The Paper (Episode)

"The Paper" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season one. It premiered on February 14, 2000. Template:Spoiler Brief summary: Squidward gives a piece of paper to SpongeBob, and promises that he doesn't want it back. But when SpongeBob has lots of fun with it, Squidward begins to regret the promise and has to think of a way to get the paper back!

Time/Date: Unknown

Time cards shown: None

Characters Present:

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Squidward Tentacles
• Gary the Snail
• Patrick Star
• Residents of Bikini Bottom
• Kids who cheer about SpongeBob making origami with the paper.
• Kids who boo Squidward for making a lump out of the paper when attempting to do origami.

Songs: None

Plot

Squidward throws a bubble gum wrapper on SpongeBob's lawn. When SpongeBob discovers it, he asks Squidward if he can keep it. He asks him four times. Squidward becomes so jealous that he eventually trades everything he has to get it back.

Quotes

• Squidward: Hey, little Squidward, what's green & ugly & has 6 arms?

Little Squidward: I don't know, but have you looked in the mirror lately?

• Squidward: Take it SpongeBob, take it PLEASE. And promise me no matter how much I may beg, and plead, and cry... DON'T give the paper back to me. EVER.

SpongeBob: So I'll take that as a possible no? (Squidward slowly closes the door on Spongebob) Squidward? Squidward? (through door) Okay, Squidward! That's a promise I'll just have to keep! (to the paper) Ah, Mr. Paper. I am so lucky to have a friend like Squidward!

Trivia

• Along with I Was a Teenage Gary, this episode is not broadcast as much, because it is paired with a holiday episode.
• It is revealed that SpongeBob has always liked Squidward's shirt.
• Spongebob did many things with the paper. Here is a list of what did with it:

• Used it as a puppet
• Used it as a helicopter
• Played paper paddle-ball with it (SpongeBob did this by blowing the paper up and down.)
• Doing impressions:
  • A guy with a moustache
  • A pirate with an eyepatch
  • A regular guy with an eyepatch
• Made paper crafts (Origami, etc.)
• "Oral"gami crafts:
  • Bird
  • Snowflake
  • Paper doll
• Created a flipbook of Squidward
• Used it as a musical instrument to correct squidward's clarinet music

• Clips of this episode were seen on Late Night with Conan O'Brien on Nov. 25th, 2006.
• The alternate title is Lemons Out Of the Lemonade.
• Squidward gave everything away. However, in later episodes, he has everything. Maybe Spongebob gave them back... (Even the shirt he liked.) But then, the series doesn't follow a storyline.
  • In Christmas Who? he gave everything away too.
• Little Squidward is a referance to another character in another SpongeBob episode, Mini Squidward in Squid Wood
• This is the first time Gary plays Squidward's clarinet.
• Little Squidward is similar to the toy acting in Toy Story.

Goofs

• In the first scene Squidward is playing his clarinet with lots of other ugly drawings of him behind him.In the second scene

Squidward is playing his clarinet,there is only one huge ugly drawing behind him and all the other drawings are gone.

• After Spongebob's paper tells a good wet paper joke,lots of other Bikini Bottomites come.During the short laugh,the most

eastern and farthest away Fred Fish doesn't open his mouth to laugh while all the other fish do.

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