History Recap / SpongeBobSquarePantsS4E16TheThingHocusPocus

'''Horace:''' ''(chuckles)'' Oh, I'm afraid not. So sorry about that, laddie. Your refund check is in the mail.\\
'''[=SpongeBob:=]''' I don't need a refund, I want my friend back! This isn't about money! You're nothing but a fake! Just a lying, corporate businessman, tainting the purity of magic with your corrupt commercial ways! You have ruined my faith in the magical arts!

* BrokenPedestal: Downplayed. After hearing that Mr. Magic is just an ordinary businessman who can't turn Squidward back to normal and that he only cares about selling his product, [=SpongeBob=] dissolves to tears and claims that he has ruined his faith in the magical arts. Mr. Magic's response is to [[KickTheDog call security to kick [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick out]].

'''Horace:''' ''(chuckles)'' I'm, I'm afraid not. So sorry about that, laddie. Your refund check is in the mail.\\

'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' ''(grabs hotdog)'' No, not that! I'm talking about the plan to break Smelly out of this animal prison.\\

'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' ''(grabs hotdog)'' No, not that. I'm talking about the plan to break Smelly out of this animal prison.\\

* ThrowTheDogABone: Although Squidward is tormented by [=SpongeBob=] when he tries to show him his magic tricks, he gets to get away and, thanks to Spongebob mistaking an ice cream cone for him, Squidward gets to spend the rest of the episode away from his annoying neighbor and it's implied that he was enjoying himself at a vacancy.

* ThrowTheDogABone: Although Squidward is tormented by Spongebob when he tries to show him his magic tricks, he gets to get away and, thanks to Spongebob mistaking an ice cream cone for him, Squidward gets to spend the rest of the episode away from his annoying neoighbor and it's implied that he was enjoying himself at a vacancy.

* DoesntLikeSpam: Monroe cries that his ice cream is pistachio ice cream, a frustrated Tom asks why he'd ask for it then.

* RiddleForTheAge: Tom asks his son why he asked for pistachio ice cream if he doesn't like it.

* ShoutOut:
** The episode title is a reference to the Disney film ''Film/HocusPocus''.
** [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick follow the brown-tiled road and later discover that the floating head is actually a projection by a guy hiding behind a curtain, who has an OhCrap when he gets found out. [[Film/TheWizardOfOz Pay no attention to the fish behind the curtain...]]

* OnlySaneMan: Gary seems to be the only one in the episode who knew Smellie was Squidward, as shown when he attacks Squidward violently and [=SpongeBob=] tells him to stop.
* OverlyLongGag: [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick bothering Squidward during the ''Kelly G'' show by asking him so many questions, to the point he has had enough and storms out.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Kelpy G is an octopus version of American SmoothJazz saxophonist Music/KennyG.

* DramaticIrony: The audience already ''knows'' "Smelly" is Squidward, but [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick don't. Best exemplified when Gary attacked him and SpongeBob notes Squidward is the is the only one in Bikini Bottom Gary would attack like that, not realizing that ''was'' Squidward whom Gary attacked.

* DramaticIrony: The audience already ''knows'' "Smelly" is Squidward, but [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick don't.

* IdiotBall[=/=]JerkassBall: [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick ignoring Squidward's request for them to quiet down and then entering his house despite specifically being told not to.

* OverlyLongGag: [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick bothering Squidward by asking him so many questions.

* AnimalsHateHim: The minute Gary sees "Smelly", he violently attacks him, with [=SpongeBob=] remarking that Gary's only ever attacked Squidward like that before. When Animal Control later takes Squidward to the zoo, a giant clam in the back with him also ends up snapping at him and attacking him off-screen.

'''The Thing'''

!!''The Thing'' contains examples of the following tropes:

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!!''Hocus Pocus'' contains examples of the following tropes:

* DramaticIrony: The viewers already know that the pistachio ice cream isn’t Squidward.

--> '''[=SpongeBob:=]''' Does that mean you can't change my friend back?
--> '''Horace:''' ''(chuckles)'' I'm, I'm afraid not. So sorry about that, laddie. Your refund check is in the mail.
--> '''[=SpongeBob:=]''' I don't need a refund, I want my friend back! This isn't about money! You're nothing but a fake! Just a lying, corporate businessman, tainting the purity of magic with your corrupt commercial ways! You have ruined my faith in the magical arts!

* ShoutOut: The episode title is a reference to the Disney film ''Film/HocusPocus''.
** [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick follow the brown-tiled road and later discover that the floating head is actually a projection by a guy hiding behind a curtain, who has an OhCrap when he gets found out. [[Film/TheWizardOfOz Pay no attention to the fish behind the curtain...]]

'''Original air date:''' 1/15/2007 ''(produced in 2006)'' [[note]]"The Thing" and "Hocus Pocus" were released on the ''Season 4, Volume 2'' DVD on 1/9/07. They also first aired outside the United States in 2006.[[/note]]

* NoEnding: Squidward ends up in the forest, away from home, surrounded by a group of strange creatures.

* LickingFoodOffTheFloor: Patrick licks ice cream that has melted onto the floor, in which Spongebob tells him, "Call the police!"

* AndIMustScream: Squidward’s state for most of the episode.

'''Original air date:''' 1/15/2007 ''(produced in 2006)'' [[note]]"The Thing" and "Hocus Pocus" were released on the ''Season 4, Volume 2'' DVD on January 9, 2007. They also first aired outside the United States in 2006.[[/note]]