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  • Today we look at the history of Sheldon J. Plankton.

  • - Sheldon? - Yes, that's my first name.

  • Otherwise known as, well, Plankton.

  • I went to college!

  • The earliest recorded ancestor of Plankton doth be Planktonamor,

  • who lived during Medieval times.

  • [choking]

  • He lived in a tall villainous tower

  • with his wife Karen the crystal ball.

  • Hm, I guess the Plankton family has been romantically involved

  • with advanced technology for generations.

  • Oh, that beeth rich.

  • Planktonamor looks like an elderly wizard.

  • Just look at his grey beard and flowy purple cloak.

  • Planktonamor almost got away with kidnapping Princess Pearl

  • by using his tremendously magical powers.

  • [giggling]

  • That tickles!

  • But he ended up getting zapped by his own dragon jellyfish.

  • Curses! You win.

  • Many, many years later we meet Plankton's next recorded ancestor,

  • from the Wild West era, Dead Eye Plankton.

  • That's me!

  • Dead Eye Plankton.

  • Dead Eye Plankton is an outlaw who is feared by everyone

  • in Dead Eye Gulch.

  • Dead Eye Plankton is very similar to his descendant Plankton,

  • with the exception of his handlebar mustache,

  • red bowtie and top hat.

  • [laughing]

  • I love this town!

  • [laughing]

  • Everyone was scared of Dead Eye Plankton except for SpongeBuck.

  • We're right behind you, boy! Way, way behind you!

  • Who comes to town and challenges Dead Eye to a duel

  • at a very specific time.

  • We're gonna have to settle this thing Western-style at high noon.

  • I'll be back at high noon.

  • High noon!

  • Alright, he said 'high noon', we get it.

  • And in the intense, long-fought battle,

  • SpongeBuck came out victorious.

  • Ow!

  • Huh?

  • Despite Dead Eye Plankton's epic dance moves.

  • Uh-huh, what, what! Uh-huh, what, what!

  • I gotta admit, he's got skills.

  • Let's move down the family tree to Plankton's grandfather,

  • Grand Dad Plankton.

  • We only got one look at Grand Dad,

  • and it happened to be in one of Plankton's nightmares,

  • where they both got swallowed up by Pearl.

  • Hey, Plankton!

  • Glad you could join the rest of the family.

  • Grand Dad?

  • Grand Dad has three spots on the side of his head,

  • and a bushy grey beard.

  • And you're pretty brave standing in that there gastric acid.

  • Gastric acid?

  • [screaming]

  • [laughing]

  • At some point Grand Dad married Lily, Plankton's grandma.

  • Oh Plankton, you always were my favorite granddaughter.

  • Lily lives in Shady Shoals Rest Home,

  • along with many other elderly Bikini Bottomites,

  • including Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy.

  • Evil!

  • Evil!

  • [moaning]

  • Lily looks similar to Plankton, except that she wears glasses,

  • well glass, has lavender puffy hair,

  • and wears an orange dress with yellow polka dots.

  • She is a Plankton, so of course Lily is also obsessed with

  • stealing the secret formula.

  • Say cheese!

  • Cheese! Ha!

  • [screaming]

  • You know what else Lily is obsessed with?

  • The most handsome hunk in all of Bikini Bottom.

  • Oh my goodness!

  • Who is this handsome young man?

  • Oh, that's Squidward. He's nobody. Moving on!

  • Mm! Squidward!

  • Didn't we meet at an early bird dinner?

  • Plankton's grandparents had at least two children.

  • Both sons, they are Silas and Gordon Plankton.

  • Gordon is Plankton's dad.

  • He looks like his son, except he has a blue eye instead of a red one,

  • wears a sweet Hawaiian shirt and has brown facial hair.

  • Gotta admit, looks like a pretty cool dude.

  • Gordon meets an unseen Mama Plankton,

  • who after some deductive reasoning, we can assume looks like this.

  • The couple have who knows how many children, but we do know of one.

  • Sheldon J. Plankton. Yes, Sheldon.

  • For years, it has been my goal to acquire the secret formula for--

  • Plankton is a small green planktonic copepod.

  • [playing harmonica]

  • [panting]

  • He runs the massively unsuccessful Chum Bucket restaurant,

  • situated right across the street from the Krusty Krab.

  • His greatest goal is to steal the Krabby Patty secret formula

  • and control Bikini Bottom.

  • Drops of rain frozen into ice crystals?

  • I shall harness their energy and rule the world!

  • Stop! I wish to rule you!

  • Fun fact: did you know Plankton was born the same exact day as Mr. Krabs?

  • Who knew?

  • Being a microscopic organism,

  • Plankton's biological family members are in the thousands,

  • if not millions.

  • In one instance, Plankton recruits his entire family to help him

  • steal the formula, assuming they were all criminal master minds like himself.

  • Safe to say that Plankton was, well, sadly mistaken.

  • Hey look everybody, it's cousin Plankton!

  • Yeehaw!

  • His relatives include, but are not limited to...

  • You remember Zeke, Rufus, Gee, Billy Bob,

  • Billy Jim, Billy-Billy Banana Fana Fo-Filly,

  • Doug, Ines...

  • - Fletcher McGee, Rain Child... - Alright, I get it!

  • They help Plankton with his evil plan as long as he provides them with...

  • Can I get a new string for my banjo?

  • And another boot to match this one?

  • And some more memory for my laptop.

  • - And most importantly... - And what about root beer?

  • - Wait, what was that? - Root beer!

  • - One more time. - And what about root beer?

  • Root beer!

  • Ah, OK, got it. Root beer!

  • Plankton is married to Karen,

  • a self-aware waterproof super computer,

  • who supports Plankton in his evil schemes.

  • One Krabby Patty, please.

  • - Thank you. - Whatever.

  • Karen has a mother, appropriately named EMILP.

  • EMILP? What's EMILP?

  • Emergency Mother-In-Law Program.

  • Oh, no.

  • She's not Plankton's biggest fan.

  • What have you done to my daughter? You made her cry!

  • You know, she could have been with an ATM, someone with money,

  • but she chose you, I don't know why!

  • Plankton and Karen have an adorable baby boy,

  • Chip Plankton. Don't ask me to explain.

  • Oh, well that makes sense.

  • A baby! I don't want a baby!

  • It's too late to stop it now.

  • It's been nine months and the baby is no longer on back order.

  • Chip is born as a small calculator,

  • and eventually grows into a typewriter.

  • A video game console...

  • A mobile computer...

  • And ultimately, a fully-grown ATM machine.

  • [grunting]

  • Eh, what...

  • Hey! Hey! Give me my money!

  • [sobbing]

  • [laughing]

  • That's my boy!

  • There you have it, folks, all known members of the Plankton family.

  • Join us next time as we discover the interesting ancestry

  • in yet another chapter of Nickelodeon's history

  • on Nick Family Tree.

  • [laughing]

  • ABC's ♪

  • [laughing]

Today we look at the history of Sheldon J. Plankton.

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