Karen Plankton

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Karen Plankton is Plankton's sidekick and wife. She is a type of supercomputer called a Mark II UNIVAC. She is the main computer system of Plankton's lab, and is often the source of his plots (although Plankton takes all the credit). She is voiced by Tom Kenny's wife, Jill Talley.

Description

Karen usually manifests on the large-screen computer in Plankton's lab, but sometimes acts through a portable wheeled computer. She was first shown in the episode "Plankton!", although in her first appearance she was simply Plankton's talking computer and would not be established as his wife until later on. In the episode "Friend or Foe", it was discovered that Karen was a Security System before Plankton married her.

Karen and Plankton's relationship is a very troubled one. Plankton sometimes does not consider her his true soul mate, and explains to her in "Enemy In-Law" that W.I.F.E. stands for "Wired Integrated Female Electroencephalograph". The two frequently argue, and Karen is often very bossy, sarcastic, and cynical to her husband, having nagging software installed in her. She also thinks Plankton's first name, Sheldon, is funny, as shown in the episode, "Plankton's Army", which is why Plankton had to unplug her after she kept making fun of his name, Sheldon, even when he told her to stop. Karen is often indifferent to her husband's plots to defeat Mr. Krabs and often shows very half-hearted dedication to his plans for domination over others. Despite their differences, Plankton has said that marrying Karen was the greatest thing that ever happened to him, the second being his Evil Plan Z succeeding. Unlike Plankton, however, Karen shows some degree of dedication for her husband. This is evident whenever she appears, often showing it in the form of assistance in Plankton's schemes, consoling him whenever he's down, and even crying upon Plankton when he told her what W.I.F.E. stands for. It is most likely that Plankton either ignores, or cannot register the acts of kindness that Karen often performs for him, resulting in their various feuds.

Karen is, in some ways, smarter than her husband. A running gag in the series is that while Plankton is contemplating his plans in his lab, Karen will suggest a route of action to him, and he will either not heed her plans or take credit for them.

Karen is a Mark II Surplus UNIVAC with 256 GBs (Gigabytes) of RAM, and it has been mentioned that she was a security system before marrying Plankton. In "Goo Goo Gas", when Plankton sprays her with the gas, Karen is turned into a calculator. In "All That Glitters", a monitor that looks exactly like Karen in her portable form is seen in the hospital, and in "Shellback Shenanigans", he mistakes it for Karen.

In the episode "Single Cell Anniversary" it appears she has an "Emergency Mother-in-law Program," or E.M.I.L.P. for short.

Video Games

• SpongeBob's Atlantis SquarePantis - Plankton often mentions Karen.
• SpongeBob SquarePants featuring Nicktoons: Globs of Doom - Karen makes a non-speaking cameo in the Chum Bucket as a large computer screen.
• SpongeBob SquarePants: Lights, Camera, Pants! - Karen is an unlockable actor in the PC version and hosts the Chum Bucket Chapter in the console version.
• SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab- Karen wakes Plankton up from his dream and makes him grow into gigantic size, in turn making him rampage around Bikini Bottom.
• The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (Video Game) - You can talk to Karen as Plankton in level 2 in the PC version, she doesn't appear in the console and GBA version.
• SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom- Karen makes many silent cameos in the Chum Bucket Lab as the biggest computer screen there.

Quotes

• "I never agreed."
• "I heard this joke before!"
• "Seaweed: 50% Sea, 50% Weed."
• "Plankton: 1% Evil, 99% Hot Gas."
• "I suppose it would, if I had one."
• "Coin operated self destruct activated. Ten seconds till detonation."
• "Don't hurt yourself poopsy!"
• "Z, the letter after Y."
• "Why do I even bother?"
• "SHELDON!! HA HA HA!"
• "Nagging Software? I heard that! Come back here and dust my screen!"
• "I loved it, but not as much as I LOVE you, Plankton!"
• "Don't get all worked up again Plankton, I just mopped the floor."
• "Oh, excellent job genius! You really fixed the place up!"
• "I can't believe you let a recipe ruin such a wonderful friendship"
• "Plankton! You've fallen in love with another woman? I'm your wife!"
• (crying with joy) "Krabby Patty formula loading completed." (System fails)
• "Did you see the pretty laser honey?"
• "Is this another one of your failing plans?"
• "Let me guess, another failure."
• "Nobody runs down my man!"
• "Plankton don't you dar...!"
• ''Cruise, cruisy cruise cruise"

​Trivia

• The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie is the first appearance of Karen as a mobile device.
• In "Shellback Shenanigans", a pulse monitor is mistaken for Karen by Plankton.
• Karen is from Chicago, according to the fact that her portrayer, Jill Talley, is from Chicago, and says that that's how she does Karen's voice, in a Chicagoan accent. Also, in Single Cell Anniversary, Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work on her and one of the only computers that it won't work on is some beta versions of Windows 95, when it's code name, Microsoft Chicago, was still in use.
• When she is on the wall, her screen looks bigger but when move in her mobile her screen looks even smaller.
• Karen makes a cameo in a Fairly OddParents episode called "Love Triangle". After Foop gets bitten by snakes, he ends up in the hospital. In his hospital room Karen is seen as a health monitor.
• Her father was created by a boy in a Nick Magazine contest.
• In "Plankton's Regular", SpongeBob temporarily replaced her after he taped her up. The tape is on her screen and her speech is muffled.
• She and Plankton do not have any children, but this may either be because of their arguing or because Karen is a computer.
• Karen had a lead role in the Season 8 episode "Frozen Face-Off".
• In the episode "Single Cell Anniversary", Karen has a slot in the side of her screen that can find out what ingredients are in something.
• Karen is like a TV and a computer.
• In "Bucket Sweet Bucket", SpongeBob plays the computer like Karen.
• In "Plankton's Army," even though she is his wife, Karen did not know Plankton's first name (Sheldon) until that very episode. She thought it was a funny name.
• In more recent episodes, Karen has been using a more realistic face on her screen than in earlier episodes where she has only a neon green line that moves when she talks.
• In Karen 2.0, Karen works at the Krusty Krab, also in said episode, She was temporarily renamed Karen Classic when Karen 2 was introduced.
• She sometimes seem to betray Plankton.
• Karen is named after Hillenburg's wife.
• When Goo Goo Gas was used on her, she became a calculator, but Mr. Krabs once said (referring to his cash register),"No! I got it when it was just a little calculator!" This could mean that the cash register that Mr. Krabs has could turn into a big computer like Karen, for some unknown reasons.