Naughty Nautical Neighbors (Episode)

Naughty Nautical Neighbors
© Viacom
Episode No.:	4a
Season:	1
Airdate:	August 7, 1999
Previous Episode:	Plankton!
Next Episode:	Boating School
Characters	Voice actors
SpongeBob SquarePants	Tom Kenny
Patrick Star	Bill Fagerbakke
Squidward Tentacles	Rodger Bumpass
Gary the Snail	Tom Kenny
© Paramount Global

Naughty Nautical Neighbors is an episode from Season 1. In the episode, Squidward separates SpongeBob and Patrick, so they can't get on his nerves anymore. But they soon want to be his best friend and he only adds insult to injury, so he gets the contrary of his idea.

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Squidward, My Friend

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As the episode begins, Squidward has made a very good soufflé, which is in the shape of a little mountain with a miniature version of Squidward seated on a throne under a little palm tree on top, in his kitchen. After showering, gargling and brushing his teeth, Squidward returns in a tuxedo and sits down at his table to eat the soufflé, but SpongeBob and Patrick's laughing soon distracts him from enjoying it. Squidward sees 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 message can be heard.

Annoyed, Squidward makes bubbles of his own from the liquid of his soufflé, imitating SpongeBob and Patrick, but insulting them both. Thinking the bubbles are from each other, SpongeBob and Patrick become angry and get into a fight, eventually declaring that they are no longer friends. Squidward, sitting on a lawn chair, eats his soufflé while laughing, but in doing so chokes on the fork. Patrick performs CPR on him, and he becomes Squidward's friend.

Patrick falls asleep on Squidward when Squidward plays his clarinet, and Squidward angrily drags him out and also sprains his back. SpongeBob helps Squidward and becomes his friend. SpongeBob and Squidward decide to play music. SpongeBob plays a cello which he thinks is a bassinet, but he plays the music scratchily. He violently breaks it when Patrick interrupts, and Squidward angrily kicks him out. However, Squidward is greeted in the bathroom by Patrick, who is taking a bath, and SpongeBob arrives. As the two argue, Squidward runs outside.

Squidward decides to invite Patrick and SpongeBob to a dinner party (without telling either of them that the other is coming) in order to repair their friendship. When they arrive, they are still mad at each other. Squidward tries to get them back together by having them drink soda, but the situation quickly devolves into a competition to see who can drink the most soda and thus become Squidward's best friend. Squidward eventually runs out of soda and leaves to get some more. While he is gone, SpongeBob and Patrick hiccup small bubbles that make a burping sound when they burst. They find this amusing and become friends again, but because they drank so many glasses of pop (SpongeBob drank 14 glasses and Patrick drank 12), their burps create a whole load of bubbles that make Squidward's house collapse. Although Squidward never put his key in the door, he is able to open it anyway. He sees the whole place destroyed and tells himself that he made a mistake. SpongeBob and Patrick declare that they are best friends again. After Squidward furiously tells them to get out of his house, he angrily slams the door. Then, a bubble hits the door, which falls on Squidward's back. Squidward then cries, "Oh, my back!"

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This is the first episode in which SpongeBob and Patrick fight.
This episode's title card music is joined with that of the episode Help Wanted and the beginning of the episode The Smoking Peanut.
There is a chapter book to tie-in with this episode.
When SpongeBob plays the bassinet, he asks for an A. Squidward actually plays a B-flat on his clarinet. For clarinet players, this is a C.
This title card is similar to that of the episode Summer Job.
Gary's shell is smaller than usual.
In the first scene when SpongeBob is thinking about having new friends, he suddenly has five fingers before drawing his skin with a pen, but in the full shot of his hand, there are the usual four fingers.
Squidward took nothing with him to go to the grocery store. After SpongeBob and Patrick get their friendship again by laughing carbon dioxide, Squidward has a grocery bag and keys. Soon, on the floor, there is no grocery bag or key.
While Patrick saves Squidward, there is no glass cornering and blocking inside Squidward's house backyard square window. In the last full shot of the Conch Street backyards, the window has glass.
Squidward's house cannot be seen when SpongeBob and Patrick were fighting.
Even though SpongeBob receives an invitation to a dinner party, only soda is served.
- It is possible that the house got destroyed before Squidward could cook the food.
- The novelization of the episode does have Squidward serve some Krabby Patties before he serves the soda.