Pearl

Species: Sperm whale

Age: 18 years old

Family: Daughter of Mr. Krabs; her mother was also a whale

Home: Lives in a hollow anchor with her father

Interests: Shopping, socializing at the mall, and being a cheerleader

Job: Works at "Grandma's Apron" in the Bikini Bottom Mall

Relationship with Mr. Krabs: They have a typical father-daughter dynamic, often arguing over his stinginess versus her teenage desires, but ultimately love each other.

RESIDENCE: Mr. Krabs and Pearl's house, Bikini Bottom, Pacific Ocean

OCCUPATION(S): High school student Assistant at Grandma's Apron Future Krusty Krab owner

EDUCATION: Bikini Bottom School (formerly)[ Bikini Bottom High School

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

GENDER: Female

COLOR: Gray

EYE COLOR: Blue

CLASSIFICATION: Sperm whale

FAMILY SIBLINGS: PlanKrab (paternal half-brother) Red PlanKrab (half-brother) Green PlanKrab (half-brother)

PARENTS: Eugene H. Krabs (father) Mrs. Krabs (mother) Cashina (stepmother; deceased)

GRANDPARENTS: Krabs Senior (paternal grandfather) Mama Krabs (paternal grandmother) Unnamed Maternal Grandfather Unnamed Maternal Grandmother

AUNTS: Mr. Krabs' sister or brother

COUSINS: Mr. Krabs' three nephews

DESCENDANTS: Krabs family

OTHER RELATIVES: Redbeard Krabs (great-grandfather) Grandma Krabs (great-grandmother) Alan Quaterkrab (granduncle) CONNECTIONS EMPLOYER: Beatrice Eugene H. Krabs (occasionally)

She is a young, teenage whale who lives in a hollow anchor with her father, Eugene H. Krabs. When Pearl grows up, Mr. Krabs wants her to continue the family business by inheriting the Krusty Krab and becoming its owner.

Pearl has gray skin and is very tall compared to the other characters. She has blonde hair that she ties in a ponytail with a pink scrunchie. There is a red heart shape on the bottom of her nose that turns into lips when she kisses. She has solid blue, oval-shaped eyes and six eyelashes on each eye. Pearl wears purple eye shadows on her eye lids. Pearl has five ventral pleats on her neck, usually drawn as five lines with the centered one longer than the rest. Pearl is one of the few characters with one eye on each side of her head, meaning she has monocular vision.

Pearl's normal outfit is a pink cheerleader shirt with a dark magenta skirt and the letter "P" designed on the front. She also wears barnacle-crafted white go-go boots. One of Pearl's most common outfits is her prom dress, which she first wears in "The Chaperone." She has since used the dress for many other occasions, such as her birthday and the fake wedding between SpongeBob and Sandy in "Truth or Square." Pearl wears a pink tiara alongside this dress. The type of pajamas Pearl wears changes throughout the show. She wears purple footie pajamas and a nightcap in earlier episodes, but as of "The Slumber Party," her pajamas are a pink and purple nightgown. During the last few minutes of Pigskin Pearl, instead of her usual red heart shape, purple eye shadows and pink scrunchie, Pearl has a blue heart shape on the bottom of her nose and wearing blue eye shadows on her eyelids and also wearing a blue-and-white jock jacket, a blue scrunchie and blue pair of shorts, but still wearing her white go-go boots.

In various spin-off media, Pearl is slightly redesigned. In Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years, she's much younger than the rest of the cast, having a single tooth, a blonde tuft tied with a pink bow, and wears a pink shirt and a diaper. In The Patrick Star Show, she has two designs. In her first design from "Squidina's Little Helper," she's around the same height as Squidina, with her hair being tied in two ponytails, wearing a pink shirt, a red dress, and blue sneakers. In her second design from "Pearl Wants to Be a Star," she's around the same size as her main show design, with her hair still tied in two ponytails, although this time, she wears a pink shirt with a yellow flower on it, a red skirt, and black Mary Janes with white knee high socks and has a pink heart shape on the bottom of her nose.

The episode "Band Geeks" reveals that, from a far-away aerial view, all of the other characters appear to be colored specks but Pearl's nose is oversized and clearly visible in the crowd. Similarly to SpongeBob's square body, Pearl's head is in the shape of a rectangular prism and it is drawn very differently when she is facing forward or from the back.

Personality: Just like real sperm whales, which have the biggest brain size of any extant species on Earth, Pearl's brain is the largest out of all the Bikini Bottom residents. She is skilled in math, which is why Mr. Krabs would like it if she became a bookkeeper for his restaurant. However, she is still young and has not matured yet, so she spends most of her time and money at the mall.

Pearl is happy, naive, well-meaning, and high-spirited. She wants nothing more than to fit in with the other residents of Bikini Bottom, but this is impossible to do because she is literally the biggest teenage girl in the ocean. She is very friendly and trusting to her peers at the Bikini Bottom High School, despite how they usually are not the same way with her.

Pearl is a huge fan of Mecha Baleen and The Adventures of Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy, but does not want any of her classmates at Bikini Bottom High School to know about her interests. She wishes she could spend her teenage years with good friends and become popular, but her peers are all too shallow to accept her for who she is. A running gag is that Pearl will have a fully diverse group of friends whenever she is seen hanging out with her classmates. They are very unloyal friends and usually laugh at Pearl, make fun of her, or abandon her. This is mainly causes by her unusual body size compared to her peers and her father who is overprotective, cheap and old-fashioned. For some reasons, Pearl will even refer to another student as one of her best friends, only for that friend to completely absent from the show after that episode. Aside from the main characters, the only friends Pearl has that have never betrayed her are the mermaids. Aside from being skilled in math, Pearl's talents include cheerleading, playing the saxophone, and playing the piano. She often keeps a pair of red or pink cheerleading pom-poms with her. Being a whale, she shakes the ground whenever she tries to perform a cheerleading act and endangers whoever is in the same building as her. However, she does never seem to notice this and Mr. Krabs thinks she is very talented.

Pearl is normally upbeat, unlike her father, who can be crabby at times. Episodes such as "Mid-Life Crustacean" contrast Pearl's attitude with Mr. Krabs' bitterness due to his old age. In the episode, Pearl makes him a big breakfast of bran products and feeds him his daily pill. She does this all while smiling incessantly, but Mr. Krabs is unhappy the whole time, saying "I hate the pill!" and then asking Pearl if he's out of touch.

Ironically, Pearl's favorite food is salad, despite how sperm whales are the largest toothed predator currently on Earth. She also likes tea and Krabby Patties. SpongeBob's Book of Excuses reveals that she usually has Kelpo cereal for breakfast. "Best Frenemies" reveals that Pearl once enjoyed Kelp Shakes, the addictive drinks served by the Kelpshake restaurant chain. This distressed Mr. Krabs greatly when he found out, since Kelpshake was a competing restaurant. "One Coarse Meal" reveals that Pearl does not eat plankton. This makes sense because toothed whales do not eat plankton; baleen whales do.

Since Pearl is a whale and mammals have lungs, she needs air to breathe. It is revealed in "Bubble Troubles" that she holds air in her nose in order to breathe when underwater. In order to get air to her lungs, she regularly goes to the water's surface and breaches. It is revealed in "Bossy Boots" that Mr. Krabs taught her how to breach. Pearl's favorite place to visit is the Bikini Bottom Mall. She is the opposite of her father when it comes to spending; Mr. Krabs wants to save every penny he earns and is very cheap, but Pearl loves to spend big amounts of cash on superfluous things. She was the one who introduced the mermaids from the Bikini Bottom Triangle to the mall. Pearl convinced them to join her on a shopping spree by describing the mall as "the most awesome place to get the best, super-coolish, glitters fabulous new stuff you want!" In "Upturn Girls," Pearl takes Narlene on a trip to her favorite department store, Upturn's. There, they have fun sampling perfume, trying on outfits, and shopping for shoes. Despite Pearl's huge brain and mathematical knowledge, she's still a kid and can be childish at times. The fairytales she heard as a child have impacted how she views life. As shown in "Married to Money," this has caused Pearl to have trouble distinguishing fantasy from reality. In the episode, she considers that getting a stepmother would turn her life into the fairy tale Cinderella. She says to her father, "I have seen stepmoms in movies, Dad. She'll make me sweep up the cinders, and then she won't let me go to the ball! And then I'll never meet my Prince Charming!" Pearl can get overdramatic and very emotional at times. A running gag is that whenever Pearl is upset, she will cry literal rivers of tears. This often results in flooding the Krusty Krab or whatever building she is in; as a matter of fact, the Krabs house has drain plugs built into the floors so the rooms can be emptied after Pearl cries or spouts water from the blowhole on her head. Whenever Mr. Krabs hears Pearl crying, he often says "Thar she blows!" or "Batten down the hatches!" as a warning to take cover from Pearl's crying. One of Nickelodeon's character descriptions for Pearl says: "When her famously frugal father Mr. Krabs gets the credit card bills, he's usually hopping mad. But Pearl knows how to play him like a cheap fiddle—after all, she does have the bigger brain. She just turns on the water works and melts his krusty old heart."

Residence: Pearl lives in an anchor with her father at Mr. Krabs and Pearl's house in Bikini Bottom. While most of the house has wooden walls and a nautical theme, Pearl's bedroom is very different from the rest of the rooms in terms of appearance. The walls are turquoise with a flower print pattern. Boy band posters and sports flags can usually be seen on the walls. Behind Pearl's bed is a photo of her surfing above the surface. Her room is on the top floor of the house, which is an absurd decision on Mr. Krabs' part because Pearl is so heavy and has broken through her room's floor before.

Occupation: Pearl works as an assistant at Grandma's Apron, a store on the bottom floor of the Bikini Bottom Mall. The other students of Bikini Bottom High think that it is the lamest store, but Pearl absolutely loves it there and does not care what they think about it. Her favorite things to do at Grandma's Apron include sitting in a rocking chair, dusting tchotchkes, baking cookies and knitting all kinds of clothes for herself.

Skills and Abilities:

Acting: In "As Seen on TV," Pearl portrays a customer named Amy in the Krusty Krab commercial, and does so accurately to her character.

Knitting: In "Mall Girl Pearl," Pearl is shown to be a talented knitter with the help of Beatrice.

Making Krabby Patties: Pearl is able to make great Krabby Patties, although Patrick thinks SpongeBob's are a little better than Pearl's. She can make them because she knows the secret formula.

Math: Pearl is a very skilled math student because of her brain size. However, she does not like to use her math skills as a bookkeeper at the Krusty Krab or to count French fries.

Soccer: Pearl is great at being a goalie in soccer, because her head is so large that it fills the entire goal and prevents any soccer balls from entering.

Basketball: In "The Chaperone," Pearl is revealed to know how to play basketball. She is good at playing it because she is so tall. In the episode, SpongeBob molds into the shape of a basketball so that Pearl can shoot a hoop with him.

Bicycling: "Selling Out" shows that Mr. Krabs taught Pearl how to ride a bicycle at a young age.

Bubble art: Mr. Krabs says that Pearl is an expert bubble-blower in the Hooray for Dads! book, and she is able to rival SpongeBob's bubble skills. Playing the tuba and piano: Pearl can play both the tuba and the piano, as revealed in "Band Geeks" and "Barnacle Face." The Krabs house has a grand piano in it.

Strength: Due to her enormous height and weight, Pearl has been shown to utilize her strength on numerous occasions. She can make the ground shake and destroy nearly anything around her just by running or jumping. She can cry to the point of creating a flood; her tears can also be used to break through walls, as seen in "Whale Watching," or create earthquakes, as seen in "The Chaperone." She had the ability to break through the second floor of her house in "Whale of a Birthday" and is also used as a race car in "Mermaid Man & Barnacle Boy VI: The Motion Picture."

Biography: Pearl was born to Mr. Krabs and Mrs. Krabs. On the day she was born, Mr. Krabs bought a celebration banner on sale. It had the words "it's a boy" on it, so he crossed boy out to write girl. Pearl has had the same bed, which her father got for $30, ever since she was a newborn.[18]

When Pearl was a baby, she was dramatically smaller than Mr. Krabs, and only had one little strand of hair tied in a bow. She had a single tooth. Around the time she was a baby, her father took her to his summer camp, Kamp Koral, where he took care of her for the summer. As a toddler, Pearl gained a full head of hair, but was still shorter than her father. She grew taller than Mr. Krabs when she became a teenager.

Throughout her early childhood, Pearl was always babysat by Squidward Tentacles. She calls him "Uncle Squiddy." He is not actually her uncle, but an honorary one (this title is often given by a parent of a child to a close family friend, like Squidward is to Mr. Krabs). At a young age, Pearl acted in Patrick's variety show.

At one of Pearl's earliest birthday parties, all of her guests had to share one balloon. At a later birthday party, Mr. Krabs performed a song called "Pearl's Me Daughter" and gave Pearl a pair of squeaky fishing boots that he later handed down to SpongeBob. On the day afterwards, he got her a pair of flipper slippers. The book "Nautical Nonsense" reveals that on an unknown birthday, she and Mr. Krabs tried to see the musical Fiddler on the Reef but ended up seeing a "dive-in" movie after it was sold out. On Pearl's 15th birthday, Mr. Krabs passed out paper clips as party favors. Pearl turns 16 in "Whale of a Birthday."