Squid on Strike

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SpongeBob SquarePants episode
"Squid on Strike"
Season №:	2
Episode №:	40b
Production №:	040
Airdate:	October 12, 2001
Best Day Ever Rank:	#88
Credits
Guest(s):	None
Writer(s):	Walt Dohrn Paul Tibbitt Mark O'Hare
Storyboard Artist(s):	Carson Kugler William Reiss Erik Wiese
Directors
Main:	None
Storyboard:	Walt Dohrn Paul Tibbitt
Animation:	Tom Yasumi
Creative:	Derek Drymon
Episode List Select show to expand.
Premiere Order Season 1 May 1, 1999 – April 8, 2000 1. Help Wanted / Reef Blower / Tea at the Treedome 2. Bubblestand / Ripped Pants 3. Jellyfishing / Plankton! 4. Naughty Nautical Neighbors / Boating School 5. Pizza Delivery / Home Sweet Pineapple 6. Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy / Pickles 7. Hall Monitor / Jellyfish Jam 8. Sandy's Rocket / Squeaky Boots 9. Nature Pants / Opposite Day 10. Culture Shock / F.U.N. 11. MuscleBob BuffPants / Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost 12. The Chaperone / Employee of the Month 13. Scaredy Pants / I Was a Teenage Gary 14. SB-129 / Karate Choppers 15. Sleepy Time / Suds 16. Valentine's Day / The Paper 17. Arrgh! / Rock Bottom 18. Texas / Walking Small 19. Fools in April / Neptune's Spatula 20. Hooky / Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy II Season 2 October 26, 2000 – November 30, 2001 21. Something Smells / Bossy Boots 22. Your Shoe's Untied / Squid's Day Off 23. Big Pink Loser / Bubble Buddy 24. Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy III / Squirrel Jokes 25. Christmas Who? 26. Dying for Pie / Imitation Krabs 27. Wormy / Patty Hype 28. Survival of the Idiots / Dumped 29. Grandma's Kisses / Squidville 30. No Free Rides / I'm Your Biggest Fanatic 31. Shanghaied / Gary Takes a Bath 32. Pressure / The Smoking Peanut 33. Pre-Hibernation Week / Life of Crime 34. The Secret Box / Band Geeks 35. Sailor Mouth / Artist Unknown 36. Jellyfish Hunter / The Fry Cook Games 37. The Bully / Just One Bite 38. Sandy, SpongeBob, and the Worm / Squid on Strike 39. Procrastination / I'm with Stupid Season 3 January 21, 2002 – October 11, 2004 40. Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV / Doing Time 41. Welcome to the Chum Bucket / Frankendoodle 42. Snowball Effect / One Krabs Trash 43. Nasty Patty / Idiot Box 44. As Seen on TV / Can You Spare a Dime? 45. No Weenies Allowed / Squilliam Returns 46. The Algae's Always Greener / SpongeGuard on Duty 47. Krab Borg / Rock-a-Bye Bivalve 48. Wet Painters / Krusty Krab Training Video 49. Party Pooper Pants 50. Chocolate With Nuts / Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V 51. Club SpongeBob / My Pretty Seahorse 52. Graveyard Shift / Krusty Love 53. New Student Starfish / Clams 54. The Great Snail Race / Mid-Life Crustacean 55. The Sponge Who Could Fly 56. Born Again Krabs / I Had an Accident 57. Plankton's Army / Missing Identity 58. SpongeBob B.C. 59. Krabby Land / The Camping Episode 60. SpongeBob Meets the Strangler / Pranks a Lot Season 4 May 6, 2005 – 2007 61. Fear of a Krabby Patty / Shell of a Man 62. The Lost Mattress / Krabs vs. Plankton 63. Skill Crane / Good Neighbors 64. Selling Out / Funny Pants 65. Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy VI: The Motion Picture / Enemy In-Law 66. Patrick SmartPants / SquidBob TentaclePants 67. Have You Seen This Snail? 68. Dunces and Dragons 69. Krusty Towers / Mrs. Puff, You're Fired 70. Chimps Ahoy / Ghost Host 71. Whale of a Birthday / Karate Island 72. All That Glitters / Wishing You Well 73. New Leaf / Once Bitten 74A. Squidtastic Voyage 75A. Bummer Vacation 76A. Best Day Ever 75B. Wigstruck 74B. That's No Lady 77. The Thing / Hocus Pocus 78. Driven to Tears / Rule of Dumb 79A. The Pink Purloinier 76B. The Gift of Gum 80. Rise and Shine / Waiting / Sing a Song of Patrick 79B. Squid Wood 81. Best Frenemies / Born to be Wild Season 5 2007 – TBA 82. Friend or Foe? 83. Night Light / The Original Fry Cook 84. Fungus Among Us / Spy Buddies Season 6 TBA – TBA Other 2001 – Present 1. Patrick the Snowman 2. Plankton's Holiday Hits 3. 12 Days of Nickmas 4. How You-Know-Who Stole You-Know-What 5. Nickelodeon Holiday Party 6. A Chuckie Finster Christmas 6. The Endless Summer 7. Nicktoons Battle
Production Order Season 1 1. Help Wanted / Reef Blower / Tea at the Treedome 2. Bubblestand / Ripped Pants 3. Jellyfishing / Plankton! 4. Naughty Nautical Neighbors / Boating School 5. Pizza Delivery / Home Sweet Pineapple 6. Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy / Pickles 7. Hall Monitor / Jellyfish Jam 8. Sandy's Rocket / Squeaky Boots 9. Nature Pants / Opposite Day 10. Culture Shock / F.U.N. 11. MuscleBob BuffPants / Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost 12. The Chaperone / Employee of the Month 13. Scaredy Pants / I Was a Teenage Gary 14. SB-129 / Karate Choppers 15. Sleepy Time / Suds 16. Valentine's Day / The Paper 17. Arrgh! / Rock Bottom 18. Texas / Walking Small 19. Fools in April / Neptune's Spatula 20. Hooky / Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy II Season 2 21. Your Shoe's Untied / Squid's Day Off 22. Something Smells / Bossy Boots 23. Big Pink Loser / Bubble Buddy 24. Dying for Pie / Imitation Krabs 25. Wormy / Patty Hype 26. Grandma's Kisses / Squidville 27. Pre-Hibernation Week / Life of Crime 28. Christmas Who? 29. Survival of the Idiots / Dumped 30. No Free Rides / I'm Your Biggest Fanatic 31. Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy III / Squirrel Jokes 32. Pressure / The Smoking Peanut 33. Shanghaied / Gary Takes a Bath 34. Welcome to the Chum Bucket / Frankendoodle 35. The Secret Box / Band Geeks 36. Graveyard Shift / Krusty Love 37. Procratination / I'm with Stupid 38. Sailor Mouth / Artist Unknown 39. Jellyfish Hunter / The Fry Cook Games 40. Sandy, SpongeBob, and the Worm / Squid on Strike Season 3 41. The Algae's Always Greener / SpongeGuard on Duty 42. Club SpongeBob / My Pretty Seahorse 43. The Bully / Just One Bite 44. Nasty Patty / Idiot Box 45. Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV / Doing Time 46. Snowball Effect / One Krabs Trash 47. As Seen on TV / Can You Spare a Dime? 48. No Weenies Allowed / Squilliam Returns 49. Krab Borg / Rock-a-Bye Bivalve 50. Wet Painters / Krusty Krab Training Video 51. Party Pooper Pants 52. Chocolate With Nuts / Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V 53. New Student Starfish / Clams 54. SpongeBob B.C. 55. The Great Snail Race / Mid-Life Crustacean 56. Born Again Krabs / I Had an Accident 57. Krabby Land / The Camping Episode 58. Plankton's Army / Missing Identity 59. The Sponge Who Could Fly 60. SpongeBob Meets the Strangler / Pranks a Lot Season 4 61. Fear of a Krabby Patty / Shell of a Man 62. The Lost Mattress / Krabs vs. Plankton 63. Have You Seen This Snail? 64. Skill Crane / Good Neighbors 65. Selling Out / Funny Pants 66. Dunces and Dragons 67. Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy VI: The Motion Picture / Enemy In-Law 68. Patrick SmartPants / SquidBob TentaclePants 69. Krusty Towers / Mrs. Puff, You're Fired 70. Ghost Host / Wishing You Well 71. Chimps Ahoy / Whale of a Birthday 72. Karate Island / All That Glitters 73. New Leaf / Once Bitten 74. Bummer Vacation / Wigstruck 75. Squidtastic Voyage / That's No Lady 76. Hocus Pocus / The Thing 77. Driven to Tears / Rule of Dumb 78. Born to Be Wild / Best Frenemies 79. The Pink Purloinier / Squid Wood 80. Best Day Ever / The Gift of Gum Season 5 81. Friend or Foe? 82. Night Light / The Original Fry Cook 83. Rise and Shine / Waiting / Sing a Song of Patrick 84. Fungus Among Us / Spy Buddies Season 6 TBA

"Squid on Strike" is the closing SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season two.

Brief summary: Mr. Krabs has realized that profits are down by $3, so he charges the employees ridiculous fees to breathe, stand, talk, exist, lollygag, etc. Annoyed, Squidward and SpongeBob go on strike.

Time/Date: Unknown

Time cards shown:

• One Eternity Later

Characters Present:

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Squidward Tentacles
• Mr. Krabs
• Krusty Krab Customers
  • Nancy
  • Fred
  • Evelyn
• 3 Teenagers
• Policefish

Songs: *Hey Mean Mr. Boss Man
Hey mean Mr. Bossman
I'm a-quittin' this here job...

[edit] Plot

Mr. Krabs is observing charts based on Krusty Krab income when he sees something. Profit is down by $3! He charges employees for doing certain things. Squidward's 'bill' is shown below:

• Breathing - $1
• Talking - $5
• Standing - $10
• Existing - $2
• Lollygagging - $2
• Chewing - $1
• TOTAL - $21

Of course, this is completely outrageous (especially the 'existing' charge), so SpongeBob and Squidward go on strike. If SpongeBob knew what a strike was, he wouldn't have gone (because he got fired). Squidward makes a sign saying 'Krusty Krab Unfair', but SpongeBob misinterprets it as 'Krusty Krab Funfair', making the restaurant more popular. After lots of similar incidences, teens take their jobs. And after SpongeBob says "We're gonna stay on strike, until we get what we deserve! Even if it takes FOREVER!!!!!!" Squidward gets really scared of staying on strike with SpongeBob forever. As Squidward runs out the door, Mr. Krabs is at the door to beg him to come back because he wants to fire the teens who got their jobs because they wouldn't stop bugging him. So they make a deal so that Squidward and SpongeBob can get their jobs back. However, SpongeBob does not know about this , so he wrecks the Krusty Krab, or in Squidward's words:

Attention, Bikini Bottom!

You have been cheated and lied to!

The gentle laborer will no longer suffer from the noxious greed of Mr. Krabs!

We will dismantle oppression board by board!

We'll saw the foundation of big business in half!

Even if it takes an eternity!

With your support, we will send the hammer of the peoples' will crashing through the windows of Mr. Krabs' (yells with megaphone in someone's face) house of servitude!

Or in SpongeBob's words:

We're tired of your smelly greed!

And we're going to saw your tables!

And we're going to smash that with the people's hammer!

And we're gonna...we're gonna...uh...Squidward, what was that other thing?

Squidward: Dismantle your oppressive establishment.

And that too!

And me and Squidward are gonna stay on strike until we get what we deserve!

Even if it takes FOREVER!

However, when Mr. Krabs is in his office and sees the ruins, he falls to pieces (literally) and yells "SQUIDWARD! SPONGEBOB!". Squidward and SpongeBob say "Yes, Mr. Krabs?" SpongeBob says "Here it comes." Mr. Krabs says "In order to pay for these damages, you two are gonna work for me, FOREVER!" One eternity later, their skeletons are shown, with Squidward sweeping the floor and SpongeBob at the register.

[edit] Quotes

• (Outside Krusty Krab)

Squidward: OK, pay careful attention, SpongeBob. Now we're gonna make picket signs. This is a very important part of striking.

SpongeBob: Like this, Squidward? (Shows a picket fence on a board.)

Squidward: Not a picket fence, you ding-dong! Picket sign!

SpongeBob: How's this? (Shows a sign with an image of a finger picking a nose.)

Squidward: No. This is a picket sign. (Points) 'Krusty Krab Unfair'. Short, sweet, and to the point.

SpongeBob: How's this, Squidward? (Shows a 'Krusty Krab Funfair'` sign)

Squidward: SpongeBob! It's unfair, not funfair!

Citizen: A funfair? Where? I could go for some fun!

SpongeBob: At the Krusty Krab!

Citizen: Hey, everybody, let's go to the funfair! (Everybody steps on Squidward)

Squidward: Nobody gives a care about the fate of labor as long as they can get their instant gratification.

• (Later)

Squidward: (on megaphone) Attention SpongeBob! YOU ARE A TERRIBLE STRIKER!!!

Squidward: (off megaphone) You just let your replacement cross our picket line, without so much as a single threat.

SpongeBob: I'm sorry, Squidward. How about I try the signs again? (Holds up sign that states "I [heart sign] the Krusty Krab")

Squidward: (on megaphone): FORGET THE SIGNS!

• SpongeBob: I can't accept your money, Mr. Krabs. Grilling is my passion!
• Squidward:Attention Bikini Bottom! You have been cheated and lied to.

Old lady:I knew it!(slaps her elderly boyfriend/husband)

• Squidward:Ah the sweet smell of pay day.(Opens the envelope and pulls out underwear)

Mr.Krabs:Oops, sorry that's my dry-cleaning, this is your pay-check

• Spongebob: We're going on a strike, we're going on a strike, I still don't know what strike means, but we're going on a strike!
• Squidward:You have been cheated and lied to!

Fish:I knew it! (slaps the person she was with)

[edit] Trivia/Goofs

• The song playing while SpongeBob is lying on his bed is called "Hey Mean Mr. Bossman," and is featured on the SpongeBob SquarePants soundtrack, SpongeBob SquarePants: The Yellow Album.
• When instructed to make a picket sign, SpongeBob provides two visual puns: the first being a part of an actual picket fence and the second being the image of someone picking their nose.
• Sponges and mollusks are invertebrates and would have no skeletons to rot away to. Of course, this is only a joke.
• At the end, SpongeBob's clothes appear to have been drawn onto his skeleton. This is most likely an animation error.
• The words that Squidward chants when he is on strike hints that he is somewhat marxist.

Preceded by "Sandy, SpongeBob, and the Worm"

SpongeBob SquarePants episodes

Followed by "Procrastination"