Choir Boys

Don't watch this one if you don't wanna become a captive audience! ScumBob, ScumBob, Scuuumboooooooooob

### Main Reason for being ScumBob

* SpongeBob constantly harassing Squidward on purpose
* The plot is poorly inexistent
* Extremely boring
* Lots of filler
* The humor is infamously annoying (e.g. the throat cleaning gag)
* The "captive audience" line
* The ending is really stupid
* Super slow-paced...
* EXTREME Squidward torture!!

**Choir Boys** is a SCUMBOB!-infamous episode of *SpongeBob SquarePants*. In this episode, SpongeBob follows Squidward to choir practice.

**AIR DATE FOR THIS EPISODE: MARCH 20, 2009**

## Reasons Why This Episode Is A Sour Note

1. Another very terribly written Squidward torture episode, why does he get tortured this time? Consider this: he refused to listen to SpongeBob's singing. YEAH, THAT'S IT. That fact alone just makes the episode incredibly frustrating and poorly mean-spirited.
2. In the same beginning, Squidward sees SpongeBob lying on the ground, depressed, and jokes about his loneliness. Though to be fair, it does show he is arrogant there, but it just doesn't feel that funny.
	* Also, the reason SpongeBob is lying on the ground looking depressed is that Patrick is away at a family reunion, **as if Patrick is his only friend**. But why couldn't he just hang out with anyone else like Sandy for example?
3. SpongeBob actually harms Squidward ON PURPOSE THIS TIME. Get this infamous line: **"What a lucky break! Now I have a *captive* audience!"** He's self-aware that he's intentionally harming Squidward to serve his own purposes and HE. DOESN'T. CARE.
4. The comedy is horrible as well. Various jokes take too long to play out, rendering them unfunny and time-wasting. Some of these jokes include:
	* After Squidward repeatedly tells SpongeBob "No," SpongeBob remarks "All except for that last one."
	* The Stupid throat clearing gag, which happens THREE TIMES IN THE WHOLE EPISODE.
	* Squidward spraying his breath spray.
5. Speaking of running gags, the story is also annoying and predictable. It is annoying because of the fact SpongeBob was refusing to stop pestering Squidward to join in the choir, and predictable because SpongeBob, out of contrived favoritism, would win in the end, even though he shouldn't have despite giving out a better attempt at singing.
6. The things that SpongeBob does in this episode go right into the stalker territory. In real life, doing something like that is considered illegal and that can get you arrested for it.
7. This episode has some of the most annoying voice acting in terms of Squidward and SpongeBob's singing voices:
	* SpongeBob’s singing voice is kind of annoying, depending on your view.
	* Squidward's singing isn't any better as he just sounds alright in some areas, but at the very last moment, he is just screaming at the top of his lungs rather than singing.
	* In general, the whole episode relies on making Tom Kenny and Rodger Bumpass give out some of the most annoying performances while screaming out or making the singing sound grating while recording dialogue for SpongeBob and Squidward during the production of the episode.
8. Much like most of the animation in Season 6, there's a lot of disturbing imagery shown in this episode, like Squidward's arm after BEING STUNG BY THE JELLYFISH, and SpongeBob's face when being flown up by the jellyfish. Even then the animation is still bad in terms of Season 6.
9. **Stupid and insulting ending:** After his place in the Men's Choir being taken by SpongeBob, Squidward becomes discouraged. You might think SpongeBob would've let Squidward become the double chorus with him, right? NOPE! Squidward only becomes the page turner, which he doesn't like.
10. As usual, SpongeBob gets away scot-free for abusing and pestering Squidward and gets rewarded for what he does.

## Reception

"Choir Boys" was universally panned by critics, audiences, and SpongeBob fans alike and is regularly considered among the series' worst episodes. It has a 5.8 rating on IMDb along with its sister episode, Porous Pockets.

It is ranked number 5 on MoBrosStudios's worst SpongeBob episodes. Mr. Enter ranked this episode as #2 on his Squidward Torture Episode list, and ranked it at #7 on his Top 10 WORST Episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants list. Jem Reviews ranks this episode at #3 on his "ANOTHER Top 10 Worst Spongebob Episodes" video.

PIEGUYRULZ extensively panned this episode due to his annoyance while watching the episode and the character derailment that occurred in the episode. He has also stated that this episode is truly damaging to the rest of the series and considers it not only the epitome of a frustrating episode, but worse than any other episode in the series, including Truth or Square. He has alluded to this by stating his "burning hatred" for the episode and through his famous quote, "Scumbob!, Scumbob!, SCUMBOB!" Similarly, A.S.K. Air considers it to be his worst episode as he ranked it at the very bottom of his "Ranking Every Spongebob Episode in 10 Words or Less" video.

## Redeeming Qualities That Are High Notes

1. It makes sense why Squidward isn't in the Men's Choir due to his bad singing voice. But that still doesn't justify SpongeBob’s actions for pestering him on his way.
2. It has a great concept but was poorly executed.
3. SpongeBob’s singing voice is beautiful when he isn't singing in a sloppy ear-rapey way or in a sloppy way.
4. Maybe SpongeBob knew Squidward's singing voice is bad, so that must be why he wants to stop him.
5. Despite being an unfair ending, the ending is heartwarming because SpongeBob actually does something nice for Squidward by asking him to sit next to him at the concert and flip the pages of the music sheet for him. This is one of the rare endings for Squidward that does not get tortured!
6. Depending on your view, the toilet and the toilet paper scene was pretty funny.

## Trivia

* This is the only episode to date where PIEGUYRULZ has said the word "ScumBob" in his review more than once. The video right there is for the footage of that famous scene. He also considers this on to be the worst episode of this series, even worse than SpongeHenge and Atlantis SquarePantis.
* This is the second-lowest rated episode on SpongeBuddy Mania behind A Pal for Gary. It scores a 1.81/10 based on 127 ratings.
* That Singing Face made a return on a YouTube Poop Spingebill Experiences a Horrifying NDE (Near Death Experience).
* This episode first aired in the United Kingdom on 20 December 2008, three months before it first aired in the United States.

## Gallery

"What a lucky break! Now I have a captive audience!"-SpongeBob, to one of his friends being tortured, 2007Ever wanted "The Splinter", but with choirs, jellyfish, and even more filler?A face of nightmares. At least it's prime YouTube Poop material...Bikini Bottom Men's Choir Studio.\*ahem\* \*ahem\* 'Cause this is filler! \*ahem\* filler night! \*ahem\*SpongeBob suddenly has the power to sing like a demigod. Is he the son of Apollo all this time?