![]() The majority of the jokes I make are at my own expense, I am completely comfortable with poking fun at myself. Listen, I happen to have a very self-deprecating sense of humor. Hell, I’m sure everyone has said it themselves at one point or another. What SpongeBob says to Sandy in this scene is the same thing I’ve heard all my life when I’ve tried to tell people that I didn’t like certain jokes, and I’m sure everyone has heard something like it at some point. Sandy approaches SpongeBob after the show and tells him that his jokes were hurtful, but SpongeBob brushes this aside, insisting that they were just jokes, and that there isn’t anything wrong with laughing at yourself. When that gets some laughs, SpongeBob runs with it, making insulting joke after insulting joke about squirrels, and everyone loves it. That is, until he spots Sandy in the crowd and starts making jokes about her teeth. SpongeBob is performing but his act doesn’t get any laughs. The Krusty Krab is having a comedy night because that’s apparently something they do in this episode. The parts where SpongeBob and Patrick are trying to teach him to be good are great, the wallet scene is still one of the funniest scenes in the show as far as I’m concerned. He talks very much like an old school comic book villain, too over the top to really be taken seriously but definitely amusing. I don’t like that I have to count this as a MM and BB episode when they’re only in it for like a minute. I really like this episode, but like everyone I have to question why it’s named after Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy if they’re barely in it and the episode has very little to do with them. Until the next time he makes an appearance, anyway. So instead of robbing the bank, he opens a checking account, gets checks with little poodles on them, and gives up being evil. Apparently the effects of the tickle belt have ruined him. ![]() He tries to rob a bank, but he can’t get through a single threat without breaking off into giggles. So they take the belt off, and of course Man Ray immediately steals weapons from the lair and runs off to commit some crimes.Įxcept it appears that he can’t anymore. ![]() The lessons don’t go too well, because Man Ray keeps getting frustrated and threatening or attacking them, though they have the tickle belt to defend themselves. When Man Ray can’t stand being tickled anymore he starts begging them to take it off and he even says “please”, which is enough to make SpongeBob and Patrick think he’s good. Funny, that’s exactly what I say to myself in any situation where I have to pretend to be straight. They offer to teach him how to be good and Man Ray accepts, saying to himself that he’ll fake his way through this like he did in high school. Man Ray knows that the only way to get the belt taken him off of him is to convince them that he really has changed, so he tells them that he really wants to reform but doesn’t know how. That’s enough to get them to set him free, and of course he tries to attack them immediately, but they manage to keep him at bay thanks to the tickle belt that was put on him before he was frozen. First he threatens them, and when that tactic doesn’t work he tells them that he’s reformed. They accidentally unfreeze Man Ray’s head, and he starts to speak to them. While exploring the lair, SpongeBob and Patrick find one of MM and BB’s enemies, Man Ray, frozen in tartar sauce. At the beginning of the episode, we see them heading off on a trip and for whatever reason they figured it was a good idea to have SpongeBob and Patrick watch their lair. Yeah, so, Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy are barely in this episode. ![]() Although he was once voted "most likely to suck eggs" in high school, Squidward Tentacles is - without a doubt - the most likely to entertain audiences around the world.“Why is this episode named after Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy if they’re only in the episode for like a minute?” – Everyone at some point It is also well-known that he is not as averse to SpongeBob and Patrick's antics as he lets on. It's not all bad for the squid, however, as he does find small joys within his repetitive day-to-day, reaching a peak while conducting "Sweet Victory" in the immensely iconic episode, Band Geeks. Things in his life always seem to go wrong, and the guy can't even find the time of day to play his clarinet in peace. You've reached the house of unrecognized talent." Speaking of the underdog, is there any character from any television series, animated or not, that has a more relatable struggle than that of Squidward Tentacles? Stuck in a nine-to-five job that is far less than what he hoped/s for, and trapped in a house between the most annoying neighbors imaginable, Squidward represents all of those fighting to reach their dreams and happily ever after.
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