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Graveyard Shift

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"Graveyard Shift"
Season №: 2
Episode №: 36a
Airdate: September 6, 2002
Best Day Ever Rank: #64
Credits
Writer(s): Doug Lawrence
Jay Lender
Dan Povenmire
Directors
Storyboard: Robert Moody
Dan Povenmire
Animation: Sean Dempsey
Creative: Derek Drymon
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"Graveyard Shift" is an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants from season two.

Brief Summary: The Krusty Krab is now open 24 hours a day. On their first all night shift, Squidward tries to scare SpongeBob with tales of the 'Hash-Slinging Slasher'. As things begin to go bump in the night, Squidward starts believing his own twisted tale!

Date/Time:

  • Tuesday
    • 8:00 PM: The Krusty Krab closes, but then Mr. Krabs decides to keep it open 24 hours.
    • 11:15 PM: Squidward tells SpongeBob about the Hash Slinging Slasher.
  • Wednesday
    • 3:00 AM: Patrick's alarm clock goes off and he eats a Krabby Patty.
    • 3:55 AM: The "Hash Slinging Slasher" arrives
    • 3:58 AM: Count Orlok appears

Characters Present:

Contents

[edit] Plot

It is 8:00 p.m., and the Krusty Krab is closing, so Squidward is excited. But then, Tom comes to the door and makes an order. Squidward says "I can't hang out here all night, I've got a life!" But then Tom says "Well, fine! If you don't want my money!" Mr. Krabs realizes that more profit would be gained if it was open 24 hours a day, so he does that. SpongeBob is really excited, while Squidward is extremely annoyed. A bit later (probably at around 10:00 PM to 11:00 PM), the Krusty Krab still has customers. Squidward decides to scare SpongeBob with tales of the Hash-Slinging Slasher. SpongeBob mistakes his name with different arrangements, (Such as Slash-Bringing Hasher, Sash-Wringing, Trash-Singing, Mash-Flinging, Flash-Springing, Wringing and Crash-Dinging) which annoys Squidward. Squidward then goes on to tell him that most people call him the "Ha--OOAAHH...!" because that is all they have to say before he gets them. He worked at the Krusty Krab years ago as a fry-cook, just like SpongeBob, only clumsier. One night, when he was cutting the patties, he cut off his own hand by mistake. It never grew back. He replaced the hand with a spatula. He was later hit by a moving bus and died. He was then fired at his funeral. Every Tuesday (Squidward asked what day it was to come up with that) night, his ghost comes to 'wreak his horrible vengeance'. There are three signs of his arrival, which are:

  1. - First, the lights will eat you.
  2. - Next, the phone will ring, and it will be a sales call.
  3. - And finally, He will arrive in the ghost of the bus which ran him over, and exits the bus and he crosses the road without looking both ways, because he's already dead. He opens the door, he slowly approaches the counter. HE GETS YA!

Spongeboob is scared of the story, and screams repeatedly, while Squidward laughs. Squidward is annoyed because of SpongeBob's screaming. He tells him to stop screaming and says that he was joking. SpongeBob says "Oh...", then starts laughing hysterically.

Later that night, at 3:00 AM, every customer is long gone. It is a dark night, with strange moaning noises that can be heard in the empty, ghostly streets. Squidward is reading a book when all of a sudden he hears a suction-cup like sound out of nowhere with a slippery-like noise, and it stops leaving Squidward to not care about. Then the sound goes off again, and Squidward begins to get scared, and the sound stops again and Squidward goes back to reading. Suddenly he hears the sound again and is really afraid. The camera zooms out and it shows SpongeBob with suction-cups attached to his shoes with a mop and bucket on the ceiling (without falling), meaning SpongeBob is mopping the ceiling because there's never time to do it during the day. SpongeBob looks down behind Squidward, and startles him. Now, everything that Squidward said that would happen earlier in the story actually happens. The lights flicker, the phone rings, and the walls ooze in green slime, but it wasn't in the story as Squidward realized they always do that. Then a bus comes, and he and SpongeBob are suspicious (seeing as the buses don't run that late), then comes out the Hash-Slinging Slasher. As soon as they see him they panic, but SpongeBob only does after a minute or so because he believes it's actually Squidward playing as the ghost, to which Squidward denies it and proves he isn't, SpongeBob realizes it's really the Hash-Slinging Slasher. He and SpongeBob are really scared, until they find out that the so-called "Hash-Slinging Slasher" is actually a person who wants a job application, and hung up on the phone because he was nervous.

This last revelation seems to explain everything, but suddenly the lights begin flickering on and off again. Everybody looks around, panicked, when suddenly they see Nosferatu (in a doctored image) rapidly flipping the light switch. Everybody points at him and shouts a friendly "Nosferatu!", after which Nosferatu (in another doctored image) smiles at them mischievously.

[edit] Transcript

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[edit] Quotes

  • Squidward: Open twenty four hours, what a stupid idea! Who wants a Krabby Patty at three in the morning?
    {Patrick's house}
    {Alarm goes off}
    Patrick: Oh boy! THREE AM! (starts eating a Krabby Patty)
  • Tom: Are you open?
    Squidward: Read the sign! {it says "closed"}
    Tom: I'll have a Krabby Patty deluxe, and a double chili kelp fries.
  • Squidward: SpongeBob, no matter what I said, I always sort of liked you!
    SpongeBob: Squidward, I use your clarinet to unclog my toilet!
    Squidward: Huh?
  • person: Can I get a job application? I've brought my own spatula. I've called earlier and then hung up 'cause I was nervous.
    SpongeBob: well, do you have any references?
    Squidward: Wait... if that was you on the phone and you on the bus... and who was flickering the lights? (the lights flicker on and off again and they saw Nosferatu in a black and white image flickering the lights)
    everybody: Nosferatu!     (Nosferatu in black and white smiles at them)

[edit] Cultural References

  • The walls oozing green slime is possibly a reference to one of the phenomena reported at 111 Ocean Avenue, Long Island, in the Amityville Horror.
  • Count Orlok from Nosferatu makes an appearance in this episode, possibly the only time which the show makes a direct reference to a movie.
  • The episode contains music used in Night of the Living Dead.
  • The story where Squidward talks about the Hash Slinging Slasher is a parody of the 1962 novel Cape Fear, where the villainous Max Cady stalks a family for revenge on putting him in jail.

[edit] Trivia/Goofs

  • SpongeBob can eat his arms.
  • SpongeBob screams "AAHH!" 27 times, and laughs 8 times after he discovers Squidward's story is made up:
  • SpongeBob thought that all living things could regenerate body parts.
  • Even though the mystery of the ringing phone and the mysterious figure on the bus are solved, two things aren't - why was there a bus at the Krusty Krab in the first place (Squidward states they don't run that late), and why didn't the fish with a job application wait until the morning?
  • The Galley Grub sign says Gally Grub at one point in the episode. At another point, the Order Here sign said Order Hear.
  • To "sling hash" means to work in a restaurant.
  • This is the second episode that SpongeBob took out the trash at midnight. The first was Sailor Mouth.
  • When Squidward is listing the factors of the Hash Slinging Slasher as they are happening, the phone rings again. The fish probably only called once.
  • The ending climax where SpongeBob and Squidward think they'll be slashed by the Hash Slinging Slasher homages Cape Fear.
  • It is clear how SpongeBob stayed on the ceiling while mopping, but the bucket, and the water in the bucket has no explanation if defying gravity.
  • It may be revealed that Patrick gets up at 3:00 A.M to eat Krabby Patties.
  • During the night you see an "Open Forever" sign on the Krusty Krab. However when the Hash Slinging Slasher approaches the Krusty Krab, the sign is gone.
  • Patrick appears but only has 4 lines.
  • The garbage bin outside is by the street, but it is in the back in the episode "Sailor Mouth". It could be possible that they moved it to the back, since this episode is two episodes away from "Sailor Mouth".

[edit] DVD Features

  • The DVD Nautical Nonsense and Sponge Buddies features Tom Kenny and Rodger Bumpass recording the scene. It also includes storyboards of the episode and a deleted scene.
  • There is a deleted scene of this episode. SpongeBob does another thing with the "at night" joke. This time he rips a section of the floorboard out, and "delivers the mail to Floorboard Harry". It can be seen on Nautical Nonsense/Sponge Buddies.


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