Enemy In-Law (Episode)

Enemy In-Law
© Viacom
Episode No.:	67a
Season:	4
Airdate:	4 October 2005
Previous Episode:	Dunces and Dragons
Next Episode:	Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy VI: The Motion Picture
Characters	Voice actors
SpongeBob SquarePants	Tom Kenny
Squidward Tentacles	Rodger Bumpass
Mr. Krabs	Clancy Brown
Mr. Krabs and Mama Krabs © Viacom

"Enemy In-Law" is an episode from Season 4.

Plot

After another attempt to grab customers with his Chumbot, Karen tells Plankton that he is a twerp, and Plankton calls Karen his W.I.F.E(Wired Integrated Female Electroencenphalograph). So they argue and then Plankton pushes Karen's off switch. Then while doing other stuff, Plankton falls in love with Mama Krabs and they go out together. So they go on a date at the Krusty Krab. When Mr. Krabs find out, he is shocked. Plankton is also very shock as well. Mama Krabs then tells Mr. Krabs to let her live her own life.

Later, Plankton is back at the Chum Bucket and Mr. Krabs tells Plankton that he was only dating Mama Krabs for the formula. Plankton did not know that so he hatched a plan.

Back at the Krusty Krab, Plankton proposes to Mama Krabs, and she denies the offer. Plankton then got very mad and said that he will let her off if he could have the Krabby Patty formula. Plankton got chucked out, landed on the on switch on Karen and when he insults Karen again he gets zapped by Karen's laser.

Trivia/Goofs

This is the only episode where a very minor character is in a major role.
This is the third episode where SpongeBob, the main character, has a minor role. The first two episodes are SB-129 and Plankton's Army, and after many episodes New Leaf was when SpongeBob said about 8 lines.
In The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, Plankton loves being married to Karen because he enjoys her and agreed to be Karen's husband, but in this episode, Plankton hates Karen and calls her a nagging software. But it is possible his feelings for her changed by then. But also, just because Karen annoys Plankton, it does not necessarily mean he hates her. All husbands and wives argue once in a while.
In this episode, Mr. Krabs claims that the Krabby Patty recipe is an old Krabs family recipe. However, it is revealed in Friend or Foe? that it was Mr. Krabs himself that created it.
The title is a reference to in-laws.
SpongeBob only has 5 lines of dialogue.
When Plankton and Mama Krabs are on their date at the Krusty Krab, if you listen closely, you'll hear the same music from Mr. Krabs and Mrs. Puff's date from the episode Krusty Love.
Mama Krabs is not ready to be in love with Plankton, maybe she was married with Robot Plankton or her original husband (years ago).
How can Plankton get married to Mama Krabs? He's already married to Karen!
It is unknown of what Plankton did with his picture of Mama Krabs he was cleaning before Mr. Krabs stormed in and after Mama Krabs punched him out.
The title card music is similar to Chocolate With Nuts.
The title card is the exact same as Welcome to the Chum Bucket. This is the third time this title card appeared. Skill Crane was aired between these two with the same title card, except the color is red.
This is the first episode Karen and Plankton break up. They did break up in a later episode, Komputer Overload.
Mama KRabs fighting muscle arm with the battle ship guns is similar to the Popeye cartoons.