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Mr. Krabs Squeaky Boots Remixes refers to a series of videos remixing a scene from Spongebob Squarepants in which a customer attempts to order something from the character Mr. Krabs, the owner of The Krusty Krab. In the episode, Mr. Krabs is wracked with guilt because he stole Spongebob's beloved squeaky boots, so when the customer attempts to order, Mr. Krabs hears the squeak of the boots. In the remixes, the audio of the squeaking boots is replaced with various other audio clips.

Origin

The clip comes from the Spongebob Squarepants episode "Squeaky Boots," which aired September 4th, 1999.^[1] In the episode, Mr. Krabs swindles Spongebob into buying a pair of boots. Spongebob falls in love with the boots, wearing them constantly. The boots make a hideous squeaking sound, which annoys Mr. Krabs, leading him to steal and bury them underneath the floorboards of The Krusty Krab. In a play on "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allen Poe, Krabs' guilt over stealing the boots causes him to constantly hear their squeak, climaxing in a moment where a customer attempts to order a meal and Mr. Krabs can only hear the squeak (filmed upload of the scene shown below).

Spread

The clip grew into a source of some popular remix videos in June of 2017. On June 13th, YouTuber The Dinkster^[4] uploaded a remix that features an ear rape version of "Fireflies", gaining only 284 views. OnJune 14th, Tumblr user bob-belcher^[2] did the same, gaining over 101,000 notes. The following day, it was uploaded to YouTube by Mitchelskater and gained 90,000 views (shown below).

Over the course of the following weeks, several more edits appeared in which people replaced the audio of the squeaky boots with various other audio clips, including Boneless Pizza (shown below, left), and Big Smoke's Order (shown below, right). On July 19th, Emmanuel Pichardo uploaded an edit to Melee Hell which gained over 1,000 likes and reactions.^[3]

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