Idiot Box (Episode)

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Idiot Box
Episode No.:	44b
Airdate:	1.3.2002
Season:	Season 3
Previous Episode:	Nasty Patty
Next Episode:	Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV

"Idiot Box" is an episode from Season 3

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Info

Characters

Squidward
SpongeBob
Patrick
Gary
TV delivery fish
Garbage fish

Places

Plot

A TV delivery truck comes and delivers a box with a TV inside it to SpongeBob and Patrick. However, they throw the TV away and jump in the box. Squidward comes and asks what they are doing. SpongeBob and Patrick say that they are using their imagination and ask Squidward to play with them. Squidward refuses and gets the TV from the trash can. Later, Squidward starts hearing realistic sounds from the box so he goes to it and checks if there is a secret button or radio. He finds none and keeps on thinking about the box. Later, he decides to watch TV to stop from thinking about the box but when he turns the TV on, the only shows are about boxes. Squidward keeps hearing the sounds so he decides to steal the box while SpongeBob and Patrick are sleeping. Squidward goes in the box and imagines that he is a race car driver. To his surprise, it works. However, outside, it is revealed that a garbage truck just picked up the box and sent it to the dump. The next morning, SpongeBob and Patrick find out that the box is missing. Patrick says that he hopes that Squidward is not too down in the dumps that day. After that, the episode ends.

Trivia

Things Squidward watched on his new television:
- A show about how a box is assembled
- An old man is describing a box in the form of geometry
- A man and his wife/girlfriend exchanging gifts (which are actually boxes)
- A boxing match between 2 actual boxes
The show that shows boxes being made is similar to the show, "How It's Made".
In this episode, Squidward pulls a sombrero out of a hat box and says "Why haven't I worn this?" He later then wears that sombrero in The Camping Episode.
When Squidward thought that the police were there to arrest him, it was actually sound effects about a guy named Johnny fleeing from the police saying, "You'll never get me alive coppers!" This is a spoof on a 1950s James Cagney movie called "White Heat."
Patrick did not hear any sound effects, but he knows about the second avalanche.
Squidward says "I hope they put some air holes in that box." However, the residents of Bikini Bottom do not require air for survival.
In this episode, after SpongeBob told Squidward he can have the T.V., Squidward's mouth did not move when he said, "Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!"
They seemed to have gotten smaller when they got inside the box.
When Squidward was being picked up by the Dump Truck, the box was flipped upside down. While he was in it, he remained unchanged.
When Spongebob and Patrick were both crying inside the box, it is similar to the 9/11 attack insteadly in The Episode Krusty Towers.
The title Idiot Box is a copy of Idiot Boy.
This is one of the ten episodes in which the title card has an animation. The others are SB-129, Pre-Hibernation Week, One Krab's Trash, SpongeBob Meets the Strangler, Skill Crane, Karate Island, All that Glitters, The Donut of Shame, and The Krabby Kronicle.