| Squidward Quincy Tentacles
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| General Information
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| Gender:
| Male
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| Color:
| Turquoise, Cyan (Season 1, Season 2, Season 3)
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| Eye Color:
| Yellow with mahogany brown pupils
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| Species:
| Squid
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| Height:
| 10 inches
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| Weight:
| 3oz
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| Address:
| 122 Conch Street, Bikini Bottom, Pacific Ocean
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| Occupation(s):
| Cashier of the Krusty Krab, sometimes the fry cook when SpongeBob is gone (Pickles, Hooky, and The Algae's Always Greener), Former Manager of the Krusty Krab 2 (The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie), clarinetist
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| Aliases:
| Big nose, Squid, Captain Magma, Mr. Squidward, Mr. Handsome,
Squidward Tennisballs, Squidward Tortellini, SquidCakes, Wolfgang
Amadeus Tentacles (Sleepy Time), Old Man Squidward,
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| Family & Friends
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| Family:
| Mrs. Tentacles (mother)
Mr. Tentacles (father)
Squeeze Tentacles (cousin)
Grandma Tentacles (Grandmother)
Squog (ancestor)
Squidly (ancestor)
Hopalong Tentacles (ancestor)
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| Friends:
| SpongeBob SquarePants (occasionally)
Patrick Star (occasionally)
Squilvia (girlfriend)
Lil Squidward
Members of the Cephalopod Lodge (possibly)
Howard
Eugene H. Krabs
Clarry
Plankton (occasionally)
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| Pet(s):
| Snellie
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| Employer:
| Mr. Krabs
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| Enemies:
| Squilliam Fancyson
Sheldon J. Plankton
SpongeBob SquarePants (usually)
Mr. Krabs (when being cheap)
Mini-Squid
Patrick Star (usually)
Barnacle Boy
Zeus the Guitar Lord (In Tentacles Vision)
The Mawgu
Gary the Snail
Gordon
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| Other Informations
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| Interests:
| Art, music, playwriting, dancing, reading, fancy living, relaxing, cleaning toilets, taking bubble baths, talking to Mr. Krabs
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| Awards:
| House Fancy Prince of the Year [possibly 2008] (title)
1st Place Snail Racing Cup
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| Series Information
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| First appearance:
| "Help Wanted"
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| Portrayer:
| Rodger Bumpass
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| List of characters
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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.
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, hot-tempered, selfish, 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 also jealous of those who are more artistic than him, for example:
Nat Peterson,
Patrick,
Mr. Krabs,
Squilliam Fancyson and even the puppet
Big Nose.
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.
Appearance
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 recta
ngle 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 live
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 "Sponge-Cano!", he scolds everyone in the Krusty Krab and yells at SpongeBob for humming.
- 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).
- In New Fish in Town, dragged Spongebob's, Patrick's, and Howard's homes down a trench.
Scapegoat side
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 the famous art piece Fiasco. 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.
Occupation
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.
Squidward has also been:
Artistic Side
Leisure
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 loved 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 exactly the 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.
In
The Two Faces of Squidward, Squidward becomes handsome after a face injury caused by Spongebob.
In
Giant Squidward, Squidward gets a new clarinet that sounds good.
In
Suction Cup Symphony Squidward plays a song he wrote to Bikini Bottom (wile dodging Spongebob and Patrick along the way).
Near-Death Experiences
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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 always gets injured by his bad Karma.
Relationships
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.
Creation and development
This was stated in a "The Case of the SpongeBob" feature of
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie DVD with creator Stephen Hillenburg and a few voice actors.
Stephen Hillenburg quotes the following
"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."
Family
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Rivalry
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.
Love Interests
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)
- "That's right SpongeBob. I might sneak up on you." (Employee of the Month)
- "Are you planning on ordering today, sir?" (Pickles)
- "Awww, Sponge, it's okay." (Pizza Delivery)
- "Well this one's on the house!" (Pizza Delivery)
- "This is not a visit. You will get me my vacuum. And stop fluffing this pillow!! (Squid's Visit)
- "...Mediocre?..." (Plankton!)
- "I've never had a Krabby Patty and never will." (Just One Bite)
- "Oh please... I have no soul." (Just One Bite)
- "Does this look unsure to you?" (Just One Bite)
- "This is idiotic!" (New Leaf)
- "Too bad that didn't kill me." (Band Geeks)
- "People talk loud when they wanna act smart." (Band Geeks)
- "Well, I guess this will be the last time I can show my face in this town." (Band Geeks)
- "No, Patrick, mayonnaise is not an instrument." (Band Geeks)
- "Oh, my aching tentacles." (Pizza Delivery)
- "Shut your half-wit pieholes!!" (Club SpongeBob)
- "I hate all of you." (Karate Choppers)
- "I guess I better apolo...(chokes self)."(Fools in April)
- "Mother?!" (Fools in April)
- "Why must every eleven minutes of my life be filled with misery? Why-hy-hy-hy? (Club SpongeBob)
- "Give me that!" (Chocolate with Nuts)
- "But this is my only night to be fancy." (Chocolate with Nuts)
- "Don't listen to him Squidward, remember your karma." (My Pretty Seahorse)
- "That lemon has three seeds, THAT'S AN ODD NUMBER!" (Can You Spare a Dime?)
- "I hate my job." (Spy Buddies)
- "Mr. Tentacles has all the talent." (Artist Unknown)
- "I'll give him eleven minutes." (Nature Pants)
- "Did you find any of Patrick's gold?" (The Battle of Bikini Bottom)
- "Please tell me this isn't a joke!" (Welcome to the Chum Bucket)
- "Oh ho! My back!" (Naughty Nautical Neighbors)
- "That was my cheese, it is suppose to smell like that, kelp for brains!" (No Nose Knows)
- "You two don't deserve to wear those fezzes!" (Good Neighbors)
- "I'm glad I don't eat here." (Krabs a la Mode)
- "I'm really glad I don't eat here." (Krabs a la Mode)
- "I bet they won't have....They have it! Canned Bread!" (Squidville)
- "You owe me big time for this, Mr. Krabs." (Grandpappy the Pirate)
- "This wouldn't be the first time you ruined everything." (The Clash of Triton)
- "I don't believe in ghosts!" (Ghost Host)
- "Now these neighbors know how to live!" (Squidville)
- "Oh No! He's hot!!" (Squilliam Returns)
- "His favorite underpants!" (Christmas Who?)
- "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
- 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.
- 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, Squidward sometimes has different jobs from his regular cashier job.
- 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 character resembling Squidward make a cameo appearance in Toppa Gurren Lagann Episode 13
- 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.
- 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.
- Squidward used to have a garden where SpongeBob's house is, as shown in Truth or Square
- Squidward's smallest appearance ever is the episode, License to Milkshake as only his tentacle is shown when he hands the order to Spongebob.
- In the episodes Sweet and Sour Squidward, The Good Krabby Name, and Super Evil Aquatic Villain Team Up is Go!, Squidward can successfully cook Krabby Patties. However, he was bad at it in Pickles and Hooky. It is possible that he learned to be a better cook because of all of the times SpongeBob was gone in all those episodes.
- On the Nick Scene It game a card said "Squidward was most likely to what in high school?" the answer was "to suck eggs."
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