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Comment: Now HERE'S and episode that could put me in some deep spaghetti. Lots of people tend to like this episode. Say what you want, but I am not one of those people. I really don't like this one. Surprisingly, it's not for the gross-outs, although some were gross, such as Timmy's present and the ending. Believe ,me, sometimes I'm a crowd-follower, but here, I feel like it was because of the characters. Pretty much everyone except for Squidward kind of foreshadowed their future selves in Seasons 7 and 8, where in my opinion, character development is at its worst. But we'll get to that in a minute! In the meantime, it's time to not-so-briefly summarize the episode.
The episode starts with Squidward waking up from a dream. Whenever Squidward wakes up in an episode, that's usually a bad sign for the poor cephalopod. When he woke up six episodes ago, it was quite the hellish day for Squiddy. Heck, waking up being a bad sign for Squiddy Q dates back to, what... Dying for Pie? The bad signs ended up coming true, as SpongeBob won't stop bothering him about his clarinet. The characters aren't all that bad, yet. Until a couple of seconds later, when Sandy's treedome is passed. Sandy is working on a new teleporter invention. Sandy has been known for being scientific since Season 1 with Sandy's Rocket, but eventually gets off the scientific subject in concern for SpongeBob and Patrick. In this episode, she's all-out science. I'm not really all that big on that change. Maybe it's because I always thought her interest in Karate was exciting! :coolio: Robert and Squidward haven't been all that bad yet. Squidward is extremely querulous in Seasons 7/8. He isn't really too bad here, but he did shoo away SpongeBob and call him SpongeBoob (SPONGEBOOB?!) so he wouldn't have to be in a conversation with him. Not too bad, but that's because I'm the same way with a very special someone I know in real life. SpongeBob needs to be teleported to the Krusty Krab because he is late for work. Just at that time, Squidward is ready to open the door to the Krusty Krab, and ends up going through SpongeBob when he reaches his arm out, morphing them together. This seems so forced. Funny how Squidward has a clarinet recital tomorrow night, and that SpongeBob is late for work... since when has he been late for work?! When SpongeBob finds out that the two of them are morphed, he talks about how excited he is to be with Squidward "together forever" o.o Seems creepy. Just wait until Season 6.
Then we get a Krusty Krab scene. I was pondering as to why this scene was here. It could have been there to make our two employees make compromises as to how to do their work while connected to each other, but no... it was just a chance for Mr. Krabs to be a ::dolphin noise:: (who should have been left out of this episode completely). He was completely irrelevant. He wasn't understanding like he used to be. He just wanted his money. It's like he was completely oblivious to the fact that he employees are MORPHED and it's difficult for them to do two things at once. Besides, they could have compromised at the clarinet recital, anyway...
Which is on tomorrow night! Things start out in this scene without much problem. SpongeBob was motivational and encouraging Squidward to do his best. When they get out on stage, things don't look so great until SpongeBob is revealed to be conjoined with Squiddy, after a nail rips Squidward's cloak thing. Knowing Bikini bottomites and their interesting tastes, they all love Squidward's performance now because he's siamese. <.< I had forgotten why I hated Sandy so much in this episode, but then I remembered. She just RAN towards the stage and zapped SpongeBob & Squidward with the separator ray she had made to disconnect them, completely oblivious to SpongeBob & Squidward telling her to stop. And don't think I'm biased towards pre-movie episodes, because Pre-Hibernation Week, another episode where Sandy is oblivious, is an honorable mention for the list. Now that Squidward's disconnected from SpongeBob, the Bikini Bottomites think that Squidward's music is cancerous, and all leave the stage. Come on!!! I think it's just lazy writing to make all of the Bikini Bottomites all clones with no common sense. They're still evil in my mind, no matter how psychotic I was on October 21st, 2012. We get a creepy ending because Squidward can't use the separator ray worth a ::dolphin noise::. He should have just pointed it at the stupid squirrel, or the Bikini Bottomites. :torch:
Aired: 2005
Least Favorite Character: <.<
Least Favorite Quote/Moment: "Oh, it's not so bad, Squidward. Now we can be best buddies and do everything together forever" - :sbx:
CLUE: The ultimate blooper
