Squidtastic Voyage

"Oh, I'm sorry. I'm not in control of my actions."

"**Squidtastic Voyage**" is a *SpongeBob SquarePants* episode from Season 4. In this episode, SpongeBob and Patrick travel inside Squidward to retrieve his clarinet reed.

## Characters

* SpongeBob SquarePants
* Patrick Star
* Squidward Tentacles
* Sandy Cheeks
* Gary the Snail
* King Neptune (mentioned)
* Snellie
* Incidental 47
* Incidental 103

## Synopsis

Squidward is about to have a nice, quiet meal, but he ends up slipping on his pet snail's slime, lodging his clarinet in his throat, which makes Squidward produce squeaky notes. When SpongeBob comes and gets the clarinet out of Squidward's throat, the reed is still stuck in him and Squidward blames SpongeBob. SpongeBob points out the slime from Snellie, which makes Squidward furious at the snail, saying that he'll have a long talk with her soon. Then they go to see Sandy, who has a plan. She decides to go in a submarine, shrink herself and the submarine, go into Squidward's body, and retrieve the reed.

When Sandy goes to get some acorns and nuts from her treedome, she tells SpongeBob to guard the submarine. Patrick and Gary walk by and the former tricks SpongeBob into guarding the submarine from the inside. They go in there and guard it when Patrick presses the shrink button, shrinking the submarine. Gary runs away, and Sandy comes back and notices them. She then has to guide them to Squidward's brain. There, SpongeBob and Patrick start to hit parts of the brain, making Squidward lose self-control.

For a moment, SpongeBob and Patrick actually fight each other for control of the vehicle and land in Squidward's stomach, where the gastric acid starts to eat the submarine away. Patrick thinks of an idea: If Squidward can drink soda, then bubbles (gas) would surround them and it would refuel the submarine. Squidward drinks soda and then suddenly burps, creating bubbles. They travel through the throat where SpongeBob removes the clarinet reed by doing what he was "born to do," dance. The reed is removed and the gang celebrates, but is cut short by the sound of a self-destruct alarm. SpongeBob then races the submarine out of Squidward's stomach, but it explodes before he and Patrick can be turned back to normal. Squidward then goes home, while Sandy tries to get the duo back to normal size.

Squidward, keeping his promise, scolds Snellie for leaving slime while he was about to have his nice, quiet meal. He admits that SpongeBob was correct for once and remorsefully says he regrets blaming him for the reed accident. Snellie then cleans up her slime (while walking on legs) with a mop, and Squidward forgives her and tells her she can stay with him forever. The snail smiles, and begins cooking Squidward his meal.

## Production

### Release

* This episode is available on the Lost in Time, Season 4 Volume 2, Complete Fourth Season, The Ultimate SpongeBob Box Set, The SpongeBob SquarePants Collection, 2-Season TV Pack, Slimy Dancing, The SpongeBob SquarePants 8 Season DVD Collection, On the Road Again, From the Beginning, Pt.2, First 100 Episodes, SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 6, The Third & Fourth Seasons, The Best 200 Episodes Ever, and Nautical Nonsense and Sponge Buddies (Turkish) DVDs.
* This episode is also available on the Lost in Time VHS.

### Reception

* "Squidtastic Voyage" was ranked #47 during the SpongeBob's Top 100 event in the UK and Ireland from June 4-8, 2012.

## Trivia

### General

* Going by production order, this is the second episode of the fourth season
* This is the second episode where a snail has shoes, the first being "Your Shoe's Untied."
	+ This makes Snellie the second snail with shoes, the first being Gary.
* This is Clint Bond's first episode as a storyboard supervisor, replacing Sherm Cohen from this position.
* This is the second episode in which Squidward swallows his clarinet. The first was in "SB-129."
* When the submarine is bouncing inside Squidward's skull, the blue sparks are piezoelectricity, the body is electricity.
* This is the first episode to play the track "Tension Bits."
* This is the second episode to involve shrinking. The first is "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV."
* In the UK, this episode is sometimes paired with "Chimps Ahoy."
* In the Hebrew dub, this episode is called "יום בתוך סקווידוויד" translating to "Day inside Squidward."
* In the Greek dub, this episode is called "Ένα καλαμαρένιο ταξίδι" translating to "A Squid Trip."
* There is an online game based on this episode called *InvasiVoyage*.
* The quote "Sweet dreams, partner." would later appear in the online game *Reef Rumble*.

### Cultural references

* The title and plot of this episode reference the 1966 film *Fantastic Voyage*.
	+ The film's director, Richard Fleischer, returned to direct this episode.
* The dance music is based on the song "Floating Waves" by DJ Roadrunner.