House Fancy

This is the page about the episode. For other uses, see House Fancy (disambiguation).

House Fancy
General
Production code:	193-603
Season №:	6
Episode №:	101a
Airdate:	June 6, 2008 October 4, 2008 January 26, 2009 January 27, 2009 March 5, 2009 September 4, 2009 See more... April 30, 2008 (Nick Premium) May 31, 2008 (Nickelodeon) June 23, 2008 June 29, 2008 August 25, 2008 August 26, 2008 October 1, 2008 November 13, 2008 January 3, 2009 February 8, 2009 March 16, 2009 (SRF ZWEI) April 8, 2009 April 8, 2009 April 8, 2009 June 10, 2009 June 13, 2009 July 17, 2009 October 12, 2009 (B92) December 28, 2009 January 14, 2010 February 25, 2010 June 19, 2010 December 27, 2010 (QTV) September 7, 2011 October 22, 2012 (Nickelodeon) May 14, 2018 (PLUS PLUS) June 4, 2018 (TET) November 18, 2020 June 10, 2021 September 4, 2021 March 10, 2022 June 13, 2022
U.S. premiere time (ET):	5:00 pm
Copyright year:	2008
U.S. viewers (millions):	3.50
Running time:	11 minutes
Sister episode(s):	"Krabby Road"
Credits
Guest(s):	Alton Brown as Nicholas Withers
Writer(s):	Aaron Springer Dani Michaeli
Supervising Producer(s):	Paul Tibbitt
Storyboard:	Aaron Springer
Animation:	Tom Yasumi
Creative:	Vincent Waller
Chronology
Previous	"Stanley S. SquarePants"
Next	"Krabby Road"

"House Fancy" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 6. In this episode, Squidward prepares his house for a TV show.

Characters

• Squidward Tentacles
• Bird ^{(single appearance)}
• Nicholas Withers ^(debut)
• Squilliam Fancyson
• Camera crew ^(mentioned)
• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Cops ^(mentioned)
• Patrick Star
• Squidward's toilet
• Saul Limpkins ^(mentioned)

Synopsis

In the beginning of the episode, Squidward is at home, about to watch House Fancy, a program showcasing fancy homes. As the host, Nicholas Withers, introduces the episode's first guest, Squidward gets a phone call from Squilliam Fancyson. He reveals that the guest is none other than himself, and his phone call was just to show off to Squidward, who then notices Squilliam and Nicholas on the show.

Squidward watches in anger and grows jealous as Squilliam shows off the various features of his house, which is several stories high, and includes an elevator with a built-in hot tub, decorative toilets with golden toilet paper holders, a garden on the rooftop, as well as a 130-foot sculpture of Squilliam's unibrow that consists solely of gilded doorknobs.

In the end, Squidward gets so fed up with Squilliam’s boastful attitude, that he calls Nicholas and tells him that he has a much fancier home than Squilliam. Nicholas gives Squidward two hours to prepare. Squidward realizes what he has done and desperately tries to make his house fancier (as well as himself, as he mentions how he doesn’t have any time to wash up), but with no success. He spots SpongeBob outside his window, who admits he has been spying on Squidward for days, right down to watching him watch House Fancy.

Squidward's house destroyed.

Squidward reluctantly allows SpongeBob to help, but SpongeBob admits that Patrick is borrowing his brain for the weekend (in exchange for a couple of chocolate bars), and each time Squidward gives him a task, SpongeBob does it recklessly, leading to disastrous results, and in one task, SpongeBob inadvertently wounds Squidward’s foot. Soon, Squidward hears the doorbell ring, and assuming that it is Nicholas, he tells SpongeBob to clean up the mess with a vacuum while he heads to the other room to dress his wound. But once again, SpongeBob does the task recklessly by attempting to increase the vacuum’s power (after assuming how messy Squidward’s house is), only to inadvertently cause it to go haywire and suck up everything in the living room just as Squidward returns from dressing his wound. SpongeBob attempts to turn it off, but he gets sucked in. Squidward attempts to fix the situation while desperately telling the person outside the door to wait, only for the person to reveal themselves to be Patrick, who needs to use Squidward's restroom. Once Patrick leaves, Squidward's toilet comes to life for a brief moment and crawls out of the bathroom, before jumping into Squidward's arms and immediately dying from whatever Patrick did. Patrick then briefly returns to give SpongeBob his brain back (unaware that SpongeBob is stuck in the vacuum). Fortunately, the vacuum sucks brain and into the bag, where SpongeBob (who’s eating either one or both of the two chocolate bars) retrieves it. Immediately after that, the vacuum reaches “Full Capacity”, causing the vacuum bag to increase in size and explode, destroying the house (though naturally, the two neighbors survive). However, when Nicholas and Squilliam come over and see what’s left of Squidward's house, the former views it as a work of abstract art and proclaims that his house is even better than the latter's, much to Squilliam’s shock and Squidward’s surprise. Nicholas then declares that Squidward's house will be featured in a 1-hour commercial-free "House Fancy" special and Squidward is now crowned House Fancy Prince Of The Year.

The ending of the episode leads to Squilliam crying since he has lost, and Squidward is happy with the help of SpongeBob, who tries to comfort Squilliam by giving him some advice in redecorating.

Production

John Seymore uploaded two background designs he did for this onto his portfolio on February 29, 2008.

Promotional art

• Drawn by Vincent Waller.

Art

Character design

Background design

• Designed by John Seymore.

Sketch of Squilliam's bathroom.

Sketch of Squilliam's home.

Model sheets

Squilliam and Nicholas submerged in water.

Squidward with his toenail ripped off.

The talking toilet.

Music

( ‣ ) Production music

( • ) Original music

( ◦ ) SpongeBob music

 • Tentacally Speaking - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Title card]
 • House Fancy - Eban Schletter [Opening of "House Fancy"]
 • Steel Licks 22 - Jeremy Wakefield [Squidward's phone rings]
 ‣ Comic Walk - Sidney Torch [Squilliam is on the phone]
 ‣ Drama Link (B) - Hubert Clifford [Squidward sees Squilliam on TV]
 • House Fancy - Eban Schletter [Transition to next scene]
 ‣ Sport Gallop - Gerhard Trede [Pan up Squilliam's house]
 • House Fancy - Eban Schletter [Transition to next scene]
 ‣ Royal King - Jean-Pierre Fouquey [Squilliam's foyer is shown]
 • House Fancy Bump 3 - Eban Schletter [Transition to next scene]
 ‣ Happiness Castle - Maurice De Courpalay [Gilded doorknob is shown]
 ‣ Entry Into Parliament - Gerhard Trede [Squilliam's bathroom is shown]
 • House Fancy - Eban Schletter [Transition to next scene]
 ‣ Tiki Lounge - Lionel Wendling, Gregory Ott [The whirlpool bath elevator is shown]
 • Undertow - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Squilliam's rooftop garden is shown]
 ‣ Tomfoolery - David Snell [Squidward claims his house is fancier than Squilliam's]
 ‣ Wild Eyes - Ronald Hanmer [Squidward screams]
 • The Pollywog Strut - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony ["SpongeBob, how long have you been spying on me?"]
 • Hello Blues - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob absorbs paint]
 • Nude Sting - Nicolas Carr [Squidward's living room is covered in paint]
 • Tension Bits - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield ["What have you done to my living room?!"]
 ‣ Footsteps of Horror - William Farran [Squidward hisses]
 • You're Nice - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Sofa gets broken]
 ‣ Tales From The Swamp (C) - Ron Goodwin ["Oh, no, they're already here!"]
 • WFL Parade Snare Drum - Nicolas Carr ["Roger!"]
 • Skipping to School - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob vacuums around Squidward's house]
 • Grass Skirt Chase - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [The vacuum goes out of control]
 ‣ Outrage - Peter Yorke [SpongeBob gets sucked into the vacuum]
 • Steel Licks 40 - Jeremy Wakefield [Patrick runs to Squidward's toilet]
 • Steel Licks 41 - Jeremy Wakefield [Patrick leaves Squidward's toilet]
 ‣ Funeral March - Otto Sieben [The toilet coughs]
 • Seaweed 2 - Steve Belfer [Patrick returns SpongeBob's brain to him]
 • Entrapped - Nicolas Carr [Explosion]
 • House Fancy - Eban Schletter [Transition to next scene]
 ‣ Tympup A - Sammy Burdson, John Charles Fiddy [Squidward's house gets destroyed]
 • Steel Licks 78 - Jeremy Wakefield ["Well... I'm not quite sure how to say this."]
 ‣ Brass Moment [#77] - Harry Bluestone ["Huh?!"]
 ‣ Pizzicato Polka - Clive Harrison [Nicholas Withers praises Squidward's house]
 • Cream Pie - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Ending]

Release

• This episode is available on the Spongicus, Season 6 Volume 1, SpongeBob Pack: Volume 1, SpongeBob's Legendary Adventures, The Ultimate SpongeBob Box Set, Kids Double Pack: Volume 6, SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 8, Complete Sixth Season, The Best 300 Episodes Ever, The SpongeBob SquarePants Collection, Fine Arts Collection, 3 DVD Value Pack Volume 2, The SpongeBob SquarePants 8 Season DVD Collection, Time Travel, Next 100 Episodes, The Best 200 Episodes Ever, and The Fifth & Sixth Seasons DVDs.

Reception

• "House Fancy" was ranked #18 during the SpongeBob's Top 100 event in the UK and Ireland from June 4-8, 2012.

Trivia

General

• The font on the title card is Curlz MT instead of the regular SpongeBob font.
• This episode, along with "Krabby Road," are the first episodes where Paul Tibbitt is credited as an executive producer in the end credits.
• Although some episodes from seasons 4 and 5 have the title card cut fade from black to the opening credits instead of fading out and to the credits, this is the first episode where this is standard until the transition to high-definition in season 9.
• Squilliam's tower is shown in full in this episode.
• Squilliam's phone rings twice while Nicholas Withers is talking. This action resembles the act of censorship on television.
• According to Dani Michaeli, who outlined this episode, he and his boss previously moved a couch in the latter's office with a result of similar toenail removal to Squidward's, serving as one of its inspirations.
• Alton Brown guest starred as the House Fancy host Nicholas Withers.
• This is the first season 6 episode in packaging order. However, on Season 6 Volume 1, The Complete Sixth Season, The Next 100 Episodes, The Best 200 Episodes Ever, and The Fifth & Sixth Seasons DVDs, the episode "Spongicus" comes first instead.
• This is the second episode in the series where Squidward wins against Squilliam at the end. The first was "Band Geeks."
• This is the third episode in the series to feature Squilliam. The first was "Band Geeks," and the second was "Squilliam Returns."
• This is the first season premiere episode not to have a fourth wall break.
• This is the last episode to premiere during the SpongeBob Premiere Factor 5 event.
• This is the only episode from the first four season 6 episodes to not premiere in March 2008.
• This episode's packaging number was 101a, so this made SpongeBob SquarePants the second longest-running Nickelodeon animated series, surpassing the former holder, Hey Arnold!, which consisted of 100 episodes.
  • This episode also made SpongeBob SquarePants surpass the amount of years Hey Arnold! was on the air, which ran for 8 years from 1996 to 2004, while this episode premiered in the United States on June 6, 2008, 1 month after the series' 9th anniversary on May 1, 2008.
• When Squidward reluctantly invites SpongeBob to help out, the latter says “Mucho comprendo, Señor Habanero!”; a habanero is a type of chili pepper, which makes this line appropriate due to how Squidward tends to rage throughout the series.

Cultural references

• The television show House Fancy is a parody of HGTV's House Hunters.
• When Squidward starts watching House Fancy, the theme song is a parody of "Clean House."
• Squidward dropping his coffee mug in slow motion is a reference to a similar scene in the movie The Usual Suspects.

Errors

• Squidward sets his teacup down to answer the phone. When he is shocked to learn that Squilliam is on House Fancy, he suddenly has the cup in his hand and drops it on the floor.
• After Squidward comments on Squilliam's house saying it exactly looks like his, there is a bump on the left side of it when the scene turns back to the house.

The image of Squilliam on the right side has no unibrow.

• In the elevator, the right image of Squilliam does not have a unibrow.
• Squilliam displays his "rooftop garden," but his house is initially shown to have a tower instead of a flat roof.
• The picture of Squidward is missing his wrinkles.
  • This error also occurs in "Pet Sitter Pat."
• Squidward says:
  • "I haven't even got time to wash my hair," which is incorrect as he does not have any hair.
  • "There's a stain on the rug!," but it is actually on the wooden floor.
• When Squidward orders SpongeBob paint the faded spot on the wall, he gave SpongeBob the wrong color of paint, since it is blue paint even though the wall where the faded spot is located is green.

Squidward's incorrect lip-syncing.

• When Squidward says, "SpongeBob, what was that noise?," his lip-syncing is incorrect.
• When Squidward's couch is whole, the paint is all over it. However, when the couch is split in half, some of the paint disappears.
• When Squilliam gulps, the animation of him saying, "Huh?!" is reused.
• During the scene where SpongeBob and Squidward try to move a sofa, there is a "jump" in the animation between Squidward screaming and then saying, "Okay, it's on my foot," both during the same shot.
• Squidward's vacuum cleaner does not appear to have a cord.
• When Patrick is going to Squidward's toilet, he has nothing, but when he comes out from the toilet, he is holding a newspaper. It is possible that Squidward keeps a newspaper in his bathroom.
• After Squidward's house is destroyed by the vacuum cleaner, for a split second, nothing can be seen at the house, not even SpongeBob and Squidward before the House Fancy logo comes up. However, when Nicholas Withers and Squilliam get to Squidward's house, everything is back at the house again.
• In the ending scene where Nicholas Withers visits Squidward's house, SpongeBob's house next door is missing.

Bill Fagerbakke listed in the credits for voicing Patrick's house.

• Patrick's house is listed in the end credits, which credit Bill Fagerbakke voicing it, but it never appears in this episode.