The Old Man and the Big 'C'

The Old Man and the Big 'C'
Squidward and Plankton discover Carter Cheeks has found a cure for cancer.
Season: 11 Episode: 3
Total Episode Count: 191
Prod. no.: 9ACX22
Featuring: Plankton, Squidward, Carter Cheeks, Steve
Also Appearing: SpongeBob, Sandy, Pearl, Patrick, Fred, John Fishly, Barbara Cheeks, Karen, Steve, Bob Bobber, Dr. Forrest, Doctor Kamata, Bob, Mate, Rachel, Doctor Diller, Sarah, Jim, Arianna, Jerry
Plot: At a ballgame, Fred accidentally loses his toupee going for a fly ball. When he becomes a laughingstock he decides to ditch the skin wig. The change in his appearance affects his attitude, changing him into a old man. They guys become reluctant to hang out with him and convince him to get a skin transplant.
At the hospital for the transplant, Squidward wanders off and overhears that Carter has terminal cancer, He returns to tell Plankton who confirms it via online camera in the Cheeks house. Squidward tells Sandy who rounds up the gang and head for her parent's home, but when they arrive they find Carter in good health and Squidward loses his credibility. Squidward suspects that Carter is an impostor in order to protect the family business interests and convinces Plankton to come with him to prove this theory. They follow Carter around in order to prove he is an impostor but discover he has a cure for cancer.
Carter reveals that he has been sitting on the cure since 1999 in order to protect his sales of treatment pharmaceuticals and throws Squidward and Plankton out. As Squidward fumes on their way home, Plankton reveals that he stole the cure. They take it home to show Sandy but Carter arrives to take it back and Squidward tells what it is. Sandy is appalled but Carter refuses to show pity until she brings up some his closet loved ones possibly dying of cancer and promises to reveal the cure. But the next day in a press release he only gives the news of a deodorant. Sandy calls to find out why he didn't reveal the secret as Carter blows her off with the fact that he lied. SpongeBob assures her that they'll get over the fact that Carter's a bad man when he's shown on the cover of a magazine; which is exactly what happens when Carter appears on the cover of Forbes.
==Cutaways==
#Stock car souvenir
#Weekend bully
#Ham radio
#Barefoot guy
#Women ordering dessert
#Laughter is the best medicine
#Witness
#Sniffing out cancer
#Kleenex
#Waiting for Sandy to get off the phone
#Press release
==Trivia==
*The title is a play on the title of Ernest Hemingway's novel The Old Man and the Sea as well as "The Big 'C'" being a common euphemism for cancer.
==Rating==
TV-14: DLSV
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