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Squidward [5] J. [6] [vii] Q. [8] Tentacles [9] (born Oct 9[10]) is 1 of the x main characters of the SpongeBob SquarePants franchise.[xi] He is SpongeBob'southward and Patrick'southward grumpy neighbour and coworker who lives in an Easter Island head. He is an arrogant artist and musician, and his favorite hobbies are painting self-portraits and playing the clarinet.
Even though Squidward's name contains the discussion "squid," he is an octopus, not a squid, as confirmed in many interviews and episodes.[12] [thirteen] [fourteen] [fifteen] [sixteen] [17] [18] He has the traits of an octopus—a round bulbous caput and rectangular pupils—while a squid has a long triangular head and circular eyes, unlike Squidward. Squids have ten tentacles, many more than Squidward. The series' animators believed that giving him 8 limbs would be too crushing and difficult to animate, which is why he is ordinarily depicted with six limbs. Notable exceptions are cursory scenes in "Pressure" and "Sold!," in which he has a total ready of 8 legs. In "Feral Friends," his exact species is identified: a behemothic Pacific octopus.
He is a very cynical, selfish and a stick-in-the-mud individual. He works as the cashier at the Krusty Krab, a job he hates on occasion. Squidward is oft annoyed past SpongeBob's loud and cheerful behavior, but he sometimes sticks up for SpongeBob and sees him as a friend.
Contents
- 1 Biography
- 2 Description
- 3 Personality
- 3.one Creative side
- 3.ane.1 Leisure
- 3.one Creative side
- four Occupation
- 4.1 Alter egos
- 5 Creation and development
- v.i Voice
- 6 Relationships
- six.i SpongeBob SquarePants
- 6.two Mr. Krabs
- six.3 Patrick Star
- half dozen.4 Plankton
- half-dozen.v Gary the Snail
- six.half-dozen Sandy Cheeks
- 6.7 Squilvia
- 6.eight Family unit
- half dozen.nine Rivalry
- 7 Love interests
- 8 Residence
- nine Trivia
- 10 References
- 11 External links
Biography
Squidward J. Q. Tentacles was born to Jeff and Mrs. Tentacles. According to the SpongeBob SquarePants Almanac 2014 volume published by the Egmont Group, Squidward's birthday is on Oct 9.
His father raised him right and loved him very much, as Squidward mentions in "Krab Borg."
Afterward, Squidward was enrolled in the Bikini Bottom School.[ii]
During his childhood, he always had to sit down near the garbage cans at lunch, as he wasn't known every bit a friend past many people.[19] As a teenager, he was rivals with his band classmate Squilliam Fancyson.
As a kid, he went to Camp Coral where he met a sponge named SpongeBob SquarePants, a sea star named Patrick Star and a Texas squirrel wearing an aquatic suit named Sandy Cheeks. A year later on he became the troop leader of the Campsite condign a figure of authority towards his friends and during that fourth dimension he met a money obsessed and former Navy member young crab named Eugene H. Krabs, that would become his boss in futurity.
Young Squidward with hair near Jim.
I 24-hour interval, he became part of the Krusty Krab along with Jim.[20] On the day Jim quit, Squidward spoke with him and instantly lost his long blond pilus, much to his dismay. After, at an unknown betoken of his life, he would get the neighbor of his one-time Camp mates SpongeBob and Patrick..[21]
At one point, he tried to move out of his house out of intolerance for his neighbors, only the real manor agent refused to sell his home on business relationship of SpongeBob and Patrick stealing his identity and deceiving her.[9]
At one betoken, he moved out of Bikini Bottom and into Tentacle Acres, a town filled with his peers, other octopuses who share his tastes and outlook on life. Here, he was forced to face how irksome and oppressive his desired lifestyle is, and he was able to ultimately break free of its bonds with a few inspired silliness.[22]
In "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V," it is implied that Squidward at one point had a significant other when he remembered the good times he had at Make-Out Reef.
In "Love That Squid," it is revealed that he has not dated for a long time earlier Squilvia came into his life.
At 1 point, he, along with SpongeBob, Patrick, Mr. Krabs, Plankton, and Sandy went on state to retrieve the Krabby Patty hole-and-corner formula from Burger Beard.
In "Lame and Fortune," he won the most miserable cashier in the Bikini Bottom contest. Unfortunately, Mr. Krabs immediately purloins the greenbacks prize.
On March 6, 2017, Squidward traveled 2,000 years into the future every bit a effect of existence thawed in the Krusty Krab freezer for 2,000 years.[23] [24]
Description
Concept art for Squidward as Sour Note, depicting him as a realistic giant Pacific octopus.
Squidward is a PMS 333 colored octopus with purple suction cups at the end of his tentacles. Squidward has six limbs in full, two beingness arms, and four being legs, which tend to make the shape of a plus sign when he stands in identify. Whenever he walks, his suction cups stick to the floor, meaning that he walks with a distinct squelching noise. Squidward has a big cranium with eight spots on the tiptop of it. He besides has a nasal phonation, a skinny trunk, a large droopy nose, a wide mouth, and yellow optics with rectangular maroon irises. When he laughs, his nose appears to debunk and inflate repeatedly (in earlier episodes, this was accompanied with a sound effect.) He wears a brown polo t-shirt.
Squidward is usually bald, but his natural hair color is blond. In the episode "The Original Fry Melt," it is shown that Squidward had long blond pilus when he was young, but he lost it all after Jim left the Krusty Krab. His blond hair is too seen in the catastrophe of "Squidward'south Sick Shock."
Squidward with his real-life octopus counterpart, as seen in the book Underwater Friends.
His colour has changed slightly throughout the serial. While he is shown to exist PMS 332 in earlier episodes (nigh noticeable in "Help Wanted"), he changes to PMS 333 in later on episodes.
In the episode "Sandy'southward Rocket," Squidward is shown to be wearing an old version of his nightwear. It is pink with magenta-colored flowers on it. In newer episodes such as "Sentimental Sponge," Squidward is seen wearing his existent nightgown. In this episode, he refers to information technology as a "nightshirt." It is a calorie-free purple nightgown that comes with a matching nightcap. It is the 3rd version of his nightwear. The second version appears in "Employee of the Month" and "Funny Pants."
Squidward'south toenails appear in the episodes "House Fancy," "Giant Squidward," and "Mermaid Pants."
It is shown in the episode "Bulletin Lath" that Squidward has a tattoo of a red rose on his right arm.
In the episode "Jolly Lodgers" Squidward wore a pink Hawaiian shirt before staying in Hotel Halibut to get some peace and quiet. He after wears orangish and crimson trunks, while he goes swimming, and when he enters the Jellyfishing Convention.
In diverse spin-off media, he's slightly redesigned. In Kamp Koral: SpongeBob'southward Under Years, he looks more often than not the same as the original, just wears a red cap and a red handkerchief. In The Patrick Star Show, he has iii pimples on his nose, and his shirt'south collar and sleeves are xanthous.
Personality
Squidward is considered rude, stubborn, snobby, grumpy, bad-tempered, egotistical, miserable, sarcastic, blah, pessimistic, hypocritical, and sometimes sadistic, merely this can be explained past his work ethic. He views the globe in such a negative light that he is rarely seen greeting anyone with a smile. He hates his job at the Krusty Krab and is oftentimes seen sleeping or reading on the job instead of working. Despite his atmosphere, he is still ane of the near intelligent and educated characters. He has a cynical attitude, a grandiose sense of cocky, and sees others equally uncivilized morons while declining to take his shortcomings. Squidward sees himself equally misunderstood and unappreciated, blaming order for his failures.
He is annoyingly pretentious in his pursuit of fame and is either unwilling or unable to spot talent and creativity, fifty-fifty belittling it. He lauds "cultivated taste" and accustomed standards. In the episode "Creative person Unknown," he insists that his student SpongeBob "show his method," even when it is painfully articulate that SpongeBob has artistic genius. Furthermore, Squidward takes credit for creating the David statue when SpongeBob is the actual creator. His motive was to print the art appraiser. In the episode "Bubblestand," he belittles SpongeBob's chimera blowing.
Squidward is besides jealous of those who are more creative or talented than he is, for case, Incidental 41, Patrick Star, Mr. Krabs, Squilliam Fancyson, and fifty-fifty the boob Mini Squidward. In "Slimy Dancing," Squidward cheats during the dance bear witness by hiding in SpongeBob'southward trunk and using the latter's physical identity and talents to win the trophy. He attempts to steal the trip the light fantastic trophy after being criticized by the judges, only to be thrown out by the security. In "Professor Squidward," Squidward impersonates Squilliam Fancyson while exercising his power equally a music teacher, preceding his arrest past the law. In "Sold!," after knowing that SpongeBob and Patrick think Nick Fishkins has bought their homes. Squidward lies that a 14-member family has moved into SpongeBob's pineapple and an eight-member rock band with several instruments has moved into Patrick's rock. When SpongeBob and Patrick come to their old houses, he puts on outfits to friction match the characters that he made up.
Squidward is generally portrayed equally an overall failure. His musical skills with the clarinet are by and large portrayed as sub-par, from mediocre to excruciatingly horrible. In "Sweetness and Sour Squid," Squidward's disastrous clarinet playing creates a mass racket disturbance throughout the town, prompting the government' inflow. However, at that place have been numerous exceptions - such as in "Bubblestand" and "Hello Bikini Bottom!" - where he plays nicely. At the end of "Christmas Who?," he manages to play great with the wooden clarinet SpongeBob carved for him. In "That's No Lady," he manages to play a squeamish tune to woo "Patricia." As well, in "All-time Twenty-four hour period E'er," he fifty-fifty has a concert where he plays beautifully and receives thunderous adulation from the audition. SpongeBob was fifty-fifty on the VIP list for it. It seems that he is capable of playing the clarinet very well past providing a full effort. He plays well enough in "How-do-you-do Bikini Bottom!" for a musical manager to offer him and SpongeBob a job. He also - if the player plays well - plays well in the Rock Bottom mini-game in Lights, Camera, Pants!, along with Beats Me. He is also first-chair in the Bikini Bottom Orchestra.[25]
He often lets this success go to his head. In "Skill Crane," Squidward's terminal success in winning from the toy claw machine goes to his head and influences him to utilise a construction crane; his out-of-control usage of said crane leads to the demolition of the hereafter site of a mall, and eventually the Krusty Krab. In "Snowball Event" after rain SpongeBob and Patrick with snowballs, he takes the snowball fight too far and builds a massive Fort and throws a bunch of snowballs, believing he was dominating the snowball fight.
His overall creative style is shown to exist abstruse and overly sophisticated, and his works are ordinarily panned past his audiences. His failure is shown to exist due to his bad taste and arrogance, rather than a genuine lack of talent. The entirety of his fine art centers on himself, apparently holding his very being to exist an artistic wonder and never even considers depicting annihilation else. In the episode "One Krabs Trash," Squidward is shown bringing flowers to a gravestone reading "Hither Lies Squidward's Hopes and Dreams."
Considering of this, he is portrayed to be the failure of an artist. In "Out of the Pic" an art dealer mentions that none of Squidward's artwork will ever take any budgetary value unless he was "Out of the film." In "The Googly Artiste" When Squidward showed an art dealer 1 of his creative creations, the art dealer was repulsed by it. In "Tin You Spare a Dime?" When Squidward went homeless after quitting his job, he mentions that no one would take his paintings so he had to eat them. Withal in "Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost" he has shown to brand practiced art in some artistic mediums, including wax-sculpting, pottery, and fifty-fifty paintings, simply gets no recognition for them. Despite his lack of success, Squidward is tireless in his pursuit of artistic achievement. Squidward does have artistic talent, simply he'southward but too lazy and arrogant to practice.
In "Dunces and Dragons," Squidly, Squidward'southward medieval ancestor, vowed that if he could not larn to play the clarinet correctly, his seventh great-grandson would exist cursed tenfold. In "Squilliam Returns," Squilliam mentions that Squidward was voted "Well-nigh Probable to Suck Eggs" in high school.
Given how Squidward is depicted every bit a loser in nearly regards, it is probable that his narcissism is a defense mechanism to make him experience as if he has some form of cocky-worth. Outwardly, he shows signs of small success: he lives in a big, well-tended house, with no signs of slothfulness, and finds plenty of time to pb an active, involved life.
Squidward is well-educated and knows his history. He is intelligent and has a lot of worldly knowledge, especially compared to those of SpongeBob and Patrick. Squidward is as well a skilled driver, as he manages to drive virtually everything, from a traditional bike, a boat, car, and even a tractor.
Squidward sleeping at work.
When he is at the Krusty Krab, he is a lazy, sloppy, somewhat incompetent employee who has an intense dislike of the eating house and its direction, which is best exemplified in the episode "Krusty Krab Training Video." He is considered "inattentive, impatient," with "a glazed look in the eye." In episodes where Squidward is put backside the grill whenever SpongeBob is missing, he has shown himself to be an incompetent fry cook, often burning the food instead of cooking it, which affects the health of its consumers. This is shown in "Pickles," "Hooky," and "SpongeBob LongPants." In "Chum Fricassee," it is revealed by Grandma Tentacles that Squidward took shortcuts and undercooked her fricassee, thus poisoning the customers, since he all he cared virtually was the fame, rather than bodily results of the cooking. In "Accidents Volition Happen," he fakes his injury and lies to Mr. Krabs for the sole purpose of seeking sympathy and having an alibi to not work. He does this again in "Squiditis," where he lies to Mr. Krabs about having the eponymous disease to have a twenty-four hours off. In the episode "Squid on Strike," he organizes a worker'southward strike at the Krusty Krab. He even destroys the Krusty Krab, although indirectly and accidentally.
Nonetheless, despite his hatred for his task and the constant abuse and misfortune from having it, he very rarely ever quits and never considers looking for better employment. He puts up with information technology out of pure laziness and stubborn pride out of the fact that he expects to let benefits come to him rather than trying, such equally in "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V" and "New Leaf" when Mr. Krabs threatens to fire him and Squidward lets this threaten him to go forth with what he's getting dragged into against his will.
It is revealed in a flashback of "The Original Fry Melt" that he insists on remaining at the Krusty Krab until his clarinet career pays off, fifty-fifty though it never does. Other examples include "Can You lot Spare a Dime?," in which he quits the Krusty Krab and becomes homeless due to not finding a new task. After existence taken in past SpongeBob, Squidward becomes a leech and consistently and deliberately ignores SpongeBob'south hints for him to at least attempt to look for a new job. In "Banned in Bikini Bottom," after the Krusty Krab is closed downwards, rather than trying to search for a new task, he waits effectually with SpongeBob watching Mr. Krabs wallow in depression. In "Goodbye, Krabby Patty," after getting officially fired from the Krusty Krab, Squidward takes nothingness to this but sees this as an opportunity to follow his dreams, simply to find out that he needs better experience than 17 years as a cashier. Yet rather than trying to search for a meliorate job, he begs for SpongeBob to aid him become employed at the Krusty Krab Museum. The most recent example is "The Check-Up" when a nurse threatens to have the Krusty Krab permanently airtight, Squidward ends upward deciding to help SpongeBob rather than ditching to let him do it himself, stating that if the Krusty Krab is closed down, he would "have to become a real chore."
Every bit it all turns out, one of the reasons why Squidward is often arrogant and bad-tempered, especially the fact that he'southward rude and mean to most people, is having to put up with SpongeBob and Patrick'south loud and irritating behaviors, which sometimes leads him to make plans to get him to terminate, although sometimes, either every bit a result of his arrogance or abandon, his plans backfire on him. This is shown in "Jellyfishing" where Squidward unleashes a jellyfish in a jar with the intent to make it sting SpongeBob and Patrick, in retaliation for making him become stung by the Queen Jellyfish. In "Fools in Apr," Squidward pulls a very cruel and harmful prank on SpongeBob that physically assaults him while under the manipulation of a rope tied to him. In "Suction Loving cup Symphony," Squidward kicks SpongeBob and Patrick out of his window so hard to the point of fracturing the latter's buttock basic. In "Dying for Pie," Squidward buys an explosive pie to give to SpongeBob for Employee Brotherhood Day, oblivious to the fact that it is infused with a bomb; SpongeBob allegedly consumes it, only to reveal toward the ending that he had it in his pocket the whole time to share with Squidward. Although Squidward tried to make the last hours of SpongeBob'south life meaningful and felt guilty for causing his doom, he expresses acrimony upon discovering that SpongeBob never really ate the pie. In "The Lost Mattress," Squidward tries to get SpongeBob and Patrick eaten past the baby-sit worm at the dump by having them trespass the fence while dressed upwards in steak suits. In "The Expletive of Bikini Bottom," Squidward lends his lawnmower to SpongeBob and Patrick out of promise that they injure themselves with it. In "Sportz?," he creates a malicious sports game for them to play in an attempt to impairment them. In "Scavenger Pants," Squidward makes upwardly a really difficult scavenger chase in hopes of getting SpongeBob and Patrick harmed.
Despite his grumpy nature, Squidward does have a caring heart deep downwards, and when he realizes his plans accept acquired either harm or emotional hurting to those he ridiculed, he is quick to realize the fault of his ways and make up for it while he can. Occasionally, such as in "Krab Borg," Squidward is seen teaming up with SpongeBob, or fifty-fifty caring about him.
Artistic side
Leisure
Squidward playing his clarinet.
An avid patron of the arts, Squidward has a potent affection for interpretive trip the light fantastic, sculpting, painting, and playing the clarinet. Withal, he seems to take almost no talent for whatsoever of them whatsoever, although he does play the clarinet beautifully at the end of the "Christmas Who?," at the finish of "Bubblestand," and in "The Two Faces of Squidward." He has often tried to print the public with his creative exhibitions but is always either unrecognized, mocked by his audition, or upstaged by SpongeBob. Squidward always wants to be the center of attention simply 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'south intense hatred for him. Squidward also misses many chances to become famous, even in his dreams.
His lack of talent seems to go back to when he was a child: in "Lost and Found," it is revealed in a flashback that Squidward was a kazoo player in elementary schoolhouse and that his classmates found his music then bad that they all ran out of school, despite Squidward thinking he excelled in playing the instrument.
All of his artwork, from sculptures to paintings, depicts himself in a fashion, fifty-fifty repainting existing works to include his face up. He surrounds himself with said art throughout his house, a clear indication of his narcissist tendencies. These arts accept occasionally been admired greatly past Patrick and SpongeBob, simply are universally hated by the rest of Bikini Lesser.
He has tried several things to reach the fame he desires: hosting a talent show, starting his astrology spin-off, forming a band, then on, yet he cannot seem to become much of a post-obit.
Occupation
Squidward works as the cashier at the Krusty Krab, along with his co-worker, SpongeBob SquarePants. He non just hates his duties just 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 want to be fired or simply quit, but never makes good on information technology. While he initially only seems to work at that place because he needs the money, he seems to simply exist there out of pure laziness of getting a different job as the series progresses.
In The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, Squidward is the manager of the Krusty Krab two for vi days, although due to Plankton's invasion of Bikini Bottom, the new eating house is not in service during this time. It is likewise shown here that Squidward cares near what happens to the Krusty Krab and the Krabby Patty formula when he discovers Plankton selling Krabby Patties and threatens to report him to King Neptune. In "Selling Out," Squidward works as the waiter for Krabby O'Mon'south. He was forced to maintain a false state of happiness, or else face "Human Resources," a thug in the back of the building.
In The Patrick Star Show, he is a paperboy who's trying to collect overdue payment from the Star family unit.
Squidward has also been:
Helm Magma.
- The "art department," filmmaker, and creator of the "real" Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy Movie'due south designing technology. -"Mermaid Human being and Barnacle Boy VI: The Motion Picture show"
- The replacement fry cook at the Krusty Krab - various episodes
- Captain Magma (a volcano-themed superhero identity) - "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy 5"
- Orchestra Concert Composer and Clarinet Concert Player - "Suction Cup Symphony," "Best Twenty-four hour period Ever," and "SquidBob TentaclePants."
- Fine art Lesson Teacher at the Recreational Center - "Artist Unknown"
- A former instructor for the Bikini Lesser Prestigious Music College - "Professor Squidward"
- Santa Claus - "Christmas Who?"
- A playwright - "The Play's the Matter"
Alter egos
- Reflecto - "Mermaid Human being and Barnacle Male child"
- Squidward's ghost - "Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost"
- The Flight Dutchman - "Scaredy Pants"
- Wolfgang Amadeus Tentacles - "Sleepy Time"
- Santa Claus - "Christmas Who?"
- Jen - "As Seen on Television"
- Captain Magma - "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V"
- SquidBob TentaclePants - "SquidBob TentaclePants"
- Smelly - "The Affair"
- New Squidward - "Breath of Fresh Squidward"
- Handsome Squidward - "The Two Faces of Squidward" and "Squidward'south Sick Daze
- Normal Squidward - "Not Normal"
- Gerhard Fishtrap - "Sold!"
- Hedvig Fishtrap - "Sold!"
- Sour Notation - The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
- Doctor Negative - "Mermaid Pants" and "Date TV"
- King of Sports - "Sportz?"
- Um Tentacles - "Scavenger Pants"
- Squid the Horse - "Pat the Horse"
- Bunny Squidward - "Bunny Hunt"
Creation and evolution
Stephen Hillenburg starting time became fascinated with the body of water and began developing his artistic abilities every bit a child. During college, he majored in marine biological science and minored in fine art. After graduating in 1984, he joined the Bounding main Institute, an sea education organization, where he had the idea to create a comic book titled The Intertidal Zone, which led to the cosmos of SpongeBob SquarePants.[26] [27] [28] In 1987, Hillenburg left the Institute to pursue a career in animation.[28] [29]
Several years after studying experimental animation at the California Establish of the Arts,[29] Hillenburg met Joe Murray, creator of Rocko's Modern Life, at an animation festival. Murray offered Hillenburg a job as a manager of the series.[28] [30] [31] Martin Olson, i of the writers for Rocko'southward Modernistic Life, read The Intertidal Zone and encouraged Hillenburg to create a television series with a similar concept. At that bespeak, Hillenburg had not considered creating his own series, simply soon realized that this was his chance.[27] [27]
Hillenburg used some character designs from his comic volume. He designed "SpongeBob'southward grumpy next-door neighbour" like an octopus because of the species' large head; octopuses, he said, "have such a large bulbous head and Squidward thinks he's an intellectual then of form, he'southward gonna have a large bulbous head."[32] Hillenburg drew Squidward with vi tentacles because "information technology was just simpler for animation to depict him with six legs instead of eight."[32] Prove author and storyboard artist Vincent Waller said:
Squidward is hard to draw-he has a very odd-shaped head. Fortunately, his emotions are pretty even, merely to get a whole lot of big emoting out of him is a claiming. His olfactory organ splits everything in half, so it's always like, 'OK, how am I going to work this and still make information technology read?'[33]
Hillenburg thought of making jokes with Squidward ejecting ink just retired it because, according to him, "it always looks like he's pooping his pants."[32] Still, it occurs in The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of H2o and the episodes "Behemothic Squidward" and "Ink Lemonade."
Stephen Hillenburg named him Squidward because of the proper name Octoward—in the words of Squidward'due south vox actor Rodger Bumpass—"but didn't piece of work."[34] The sound of Squidward's footsteps is produced by rubbing hot water bottles. The footsteps, and those of the rest of the main characters, are recorded past the show's foley crew. Sound designer Jeff Hutchins said that footstep sounds "[help] tell which character information technology is and what surface they're stepping on."[35] However, his footsteps are normally accompanied by a couple of stock sound furnishings from the Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends library from the sound effects visitor Sound Ideas, SPURT, Cartoon - OIL SPURT 01 and 02. Bumpass inspired the idea of having Squidward ride a recumbent bicycle; Bumpass owns one of these bicycles, which he rides around Burbank, California.[36] Bumpass described information technology every bit his "fiddling inside joke."[34]
Voice
Squidward's vox is provided by actor Rodger Bumpass, who voices several other SpongeBob SquarePants characters, including Squidward'south mother. In "Funny Pants," Tom Kenny voices Squidward'due south laughter at the finish of the episode. While creating the testify and writing its pilot episode in 1997, Hillenburg and the evidence's then-creative managing director Derek Drymon were too conducting voice auditions.[37] Mr. Lawrence, who had worked with Hillenburg and Drymon on Rocko's Modernistic Life, was Hillenburg's first option for the role. Hillenburg had invited Lawrence to audition for all the evidence'south characters.[38] Instead of Squidward, Hillenburg decided to give Lawrence the part of Plankton, the series' villain.[37] According to Everybody'southward Talking: The Voices Behind SpongeBob SquarePants, while Tom Kenny was practicing the voice of SpongeBob, Stephen Hillenburg read several of Squidward's lines since his vox role player (Rodger Bumpass) had not been cast however.[39]
Co-ordinate to Bumpass, Squidward was "a very nasally, monotone kind of guy." He said the character became interesting to perform because of "his sarcasm, and so his frustration, and then his apoplexy, so he became a wide spectrum of emotions."[40] Tom Kenny, the voice of SpongeBob, describes Bumpass recording his lines in the studio, saying, "I love watching Rodger ... He's right adjacent to me." According to Kenny, when Bumpass "goes apoplectic" as Squidward while recording, his head turns carmine, "and you're afraid he's going to have an embolism."[36]
Several of the show's coiffure praise Bumpass for his performance and similitude to the character. Kenny called Bumpass "brilliant" and said, "[he] is sort of like Squidward."[36] Staff writer Kent Osborne said, "I remember thinking nearly how much Rodger talks and acts like Squidward. That's why it's such a good phonation—he's and then connected to information technology."[41] However, Bumpass said, "I'm not him and he's non me, merely what I'k required to practice for him and what I am enabled to exercise for him is what makes it like me. It fits my item talents and skills very well. So in that respect, yeah, he is me, simply I am not the cranky, sarcastic, underachieving kind of guy that he is. He's piece of cake to fall in, I volition say that."[40]
Squidward'southward vocalization has been compared to that of Jack Benny's. Kenny said, "To me, there'due south something merely then funny about that Jack-Benny-loyal-to-nobody character that Rodger Bumpass does such a slap-up job of playing [...] Squidward."[42] Arthur Chocolate-brown, author of Everything I Need to Know, I Learned from Cartoons!, said that Squidward "sounds a lot like Jack Benny."[43] Bumpass repudiated the human relationship, saying "Jack Benny, no. Although he does accept this observational sarcasm he occasionally brought out."[40]
Relationships
SpongeBob SquarePants
Squidward angrily kicks SpongeBob and Patrick out of his destroyed firm.
SpongeBob is the character Squidward interacts with the most and is also the ane he dislikes more than the rest, oftentimes trying to avoid him at all costs.
The main reason for Squidward'south massive dislike for SpongeBob'south beingness is because SpongeBob can be extremely annoying towards Squidward, merely SpongeBob is unaware of this, and thus continues to irritate him. It was revealed in "Truth or Square," that SpongeBob's pineapple business firm landed on Squidward's old garden and when SpongeBob moved in, Squidward started to resent him even though SpongeBob didn't do anything to make Squidward hate him. Squidward and SpongeBob are opposites, which seems to be the reason why Squidward dislikes him at times when SpongeBob has not washed anything bad to him.
Their relationship is somewhat complicated. While SpongeBob sees Squidward as one of his best friends, this is more often than not one-sided, although Squidward occasionally shows sympathy towards him; this is seen in episodes such equally "Pizza Delivery," "Dying For Pie," and "Christmas Who?" Squidward also admired SpongeBob's selfless bravery against the Flying Dutchman in "Born Again Krabs." Squidward has also teamed up with SpongeBob and helped him on a few occasions, such equally in "Krab Borg" and "Squid on Strike." Later, in "SpongeBob You're Fired," Squidward fought off 4 crazed restaurant owners to rescue SpongeBob and later admitted that every bit much he hates him, he hates the smell of burnt Krabby Patties more before giving him a heartfelt plea to return to the being the fry cook at the Krusty Krab. In the episode "SB-129," Squidward says that he misses everything, including SpongeBob. He also admitted that he likes SpongeBob in "Graveyard Shift" and "Fools in April." Sometimes, he needs SpongeBob's assist, every bit shown in "Skill Crane" and "Sponge-Cano!" where he desperately told SpongeBob how grateful he was and so SpongeBob could save him from falling in the volcano. He's also gotten along really nicely and played with SpongeBob in episodes such every bit "Jiff of Fresh Squidward" and "Slide Whistle Stooges."
Mr. Krabs
Squidward is angry at Mr. Krabs.
Squidward despises Mr. Krabs and has little tolerance for him. Unlike SpongeBob, Squidward is much more than aware of Mr. Krabs' greedy and cheap nature. Mr. Krabs also thinks very lowly of Squidward and gets tired of his lazy tendencies and ofttimes blames him for mishaps, though he does see him every bit a valued employee on occasion. There accept been times where Squidward angrily scolded Mr. Krabs. In "Born Again Krabs," he furiously chastises Mr. Krabs for selling SpongeBob'southward soul for pocket modify. In "Clams" he gets mad at Krabs for taking them on a line-fishing trip and berates him for making them stay on the boat all over a dollar. He also gets outraged when Mr. Krabs blames something on him, similar when Squidward got mad and furiously quit his job because Mr. Krabs angrily accused him of stealing his get-go dime in "Can You Spare a Dime?." Withal, the two do sometimes become forth and Squidward has been working at the Krusty Krab for a long time and does sometimes respect and listen to Mr. Krabs' authority, so the two have adult a somewhat decent relationship. Yet, their relationship has taken a plow for the worst as the series progressed, with Mr. Krabs becoming more greedy and immoral, and Squidward condign angrier and grumpier.
Patrick Star
Throughout the series, Squidward is shown to have a considerable dislike towards Patrick. Equally with Mr. Krabs, this hatred overall seems to have taken a turn for the worse in later seasons. In "Restraining SpongeBob," Squidward is very annoyed with Patrick when he would stalk him, inquire stupid questions, and use his clarinet to clean the bathroom.
Their relationship, in general, is bad-mannered; different SpongeBob, Patrick notices Squidward's malice more often and tends to contradict him more than. Squidward in return is also more than rude and disrespectful to Patrick than to SpongeBob. The two have fifty-fifty fought each other in some episodes due to their differences. All the same, Squidward sometimes hints he tin can tolerate Patrick more than SpongeBob.
While Squidward holds a massive hatred towards Patrick, he didn't seem to mind him before SpongeBob's arrival to their neighborhood. Every bit shown in the TV special "Truth or Foursquare," Squidward lived a happy life in Bikini Lesser, and fifty-fifty enjoyed his job at the Krusty Krab, merely turning bitter and frustrated after SpongeBob moved. Additionally, in "No Hat for Pat," he wishes Patrick was SpongeBob before he tries to button him off the platform into an urchin saucepan, hinting that fifty-fifty though he dislikes Patrick a lot, he dislikes SpongeBob far more.
In "Naughty Nautical Neighbors," he befriends him, because he saved his life, only chop-chop ditches him later. He also stops Mr. Krabs from conning him in "Patrick'due south Coupon."
Plankton
Squidward and Plankton barely collaborate since Squidward doesn't unremarkably care about the secret formula. When they do interact they usually dislike each other. Withal, in the episodes "Sugariness and Sour Squid" and "Chum Fricassee," they team up, although they remain enemies in the end.
Gary the Snail
Gary and Squidward take a complicated relationship. Gary annoys Squidward while Gary thinks Squidward is a jerk. However, Squidward does seem to have feelings for Gary as seen in "I Was a Teenage Gary." And they seem to sometimes share the same opinion near SpongeBob's annoying antics as Squidward in one case replied "Oh, tell me most it!" in "Giant Squidward." In "Are You lot Happy At present?," Gary seemed to be concerned for Squidward similar SpongeBob was. In "That Sinking Feeling," Squidward was searching SpongeBob in his firm and when he spotted Gary on the roof, he said "Hey, Gary." to him.
Sandy Cheeks
Squidward and Sandy normally practice not talk to each other, but in "SquidBob TentaclePants," she transformed Squidward and SpongeBob later being stuck together, and Squidward begs Sandy to separate them. Sandy is 1 of the few characters Squidward seems to take no problems with, although Sandy does seem to sometimes to observe Squidward intolerable, such as his recent assail on a creepy crawler with karate for revenge instead of self-defense force in "Squid Defense force." She can too get a little rough because in "Patrick! The Game" when he was about to quit Sandy angrily scolded him to get back in. She even drew the line earlier with Squidward and some of his antics, such as when she beat up Squidward in "Sportz?" for making SpongeBob and Patrick injure themselves by playing dangerous sports and wouldn't let them stop.
Squilvia
Squidward meets Squilvia.
Squilvia is Squidward's girlfriend in "Beloved That Squid." In the episode, Squilvia visits the Krusty Krab and Squidward falls in dearest with her and gets nervous around her, and so SpongeBob has to human action as his wingman. SpongeBob tells Squilvia that Squidward likes her and manages to get Squidward a date with her. However, Squidward is unprepared to go on a date considering he has not gone on one in years. Therefore, SpongeBob teaches Squidward how to act on a engagement by pretending to exist his girlfriend and going on a fake appointment.
Later on Squidward cannot have it anymore, he yells at SpongeBob. However, he does not realize that Squilvia has arrived for their date. Squidward and so thinks that she would not get out with him because he yelled at SpongeBob. Nonetheless, she likes that he stood upward for himself. They and then continue their engagement.
Since she'south confirmed a minor graphic symbol, their relationship is considered over.[44]
Family
Rivalry
Squidward's arch-rival is Squilliam Fancyson, whom he first met in high school in band grade, who, like all other octopuses on the evidence, looks and acts like to Squidward, but wears a robe and has a unibrow. Nevertheless, unlike Squidward, 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, commonly with many admirers following his presence. In Squilliam'southward debut episode, "Band Geeks," he calls Squidward, at his home, to once again, rub his success in his face, saying that his ring is signed to play at the Bubble Bowl just cannot come, and sarcastically asks Squidward for his "band" to comprehend for them. Squidward, caught in the moment, claims that he does have a band and volition play at the Bubble Bowl, forcing him to put together a band from the residents of Bikini Bottom. Thank you to SpongeBob, their performance turns out to be much amend than Squilliam could have ever expected, causing him to have a center assault.
Squilliam returns in the aptly named episode "Squilliam Returns," in which Squidward meets him and a crowd of his fans. Squilliam tries to embarrass Squidward past showing the crowd his lowly position as a cashier, just Squidward claims to own a five-star restaurant, and Squilliam agrees to have the group to dinner there, expecting this merits to be exposed as a prevarication. 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 can turn the Krusty Krab into an extremely improvident and fancy diner. Everything goes well until Squilliam, who is admittedly impressed, asks his waiter, SpongeBob, his proper name. SpongeBob, having erased everything else from his mind, forgets his proper noun and subsequently everything else, going insane and destroying the "fancy restaurant" environment, with the aid of Mr. Krabs' disgusting "titbit" coming to life.
Squilliam appears once more in "House Fancy" where Squilliam calls Squidward to boast virtually how his enormous house was chosen as the fanciest house on the show House Fancy. Squidward then calls the show's host and claims his firm is better. And so with the help of SpongeBob, he attempts to arrive expect meliorate merely ultimately ends up destroying his house. The show's host thinks this is a revolutionary house design, and for the second time, Squidward can crush Squilliam.
Honey interests
- In "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Male child V," Squidward says "Ah, make out reef... good times, expert times...," meaning he had been there when he was younger with a love interest.
- In "That'due south No Lady," Squidward and Mr. Krabs fall for Patrick, who was posing as a woman named Patricia because Patrick thought someone was trying to force him to leave Bikini Bottom.
- In "Love That Squid," Squidward makes a date with another octopus named "Squilvia."
Residence
Squidward'southward house.
Squidward lives in a house resembling an Easter Island moai. Information technology is placed in between SpongeBob and Patrick's houses at Squidward Tentacles' Business firm, and the address was revealed in "Slide Whistle Stooges." Information technology has been personified several times, such equally in the episode "The Secret Box," where it seems to exist peeking at SpongeBob and Patrick'south talk. Despite Squidward's wish for peace and quiet, his two neighbors, SpongeBob and Patrick, brand it virtually impossible, due to their high level of childish immaturity and silliness. If Squidward had the choice, he would motion. He does so in "Squidville," merely ultimately decides 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 firm to exit angrily, so Squidward had to stay. He too moved out in "Stanley Due south. SquarePants," because he had realized that there were "two of them" and he became horrified.
Squidward usually lives alone, merely in "The Great Snail Race," he adopts a pet snail named Snellie. In "Can You Spare a Dime?," Squidward winds up homeless later on quitting his job until SpongeBob finds him living in a cardboard box and takes him into his house. Squidward nigh becomes homeless once again in "Giant Squidward," when he turns into a behemothic. In the episode "Skillful Neighbors," Squidward's house becomes a living robot (due to a security organisation) and terrorizes Bikini Lesser.
Trivia
- Despite existence the tritagonist, Squidward appears in more episodes than Patrick (the deuteragonist).[45]
- In "Help Wanted," Squidward'due south peel color is PMS 332, but he became PMS 333 for every episode after.
- "The Newspaper" is the start episode where Squidward is seen shirtless.
- SpongeBob is seen imitating Squidward in "Reverse Day," "I Had an Accident," "Gone," "Mimic Madness," "CopyBob DittoPants,"The Getaway," and "SpongeBob'southward Bad Habit."
- He is acrophobic/afraid of heights in "Are You Happy Now?," but in "No Hat for Pat," he is not when he is on the diving board with Patrick.
- Squidward sometimes uses a recumbent bicycle for transport, such as in "Choir Boys." This alludes to his vox role player, Rodger Bumpass, who besides owns a recumbent cycle.[46]
- Squidward is claustrophobic, every bit revealed in the episode "Wishing You Well."
- In the episode "Reef Blower," when SpongeBob sucks the water out of the ocean he is shown to be a shade of regal, but in other out of water appearances, such as The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of H2o, he is his normal shade of PMS 333.
- In early on concept fine art for The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of H2o, Squidward'southward superhero form (Sour Annotation) depicted him as a realistic giant Pacific octopus. In the final version of the film, this gag was given to Sandy instead, and she becomes an overly realistic squirrel.
- During October 2007, where Nickelodeon characters were shown dressed up as various monsters during commercial breaks, Squidward was dressed as what appears to be the Phantom of the Opera.
- Squidward tin also exist seen dressed in a Santa costume during a "Happy Ha-Ha Holidays" commercial, due to his portrayal of Santa Claus in "Christmas Who?" to avoid hurting SpongeBob's feelings.
- In "Feral Friends," information technology is revealed that Squidward is allergic to nuts.
- Is too revealed that squidward is allergic to Seaberry Pie ("Restraining SpongeBob") and Snails ("Sanctuary!").
- Squidward appeared or was mentioned in every episode between 21 and 28. Ironically, he did not appear for half-dozen episodes from the 29 to 31 duo.
- Squidward oft breaks the fourth wall by referencing xi minutes, the usual length of a SpongeBob SquarePants episode.
- Squidward is correct-handed. This tin can be seen in several episodes, including "Artist Unknown" during the scene in which he tries to draw a circle.
- Squidward has a distinct express mirth, which always makes his olfactory organ inflate and deflate, much likely being a reference to the octopus' contractile mantle.
- Squidward'due south height relative to Mr. Krabs changes depending on the episode. He occasionally appears to be much taller, but they are the same peak counting Krabs' eyestalks in another scenes.
- At the Krusty Krab, Squidward sometimes has different jobs from his regular cashier chore, ordinarily replacing SpongeBob as fry cook when he is absent.
A cameo of Squidward in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.
- A graphic symbol resembling Squidward makes a cameo appearance in the Japanese anime Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.
- It is revealed that Squidward used to have a full head of blonde hair in "The Original Fry Cook."
- In the episodes "Employee of the Month," "Bubble Buddy," "Jiff of Fresh Squidward," "The Good Krabby Name," and "Super Evil Aquatic Villain Team Up is Go!," Squidward tin can successfully cook Krabby Patties. Notwithstanding, he does information technology unprofessionally in "Pickles," "Hooky," and "The Algae's E'er Greener."
- In some episodes, Squidward reads magazines during his job.
- In the French dub, Squidward's first name has been changed to "Carlo."
- In Japanese, Squidward'southward proper name has been changed to "Ikarudo Tentacles" (イカルド・テンタクルズ, Hepburn: Ikarudo Tentakuruzu). Ikarudo is a portmanteau of ika (the Japanese give-and-take for "squid") and the presumably technical romanization of "Squidward" (su-ku-i-do-wa-ru-exercise).
- Squidward is allergic to seaberries[47], snail slime[48], nuts, soda[49], and pets[l].
- It is revealed in "The Fish Basin" that Squidward's favorite nutrient is ice cream.
- Squidward reveals that he has a begetter in "Krab Borg," although his father has never been seen in the serial.
- His father appears in the book Hooray for Dads!, where he is shown to have a similar personality to his son.
- In the audio commentary for "Karate Choppers" and The Absorbing Tale Behind The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, Squidward is referred to as Squidward J. Tentacles by his voice player, Rodger Bumpass.
Ebony Maw
- In the 2018 picture Avengers: Infinity State of war, Tony Stark insults Ebony Maw past calling him "Squidward."
- In 2000, a spin-off series of SpongeBob shorts was made called Star divination with Squidward. Information technology focused on Squidward as a psychic telling audiences about dissimilar zodiac signs using other SpongeBob characters.
- Squidward earned his given proper noun from a pun on "squid" and "Edward."
- He is the first SpongeBob graphic symbol to announced in a flash animation in the short Super Basin LIII Halftime Show short.
- The Book of Silly Stuff lists Squidward'southward middle name as Quincy.
- Squidward is shown to be reading numerous magazines, each episode has Squidward reading a different magazine.
- In Spain and Latin America, his name is "Calamardo." That is because in Spanish "squid" is "calamar" and "Edward" is "Eduardo."
- In the episode "SpongeBob's Bad Habit," it is revealed that Squidward has a boom-biting problem.
- When Squidward blushes, his nose also has a red tint like his cheeks.
- In the episode "Are You Happy At present?," it is revealed that Squidward owns a fax machine.
- In the episode "Jolly Lodgers," it is revealed that Squidward likes conga music.
- Google bought the domain "squidward.com," and to this day, it redirects to google.com.
- According to the serial pitch bible, Squidward was originally going to play the oboe, and non the clarinet.[51]
- Squidward's voice player, Rodger Bumpass, is more than ten years older than SpongeBob's voice actor, Tom Kenny.
- In a 2002 promo, Squidward joked most being the new host of Blueish's Clues before Joe responds with "Squidward, stop telling people that." [52]
- In the episode "Drive Thru," it is revealed that Squidward never went to higher.
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