Giant Squidward

Giant Squidward is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season six. In this episode, Squidward becomes a giant when he is sprayed with fertilizer.

Characters

• Squidward Tentacles
• Spongebob Squarepants
• Patrick Star
• Eugene H. Krabs
• Gary the Snail
• Bikini Bottomites
• Fred
• Scooter
• Nazz
• Harold
• Nancy Suzy Fish
• Tina
• Shubie
• Nat
• Sadie Rechid
• Sally
• Lifeguard fish
• Evelyn
• Sandals
• Granny (cameo)
• Man Ray (cameo)
• Tom (cameo)
• Monroe (cameo)
• Petey the Snail (Foodbowl seen)

Synopsis

Squidward is gardening one day, when he sees that his kelp is all wilted. He uses a spray called Kelp Grow to make them grow taller and healthier. When SpongeBob and Patrick see this, they steal it from Squidward and fiddle with it by spraying things in town. Squidward gets very mad that they stole it, because one of the things they sprayed was his nose! They go around town doing "good deeds",such as expanding Gary's shell and turning one of Mr. Krabs' pennies giant because SpongeBob mentions that Mr. Krabs always wanted to make "big money" (though this wasn't what he meant). Squidward finally catches up to them and forces them to shrink his nose. However, when they try to shrink his nose, it only gets bigger. SpongeBob and Patrick decide to even out his entire body, which turns him into a "giant monster" who the residents believe to be invading Bikini Bottom. Many fish gather into a mob and threaten to hurt Squidward in various ways. A small boy appears in the crowd and suggests that Squidward might be a nice monster like the one in his storybook. To keep the Bikini Bottomites from hurting him, Squidward quickly agrees with the little boy and tells the town he can actually help them and won't destroy the town. Throughout the day, citizens ask him to help them with various things, which Squidward does to prove he is nice. He gets more and more tired from doing the town favors, though. Eventually, he gets so tired that he forgets his manners for one seconed (spicifically, not saying bless you when a child sneezed, and then insulting the child,) which causes the Bikini Bottomites to turn on him. He runs away to a remote loccation outside of town when the day ends, where he misses his comfortable old life and is forced to sleep on a makeshift bed of coral. He finds that Patrick and SpongeBob are having a sleepover in his belly button because they wanted to show that they still considered him a friend. Squidward forces them out, and begins crying because of what happened to him. This captures the attention of SpongeBob, who feels bad because they only elnlarged Squidward as a good deed. The next day, SpongeBob and Patrick give him the greatest present that he could ever have, a giant clarinet with exquisete sound to make up for the mishap their first good deed caused. When Squidward starts playing it, he shrinks back to his normal size. He is upset that he can no longer play his giant clarinet, but realizes he still has his kelp garden. He runs home to his garden, but finds the kelp from his garden to be cut down. He wonders what happened to his garden, and SpongeBob explains that they used his kelp to make him a kelp-mache clarinet. This enrages Squidward, causing him to chase after SpongeBob and Patrick as the episode ends.

Trivia

• This episode and No Nose Knows are rated TV-Y7
• Mark Fite guest voices in this episode.
• Nice things Squidward does for people:

1. Feed a snail
2. Teach someone's grandmother to read
3. Help a fish start his own blimp company
4. Do a child's homework
5. Take a skier to the top of Mount Humonguous
6. Let the Junior Guppies camp out under his toenails

• Giant Squidward is similar to SpongeBob in "The Sponge Who Could Fly", he originally does favors for people using his superpower, but then turns into ridiculous things like doing homework, help with plants etc.
• SpongeBob and Patrick were actually doing bad deeds, not good deeds, although not on purpose.
• This is the second time that Squidward's size changes, and says the exact quote, "What did you do to me?!" The first one was in Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV
• This is the second time SpongeBob gave Squidward a clarinet he made. The first was Christmas Who? week included scenes from this episode, including where Patrick says "Perfect!" after resizing several of Squidward's body parts, and both saying "All right!" after his final growth spurt.
• This is the first time Squidward "inks".
• This is the fifth time Squidward sees SpongeBob's snail. The first time he saw Gary in Home Sweet Pineapple . The second was I Was a Teenage Gary . The third was The Great Snail Race. The fourth was Once Biten.
• The episode's plot is similar to the film The 50-Foot Tall Woman.
• In the 1st Segment (when SpongeBob runs off with the Kelp Grow), he makes himself a pair of "enlarged" shoes. But when they reach Gary, he is wearing his normal size shoes.
• Both this episode and the next one, No Nose Knows, have someone coming out of Squidward's flowers.
• Tina blinks her eyes to the lifeguard as he asks Giant Squidward if he's a nice monster, her eyelashes disappear.
• The title card background looks like Squidward's wallpaper, but blue instead of green.
• This is the second time Patrick suggests turning something upside down, the first time was in Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV
• This is the second time Squidward is without a home, the first time was in Can You Spare A Dime.
• When the boy says Squidward may be a nice giant, he uses a book with a nice giant in it as an example. It may be a reference to the Roald Dahl book, The BFG, one of the most famous books in which there are nice giants.
• Squidward is tied to the ground by the people of Bikini Bottom similar to how Gulliver was tied by the Lilliputians in Gulliver's Travels.