Artist Unknown

Characters

• Squidward Tentacles
• People in the kitchen
• Milk man
• Incidental 119
• Incidental 41
• Incidental 6
• Fred
• Incidental 14
• Incidental 5
• Incidental 2
• Incidental 23
• Incidental 68
• Anchovy
• Incidental 16
• Incidental 69
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  • SpongeBob's hands Template:Debut
• Monty P. Moneybags Template:Debut
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• Incidental 47

Synopsis

Squidward is teaching an art class at the Adult Learning Center, and cannot wait to see his new students. He opens the doors and greets a whole crowd of people, who are actually looking for the cooking class. They depart, leaving behind only one pupil: SpongeBob.

Squidward begrudgingly starts to teach SpongeBob what he knows. He starts off by demonstrating a poorly-drawn circle on the blackboard and has SpongeBob copy it, but is shocked when SpongeBob produces a perfect circle. He demands SpongeBob show him how he did it, so SpongeBob effortlessly draws a realistic human head, erases the details, and leaves a perfect circle behind. Squidward snatches SpongeBob's paper and crumples it up, which SpongeBob then turns into an origami sculpture of himself and Squidward playing leap-frog. Squidward rips it apart, but SpongeBob simply forms the scraps into a picture of them continuing their game.

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"There! Now it's art!"

Squidward then attempts to show off his prowess with the chisel, creating a mere pile of rubble. However, with a single stroke of his mallet, SpongeBob produces Michelangelo's David from a raw block of marble. Squidward is amazed, but out of jealousy, scoffs at SpongeBob's masterpiece and refuses to acknowledge his talent. SpongeBob, unquestioning of his teacher's judgment, is ashamed of himself and throws himself out of class, falling into a dumpster being hauled away to the city dump, saying that he deserves it. Squidward feels a bit bad for hurting SpongeBob's feelings, but decides to shut down his class, regardless.

Immediately after, an art collector named Monty P. Moneybags comes in, saying that he is looking for art to purchase for his new museum. Squidward shows off his own pieces to him, but Monty hates them all because they are all based on Squidward himself.

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"I called it Bold and Brash."

However, he falls in love with SpongeBob's masterpiece, which Squidward takes credit for. While carrying the heavy statue to Monty's car, Squidward accidentally knocks off its head. Monty assures Squidward that he should easily be able to make another one, and that he will come back the next day 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.

Upon returning to art class, SpongeBob has unfortunately taken Squidward's prior lessons to heart, and so fails to create anything of decent quality. When he tries to chisel another marble statue, it simply collapses into a pile of rubble. Squidward goes insane with frustration and begins smashing pillars of marble. SpongeBob concludes that his artistic "triumph" was too much for Squidward to handle, and crashes through the wall, going back to the dump.

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Monty P. Moneybags returns and, upon seeing what Squidward has produced, incredulously asks who is responsible. Squidward shifts the blame onto the janitor and angrily storms out. However, unknown to Squidward, he has made an even more beautiful and bigger rendition of David while he got angry, and Monty cries out to the janitor, "You, sir, are the greatest artist who ever lived!" as the episode ends.

Production

Art

• Original version of Bold and Brash[1]
  Original version of Bold and Brash

Release

• This episode is available on the Seascape Capers, Complete 2nd Season, The First & Second Seasons, The Best 200 Episodes Ever, SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 3, From the Beginning, Pt.1, The Complete Second Season, Fine Arts Collection, and First 100 Episodes DVDs.
• This episode is available on the UK version of The Seascape Capers VHS tape.

Trivia

General

• The background of the title card of this episode is the marble stone used throughout this episode.
• The quote "I have no talent" was later used in the online game SpongeBob Saves Bikini Bottom.
• When "License to Milkshake" premiered, it was paired up with this episode.
• SpongeBob's method of drawing a circle is the opposite of how one would naturally draw the detailed head and face, as SpongeBob used as his starting point for the circle.
• This is the second episode where SpongeBob repeats "really" in a conversation. The first was in "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy III."
• In the Hebrew version, Squidward is mistakenly called "Mr. Terpentine" throughout the episode, instead of "Mr. Tentacles."
• In the Brazilian dubbing, during the sculpture inspection the "perfect censorship" quote was changed to "visão perfeita" (perfect vision). In the Indonesian dubbing, it is changed into "so perfect."
• In the Croatian dub, the episode's name is "Umjetnik Tko?" translating to "Artist, Who?"
• Squidward’s painting, Bold and Brash, has become a popular internet meme.
• Innuendo: SpongeBob says "If I'm lucky, Mr. Talent will rub his tentacles on my art."

Cultural references

• SpongeBob's "dump" song is in the tune of the finale to the "William Tell Overture."
• One of the paintings on the classroom wall is a parody of the American Gothic.
• The marble statue done by SpongeBob and Squidward is a parody of Michelangelo's David.

Errors

• When SpongeBob says "I did it, Squidward!" on his second attempt to draw a circle, the circle appears out of nowhere.
• In the SIC European Portuguese dub, the laughter from the end of "Sailor Mouth" can be heard in the title card for a whole second.
• When SpongeBob is knocked out the window into the trash bin, there is glass on the floor inside, when it should be outside the building with since that is the direction in which SpongeBob goes through the window.
• When Squidward tears up the rule book, there are some pieces on the floor, but in one minute, they disappear. Also, when SpongeBob uses these pieces to make something, some pieces that are red disappear, but when he is done making it, they reappear.

missing.

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Squidward's middle leg is missing.

• When the janitor throws away Bold and Brash, Squidward's middle leg is missing.
• As the art collector laughs at Bold and Brash, one of the squares on his jacket loses color.
• The window that SpongeBob goes through goes from being broken to fixed in between shots.

Video

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