Pickles episode review

In the episode of Spongebob “Pickles” Spongebob starts the episode displaying his immense skill of making burgers. Customer after customer everyone is satisfied and the burgers are mass produced like an assembly line of burgers. Unfortunately he meets a customer named “Bubble Bass” who he seems to have a vendetta against. Bubble Bass makes his order and Spongebob makes it to the best of his ability. Bubble Bass eats it and notices that Spongebob forgets one of the pickles(how the episode gets its name). Spongebob is disgruntled and upset. His boss tells him to take a day off. On his way spongebob panics because he can not find the exit even though it was next to him as his boss points out. Spongebob misses days of work and his boss checks in on Spongebob. He is obviously disgruntled(the scene highlights this playing his house's theme music backwards) and spongebob answers his boss speaking backwards. His boss sits him down to reteach him how to make a burger. Spongebob spends days scared to try to make a burger sitting on the floor to make one(do not worry they did not eat them). Until finally he snaps and says he can not make a burger meanwhile listing the entire formula and the methodology to make a burger. Then both him and his boss realize he is ready to work and that he has regained his confidence. Bubble Bass comes back to try to stump Spongebob. He makes the burger and he serves the order. Bubble Bass says he forgot the pickles again. Spongebob opens Bubble Bass’s mouth and finds 2 sets of pickles under his tongue exposing Bubble Bass as a deceitful person. In mandarin the symbols to make the word “Confidence” translates to “trust your mind/heart”. It simply means that if you believe in yourself you have confidence. Spongebob had confidence in the beginning and end of the episode. The confidence was broken when he was presented with an illusion of his work being mediocre. The confidence was restored when he recreated the work even with the belief that his work was terrible, realizing that what he understood about his work was false. The moral of the story seems to be that things we see and understand are not alway true and may have extra details that are crucial to have an understanding(the Pickles symbolize this). It also means that it is crucial to gather information then form understandings/beliefs and recognize that people in the world may deceive you. Unfortunately another message I gathered from the episode(not that I am happy with it or saying that it is necessary) is that being misled can make or break someone. Spongebob was a wreck to say the least prior to his boss helping him. When Spongebob worked with him he became more solidly confident. I liked this episode not only because of the breakdowns in the story but I also liked the business structure of Spongebob’s job. The company only has 2 workers, Spongebob and Squidward. Spongebob is the high energy worker and Squidward is the opposite in literally every way. I enjoyed Spongebob's high energy in the episode and Squidward sarcasm towards Bubble bass(a larger individual) when he was about to make his order asking him “what do you want sir the small salad(a joke against his weight if that was not obvious)”.