YMMV / Sponge Bob Square Pants S 13 E 14 Salty Sponge Karen For Spot

• Alternative Joke Interpretation: In "Karen for Spot", SpongeBob and Karen have disgusting-looking chum for dinner. SpongeBob, disturbed, says that he doesn't really eat chum. Karen swats hers away and says, "Neither do I!" Is she just turning it down because it's gross, or is it because she's a computer and doesn't need to eat anyways?
• He Really Can Act: "Karen for Spot" is Karen's biggest role in the series, and it shows off just how much emotion Jill Talley can put into her character: her confidence in assuring she can take care of Spot, her desperation at thinking she killed Spot and subsequent breakdown when talking to SpongeBob, and her argument with Plankton at the end being some highlights.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: In "Karen for Spot", Plankton is going to a doomsday device convention with other supervillains. We only get one shot of what this looks like, and it's barely given any focus, despite the fact that it could make a fun episode in its own right.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: At the end of "Karen for Spot", Karen blames Plankton for all the trouble she went through, saying that he should have trained Spot properly. The thing is, Plankton did leave a lot of instructions for Karen, and they got destroyed because she wasn't paying attention. She's also noticeably dumber in this episode and does things without thinking them through. Karen never admits that most of it was her own mistake, so Plankton's arguing is justified.