"Painting with Squidward" is a Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years episode from season 1. In this episode, Counselor Squidward is determined for his cabin to win the annual camp art competition.
Characters[]
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Squidward Tentacles
- Eugene H. Krabs
- Pearl Krabs
- Incidentals
- Kevin C. Cucumber
- Harvey
- Patrick Star
- Sandy Cheeks
- Jellyfish
- Narlene
- Nobby
- Kidferatu
- Craig Mammalton
- Perch Perkins
- Rea
- Roh
- Preda Tory
Synopsis[]
Squidward judges the campers' art.
Mr. Krabs announces the annual Kamp Koral art contest. Any cabin can participate and make a piece of art within 8 hours, and the winner will hang in Krabs' office. Squidward is determined for his cabin to win, and judges their art pieces. SpongeBob makes a sponge painting, Sandy shows blueprints, and Patrick has a napkin with paint splattered on it. Unimpressed, Squidward tells the campers that he will teach them to be good artists.
For his first lesson, Squidward has his cabinmates paint a bowl of fruit. However, Patrick eats it before they can finish. Next, he has Narlene model for the students. Nobby spits berries at her from behind a bush, upsetting her balance and distracting the students. Squidward demands that she leave, and when he models instead, Narlene and Nobby shoot berries at him. Squidward spins rapidly and twists himself up, which the cabinmates all imitate, to his displeasure.
Next, Squidward gives his students balls of modeling clay. He tries to show off his own sculpture, but Nobby has already rearranged it. Sandy builds a clay volcano, SpongeBob's statue of himself collapses, and Patrick makes a good piece of art, but then swallows it. Squidward sadly goes back to the cabin and says that he will not be able to win the contest. Sandy gets the idea to build a machine that makes art, but Squidward rejects it. Sandy, Patrick, and SpongeBob still agree on the idea.
A few minutes before the art show, Squidward is demotivated, but his other cabinmates encourage him to show up. Perch announces the concept, and a disinterested Krabs quickly shrugs off all the art he is presented. When it comes time for Squidward's cabin, Sandy unveils a large machine. Sandy pours in a bunch of art supplies, and it generates a portrait of the Mona Lisa styled like Krabs, which he likes.
The contest winner is declared.
An upset Squidward comes on-stage and complains that, since the art was machine-made, it has no soul. As he walks, he slips on a painting that Pearl is making. He falls into the machine, and the other artists panic and throw their respective pieces in. When Krabs throws his painting in, the machine stops and one last item comes out: a solid frame with Squidward's body inside. On the condition that it is the only piece left, Krabs awards it the winner and hangs Squidward in his office, who exclaims, "Art with a soul!"
Production[]
This episode was confirmed by Cartoonlounge.de on August 7, 2022.[2]
Art[]
Prop design[]
- Designed by Maddie Carter.[3]
Storyboards[]
Animation[]
- Director notes by Pablo Smith.[1]
Music[]
| ( ‣ ) Production music |
| ( • ) Original music |
| ( ◦ ) SpongeBob music |
‣ Blue Dawn - Tommy Reilly, James Moody [Opening.]
‣ Box Melody - Leo Nissim [Pearl pours paint on a canvas.]
‣ Royal Entrance - Thomas Farnon [Krabs announces the art contest.]
‣ Bamboo Tree - John Leach [Anchovies practicing tai chi.]
‣ Marimba Safari - Hans Conzelmann, Delle Haensch [Kevin and Harvey trying to climb out of a quicksand pit.]
‣ The Girl I Left Behind Me - John Graham Donaldson ["I will be the judge, and may the best artist win."]
‣ Evening Stroll - Tommy Reilly, James Moody [SpongeBob, Patrick, and Sandy playing a card game.]
‣ Dramatic Impact (1) - Ivor Slaney ["Art!"]
‣ Old Creepy Feeling - John Scott ["Does your thing involve pain?"]
‣ Dramatic Impact (4) - Ivor Slaney ["Artistic pain!"]
‣ Trout Quintet - Cormac Dorrian, Franz Schubert ["This cabin has to win that art contest!"]
‣ Pins and Needles - Tommy Reilly, James Moody [SpongeBob, Patrick, and Sandy scrambling to find their art.]
‣ Comic Walk - Sidney Torch [Squidward critiquing their art.]
‣ Drum Rolls (A) - Dick Walter ["Because I'm going to teach you how to be..."]
‣ Comic Walk - Sidney Torch ["...great artists!"]
• Harp Ding Sting - Nicolas Carr ["Wow!"]
‣ Comic Walk - Sidney Torch ["Though not as great as me, but you'll still be... pretty good."]
‣ Nostalgic Paris Accordion - Francis Lockwood ["First lesson, a classic of art, the still life."]
• Vibe Q Sting - Nicolas Carr [Sandy draws an empty bowl/"Out to lunch?"]
• Gator - Steve Belfer [Patrick eats from the fruit bowl.]
‣ Lost John - Jerry Burnham, Stephen Wade, Saul Broudy [Narlene posing as an art model.]
‣ Abstrakter Jazz 2 - Gerhard Trede ["You may proceed."]
‣ Hillbilly Stomp - Sam Sklair [Narlene and Nobby shooting spitballs at Squidward.]
‣ Follow Through - Tommy Reilly, James Moody [SpongeBob, Patrick, and Sandy's paintings of Squidward.]
• Gator - Steve Belfer [Patrick eating his arms.]
‣ Menuet De Prince - Georges Delerue ["Your final lesson, sculpture."/"Take up space, and be pleasing to the eye."]
‣ Hillbilly Stomp - Sam Sklair [Nobby's sculpture.]
‣ Gangway - Tommy Reilly, James Moody [SpongeBob and Sandy making sculptures.]
• More Hawaiian Steel Stings 9 - Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob's sculpture melts.]
‣ Gangway - Tommy Reilly, James Moody [Patrick making his sculpture.]
• More Hawaiian Steel Stings 24 - Jeremy Wakefield [Squidward's eyes explode.]
‣ Beauty Queen - Tommy Reilly, James Moody ["I tried to make them artists. Neptune knows I've tried."]
• Hgliss & Bell - Nicolas Carr [Sandy says she can make a machine that is good art.]
‣ Beauty Queen - Tommy Reilly, James Moody ["It's over. We can't win."]
‣ Capstan Hornpipe - Tommy Reilly, James Moody ["Hey, what do you say we build a machine and win this contest."]
‣ Another Spring - Tommy Reilly, James Moody [Squidward sighs.]
‣ V for Victory - Sam Fonteyn ["Counselor Squidward, we did it!"/"We're gonna turn your misery into ecstasy!"]
‣ Buckle Down March - Sam Spence [Craig Mammalton lifting a dumbbell made of ham.]
‣ Hit and Run - Sam Spence [Kevin's painting.]
‣ Surrealism - Jean-Michel Vallet, Claire Guillot, Patrick Chartol [Anchovy's painting.]
‣ Gala Premiere - Laurie Johnson ["Here come our next artists!"]
‣ Menuet De Nojaret - Lino Leonardi [Rea and Roh's sculpture.]
‣ Old Creepy Feeling - John Scott [Preda Tory's "painting" of Pearl.]
‣ Tales From The Swamp (B) - Ron Goodwin ["Don't you macramé my baby girl!"]
‣ Gala Premiere - Laurie Johnson ["And now for the final contestants, Squidward's prodigies!"]
• Vibe Q Sting - Nicolas Carr [Sandy's machine covered by a tarp.]
‣ Cute Machine - John Baker [Sandy demonstrates her machine.]
• Hgliss & Bell - Nicolas Carr ["That's remarkable!"]
‣ Lonely Heart's Club A - David Bell, Otto Sieben [Squidward gets frustrated.]
‣ Dramatic Impact (2) - Ivor Slaney [Squidward slips and falls into the machine.]
‣ Bart's Nightmare A - Charlie Brissette, Norman Mamey [Sandy's machine destroying the other artworks.]
‣ Capstan Hornpipe - Tommy Reilly, James Moody [Ending.]
Release[]
- This episode is available on the Kamp Koral Season 1, Volume 2 DVD.
Trivia[]
General[]
- This episode was initially scheduled to premiere on June 26, 2023 at 5:00pm on Nickelodeon, but was pulled for encores of "Mandatory Music" and "Friendiversary."[4]
- The date of the art contest is July 9, which is also the day that The Patrick Star Show premiered.
Episode references[]
- When Squidward's pupils turn into blue ribbons and explode, the explosion effect is the same one from "Dream Hoppers."
- The ending to this episode is similar to "Out of the Picture," where a character ends up being framed as an art piece.
- The glasses Squidward wears when judging the campers' art are similar to the ones he wore a year earlier in The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run.
- The painting of Squidward that SpongeBob makes in this episode appears in "Friendiversary."
- Frames from this episode are later used in "Friendiversary" when SpongeBob remembers Squidward.
- Squidward teaching SpongeBob how to be an artist is similar to "Artist Unknown."
Cultural references[]
- Many famous artists and their iconic works are referenced in this episode:
- SpongeBob, Patrick, and Sandy's paintings of Squidward resemble the styles of painters Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, and Wassily Kandinsky, respectively.
- The sculpture of Larry is a reference to the Ancient Greek sculpture Discobolus of Myron.
- Kidferatu paints a self portrait which parodies The Scream by Edvard Munch.
- Kevin's painting parodies the "comic strip" style of Roy Lichtenstein.
- An anchovy's painting parodies the style of Andy Warhol.
- Sandy's machine creates a portrait of Krabs which parodies the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci.
- Nobby carves out a statue of Squidward that is a 3D version of one of Kaz's Underworld-esque Squidward drawings.
Errors[]
- When Narlene disrobes, SpongeBob's pants and Sandy's blouse are not textured. This most likely a mistake by the animators having forgotten to texture and colored the Sandy's blouse and SpongeBob's pants by accident.
