He's so gorgeous.
Original air date: 11/23/2007
SpongeBob slams Squidward's face with a door, and Squidward becomes handsome.
"The Two Faces of Squidward" contains examples of:
- Bait-and-Switch Comment: When Squidward initially realizes he's been made handsome, SpongeBob says that he isn't actually handsome... and then continues by saying he's a hunk.
- Brick Joke:
- Squidward's handsomeness gives a fish the ability to fly, and while doing so, his untied shoe falls off. Towards the end of the episode, when Squidward becomes even more handsome, that same shoe falls through the roof of the Krusty Krab, prompting SpongeBob to push Squidward out of the way and slam him into a pole, which causes him to lose his handsomeness.
- After accompanying Squidward home, SpongeBob says that he's going to clip his toenails. When Squidward gets swarmed by his crowd of fans and came for SpongeBob's help, he's actually seen clipping his toenails, amusingly with hairy legs and an incense lit on the table.
- Chick Magnet/Even the Guys Want Him: Squidward when he is handsome.
- Eye Scream: Though we don't see it happen, when one fan of Squidward's says that he wants his shirt, another says that he wants Squidward's eyelids instead.
- Hard Truth Aesop: There are many people out there who admire someone just for their looks alone. Someone who is good-looking will often end up being more popular than someone else who is more talented, but isn't as attractive to people.
- Here We Go Again!: After the customers leave the Krusty Krab due to Squidward losing his handsomeness, Mr. Krabs keeps slamming the door on Squidward to try to make him handsome again.
- High-Pressure Emotion: As Squidward's anger reaches a boiling point due to SpongeBob's unproductivity, his whole body turns into a thermometer and breaks.
- Hit Flash: Several hit flashes appear when SpongeBob hits Squidward with the door to reverse his handsomeness.
- Injury Bookend: Played with. Squidward gets hit in the face by a door, and the resulting alteration to his bone structure causes him to become ridiculously handsome, so much as to attract copious amounts of attention from both men and women. After becoming overwhelmed with his newfound status, he attempts to become normal again, getting hit in the face with the same door several times again. This just makes him even more beautiful, however, only going back to normal after getting hit in the face with a pole after running to avoid a falling shoe.
- Karma Houdini: The Bikini Bottomites never got any comeuppance for what they did to poor Squidward.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: SpongeBob's clumsiness is the reason Squidward keeps getting more handsome.
- Overcrank: When Squidward gets pushed out of the way by SpongeBob to avoid a falling shoe, causing him to hit a pole and return to normal, all set to "Vesti la giubba". While both Squidward and the falling shoe are in slow-mo, SpongeBob is still moving at normal speed when he warns Squidward, pushes him away, and gets hit.
- Overly Long Gag: SpongeBob repeatedly interrupting the doctor when he tries to cut Squidward's bandages off.
- Reflective Eyes: Seen on the first female fish who notices Handsome Squidward.
- Shout-Out: The episode title is a spoof of The Three Faces of Eve.
- "Squidward Had a Krabby Patty" is a reference to "Mary Had a Little Lamb."
- So Beautiful, It's a Curse: At first Squidward likes all the attention his handsome face gives him, but soon tires of having everyone in Bikini Bottom follow him everywhere. Mr. Krabs even tries to take advantage of this by charging people to touch Squidward, all the while Squidward tries to get SpongeBob to slam the door in his face again to get things back to normal. Somehow it turns him even more ridiculously handsome and muscled.
- Slow-Motion Fall: Parodied. Once Squidward becomes even more handsome, he suddenly begins moving in slow motion, but only he does. When Spongebob tries to warn him about the falling shoe, while Spongebob is running at a normal speed, Squidward is turning to look up in slow motion. This continues when Spongebob knocks Squidward aside, as while Squidward is sent into an overly dramatic spin before he hits the support beam, Spongebob is still at regular speed, the shoe having already landed and bounced off Spongebob's head. While Squidward doesn't "die", this is where "Handsome Squidward" does, as once he hits the beam, he gets his normal face back, and leaves slow motion.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Patrick disappears after the opening scene in the kitchen and is not seen again for the rest of the episode.
- You Can Say That Again: SpongeBob utters the line after Patrick says "We're not just neighbors...", and Patrick, as one might expect, follows through.
Original air date: 11/23/2007
SpongeBob's holes make music in the wind, attracting jellyfish.
"SpongeHenge" contains examples of:
- Apocalypse How: At least city scope since, after Spongebob returns to civilization, Bikini Bottom seems to have been destroyed somehow.
- Big "NO!": By SpongeBob when he returns and finds the Krusty Krab buried in the sand during his absence.
- Companion Cube: SpongeBob makes a stone statue of himself to talk to while trapped in a cave.
- Catapult to Glory: SpongeBob attempts to get out of his house by catapulting himself out using his underwear. The jellyfish catapult him back.
- Cruel Twist Ending: SpongeBob spends the second half of the episode trapped in a cave in Jellyfish Fields to figure out how to get the Jellyfish off his back and return to his normal life. When he returns to Bikini Bottom, the town is apparently abandoned, as the Krusty Krab is buried in the sand and everyone else is nowhere to be seen.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: The beginning features one fish believing (due to the wind) that Neptune is mad about something, causing the other fish to laugh because Poseidon is the true king of the sea. Sounds a lot like people with different religions.
- Distant Finale: The very end takes place 3,000 years into the future, with aliens visiting the sculptures Spongebob made.
- Eat the Camera: Done by one of the stone SpongeBobs at the very end.
- Gainax Ending: Two in quick succession. First, SpongeBob comes home to find the Krusty Krab buried in his absence. Second, there's a Flash Forward 3,000 years into the future where aliens see the stone SpongeBobs and know nothing about them other than the fact they attract jellyfish.
- The Face of the Sun: The sun and moon are depicted here with live-action faces.
- The Man in the Moon: The sun and moon are depicted here with live-action faces.
- Medium Blending: The sun and moon briefly appear with live-action faces.
- Plot Hole: SpongeBob sees the Krusty Krab buried in the sand when he returns to Bikini Bottom, even though it was blown away earlier in the episode. It's possible the Krusty Krab was rebuilt during SpongeBob's absence, or SpongeBob happened to approach the spot the restaurant landed.
- Series Continuity Error: SpongeBob states he's never been tardy in his fry cook career, but he's been late in previous episodes such as "Hooky", "Have You Seen This Snail?", and "New Digs."
- Shout-Out:
- The episode title, as well as the stone SpongeBob formation, are both parodies of Stonehenge.
- The scene where SpongeBob finds the Krusty Krab buried in sand is reminiscent of the finale of Planet of the Apes (1968). SpongeBob's hair and beard are also strikingly similar to Charlton Heston's character.
- The scene where SpongeBob is in a cave, hiding from the jellyfish and making a stone companion, is a reference to Cast Away.
- Time-Passage Beard: SpongeBob grows one while living in a cave.
- Time Skip: The final scene skips 3,000 years into the future where alien beings examine the SpongeBob sculptures in Jellyfish Fields.
- Trivial Title: The title has little-to-no relation with SpongeBob's problem in the episode. It likely refers to the formation of stone SpongeBobs in the climax.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: The couple who had their bag of leftovers at a diner blown away by the wind pretty much indirectly caused the events of the entire episode when those said leftovers flew into SpongeBob's bedroom causing him to look out the window and cause the wind to make music with his holes.
