The Tickler
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— The Tickler introducing himself, "Karate Island"
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The Tickler is a fish villain who appears in the episode "Karate Island" and the video games Fists of Foam and SpongeBob's Game Frenzy.
Description
The Tickler is a lavender fish with a black and white-striped shirt, a dark purple beret, brown pants, and a red bandana around his neck. He also holds two sticks with fake gray hands at the tops which are used to tickle people. He speaks in a French accent.
Role in episode
The Tickler is one of the colleagues in Condo Island, and he is on the first floor of the Four Floors of Fear building. When Sandy reaches him, he is winning the fight against Sandy, tickling her belly until she pulls out jelly-filled doughnuts and stuffs them in his face.
Roles in games
Fists of Foam
He serves as the first boss in the game, using his iron-finger style to tickle SpongeBob.
SpongeBob's Game Frenzy
He appears during the "Take Out the Tickler" mini game, being defeated in the same manner as the episode the mini game is based on. If he wins. He tickles Sandy the same way he did in the episode.
SpongeBob Adventures: In a Jam!
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Trivia
- Whenever The Tickler talks, his voice is out of sync with the animation. However, this may not be an error, but rather a reference to the fact that old Japanese films (like martial arts films, which this episode is a stylistic parody of) would have out of sync speech when dubbed into English.
- The Tickler himself is an adult joke/innuendo; being French, his name is a pun on "French tickler."
- His weakness being jelly-filled doughnuts is a reference to the Pokémon anime's infamous 4Kids dub, in which Brock repeatedly refers to rice balls (onigiri) as jelly-filled donuts; presumably as an attempt to better appeal to western cultures.