Code Yellow

Characters

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• Squidward Tentacles
• Squilliam Fancyson ^{(as Squidward's nose)}
• Mrs. Puff
• Patrick Star ^(mentioned)
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  • Tom
  • Incidental 27
  • Incidental 30
  • Fred
  • Incidental 116
  • Incidental 25
  • Incidental 81
  • Incidental 82
  • Incidental 151
  • Incidental 105
  • Dale
  • Mary
  • Incidental 2
  • Incidental 151
  • Incidental 104
  • Incidental 86
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    • Doctor 1
    • Doctor 2
    • Doctor 3
    • Doctor 4
    • Doctor 6
    • Doctor 8
    • Doctor 7
    • Doctor 9
    • Doctor 10
    • Doctor 11
    • Doctor 12
    • Doctor 13
    • Doctor 14
    • Doctor 15
    • Doctor 16
  • Incidental 64
  • Incidental 67
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• Catfish Template:Debut
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• Jellyfish

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Synopsis

Squidward tries to decide which nose he should get, because he is going to get a nose job. While caught up in himself, Squidward is interrupted by SpongeBob on his unicycle. Reluctantly, Squidward allows SpongeBob to come with him. SpongeBob lets Squidward ride with him to the hospital.

Squidward goes into his hospital room, with SpongeBob closely following. SpongeBob realizes how drab the room is and brightens it up with plushies and flowers. Irritated, Squidward yells at SpongeBob and tells him to go volunteer to be a candy striper. SpongeBob grabs his uniform and eats the literal candy strings on it. A couple of doctors passing by see SpongeBob in his white shirt and mistake him for a doctor and tell him to come along and help them. They bring SpongeBob into a room with a catfish. The catfish tells them in a gravelly voice that his throat hurts. SpongeBob reaches into the fish's neck fold and finds a clump of dirt. He then reaches into the catfish's mouth and pulls out some car keys. SpongeBob then explains how the fish is a bottom feeder and how they probably ate the keys in a search for food, stating that this also happens to his best friend, Patrick, all the time.

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SpongeBob is then moved into another room with an athlete with broken legs. The athlete asks if he will be able to run in an upcoming marathon. One doctor begins to say, "no," but SpongeBob insists he can fix it. He grabs a nearby skeleton model and shoves it inside of the patient. The patient's legs are healed and he runs out of his room. The two doctors are amazed. As a result, they bring SpongeBob into the final room.

The room contains a deflated Mrs. Puff inside of an iron lung. SpongeBob mistakes the lung for a submarine and hops on top of it. He starts pushing and pressing levers and buttons and the Lung streaks down the hallway. It crashes into the end and shoots out a puffed up Puff. She thanks him for helping her recover, but says he still will not get a driver's license.

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Squidward without his tentacle arms and legs.

The doctors are befuddled and allow SpongeBob to perform surgery. The surgery patient ends up being Squidward. SpongeBob tries several different noses, but Squidward does not like any of them. SpongeBob then reverts his nose back to normal, but says he needed the rest of his body to make it, much to Squidward's horror. SpongeBob now has to leave for work, but the doctors tell him that he already is. However, SpongeBob tells them that his actual job is a fry cook, and he walks to the Krusty Krab. Squidward then says to the female nurses that he is on the market and single, much to their shock and disgust.

Production

Dave Cunningham posted a storyboard panel from this episode on June 2, 2016.

The episode name was unofficially announced on July 16, 2016.

The episode name was confirmed in a tweet by Vincent Waller on August 4, 2016.

Cunningham posted another storyboard panel fron this episode on August 31, 2016.

Marco Cinello posted background designs from this episode on September 3, 2016.

Art

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Background design

• Designed by Marco Cinello.

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Storyboards

• Plussed by Clint Bond, revised by Dave Cunningham[1]
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Rough storyboard

Release

Format	Title	Region
DVD	The Complete Tenth Season	United States, Australia
	SpongeBob is a Doctor	Japan
Box set	Another 100 Episodes	United States
	The Best 300 Episodes Ever	United States
Digital release	SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 17	Global

Trivia

General

• The title card background is similar to that of "Sandy's Nutmare," but this one is a tad brighter in color. It is also similar to that of "All That Glitters" but it doesn't shine nor does it have gold, and it is in widescreen.
• Squidward previously had plastic surgery in "The Two Faces of Squidward."
• "My leg!:" After getting run over by the iron lung, the runner fish screams "My legs!"
• In the operating room, one of the observing doctors on the right-hand side, is a crab, who looks similar to Mr. Krabs.
• Some of Squidward's nose changes reference other characters found in and outside the series. These include Charlton Hawkfish, Squilliam Fancyson, Dr. Zoidberg, and Bullwinkle J. Moose.
• This is the first appearance of Squilliam since "Back to the Past," though only his face briefly appears as part of one of Squidward's noses during the nose job montage.
• This is the second episode Mrs. Puff is seen without her wig. The first was "Hall Monitor," where her wig was seen flying off her head twice.

Episode references

• When SpongeBob comments "Mmm, strawberry!" after eating the candy stripes on his doctor uniform, it is a callback to when he makes the same comment after eating the red lines Squidward draws on the screen in "Lost in Bikini Bottom," and when he makes the same comment after tasting the ice cream in "Hall Monitor."
• The iron lung is a callback to the Iron Butt from the episode "I Had an Accident."

Cultural references

• This episode's title is a reference to hospital emergency codes.
• SpongeBob says to the runner, "Friends don't let friends miss marathons." This references the 1990s Ad Council campaign, "Friends Don't Let Friends Drive Drunk," to discourage drunk driving.

Errors

• During the hallway scene with the iron lung, when SpongeBob starts to blink, his eyelashes are missing.

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Purple fish in a left window.

• When SpongeBob enters the operating room, a fish on the left who looks like Incidental 6 has a purple color, but in the following frames, he has the same color and shape as Incidental 6.

Video

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Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
German	SpongeBob wird ärztlich	SpongeBob Becomes a Doctor
Russian	Как остаться с носом Kak ostat'sya s nosom	How to Be Left with Nose (The title is a reference to a Russian saying "Остаться с носом" (lit. "To be left with a nose"), which means "To get nothing")
Spanish	Código amarillo	Code Yellow