Can You Spare a Dime?

Episode Information

"Can You Spare a Dime?" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from [[season {{{seasonnumber}}}]]. In this episode, .

"Can You Spare a Dime?" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season three.

Plot

When Mr. Krabs' first dime goes missing, he accuses Squidward of stealing it. After a heated argument with his boss, Squidward quits his job. SpongeBob meets Squidward outside of the restaurant insisting that if Squidward ever needs anything, he can seek help from him.

Time passes and SpongeBob encounters Squidward again. Squidward has lost his home and possessions, and now lives in a cardboard box. SpongeBob takes Squidward into his own home in order to nurse him until he can look for a new job. Many months later, Squidward has become completely dependent upon SpongeBob, turning him into a manservant of sorts. SpongeBob conveys several hints to Squidward in order to push him towards finding work (for example, when serving Squidward a bowl of alphabet soup, SpongeBob arranges the letters to read "GET A JOB").

These hints are of no use, so SpongeBob tries to convince Mr. Krabs to give Squidward his old job back. Mr. Krabs refuses until he finds that his first dime (a large coin-shaped rock; Mr. Krabs explains that he has "been in business [for] a long time") was in his pocket. He restores Squidward's position, but then claims that it was Squidward who placed the dime in his pocket, beginning a new dispute.

Time cards shown:

• Three weeks later
• Many months later
• So much later that the old narrator got tired of waiting, and they had to hire a new one

Characters Present:

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Squidward Tentacles
• Mr. Krabs
• Fish that took Squidward's cardboard box house away
• Fish with cookies
• Narrator
• New Narrator
• Gary the Snail

Songs: None

Quotes

• ( SpongeBob is making a TV show using hand puppets and using different voices for the puppets while Squidward is in bed watching the TV)

Puppet 1: Hey, where are you going?

Puppet 2: To my job.

Puppet 1: You have a job?

Puppet 2: Why wouldn't I? I'm not some lazy, inconsiderate jerk who lays in bed all day.

Puppet 1: Say, where can I get one of these...jobs?

Puppet 2: Oh, they're everywhere. Especially if you're green and have six tentacles.

Puppet 1: Thanks, I'm gonna go look for one. So I can stop (SpongeBob normal voice) MOOCHING OFF MY FRIENDS AND THEY CAN GET BACK TO THEIR LIVES!!!!

Squidward: (While pushing button on a remote and the TV doesn't change channels) This isn't my show. SpongeBob the remote control's broken! Get over here and fix it!

SpongeBob: I've got a better idea! (Throws away TV and hops on the bed) Why don't I call someone whose job it is to fix it? You know why? Because when I need a JOB done, I get someone with a JOB to do that JOB!!!!

Squidward: What are you saying?

SpongeBob: (Jumps out of his house pushing the bed with Squidward in it towards the Krusty Krab) AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• Spongebob: (to Squidward)We're like brothers...only closer. (Spongebob lifts up part of Squidward's shirt, revealing a part joining them together.)

Squidward: AAAAH! (jumps away)

Cultural References/Trivia

• The episode name comes from the 1930s song Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?.
• In this episode they said the old narrator got tired and hired a new one, but in other episodes the same French Narrator is heard (this is only temporary, and is a joke in the episode).
• Squidward refuses to drink the lemonade because the wedge has three seeds in it, but it would be hard for some viewers to see all three seeds.
• It is revealed in this episode that Mr. Krabs keeps a Yap Island coin in the back of the cash register
• In the puppet show/TV show scene,Spongebob says that Squidward is "green and has six tentacles".However,Squidward is actually a shade of blue.
• This is the first episode where Spongebob becomes a slave in his own home, the second time was in the episode Rock-a-Bye Bivalve.