The Thing (Episode)

Characters

• Squidward
• Spongebob Squarepants
• Patrick
• Other random Bikini Bottomites

Plot

   Squidward wants to watch TV.However,Spongebob and Patrick keep asking him questions about the hot clarient player channel

and make Squidward keep changing the channel.Finally,he gives up his TV time to watch his favorite clarient player to his most dismayed neighbors and go ride his bycicle.However,a cement truck loader carries him and the truck crushes him with lots of cement.The cement soon dries up and Squidward transforms into The Thing and he also ends up in Jellyfish Fields.

   There,Squidward complains about himself.He's hungry,lost,tired,and the only good thing he has is no Spongebob.However,

Spongebob and Patrick are jellyfishing.Then,they spot The Thing.Spongebob and Patrick think that The Thing is an endangered species.Spongebob and Patrick decided to take Squidward home.The Thing tries to get back in his house but Patrick tells him that Squidward is in the house.In Spongebob's pineapple house,they name him Smelly and soon Gary attacks him. Spongebob and Patrick decide that Smelly should be Patrick's pet.

   In Patrick's rockhome,Patrick wants to play ball catch with The Thing.However,the Thing is getting a ricochet,and soon

the Thing gets so angry that he throws the ball at Squidward.Patrick is suddenly very afraid and calls the Animal Control.The police arrive very quickly and catch the Thing at the Easter Island head.Spongebob tries to defend the Thing but the policemen win the battle and they place the Thing in the zoo exhibit Unknown Species.Spongebob and Patrick visit the zoo and think that it's not right for the Thing to live a miserable life being laughed at by people at the zoo.At nightime,they get inside his zoocage and try to free him.However,INTERPOL surrounds them and jump into the Thing's zoo exhibit to capture Spongebob and Patrick.They run back inside the Thing's homecave and dive into a sewerhole while the policemen run through the sewerhole lid.

    While walking into the sewer,Spongebob and Patrick find a mysterious rainforest with species that look exactly like the

Thing.Spongebob and Patrick decide to let the Thing live the animal species.The animal species carry the Thing to their home, and soon the Thing realizes that they live with the very hot clarinet player on television.Squidward decides to enjoy life, but soon the clarinet music causes the Thing's cement skin shell to break,and Squidward is free but is still with the species.

Trivia

• Squidward's alter ego as the cement covered squid name The Thing is a parody of the Fantastic Four hero ``The Thing.