News on Spongeriot:
After a long hiatus, season one in back in production. The season is confirmed to last 15 episodes, with the last one being a TV movie. The TV movie will officially end the Krabby the Klown arc.
Tv.com has ranked these episodes as the best and worst:
Top 3:
3. The Dark Krab
2. Break the Knob
1. Karen Gets Pregnant
Bottom 3:
3. Rusty Pearl
2. Flatts Tire
1. Stalkers
SPONGERIOT
P. Home of the Heartless
1. TV Buddies / Pat Got High
2. Squid Takes Off / Stalkers
3. Rusty Pearl / Piece of Krab
4. Break the Knob / Naked Gum
5. Guitar Cheapo / Chocolate Forecast
6. The Dark Krab
7. Squid Gets Krusty / Heart Wars
8. Peeping Sponge / We Built this City on Rock Bottom
9. Comestible Festival / Working Buddies
10. Karen Gets Pregnant / Flatts Tire
11. Sponge Fighter / Scoot Away
12. Stanley Gets Burned / Patrick's Pad
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13. Swee Ya Later / Filthy Phony
Swee Ya Later-
The gang that mugged Sponge back in episode 8 has kidnapped Swee. Spongebob and Flatts roam around Rock Bottom to find the lowlives. But why did they kidnap her in the first place?
Filthy Phony-
A man going around as a disgusting version of Patrick (basically how he looked in Battle of Bikini Bottom, but censored) disturbs the citizens of Bikini Bottom. Patrick and Patricia must find the culprit and clean Patrick's name. Patrick's first assumption is that the Heart Man is behind all of this. So he basically beats the crap out of him the whole episode while Patricia solves the mystery herself.
14. The Journey Home / Chocato
The Journey Home-
After learning about Swee's horrible past in the last episode, Spongebob decides to take her with him to Bikini Bottom. Flatts still has his boat, so they could use that to get back home. However, Flatts refuses to return after all the chaos he had caused, Sponge is still unlicensed, and Swee got hers suspended. So they take it to an autoshop to see if they can modify the boat. The mechanic installs a navigation-autopilot combo onto the boat. Afterwards, they get a Flatts a disguise to wear, in which he is disguised as Stevie Wonder. However, none of them know how to use the autopilot system, and cause chaos in Rock Bottom. Can they make it back home? (Yeah, I know, they could've just disguised Flatts and not install the autopilot, but then there would be no plot)
Chocato-
Tom decides to combine his two favorite foods, chocolate and potato salad, into one. He creates a comestible known as Chocato Salads. He begins to sell them, but he gets no customers. To reel in the crowd, he hires entertainers. Anyone who buys one of his salads gets to see them. Soon, business goes through the roof. However, the entertainers suck away all of Tom's cash, leaving him with no money to buy more ingredients. Will Tom's dream be short-lived?
SPECIAL: Krabby's Last Stand
After nearly a month of being in court, Krabs/Krabby is found guilty. The law goes unchanged, and Krabby is sentenced to the gas chamber. However, using his big meaty claws and armor abs, he escapes the courtroom and goes out to finish what he had started.
Krabby begins by invading a radio station to get his message out. He announces that his usual tactic of killing people to get the law changed. The police hear this and storm the entire city for Krabby. Unfortunately, Krabby kills 45 citizens in one day, two which were cops.
Krabby hides out in a cave in Jellyfish Fields for the night. Suddenly, Krabby is greeted by the Flying Dutchman, who warns him that if he continued his crimes, terrible things would happen. To prove his point, he summons the spirit of the woman of the crystal caves that was killed in episode 3. The ominous Dutchman threatens to torture her soul if he continued his ways. Krabby refuses to listen however, as he claims that he is sick of the Dutchman holding him back on everything he wanted in life. He runs out of the cave and stalks the night to bust some heads.
Meanwhile, at the Chum Bucket, Plankton becomes skeptical about whether Shelly really loves him or not. She basically either ignores him or treats him like crap. Because of this, he goes through a deep, dark depression.
Later, in a house in Bikini Bottom, Monroe and his older brother sleep peacefully. Monroe has been down ever since his dad divorced his mom and his mom went to her sister's house in Coconut Bottom to get help. Suddenly, Monroe hears horrible screams in the night. He goes to his brother's room, only to see him lifeless on the ground. Monroe is scarred at this sight, and he declares revenge on his brother's killer.
Krabby sneaks to the Chum Bucket and breaks into the lonely establishment. First, he runs into Plankton's prototype cloning device, clones himself, and stores him in Plankton's safe, in case Krabby did die in his attempt to change the law. Then, he kinaps Plankton, saying that he has something special planned for him. Shelly sees this incident, and finds it in her half-robotic heart to arm her laser arm and go out and rescue her father.
Krabby runs onto the island that is seen in nearly every episode, and installs a laser cannon (which he stole from Plankton) on it, and aims it at a Bikini Bottom power plant. He has a remote with him that, at the push of a button, can fire his lasah at the plant. The resulting explosion would cause total armaggedon for the peaceful folk in Bikini Bottom.
With nobody left to protect the town, the mayor calls Mermaidman and Barnacleboy to hunt down Krabby and put him to justice. They agree to carry out this deed. Suddenly, Monroe meets up with the two superheroes in his own superhero get-up, Bat-Mon. After he explains his story, Mermaidman warms him that taking vengeance on someone is not always the answer, but Bat-Mon bribes him with a bran ice cream and joins them in their search.
Spongebob returns home safely. He notices the strange things happening around town. Patrick, who is carrying Rocky with him for protection, tells Spongebob about the serial killer. Sponge begins to panic like hell, but then he thinks that if he can stand up to the killer, he can up his street cred with Swee. Spongebob, armed with a spatula and karate gloves, sets out to find him.
The next morning, Krabby invades a different radio station and makes a new annoucement, saying that if they don't veto the bill, he'll be FIRIN HIZ LAZOR!!!!!1 The political figures of Bikini Bottom have a meeting over whether to veto or not. They have a long, hard talk about if money was more important than their lives. Krabby, who is hiding on top of a parking garage, sits around and congratulates himself for making BB see the error of its ways. He also says that even though he would be destroyed as well, he would have died for a noble cause. While this is going on, he's playing "darts" by drawing a target on a wall and using Plankton as a dart.
Using his father's DNA tracker, Shelly finds Krabby first. The epic fight begins. Shelly lands a few blows on Krabby with her laser arm, but Krabby's size prevails as he beats the **** out of her. Plankton, revolted at the sight of his daughter getting pummeled, gets mad and joins the brawl as well. He also gets beaten to a bloody pulp (as if he wasn't already). When it seems like it's all over, MM, BB, and Bat-Mon (armed with his brother's swiss-army knife) enter the melee. The fight gets gruesome, and many are too distracted by it to flee the town. Spongebob notices the conflict and runs up the garage to join in.
When he does reach the top, he is shocked to find that Krabs is the serial killer. Sponge, out of disbelief, asks why he would do such a thing. Krabby explains that the government was trying to get between him and his precious money, so he became a killer to make them panic so much that they would have no choice but to give in. Spongebob feels betrayed that someone he cared and trusted for many years had become a monster. He sees the mad expression on Monroe's face hiding the mournful sadness that was brought to him by the death of his brother. And also, at the most convienient time, he sees the Flying Dutchman doing unspeakably horrible things to the one person who even came close to impacting his life in a positive way.
Krabs decides to give in, and apologizes to everyone for all of the hell he had caused. He lost the trust of a loved one, murdered innocent people, and left a little boy with no family. Krabs throws the activator into an open manhole, where it short-circuits from sewer waters. Krabs tells the police to please kill his clone that he had left in the Chum Bucket, and gets into the police car to receive his final punishment.
Spongebob tells the police that they don't have to kill Krab's clone, and with a little work, he promises that he could make some good out of him. Plankton is happy again now that he knows that he and his daughter share a mutual bond with each other.
"Peace has finally returned to Bikini Bottom." said Perch Perkins on the 8:00 news. We see a normal day in Bikini Bottom, with everybody getting along with each other. Everything is finally right again.
At least until Season 2!