Squid Baby

"Squid Baby" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 9. In this episode, a head injury makes Squidward act like a baby, and SpongeBob and Patrick must look after him.

Characters

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Squidward Tentacles
  • Squiddy ^{(single appearance)}
• Patrick Star
• Eugene H. Krabs
• Gary the Snail ^(cameo)
• King Neptune ^(mentioned)
• Trucker
• Incidentals
  • Incidental 116
  • Incidental 42
  • Frank (Valentine's Day)
  • Fred
  • Incidental 92
  • Stretch
  • Incidental 41
  • Harold
  • Steve
  • Incidental 85
  • Incidental 46
  • Tuck Tucker (Ripped Pants)
  • Incidental 67
  • Incidental 8
  • Scooter
  • Incidental 49
  • Harold
  • Incidental 48
  • Incidental 69
  • Gale
  • Incidental 64
  • Incidental 31
  • Incidental 7

Synopsis

In the beginning of the episode, Squidward is relaxing in his bathtub, when SpongeBob and Patrick, who are playing with SpongeBob's old baby toys, disturb Squidward, who comes out and demands them to stop making noises and act mature. However, SpongeBob and Patrick did not listen. Squidward walks back to his house, but he slips on a toy along the way and hits his head. His injuries to the head cause him to act like an infant himself. SpongeBob and Patrick then bring him to the hospital.

At the hospital, a doctor tells them that Squidward has developed a mental disorder called "Head-Go-Boom-Boom-Itis" due to his head trauma. It means he is mentally and socially an infant despite being an adult. The doctor also says that his head must be protected from more injury, or else he will likely remain infantile.

However, later at SpongeBob's pineapple, when SpongeBob decides to feed Squidward, Patrick hurts Squidward's head by tossing him up into the ceiling. SpongeBob reminds him that they are supposed to protect Squidward's head, not hurt it more. SpongeBob tries to feed Squidward, but he does not like his food and spits it all over SpongeBob. Patrick licks the food off SpongeBob's face and thanks Squidward for sharing. Then, they try to entertain Squidward with some games. They start off with "Kelpy Cake," but when Squidward does it, he ends up slapping SpongeBob and Patrick repeatedly, sending them flying into the air and out of the house into the street.

Squidward escapes, and SpongeBob and Patrick follow him as he crawls out to the street, where a truck is about to hit Squidward.... and to make things worse, the truck driver has fallen asleep! Fortunately, Patrick is able to protect Squidward and lift up the road to send the truck flying. However, when Patrick drops the road back into place, he accidentally smashes Squidward's head again. Then, SpongeBob and Patrick go back inside and put Squidward in a cage, but Squidward does not like the cage and begins to cry.

He cries for several days. Then, seventy-two hours later, SpongeBob goes to work at the Krusty Krab with Patrick and asks him if he can watch Squidward while he works, but Patrick, tired from taking care of Squidward, falls asleep on a table.

SpongeBob informs an angry Mr. Krabs that Squidward has the mind of an infant and cannot work. Mr. Krabs does not care, since there are customers outside the door, literally begging to give Mr. Krabs their money. SpongeBob then gets an idea. He brings Squidward to the cash register and puts him in a highchair. When Squidward drops his head on the cash register, SpongeBob duct-tapes him to the seat so he cannot escape. When Mr. Krabs lets the customers in, Squidward sucks on a customer's hand and head and SpongeBob stops him.

SpongeBob then gives Squidward the order papers to write orders on, but Squidward instead doodles on them and throws them into the kitchen. SpongeBob asks him if it will be for there or to "goo." SpongeBob peeks out the order window and sees Squidward doodling on Nat Peterson's face. Nat screams and ends up running out of the restaurant. Pilar scolds Squidward for not taking an order. Squidward types in something, then the cash register's drawer ends up banging him and wails loudly.

SpongeBob thinks Squidward is crying because Pilar yelled at him, and SpongeBob tells Pilar he should be ashamed. Squidward then dirties his diaper. The customers smell the horrible stench of Squidward's diaper and Mr. Krabs tells SpongeBob to change it. Everywhere he goes to change Squidward's diaper, people are sitting, getting condiments or walking. Mr. Krabs tells SpongeBob to take Squidward to the kitchen, where the food is prepared, and change it. This disgusts the customers, so they leave.

Mr. Krabs tells SpongeBob to get Squidward out of his restaurant. SpongeBob cries and tells Mr. Krabs that if Squidward is not welcome there, he is not staying either. However, on the way out, he ends up slipping on Squidward's baby rattle and slips into the kitchen, where he bangs Squidward's head on the frying pans and the fryer.

Squidward falls into the ice machine and ice pours out onto Squidward's head, curing his head trauma and returning him to his adult state. SpongeBob is relieved that Squidward is "grown-up again" and a confused Squidward asks why he would not be grown up. He notices that he is wearing a diaper and that it is full.

When SpongeBob is about to tell Squidward that he was going to change him, a deadpanned Squidward tells SpongeBob to not say another word about that experience, ever, and then leaves the scene. SpongeBob then replies, "Kids, they grow up so fast," as the episode ends.

Production

The episode was confirmed and added to the US Copyright Office on August 6, 2012,^[1] along with its sister episode "License to Milkshake."

Model sheets

Music

 • Coconut Cream Pie Dry Mix - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Title card]
 • Bathroom Nirvana - Nicolas Carr [Opening]
 • Toy Piano 2 - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony ["How do you like that, baby?"]
 • A Fishy Conversation - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [Box of baby toys]
 • Who Said That- Jolly Good Fellow 2 - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony ["I'd appreciate some quiet!"]
 • Jacques in the Boit - Nicolas Carr [SpongeBob and Patrick play with a jack-in-a-box.]
 • FlexTone Sting - Nicolas Carr [Jack-in-a-box pops out]
 • Hot Steel and Slide Licks 40A - Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob, Patrick cry]
 • Grass Skirt Chase - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Squidward hits his head on the mailbox]
 • Tension Bits - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Squidward's head swells up]
 • Hot Steel and Slide Licks 31F - Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob, Patrick take Squidward to the hospital]
 • Soapy Organ - Hiram Titus [At the hospital]
 • A Simple Conversation 1 - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [Feeding Squidward]
 • Clowning Around - Barry Anthony [Patty cake]
 • Hot Steel and Slide Licks 7A - Jeremy Wakefield ["This game's kinda dangerous."]
 ‣ Rescue - Cecil Milner [Squidward wanders away]
 ‣ Trede Fanfare 11 - Gerhard Trede ["Hooray!"]
 ‣ Prologue of a Drama 9 - Hans Conzelmann, Delle Haensch [Squidward's head flattened]
 • Hot Steel and Slide Licks 4A - Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob picks Squidward up]
 • Fooling Around 2 w e gtr - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [Squidward in cage]
 ‣ The Bachelor Life (C) - Laurie Johnson [Plays on TV]
 • Humorous Conversation Full Mix - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [Squidward crying incessantly]
 • Tip Toe Jig 2 - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr [72 hours later...]
 • Salty Squid Jig 1 - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, James King ["Hop to it, boys!"]
 • Salty Squid Jig 2 - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, James King [Closeup of order slip]
 • Salty Squid Jig 3 - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, James King ["Will this be for here or to goo?"]
 • Salty Squid Jig 1 - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, James King [SpongeBob peeks through the order window]
 • Salty Squid Jig 2 - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, James King ["We have to work on your penmanship, Squiddy."]
 • Salty Squid Jig 1 - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, James King [Customer walks away in pain]
 • Hot Steel and Slide Licks 16A - Jeremy Wakefield [Squidward cries]
 ‣ Drama Link (B) - Hubert Clifford [Dirty diaper]
 • Hot Steel and Slide Licks 35 - Jeremy Wakefield [Customers groaning]
 • Melodramatic Moments - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr ["Mr. Squidward, where are your manners?"]
 • Hot Steel and Slide Licks 19E - Jeremy Wakefield [Squidward's diaper is full.]
 • An Underwater Conversation 1 - Barry Anthony [Changing Squidward's diaper]
 • Hot Steel and Slide Licks 22A - Jeremy Wakefield [Customers leaving]
 • Sad Sailor Waltz - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr [Mr. Krabs, if my poopy baby isn't welcome here, then I'm not staying either!"]
 • Porous Pursuit - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob trips on a rattle]
 ‣ Drama Link (G) - Hubert Clifford ["Squidward!"]
 • New Vibe Hits - Nicolas Carr ["What the...?"]
 • Coconut Cream Pie Dry Mix - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Ending]

Release

Broadcast

• This episode was paired up with "The Good Krabby Name" during the original airing, but has since been re-airing with "License to Milkshake."^[2]
• This episode and "The Good Krabby Name" premiered right before a commercial-free airing of the original version of the 1982 Universal Pictures movie E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, in celebration of the film's 30th anniversary.^[3]

Distribution

• This episode is available on the SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 15, SpongeBob LongPants, Evil Spatula, Complete Ninth Season, Next 100 Episodes, The Best 200 Episodes Ever, and The Best 300 Episodes Ever DVDs.

Trivia

General

• Some of the toys in the baby toy box resemble the ones from the skill crane from the episode of the same name, including an octopus and a teddy bear.
• Similar to the scene in "Grandma's Kisses," when Patrick fell asleep at one of the tables, he is not seen again for the rest of the episode.
• Itis is a suffix for swollen or inflammatory. In this case, Incidental 116 tells SpongeBob and Patrick that Squidward is suffering "Head-go-boom-boom-itis." Squidward suffers from neither of those (though his head is swollen).
  • This also happens in "Oral Report," when Sandy tells SpongeBob he is suffering from "Oral-Reportitis," and in "Squiditis," Squidward fakes a disease called "squid's disease," so neither episode uses the suffix correctly.

• When baby Squidward draws on Incidental 41's face, Incidental 41 says, "My face, My face! Also, my leg, but mostly my face!." This is the first time after "Shuffleboarding" where the "My leg!" gag has not been heard but is referenced.
• This episode and "Gary in Love" both end with SpongeBob saying, "They grow up so fast."

Dub facts

• In the French dub, SpongeBob says both "Squidward!" and "Carlo!" at the same time right after Squidward crashes his head into his mailbox.

Errors

• When SpongeBob talks to the doctor about Squidward's "Head-go-boom-boom-itis," his eyelashes are gone for a few seconds.

• When SpongeBob and Patrick yell "Squiddy!," a little bit of SpongeBob's yellow is not there on the bottom.
  • Also, his arms are gone.
• When Patrick lifts the road, Squidward is at first in front of the lifted part. However, he is under it when Patrick sets it down.
• Mr. Krabs is seen wearing a watch when he wonders where SpongeBob and Squidward are. However, in the next scene, his watch is gone for the rest of the episode.
• When Squidward is first behind the register, he is wearing his Krusty Krab hat. However, after he scribbles orders to SpongeBob, his hat is gone for the rest of the episode.
• When Squidward first gets "Head-go-boom-boom-itis," he isn't wearing a diaper. However, when he is at the hospital, he has a diaper on.
• In a few scenes, Mr. Krabs' coloring is off.
  • The same goes for Patrick.

• The shading in the Krusty Krab in a few scenes is off compared to other episodes of the series.
• After baby Squidward scribbles all over in Incidental 41's face, Incidental 106 has Incidental 107's color palette.

Videos

Names in other languages

References

1. ^ SpongeBob SquarePants : 181, License to Milkshake/Squid Baby. - Catalog.org - Public Catalog
2. ^ Nick Offers All-Day SpongeBob Marathon. Animation Magazine (August 31, 2012).
3. ^ Nick - Spongebob E.T. Commercial Promo