Squidward as Santa in "Christmas Who?"
Squidward as Winter Squidler in "The 12 Days of Nickmas".
Squidward Tentacles is a character from the Nickelodeon animated series SpongeBob SquarePants. He is a grumpy octopus who lives in an Easter Island head next door to SpongeBob, whose antics he detests. He works as the long-suffering cashier at the Krusty Krab restaurant, and enjoys playing the clarinet (despite that he isn't very good at it) and making various forms of art, though his work is never appreciated.
Appearances in Christmas specials
SpongeBob SquarePants
In the series' first Christmas special, "Christmas Who?", when SpongeBob tells everyone in Bikini Bottom about Santa Claus, Squidward is the only one who refuses to join everyone in celebrating Christmas because he does not believe in Santa Claus. When Santa does not come to Bikini Bottom, Squidward gloats about it to SpongeBob. SpongeBob, saddened by the fact that Santa never came, then presents Squidward with a Christmas gift he had made for him - a homemade clarinet. Squidward realizes what a jerk he has been to SpongeBob and how his grouchy attitude had ruined Christmas for everyone. To atone for his behavior, he dresses up as Santa in order to cheer him up. However, SpongeBob tells everyone in Bikini Bottom that Santa has arrived, and Squidward ends up saving Christmas by giving away everything in his house to everybody. Afterwards, he receives a note from the real Santa, thanking him for spreading holiday cheer.
Squidward has a comparatively minor role in the series' second Christmas episode, "It's a SpongeBob Christmas!" Although he now believes in Santa, he is still not very enthusiastic and would prefer that Santa leave him alone. Likely since he is already a grouchy character, he is also never shown eating or being affected by the jerktonium-laced fruitcake that SpongeBob gives out to everyone in Bikini Bottom. When SpongeBob notices how nasty everyone has become, he initially asks Squidward for help, but Squidward refuses and suggests he go ask Sandy instead. Immediately following this, Squidward is then attacked by Toybob, Plankton's evil SpongeBob robot, and is later seen reluctantly taking part in SpongeBob's song, "Don't Be a Jerk (It's Christmas)".
Squidward only has a voiceless cameo in "SpongeBob's Road to Christmas", in which he is briefly seen during the Krusty Krab's Christmas party at the end.
Squidward's latest Christmas-related appearance was in "Sandy's Country Christmas".
Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years
Between the releases of the main series' second and third Christmas episodes, Squidward also appeared in "The Ho! Ho! Horror!", the Christmas episode of the prequel series Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years.
Other Christmas productions
Squidward also appeared alongside his co-stars in the Merry Nickmas interstitial shorts. In "Holiday Party" and "The 12 Days of Nickmas", he appears as Winter Squidler (a parody of the Winter Warlock from Santa Claus is Comin' to Town). He also makes a cameo, in an unusually festive mood, as one of the citizens of Toonville in "How the You-Know-Who Stole You-Know-What!"
Mentions in other Christmas specials
In the Family Guy episode "Road to the North Pole", Stewie does not believe Brian telling him that Santa Claus isn't real, and responds by asking, "Is SpongeBob not there at the bottom of the ocean, giving Squidward the business?"
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