Valentine's Day is around the corner and the Krusty Krab is having a Valentine's Day ball, to Mr. Krabs' delight, since he'll make more money. SpongeBob and Squidward are left without dates. Squidward doesn't care but SpongeBob feels left out. One day, an unexpected customer arrives: a female sea sponge named Sponge-Beth. SpongeBob tells Squidward he'll serve the food to that one customer. Beth thinks SpongeBob is cute when he's hesitant. At the same time, they ask each other out and they say yes. On their first two dates, SpongeBob and Sponge-Beth learn that they have a lot in common: they have a silly sense of humor and they make good food. SpongeBob asks Krabs to give Beth a job so that they can work together, to Squidward's annoyance. But this romance thing is too good to be true. Sponge-Beth is actually a clone created by Plankton to distract SpongeBob while he sneaks past Krabs and steal the Krabby Patty formula. Beth is conflicted because she has fallen legitimately in love with SpongeBob. In the end, she helps foil the plans of her own creator. She also becomes friends with Pearl.
