Plankton's Army

"Plankton's Army" (originally promoted as "Plankton's Revenge") is the second segment of the 58th episode of SpongeBob SquarePants (though when the episode first aired, this was presented as the first segment due to being advertised as a "special" episode).
==Summary==
At the Krusty Krab, Mr. Krabs announces to SpongeBob and Squidward that today is the 25th anniversary of the first time Plankton tried to steal the Krabby Patty secret formula, so he likely has a major plan for today. Just then, an obvious robot shows up, and Mr. Krabs pushes his employees aside (sending SpongeBob to clean out the restroom stalls) while he deals with it himself. To Krabs' surprise, however, the robot only orders some coral bits and makes no mention of wanting a Krabby Patty, and then leaves after paying for his order. Plankton then pops out of the dollar that the robot paid for its meal ("You knew I would never distrust a dollar!"); however, he has no further steps to his plan, admitting that he never thought he'd get this far, and Krabs promptly flushes him down the toilet.
Back at the Chum Bucket, Plankton laments his failures to Karen, who suggests that maybe he should recruit an army of soldiers to overpower Krabs. Taking his wife's suggestion, Plankton goes to the Salty Spitoon to hire the thugs hanging out there, but he instead receives a pummeling by them because they couldn't understand a word he was saying. Plankton then remembers he has thousands of relatives living across the sea and, believing that they are all evil geniuses like him, invites them all over to the Chum Bucket. However, when they arrive, he finds they are all actually a bunch of ditzy hillbillies ("I've been away from home longer than I thought"). After meeting all of his relatives and introducing them to Karen (during which one of them blurts out that Plankton's first name is Sheldon, a fact that Karen finds hilarious), Plankton gets them to agree to his plan, offering them all the root beer they want if they help him steal the formula.
Later that day, Mr. Krabs is feeling confident that Plankton may have given up when he suddenly reappears and introduces his army of relatives ("You planted grass?"). The Planktons quickly overtake the Krusty Krab, stuffing Mr. Krabs and Squidward into a toilet and easily opening the safe in which Krabs keeps the secret formula. Mr. Krabs warns Plankton not to read the recipe, but Plankton ignores him and starts reading the ingredients anyway. In doing so, he finds that one of the ingredients listed is four pounds of grounded plankton, which frightens him and all of his relatives into running away. (One of them, Clem, doesn't do so immediately because he can't read and is told by Krabs to just leave.) SpongeBob then comes in, having just finished cleaning the restroom, as Mr. Krabs and Squidward get out of the toilet. Squidward asks Mr. Krabs if this really is the Krabby Patty formula that Plankton just read, but Mr. Krabs answers that it was actually just a decoy to scare Plankton away, and that he keeps the real formula hidden someplace no one would ever think to look. Unfortunately for Mr. Krabs, though, Squidward correctly guesses that he keeps it under his mattress.
==Home video releases==
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* SpongeBob SquarePants: SpongeBob Goes Prehistoric
* SpongeBob SquarePants: Absorbing Favorites
* SpongeBob SquarePants: The Complete 3rd Season
* SpongeBob SquarePants: The First 100 Episodes
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