Original air date: 3/31/2012 (produced in 2011)
SpongeBob tries to help Squidward find his "happiest memory".
"Are You Happy Now?" contains examples of:
- Agony of the Feet: SpongeBob accidentally jams a flag on Squidward's foot.
- An Aesop:
- Your happy memory can come from anywhere, and it will happen when it’s time.
- Don't force people to be happy; it'll only annoy them even more.
- Bait-and-Switch Suicide: When Squidward goes into a depression he sticks his head in the oven but is really taking brownies out. In another part he throws a rope with a loop in the end over the ceiling but is really hoisting up a bird cage.
- Beard of Sorrow: Squidward grows a stubble while under depression.
- Book Ends: The episode starts at the Krusty Krab where SpongeBob is happy, but Squidward is not; the episode ends at the Krusty Krab where Squidward is happy at destroying the paper mache SpongeBobs, and SpongeBob is happy, too.
- Darker and Edgier: Zig-Zagged. The episode starts out pretty standard for an episode of this show, and the antics SpongeBob and Squidward encounter in the first half are what you would expect. But in the second half, the story becomes much more serious as Squidward becomes clinically depressed because of his inability to be happy or have a happy memory, and aside from two jokes that misleads the audience into thinking Squidward is about to kill himself, nothing about this is Played for Laughs.
- Determinator: SpongeBob stops at nothing to find Squidward's happiest memory, let alone create one himself.
- Driven to Suicide: Subverted. It looked like Squidward was going to hang himself, but he was really hoisting up a bird cage. Also, what looks like Squidward with his head in the oven is him taking brownies out.
- Eye Scream: The bow of a violin gets lodged in Squidward's eye.
- Foreshadowing: After falling off a mountain, Squidward tells SpongeBob he will not be involved in his happiest memory. SpongeBob actually does get involved in the happiest memory later on, as Squidward destroys all the paper mache copies of him.
- Heroic BSoD: Squidward sinks into depression when he thinks he'll never have a happiest memory at all, let alone one including SpongeBob.
- Mood Dissonance: Squidward violently destroying all the paper mache SpongeBobs at the Krusty Krab, all while the real SpongeBob smiles with joy at finally making a happiest memory for Squidward.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: SpongeBob seems more like a Nice Guy toward Squidward in this episode, compared to how he acts as an annoying neighbor in most of the series. He is upset to hear Squidward doesn't have a happiest memory and joins in crying with him, and while SpongeBob does try to find one by doing activities with him, the various accidents and injuries Squidward suffered were not SpongeBob's fault. It is to the point SpongeBob won't rest until he makes a happy memory for Squidward when he falls into depression.
- Selective Memory: Depression can affect memory and perception, making it impossible not only to feel happy but to comprehend that anything can bring happiness. Squidward's definitely had happy memories before (“Band Geeks,” "Love That Squid," "Enchanted Tiki Dreams," etc.), but his inability to recall any of them is tragically consistent with the depression he's clearly going through. Then again, this might just be Negative Continuity.
- Very Special Episode: About depression.
- Wingding Eyes: Squidward gets skull and crossbones eyes as he sees SpongeBob made paper mache copies of himself as their party guests.
Original air date: 3/31/2012 (produced in 2011)
SpongeBob and Sandy must defeat an evil Jellien overlord that is replacing everyone in Bikini Bottom with evil clones.
"Planet of the Jellyfish" contains examples of:
- Arc Words: The cloned Bikini Bottomites repeatedly shout "Hold the mayonnaise!", which turns out to be their weakness in the climax as mayonnaise can destroy them.
- Black Eyes of Evil: The Jelliens have black eyes which appear in place of the character they take the form of.
- The End... Or Is It?: In the last scene, Patrick orders a Krabby Patty, without the mayo. This shocks SpongeBob as he looks suspiciously at Patrick, cutting to a "The End?" card as the episode ends.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: A timecard explains it took eleven minutes for SpongeBob to tell the whole story.
- Mistaken for Aliens: Despite their name being a portmanteau of jellyfish and aliens, Jelliens aren't explicitly aliens at all, with their implied origin actually being underground.
- Morphic Resonance: When a Jellien takes the place of someone, they look just like that character except with black eyes and slightly darker skin.
- Near-Villain Victory: The Jellien leader nearly succeeds on taking over Bikini Bottom. The only reason he loses is SpongeBob's desire to have a Jellien for a pet & Sandy not coming out which could've had her replaced with a Jellien clone and the defeated him w/ mayonnaise.
- Non-Malicious Monster: Jellien Patrick is the only Jellien clone that isn't hostile towards SpongeBob. The only really "hostile" thing he does is eat a Krabby Patty that SpongeBob was about to put mayonnaise on.
- Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title: The title is a reference to Planet of the Apes.
- Shout-Out: Two, one to Planet of the Apes and one to Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
- Tickle Torture: Sandy straps SpongeBob to a table and tickles him in order to find out if he is really a "jelly-clone."
- Weaksauce Weakness: The Jelliens are weak against mayonnaise.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: The fate of Gary's flowerpot shelled Jellien clone is left unknown. Though it's most likely dead since the clones all died when their creator was destroyed.
- Whole-Plot Reference: The episode is a parody of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
