Written by Casey Alexander, Zeus Cervas, and Mr Lawrence
Animation Director: Tom Yasumi (License to Milkshake) / Alan Smart (Squid Baby)
Original air date: 9/7/2012
SpongeBob returns to the Milkshake Academy after discovering his milk-shake license has expired.
License to Milkshake contains example of:
- Ass Shove: During the Training Montage, SpongeBob attempts to shoot a cherry at the target, but he misses and it ends up in Captain Frostymug's butt.
- Big "NO!": Done by Captain Frostymug at the end of the flashback.
- Book Ends: The episode starts with SpongeBob making a milkshake for a customer, only for it to be completely frozen. He realizes that his milkshake license is expired, and needs to get a new one. When he renews his license, at the end of the episode, he serves a milkshake to this same customer. It turns out good, and the customer is satisfied.
- Buffy Speak: Captain Frostymug points out to SpongeBob the reason the milkshakes came out frozen is because he didn’t raise the cup to the “spinny thing” (blender).
- Continuity Nod: In "Yours, Mine and Mine", SpongeBob owns a milkshake license as a Call-Forward to this episode.
- Drill Sergeant Nasty: Captain Frostymug.
- It Makes Sense in Context: SpongeBob saying "If only it were this easy to get a boating license." He already owns a milkshake license, but he will never earn a boating license (when he does, it's usually ruined by an Ass Pull).
- Mundane Made Awesome: In Bikini Bottom, you need a license if you want to make a milkshake.
- Oh, Crap!: By SpongeBob when he realizes his milkshake license expired seven years ago.
- Rewatch Bonus: At the beginning, SpongeBob never raises the milkshake cup to the blender, resulting in it coming out frozen.
- Serious Business: The Milkshake Academy is run like a military training camp.
- Shout-Out:
- Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title: The title of this episode is a pun on the James Bond film Licence to Kill.
- The training montage spoofs Top Gun.
- Special Guest: The first time Michael McKean has a guest role for SpongeBob. In this episode, he voices Captain Frostymug.
- Title Drop: At the beginning of the episode. The fish who SpongeBob serves the milkshake to says, "I bet you don't even have a license to milkshake!"
- Training Montage: Contains one, complete with rock music by Fabian Fernandez.
- Troubled Backstory Flashback: 20 years before the episode took place, Captain Frostymug was an owner of a milkshake cafe. When he tried to make a milkshake for a customer, he ended up splattering the milkshake all over the store. A stain of milkshake got on the power lines that connect to the milkshake machine, destroying it. The milkshake machine squirted out milkshake stains onto the customers, frightening them and ruining Frostymug's career. He informs SpongeBob that he has not touched the milkshake machine in 20 years.
- Unishment: SpongeBob survives the Shake Simulator's excruciating features and even wants a second turn.
Original air date: 9/3/2012
A head injury makes Squidward think he's a baby, and SpongeBob and Patrick must look after him.
Squid Baby contains example of:
- Amnesia Episode: While Squidward is diagnosed with "Head-Go-Boom-Boom-Itis", how he gets it and what it does to his mind is very reminiscent of a form of amnesia.
- Artistic License – Medicine: SpongeBob asks the doctor what the prognosis is, as in asking what's wrong with Squidward. The word he's looking for is diagnosis. The prognosis refers to a disease's course. Mind you, this mistake is in keeping with SpongeBob's intelligence level.
- Baby Morph Episode: A mental variation.
- Call-Back: Just like in "Rock-A-Bye Bivalve", Patrick sits in a chair, watching TV, while leaving SpongeBob to take care of a baby by himself. He is even watching the same show.
- The Diaper Change: SpongeBob did this to baby Squidward at the Krusty Krab and it grosses out the customers when he needs to be changed.
- Exhausted Eye Bags: SpongeBob and Patrick have dark circles under their eyes when they come to the Krusty Krab after 72 straight hours of pampering Squidward.
- Fountain of Youth: The Head-Go-Boom-Boom-itis causes Squidward to act like a baby.
- Gray Rain of Depression: SpongeBob and Patrick show up to the Krusty Krab for work, tired and unhappy after Squidward's crying keeps them awake for days on end. The sky is gray and it's raining heavily, complete with a few lightning flashes. The rain persists throughout the rest of the episode.
- Gross-Up Close-Up: Of Squidward's dirty diaper.
- Idiot Ball: It doesn't occur to SpongeBob or Mr. Krabs to have baby Squidward changed in the bathroom, which would give him some privacy and public bathrooms usually have changing stations anyways. SpongeBob first tries it where the customers are eating, and Krabs orders him to change Squidward in the kitchen.
- Jerkass Ball: Mr. Krabs is at his absolute worst in this episode. He says that he doesn't care if Squidward is acting like a baby as long as there are customers begging to give him money, and goes so far to hurt SpongeBob's feelings.
- Jerkass Has a Point:
- Despite his jerkish behavior, Mr. Krabs was right to tell SpongeBob to not change Squidward's diaper out in the open in front of the customers because it's awfully disturbing to them, and tells him to go to the kitchen where it's private.
- Before getting the Head-Go-Boom-Boom-itis, Squidward makes a point when chastising SpongeBob and Patrick for acting like babies themselves from playing with the baby toys and insists they act their age.
- Kick the Dog: Mr. Krabs makes SpongeBob cry by ordering him to take the poopy baby (Squidward) out of the Krusty Krab. SpongeBob's response is if Squidward can't stay, then he won't stay either.
- Let Us Never Speak of This Again: Squidward after he found out that he was in a diaper.
- Manchild: Exaggerated with SpongeBob and Patrick. They play with baby toys and act like babies.
- Squidward becomes an involuntary example due to the effects of "Head-Go-Boom-Boom-Itis".
- "Metaphor" Is My Middle Name:Patrick: Games are our middle name.
- No Sympathy: Mr. Krabs shows no signs of remorse over Squidward's condition, which upsets SpongeBob.
- Over-the-Shoulder Carry: SpongeBob carries baby Squidward like this.
- Ow, My Body Part!:Fish: My face! My face! (stops walking) Also my leg, (continues walking) but mostly my face!
- Plot Hole: The doctor warns SpongeBob and Patrick that Squidward can't get hurt again or he'll remain a baby permanently, yet he gets hit several times more throughout the episode and no permanence shows.
- Something Itis: "Head-go-boom-boom-itis".
- Tears of Remorse: SpongeBob is reduced to tears when Mr. Krabs hurts his feelings one too many times by insisting Squidward leave after his dirty diaper is the last straw for the customers.SpongeBob: Mr. Krabs... if my poopy baby isn't welcome here... THEN I'M NOT STAYING, EITHER!
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Just like in "Grandma's Kisses", Patrick disappears after falling asleep at the Krusty Krab with no explanation, not even to help SpongeBob with Squidward.
