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* OverlyLongGag: [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick saying “tick, tick, tick, tick…”
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* IdiotHoudini / KarmaHoudini / KarmicMisfire / MisplacedRetribution: Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy get blamed for everything [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick did while the latter two get off scot-free.

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* IdiotHoudini / KarmaHoudini / KarmicMisfire / MisplacedRetribution: Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy get blamed for everything [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick did while [[IdiotHoudini the latter two get off scot-free.scot-free]].
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* ClassClown: [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick both act like this in Squidward’s music class.
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'''Patrick''': [[Film/TaxiDriver I see it clearly now. There never has been any choice for me.]]

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'''Patrick''': [[Film/TaxiDriver I see it clearly now. There never has been any choice for me.]]]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The students angrily walk out of the class after learning that Squidward was impersonating Squilliam, with one fish saying they’re going to get their tuition money back.
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* AmbulanceCut: After [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick lands on the old duo in the Mermalair, the scene cuts to an undisclosed siren. It turns out to have been an ambulance, as Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy has ended up at the hospital.

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* AmbulanceCut: After [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick lands on the old duo in the Mermalair, the scene cuts to an undisclosed siren. It turns out to have been an ambulance, as Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy has ended up at the hospital.hospital in the next scene.
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* AmbulanceCut: After [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick lands on the old duo in the Mermalair, the scene cuts to an undisclosed siren. It turns out to have been an ambulance, as Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy has ended up at the hospital.
* BaitAndSwitch: After the antics at the Shady Shoals, we cut to a siren, likely one of the police because of what the idiotic duo did. But after a fade to black, we find out it was an ambulance siren and that Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy had to be taken to the hospital. They didn't look hurt before [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick landed on them either, playing into this more.
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* KarmaHoudini / KarmicMisfire / MisplacedRetribution: Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy get blamed for everything [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick did while the latter two get off scot-free.

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* IdiotHoudini / KarmaHoudini / KarmicMisfire / MisplacedRetribution: Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy get blamed for everything [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick did while the latter two get off scot-free.
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* NeverTrustATitle: The actual shuffleboarding tournament isn't seen at all.

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* NeverTrustATitle: The actual shuffleboarding tournament isn't seen at all. Instead, the episode skips ahead to when Spongebob and Patrick have already won the tournament, and the remainder of it consists of them arresting innocent people for incredibly minor reasons.
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** REMOTE! appears when Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy are watching TV at the beginning, followed by NAP! when they suddenly doze off.
** When the Mermarang starts to go amok, it is initiated with PANIC! appearing.
** BLING! appears when Barnacle Boy gives [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick their rings; this is followed by RING! when they change into their costumed selves.

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** REMOTE! "REMOTE!" appears when Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy are watching TV at the beginning, followed by NAP! "NAP!" when they suddenly doze off.
** When the Mermarang starts to go amok, it is initiated with PANIC! "PANIC!" appearing.
** BLING! "BLING!" appears when Barnacle Boy gives [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick their rings; this is followed by RING! "RING!" when they change into their costumed selves.
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* UnsoundEffect:
** REMOTE! appears when Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy are watching TV at the beginning, followed by NAP! when they suddenly doze off.
** When the Mermarang starts to go amok, it is initiated with PANIC! appearing.
** BLING! appears when Barnacle Boy gives [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick their rings; this is followed by RING! when they change into their costumed selves.
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* PaperThinDisguise: Squidward doesn't look or sound anything like Squilliam while impersonating him, but nobody (except Spongebob and Patrick) bats an eye. Averted near the end, where one student says he knew Squidward was a faker from the first minute (but he still didn't say anything earlier).

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* NonIndicativeName: The actual shuffleboarding tournament isn't seen at all.
* ShrunkInTheWash: Happens to Man Ray's detachable head when he throws it like a flying disc at [=SpongeBob=] during their battle at the laundromat, only for it to fly into a washer and shrink because it's dry clean only.

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* NonIndicativeName: NeverTrustATitle: The actual shuffleboarding tournament isn't seen at all.
* ShrunkInTheWash: Happens to Man Ray's detachable head when he throws it like a flying disc at [=SpongeBob=] during During their battle at the laundromat, only for Man Ray throws his detachable head like a flying disc at [=SpongeBob=], but it to fly misses and flies into a washer that [=SpongeBob=] turns on as Man Ray protests that his head is dry clean only. The next scene shows his head shrunken and shrink because his voice now higher to match, and it's dry clean only.still that way at the end of the episode.
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'''Airdate:''' February 16, 2009

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'''Airdate:''' February 16, 2009
'''Original air date:''' 2/16/2009 ''(produced in 2008)''



'''Airdate:''' February 19, 2009

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'''Airdate:''' February 19, 2009
'''Original air date:''' 2/19/2009 ''(produced in 2008)''

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* TheLastStraw: [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick take Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy's places at a shuffleboarding tournament and later start arresting everyone in Bikini Bottom for random Felony Misdemeanors, causing the jail to expand in size. When they arrest Man Ray and an old woman he was talking to at the laundromat, the jail explodes.

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* TheLastStraw: When [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick take Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy's places at arrest a shuffleboarding tournament and later start arresting everyone in bunch of people, the Bikini Bottom for random Felony Misdemeanors, causing the jail Jail begins to expand in size. When size due to going overcapacity. It finally explodes when they arrest squeeze in Man Ray and an the old woman he was talking to at the laundromat, the jail explodes.laundromat.



* VillainsOutShopping: Manray is seen doing his laundry at a laundromat and chatting it up with his old prom date.

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* VillainsOutShopping: Manray Man Ray is seen doing his laundry at a laundromat and chatting it up with his old prom date.
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* HalfwayPlotSwitch: The original reason for [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick passing themselves off as their heroes was so they could partake in the shuffleboarding tournament in their place. Not only does it suddenly become them enforcing justice (very badly) halfway through, they win the tournament offscreen.

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* KarmaHoudini / MisplacedRetribution: Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy get blamed for everything [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick did while the latter two get off scott-free.

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* KarmaHoudini / KarmicMisfire / MisplacedRetribution: Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy get blamed for everything [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick did while the latter two get off scott-free.scot-free.
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* KarmaHoudini: Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy get blamed for everything [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick did while the latter two get off scott-free.

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* KarmaHoudini: KarmaHoudini / MisplacedRetribution: Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy get blamed for everything [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick did while the latter two get off scott-free.
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* FailedASpotCheck: The headmistress points out Squidward's lack of a uni-brow at the end, which she somehow didn't notice at the beginning.


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* JerkassHasAPoint: Squidward was right to call out [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick for disrupting the class.
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* ShrunkInTheWash: Happens to Man Ray's detachable head when he throws it like a flying disc at [=SpongeBob=] during their battle at the laundromat, only for it to fly into a washer and shrink because it's dry clean only.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick throw the Bikini Bottom citizens in the jail for the pettiest reasons possible.

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* DisproportionateRetribution: [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick throw the Bikini Bottom citizens in the jail for the pettiest reasons possible. One guy even gets thrown in jail ''because his shoes were untied''.

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* NonIndicativeName: The actual shuffleboarding tournament isn't seen at all.

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* NonIndicativeName: The actual shuffleboarding tournament isn't seen at all.KarmaHoudini: Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy get blamed for everything [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick did while the latter two get off scott-free.


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* NonIndicativeName: The actual shuffleboarding tournament isn't seen at all.


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* TheDoorSlamsYou: Squidward gets the door slammed on him when he tries to block his students from leaving.


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* OhCrap: Squidward does this when [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick apologize to Squidward, calling him by name and thereby giving away his identity.
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* InnocentlyInsensitive: When Squidward convinces the two headmasters that he is actually Squilliam, they laugh at the thought of someone going to their own enemy's music recital- which is what Squidward was actually doing.
* LaserGuidedKarma: The episode ends with Squidward being arrested for impersonating Squilliam (with Squilliam himself laughing at his predicament).


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* MistakenIdentity: The whole plot is kicked off when the heads of a school mistake Squidward for his rival Squilliam, and Squidward deciding to go along with it when hearing he would teach a music class.

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* VillainsOutShopping: Manray is seen doing his laundry at a laundromat and chatting it up with his old prom date.


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* IdentityImpersonator: Squidward pretending to be Squilliam in order to teach a music class.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick throw the Bikini Bottom citizens for the pettiest reasons possible.

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* DisproportionateRetribution: [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick throw the Bikini Bottom citizens in the jail for the pettiest reasons possible.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick throw the Bikini Bottom citizens for the pettiest reasons possible.
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* HypnoPendulum: Apparantly the metronome serves as one to [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick.
* MadnessMantra: [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick endlessly say "Tick, tick, tick, tick..." when being hypnotized by the metronome.
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* HalfwayPlotSwitch: The plot starts out with [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick filling in for Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy at the shuffleboarding tournament. It quickly turns into a plot about the two arresting everyone in town. The title is even more misleading considering that there wasn't any shuffleboarding shown at all.

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* HalfwayPlotSwitch: NonIndicativeName: The plot starts out with [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick filling in for Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy at the actual shuffleboarding tournament. It quickly turns into a plot about the two arresting everyone in town. The title is even more misleading considering that there wasn't any shuffleboarding shown tournament isn't seen at all.
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SpongeBob and Patrick fill in for Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy at a shuffleboarding tournament.

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SpongeBob [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick fill in for Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy at a shuffleboarding tournament.



* TheLastStraw: SpongeBob and Patrick take Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy's places at a shuffleboarding tournament and later start arresting everyone in Bikini Bottom for random Felony Misdemeanors, causing the jail to expand in size. When they arrest Man Ray and an old woman he was talking to at the laundromat, the jail explodes.

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* TheLastStraw: SpongeBob [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick take Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy's places at a shuffleboarding tournament and later start arresting everyone in Bikini Bottom for random Felony Misdemeanors, causing the jail to expand in size. When they arrest Man Ray and an old woman he was talking to at the laundromat, the jail explodes.



* TorchesAndPitchforks: Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy

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* TorchesAndPitchforks: In the ending, Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy
Boy are chased by the citizens who were wrongfully arrested by [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick.



* ParentalBonus: SpongeBob and Patrick are hypnotised by Squidward's metronome.
-->'''SpongeBob''': [[Film/TaxiDriver My whole life has been pointing in one direction...]]\\

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* ParentalBonus: SpongeBob [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick are hypnotised hypnotized by Squidward's metronome.
-->'''SpongeBob''': -->'''[=SpongeBob=]''': [[Film/TaxiDriver My whole life has been pointing in one direction...]]\\
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'''Airdate:''' February 16, 2009

SpongeBob and Patrick fill in for Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy at a shuffleboarding tournament.

!!"Shuffleboarding" contains examples of:
* HalfwayPlotSwitch: The plot starts out with [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick filling in for Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy at the shuffleboarding tournament. It quickly turns into a plot about the two arresting everyone in town. The title is even more misleading considering that there wasn't any shuffleboarding shown at all.
* TheLastStraw: SpongeBob and Patrick take Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy's places at a shuffleboarding tournament and later start arresting everyone in Bikini Bottom for random Felony Misdemeanors, causing the jail to expand in size. When they arrest Man Ray and an old woman he was talking to at the laundromat, the jail explodes.
* LawfulStupid: [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick.
* TorchesAndPitchforks: Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy

'''Airdate:''' February 19, 2009

Squidward pretends he's his arch-rival Squilliam to teach at a music class.

!!"Professor Squidward" contains examples of:
* ButtMonkey: Squidward.
* ParentalBonus: SpongeBob and Patrick are hypnotised by Squidward's metronome.
-->'''SpongeBob''': [[Film/TaxiDriver My whole life has been pointing in one direction...]]\\
'''Patrick''': [[Film/TaxiDriver I see it clearly now. There never has been any choice for me.]]

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