Skill Crane

Template:SpongeBob episode"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?

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 and Squidward won instead.

Trivia/Goofs

• Throughout the episode, Squidward nearly wins a male cat, with a hat on. Then, SpongeBob wins a prize, and Squidward comments "I loosened that one up for you!". However, the actual toy that SpongeBob wins is a female cat with a flower in her hair.
• This episode is a reference to the dangers of gambling.
• Bikini bottom quarters are gold as when Squidward said "If I don't win one of those with this quarter I'm walking away," he held up the quarter and it was gold.
• In another episode it was referenced that Spongebob paid Mr.Krabs instead of Mr.Krabs paying him as he did on this one.