Squidward Tentacles

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Name: Squidward Tentacles
Date of Birth:	January 31, 1967
Name in other languages:	Thaddäus Tentakel - German Carlo Tentacules - French Calamardo Tentaculos - Spanish Squiddy Tentacolo - Italian Lula Molusco - Portuguese Сепия - Bulgarian Octo Tentakels - Dutch Καλαμάρης Πλοκάμιας (Kalamaris Plokamias) - Greek
Species:	Octopus Stephen Hillenburg decided to give him six arms and did know this (real octopuses have eight arms).
Nickname:	Squid The Thing Smelly Gray,Ugly,and Six Arms
Address:	Conch Street 122, Bikini Bottom, pacific ocean
Jobs	Cashier and waiter in the Krusty Krab Sometimes Fry Cook (06b, 20a, 41a, 87b) a short time waiter in "Krabby O Mondays" (65a) Krusty Krab 2's Manager (in the The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie) a short time dishwasher (79b)
Friend:	Clarinet Jim The Original Fry Cook
Rival:	Squilliam Fancyson
Interests:	Play the clarinet Art Free dance Ride a bicycle
Favorite dish:	Canned Bread Sweedish Barnacle Balls Fumed sausages Krabby Patty (Just One Bite)
Ancestor:	Squog Squidly the King's Fool
Favorite music:	Solitude in E-Minor Boys Who Cry Cool Jazz (76b)
Favorite magazines:	Magazines about modern dance Squid Ink. Fancy Living Digest (Has a subscription)
Vices:	Every Sunday Squidward must achieve community service (since "Good Neighbours") He has no hair He is claustrophobic (72b)
Portrayers:	Rodger Bumpass - English Eberhard Prüter - German Rokuro Naya - Japanese

Squidward J. Tentacles is in fact an octopus, and very little is known about his parents. His mother is featured in two episodes "Krusty Towers" and "April Fools" both with a different appearance. His mother also has a manly like deep voice. About his father: N/A Known. (Papa Tentacles)

Personality

Squidward Tentacles is a light green/blue color, and has purple suction cups at the end of his tentacles. He has six limbs in total, two being arms and four being legs. Whenever he walks, his suction cups stick to the floor, meaning that he walks with a distinct squelching noise. Squidward has a large baldhead, big droopy nose and yellow eyes with red pupils. He wears a brown short-sleeved shirt, which is sometimes nautical brown-orange.

Squidward is usually portrayed to be a whiny, stick-in-the-mud character, a complete opposite to SpongeBob SquarePants. He is very egotistical and cannot stand saying sorry to anyone or admitting his mistakes. He considers himself very sophisticated and upper class, and looks down on most other people. Squidward is impatient for most of the time, egotistical and finds everything dull and trivial. However, in some episodes, It shows that Squidward have a rather more wild side. An example of this is in 'Squidville', Squidward goes to live in a town with other people who are exactly like him. However, Squidward realizes that he cannot cope with this lifestyle and is shown at the end of the episode to fly away on a reef-blower whilst laughing manically. Also, in 'Squid's Day Off' Squidward is shown as very unstable and slightly mad in nature. Although Squidward has a generally dull and uncaring personality, he cannot keep it up constantly and turns hysterical every occasionally, much to SpongeBob's confusion. People usually make jokes about the size of his nose.

Squidward works as the cashier in the Krusty Krab, but he hates his job, largely because he has to work with SpongeBob. He shows no enthusiasm, although he often shares a private joke with his boss, Eugene H. Krabs, about SpongeBob. Squidward is only in his job for the paycheck, however small this may be. He dreams of being a world-famous clarinet player, but has done nothing to achieve this. Although he hates the Krusty Krab now, he used to think the Krusty Krab had class when Jim, the original fry cook was there. He and Jim had many 'Bull talks' about leaving and starting a new restaurant.

Lifestyle

Squidward loves art. He has many self-portraits of himself all around his house, but rarely paints anything else. He also plays the Clarinet, which he nicknames "Clary". He seems to think that he is a talented clarinet player, but really, his songs are usually very out of tune. Squidward also enjoys watching television, listening to the radio, riding his bike and reading. He takes great pleasure from treating and pampering himself, although while he is relaxing, usually SpongeBob interrupts him.

Next to his dream to become a renowned clarinet player, he dreams of having hair, as he is quite sensitive about his baldness (which, due to his egotistical nature, he will not admit). However, in 'The Original Fry-Cook', it is revealed that Squidward used to have flowing blond hair. While talking to Jim about life, Squidward said he might possibly lose all his beautiful hair, and when he said it, all of his hair exploded! Squidward soon spent hours trying to find even the tiniest amount of hair.

Squidward lives in an Easter Island head. Unfortunately, for him, his house is located right in between SpongeBob's pineapple and Patrick's rock. Squidward's house has been shown to have the ability to move on several occasions, including when it leans over in order to peek into Patrick's secret box. It also has been shown with two rocky arms protruding from the ground that it puts in its ears when SpongeBob and Patrick are being particularly loud. Squidward also wants to have a lifestyle of being a dancer. in Slimy Dancing, Squidward entered a dance contest but he did not get in so he cheated.

Squidward's Minor Jobs

• Art Department Artist for the Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy Movie.
• Inventor of Jellyfishing
• Jellyfisher
• Time Traveler
• Clarinet Player
• Krusty Krab Terrible Cook
• Snail-Sitter (I Was a Teenage Gary)
• Art Lesson Teacher
• Band Director
• He Attends Dancing Lessons
  

  

  Squidward and the Cabinet
• Criminal
• Krusty Krab's Owner
• Cake Baker
• Best Friend to SpongeBob and Patrick
• Santa Claus
• Plankton's Fan-Waving Slave
• Earth Defender Hero (Captain Magma)
• Wallet Snatcher Criminal

Squidward's Schemes to Get Rid of SpongeBob and/or Patrick

• In Naughty Nautical Neighbors Squidward arrives that SpongeBob and Patrick become enemies, so he thinks there are no problems anymore. Now SpongeBob and Patrick want to be his best friend, so Squidward gets the contrary of his idea.
• In Opposite Day Squidward is going to move out. However, a controller is going to check, if there are no perturbing neighbors, otherwise, he must not move. So that SpongeBob and Patrick do not disturb the controller, he invents the opposite day, but SpongeBob and Patrick think they are Squidward. As the controller thinks there are three Squidwards, she refuses the move.
• In SB-129, Squidward wants to play the clarinet without SpongeBob's and Patrick's noise, so he absconds and goes to the Krusty Krab's freezer. Shortly after, he is freeze and is unfreezes for 2000 years later. Immediately he does not want to stay there and with a time machine, he moves in the past and at the end he was in the middle of nowhere and he recognizes he cannot live without SpongeBob and Patrick.
• In Squid's Day Off Mr. Krabs's arms are "broken", so he gives his job to Squidward. Squidward benefits this chance to be as far as possible from SpongeBob. However, whilst SpongeBob in the Krusty Krab works and Squidward in his house, Squidward think SpongeBob destroys the Krusty Krab.
• In Squidville, Squidward moves to the Tentacle Acres so that Squidward is far away from his neighbors. However, Squidward becomes mad without SpongeBob ad Patrick and returns to the Conch Street.
• In Good Neighbors Squidward installs the safety system 5000 so that SpongeBob and Patrick cannot get on his nerves anymore. Shortly after the system raged trough, Bikini Bottom and Squidward must every Sunday achieve community service with SpongeBob and Patrick.
• In Funny Pants Squidward cannot sustain SpongeBob's laughter, so he tells SpongeBob if he doesn't stop to laugh, he won't be able to laugh anymore! SpongeBob believes in Squidward's words so much, that he cannot laugh anymore. However, in stat of laughing he cries all the times and Squidward suffers like before.
• In Hocus Pocus, SpongeBob wants to demonstrate Squidward a card trick. While SpongeBob does this Squidward gets on the bus and disappear. Sometime later he returns and immediately he absconds a second time.
• In SpongeBob vs. Patty Gadget Squidward has a machine which needs no help to prepare Krabby Patties, so that SpongeBob will be fired, but SpongeBob arrives to beat it.

Squidward's especial default

We already know that Squidward is too easy to vex and this default brings him to bad situation.

• In Employee of the Month SpongeBob says Squidward cannot be the Employee of the Month (not directly at the beginning of the episode), so Squidward decides to beat SpongeBob. However, at the end, they become mad, destroys the Krusty Krab and we do not know who became Employee of the Month.
• In The Paper Squidward gives SpongeBob a small paper. SpongeBob has a lot of fun with it and Squidward become jealous and is vexed. He gives all his chattels to SpongeBob just so that he gets the paper. However, he notices he does not have any fun with it and he does not have anything else.
• In Fools in April SpongeBob makes April Fools. They get on Squidward's nerves, SpongeBob goes over the top and Squidward arrives that SpongeBob runs cried at home. Finally, Squidward excuses for his "joke".
• In Club SpongeBob Squidward thinks SpongeBob thinks Squidward cannot be a club's member. As Squidward climbs down, he unwittingly catapults the entire club in a forest.
• In The Camping Episode SpongeBob says: "Have fun inside." So Squidward thinks the word inside means he can't go camping, so he goes camping with SpongeBob and Patrick. Finally, he is beaten-up by a sea bear and a sea rhinoceros!
• In Breath of Fresh Squidward he comes to know that SpongeBob and Patrick come into his house every night. This entices him to make a electric power fence, but he get an electric shock.

Other

Alter Egos

• Thing is Squidward as SpongeBob's and Patrick's pet. (76a)
• Squidly was King Krabs' jester who was caged because King Krabs does not like his poems and melodies. (66_ )
• Captain Magma is a member of the International Justice League of Super-Acquaintances (The IJLSA).
• The Handsome Man is Squidward as a handsome person.
• Squidward Santa

Squidward's Weakness

• Can nearly die of lack of water and turn purple, his eyes will have a X over them too (1b).
• Imagination (Idiot Box)
• MAGIC from the Wishing Well
• Love and Nice Things
• The PAPER (The Paper)
• Losing Hair (few Eisodes)
• Being annoyed and defeated by Jellyfishes (Many Episodes)

• Mama Tentacles
• Papa Tentacles (Probably Deceased)
• Squog (Ancestor)

Trivia

• Squidward was the moderator of "Astrology with Squidward". There are SpongeBob-Characters which represent the zodiac signs and for each sign he makes a banal prevision.
  In the USA this Spin-off was published from 2000 to 2001 in the dispatcher Nickelodeon.
• Squidward's name is a Portmanteau; it is composed from "Squid" and "Edward".
• His nose contracts like a bagpipe whenever he laughs.
• Squidward is afflicted with claustrophobia. (72b).
• Squidward's personality is based on The Grinch, who was from Dr.Seuss's How The Grinch Stole Christmas! book, including the

Dress-Up-Like-Santa gag in Christmas Who?.

Quotes

• "I hate my job!" (84a)
• "Too bad SpongeBob's not here to enjoy SpongeBob not being here." (The Movie)
• "Remember your karma, Squidward." (crashes and explodes)
• "I bet they don't have it... Oh! They do! CANNED BREAD!!"
• "You can't fool me! I listen to public radio!"
• "Listen Spongebob, I order the food. You cook the food. The customer eats the food. We do that for 40 years, and then we die. Sounds like a pretty good deal to me, don't you think?"