Keep Bikini Bottom Beautiful

Characters

• Squidward Tentacles
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• Cop Template:Debut
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  • Billy
  • Incidental 105
  • Incidental 107
  • Incidental 67
  • John
  • Incidental 7
  • Incidental 46
  • Incidental 64
  • Incidental 8
  • Dale
  • Incidental 106
  • Tom
  • Incidental 115
  • Incidental 103
  • Incidental 152 ^(blue)
  • Incidental 82
  • Incidental 92
  • Harold (Inc 40)
  • Incidental 45
  • Harold (Inc 36)
• Greaser fish
• Other fish at community service
• Squilliam Fancyson
• Fish in image in Mable's house Template:Debut
• Burly woman Template:Debut
• King Neptune ^(mentioned)

Synopsis

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A police officer accusing Squidward of littering.

In the beginning of the episode, Squidward exits his house and deems it to be a beautiful day. He goes down the street, dancing, but steps on some gum and falls. He frantically tries to get it loose. When he finally does, the gum is tossed aside. Officer John sees the gum and inspects it. He then walks over to Squidward, thinking he littered, and asks Squidward about the gum, to which Squidward replies that he just stepped in it. Officer John does not believe him, so he gives him a ticket, sentencing him to community service.

It then cuts to Squidward picking up trash, then Squilliam comes along and brags about the statue that was made of him just for cleaning up Bikini Bottom in only one week, which challenges Squidward to try to clean it up in only one day. Squilliam then gets out a tissue and blows his nose on it and drops it on the ground, to make cleaning up more difficult for him. Officer John comes along, sees the tissue, and thinks Squidward dropped it. He then gives Squidward yet another ticket.

When Squidward looks for a place to put his trash, he sees that all the cans and dumpsters are full, so he "borrows" a kid's toy wagon. Mable sees Squidward with the trash and she tells everyone it is Trash Day; soon the trash in the wagon becomes a trash mountain. SpongeBob comes out of one of the garbage bags and offers Squidward to help him when he discovers the life cycle of a Krabby Patty that was thrown out. Then the boy and his mother appear, with the boy telling his mother to beat Squidward to a pulp for stealing his wagon. Squidward is thrashed up and covered in garbage. Officer John thinks Squidward made the mess and gives him another ticket. Squidward then accepts SpongeBob's offer and SpongeBob gets rid of all the trash.

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Garbage formed a replica of Squidward's house.

Squidward goes home and relaxes until he realizes his house is made of garbage. He runs outside and sees that the garbage was made into a replica of his own house.

Officer John gives Squidward two tickets, one for the garbage house and one for the first ticket falling on the ground. Squidward gets so angry, his nerves spell out "I am angry." SpongeBob asks why and Squidward finds out his house is on top of the replica because the dump is closed. SpongeBob took it to his house by sucking the garbage onto his body. When SpongeBob talks, garbage comes out of his mouth, leading Officer John to give Squidward another ticket.

Squidward puts the trash-filled SpongeBob in SpongeBob's own bin of his property, which gives Squidward another ticket for putting his trash in someone else's garbage bin. SpongeBob finds out that the only reason why Squidward wants to get rid of the trash is to get a statue of himself. SpongeBob makes a statue of Squidward made of the garbage.

Squilliam says the statue is just like Squidward, having the stench of failure. The stench melts Squilliam's statue, ruining it, and Squilliam unexpectedly gets a ticket from Officer John, to Squidward's joy. Unfortunately, Officer John gives both SpongeBob and Squidward tickets for creating the statue made of garbage, as the episode ends.

Production

The episode was added to the US Copyright Office on September 8, 2009.

Storyboard

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Release

Broadcast

• This and its sister episode premiered during the Happy New Premieres event.

Distribution

• This episode is available on the Heroes of Bikini Bottom, Complete Seventh Season, Set Sail for Silly, SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 11, Celebrate the Sea, The SpongeBob SquarePants Collection, 3 DVD Value Pack, Triple Pack 3, The SpongeBob SquarePants 8 Season DVD Collection, The Best of Bikini Bottom, Easter with SpongeBob, Spužva Bob Skockani DVD 4, Kids Double Pack: Volume 3, Kids Double Pack: Volume 2, The Best 300 Episodes Ever, Next 100 Episodes, Big Hits: Volume 2, The Best 200 Episodes Ever, and The Seventh & Eighth Seasons DVDs.

Trivia

General

• On a Worldwide Day of Play promo in 2009, this episode is shown. It is possible that the episode would have originally aired during this time.

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Original Squidward promotional art.

• When the gum explodes all over Squidward, he is in a pose from a stock artwork of himself. This pose in its original colors was previously used on the title card for "The Two Faces of Squidward" and the online game Talking Heads.
• The Bikini Bottom Police theme plays 11 times in this episode
• Incidental 103 wears blue pants instead of green in this episode.
• A scene of Squidward collecting litter was used in an interstitial promoting Nickelodeon: Our World.
• When Squidward finds SpongeBob in the garbage, he has a banana peel on the right side of his head and some gunk on the left side, similar to what happens in the episode "Missing Identity."
• Incidental 152 appears blue in this episode. He is usually green.
• The officer gives out tickets due the following reasons:
  • Finding the culprit for throwing chewed-up gum on the ground.
  • Finding a pile of litter in front of him.
  • All the trash from the little fish's wagon getting spilled.
  • Squidward's house replicated with his trash.
  • The ticket for the trash house falling on the ground.
  • SpongeBob spitting out some trash while talking after having absorbed it.
  • Squidward putting the trash-absorbed SpongeBob into SpongeBob's trash can.
  • Squilliam's melted statue.
  • A can from the trash statue falls.
• Officer John gives eight tickets to Squidward, one to SpongeBob and Squilliam each, making it a total of ten tickets issued in the episode.
• 7 out of 8 Squidward's ticket was for littering while one was for unauthorized dumping.
• In previous "Squidward vs. Squilliam" episodes, Squidward won in "Band Geeks" and "House Fancy," while Squilliam won in "Squilliam Returns," and "Professor Squidward." However, in this episode, they both lose for a draw as they, along with SpongeBob, get tickets at the end.

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This episode is seen briefly through SpongeBob's eyes.

• Frames from this episode were later used in "Friendiversary" when SpongeBob remembers Squidward.
• This episode pairing is the first in season 7 where Patrick is absent in both segments.
• This is the second episode for a few things:
  • The second episode where Squidward steals someone else's belongings. The first is "Good Ol' Whatshisname."
  • The second episode where Squidward gets community service. The first is "Good Neighbors."
  • The second episode where Squidward eats garbage by accident. The first is "Just One Bite."
  • The second episode where a normal background character is one of the main characters. The first is "Plankton's Regular."

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• Squilliam Fancyson's statue from this episode would later appear in SpongeBob Simulator.

Dub facts

• This is the first episode with the new voice cast for the Finnish dub.
  • Additionally, this is the first episode to premiere after the shutdown of Nickelodeon Finland, instead new episodes were then moved to C More Juniori and now on SkyShowtime Finland.

Cultural references

• This episode's title is a reference to the nonprofit organization Keep America Beautiful.
• At the start of the episode, Squidward is singing "Ignoring," a reference to the 1939 song "Good Morning."

Errors

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• After Squidward reads the ticket that cop gives to him, the next scene cuts to a park while a bus drives by, the periscope on the top of the bus is missing.

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Squidward's missing pink nightcap.

• In the brief shot where Squidward opens his eyes after smelling his trash blanket, his pink nightcap is missing.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
French	Les Détritus	The Trash
German	Denkmalsch(m)utz	Monument Protection
Hungarian	Tintás a szemétdombon	Tentacles at the Garbage Dump
Italian	Teniamo pulita Bikini Bottom	We Keep Bikini Bottom Clean
Russian	Наведём чистоту в Бикини Боттом Navedyom chistotu v Bikini Bottom	Let's Clean Up Bikini Bottom
Spanish (American)	Mantén bella Fondo de Bikini	Keep Bikini Bottom Beautiful
Spanish (European)	Mantén limpio Fondo de Bikini	Keep Bikini Bottom Clean