Both Sides Have a Point: Squidward and SpongeBob when debating the merits of the Employee of the Month award.It is best not to offer an "Employee of the Month" reward if it means your employees just turn on each other and use aggressive tactics that are unproductive if not even hazardous to your workplace.It can also result in getting reckless in trying to one-up the other, which can hurt everyone and everything involved. Aggressive competition instead of friendly competition only leads to bitterness and frustration from both parties.Krabs is more concerned with losing profits from the customers thinking the Krabby Patties are free). Ambiguous Ending: We never learn whether the winner was SpongeBob or Squidward, although it's likely that neither one of them won because they destroyed the Krusty Krab in the process (not to mention that Mr.Agony of the Feet: What happens once Squidward actually stomps on the hat.Agitated Item Stomping: Squidward stomps on SpongeBob's hat, but SpongeBob kept a lead brick there for just such an occasion.Squidward and SpongeBob compete over who will get the Employee of the Month award at the Krusty Krab.Įmployee of The Month contains examples of: You Didn't See That: SpongeBob claims to have won a dancing trophy, but when the guy actually holding the trophy takes it back, SpongeBob says "That didn't just happen.".
Torches and Pitchforks: Happens to Pearl and SpongeBob at the very end of the episode due to The Sponge causing chaos.He tans himself in a toaster, puts on a toupee for the handsome part and wears stilts to make himself taller (which make it difficult for him to walk). Tall, Dark, and Handsome: SpongeBob makes himself like this as Pearl's date.Soundtrack Dissonance: While "Doing the Sponge" fits perfectly with SpongeBob and Pearl finally having a fun time, it's also overlaid to the prom falling apart at the seams and the students getting clinically injured.Shout-Out: The scene where a girl in a white dress is chased by a giant apple is a reference to Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!.The two would actually have kissed had it not been for Mr. Ship Tease: The episode is well known for blatantly teasing that SpongeBob and Pearl apparently love each other.Scoring Points: Pearl shoots SpongeBob (who turned himself into a basketball) into the basket as a part of The Sponge dance, and scores 2 points for Home.SpongeBob appearing to freeze, only for him to walk in on the other side and reveal the other SpongeBob is a realistic dummy of himself.Sponge, being who he is, causes various hijinks to ensue to the point that they are eventually kicked out of the venue. The Prom Plot: SpongeBob ends up being a chaperone for Pearl to her prom after her boyfriend dumps her.Primp of Contempt: Squidward is shown filing his nails with Dreary Half-Lidded Eyes while Pearl is crying loudly about her date standing her up.Pet the Dog: When Spongebob begins bawling over Pearl's near-bawl, she goes to comfort him, then they dance together and get kicked out.Krabs yells at SpongeBob to "keep away from his precious little flower!" Then reveals that SpongeBob almost stepped on a literal sea flower. Ocular Gushers: Pearl's tears flood the Krusty Krab.In the end, it is implied that the dummy SpongeBob is the one who went with Pearl. Krabs asks SpongeBob to take Pearl to her prom, but then the real SpongeBob appears and shows him the exact replica of himself he made, which is whom Krabs was talking to. Mind Screw: Was it SpongeBob's dummy that took Pearl to the prom? If it did, how did it move, talk, destroy things.?.Intelligible Unintelligible: Pearl is able to understand SpongeBob through his Inelegant Blubbering."Long, Tan and Handsome," is revealed to be a plain-looking geeky anchovy. Informed Attractiveness: Pearl's ex boyfriend, Octavius Rex AKA Mr.