Eugene Harold Krabs is one of the main characters from the Nickelodeon animated series SpongeBob SquarePants. He is a penny-pinching crab who is the manager of the Krusty Krab restaurant, where SpongeBob and Squidward work.
Appearances in Christmas specials
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Mr. Krabs with SpongeBob and Patrick in "Christmas Who?"
In the series' first Christmas episode, "Christmas Who?", Mr. Krabs is very interested when SpongeBob tells him about Santa Claus, saying "Any fella who's givin' away free stuff is a friend of mine!" He writes a letter to Santa, saying that he wants a pony with saddle-bags full of money. Later, Krabs can be seen singing "The Very First Christmas", during which he gives a fruitcake to his business rival, Plankton.
Mr. Krabs and SpongeBob as they appear in "It's a SpongeBob Christmas!"
Mr. Krabs appears again in the series' second Christmas special, "It's a SpongeBob Christmas!" At the beginning of the episode, he is shown decorating the Krusty Krab, saying that Christmas is his favorite time of the year (though he mistakenly thinks it is about getting). Later, when Plankton sends out his evil robot ToyBob to frame SpongeBob, Krabs is one of the first victims of the robot's crime spree, getting crushed by his own restaurant's sign when ToyBob burns the pole holding it up. He survives this and is later seen fixing the sign when the real SpongeBob drives by to wish him season's greetings. Krabs responds by yelling that the destruction of the sign is coming out his paycheck, much to SpongeBob's confusion. Although Krabs is never actually seen eating Plankton's jerktonium-laced fruitcake, he apparently did eat some at one point, as he is shown to have been affected by it and brought back to normal during the song "Don't Be a Jerk (It's Christmas)". When Santa Claus gives the Krabby Patty secret formula to Plankton as a result of thinking everyone in Bikini Bottom is naughty, Krabs demands to know how Santa got his hands on it. At that point, his daughter Pearl points out to him that Santa's elves are stealing his wallet from his pockets. After Plankton's scheme is exposed, Krabs grabs the secret formula back from him.
Mr. Krabs makes only two brief appearances in the series' latest Christmas episode, "SpongeBob's Road to Christmas". He is first seen narrowly dodging the vehicle SpongeBob, Patrick, and Plankton are using to travel to the North Pole. Later, during the Krusty Krab's Christmas party at the end of the episode, he gives a box containing a lump of coal to Plankton.
Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years
Between the releases of the main series' second and third Christmas episodes, Mr. Krabs also appeared in "The Ho! Ho! Horror!", the Christmas episode of the prequel series Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years.
Other Christmas productions
Mr. Krabs also made brief appearances in the Merry Nickmas interstitial shorts. He and two identical crabs perform a song on stage in "Holiday Party", and he also makes a cameo at the end of "A Chuckie Finster Christmas, Channukah, Kwaanza, Winter Solstice" to advertise Dork Krabby Mint Patties (a parody of York Peppermint Patties).