Welcome to Poorland

Welcome to Poorland is the seventh episode of season three, and the forty-seventh episode overall of Welcome to Fancyland!. It was written by Erik Nicholaz and FireMatch. The original episode idea is by Erik Nicholaz.
==Plot==
Squidward finds out about a polar opposite of Fancyland where literally everyone is broke. While SpongeBob and Patrick show their usual selfless acts of kindness by giving them some money, Squidward keeps all the riches to himself.
==Synopsis==
The episode begins with a wide open to the entrance for Fancyland. Zee French Scientist is sitting on a bench.
“Ah, the sea… Yeah, it’s the sea. What did you expect, space? Anyway, this pathetic story happened on… I dunno, Monday, Wednesday… Of 20-something year… I can’t count.”
The scene cuts to Squidward’s house, where he is practicing his clarinet.
Squidward is playing his clarinet miserably. “Yep, if I gotta live fancy, I gotta play fancy!” he says. “Don’t you think so, my 492 self-portraits?”
“You’re terrible, dude,” the 293rd portrait says to him.
“Well, thank you!” Squidward responds. “You always know how to cheer me up.”
“Get bent.”
“Again, thanks for the words of kindness!” Squidward continues playing his clarinet.
“Okay, I can’t take it anymore,” the 194th portrait says. He takes a knife that the 421st portrait is carrying and “kills” himself with it.
Just as Squidward is playing, he hears SpongeBob and Patrick laughing outside, which breaks Squidward’s clarinet.
“Ahhh, finally, sweet release…” the 49th portrait sighs.
Squidward is distraught. “Clarry!!!” Squidward opens the window angrily. “What are you morons up to NOW?!”
SpongeBob is dressed in a king outfit from “Bossy Boots”. “We’re playing “Prince and the Pauper”! Wanna join us?”
“And what’s so funny about this game, may I ask?” Squidward demands.
Patrick is with SpongeBob, dressed in rags. “It’s just fun to pretend! Watch!” He starts “pretending”. “Please, kind sir, may I have some of your riches to feed my family?”
“Never, you filthy bum!” SpongeBob responds, also playing along. “You moochers ruin my good rich name! Now step away from my doorstep and stop walking on my clean carpet with your dirty feet!” SpongeBob pushes Patrick away with his scepter as they both laugh.
“Wow, sooo fun,” Squidward remarks unenthusiastically. “Listen, can you play a little less loudly? I’m trying to play here myself. Well, tried until you broke my clarinet with your loud noises!”
“Well, sorry, it’s not our fault you’re such a party pooper,” SpongeBob says to him.
“Idiots.” Squidward closes the window. “I’ll just watch some television to free my mind from these morons.” He turns on the TV and lands on the news channel. “Huh. News. Let’s see some plot exposition.”
“This is field reporter and former Christian advocate Church Curtains coming to you live with some plot exposition.”
“Knew it,” Squidward says.
“Just now, two local loonies that prefer to call themselves SpongeBob and Patrick discovered a polar opposite of Fancyland that is located just next to it. I wonder why no one discovered it earlier. Probably because its citizens are so poor that it’s completely invisible to rich folk. Oh, and here’s the “queen” of said city. Queen Ragdoll, how do you feel about being inferior to us?”
Queen Ragdoll is scratching herself as she is being interviewed. “Uh… Well, I…” She nervously looks at the camera while shaking, then she yells. “MMOOONNEEEEEEYYY!!!!!!!!!” She lunges at the camera as the “Technical Difficulties” screen appears.
“Hah. Polar opposite. What nonsense.” Squidward walks out of the house. “But hey, what the hell, let’s check it out, shall we?”
Squidward walks to the very end of Fancyland, noticing a golden road that becomes decrepit halfway through due to leading to Poorland.
“Ew! I can’t step on it with my rich clean tentacles!” Squidward puts on some slippers. “I was going to throw them out anyway.” He walks along Poorland while looking at old ruined buildings and unkempt citizens. “Such poor souls… Heh, get it? Poor in, like, miserable and…”
SpongeBob jumps in front of him. “Squidward! I’m so glad you came!”
“I haven’t even started.”
“Wha?”
“Never mind. Anyway, how did you two even discover this town?”
“Oh, it’s a loooong story! But I’ll abridge it so you can better understand. So, Patrick and I were walking to the Krusty Krab and…”
Squidward interrupts. “Actually, no, I don’t want to know. What was so interesting about it that led you to telling about this on the news?”
“Just look at all these poor fish, Squidward! Penniless, hungry, sick… We can’t leave them like this!”
“Yeah!” Patrick butts in. “So we decided we should give them some of our cash!”
“What?!” Squidward shouts. “I thought Fancyland law permitted giving money to mortals!”
Patrick scratches his shoulder. “Um… No?”
“Yeah, I don’t recall there ever being such a law,” SpongeBob says. “Nevertheless, we will try to do anything to save these poor souls from starvation and homelessness, for we are the selfless of all selfless creatures under the ocean!”
While SpongeBob is speaking, someone bumps into him. He then notices it’s his cousin Stanley, who’s now wearing rags.
“Cousin Stanley!” SpongeBob shouts.
“Cousin SpongeBob!” Stanley shouts back.
“What are you doing here?” SpongeBob asks.
“Uncle Sherm got really fed up with me, so he sent me here to live for a few months.”
“But I haven’t heard from you in over 15 years!”
“Yeah, the situation escalated a little bit more than I imagined…”
Patrick then notices his cousin Ed. “Hi, cousin Ed!” he says to him.
“Please don’t talk to me,” Ed responds coldly.
“He was… (dolphin chirp)ed as a child,” Patrick whispers to SpongeBob.
“Oooohhhh…” SpongeBob says.
Squidward notices Squilliam next to them. “Squilliam Fancyson? Living in this dump?!”
“Don’t judge me!” Squilliam says, shielding himself with his tentacles. “It was their idea!”
“And I thought I was a loser!” Squidward laughs.
“It’s a living hell here! Everyone who moves into Poorland automatically becomes poor!”
“Well, why don’t you move out then?”
“That’s the thing. I can’t. In fact, NO ONE can!”
SpongeBob pipes in. “Then it’s the perfect opportunity for us to give money to the poor! Our selfless acts shall not go unnoticed!”
SpongeBob and Patrick run back to Fancyland to get cash, which they throw to fish who fight over it like savages.
“Join us, Squidward!” Patrick shouts.
“Oh no, I’m not giving my riches to these hobos!” Squidward says snobbily.
“Then we’ll make you,” SpongeBob says.
SpongeBob and Patrick begin crowding Squidward, so he runs into his house to hide all his riches into a huge safe, which he then swallows… somehow.
“You won’t get my money now!” Squidward says.
“Okay, Squidward. You win,” SpongeBob says.
“That’s what you get for trying to-” Squidward hears noises outside his house, and when he looks out, he notices Fancyland residents carrying their money towards Poorland. “What the?...”
Church Curtains is reporting the news on the somehow working TV. “A donation movement started by SpongeBob and Patrick had spread throughout the entire town, with everyone participating in giving out all their riches to the poor.”
Squidward’s jaw physically drops. “Whaaaaaaaaaaa????”
“At this rate, Fancyland will go broke in about an hour… But hey, who am I to complain, anyway? This was Church Curtains with your daily news, reminding you to never, ever touch kids in private areas. Trust me, speaking from experience here.”
“What in the FISHPASTE did you two imbeciles do???” Squidward demands.
“We acted selflessly,” SpongeBob answers.
“You acted foolishly, that’s how you acted! The entire town’s about to go poor!”
SpongeBob shrugs. “Not our problem.”
SpongeBob and Patrick run out while Poorland gets filled with riches and Fancyland becomes deserted, eventually turning Poorland into a full copy of Fancyland.
“Well… Looks like we’re the ones who are poor now,” Squidward says, visibly irritated.
“Not for long!” Patrick pushes the newly upgraded Poorland to where Fancyland originally was and the abandoned Fancyland to Poorland’s place. “I knew this method would eventually work!”
“Huh,” SpongeBob remarks. “Well, at least the status quo is not damaged.”
Squilliam’s phone rings, as he answers it.
“Mr. Fancyson, sanitation service speaking. Your belongings are now urchin-free and you can now go back home.”
“Well, seems like my stay here is over,” Squilliam says. A helicopter flies over to him as he jumps on it and flies away. “So long, filthy bums!”
“Well that was weird,” SpongeBob and Stanley say in unison.
The episode ends.
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