Fools in April

Template:Episode "Fools in April" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season one.

Brief summary: This April Fools Day, SpongeBob is constantly annoying Squidward with his pranks. Squidward responds by playing a very nasty prank on him, which unfortunately depresses (and injures) SpongeBob. Squidward realizes what he did was too harsh, and that SpongeBob was doing his pranks on others rather than Squidward, so Squidward must apologize to make his conscience clear. It's not easy.

Time/Date:

• April 1
  • 3:00 PM: Squidward plays the prank on SpongeBob

Time cards shown: None

Characters Present:

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Squidward Tentacles
• Gary
• Sandy Cheeks
• Patrick Star
• Eugene H. Krabs
• Krusty Krab Customers
  • Bubble Bass
  • Tom
  • Fred
  • Evelyn
• Mrs. Tentacles (debut, cameo appearance)

Songs: None

Plot

SpongeBob wakes up, and realises that it's April Fools Day. He begins the day with pranking his snail, Gary (who cries because he doesn't know it is April Fools Day but SpongeBob calms him down by telling him), then goes to work. Squidward, annoyed by the laughing, looks at the calendar. He is shocked and surprised that it's April Fools Day, and calls Mr. Krabs saying he's sick. Mr. Krabs says that there's some guy in his office who wants to sell Squidward's art. Squidward immediately rushes to his office, only to find that it was a prank. Squidward resigns, but gets his job back after being persuaded by SpongeBob. SpongeBob is constantly doing pranks with his tongue, and his laughs annoy Squidward. So, Squidward does a prank on him. He gets a blob of mustard in the middle of a lasso. SpongeBob goes to clean it up, and the lasso closes on his legs. Squidward chops a nearby rope, which sends SpongeBob flying around getting seriously hurt. Squidward laughs hard out, while SpongeBob cries and run away. The customers aren't happy with Squidward around, so they leave, one of them yelling, "April Fools, JERK!", and a other one (who he imagines later as his mother)says "You STINK!". Squidward has to apologize, but he can't say he's sorry. He thinks of other ways to apologize to SpongeBob, but all do not work until he decides to apologize after remembering what happened. SpongeBob forgives him but shows Squidward everyone in his house, revealing that this was an April Fools Joke. Squidward laughs manically and runs all the way home, stating he was pulling off a prank as well.

Quotes

• Evelyn: Do you know where the forks are?

SpongeBob: Right here.

Evelyn: Uhh that's a spoon.

SpongeBob: (Giggles) April Fools!!

• Tom: Can I have a couple of ice cubes in my drink?

SpongeBob: Sure thing.

Tom: Thanks, (Drinks his Lemonade, SpongeBob is giggling)

SpongeBob: April Fools!

Tom: Huh? WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY DRINK?!!!!

SpongeBob: You asked for a couple of ice cubes, and I only gave you one!

• SpongeBob: (Hugging his own tongue) Your shoe's untied, you don't even have shoes *SpongeBob laugh* APRIL FOOLS!
• Mrs. Tentacles:you stink!!
• Squidward:Mother!?!

Trivia/Goofs

• SpongeBob pulled the following pranks:
  • Tricked Gary into thinking they were going to become peasants.
  • Tricked himself into thinking he would drink many glasses of lemonade.
  • Tricked Squidward into thinking he was artist of the month at the Barnacle Bay Museum.
  • Tricked a person by showing them where the forks are, but pointed to the spoons.
  • Tricked a guy in line into thinking he was two different people.
  • Tricked Tom when he asked for a couple of ice cubes, when SpongeBob gave him only one.
  • Tricked his tongue into thinking its shoes were untied.
  • Tricked Squidward into thinking he wasn't going to tell anyone that Squidward apologized to him.
• The plans Squidward tried to apologize to SpongeBob:
  • Put a message on the paper and putting it in the bottle (However, SpongeBob did not have a bottle opener).
  • Making a phone call by a two cup-floss phone line (However, Patrick used the floss to clean his teeth, so his message did not work).
• This is Sandy's last appearance in Season 1.
• Every time Squidward tried to say "I'm sorry", something funny would happen (His head turns into a donkey's face, his head explodes, etc.).
• SpongeBob's first major accident is in this episode.
• It is revealed that April Fool's Day is SpongeBob's favorite holiday.
• The fish that said "You stink!" in live appearance is different than the fish that said it in Squidward's memory, because Squidward believes it is his mother.
• Squidward's head temporarily turns into that of a donkey's implying that he thought he was being an ass. In "Christmas Who?" there is a similar scene, he's saying 'I feel like a...' and then a donkey appears. He says "big jerk!" though.
• In this episode, Squidward suffocates when he apologizes to SpongeBob, but in Pizza Delivery, he normally said "that's okay" to SpongeBob.
• There is a fish who speaks with a deep male voice, but it is a female fish wearing a bikini.
• The old lady fish asked where the forks were, and Sponge tricked her into grabbing a spoon, she walked away with the spoon, not the fork.
• When Squidward went to say sorry to SpongeBob, there was nothing on his door, but later there is.
• This is the only episode where Gary cries.
• Unlike "Christmas Who?", an episode airing only around Christmas Day, and "Valentine's Day", airing only on or around Valentine's Day, this episode airs at many different times in the year.
• When Squidward was in the kitchen washing the dishes, and the napkins were in his ears, he pushed the napkins into his ears when he got angry.