Necro-Nom-Nom-Nom-I-Con

Necro-Nom-Nom-Nom-I-Con

General

Production code:

325-1411

Season №:

14

Episode №:

299b

Airdate:

February 26,2024
April 27,2024
May 9,2024
July 17,2024^[1]

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U.S. premiere time (ET):

5:05 pm

Copyright year:

2024

U.S. viewers (millions):

0.17

Running time:

10 minutes, 58 seconds

Sister episode(s):

"Tango Tangle"

Characters[]

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Squidward Tentacles
• Eugene H. Krabs
• Bubble Bass
• Lady Upturn
• Uncle Jimmy^{(mentioned, author ofBreakfast Magic!)}
• Incidentals
  • Incidental 2
  • Incidental 3
  • Steven
  • John
  • Incidental 6
  • Incidental 7
  • Incidental 8
  • Incidental 9
  • Incidental 10
  • Incidental 11
  • Incidental 12
  • Incidental 14
  • Incidental 15
  • Incidental 18
  • Incidental 20
  • Carol
  • Incidental 27
  • Harold
  • Incidental 41
  • Judy
  • Incidental 48
  • Incidental 49
  • Incidental 64
  • Billy
  • Incidental 69
  • Harris
  • Incidental 93
  • Incidental 96^{(alternate colors)}
  • Incidental 97^{(alternate colors)}
  • Gale
  • Frank
  • Steve
  • Dale
  • Lenny
  • Incidental 115
  • Incidental 118C
  • Incidental 161
  • Incidental 163
  • Incidental 167
  • Incidental 168
  • Incidental 169
  • Incidental 171
  • Helen the Felon
  • Incidental 174
  • Mr. What Zit Tooya
  • Incidental 180
  • Incidental 181
  • Incidental 185 ^{(alternate colors)}
  • Incidental 186
• Breakfast monster^{(single appearance)}
• Clerk^{(single appearance)}
• Sand witch
• Black scallops
• Mermaid Man ^(cameo)
• Barnacle Boy ^(cameo)

Synopsis[]

Mr. Krabs is out for a walk one day when he passes by theCoffee Bowl, a café. He realizes how much customers are willing to pay for breakfast and gets the idea to start selling it at the Krusty Krab. He asks SpongeBob to cook up some breakfast foods, and he comes out with pancakes, which ends up tasting just like Krabby Patties. Mr. Krabs then sends SpongeBob to the cookstore to pick up a cookbook he ordered. However, the clerk mistakenly gives him an ancient spellbook. The witch who was supposed to get it then stops by, but ends up with the cookbook instead.

SpongeBob arrives back with the spellbook and is able to find all of the eldritch ingredients in the kitchen, and cooks them in an iron cauldron. A stack of pancakes pops out. Mr. Krabs makes Squidward taste them, but they cause him to grow an extra eye. SpongeBob serves breakfast to the rest of the customers, which all have side-effects and transform them into monsters.

Meanwhile, the witch is mixing potions with SpongeBob's spell book, but only makes breakfast instead. Back in the Krusty Krab, SpongeBob explains that his food is transforming the customers. The witch arrives to get her spellbook back, but it floats out of the kitchen and forms part of a giant breakfast monster. The witch tries to attack it, but it sprays maple syrup at her and sticks her to the wall. She transfers her magic to SpongeBob, telling him that the only way to stop breakfast is with dinner. SpongeBob uses his spatula to serve up a triple-decker Krabby Patty and flings it into the monster's mouth. It explodes, freeing the customers who were trapped inside.

The witch gets free and offers that SpongeBob can be her apprentice. SpongeBob declines and offers the witch a patty, but she comments it is too early for dinner. She makes it a breakfast food by putting it between two waffles. Mr. Krabs likes the new "Krabby waffles" and gets the idea to now serve a combination of breakfast and dinner. He shows the new cookbook, which he picked up himself. It is again possessed, leading to a giant skeleton appearing from the sky and ghosts invading the restaurant.

Production[]

This episode's storyboards were plussed in April2023.^[2]

This episode was confirmed onSeptember 5, 2023.^[3]

OnFebruary 21,2024,Austin Kimmell confirmed he had done storyboards for this episode.^[2]

Promotional art[]

• Drawn by Austin Kimmell.^[2]

Art[]

Background design[]

• Art direction byPeter Bennett, traditionally painted in gouache byAmy Lewis and edits made digitally with Adobe Photoshop.^[4]

Exterior of Books

Interior of Books

Cookbook and spellbook

Witch's broom on a rack

Process photo #1

Process photo #2

Process photo #3

Storyboards[]

• Rough boarded byZeus Cervas, plussed by Dylan 'Houston' King, Austin Kimmell, andIbrahim J. Corona.^[5] Revised byBrad Vandergrift.^[6]
  • Boards highlighted in red featuring story notes were plussed exclusively by King.^[7]

Production notes[]

Austin Kimmell:

• Kimmel thankedDave Cunningham for "taking a chance on him," believing he was "so lucky that this [was his] first TV credit!"^[2]

Ibrahim J. Corona:

• He referred the episode as "a really crazy one!" and said it was "definitely one of his favorites."^[6]

Music[]

  The Necro Nom Nom Nom I Con Title Card - Nicolas Carr [Title card.]
  Cinammon Stick - Frank Sterling [Opening.]
  Comic Consequences - Part 9 - Ronald Hanmer [Krabs gets kicked.]
  SpongeBob Flashback Vibes - Nicolas Carr [SpongeBob's daydream.]
  Hot Steel and Slide Licks 7A - Jeremy Wakefield [Krusty Krab on the moon explodes.]
  Cheap and Frozen Jig Short - Nicolas Carr, Michael Bolger [Mr. Krabs decides to serve breakfast.]
  Pirate's Opus - Nicolas Carr, Michael Bolger [SpongeBob cooks pancakes.]
  Hot Steel and Slide Licks 31A - Jeremy Wakefield ["These pancakes taste like a Krabby Patty."]
  Galley Cooks Shanty 2 - Nicolas Carr, Michael Bolger ["Oh, I was afraid of this."]
  Lap Steel-spce_01 - Jeremy Wakefield [Transition to next scene.]
  Capering Clowns - Max Saunders [SpongeBob at the bookstore.]
  Lap Steel-spce_01 - Jeremy Wakefield [Transition to next scene.]
  Add Lib Jig - Nicolas Carr, Michael Bolger [SpongeBob returns to the Krusty Krab.]
  Eerie Link - Remastered - Max Harris [SpongeBob reads the cookbook.]
  Add Lib Jig - Nicolas Carr, Michael Bolger ["Well, there should be some in the back of the freezer."]
  Ghoulies And Ghosties - Remastered - Fredric Bayco [SpongeBob carrying "cooking ingredients."]
  Hot Steel and Slide Licks 37A - Jeremy Wakefield ["Say, these are pretty good."]
  It's Showtime 2 - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr ["Breakfast is served!"]
  Five Dramatic Bridges A - Remastered - Kurt Rehfeld [Squidward grows an eye.]
  Goblin Forest - Ronald Hanmer [Customers transforming into monsters.]
  Horror Upon Horror - Wilfred Josephs [Customers running and screaming.]
  Lap Steel-spce_01 - Jeremy Wakefield [Transition to next scene.]
  Bump In The Night - Fredric Bayco [At the witch's cottage.]
  Long Legged Beasties - Fredric Bayco [Monsters cornering the Krusty Krew.]
  Horror Upon Horror - Wilfred Josephs [Cookbook comes to life.]
  Five Dramatic Bridges B - Remastered - Kurt Rehfeld [Cookbook transforms into a monster.]
  Creepy Crawly - Ronald Hanmer [Witch teleports to the Krusty Krab.]
  It's Creepy (A) - Ron Goodwin ["I'm here to swap books with you."]
  Dramatic Background - Remastered - Kurt Rehfeld [Cookbook monster traps the witch with syrup.]
  A Haunting We Will Go - Ronald Hanmer ["Hey you! The spongy kid with the wand!"]
  Fraidy Cat - Remastered - Fredric Bayco [Witch turns SpongeBob into a wizard.]
  Abra Kadabra - Remastered - Alexander Von Szlatinay [SpongeBob conjures a pot roast.]
  Murder Scene - Alan Wynn [Cookbook monster eating people.]
  Four Evil Men (d) - Trevor Duncan [SpongeBob defeats the cookbook.]
  Hot Steel and Slide Licks 31A - Jeremy Wakefield ["I need a vacation."]
  Fraidy Cat - Remastered - Fredric Bayco ["Hey, kid. Do you want to be my apprentice?"]
  Got It - Nicolas Carr [Krabs gets an idea.]
  Cheap and Frozen Jig - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield ["We will no longer be serving breakfast."]
  It's Creepy (A) - Ron Goodwin [Ending.]

Release[]

Reception[]

• This episode ranked #1 on the official SpongeBobInstagram's ranking of 10 episodes fromseason 14.^[8]

Trivia[]

General[]

• This episode wasoriginally titled "Necro-Nom-Nom-Nomicon."^[9]
• This episode was intended to air onNicktoons at 9:15 PM onFebruary 20,2024 before getting pulled.
• This episode serves asAustin Kimmel's first television credit.^[2]
• The CGI explosion used when SpongeBob's imaginary Krusty Krab blows up is reused from "Dream Hoppers" andKamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years's "Painting with Squidward."
• SpongeBob previously used magic in the kitchen while equipped withKing Neptune'strident inseason 10's "Trident Trouble."
• Like in "Le Big Switch" and "SpongeBob You're Fired," SpongeBob is once again unable to cook any foods that are not Krabby Patties.

Episode references[]

• Mr. Krabs is kicked out of a fish's café with one of SpongeBob'ssqueaky boots fromthe episode of the same name.
• The sand witch from "Scavenger Pants" returns.

Cultural references[]

• This episode's title is a spoof on, and makes use of, theNecronomicon, a textbook of magic that first appears in the lateH. P. Lovecraft's1924 short story,The Hound.
  • The "nom-nom" portion of the title represents "nom-nom-nom," the onomatopoeia for eating that occurs at the Krusty Krab.
  • This episode is also the first to make use of fictional, public-domain characters from early 20th century writers.
    • The first was going to be "FUN-Believable," which was originally set to featuremorlocks, (a fictional species who first appeared in the lateH. G. Wells' 1895 novelThe Time Machine) beating up Mr. Krabs while he andRube tour the restaurant's secret menu, but the scene was deleted.
  • Design-wise, the spell book bears an eerie resemblance toEvil Dead series' take on Necronomicon utilized by Dark Ones in controlling Deadites,Necronomicon Ex-Mortis.

Errors[]

• As the evil witch spins the book, part of her nose gets cut off when she asks the clerk if the cooking book was hers.

• When the clerk shrugs and says, "Pretty sure," his eyeballs go missing for one frame.
• The witch's eye is transparent, when she inBooks.

• When SpongeBob salutes to Mr. Krabs, he is missing one of the holes on his side.

• When SpongeBob says, "Squidward is not part of a balanced breakfast!," his lip overlaps his nose for a frame.
• During the Krusty Krab scenes, theChum Bucket and the path leading to it are missing.

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