17 Facts About Squidward Tentacles

Squidward Q Tentacles is a fictional character voiced by actor Rodger Bumpass in the Nickelodeon animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants.

Squidward Tentacles was created and designed by marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg.

Squidward Tentacles has appeared in many SpongeBob SquarePants publications, toys, and other merchandise.

Squidward Tentacles appears in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, and The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run .

Squidward Tentacles is depicted as a grumpy and bitter turquoise octopus.

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Squidward Tentacles resents his job and is irritated by his greedy employer Mr Krabs and by having his own resented neighbor SpongeBob as a colleague.

Squidward Tentacles's design, show writer and storyboard artist Vincent Waller said in 2010:.

Bumpass inspired the idea of having Squidward Tentacles ride a recumbent bicycle; Bumpass owns one of these bicycles, which he rides around Burbank, California.

Squidward Tentacles's voice is provided by actor Rodger Bumpass, who voices several other SpongeBob SquarePants characters, including Squidward Tentacles's mother.

Squidward Tentacles said the character became interesting to perform because of "his sarcasm, and then his frustration, and then his apoplexy, and so he became a wide spectrum of emotions".

Squidward Tentacles wrote, "I was sorry to see [them] pushed to the margins".

Squidward Tentacles has been included in various SpongeBob SquarePants-related merchandise, including board games, books, plush toys, and trading cards.

Alongside the television series, Squidward Tentacles appears in issues of SpongeBob Comics, in many SpongeBob SquarePants video games, and in various theme parks and theme park parades .

Squidward Tentacles said, "it took ages to perfect the voice and the way he used his arms".

Three times in the musical, Squidward Tentacles is stopped from singing, so that when his number "I'm Not a Loser" is finally sung in Act 2, "the audience is just gagging for Squidward Tentacles to finally express himself", as Gavin Lee described.

Since Squidward Tentacles tap-danced with four legs in "I'm Not a Loser", Lee and choreographer Chris Gattelli worked together to figure out how Lee would tap-dance with two extra tap shoes, as neither had tap-danced like that before.

Squidward Tentacles learned how to play clarinet for the part where Squidward plays it at the end of the show.