Squirrel Jokes
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| "Squirrel Jokes" | |
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| Information | |
| Season №: | 2 |
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| Episode №: | 31b |
| Airdate: | November 27, 2000 |
| Best Day Ever Rank: | #86 |
| Credits | |
| Cast: | Tom Kenny Carolyn Lawrence Bill Fagerbakke |
| Writer(s): | Paul Tibbitt Walt Dohrn Merriwether Williams |
| Directors | |
| Main: | Paul Tibbitt Walt Dohrn |
| Storyboard: | Chris Headrick |
| Animation: | Larry Leichliter Leonard Robinson |
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"Squirrel Jokes" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season two.
Brief summary: SpongeBob begins telling racist squirrel jokes as part of a comedy routine, and although he assures Sandy that it is all in fun, people begin treating her as inferior because of SpongeBob's jokes.
Characters:
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Sandy Cheeks
- Mr. Krabs
- Patrick Star
- Audience
- Bikini Bottomites
- Dougie Williams
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Plot
For one night a week, the Krusty Krab is converted into the "Komedy Krab", featuring some of Bikini Bottom's best comedians taking the stage. SpongeBob is performing tonight, one of them. He takes the stage, and begins an awful routine about his job, making poor jokes about salt, tomatoes and forks. A heckler tells him that his act "smells funny, and puts people to sleep," throwing him off further. As SpongeBob tries to make a witty observation, he notices Sandy's buck teeth, and starts joking about them, which the audience responds positively to. SpongeBob begins telling more "squirrel jokes" about how stupid squirrels supposedly are and everyone starts laughing, except Sandy. After his act, Sandy confronts SpongeBob backstage and tells him that his jokes are hurtful, but he insists that it's just an act and "everyone knows you're the smartest one in town".
The next day, however, everyone starts making fun of Sandy, and on the night of the Komedy Krab, she confronts him again, explaining how the jokes are affecting her public image, and asking him to use some of his "other" jokes instead. When he goes onstage, SpongeBob begins to do his original, pitiful routine from last week, and soon drops the microphone and leaves the stage. However, he then comes back and continues his squirrel jokes, which become even more offensive. After the performance, he finds a note from Sandy, stating that she has realized that his jokes really are funny, and inviting him to her Treedome.
When he visits her, however, Sandy looks and acts like his jokes make her out to be: an idiotic, clueless redneck. Her supposed stupidity ends up causing SpongeBob to be severely injured, and he learns his lesson, saying "No more squirrel jokes."
At the next Komedy Krab, however, SpongeBob continues to tell squirrel jokes. However, he makes fun of everyone else as well, including himself, fish, and crabs. SpongeBob and Sandy give each other thumbs up signals, indicating their restored friendship. SpongeBob begins saying "And don't even get me started on starfish..." as the episode ends.
Transcript
Trivia/Goofs
- This episode is #18 in Tom Kenny's Top 20 on iTunes. His description says:
"I started out as a stand up comedian, so it was fun to perform as the kind of schlockmeister I strove not to be. Stand ups are always fighting between doing more original material or repeating what works. SpongeBob goes for the pander, without thinking about the feelings of the person disparaged by his material."
- In the movie Firewall, SpongeBob can be heard saying the line "Did you ever notice how big squirrels’ front teeth are?" from this episode in one scene.
- When Sandy is in the grocery store and the three fish start making fun of her, the hat-wearing fish's lips flicker orange for a fraction of a second.
- SpongeBob says, "I knew sooner or later you'd understand." But the captions read, "I knew sooner or later you'd get it."
- Sandy and Patrick are sitting at the same table throughout SpongeBob's act. However, the image behind them alternates between a window and a wall between different shots throughout the episode.
- SpongeBob states that he has no bones while making fun of himself, but his bones have been shown in many episodes, most notably "Squid on Strike".
- It is possible that the Komedy Krab is very similar to the Krusty Krab Talent Show from "Culture Shock", and possibly grew out of it. SpongeBob is told that, as part of his duties as "headliner", he must mop up after the show is over, a duty which he was also assigned in the aforementioned episode.
- The title card design is nearly identical to that of "Funny Pants".
- SpongeBob's goldfish joke was used as the Comedy Central Joke of the Day on July 17, 2009, the day that the Ultimate SpongeBob SpongeBash began.
Quotes
- (Krusty Krab)
- Dougie Williams: Hi everybody! I'm gonna cut the jokes and skip right to the part where I throw pies at you!
- SpongeBob: ...and fish.... P.U.! How can a creature that spends so much time in the water smell so bad? I mean, really! "Soap, soap, what is soap?"
- Audience: (Huge laughter)
- SpongeBob: And don't even get me started on starfish!
- Patrick: "Haw, Haw, Haw!!"
- Martin: What smells rotten and puts people to sleep?
- SpongeBob: Uhh...noxious gas?
- Martin: No! Your act!
- SpongeBob: Why does it take more than one squirrel to screw in a lightbulb?
- Martin: Why?
- SpongeBob: Because they're so darn stupid!
- (Audience laughs)
APM music identification
- Andy Anorak - Title card; SpongeBob's comedy sets.
- Stand-Up Comic B - "You! Your act!"
- Stand-Up Comic C - "At least I don't have to clean up my act."
- Stand-Up Comic D - SpongeBob's goldfish joke.
- Hawaiian Link A - SpongeBob goes over to the Treedome.
