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	In its initial airing, the episode received generally positive reviews from critics and fans. "Mid-Life Crustacean" was ranked #86 during the "SpongeBob's Top 100" event in the UK and Ireland from June 4-8, 2012, and it is generally still considered a fan-favourite episode and one of the best episodes in the series.<ref>{{Citation \|title="SpongeBob SquarePants" The Great Snail Race/Mid-Life Crustacean (TV Episode 2003) - IMDb \|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0832790/ \|language=en-US \|access-date=2023-01-15}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|title=Nickelodeon UK Reveals The Results Of "SpongeBob's Top 100" - The Winning Episode Of "SpongeBob SquarePants" Is... \|url=http://www.nickalive.net/2012/06/nickelodeon-uk-reveals-results-of.html \|access-date=2023-01-15 \|language=en}}</ref>		In its initial airing, the episode received generally positive reviews from critics and fans. "Mid-Life Crustacean" was ranked #86 during the "SpongeBob's Top 100" event in the UK and Ireland from June 4-8, 2012, and it is generally still considered a fan-favourite episode and one of the best episodes in the series.<ref>{{Citation \|title="SpongeBob SquarePants" The Great Snail Race/Mid-Life Crustacean (TV Episode 2003) - IMDb \|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0832790/ \|language=en-US \|access-date=2023-01-15}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|title=Nickelodeon UK Reveals The Results Of "SpongeBob's Top 100" - The Winning Episode Of "SpongeBob SquarePants" Is... \|url=http://www.nickalive.net/2012/06/nickelodeon-uk-reveals-results-of.html \|access-date=2023-01-15 \|language=en}}</ref>

	Nickelodeon claims to have pulled the episode from further reruns in 2018. While ~~it has~~ never ~~been~~ officially confirmed, it is heavily suggested that the prominence of the "panty raid" scene and the wake of the ] and ] movement has led to this removal.<ref name=IGN>{{Cite web\|url=https://za.ign.com/spongebob-squarepants/151741/news/spongebob-squarepants-episodes-pulled-over-storyline-concerns\|title=SpongeBob SquarePants Episodes Pulled Over Storyline Concerns\|date=March 26, 2021\|website=IGN Africa}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/30/us/spongebob-episodes-removed.html\|title=Two ''SpongeBob SquarePants'' Episodes No Longer on Nickelodeon\|first=Johnny\|last=Diaz\|date=March 30, 2021\|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref><ref name=Slate>{{Cite web\|url=https://slate.com/culture/2021/03/spongebob-squarepants-paramount-plus-panty-raid-episode.html\|title=Why Are These 11 Minutes Missing From ''SpongeBob'' on Paramount+?\|first=Allegra\|last=Frank\|date=March 25, 2021\|website=Slate Magazine}}</ref>		Nickelodeon claims to have pulled the episode from further reruns in 2018. While never officially confirmed, it is heavily suggested that the prominence of the "panty raid" scene and the wake of the ] and ] movement has led to this removal.<ref name=IGN>{{Cite web\|url=https://za.ign.com/spongebob-squarepants/151741/news/spongebob-squarepants-episodes-pulled-over-storyline-concerns\|title=SpongeBob SquarePants Episodes Pulled Over Storyline Concerns\|date=March 26, 2021\|website=IGN Africa}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/30/us/spongebob-episodes-removed.html\|title=Two ''SpongeBob SquarePants'' Episodes No Longer on Nickelodeon\|first=Johnny\|last=Diaz\|date=March 30, 2021\|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref><ref name=Slate>{{Cite web\|url=https://slate.com/culture/2021/03/spongebob-squarepants-paramount-plus-panty-raid-episode.html\|title=Why Are These 11 Minutes Missing From ''SpongeBob'' on Paramount+?\|first=Allegra\|last=Frank\|date=March 25, 2021\|website=Slate Magazine}}</ref>

	In a 2019 ranking of ''SpongeBob's'' top 100 episodes, ] listed "Mid-Life Crustacean" as the 79th best episode.		In a 2019 ranking of ''SpongeBob's'' top 100 episodes, ] listed "Mid-Life Crustacean" as the 79th best episode.

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15th episode of the 3rd season of SpongeBob SquarePants

"Mid-Life Crustacean"

SpongeBob SquarePants episode

Mr. Krabs partaking in a panty raid with SpongeBob and Patrick, which treats his midlife crisis, the former unaware they were doing it in his mother's house.

Episode no.

Season 3
Episode 15b

Directed by

Frank Weiss (animation)

Written by

Production code

5572-210

Original air date

January 24, 2003 (2003-01-24)

Episode chronology

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List of episodes

"Mid-Life Crustacean" is the second half of the 15th episode of the third season and the 55th overall episode of the American animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants. The episode premiered on Nickelodeon on January 24, 2003. It is no longer rerunning on Nickelodeon as of 2018, and is also not available to watch on Paramount+, or to be purchased digitally on Amazon. It is still available on home media releases, and pieces of the episode can be still seen ongoing on the Nickelodeon and SpongeBob SquarePants official YouTube channels.

The episode's title is a play on the phrase "midlife crisis."

Plot

Mr. Krabs struggles to get out of bed; after getting up, he asks Pearl if she thinks he's old, which Pearl says she does. When he arrives to the Krusty Krab, he overhears a customer complaining that their Krabby Patty tastes weird, which their mother comments that it is "all old and dried out," comparing it to Mr. Krabs, upsetting him further. After SpongeBob and Patrick announce their "big night out," Mr. Krabs asks to join, in an attempt to feel young again.

During the evening, SpongeBob and Patrick arrive at Mr. Krabs' house, and the three characters take off to a laundromat, where SpongeBob and Patrick watch their faces spin in the mirror's reflection of a washing machine; Mr. Krabs finds this activity boring, and would rather see more of the nightlife. They then partake in several more bizarre activities, none of which satisfies Mr. Krabs. At an arcade, SpongeBob, Patrick and several children ask Mr. Krabs if he's "feeling it" multiple times, which angers him, berating the duo. As he's about to cancel his night out, Patrick then changes his mind when he reveals that they are going out on a "panty raid," grabbing the interest of Mr. Krabs.

When SpongeBob, Patrick and Mr. Krabs arrive to grab a woman's underwear from her dresser drawer, they are caught, and it turns out that the woman happens to be Krabs' mother; SpongeBob and Patrick never told him it was her house they were raiding. Because of the boys' lie by omission, she grounds Mr. Krabs; SpongeBob follows him and apologizes, to which Mr. Krabs forgives him, saying in reference to his old room's race car bed and toys: “I certainly feel younger”. As SpongeBob and Patrick leave, Mr. Krabs is ordered by his mother to shut off his bedroom lights, to which he dejectedly abides.

Reception and controversy

In its initial airing, the episode received generally positive reviews from critics and fans. "Mid-Life Crustacean" was ranked #86 during the "SpongeBob's Top 100" event in the UK and Ireland from June 4-8, 2012, and it is generally still considered a fan-favourite episode and one of the best episodes in the series.

Nickelodeon claims to have pulled the episode from further reruns in 2018. While never officially confirmed, it is heavily suggested that the prominence of the "panty raid" scene and the wake of the MeToo and Time's Up movement has led to this removal.

In a 2019 ranking of SpongeBob's top 100 episodes, TV Guide listed "Mid-Life Crustacean" as the 79th best episode.

Allegra Frank at Slate commented in 2021 "...as a nostalgia buff who looks to Paramount+ solely to sate that need, seeing a small piece of SpongeBob history be stripped away by its parent company is jarring. There are tons of other 11-minute SpongeBob adventures to enjoy, but there’s nothing like watching an episode and having that warm feeling of remembering it; I’m sad I won’t get to have that with that now-infamous 'panty raid' episode anymore." In a 2021 article discussing the controversy around the episode by Comic Book Resources, writer Reuben Baron considered it a great episode, reasoning "There's tons of great character-based humor driven by Mr. Krabs' mid-life crisis, Pearl's embarrassment about her dad and SpongeBob and Patrick's gleeful strangeness."

References

SpongeBob SquarePants Production Codes
"SpongeBob SquarePants S3 E14 The Great Snail Race; Mid-Life Crustacean: Watch Full Episode Online". DIRECTV.
Dastoor, Vaspaan (March 27, 2021). "Nickelodeon Pulled A SpongeBob Episode Because It Was About A Pandemic". TheGamer.
"SpongeBob SquarePants" The Great Snail Race/Mid-Life Crustacean (TV Episode 2003) - IMDb, retrieved 2023-01-15
"Nickelodeon UK Reveals The Results Of "SpongeBob's Top 100" - The Winning Episode Of "SpongeBob SquarePants" Is..." Retrieved 2023-01-15.
"SpongeBob SquarePants Episodes Pulled Over Storyline Concerns". IGN Africa. March 26, 2021.
Diaz, Johnny (March 30, 2021). "Two SpongeBob SquarePants Episodes No Longer on Nickelodeon" – via NYTimes.com.
^ Frank, Allegra (March 25, 2021). "Why Are These 11 Minutes Missing From SpongeBob on Paramount+?". Slate Magazine.
Baron, Reuben (March 30, 2021). "SpongeBob SquarePants' Recently Banned Episode Was a Great One". CBR.

External links

"Mid-Life Crustacean" at IMDb

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Seasons 1–3	"Help Wanted" "Pizza Delivery" "Rock Bottom" "Christmas Who?" "Shanghaied" "Band Geeks" "Graveyard Shift" "Sailor Mouth" "Krusty Krab Training Video" "Chocolate with Nuts" "Mid-Life Crustacean" "The Sponge Who Could Fly"
Seasons 4–6	"Have You Seen This Snail?" "Dunces and Dragons" "Best Day Ever" "Friend or Foe" "Atlantis SquarePantis" "Pest of the West" "What Ever Happened to SpongeBob?" "SpongeBob SquarePants vs. The Big One" "To SquarePants or Not to SquarePants" "Truth or Square" "The Clash of Triton"
Seasons 7–9	"SpongeBob's Last Stand" "The Great Patty Caper" "It's a SpongeBob Christmas!" "Extreme Spots" "SpongeBob, You're Fired" "Goodbye, Krabby Patty?"
Seasons 10–14	"The Legend of Boo-Kini Bottom" "Squid Noir" "SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout" "Kwarantined Krab" "Sandy's Country Christmas"
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	In its initial airing, the episode received generally positive reviews from critics and fans. "Mid-Life Crustacean" was ranked #86 during the "SpongeBob's Top 100" event in the UK and Ireland from June 4-8, 2012, and it is generally still considered a fan-favourite episode and one of the best episodes in the series.<ref>{{Citation \|title="SpongeBob SquarePants" The Great Snail Race/Mid-Life Crustacean (TV Episode 2003) - IMDb \|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0832790/ \|language=en-US \|access-date=2023-01-15}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|title=Nickelodeon UK Reveals The Results Of "SpongeBob's Top 100" - The Winning Episode Of "SpongeBob SquarePants" Is... \|url=http://www.nickalive.net/2012/06/nickelodeon-uk-reveals-results-of.html \|access-date=2023-01-15 \|language=en}}</ref>		In its initial airing, the episode received generally positive reviews from critics and fans. "Mid-Life Crustacean" was ranked #86 during the "SpongeBob's Top 100" event in the UK and Ireland from June 4-8, 2012, and it is generally still considered a fan-favourite episode and one of the best episodes in the series.<ref>{{Citation \|title="SpongeBob SquarePants" The Great Snail Race/Mid-Life Crustacean (TV Episode 2003) - IMDb \|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0832790/ \|language=en-US \|access-date=2023-01-15}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|title=Nickelodeon UK Reveals The Results Of "SpongeBob's Top 100" - The Winning Episode Of "SpongeBob SquarePants" Is... \|url=http://www.nickalive.net/2012/06/nickelodeon-uk-reveals-results-of.html \|access-date=2023-01-15 \|language=en}}</ref>

	Nickelodeon claims to have pulled the episode from further reruns in 2018. While ~~it has~~ never ~~been~~ officially confirmed, it is heavily suggested that the prominence of the "panty raid" scene and the wake of the ] and ] movement has led to this removal.<ref name=IGN>{{Cite web\|url=https://za.ign.com/spongebob-squarepants/151741/news/spongebob-squarepants-episodes-pulled-over-storyline-concerns\|title=SpongeBob SquarePants Episodes Pulled Over Storyline Concerns\|date=March 26, 2021\|website=IGN Africa}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/30/us/spongebob-episodes-removed.html\|title=Two ''SpongeBob SquarePants'' Episodes No Longer on Nickelodeon\|first=Johnny\|last=Diaz\|date=March 30, 2021\|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref><ref name=Slate>{{Cite web\|url=https://slate.com/culture/2021/03/spongebob-squarepants-paramount-plus-panty-raid-episode.html\|title=Why Are These 11 Minutes Missing From ''SpongeBob'' on Paramount+?\|first=Allegra\|last=Frank\|date=March 25, 2021\|website=Slate Magazine}}</ref>		Nickelodeon claims to have pulled the episode from further reruns in 2018. While never officially confirmed, it is heavily suggested that the prominence of the "panty raid" scene and the wake of the ] and ] movement has led to this removal.<ref name=IGN>{{Cite web\|url=https://za.ign.com/spongebob-squarepants/151741/news/spongebob-squarepants-episodes-pulled-over-storyline-concerns\|title=SpongeBob SquarePants Episodes Pulled Over Storyline Concerns\|date=March 26, 2021\|website=IGN Africa}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/30/us/spongebob-episodes-removed.html\|title=Two ''SpongeBob SquarePants'' Episodes No Longer on Nickelodeon\|first=Johnny\|last=Diaz\|date=March 30, 2021\|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref><ref name=Slate>{{Cite web\|url=https://slate.com/culture/2021/03/spongebob-squarepants-paramount-plus-panty-raid-episode.html\|title=Why Are These 11 Minutes Missing From ''SpongeBob'' on Paramount+?\|first=Allegra\|last=Frank\|date=March 25, 2021\|website=Slate Magazine}}</ref>

	In a 2019 ranking of ''SpongeBob's'' top 100 episodes, ] listed "Mid-Life Crustacean" as the 79th best episode.		In a 2019 ranking of ''SpongeBob's'' top 100 episodes, ] listed "Mid-Life Crustacean" as the 79th best episode.