Original air date: 3/4/2017 (produced in 2016)
Snooze You Lose
Exhausted after three days of insomnia, Squidward falls into a deep sleep the night before an audition for the Bikini Bottom Philharmonic Orchestra, and the next morning SpongeBob and Patrick still can't wake him up, but it doesn't stop them from getting him there anyway.
Snooze You Lose provides examples of:
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: The clone of Squidward SpongeBob and Patrick make becomes a giant and rampages through the town (and manages to play clarinet notes with a building)
- Bittersweet Ending: Played for Laughs. Despite SpongeBob and Patrick’s efforts, Squidward’s arrogance leads him to play his clarinet so abysmal, that he gets kicked out of the audition. Adding insult to injury, the failed clone made earlier of him proves to be a better clarinet player than he is.
- Brick Joke: The clone of Squidward comes back at the end to play a building in front of an audience.
- Dreadful Musician: Squidward proves to be an awful musician when SpongeBob and Patrick aren't controlling his body.
- Gone Horribly Right: SpongeBob tells Squidward that he'll get to sleep by walking. Squidward does just that, and when he does fall asleep, he won't wake up.
- Medium-Shift Gag: When Squidward plays his clarinet, it cuts to live action footage of birds fleeing in terror, and buildings and icebergs crumbling.
- Mood Whiplash: Squidward plods into SpongeBob's house with a blank look on his face, in almost a fugue state, which SpongeBob and Patrick are a little disturbed by. Then Squidward falls sound asleep and SpongeBob, breaking his fall, understands the situation and reacts with profound sympathy.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: The judge at the recital is a fish version of Ludwig van Beethoven.
- Shout-Out: While SpongeBob and Patrick pilot Squidward's body around town, a child mistakes "Squidward" for Frankenstein's monster.
- Gustav Mollusk's Symphony No. 5 in C Sharp Minor" is a parody of "Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 5 in C Sharp Minor."
- Maestro Mackerel is a parody of Terence Fletcher, a brutal conductor from the film Whiplash. They are even both portrayed by J. K. Simmons.
- Sleep Cute: Squidward, Patrick and Gary fall asleep on top of SpongeBob who had shaped himself into a mattress to break Squidward's fall.
- Special Guest: J. K. Simmons as Maestro Mackerel.
- Totem Pole Trench: Only the "trench" is another, unconscious person.
Krusty Katering
Mr. Krabs and his crew cater a fancy party, but they might be out of depth with their new wealthy customers.
Krusty Katering provides examples of:
- Balloonacy: Patrick makes a balloon animal into the shape of a rock, which he gives it to a kid, causing him to float in the air.
- Bratty Half-Pint: The kid who follows Mr. Krabs around, demanding his birthday cake.
- Brick Joke: Three for the ending:
- The kid who floats away with Patrick's rock balloon shows up again, still floating away.
- SpongeBob becomes a bouncy castle again.
- The Bratty Half-Pint who kept chasing Mr. Krabs finally gets his cake, which he demanded after Krabs tried to leave the party.
- Comically Missing the Point: When Squidward tries to join the band, his performance is so bad that they try to move away from while performing. Despite this, Squidward doesn't take the hint and just assumes he's part of a marching quintet.
- Continuity Nod: At one point when Patrick is passing out the fancy krabby patties, he sticks his pinky out like in "Tea at the Treedome."
- Disaster Dominoes: SpongeBob and Patrick's fight over a Krabby Patty ends with it being launched into Squidward's clarinet, which the latter shoots into another guest, who takes it as an invitation to start a full-on food fight. And then Ms. Mildred gets hit, and Mr. Krabs accidentally pops a water bed and creates a Giant Wall of Watery Doom.
- Dreadful Musician: Squidward's lack of musical talent is shown once again when he tries to join the band performing for the party and the musicians try to get away from him as they play.
- Everyone Has Standards: Mr. Krabs is unarguably the personification of greed, so it's a bit surprising for him to spend a good amount of time trying to properly return expensive stolen jewels.
- Food Fight: SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidward inadvertently start one at the fancy party.
- Furry Reminder: Mr. Krabs squeezes ink out of Squidward to make tuxedos for them.
- Giant Wall of Watery Doom: Happens when a large water bed is popped inside the mansion.
- Kids Are Cruel: The kids at the birthday party torment the Krusty Krew in different ways: one kid pops SpongeBob (who was shapeshifted into a bouncy castle) with cleats, Mr. Krabs gets smashed open like a piñata by another, and after the party gets rowdy the kids resort to ripping off Patrick's head.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Everyone involved in the food fight gets washed out of the mansion by the giant torrent of water.
- Late to the Realization: While SpongeBob is sweeping, he looks at the giant flood heading towards him, then returns to sweeping. Then he realizes it will affect him and screams.
- Losing Your Head: Patrick gets decapitated by a mob of children (but is still alive) which SpongeBob, Squidward and Mr. Krabs are disturbed by.
- No Ending: The episode ends with an endless raging torrent of water flowing out of the mansion, which includes everyone getting swept out. It is unknown where the stream ends, and the aftermath of the destruction in the mansion is also not shown.
- Oh, Crap!:
- Mr. Krabs, when he realizes the fireworks in his suit catch on fire, causing him to fly out of the mansion.
- The guests at the fancy party, when they see the giant flood heading towards them.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Mr. Krabs acts as one at few points, such as taking some fireworks from the boy following him, citing that they're too dangerous for him; and trying to return a box of jewels that SpongeBob took in the mansion.
- Running Gag: The boy from the birthday party popping out behind Mr. Krabs, demanding his birthday cake.
- Torches and Pitchforks: The kids at the birthday party chase Mr. Krabs with these when they want to smash him like a piñata.
- Vomit Discretion Shot: Squidward vomits when he is forced to watch some kids eat Krabby Patties that another kid sneezed on.
