other than Krabby Patties (Le Big Switch)
   8. Mr. Krabs letting SpongeBob go to get a small amount of money (Born Again Krabs)
3. The plot advances very slowly, and there is a TON of filler, so much that it could have not been a double-length special without it. Examples include:
   1. SpongeBob crying for ONE WHOLE MINUTE because he got fired.
   2. Spongebob struggling to tell Patrick he got fired, and Patrick simply tries to guess foods that start with "F", thinking that he was trying to identify foods that start with "C".
   3. The infamous "FUN-employment" scene.
   4. The new job montage.
4. Almost all of the characters are unlikable in this episode.
   1. Mr. Krabs is super unlikable in this episode because he yet again made the worst decision a person like him could ever make, he fires SpongeBob, his best and most talented employee, from his job merely for no reason other than to save a nickel for himself, which causes the Krusty Krab to go downhill. Also, it is later revealed that he installed a pay toilet that costs a nickel to use to compensate for it.
      • Mr. Krabs is also a massive hypocrite because even though SpongeBob offers to work for free, Mr. Krabs tells him that it is illegal for him to do that, even though he has committed so many crimes in other episodes.
   2. Squidward is also unlikable in this episode for laughing at SpongeBob's misery when he gets fired. Even though he doesn't like SpongeBob, it is still cruel to laugh at someone when they now have no job and can't be able to gain money (Not that SpongeBob cares about money), or afford a house, food or water, may even end up being homeless, or dead especially considering in an earlier episode, he was fired by Mr. Krabs, which resulted in him eventually being unemployed and homeless.
      • Also, he was inconsiderate for responding angrily towards both Patrick and SpongeBob when he discovered that they destroyed his tomato garden when SpongeBob was not in a healthy state.
   3. Patrick, although he sympathized with SpongeBob, later taught SpongeBob how to be a slob, encouraging that unemployment is good.
      • Many people didn't like the episode's portrayal of unemployment, and in one scene, Patrick tries to show SpongeBob "the benefits of being unemployed", to which SpongeBob replies, "Unemployment may be fun for you, but I need to get a job." The scene was meant to demonstrate the title character's "eternal optimism and willingness to get back to work... in a way that's still funny and relatable". However, some political activists claimed the "notorious line" was a "slam" to the Food Stamps benefit.
   4. Sandy is also out-of-character in this episode for running an experiment of how people would eat anything if it's free by feeding them toxic waste to test their intelligence. At least she prevents SpongeBob from eating toxic waste.
   5. Mr. Weiner, Pizza Pete, Senior Taco, and Noodleman are all unlikable one-time antagonists. All four of them not only fire SpongeBob for making simple mistakes, but solely because their customers like SpongeBob's food, they literally kidnap him later on.
5. Countless plot holes:
   1. First of all, Squidward is fair game because Mr. Krabs won't fire him for seniority, yet usually people would try to fire employees WITH seniority.
   2. All of the bosses that fired SpongeBob try to kidnap him for no explained rhyme or reason (however, for the Weiner guy, he does explain).
      • Also, how did their customers get all of those patties? Didn't SpongeBob only make one of each before being fired?
   3. How did Squidward know that SpongeBob got kidnapped and how did he know where he was? And where did he got his Krabby Patty suit?
6. When SpongeBob finally gets a job at the four employees' restaurants, he has trouble making those kinds of food because the only thing he can make is Krabby Patty-style foods. And of course these four scenes each go on for way too long and try to be funny, but rather feel repetitious. The joke was also already done before in Le Big Switch, and much better there.
7. Very Predictable Ending: The ending is very predictable. It is easy to predict that SpongeBob would be rehired at the end of the episode, as well as the Krusty Krab going downhill without SpongeBob, even BEFORE watching it.
   • With that ending in mind, it makes every single event that happened in this episode COMPLETELY useless. You can make a four minute short out of the most important plots in the episode and you would lose NOTHING about the actual story. Also Plankton should've been in this episode as it could've had him saw that SpongeBob got fired by Krabs, decides to have the Sponge work for him in order to gain customers at the Chum Bucket, presumably get the Krabby Patty Secret Formula, and have the Krusty Krab go out of business.
8. The episode title itself is generic, and it doesn't contain a comma or exclamation mark, even though a similar previous episode title, "Mrs. Puff, You're Fired", has a comma.

Redeeming Qualities That Should Be Hired

1. The beginning before Mr. Krabs fires SpongeBob is enjoyable.
2. SpongeBob (despite crying a LOT in this episode), Patrick (despite teaching SpongeBob about unemployment is good), Sandy (despite feeding people toxic food), and Gary are likable characters in this episode.
   • Even though he was unlikable in the beginning, Squidward at least became better when he saved SpongeBob from his other bosses, showing that Squidward still at least somewhat cares about SpongeBob.
3. Mr. Krabs at least realized that firing SpongeBob over a nickel was the stupidest mistake he could ever make, and without his best fry-cook, his business would surely be flushed down the toilet. Soon, after Squidward brought SpongeBob back, Mr. Krabs apologized to SpongeBob for firing him over a nickel and happily rehired him, much to the latter's joy.
4. The scene where Patrick stands up for Spongebob and punches his "forehead" when it started insulting SpongeBob was sweet.
5. Despite not making sense, SpongeBob making his own snail food for Gary is still a likable scene.
6. Mr. Weiner, Pizza Pete, Senior Taco and Noodleman get their well-deserved punishment in the end of the episode, going through heavy slapstick by Squidward, especially Mr. Weiner who gets hit by a bus.

Reception

• The episode was universally panned by critics and fans, and is easily, without question, one of the most universally despised specials of the show’s entire run. Due to its excessive filler, lazy writing, and frustrating character derailment, it is also considered to be one of the worst episodes of the series, along with One Coarse Meal, A Pal for Gary, The Splinter, Little Yellow Book and Ink Lemonade and a user rating of 4.4 out of 10 based on 487 votes on IMDb, making it the sixth worst SpongeBob episode. It has also been met with controversy due to its insulting behavior against the unemployed.
• PIEGUYRULZ called this one to be the worst Season 9 episode. He thought this episode is way worse than "Squid Baby," which is his second least favorite Season 9A episode, and he stated that the other ScumBob episodes in the same season (of course including the other ones in his bottom 5 of the season, which are "Squid Baby," "Salsa Imbecilicus," "Married to Money," and "Little Yellow Book.") aren't "that" bad.

Trivia

• This episode was so controversial, Nickelodeon almost never airs it in reruns, like One Coarse Meal.
• This was the last episode & special to be made before the ULTRA-famous sequel to the LEGENDARY-famous SpongeBob Movie, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water.
• This is the least rated special in IMDB.[1][2]
• Although it's an infamous episode on SpongeBuddy Mania it currently has a 4.0 score.
• This is most filler episode by voting
• TheMysteriousMrEnter considers this the 4th worst SpongeBob episode.

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