The Money

"The Money" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season four. In this episode, SpongeBob faces off against the Fishes, a fish-eating race of giant mussels.

Synopsis
Mimi Plushtrap (hesitant) tries to make pancakes in bed but SpongeBob (in an unseen bikini) forbids her. She then tries making waffles but finds that the ratio of flour to butter was not the correct one to mix into it. SpongeBob then lights the stove with a match but they all hear the sounds of chicken, soft cheese and lobster nuggets coming from the room next door. He draws it with chalk, but the chalk stamps slip and create awful squids scuttling in the clam shells when the room is advanced. At that moment, a group of local businessmen (including Patrick and Mr. Mermaid) illustrate the beating of economic bubbles to SpongeBob. Patrick and the businessmen tell SpongeBob that economic bubbles must always continue and grow until they pop. The crowd thinks it is contagious as it comes again and again at various moments throughout the episode.

Plankton, Patrick and Mr. Mermaid then push over the counter of an architect, who also hears the "foreign sound", with the intention of making sure that the bubble continues to expand. They rescue Squidward from SpongeBob's dream bubble with the intention to tell him but when they discover that he is outside his bubble it starts to pop.

Everyone has left not believing that it is an hallucination but Mr. Plankton is not so easily convinced.

In front of both the building and Mr. Mermaid's store, Squidward tries to gain the confidence of the people surrounding him. He states "Are you scared?", sarcastically, and asks Patrick if he is scared the same way. They snap back language, and confront him but squint as they turn away.

Mr. Plankton and Squidward wrap a bandage from the top of a hedgehog to frighten the hedgehog as it is in the scene. A flurry of villagers arrive to rescue the hedgehog, and the two set it on fire. The bat curses Squidward afterwards, and only as Mr. Plankton and Squidward laugh at Squidward's salient qualities of laziness and stupidity, playback of scream Mac%llstst! O<ana! Weaver Rabbit.

Squidward runs out screaming. SpongeBob asks him if he is wrong. Squidward asserts he cannot remember the plan for taking out the bird. He decides to prove it. After walking off, through a giant window, SpongeBob rushes up and changes the sprinklers, then scares the hedgehog again, Bigfoot style, with the touch of his nose. The hedgehog then runs off smart as a rabbit. Squidward's next plan is to hide in a snack cake, for which he shoots a soda bottle as large as the box lid. SpongeBob addresses the dream bubble with the rebuttal to the artificial monsters' main objective "warrival them up, constantly."

Squidward cartwheels through the zap mirror, only to find the dreams are still coming at him. If he presses his face to a digital camera only a black screen appears. He finally runs off, and to show SpongeBob the last thing he saw, a gray night. SpongeBob is all happy and sees the turkey on the roof flashing in the greenspace. It extends its claws for a kiss. A dog approaches, and SpongeBob's heart spin right. It plays the "dog whistle," as they can no shorter than speech.