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If you were looking for the article about the location, then see Tentacle Acres.

"Squidville" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 2. In this episode, Squidward moves to Tentacle Acres.

Characters[]

Synopsis[]

As the episode opens, SpongeBob and Patrick receive new reef blowers in the mail, and begin blowing and sucking things up with them. Eventually, they suck up Squidward's windows and door, as the remaining gaps are inexplicably nonexistent, trapping him inside. Squidward tunnels his way out and demands they put his door and windows back. In SpongeBob and Patrick's attempt to do so, the reef blowers shoot them out with such force that Squidward's house is completely destroyed. As the debris falls, a furious Squidward tells them that this is the final straw and that he refuses to live next to them anymore. He mentions that he is going to move so far away, that he will be able to brag about it he would rather tear out brain stem, carry it into the middle of the nearest four-way intersection, and skip rope with it than go on living where he was now. Just then, his TV lands amidst the rubble and turns on, playing a commercial for Tentacle Acres, a private community created exclusively for folks as desperate to move as he is. But before he can actually hear the name of the place, Patrick changes the channel and says "I hate this channel." Luckily, Squidward manages to take the remote from Patrick and learn of the name and where it is.

Squidward arrives at the front gate, and after a short interview over the intercom where he confirms that he is neither a sponge nor a starfish, he is allowed to enter. Although he has a run-in and small confrontation with another local resident, to his delight, Squidward finds that the residents all look, sound, and act similar to him, even living in houses identical to his prior home. Before Squidward can go to sleep, eager to start his new life, however, SpongeBob and Patrick call in an attempt to get him to come back, but Squidward refuses, saying that there is no possible way he is passing up the chance of being among his own kind.

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"Now these neighbors know how to live!"

Squidward begins his first full day at Tentacle Acres by going biking, and he finds that all the other residents are riding their bikes as well. He then goes grocery shopping, and is impressed by the local food market, which even carries canned bread. He then sees an Interpretive Dance Academy, where he joins the group in synchronized interpretive dance. At the end of the day, he sees a clarinet-playing trio performing in the park, which he makes a quartet by joining. Squidward's second full day at Tentacle Acres is just like the first, a fact he enjoys immensely. However, as more time goes by, each day exactly the same as the last, Squidward slowly loses enthusiasm for the endless routine. Finally, Squidward realizes that nobody in Tentacle Acres stands out and that his dream life is in a complete loop. After some time, he leaves in the middle of another clarinet performance`.

While sitting on a park bench, lamenting his attainment of "too much paradise," Squidward hears a reef blower. For a split second he thinks it's SpongeBob, but then sees that it's only a park worker. The worker leaves the reef blower unattended and Squidward is slowly tempted to start playing with it, irritating and scaring his neighbors out of their wits in the process. They eventually become fed up with his behavior and form an angry mob to chase him down.

Meanwhile, SpongeBob and Patrick come to the Tentacle Acres to apologize to Squidward, and try to convince him to return home. The surveillance guards tell them that their kind isn't welcome, and refuses to open the gate for them. However, Patrick's bad breath from some fried oyster skins he had travels through the intercom into the security room, knocking the guards out and causing them to fall over onto the button that opens the gate. They enter the village and come across the angry mob cornering Squidward, but are unable to identify Squidward among the crowd of near-identical residents.

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"Are you Squidward?" ... "That's okay. Take your time."

The mob presents to Squidward a "well thought-out and organized list of complaints," then Squidward makes a complaint himself about how everyone acts just like him in a single town. The police officer and the rest of the mob tell him that he doesn't have to live there, and Squidward wholeheartedly agrees. As SpongeBob and Patrick continue their search, Squidward uses the reef blower to launch himself out of the village yelling "Freedom!". SpongeBob then concludes the episode by claiming: "Well, we know one thing: it sure isn't that guy!".

Production[]

This episode was shipped to Nickelodeon Animation Studio on October 5, 2000.

Art[]

Model sheets[]

Music[]

 ) Production music
 ) Original music
 ) SpongeBob music

  Happy-Go-Lively - Laurie Johnson [Title card]
  War Blower (long version) - The Blue Hawaiians [Playing with reef blowers]
  Hawaiian Cocktail - Richard Myhill [Squidward's house destroyed]
  Squid Clarinet 5 - Brad Carow [Clarinet falls down]
  Hawaiian Cocktail - Richard Myhill [Squidward says he's moving away]
  More Details - Gerhard Trede [Tentacle Acres commercial/Commercial again]
  Steel Licks 54 - Jeremy Wakefield [Squidward at the gate]
  Life of Luxury - Kurt Schick [Gate opens]
  Kleine Nachtmusik-Allegro, Eine - Paul Gaechter, Wolfgang Mozart [Marzipan truck]
  Life of Luxury - Kurt Schick ["Heaven at last."]
  Comic Walk - Sidney Torch [Squidward bumps into someone]
  Thats It ! - Nicolas Carr ["This place is better than I expected!"]
  Life of Luxury - Kurt Schick [Squidward goes to his new house.]
  Comic Walk - Sidney Torch [SpongeBob on the phone]
  Hawaiian Link (B) - Richard Myhill [The next morning]
  Life of Luxury - Kurt Schick [Squidward riding his bike]
  Happy-Go-Lively - Laurie Johnson [Food shopping]
  Thats It ! - Nicolas Carr ["Canned bread!"]
  Happy-Go-Lively - Laurie Johnson [Interpretative dance.]
  Squid Clarinet 5 - Brad Carow [Clarinet trio]
  Happy-Go-Lively - Laurie Johnson [Squidward going through the same routine every day]
  Clarinet Quartet - Brad Carow [Clarinet trio]
  Hawaiian Cocktail - Richard Myhill [Squidward in the park]
  Idea Sting - Nicolas Carr ["SpongeBob?"]
  Steel Licks 40 - Jeremy Wakefield [End faintly plays]
  Closing Theme 1 - Steve Belfer [Squidward playing with a reef blower]
  Squid Clarinet 5 - Brad Carow [Clarinet in the reef blower]
  War Blower - The Blue Hawaiians ["Tag, you're it!"]
  Steel Licks 22 - Jeremy Wakefield [Apology cake]
  Dramatic Cue (A) - Ronald Hanmer ["Fried oyster skins?!"]
  Spongemonger - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Angry mob chasing Squidward]
  Comic Walk - Sidney Torch [List of complaints]
  Puka A - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Ending]

Release[]

Trivia[]

General[]

  • In the early DVD releases, the title is misspelled as "Squidsville."
  • The title card background for this episode is similar to those of "Naughty Nautical Neighbors" and "Karate Choppers."
  • In this episode, SpongeBob's, Squidward's, and Patrick's houses are farther apart than usual.
  • Patrick's line "I hate this channel" has become a popular meme on YouTube. The videos usually say "Patrick hates (insert thing here)," where they show other scenes on the TV.
    • Another popular meme is when Squidward finds canned bread.
    • A recent meme from this episode is when Squidward is yelling at SpongeBob over the phone. It's instead him asking Patrick if he opened his bag of carbon dioxide at the Krusty Krab.
  • A portion of Squidward’s laughter while playing with the reef blower on the bench was recycled from "Jellyfishing."
  • Orville the guard is one of the few octopi of Squidward's species not to have "squid" in his name.
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"I hate this channel" meme.

  • Based on the montage of Squidward's monotonous day-to-day activities, he spent a total of two weeks at Tentacle Acres.
  • All of the octopuses are the same in many ways. They all have a nasal laugh and play the clarinet. However, in "Cephalopod Lodge" and "Smoothe Jazz at Bikini Bottom," they are many different shapes, colors, and sizes.
  • SpongeBob previously had a reef blower in "Reef Blower," suggesting he brought a new one after the previous one was destroyed.
  • Every house at Tentacle Acres resembles Squidward's Easter Island head.
  • When Squidward is at the Interpretive Dance Academy, one can see an octopus there who looks like Squilliam Fancyson since he has a unibrow. However, Squilliam did not officially make his debut until the episode "Band Geeks."
  • Tentacle Acres appears as a location in the PC version of Lights, Camera, Pants! In order to help Squidward get his energy back so he can go home, SpongeBob has to get him a cup of hot cocoa, as Squidward is too lazy to get it himself.
  • Squidward references Tentacle Acres in the video game SpongeBob's Atlantis SquarePantis. He refers to the place as Squidville instead of Tentacle Acres.
  • When Squidward goes into the dance academy, two octopuses resemble him without the headband.
  • This is the first episode in which "Spongemonger," "Happy-Go-Lively," "Steel Licks 40," and "Comic Walk" play.
  • This is the second episode for a few things:
  • In "Survival of the Idiots," a later season 2 episode, when Sandy says, "You're gonna be wearing an iron lung when I'm through with you, Pinhead!" is similar to that of the two octopuses asking Squidward, "Can you pipe down over there, iron lung?"
  • In the Croatian dub, in the scene where SpongeBob and Patrick are talking nonsense, those "nonsense words" are actually accelerated voices of SpongeBob's and Patrick's voice actors, Ronald Žlabur and Luka Peroš.[citation needed]
    • They are actually saying: SpongeBob: "Joj Markec naš kak mi fališ Markec daj se vrati doma... (Oh Squidward, you really miss, you don't know how I miss you, come home...)" [Squidward talking] "Joj Markec daj dođi doma, daj lepo te molim... (Oh Squidward, come home pretty please...)" [Squidward hangs up the phone] Patrick: "Onda Spužva Bob jesi li mu rekao da se vrati? (So SpongeBob, did you tell him to come home?)" SpongeBob: "Pa rekel sam mu, pa rekel sam mu, al kad neće slušat. (I told him, I told him, but he's not listening.)"[citation needed]
  • Every time a character is seen with a reef blower, the music "War Blower" plays, much like in "Reef Blower."

Cultural references[]

  • The doorman asks "Are you now or have you ever been a sponge?," in a parody of a common question asked by Wisconsin senator Joseph McCarthy, "Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?"
  • Canned Bread is a real-life product in Japan called "Pan Desuyo!" ("This is a bread!") which can also be found in select stores in the United States, among other countries.[3]
  • Fried oyster skins are the underwater equivalent to "fried onion skins."

Errors[]

Rough Draft Korea in Squidville

Rough Draft Korea.

  • After Squidward says, "Yeah! It's even better in a group!" and before he says, "This town is perfect," a bubble transition is shown. For a brief second, "Rough Draft Korea" appears at the bottom of the screen. This error was made by Rough Draft Studios in South Korea, where they animated the episode. Also, it mentions a date ("DATE: 08 / 30 / 00"; August 30, 2000), which is when this episode was in the process of being animated by Rough Draft Studios.
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Squidward's house's ears disappear.

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Squidward's white shirt.

  • From a certain angle, there are no numbers on the doors of Squidward's neighbors. From other angles, there are numbers on the doors.
  • After SpongeBob and Patrick hangs up on the phone, the outline of Patrick's mouth is pink.
  • On the first day at Tentacle Acres, when Squidward joins the clarinet trio and the camera zooms out, Squidward's shirt becomes white instead of brown.
  • 2 of the Tentacle Acres children are heard laughing while walking to the marzipan ice cream truck, but neither one's mouth moves.
  • Squidward parks his bike in front of Full of Health store. When he exits the store, it is gone.
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There are houses facing towards Full of Health. They also appear to be on a different street.

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As Squidward is leaving Full of Health, there are houses next to the store. They appear to be on the same street as well.

  • When Squidward enters Full of Health, there are houses far from the store, and on a different street, but when he leaves, the houses appear to be much closer and on the same street as Full of Health. There are also houses behind the ones on the street.
  • When Squidward is at the Interpretive Dance Academy, the resident next to him with a unibrow has a leotard that changes from orange to yellow. During the montage, it is orange again.
  • There are four houses to the right of Squidward's during his first day. On the second day, there are five houses to the right.
  • When SpongeBob and Patrick suck the parts of Squidward's house into their reef blowers, they do not suck the house's ears, but when they are getting ready to return the parts, the ears are missing and seen again flying with the rest of the parts.
  • Squidward's door is sucked to the side of his house, but when SpongeBob and Patrick appear in the next shot, they are nowhere near the side of his house.
  • When SpongeBob talks on the phone before Squidward says he is not moving back, the lines for sound are coming out of the wrong end.
    • Also strange how SpongeBob even knows the phone number of Squidward's new house in Tentacle Acres, especially Squidward didn't even gave him the number because he wants both SpongeBob and Patrick out of his life. They wouldn't allow any calls to or from any sponges or starfish in Tentacle Acres because they're strictly forbidden of even entering to Tentacle Acres.
  • When the parts are flying toward Squidward's house, SpongeBob and Patrick's houses are missing.
  • When Squidward and the mob pass by SpongeBob and Patrick, there are no numbers on the doors of the houses.
  • At Tentacle Acres, Squidward plays the clarinet with his mouth open, which is impossible.
  • When Squidward drags the reef blower along the ground, the strap is orange. When the scene cuts back to the park bench, the strap is black. When the scene cuts to a long shot after he falls off, it is orange again.
  • When Squidward is about to pass SpongeBob and Patrick, SpongeBob's front teeth disappear for a split second.
  • When Patrick presents the apology cake just as he and SpongeBob approach Tentacle Acres, he's holding the bottom of the cake with his bare hand. Then during the close-up shot, the cake is on a plate.
    • Also during the close-up shot, a period appears after the sloppily written "Sorry" on the cake and then disappears when Patrick stores the cake in his pants.
    • Also during that scene, Patrick's eyes have a pink outline for a single frame.


Videos[]

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Squidward Moves to Tentacle Acres! 🐙 "Squidville" 5 Minute Episode SpongeBob

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The Squidward Show Ep. 1 "Tentacle Acres" 📺 - SpongeBob

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