"I'm the most miserable person in Bikini Bottom." —- Squidward
Squidward Tentacles is one of the main characters in the Nicktoons show SpongeBob SquarePants. He is the neighbor between SpongeBob and Patrick. Squidward is a cephalopod. His species is an octopus according to the series creators, despite his name containing the word "squid" and him having six legs instead of eight. Squidward lives in a house shaped like an Easter Island Head (Moai head). He works as the cashier at the Krusty Krab, a job he absolutely loathes. SpongeBob works along with Squidward at the Krusty Krab. Squidward is a selfish individual and displays an unjustified air of superiority. He also has over 500 self-portraits and is delusional about his talents (such as playing the clarinet) though nobody around him considers him to be very good. The series' animators made Squidward with six tentacles, believing that giving him eight tentacles of an octopus would have made him look too burdened and would be too difficult to animate.
Squidward J. Q. Tentacles is the tritagonist of the SpongeBob SquarePants franchise. He is an anthropomorphic octopus with light turquoise skin, purple suction cups at the end of his tentacles, and six limbs in total. He was born on October 9 and is best described as ill-tempered, pretentious, and cynical. He despises his neighbors for their noisy behavior but is still friends with SpongeBob and Patrick.
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Is Squidward Tentacles a squid or octopus?
Squidward Tentacles is an anthropomorphic octopus, as confirmed by the series creators, despite his name containing the word "squid" and him having six legs instead of eight.
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Why is Squidward an octopus if he has 6 legs?
Despite his name containing the word "squid" and him having six legs instead of eight, Squidward is an octopus according to the series creators. This is because series animators believe if he had 8 tentacles, he'll be too difficult to animate, and it was simpler for animation to draw him with six legs instead of eight. His species is still an octopus, however, and he has purple suction cups at the end of his six tentacles.
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What does the Q stand for in Squidward's name?
Squidward J. Q. Tentacles' middle initial "J" stands for Jeffrey and the "Q" stands for Quincy.
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Biography
In Squidward's childhood, he had to sit near the garbage cans at lunch, as revealed in Boating Buddies. When he was an adult, he became part of the Krusty Krab along with Jim and later, after has Jim quit, with a fry cook whose name is yet to be revealed. One day, Squidward was gardening when suddenly a pineapple fell on him and destroyed his garden. A sponge named SpongeBob SquarePants moved into that pineapple and Squidward has been grumpy ever since. See his antagonistic side, leisure, and near-death experiences sections for more of his biography.
Squidward's personality is grumpy, angus and of course, miserable. In spite of this, he is still one of the most intelligent characters, and out of the ten major characters, he can be categorized as the most educated one, along with Sandy and Gary. He has a sarcastic attitude and sees others as uncivilized morons, while failing to accept his own personal shortcomings. Squidward sees himself as misunderstood and unappreciated, blaming society for his failures.
He is annoyingly pretentious in his pursuit of fame and is either unwilling or unable to spot talent and creativity, even belittling it. He lauds "cultivated taste" and accepted standards. In the episode "Artist Unknown", he insists that his pupil SpongeBob "show his method", even when it's painfully clear that SpongeBob has artistic genius. In the episode Bubblestand, he belittles SpongeBob's brilliant bubble-blowing.
Squidward is generally portrayed as an overall failure. His musical skills with the clarinet are generally portrayed as subpar, from mediocre to excruciatingly horrible. However there have been numerous exceptions: in Bubblestand he plays nice after practicing Spongebob's 'technique', at the end of 'Christmas who' he manages to play great with the one Spongebob carved for him. In That's no lady He manages to play a nice to woo Patricia. And in Best Day Ever, he even has a concert where he plays beautifully and receives thunderous applause from the audience SpongeBob was even on the VIP list for it.
His overall artistic style is shown to be abstract and overly sophisticated, and his works are commonly panned by his audiences. His critical failure is shown to be more due to his bad taste rather than a genuine lack of talent. It is worth noting that the majority of his art centers around himself, apparently holding his very being to be an artistic wonder. In "One Krab's Trash", Squidward is shown bringing flowers to a gravestone reading "Here Lies Squidward's Hopes and Dreams." Despite his lack of success, Squidward is tireless in his pursuit of artistic achievement. In "Dunces and Dragons", Squidly, Squidward's medieval ancestor, vowed that if he couldn't learn to play the clarinet right, his seventh great-grandson would be cursed tenfold. In "Squilliam Returns", Squilliam Fancyson mentions that Squidward was voted "Most Likely to Suck Eggs" in high school.
Given how Squidward is depicted as a loser in most regards, it's likely that his 'narcissism' is actually a defense mechanism to make him feel as if he has some form of self-worth. Outwardly, he in fact shows signs of modest success: he lives in a nice, well-tended house, with no signs of slothfulness, and finds plenty of time to lead an active, involved life.
Squidward is well-educated and knows his history. He is actually intelligent and has lots of worldly knowledge, especially compared to those of SpongeBob and Patrick. Squidward is also a skilled driver, as he manages to drive virtually everything, from a traditional bike, a boat/car, and even a tractor. And Squidward is a good-natured and caring person, he just doesn't like to get too involved in things.
When at the Krusty Krab, he is a lazy, sloppy, employee (as shown in the Krusty Krab Training Video) who has an intense dislike of the Krusty Krab and its management. He is considered "inattentive, impatient", with "a glazed look in the eye." However, given the management's treatment of the employees his attitude towards the company is more realistic than SpongeBob's. In the episode "Squid on Strike", he organizes a worker's strike at the Krusty Krab. He even causes the destruction of the Krusty Krab, although indirectly and accidentally.
In the episode "Squidville", he moves to a town filled with his own peers, other octopi who share his tastes and outlook on life. Here, he is forced to face how boring and oppressive his desired lifestyle really is, and he is able to ultimately break free of its bonds with a bit of inspired silliness.
Even though Squidward has tentacles, he is shown or implied to have fingers, toes and even nails in episodes such as "Once Bitten", "House Fancy", and "Giant Squidward".
In "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V", it is implied that Squidward at one point had a girlfriend when he remembered the good times he had at make-out reef.
In "SpongeBob's Last Stand" he knows about the environment, even when Jellyfish Fields became a wasteland.
Squidward Tentacles is a light turquoise octopus, and has purple suction cups at the end of his tentacles. He has six limbs in total, two being arms and four being legs, which tend to make the shape of a plus when he stands in place. Whenever he walks, his suction cups stick to the floor, meaning that he walks with a distinct squelching noise. Squidward has a large cranium with eight holes on the top of it to presumably show his baldness. However in the episode The Original Fry Cook it showed that he had long blond hair once. He also has a skinny body, big droopy nose, a wide mouth and yellow eyes with rectangle vertical dark red irises and rectangle red pupils. When he laughs, his nose appears to deflate and inflate repeatedly. He wears a brown short-sleeved shirt, which is sometimes shorter. In reality Squidward is only 8 in., and he is 2 oz.
His color is inconsistent throughout the series. While he is shown to be lighter green in earlier episodes, in later episodes he is shown having a lighter and more blue color.
His species has also been a debate among fans. Though the writers say he is an octopus, his name implies that he may also be a squid. Squidward has confirmed that he is an octopus in The Play's the Thing, and Plankton later calls him an octopus in Sweet and Sour Squid.
In the episode Just One Bite, it shows a close up of Squidward's face, revealing it to be disturbing and very morbid. This has scared some kids that watch the show. In the episode Frankendoodle he was wearing Fancy clothing in one scene.
Antagonistic Side
Squidward has a considerable antagonistic side, frequently taking advantage of the situation to destroy SpongeBob from tormenting him, which only backfires and worsens.
In "Fools in April", Squidward gets annoyed with SpongeBob pulling playful and harmless pranks on people at the Krusty Krab, and pulls a very cruel and harmful prank on SpongeBob in retaliation. Things blow up in Squidward's face when SpongeBob runs out of the restaurant sobbing hysterically, and the Bikini Bottomites turn on him. Squidward tries to apologize, but he is physically unable to apologize until the very end of the episode, where SpongeBob has the last laugh: all his friends were standing behind him in his house and witnessed Squidward's apology. As a result, Squidward suffers a mental breakdown and runs off back to his house laughing maniacally after shouting that he had just fooled them as well.
In "Can You Spare a Dime?", Squidward accepts SpongeBob's offer to File:Squidward200.jpglive in his house until he finds a new job. However, he takes advantage of SpongeBob's hospitality by laying in bed all day and essentially making SpongeBob his domestic slave, staying so long that the Narrator quits, and not even attempting to find a job. This eventually proves too much for SpongeBob who for one of the few times in the series becomes angry with Squidward, who soon begins aggressively giving Squidward obvious hints to get a job, which Squidward either doesn't notice or chooses to ignore. Eventually, SpongeBob confronts Mr. Krabs in an attempt to force him to give Squidward his job back, and in the process accidentally reveals that Mr. Krab's first "dime" (a stone-age wheel) was in his pants the whole time, and that Squidward did not steal it.
In "Squidward, the Unfriendly Ghost", when SpongeBob and Patrick believe they have killed Squidward and that he is now a ghost, he takes advantage of this by making them his slaves. Eventually, SpongeBob and Patrick, after reading a magazine about the Flying Dutchman's death, get the idea that Squidward is being mean and angry because he was never put to rest. SpongeBob and Patrick attempt to bury Squidward, which ultimately brings him to confess that he is actually alive. However, SpongeBob and Patrick still think that Squidward is a ghost in denial and send him to the "great beyond" by trapping him in a bubble, which floats up into the sky where the pelicans are.
In the episode "Grandma's Kisses" Squidward and the customers at the Krusty Krab ruthlessly tease SpongeBob for having a kiss on his forehead given by his grandma. At the end of the episode, it is shown that they have been spying on SpongeBob with his grandma through her house's window.
In the episode "Employee of the Month", SpongeBob and Squidward viciously compete with each other for the employee of the month award, both of them trapping each other in hopes of getting to work first.
In the episode "Funny Pants" SpongeBob's laughing annoyed him, so he told SpongeBob that he had a "laugh box" that would burn up if he laughed within 24 hours and could never laugh again. SpongeBob eventually thinks he lost his laugh and goes into "spiraling depression." which proves to be too much for Squidward to handle.
In "The Splinter", Squidward tells SpongeBob that Mr. Krabs will have to kick him out for getting a splinter at work.
In "Professor Squidward" Squidward says he is Squilliam but the fan finds a real Squilliam and then Squidward was arrested and sent to jail.
In "I ♥ Dancing", Squidward gets jealous that SpongeBob has an audition in a musical, and "teaches" him how to dance in order to steal the spot for himself, training SpongeBob to the point of exhaustion. While he wins, he is going to star in Squilliam's musical, and is forced to train to perform a dance that SpongeBob had performed earlier, with Squilliam clearly planning to run him ragged just as Squidward had done to SpongeBob.
In "Good Ol' Whatshisname", Squidward steals What Zit Tooya's wallet and ran a red light in front of a police officer and gets arrested and was sentenced to ten years in jail.
In "The Lost Mattress", Squidward nearly threatened to murder SpongeBob, then he used him and Patrick as "worm bait". but it is Squidward who becomes the worm's prey.
In Krusty Towers, he made several ridiculous requests with the purpose of driving Mr. Krabs crazy( though Krabs did have this coming).
Despite Squidward's antagonist side, he has been blamed many times for things that weren't his fault.
In Your Shoe's Untied, SpongeBob constantly keeps tripping over his untied shoelaces, making dozens of Krabby Patties fly into Squidward's mouth. The customers blamed him for eating the food, even when Squidward told them it was SpongeBob's fault.
In Krab Borg, Squidward was yelled at by Mr. Krabs for tying him up and destroying his items, even though SpongeBob had a hand in it and was the one who convinced Squidward that Mr. Krabs was a robot in the first place. In fact, the only reason SpongeBob was let off the hook was because he had to "feed Gary".
In Squid on Strike, Squidward is outraged, and goes on strike due to Mr. Krabs instead of paying him for his "work" made him pay Mr. Krabs. Spongebob tags along (as he did not know that he would lose his job) so to get their jobs back he destroys the Krusty Krab. Mr. Krabs then makes both of them work to pay off the damages, despite the fact that Squidward did not play a part in demolishing the Krusty Krab.
In Can You Spare a Dime, Mr. Krabs blamed Squidward for stealing his missing dime since he was near the cash register. This causes Squidward to quit his job, lose everything, and drive SpongeBob mad. It was soon revealed that Mr. Krabs' dime was in his pocket the entire time, and Squidward was hired back. Even so, he later accused Squidward for putting the dime in his pants, and history likely repeated itself.
In The Lost Mattress he wrote Mr. Krabs a card saying that he got him a new mattress (even though it was all SpongeBob's and Patrick's idea). But he actually caused Krabs to go into a "Cash Coma" due to the fact that all his money was in the old mattress. He was then forced by the police to get the mattress back. Though this could count as karmic punishment, since he wanted to take credit for SpongeBob and Patrick's work.
In Good Neighbors SpongeBob and Patrick interrupt Squidward's Sunday morning by trying to be "good neighbors". Squidward then installs a security system to keep them away from him. But it malfunctions causing his house to come to life, and destroy the town. After it was turned off, he was given a sentence to community service every Sunday (even though he really didn't do anything).
In Cephalopod Lodge, Spongebob, and Patrick follow Squidward to a secret club of his thus causing him to get kicked out, when he really didn't know they were even coming. In fact he carefully checked his surroundings to try to avoid this.
In Boating Buddies, Squidward was being annoyed by SpongeBob, so he got in his boat and attempted to drive away, however Spongebob accidently causes Squidward to crash, thus sending him to Spongebob’s boating school. He was then injured many times due to Spongebob’s bad driving, thus he was unable to take the test despite the fact that he knew the right answers.
In Truth or Square He, SpongeBob, Patrick, and Mr. Krabs got stuck in the air vents. Patrick then took out a radio that he "borrowed" from Sandy. He then tried calling for help, but he didn't know how to use it. So Squidward used it to call Sandy. But Sandy then accused him of stealing it from her.
In Keep Bikini Bottom Beautiful Squidward was given a total of eight tickets to community service by the end of the episode. Even though he never actually littered, and instead was just assumed to.
In Sentimental Sponge Spongebob becomes a hoarder off of the idea that random garbage holds valuable memories. He later throws it into Squidward's yard. This angers Squidward, and he ends up calling the police on Spongebob. They then condemn Spongebob's house for being unsanitary, and then Squidward's for being covered in his garbage. Even though none of it was Squidward's, nor was he a hoarder.
In The Googly Artiste, Patrick becomes famous off his "art" (ironically Squidward's seemed better from the viewers' perspective), and Mr. Krabs becomes mad at him for making his art from Krabby Patties in which he sold for more money then he bought them for. He then said he was just following Squidward’s advice, thus getting Squidward into trouble. But that wasn't what Squidward meant when he was giving "advice".
In Fiasco!, he was sent to prison when he really didn't do anything bad at all. He led them to SpongeBob's house saying that SpongeBob, Patrick, and Gary are making noise. In fact, he actually did the police a favor by leading them to Plankton, who stole famous art. He probably was arrested for blaming someone that hadn't done anything.
Criminal Records
Squidward could sometimes break the law causing him to go to jail in some episodes. Besides Mr. Krabs and Plankton, he also have many criminal records and reasons why he is in jail. The only reason he likes to be in prison is that he could get away from his neighbors.
Squidward works as the cashier at the Krusty Krab restaurant, along with his co-worker, SpongeBob SquarePants. He not only hates his duties but the Krusty Krab itself, and he performs his job rather poorly and with a lack of enthusiasm. He also frequently behaves rudely to the customers. He has often expressed a desire to be fired or simply quit, but never makes good on it; he only seems to work there because he needs the money. In "Just One Bite", he reveals that he has never eaten a Krabby Patty and thinks them to be disgustingly unhealthy, although after having "just one bite", he falls in love with them. However, this fact is contradicted by an earlier episode in which SpongeBob forgets how to tie his shoe and, consequently, throws several Krabby Patties down Squidward's throat. (An explanation for this could be that since he didn't taste them with his tongue, he thought they were bad). In "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie," Squidward is manager of the Krusty Krab 2 for six days, although due to Plankton's invasion of Bikini Bottom, the new restaurant is not in service during this time. Squidward's dream in "Sleepy Time" shows him playing clarinet for a king. In Selling Out, Squidward worked as the waiter for Krabby O' Mondays. He was forced to maintain a false state of happiness, or else face "Human Resources", a thug in the back of the building.
An avid patron of the arts, Squidward has a strong affection for interpretive dance, sculpture, painting, and playing the clarinet, but seems to have almost no talent for any of them whatsoever, although he does play the clarinet beautifully at the end of the "Christmas Who?", and at the end of the "Bubblestand" episode, also in "The Two Faces of Squidward". He has often tried to impress the public with his artistic exhibitions, but is always either unrecognized, mocked by his audience, or upstaged by SpongeBob. Squidward always wants to be the center of attention but rarely ever is. In "Best Day Ever" he had a concert where he played beautifully and received thunderous applause from the audience. SpongeBob was on the VIP list for it, which is ironic, considering Squidward's intense hatred for him. Squidward also misses many chances to become famous like in his dreams.
All of his artwork, from sculptures to paintings, depicts himself in a way, even repainting existing works to include his own face. He surrounds himself with said art throughout his house, a clear indication of his narcissist tendencies. These arts have occasionally been admired greatly by Patrick and SpongeBob, but are universally hated by the rest of Bikini Bottom.
He has tried several things to reach the fame he desires: hosting a talent show, starting his own astrology spin-off, forming a band, and so on, yet he can't seem to get much of a following. Mr. Krabs and Patrick also seem to like him, though it may be argued that Mr. Krabs only likes Squidward because of his allegiance with the Krusty Krab. It is interesting to note that Squidward once stated that "anyone can be a big shot in a hick town like Bikini Bottom", yet he cannot make a name for himself.
Bad but Good art
Despite Squidward said to be a bad talentless artist, his art has been turned down many times for something that ironically wasn't as good.
In Sleepy Time, Squidward is in his dream playing his clarinet (presumably in the 1700s) to the king. Spongebob then causes Squidward to break his clarinet by accident, and thus Squidward is forced to use Spongebob as a replacement. It sounds horrible, but everyone seems to like it.
In Squid Wood, Squidward becomes jealous of Mini Squidward when he was "Steeling his life" by doing all the same artistic things Squidward did (including jokes) but Squidward was always turned down for Mini Squidward despite that they were both doing the exact same things.
In The Masterpiece, Squidward made a large statue of Mr. Krabs to eliminate the competition of the Sea Chicken Shack, however it was turned down, and was replaced by the real Mr. Krabs.
In The Googly Artiste, Squidward made a statue of himself which was turned down by an art critic. Patrick then made a pet rock (nothing more than a rock with google eyes) and Squidward was turned down for a pet rock.
Good Art
Despite his reputation of being a "bad artist", he has made art that people had enjoyed.
In Bubble Stand Squidward blew a huge bubble by using the "technique".
In Artist Unknown Squidward goes crazy in the end, and creates a great statue in the process.
In Best Day Ever, Squidward does a clarinet concert in which people seem to enjoy.
Main article: List of near-death experiences#Squidward Tentacles
One of Squidward's Near Death Experience was a laughter breakdown
Squidward has had many injuries and near death experiences. He is one of the most unfortunate characters, and is in some way hurt in almost every episode he is in (such as his head and/or nose exploding or deflating). He is shown to be an underdog, a person who almost never wins. This is frequently not caused by SpongeBob and mostly it's caused by Patrick. In some episodes his near death experience was caused by himself. (e.g. breaking his own "laugh box", freezing himself almost to death, suffocating himself with 3 pillows on his head etc). He almost froze to death in Frozen Face-Off. He also almost gets injured by his bad Karma sometimes.
Squidward has eaten too many patties
Relationships
SpongeBob and Patrick
SpongeBob and Patrick are constant annoyances to Squidward. Although earlier episodes portray Squidward as simply not being grouchy and intolerant, SpongeBob but he is to Patrick have progressively become more troublesome and idiotic, making Squidward much more sympathetic and justified in his anger. However, in recent episodes, Squidward frequently runs the gamut from being sympathetic to being an intolerant grouch, the latter most notably seen in "Sponge-Cano!", in which he is openly rude and disrespectful to everyone around him and claims to be "the most miserable person in Bikini Bottom."
Though Squidward hates SpongeBob and Patrick, his animosity is particularly geared towards SpongeBob himself. When Squidward does express his frustration against him, SpongeBob is usually able to take yes for an answer. Such as in "The Thing" where even after Squidward is not allowed to tell SpongeBob to go home but he is to Patrick and him slamming the door in their face they still break into his house and park themselves on his couch, loudly and obnoxiously slurping juice boxes. In the episode "House Fancy", SpongeBob spies on Squidward through his window; when Squidward catches him, he asks, "You want me to get the cops down here again?", indicating that this has happened before. Incidents where SpongeBob and Patrick leave home for a few days are shown to make Squidward genuinely happy, as he will have a few days of peace and quiet while they're gone, and he relishes the thought of SpongeBob moving away: in "Home Sweet Pineapple", he is shown dancing happily and repeatedly chanting "SpongeBob is leaving, he's leaving, he's leaving" on the remains of SpongeBob's pineapple before a new one grows in right on top of him. In "The Camping Episode", he is not relishes the thought of SpongeBob but he is to Patrick getting permanently lost in the woods; and in "What Ever Happened to SpongeBob?", he is the only one among the main characters who is genuinely happy that the amnesiac SpongeBob has left Bikini Bottom, going so far as to laugh and gleefully state that he would have slammed the door in SpongeBob's face even harder if he had known he'd never see him again. In episodes such as "Funny Pants" and "Choir Boys", the sight of SpongeBob sad and/or depressed actually serves to cheer Squidward up. Often, Squidward's attempts to get away from SpongeBob and/or Patrick get him into trouble, such as being covered head-to-toe in cement and being mistaken for a member of an unknown species in "The Thing", running a stop sign and being forced to go to Mrs. Puff's boating school alongside SpongeBob in "Boating Buddies", and being forced to do a lifetime of community service every Sunday alongside SpongeBob and Patrick after his newly-installed security system goes haywire and destroys most of Bikini Bottom in "Good Neighbors". Patrick actually noticed that Squidward didn't like them early on, but was "corrected" by SpongeBob. Even when the two perform acts of kindness for him, such as giving him his Sunday paper in "Good Neighbors," Squidward often shows even more irritation towards them.
Often, Squidward infers SpongeBob's simple-minded comments to be challenges, such as SpongeBob's comment of "Have fun inside" in "The Camping Episode". Proceeding this, he often goes entirely out of his way to prove to SpongeBob that he can win the "challenge", often taking the whole thing too seriously; for example, in "Snowball Effect", SpongeBob and Patrick secretly sneak away from a massive snowball fight between themselves and Squidward after Squidward hit Patrick with his clarinet while throwing an enormous barrage of snowballs. One of Squidward's greatest dreams and desires is to either have hair or to buy a wig. He seems to think he would look good with hair. In "The Original Fry Cook", it is revealed that he once had hair but it fell out, ironically right after he said it would never fall out. Aside from his musical "talents", he enjoys painting several pictures of himself, and hanging them up around his house. The artworks shown in Squidward's house vary between episodes.
In the episode "Artist Unknown", SpongeBob signs up for Squidward's art class and proves to be a better artist than Squidward. Eventually, SpongeBob creates an amazing statue that is beyond Squidward's capabilities as an artist. However, Squidward degrades SpongeBob's art and claims it is missing a very important element (a large nose similar to Squidward's), yet an art critic later points out that the nose is the only flaw. His sneaky attempts to undermine SpongeBob's confidence prove to be his own undoing, as SpongeBob refuses to do anything outside of the art rule book because of Squidward's lessons.
In the episode "Squid's Day Off", Squidward assigns SpongeBob to man the cash register when Mr. Krabs is at the hospital getting his arms reattached. Meanwhile, Squidward leaves the Krusty Krab for a day of relaxation, but he foolishly had SpongeBob convinced that he was doing "very important errands."
Although Squidward openly despises SpongeBob and Patrick with a passion, they view him as a very close friend and cannot be convinced otherwise, even during some of his hostile actions towards them, such as chasing them down with a bulldozer in "Opposite Day", rubbing it in SpongeBob's face that Santa didn't come in "Christmas Who?", ridiculing SpongeBob's tan in "Sun Bleached", stating that his wish for Mr. Krabs' wishing well was that SpongeBob and Patrick were stuck in a dark hole and away from him in "Wishing You Well", literally kicking SpongeBob out of his house when he attempted to warn him of an invading biker gang in "Born to Be Wild", and referring to SpongeBob as "the bane of his existence" in "Boating Buddies" when SpongeBob is sitting right next to him. SpongeBob fails to realize the clearly obvious fact that Squidward hates him, even after Squidward openly said "I hate you" to his face in "Graveyard Shift".
In "Breath of Fresh Squidward", Squidward set up an electric fence in an attempt to keep SpongeBob and Patrick from sneaking into his bedroom every single morning to watch the sunrise, but ended up getting electrocuted in it and becoming a much happier and goofier person, as well as becoming more annoying than SpongeBob and Patrick combined. In the end, he was turned back to normal after a second electrocution, and SpongeBob and Patrick were also shocked, becoming angry and mean, just like him.
SpongeBob and Patrick always encourage Squidward to participate in their games, but this only annoys him. In particular, SpongeBob and Patrick often ask him to go jellyfishing with them. In "SB-129", while he was trying to avoid SpongeBob and Patrick, Squidward locks himself in the Krusty Krab's freezer and is revived 2000 years in the future by a robotic descendant of SpongeBob. Squidward then attempts to return home using a time machine, but accidentally winds up in prehistoric times, where he meets primitive ancestors of SpongeBob and Patrick. While here, Squidward inadvertently invents jellyfishing.
While seemingly the eternal pessimist, he occasionally tries to be like SpongeBob (often with hopes that doing so well stopped SpongeBob from bugging him), but does not ever get the hang of it. In "The Paper", however, he finds himself putting a piece of paper on his nose and dancing a jig in insanity. When SpongeBob isn't looking, Squidward will start to act more like SpongeBob from time to time, especially in the earlier episodes like "Bubblestand" and "The Paper". Squidward's voice reveals a lot about his personality and attitude, much like SpongeBob's voice. In the episode, "Selling Out", he is forced to keep a smile glued to his face by the manager of Krabby O' Mondays, which creates an interesting effect, as Squidward hardly ever smiles while showing his teeth. In fact, he also shows a hypercriticism to SpongeBob and Patrick's entertainment like in the episode "Snowball Effect" when he said that snowball fights are for immature children, in the end he become over-obsessed with it.
Recently, in "Restraining SpongeBob," Squidward finally gets fed up of SpongeBob's harassment and issues a restraining order forbidding SpongeBob from coming within fifteen feet of him. However, when Patrick begins to harass him relentlessly, he ultimately alters the restraining order so Patrick would have to stay away from him instead of SpongeBob, declaring Patrick to be "much more deserving" of the order than SpongeBob.
Despite the fact that he often shows little more than animosity towards him, in many episodes Squidward shows feelings of sympathy and outright compassion towards SpongeBob, even concern for his well being, possibly meaning that he does indeed like him deep down. In "Graveyard Shift", when the two believe that the Hash-Slinging Slasher is about to kill them, he says to SpongeBob, "No matter what I've said, I've always sort of liked you". In "Dying for Pie", after thinking he allowed SpongeBob to eat a pie-shaped bomb, he felt truly guilty about it and spent the day playing many of SpongeBob's childish games in order to make SpongeBob's "final" hours the best of his life. In "Fools in April", in an attempt to apologize to SpongeBob for his cruel April Fool's Day prank in that same episode, he says "I like you…and everybody else I'm forced to be in contact with". In "Squidville", Squidward moves to Tentacle Acres after SpongeBob and Patrick accidentally blow up his house and, after several weeks of the same routine, he gets tired of it, and it is implied that he could not really enjoy himself without them around to keep life interesting. In "Pizza Delivery", he saves SpongeBob from being hit by a truck, and angrily force-feeds their customer his pizza after he refuses to pay for it and gets unnecessarily mad at SpongeBob for forgetting a drink that he never even ordered. Finally, in "Born Again Krabs", when Mr. Krabs selfishly trades SpongeBob to the Flying Dutchman for sixty-two cents, Squidward genuinely scolds and shouts that Mr. Krabs should be ashamed of himself.
When Squidward is very happy, he does tend to treat SpongeBob and Patrick like they are his friends, especially when they're responsible for it. A good example is the Season Eight episode, "Enchanted Tiki Dreams"; after Squidward screams at them and even cries when SpongeBob and Patrick are seriously annoying him, SpongeBob and Patrick feel extremely guilty, and make it up to him by making a magical tiki world that is a absolute paradise for him, even to the point where he dances with SpongeBob and Patrick in happiness. Unfortunately, his dream world was destroyed when Patrick accidentally knocked down a torch, which started a fire that burned it to the ground, and showing the poorly-made mechanical parts of the world. Squidward then broke down to tears, but then got happy again when he rode on a swinging ship carnival ride-like copy of his tiki boat, which would send SpongeBob or Patrick flying whenever it would ram into either side, with SpongeBob and Patrick seemingly not minding at all.
Squidward is known to possibly be acquaintances with Gary, saying hey to him in one episode. Also, in "I Was a Teenage Gary," Squidward tried to save Gary after he dehydrated him. Though in most other episodes, he tends to dislike Gary for oozing slime all over his front yard, as seen from "Once Bitten."
SpongeBob SquarePants
Squidward dislikes Spongebob, and often tries to avoid him but not Patrick. The main reason Squidward's massive hatred for Spongebob exists is due to the fact that Spongebob can be extremely annoying towards Squidward, but Spongebob is unaware of this, and thus continues to irritate him. However, on occasions, Squidward can display sympathy for SpongeBob, and this is especially seen in the episode Christmas Who?. Also, when Squidward is in a good mood, he is usually kind to SpongeBob.
Mr. Krabs
Squidward doesn't seem to mind Mr. Krabs, but can sometimes lose patience with him, usually when he is a cheapskate, which usually results in him getting angry with Krabs. He also gets angry when Mr. Krabs blames something on him. Squiward and Mr. Krabs have been working together for a long time so the two have developed a decent relationship.
Patrick Star
Squidward dislikes Patrick, but sometimes likes him, the reason is somehow Patrick can be non- annoying type and can be quiet sometimes. In Naughty Nautical Neighbors he befriends with him, because he saved his life. Squidward however mostly calls him an idiot, imbecile.
Plankton
Squidward and Plankton have an awkward relationship. They usually dislike each other. However in the episodes Sweet and Sour Squid and Chum Fricassee, they team up. Although, they remain enemies in the end.
Gary the Snail
Gary and Squidward are enemies. Gary annoys Squidward while Gary thinks Squidward is a jerk.
Sandy Cheeks
Squidward would befriend with her sometimes but not that much. Sometimes they don't talk, but in one episode, she transformed Squidward and Spongebob after being stuck together.
"This is Squidward the octopus." Later in the feature, he quotes,
"It was easier for :animation to draw him with six legs instead of eight." Squidward's name is a portmanteau of the word "squid" and the name "Edward."
Squidward's archrival is Squilliam Fancyson, who he first met in high school band class, who, like all other octopi on the show, looks and acts similar to Squidward, but wears a robe and has a unibrow. Unlike Squidward, however, Squilliam is extremely successful in everything that Squidward has failed in, and is living Squidward's dream of being a wealthy celebrity artist with crowds of adoring fans. Usually with many admirers following his presence. In Squilliam’s debut episode, "Band Geeks", he calls Squidward at his home to once again rub his success in his face, saying that his band is signed to play at the Bubble Bowl but can't come, and sarcastically asking Squidward for his "band" to cover for them. Squidward, caught in the moment, claims that he does have a band and will play at the Bubble Bowl, forcing him to hastily put together a band from the residents of Bikini Bottom. Thanks to SpongeBob, their performance turns out to be much better than Squilliam could have ever expected, causing him to have a heart attack.
Squilliam returns in the aptly named episode "Squilliam Returns", in which Squidward meets Squilliam and a crowd of his fans. Squilliam tries to embarrass Squidward by showing the crowd his lowly position as a cashier, but Squidward claims to own a five-star restaurant, and Squilliam agrees to take the group to dinner there, expecting this claim to be exposed as a lie. Squidward's attempts at converting the Krusty Krab into a five-star restaurant are initially unsuccessful, until he gets SpongeBob to clear his mind of everything "except fine dining and breathing". SpongeBob is able to turn the Krusty Krab into an extremely extravagant and fancy diner. Everything goes well until Squilliam, who is admittedly impressed, asks his waiter (SpongeBob) his name. SpongeBob, having erased everything else from his mind, forgets his own name and subsequently everything else, going insane and destroying the "fancy restaurant" environment, with the help of Mr. Krabs' "appetizer" coming to life.
Squilliam appears again in "House Fancy" where Squilliam calls Squidward to boast about how his enormous house was chosen as fanciest house on the show House Fancy. Squidward then calls the show's host and claims his house is better. Then with the help of SpongeBob he attempts to make it look better but ultimately ends up destroying his house. This, the show’s host thinks is a revolutionary house design and for the second time Squidward is able to beat Squilliam.
In That's No Lady, Squidward and Mr. Krabs fell for Patrick (who was posing as a women named Patricia to not have to leave Bikini Bottom.
In Love That Squid, Squidward made a date with another squid named Squilvia; surprisingly, they didn't break up by the end of the episode.
Residence
Squidward lives in a house resembling an Easter Island moai that is alive in good neighbors, placed between SpongeBob and Patrick's houses at 122 Conch Street, in which was revealed in The Slide Whistling Stooges. It has been personified several times, such as in the episode "The Secret Box", where it seems to be peeking at SpongeBob and Patrick's talk. Despite Squidward's wish for peace and quiet, his two neighbors, SpongeBob and Patrick, make it nearly impossible, due to their high level of childish immaturity and silliness. If Squidward had the choice, he would move. He did so in "Squidville", but ultimately decided that he had moved somewhere even worse. In "Opposite Day", Squidward tried to move, but SpongeBob and Patrick caused the real estate agent who was originally trying to sell Squidward's house to angrily leave, so Squidward had to stay. He also moved in "Stanley S. SquarePants", because he had realized that there was "two of them" and he became horrified. Squidward does not live alone; Snellie, his snail from "The Great Snail Race", is in residence with him. In "Can You Spare a Dime?", after quitting his job from the Krusty Krab, Squidward was homeless until SpongeBob found him living in a cardboard box and then he ends up living in SpongeBob's house. Squidward almost became homeless again in "Giant Squidward", when he turned into a giant.
In the episode "Squidville", after Squidward's house is destroyed by SpongeBob and Patrick, he sees an advertisement on TV about a town called "Tentacle Acres", home of many octopi who are virtually identical to Squidward, even living in Easter Island Heads. He decides to move there, and for a while life is spectacular, as he finds a large community of like-minded octopi into which he fits perfectly. Eventually, though, he starts to tire of the boring daily routine in which he does the same things every day in order. He begins to wreak havoc throughout the overly structured civilization of Tentacle Acres with a reef blower and an angry mob is formed against him, who corner him in an alley and force him to escape by launching himself into the sky with his reef blower, maniacally yelling "Freedom!"
Quotes
"Oh no. Spongebob. What's he so happy about?" (first line, Help Wanted)
"I love to burst your bubble SpongeBob, but they're laughing at you, not with you." (Grandma's Kisses)
"Am I going to get paid overtime for this?" (various episodes)
Squidward- "Patrick, exactly how dumb are you?" Patrick- "It varies." (Tentacle Vision)
I'm worried he just left with my paycheck. (Money Talks)
Is mayonnaise an instrument? - Patrick; No, Patrick, mayonnaise is not an instrument. Horse radish is not an instrument, either. (Band Geeks)
"Stand back! I have gardening tools! (Squidville )
"Where's Mr. Krabs?!" (Krab Borg)
"I think my heart just stopped." (Your Shoe's Untied)
"This is pretty easy!" (Pressure)
Trivia/Goofs
During October 2007, where Nickelodeon characters were shown dressed as various monsters during commercial breaks, Squidward was dressed as what appears to be the Phantom of the Opera.
Squidward appears to be not much older than SpongeBob and Patrick.
Squidward was originally the tritagonist, but was later overshadowed by Sandy Cheeks and reduced to the fourth position character.
Like Barnacle Boy his nose is very big.
Squidward can also be seen dressed in a Santa costume during a Happy Ha Ha Holidays commercial.
In "Good Ol' Whatshisname", after stealing What Zit Tooya's wallet, Squidward is sentenced to ten years in jail, an unrealistically long time. However, it should be noted that Squidward also ran a stop light and resisted arrest.
Squidward was hinted at having suicidal thoughts during a few episodes. A notable example is in "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV", where a shrunken Squidward wondered if falling from Patrick's hand would kill him. Also in "Band Geeks", Squidward says "Too bad that didn't kill me" when he is pinned to the wall by drumsticks.
In the Krusty Krab, he is mostly the cashier for Krabby Patties.
In "SpongeBob vs. The Patty Gadget" he invented a Krabby Patty cooking machine, showing that he may have a hand for inventing. In fact SpongeBob is forced to use his full skill in order to surpass it and faints from exhaustion afterwards.
Squidward often mentions the running length of one episode of the show (Eleven minutes), usually in subtle ways. A recognizable quote would be: "I'll give him eleven minutes." from the episode "Nature Pants".
Like a real octopus, Squidward's pupils are rectangular.
Squidward has actually released ink in the episode "Giant Squidward", as he "inked" it seemed resemble flatulence.
Squidward’s artistic and musical skills vary from episode to episode.
A cameo of Squidward in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
He is smart. In one episode he said that he was able to recognize 1300 single branded names of vehicles in one glucose and the other episode he said that Public Speaking is #3 for main causes of stress behind death and marriage.
Both Squidward and Plankton have the most Near Death Experiences.
He is considered as the most miserable person in Bikini Bottom; that means Plankton is second. However, in some episodes he managed to get the last laugh at the end, whereas Plankton had none.
In some episodes his middle initial is different.
In the episode Sweet and Sour Squidward, Plankton reveals that Squidward has worked at the Krusty Krab for 20 years. This means he is at least around mid 30s or early 40s, since it would be logical that he began work as a teenager or young adult.
As stated by himself, he doesn't know The Krabby Patty Formula.
He was crowned "House Fancy Prince of the year" is House Fancy.
Squidward shares the same middle name as Mr. Crocker from TheFairly OddParents. Funny, they both act like antagonists in their respective shows.
Squidward's smallest appearence ever is probabilty in the episode License to Milkshake as only his tentacle is shown when he hands the order to Spongebob.
