Breath of Fresh Squidward

Template:Episode Breath of Fresh Squidward is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season five.

Brief summary: Squidward is electrocuted by his fence, turning him into a nice person, though annoying.

Time/Date:

• 3:47 AM
• 6:48 AM: The sun comes up

Time cards shown:

• 3 Hours Later

Characters Present:

• Squidward Tentacles
• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Patrick Star
• Eugene H. Krabs
• Tom
• Sally
• Evelyn
• Harold
• Krusty Krab customers

Plot

Squidward is electrocuted by his fence, turning him into a nice person, though annoying.

Cultural References

• The title is a reference to the famous saying, "A breath of fresh air." Which means after several bad events, a good event finally happens, which is basically fits along the episode's plot line.

APM Music Identification

• Comic Walk - Squidward gets mad at SpongeBob and Patrick for being in his house; "Wow, SpongeBob, you've been Employee of the Month a gazillion times."
• William Tell Overture - The sun rises.
• Tomfoolery - "Do they have cute seahorses there?"
• Spring Cleaning - Squidward annoys customers.
• Dramatic Impact 3 - "Free?!"
• The Tip Top Polka/Cliff Polka - Mr. Krabs talks to Squidward.
• Drama Link D - "Aaah! Dimples?! It was him! New Squidward did it!"
• Saxaboogie - Party at Patrick's house.
• Fates - "Maybe you can take my job and maybe you can take my place on the 'Employee of the Month Hall of Fame' but nobody, AND I MEAN NOOO-BODY, pogo-dances with that guy BUT ME!! Now, do yourself a big fat favour and GET OUT, BUB!!"

Trivia/Goofs

• The part where the Mother Fish talked to her daughter was deleted.
• The title card music of Goo Goo Gas is used.
• This is the first time Squidward has become Employee of the Month. Usually SpongeBob is the employee of the month.
• On one scene where SpongeBob, Patrick and Squidward had fun together was similar on episode My Pretty Seahorse when SpongeBob and Mystery had fun.
• The bathroom for boys was spelled as Buoys.
• When the new Squidward showed SpongeBob the Krabby Patties he made SpongeBob tells him that it takes years of practice but revealed in Friend or Foe? SpongeBob made a perfect patty on his first try meaning he probably just made it up so Squidward would not work as another fry cook with him.
• The smiley face Krabby Patty is a parody of the Smiley cookies at Eat-N-Park, a Denny's competitor in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area.
• The Petting zoo that SpongeBob, Patrick and Squidward visits might be a spoof of the Petaling zoo in Malaysia.
• The Nickelodeon and Directv schedule calls this episode "Breath of a Fresh Squidward".
• In this episode, we learn that SpongeBob has been Employee of the Month a gazillion and six times.

• This is false,Squidward's happygland is shown in this episode but in Squidtastic Voyage,

when SpongeBob and Patrick were at the brain of Squidward's, his brain is a branch and Squidward's happygland is not shown in this episode, meaning Squidward might not have a happygland.

• Can't Spongebob and Patrick see Squidward is being electrocuted? Or don't they know what it is and think Squidward can still respond?
• To Erroring Spancerd Spongicus
• This is the second time that Spongebob and Patrick were Squidward. The first time was in the episode, "Opposite Day." But the difference is that Spongebob and Patrick were shocked into being Squidward after feeling the shock through Squidward. In "Opposite Day". Spongebob and Patrick put coral on their faces and Spongebob tied his belt on his head. Spongebob is also squidword again in Gone