@johnpett1955 oh right i forgot that episode, the episode of the boy band, right? I haven't watch the show since 2011 for dedicated myself to superheroes only
@@anglecringe6917 he wants the use the populations love of the krabby patties to manupilate them into world domination. just like he how did it in the movie
There was also a scene in one episode when Plankton was locked in jail with Patrick, and when they got chum for dinner, he stated "Of course they do, they're my only buyers" about penitentiary. Or something like that
There's another episode in prison where we learn most of the criminal underworld has uses for chum, so it's 'possible' he's supplying it to them for a cut of the profits, at least after that episode.
Plankton has government contracts. While the civilian side of his business isn't doing so well, selling to the government pays enough to support himself and keep the restaurant open.
> Has boatloads of money (pun intended) > Gets no customers > Surprised when customers come to his business Plankton is part of the Mafia, its that simple.
Some storyboard artist/writer for Spongebob said that all Krabby Patties are actually plant-based. Chum is also made out of literal meat garbage that you'd throw away - bones, eyeballs, gonads, inedible sinew, etc.. - so it stands to reason that it's just "mystery meat," not fish meat.
Well, depends what animals the chum is made out off. People act like fish are all one species, so if a fish eats other types of fish it is immediately cannibalism. An example is the theory that the Krabby patty is made out of crabs. People always say: "That means all of the fish that eat it are cannibals!!!!!" No, that isn't how it works. That's like saying humans are cannibals for eating other mammals. But fish are even more diverse than that.
Depends on the Fish. Mammals eat other mammals, would us eating a beef burger count as cannibalism? Fish eat fish, birds eat birds, insects eat insects, and so on and on. Yes, some would be cannibalistic, but not all of them.
There is an episode where Plankton ends up in prison and he meets a bunch of criminals which says that they used chum for fabbricating tools for their activities
Yeah but he seemed unaware making you think they aren't buying it rom him...but they like him because chum is his product so.... I think karen is the one selling it to criminals as a side thing
If Plankton dedicated even half the effort to rebranding and building his own unique restaurant, instead of constantly trying to steal the secret formula, he'd likely be thriving-especially since Bikini Bottom has limited restaurant options.
I get that this is a Looney Tunes Show reference, but the idea of Plankton getting all his money from some random patent he has floating around makes _a lot_ sense, actually.
@@superfIareonlogan yeah and there's a reason he didn't go through with that invention. We all saw how faulty that product was. Good on plankton for not going through with a faulty plan for once. I guess that just shows how bad of an idea it was that not even he would touch it. Lol, but I get the reference. Good joke.
7:49 This is incorrect. He was throwing the games to win the formula but ended up getting "the next best thing, the guy who makes them!" He wasn't intending to win spongebob but it was an opportunity he couldn't pass up.
Alex Bale pretty much already explained in his Robot Replacement Theory that Plankton sells his robots to other people and businesses to fund his Chum Bucket.
yeah but thats a far-out theory that doesnt actually use directly shown evidence from the TV show showing business success, working elsewhere to earn money, or selling other products. Awe is actually breaking down the show at face value, not 'reaching' for ideas such as "the robots in the show somewhat resemble robots used in plankton episodes". The robots arent even the same, Bale just says they "look similar" and were updated before or after the sale... Its a weak theory, and shouldnt be considered canon.
These types of videos are my favorite. No deep dark theory about how pearl is actual the devil. Just simple stuff like how does this guys house work or where do the busses stop
Plankton is a multi millionaire with rich relatives.They are so rich till a point where plankton gets shares from their inheritance and as long as they are rich he will always have backup for help.
My personal head canon is that after Sandy's Time Travel shenanigans in Kamp Koral, the timeline split. Making the contradictions take place either in the original or new timeline.
7:10 As I recall, SpongeBob did buy something from the Chumporium, though any profit Plankton made was likely offset by Mr. Krabs destroying everything.
It occurs to me that Plankton could literally just start making like robots and machines to sell to people. He’s the Dr Eggman of Bikini bottom but he uses all his energy to be a fast food owner
The guy is a genious in robotics, made AI a long time ago for example, if he would forget his pointless drama with krabs and focus on selling his inventions as a permanent job in one month he would make what the krusty krab makes in a year
I keep thinking when he was friends with Krabs, he saved up a bit of money from that venture and then took out a loan from a bunch of literal loan sharks to get the Chum Bucket going. The other way is if he did what Phineas and Ferb did and profited heavily off of something like a roller coaster (but for the black market) and poured money into inventions and stuff we don’t know about.
yeah he does have connections in the criminal world like how he teamed up with man ray in one episode. maybe he sells his inventions in the black market for super villains
I'm pretty sure there isn't even a canon at this point, things get contradicted left and right both between seasons and even between episodes in the same season.
They need a hard Reboot like Marvel does like every 40 years. In fact I even have a whole lore built up already. Make Bikini Bottom a small seasonal tourist town. Lore solved, no need to question the fluctuating population sizes due to the tourist seasons, no need to question why random people just show up for no reason, no need to question why the Chum Bucket is still in business (from obviously a shark biker gang that shows up for an epsiode plot), no need to question all those random weird buildings.
I had always figured that Plankton is just essentially a hitman, givent hat chum is dead fish and he has so much of it whilst also appearing to have loads of money. This is further backed up by him being, you know, kind of evil and whatnot and having access to high-end weaponry.
plankton should be reciving royalty from every krabby patty due to his large involvment in the creation of the krabby patty formula Ex: "Friend or Foe" S5 Ep 1
Simplest answer? He runs a "Syndrome"-type black market on the side: Makes a bunch of cool tech, sells a fair bit, and keeps the best bits for himself.
One of the things worth noting is that plankton probably has very low operating costs as he doesn't need to eat food to survive. Being a plankton he simply proto synthesizes any light he gets. His lab is another thing, but being at the sea floor would allow for easier petroleum extraction, making energy very cheap (maybe even free if they just siphon it from a human pipeline). Any money he does make is probably just from welfare, inheritance, or some kind of UBI in the SpongeBob universe
If plankton changed his business to selling his inventions one day he could be even richer than Mr crabs and then if for whatever reason he still wants the formula he could just buy it because you can’t convince me he wouldn’t sell it for the right price
Plankton gets a trickle fund from the city council for grinding up all the worst Bikini Bottom prisoners into chum. Why else do you think that, besides Spongebob and Patrick's antics, Bikini Bottom is basically 100% crime free?
I think Plankton having a side business where he sells his inventions for money makes the most sense for how rich he is. Alternatively he could also have a side business where he sells his unused chum to be used by other people. I think he probably has a cheap chum supplier or he collects chum as a result of his failed inventions hurting fish.
Sure plankton is making major expenses but he seems to be the man that knows how to cost efficient, he most likely build most of his things himself such as a power source, and it’s likely the material he acquired from junk and whatnot… there is also the idea that he could just counterfeit money.
Nikelodeon has stated that plankton is in debt. And one of the later seasons confirm that he does sell chum to the penetentiaries. Thus its likely his small circle of contracts and seasonal influx of cash makes enough to keep debtors off his back and his genius gets him more & more loans. The residents of bikini bottom have proven many times that they're really stupid. It wouldnt suprise me if he just keeps getting loans by doing something as simple as putting on a tie
Assuming Planktin has access to all the necessary utilities via a NUCLEAR REACTOR and potentially is the reason there is a "sewage system" and somehow "drinking water?" in this scenario Planktin is making money through providing electricity and other means while potentially being obsessed with being a restaurant. i'm surprised you didn't cover the episode where the people voted for his restaurant to be moved X feet in a direction when Mr. Krabs was sure people would just vote him out. So either there's lore here that the creators of the show choose not to explore, or they just implied that the people of bikini bottom keep Plankins restaurant around for "special reasons."
Karen also serves as a crypto miner.
She's just putting in work
Krypto
I can totally see that being a thing, Karen's quiet a wonder of a machine.
It's not a bad theory, but i haven't seen a single credit card on the show
@@raidenstark315 Well, there IS the episode where Mr. Krabs gives Spongebob his credit card to get Pearl a gift for her birthday.
@johnpett1955 oh right i forgot that episode, the episode of the boy band, right?
I haven't watch the show since 2011 for dedicated myself to superheroes only
Plankton the biggest money launderer; he has to have a secret business.
Have you notice how much robots are in bikini bottom, my real question why he want the formula ,he clearly is way more successful selling that
@@anglecringe6917 he wants the use the populations love of the krabby patties to manupilate them into world domination. just like he how did it in the movie
Most likely runs a black-market tech business on the side. Think "Syndrome".
Plankton definitely has a crypto farm.
He has a lot of technology and builds robots all the time, he's a scientist, he might be making money off of sell it
There was also a scene in one episode when Plankton was locked in jail with Patrick, and when they got chum for dinner, he stated "Of course they do, they're my only buyers" about penitentiary.
Or something like that
Plankton is Aramark damn
There's another episode in prison where we learn most of the criminal underworld has uses for chum, so it's 'possible' he's supplying it to them for a cut of the profits, at least after that episode.
Plankton has government contracts. While the civilian side of his business isn't doing so well, selling to the government pays enough to support himself and keep the restaurant open.
To be fair, the Krusty Krab has blown up a few times as well. That has to set Mr. Krabs back quite a bit.
ya but seeing how frugal he is he prolly has plenty in the bank
Krabs is prob the richest person in the series, in pretty sure he doesn’t even pay spongebob if im correct
Yes but this video is about Plankton, not Krabs.
Mr krabs has insurance
@@Trispefearthis is mr.krabs were talking about. Their is no way he would pay for insurance, he is way too cheap for even that.
> Has boatloads of money (pun intended)
> Gets no customers
> Surprised when customers come to his business
Plankton is part of the Mafia, its that simple.
Kril-fia
@@AzHades520 this translates to son of krill
Also what he sells is basically dead bodies, it all checks out
@@DoodsUnitedTo be fair; "fish" is as broad as "mammal"
One could argue it's just as much hot dog as it is people corpse.
@@1stCallipostle If you're talking phylogenetically then it includes literally all vertabrates.
Just remember, chum is meant to be ground up fish. Man just running a business with cannibalistic tendencies.
Some storyboard artist/writer for Spongebob said that all Krabby Patties are actually plant-based. Chum is also made out of literal meat garbage that you'd throw away - bones, eyeballs, gonads, inedible sinew, etc.. - so it stands to reason that it's just "mystery meat," not fish meat.
Well, depends what animals the chum is made out off.
People act like fish are all one species, so if a fish eats other types of fish it is immediately cannibalism.
An example is the theory that the Krabby patty is made out of crabs.
People always say: "That means all of the fish that eat it are cannibals!!!!!"
No, that isn't how it works.
That's like saying humans are cannibals for eating other mammals. But fish are even more diverse than that.
@@oneblacksun actually plant chum can exist
you can make chum from kelp
Depends on the Fish. Mammals eat other mammals, would us eating a beef burger count as cannibalism?
Fish eat fish, birds eat birds, insects eat insects, and so on and on. Yes, some would be cannibalistic, but not all of them.
non-sentient fish have been shown to exist in the spongebob world, like the sea bear amd mystery the seahorse
There is an episode where Plankton ends up in prison and he meets a bunch of criminals which says that they used chum for fabbricating tools for their activities
Yeah but he seemed unaware making you think they aren't buying it rom him...but they like him because chum is his product so.... I think karen is the one selling it to criminals as a side thing
@@mehanimations2675 no, not selling to criminals, but to the Bikini Bottom prison industrial complex
@@Rallysoldier thank you for the correction
He definitely has business owners insurance. He went to college!
If Plankton dedicated even half the effort to rebranding and building his own unique restaurant, instead of constantly trying to steal the secret formula, he'd likely be thriving-especially since Bikini Bottom has limited restaurant options.
Also just using other recipes like classic foods. Or maybe even do a pizzarie? That would be nice after the pizza episode
@@victory8928 THE KRUSTY KRAB PIZZA
IS THE PIZZA
FOR YOU AND ME!
I feel like the whole idea for Plankton and the Chum Bucket was one of the writer's way to figure out how to put "chumbalaya" on the menu.
He invented the carrot peeler
I wish there was a looney tunes x spongebob crossover
but not the AUTOMATIC carrot peeler!
I get that this is a Looney Tunes Show reference, but the idea of Plankton getting all his money from some random patent he has floating around makes _a lot_ sense, actually.
@@superfIareonlogan yeah and there's a reason he didn't go through with that invention. We all saw how faulty that product was. Good on plankton for not going through with a faulty plan for once. I guess that just shows how bad of an idea it was that not even he would touch it.
Lol, but I get the reference. Good joke.
OMG that made me laugh. 😂
7:49 This is incorrect.
He was throwing the games to win the formula but ended up getting "the next best thing, the guy who makes them!"
He wasn't intending to win spongebob but it was an opportunity he couldn't pass up.
Nickelodean has actually comfirmed that plankten is in huge debt. There is a video about it on their youtube channel.
Then there needs to be an episode where he has to declare bankruptcy due to his loans
Alex Bale pretty much already explained in his Robot Replacement Theory that Plankton sells his robots to other people and businesses to fund his Chum Bucket.
yeah but thats a far-out theory that doesnt actually use directly shown evidence from the TV show showing business success, working elsewhere to earn money, or selling other products.
Awe is actually breaking down the show at face value, not 'reaching' for ideas such as "the robots in the show somewhat resemble robots used in plankton episodes". The robots arent even the same, Bale just says they "look similar" and were updated before or after the sale... Its a weak theory, and shouldnt be considered canon.
Basically a weapons manufacturer.
These types of videos are my favorite. No deep dark theory about how pearl is actual the devil. Just simple stuff like how does this guys house work or where do the busses stop
Plankton is a multi millionaire with rich relatives.They are so rich till a point where plankton gets shares from their inheritance and as long as they are rich he will always have backup for help.
Plankton makes a fortune from a combination of suppling the criminal underworld, as well as the military industrial complex with his machines of death
Runs a failed restaurant chain, and is also a huge warlord popular among prisoners?
The guy is literally prigozhin
My personal head canon is that after Sandy's Time Travel shenanigans in Kamp Koral, the timeline split. Making the contradictions take place either in the original or new timeline.
7:10 As I recall, SpongeBob did buy something from the Chumporium, though any profit Plankton made was likely offset by Mr. Krabs destroying everything.
It occurs to me that Plankton could literally just start making like robots and machines to sell to people. He’s the Dr Eggman of Bikini bottom but he uses all his energy to be a fast food owner
Mfw my computer wife is a full-time bitcoin miner 😍😍😍
Blankton should ask someone to buy him a Krabby Patty
He’s too cocky to do that
He should sell inventions to companies with factories and just live off of royalties
He one time did it himself, but Crab want him to eat at place, he analize later his stomach.
If someone did it will be banned for the rest of live.
The guy is a genious in robotics, made AI a long time ago for example, if he would forget his pointless drama with krabs and focus on selling his inventions as a permanent job in one month he would make what the krusty krab makes in a year
Obviously Mr krabs donates to him to keep him there
Mr Krabs would never "donate" to about anything.
Plankton must be selling himself to him or something
@@1stCallipostleSussy comment
@@1stCallipostleit's not a donation if it means you aren't technically a monopoly anymore.
I keep thinking when he was friends with Krabs, he saved up a bit of money from that venture and then took out a loan from a bunch of literal loan sharks to get the Chum Bucket going.
The other way is if he did what Phineas and Ferb did and profited heavily off of something like a roller coaster (but for the black market) and poured money into inventions and stuff we don’t know about.
yeah he does have connections in the criminal world like how he teamed up with man ray in one episode. maybe he sells his inventions in the black market for super villains
He might also sell his chum to actual sharks, but they're few and far between so he's still in the hole...
I refuse to acknowledge anything post Hillenburg as canon. We’re strictly into legends continuity now.
Exactly what I was thinking.
I'm pretty sure there isn't even a canon at this point, things get contradicted left and right both between seasons and even between episodes in the same season.
They need a hard Reboot like Marvel does like every 40 years.
In fact I even have a whole lore built up already.
Make Bikini Bottom a small seasonal tourist town.
Lore solved, no need to question the fluctuating population sizes due to the tourist seasons, no need to question why random people just show up for no reason, no need to question why the Chum Bucket is still in business (from obviously a shark biker gang that shows up for an epsiode plot), no need to question all those random weird buildings.
The state of Canon post-Hillenberg is kinda like Dune and Brian Herbert, except it's SpongeBob.
I think plankton has a shell corporation where he sells the robots you see throughout bikini bottom
11:32 “LeT’S gO bACk to tHe KrUsTy kRaB! 🤖”
I had always figured that Plankton is just essentially a hitman, givent hat chum is dead fish and he has so much of it whilst also appearing to have loads of money. This is further backed up by him being, you know, kind of evil and whatnot and having access to high-end weaponry.
Patrick is his supplier since he has a fishing license
He most likely sells his inventions.
2:26 So Plankton and Karen are supposed to be married, yet they sleep in separate beds.... It kinda makes sense those 2 would have a sexless marriage.
lol it’s an old tv trope joke, back in the day due to censorship married couples on sitcoms would sleep in separate beds with a lamp between them
Idk man, would you want to be crushed in the middle of the night by your sleeping partner?
Karen is basically the SpongeBob equivalent of the blade runner joi 😂
Size difference
Also robot
Chum is come
0:25 absolutely hilarious😭😭😭
Plankton is an inventor. I like the idea that he probably gets some residual income from patents
Karen runs an eBay side business.
This is the worst service we've ever had! We're going to the chum bucket!
Here’s an idea he kidnaps fish and robs them and then he kills them and turns them into chum
That's dark.. I like it.
Plankton voice is so iconic
Clearly, Plankton's faking his taxes, like a based guy he is.
Or he a gangster who in kahoot with the binki bottom government he owns the laws
plankton should be reciving royalty from every krabby patty due to his large involvment in the creation of the krabby patty formula Ex: "Friend or Foe" S5 Ep 1
With the episode chum caverns, he could've done a howes caves type of deal instead of cooking down there.
"Wait, where'd you get that piano?", is ingrained in my brain, but I don't care, I always find that joke amusing.
Ive been wondering this for years. Great video!
Simplest answer? He runs a "Syndrome"-type black market on the side: Makes a bunch of cool tech, sells a fair bit, and keeps the best bits for himself.
as always, thanks for diving into my shower thoughts for me
Bro probably steals money
*wait…where’d you get that piano?*
I forgot how funny that was 😂
Plankton is within the top 0.01% of content creators on OnlyFins
In my world, friend or foe is canon and not the Plankton movie.
Not just yours, it's pretty much the common consensus among older Spongebob viewers.
do an episode showing the buildings of bikini bottom being destroyed and count up who is responsible for which destruction
Asking myself this question every day for 14 years
Finally asking the real questions
He's probably rich or in huge debt but because it's a kids show, everything must go alright.
Plankton still has the chum bucket
Plankton using long John silver strats
Plankton must have some sort of business kept top secret bro. He the mastermind.
He's the one that sells crabs his own people they just act like enemies
Continuity was never a thing in Spongebob until Season 9B. That fact bugged me quite a bit as a kid but I grew to accept that.
1:35 had to rewind cuz i thought i heard smth racially motivated 😂😂😂
To quote another character named Sheldon- "I don't need sleep. I need answers."
6:50 so thats where it came from
Plankton probably does bootlegging as a side job
Plankton works with super villains and thugs so he definitely robs banks.
Honestly I always just assumed Plankton came from old money or something.
Seeing his family though, makes that very unlikely.
He should cater to sharks
He is a nepotism baby
Ironically no, plankton's family is a bunch of hillbillies and he grew in poverty like Krabs
Who are his parents 😦
One of the things worth noting is that plankton probably has very low operating costs as he doesn't need to eat food to survive. Being a plankton he simply proto synthesizes any light he gets. His lab is another thing, but being at the sea floor would allow for easier petroleum extraction, making energy very cheap (maybe even free if they just siphon it from a human pipeline). Any money he does make is probably just from welfare, inheritance, or some kind of UBI in the SpongeBob universe
He went to college!
SpongeBob skims money from Mr crab’s chest at night
Boyo deserves it.
Im going to guess he opened the chum bucket around the late 80s early 90s
Plankton sells weapons of mass destruction for money and launders it through the chum bucket.
Sigmund Freud plankton, I forgot about that
If plankton changed his business to selling his inventions one day he could be even richer than Mr crabs and then if for whatever reason he still wants the formula he could just buy it because you can’t convince me he wouldn’t sell it for the right price
Plankton gets a trickle fund from the city council for grinding up all the worst Bikini Bottom prisoners into chum. Why else do you think that, besides Spongebob and Patrick's antics, Bikini Bottom is basically 100% crime free?
Arms dealing; He sells the technology and weapons he makes
Patrick star show exists is canon but it's in a different universe from the regular SpongeBob show , they have the same multiverse
loans from his grandma
Banger vid like always
I read that as burger for some reason
@@awespongebobMMMmMM, dead compressed cow, *drools intensely*
Plankton actually runs out of money in the Sponge out of Water movie, so… yeah he has a limit
Wait does karen dies when the chum bucket explode?
Also the plot could be cheap in that area, hence why crabs has a restaurant across the street
I just assumed he made most of his money from selling his inventions
I think Plankton having a side business where he sells his inventions for money makes the most sense for how rich he is.
Alternatively he could also have a side business where he sells his unused chum to be used by other people. I think he probably has a cheap chum supplier or he collects chum as a result of his failed inventions hurting fish.
insurance money when the chum bucket gets blown up every time.
Plankton commits insurance fraud
It's so obvious that Plankton and Krabs are frenemies. But let's not forget chum is literally chopped up fish.
I remember that there was an official video which showed how much taxes plankton had to be payed.
Plankton went to college, probably business college, that's how he manages to make money with no costumers and invest so much in advertising
Karen print out money
Sure plankton is making major expenses but he seems to be the man that knows how to cost efficient, he most likely build most of his things himself such as a power source, and it’s likely the material he acquired from junk and whatnot… there is also the idea that he could just counterfeit money.
He does sell chum to the prison, and government contracts are good money
Another question, is there a severed human hand inside the glove on top of the Chum bucket?
8:02 i heard actual pain in his voice
My theory planting is just running a secret gambling strip somewhere and launders the money
I think the better question is how is it not shut down for feeding fish their own kind and where is plankton getting his meat from?
Bothered me for years and still does. That sharks never showed up for chum.
Nikelodeon has stated that plankton is in debt. And one of the later seasons confirm that he does sell chum to the penetentiaries. Thus its likely his small circle of contracts and seasonal influx of cash makes enough to keep debtors off his back and his genius gets him more & more loans.
The residents of bikini bottom have proven many times that they're really stupid. It wouldnt suprise me if he just keeps getting loans by doing something as simple as putting on a tie
I think Plankton has an income from reviewing those foreign exercise tapes his cousin sent him
He prob sells weapons and collects coins using his inventions
Assuming Planktin has access to all the necessary utilities via a NUCLEAR REACTOR and potentially is the reason there is a "sewage system" and somehow "drinking water?" in this scenario Planktin is making money through providing electricity and other means while potentially being obsessed with being a restaurant. i'm surprised you didn't cover the episode where the people voted for his restaurant to be moved X feet in a direction when Mr. Krabs was sure people would just vote him out. So either there's lore here that the creators of the show choose not to explore, or they just implied that the people of bikini bottom keep Plankins restaurant around for "special reasons."
Probably sells his failed inventions to keep the place running