Circus Sea Fleas

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Circus Sea Fleas are sea fleas owned by Template:Data:Links. They appear in the episode "Under the Small Top."

Description

The box features art of three sea fleas in front of a curtain, with a banner saying "Circus Sea Fleas" above. There are also wheels painted onto on the tan box.

The circus fleas themselves are tiny bugs who only have four legs, two of which arms; and two black antennae. They have light purple skin and a small, bow-shaped, dorsal fins which vary in color, much like fish. They have round beige eyes with black pupils, purple noses with teeth shaped like a mustache, although some have a more beak-shaped muzzle, such as the ringmaster. On their hands, they have four fingers on and two long toes on each foot. All of them wear circus-related attire: ringmaster, cannonball man, tightrope walker, juggler, clown, bodybuilder, flexible performer, etc.

Role in episode

Incidental 154 mistakenly gives Template:Data:Links the Circus Sea Fleas box instead of Template:Data:Links. Squidward doesn't know what to do with the box, so he throws it in a trash can. In revenge, the sea fleas come out of the box and start to annoy Squidward by picking objects, which makes him think that they are haunted as they are too small to be seen. Squidward runs away to his bedroom and decides to go to sleep, so the sea fleas follow him and build a circus on his bed. Squidward notices this and peeks his head inside the circus and starts to enjoy it, that until the ringmaster tells two sea fleas to blow a whistle and all of the sea fleas start to bite Squidward. They chase him again all around his house and nearly cook him alive in the oven, but he jumps out of it before getting burnt. SpongeBob hears Squidward's screams from his house, so he comes there and a mutilated Squidward opens the door. SpongeBob enters and he asks where did all of the sea fleas go. Squidward lifts up his shirt to reveal them underneath, then SpongeBob uses a whip to control them and leave the house to Template:Data:Links. Squidward goes back to his bedroom and sees how messy it is, so he blows a whistle to call all of the sea fleas to his house so they can clean the mess.

Trivia

• These fleas are the second animals to infest Squidward's house. The first were the sea urchins in "Jolly Lodgers."
• This was the second package SpongeBob spent most of the episode waiting for. The first was the Kelpo toy in "Waiting."
• Sea fleas actually exist in real life, although they are crustaceans and not true fleas.