Squid Baby (SpongeBob SquarePants)

Squid Baby (SpongeBob SquarePants)
Are you sure this is not the SpongeBob staff stealing someone’s deranged ABDL SpongeBob fanfiction from the depths of Fanfiction.net?
Air Date: September 3, 2012 Writer: Casey Alexander, Zeus Cervas, and Mr. Lawrence Director: Alan Smart Previous episode: License to Milkshake Next episode: Little Yellow Book

“Squid Baby” is the 46th episode of season 8 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

1. Like many episodes from seasons 6-9a, this is a Squidward torture episode.
2. Fetish episode: As the main synopsis states, Squidward reverted 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”.
3. The episode begins with SpongeBob and Patrick act infantile while playing with SpongeBob’s old baby toys he found while cleaning out his attic.
   • This also contradicts SB and P’s original characters because they would never act this immature.
4. The episode also makes fun of head injuries, which is disturbing and very insulting. Especially given the type of head injury that Squidward got, actually happens to people in real life. Which makes it all the more disgusting.
5. Lots of gross-out jokes, especially the ending where Squidward soils his diaper. (Complete with a gross close-up) Those jokes are not funny.
6. "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 a Mayo Clinic textbook.
7. 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.
8. Squidward crying for 2 minutes straight is very annoying.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. 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?
12. SpongeBob, Mr. Krabs, and Patrick don’t get punished for their actions in the episode.
13. Half Bad 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. The episode abruptly ends.

Redeeming Qualities

1. 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.
2. "My face my face! Also my leg, but mostly my face!"
3. Half Good Ending: At least Squidward recovered at the end of the episode.
4. SpongeBob and Squidward are likable in this episode.

Reception

This episode is considered the worst episode besides Little Yellow Book of Season 9.

Trivia

• The same crew for One Course Meal 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.

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