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SpongeBob was even on the VIP list for it. It seems that he is capable of playing the clarinet very well by providing a full effort. He plays well enough in " Hello Bikini Bottom!
He also - if the player plays well - plays well in the Rock Bottom mini-game in Lights, Camera, Pants! He is also first-chair in the Bikini Bottom Orchestra.
He often lets this success go to his head. In " Skill Crane ," Squidward's final success in winning from the toy claw machine goes to his head and influences him to use a construction crane; his out-of-control usage of said crane leads to the demolition of the future site of a mall, and eventually the Krusty Krab. In " Snowball Effect " after pelting SpongeBob and Patrick with snowballs, he takes the snowball fight too far and builds a massive Fort and throws a bunch of snowballs, believing he was dominating the snowball fight.
His overall artistic style is shown to be abstract and overly sophisticated, and his works are commonly panned by his audiences. His failure is shown to be due to his bad taste and arrogance, rather than a genuine lack of talent. The entirety of his art centers on himself, apparently holding his very being to be an artistic wonder and never even considers depicting anything else. Because of this, he is portrayed to be the failure of an artist.
In " Out of the Picture " an art dealer mentions that none of Squidward's artwork will ever have any monetary value unless he was "Out of the picture. In " Can You Spare a Dime? However in " Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost " he has shown to make good art in some artistic mediums, including wax-sculpting, pottery, and even paintings, but gets no recognition for them. Despite his lack of success, Squidward is tireless in his pursuit of artistic achievement.
In " Dunces and Dragons ," Squidly , Squidward's medieval ancestor, vowed that if he could not learn to play the clarinet correctly, his seventh great-grandson would be cursed tenfold. Given how Squidward is depicted as a loser in most regards, it is likely that his narcissism is a defense mechanism to make him feel as if he has some form of self-worth. Outwardly, he shows signs of modest success: he lives in a big, well-tended house, with no signs of slothfulness, and finds plenty of time to lead an active, involved life.
Squidward is well-educated and knows his history. He is intelligent and has a lot of worldly knowledge, especially compared to those of SpongeBob and Patrick. Squidward is also a skilled driver, as he manages to drive virtually everything, from a traditional bike, a boat, car, and even a tractor. When he is at the Krusty Krab, he is a lazy, sloppy, somewhat incompetent employee who has an intense dislike of the restaurant and its management, which is best exemplified in the episode " Krusty Krab Training Video.
In " Accidents Will Happen ," he fakes his injury and lies to Mr. Krabs for the sole purpose of seeking sympathy and having an excuse to not work. He does this again in " Squiditis ," where he lies to Mr. Krabs about having the eponymous disease to have a day off. In the episode " Squid on Strike ," he organizes a worker's strike at the Krusty Krab. He even destroys the Krusty Krab, although indirectly and accidentally. However, despite his hatred for his job and the constant abuse and misfortune from having it, he very rarely ever quits and never considers looking for better employment.
He puts up with it out of pure laziness and stubborn pride out of the fact that he expects to let benefits come to him rather than trying, such as in " Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V " and " New Leaf " when Mr. Krabs threatens to fire him and Squidward lets this threaten him to go along with what he's getting dragged into against his will. It is revealed in a flashback of " The Original Fry Cook " that he insists on remaining at the Krusty Krab until his clarinet career pays off, even though it never does.
Other examples include " Can You Spare a Dime? After being taken in by SpongeBob, Squidward becomes a leech and consistently and deliberately ignores SpongeBob's hints for him to at least attempt to look for a new job.
In " Banned in Bikini Bottom ," after the Krusty Krab is closed down, rather than trying to search for a new job, he waits around with SpongeBob watching Mr. Krabs wallow in depression. In " Goodbye, Krabby Patty ," after getting officially fired from the Krusty Krab, Squidward takes pettiness to this but sees this as an opportunity to follow his dreams, only to find out that he needs better experience than 17 years as a cashier.
Yet rather than trying to search for a better job, he begs for SpongeBob to help him get employed at the Krusty Krab Museum. The most recent example is " The Check-Up " when a nurse threatens to have the Krusty Krab permanently closed, Squidward ends up deciding to help SpongeBob rather than ditching to let him do it himself, stating that if the Krusty Krab is closed down, he would "have to get a real job. As it all turns out, one of the reasons why Squidward is often arrogant and bad-tempered, especially the fact that he's rude and hateful to most people, is having to put up with SpongeBob and Patrick's loud and irritating behaviors, which sometimes leads him to make plans to get him to stop, although sometimes, either as a result of his arrogance or carelessness, his plans backfire on him.
This is shown in " Jellyfishing " where Squidward unleashes a jellyfish in a jar with the intent to make it sting SpongeBob and Patrick, in retaliation for making him get stung by the Queen Jellyfish.
In " Fools in April ," Squidward pulls a very cruel and harmful prank on SpongeBob that physically assaults him while under the manipulation of a rope tied to him. In " Suction Cup Symphony ," Squidward kicks SpongeBob and Patrick out of his window so hard to the point of fracturing the latter's buttock bones.
In " Dying for Pie ," Squidward buys an explosive pie to give to SpongeBob for Employee Brotherhood Day , oblivious to the fact that it is infused with a bomb; SpongeBob allegedly consumes it, only to reveal toward the ending that he had it in his pocket the whole time to share with Squidward. Although Squidward tried to make the last hours of SpongeBob's life meaningful and felt guilty for causing his doom, he expresses anger upon discovering that SpongeBob never actually ate the pie.
In " The Lost Mattress ," Squidward tries to get SpongeBob and Patrick eaten by the guard worm at the dump by having them trespass the fence while dressed up in steak suits. In " Sportz? In " Scavenger Pants ," Squidward makes up a really difficult scavenger hunt in hopes of getting SpongeBob and Patrick harmed. Despite his grumpy nature, Squidward does have a caring heart deep down, and when he realizes his plans have caused either harm or emotional pain to those he ridiculed, he is quick to realize the error of his ways and make up for it while he can.
Occasionally, such as in " Krab Borg ," Squidward is seen teaming up with SpongeBob, or even caring about him. An avid patron of the arts, Squidward has a strong affection for interpretive dance, sculpting, painting, and playing the clarinet. However, he seems to have almost no talent for any of them whatsoever, although he does play the clarinet beautifully at the end of the " Christmas Who?
Squidward always wants to be the center of attention but rarely ever is. In " Best Day Ever ," he had a concert where he played beautifully and received thunderous applause from the audience. SpongeBob was on the VIP list for it, which is ironic, considering Squidward's intense hatred for him. Squidward also misses many chances to become famous, even in his dreams. His lack of talent seems to go back to when he was a kid: in " Lost and Found ," it is revealed in a flashback that Squidward was a kazoo player in elementary school and that his classmates found his music so bad that they all ran out of school, despite Squidward thinking he excelled in playing the instrument.
All of his artwork, from sculptures to paintings, depicts himself in a way, even repainting existing works to include his face. He surrounds himself with said art throughout his house, a clear indication of his narcissist tendencies. These arts have occasionally been admired greatly by Patrick and SpongeBob, but are universally hated by the rest of Bikini Bottom.
He has tried several things to reach the fame he desires: hosting a talent show, starting his astrology spin-off, forming a band, and so on, yet he cannot seem to get much of a following. He not only hates his duties but the Krusty Krab itself, and he performs his job rather poorly and with a lack of enthusiasm.
He also frequently behaves rudely to the customers. He has often expressed a desire to be fired or simply quit, but never makes good on it. While he initially only seems to work there because he needs the money, he seems to only be there out of pure laziness of getting a different job as the series progresses.
It is also shown here that Squidward cares about what happens to the Krusty Krab and the Krabby Patty formula when he discovers Plankton selling Krabby Patties and threatens to report him to King Neptune. He was forced to maintain a false state of happiness, or else face "Human Resources," a thug in the back of the building. In The Patrick Star Show , he is a paperboy who's trying to collect overdue payment from the Star family. Stephen Hillenburg first became fascinated with the ocean and began developing his artistic abilities as a child.
During college, he majored in marine biology and minored in art. After graduating in , he joined the Ocean Institute , an ocean education organization, where he had the idea to create a comic book titled The Intertidal Zone , which led to the creation of SpongeBob SquarePants.
Several years after studying experimental animation at the California Institute of the Arts , [28] Hillenburg met Joe Murray , creator of Rocko's Modern Life , at an animation festival. Murray offered Hillenburg a job as a director of the series.
At that point, Hillenburg had not considered creating his own series, but soon realized that this was his chance. Hillenburg used some character designs from his comic book. He designed "SpongeBob's grumpy next-door neighbor" like an octopus because of the species' large head; octopuses, he said, "have such a large bulbous head and Squidward thinks he's an intellectual so of course, he's gonna have a large bulbous head.
Squidward is hard to draw-he has a very odd-shaped head. Fortunately, his emotions are pretty even, but to get a whole lot of big emoting out of him is a challenge. His nose splits everything in half, so it's always like, 'OK, how am I going to work this and still make it read?
Hillenburg thought of making jokes with Squidward ejecting ink but retired it because, according to him, "it always looks like he's pooping his pants. Stephen Hillenburg named him Squidward because of the name Octoward—in the words of Squidward's voice actor Rodger Bumpass —"just didn't work.
The footsteps, and those of the rest of the main characters, are recorded by the show's foley crew. Sound designer Jeff Hutchins said that footstep sounds "[help] tell which character it is and what surface they're stepping on. Bumpass inspired the idea of having Squidward ride a recumbent bicycle ; Bumpass owns one of these bicycles, which he rides around Burbank, California. Squidward's voice is provided by actor Rodger Bumpass, who voices several other SpongeBob SquarePants characters, including Squidward's mother.
While creating the show and writing its pilot episode in , Hillenburg and the show's then-creative director Derek Drymon were also conducting voice auditions. Lawrence , who had worked with Hillenburg and Drymon on Rocko's Modern Life , was Hillenburg's first choice for the role. Hillenburg had invited Lawrence to audition for all the show's characters. According to Bumpass, Squidward was "a very nasally, monotone kind of guy. He's right next to me.
Several of the show's crew praise Bumpass for his performance and similitude to the character. Kenny called Bumpass "brilliant" and said, "[he] is sort of like Squidward. That's why it's such a good voice—he's so connected to it. It fits my particular talents and skills very well. So in that respect, yeah, he is me, but I am not the cranky, sarcastic, underachieving kind of guy that he is.
He's easy to fall in, I will say that. Squidward's voice has been compared to that of Jack Benny 's. Kenny said, "To me, there's something just so funny about that Jack-Benny-loyal-to-nobody character that Rodger Bumpass does such a great job of playing [ Although he does have this observational sarcasm he occasionally brought out.
SpongeBob is the character Squidward interacts with the most and is also the one he dislikes more than the rest, often trying to avoid him at all costs. The main reason for Squidward's massive dislike for SpongeBob's existence is because SpongeBob can be extremely annoying towards Squidward, but SpongeBob is unaware of this, and thus continues to irritate him.
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