Fools in April (Episode)

Fools in April
© Viacom
Episode No.:	19a
Season:	1
Airdate:	April 1, 2000
Previous Episode:	Walking Small
Next Episode:	Neptune's Spatula
Characters	Voice actors
SpongeBob SquarePants	Tom Kenny
Sandy Cheeks	Carolyn Lawrence
Patrick Star	Bill Fagerbakke
Squidward Tentacles	Rodger Bumpass
Gary the Snail	Tom Kenny
Eugene H. Krabs	Clancy Brown
The first appearance of Mama Tentacles © Paramount Global

Fools in April is an episode from Season 1. In the episode, Squidward is annoyed of SpongeBob's April Fool's pranks. He plots a demise for SpongeBob that leaves the customers of the Krusty Krab unhappy, and Squidward has no choice but to apologize.

Info

Characters

Places

Krusty Krab
Outside SpongeBob's House

Plot

SpongeBob wakes up, and realizes that it is April Fools Day. He begins the day with playing a prank to his snail, Gary (who cries because he does not know it is April Fools Day and the joke involves killed mollusks (Crushed Clam shells)...which Gary is), then goes to work. Squidward, annoyed by the laughing, looks at the calendar. He is shocked and surprised that it is April Fools Day, and calls Mr. Krabs saying he is sick. Mr. Krabs says that there is some person in his office who wants to sell Squidward's art. Squidward immediately rushes to his office, only to find that it was a prank. Squidward resigns, but gets his job back after being persuaded by SpongeBob.

SpongeBob is then constantly doing pranks with his tongue, and his laughs really annoy Squidward. Therefore, Squidward does a prank on him. He gets a blob of mustard in the middle of a lasso. SpongeBob goes to clean it up, and Squidward, declaring "April Fools!", chops a nearby rope, which causes the lasso to close on SpongeBob's leg and sends him flying into a bag of flour, a wall, a customers carcass, and the ceiling, getting seriously hurt. Knowing that SpongeBob will fall, Squidward runs to "catch" him. SpongeBob falls, and Squidward causes SpongeBob to land in a garbage can, which he dumps him out of before gloating "April Fools, you little sausage!" Squidward laughs hard out, while SpongeBob cries hysterically and runs away to his house. The customers aren't happy with Squidward around, so they leave, one of them telling him "April Fools, jerk." Squidward has to apologize, but he cannot say he is sorry. He thinks of other ways to apologize to SpongeBob, but all do not work until he decides to apologize after remembering what happened.

Associated Production Music

Killer Birds - Gregor F. Narholz (Images of Patrick, Tom and Mama Tentacles making Squidward feel sad.)

Trivia/Goofs

The Pixar short Mater and the Ghost Light parodies this episode.
The episode is a reference to the line Fools in Paradise.
Squidward's mother was very different looking than in other episodes.
In this episode, Squidward's mother sounds like a man.
Squidward's mother's line, "You stink!" was reused from Pickles and would be used again in the full length movie Truth or Square.
Bubble Bass is gray.
Gary would have died from eating the salted shells as salt is toxic to sea snails.