Eugene H. Krabs

Money Money Money!

**Eugene** **Harold** **Krabs**, more commonly known as **Mr. Krabs**, is one of the ten main characters in the *SpongeBoy Ahoy* franchise. He is a red crab who lives in an anchor with his daughter, Pearl, who is a young whale. He is the owner and founder of the Krusty Krab restaurant as well as the employer of both SpongeBoy and Squidward.

Mr. Krabs was designed by Stephen Hillenburg, as marine biology teacher. Hillenburg often received fan letters that asked why Pearl is a whale while her father is a crab. Hillenburg simply wanted each member of the main cast to be a different animal.

Mr. Krabs' most prominent trait is his obsession with money, to the point where he occasionally treats money better than his daughter and employees. Mr. Krabs' only business competition comes from the Chum Bucket, a failing restaurant run by Sheldon Plankton and his wife Karen. Plankton and Karen are constantly scheming to steal the Krabby Patty secret formula that makes the Krusty Krab so successful.

Mr. Krabs is usually voiced by Clancy Brown and first appears in the episode "Help Wanted."

## Biography

Eugene H. Krabs was born on  November 30, 1942 to Victor and Betsy Krabs. Presumably, before or after his birth his parents had a daughter, making him either an older or younger brother.

When he was less than three years old, he went to a Nursery. Here, he met Sheldon J. Plankton, who was born on the same day as him.

When Mr. Krabs was very young, he was put in the custody of his paternal grandfather, Redbeard Krabs, who was a pirate. Mr. Krabs learned how to be a pirate during this time.

When Mr. Krabs was five years old, he got a dollar from his father. He loved that dollar a lot, but he eventually had to spend it to buy a soda on a hot day.

He attended Poseidon Elementary School. During his time here, he was cruelly considered an outcast by other kids, particularly a circle led by a mean young boy named Billy due to being poor, leaving him in an only close friendship with Plankton.

After being humiliated by the class bullies, Plankton and Mr. Krabs wanted revenge. When Plankton and Mr. Krabs were planning it, they went to the carnival and Mr. Krabs found a penny. He thought it was the most beautiful thing that he had ever seen. He then asked Plankton what it was. Plankton explained that it was money and that he could buy things with it. Mr. Krabs then spends the penny on balloons for Plankton. This began Mr. Krabs' lifelong obsession with money.

One of the popular eateries of the time was Stinky Burgers. One day, Mr. Krabs and Plankton tried to get some burgers, but the owner, Stinky, told them that they could not eat at the restaurant, acting out of favor of the shallow Billy and his gang who were his customers that day. Later, Mr. Krabs and Plankton went to the back of the building. Stinky told them that he did not want them there because they would drive away his customers. When Stinky's shift was over, he drove off in a limousine, accidentally leaving a dollar behind. Plankton realized that starting a fast food restaurant had the potential to get the kids to like and respect the two, while Mr. Krabs was focused on the money part. Mr. Krabs was worried that they did not have the skill to make the patties. Plankton was not worried about that since they had science.

Soon, they found an old trailer in The Dump and, using science, created a great-looking burger. They were going to rub it in the face of the other kids, but Stinky Burgers was shut down. They tested the burger on Old Man Jenkins, who was a family friend of Mr. Krabs. The burger was delicious, but it knocked out Old Man Jenkins. Mr. Krabs and Plankton then fought and eventually the two were fighting over the recipe. The force of the two sides pulling caused Mr. Krabs to go towards the wall and Plankton to go out the door. Mr. Krabs got most of the recipe and Plankton got only one part, which was only the corner, reading "...and a pinch of chum." When Mr. Krabs hit the wall, he caused several different ingredients to fall in the cauldron of patty batter, which made the burger good.

Soon after, Mr. Krabs and Plankton went back to school. Plankton had created a chum-based patty, which was the ingredient that he got. Mr. Krabs showed off his Krabby Patties. It was decided that the way that they would determine whose was better was by having the other kids try them. Mr. Krabs won. Plankton then vowed to steal the formula from that day forward.

Somehow, most likely through the Krabby Patties' success and/or the war that occurred during Mr. Krabs' childhood, Betsy was able to buy a house and give Mr. Krabs proper clothes.

Mr. Krabs became quite good with money, even able to scam a vending machine to get a soda.

At some point, Mr. Krabs worked on the S.S. Diarrhea as head chef and S.S. Gourmet as a bathroom attendant.

In the early 1960s, Mr. Krabs joined the Navy. Krabs earned the nickname "Armor Abs Krabs," due to being the manliest of the crew. His shipmates were Torpedo Belly, Mutton Chop, Iron Eye, and Lockjaw Jones. Krabs was apparently also an officer in the navy, for he was a "naval cadet."

During this time, Mr. Krabs' cooking skill improved, and towards the end of his career as a Naval officer, he found himself on a Naval cargo ship, which was carrying suntan lotion. The crew loved his cooking, but Mr. Krabs' superior, Captain Scarfish, did not like that they were not having slop. One day, the cargo ship was invaded by pirates. Mr. Krabs, along with Captain Scarfish and the ensign, captured the pirates. Mr. Krabs then freed the pirate leader, the pirate queen, and joined her as a pirate.

Eventually, using the training that his grandfather gave him as a kid, he managed to become captain of his own ship, which he called, "the Krusty Krab." He eventually faced the abominable snow mollusk, a fearsome beast of the high seas. He and his crew were devoured by the beast and forced to wait "for nature to take its course" to escape the creature's stomach.

Eventually, Mr. Krabs and his crew were not doing so well, and Mr. Krabs had to give up his crew and sell his ship.

With the little money he had, he bought a local bankrupt retirement home, "The Rusty Krab," which he decided to turn into a restaurant, adding a K to "Rusty," thus naming it the Krusty Krab after his pirate ship. He decided to go into business, serving his Krabby Patties. the Krusty Krab was extremely successful from the beginning and has stood for years as Bikini Bottom's premiere daytime eatery.

In the early days of the Krusty Krab, Mr. Krabs was not that successful due to his own rusty cooking skills.

In the mid-80s, the Krusty Krab had managed to get a commercial. By this time, Mr. Krabs had hired a cashier.

Eventually, he hired Jim. in 1996

In 1997 or January, 1998, he hired Squidward Tentacles. During this period of time, the Krusty Krab had a lot of success as Jim was a great fry cook. One day Jim decided to leave and abandon The Krusty Krab as he did not feel like he was paid enough.

After Jim left, the quality of the Krusty Krab decreased significantly. That same year, Mr. Krabs hired a fry cook whose  " Name is Yet to Be Revealed."

Within a year and a half of working at the Krusty Krab, The Other Fry cook, left the Krusty Krab with no fry cook. One day in May or October 1999, Squidward's neighbor, SpongeBoy Reginald SquarePants came into the Krusty Krab for the Fry Cook job. At first, Mr. Krabs did not want SpongeBoy to have the job because Squidward did not want him there. To get rid of SpongeBoy, Mr. Krabs asked SpongeBoy to get a ridiculously specific item and to not come back until he got it. Shortly after SpongeBoy left, several buses of anchovies appeared. They were restless and almost killed Squidward and Mr. Krabs. SpongeBoy showed up with the spatula. He then proceeds to feed every last anchovy. Mr. Krabs then gave SpongeBoy the job.

At some point during the earlier days of the Krusty Krab, Plankton opened a restaurant called, "Chum Bucket" across the street from the Krusty Krab. However, it was soon bankrupted by the success of the Krusty Krab and it was destroyed. Years later, sometime after Mr. Krabs hired SpongeBoy as the fry cook, Plankton returned with a new Chum Bucket.

Plankton, now a mad scientist and technological scientific genius, constantly attempts to steal the Krabby Patty secret formula as he vowed to do all those years ago, frequently using his various robots and other creations. Occasionally, Plankton uses other tactics besides stealing the formula in order to hinder Krabs and attract customers to him. However, all of Plankton's schemes are doomed to fail and are constantly thwarted by Krabs, with help from SpongeBoy, Patrick, and other allies. On multiple occasions, Plankton states that he has never had a single customer.

In *The SpongeBoy SquarePants Movie*, Mr. Krabs opens the Krusty Krab 2 right next door to the original Krusty Krab. He chooses Squidward to manage the restaurant, much to SpongeBob's dismay. However, after SpongeBoy saves Bikini Bottom and Krabs' life, he is appointed the new manager of the Krusty Krab 2.

## Career

Before he established the restaurant, he tried to open a business along with his former best friend, Plankton. Their first customer was Old Man Jenkins, which their burger poisoned. Plankton and Krabs blamed each other and fought over the recipe, resulting in ingredients dropped into the meat, which became the Krabby Patty. At the end, Plankton only got one ingredient: Chum.

Krabs was a Navy cadet for some time and retired to running a business again. He bought a retirement home named the Rusty Krab and made it into the Krusty Krab restaurant we see today. Currently, he has two employees: one loyal and hardworking and the other who does not care about his job and sleeps during his shifts. Occasionally, he would have extra employees to boost his success, often being better off without them in the end. Less often, he works for someone else or had another business.

In some episodes such as "Culture Shock" and "Squirrel Jokes," he provided entertainment to the customers.

Other businesses that he owned include the Pretty Patties restaurant and the Kuddly Krab, which were not successful in the end. Krabs also owned a hotel, until it crashed.

In "The Krabby Chronicle," he was the editor-in-chief of the newspaper that he used to advertise the Krusty Krab.

During "Squilliam Returns," he served as the chef for the "five-star restaurant" that Squidward "owned." He looked for a job when he was looking for something to do which led him to become the dishwasher in "Selling Out."

## Businesses

Some restaurants or businesses that he owned were a reformed version of the original Krusty Krab, a separate store, or a different idea. Some changes of the Krusty Krab turned the restaurant into others like the Kuddly Krab, 5 Star Krusty Krab, Krabby O'Monday's, and The Krusty Sponge. Separate restaurants include the Pretty Patties Store and Krusty Krab 2. New ideas were made such as hotels like the Krusty Towers.

## Trivia

* Mr. Krabs's first name and middle name are both names of two *Hey Arnold!* characters: Eugene Horowitz and Harold Berman.
* In the online game *Block Party* on Nick.com, a trivia question incorrectly says that Mr. Krabs' first name is Seymour. Eugene, his real first name, is not even one of the four choices.
* Until Plankton and Karen became parents in season 12, he was the only main character to be a parent.
* SpongeBoy is seen imitating Mr. Krabs in "Gone," "Mimic Madness," and "Boss for a Day."
* In older SpongeBoy games on Nick.com, Mr. Krabs is wearing the scarf from "Squilliam Returns."

* In October 2019, ViacomCBS (the parent company of Nickelodeon) held a Mr. Krabs costume party at which the attendees had to dress up like him. Some of the ViacomCBS directors and employees just wore clothes in Mr. Krabs' style, while others used elaborate crab costumes and props, such as toys of Pearl and sacks of play money.
* He has a fear of "robot overlords." According to the narrator of "Krusty Krab Training Video," this is a good thing, as it keeps the "balance of technology" in check.
* In "Jellyfish Hunter," when Mr. Krabs keeps on saying "more," there is a part that shows a hideous picture of him saying "more." On YouTube, it became extremely popular for YouTube Poops. The video is called "Moar Krabs."
* "Sandy's Rocket" reveals that Mr. Krabs cares about his money even more than he cares about his own well-being, as shown when he begs SpongeBob and Patrick not to shoot him, and then tells them that they can shoot him, but pleads them not to take his money.
* Mr. Krabs can imitate Pearl's voice perfectly.
* Mr. Krabs can breathe air, much like real crabs, as seen in "The Krabby Patty That Ate Bikini Bottom." However, in "Overbooked" and "Surf N' Turf," Mr. Krabs wears a water helmet in Sandy's treedome.
* Despite his employees being underpaid, Mr. Krabs pays them a standard employee's salary in "Squeaky Boots" and "Skill Crane."
	+ Mr. Krabs also admitted he pays SpongeBoy minimum wage in "Goodbye, Krabby Patty."
* "Little Yellow Book" reveals that Mr. Krabs has gray hair.
	+ It also reveals that he wears a hairpin.
* According to "Krab Borg" and "Tutor Sauce," salt hurts Mr. Krabs' eyes even though he is a saltwater crustacean.
* It is revealed in "Selling Out" that Mr. Krabs hates golf.
* In the episode "The Googly Artiste," Mr. Krabs is revealed to have ears.
* Mr. Krabs hates the notion of treating his employees fairly so much that a manual of labor conditions gave him hives and the word "overtime" horrifies him astronomically.
* In many episodes, it is shown he has heightened senses whenever money is involved/mentioned.
* In the third and ninth season of the show, Mr. Krabs' shell is bright red, whereas it has a slight pinkish-orange tinge from season 4 to season 8. It randomly switches from being bright red to having a slight pinkish orange tinge in season 9 and onwards.
* In the episode "Penny Foolish," it is revealed that Mr. Krabs does not have one. It is unknown what this "one" refers to, but considering the plot of the episode, it may be referring to a penny.
* According to the episode "Penny Foolish," one of Mr. Krabs' nicknames is "The Man Who Doesn't Have One."
* Unlike most characters, Mr. Krabs does not usually wear a helmet in Sandy's treedome, as real-life crabs can survive out of water in the air.
* In "Mall Girl Pearl," Mr. Krabs' "DOB" (Date of Birth) is 9-25-60, as seen in his driver's license.
* Nickelodeon released a non-canon YouTube video titled "What is Mr. Krabs' Net Worth?" in which his net worth is stated to be $5,249,351.
* A large number of his relatives appear in the episode "Senior Discount," including his father, grandfather, great grandfather, great great grandfather, and many other ancestors.

## References

https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/Eugene\_H.\_Krabs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr.\_Krabs