"New Fish in Town" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 7. In this episode, Squidward becomes friends with his new neighbor.

Characters[]

• Squidward Tentacles
• Patrick Star
  • The landlord ^(mentioned)
• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Howard ^{(single appearance)}
• Incidentals
  • Incidental 42
  • Incidental 14
  • Incidental 34
• Jellyfish
• King Neptune ^(mentioned)

Synopsis[]

For weeks, Squidward has been working on his music and finished putting down the notes to perform with his clarinet. Before he can start, a sound from his neighbors leads him to dropping his entire work onto the flame of a candle that burned on both sides. Therefore, his work was destroyed. Going outside to investigate the sounds, he finds Patrick hammering a sign on his front lawn. When SpongeBob suggests Patrick to strike it one more time, the hammer pushes it all the way into the gravel, only to destroy the sign.

Squidward goes to his neighbors, complaining, asking what the noise is about. SpongeBob replies by saying that Patrick is renting out some property. A delighted Squidward thinks Patrick is moving out, only to find that he is renting out his yard for extra cash. SpongeBob asks Squidward to be on the lookout for takers who might want to stay on the yard while the duo goes jellyfishing.

For a while, the cultural neighbor enjoys peace from his neighbors, only to be interrupted by a resident named Howard. Lying to Howard about the rent sign being outdated, Howard plans to leave until Squidward says he is just kidding after Howard says he would have wanted to do many things that Squidward also enjoys. Howard invites Squidward for some tea and wants to discuss each other and the other neighbors.

SpongeBob and Patrick return, finding Howard's mobile home, and Patrick is excited about meeting the new neighbor who hates what Patrick and SpongeBob do. Knowing that the two would convince Howard to leave, Squidward makes plans to hide the peaceful neighbor from SpongeBob and Patrick. Thinking that the new neighbor is shy, they wanted to come back later, which was really soon.

When they are back, Howard and Squidward are performing with their instruments on some music. Hearing SpongeBob's laugh, Squidward tries to hide it by saying the sound is his broken clarinet. Instead of fixing it, he makes a wooden fence, followed by a stone wall then Squidward puts zippers to "shut" their mouths and then bulldozing SpongeBob's and Patrick's houses off a cliff, making the two follow it. Howard sees enough hiding and wanted to see the secrets behind the laughing and then finds the jellyfishers who are also playing with bubbles. Before stopping them, he gets used to the jellyfish and bubbles and become one of the annoying neighbors.

Dismayed and clearly enraged by what he is witnessing, Squidward states he can't tolerate the three; he angrily brings Howard's mobile home out of place and pushes it off a cliff. Squidward becomes disappointed for almost having a decent neighbor, so SpongeBob and Patrick try to cheer him up by having him pop a bubble. He goes along with it, but the bubble keeps floating away, a panicked Squidward goes after it, and jumps off the cliff and gets a hard landing, leaving him exclaiming "Jellyfishing bubble blowers!" at SpongeBob and Patrick.

Production[]

Music[]

( ‣ ) Production music

( • ) Original music

( ◦ ) SpongeBob music

 • A Pinapple Luau - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Title card.]
 • Steel Licks 22 - Jeremy Wakefield [Squidward's candle burning at both ends.]
 ‣ Drama Link (G) - Hubert Clifford [The sheet music lands on the candle at both ends.]
 • Steel Licks 54 - Jeremy Wakefield ["Now, I'm flummoxed."]
 • Coconut Cream Pie Dry Mix - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob and Patrick making a "For rent" sign.]
 ‣ A Jolly Jaunt (a) - Dick Stephen Walter ["Oh! Ooh! Can you smell yourself think?"]
 ‣ A Jolly Jaunt (c) - Dick Stephen Walter ["Oh, I would love to."]
 ‣ A Jolly Jaunt (d) - Dick Stephen Walter [Squidward checks his planner.]
 • Lap Steel - Nicolas Carr [Squidward's to-do list.]
 ‣ Hide and Seek - Arthur Wilkinson [Squidward drinking tea./Squidward opens his front door angrily.]
 • What the Heck - Nicolas Carr ["Huh?"]
 ‣ Hide and Seek - Arthur Wilkinson [Squidward wonders who is making the noise.]
 ‣ Befuddled Gent - Phil Green ["Hello, Howard."]
 ‣ Hide and Seek - Arthur Wilkinson [Howard lists his passions.]
 ‣ Befuddled Gent - Phil Green [Squidward starts mumbling]
 • SpongeBob Flashback Vibes - Nicolas Carr [Start of Squidward's daydream.]
 ‣ Hollywood Glitz [#10] - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin [Squidward's daydream of him hanging out with Howard.]
 • Clarinet & Bassoon Duet - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [Squidward imagines himself and Howard playing the clarinet and bassoon together.]
 • SpongeBob Flashback Vibes - Nicolas Carr [End of Squidward's daydream.]
 • Steel Licks 64 - Jeremy Wakefield [Howard is about to leave.]
 ‣ Dramatic Impact (2) - Ivor Slaney [Howard slams the brakes.]
 • Who Said That- Jolly Good Fellow 2 - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony ["Wait! Don't go!"]
 ‣ Flower Display - Jack Shaindlin [Inside Howard's trailer.]
 • Goofy Conversation Continued Thin Mix - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [SpongeBob and Patrick return from jellyfishing.]
 ‣ Bumbling B - Bernd Gesell [Squidward becomes nervous.]
 • Gator - Steve Belfer ["Did you see the way those curtains jerked shut?"]
 • Carrol Chimes - Nicolas Carr ["...and this brand new bottle of bubbles!"]
 • New Fish Duet - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [A duet with Squidward's clarinet and Howard's bassoon.]
 • Spongemonger - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Squidward leaves Howard's trailer, and builds a fence around it.]
 • New Fish Duet - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [Squidward and Howard continuing their duet.]
 • Spongemonger - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Squidward builds a wall of cinder block around Howard's trailer/Squidward paints zippers on SpongeBob and Patrick's mouths/Squidward pushes SpongeBob and Patrick's house's off a cliff.]
 • Steel Licks 46 - Jeremy Wakefield [Howard spots SpongeBob and Patrick blowing bubbles.]
 ‣ Befuddled Gent - Phil Green ["Repulsive! Somebody's got to stop these bubble blowing jellyfishers!"]
 • Slide Whistle Stooges No Whistle - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Howard joins SpongeBob and Patrick.]
 • Coconut Cream Pie Dry Mix - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Ending.]

Release[]

• This episode is available on the Complete Seventh Season, It's a SpongeBob Christmas! (UK version), New Fish in the City, Gary Falls in Love, The SpongeBob SquarePants Collection, The SpongeBob SquarePants 8 Season DVD Collection, SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 12, and Next 100 Episodes, The Best 200 Episodes Ever, The Seventh & Eighth Seasons, and The Best 300 Episodes Ever DVDs.

Trivia[]

General[]

• This episode was originally going to be paired with "Perfect Chemistry," but it aired with "Big Sister Sam," and then it got paired with "Love That Squid." ^{[citation needed]}
• This episode's title card is similar to that of "Porous Pockets," the only difference being that the scales on the card are colored differently and the scales point in a different direction.
• The April 1, 2020 airing used the April Fools/Rock version of the theme song.^{[citation needed]}
• Howard's bassoon is much smaller compared to a bassoon in real life.
• This episode, along with "Love That Squid," "Big Sister Sam," and "Perfect Chemistry" are not available on Netflix, meaning season 7 has only 46 of its 50 episodes on Netflix.

Cultural references[]

• The title of this episode is a play on The Eagles' 1976 song, "New Kid in Town."

Errors[]

• SpongeBob has a jellyfish net in his hand, but in the next scene, it disappears.

• Squidward builds a brick wall around Howard's trailer, but the window behind the couch shows the sky, not the bricks.
• When Squidward goes back inside Howard's trailer for the last time and says "I'm back," the brick wall from before is not there anymore.

Video[]

Names in other languages[]

Language	Name	Meaning
Russian	Новый сосед Novyy sosed	New Neighbor
Spanish (American)	Un nuevo pez en la ciudad	A New Fish in Town
Spanish (European)	Pez nuevo en la ciudad	New Fish in Town