@@yusufesat-cc8lx He was head chef on the SS Diarrhea. Which raises more questions, because how is he to have a successful restaurant when episodes of the show shows us that he's a worse cook than Plankton.
I remember in one of the OLD episodes, the one where Spongebob got the squeaky boots and Mr. Krabs went crazy over them, a customer walked up to Mr. Krabs and asked to order and Krabs pulled out a note book and pencil, ready to take the dude's order. It may be a small detail, but at least shows me that Mr. Krabs isn't above helping out on the floor when he's out there to help take orders or what not.
Krabs the kind of boss to take/serve one order a month and do everything slowly perfectly and by the book then insist that because he can do it, there's no reason every employee can't do it all the time, ignoring the fact that he was only able to put on a show like that because he doesn't have 5 other tasks waiting for him in the back.
I don't think he chooses to do a bad job, but he definitely cracks under pressure, and seeing as Spongebob is a Krabby Patty savant, I'd guess he often ends up getting the yips when he's trying to fill in for him, inevitably leading to burnt patties and the like. Spongebob set's quite a high standard for any fry cook, and when you're not only filling in for him, but also working the register, there's a lot weighing down on poor Squid.
@@ben-chan420hehe and kind of like Patrick would have done id imagine me in hte oast woukd have been inevitabiity paying in screwball money of 50 cent coins or half dollar coins and dollar coins of various designs and sizes all legit usa but not worth more or not at most above a few dollars each and then 2 dollar bills and or buying coin rolls or turning in coin rolls etc for payment.. an Krab requiring poor Squid not to turn away any money.
Cooking is more art than science ("THAT'S BAKING!") and Squidward is absolutely incredible at the fundamentals and the science of his art, it just so happens that his pieces fall apart whenever he adds a part of himself to his work. It'd make sense that he'd see the artistic integrity and take pride in his cooking, even if he didn't know how to at first. It's more endearing to think after the episode he burnt every item on the menu he went home angry and embarrassed to the tune of "They wouldn't know a good Krabby Patty if it hit them in the face!" eventually learning that he actually likes cooking.
I'm literally in a similar situation where I work at a (not too high-end) restaurant, where I cook and bake everything as decent as the standards of the restaurant demands - I may not put my whole heart into it, as long as I get food out, i'm good. My main goal is to survive the rushes after all. But at home I absolutely love the art of cooking, and I will take hours to perfect a dish without the pressures of customers, and I find the most joy in that - as i'm sure Squidward does too with his many homemade souffles he makes in episodes.
Here's the way I see it. Both Squidward and Mr. Krabs can cook Krabby Patties, and rather decently at that; however, they have a hard time working under the more busy hours of the shift, and panick under the pressure of the lunch-rush causing the food to be at a much lower quality. Thus, the Patty vault was invented as a failsafe when SpongeBob isn't around, during peak business hours Krabs and Squidward can withdraw premade Patties for customers. The disappearance of The Patty Vault most likely accured when Squidward broke into the vault during the Just One Bite episode: Mr.Krabs could've been paranoid at how easy the Vault could be broken into, and scrapped it in fear of Plankton following Squidward's example. So this brings the Krusty Krab at Square one again, Krabs or Squidward man the grill when SpongeBob is gone. Which always starts off fine, but after a few hours the food starts too get burnt.
KK is closed on Sunday Spongebob has Monday off, when he goes to boating school Squidward has Saturday off, where he does his art things. So each have a 2 day weekend, with one day free from the other. When Spongebob is off, Krabs runs the grill. When Squidward is off, Krabs runs the till. Some days Tuesday to Friday, Krabs doesn't show up at all.
I always believed that Squidward was actually a competent cook, it’s just that whenever he doesn’t want to do the work of SpongeBob he does an atrociously bad job as an act of rebellion.
@@MaurilioCabral-j2nI disagree about Squidward panicking and making multiple mistakes. I think it's more likely that Squidward can cook a decently fine Krabby Patty, even during a lunch rush, but he doesn't want Mr. Krabs to schedule him to work the grill so he intentionally messes it up. It's canon that Squidward worked at the Krusty Krab before Spongebob has, so it'd be surprising if Squidward didn't man the grill once or twice in his time.
I always imagined the Krusty Krab schedule looked like this. Sunday: Krusty Krab Closed Monday: 10am to 6pm, Krabs and Squidward. Tuesday - Friday: 10am to 6pm, All 3. Saturday: 10am to 6pm: Krabs and SpongeBob. That would mean Bubble Buddy took place on a Monday, while The Nasty Patty took place on a Saturday.
Spongebob is shown to be able to reproduce by budding. By doing this, he can seemingly make an exact clone of himself. I propose that there are, at minimum, two Spongebobs. Each one covers the Krusty Krab while the other enjoys his day off getting into shenanigans around Bikini Bottom.
Imagine seasons 1-3 SpongeBob are stuck working and somewhere along the post movie seasons the flanderized modern SpongeBob is the “clone” running around that we follow. It would explain the character change lol
@bluehairedaigaming I am talking about the original night shift episode, where the "serial killer" is actually a fish that want to apply for the night shift, it is true that we don't see He talking to Krabs but with spongebob and squidward, but my point is that it isn't impossible that they have a night shift crew
@@RafaCB0987 I assume the night shift policy is just something that Krabs might change every now and then. I’m pretty sure there’s at least a couple episodes where not only does SB and SW’s shifts end, but Krabs himself closes the Krusty Krab, locking the door, leaving the lights off, and with no visible customers in sight.
I always assumed it was Krabs who worked those early shifts before Bob gets there. And my head canon for Squidward is that he just got better at it with time after being forced to replace Bob so many times. But yeah, I wouldn't put it past him either to just reheat old krabby patties and serve them on the weekends 😂 so all three could be true at once
That would be my guess too, only Mr. Krabs has also been shown in many episodes, such as "Squilliam Returns", to be a terrible cook. However, he actually does a good job cooking Krabby Patties in many episodes, too. I'm guessing maybe Krabby Patties are the only thing Krabs knows how to cook? 🤷 On a side note, there was a scene in "Nature Pants" where SpongeBob forlornly stares at a table full of Krabby Patties through the Krusty Krab window. Maybe those are from the vault?
I mean, it was a one of joke but if we include all the lore, but there's the Krabby Patty vault that's filled with them and they seem to be edible straight out of the vault (or atleast tasty enough that squidward goes wild on them). So I guess Krabs has Spongebob prepping additional ones for the vault durrig the week and just reheats them on their off days. The only not in character action there would be Krabs leaving the register unattened for a minute or so while he gets the patties..
Here is my theory: After Jim quit as the fry cook, Mr. Krabs and Squidward took shifts as the frycook for some time, but the busy hours and pressure were too overwhelming for both of them, resulting in the patties going bad, so Mr. Krabs put on the help wanted sign. Both of them still took SpongeBob's job as a replacement when he wasn't around, but it was still too much hard work. That's why Mr. Krab built the patty vault. After Squidward broke into it and caused it to explode, Mr. Krab never got a new one. Squidward still works as the frycook, sometimes alongside Spongebob to help him if there are too many customers for the day. After the first night shift episode happened, Mr. Krab got the idea for the night shift employees to fill in SpongeBob and Squidward's place. that's why spongebob's paycheck is too little because now he has more employees If both Squidward and SpongeBob got a day off, Mr. Krab does everything himself or sometimes calls Pearl for extra help.
It’s funny how Alex Bale videos always say and act like SpongeBob has perfect continuity and all these secret things when Awe points out all the time that the writers have so little consistency they often can’t even be bothered to know what happened in older episodes so they just write something totally contradictory
Alex Bale is definitely not serious with his series and it's just having fun. He doesn't seem like he's trying to do a math hat and establish the continuity for all his viewers
I think a combination of all three explanations work. The patty vault can usually carry them between SpongeBob’s shifts, but during peak hours they need SpongeBob on duty to keep up with demand. Squidward cannot make patties from scratch as SpongeBob can, but he can reheat patties from the freezer (which is seen in several episodes) and assemble the burgers. Mr Krabs can do the same. He knows how to make them from scratch but is old so he needs SpongeBob’s help
I'm betting on Squidward just using weaponized incompetence. Busy obviously doesn't have enough money to go eat out every night so he has to cook for himself so I assume he can cook. He just doesn't want to so he acts like he can't
1:28 I think that it might actually be closed on Sundays. I don't know if you are old enough to remember but there was a time when people used to not have stores open on Sunday, except rarely. I suppose that this is part of the story but there is a contradiction (inconsistent story writing) because Mr. Krabs sometimes has the store open for days (fear of the krabby patty). Also, don't forget that sometimes Spongebob does not work for days in many of the episodes that take place over several days (Sandy's rocket, I was a teenage Gary, and many others). Also don't forget that spongebob had a day off in Bubble Buddy. Edit: In the "Greasy Spoon" song, Mr. Krabs is cooking. He definitely can and probably does cook.
@1stCallipostle But like I said, regularly Sponge Bob is not working for several consecutive days. For instance, in My life as a teenage Gary, both Sponge bob and squidward are not at work for 3 days over the weekend. I think that the KK is just not open on weekend canonically.
My theory is Spongebob and Squidward work on different schedules. Monday it's just Squidward and Krabs, then Tuesday-Friday is all 3, then Saturday is just Spongebob and Krabs. The Krusty Krab closes every Sunday so when we see all 3 of them outside then it's likely on that day. They can all cook Krabby Patties, but Krabs and Squidward cannot cook them decently when under a ton of pressure from a rush of customers. This would explain why whenever Spongebob disappears and the restaurant is in chaos it's probably on a busy day that he's supposed to be scheduled to work on. This also explains Squidward making the remark of "enjoying Spongebob's day off".
All three, And Squidward just decides sometimes he doesn't want to make them so pretends not to know how, or makes them bad on purpose when he doesn't want to do it
TBF, the most common day we see them talk about having off is Sunday, Both Mr. Krabs and Squidward have talked about having that day off, so I think it's reasonable to assume that it is closed that day. In the video you showed Mr. Krabs working the grill which is what I always kinda assumed happened when Spongebob isn't there. As for the whole case of Squidward being both good and bad at making patties, I always liked to think of it as time going on he improved, as to how this lines up with the episodes it's hard to say since this show isn't exactly supper continuous, but I like to think that as time has gone on, Squidward has improved in cooking.
Yeah but in Squids day off it’s a Sunday. Squidward states at the beginning of the episode “It’s Sunday, nobody ever comes in on Sunday.” Which does give us reason to believe they aren’t opened on Sundays bcuz of the fact that nobody goes in there. Although by the end of the episode it’s revealed they forgot to switch the sign to opened.
Except SpongeBob already had his house before the events of Help Wanted. My assumption is that both of them have rich parents that paid cash for their houses. That's why we see SpongeBob hand over a giant sack of money when he buys his house in the "Truth or Square" flashback.
@@ColinElkin-ce1337 this is the answer, spongebob's parents did look rich and he's too young to have saved up for such a nice house with just fry cook money
I would imagine all 3 of them can perform all jobs in the restaurant. And if needed, krabs can easily pull in his daughter if he REALLY needs to. Realistically, the only jobs needed are cash and back of house, so I'd imagine if spongebob works a late shift, krabs does grill, and if it's just squidward, then he does everything himself. It does seem like krabs and squidward crack under pressure and require Spongebob's help past a certain point, so it makes sense if krabs and squidward just take shifts while spongebob is gone.
Ah yes, the patty vault. The giant vault in the middle of the kitchen that has always been there. I rember how every time Spongebob wanted to walk to the other side of the kitchen, he had to walk around that huge vault. Such a memorable part of the kitchen.
Additionally, in the Pizza Delivery episode (Season 1, Episode 5) to my knowledge at the beginning Squidward, SpongeBob, and Krabs stayed in the Krusty Krab even at midnight until Krabs got an order for a "Pizza" so you could use that episode to say that Krabs wouldn't even let his workers go home.
I think that most of the scenes where customers have krabby patties without squidward or spongebob being at the grill can be explained by the existence of a patty vault
It's not that the plot for each episode requires Squidward to either know how to make Krabby Patties or not know, but that Squidward is putting in different amounts of effort. Sometimes he cares enough to make Krabby Patties correctly, like when he was competing with SpongeBob, but other times he doesn't give a crap, like when he burnt them (along with fries and milkshakes).
I think a major issue with your process is recognizing the difference between 'making" and "cooking" the pattys. Only a very select few know how yo make the pattys and are entrysted with the sercret ingredients identity to do so. This includes Spong bob since he is entrusted to do so as a backup to Mr. k. They make them in mass prodiced batches and freeze them in the walk in cold storage. This minimuzes the amount of times they need to make them as well as the number of people who have to know the process. This is standard to most fast food places for economical reasons. Ingrefients can be bought in bulk for lower cost, produced in an offsite facility better suited for health and saftey standards of mass hadling with raw ingredients and allow better storage until needed. Krabs would love to adapt thsi for a few reaosns except the offsite related ones. We know Mr. k has the patties "made" on site since he orders the secret ingredient to be delivered at the resteraunt. We also know they have a massive (if not magically size shifting) frozen patty storage onsite. Fur to Plankton, its also pretty clear they font make the patties during regular buisness hours or even a consistant calander shedule. They bulk create at odd hours and random intervals to ensure they always have a good amount on hand wothout being watched. Once this is done the more routine duty of COOKING the patties is all that remains. It is clear Spongbob is a great frycook qnd ther is an art to that when it comes to quality. The knowlage or abilty to "make" the special patties however is not required for this. The reason the pattys are so good as a basebks their formula and creation with the finishing touch being SB's great stovework/assmebly with the condiments. The meat you get in that greasy, gross Burger King burger that looks slapped togther is IDENTICAL to the meat form the more upscale neighborhood BK burger that actually looks like the pic on the menu. Its the effort and skill in cooking/assembing that determes that difference. Mr. K and Squidward tend to do a terribel job due to more the cliches they represent. Squidward is lazy and incompetent in anything that doesnt pique his interest. He also tends to have wildly swinging levels of competancy in his artisitc skill with a lot fj his background art requiring some really hard earned skillsets but other times showing an inate level of automatic failure no matter how he tries. This is consistent for both at the job as in some cases he really is trying and still destorying the pattys whole others make it clear he doesnt like to do more than is required at work. He wlso feels the pattys are beneath him culinarily as cheap fast food so during those instances, its clear he just doesnt really care About the job hes doing. Mr. K is an oldschool male steriotype and a single parent one as well. Its sad to say but he represents the incompetant single male from the older generation who relied on women or paid food to feed them. Hes very much a businessman cliche. He also os a war vet who lived off of terible food, is a bit of a mommas boy even to this day and a mooch. Unfortunatly, the single father trope in media basically depicted a culinarily inept individual from the 1950s to even current. You can see it in characters like Peppermint Patty who has to pack her own lunch and figure out a lot of her own meals, Charles Finster, Scott Calvin and the other single father at Denny's in The Santa Clause among many others reinforce this pattern. Mr. K is in fact a singel father who depsite owning a fast food resteruant is pretty crap in the kitchen. They even made a Chekov's gun joke about this in the epsoode about Squidward's r steraunt where he claims he served in the gally of the SS Diarrhea and his "appetiser" goes on a rampage. He even tries to cook peas on the stove in the can, proving a general ignrance in food prep. Despite this, there are plenty of competant frycooks and cooks ib general shown in Bakini Botttom. While they may not supy the magical level of quality as Spongebob, just geting the work done is not that hard. Even plakton seems aware of how to prepare/cook food but is just shit at knowing what ongrediates to use ..since its always just chum. He proves a level of culinary ecpertise by the menas in whoch he tries to make it appetizing but its a lost cause from what he starts with. Getting back to the question, I think a revolving door of indovidials are used to "cook" the Pattys when Spongbob is not around. Even Patrick was hired once to replace SB for his mandatory day off. I feel it is very few who actually know how yo MAKE the patty though. Mr. k is a given. His mom knows since it is confirmed she is aware of the full Formula. I dont think squidward or the original frycook know hwoever. They only needed to cook the Patty's and both seem to intellegent/self serving (which is any amount at all) for Mr. k to trust them. I dont even feel Pearl knows yet as a minor (Jesus Christ...that IS the case and makes the prom episode woth SB all the more creepy while recognizing that.) it seems like a comming of qge thing int he Krabs family to pass that info down in prep for her to eventually take over the buisness. In her current, financially careless teen tropish personality, Eugene would NEVER entrust her with that info. SB is a loyal employee and patsy. He will never give the info up willingly but be onboard to spend unpaid overtime at bas hours making huge batches of pattys when Mr. k. Can't do it alone. As long as he has a backup, thats all that matter these days in his aging years. Before Spongebob, he would likley make the pattys and freeze them himself only to keep full control ver it. He would then have whatever frycooks he could get who would accept his low pay and poor treatment to cook them. A lot of the time this woudl likely be younger indiviausl with little workplace experience or older inviduals with little other options. We see both Squiddy and the OG cook followed this trend and WERE young when they started. squidward only saw it as a temp job before his Art Career took off and since that never happened, he is stuck there now. Even when he went on strike, he had aspirations of multiple other careers ..but wound up losing everything because he has no transferable workplace experience, education or discernable skills. The OG cook ultimatly grew out of the role and went into buisenss for hismelf ok in the same industry once he had what he needed to do so. Spongebob is also young and nieve when he starts but just never loses the later aspect of his personality. I even see Pearl doing tiis a lot more than we are shown. A good comparison is Bob's Burgers. Bob is the culinary genius but working the grill is not rocket science. Not only does Linda bakc him up if needed but TINA is his main asisstant/backup since Linda usually works register. Luise is even shwon hrlping. When supervised soley fue to her age and the same with Gene because of his attention issues. NONE accept linda and Bob are allowed to "make" the burger meat as it is more complex for a plethora of reaosns. They do in fact grind and season their own hamburger as seen in a few episodes, but the kids are not allwoed as part of that process. The health onspector would have a field day if buttscratching gene, prankster Louise or absent minded Tina had been the ones directly prepping the raw protien.
This is genuinely insightful and a quite interesting concept. Indeed, most people do not know the differences between merely cooking a dish, vs MAKING and perfecting it.
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You know spongebob is oddly inconsistent about what makes the Krabby Patties so good. Sometimes its that Spongebob is just absolutely crazy on the grill and sometimes its simply the secret formular that makes the Burgers so good.
So fish who canonically can cook krabby patties are: Spongebob Mr. Krabs Squidward Pearl Jim And Not Spongebob the patty gadget used to be able to make krabby patties before being destroyed
I think Squidward's ability to cook depends on how overworked he is that day. It'd explain the inconsistency. Besides that, it could also be that we've been presented the episodes out of chronological order (for example, as if someone is telling them as they're remembering each story).
Finally, the hard hitting question. However it underlines an even deeper question: who knows the formula? Despite being the senior employee squidward doesn’t seem to know the formula, however he can flip premade patties in a pinch. This is of course subject to his mood and the amount of patties in the patty vault (which was constructed after SpongeBob joined and mister crabs saw how productive he was and how the business floundered whenever he had a thing happen), and things turn ugly when they are out of patties in the vault but still experiencing SpongeBob levels of demand. So squidward appears not to know the formula, and it seems like no one else who works the grill besides Jim and SpongeBob knows it (Jim’s replacement, the teenagers from the strike episode, and the other random one offs). Even Jim is arguable since he never makes the patties just cooks them, but he seems likely to know it since he made such good food. And as the most productive fry cook in existence SpongeBob is the only one who can make fresh patties and cook them fast enough to keep the establishment afloat, since Mr crabs and squidward can do each task only much slower and not as well, meaning if the patty vault runs out they will be hard pressed to keep running a restaurant that is routinely packed to bursting with only two “normal” people.
Actually in "Sponge out of Water" when they discover that they're all out of Krabby Patty's, Mr. Krabs says: "you gotta have that formula memorized by now!", and Spongebob states that according to the employee handbook, he's not allowed to memorize the formula in any way. Not even in flashbacks or dream sequences apparently.
I'm surprised there was no mention of Squidward and Spongebob going on Strike! In that episode, we see Mr. Krabs hiring scabs to run the restaurant. It's not any groundbreaking detail, but it's some added flavor, alongside "maybe those guys still have part-time jobs" as an added potential.
“Squidward knows how to make Krabby Patties for plot convenience” Most restaurants actually do have team members cross-trained for HOH and FOH (Heart/Front of House, aka Cooks and serving staff) so I feel like the same would apply to our favorite oceanic cuisine market since there also exists an episode where SpongeBob works the cash register, and Squidward loses his mind thinking that sponge boy will mess it up.
In the episode "SB-129", SpongeBob tells Squidward, that he would like to go to work but can't because the Krusty Krab is closed on Sundays. Indicating that it is not all that common for SpongeBob to work Sundays
I would assume what happened, is Krabs just had any old employee working the grill, or himself, as required, until Spongebob worked there and proved himself way better at making them than anyone else. So now Krabs has Spongebob do them on his on-days and make a surplus to store in the vault for his off-days, and any time you see Squidward making them is because nobody was at the counter and Krabs pulled the old "I'm not paying you to do nothing go make Krabby Patties!" or they just ran the vault dry that day or a customer wanted a custom-made one.
In the most realistic way you can ever imagine.Mr Krabs works as a cashier and Squidward cooks the Kraby Patty vise versa.There is no Karby Patty vault,it’s was just there for plot convenience.If both workers are absent Mr. Krabs will have to man the business himself as u would expected.
I think it’s a combination. They use patties from the vault as long there are any in there, Squidward makes them if not & Krabs does if Squidward doesn’t want to, wants to be paid extra or Krabs just doesn’t trust him. With Squidward’s ability to make Krabby Patties being varied, I think that’s because he doesn’t care & isn’t good, but slowly gets better & sometimes actually tries.
I'm assuming the reason why Squidward is so inconsistent in his ability ti make patties is that he actually purposely messes up the orders so that he can get SpongeBob to come back so he can stop making patties
Problem with the patty vault explanation is that it's shown in the same backroom as the rest of the kitchen; But we never see it again in other episodes. This implies the patty vault was very short-lived and retired after the incident with Squidward.
I never asked this question in my childhood and I rewatched the show like dozens of times... But like literally two days ago I saw a few episodes on TV and that was immediately the first question I asked, when SpongeBob was late for work and customers were already eating
Honestly with Mr Crabs being so cheep but also having that sailor attidue I would not be surprised if he cooks the krabby patties himself whe spongebob aint there.
I find it neat that there are characters out there who know the formula and can make krabby patties as good as SpongeBob. I’m a big fan of powerscaling fictional characters in other media, so it reminds me of someone who has the feats to defeat or go toe-to-toe with the strongest character in the series. I wonder what they’re up to now, though. I wonder if they secretly make krabby patties at home for themselves and family/friends since I’m sure Krabs wouldn’t let them make use the formula at another restaurant.
It's funny how so many people just know how to make Krabby Pattys which means they know the secret formula and plankton is still trying to get that information.
The most probable theories is that: 1-Squidward or Krabs take spongebob’s place for cooking while the other one takes orders 2-The patty vault still exists and whenever spongebob is out they just serve those Krabby Patties 3-Sometimes we do see Mr. Krabs and Squidward not working as well, so maybe they do have a weekly break and all the episodes where spongebob is out occur in that break
SpongeBob is the only employee other than Squidward and works everyday. Simple as that, and his shenanigans is only 15 to 20 mins long, which in theory would be enough time after or beginning
They have a walk in freezer which has been shown to have frozen krabby patties. My theory is Mr Krabs probably just heats those up at hours with less business. I think this would even fit with Mr Krabs’s character since he would 100% make SpongeBob prep a bunch of Krabby Patties ahead of time that he can sell later without having to pay SpongeBob for those hours that he would be working.
Also in Nasty Patty he probably didn’t have squidward work that day because it wasn’t a busy day so Mr Krabs could just easily take orders himself without having to pay someone else. From someone who has worked in fast food, having the bear minimum workforce at any given time and only adding more people only if needed is quite common.
honestly, for the early headcanon, I had it that they were frozen and cooked up in a microwave or something, but honestly it makes sense that a lot of the time squidward is making krabby patties in emergency situations, and I agree that his skill is situational.
It’s almost like a cartoon isn’t consistent because kids don’t care much about canon/continuity. That said, we also know time travel exists in SpongeBob so every episode where Squidward can’t cook Krabby Patties takes place BEFORE he learns how.
My head canon is in episodes without Patrick, Patrick is working part time at the krusty krab bc episodes like the one where SpongeBob had to take a “vacation” and that SpongeBob only takes the slower days off so if Patrick isn’t there Mr.Krabs can make them or use the patty vault and as an explanation on why the patty vault patties are used other than Krabs being cheap is maybe there’s a heating element to the vault keeping them just warm enough so it wouldn’t burn you to touch pick up or… slither on the floor eating patties but would keep the patties hot and fresh
Considering how GOOD Spingebill is with the burgers? I can't imagine anyone else being there. Customers would pretty much just flock to the restaurant when the yellow dude is there, cause that's when you can get the best patties. Having anyone else would just be a wound bleeding money, which Krabs would never allow
10:58 Does that mean Squidward and Spongebob knew each other before Sponge was working at the Krusty Krab? Or maybe it's just Present Squidward acting in Past Squidward's flashback.
I always though Mr Krabs was there alone when SpongeBob and squidward are not,we know he knows how to work a grill and register
Well,yeah but if I remember correctly he can't make Krabby Patties
@@yusufesat-cc8lxwell he can, just badly.
@@yusufesat-cc8lxdoes he need to, if there's a whole vault of krabby patties that he can just grab?
@@yusufesat-cc8lx He was head chef on the SS Diarrhea. Which raises more questions, because how is he to have a successful restaurant when episodes of the show shows us that he's a worse cook than Plankton.
Sometimes he can the show isn't really consistent with whether or not Mr Krabs can actually make krabby patties.
Rodrick’s #1 rule is: dont be good at something you dont wanna do. Squid was just following that
Never thought of it that way 🤔
He was mindfully managing Mr Krab's expectations. Do it all the time myself.
Al Bundy told us the same thing about "marriage duties" 😂😂😂😂
@AxGerm756legit watching married with children as i type this 😂😂
@@WolfySmith-bs5ix no fictional dad compares to al bundy
I remember in one of the OLD episodes, the one where Spongebob got the squeaky boots and Mr. Krabs went crazy over them, a customer walked up to Mr. Krabs and asked to order and Krabs pulled out a note book and pencil, ready to take the dude's order. It may be a small detail, but at least shows me that Mr. Krabs isn't above helping out on the floor when he's out there to help take orders or what not.
It IS Krab’s business after all
Mr. Krabs love for money made him do it
Krabs would rather get off his ass then hire a 3rd employee
Krabs the kind of boss to take/serve one order a month and do everything slowly perfectly and by the book then insist that because he can do it, there's no reason every employee can't do it all the time, ignoring the fact that he was only able to put on a show like that because he doesn't have 5 other tasks waiting for him in the back.
Plus doing the work himself is cheaper than hiring someone else to do it/turning away that customer
“Those patties aren’t going to cook themselves, SpongeBob.” Then how do customers already have them?
✨ patty vault ✨
@@KevinContreras2013I think the Patty vault is a fail safe for if no one is making Krabby Patties
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Krabs is cheap, leftovers from the day before a la Subway.
They are not cooked. The customers are eating them RAW.
I assume Squidward knows how to cook but just chooses not to do it well.
I don't think he chooses to do a bad job, but he definitely cracks under pressure, and seeing as Spongebob is a Krabby Patty savant, I'd guess he often ends up getting the yips when he's trying to fill in for him, inevitably leading to burnt patties and the like. Spongebob set's quite a high standard for any fry cook, and when you're not only filling in for him, but also working the register, there's a lot weighing down on poor Squid.
@@ben-chan420hehe and kind of like Patrick would have done id imagine me in hte oast woukd have been inevitabiity paying in screwball money of 50 cent coins or half dollar coins and dollar coins of various designs and sizes all legit usa but not worth more or not at most above a few dollars each and then 2 dollar bills and or buying coin rolls or turning in coin rolls etc for payment.. an Krab requiring poor Squid not to turn away any money.
He has been shown to cook, at least to follow a recipe
Cooking is more art than science ("THAT'S BAKING!") and Squidward is absolutely incredible at the fundamentals and the science of his art, it just so happens that his pieces fall apart whenever he adds a part of himself to his work. It'd make sense that he'd see the artistic integrity and take pride in his cooking, even if he didn't know how to at first. It's more endearing to think after the episode he burnt every item on the menu he went home angry and embarrassed to the tune of "They wouldn't know a good Krabby Patty if it hit them in the face!" eventually learning that he actually likes cooking.
I'm literally in a similar situation where I work at a (not too high-end) restaurant, where I cook and bake everything as decent as the standards of the restaurant demands - I may not put my whole heart into it, as long as I get food out, i'm good. My main goal is to survive the rushes after all.
But at home I absolutely love the art of cooking, and I will take hours to perfect a dish without the pressures of customers, and I find the most joy in that - as i'm sure Squidward does too with his many homemade souffles he makes in episodes.
Here's the way I see it.
Both Squidward and Mr. Krabs can cook Krabby Patties, and rather decently at that; however, they have a hard time working under the more busy hours of the shift, and panick under the pressure of the lunch-rush causing the food to be at a much lower quality.
Thus, the Patty vault was invented as a failsafe when SpongeBob isn't around, during peak business hours Krabs and Squidward can withdraw premade Patties for customers.
The disappearance of The Patty Vault most likely accured when Squidward broke into the vault during the Just One Bite episode: Mr.Krabs could've been paranoid at how easy the Vault could be broken into, and scrapped it in fear of Plankton following Squidward's example.
So this brings the Krusty Krab at Square one again, Krabs or Squidward man the grill when SpongeBob is gone. Which always starts off fine, but after a few hours the food starts too get burnt.
Cool
And considering squidward doesn't even like his normal job he probably faked not being able to make the patties those times when he burnt them.
@ cool theory
Also Squidward blew up the vault with his thunder thighs
Squidward mentioned that he was fine for the first few hours of SpongeBob's shift but his arm was getting sore, so that fits perfectly
KK is closed on Sunday
Spongebob has Monday off, when he goes to boating school
Squidward has Saturday off, where he does his art things.
So each have a 2 day weekend, with one day free from the other.
When Spongebob is off, Krabs runs the grill. When Squidward is off, Krabs runs the till.
Some days Tuesday to Friday, Krabs doesn't show up at all.
I like this, does it say SpongeBob has boating school on monday or is that an assumption?
@@ADP057
It's all over the place. He's been in on the weekend, weekdays, etc.
I always believed that Squidward was actually a competent cook, it’s just that whenever he doesn’t want to do the work of SpongeBob he does an atrociously bad job as an act of rebellion.
I think someone like squidward who values his personal pleasures so much would also be an excellent cook
squidward can actually make some pretty good dishes he just doesn't care about making fast bood burgers with a crappy pay
We seen how busy it can get so probably just panics and starts making simple mistakes.
@@MaurilioCabral-j2nI disagree about Squidward panicking and making multiple mistakes. I think it's more likely that Squidward can cook a decently fine Krabby Patty, even during a lunch rush, but he doesn't want Mr. Krabs to schedule him to work the grill so he intentionally messes it up. It's canon that Squidward worked at the Krusty Krab before Spongebob has, so it'd be surprising if Squidward didn't man the grill once or twice in his time.
I always imagined the Krusty Krab schedule looked like this.
Sunday: Krusty Krab Closed
Monday: 10am to 6pm, Krabs and Squidward.
Tuesday - Friday: 10am to 6pm, All 3.
Saturday: 10am to 6pm: Krabs and SpongeBob.
That would mean Bubble Buddy took place on a Monday, while The Nasty Patty took place on a Saturday.
I vaguely remember the KK closing at 8P, I think, but otherwise agreed.
That’s cool
@@LeonCoretz I think that was the episode where Krabbs opened the night shift.
Can't wait for the extended Spongebob Timeline video down to the in universe dates.
You always imagined this?
Mr Krabs being a devout Irish Catholic keeps the Lord's day.
Bro is so real for that
Like a true Catholic man he keeps the Lord's day primarily because of his mother and (late) wife disapproving of him doing otherwise.
“Come out ye black and tans, come out and fight me like a man!”
iS tHiS cAnNon
Spongebob is shown to be able to reproduce by budding. By doing this, he can seemingly make an exact clone of himself. I propose that there are, at minimum, two Spongebobs. Each one covers the Krusty Krab while the other enjoys his day off getting into shenanigans around Bikini Bottom.
Ooh, that's a good one. Makes total sense
Imagine seasons 1-3 SpongeBob are stuck working and somewhere along the post movie seasons the flanderized modern SpongeBob is the “clone” running around that we follow. It would explain the character change lol
It's his dummy from The Chaperone.
Schroedinger's Sponge. Every subsequent clone is both the original and a clone until acknowledged otherwise.
@@DuskLegend better theory than the one where the OG SpongeBob is dead
On the night shift episode a new fish wants to work on the Krusty Krab at the night shift, so the idea of having two crews could be possible
Mr. Krabs isn't aware his restaurant is even open on that episode. Nosferatu is running the business without permission. It doesn't count.
@bluehairedaigaming I am talking about the original night shift episode, where the "serial killer" is actually a fish that want to apply for the night shift, it is true that we don't see He talking to Krabs but with spongebob and squidward, but my point is that it isn't impossible that they have a night shift crew
2 vs mr krabs
@@RafaCB0987 I assume the night shift policy is just something that Krabs might change every now and then. I’m pretty sure there’s at least a couple episodes where not only does SB and SW’s shifts end, but Krabs himself closes the Krusty Krab, locking the door, leaving the lights off, and with no visible customers in sight.
@@bluehairedaigaming It’s saddening that your first thought about a Night Shift episode is that one and not the original.
I always assumed it was Krabs who worked those early shifts before Bob gets there.
And my head canon for Squidward is that he just got better at it with time after being forced to replace Bob so many times.
But yeah, I wouldn't put it past him either to just reheat old krabby patties and serve them on the weekends 😂 so all three could be true at once
That would be my guess too, only Mr. Krabs has also been shown in many episodes, such as "Squilliam Returns", to be a terrible cook. However, he actually does a good job cooking Krabby Patties in many episodes, too. I'm guessing maybe Krabby Patties are the only thing Krabs knows how to cook? 🤷
On a side note, there was a scene in "Nature Pants" where SpongeBob forlornly stares at a table full of Krabby Patties through the Krusty Krab window. Maybe those are from the vault?
I mean, it was a one of joke but if we include all the lore, but there's the Krabby Patty vault that's filled with them and they seem to be edible straight out of the vault (or atleast tasty enough that squidward goes wild on them).
So I guess Krabs has Spongebob prepping additional ones for the vault durrig the week and just reheats them on their off days.
The only not in character action there would be Krabs leaving the register unattened for a minute or so while he gets the patties..
@@NoFlu He just takes the register with him.
I kind of like the idea of kravs cooking which for him probably feels more like a hobby now
Did you just call him Bob
Imagine if you did a video on how many times Patrick has worked at the Krusty Krab. More than someone may realize
Here is my theory:
After Jim quit as the fry cook, Mr. Krabs and Squidward took shifts as the frycook for some time, but the busy hours and pressure were too overwhelming for both of them, resulting in the patties going bad, so Mr. Krabs put on the help wanted sign.
Both of them still took SpongeBob's job as a replacement when he wasn't around, but it was still too much hard work. That's why Mr. Krab built the patty vault. After Squidward broke into it and caused it to explode, Mr. Krab never got a new one.
Squidward still works as the frycook, sometimes alongside Spongebob to help him if there are too many customers for the day.
After the first night shift episode happened, Mr. Krab got the idea for the night shift employees to fill in SpongeBob and Squidward's place. that's why spongebob's paycheck is too little because now he has more employees
If both Squidward and SpongeBob got a day off, Mr. Krab does everything himself or sometimes calls Pearl for extra help.
Also Krabs probably realized Plankton could easily break into the vault
I’d like to think things would be easier if the HashSlingingSlasher was kept in when bob was not working.
@@Krexxal
Payday mission
It’s funny how Alex Bale videos always say and act like SpongeBob has perfect continuity and all these secret things when Awe points out all the time that the writers have so little consistency they often can’t even be bothered to know what happened in older episodes so they just write something totally contradictory
I don't think anyone should worry about continuity in a cartoon that clearly does not care nor does it really need to care about it.
Alex Bale is definitely not serious with his series and it's just having fun. He doesn't seem like he's trying to do a math hat and establish the continuity for all his viewers
Continuity exists regardless of if the creators care about it or not
@@cheeseboi588You know Alex Bale plays all that up as a joke right? He knows it's a comedy cartoon with no consistency
@@klaykid117 Case in point at 10:14.
could be that spongebob cooks enough krabby patties that he can get a day off and they just heat them up when somebody wants them
The giant room where squidward got addicted to them?
Patty vault @@jakef.9526
@ yess
You have single handedly reignite my interest in Spongebob, also your voice is very nice to listen to so that´s a plus
He's a diamon in the Sand that is infected by Spongetubers
It's obviously Broly. You just don't see him because he works the night shift.
broly is the second strongest krusty krab employee 🙏
This is a load of 🐬
LSSJ BROLY?
My theory is that anyone can make Krabby Patties but only Sponge Bob makes them with Love, that is why everyone preffers Bob's Krabby Patties
Not only with love but he can make them fast if necessary and still taste great
@@El_Omar2203 Your art sucks ya mook😒
Maybe part of the secret formula is what keeps the patties fresh in the vault.
plot twist the secret formula is imboming fluid
@@jonsworld5307keep it in your pants
White Castle burgers are preserved pretty damn well. And they're steamed... Krabby Patties are Steamed Hams
@@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep
You call Krabby Patties "Steamed Hams"?
I think a combination of all three explanations work. The patty vault can usually carry them between SpongeBob’s shifts, but during peak hours they need SpongeBob on duty to keep up with demand. Squidward cannot make patties from scratch as SpongeBob can, but he can reheat patties from the freezer (which is seen in several episodes) and assemble the burgers. Mr Krabs can do the same. He knows how to make them from scratch but is old so he needs SpongeBob’s help
They probably use the patties from the patty vault
Thats a good idea
It was just a one off gag to show how fast Spongeboi cooks
@ so was Nosferatu, and yet they brought him back like 10 times
@@Sociopathic-rubberduck either way it's fun to think about the different ways they are made.
@@Sociopathic-rubberduck Only a Matter of time before they use it in the beginning of season 15 for yet more nostalgia bait
I'm betting on Squidward just using weaponized incompetence. Busy obviously doesn't have enough money to go eat out every night so he has to cook for himself so I assume he can cook. He just doesn't want to so he acts like he can't
Squidward hates his job, but he is still good at his job. He burnt a shake: intentionally.
1:28 I think that it might actually be closed on Sundays.
I don't know if you are old enough to remember but there was a time when people used to not have stores open on Sunday, except rarely.
I suppose that this is part of the story but there is a contradiction (inconsistent story writing) because Mr. Krabs sometimes has the store open for days (fear of the krabby patty).
Also, don't forget that sometimes Spongebob does not work for days in many of the episodes that take place over several days (Sandy's rocket, I was a teenage Gary, and many others).
Also don't forget that spongebob had a day off in Bubble Buddy.
Edit: In the "Greasy Spoon" song, Mr. Krabs is cooking. He definitely can and probably does cook.
Thing is, when it's open for days or extra hours, it tends to backfire
So a day off is probably standard when he isn't trying to pull that
@1stCallipostle But like I said, regularly Sponge Bob is not working for several consecutive days. For instance, in My life as a teenage Gary, both Sponge bob and squidward are not at work for 3 days over the weekend.
I think that the KK is just not open on weekend canonically.
Sunday trading hours vary by country. Who says Bikini Bottom follows the laws and traditions of whatever country you're talking about?
@@OnTheThirdDaynah SpongeBob just used his paid time off obviously
@@SirHurricane_ paid time off? We learn that SpongeBob and squidward don't even get breaks. Krabs would never give PTO.
My theory is Spongebob and Squidward work on different schedules. Monday it's just Squidward and Krabs, then Tuesday-Friday is all 3, then Saturday is just Spongebob and Krabs. The Krusty Krab closes every Sunday so when we see all 3 of them outside then it's likely on that day. They can all cook Krabby Patties, but Krabs and Squidward cannot cook them decently when under a ton of pressure from a rush of customers. This would explain why whenever Spongebob disappears and the restaurant is in chaos it's probably on a busy day that he's supposed to be scheduled to work on. This also explains Squidward making the remark of "enjoying Spongebob's day off".
All three, And Squidward just decides sometimes he doesn't want to make them so pretends not to know how, or makes them bad on purpose when he doesn't want to do it
He burnt my shake 7:55
The delivery of that line will never not make me chuckle
TBF, the most common day we see them talk about having off is Sunday, Both Mr. Krabs and Squidward have talked about having that day off, so I think it's reasonable to assume that it is closed that day. In the video you showed Mr. Krabs working the grill which is what I always kinda assumed happened when Spongebob isn't there. As for the whole case of Squidward being both good and bad at making patties, I always liked to think of it as time going on he improved, as to how this lines up with the episodes it's hard to say since this show isn't exactly supper continuous, but I like to think that as time has gone on, Squidward has improved in cooking.
Yeah but in Squids day off it’s a Sunday. Squidward states at the beginning of the episode “It’s Sunday, nobody ever comes in on Sunday.” Which does give us reason to believe they aren’t opened on Sundays bcuz of the fact that nobody goes in there. Although by the end of the episode it’s revealed they forgot to switch the sign to opened.
I figured Spongebob and Squidward can only afford such nice houses because they work almost everyday
or because in 1999, when the show came out, a person working fast food being able to own a home wasn't unreasonable.
Except SpongeBob already had his house before the events of Help Wanted. My assumption is that both of them have rich parents that paid cash for their houses. That's why we see SpongeBob hand over a giant sack of money when he buys his house in the "Truth or Square" flashback.
@@captaincrooked9051 a home sure, but they have very nice houses
@@ColinElkin-ce1337 this is the answer, spongebob's parents did look rich and he's too young to have saved up for such a nice house with just fry cook money
I would imagine all 3 of them can perform all jobs in the restaurant. And if needed, krabs can easily pull in his daughter if he REALLY needs to.
Realistically, the only jobs needed are cash and back of house, so I'd imagine if spongebob works a late shift, krabs does grill, and if it's just squidward, then he does everything himself.
It does seem like krabs and squidward crack under pressure and require Spongebob's help past a certain point, so it makes sense if krabs and squidward just take shifts while spongebob is gone.
Ah yes, the patty vault.
The giant vault in the middle of the kitchen that has always been there.
I rember how every time Spongebob wanted to walk to the other side of the kitchen, he had to walk around that huge vault. Such a memorable part of the kitchen.
I say it's the patty vault, the one Squidward broke into. SpongeBob cooks in bulk.
Additionally, in the Pizza Delivery episode (Season 1, Episode 5) to my knowledge at the beginning Squidward, SpongeBob, and Krabs stayed in the Krusty Krab even at midnight until Krabs got an order for a "Pizza" so you could use that episode to say that Krabs wouldn't even let his workers go home.
SpongeBob is there every day because he’s such a worker that’s why
Fun fact: 5:04 the SpongeBob episode your shoes’ untied was how I finally learned how to learn to tie my shoes as a kid ❤
Gary the snall is better teacher then some people
Back when cartoons werent just soulless garbage
I think that most of the scenes where customers have krabby patties without squidward or spongebob being at the grill can be explained by the existence of a patty vault
The saltiness of the water may be enough to preserve the patties ye
I just realized that spongebob has been working at the same dead end job for 26 years 😮
Just like most people in capitalist countries
It's not that the plot for each episode requires Squidward to either know how to make Krabby Patties or not know, but that Squidward is putting in different amounts of effort. Sometimes he cares enough to make Krabby Patties correctly, like when he was competing with SpongeBob, but other times he doesn't give a crap, like when he burnt them (along with fries and milkshakes).
I think a major issue with your process is recognizing the difference between 'making" and "cooking" the pattys. Only a very select few know how yo make the pattys and are entrysted with the sercret ingredients identity to do so. This includes Spong bob since he is entrusted to do so as a backup to Mr. k. They make them in mass prodiced batches and freeze them in the walk in cold storage. This minimuzes the amount of times they need to make them as well as the number of people who have to know the process. This is standard to most fast food places for economical reasons. Ingrefients can be bought in bulk for lower cost, produced in an offsite facility better suited for health and saftey standards of mass hadling with raw ingredients and allow better storage until needed. Krabs would love to adapt thsi for a few reaosns except the offsite related ones. We know Mr. k has the patties "made" on site since he orders the secret ingredient to be delivered at the resteraunt. We also know they have a massive (if not magically size shifting) frozen patty storage onsite. Fur to Plankton, its also pretty clear they font make the patties during regular buisness hours or even a consistant calander shedule. They bulk create at odd hours and random intervals to ensure they always have a good amount on hand wothout being watched. Once this is done the more routine duty of COOKING the patties is all that remains. It is clear Spongbob is a great frycook qnd ther is an art to that when it comes to quality. The knowlage or abilty to "make" the special patties however is not required for this. The reason the pattys are so good as a basebks their formula and creation with the finishing touch being SB's great stovework/assmebly with the condiments. The meat you get in that greasy, gross Burger King burger that looks slapped togther is IDENTICAL to the meat form the more upscale neighborhood BK burger that actually looks like the pic on the menu. Its the effort and skill in cooking/assembing that determes that difference. Mr. K and Squidward tend to do a terribel job due to more the cliches they represent. Squidward is lazy and incompetent in anything that doesnt pique his interest. He also tends to have wildly swinging levels of competancy in his artisitc skill with a lot fj his background art requiring some really hard earned skillsets but other times showing an inate level of automatic failure no matter how he tries. This is consistent for both at the job as in some cases he really is trying and still destorying the pattys whole others make it clear he doesnt like to do more than is required at work. He wlso feels the pattys are beneath him culinarily as cheap fast food so during those instances, its clear he just doesnt really care About the job hes doing. Mr. K is an oldschool male steriotype and a single parent one as well. Its sad to say but he represents the incompetant single male from the older generation who relied on women or paid food to feed them. Hes very much a businessman cliche. He also os a war vet who lived off of terible food, is a bit of a mommas boy even to this day and a mooch. Unfortunatly, the single father trope in media basically depicted a culinarily inept individual from the 1950s to even current. You can see it in characters like Peppermint Patty who has to pack her own lunch and figure out a lot of her own meals, Charles Finster, Scott Calvin and the other single father at Denny's in The Santa Clause among many others reinforce this pattern. Mr. K is in fact a singel father who depsite owning a fast food resteruant is pretty crap in the kitchen. They even made a Chekov's gun joke about this in the epsoode about Squidward's r steraunt where he claims he served in the gally of the SS Diarrhea and his "appetiser" goes on a rampage. He even tries to cook peas on the stove in the can, proving a general ignrance in food prep. Despite this, there are plenty of competant frycooks and cooks ib general shown in Bakini Botttom. While they may not supy the magical level of quality as Spongebob, just geting the work done is not that hard. Even plakton seems aware of how to prepare/cook food but is just shit at knowing what ongrediates to use ..since its always just chum. He proves a level of culinary ecpertise by the menas in whoch he tries to make it appetizing but its a lost cause from what he starts with. Getting back to the question, I think a revolving door of indovidials are used to "cook" the Pattys when Spongbob is not around. Even Patrick was hired once to replace SB for his mandatory day off. I feel it is very few who actually know how yo MAKE the patty though. Mr. k is a given. His mom knows since it is confirmed she is aware of the full Formula. I dont think squidward or the original frycook know hwoever. They only needed to cook the Patty's and both seem to intellegent/self serving (which is any amount at all) for Mr. k to trust them. I dont even feel Pearl knows yet as a minor (Jesus Christ...that IS the case and makes the prom episode woth SB all the more creepy while recognizing that.) it seems like a comming of qge thing int he Krabs family to pass that info down in prep for her to eventually take over the buisness. In her current, financially careless teen tropish personality, Eugene would NEVER entrust her with that info. SB is a loyal employee and patsy. He will never give the info up willingly but be onboard to spend unpaid overtime at bas hours making huge batches of pattys when Mr. k. Can't do it alone. As long as he has a backup, thats all that matter these days in his aging years. Before Spongebob, he would likley make the pattys and freeze them himself only to keep full control ver it. He would then have whatever frycooks he could get who would accept his low pay and poor treatment to cook them. A lot of the time this woudl likely be younger indiviausl with little workplace experience or older inviduals with little other options. We see both Squiddy and the OG cook followed this trend and WERE young when they started. squidward only saw it as a temp job before his Art Career took off and since that never happened, he is stuck there now. Even when he went on strike, he had aspirations of multiple other careers ..but wound up losing everything because he has no transferable workplace experience, education or discernable skills. The OG cook ultimatly grew out of the role and went into buisenss for hismelf ok in the same industry once he had what he needed to do so. Spongebob is also young and nieve when he starts but just never loses the later aspect of his personality. I even see Pearl doing tiis a lot more than we are shown. A good comparison is Bob's Burgers. Bob is the culinary genius but working the grill is not rocket science. Not only does Linda bakc him up if needed but TINA is his main asisstant/backup since Linda usually works register. Luise is even shwon hrlping. When supervised soley fue to her age and the same with Gene because of his attention issues. NONE accept linda and Bob are allowed to "make" the burger meat as it is more complex for a plethora of reaosns. They do in fact grind and season their own hamburger as seen in a few episodes, but the kids are not allwoed as part of that process. The health onspector would have a field day if buttscratching gene, prankster Louise or absent minded Tina had been the ones directly prepping the raw protien.
This is genuinely insightful and a quite interesting concept. Indeed, most people do not know the differences between merely cooking a dish, vs MAKING and perfecting it.
Awesome essay
@ratking7383 Poor attempting to troll Cyberbully. Good job making your profile and name as obvious as possible. Sorry you are so poorly educated you think something like this was an essay. Never been able to write one yourself huh? Also sorry your daddy was a bastard who didn't give enough hugs but grow the hell up and get over it in a way other than a touched elements schooler would. Reporting you and getting your account removed. Good luck starting over since you are so bad at everything you do, even the easiest way to delude power that kids resort to, you are a failure at.
Probably the patty vault
I just assume the Hash-slinging slasher kid works the night shift
You know spongebob is oddly inconsistent about what makes the Krabby Patties so good.
Sometimes its that Spongebob is just absolutely crazy on the grill and sometimes its simply the secret formular that makes the Burgers so good.
It's a combination of all those things yes
So fish who canonically can cook krabby patties are:
Spongebob
Mr. Krabs
Squidward
Pearl
Jim
And Not Spongebob
the patty gadget used to be able to make krabby patties before being destroyed
I think Squidward's ability to cook depends on how overworked he is that day. It'd explain the inconsistency. Besides that, it could also be that we've been presented the episodes out of chronological order (for example, as if someone is telling them as they're remembering each story).
Heres the thing, the Krusty Krab canonicaly closes at 6pm so id imagine the Krusty Krab is closed on Sundays and possibly Wednesdays
He wouldn't want to make Neptune mad
@Jaiden_Anime_Shuns Exactly 🤣
Mr. Krabs has a vault of pre-made Krabby Patties. He probably just takes them out and serves them as opposed to making them himself.
3:14 The Tidal. Zone.
(The way the narrator always says it lol)
The Scary Door 😱🚪
Finally, the hard hitting question.
However it underlines an even deeper question: who knows the formula? Despite being the senior employee squidward doesn’t seem to know the formula, however he can flip premade patties in a pinch. This is of course subject to his mood and the amount of patties in the patty vault (which was constructed after SpongeBob joined and mister crabs saw how productive he was and how the business floundered whenever he had a thing happen), and things turn ugly when they are out of patties in the vault but still experiencing SpongeBob levels of demand. So squidward appears not to know the formula, and it seems like no one else who works the grill besides Jim and SpongeBob knows it (Jim’s replacement, the teenagers from the strike episode, and the other random one offs). Even Jim is arguable since he never makes the patties just cooks them, but he seems likely to know it since he made such good food. And as the most productive fry cook in existence SpongeBob is the only one who can make fresh patties and cook them fast enough to keep the establishment afloat, since Mr crabs and squidward can do each task only much slower and not as well, meaning if the patty vault runs out they will be hard pressed to keep running a restaurant that is routinely packed to bursting with only two “normal” people.
Actually in "Sponge out of Water" when they discover that they're all out of Krabby Patty's, Mr. Krabs says: "you gotta have that formula memorized by now!", and Spongebob states that according to the employee handbook, he's not allowed to memorize the formula in any way. Not even in flashbacks or dream sequences apparently.
@ head cannon ruined
I'm surprised there was no mention of Squidward and Spongebob going on Strike! In that episode, we see Mr. Krabs hiring scabs to run the restaurant.
It's not any groundbreaking detail, but it's some added flavor, alongside "maybe those guys still have part-time jobs" as an added potential.
The Krusty Krab is closed on Sundays.
There i just solved the "grand mystery" for you
I just discovered this channel because of the Library video. Wth.
I didn’t think an entire channel mostly about spongebob existed. It’s kindof a gem.
“Squidward knows how to make Krabby Patties for plot convenience” Most restaurants actually do have team members cross-trained for HOH and FOH (Heart/Front of House, aka Cooks and serving staff) so I feel like the same would apply to our favorite oceanic cuisine market since there also exists an episode where SpongeBob works the cash register, and Squidward loses his mind thinking that sponge boy will mess it up.
3:59 Mr. Krabs also mentions Squidward's absence in the Season 6 episode Chum Caverns.
"There is a big ass Patty Vault at the Krusty Krab."
I was always told cartoons aren’t supposed to make sense
Crabs would totally have the crusty crab closed on Sunday if he didn’t want to pay Sunday penalty rates.
In the episode "SB-129", SpongeBob tells Squidward, that he would like to go to work but can't because the Krusty Krab is closed on Sundays. Indicating that it is not all that common for SpongeBob to work Sundays
I would assume what happened, is Krabs just had any old employee working the grill, or himself, as required, until Spongebob worked there and proved himself way better at making them than anyone else. So now Krabs has Spongebob do them on his on-days and make a surplus to store in the vault for his off-days, and any time you see Squidward making them is because nobody was at the counter and Krabs pulled the old "I'm not paying you to do nothing go make Krabby Patties!" or they just ran the vault dry that day or a customer wanted a custom-made one.
3:00 I consider him a subject of Squidwards warped memory. He's a stand-in for the pre-Sprongebob era
In the most realistic way you can ever imagine.Mr Krabs works as a cashier and Squidward cooks the Kraby Patty vise versa.There is no Karby Patty vault,it’s was just there for plot convenience.If both workers are absent Mr. Krabs will have to man the business himself as u would expected.
I think it’s a combination. They use patties from the vault as long there are any in there, Squidward makes them if not & Krabs does if Squidward doesn’t want to, wants to be paid extra or Krabs just doesn’t trust him.
With Squidward’s ability to make Krabby Patties being varied, I think that’s because he doesn’t care & isn’t good, but slowly gets better & sometimes actually tries.
I'm assuming the reason why Squidward is so inconsistent in his ability ti make patties is that he actually purposely messes up the orders so that he can get SpongeBob to come back so he can stop making patties
Squidward is always cranky because he works double and gets paid the same as spongebob
3:25 i thought that was a gunshot
Been watching now for a while really like this channel, no stupid intros no bullshit talk just funny calm guy talking about OG serie :)
I'm guessing SpongeBob is just the most reliable one to cook, while the others can cook, but aren't always the greatest
Definitely Broly. He’s a good cook.
the krabby patty vault is the only answer, unlimited patties
Problem with the patty vault explanation is that it's shown in the same backroom as the rest of the kitchen; But we never see it again in other episodes. This implies the patty vault was very short-lived and retired after the incident with Squidward.
i always like to think mr krabs hits up patrick for a shift behind spongebobs back like some sneaky link
I never asked this question in my childhood and I rewatched the show like dozens of times... But like literally two days ago I saw a few episodes on TV and that was immediately the first question I asked, when SpongeBob was late for work and customers were already eating
Honestly with Mr Crabs being so cheep but also having that sailor attidue I would not be surprised if he cooks the krabby patties himself whe spongebob aint there.
I find it neat that there are characters out there who know the formula and can make krabby patties as good as SpongeBob.
I’m a big fan of powerscaling fictional characters in other media, so it reminds me of someone who has the feats to defeat or go toe-to-toe with the strongest character in the series.
I wonder what they’re up to now, though. I wonder if they secretly make krabby patties at home for themselves and family/friends since I’m sure Krabs wouldn’t let them make use the formula at another restaurant.
Jim wins 10/10 low diff
Jim works at some fancy restaurant (i'm not sure if it's the ship in a bottle one or elsewhere) hence why he's so rich.
I assume that when spongebob isn’t there, they sell the pre made patties in the vault
Does this mean Squidward knows the formula? That's a bigger issue for me
This guy sounds like the "2 hours later" guy... i like it
It's funny how so many people just know how to make Krabby Pattys which means they know the secret formula and plankton is still trying to get that information.
The most probable theories is that:
1-Squidward or Krabs take spongebob’s place for cooking while the other one takes orders
2-The patty vault still exists and whenever spongebob is out they just serve those Krabby Patties
3-Sometimes we do see Mr. Krabs and Squidward not working as well, so maybe they do have a weekly break and all the episodes where spongebob is out occur in that break
SpongeBob is the only employee other than Squidward and works everyday. Simple as that, and his shenanigans is only 15 to 20 mins long, which in theory would be enough time after or beginning
Canon? I didn't think such a thing even existed in SpongeBob.
5:25 but they did….
Squiddy cooked em
@chadbouss idk he kind burned them everytime he tried . Hell he cooked and gave someone a boot 😂
Wasn't there a rhyming episode where a machine could make the krabby patties until spongebob destroyed it in a competition.
I assume the krusty krab is closed without spongebob as krabs doesn't want the business to lose money by running inefficiently
They have a walk in freezer which has been shown to have frozen krabby patties. My theory is Mr Krabs probably just heats those up at hours with less business. I think this would even fit with Mr Krabs’s character since he would 100% make SpongeBob prep a bunch of Krabby Patties ahead of time that he can sell later without having to pay SpongeBob for those hours that he would be working.
Also in Nasty Patty he probably didn’t have squidward work that day because it wasn’t a busy day so Mr Krabs could just easily take orders himself without having to pay someone else. From someone who has worked in fast food, having the bear minimum workforce at any given time and only adding more people only if needed is quite common.
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Bikini Bottom must have VERY relaxed labor laws
honestly, for the early headcanon, I had it that they were frozen and cooked up in a microwave or something, but honestly it makes sense that a lot of the time squidward is making krabby patties in emergency situations, and I agree that his skill is situational.
8:19 What a lore-heavy episode…
It’s almost like a cartoon isn’t consistent because kids don’t care much about canon/continuity.
That said, we also know time travel exists in SpongeBob so every episode where Squidward can’t cook Krabby Patties takes place BEFORE he learns how.
When I was a kid I always imagined krabs just makes SpongeBob cook up extra patties the day before his day off
i cant believe the spongebob narrator had a youtube channel
well actually i thought squidward was the original before the original fry cook
Thank you Algorithm for blessing me with this random video to watch during my solo Thanksgiving dinner lol
My head canon is in episodes without Patrick, Patrick is working part time at the krusty krab bc episodes like the one where SpongeBob had to take a “vacation” and that SpongeBob only takes the slower days off so if Patrick isn’t there Mr.Krabs can make them or use the patty vault and as an explanation on why the patty vault patties are used other than Krabs being cheap is maybe there’s a heating element to the vault keeping them just warm enough so it wouldn’t burn you to touch pick up or… slither on the floor eating patties but would keep the patties hot and fresh
Considering how GOOD Spingebill is with the burgers? I can't imagine anyone else being there. Customers would pretty much just flock to the restaurant when the yellow dude is there, cause that's when you can get the best patties. Having anyone else would just be a wound bleeding money, which Krabs would never allow
10:58 Does that mean Squidward and Spongebob knew each other before Sponge was working at the Krusty Krab? Or maybe it's just Present Squidward acting in Past Squidward's flashback.
They're neighbors
Squidward literally tells Mr Krabs not to hire Spongebob by name in the first episode
Sponge bob literally works every day
I like to believe that Squidward just got better at fry cooking throughout the seasons.