X Drops By Squidward's House

About

X Drops by Squidward's House refers to a clip from Spongebob Squarepants in which Squidward is taking a bath when Spongebob and Patrick burst into Squidward's bathroom. The clip is from episode 63, Have You Seen This Snail? (a.k.a. Where's Gary?). The clip became an exploitable in which other characters burst in on Squidward.

Origin

In the original episode, which aired November 11th, 2005,^[1] Spongebob and his friend, Patrick Star, are searching for Spongebob's pet snail, Gary, who has run off. Squidward, is taking a bubble bath and hears the two yelling. He sticks his head out the window and says to himself, "What are those Neanderthals up to?! Don't they know I'm busy spoiling myself?" Spongebob and Patrick then barge into Squidward's bathroom, scaring him. Upon their entry, Squidward begins screaming (shown below).

Spread

On October 25th, 2009, several examples of the exploitable were posted to YouTube on that day, including "Weegee drops by Skwid's house," which gained over 550,000 views. In the description for the video, user Ravage656 claimed they were the originator of the meme (shown below).

Ravage656 also uploaded this template video, entitled "WTF Squidward!?", on October 25th, 2009, gaining over 530,000 views (shown below).

Various Examples

Smash Resurgence

In February of 2019, the format had a renaissance on Twitter in the Super Smash Brothers community. On February 16th, Twitter user @OneMagicalIvory tweeted an example of the clip using King DeDeDe's attacks from Super Smash Brothers Ultimate, gaining over 19,000 retweets and 56,000 likes (shown below).

Other popular tweets include tweets from @FourScore64 (shown below, top) and @M__a__y__o_ (shown below, bottom).

Search Interest

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