Code Yellow

Characters

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• Squidward Tentacles
• Squilliam Fancyson ^{(as Squidward's nose)}
• Mrs. Puff
• Dr. Gill Gilliam Template:Cameo
• Patrick Star ^(mentioned)
• Unnamed purple doctor Template:Debut
• Unnamed green doctor Template:Debut
• Halbert ^{(cameo as doctor)}
• Bikini Bottom Marathon Number Seven Template:Debut
• Catfish Template:Debut
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• Jellyfish
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Synopsis

The episode begins with Squidward trying 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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Squidward's gross nose

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 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 won't get a driver's license.

The doctors are befuddled and allow SpongeBob to perform surgery. The surgery patient ends up being Squidward. SpongeBob tries several different noses but Squidward doesn't 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 disgust and shock.

Production

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

Art

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Rough storyboard

Release

• This episode is available on The Complete Tenth Season DVD.

Trivia

General

• Although this episode premiered in 2017, it was made in 2016 according to the credits.
• Squidward has previously gotten surgery in "The Two Faces of Squidward."
• When SpongeBob comments "Mmm, strawberry!" after eating the candy stripes on his doctor uniform, this is a reference 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 when he tastes the ice cream on the ground in "Hall Monitor."
• The "My leg!" gag is referenced in this episode when the Iron Lung crashes into an athlete fish and he screams "My legs!"
• 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 episode is the first usage of "Big Ed's March" since "Best Day Ever."
• 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 in which the lung machine is shown. The first is "Funny Pants."
• 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.
• This is the fourth episode to show blood. The first is "Dying for Pie," the second is "Born to Be Wild," and the third is "House Fancy."

Errors

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The outline of Squidward feet are still under the covers.

• When SpongeBob is saying he used Squidward's limbs to sculpt his new nose, the outline of Squidward's feet are still under the covers, which contradicts what SpongeBob is saying about the limbs, as Squidward still has his feet in the shot.
• SpongeBob is not wearing a mask in the operating room which should be required to prevent the spread of germs.

Running gags

• "Variety Link (d)" playing whenever SpongeBob says, "Ta-da."

Video

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