"I had a wonderful time tonight, Larry," said Sandy Cheeks, the bright bubbly squirrel. She had just come home with Larry after a date. She was dressed in a skintight, revealing red dress, as well as her usual air helmet.

"I did too, Sandy." Larry the Lobster, Bikini Bottom's resident lifeguard and strongman was standing with Sandy in front of his apartment building. "So, I guess you're coming up?"

"What?"

"You know, get a little workout between the sheets, if you catch my drift."

"Larry Lobster, what the hell kinda girl do you think I am?"

"One who's absolutely enamoured with me." He kissed his bicep.

"Good-bye, Larry." Sandy turned around on her heel and stamped off, upset.

"I'm your ride home!"

"I'll WALK, thank you very much!"

Sandy stomped off, quite understandably upset. "Thinks I'll do that on a first date. Why, if he tried that in Texas, my family would have him for barbecque! Stupid arthropod."

Meanwhile, Sheldon Plankton, proprietor of the Chum Bucket, was having romantic problems of his own. "What do you MEAN you're leaving me, Karen?"

"Well, I know that, since WIFE is just the name of my program, you've been cheating on me."

"It's not cheating. I built you."

"It's cheating. I'm leaving you. Good-bye."

"Wait," Plankton said, obviously confused. "How?"

"Internet." And with that, Karen's program was gone for good out of Plankton's life.

Confused, he wandered out into the streets of Bikini Bottom. "How could she leave me?"

Sandy coincidentally was walking down the same street. "How could he proposition me?"

"I just want someone to spend my life with!"

Plankton looked up at Sandy, as they had said the preceding simultaneously. "Mammal."

"Critter."

They walked along in silence. "What happened to you?" Plankton asked.

"I learned that Larry's just into one thing, and it ain't stickers."

"Tough luck."

"You?"

"Karen, the computer I programmed to be my wife, left me for the Internet."

"That sucks."

Again, they walked in silence. "You know, you've dated nearly every guy in Bikini Bottom."

"That's true. Spongebob, Larry, Don, even Mr. Krabs took me to the dollar theater."

"Why didn't we ever get together?"

"Because you're a little critter."

Plankton laughed. "That's true."

She looked at him. "You wanna go out sometime? Maybe get a drink."

"You're on, Mammal."

"If we're gonna do this, I'm Sandy."

"Sheldon."

"Nice to meet you, Sheldon. Tomorrow at 8?"

"You're on."

And, for once, Sandy and Plankton returned to their respective homes happier than when they left.