Kevin C. Cucumber is the minor antagonist of SpongeBob SquarePants. The leader of the group known as “Jellyspotters” that made his first appearance in the episode "I’m Your Biggest Fanatic", it was revealed that SpongeBob was a huge fan of his. This is due to the fact that Jellyspotters itself is the premier Jellyfish enthusiast club. Despite his popularity however, Kevin himself is an arrogant, pompous and elitist bully who attempts to make SpongeBob’s life a living hell as possible for his own amusement. It is possible that Kevin himself is an allegory of how some of the people that the fans idolize can also turn out to be an imperfect, rotten human being from the inside.
Biography[]
"I'm Your Biggest Fanatic"[]
Kevin was first introduced alongside the group of a nerdy anchovies besides him that ended up becoming the member of the Jellyspotters in the Jellyfish Convention center answering several questions of a crowd that were swarming his stand, with him bragging about the materials that he use for his Jellyfishing Net. After discovering the Jellyspotters and Kevin, SpongeBob becomes enamored by them due to the fact that the Jellyspotters were the premier Jellyfish enthusiast club. As SpongeBob aims to get Kevin’s wisdom, Patrick was seemingly unenthusiastic by the idea as he found them to be geeky. When Patrick was busy chasing Jeffrey the Jellyfish in order to touch him, SpongeBob then approaches Kevin and his group. Seemingly annoyed by SpongeBob's excessive and creepy adoration, Kevin initially wanted to call the security to get rid of him. However, as SpongeBob decided to do whatever Kevin told him to do such as punching himself in the face or jumping off the building, Kevin then devises an idea by letting SpongeBob join his group instead. It was then revealed the reason why Kevin let SpongeBob join his group was not out of altruism, but it was revealed that he wanted to see SpongeBob’s face after he got stung by Jellyfish to the point he went home like a baby for his own amusement.
After joining the Jellyspotters group, SpongeBob and the Jellyspotters then went into the Jellyfish Fields with SpongeBob carrying the Jellyspotters with his back. After SpongeBob expresses his enthusiastic behavior joining the Jellyspotters, Kevin then decides to arrange a test for him by capturing a jellyfish so that SpongeBob could join the group. After Kevin and the anchovies manage to see how SpongeBob manages to capture the jellyfish easier due to the fact that the jellyfish came after him, Kevin instantly rejects it and increases the requirement of capturing Jellyfish. This causes Kevin to get stung several times by the Jellyfish. Despite his attempts to get SpongeBob stung such as spreading Jellyfish jelly to him or capturing Jellyfish with a blind eye, Kevin still got his several body parts relentlessly stung by several Jellyfish that SpongeBob captured until all of the Jellyfish wounds began to engulf his body. Due to being constantly stung by all of the Jellyfish, Kevin’s hatred of SpongeBob began to grow. As a result, Kevin then devises an idea by arranging a final test for SpongeBob so he could join the Jellyspotters group.
It was then revealed that the final test was to capture the Queen Jellyfish. Deciding to use SpongeBob as bait, he was completely excited with the prospect of capturing the Queen Jellyfish alongside Kevin and the Jellyspotters. After tying SpongeBob to both poles and making him use the blower to call Queen Jellyfish, he and the Jellyspotters then hide behind the bush which causes Kevin to get stung by another Jellyfish. After a seemingly futile attempt at calling the Queen Jellyfish that continues for one day straight, SpongeBob finds out that Kevin’s plans don't work. However, after he saw the Queen Jellyfish hovering above him, SpongeBob decided to tell Kevin the good news. However, when SpongeBob checks the bushes, Kevin and the Jellyspotters were nowhere to be seen, only leaving his sting ointment. Afterwards, the Queen Jellyfish decided to zap SpongeBob which caused him to scream and run to evade the Queen Jellyfish’s attacks. When he was cornered at the edge of the cliff, SpongeBob then begs to the Queen Jellyfish that he would let her go. When SpongeBob began to beg, it was revealed that the Queen Jellyfish is a mechanical beast controlled by Kevin and the Jellyspotters with them sadistically laughing at SpongeBob’s misery, revealing his true nature towards SpongeBob. When Kevin tells SpongeBob that he rejected the latter’s appeal to join the Jellyspotters, SpongeBob is distraught, telling him that he was his biggest fan. This caused Kevin to tell SpongeBob that he already had several biggest fans living in the bottom of the cliff, still alive while yelling at him with praise, heavily implying that Kevin had pushed his previous biggest fans to the cliff for a long time. Afterwards, Kevin and the Jellyspotters then sadistically mock SpongeBob how much of a loser he is.
When Kevin was mocking SpongeBob for his cowardly attitude or how he was being duped by him and the Jellyspotters, suddenly a giant Jellyfish known as the King Jellyfish–Cnidaria Rex in his latin name–arises from the cliff and encountered Kevin’s mechanic. Enamored with the Queen Jellyfish robot controlled by Kevin, the King attempts to kiss it which causes Kevin, the Jellyspotters and SpongeBob to run away from the King. However, Kevin ended up crashing his robot to the billboard sign that contains the advertisement of him promoting his ointment. After Kevin accidentally crashes into the billboard, the King’s enamored expression suddenly becomes agitated after seeing Kevin. Afterwards, the King attempts to zap Kevin and the Jellyspotters as they end up retreating into a cave with SpongeBob with the king attempting to barge in. When Kevin thought that the king was gone, he then ordered one of the anchovy nerds to check if the king was gone or not. As the anchovies attempt to beg Kevin to save them, Kevin then tells the truth towards them that he’s just in the club for the fashion and then reveals his cowardly nature, unable to do anything when the situation is dire. Although SpongeBob asked the anchovies for help first, he then ended up stepping outside and decided to help them on his own, by using his bubble technique to create a giant bubble pie that made the King enamored and get away. After seeing what happened, Kevin becomes enamored with SpongeBob’s achievement of driving away the King Jellyfish. However, he still expresses his ungrateful side and still does not let SpongeBob enter the Jellyspotters group. In the end, the anchovies fed up with him and tore down the crown of his head while giving it to SpongeBob, putting him in excruciating pain as it was revealed that the crown was a part of his body, specifically his tentacle. Despite being accepted into the group, SpongeBob turns them down in the end because he views Jellyfish club should be about Jellyfish and not about Kevin.
"Lame and Fortune"[]
In this episode, one of his legs makes a cameo appearance in the Chum Bucket. Here, it is a much lighter shade of green.
SpongeBob Freestyle Funnies 2018[]
Kevin later appears on the back cover of the book, where he is part of the huge crowd of villains staring angrily at SpongeBob.
"Jolly Lodgers"[]
He appears at the Hotel Halibut's 36th Annual Jelly-Fisher Convention, where fans can meet Kevin and get pictures with him. He later appears at the episode's end, where he runs out of the fumigated hotel.
"Patrick the Mailman"[]
In this episode, SpongeBob and Patrick arrive at Kevin's house to deliver a jury duty summons, but every time they put the envelope through his mail slot, he throws it right back at them. They then try ringing Kevin's doorbell so they can deliver the summons to him in person, but he tells them he doesn't want it and slams the door shut. SpongeBob suggests moving onto the next house but Patrick refuses to give up, so he stuffs himself inside a box and rings Kevin's doorbell again. Kevin comes out to collect the box, only for Patrick to emerge and offer him the summons. Enraged, Kevin activates a booby trap that catapults Patrick off of his doorstep.
Still not ready to give up, Patrick decides to dress up as Santa Claus and sneak into Kevin's house through the chimney. After reaching Kevin, Patrick tries to offer him the summons as a Christmas present, but Kevin isn't fooled and tries to run away. Patrick gives chase and manages to catch Kevin before he can jump out the window to escape, and the two fight until they wind up in Kevin's room. There, Kevin grabs a jellyfish net and wields it as a weapon. Patrick grabs a net as well and they begin to duel. Eventually Kevin gets the upper hand and tries to escape again, but Patrick manages to catch Kevin by swinging on a chandelier to tackle him from above. Kevin winds up caught in Patrick's net and forced to accept the summons. However, as SpongeBob and Patrick are leaving Kevin's house, he notices that the summons is actually for Bubble Bass and calls them out on their mistake before angrily tearing the envelope up and storming back into his house.
Later on, Kevin finds another summons for Bubble Bass on the ground. Annoyed, he crumples the summons up and tosses it into a nearby barrel.
Trivia[]
- Kevin's "hat" is his tentacles (hair). This is why he was in such pain when the Jellyspotters forcefully removed it.
- His middle initial and last name, "C. Cucumber," is a play on the word "sea cucumber."
