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The Thing is a season four episode of the Nickelodeon show SpongeBob SquarePants.

Brief Summary: Squidward gets coated with so much cement after a bicycle accident, he appears to be unrecognizable, so Spongebob adopts him as a pet.

Time/Date: Unknown

Characters Present:

• Spongebob Squarepants
• Squidward Tentacles
• Patrick Star
• Gary the Snail
• Police
• Smellies
• Jazz Performer

Plot

The episode starts off when Squidward looks outside and it's silent. He thinks that for once he'll have some peace and quiet. Just as he turns on a public television program, SpongeBob and Patrick appear and come inside to watch TV with him. Squidward kicks the two of them out and gets on his bike. While he's riding, Squidward collides into a cement truck and the truck spills cement on him. He goes through a dumpster, hill and on the ground. Covered in cement and unrecognizable, Squidward finds himself in Jellyfish Fields. Immediately after, SpongeBob and Patrick come across Squidward and, thinking he's an unknown species of animal, name him Smelly and take him to SpongeBob's house. Next, SpongeBob gives Smelly a tour of his house. Gary doesn't take too well to Smelly and so Patrick decides to keep the latter at his house (because he's "always wanted a pet"). Once there, Smelly acts up and a frantic Patrick calls Animal Control. The police soon arrive and surround the area, and so Smelly is taken the zoo. The next night, SpongeBob and Patrick break into Smelly's cage and try to hide from the Zoo Guards. They hide in a sewer which leads to a place where a type of species that resemble the cement-covered Squidward live. The creatures carry Squidward away and to his surprise, the musician that was on the TV that SpongeBob, Squidward and Patrick were watching is there playing the clarinet. As he's watching the musician, the cement covering Squidward cracks open. (this scene was similar to Jellyfishing when Squidward's cast breaks after the Giant Jellyfish stings him).

Quotes

• Squidward: Can a hard working Squid get some T.V. time alone (sighs) SpongeBob! Patrick! Oh.. what's the point.
• Patrick: Could you turn it up?
• SpongeBob:Ah Squidward could you turn it down alittle?
• Patrick: Squidward what's this about?
• SpongeBob: Squidward how come he's so emotional?
• Patrick: Is he the bad guy?
• SpongeBob: Squidward?
• Patrick: Squidward?
• SpongeBob: Squidward?
• Patrick: Squidward?
• SpongeBob: Squidward?
• Patrick: Squidward?
• Squidward: ( Screaming) THAT'S It all I wanted to do was to watch some smooth Jazz on public telivision but appearently that's not gonna happen once again I'am gonna had to leave my own home just to get some peace and quite, argh enjoy my t.v. fpheh.

• Patrick: What?! I can't hear you because I'm screaming too loud!
• SpongeBob What is that thing? Patrick.
• Patrick I don't know? Let's get a closer look.
• SpongeBob Hi there stranger, I am SpongeBob.
• SpongeBob Wait a second maybe he's not a monster? Maybe he's endangered species?(Squidward Moans) We should help him!
• Patrick (Laughing) Yeah help him.Go away can't you tell nobody wants you! You're endangered!.
• SpongeBob Not like that,Pat we need to take Smelly home.
• Squidward(Groaning) Shaking his trying to shake his head to say no.
• SpongeBob Well Smelly, here we are your new home. Ah this will be great Smelly will be one big happy family.Let me show you around here's your bed Smelly.(Squidward Moans seeing his new bed)Here's your food bowl.
• Patrick And some kibble.(Patrick pouring snail kibble in the bowl and eating some)
• SpongeBob You can live here forever, and ever.(Squidward starts crying)Oh look at that Patrick he's crying tears of joy.
• SpongeBob: Well Smelly, there's one more family member you haven't met. Smelly, meet Gary.Oh, look at that Smelly! Gary likes you! (Gary attacks Squidward) Gary! No!

Patrick: I don't think Gary likes Smelly.

SpongeBob: Yeah, Gary never attacked anyone like that. Except Squidward,I guess Smelly can't live here.

• Patrick: Oh he can come and live with me!

SpongeBob: That's a great idea, Pat! You've always wanted a pet of your own! (Squidward tries to escape) Oh, look Pat! He's so excited to get to your house! Good-bye, Smelly! Have fun with Patrick!

• Patrick: (Pulling "Smelly" past Squidward's house and "Smelly" tries to get in) No, no Smelly. Squidward doesn't like pets. (Inside of Patrick's house) Hey, Smelly, wanna play catch? (Throws the ball at Squidward) Don't worry! You'll get the hang of it. (Throws it again) Again. (Throws it the third time) So close! (Throws it the fourth time. This time Squidward catches it with his eye and throws it hard back at Patrick on the forehead) Yeah! Now you're(Groaning)ahh Smelly!?! What's gone into you!?! (Patrick runs to the phone) Hello? Animal control? There's a wild animal loose in my house! (Pause) Sure I'll hold. (Music from the phone plays).

• little Girl: Mommy,what is that thing?
• Woman: I don't know but its hidieous, Right?
• SpongeBob: (At the zoo with Patrick) This isn't good!
• Patrick: You're absolutely right! (Holds up a hot dog) It needs must mustard.
• Smellies: (muffled voices) Mmmmmm?

Trivia/Goofs

• Sometime after Squidward gets coated in cement he releases an air bubble and when it pops Squidward screams. This is because of how the cement burns the skin when it makes contact.
• Commercials show that this episode airs on January 15 with the "Guide to: Revenge & School Records" episode of Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide.
• This episode aired in the US before Germany and the UK. Usually, it is the other way around.
• The episode is named after the creature from the self titled movie The Thing.
• It is revealed Gary only attacks Squidward.
• This is the first appearance of a military fish service and the military service bus.
• Second episode to have a title card that takes place in the Kelp Forest. The first was in "The Algae's Always Greener."
• This episode aired in the UK on the 7th May 2007.
• Forth appearance of a land giant clam, first three were Tea at the Treedome, The Smoking Peanut and I Had an Accident.
• In his "cemented" state, Squidward looked a lot like a Pikmin, a Nintendo Gamecube game character and Bloo, of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.
• The jellyfish in this episode are pink and purple, a reference to the level in one of the SpongeBob video games, Battle for Bikini Bottom, in which SpongeBob must defeat the King JellyFish.
• Also, the squid on TV looks similar to Squidward from his dream in SquidBob TentaclePants.
• When Squidward's cement skin cracked, it was similar to a scene in Jellyfishing when the giant jellyfish stung Squidward and his cast broke.
• When Squidward's cement skin cracked, he says: "Uh... Hi!" to smellies. It was similar to a scene in Bubble Buddy when bubble buddy leaves, and Squidward says: "Eh... Hi!" to a bubble, but then it pops.
• The clarinet the clarinetist is using sounds more like a saxophone.
• The music playing in the background as Spongebob says, "We'll be one big, happy family" is the same music used in the Ren and Stimpy episode Robin Hoek (when Ren starts dreaming).
• It is revealed Squidward likes to listen to jazz.
• Patrick said that he had always wanted a pet. Did he forget about Rocky?
• When Patrick makes a call on the phone, you are able to hear a small amount of the theme song from Kablam's Sniz And Fondue.
• Spongebob's grape juice box background is yellow yet Patrick's is purple,but later they are both purple.
• When Gary attacks Smelly, Spongebob says "Yeah, Gary never attacked anyone like that." yet in the episode Once Bitten Gary bites everyone in Bikini Bottom or this episode takes Place before Once Bitten.
• The clarinetist may be a parody of Kenny G.
• Why would Spongebob's drawing of a house be a regular shape when Spongebob's house is a pineapple?