Artist Unknown

"Artist Unknown" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season two.

Time/Date:

• March 4

Brief summary: Squidward is teaching an art class, with SpongeBob as his only student.

Characters:

• Squidward Tentacles
• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Monty P. Moneybags
• Janitor

Plot

Squidward is teaching an art class at the rec center, and can't wait to see his new students. He opens the doors and greets a whole crowd of people, who are actually looking for cooking class. They go to cooking class, revealing Squidward's one actual student: SpongeBob SquarePants. SpongeBob's incredible artistic prowess overwhelm Squidward. He starts off by teaching him how to draw a circle, making a poorly-drawn circle on the blackboard. SpongeBob produces a perfect circle, and Squidward is shocked. He tells SpongeBob to show him his process, and SpongeBob effortlessly draws a photo-realistic human head, which he erases the features of, leaving a circle. Squidward frustratedly takes SpongeBob's paper and crumples it up, and SpongeBob makes an origami sculpture of himself and Squidward playing leap-frog. Squidward takes it and tears is up, and SpongeBob makes another picture of him and Squidward playing leap-frog from the buts of paper.

Squidward then tries to teach SpongeBob how to make marble statues. With a single stroke of the hammer, SpongeBob produces Michelangelo's David from a raw block of marble. Squidward is amazed, and out of jealousy, scoffs at SpongeBob's masterpiece and refuses to acknowledge his talent. SpongeBob, unquestioning of his teacher's judgement, is ashamed of himself, and throws himself out of class, falling into a dumpster and being hauled away to the city dump.

Immediately after he leaves, an art collector called Monty P. Moneybags comes in, saying that he is looking to buy art for his new museum. Squidward shows his own works to him, but he hates them all. However, when he sees SpongeBob's masterpiece, he says that he will make Squidward famous for the statue (Which SpongeBob actually made). He trips over while transporting it, knocking off its head. Monty tells Squidward that he should easily be able to make another one, and that he will come back tomorrow to get it. Squidward, desperate for SpongeBob to make him another masterpiece, goes to the dump and convinces a depressed SpongeBob that he deserves another chance. However, upon returning to art class, SpongeBob now follows Squidward's artistic "style", and fails to create anything of decent quality. When he tries to create another marble statue, it simply collapses into a pile of rubble. Squidward goes insane with frustration, and begins smashing pillars of marble and making a mess. SpongeBob concludes that his artistic "triumph" was too much for Squidward to handle, and goes back to the dump. As Squidward storms out, Monty P. Moneybags comes in and upon seeing what Squidward has produced, says "Who's responsible for this?" Squidward tells him that the mess is the janitor's responsibility. Squidward makes a reference to Mr. Wonka saying: "You get nothing! You lose! Good day, sir!" However, unbeknownst to Squidward, he made an even more beautiful rendition of David while throwing his fit, and Monty P. Moneybags says to the janitor "You, sir, are the greatest artist who ever lived!!!" as the episode ends.

APM Music Identification

• String Fashion - Squidward looks at his watch and opens the doors.
• Tales from the Swamp - "Wait! This is cooking! Come back!"
• Wooden Bear - "Repeat after me. I have no talent."
• Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture - "It's beautiful!"
• Comic Walk - Squidward scolds SpongeBob because of all the work he put in to.
• Dramatic Impact 2 - "I gotta find SpongeBob!!"

Quotes

• SpongeBob: First, draw a head, then erase the whole, then the highlights and there! A circle! ..Thingy.
• Squidward: Now repeat after me. I have no talent.

SpongeBob: I have no talent.

Squidward: Mr. Tentacles has all the talent.

SpongeBob: Mr Tentacles has all the talent.

Squidward: If I'm lucky, some of Mr. Tentacle's talent will rub off on me.

SpongeBob: If I'm lucky, Mr. Talent will rub his... tentacles... on my...art...

Squidward: Whatever...

• SpongeBob: (singing') To the dump to the dump to the dump dump dump...
• (At the dump)
• SpongeBob: Really?

Squidward: Really.

SpongeBob: Really?

Squidward: Really.

SpongeBob: Really?

Squidward: REALLY!

SpongeBob: Wow!... REALLY?

Squidward: Let's go.

Trivia

• Michelangelo's David, which in real life has exposed genitals, has a clam covering his private area in this episode. While examining it, Monty P. Moneybags comments on its "perfect censorship".
• SpongeBob's "Dump" song is also heard in an Episode of Rocko's Modern Life, when Rocko and Heffer are on their way to the dump.
• This is the 1st time Squidward has been a teacher. The second time is when he's an art teacher, the third time, he's a music professor as seen in Professor Squidward.
• Spongebobs 'dump' song is in the tune of the finale to the William Tell Overture.
• If you look closely, when Spongebob says "I did it, Squidward!" on the second attempt to draw a circle, on the paper, the circle appears out of nowhere.
• At the end, when Squidward says to Monty P. Moneybags: "Good day to you, sir!", he's referring to the end of "Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory", where Mr. Wonka tells Charlie and Grandpa Joe: "You get nothing! You lose! Good day, sir!"
• SpongeBob's method of drawing a circle is the opposite of how one would naturally draw the detailed head and face that SpongeBob drew as his starting point for the circle.
• 22nd time Patrick doesn't appear.
• In SpongeBob Truth Or Square, an Xbox 360 is an achivement for finding all compact art.