The Thing (SpongeBob SquarePants)

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The Thing is a season four episode of the Nickelodeon show, SpongeBob SquarePants.

SpongeBob SquarePants episode
""The Thing""
Season №:	4
Episode №:	76b
Airdate:	January 15, 2007
Credits
Writer(s):	Zeus Cervas Erik Wiese Steven Banks
Supervising Producer:	Paul Tibbitt
Directors
Storyboard:	Zeus Cervas Erik Wiese
Animation:	Andrew Overtoom
Technical:	Vincent Waller
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

Brief Summary: Squidward gets coated with so much gunk after a bicycle accident, he appears to be unrecognizable, so Spongebob adopts him as a pet.

Time/Date: Unknown

Characters Present:

• Spongebob Squarepants
• Squidward Tentacles
• Patrick Star
• Gary the Snail
• Police
• Smellies
• Jazz Performer

[edit] Plot

The episode starts off when Squidward looks outside and it's silent. He thinks that for once he'll have some peace and quiet. Just as he turns on a public television program, SpongeBob and Patrick appear and come inside to watch TV with him. Squidward kicks the two of them out and gets on his bike. While he's riding, Squidward collides into a cement truck and the truck spills cement on him. He goes through a dumpster, hill and on the ground. Covered in cement and unrecognizable, Squidward finds himself in Jellyfish Fields.

Immediately after, SpongeBob and Patrick come across Squidward and, thinking he's an unknown species of animal, name him Smelly and take him to SpongeBob's house. Next, SpongeBob gives Smelly a tour of his house. Gary doesn't take too well to Smelly and so Patrick decides to keep the latter at his house (because he's "always wanted a pet"). Once there, Smelly acts up and a frantic Patrick calls Animal Control. The police soon arrive and surround the area, and so Smelly is taken the zoo. The next night, SpongeBob and Patrick break into Smelly's cage and try to hide from the Zoo Guards. They hide in a sewer which leads to a place where a type of species that resemble the cement-covered Squidward live. The creatures carry Squidward away and to his surprise, the musician that was on the TV that SpongeBob, Squidward and Patrick were watching is there playing the clarinet. As he's watching the musician, the cement covering Squidward cracks open. (this scene was similar to Jellyfishing when Squidward's cast breaks after the Giant Jellyfish stings him).

[edit] Trivia/Goofs

• Sometime after Squidward gets coated in cement he releases an air bubble and when it pops Squidward screams. This is because of how the cement burns the skin when it makes contact.
• Commercials show that this episode airs on January 15 with the "Guide to: Revenge & School Records" episode of Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide.
• This episode aired in the US before Germany and the UK. Usually, it is the other way around.
• The episode is named after the creature from the self titled movie The Thing.
• It is revealed Gary only attacks Squidward.
• This is the first appearance of a military fish service and the military service bus.
• Second episode to have a title card that takes place in the Kelp Forest. The first was in "The Algae's Always Greener."
• Second appearance of a land giant clam, first being Tea at the Treedome."
• In his "cemented" state, Squidward looked a lot like a Pikmin, a Nintendo Gamecube game character and Bloo, of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.
• The jellyfish in this episode are pink and purple, a reference to the level in one of the SpongeBob video games, Battle for Bikini Bottom, in which SpongeBob must defeat the King JellyFish.
• Also, the squid on TV looks similar to Squidward from his dream in SquidBob TentaclePants.
• When Squidward in his cement form was at the zoo, first the sign said "unknown species" then when it was night time it said "species unknown"
• When Squidward's cement skin cracked, it was similar to a scene in Jellyfishing when the giant jellyfish stung Squidward and his cast broke.
• When Squidward's cement skin cracked, he says: "Uh... Hi!" to smellies. It was similar to a scene in Bubble Buddy when bubble buddy leaves, and Squidward says: "Eh... Hi!" to a bubble, but then it pops.
• The clarinet the clarinetist is using sounds more like a saxophone.
• The music playing in the background as Spongebob says, "We'll be one big, happy family" is the same music used in the Ren and Stimpy episode Robin Hoek (when Ren starts dreaming).
• It is revealed Squidward likes to listen to jazz.
• Patrick said that he had always wanted a pet. Did he forget about Rocky?
• When Patrick makes a call on the phone, you are able to hear a small amount of the theme song from Kablam's Sniz And Fondue.
• Spongebob's grape juice box background is yellow yet Patrick's is purple,but later they are both purple.
• When Gary attacks Smelly Spongebob says "Yeah, Gary never attacked anyone like that." yet in the episode Once Bitten Gary bites everyone in Bikini Bottom.
• The clarinetist may be a parody of Kenny G.

[edit] Quotes

• Patrick: What?! I can't hear you because I'm screaming too loud!
• SpongeBob What is that thing? Patrick.
• Patrick I don't know? Let's get a closer look.
• SpongeBob Hi there stranger, I am SpongeBob.
• SpongeBob Wait a second maybe he's not a monster? Maybe he's endangered species?(Squidward Moans) We should help him!
• Patrick (Laughing) Yeah help him.Go away can't you tell nobody wants you! You're endangered!.
• SpongeBob Not like that,Pat we need to take Smelly home.
• Squidward(Groaning) Shaking his trying to shake his head to say no.
• SpongeBob Well Smelly, here we are your new home. Ah this will be great Smelly will be one big happy family.Let me show you around here's your bed Smelly.(Squidward Moans seeing his new bed)Here's your food bowl.
• Patrick And some kibble.(Patrick pouring snail kibble in the bowl and eating some)
• SpongeBob You can live here forever, and ever.(Squidward starts crying)Oh look at that Patrick he's crying tears of joy.
• SpongeBob: Well Smelly, there's one more family member you haven't met. Smelly, meet Gary.Oh, look at that Smelly! Gary likes you! (Gary attacks Squidward) Gary! No!

Patrick: I don't think Gary likes Smelly.

SpongeBob: Yeah, Gary never attacked anyone like that. Except Squidward,I guess Smelly can't live here.

• Patrick: Oh he can come and live with me!

SpongeBob: That's a great idea, Pat! You've always wanted a pet of your own! (Squidward tries to escape) Oh, look Pat! He's so excited to get to your house! Good-bye, Smelly! Have fun with Patrick!

• Patrick: (Pulling "Smelly" past Squidward's house and "Smelly" tries to get in) No, no Smelly. Squidward doesn't like pets. (Inside of Patrick's house) Hey, Smelly, wanna play catch? (Throws the ball at Squidward) Don't worry! You'll get the hang of it. (Throws it again) Again. (Throws it the third time) So close! (Throws it the fourth time. This time Squidward catches it with his eye and throws it hard back at Patrick on the forehead) Yeah! Now you're(Groaning)ahh Smelly!?! What's gone into you!?! (Patrick runs to the phone) Hello? Animal control? There's a wild animal loose in my house! (Pause) Sure I'll hold. (Music from the phone plays).

• little Girl: Mommy,what is that thing?
• Woman: I don't know but its hidieous, Right?
• SpongeBob: (At the zoo with Patrick) This isn't good!
• Patrick: You're absolutely right! (Holds up a hot dog) It needs must mustard.
• Smellies: (muffled voices) Mmmmmm?

Preceded by "Hocus Pocus"

SpongeBob SquarePants episodes

Followed by "Driven to Tears"