Health inspector (Nasty Patty) (2024)

Character

The health inspector is a character who first appears in the episode "Nasty Patty."

Description[]

He is a dark purple fish with a cyan dorsal fin and dark purple eyelids and lips. He wears a navy blue suit over his white dress shirt and a red tie. He also has black leather shoes, a brown fedora with a tan stripe, and a star-shaped badge. In his older appearances, his dorsal fin was magenta, his eyelids were lavender, his lips were plum, his tie was blue, and his fedora was navy blue with a light gray stripe.

Role in series[]

He has appeared in a few episodes throughout the series where he is almost always portrayed as a health inspector. He makes his biggest appearance in his debut "Nasty Patty."

Major roles[]

"Nasty Patty"[]

He appears as the health inspector for the Krusty Krab. Mr. Krabs and SpongeBob give him plenty of food. When he is done, he requests a regular Krabby Patty. The TV in the Krusty Krab kitchen shows a news report that a fake inspector has been going around getting free food. Mr. Krabs assumed that he was the fake health inspector and he forces SpongeBob to help him make the worst patty possible. They put a lot of random things in it; SpongeBob calls it the "Nasty Patty."

SpongeBob delivers it to him. He is about to eat it when a fly gets in his throat and he chokes. He drops the patty and slips on it, knocking his head on the table and falling unconscious. Mr. Krabs and SpongeBob laugh at his pain, not seeing what happened.

Another news report comes in saying that the fake inspector has been arrested. Realizing their mistake, SpongeBob says that they should explain the situation to him. But Mr. Krabs looks out and see the unconscious health inspector and believes he's dead, saying that he won't be laughing because the patty killed him.

Panicking, Mr. Krabs and SpongeBob take the body to the graveyard and try to bury the body. While burying his body, SpongeBob finds a large rock underground and shovels it out, hitting the semi-conscious health inspector in the head. They walk away as a police car containing Incidental 118B and Incidental 118 drives up. They offer to drive Mr. Krabs and SpongeBob to the Krusty Krab. They take the offer and go back to put the shovel in the trunk. It starts to rain and the health inspector's body slides down the mud and SpongeBob notices. They put the body in the trunk and get into the police car as the car drives away.

Using code, Mr. Krabs tells SpongeBob to take the body and put it into the freezer. When they get back to the Krusty Krab, SpongeBob tries to go through the backdoor, but it's locked. He then puts the body in his hat and goes through the front door. Later, Incidental 118B requests ice in her drink, and the two try to hide what they have done. Eventually, they have to open the freezer door and the body isn't there. Jokingly, they think that the inspector became a zombie. The health inspector shows up and they all think that he is a zombie. Incidental 118B and Incidental 118 hit him with heavy objects and Incidental 118 notices that he's not a zombie, revealing to SpongeBob and Mr. Krabs that he is alive. Fearing for his life and not wanting to be potentially hurt again, he decides gives the Krusty Krab a passing grade.

After Mr. Krabs says that everyone will get patties, Andy is happy to eat one before he is hit in the face by a shutting door, though he presumably eats.

"The Krabby Kronicle"[]

Plankton assumes he has created the "Chumstick that will finally run Mr. Krabs out of business." However, Yellowtail shows up and closes the Chum Bucket down after reading the Krabby Kronicle article that says "Plankton's Chum Made of Your Chums!!!" Later in the episode, Plankton claims that due to Mr. Krabs' lying actions, he lost the Chum Bucket. After finding out the article was false he possibly reopens the Chum Bucket as an apology.

"You Don't Know Sponge"[]

A yellow version of him appears alongside Frank the whale, to which he asks what is wrong after stopping abruptly from hearing the noises from Patrick. After Frank tells him the whale sounds like Martha, he tells Frank that Martha is no good for him.

"Planet of the Jellyfish"[]

The yellow version of him appears as a Jellien clone ordering a Krabby Patty from Jellien Squidward.

"SpongeBob's Place"[]

He is called by Squidward to close SpongeBob's Place about halfway through the episode. He and Incidental G12 appear at the end, shutting it down, because it's against state law to sell food inside a pineapple.

"Plankton's Old Chum"[]

He appears to charge Plankton for spreading chum all over the Bikini Bottom. He tells Plankton he could either pay the 1 billion dollars charged, or he could eat all the chum. Plankton takes the second offer and takes several days to clean it up, resulting in him getting extremely overweight.

"Kwarantined Krab"[]

He detects someone within the Krusty Krab carrying the Clam Flu disease and orders the restaurant to be quarantined. He eventually returns to reopen the Krusty Krab, claiming he made a false positive (mostly because he was stupidly holding his tracking equipment upside-down the whole time) only to find that its occupants (SpongeBob, Squidward, Patrick, Pearl, Mrs. Puff, and Mr. Krabs) had all been affected with various diseases during a paranoid fight amongst themselves. Horrified, he runs out of the restaurant and calls a hazmat team to take it away. Mr. Krabs also mentions that he bribes the health inspector yearly.

"A Place for Pets"[]

He first appears in the disguise of a little girl at the Krusty Krab when Mr. Krabs allowed pets into the restaurant. He tells Krabs that he will shut down the Krusty Krab unless he chooses the Krusty Krab to be only for people or only for pets. Mr. Krabs chooses to make the Krusty Krab only for pets due to believing that pet are more profitable than people.

Later when a bunch of customers disguised themselves as pet in order to eat at the Krusty Krab, SpongeBob discovers that the health inspector snuck into the Krusty Krab with them in a sea bear costume. The other customers get mad at him because the whole debacle was his fault. Nervously, the health inspector says that he simply wanted a Krabby Patty so bad and claims that he has learned that pets are like people too by singing the song "Pets Are People Too" along with everyone else in the Krusty Krab. He then allows the Krusty Krab to be a restaurant for both pets and people again. He is later forced to leave along with everyone else when the fire marshal tells Mr. Krabs he was over capacity.

"BassWard"[]

He appears on the train to Jetsam City. He takes an empty seat before Squidward can. There is still room next to him, which Squidward tries to take, but the health inspector takes out a puppet from his suitcase and tells Squidward to keep walking.

"Blood is Thicker Than Grease"[]

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Major roles in games[]

Pizza Perfect[]

He is one of the customers that SpongeBob has to serve pizza to.

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