What kind of animal is squidward tentacles

Spongebob, is, naturally, a sea sponge. Patrick Star is a starfish. Krabs is a crab. And Squidward Tentacles is a squid As Buzzfeed reported on Tuesday, Spongebob Squarepants ' Squidward actually isn't a squid — he's an octopus. His color has changed slightly throughout the series. In the episode " Sandy's Rocket ," Squidward is shown to be wearing an old version of his nightwear. It is pink with magenta-colored flowers on it. In newer episodes such as " Sentimental Sponge ," Squidward is seen wearing his real nightgown.

In this episode, he refers to it as a "nightshirt. It is the third version of his nightwear. The second version appears in " Employee of the Month " and " Funny Pants.

It is shown in the episode " Bulletin Board " that Squidward has a tattoo of a red rose on his right arm. In the episode " Jolly Lodgers " Squidward wore a pink Hawaiian shirt before staying in Hotel Halibut to get some peace and quiet.

He later wears orange and red trunks, while he goes swimming, and when he enters the Jellyfishing Convention. In various spin-off media, he's slightly redesigned.

In Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years , he looks mostly the same as the original, but wears a red cap and a red handkerchief. In The Patrick Star Show , he has three pimples on his nose, and his shirt's collar and sleeves are yellow.

Squidward is considered rude, stubborn, snobby, grumpy, bad-tempered, egotistical, miserable, sarcastic, apathetic, pessimistic, hypocritical, and sometimes sadistic, but this can be explained by his work ethic. He views the world in such a negative light that he is rarely seen greeting anyone with a smile. He hates his job at the Krusty Krab and is often seen sleeping or reading on the job instead of working. Despite his temper, he is still one of the most intelligent and educated characters.

He has a cynical attitude, a grandiose sense of self, and sees others as uncivilized morons while failing to accept his shortcomings.

Squidward sees himself as misunderstood and unappreciated, blaming society for his failures. He is annoyingly pretentious in his pursuit of fame and is either unwilling or unable to spot talent and creativity, even belittling it.

He lauds "cultivated taste" and accepted standards. In the episode " Artist Unknown ," he insists that his pupil SpongeBob "show his method," even when it is painfully clear that SpongeBob has artistic genius. Furthermore, Squidward takes credit for creating the David statue when SpongeBob is the actual creator. His motive was to impress the art appraiser. In the episode " Bubblestand ," he belittles SpongeBob's bubble blowing.

Squidward is also jealous of those who are more artistic or talented than he is, for example, Incidental 41 , Patrick Star , Mr. Krabs , Squilliam Fancyson , and even the puppet Mini Squidward. In " Slimy Dancing ," Squidward cheats during the dance show by hiding in SpongeBob's body and using the latter's physical identity and talents to win the trophy. He attempts to steal the dance trophy after being criticized by the judges, only to be thrown out by the security.

In " Professor Squidward ," Squidward impersonates Squilliam Fancyson while exercising his power as a music teacher, preceding his arrest by the police. In " Sold! Squidward lies that a member family has moved into SpongeBob's pineapple and an 8-member rock band with several instruments has moved into Patrick's rock.

When SpongeBob and Patrick come to their old houses, he puts on outfits to match the characters that he made up. Squidward is generally portrayed as an overall failure. His musical skills with the clarinet are generally portrayed as sub-par, from mediocre to excruciatingly horrible. In " Sweet and Sour Squid ," Squidward's disastrous clarinet playing creates a mass noise disturbance throughout the town, prompting the authorities' arrival. However, there have been numerous exceptions - such as in " Bubblestand " and " Hello Bikini Bottom!

At the end of " Christmas Who? In " That's No Lady ," he manages to play a nice tune to woo "Patricia. SpongeBob was even on the VIP list for it.

It seems that he is capable of playing the clarinet very well by providing a full effort. He plays well enough in " Hello Bikini Bottom! He also - if the player plays well - plays well in the Rock Bottom mini-game in Lights, Camera, Pants!

He is also first-chair in the Bikini Bottom Orchestra. He often lets this success go to his head. In " Skill Crane ," Squidward's final success in winning from the toy claw machine goes to his head and influences him to use a construction crane; his out-of-control usage of said crane leads to the demolition of the future site of a mall, and eventually the Krusty Krab. In " Snowball Effect " after pelting SpongeBob and Patrick with snowballs, he takes the snowball fight too far and builds a massive Fort and throws a bunch of snowballs, believing he was dominating the snowball fight.

His overall artistic style is shown to be abstract and overly sophisticated, and his works are commonly panned by his audiences. His failure is shown to be due to his bad taste and arrogance, rather than a genuine lack of talent.

The entirety of his art centers on himself, apparently holding his very being to be an artistic wonder and never even considers depicting anything else. Because of this, he is portrayed to be the failure of an artist. In " Out of the Picture " an art dealer mentions that none of Squidward's artwork will ever have any monetary value unless he was "Out of the picture.

In " Can You Spare a Dime? However in " Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost " he has shown to make good art in some artistic mediums, including wax-sculpting, pottery, and even paintings, but gets no recognition for them. Despite his lack of success, Squidward is tireless in his pursuit of artistic achievement. In " Dunces and Dragons ," Squidly , Squidward's medieval ancestor, vowed that if he could not learn to play the clarinet correctly, his seventh great-grandson would be cursed tenfold.

Given how Squidward is depicted as a loser in most regards, it is likely that his narcissism is a defense mechanism to make him feel as if he has some form of self-worth. Outwardly, he shows signs of modest success: he lives in a big, well-tended house, with no signs of slothfulness, and finds plenty of time to lead an active, involved life. Squidward is well-educated and knows his history. He is intelligent and has a lot of worldly knowledge, especially compared to those of SpongeBob and Patrick.

Squidward is also a skilled driver, as he manages to drive virtually everything, from a traditional bike, a boat, car, and even a tractor.

When he is at the Krusty Krab, he is a lazy, sloppy, somewhat incompetent employee who has an intense dislike of the restaurant and its management, which is best exemplified in the episode " Krusty Krab Training Video.

In " Accidents Will Happen ," he fakes his injury and lies to Mr. Krabs for the sole purpose of seeking sympathy and having an excuse to not work. He does this again in " Squiditis ," where he lies to Mr. Krabs about having the eponymous disease to have a day off. In the episode " Squid on Strike ," he organizes a worker's strike at the Krusty Krab.

He even destroys the Krusty Krab, although indirectly and accidentally. However, despite his hatred for his job and the constant abuse and misfortune from having it, he very rarely ever quits and never considers looking for better employment.

He puts up with it out of pure laziness and stubborn pride out of the fact that he expects to let benefits come to him rather than trying, such as in " Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V " and " New Leaf " when Mr. Krabs threatens to fire him and Squidward lets this threaten him to go along with what he's getting dragged into against his will.

It is revealed in a flashback of " The Original Fry Cook " that he insists on remaining at the Krusty Krab until his clarinet career pays off, even though it never does. Other examples include " Can You Spare a Dime? After being taken in by SpongeBob, Squidward becomes a leech and consistently and deliberately ignores SpongeBob's hints for him to at least attempt to look for a new job. In " Banned in Bikini Bottom ," after the Krusty Krab is closed down, rather than trying to search for a new job, he waits around with SpongeBob watching Mr.

Krabs wallow in depression. In " Goodbye, Krabby Patty ," after getting officially fired from the Krusty Krab, Squidward takes pettiness to this but sees this as an opportunity to follow his dreams, only to find out that he needs better experience than 17 years as a cashier. Yet rather than trying to search for a better job, he begs for SpongeBob to help him get employed at the Krusty Krab Museum.

The most recent example is " The Check-Up " when a nurse threatens to have the Krusty Krab permanently closed, Squidward ends up deciding to help SpongeBob rather than ditching to let him do it himself, stating that if the Krusty Krab is closed down, he would "have to get a real job. As it all turns out, one of the reasons why Squidward is often arrogant and bad-tempered, especially the fact that he's rude and hateful to most people, is having to put up with SpongeBob and Patrick's loud and irritating behaviors, which sometimes leads him to make plans to get him to stop, although sometimes, either as a result of his arrogance or carelessness, his plans backfire on him.

This is shown in " Jellyfishing " where Squidward unleashes a jellyfish in a jar with the intent to make it sting SpongeBob and Patrick, in retaliation for making him get stung by the Queen Jellyfish.

In " Fools in April ," Squidward pulls a very cruel and harmful prank on SpongeBob that physically assaults him while under the manipulation of a rope tied to him. In " Suction Cup Symphony ," Squidward kicks SpongeBob and Patrick out of his window so hard to the point of fracturing the latter's buttock bones.

In " Dying for Pie ," Squidward buys an explosive pie to give to SpongeBob for Employee Brotherhood Day , oblivious to the fact that it is infused with a bomb; SpongeBob allegedly consumes it, only to reveal toward the ending that he had it in his pocket the whole time to share with Squidward. Although Squidward tried to make the last hours of SpongeBob's life meaningful and felt guilty for causing his doom, he expresses anger upon discovering that SpongeBob never actually ate the pie.

In " The Lost Mattress ," Squidward tries to get SpongeBob and Patrick eaten by the guard worm at the dump by having them trespass the fence while dressed up in steak suits. In " Sportz? In " Scavenger Pants ," Squidward makes up a really difficult scavenger hunt in hopes of getting SpongeBob and Patrick harmed. Despite his grumpy nature, Squidward does have a caring heart deep down, and when he realizes his plans have caused either harm or emotional pain to those he ridiculed, he is quick to realize the error of his ways and make up for it while he can.

Occasionally, such as in " Krab Borg ," Squidward is seen teaming up with SpongeBob, or even caring about him. An avid patron of the arts, Squidward has a strong affection for interpretive dance, sculpting, painting, and playing the clarinet. However, he seems to have almost no talent for any of them whatsoever, although he does play the clarinet beautifully at the end of the " Christmas Who? Squidward always wants to be the center of attention but rarely ever is. In " Best Day Ever ," he had a concert where he played beautifully and received thunderous applause from the audience.

SpongeBob was on the VIP list for it, which is ironic, considering Squidward's intense hatred for him. Squidward also misses many chances to become famous, even in his dreams. His lack of talent seems to go back to when he was a kid: in " Lost and Found ," it is revealed in a flashback that Squidward was a kazoo player in elementary school and that his classmates found his music so bad that they all ran out of school, despite Squidward thinking he excelled in playing the instrument.

All of his artwork, from sculptures to paintings, depicts himself in a way, even repainting existing works to include his face. He surrounds himself with said art throughout his house, a clear indication of his narcissist tendencies. These arts have occasionally been admired greatly by Patrick and SpongeBob, but are universally hated by the rest of Bikini Bottom.

He has tried several things to reach the fame he desires: hosting a talent show, starting his astrology spin-off, forming a band, and so on, yet he cannot seem to get much of a following.

He not only hates his duties but the Krusty Krab itself, and he performs his job rather poorly and with a lack of enthusiasm. Here's what we came up with:. Or maybe the other two tentacles are hidden and only emerge when he's on land, as one Twitter fan cleverly observed:. Nickelodeon Remember when we found out Hello Kitty isn't actually a cat and the entire internet freaked out?

For some reason, this name seems to really represent Squidward's personality.