Choir Boys

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Template:Flag June 24, 2022Template:SeeMoreEnd |year = 2008 |sisterep = Porous Pockets |guests = Mark Fite as Squidward's Toilet Paper, Fish #42, and Fish #114
Randy Bremmer as Soprano |writer = Aaron Springer
Richard Pursel |supervising producer = Paul Tibbitt |director-storyboard = Aaron Springer |director-animation = Andrew Overtoom |director-creative = Vincent Waller |briefsummary = Template:Data:Links wants to join the choir that Template:Data:Links participates in.}}

Characters

• Squidward Tentacles
• Squidward's toilet
• Tissue paper Template:Single appearance
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  • Sandals
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• Patrick Star ^(mentioned)
• Jellyfish
• Grandma
• Patrick and Gary's family (mentioned)

Synopsis

Squidward is preparing for an audition with the Bikini Bottom Men's Choir. As he steps out of his house, he sees a bored SpongeBob lying on the ground. SpongeBob explains that Patrick has gone away for a family reunion, leaving him with nothing to do. He asks Squidward where he is going, and after a while of asking, he finally says he is going to the Men's Choir.

Squidward rides his bike away, but SpongeBob follows him as he wants to show him his song. When he does not want to listen, SpongeBob digs a pothole, causing Squidward to fall off his bike and land at Jellyfish Fields. He gets trapped in jellyfish while SpongeBob takes advantage of him being captive and sings his song.

After suffering many jellyfish stings, Squidward sets out on his bike again, taking a shortcut through the kelp. However, he is stopped by SpongeBob, who is disguised as a singing traffic cop. He tries to sing his song, but Squidward finds out he is in disguise and ties him to a piece of coral. After Squidward leaves, SpongeBob begins to sing, attracting jellyfish, who carry him off to the choir.

Squidward finally reaches the choir, but when he sings with the choir, he clears his throat for a long period of time and sounds terrible when he finally sings. Soon after, SpongeBob comes inside the building while being carried by jellyfish and singing his song. After he finishes, everyone but Squidward applauds him. He is let into the choir, being given a mustache like the other singers, but he feels bad for Squidward and adds he will only sing with them if Squidward joins as well. Later during a concert, SpongeBob is singing the solo with Squidward as his page turner, much to his displeasure, while the episode finishes.

Production

Art

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Model sheets

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Release

Broadcast

• This was the fifth and last episode to premiere during Nickelodeon's "The Bob Squad."
• When this episode premiered in the U.S., it was paired up with "Komputer Overload."

Distribution

• The episode is available on the SpongeBob's Truth or Square, Boating Buddies, SpongeBob vs. The Big One (Turkish only), Season 6 Volume 2, Holidays with SpongeBob 3-DVD Gift Set, Music Festival, The Ultimate SpongeBob Box Set, Triple Pack 1, SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 10, Complete Sixth Season, The Best 300 Episodes Ever, The SpongeBob SquarePants Collection, The SpongeBob SquarePants 8 Season DVD Collection, Big Hits: Volume 1, Next 100 Episodes, and The Best 200 Episodes Ever DVDs.

Trivia

General

• The Bikini Bottom Men's Chorus reappears in "A Day Without Tears."
• Grandma from "Have You Seen This Snail?" and "Boating Buddies" plays the piano in this episode. This is also the third time they've changed her voice actor, as before she was voiced by Amy Poehler and Sirena Irwin, and this time she was voiced by Tom Kenny.
• This is the second episode to show Squidward's toilet alive. The first is "House Fancy."
• This is the second episode in which SpongeBob wears a mustache. The first is "The Pink Purloiner."
• This is the second episode in which SpongeBob gets carried by jellyfish. The first is "The Sponge Who Could Fly."
• The title card background is similar to that of "Boat Smarts" but it is pink, there are flowers added, and the brown board is removed.

Cultural references

• "Figaro" comes from The Barber of Seville, an opera by Gioachino Rossini.

Errors

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SpongeBob's hand is overlapping Squidward's tentacles.

• When SpongeBob lays on the ground and puts his hand on Squidward near the beginning of the episode, SpongeBob's hand can be seen through Squidward's tentacles.
• When SpongeBob is on the ground, his teeth become yellow for a second.
• When SpongeBob finishes singing, Squidward is behind him. When SpongeBob is talking to the people about singing in the choir, Squidward is off to the side.

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Sky error.

• During the performance it takes place during the night, but it looks like it takes during the day due to the light blue sky except dark.
• When SpongeBob is singing at the end of the episode, Squidward has to turn the page for SpongeBob, but he turns it in the wrong direction.
• When Squidward rips off SpongeBob's fake mustache, the latter's right arm is missing for a bit.
• During SpongeBob's grand Figaro towards the ending, the Grandma disappears from the piano chair for a while, but then suddenly reappears afterwards.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
French	La chorale des hommes à la voix d'or	The Golden-Voiced Men's Choir
German	Chorknaben	Choir Boys
Italian	I ragazzi del coro	Choir Boys
Polish	Chłopaki z chóru	Choir Boys
Russian	Хоровое пение Khorovoye peniye	Choir Singing
Spanish	Los chicos del coro	Choir Boys