Squid's Visit (SpongeBob SquarePants)

Squid's Visit (commonly known as Squid Visit) is the 16th SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season six, and the 116th episode in the show.

Summary
SpongeBob tries to get Squidward to visit him at home.

Why We Shouldn't Give SpongeBob A Visit

 * 1) Like many episodes of seasons six to eight, it's an episode where Squidward is treated in a horrible and unfair way, as he is harassed by SpongeBob, his house burns down because he left a casserole in the oven and he gets hurt by falling down the stairs and slipping on some rash cream.
 * 2) Generic plot: SpongeBob wants Squidward to visit his house. Squidward doesn't want to, so SpongeBob 'borrows' Squidward's vacuum cleaner so that Squidward will visit. Besides that, it doesn't make sense, since several times Squidward had already visited SpongeBob in episodes such as "Nature Pants" and "Can You Spare a Dime?" for example.
 * 3) SpongeBob is somewhat unpleasant, strange and creepy in this episode, almost as badly flanderized as in Boating Buddies or Choir Boys, as he harasses Squidward by wanting him to visit his house, besides there's a joke where SpongeBob cries in various places because Squidward doesn't want to visit him. Besides that, he somehow makes an exact replica of Squidward's house down to the tiniest detail, which only serves to horrify Squidward, besides that he partly made Squidward forget that he left a casserole in the oven and because of that his house was burned down.
 * 4) The worst part is that SpongeBob knows all the details of Squidward's house, even the smallest detail, which is pretty creepy and goes to the stalker's territory.
 * 5) * On the one hand, Squidward isn't very nice either, as he often insults SpongeBob, throws food that SpongeBob offers back at him and lets him sleep in the ashes of his house.
 * 6) Animation Errors:
 * 7) * When Squidward shouts "Ever!" in SpongeBob's face, one side of SpongeBob's white shirt turns transparent for a very brief moment.
 * 8) * When Squidward first enters SpongeBob's house, there is a portrait of another squid on the wall, but with an orange face and a blue shirt. However, when the camera pans in front of Squidward's face and he says "No! It isn't!", the painting now has a green face and a white shirt.
 * 9) * When SpongeBob reaches for the iced tea to give to Squidward, one of his blue eyes turns yellow for a split-second until he turns back around.
 * 10) * When Squidward is sad because his house is gone, the vacuum disappears, but when Squidward is about to fall, the vacuum reappears.
 * 11) *Also the animation, while decent, can be quite boring to watch, especially for the movements of the characters and the animation errors.
 * 12) A couple of continuity errors, mostly out of plot contrivance.
 * 13) * In this episode, it is said that Squidward had never visited SpongeBob's house. But Squidward has already been to SpongeBob's house in Nature Pants, I Was a Teenage Gary, SpongeBob Meets the Strangler, Party Pooper Pants and Can You Spare a Dime?.
 * 14) ** Also, SpongeBob went ballistic over him freeloading in the episode Can You Spare a Dime?.
 * 15) * Patrick said that Squidward visited his house only one time. In Patrick SmartPants, Squidward tested the brain fluids inside the rock. In I'm With Stupid, he told Patrick that his parents arrived. Squidward also visited Patrick's rock in Breath of Fresh Squidward and The Thing.
 * 16) * In this episode, Squidward says that he has never called SpongeBob. But he had previously called him in Home, Sweet Pineapple and The Paper.
 * 17) As usual, the humor is quite mediocre and forced, and is usually based on SpongeBob intimidated Squidward or Squidward suffering or Squidward being rude to SpongeBob, among some mediocre jokes are:
 * 18) * There's a scene where SpongeBob starts crying and screaming at Squidward. This scene lasts 10 seconds and SpongeBob's voice is so sharp, it's irritating.
 * 19) * There's another scene of SpongeBob crying and telling Squidward to visit him. That scene lasts 7 seconds.
 * 20) * The scene where SpongeBob offers Squidward different kinds of food.
 * 21) * A creepy scene where SpongeBob breathes heavily while on the phone with Squidward.
 * 22) * A scene in which Squidward slips on some rash cream that SpongeBob threw on the floor.
 * 23) * A scene where Squidward steps on SpongeBob.
 * 24) Half-Bad Ending: When Squidward finally gets his vacuum cleaner back, his house burns down because he left a casserole in the oven. SpongeBob then says he can stay at his house, causing Squidward to have a mental breakdown.
 * 25) On that topic, as Squidward screams "SPONGEBOB!", SpongeBob has a little grin on his face, which... much like Bendy's grin, is just exceedingly unpleasant.
 * 26) SpongeBob's infamous "Aw, don't worry, Squidward! You're more than welcome to stay at my house until you get your house fixed!" quote.
 * 27) The scene where Squidward has a mental breakdown is extremely horrifying, especially the spooky scary face he makes, which looks as mentally ill as possible.
 * 28) Like One Coarse Meal, this episode failed miserably at doing horror-comedy and is not fun compared to other episodes such as Squidward in Clarinetland, Fear of A Krabby Patty, Don't Look Now, The Nasty Patty, The Graveyard Shift, The Ghost of Plankton, One Trash Krabs, and Wormy which managed to do horror-comedy well. speaking of Wormy, Depending on your view, It can be a very scary episode from Season 2, Due to the horsefly close up.
 * 29) Like One Coarse Meal, for some strange reason, the title card plays fun and cheerful music, although this episode is known for SpongeBob's creepy antics and Squidward's mental breakdown, which instead comes off as sickening and outrageous instead of humorous as intended.
 * 30) Lots of filler, like the scenes in which SpongeBob suggests that Squidward visit his home, which plays out very slowly.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) The animation (despite it's errors) and the voice acting are still good.
 * 2) Decent voice acting as usual.
 * 3) Some of the phrases in this episode are fun to hear like:
 * 4) *"I don't even know what that is!"
 * 5) * "My rash cream?" [closes the cabinet] "That little sneak!"
 * 6) * "Oh, some knucklehead left a casserole in the oven."
 * 7) * "Never!"
 * 8) * Mr. Krabs: "Well... it's almost quittin' time, Squidward! You... got any big plans for after work?"
 * 9) ** Squidward: "Nope."
 * 10) * "SpongeBob, thank you so much for that lovely invitation but I must respectfully tell you I will never visit you. EVER!!!"
 * 11) Patrick and Mr. Krabs are the only likable characters in this episode. Patrick even looks concerned when Squidward was angry at SpongeBob.
 * 12) *Squidward is also more tolerable than SpongeBob since we do feel bad for him being tortured by SpongeBob.
 * 13) Half-Good Ending: Squidward wins in the end and SpongeBob loses. Squidward sleeps in the replica house and SpongeBob sleeps outside.
 * 14) Unlike most of the Squidward torture episodes, SpongeBob gets his comeuppance in the end when Squidward makes him sleep outdoors.
 * 15) While Squidward's mentally disabled face looks creepy, it does seem like a silly face!
 * 16) Unlike other Squidward tortures, this episode treats SpongeBob like the bad guy.

Reception

 * 1) This episode was heavily criticized by fans, landing in the "Top 10 Worst Episodes of SpongeBob" list by WatchMojo. This episode has a 5.8 rating on IMDb, alongside To SquarePants or Not to SquarePants.
 * 2) It was originally number 11 on MoBrosStudios' worst SpongeBob episodes, but when Anim8ball (his other channel) revisited the list, he removed it.

Trivia

 * The episode's title card's background is the color of SpongeBob's house, while the wording is the color of Squidward's house.
 * This background also appears in Home Sweet Pineapple, Home Sweet Rubble, Pineapple Fever and Pineapple RV.
 * SpongeBob and Squidward's shift ends in clear daylight in this episode, although in earlier episodes, such as Pizza Delivery and Graveyard Shift, their shift ends closer to sunset.
 * SpongeBob invites Squidward to visit "La Casa de Esponja", which translates to "The Sponge House". "Bob Esponja" is SpongeBob's Spanish name.

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