Squidward is about to watch House Fancy, a program showcasing fancy homes, and as host Nicholas Withers introduces the episode's first guest, Squidward gets a phone call from Squilliam revealing that the guest is none other than himself. Squidward watches in anger as Squilliam shows off the various features of his house, which is several stories high, and includes an elevator with a built-in hot tub, decorated toilets with gold toilet paper holders, a garden on the rooftop, and a 160 foot sculpture of his unibrow made of gilded doorknobs. In a fit of blind jealousy, Squidward calls Nicholas and tells him that he has a much fancier home than Squilliam. Squidward realizes what he has just done and desperately tries to make his house fancier, but with no success. He spots SpongeBob outside his window, who admits he's been spying on Squidward for days. He offers to help him, with disastrous results (one of them involving Squidward's toenail being ripped out from moving a sofa). Soon, Squidward hears the doorbell ring and assuming that it is Nicholas, he tells SpongeBob to clean up the mess with a vacuum. It turns out that it is Patrick, who needs to go to the toilet. Squidward's toilet dies soon afterwards. SpongeBob ends up sucking up everything in the house, causing the vacuum to explode and destroying the house. However, when Nicholas Withers sees Squidward's destroyed house, he views it as a work of abstract art, and proclaims that his house is better than Squilliam's. The ending of the episode leads to Squilliam crying because he has lost and Squidward is happy with the help of SpongeBob.
"I can turn into a skyscraper!"
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This is the second time Squidward wins against Squilliam at the end of the episode. The first was in "Band Geeks" (Squilliam's debut). Squidward almost won against Squilliam in "Squilliam Returns."
Squidward said to SpongeBob that he would call the cops "again" if SpongeBob did not go away. This could possibly represent "Fiasco!" in which Squidward called them on SpongeBob for making a lot of noise. However, they then arrest Squidward for no reason. In this episode, Squidward probably got out of jail as the police realized that he did not do anything.
Twice, Squilliam's phone rings while Nicholas Withers is talking. This action resembles it, when on TV, people use "bad words" and they censor them.
Nicholas appears again in the episode "Patrick-Man!"
Originally, Nick was supposed to hate Squidward's house, and still love Squilliam's. Squidward would have then angrily punched Squilliam. The scene was cut because it would make the episode pointless, and the part where Squidward punches Squilliam was deemed too violent.[citation needed]
This episode, along with "Krabby Road," air less often in the Netherlands.
The scene where SpongeBob rips Squidward's toenail off while moving the couch has become real infamous and controversial among fans.
Cultural references
Alton Brown, who voices Nicholas Withers in this episode, hosts the shows Good Eats and Iron Chef America on Food Network.
When Squidward is watching House Fancy, the opening scene is a parody of Clean House.
The show House Fancy is a parody of HGTV's House Hunters.
Errors
Whenever Squilliam Fancyson's last name is shown throughout the episode, it is spelled as "Fancy son."
In the elevator, the right image of Squilliam does not have a unibrow.File:Vator.jpg
The right image of Squilliam has no unibrow
In the ending scene where Nicholas Withers visits Squidward's house, SpongeBob's house is missing.
When Squidward's couch was whole, the paint was all over the couch. However, when the couch is split in half some of the paint disappeared.
Squidward set his tea cup down to answer the phone. When he was shocked to learn that Squiliam is on House Fancy, he suddenly had the cup, and dropped it on the floor.
When Patrick is going to Squidward's toilet, he has nothing, but when he came out from the toilet, he is holding a newspaper. It is possible that Squidward keeps a newspaper in his bathroom.
Squilliam displays his "rooftop garden," but his house is initially shown to have a tower instead of a flat roof.
After Squidward's house is destroyed by the vacuum, for a split second you can see nothing at the house, not even SpongeBob and Squidward before the House Fancy logo comes up. However, when Nicholas Withers and Squilliam get to Squidward's house, everything is back at the house again.
Squidward says there is a stain on the rug, but the stain is actually on the floor.
