History Recap / SpongebobSquarepantsS2E6GrandmasKissesSquidville

** The last one is the other way around, Squidward flies out of Tentacle Acres after all the trouble he caused to go live in his old life again, and becomes coming fed up with how boring Tentacle Acres is.

* FantasticRacism: Squidville only allows Squids to live and to be inside their community, especially Sponges and Starfish like [=SpongeBob=]. When [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick try to get into Tentacle Acres, a guard tells them "your kind isn't allowed here" and intends to chase them with a nightstick. Earlier, Squidward was asked to confirm he is, and always was a squid.

* NoSocialSkills: Evidently every octopus in Tentacle Acres is like this. One of them even hostilely berates Squidward just because they accidentally bumped into one another.

** Life can be very dull when you have everything your own way. A regular life is truly a blessing.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: When Squidward arrives at the front gate at Tentacle Acres, the guard asks him "Are you now or have you ever been a sponge?" The wording and tone are eerily reminiscent of US senator UsefulNotes/JosephMcCarthy's infamous [[RedScare "Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?"]]

* FantasticRacism: When [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick try to get into Tentacle Acres, a guard tells them "your kind isn't allowed here" and is seen preparing to chase them off with a night-stick. Earlier, Squidward was asked to confirm he's neither a sponge nor starfish.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The plot's genesis - after Squidward's house is destroyed by [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick, he finally declares it the "final straw" and announces his intent to "move so far away that [he] can brag about it."

* {{Suburbia}}: Tentacle Acres is an idyllic gated community located far away from the rest of Bikini Bottom; true to more critical portrayals of suburbs and their basis in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight white flight]], the paradisical advertising masks thinly-veiled FantasticRacism towards sea sponges.

* CutAndPasteSuburb: All the houses in Tentacle Acres look like Squidward's Easter Island Head home, but with big numbers on the doors to help distinguish them.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: When Squidward arrives at the front gate at Tentacle Acres, the guard asks him “Are you now or have you ever been a sponge?” The wording and tone are eerily reminiscent of [[RedScare Joseph McCarthy’s infamous “Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?”]]

* FantasticRacism: When [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick try to get into Tentacle Acres, a guard tells them "your kind isn't allowed here” and is seen preparing to chase them off with a night-stick. Earlier, Squidward was asked to confirm he's neither a sponge nor starfish.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The end of the BoredomMontage has Squidward saying he doesn't feel like playing the clarinet, one of his regular pastimes. The next day, Squidward hopefully calls for [=SpongeBob=] when he hears a reef blower, and then he ends up having fun with said reef blower just as [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick did in the beginning (which is the reason why he decided to move away in the first place). By the end, [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick fail to recognize him as they watch him fly out of the town using said blower, mainly because he was laughing and shouting maniacally while doing so.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
** The end of the BoredomMontage has Squidward saying he doesn't feel like playing the clarinet, one of his regular pastimes.
** Squidward becomes so bored with Tentacle Acres that he ends up having fun with a reef blower just as [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick did in the beginning (which is the reason why he decided to move away in the first place). By the end, [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick fail to recognize him as they watch him fly out of the town using said blower, mainly because he was laughing and shouting maniacally while doing so.

* KarmaHoudini: Squidward, of all people, and the other customers get no punishment for bullying Spongebob.

* LittleNo: Spongebob's reaction to Grandma giving Patrick his sweater with love in every stitch.

* ManChild: Once Patrick and [=SpongeBob=] are swayed by Grandma's coddling, they each have their respective moments of giving up their manly facade and acting like babies. Patrick doesn't last a second after he learns that Grandma has cookies and Spongebob throws a tantrum about wanting to stay a baby forever when he can't keep the act up any more. However, Grandma assures him that he doesn’t have to be a baby to have fun.

* BaitAndSwitch: When Spongebob calls Squidward in Tentacle Acres, his voice on Squidward's end is rendered as Spongebob-sounding gibberish. At first, it just sounds like typical Hollywood shorthand for how telephone calls sound, but after Squidward hangs up, we cut back to Spongebob's house, where it turns out he and Patrick are just randomly speaking gibberish.

* MistakenFromBehind: When [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick are trying to find Squidward in the Tentacle Acres mob, Spongebob (and the audience) sees an octopus who looks like Squidward from behind, since he's wearing the same [[IconicOutfit brown shirt]] that Squidward [[LimitedWardrobe usually wears]]. But when [=SpongeBob=] [[TheGlomp embraces]] him, we see his face and he has [[BigOlEyebrows heavy eyebrows]] and a big black mustache.

'''Original air date''': 4/28/2001 ''(produced in 2000)''

!!Examples:
* AnAesop

** Don’t grow up too fast.
** Don’t be embarrassed if people mock you for being too close to your relatives.

!!Examples:
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Inverted. Squidward ends up becoming hated by everyone in Tentacle Acres due to gleefully causing trouble for them with a reef blower. Although a few of the residents do mock him for playing with said reef blower.
* AluminumChristmasTrees: Canned bread is a real product. Why have bread in a can? It's meant to be stored away for a long time in case of emergencies.

** It’s better to live in a diverse changing world than one that is homogenous and repetitive.

* KarmaHoudini: Squidward and the other customers get no punishment for bullying Spongebob.

* {{Bowdlerise}}: When SpongeBob and Patrick were trying to enter Tentacle Acres, the guard tells them that their kind isn't allowed. The Hungarian dub makes it a bit less racial with the guard responding "Sorry, but only squids are allowed to enter!".

* YouNeedABreathMint: "FRIED OYSTER SKINS?! AAAAAHH! ''[[{{Fainting}} faints]]''"

The one where they listen to freeform jazz.

The one with canned bread.

* NoSocialSkills: Evidently every squid in Tentacle Acres is like this. One of them even hostilely berates Squidward just because they accidentally bumped into one another.

* PlanetOfHats: Tentacle Acres is a town inhabited by squids who are exactly like Squidward.

* VacuumMouth: Patrick eats an entire plate of cookies this way.

** It’s better to live in a diverse changing world that one that is homogenous and repetitive.

* BaitAndSwitch: When Spongebob calls Squidward in Tentacle Acres, his voice on Squidward's end is rendered as Spongebob-sounding gibberish. At first it just sounds like typical Hollywood shorthand for how telephone calls sound, but after Squidward hangs up, we cut back to Spongebob's house, where it turns out he and Patrick are just randomly speaking gibberish.

* NotUsedToFreedom: Even after being freed from [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick's lunatics, Squidward is unable to spur any ideas of his own of having fun and entertainment other than playing his clarinet, dancing, riding his bike and buying canned bread and grows incredibly bored.

* SnarkToSnarkCombat: As Squidward enters Tentacle Acres, he and another octopus engage into this after bumping into each other:

* WantingIsBetterThanHaving: Squidward realizes this as he finds out everyone in Tentacle Acres does the same thing every day, and becomes bored with his new life days after moving in.

* BoredomMontage: Squidward's first few days in Squidville are joyous and shown in detail, but as the days continue on, his smile slowly morphs into a large tired frown as Squidward realizes that nobody in Tentacle Acres stands out and that [[WantingIsBetterThanHaving being able to live his life free of interruptions from SpongeBob and Patrick is actually pretty boring]]. Currently provides the page image.

* DriveThruAntics: At the Squidville gate, Patrick orders food through the intercom thinking it's a drive-thru.
-->'''Patrick:''' ''[after the doors open]'' I guess we have to order inside.
* FantasticRacism: When [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick try to get into Tentacle Acres, a guard tells them "your kind isn't allowed here.” Earlier, Squidward was asked to confirm he's neither a sponge nor starfish.

* MistakenFromBehind: When [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick are trying to find Squidward in the Squidville mob, Spongebob (and the audience) sees an octopus who looks like Squidward from behind, since he's wearing the same [[IconicOutfit brown shirt]] that Squidward [[LimitedWardrobe usually wears]]. But when [=SpongeBob=] [[TheGlomp embraces]] him, we see his face and he has [[BigOlEyebrows heavy eyebrows]] and a big black mustache.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: Combined with MundaneObjectAmazement. One of the things that Squidward is awed about in Squidville is canned bread, a food that is not commonly seen or known since loaves of bread usually come in bags.

* CoincidentalBroadcast / LaserGuidedBroadcast: A TV commercial for Tentacle Acres plays after Squidward's very specific description of how much he's had it with [=SpongeBob=]'s antics after his house gets destroyed, copying it nearly word for word.

* KarmaHoudini: Squidward & the other customers get no punishment for bullying Spongebob.

* PalleteSwap: All of the octopi in Tentacle Acres are just Squidward’s model with different clothes and hairstyles.

* PalletSwap: All of the octopi in Tentacle Acres are just Squidward’s model with different clothes and hairstyles.