Skill Crane
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| Best Day Ever Rank: | #22 |
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| Writer(s): | Kyle McCulloch Aaron Springer Vincent Waller |
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"Skill Crane" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season four.
Brief Summary: Mr. Krabs buys a Skill Crane to increase sales at the Krusty Krab. However, Squidward becomes addicted to it, and keeps on losing the game.
Time/Date:
- Monday
- 3:00 PM: The salesmen shows up at the door.
- Tuesday
Time cards shown:
- Six hours later
Characters Present:
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Squidward Tentacles
- Mr. Krabs
- Skill Crane Salesmen
- Krusty Krab Customers
- Tom
- The Machine
- Construction Crew
DVD: Where's Gary?
[edit] Plot
Mr. Krabs decides to order a toy crane to make money. Squidward continually fails at the crane and convinces himself it's rigged. Then SpongeBob comes up and pulls out a bear. Squidward keeps trying and keeps failing. SpongeBob keeps on winning and winning. SpongeBob gets two with one quarter and says "It's not fair." So he puts one of them back in. He wins another, a duck and a clown. He puts the clown back in. SpongeBob uses the crane to get it back in, and when it's unhappy, puts the clown next to a stuffed lion. SpongeBob soon gets a collection of stuffed animals, while Squidward spends all but his last quarter on the machine. Mr. Krabs empties the moneybox and finds the deed to Squidward's house. SpongeBob advises Squidward to close his eyes and "be the crane". Squidward gets a hairless, tiny stuffed bear. He becomes overjoyed and overbearing. He decides to try out the principles on an actual crane at a construction site, and ends up sending SpongeBob and some construction workers down a hill and destroys the Krusty Krab. The construction workers surround Squidward and SpongeBob tries to pull Squidward out with the crane. He gets the stuffed animal Squidward won instead.
[edit] Cultural References
- When Squidward thinks that he hears the crane machine squeaking out his name, the scene becomes similar to a scene from a Twilight Zone episode titled The Fever, in which an old man finally learns of gambling as he experiences it himself whilst falling into the sharp addiction, along with a slot machine that seems to call him and appears to follow him everywhere he goes.
[edit] Trivia/Goofs
- Other stuffed animals, not won: Clown Frown and Lovely Lion.
- After SpongeBob wins a bear, he calls the bear "Beary." When he is about to give the bear a brother, he calls him "SpongeBear Jr", he probibly had won two bears.
- Just before Squidward finally wins a stuffed animal in the machine, he puts two quarters in the machine. This happens once after SpongeBob demonstrates 'being the crane' and winning an animal, and once after saying 'but this is my last quarter.'
- The Krusty Krab gets destroyed, yet again.
- Earlier in the episode, when Spongebob wins a prize, the machine says "A WINNER".Yet,when Squidward loses,The sign switches from LOSER ,to YOU LOSE But when Squidward finally wins a prize, the machine only says "WINNER".
- When they show the title card there is a music that was in the episode Sleepy Time when Spongebob goes into Patrick's dream and in Mid-Life Crustacean when they where at that kid's place.
You can watch the episode here [1]
| Preceded by "Krabs vs. Plankton" |
SpongeBob SquarePants episodes | Followed by "Good Neighbor" |
