we know plankton and krabs have been playing poker together for 15 years
we also know this episode aired before the episode where pearl turned 16
while the non-continuity & non-chronological order of the series means that assuming that pearl was 15 in welcome to the chum bucket is a fool’s gamble – it’s reasonable enough that if there is an episode about her turning 16, her character was likely conceptualized as being 15 years old prior to that point. but either she was 15 or she was 16 in welcome to the chum bucket … and either way, that’s about as long as pearl’s been alive.
we also know that pearl is krabs’ biological daughter … through a combination of facts … and were given reason to believe that something happened to the mother of his child shortly after pearl’s birth that made him depressed. she’s not around anymore and no longer apart of their lives in any way shape or form.
we also know plankton and krabs were childhood best friends, going on to have an on-again-off-again friendship for years prior to spongebob getting a job at the krusty krab … and the two are shown to occasionally have moments where they truly, genuinely care about each other deep down, despite the rivalry …
conclusion: plankton might have started playing poker with krabs to cheer him up after the death of his wife
oh thank god i thought you were going to say plankton was pearls mom
[Image description: A trio of hands all clasped together. They are all labeled, clockwise starting from the left, as ‘people with ADHD’, ‘people with BPD’, and ‘autistic people’. Overtop of the hands is a block of text that reads ‘rejection sensitivity’. End image description]
“Dead inside, you say? I know something that might just work”
reanimate my will to live
Wake me up inside
can’t wake up
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In Super Mario Odyssey, if Mario is wearing the Bridal Gown, he will be wearing earrings if matching it with the Black Fedora (top) and no earrings if matching it with the Musician Hat (bottom), despite the hats being extremely similar. The reason is that the Black Fedora has a blue band, while the Musician Hat has a grey band; Mario wears blue earrings to match with the blue band in the first case, and no earrings in the second, as their color would not match. Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Source: myself, Super Mario Odyssey (Switch) on original hardware
[Photo of a poster. “Do you want this octopus to have fewer legs?” it says, with a rough sketch of an octopus; at the bottom of the paper, in tear-away strips, are the octopus-legs with “yes” written on each one. There are only three remaining, the rest of the original ones have all been torn off. Somebody has written “no” on another piece of paper, and pinned it up to where a leg had been, making the octopus have more legs.]
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