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Episode Information
General
Season №:	1
Episode №:	9b
Airdate:	September 11, 1999
Best Day Ever Rank:	#54
Credits
Cast:	Tom Kenny (SpongeBob) Rodger Bumpass (Squidward) Bill Fagerbakke (Patrick)
Writer(s):	Chuck Klein Jay Lender Doug Lawrence
Storyboard Artist(s):	Jay Lender
Storyboard:	Chuck Klein
Animation:	Tom Yasumi
Creative:	Derek Drymon
Chronology
Previous:	Nature Pants
Next:	Culture Shock
List of episodes
Select show to expand. Season 1 1. Help Wanted / Reef Blower / Tea at the Treedome 2. Bubblestand / Ripped Pants 3. Jellyfishing / Plankton! 4. Naughty Nautical Neighbors / Boating School 5. Pizza Delivery / Home Sweet Pineapple 6. Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy / Pickles 7. Hall Monitor / Jellyfish Jam 8. Sandy's Rocket / Squeaky Boots 9. Nature Pants / Opposite Day 10. Culture Shock / F.U.N. 11. MuscleBob BuffPants / Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost 12. The Chaperone / Employee of the Month 13. Scaredy Pants / I Was a Teenage Gary 14. SB-129 / Karate Choppers 15. Sleepy Time / Suds 16. Valentine's Day / The Paper 17. Arrgh! / Rock Bottom 18. Texas / Walking Small 19. Fools in April / Neptune's Spatula 20. Hooky / Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy II Season 2 21. Your Shoe's Untied / Squid's Day Off 22. Something Smells / Bossy Boots 23. Big Pink Loser / Bubble Buddy 24. Dying for Pie / Imitation Krabs 25. Wormy / Patty Hype 26. Grandma's Kisses / Squidville 27. Prehibernation Week / Life of Crime 28. Christmas Who? 29. Survival of the Idiots / Dumped 30. No Free Rides / I'm Your Biggest Fanatic 31. Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy III / Squirrel Jokes 32. Pressure / The Smoking Peanut 33. Shanghaied / Gary Takes a Bath 34. Welcome to the Chum Bucket / Frankendoodle 35. The Secret Box / Band Geeks 36. Graveyard Shift / Krusty Love 37. Procrastination / I'm with Stupid 38. Sailor Mouth / Artist Unknown 39. Jellyfish Hunter / The Fry Cook Games 40. Squid on Strike / Sandy, SpongeBob, and the Worm Season 3 41. The Algae's Always Greener / SpongeGuard on Duty 42. Club SpongeBob / My Pretty Seahorse 43. The Bully / Just One Bite 44. Nasty Patty / Idiot Box 45. Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV / Doing Time 46. Snowball Effect / One Krab's Trash 47. As Seen on TV / Can You Spare a Dime? 48. No Weenies Allowed / Squilliam Returns 49. Krab Borg / Rock-a-Bye Bivalve 50. Wet Painters / Krusty Krab Training Video 51. Party Pooper Pants 52. Chocolate with Nuts / Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V 53. New Student Starfish / Clams 54. Ugh 55. The Great Snail Race / Mid-Life Crustacean 56. Born Again Krabs / I Had an Accident 57. Krabby Land / The Camping Episode 58. Missing Identity / Plankton's Army 59. The Sponge Who Could Fly 60. SpongeBob Meets the Strangler / Pranks a Lot Season 4 61. Fear of a Krabby Patty / Shell of a Man 62. The Lost Mattress / Krabs vs. Plankton 63. Have You Seen This Snail? 64. Skill Crane / Good Neighbors 65. Selling Out / Funny Pants 66. Dunces and Dragons 67. Enemy In-Law / Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy VI: The Motion Picture 68. Patrick SmartPants / SquidBob TentaclePants 69. Krusty Towers / Mrs. Puff, You're Fired 70. Ghost Host / Chimps Ahoy 71. Whale of a Birthday / Karate Island 72. All That Glitters / Wishing You Well 73. New Leaf / Once Bitten 74. Bummer Vacation / Wigstruck 75. Squidtastic Voyage / That's No Lady 76. The Thing / Hocus Pocus 77. Driven to Tears / Rule of Dumb 78. Born to Be Wild / Best Frenemies 79. The Pink Purloiner / Squid Wood 80. Best Day Ever / The Gift of Gum Season 5 81. Friend or Foe 82. The Original Fry Cook / Night Light 83. Rise and Shine / Waiting / Fungus Among Us 84. Spy Buddies / Boat Smarts / Good Ol' Whatshisname 85. New Digs / Krabs à la Mode 86. Roller Cowards / Bucket Sweet Bucket 87. To Love a Patty / Breath of Fresh Squidward 88. Money Talks / SpongeBob vs. the Patty Gadget / Slimy Dancing 89. The Krusty Sponge / Sing a Song of Patrick 90. A Flea in Her Dome / The Donut of Shame / The Krusty Plate 91. Goo Goo Gas / Le Big Switch 92. Atlantis SquarePantis 93. Picture Day / Pat No Pay / BlackJack 94. Blackened Sponge / Mermaid Man vs. SpongeBob 95. The Inmates of Summer / To Save a Squirrel 96. Pest of the West 97. 20,000 Patties Under the Sea / The Battle of Bikini Bottom 98. What Ever Happened to SpongeBob? 99. The Two Faces of Squidward / SpongeHenge 100. Banned in Bikini Bottom / Stanley S. SquarePants Season 6 101. House Fancy / Krabby Road 102. Penny Foolish / Nautical Novice 103. Spongicus / Suction Cup Symphony 104. Not Normal / Gone 105. The Splinter / Slide Whistle Stooges 106. A Life in a Day / Sun Bleached 107. Giant Squidward / No Nose Knows 108. Patty Caper / Plankton's Regular 109. Boating Buddies / The Krabby Kronicle 110. The Slumber Party / Grooming Gary 111. SpongeBob SquarePants vs. The Big One 112. Porous Pockets / Choir Boys 113. Krusty Krushers / The Card 114. Dear Vikings / Ditchin' 115. Grandpappy the Pirate / Cephalopod Lodge 116. Squid's Visit / To SquarePants or Not to SquarePants 117. Shuffleboarding / Professor Squidward 118. Pet or Pests / Komputer Overload 119. Gullible Pants / Overbooked 120. No Hat for Pat / Toy Store of Doom 121. Sand Castles in the Sand / Shell Shocked 122. Chum Bucket Supreme / Single Cell Anniversary 123. & 124. Truth or Square 125. Pineapple Fever / Chum Caverns 126. The Clash of Triton Season 7 127. Tentacle-Vision / I ♥ Dancing 128. Growth Spout / Stuck in the Wringer 129. Someone's in the Kitchen with Sandy / The Inside Job 130. Greasy Buffoons / Model Sponge 131. Keep Bikini Bottom Beautiful / A Pal for Gary 132. Yours, Mine and Mine / Kracked Krabs 133. The Curse of Bikini Bottom / Squidward in Clarinetland 134. SpongeBob's Last Stand 135. Back to the Past / The Bad Guy Club for Villains 136. A Day Without Tears / Summer Job 137. One Coarse Meal / Gary in Love 138. The Play's the Thing / Rodeo Daze 139. Gramma's Secret Recipe / The Cent of Money 140. The Monster Who Came to Bikini Bottom / Welcome to the Bikini Bottom Triangle 141. The Curse of the Hex / The Main Drain 142. Trenchbillies / Sponge-Cano! 143. The Great Patty Caper 144. That Sinking Feeling / Karate Star 145. Buried in Time / Enchanted Tiki Dreams 146. The Abrasive Side / Earworm 147. Hide and Then What Happens? / Shellback Shenanigans 148. The Masterpiece / Whelk Attack 149. You Don't Know Sponge / Tunnel of Glove 150. Krusty Dogs / The Wreck of the Mauna Loa 151. New Fish in Town / Love That Squid 152. Big Sister Sam / Perfect Chemistry Season 8 153. Accidents Will Happen / The Other Patty 154. Drive Thru / The Hot Shot 155. A Friendly Game / Sentimental Sponge 156. Frozen Face-Off 157. Squidward's School for Grown Ups / Oral Report 158. Sweet and Sour Squid / The Googly Artiste 159. A SquarePants Family Vacation 160. Patrick’s Staycation / Walking the Plankton 161. Mooncation / Mr. Krabs Takes a Vacation 162. Ghoul Fools 163. Mermaid Man Begins / Plankton's Good Eye 164. Barnacle Face / Barnacle Face 165. House Sittin' for Sandy / Smoothe Jazz at Bikini Bottom 166. The Way of the Sponge / Bubble Troubles 167. The Krabby Patty That Ate Bikini Bottom / Bubble Buddy Returns 168. Restraining SpongeBob / Fiasco! 169. Are You Happy Now? / Planet of the Jellyfish 170. Free Samples / Home Sweet Rubble 171. Karen 2.0 / InSPONGEiac 172. Face Freeze! / Glove World R.I.P. 173. Squiditis / Demolition Doofus 174. Treats! / For Here or To Go

Opposite Day is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season one. In this episode, Squidward tells SpongeBob it is Opposite Day in order to keep him away from his house when a Realtor visits.

Characters:

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Patrick Star
• Squidward Tentacles
• Patty Rechid
• Gary the Snail

Locations:

• Conch Street

Songs:

• Happy Birthday, Squidward!

• I'm Squidward

DVDS:

• Tide and Seek
• The Complete First Season (disc 2)
• The First 100 Episodes (disc 2)

PlotEdit

Squidward is still asleep, only to be woken up and annoyed by SpongeBob and Patrick, who came into his house to throw a surprise birthday party for him. When they leave, he shouts that it isn't his birthday and calls Patty Rechid from "Bikini Bottom Realty" to arrange for his house to be sold, so that he may move out of Bikini Bottom. He is warned that, if his home is surrounded by bad neighbors, the house may not be sold. Squidward is convinced that SpongeBob and Patrick may ruin his chances of selling his house.

Squidward tells SpongeBob that it is "Opposite Day" in the morning, and that everyone must act opposite to how they usually act. SpongeBob believes him, and informs Patrick, who forces himself to stop exhaling, until

SpongeBob exclaims, "not that opposite!" A montage of the two doing "opposite" things, such as talking backwards and acting as Gary's pets, is then shown. Squidward's plot soon begins to backfire on him. SpongeBob "fixes" (damages) his house, and a shocked Squidward cleans the debris with a bulldozer. SpongeBob concludes that Squidward is acting like him, and he must therefore act like Squidward. While Squidward is still fixing SpongeBob' house, Patty arrives, and SpongeBob and Patrick both pretend to be Squidward, giving her a tour of the house, while describing it negatively and doing the opposite of what she asks. When Squidward realizes what is going on, he rushes to his house and attempts to explain the situation to Patty, who, upon hearing that he is

"Squidward" as well, finally sees through his game and accuses them of intentionally messing with her:"WHAT KIND OF FOOL DO YOU TAKE ME FOR?! HE'S SQUIDWARD! HE'S SQUIDWARD! YOU'RE SQUIDWARD! I'M SQUIDWARD! ARE THERE ANY OTHER SQUIDWARDS I SHOULD KNOW ABOUT?!". Gary comes in with a pickle on his face, and she leaves. Squidward begs Patty to sells his house, only for her to replies "I WON'T SELL YOUR HOUSE EVEN IF YOU'RE THE LAST SQUIDWARD ON EARTH!!". A furious Squidward shows SpongeBob and Patrick how much he "hates" (Squidward was not being sarcastic, although SpongeBob and Patrick did) them by attempting to run them over with a bulldozer, scaring SpongeBob and Patrick out of their wits as he is now on the warpath against them.

TriviaEdit

• This is the first episode where the title card music continues into the episode.
• It is illegal to impersonate somebody (without the person being impersonated being dead or having some license in actors cases) that is identity theft.
• It is revealed in this episode that SpongeBob knows that Squidward dislikes him.
• The scene where Patrick danced around repeating "I'm Squidward" became popular on youtube.
• After Patty leaves, Squidward lays on the ground in shame. In the close up of his face, SpongeBob has his belt around his waist, but it was wrapped around his head.
• When Patty says, "Are there any more Squidwards I should know about?", the captions simply say, "Are there any more Squidwards?".
• When SpongeBob puts the belt around his head, the belt buckle and the piece of belt that goes through it disappears.
• This is the first time SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick Star impersonate Squidward Tentacles.
• Patty Rechid was voiced by Lori Alan, who also does the voice of Pearl in the series but, the end credits mistake her to be voiced by Sirena Irwin.
• When SpongeBob offers the Realtor to see the rest of the house captions just say, "Would you like to see the rest?"
• This episode may have inspired SpongeBob PinkPants.
• 9th episode with its title in it.
• When Spongebob and Patrick are talking backwards they are saying: "Hey, Patrick", "I give up", and "To get to the opposite side". The captions says "(speaking gibberish)". When it reran on October 20, 2011,it sounded like they're speaking Russian.
• On the Drawn Together episode "Terms of Endearment", Wooldoor Sockbat has a similar joke based on this episode.
• Squidward drives a bulldozer again in Big Sister Sam and New Fish in Town.
• Opposite: Patrick and Spongebob turn opposite colors, They speak backwards, They eat and live like Gary, Gary eats with fine dining, when they blow a bubble they get blown up.
• In one scene, Squidward's house ear has window, then it's gone.
• The events of this episode might explain the rules of Squidward's new community in Squidville, when Squidward is asked if he is, or ever was a sponge. The Realtor might have shared her horror story about Spongebob and Patrick pretending to be Squidward.

APM music identificationEdit

• Hilo, March - Title card
• Hawaiian Link B - The camera zooms in on Squidward's house.
• Honolulu March - "Absolutely, Mr. Tentacles, I can sell your home in a heartbeat."
• On the Beach - "Op-po-site."
• Hawaiian Pussycat - Montage of SpongeBob, Patrick and Gary doing "opposite" things.
• Good Bye Samba A - "Hello, Squidward - oop - I mean, Goodbye, Squidward."
• Hawaiian Link A - "Isn't it beautiful?"
• Vibe Link B - After Patrick says, "I wanna be opposite too."
• Dramatic Cue A (debut) - Squidward notices Patty arrived at his house.
• Twelfth Street Rag - Patrick dances and sings "I'm Squidward, I'm Squidward, I'm Squidward, Squidward, Squidward"