"Naughty Nautical Neighbors" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 1. In this episode, Squidward destroys SpongeBob and Patrick's friendship.
Characters[]
Synopsis[]
On a seemingly normal day, Squidward has made a delicious soufflé, but SpongeBob and Patrick's incessant laughter distracts him from enjoying it. Squidward sees that they are having a private conversation with bubbles. They whisper a message into the bubble wand instead of blowing into it, and when the bubble pops, the recipient can hear the message.
Annoyed by this, Squidward comes up with a plan to mess up SpongeBob and Patrick's fun by convincing SpongeBob to make him his best friend and betray Patrick. As the first phase, he makes bubbles of his own using a byproduct from his soufflé, and proceeds to insult the two by imitating their voices to ruin their friendship, thinking it will give him peace and quiet. Thinking the bubbles are from each other, SpongeBob and Patrick become angry and get into a fight as Squidward goes outside and eats his soufflé, amused at his neighbors' fight. The two eventually declare that they are no longer friends before storming back to their houses.
Patrick gets squashed with his own house. While laughing at Patrick while eating, Squidward accidentally chokes on his fork then faints. Patrick witnesses this and successfully saves Squidward's life by performing CPR on him.
Squidward thanks Patrick and bribes him to help lure SpongeBob to his house by becoming Patrick's "new friend," inviting him into his house to watch him practice his clarinet composition called "Solitude in E Minor." Despite Patrick claiming to love music, he immediately falls asleep as soon as Squidward plays a single note, much to Squidward's annoyance. Meanwhile, a lonely SpongeBob tries to cheer himself up by drawing faces on three of his fingers and pretending they are his "friends," but this only results in him bursting into tears.
Squidward struggles to drag a sleeping, heavy Patrick out of his house, and throws his back out in the process. SpongeBob sees this as an opportunity to help him and, despite protests from Squidward, launches himself into the latter's back and cracks it back into place. Squidward screams but immediately feels better. However, he repeats his mistake, referring to SpongeBob as his "friend" while thanking him, thus making SpongeBob believe that Squidward is his new best friend.
They then both walk into Squidward's house. Squidward asks SpongeBob to make noise for Patrick by playing a song badly for him on his cello (which he thinks is a bassinet). Patrick wakes up while overhearing the song and appears in the window, only to interrupt the song, causing SpongeBob to destroy the instrument in a fit of rage. Frustrated that his plan has failed, Squidward explodes in fury and kicks him out as a result, and decides to take a relaxing bubble bath, but is horrified to find Patrick, lounging in the tub and warming up a scrub brush and a bar of soap for him. Disgusted, Squidward furiously orders him to leave, but SpongeBob appears through the window and discovers Patrick in Squidward's tub, causing the two to argue again. This drives Squidward crazy, and he flees his house to hide in a trash can outside. Seeing the huge mess he created with his plan instead of getting the peace and quiet he thought he'd get, Squidward realizes he needs another plan to reunite SpongeBob and Patrick (and thus make them leave him alone).
Squidward serving soda to SpongeBob.
Squidward decides to invite SpongeBob and Patrick to a dinner party (without telling either of them that the other is coming) to fix their friendship. When they arrive, they are still mad at each other. Squidward tries to get them back together by offering them soda, but the situation devolves into a competition to see who can drink the most soda and thus become Squidward's friend. Eventually, Squidward runs out of soda and leaves to get some more, telling the two to stay and "chat."
While he is gone, SpongeBob and Patrick, who are both extremely engorged from all the soda they drank, still refuse to talk or even look at each other. SpongeBob then hiccups a small bubble that makes a burping sound upon popping, which amuses them both. Their immense laughter which follows releases bubbles, reverts them to their normal weight, and they become friends again. However, they create so many bubbles that it causes Squidward's house to explode. Upon arriving back and seeing the destruction, Squidward gets enraged and angrily tells the two to leave, and slams the door (which is somehow still standing) shut. Seconds later, a bubble pops against the door, causing it to fall over and crush Squidward, who then weakly moans over regaining pain in his back.
Production[]
This episode's recording script was completed on October 19, 1998. The finished master was delivered to Nickelodeon Animation Studio on July 6, 1999.
Script[]
- On November 14, 2016, recording scripts for every episode from season 1 were publicly released, found on one of the asset discs for the PlayStation video game, SuperSponge. This included the recording script for "Naughty Nautical Neighbors."[3]
Art[]
Model sheets[]
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Sketches[]
Storyboards[]
Music[]
| ( ‣ ) Production music |
| ( • ) Original music |
| ( ◦ ) SpongeBob music |
‣ Hawaiian Train - Victor Cavini [Title card]
‣ Nostalgic Hawaii - George de Fretes, Jan Rap [Opening]
• Closing Theme 1 - Steve Belfer [SpongeBob and Patrick blowing bubbles]
• Seaweed 1 - Steve Belfer [Squidward blowing bubbles]
‣ Death Trap [#25] - Gregor F. Narholz [Squidward choking]
‣ Oyster Girls - Robert Alexander White [Patrick does CPR on him]
‣ Grass Skirts Blowing (Hilo March) - Jan Rap, The Hawaiian Serenaders ["Wow, Patrick, you saved me!"]
‣ Wishful Thinking - Richard Myhill [Squidward starts playing clarinet]
‣ Botany Bay (b) - Robert Alexander White [SpongeBob's lonely]
‣ Heroes Win [#35.03] - Gregor F. Narholz [SpongeBob saves Squidward]
‣ On the Beach - Kapono Beamer ["Thanks, SpongeBob."]
• Squid Clarinet27 - Brad Carow [Squidward plays a note on the clarinet]
‣ Hawaiian Link (B) - Richard Myhill [Squidward angrily kicks SpongeBob out]
‣ Shock (C) - Dave Hewson [Patrick in Squidward's bathtub]
‣ Fates [#61.03] - Gregor F. Narholz [SpongeBob and Patrick argue]
‣ Hawaiian Link (B) - Richard Myhill [Later...]
‣ Hawaiian Train - Victor Cavini [Squidward invites SpongeBob and Patrick over]
‣ Maui Beach - Hans Haider [SpongeBob and Patrick left alone]
‣ Grass Skirts Blowing (Hilo March) - Jan Rap, The Hawaiian Serenaders [Ending]
Release[]
Distribution[]
- This episode is available on the SpongeBob Schwammkopf Folge 2, Complete 1st Season, SpongeGuard on Duty, The 1st Season: Volume 1, SpongeBob 1, SpongeBob on DVD, Hunting For Jellyfish, Tea at the Treedome, Jellyfishing, Beach Bob, Combo DVD, First 100 Episodes, SpongeBob SquarePants, iSponge Offer Pack, Bob Esponja Cumple 10 Años, Lost at Sea (Polish only), The Ultimate SpongeBob Box Set, SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 1, The Complete First Season, From the Beginning, Part 1, The SpongeBob SquarePants Collection, The SpongeBob SquarePants 8 Season DVD Collection, The First & Second Seasons, Movies & TV Collection, The Best 200 Episodes Ever, and The Best 300 Episodes Ever DVDs.
- This episode is also available on the SpongeGuard on Duty VHS tape.
- This episode is also available on a VideoNow PVD that was exclusive to Target purchases of the VideoNow Color and also contained a making-of featurette of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.[4]
Trivia[]
General[]
- This episode was originally titled "Friendly Fire," as seen in some production art.[5]
- This episode shows the backyard of SpongeBob's house, Squidward's house, and Patrick's rock.
- In the scene with SpongeBob marching into his house and shouting, "Ah, tartar sauce," there are some Downtown Bikini Bottom buildings in the background that briefly jump off their foundations as SpongeBob slams the door behind him.
- This episode demonstrates that in spite of his low intelligence, Patrick can correctly perform CPR.
- Patrick says, "I win!" to the viewers after saving Squidward dying from choking a fork. The fourth wall is broken here.
- In this episode, the inside of SpongeBob's bedroom is different than in other episodes, with a much darker wallpaper and no visible furniture near the window.
- Squidward's "Solitude in E Minor" is not in E minor. It is impossible to tell what key it is in, as there are only two notes - C and F (a perfect fourth), respectively. If it was E minor, the F would be sharp. There are keys that it cannot be in, which are:
- G major, D major, A major, E major, B major, F# major, C# major, C♭ major, E minor, B minor, F# minor, C# minor, G# minor, D# minor, A# minor, E♭ minor, and A♭ minor.
- However, the piece Squidward calls "Solitude in E Minor" is known as "Wishful Thinking" in the production music, and the entire piece is in F Major, not E Minor.
- It is possible that it is in E Minor due to clarinets being transposing instruments.
- G major, D major, A major, E major, B major, F# major, C# major, C♭ major, E minor, B minor, F# minor, C# minor, G# minor, D# minor, A# minor, E♭ minor, and A♭ minor.
- SpongeBob says he has been playing a bassinet for years. However, a bassinet is a type of cradle used for newborn babies until they transfer to a crib at about 6 months. SpongeBob was actually playing the double bass or a contrabass, though the specific instrument he was playing resembled an instrument called a "viola da gamba," a baroque instrument.
- When SpongeBob asks Squidward to play an A, he actually plays a B♭/A#. Even when transposed to B♭, Squidward plays a Clarinet's C.
- When SpongeBob and Patrick are stuffed with soda, SpongeBob's holes are constricted.
"Zzzzzz..."
- Four somewhat prominent internet memes have come from this episode:
- The scene of Squidward choking on a fork.
- The scene of SpongeBob looking out the window after Squidward and Patrick became "friends."
- The scene of Patrick falling asleep when Squidward plays "Solitude in E Minor," called "Patrick thinks [song, singer or band] is boring," its usual format including part of a song causing Patrick to fall asleep.
- The scene where Squidward screams upon finding that Patrick has snuck into his bathtub, called "Guess who's in Squidward's bath," which has some other face replacing Patrick's face.
This episode is seen briefly through SpongeBob's eyes.
- Frames from this episode were later used in "Friendiversary" when SpongeBob remembers Squidward.
The unfilled lowercase "a"s.
- This is the first episode for several things:
- The first time the same title card music is used for this episode as the title card music for its sister episode, although different sections of the music are used.
- The first episode that Sherm Cohen and Aaron Springer worked on.
- The first episode, in terms of packaging order, with no known deleted scenes.
- The first episode of the series where the lowercase "a"s in the crew member's names are unfilled. It has remained this way since.
- Fred Miller's first episode credited as an animation director.
- The first episode in which someone uses the phrase "tartar sauce" as a minced oath, in this case, SpongeBob.
- The first usages of the original track "Seaweed," and the production tracks "Nostalgic Hawaii," "On the Beach," and "Fates."
- The first appearance of Squidward's living room and bathroom.
- This is the third episode to only involve the three neighbors. The first was "Bubblestand," and the second was "Jellyfishing."
- An image of Patrick saving Squidward is featured on the protective case of The SpongeBob SquarePants Experience: A Deep Dive into the World of Bikini Bottom. However, Squidward does not appear in the image.
- This episode was previously paired up with:
- "Dumped" on March 15, 2004.[6]
- "Employee of the Month" on March 2, 2007.[7]
- "F.U.N." during the Friend or Foe: The Foe-down marathon on April 13 and April 14, 2007.[8][9]
- "Porous Pockets" on August 9, 2010.[10]
- "Frankendoodle" on April 1, 2017.[11]
- "I'm with Stupid" during the Patrick Stars & Stripes Weekend event on July 5, 2021.[12]
Dub facts[]
SpongeBob In Polish 2 Deleted Scenes
- In early Polish airings, the scene where Squidward chokes on the fork is cut. In the later airings, the scene was restored for unknown reasons.
- In the Tagalog dub, before slamming his back door, SpongeBob yells "Bahala ka sa buhay mo!" instead of "Aw, tartar sauce!" It is a common Filipino saying that literally means "It's up to you to live your own life!," in this sense used like the English "whatever."[citation needed]
Errors[]
The blue stripe from his sock disappears.
The stripes from his socks disappear.
- In the first close-up shot of SpongeBob blowing bubbles, the blue strips on his socks disappear briefly. When SpongeBob expresses exasperation at Patrick's response to Squidward's insults, both stripes on his socks disappear and then reappear for a split-second.
- When Squidward’s bubble was imitating Patrick, saying "SpongeBob, I no longer wish to know you. You give bottom dwellers a bad name.", it was said by Tom Kenny instead of Roger Bumpass.
- When SpongeBob yells at Patrick, his bubble wand is thrown to the ground, but when SpongeBob tells Patrick that he does not want to see him again, it is gone.
- The hinge on Patrick's rock disappears between when he is smashed and when he notices that Squidward is choking.
The glass on the open window and SpongeBob's eyelashes are missing, with his nose outline miscolored.
- When SpongeBob is looking at Patrick and Squidward out the window, his eyelashes are missing.
- Also during this scene, SpongeBob is looking through an open glass-less window, but all the windows that could see Squidward's house are shut and have glass covering them. Same goes for when he jumps through the open window to set Squidward's back into place.
- Also, in the same scene, SpongeBob's nose outline is miscolored.
Squidward's house is missing a back window glass.
- As Patrick and Squidward are walking into Squidward's house, his back window has no glass.
- The glass also disappears at the beginning when Squidward walks outside. It is not there when he walks out, but appears when he sits down.
Gary's smaller shell.
- Gary's shell is smaller than usual in this episode.
- When SpongeBob is playing the string bass, the window is just a hole in the wall, but when Patrick appears, it becomes a glass window with a hinge on the side.
Squidward with only three legs.
- When Squidward turns red in anger, he has three legs instead of four.
- Just before SpongeBob says, "Oh, ho-ho! So this is what I find, huh?! My best friend and my ex-best friend and... rubber bath toys!" the sailboat flickers blue for about one second.
- When SpongeBob appears in Squidward's bathroom through his ear window, the window has no glass. Also, in the next shot, which shows the outside of Squidward's house, SpongeBob is not there, and the ear windows are not even visible.
- When Squidward explains that SpongeBob and Patrick are his two best friends, Patrick's mouth turns pink for a brief moment.
- In the soda scene, Patrick's soda fizz stops moving at one point.
- When Squidward's house is destroyed, the sound of the explosion takes place a second before the camera shakes and Squidward's reaction.
- As Squidward searches through his keys for the one to his house before his house is destroyed, a clip of him sliding one key down the ring loops.
- When Squidward returns to his house just as it is destroyed, he has a grocery bag and ring of keys. Afterwards, the bag and keys disappear.
Videos[]
SpongeBob SquarePants - Naughty Nautical Neighbours Nickelodeon
SpongeBob SquarePants - Squidward is My Best Friend
Names in other languages[]
| Language | Name | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic | شقاوة جيران shaqawat jiran |
Naughty Neighbors |
| Dutch | Een verre buur is beter dan een goede vriend | A Distant Neighbor Is Better than a Good Friend (Reference to Dutch saying "A good neighbor is better than a distant friend") |
| French | La zizanie | The Mischief |
| German | Freunde und Nachbarn | Friends and Neighbors |
| Italian | Un vicino conteso | A Disputed Neighbor |
| Polish | Nieznośni sąsiedzi | Insufferable Neighbors |
| Russian | Капризные соседи Kapriznyye sosedi |
Capricious Neighbors |
| Spanish (Latin America) | Traviesos vecinos náuticos | Naughty Nautical Neighbors |
| Spanish (Spain) | Traviesos vecinos | Naughty Neighbors |
References[]
- ^ Cable Guide (UK) January 2000 - pg. 58
- ^ Juice! - 2000 - YouTube
- ^ SpongeBob SquarePants: SuperSponge Development Archives - Internet Archive
- ^ https://twitter.com/RareHomeMedia/status/1504890579662118917
- ^ https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/29908-Naughty-Nautical-Neighbors
- ^ March 15, 2004 - Nickstory
- ^ March 2, 2007 - Nickstory
- ^ April 13, 2007 - Nickstory
- ^ April 14, 2007 - Nickstory
- ^ August 9, 2010 - Nickstory
- ^ April 1, 2017 - Nickstory
- ^ July 5, 2021 - Nickstory
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