Perfect for feet... or hands.
Your Shoe's Untied
Original air date: 2/17/2001 (produced in 2000)
Patrick just bought a new pair of shoes and wants SpongeBob to teach him how to tie his laces. Only SpongeBob has had his shoes laced for so long, he himself has forgotten how, and now he can't find anyone to teach him.
"Your Shoe's Untied" contains examples of:
- Actor Allusion: In show example: An angry customer (voiced by Mr. Lawrence) says "This is the worst service we've ever had! We're going to the Chum Bucket!" Lawrence is the voice actor of Plankton, who is the owner of the Chum Bucket. So of course a fish played by Plankton's voice actor would want them to go to the Chum Bucket.
- Art Evolution: The first episode of the show to permanently switch from traditional cel animation to digital ink-and-paint. That said, this is the only Season 2 episode to still use cels for the background designs, leaving a bit of an art style contrast not seen in later episodes.
- Balloon Belly: After Squidward is accidentally force-fed all the Krabby Patties from clumsy SpongeBob meant for the customers. He complains that his heart just stopped.
- Barefoot Cartoon Animal: SpongeBob is the only resident of Bikini Bottom that actually wears shoes. This causes problems when SpongeBob can't find someone who knows how to tie shoes.
- Break the Cutie: Happens to SpongeBob after Squidward shouts at the customers that it's all his fault he ruined all of their orders. Moreso when he discovers that no one underwater can tie shoes because they don't wear them.
- The Cameo: SpongeBob seeks Painty's assistance in his first appearance in a proper episode.
- Cover Innocent Eyes and Ears: A mother can be seen covering her child's eyes when Mr. Krabs runs out of the bathroom with his pants down.
- Dinner Deformation: SpongeBob keeps tripping on his laces and the Krabby Patties end up going into Squidward's mouth. It happens so many times that Squidward's body ends up looking like a bloated pile of patties.
- High-Pressure Emotion: Mr. Krabs turns into a train whistle when he hears that SpongeBob's antics drove his customers away.
- Hidden Depths: Gary proves he has some extra layers below his shell (and even body at that) by teaching SpongeBob how to tie his shoes. And through song, too!
- Hypocritical Humor: The customers of the Krusty Krab walk out in disgust at the sight of Mr. Krabs in his underwear, even though some of them, including the one who announced "Oh, yeah. We are definitely outta here.", aren't wearing clothes themselves. Not that you can see anything on them, of course.
- Irony: The Flying Dutchman is a first-place winner in the Fancy Knotting contest for 3,000 years and can tie any knot and he admit to Sponge Bob that he doesn't know how to tie his shoes.
- Medium Blending: Both the gyrating anemone and the football game SpongeBob watches on TV are in live-action.
- Never My Fault: Squidward declares it was SpongeBob's fault many of the customers had left the Krusty Krab, unaware of the fact that this incident could have been avoided had Squidward just simply caught the flying Krabby Patties with his hands as they flew towards him after SpongeBob tripped over his shoelaces instead of just standing there with his mouth wide open for the Krabby Patties to fly inside of it. SpongeBob's idea of him coming over to get them could also have worked, but he was too lazy and stubborn to do so.
- The One Who Wears Shoes: SpongeBob's dilemma is that he's the only one who has shoes, and thus no one else (except Gary) knows how to tie them, even the Flying Dutchman.
- Sarcasm Mode: After SpongeBob (who can't leave the grill due to his untied shoes) suggests Squidward come get the orders instead.Squidward: Oh, gee, SpongeBob, that's a great idea! And maybe I could cook the patties! And do the dishes! And wear square pants, and live in a pineapple! WHILE YOU WAIT IN THE UNEMPLOYMENT LINE!
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: A majority of the Krusty Krab customers angrily leave the Krusty Krab and go to the Chum Bucket after all their Krabby Patties get eaten up by Squidward thanks to SpongeBob's clumsiness. They definitely leave at the sight of Mr. Krabs in his underwear.
- Series Continuity Error:
- SpongeBob doesn't know how to tie his shoes, yet in the Season 1 episodes "The Chaperone" and "Rock Bottom", he is seen doing just that.
- The Flying Dutchman claims to be over five thousand years old in this episode, whereas most other episodes treat him as only being a few centuries old.
- In the Season 3 episode "Just One Bite", Squidward claims to never have eaten a Krabby Patty before. This episode had SpongeBob accidentally force-feed him plenty (although a common explanation is he didn't taste them in this episode).
- Snakes Are Sinister: At one point, SpongeBob hallucinates that his shoelaces are snakes, who proceed to choke him.
- Special Guest: Ween, who performs the "Loop De Loop" song at the end.
- Skyward Scream: "DOESN'T ANYBODY KNOW HOW TO TIE A KNOT?!"
- Sudden Anatomy: Gary is revealed to have feet, and that's how he knows how to tie shoes.
- Team Rocket Wins: Plankton scores one despite not even appearing in the episode. After SpongeBob mucks up multiple orders, the angry customers storm off to eat at the Chum Bucket.
- Wearing It All Wrong: When Patrick gets a new pair of shoes, he decides to wear them on his hands instead of his feet. SpongeBob likes this idea, and suggests also wearing gloves on their feet and hats on their "captain's quarters". In a later scene, Patrick is still wearing his shoes on his hands as he eats a Krabby Patty at the Krusty Krab.
- Weight Taller: An inversion, combined with discussed trope. When SpongeBob forces his untied shoes and feet beneath the floorboards of the Krusty Krab, Patrick walks over and says "Hey, SpongeBob, you're shorter. Have you been dieting?".
- You Didn't Ask: The whole time, SpongeBob asks all around Bikini Bottom if anybody knows how to tie shoes, and he falls into despair when nobody does. Turns out, Gary, the only person he never bothered asking, knows how to tie shoes.
- You Have Researched Breathing: The entire conflict of the episode is centered on SpongeBob having a crisis over trying to learn how to tie his shoes.
Hi, Squidward. Are you finished with those errands yet?
Squid's Day Off
Original air date: 2/17/2001 (produced in 2000)
Mr. Krabs is indisposed after an accident and puts Squidward in charge of the Krusty Krab. Squidward, in turn, puts SpongeBob in charge so he can finally have a day off, but he soon comes to regret that decision.
"Squid's Day Off" contains examples of:
- All for Nothing: Squidward thinks that SpongeBob is going to do something horrible like give away all the money or set the Krusty Krab on fire while he's alone, driving himself insane in the process. But SpongeBob never does anything wrong while Squidward is out and then SpongeBob finds out at the end that the "closed" sign wasn't flipped to "open", meaning that Squidward and SpongeBob could've taken the whole day off if they liked.
- Amusing Injuries: As well as losing both his arms, Mr. Krabs gets a whole bunch of heavy stuff dropped on him, giving him a head bump. The dime that falls onto the bump knocks him unconscious.
- Astonishingly Appropriate Interruption:Squidward: You're losing it, Squidward. Calm down! If I let this get to me again, I'll just end up running down to the Krusty Krab, bursting through the front door, up to that yellow headache SpongeBob, and he'll say...
SpongeBob: Hi, Squidward. Are you finished with those errands yet? - Bait-and-Switch Silhouette: Squidward becomes paranoid that SpongeBob is spying on him while he takes his "day off". When he tries to take a bath, he sees a silhouette of what looks like SpongeBob wearing two Krusty Krew hats behind the curtain, but it turns out to be his toilet with a spray can and toilet-paper roll on top of it.Squidward: Aha! Wait 'til Mr. Krabs finds out you're a... toilet.
- Berserk Board Barricade: Squidward boards up his door with planks, chains, locks, and police tape to keep himself inside his house. He even welds the door shut so he can't get out.
- Big "NO!":
- Done by Mr. Krabs when his dime falls down the drain.
- Squidward shouts a few hammy "NO" responses to SpongeBob:[Squidward busts through the doors to the Krusty Krab]
Squidward: SPONGEBOOOOB!
SpongeBob: Have you finish-
Squidward: No!
- Broken Record: Have you finished those errands? Have you finished those errands? Have you finished those errands?
- Censor Suds: Squidward has bath bubbles covering his shame when he runs to the Krusty Krab to "catch" SpongeBob. When the bubbles pop, he puts on SpongeBob's pants.
- Clutching Hand Trap: The whole plot gets started when Mr. Krabs gets his claw stuck trying to retrieve a dime from the sink drain.SpongeBob: You've gotta let go of the dime.
Mr. Krabs: I can think of ten good reasons to never let go of a dime, boy. - Color Failure: At home, Squidward tells himself that he's losing his "bluish glow" by stressing out over SpongeBob. Later, near the end of the episode, Squidward's skin color takes on a paler, grayish tone due to driving himself insane with the idea that SpongeBob is going to screw up while left alone.
- Cover Innocent Eyes and Ears: Upon seeing Squidward running past naked, one fish covers her son's eyes and says, "Hey! Put some clothes on!"
- Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: When Squidward runs back to the Krusty Krab at the end of the episode, naked (more than usual), with bubbles covering his privates, he finds SpongeBob still at the cashier and then proceeds to manically rant that he caught SpongeBob spying on him and he knew that SpongeBob was the branch outside his window, his toilet, and that Squidward saw him swim down the drain back to the Krusty Krab; as he continues his rant, Squidward slowly realizes that he has lost his damn mind and that SpongeBob never left or did anything wrong while Squidward was out.
- Fooled by the Sound: At the height of his paranoia, Squidward hears what he thinks is SpongeBob's signature Annoying Laugh outside his window, but turns out to be just a coral branch scraping against it.
- Furry Reminder: When Squidward goes underwater in his tub, he suddenly looks more like an octopus (though his bathing cap becomes shaped like a squid's head).
- Hypocrite: Squidward ditches work to relax at home in this episode but then has the nerve to get angry at SpongeBob for asking him how those errands are going.
- Hypocritical Humor: During an angry tirade, Squidward says he'll never be finished with those errands and demands SpongeBob to "quit checking up on [him]," even though Squidward is really the one doing the checking up.
- Imagine Spot: Squidward imagines a drooling, droopy Patrick asking for change for a quarter, and a cross-eyed SpongeBob with a tongue sticking out and a very exaggerated Simpleton Voice banging on the cash register and giving him loads of money. He later imagines a burning Krusty Krab caused by SpongeBob sleeping on the cash register.
- Immediate Self-Contradiction: When going way from the Krusty Krab for the third time upon seeing that SpongeBob still hasn’t left his post, Squidward proclaims that no matter what his paranoia says to him, he will not go back to the Krusty Krab and goes back in his home. A second later, he rushes back to the Krusty Krab.
- Irony: Squidward barricades the bathroom door to keep him in. It fails to do so.
- Laser-Guided Karma:
- Squidward pawned off his job SpongeBob while he was in charge so he can laze around while his co-worker does all the labor. Needless to say, this results in extreme paranoia which ends up making it near impossible for him to relax.
- The unfortunate series of events that happens to Mr. Krabs counts as he's forcing his employees to work on Sunday, as the Krusty Krab is usually closed on that day of the weeknote , and Squidward mentions nobody comes to the Krusty Krab on Sunday, and this episode was no different.note
- Lemony Narrator:(Camera pans, following Jellyfish then stopping at Krusty Krab exterior.)
Narrator: Ah, springtime. A time of fun and frolic for most.
(Dissolve cut to Squidward looking despondent at the doors.)
Narrator: But not for this poor slob. - Madness Mantra: A variation in that a phrase SpongeBob keeps saying becomes a mantra repeated in the head of Squidward: "have you finished those errands?"
- The Man in the Mirror Talks Back: When Squidward talks to his reflection reminding himself not to go back to the Krusty Krab, his reflection turns into SpongeBob and says "I will destroy the Krusty Krab!".
- Mean Boss: Mr. Krabs makes Squidward and Spongebob stay at work even though nobody ever comes in on Sunday.
- Mirror Monologue: Squidward gives one to himself to remind him not to go back to the Krusty Krab to check on SpongeBob.Squidward: "Now, repeat after me: 'You will not go back to the Krusty Krab'."
(reflection changes into SpongeBob)
SpongeBob: "I will destroy the Krusty Krab."
(Squidward screams and throws the mirror at the wall) - Nightmare Face: Squidward provides a couple when he goes insane from trying to catch SpongeBob screwing up.
- Non-Promotion: Squidward intentionally invokes this on SpongeBob; he allows the sponge to run the cash register as well as make the patties. Naturally, SpongeBob never understood the point of Squidward's action (relaxing instead of running "errands"), and simply thought it was the best thing to ever happen to him. In fact, this trope is subverted because despite Squidward's worries, no one came to the Krusty Krab all day, so he didn't do any of the double work.
- Noodle Incident: With SpongeBob exclaiming "Oh, No... Not Again!", this was apparently not the first time Mr. Krabs' arms got detached.
- Oh, No... Not Again!: SpongeBob says this when Mr. Krabs' arms come off trying to remove the dime from the sink, also suggesting that it wasn't the first time this has happened to him.
- Overly Long Gag: "Have you finished those errands?"
- Rule of Funny: The high shelf that Mr. Krabs bumps into somehow has a treasure chest, an anchor, a buoy, and a scuba diving suit on top of it... as well as the dime Mr. Krabs tried to grab from the sink drain.
- Running Gag: "Have you finished those errands?"
- Running Gagged: At the end of the episode, Squidward stops SpongeBob from asking about the errands once more with a hand gag, and simply says that he is finished doing them.
- Sanity Slippage: Squidward undergoes this when he becomes paranoid of SpongeBob ruining things at the Krusty Krab, and later, when he believes SpongeBob is spying on him trying to relax during work hours.
- Series Continuity Error: The Krusty Krab is open on Sunday in this episode, but SpongeBob stated the Krusty Krab is closed on Sundays in "SB-129."
- Although, Mr. Krabs could have changed it between then and when this episode happens.
- "Shaggy Dog" Story: It turns out nobody came to the Krusty Krab because they forgot to switch the "Closed" sign to "Open", so Squidward could have taken the day off if he wanted to.
- The Slacker: Taking advantage of Mr. Krabs getting hospitalized, Squidward makes SpongeBob do all the work at the Krusty Krab just so he can get some vacation time with pay.
- Streaking: Squidward albeit with the soapy bubbles covering his sensitive area.
- Title Drop: "Let Squid's day off begin".
- Tranquil Fury:
- When Mr. Krabs is escorted out of the hospital, an almost completely naked Squidward runs past him. Rather than going after Squidward for slacking off, Mr. Krabs just makes an annoyed face, followed by his arms falling off and going back inside of the hospital.
- At the end of the episode, SpongeBob reveals that the closed sign was never switched to open, followed by pointing out they could have taken the whole day off. When Squidward finds this out, he deflates and doesn't say anything.
- Wingding Eyes:
- When Mr. Krabs hits his back against the door after he loses his arms for trying to grab the dime out of the sink, his eyes turn into X's for a brief second.
- SpongeBob's eyes turn into stars when Squidward decides to promote him to the register while he is gone.
- During the montage of Squidward repeatedly running back and forth from the Krusty Krab, his pupils briefly turn into SpongeBob asking about those errands.
