Squidville
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| SpongeBob SquarePants episode | |
| "Squidville" | |
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| Season №: | 2 |
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| Episode №: | 26b |
| Airdate: | March 6, 2001 |
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| Writer(s): | Aaron Springer C.H. Greenblatt Merriwether Williams |
| Storyboard Artist(s): | C.H. Greenblatt |
| Directors | |
| Storyboard: | Aaron Springer |
| Animation: | Edgar Larrazabal |
| Creative: | Derek Drymon |
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"Squidville" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season two.
Brief summary: Squidward is so fed up with SpongeBob and Patrick that he moves to Tentacle Acres, a community that caters to his ideal lifestyle.
Characters:
- Squidward Tentacles
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Patrick Star
- Tentacle Acres residents
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Plot
SpongeBob and Patrick get their new reef blowers and start blowing and sucking things up with them, eventually sucking up Squidward's windows and door. When Squidward demands them to give them back, they shoot them at Squidward's house, destroying it. Squidward tells SpongeBob and Patrick that "this is the final straw. I am going to move so far away that I will be able to brag about it. I would rather tear out my brain stem, carry it to the middle of the nearest four-way intersection, and skip rope with it than go on living where I do now." Just then, his TV falls beside him amidst the rubble of his house, playing an advertisement for "Tentacle Acres", a private community created exclusively for squids. Squidward moves there, where he finds that the residents all look and act similar to him, even living in houses identical to his, much to his delight.
Squidward begins his first day at Tentacle Acres by going biking, and finds that all the other squids 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 dances in a group with others who share his "style" of dancing. At the end of the day, he sees a clarinet-playing trio performing in the park, which he joins. However, Squidward performs this exact same routine every day, and gradually grows tired of it, eventually realizing how boring his ideal lifestyle truly is and becoming just as miserable as he was before he moved to Tentacle Acres.
While sitting on a park bench, lamenting this, Squidward sees a reef blower unattended and starts playing with it in the same manner that SpongeBob and Patrick did in the beginning of the episode, irritating his neighbors in the process. They eventually become fed up with his behavior, and form an angry mob. Meanwhile, SpongeBob and Patrick come to Tentacle Acres to apologize to Squidward in hope that he will move back as their neighbor. The surveillance guards tell them that their kind isn't welcome here and refuse to open the gate for them. However, Patrick's bad breath travels through the intercom into the room where the guards are, knocking them out and causing them to fall over onto the button that opens the gate. They enter the village, and see Squidward cornered by the angry mob, who are demanding him to leave, but are unable to identify him among the crowd of near-identical squids, with SpongeBob saying that "Any one of these Squidwards could be the real Squidward!" Squidward then uses the reef blower to launch himself out of the village, and SpongeBob says "Well, we know one thing: it sure isn't that guy!"
Transcript
Quotes
- Squidward: (SpongeBob and Patrick have just trashed his house) SpongeBob, this is the final straw! I am going to move so far away that I am going to be able to brag about it. I would- Ow! (gets hit by piece of debris) I would rather tear out my brainstem, walk out into the middle of the nearest 4-way intersection and skip rope with it than go on living where I do now!
- (Squidward's T.V. falls out from the sky. It lands by Squidward and turns to a channel.)
- TV announcer (Squid): Hi there! Is this the final straw? Do you want to move so far away that you can brag about it? Would you rather tear out your brainstem, walk out into the middle of the nearest 3-way...
- Squidward: 4-Way!!
- TV Announcer: ...4-way intersection and skip rope with it than continue living where you do now? Then move to...(The TV turns to static)
- Patrick : (holding remote control) I hate this channel!
- Squidward: No! No! Change it back!
- TV Announcer: .....Tentacle Acres! Where happiness is just a suction cup away.
- Squidward: ...Heaven at last! (bumps into a Tentacle Acres resident).
- Resident: I've seen more alert people at a retirement home!
- Squidward: Oh! Which way to the nearest "Living Without a Brain" seminar?! Don't be late!!
- Resident: I've heard better comebacks from a turkey sandwich! Get a life!! (Resident walks away)
- Squidward: This place is better than I expected!
- SpongeBob: (Squidward runs past) That looked like Squidward! (Mob runs past) That looked like Squidward also, in angry mob form!
- Patrick: (To fire hydrant) Are you Squidward? That's okay, take your time.
Trivia/Goofs
- Ninth episode to feature flowers in the title card.
- On the back of the SpongeBob DVD "Tide And Seek", this episode is listed as "Squidsville".
- Based on the montage which shows Squidward doing the same things every day and gradually becoming tired of it, Squidward spent a total of fourteen days at Tentacle Acres.
- Squidward parks his bike in front of the "Full of Health" store, but when he exits the store, it is gone.
- This episode was originally meant to be called "Tentacle Acres".
- SpongeBob and Patrick sucked in four pieces of Squidward's house, but when they shoot them back out, six pieces are shown flying through the air.
- Canned bread actually exists as a Japanese product called "Pan Desuyo!" ("This is Bread!").
- During the commercial for Tentacle Acres, Patrick momentarily turns off the TV in mid-sentence, but when Squidward turns it back on, it continues at the exact point it was turned off at.
APM music identification
- Happy-Go-Lively - Title card; and when Squidward enjoys and then slowly gets bored with a few weeks in the life of Tentacle Acres.
- Hawaiian Cocktail - "SpongeBob, this is the final straw..."; "Yep, this is great..."
- Comic Walk - Squidward gets into a little argument with another Squidward; SpongeBob speaks gibberish to Squidward on the phone; "A well thought out and organized list of complaints."
- Hawaiian Link B - Shot of the island at dawn.
- Cierre Bob Esponja - Squidward starts playing with the abandoned reef blower.
- Dramatic Cue A - "FRIED OYSTER SKINS?!"
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