The Woobie: “The Thing” is more or less an episode about mercilessly torturing Squidward as much as possible from start to finish, and unlike many other episodes where he gets tormented, this one doesn’t have him do anything wrong at all, partly because he is physically unable to do anything for almost the entire runtime.
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Memetic Mutation: "But I don't like [X]!" "Then, why did you ask for it?"ExplanationThe kid and his father arguing over his pistachio ice cream ended up becoming a popular snowclone in response to instances of unpleasable fans