Fools in April
Template:Episode "Fools in April" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season one.
Brief summary: On April Fool's Day, Spongebob is playfully pulling harmless pranks on everyone, much to Squidward's annoyance. Squidward responds by pulling a very harmful prank on Spongebob, which sends him running home crying. Squidward attempts to apologize to Spongebob to clear his conscience, but has difficulty in doing so.
Characters:
Time/Date: Friday 1st April 1991
Plot
He says is. Squidward immediately rushes to the Krusty Krab, only to find that it was a prank by Spongebob. Spongebob does not actually hear his apology. Squidward walks away, saying that his conscience is clear, but is confronted by memories of what he did, and goes back and genuinely apologizes to Spongebob. SpongeBob forgives him, but then fully opens his front door, revealing that everyone else is inside behind.
Quotes
- Old lady: Do you know where the forks are?
- SpongeBob: There right here, lady.
- Old lady: But this is 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, but I only put in 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
- The various pranks pulled by Spongebob include:
- Telling Gary they were going to become peasants
- Telling Gary to eat salted shells instead of snail food
- Telling himself he would drink dozens of glasses of lemonade for breakfast
- Having Mr. Krabs tell Squidward that an art collector from the Barnacle bay Art Museum is at the Krusty Krab and wants to buy his art
- Directing an old lady who asked him for a fork to the spoons
- Drawing a face on the back of his head and tricking a customer into thinking he was two different people
- Giving a customer one ice cube in his drink when he asked for a couple of them
- Telling his tongue that its shoes were untied
- Tricking Squidward into apologizing to him in front of a room full of people
- Putting a Whoopie Cushion in Mr.Krabs' chair
- This is Sandy's last appearance in Season 1.
- The "You stink!" line was first heard in "Pickles".
- A female fish wearing a bikini is heard speaking in a deep male voice.
- Even after Spongebob reveals to the old lady his prank of giving her a spoon rather than a fork, she still walks away with the spoon.
- When the customers leave the Krusty Krab after Squidward's prank, they are all blue and brown finger shaped ovals.
- After Squidward left, he started seeing images of people at the Krusty Krab. Tom said "April Fools, jerk". However, it is a different fish at the Krusty Krab.
- This is the first instance of Gary crying.
- When Squidward gives SpongeBob a message in a bottle, he puts a cork on it. However, as it rolls towards SpongeBob, the cork is gone.This is because the cork is too deep enough to fit in the bottle.
- Gary will cry again in Shell Shocked.
- In one scene Patrick is digging and Spongebob's house is locked, but at the end Patrick is in Spongebob's house.
- (he possibly dug underground into SpongeBob's House and did not want to blow the prank on Squidward by walking into SpongeBob's House because it might give it away.)
- Patrick dug an entrance to SpongeBob's house, left it afterwards(to a rock,which he gnaws the wire),and entered the tunnel. The episode name is a pun on April Fools.
APM music identification
- Aloha - SpongeBob wakes up Gary.
- Me for You - SpongeBob makes lemonade.
- Twelfth Street Rag - Title card.
- Courting Clarinets - "We're gonna become peasants!"
- Dramatic Impact 3 - Shot of calendar.
- Captain Lenoe's - Squidward calls Mr. Krabs.
- Airs and Graces (b) - "I have arrived."
- The Tip Top Polka/The Cliff Polka - SpongeBob and Krabs laugh.
- Twelfth Street Rag - SpongeBob plays pranks on everyone.
- Heavy Footsteps (a) - Squidward sets a trap.
- Shock (u) - The anchor falls.
- On With the Race - The trap is sprung and SpongeBob flies everywhere
- Pua Paoakalani B - SpongeBob runs out crying.
- Royal Hawaiian Hula - Patrick is digging.
- Fates - "SpongeBob, let me in there!"
- Hawaiian Cocktail - Squidward tries to apologize.
- Killer Birds - Squidward is surrounded by floating heads of other characters.
- Mama E - Squidward apologizes.
- Hawaiian Pussycat - "What would we do without Squidward?"