Being tone deaf is very different from being deaf.

I think his musical abilities depend on his confidence. If he feels good, he plays well. If he's nervous or insecure, he plays horribly.

I honestly think he's not mean. he's just stuck between two dumbasses. I feel you squiddy.

A lack of fingers can also hider someone's ability to learn an instrument with finger holes.

What iiiiif Squidward plays the clarinet poorly on purpose? So he would unload his frustrations about Spongebob's annoying noises, so Spongebob and Patrick would eat their own medicine?

This is easily debunked. Squidward has put on a great performance in the past, but only when he's actually confident and in the zone for it. Most of the time he's too focused on becoming famous to really let his talent shine through. He's anxious.

Squidward can't hear himself because his inner musicality is of such magnitude that it drowns out the actual sounds.

Don't worry Squidward. You're not tone deaf, you're just cursed!

this theory is just as valid as laws of physics to spongebob

Oooh a theory. "There's a theory going around TikTok" And I am immediately uninterested and know this theory is bunk.

The bubble incident *was the curse* & him being garbage at playing as a kid was before he learned & got better up until the bubble incident

There was a whole episode dedicated to spongebob and patrick annoying him by making a lot of noise

It seems like squids problem is a lack of real inspiration.

So it's another easily disprovable with a single episode tiktok theory, cool. That didn't need 8 minutes, but you format and convey your video very well. tiktok really doing wonders for society.

Damn, he called squidward sexy 😏 Not wrong

Squidward has skill issue not tone deaf

No I don’t think it’s a valid reason why he’s not good at the clarinet sometimes and good at it other times. I think it’s more likely due to his emotional state and connection to the music just like the two octopi that were observed with the speaker.

Okay so there's a deaf guy. Interesting theory. Squid sounds good till he lost his hearing.

THESE THEORIES ARE ONLY GETTING CRAZIER AND WEIRDER

just the fact he can play well does indicate some sort of musical ear, so no, i don't think he's tone-deaf i really liked that section with real octupi and how they reacted to music. maybe it's similar for squidward

I personally think it might, and I do mean might, be mostly the curse and a little bit of him being into his music.

squidward is not a bad player, that is a common misconception he's excellent at experimental free-form jazz

That's so sad that spongebob's stupidity caused him to go tonedeaf. Because every action has an equal and opposite reaction so it was spongebob that caused squidward to react with blowing that bubble and causing this

Bro spent nearly ten minutes just to come to the conclusion that he doesn’t actually think squidward is tone deaf, just like “jk nvm lol” like what???

Since Squidward heard the very loud sound lost SOME of his hearing when the bubble pop.

JUSTICE FOR SQUIDY!

0:24 That cursor genuinely scared me thinking there was a roach on my screen

The issue of Squidward has a simple answer: EGO Squidward is a HUGE narcisist, he geniunely thinks that he's the only one in the right and everyone else is just a petty hater. We can see this in multiple episodes, one clearly when spongebob mockingly imitates squidward saying "Everyone else is wrong", at what Squiward replies "Well, that's correct" We can also see this in his art, Squidward is actually a great artist, dominating all kinds of techniques, but ALL of his paintings and sculptures are just self-portraits. Squidward is his own muse, only seeing beauty on himself, the reason why people hate his paintings as nl one likes a narcissist, and also his face is canonicaly considered ugly so that's another reason. This is why Squidward has never improved, he can't take criticism, he thinks he's just missunderstood and that one day someone will share his selfish artistic vision, instead of trying to take what people advice to him and try to do a geniune improvement, as he has geniune skills but he gets stuck on mediocrity due to his huge ego. Also explains the moments he played nicely, he wasn't thinking on himself for once, he was doing it for others, or was happy after helping a friend, or tried to compete with his friend/rival. He wasn't playing just for himself for once, and this guves us the key that he needs to open his eyes and start seeing the other people that surround him, great artists portray their surroundings and how they interacted with their enviroment, not just about themselves.

0:03 LOWKEY HEAR ME OUT THO

Bro, if Beethoven could figure it out from vibrations, I trust our handsome handsome squidman

haven't even watched the video, he's just tone deaf and it's a running gag. done, your question has been answered lmfao

The only problem with this is that he practices with sheet music so even if he was tone deaf, he would be playing whats on the paper and it would sound good, so he might just be bad.

A simpler explanation: he lacks fingers.

squidward just has skill issue

He literally cant turn tone deaf because of a loud sound, that can only make you fully unable to hear, which we know isnt the case

kenny g is a meme in the jazz world

My father’s wife is completely tone deaf but she loves music… and singing completely terribly to every one of the cringe songs she likes.

If we were to say that Sponge On The Run takes place in a different universe (another theory I saw) and that Squidward's ancestor didn't actually have the power to curse his descendants, the theory would hold up but it's reliant on those two things so not the strongest theory. Edit: Tone deafness cannot be caused by loud noises unlike regular deafness so it would have to be something else that caused it. The two main types of amusia are acquired and congenital. Congenital is from birth while acquired is caused by brain damage. It is entirely possible that after the bubble popped and he fell, he hit his head so hard that it caused brain damage, leading to his amusia.

i think this theory is interesting but i really think that Squidward probably just doesn't have that much confidence in himself or a particularly strong connection to his music a lot of the time. he comes off as a perfectionist who doesn't exactly have the right confidence, but he's really trying and he just needs a little push. i think it's less tone-deafness and more trying to be perfect at playing music all the time and thus never seeming to progress that much.

I think he just likes to play random ass notes like me

I don't think squidward has ears on his head...

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Rubber ducks caught in a hurricane.. i like that

My theory is whenever squidward is annoyed ir disturbed by SpongeBob he plays the clarinet bad because it ruins his emotional state so then he's off beat and disconnected to the music thinking about SpongeBob

Maybe when he is happy he can play his clarinet good I play clarinet and its hard ngl

Maybe squidward is tone deaf but an incident that happened when he was really REALLY Young before the flashback in the episode with the kazoo and Camp Coral may have caused his inability to make good music on most occasions

But hey. That's just a theory. A DEAF THEORY!

Plenty of Deaf people enjoy music, it’s not uncommon at all

I swear people think too deeply into shit, it's a gaff, a joke, a plot device. His notes were bad after the bubble because he fell from sea level to the bottom, do that and see how your skills go. Even then, every episode is secluded. Even then, I think the original plan was a sort of joke, that he is AMAZING at artistry, but poor at the Clarinet.

nah hes just a mastermind doing sick music

I don't normaly appreciate over analysing, but I liket yours.

They need to make an episode where squidward somehow gets temporary God-like skills at playing the clarinet. Like when that alien probe made Barclay really smart in TNG, or in Futurama where tape worms make Fry really intelligent and good at playing holophone.

Full disclosure. He originally played based on his mood. This is hinted at in a few episodes. When he was in a bad mood, admittedly almost always, he played badly. But when he was actually happy, he could play pretty good. It seems to have since become a running gag that he just can't play at all. Keep in mind he was playing good in tentacle acres as well, and it was quite a bit after the bubble incident. Just saying.

at that point i'd just quit

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It could be his clarinet

I'm still crossing my fingers for that snail video I really would like to know what happened to his first snail before he got Gary

He's just tone deaf, not completely deaf.

Sponge on the Run isn't canon. They even retconned the first few episodes of the show. I'm sticking to the bubble theory.

Also most of the time he does sound good or at least in the middle seasons they started it bad made it good then made it bad so it'd make sense again from what I remember 1:28 or maybe it's just random then I do recall it getting good again when ever they'd berate Squidward for supposedly bad playing

its all in his mental state man.

soundwaves in water is different 🤔

Tone deafness isn't caused by hearing damage that's ab old wives tale.

I think the original theory might be valid if you take into account the fact that the episodes are not in chronological order in fact I believe that the original movie is still the end of the SpongeBob story with maybe a few episodes placed after it

8:10 - what episode is this where he has a yellow clarinet?

idk man I play the clarinet and sometimes the instrument just does its own thing lmao

Oh hey this makes sense, Stephen Hillenburg (that's the guy that first made spongebob, right?) was actually a marine biologist, and he made a lot of real life stuff in the show, this could actually be true, we don't know what Stephen knew

OK, nice facts but Squidward is a squid

This theory sounds cool.

When will Mr. Catman from the Spongebob Bubble Theory Return?

5:28 Hey you know that squidward is, yk a squid and not an octopus? This claim is invalid because, as I said, squidward is a squid and not an octopus.

He's tone deaf

😂 You're WAY overthinking this. Squidward has a mental block caused by... you guessed it. Spongebob and Patrick.

SQUIDWARD TESTICLES!!

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no. it's just a vehicle for jokes.

Im the opposite of tone deaf. With all my music experience, Im near or at perfect pitch with my hearing. So when I hear commercials with bad singing in it, it will actually hurt to hear it.

Bit of a misleading title don't you think?

nah, his clarinet is just doodoo feces

he could just be playing out-of-tune

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Yes

widward

Excellent video holy shit

My partner's tone deaf while I am not so it's kinda funny trying to guess what song the other is thinking of. But no, Squidward isn't tone deaf, it's been proven that he can do music well, just not when he's anxious/insecure annnd not when his dumbass neighbours keep fucking things up for him. lol

it's because nick wants to milk spongebob. Same as with why plankton can't get his hands on the formular yet bruh, it is not that deep

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or maybe just maybe he is notoriously bad for comedic effect?

I'm sorry but I can't genuinely hear this theory out just because of your username.

so not deaf deaf

Or the show just has lazy writing, which leads to all these inconsistencies

I like this shit 😂

You don't go tone deaf from loud noises, it's a completely different thing from being, well, deaf. And tone deaf people can still enjoy music, this is nothing unusual. This whole video reeks of not even trying at all

I cant hear you

I don't think being "tone deaf" means you can't distinguish musical tones, but more dialogue related tones, like anger and sarcasm

Dam u very good in theory

0:24 that scared the shit out of me

wow

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