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* NoodleIncident: "That's the fourth time this week I had to scrape you off of something."

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* NoodleIncident: "That's "This is the fourth time this week I had to scrape you off of something."
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** Do not attempt to befriend or live among wild animals; they will not accept an outsider as one of their own, and may even react with hostlity.

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** Do not attempt to befriend or live among wild animals; they will not accept an outsider as one of their own, and may even react with hostlity.hostility.



* BenevolentBoss: Mr. Krabs. At the start, he actually had legit reason to fire [=SpongeBob=], but despite multiple offenses (he mentions it's the fourth time that week [=SpongeBob=] began neglecting his job), he talks with [=SpongeBob=] about it. He sincerely tries to make [=SpongeBob=] feel good about the life he has without being condescending. During the welcome home party, he gives [=SpongeBob=] a free Krabby Patty and immediately rehires him (or never fired him), despite [=SpongeBob=] walking out on the job. In short, this is one of the episodes where Mr. Krabs is at his most generous, to the point it's a bit jarring to know what [[{{Flanderization}} he would become in later seasons]].

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* BenevolentBoss: Mr. Krabs. At the start, he actually had a legit reason to fire [=SpongeBob=], but despite multiple offenses (he mentions it's the fourth time that week [=SpongeBob=] began neglecting his job), he talks with [=SpongeBob=] about it. He sincerely tries to make [=SpongeBob=] feel good about the life he has without being condescending. During the welcome home party, he gives [=SpongeBob=] a free Krabby Patty and immediately rehires him (or never fired him), despite [=SpongeBob=] walking out on the job. In short, this is one of the episodes where Mr. Krabs is at his most generous, to the point it's a bit jarring to know what [[{{Flanderization}} he would become in later seasons]].



* EarlyInstalmentWeirdness: [=SpongeBob=] willingly quits his job at the Krusty Krab and even throws his hat to the ground without a second thought. Not much later into the series, [[SeriousBusiness the mere thought of doing those things would horrify him]].

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* EarlyInstalmentWeirdness: EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: [=SpongeBob=] willingly quits his job at the Krusty Krab and even throws his hat to the ground without a second thought. Not much later into the series, [[SeriousBusiness the mere thought of doing those things would horrify him]].



* {{Foreshadowing}}: Mr. Krabs, Sandy and Squidward all surmised [=SpongeBob=] would realize living with the jellyfish is a harsh and unbearable lifestyle and he'd crawl back to civilization sooner or later.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Mr. Krabs, Sandy Sandy, and Squidward all surmised [=SpongeBob=] would realize living with the jellyfish is a harsh and unbearable lifestyle and he'd crawl back to civilization sooner or later.
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--> '''Patrick''': You're gonna look good on my mantle! '''''FRIENDS FOREVER, SPONGEBOB!!'''''

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--> '''Patrick''': You're gonna look good on my mantle! mantel! '''''FRIENDS FOREVER, SPONGEBOB!!'''''
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* EarlyInstalmentWeirdness: [=SpongeBob=] willingly quits his job at the Krusty Krab and even throws his hat to the ground without a second thought. Not much later into the series, [[SeriousBusiness the mere thought of doing those things would horrify him]].
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** Do not attempt to befriend or live among wild animals; they will not accept an outsider as one of their own, and may even react with hostlity.
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[=SpongeBob=] decides to abandon his normal ways and live with the jellyfish. Needless to say that Patrick does not take this well.

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[=SpongeBob=] decides to abandon his normal ways and live with the jellyfish. Needless to say that say, not only does living in the wild prove to be troublesome, but Patrick does not take this well.
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-->'''Real Estate Agent:''' What kind of fool do you take me for? (''points at Patrick'') He's Squidward? (''points at [=SpongeBob=]'') He's SQUIDWARD?! (''points at Squidward'') YOU'RE SQUIDWARD? ''[[AndImTheQueenOfSheba I'M]]'' [[AndImTheQueenOfSheba SQUIDWARD!!!]] Are there any other "Squidwards" I should know about?\\

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-->'''Real Estate Agent:''' What kind of fool do you take me for? (''points at Patrick'') He's ''He's'' Squidward? (''points at [=SpongeBob=]'') He's SQUIDWARD?! ''He's'' Squidward?! (''points at Squidward'') YOU'RE SQUIDWARD? ''YOU'RE'' SQUIDWARD?! ''[[AndImTheQueenOfSheba I'M]]'' [[AndImTheQueenOfSheba SQUIDWARD!!!]] Are there any other "Squidwards" I should know about?\\
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** [=SpongeBob=]'s ImagineSpot causes him to neglect his on-the-job duties as a fry-cook. Cue the patties he's cooking being burned due to him ignoring them to daydream. Also they go on fire for some reason.
** [=SpongeBob=] tries living amongst the jellyfish as one of them, but it all goes wrong. He's not a jellyfish, so they reject him. Offering one a handshake causes its tentacle to sting him. Hiding in a jellyfish hive just makes them sting him some more and drive him away. He tries sleeping in a cave, and is covered in poisonous sea urchins. NatureIsNotNice and anyone who fails to realize that will have a bad time in the wild.
** The group hug at the end results in the others getting the itchy poison from those sea urchins because it wasn't that long ago that [=SpongeBob=] got stung by them.

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** Don’t make life-changing decisions without thinking of the consequences.

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** Don’t Don't make life-changing decisions without thinking of the consequences.


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* BigNo: After Patrick and Sandy's attempt to lure [=SpongeBob=] home with Krabby Patties doesn't work, Patrick gives one of these as Sandy drags him away.

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* GrassIsGreener: [=SpongeBob=] idealizes living among the jellyfish as what his life is meant to be like, and does everything in his power to leave his current life behind, but after getting stung by an entire hive of jellyfish and a run-in with poison sea urchins, he finally realizes that his old life was preferable.
-->'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone What have I done?]] I had a great life and friends, and I gave all of that up!



--> [[ThatMakesMeFeelAngry Patrick sad!]]

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--> -->'''Patrick:''' [[ThatMakesMeFeelAngry Patrick sad!]]
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The one where [=SpongeBob=] goes off the grid.



The one with four Squidwards.

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Title drops are only with specific phrases that aren't the typical titles of anything in the story.


'''Nature Pants'''



The one where [=SpongeBob=] goes off the grid.



'''Opposite Day'''



The one with four Squidwards.



* TitleDrop: Naturally.
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* RuleOfFunny: Gary suddenly appearing as yet another "Squidward" at the end of the episode. At no point prior does he collaborate with [=SpongeBob=] or Patrick on this prank; he delivers the {{punchline}} to this sequence of event by simply being there.

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* RuleOfFunny: Gary suddenly appearing as yet another "Squidward" at the end of the episode. At no point prior does he collaborate with [=SpongeBob=] or Patrick on this prank; he delivers the {{punchline}} to this sequence of event events by simply being there.
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* RuleOfFunny: Gary suddenly appearing as yet another "Squidward" at the end of the episode. At no point prior does he collaborate with [=SpongeBob=] or Patrick on this prank; he delivers the {{punchline}} to this sequence of event by simply being there.
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-->'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' "What have I done? I had a great life and friends, and I gave all of that up."

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-->'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' "What What have I done? I had a great life and friends, and I gave all of that up."
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-->'''Real Estate Agent:''' What kind of fool do you take me for? (''points at Patrick'') He's Squidward? (''points at [=SpongeBob=]'') He's SQUIDWARD?! (''points at Squidward'') YOU'RE SQUIDWARD? ''I'M'' SQUIDWARD!!! Are there any other "Squidwards" I should know about?\\

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-->'''Real Estate Agent:''' What kind of fool do you take me for? (''points at Patrick'') He's Squidward? (''points at [=SpongeBob=]'') He's SQUIDWARD?! (''points at Squidward'') YOU'RE SQUIDWARD? ''I'M'' SQUIDWARD!!! ''[[AndImTheQueenOfSheba I'M]]'' [[AndImTheQueenOfSheba SQUIDWARD!!!]] Are there any other "Squidwards" I should know about?\\

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* RealityEnsues:
** [=SpongeBob=]'s ImagineSpot causes him to neglect his on-the-job duties as a fry-cook. Cue the patties he's cooking being burned due to him ignoring them to daydream. Also they go on fire for some reason.
** [=SpongeBob=] tries living amongst the jellyfish as one of them, but it all goes wrong. He's not a jellyfish, so they reject him. Offering one a handshake causes its tentacle to sting him. Hiding in a jellyfish hive just makes them sting him some more and drive him away. He tries sleeping in a cave, and is covered in poisonous sea urchins. NatureIsNotNice and anyone who fails to realize that will have a bad time in the wild.
** The group hug at the end results in the others getting the itchy poison from those sea urchins because it wasn't that long ago that [=SpongeBob=] got stung by them.


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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** [=SpongeBob=]'s ImagineSpot causes him to neglect his on-the-job duties as a fry-cook. Cue the patties he's cooking being burned due to him ignoring them to daydream. Also they go on fire for some reason.
** [=SpongeBob=] tries living amongst the jellyfish as one of them, but it all goes wrong. He's not a jellyfish, so they reject him. Offering one a handshake causes its tentacle to sting him. Hiding in a jellyfish hive just makes them sting him some more and drive him away. He tries sleeping in a cave, and is covered in poisonous sea urchins. NatureIsNotNice and anyone who fails to realize that will have a bad time in the wild.
** The group hug at the end results in the others getting the itchy poison from those sea urchins because it wasn't that long ago that [=SpongeBob=] got stung by them.
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: For the obvious reason. [=SpongeBob=] is shunned and zapped out of Jellyfish Fields because he is CLEARLY not a jellyfish.

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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: For the obvious reason. [=SpongeBob=] is unsurprisingly shunned and zapped out of Jellyfish Fields because he is CLEARLY not a jellyfish.
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Fits better under Didnt Think This Through, which is already listed.


* Irony: Squidward gets angry at Spongebob for acting, well, opposite, even though it was him who told Spongebob it was Opposite Day in the first place.
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* Irony: Squidward gets angry at Spongebob for acting, well, opposite, even though it was him who told Spongebob it was Opposite Day in the first place.

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* BrickJoke: The poison sea-urchins.

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* BrickJoke: The poison sea-urchins.One of the indignities Spongebob suffers in the wild is getting all itchy after being stung by sea urchins. At the end the episode everyone gives Spongebob a GroupHug, only to get the sea urchin toxin on themselves and end up all itchy.



* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Squidward references the episode's running time:
-->'''Sandy:''' I give him a week.\\
'''Squidward:''' I give him eleven minutes.



* PaintingTheFourthWall: Squidward references the episode's running time:
-->'''Sandy:''' I give him a week.\\
'''Squidward:''' I give him [[LampshadeHanging eleven minutes]].
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: As the Opposite Day story didn't really make [=SpongeBob=] or Patrick any less annoying (especially since he didn't tell Patrick at all about how to behave on Opposite Day), Squidward regrets not making it "Go Jump off a Cliff" Day.
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-->'''Real Estate Agent::''' What kind of fool do you take me for? (''points at Patrick'') He's Squidward? (''points at [=SpongeBob=]'') He's SQUIDWARD?! (''points at Squidward'') YOU'RE SQUIDWARD? ''I'M'' SQUIDWARD!!! Are there any other "Squidwards" I should know about?\\

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-->'''Real Estate Agent::''' Agent:''' What kind of fool do you take me for? (''points at Patrick'') He's Squidward? (''points at [=SpongeBob=]'') He's SQUIDWARD?! (''points at Squidward'') YOU'RE SQUIDWARD? ''I'M'' SQUIDWARD!!! Are there any other "Squidwards" I should know about?\\

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* OneSteveLimit: Both averted (in-universe) and PlayedForLaughs.
-->'''Real Estate Agent''': He's Squidward, he's Squidward, you're Squidward, ''I'm'' Squidward! Are there any other "Squidwards" I should know about?!\\
'''Gary:''' ''(in Squidward voice with a pickle for a nose)'' Meow.\\
'''Real Estate Agent:''' [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere I'm outta here.]]



-->'''Patty:''' What kind of fool do you take me for? (''points at Patrick'') He's Squidward? (''points at [=SpongeBob=]'') He's SQUIDWARD?! (''points at Squidward'') YOU'RE SQUIDWARD? ''I'M'' SQUIDWARD!!! Are there any other "Squidwards" I should know about?\\

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-->'''Patty:''' -->'''Real Estate Agent::''' What kind of fool do you take me for? (''points at Patrick'') He's Squidward? (''points at [=SpongeBob=]'') He's SQUIDWARD?! (''points at Squidward'') YOU'RE SQUIDWARD? ''I'M'' SQUIDWARD!!! Are there any other "Squidwards" I should know about?\\



'''Patty:''' [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere I'm outta here.]]\\

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'''Patty:''' '''Real Estate Agent:''' [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere I'm outta here.]]\\



'''Patty:''' I wouldn't sell your house if you were the last "Squidward" on Earth!

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'''Patty:''' '''Real Estate Agent:''' I wouldn't sell your house if you were the last "Squidward" on Earth!

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'''United States airdate: September 11, 1999'''

'''Canada airdate: July 15, 2000'''

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'''United States airdate: September 11, 1999'''

'''Canada airdate: July 15, 2000'''
'''Original air date''': 9/11/1999



'''United States airdate: September 11, 1999'''

'''Canada airdate: July 15, 2000'''

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'''United States airdate: September 11, 1999'''

'''Canada airdate: July 15, 2000'''
'''Original air date''': 9/11/1999
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* OminousMusicBoxTune: When [[spoiler:Patrick declares that he's going to make [=SpongeBob=] a trophy]].

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* OminousMusicBoxTune: When [[spoiler:Patrick Patrick declares that he's going to make [=SpongeBob=] a trophy]].trophy.
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how is this petty? Sponge and Pat barged into Squid's home without permission - that's trespassing. And he didn't ask for a birthday party, so he's not mandated to enjoy it.


* JerkassHasAPoint: While it was rather petty of Squidward to get angry enough at [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick to the point of trying to move away after they threw him a surprise birthday party (when it wasn't even his birthday), he certainly is in the right to be angry at them trespassing on his property and wasting his time with such frivolities, especially since it happens right after he wakes up in the morning.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Squidward apparently didn't expect [=SpongeBob=] to take celebrating Opposite Day so far. He also mentions earlier that everyone knows about Opposite Day, which is why [=SpongeBob=] doesn't explain to the realtor what is really happening.

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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Squidward apparently didn't expect [=SpongeBob=] to take celebrating Opposite Day so far. He also mentions earlier that everyone knows about Opposite Day, which is why [=SpongeBob=] doesn't explain to the realtor what is really happening. In addition, he forgot to tell Patrick about Opposite Day as well, who had no idea about it when visiting [=SpongeBob=].
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* FelonyMisdemeanor: The realtor warns Squidward his home won't be sold if it is surrounded by "bad neighbors", like what happened with her last few ventures.
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* SeaHurtchin: After Spongebob gets zapped by jellyfish, he tries to call it a night by resting in a cave, all while bearing the cold with only a kelp blanket to barely cover him. All of a sudden, he gets a painfully itchy feeling, and it turns out that he's covered by poison sea urchins.

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* SeaHurtchin: After Spongebob [=SpongeBob=] gets zapped by jellyfish, he tries to call it a night by resting in a cave, all while bearing the cold with only a kelp blanket to barely cover him. All of a sudden, he gets a painfully itchy feeling, and it turns out that he's covered by poison sea urchins.

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