the krusty krab it's a favorite hangout
to the local young folk a must visit to
any tourist and the home to satisfied
customers and employees alike
here are the six biggest mysteries about
the krusty krab number six the origin
for the most famous underwater fast food
burger joint in the world it's a little
fishy that its origins aren't quite
clear see in the episode the krusty krab
training video we're told that mr krabs
acquired a bankrupt retirement home and
made extensive renovations turning it
into the burger joint we know and love
but take a closer look at this
retirement home before crabs took over
why was there already a poster of a
burger in the window and you can even
make out the krusty krab menu hanging by
the cash register if this was really a
retirement home why does it still look
like a restaurant on the inside and
what's stranger in the episode
grandpappy the pirate mr krabs heavily
implies that the krusty krab used to be
his pirate ship
is it possible that this footage of the
retirement home was staged sadly there's
just not enough evidence to know for
sure number five the employees okay so
we kind of covered this in our last
episode when we asked who makes the
krabby patties when spongebob has the
day off but here's an even bigger
question who runs the place when
spongebob squidward and mr krabs have
the day off
the three of them have been sighted all
around town together during normal
business hours we know crabs would never
just shut down the krusty krab for the
day not with all that money to be made i
can spend the money already and yet we
rarely see any trace of other employees
working at the krusty krab we've seen
each of these guys work there in the
past
maybe they get together and run things
while the others are gone like an elite
krusty krab task force i'd watch a show
about that number four the nautical
flags at first glance you might think
these flags are simply decorative but
you may not know that these are actual
official nautical flags or flags used by
sailors to convey messages to one
another
when translated each flag can be
assigned a letter r
i
uh mysterious flag that doesn't exist in
the nautical alphabet u
and k is that supposed to stand for
something
royal investment of underwater crabs
reef blowing is undoubtedly coral maybe
this mystery flag would shed some light
on the strange message they must mean
something right number three the green
slime one extremely unique feature of
the krusty krab is its famous slime
oozing walls it seems like just about
every time we see these walls they're
oozing green slime
okay so that's not exactly true we've
only ever seen the walls ooze green
slime one time in the episode graveyard
shift walls will ooze green slime
wait they always do that but then why
does squidward claim they always do that
we've scoured the archive and cannot
find a single other instance of the
walls oozing green slime is it something
that only happens at at night
maybe those mysterious other employees
are the only ones who ever see it happen
but the bigger question here is why in
the world do they use green slime at all
seems like something crabs should get
fixed nah he's probably too cheap come
back on two dollars two dollars no no
number two underwater wood the design of
the krusty krab is well known and iconic
from its post-modern rope art in the
windows to its use of these gorgeous
low-grade used barrels as chairs it's
truly a feat of modern interior designs
but maybe its most prominent feature is
its rustic wooden look everything from
the floorboards to the rafters seem to
be made of wood which begs the question
where do they get the wood do they have
some form of underwater trees
maybe sandy being a surface dweller
imported the wood when she moved to the
bottom of the sea
or
could crabs be secretly harvesting plant
life from sandy's tree dome without her
knowledge the answer is unclear but one
thing's for sure
mr krabs is an interior decorating
genius number one it's shape regardless
of what it's made of there is one major
question that can't be overlooked why is
this building shaped like a crab trap
that's right here's an image of an
actual crab trap and here's the krusty
krab the similarities are undeniable why
would a crab want to run a business out
of a building designed to capture crabs
was it an ironic marketing choice
designed to gain media attention is
crabs unaware of what a crab trap looks
like he knew what the hooks were all
about so presumably he knows about crab
traps or is it because mr krabs lust for
money drives him to dedicate his entire
life to making every penny possible too
obsessed with profit to ever entertain
the notion of what the building used to
represent retirement effectively
trapping himself in a cycle of an
endless daily grind in this very
building for the rest of his life i
don't know how many days it's been i
lost track or maybe a fisherman
there you have it the krusty krab is a
mysterious entity full of questions that
we may never answer but we do have the
answer to one final bonus question
is this the krusty krab no
this is patrick