History Recap / SpongeBobSquarePantsS4E16TheThingHocusPocus

* 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.

* TheUnintelligable: When Squidward is covered in concrete, it causes him to only communicate through muffled grunts and moans. [=SpongeBob=] mistakes such for being excited.

'''Original air date:''' 1/15/2007 ''(produced in 2006)''

--> '''[=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 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]].

-->'''Squidward''': Once again, I'm going to have to leave my own home just to get some piece and quiet!

* ShoutOut: The episode title is reference to the Disney film ''Film/HocusPocus''.

* BuffySpeak: "Hey SpongeBob, there's a guy in here talking into a tubey thing."

* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Mister Magic's Magical Magic Kit.

* ShoutOut: [=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...]]

* ShoutOut: [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick 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...]]

* ShoutOut: Towards the end of this episode, when [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick release "Smelly" into the wild amongst similar-looking creatures, [=SpongeBob=] paraphrases Baloo at the end of ''Disney/TheJungleBook'', saying, "But he's with his kind now, where he belongs, and on that note, let us go back to where we belong."

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Squidward gets so annoyed with [=SpongeBob's=] antics that he immediately boards a bus to escape, not caring where they go as long as it's away from [=SpongeBob=]. When he later returns and [=SpongeBob=] offers to transform him into something else, he stops a passing biker and rides away once more.

* TraumaCongaLine: This episode is basically a huge Squidward TorturePorn from beginning to end. [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick enter his house uninvited and constantly pester him while he's trying to watch TV, leading him to storm out in annoyance. After which, he crashes into a cement truck, is coated in cement, falls through a sewage pipe, and lands in Jellyfish Fields, where jellyfish attack him. When the cement hardens, he's left wandering Jellyfish Fields for five days before Sponge and Pat find him, mistake him for an endangered species, and take him home. After being mauled by Gary, Squidward is taken to live with Patrick, who pelts him with a ball while trying to play catch, leading Squidward to snap and attack him. In response, Patrick panics and calls Animal Control, leading Squidward to be taken to the zoo, where {{Jerkass}} patrons laugh at how hideous he is. [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick break him out of the zoo and go underground, eventually coming across a group of creatures looking exactly like the cement-encased Squidward, leading to Sponge and Pat deciding to leave Squidward with his "own kind." The only saving grace Squidward has is getting to listen to Kelpy G play clarinet for the other Smellies, and the cement finally breaking and freeing him.

Squidward, trying to escape SpongeBob and Patrick, gets covered in muck, and when [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick find him, they believe he's an animal-like creature.

SpongeBob gets a new magic kit and believes he turned Squidward into an ice cream cone.

* MagicMisfire: Invoked; [=SpongeBob=] ''thinks'' he's turned Squidward into a pistachio ice cream code with a "simple card trick", but in reality, Squidward just left while he was distracted.