Squidward Tentacles



"Everyone's a critic with Squidward Tentacles. Why must every eleven minutes of my life be filled with misery?! Anyway, he wanted to quit the Krusty Krab, and well, how did he ever get surrounded by such winning neighbors, SpongeBob and Patrick? Oh, please! This squid guy seems to be working for the Unified Capitalist Revolutionary Dictatorship, serving for Mr. Krabs and Richard Loud III, but now... he's making his next move: resigning from the UCRD for the Unified Soviet Red Assault Command... after realizing that his actions on striking against Mr. Krabs would making him a communist. So yeah, I know he's just movin' on to something better."

--Su Ji-Hoon, Power to the Cephalopods

Squidward Q. Tentacles is one of the main characters of the SpongeBob SquarePants franchise. He is the neighbor between SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick Star. He is a turquoise octopus who lives in a house shaped like an Easter Island head.

He works as the cashier of the Krusty Krab, a job he absolutely loathes. Squidward is a very selfish individual and displays an unjustified air of superiority.

He also has at least 492 self-portraits and is delusional about his talents, such as playing the clarinet, though hardly anyone considers him to be very good.

Although Squidward's name contains the word "squid," he has been confirmed to be an octopus in many interviews and episodes.The series' animators believed that giving him eight tentacles would have made him look burdened and would be too difficult to animate, which is why he is normally depicted with six limbs. Notable exceptions are the live-action sequence in "Pressure" and briefly in "Sold!," in which he is seen with eight legs. A squid has ten limbs, unlike Squidward.