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Whale of a Birthday
| "Whale of a Birthday" | |
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| General | |
| Season number: | 4 |
|---|---|
| Production code: | 71a |
| First airing: | May 12, 2006 |
| Sister episode(s): | Karate Island |
| Credits | |
| Writer(s): | Luke Brookshier Tom King Paul Tibbitt |
| Storyboard director: | Luke Brookshier Tom King |
| Animation director: | Tom Yasumi |
| Technical director: | Vincent Waller |
| Supervising producer: | Paul Tibbitt |
- “It's my 16th birthday!”
- —Pearl
"Whale of a Birthday" is the first segment of the eleventh episode of season 4, and it is paired with "Karate Island." In this episode, Mr. Krabs makes SpongeBob buy Pearl gifts for her sixteenth birthday.
Characters
- Pearl Krabs
- Boys Who Cry
- Eugene H. Krabs
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Squidward Tentacles
- Sport Zone cashier
- Billy Fishkins
Plot
Pearl wakes up and fantasizes about Boys Who Cry singing about her at a concert, until she does a stage dive. She crashes through the ceiling to the bottom floor and tells Mr. Krabs it’s her sixteenth birthday. She tells him to give her a real birthday party instead of being cheap. At school, she invites her friends over to the party, only to mock her about her previous lame parties.
She gets upset and goes to the Krusty Krab to ask Mr. Krabs if he’s planned something coral for her birthday. It turns out he’s once again being cheap, so she once again promises him to not be cheap and gives her a list of what she wants.
Afterward, he makes SpongeBob use his credit card to buy gifts. He investigates the things Pearl likes and buys those items, while Mr. Krabs and Squidward prepare the party. SpongeBob arrives back at the Krusty Krab and tells Mr. Krabs the delivery truck with Pearl’s gifts will come soon.
Pearl and her friends come to the party, only for everything about the party to be lame like her previous parties. Pearl gets upset and runs out of the restaurant, when the delivery truck arrives and she gets everything on her list. Mr. Krabs gets angry when he finds out how much the gifts will cost him, but lets her keep them as they make her happy.
