“Obviously! Besides, it’s been weeks now and there’s been no sign of that Hash-Slinging Slasher guy!”, Spongebob assured his co-worker that everything was A-OK. “I suppose you're right! Wait…isn’t it two-forty now?”. “I don’t think either of us could, considering what happened at 3am that night!”. “Oh, don’t worry Squidward! Just keeping myself occupied! Say, you don’t happen to remember our first night shift, do you?”. “Spongebob, why are you making a Krabby Patty?” a nasal voice asked the fry cook, “Nobody’s ordered anything in hours!”. First, he put a bottom bun on the countertop then, he added mayo, a patty, some lettuce, a slice of cheddar cheese, two onions, a slice of tomato, ketchup, mustard, and pickles in that order finally, he added a top bun to top it all off. Kids conflate memories like that.It was not even 30 minutes till 3am one Tuesday night when a fry cook at the Krusty Krab decided to make himself a Krabby Patty to keep himself occupied (and his stomach full). The first two movies would have been airing on cable occasionally by the time the episode Graveyard Shift aired, and the third movie (direct to video/candle) would have hit cable right around the time internet memes as we know them, especially those that involve Spongebob, were really exploding.Īssuming you’re in your mid twenties, give or take, you’d be right around the age where you’d have seen both Graveyard Shift and I Know What You Did Last Summer or one of the sequels on cable, then shortly afterwards saw a meme combining the two as a joke, possibly a fake movie poster or trailer. One movie that has gotten this treatment quite a lot is 1997s I Know What You Did Last Summer, and it’s sequels which came out in 19, which is about a guy in a rain slicker looking like the guy from the fish stick box killing teenagers with a fish hook. I’m pretty sure there are even fake movie trailers using clips of real slasher movies from the 90s and 2000s. Uses of the meme include, but aren’t limited to, editing movie posters to look like edgy horror movies but saying the movie title is The Hash Slinging Slasher. Since this episode aired, the Hash Slinging Slasher has been a meme among millenials and later, Gen z. It’s considered one of the best episodes of the show.

Spobgebob and Squidward work an overnight shift at the Krusty Krab, and Squidward tells a spooky story about an alleged ghost killer named the Hash Slinging Slasher (who was fired at his funeral). The Hash Slinging Slasher is from an episode of Spongebob Squarepants that aired in 2002, Graveyard Shift. LOL okay so I know exactly how you came to this conclusion, if you’re not trolling.

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