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If you were looking for the article about the book, then see UFO!

"Unidentified Flailing Octopus" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 15. In this episode, Squidward sets out to prove that aliens aren't real... until he has a close encounter of his own.

Characters

Synopsis

Perch Perkins is reporting an alien hoax, concluding that there is an extremely small chance that they are real. SpongeBob and Patrick put on tinfoil hats and take out flashlights, going to find them. Their flashlights wake up Squidward, and they end up making a crop circle out of his flower garden. When Squidward tells them to stop, they refuse, so he pranks them by hanging a fake UFO from a fishing pole and playing a theremin. He shows up in an alien mask, then removes it, convincing SpongeBob and Patrick that aliens are not real. They decide to play as superheroes instead.

File:Unidentified Flailing Octopus 102.png
The mothership beams up Squidward's house into the mothership.

Just then, a real UFO arrives, piloted by tiki-headed aliens who want to capture Squidward's house as an artifact. They are convinced that Squidward is a parasite that needs to be exterminated. The aliens attack him in his home, but Squidward thinks they are just SpongeBob and Patrick in disguise. But when he sees them playing in SpongeBob's house, Squidward realizes that the aliens are real and begs for SpongeBob to let him in. The aliens beam up Squidward's house, but he grabs onto it at the last minute, being taken into their mothership.

File:Unidentified Flailing Octopus 134.png
The aliens capture Squidward.

The aliens capture Squidward and go to probe him. After giving him an X-ray, they take out a drill, and Squidward manages to escape. He runs out into another room, only to find it is where the aliens are hatched from eggs. He heads out into space, but cannot breathe and goes back inside. The aliens take him back to the operating table, where they "probe" him by asking him about his childhood. Squidward talks for so long that they are annoyed and return him and his house to Conch Street. Panicked, Squidward tells SpongeBob and Patrick that aliens are real, but they refuse to believe him due to what he told them earlier, resulting in Patrick shutting Squidward up in his mailbox.

Production

Ibrahim J. Corona submitted his storyboards for this episode prior to or on August 25, 2023.[3]

On November 28, 2023, Nick Lauer confirmed that he had returned to the series to help out with storyboards, specifically for Dave Cunningham's plussing team. His first episode would be this episode.

This episode was confirmed by Cartoonlounge.de on July 16, 2024.[4]

In January 2025, storyboard artist Dylan King posted two story notes for this episode, explaining that he was unable to complete his work for the episode due to a family emergency. Thus, he went uncredited for the episode.[5] Maaike Scherff took his place for plussing the boards.

Art

Deleted scenes

Multiple scenes in Scherff's storyboards were trimmed down or edited.

Background design

Character design

Storyboards

  • Storyboarded by Zeus Cervas, directed by Dave Cunningham, plussed by Maaike Scherff[13] and Nick Lauer.[14]
    • On October 29, 2023, Scherff posted a plussed storyboard sample from this episode on SpeakerDeck, over a year prior to its premiere date.
    • Story notes by Dylan King, who went uncredited for this episode.[5][15]

Music

( ‣ ) Production music
( • ) Original music
( ◦ ) SpongeBob music

 ‣ Robot March - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin [Title card.]
 • Bikini Bottom News Theme - Nicolas Carr [Opening.]
 ‣ Robot March - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin [SpongeBob and Patrick watching the news.]
 • Hawaiian Misadventures B - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob and Patrick look for aliens.]
 • ? - Nicolas Carr [Squidward yelling.]
 • Sophisticated Conversation - Nicolas Carr, Daniel Stimac ["We found an alien crop circle."]
 • Hawaiian Misadventures B - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob and Patrick keep looking.]
 • Tension Bits - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [”I'll show you space aliens!”]
 ‣ Supernatural 1 [#1] - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin [Squidward's fake UFO.]
 • Hot Steel and Slide Licks 26 - Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob and Patrick cheer.]
 ‣ Incident In Space - Remastered - Jimmy Leach ["Greetings, earthlings."]
 • ? - Nicolas Carr [Squidward reveals himself.]
 • Hot Steel and Slide Licks 34C - Jeremy Wakefield ["Space aliens don't exist!"]
 • ? - Nicolas Carr [SpongeBob and Patrick apologize.]
 • MM & BB Action Theme Title Card - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr, Pat Irwin [Superhero costumes.]
 ‣ Supernatural 2 [#3] - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin [Alien spaceship lands.]
 ‣ Weightless - Fredric Bayco [Tiki aliens appear.]
 ‣ Haunted House [#26] - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin [Aliens inside Squidward's house.]
 ‣ Dramatic Cue (A) - Ronald Hanmer [Squidward and his eyeballs scream.]
 • Hot Steel and Slide Licks 7A - Jeremy Wakefield [Squidward's eyeballs in the toilet.]
 ‣ March Of The Droids - Edward White [Squidward defends against the aliens.]
 ‣ Space Horizons - Wolf Helling [Squidward puts on new eyes.]
 ‣ Heavy Duty - Wilfred Burns [Squidward jumps on the aliens.]
 • Hot Steel and Slide Licks 20D - Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob and Patrick playing.]
 ‣ Dramatic Cue (H) - Ronald Hanmer [Close-up of the aliens.]
 ‣ Heavy Duty - Wilfred Burns ["Those nimrods were right! Aliens are real!"]
 ‣ Misty Void - Fredric Bayco [Aliens return to their ship.]
 ‣ March Of The Aliens [#7] - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin [Aliens beam up Squidward's house.]
 ‣ Lost In Time - Fredric Bayco [Squidward on the spaceship.]
 ‣ Haunted House [#26] - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin ["Don't talk to him."]
 • DP07 HELLO BABY - Nicolas Carr ["Looks like somebody failed eradication class."]
 ‣ Heavy Duty - Wilfred Burns [Aliens cover Squidward in goo.]
 • ? - Nicolas Carr ["We're doing a probe!"]
 ‣ Supernatural 2 [#3] - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin [Aliens examining Squidward.]
 ‣ Dramatic Cue (C) - Ronald Hanmer [Squidward escapes.]
 • ? - Nicolas Carr [Alien blows horn.]
 ‣ The Terror Strikes - Remastered - Cedric Palmer [Aliens chasing Squidward.]
 ‣ Haunted House [#26] - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin [Alien cloning room.]
 ‣ House Of Horror [#10.5] - William Farran [Baby alien hatches.]
 • Lunar Birds - Nicolas Carr [Squidward floating in space.]
 ‣ Interstellar Flight - G M Hughes [Aliens capture Squidward.]
 ‣ Borborygmus - Jean-Jacques Perrey [Alien explains the probe.]
 • Sophisticated Conversation - Nicolas Carr, Daniel Stimac [Squidward sharing his memories.]
 • A Pinapple Luau - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Ending.]

Trivia

General

  • In the United States, this episode was originally going to premiere at 7:00 PM, but it was moved to 5:00 PM.
File:UpWard and Unidentified Flailing Octopus on Amazon.png
This episode and "UpWard" listed as the first episodes of season 15 on Amazon Prime Video.
File:Ibrahleaving.jpeg
Artwork depicting Ibrahim's OC (original character) waving goodbye to Bikini Bottom, while riding on Squidward's bicycle.

Video

File:Squidward’s Alien Encounter 🛸👽 - Full Scene - SpongeBob
File:בובספוג מכנסמרובע- חייזרים מגיעים לבקיני בוטם - עונה 15 פרק 2 המלא! - ניקלודיאון

Names in other languages

Language Name Meaning
Croatian Neidentificirana leteća hobotnica Unidentified Flying Octopus
Dutch Invasie van de kosmopus Invasion of the Cosmopus (portmanteau of "kosmos" (cosmic) and "octopus")
Polish Niezidentyfikowany Skalmar Latający Unidentified Flying Squidward
Russian Неопознанный лютующий осьминог
Neopoznannyy lyutuyushchiy os'minog		 Unidentified Raging Octopus
Slovenian Neznana leteča hobotnica Unidentified Flying Octopus
Spanish (Latin America) Pulpo volador no identificado Unidentified Flying Octopus
Spanish (Spain) Pulpo agitado no identificado Unidentified Agitated Octopus

References

  1. ↑ Nickelodeon UK - November 21, 2024
  2. ↑ Nick Press Schedules
  3. ↑ Ibrahim J. Corona on Twitter - "After 2 and a half years of..."
  4. ↑ Unidentified Flailing Octopus - Episode 308b (SpongeBob SquarePants) - Cartoonlounge
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Dylan King on Twitter - "After watching the episode, it looks like..."
  6. ↑ Dave Cunningham on Bluesky - "Sometimes the supervising directors provide..."
  7. ↑ Amy Lewis on Twitter - "A few background paintings from newly released..."
  8. ↑ Amy Lewis on Instagram - "A couple more backgrounds I painted..."
  9. ↑ Dave Cunningham on Bluesky - "Prelim designs for aliens..."
  10. ↑ Jim Soper on Twitter - "#characterdesign for #spongebob..."
  11. ↑ Jim Soper on Instagram - "#characterdesign for #spongebob..."
  12. ↑ Jim Soper on Instagram - "#characterdesign for #spongebob..."
  13. ↑ SpongeBob SquarePants - SpeakerDeck
  14. ↑ Nick Lauer on Bluesky: "Some of my drawings from recent SpongeBob episodes. Original rough..."
  15. ↑ Dylan King on Twitter - "Might as well throw another on the pile..."
  16. ↑ New Episodes Airing in Australia - SpongeBuddy Mania
  17. ↑ New Episodes Revealed by Australian Schedule - The SpongeBob Community
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