"Making Waves" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 15. In this episode, Mr. Krabs and Plankton are forced to spend time together when they accidentally book the same room on a cruise.
After another failed attempt by Plankton to steal the secret formula results in the Krusty Krab's destruction, an exhausted Mr. Krabs decides that he needs a vacation on a cruise ship to get away from Plankton for awhile. He leaves Squidward and SpongeBob in charge of rebuilding the destroyed restaurant, and boards the cruise ship. He rides the elevator down through the decks, passing from the most luxurious areas to the poorest ones. He finally reaches the very bottom, where he finds his tiny, rundown room in a grimy hallway. Though it is not what he imagined, he is still happy he got the cabin cheap, but his mood quickly changes when Plankton walks out of the bathroom. The two angrily demand to know why the other is there until they realize they have been assigned to the same room because their ticket is for double occupancy.
Mr. Krabs and Plankton on the waterslide.
Later, Krabs walks aboard while enjoying a drink when he crashes into Rube Goldfish, the ship's activities director. Rube asks if Krabs wants to try their giant waterslide, but Krabs is not interested. Rube says that the ride requires a partner and he immediately pairs Krabs with Plankton, ignoring their protests. They go down the waterslide together, knocking over everyone in their path. Krabs accidentally pops the float with his claw and they both crash into a pool, followed by the people they knocked over.
Later, Plankton is playing shuffleboard alone when Krabs shows up and they start arguing again. Rube explains he accidentally scheduled them for the same time, but Krabs says there will be no problem. Still, Krabs tries to hit Plankton with the pucks, while Plankton fires an entire hot tub at Krabs using a volleyball net, sending him flying off the ship and into the ocean. At the disco, Plankton dances until Krabs steps on him on purpose. Plankton then shoots down the disco ball with a record, flattening Krabs. When Plankton laughs at him, the disco ball starts rolling, causing everyone to flee the dance floor. Next, the two are seated in a restaurant, angrily staring at each other, but as their food arrives, it turns into a food fight that upsets the other guests.
Rube announces that, because they are causing constant trouble, the captain has sentenced them to shovel coal in the engine room. While working, Krabs loses his temper, blaming Plankton for ruining his vacation. He throws his shovel and accidentally bursts some water pipe, causing the ship to lose control and crash into a giant iceberg lettuce. Krabs and Plankton end up stranded in a lifeboat together, and Rube swims up to ask if they would like to go on a lifeboat tour. The two shove him away with their paddles and he sinks into the water, saying maybe next time. They start rowing but can't agree on a direction, so Krabs swats Plankton down with his paddle and heads off in the direction he wants.
Mr. Krabs and Plankton use Rube to get off the island.
The next day, they are marooned on a deserted island, looking much older and worn out. Plankton complains that Krabs went the wrong way and accuses him of crossing the line he drew in the sand. Rube reappears from the jungle and announces that he signed them up for a bike ride along the beach, to which Plankton angrily knocks him out with a coconut. Krabs uses a bicycle pump to inflate Rube's pants and turns them into a balloon so they can escape. As they lift off, Rube wakes up and thinks he is bloated, so he unbuckles his belt and his pants deflate. Krabs and Plankton let go of his legs and fall back to the island, landing in the sand just as SpongeBob finds them with his metal detector. They ask what he is doing there and SpongeBob explains that he always searches for treasure at Goo Lagoon. They go to see with their own eyes and realize they are really at Goo Lagoon, making them start arguing once again.
One week later, back at the poorly rebuilt Krusty Krab, Krabs is bored, so he goes to visit the Chum Bucket, where Plankton is also bored. Thinking Plankton is still after the secret formula, Krabs brings it to him to reignite their rivalry. They immediately start fighting and disappear in a cloud of dust, leaving only the bottle containing the formula behind.
SpongeBob spots the bottle and quickly returns it to the safe. As he blows off the dust, it is revealed that both Krabs and Plankton have somehow ended up inside the bottle during the fight. Suddenly Rube shows up again inside the bottle with them, saying that they are all signed up to play spin the bottle. As they begin spinning inside the bottle, the safe door slams shut and the episode ends.
Production
This episode was confirmed by Cartoonlounge.de on August 5, 2024.[2]
Originally, during the sequence where Mr. Krabs searches for his cabin, he walks past a fish in a bear suit tying another fish's shoes, to which they all briefly exchange stares before Krabs walks away.[14] In the final episode, this was replaced by the two twin fish children from "Escape from Beneath Glove World” holding hands and grinning ominously, which Krabs does not notice.
Originally, during the sequence where Krabs and Plankton fight while participating in various activities on the cruise, there is a scene where the two ride fireworks and crash into a family.[17]
Production notes
Amy Lewis:
Lewis confirmed that the sloppier look of the background paintings in this episode was part of an overall stylistic shift towards the earlier visual aesthetic of the series: "Yes this was when [the art team was] starting to go back to the style of earlier seasons."[18]
Music
( ‣ ) Production music
( • ) Original music
( ◦ ) SpongeBob music
‣Happy Whistling C - Niels Holland, Louis Dobro [Title card.] ‣Happy Whistling A - Niels Holland, Louis Dobro [Title card and opening.] ‣Horror Cue 5 C - Gregor F. Narholz [Krusty Krab explodes.] •Steel Licks 1 - Jeremy Wakefield [Fred walks away.] ‣Far Away From Home - Rudolf Angerer [Krusty Krab in ruins.] •Steel Licks 6 - Jeremy Wakefield ["Crew, I need to get away from Plankton for a while."] •Steel Licks 8 - Jeremy Wakefield ["A nice sea cruise."] ‣Jolly Jack Tar (a) - Dick Walter ["The shuffleboard! The buffet! The sea sickness!"] ‣Paddy's Whack - Dennis Farnon [Krabs leaves for his cruise.] ‣Bright And Active - Dieter Reith [SpongeBob wishes Krabs bon voyage/SpongeBob goes back to work.] ‣So Ipanema (30s) - Veronique Aquino, Luiz Aquino Junior [Elevator music.] ‣Horror Cue 5 C - Gregor F. Narholz [Krabs reaches his floor.] ‣Tales From The Swamp (D) - Ron Goodwin [Krabs looks for his cabin.] ‣Cocktail Bossa Remix [#138] - Marc Durst, Laurent Lombard [Plankton applying deodorant.] ‣Slippery Sid - Roger Roger [Krabs and Plankton have the same cabin.] •Steel Licks 17 - Jeremy Wakefield [Transition to next scene.] •The Chumbucket Rhumba - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Rube introduces himself.] ‣The Creature (b) - Gregor F. Narholz [Wet and wild water slide.] •The Chumbucket Rhumba - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield ["Amazing, isn't it?"] •Steel Licks 19 - Jeremy Wakefield [Rube grabs Plankton.] ‣Dramatic Encounter - Gregor F. Narholz [Rube puts Krabs and Plankton on the raft.] •Grass Skirt Chase - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Krabs and Plankton ride the water slide/Krabs and Plankton fall.] ‣Dinosaurs About - John Fox, Mac Prindy ["I rebuke you!"] ‣Dancing The Hula - Kapono Beamer [Krabs and Plankton shuffleboarding.] ‣Discosmic - Stephane Huguenin, Yves Sanna, Christian Padovan [Krabs and Plankton dancing.] ‣The Creature [#44] - Gregor F. Narholz [Disco ball rolls away.] ‣Castle Life - Maurice De Courpalay [Krabs and Plankton dining.] •ShantyDirge - Nicolas Carr, Steve Marston [Krabs and Plankton shoveling coal.] ‣Fun Sting F - Gregor F. Narholz [Shovel punctures water pipe.] ‣Panic Patrol - Kenny Graham [Ship loses control.] ‣Far Away From Home - Rudolf Angerer [Krabs and Plankton lost at sea.] •The Chumbucket Rhumba - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Rube swims to the life raft.] ‣Far Away From Home - Rudolf Angerer [Krabs and Plankton paddling.] ‣Hawaiian Breeze - Jon Jelmer [Krabs and Plankton on a deserted island.] •The Chumbucket Rhumba - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Rube appears on the island.] ‣Monocle And Pocket-Watch - Brian Douglas Gulland [Krabs inflates Rube's shorts.] ‣Drum Rolls (D) - Dick Walter [Krabs and Plankton grab Rube's legs.] ‣Drum Rolls (A) - Dick Walter [Krabs and Plankton grab Rube's legs.] ‣Whistling Cancan - Jacques Offenbach, Scott Taylor [Krabs and Plankton float away.] •Kailua Jubilee - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob metal detecting.] ‣Horror Cue 5 C - Gregor F. Narholz ["One week later..."] •Krusty Krab Jig - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr [Krabs and Plankton are bored.] ‣Dramatic Encounter - Gregor F. Narholz [Krabs visits Plankton.] ‣Comic Walk - Sidney Torch [Krabs offers Plankton to try stealing the formula.] ‣Galleon - Sam Fonteyn [Krabs and Plankton smiling.] ‣Heavy Fight - Gerhard Trede [Krabs and Plankton fight.] ‣Dog Gone - George French [Ending.]
The premise is similar to season 8's "Walking the Plankton," since both episodes involve Mr. Krabs going on a vacation on a cruise ship, and Plankton being there as well.
This episode originally had the packaging number of 319b, but was swapped with its sister episode for unknown reasons.[19]
This marks the return of Ego Plum as music editor in the main series.
This is the first episode of the main series where Ego Plum serves as music editor and does not use any of his original music.
This episode also ironically starts with the Krusty Krab getting blown up and destroyed by Plankton's failed attempt to open the safe.
With the production code of 325-1452, this is the final episode produced for the show's fourteenth production season. However, the new endings produced for the unaired "You Wish" extended special have the production code of 325-1453, making them the final pieces of SpongeBob content produced for the season overall.[20]
Much like "Plankton's Army," the episode focuses mainly on Plankton and Mr. Krabs, while SpongeBob only appears in the first and last scenes and only speaks six lines.
This episode and its sister are the last episodes where Peter Bennett is posthumously credited as an art director, due to his passing on May 17, 2024.
This episode marks the first time that Kaz pairs with the storyboard director Dan Becker.
Episode references
Iron Eye, one of Krabs' navy buddies from "Shell of a Man," is seen on a poster at the bottom floor of the cruise ship.
Mr. Krabs pronounces "Bon voyage" as "Bon voyage-y," similar to Bugs Bunny from the Looney Tunes franchise.
Both the deleted scene of the fish in a bear suit tying another fish's shoes and the final scene of the twin fish holding hands reference the 1980 horror film The Shining. Along with this, the room that Mr. Krabs and Plankton stay in is numbered 237, which is a reference to the haunted room #237 of the Overlook Hotel.
The cruise ship colliding with an iceberg lettuce is a reference to the RMS Titanic disaster in 1912, which was dramatized in the 1997 film.
Errors
Room 237's door suddenly looks like a clean door.
The wet details on the door of room 237 disappear when Mr. Krabs yells at Plankton, making it look like a clean door.
Videos
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