SpongeBob and Sandy are practicing karate against each other. After fighting in SpongeBob's house, Sandy tells him that she will sneak up on him and fight him tomorrow. At the Barg'N-Mart, their battle continues. Later, Sandy pulls out SpongeBob's tongue and grabs a bottle of Volcano Sauce to have him surrender. SpongeBob imagines a face on the drop of hot sauce and quickly gives up, only to reveal that he tricked Sandy with a fake tongue. He sabotages her, but it quickly backfires as she manages to karate-chop him into the horizon. At the Krusty Krab, the next day, SpongeBob thinks anyone or anything can be Sandy, so he is cautious and does not work much. When SpongeBob attacks one of the customers, Mr. Krabs demands to know what is going on, so SpongeBob explains to him that he is doing karate.
Eventually, Mr. Krabs warns SpongeBob to stop doing karate or he will be fired. Later, Sandy appears and attacks SpongeBob. Although he tries to explain Mr. Krabs' warning to her, she refuses to listen. Mr. Krabs witnesses, confronts and fires SpongeBob, who breaks down in tears and runs around the area hysterically. Feeling guilty and ashamed, Sandy explains that it was her fault and begs Mr. Krabs to give SpongeBob his job back. Mr. Krabs agrees on the condition that they try to swear off karate, saying it is poisoning SpongeBob's mind.
SpongeBob and Sandy at the park.
As a result, the two try to swear off karate and they try to do different things, like going to Seashell Park for a picnic. However, everything reminds them of karate, particularly when SpongeBob slices bologna using karate chops. They eventually can't resist the urge and slice up all kinds of ingredients and make several sandwiches in the process. At this point, they eventually take up karate again and have a great deal of fun.
Mr. Krabs, who is taking a walk in the park, catches them surrounded by sandwiches and the surroundings are really trashed, clearly having broken their promise. SpongeBob admits the truth, saying he cannot help himself and asks Mr. Krabs to simply fire him. Mr. Krabs instead replying that he has something else in mind.
Back at the Krusty Krab, SpongeBob and Sandy make Krabby Patties at an exceptional rate, using their karate skills to slice and assemble the Krabby Patties, bringing in lots of customers and making Mr. Krabs more money than before, all much to Squidward's disappointment.
On November 14, 2016, recording scripts for every episode from season 1 were publicly released, found on one of the asset discs for the PlayStation video game, SuperSponge. This included the recording script for "Karate Choppers."[2]
Art
Music
( ‣ ) Production music
( • ) Original music
( ◦ ) SpongeBob music
‣Take That! (a) - Helene Muddiman [Title card] ‣Panther Prowl - David Farnon [Opening] ‣Cieszyn Polka - Władyslaw Raczkowski [TV show] ‣Police Car - Sam Spence [SpongeBob screams] ‣Take That! (a) - Helene Muddiman [SpongeBob and Sandy doing karate] ‣Police Car - Sam Spence [SpongeBob throws Sandy through the door] ‣Hawaiian Link (A) - Richard Myhill [SpongeBob does a karate dance] ‣Take That! (a) - Helene Muddiman [Karate over the phone] ‣Bossa Cubana - Gerhard Narholz [Sandy shopping] ‣Hit and Run - Sam Spence [Sandy bumps into SpongeBob] ‣Bossa Cubana - Gerhard Narholz ["Hey Sandy, have you ever heard the one about the squirrel and the tin cans?"] ‣Take That! (a) - Helene Muddiman [Tin cans] ‣Police Car - Sam Spence [SpongeBob laughs] ‣Dancing The Hula - Kapono Beamer ["What a beautiful day!"] ‣Take That! (a) - Helene Muddiman [More karate] ‣House Of Horror [#10.5] - W. Merrick Farran [Volcano sauce] ‣Death Trap [#26.03] - Gregor F. Narholz ["By the powers of naughtiness..."] ‣Panther Prowl - David Farnon [Sandy drinking volcano sauce.] ‣Take That! (a) - Helene Muddiman [Novelty toy] ‣The Rake Hornpipe - Robert Alexander White [At the Krusty Krab] ‣Keep Cool - Jean Christophe Thomas, Laurence Peter Cottle [Customer swatting a fly/"I'm fast, I'm mean, and I can do this!"] ‣Blow the Man Down (B) - Tim Laycock, Robert Alexander White [Mr. Krabs tells SpongeBob to get back to work] ‣Keep Cool - Jean Christophe Thomas, Laurence Peter Cottle [SpongeBob enters the bathroom] ‣Sailor's Waltz - Heinz Matschurat [Mr. Krabs tells SpongeBob to stop doing karate or he is fired] ‣Hawaiian Link (B) - Richard Myhill ["Fired?"] ‣Take That! (a) - Helene Muddiman [Sandy starts karate chopping SpongeBob/Sandy continues karate chopping SpongeBob/Sandy karate chopping SpongeBob again] ‣Stack of Leis - Kapono Beamer [Fired and Broken/"Aww, shoot, SpongeBob. I guess you ain't fibbing."] ‣Hit and Run - Sam Spence [Sandy chops SpongeBob's face] ‣Vibe Link (B) - Richard Myhill ["We can?"] ‣Nostalgic Hawaii - George de Fretes, Jan Rap [SpongeBob squeezes a rock] ‣On The Beach - Kapono Beamer [SpongeBob and Sandy on a picnic] ‣Hit and Run - Sam Spence [Sandy chops the barnacle loaf] ‣Mavericks - The Woodies [Making sandwiches] ‣Police Car - Sam Spence [Sting] ‣Take That! (a) - Helene Muddiman [They fight] ‣Hawaiian Link (A) - Richard Myhill [Everything cut in half] ‣Dramatic Cue (D) - Ronald Hanmer [SpongeBob shrieks] ‣O Makalapua B - Kapono Beamer ["Oh, all right, Mr. Krabs, you caught me."] ‣Take That! (a) - Helene Muddiman [Ending]
*On the Absorbing Favorites VHS tape, The Complete 1st Season, Fear of a Krabby Patty, Absorbing Favorites and The First 100 Episodes DVDs, "Mavericks" is replaced with "El Dementia" by The Surfdusters while the audio commentary on The Complete 1st Season, the French audio track on the Absorbing Favorites DVD and the 10 Happiest Moments DVD, Amazon Prime Video, iTunes, and Paramount+ versions have the "Mavericks" music left intact.
Release
Broadcast
As this episode premiered on December 31 at 8:15 PM, this episode holds the record for the latest into a calendar year for an episode to premiere.
This episode was also the last episode to premiere before the start of the 2000s.
This episode uses "Giant Karate Chop Underlay," which is the first time it has appeared on the show. It is a reoccurring background for later episodes such as "Mid-Life Crustacean," as well as being used for the title card background to "The Endless Summer" short.
SpongeBob tip toes over to the couch, but makes duck sounds as he tip toes. It's revealed that he's been stepping on three squeaky toy ducks before he sits down to watch TV. "Stepping on ducks" is a euphemism for flatulence.
Later in the episode, SpongeBob suggests he "cut the cheese," another euphemism for flatulence, although, in this case, it is literally slicing cheese.
The fish shown on SpongeBob's TV is a royal gramma (Gramma loreto), a tropical aquarium fish.
In the season 1 DVD commentary, Kenny explains that the scene was shot in the Nickelodeon restroom, and he had to wear red makeup all over his face to portray the character. He also had an audition on that same day the scene was shot, but the red makeup did not completely come off in time. As a result, he still had a little bit of red makeup on his face and it made him look like he was having high blood pressure.
The Volcano Sauce drop is credited as "Hot Sauce Drop."
A short clip of SpongeBob crying from this episode was featured in the music video for "Hallelujah Money," a 2017 single by British virtual band Gorillaz.
"Take That! (a)" bookends the episode, making this the first kind of occurrence to happen in the SpongeBob franchise.
When Sandy is at SpongeBob's door, she has an extra stripe on her sleeve. The colors of the stripes also change rapidly.
SpongeBob leaves the kitchen with a tray of six Krabby Patties. When he tosses the Krabby Patties onto Squidward's head, all six stick to it. In the next shot, there are eight Krabby Patties. In the final zoom shot of Squidward's head after SpongeBob says "Nice hairpiece, Squidward," 10 Krabby Patties can be seen.
When SpongeBob is cutting the food, on his first cut, the mustard dispenser seems to disappear.
SpongeBob's arm disappears when Sandy hangs up on him after his attempt at phone karate.
During the fight between SpongeBob and Sandy, a brick can be seen in their dust cloud.
Some of the bubbles in the bubble transition are frozen in mid-air.
After the bubble transition cuts to the Krusty Krab, some of the bubbles freeze in mid-air.
SpongeBob's visible eyelashes mistake.
When SpongeBob talks to Mr. Krabs and says, "No, sir," SpongeBob blinks his eyes, but his eyelashes are still seen for a split second.
When SpongeBob slices the first slice of salami, the mustard bottle is missing.
A second window is added to SpongeBob's pineapple house near the lower-right corner. Before, there was only one window on the upper left corner.
Mr. Krabs tells Squidward that he was in his office. However, Mr. Krabs' office is the first door on the left, and when he comes in, he is on the right, but when SpongeBob talks to him, Mr. Krabs is on his office side, next to Squidward.
When SpongeBob goes into the restroom at the Krusty Krab, there is the "Please wash your fins" sign on it. Later, when SpongeBob is walking, it disappears.
Sandy's foot and the picnic basket are positioned incorrectly.
At one point at the park before Sandy and SpongeBob engage in karate, Sandy's foot and the picnic are positioned impossibly. Sandy is clearly supposed to be standing behind the basket, but the basket is positioned too high up so that the bottom of Sandy's foot is below the bottom of the basket.
In the scene with SpongeBob holding the rock together to hide it from Mr. Krabs, a tree can be seen in the background chopped in half. The "leaves" of the tree are also chopped in half, even though they would not be touched just from chopping the tree in half.
In the scene where SpongeBob captures Sandy with the novelty toy tongue, she has her left arm inside her suit while she guzzles down hot sauce. Once SpongeBob loops the tongue around her, her arm immediately appears outside of the suit.
When SpongeBob gets fired, his face wrinkles up. In this shot, one of his holes goes above his head.
The Chum Bucket is missing from across the street when SpongeBob is caught and Sandy apologizes.
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Names in other languages
Language
Name
Meaning
Finnish
Karatekat
Karate pals
French
Fous de karaté
Karate Fans
German
Karatefieber
Karate Fever
Greek
Κόψιμο Καράτε Kópsimo Karáte
Karate Cut
Hungarian
Karateütések
Karate Punches
Italian
Il Karate... che passione
Karate... What a Passion
Japanese
空手大好き Karate daisuki
I Love Karate
Kazakh
Карате әуесқойлары Karate äuyesqoylary
Karate Lovers
Korean
우리는 태권도 동지 (EBS) 내 사랑 태권도 (JEI TV) Ulineun Taegwondo Dongji Bae Salang Taegwondo
We are Taekwondo Comrades (EBS) I Love Taekwondo (JEI TV)
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