Squid Baby (SpongeBob SquarePants)
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Squid Baby is the 46th episode of season 9 of SpongeBob SquarePants.
Synopsis
A head injury causes Squidward to act like a baby and SpongeBob and Patrick have to care for him while he recovers.
Why It Cries Like a Baby and Made Our Heads Go Boom-Boom
- Like many episodes from Seasons 6-8, this is another 11 minutes of Squidward torture, even though this time is less rampant compared to Season 6.
- The idea of SpongeBob and Patrick treating Squidward like a baby is absolutely humiliating, weird, and ridiculous.
- Fetish episode: As the main synopsis states, Squidward reverts back to an infantile state and SpongeBob and Patrick have to care for him. As some critics put it, it “feels like someone’s horrible ABDL (Adult Baby/Diaper Lover) fanfic brought to life, and I shouldn’t be watching it”.
- Terrible beginning: SpongeBob and Patrick act infantile while playing with SpongeBob’s old baby toys he found while cleaning out his attic, which makes them look like manchildren. Yeah, you can say they're supposed to be childish, but acting like this? It's way too weird and ridiculous even for them.
- This also contradicts SB and P’s original characters because they would never act this immature.
- The episode also makes fun of head injuries to a disturbing effect, which is disturbing and very insulting, especially given the type of head injury that Squidward got actually happens to people in real life. This makes it all the more disgusting.
- Lots of gross-out jokes, especially the ending where Squidward soils his diaper complete with a gross close-up. Those jokes are not funny.
- "Head-Go-Boom-Boom-Itis” is terrible, immature, and uncreative name for Squidward’s head injury. It makes the diseases in Doc McStuffins sound like they came from a Mayo Clinic textbook. Not to mention that it's highly inaccurate because the suffix -itis is only applied to diseases characterized by inflammation (Sound familiar?), and the stem word is the body part affected. For example, appendicitis is the inflammation of the appendix.
- Since the name "Head-Go-Boom-Boom-itis" does not fulfill either category, it can be seen as making light of actual inflammatory diseases.
- The episode feels like a rehash of season 3’s “Rock-a-Bye Bivalve” down to the joke of Patrick watching TV and the Rugrats episode, “Regarding Stuie”, which handles this plot much better.
- The episode's story once again takes the elements from the other older episodes:
- The first half is a rip-off of "Rock-a-Bye Bivalve", where SpongeBob and Patrick took care of a baby in SpongeBob's house, and this time even has Patrick watch the same show that he saw in that episode while SpongeBob's taking care of a baby (Junior).
- The second half is a rip-off of "Goo Goo Gas", where firstly, Squidward became a baby and secondly, SpongeBob took care of a baby (Baby Krabs) in the Krusty Krab.
- Squidward crying for 2 minutes straight is very annoying.
- Mr. Krabs is very unlikable in this episode as he makes Squidward work at the Krusty Krab despite his injury and fails to listen to SpongeBob and Patrick when they try to explain it to him. He also tells SpongeBob to change Squidward’s soiled diaper in the restaurant’s kitchen which is not only disgusting but highly unsanity.
- Patrick is also unlikable as he caused Squidward’s injury in the first place, not abiding by the doctor’s orders (smashing his head into the ceiling after bringing him home to the hospital and a couple scenes later, putting the street on Squidward’s head), and falling asleep instead of watching Squidward when SpongeBob and him go to the Krusty Krab.
- Plot Hole: Why did Mr. Krabs tell SpongeBob to change Squidward’s diaper in the kitchen when there’s likely places to change diapers in the bathroom?
- SpongeBob, Mr. Krabs, and Patrick don’t get punished for their actions in the episode.
- Half bad and bittersweet ending: After bashing head into an ice machine which spits out ice immediately, Squidward is back to normal, discovers he’s in a soiled diaper, becomes disgusted, and walks home. SpongeBob simply remarks that they grow up so quickly. A gross-out innuendo was slapped into the audience's face before the episode cut to black.
- The infamous quote: "Are you out of your ever-living mind?! We can't change that baby out here in front of the customers! Take him in back where the food is prepared."
Redeeming Qualities
- Although SpongeBob and Patrick cause Squidward’s head injury in the first place, they did nurse him back to health and tried to prevent any further damage.
- The fish Nat references Fred's iconic "My leg!" gag when he says, "My face! My face! Also my leg, but mostly my face!", which is hilarious.
- Half good ending: At least Squidward recovered at the end of the episode.
- SpongeBob and Squidward are still likable in this episode.
- At least SpongeBob knows how to take care of a baby well unlike Patrick, Mr. Krabs, and the people of Bikini Bottom.
- The animation is still great as usual considering the fact that the series was still animated by Rough Draft Studios at the time.
Reception
Along with "Little Yellow Book", "SpongeBob, You're Fired", and "The Fish Bowl", "Squid Baby" is widely considered to be one of the worst episodes of Season 9, even though it was somewhat perceived better compared to the former two episodes.
PIEGUYRULZ gave this one a SCUMBOB rating, and he considered it to be his second worst Season 9 episode, but he stated that this one wasn't "that" bad. This is LS Mark's least favorite episode of the whole show, ranking it at the bottom of his list.
Trivia
- This episode was paired up with "The Good Krabby Name" during the original airing, but has since been re-airing with "License to Milkshake."
- 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.
- 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, he is not seen 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.
- The same crew for "One Course Meal" and "License to Milkshake" wrote this episode.
- The soiled diaper Patrick ate in "Little Yellow Book" was likely Squidward’s as it’s the next episode after this one.
- This episode was originally going to be #1 on TheMysteriousMrEnter's 'Squidward torture' episodes list but was not included as he had already reviewed the episode.
- This episode was broadcasted on MTV2 one time.
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