Astronaut from the Ocean

Astronaut from the Ocean is the thirty-ninth episode and the twenty-first episode of Season Two in Welcome to Fancyland!. It was written by FireMatch.
==Plot==
Wanting to be recognized for something, Squidward goes to outer space to try to earn the title of astronaut. However, the planet he visits has different plans.
==Synopsis==
Squidward is dancing on his dance floor in his dance room, doing his classic interpretive dance. Jazz music is playing on a nearby stereo.
“Interpretive dance!” he shouts.
Then, he goes into the downward dog pose, noticeably wiggling his bottom.
“Wait a second, there are probably kids watching.” Squidward then stops the jazz music. “Heheh, sorry about that, everyone.”
Squidward then starts panting and leaves the dance room.
“Whew, that was exhausting. Good exercise though, my abs are in much better shape.”
A close up of Squidward’s nonexistent abs is shown.
“Well, if I HAD ANY!”
He then looks at a nearby poster of Kelpy G.
“He probably has great abs. I wanna be known for something important, like clarinet playing or a smooth voice. Nobody even recognizes my true talent. Hmph.” Squidward raises his head up in snobbiness. He then starts getting an idea.
“If I want to be recognized for something, I gotta be rich.”
Cut to a sign that says “Welcome to Fancyland! The richest town in town!”
“Well that solves that problem,“ Squidward says. “Now I just need to be recognized for something. But that's the problem… (sighs) I got nothing.”
He sighs, gives up, and heads downstairs to the living room to turn on the TV.
“Maybe some afternoon television will take my mind off it,” he says.
The TV turns on, and a clip of the first man on the moon is playing.
“One small step for fish… One giant leap for fishkind…” the astronaut says.
“Oh yeah, I forgot about the moon landing,” Squidward says. “That was pretty notable.”
The TV then switches to a homeless shelter on fire. Squidward has no reaction.
He then gets an idea.
“That's it! I'm richly rich, I can go to space lickety-split! Now where would I get a space shuttle?”
A thought bubble appears above Squidward, and Zee French Scientist appears in it. Squidward instantly brushes the bubble away.
“Would he have a space shuttle laying around for me to take from him? Nah, he's not that good.”
Meanwhile…
ZFS is putting on a space suit and is getting ready to enter his space shuttle.
“Wow, zat was a lot of work. If only I had a partner to back up zee fuel with. Oh well.” He hops in, and instantly burns up from the rocket fuel. “Why do all of my experiments fail?”
Cut back to Squidward, who is now looking up space shuttles.
“999,999,999,999 dollars? Bah, that's nothing! As long as it gets me to space and back.”
He clicks the purchase button.
“No, I don't want a free butt massage! I can do that at home.” He clicks the pop up away and orders the space shuttle. “Now to play the waiting game.”
(Three weeks later…)
Squidward is surfing through TV channels. Several sounds can be heard, ranging from monkeys to pop songs to even moaning sounds.
“Uhh… I’m not in the mood for that right now, heheh,” Squidward quickly changes the channel again, and the TV plays a video of Eelon Musk landing on the moon.
“One small step for fish… one giant step for capitalism!” he declares.
“Fishpaste, my stupid space shuttle still hasn’t arrived yet!” Squidward fumes as he tosses the TV remote to the floor. Immediately after, he hears the Ring doorbell noise.
“Oh yeah, I keep installing new stuff so often now that it’s hard to keep track.” Squidward trots towards the door to see the delivery guy on the camera.
“Uhh… special delivery,” the delivery guy says awkwardly.
“I wonder how they’re gonna deliver an entire space shuttle-”
The ground shakes as a delivery truck pushes a massive package off its back. When it falls to the ground, Squidward’s house jumps up and back down. Glass is heard breaking.
“Oh no!” Squidward yells. He runs upstairs. “Clarry, are you okay?”
He plays his clarinet to make sure it’s working. “Oh thank Neptune. I’d sue those guys, but what’s the point if I already have enough money?”
Squidward goes back outside to see the massive package for his space shuttle.
“Holy mama…”
The package unfolds itself, and the space shuttle itself is seen in its blue-and-white shiny glory. So shiny, in fact, that the reflection blinds Squidward.
“Agh! My eyes!” Squidward then puts on a pair of shades.
“Pew pew pew!” Patrick imitates shooting sounds as he throws sand balls at SpongeBob.
“Waterball!” SpongeBob yells as he spits in his hand and throws it at Patrick.
“Are you TRYING to get quarantined?” Squidward says.
“AHH! Reflecto is back!” SpongeBob screams, and throws another waterball at Squidward.
“Gross. If I get quarantined, I’m blaming you,” Squidward says to him.
“That’s fine with me,” SpongeBob responds.
“Hmph.” Squidward turns away from the two of them and heads for his new space shuttle.
“Ooh, what’s that thing?” SpongeBob asks.
“It’s a space shuttle, you stupid cheese sandwich. And it’ll finally bring me my long-awaited fame!”
“You already have fame, Squidward, from us! Besides, you live in Fancyland!”
“Just because I live in a rich town doesn't mean I'm famous, SpongeBran. Are you famous?”
“What do you think, Squidward?”
Squidward deflates. “Good point. You know what? I'm doing this right here, right now! I am stepping on that shuttle and I am going into space!”
A robotic voice starts counting down when he steps into the shuttle.
“Three… two… one… good luck.”
“G-good luck? Why would a spaceship tell me good luck?” Squidward wonders, and shrugs. “I'm sure it's nothing.”
The shuttle then launches upwards, leaving the world behind.
“I hope he’ll be okay, Patrick,” SpongeBob says to him.
“He’ll be fine,” Patrick responds. “Heck, he even survived a sea bear mauling. That’s impressive.”
“You’re right. Hey, wanna go stick forks in electrical sockets?”
“That sounds like fun!”
Inside the space shuttle, Squidward realizes he forgot to put on a space suit.
“Riiiight… I’m gonna die, aren’t I?”
Soon after Squidward says that, a pair of robot arms puts a space suit on him.
“Wow, I’m saved! Off to planet I don’t know I go!”
The shuttle heads for a purple-colored planet up ahead.
“Arriving at Purplena in ten seconds,” the voice announces.
“Purplena, huh? Something we've never heard of before. I'm gonna be famous!” Squidward cheers.
“In 5… 4… 3… 2…”
The shuttle then lands on the surface of Purplena.
“Hey, you didn’t say 1!” Squidward complains. “Whoa.”
He looks around to see a very purple-looking planet with several blue buildings all over the place.
“Looks like they don’t know how to organize a town right,” he notes.
“What was that about our town?” an angry little alien says.
“Where did you-? HAHAHAHAHA! This is rich!” Squidward bursts out laughing as the alien looks at him in disgust, and Squidward squishes him. “How tall are you anyways? One millimeter? GAHAHAHAHA! I gotta film this for the folks at home! I’ll be filthy famous!”
At this point, Squidward is rolling on the floor laughing, and the little alien has gathered an entire mob.
“Alright, CHARGE!” an alien commands. All of the other aliens charge towards Squidward and pick him up.
“HAHAHA- whoa wait wait wait, are you actually trying to capture me? This is pathetic.” Squidward tries to break free from the grasp of the aliens, but to no avail. “What?! Am I really weaker than a bunch of insects?”
“One more outburst like that, sir, and you’ll be on death row,” one of the aliens says.
“Pfft, HAHAHAHA! You can't kill me, I'm basically immortal!” Squidward says.
The aliens look at each other.
“Well, he's got us there,” one of them says. “Let's torture him instead.”
“Try me,” Squidward says confidently.
Cut to Squidward screaming inside a torture chamber, where all the aliens are beating him with tiny maces.
“I didn’t actually mean try me, dear Neptune!” he yells.
“Too late, earthling,” the captain alien says. “Your endless pain starts now.”
“Nothing can be worse than SpongeBob and Patrick. Those buffoons.”
“SpongeBob and Patrick you say? Gimme a second…” the captain alien types something on his computer, and a simulation of the two is generated.
“Hi, Squidwardierd!” SpongeBob says. “We're here to play Torture!”
“Yeah!” Patrick falls to the floor. “We're gonna smash you!” He grabs a club out of nowhere, causing Squidward to scream in fear.
“There's nowhere for you to run, Squidward!” the squished alien yells. “Nowhere!”
Squidward looks around in desperation and punches the fake Patrick in the gut, knocking him down and grabs his club.
“I knew Sandy’s karate lessons would pay off someday,” Squidward says.
“He's escaped! Sound the torture alarm!” the captain alien yells.
An assistant alien presses a button and a screaming sound is heard.
Other aliens outside are doing their ordinary things when they hear the torture alarm.
“Torture alarm?!” another alien says. “That can only mean one thing… Free rewards!”
“Last one to catch the prisoner is a rotten… we don't even have eggs on this planet do we…”
“You're weird, Bryan.”
Cut back to Squidward running away from the aliens. He is panting as he sprints out of the torture chamber, and stops right after escaping said chamber. Squidward gets out his phone’s camera and starts filming the aliens chasing after him.
“Wait a second. He's FILMING US!” one of the aliens shouts. “What are we gonna do?!”
“Don't worry, I'll handle this,” the captain says.
Squidward starts taunting. “Na-na-na boo-boo, I'm gonna expose you!”
The captain shoots a net at Squidward with a cannon, which covers Squidward, trapping him.
“Wha-?! What the heck?! No matter, I still got the evidence right here!” Squidward taunts the aliens with his phone.
“He got us there, captain,” an alien says in disappointment. “We can't do anything about the evidence.”
“Hmm… Barney, go fetch me… Project 669B,” the captain orders.
“Project 669B?! I thought that was only for last resorts!” Barney shouts.
“This IS a last resort! Quickly, he could upload it at any second now!”
Squidward is struggling to upload the video he recorded to the internet.
“Jeez, the internet speed around here is atrocious,” Squidward remarks. “It's gonna take me five minutes just to get it up. Oops, shouldn't have said that. Not that it matters anyway, because you guys are pathetic!” He laughs maniacally.
“Five minutes, captain!” Barney shouts.
“Is he gonna make it?” another alien asks.
“Probably not. HAHAHAH!” Squidward says.
“We're on the biggest planet in light years and we still can't find who asked,” the alien says.
“Ouch, I don't care.”
The scene cuts to a shot of Squidward’s phone, which is slowly but surely uploading the video. It is currently at 57%.
“Over halfway there!” he declares.
“Hurry!” Barney urges.
Squidward’s phone jumps from 60% to 90%.
“What a jump! 90% there! So close to fame!” Squidward cheers. He then tries to dance, but realizes he's still stuck in a net. “Oh. Right. The net.”
“WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!” an alien shouts.
“91… 92… 93…”
“I HATE YOU, YOU… YOU… SQUID FREAK!”
“Oh little one, I'm actually an octopus. But thank you nonetheless.”
“96… 97… 98…”
“HURRY UP ALREADY CAPTAIN WE’RE GONNA GET EXPOSED!”
“99… 100!”
“NOOO!” the aliens yell.
“Processing? Oh, that's a load of (dolphin chirp)!” Squidward complains.
Just then, the captain has returned with some mysterious mechanism.
“Just in time, captain!”
The captain uses the machine on Squidward, which crashes his phone.
“What the-?! NOOO! Just gotta power it back on…” Squidward tries to turn it back on, to no avail. “It's bricked!”
The aliens all laugh at him.
“Welp… there goes the fame. And the friends. I'm destined to be a failure anyways…” Squidward says.
“Well I think we've had enough of this sad story here,” the captain says, releasing Squidward. “Off you go, you big gremlin. And don't ever come back!”
Squidward trots back to his space shuttle in defeat.
(Meanwhile…)
A large guy in a ski mask is seen driving a motorcycle down one of Fancyland’s roads.
“It's finally time, an entire year of waiting for this moment,” the guy says, quietly laughing as the episode ends.
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