Lame Lake Spirit

Lame Lake Spirit is an episode of the season 335 of SpongeBob SquarePants. In this episode, Squidward finds a spirit after dropping his axe in the lake and wants to get the spirit’s golden axe.
== Characters ==
*SpongeBob SquarePants
*Squidward Tentacles
* Lake spirit
*Axe seller
*Eugene H. Krabs
*Incidentals
==Story==
The episode begins with SpongeBob walking over a bridge and accidentally dropping his axe into the lake. Then, a spirit comes out of the lake and asks him if he dropped a normal axe, a silver axe or a golden axe. SpongeBob answers the question by telling the truth, he dropped the normal axe. The spirit gives SpongeBob the golden axe and disappears, and SpongeBob keeps walking very happily.
Then, Squidward appears on scene and wants to imitate SpongeBob to get a better axe, he's holding his axe, there's a close-up of Squidward's axe just to show us how broken and old it is. Squidward drops the axe into the lake on purpose and the spirit shows up asking him the same question the spirit asked to SpongeBob before. Squidward answers the question by telling the truth, he dropped the old axe, so the spirit rewards him with a "golden axe," but Squidward soon realizes that it's just some melted cheese put on a stick and gets mad, then he eats the cheese, and regrets it because it's wet. Squidward looks at SpongeBob, thinking that his axe is also fake, but no, SpongeBob's axe is a real golden axe, and that makes him get even more mad. He goes to a shop and buys an axe, thinking that the problem was that his axe was too old, and throws, on purpose, the completely new axe to the lake just to get the golden axe. The spirit appears and asks the same question, Squidward answers truthfully and the spirit tells him to extend his hand and close his eyes, Squidward obeys thinking that he will finally get the golden axe, but the spirit starts placing dynamite around Squidward, and Squidward is impatient to get the axe, the explosion makes Squidward fly to the sky and fall on the bridge. Squidward gets super mad and buys a dozen of axes, just to throw them into the lake, aggressively, the spirit shows up and gives Squidward all of his axes back by throwing them at him, Squidward avoids all of the axes, but the spirit left one, and uses it to hit Squidward with the handle, making Squidward fall into the lake. Squidward gets up and walks, he's still angry.
SpongeBob shows up and asks Squidward about what he's doing right now. Squidward tells SpongeBob that the spirit he got the golden axe from doesn't want to give him a golden axe, even though he's doing exactly the same thing. SpongeBob asks Squidward if he threw his axe on purpose just to get the golden axe, and Squidward doesn't even need to answer to understand what SpongeBob is saying, and goes home.
At night, Squidward goes back to the lake with some diving equipment, and gets in the lake. As he expected, the spirit is sleeping, and Squidward tries to get the spirit's normal axe, which is on the spirit's bedside table. Squidward finally gets the axe but the spirit wakes up. Squidward reaches the bridge before the spirit does, and when the spirit appears, Squidward asks her, with other two fake axes he had prepared, "Which axe did you throw? The golden one? The silver one? Or the normal one?" The spirit remembers that she can always buy a normal axe, but she really wants the golden axe because she doesn't have many of them left, so she answers with the truth, just to get the golden axe. Squidward gives her the "golden" axe but the spirit notices that it's just an axe with gold paint. Then, the spirit finds out that she just did the same thing Squidward did that morning, that it's not completely wrong to take advantage of a trick to get something you want, and also that Squidward didn't deserve the explosions, getting hit on the head or losing his axes at all.
The spirit forgives Squidward with a golden axe, but Squidward wants the spirit to do something else if she really wants to redeem herself. The spirit accepts, and ends up doing Squidward's job at the Krusty Krab, which stresses her a lot, and it's revealed that she will have to work at the Krusty Krab for a week. Meanwhile, Squidward has some fun using his new golden axe and playing his clarinet, cutting down a tree that had grown in front of his window.
==Reception==
The episode was well received by most part of the community, and got the 31st place on the "SpongeBob SquarePants Seasons 330-335 Episode Contest."
==Trivia==
===Cultural references===
*This episode is based on the story "The Honest Woodcutter."
Category:Episodes
Category:Episodes written by PabloDG
Category:Season 335
Category:Fan-made Episodes