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* In the episode with the Toy Barrel, For some reason the Illuminati Logo- the All Seeing Eye appears twice, one in the pile of toys in Squidward's house, the other one in the Toy Barrel itself. Why are they there? Who would want to buy an Eye in a pyramid for a toy?
* Why doesn't Plankton just sneak into the Krusty Krab at night to steal a Krabby Patty or the formula? No one's (usually) there at night, the security is nil, and the two times Plankton does it, the only reason for his failure was because he involved SpongeBob both times.
** Hey, I'm guessing this is where [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief]] comes in. I thought so too, then I realized that evil might just have a bedtime too.
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** How'd ''you'' find out what the secret ingredient is? And how are you so sure you're right?
*** In the episode where Sandy wants to go back to Texas, at one part SpongeBob asks her if she wants to eat one final Krabby Patty, and she replies, "I don't wanna eat any more fish".
*** She said she was "tired of fish food, SpongeBob." Not that the food was actually made out of fish.
**** Although it is worth noting that [[Squick|fish food is generally made out of ground-up fishmeal]].
** On the same vein, one of the *ahem* [[Jumping the Shark|Season 6]] episodes had a criminal being arrested for eating ''quasi-gummi fish'' (the policefish said that he was a monster for eating his own kind). Besides the weirdness of the blatant cannibalism joke, where would he get those? I mean, if he was smoking the Bikini Bottom equivalent of weed, that would make sense, but a cannibalistic candy? How would you advertise them?!
*** It's not that weird an idea. Sour Patch Kids, Jelly Babies, etc. sell in our world.
*** Maybe... you buy it in a back alley, like crack.
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*** Seaweed-''seed''. One would assume this is similar to how we use sesame seeds.
** Ummm...fish eat other fish. I mean, look at sharks.
** Yeah, it's only cannibalism if that species eats its own species.
** Well, if you're going to call ''realism'' into this, then Plankton's a good meal for Pearl and Gary, and Patrick can be eaten by Mr. Krabs and jellyfish. Wait a minute, that's it! Krabby meat is made from starfish.
*** One post-movie episode actually played on this by having Plankton think that Pearl was out to eat him.
**** But... she's a sperm whale, which are carnivorous and prey primarily on squid... if anything, she should be trying to eat Squidward.
***** Squidward is an octopus.
****** [[Overly Long Gag|So he would eat Mr. Krabs?]]
** Does that mean Patrick's the cannibal?
** Well, Sea Bears and Sea Rhinoceros (Rhinoceri?), nothing says they can't have (non-Manatee) Sea Cows for hamburgers.
** I always thought the Krabby Patties were made from sea cows since Sandy drove a herd of them in one episode.
* [[Fridge Logic|How do they have running water under the sea?]]
** In a similar vein, how come that Bikini Bottom's got a beach when it's already underwater? And how come that, in that episode with SpongeBob's bubble friend, a fish drowns because the bubble friend didn't dig him out of the sand and the tide came? I mean, the guy's a fish and they're underwater anyway, for Christ's sake!
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*** Their "seaside" is actually tar (Goo Lagoon), which fish cannot breathe. As for why it has a tide, volcanic activity.
*** [[Voodoo Shark|Does tar flow in rivers? Does it have surfable waves? Wouldn't the Goo Lagoon actually have goo in it?]] And while I'm at it, how did that 'wind whistling through SpongeBob's holes' thing work?
*** Plus, in "Ditchin", SpongeBob is sinking in the Bikini Bottom Tar Pit, where he is, you know, DYING. This means either it depends how sticky he tar is, or Goo Lagoon must be something else.
** I recall one episode where they said it was mud ("Ripped Pants") but there was another ("Sponge Guard On Duty") that said it was in fact water. I'm assuming [[Rule of Funny]].
** They parodied this in the episode "Pressure", where Mr. Krabs gives SpongeBob something to drink before he goes up on dry land... an empty glass. [[Don't Explain the Joke|Y'know, 'cause there's water everywhere.]]
** And during the Party episode:
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** And ''again'' in the "Life of Crime" episode:
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** Well, this troper always assumed that the 'water' is brine, much like underwater brine lakes...
* Why so many episodes make littering [[Serious Business]]. The first time littering was used as an offense was "Squid On Strike", but it was a minor gag. [[Seasonal Rot|After the movie]], it has shown up in several episodes. SpongeBob's Cousin [[
** I think it's because litter and pollution underwater would kill the fish by choking them to death. You've heard of all those dolphins who get caught in the plastic can holder things right?
*** But, [[Water Is Air|their water has gravity]], and their dumps aren't contained in a HAZMAT unit or anything, it's just left open exposed to the water like any other dump would.
*** It's a combination of Rule of Funny and a pun on the fact that underwater critters suffer because of human littering and waste. It doesn't have to make consistent sense in-universe.
** This troper is reminded of the song ''Alice's Restaurant'', which does involve getting arrested, by the FBI yet, for littering.
**** The [[Police Are Useless]], and it also doubles as a [[Can't Get Away
* Is anybody else bugged by the fact that SpongeBob casually ruins the lives of all of his "friends?" I mean, it's not even crossing the line twice, he just creates genuinely horrible situations for people.
** Pretty much only in the newer episodes.
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*** Or maybe they're beings that are to sea monkeys what humans are to chimps and other lower primates?
** Wait, no one has realized how Pearl is smaller than most whale embryos?
*** If we're going by the whole "[[David Hasselhoff]] is HUGE" thing, you only saw David Hasselhoff up against SpongeBob and Patrick, not Pearl or Mermaid Man or anyone. Sea sponges and starfish aren't very big in real life.
* Considering how many times SpongeBob has failed his boating test, can't they just ban him from boating due to some mental deficiency or something?
** In one episode, "Doing Time", in a flashback, Mrs. Puff says that she promises that "As long as a student is willing to learn, I will NEVER give up on them!".
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* Why does this show keep "[[Eversion|eversing]]"? [[Sugar Bowl]] one second, creepy show with realistic-like animation the next. Look, it looks cheerful but in the western animation [[Nightmare Fuel]] page, the show ''has its own page''. Are the writers huge dicks to be doing this so much?
** Maybe it's a misguided attempt to keep ''SpongeBob'' popular by making it the new ''[[Ren and Stimpy]]'' (the first big hit Nicktoon). As stated in [[Gross-Out Show]]: The grossness was '''not''' what made ''Ren And Stimpy'' successful! It's a shame not even Nickelodeon realizes that.
* Which one of you flatfoots stole my lollipop?
** Neither of them. Patrick ate it.
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* How does a <s>Krab</s> crab have a whale for a daughter?
** That one's easy actually. Adoption. Considering we've never seen her mother, nor is she ever mentioned. It's likely Pearl knows this already.
*** In this SpongeBob trivia book I read in third grade, it had a page that said Pearl took after her mother. Meaning Mr. Krabs' wife was a whale.
**** Well, if I said that Pearl was much smaller than a normal whale, that would be massively understating it. Maybe she got the size from her father.
**** [[
***** More like Hot Krabby on Wailord Action.
** Maybe Pearl's mother was already pregnant with Pearl when she married Mr. Krabs.
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** And Squidward has blonde hair, as shown in "The Original Fry Cook".
* In the bully episode it was a plot point that SpongeBob didn't have bones or organs, but in many later episodes he does have them.
** One, ''[[Negative Continuity|It's SpongeBob]]''.
** Now that I think about it, I can't remember seeing SpongeBob with bones until after the movie, so...
** WRONG! He's shown to have bones in "I Had An Accident". Plus, his brain has been exposed in an episode whose title I had forgotten. And both episodes came before the movie.
** His brain could be squishy enough to not be damaged by Flats's punching (Halloween Episode, btw), and "I Had An Accident" is both [[A Day
*** Indeed; that episode was the single least comprehensible episode of the original four seasons. Still funny as heck, though.
** SpongeBob does have bones in "Squid on Strike."
* If SpongeBob and Squidward have to pay to work at the Krusty Krab how are they not bankrupt and why is Squidward still working there?
** On the same note; why doesn't Squidward quit his job if he hates it so much? I'm sure he can find a better one. I doubt he gets a good pay, and he has SpongeBob and Krabs to bother him, so him being lazy there isn't worth it.
*** ''Brother, Can You Spare A Dime''. Squidward quit, and he became homeless.
*** According to the episode "The Original Fry Cook", the only reason he's working at the Krusty Krab is because he believed his clarinet career would take off from there. Also, Squidward has worked longer at the Krusty Krab, so you'd think he would begin to get paid soon after the series began.
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* In the episode where Mr. Krabs "sheds" his shell and makes SpongeBob wear it to his army convention, are his army friends too ''[[Too Dumb to Live|dumb]]'' that they can't tell that there is a ''yellow sponge'' inside the red shell? Seriously, you would think that being in the navy/army would let you see obvious differences in your best friends, but yeah, maybe it's just me that's bugged.
** Last I checked, the only thing that was really noticeable was the eyes; They probably just thought he had changed over time.
*** About the
* In the episode where a dream version of SpongeBob invades the dreams of others, why, in response, do the people whose dreams were invaded break into the real SpongeBob's house, wake him up, then yell at him about it? It's like it's teaching kids to yell at someone for being in your dream.
** To be fair, [[Jerkass|Sponge was purposely invading his friends' otherwise happy dreams and ruining them...]]
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*** Maybe Pearl was offended that SpongeBob was looking for Mr. Krabs' dream instead? She did seem disappointed.
**** But she was happy a few second later when she got back to her tea party, and also, Gary was angry at SpongeBob when he didn't ruin his dream either?
**** He was going into people's dreams, but he wasn't ruining them on purpose, it was all just his usually innocent clumsiness.
**** As for Gary being angry, it was because he felt SpongeBob was invading his privacy:
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* How did SpongeBob and Patrick get into the Cephalopod Lodge? Did they [[Instant Sedation|chloroform]] the guard? Did they crawl in through a plothole? How!?
** [[
* Similar to the water problem, it seems water acts the same as air in the SpongeBob Universe. In one episode, SpongeBob and Patrick fall down an abyss. I know they don't have fins, but they could have just crawled up like any Sea Star and Sea Sponge could. Same thing for the fish. Except for moments of funny, the fish never swim but just walk.
** [[Plot Induced Stupidity]]
* How can SpongeBob use the oven (and the lights, and the refrigerator for that matter) when they're under water? The electric appliances would have shortcircited from contact with the water.
** Maybe it's the same type of light used by deep-sea fish: bacteria?
** [[Water Is Air|They're really only underwater when]] [[Rule of Funny|they can make a joke about how they're underwater.]]
* Poseidon is pretty large, but he still isn't large enough to be a full-scaled person. Can he change his size at will?
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*** But [[David Hasselhoff]] could talk to SpongeBob and Patrick in the same film...
**** He could also move like a speedboat without kicking or paddling; I think its safe to say that The Hoff is an exception to the general human rule.
***** Don't forget the artist at sea that dropped his magic pencil into the sea in "Frankendoodle"
* Just how did a giant ape and his horse breathe under the water to beat up SpongeBob anyway?
** [[A Day
* If Squidward only has suction cups for hands, how can he play the clarinet? In fact, how can Mr. Krabs do anything involving hand manipulation when he only has claws?
** Note that, aside from a few instances, Squidward doesn't play the clarinet particularly ''well.'' As for Mr. Krabs, it's been shown a few times that he can seemingly grow extra claws when they're needed for pointing. Maybe he did a deal with Neptune wherein he gained limited shapeshifting abilities in exchange for his soul?
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** Maybe he majored in Restaurant Management.
** [[Villainous Breakdown]] perhaps. He used to be somewhat competent, around the same time Krabs started torturing him unprovoked he seemed to lose his mind.
** More like a case of [[Reed Richards Is Useless]]. He could totally make a living off his inventions.
*** Unfortunately [[Truth in Television]] for some people. It's perfectly possible to spend four years in college and end up in a dead-end job if your major was something that there's not much call for outside of teaching, such as Medieval French Literature or somesuch, and since many employers hire strictly based on the possession of a college degree and not practical knowledge, Plankton may simply be unemployable. My local paper refuses to even consider hiring applicants who hold less than a bachelor's degree, for instance.
** Dead-end? He owns his own restaurant. I mean, it could do better, sure, but it's not like he's just a cook.
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** Because Squidward tried in one episode (he moved to a city of other squids), and he just couldn't take the monotony. He NEEDS the chaos that SpongeBob brings to his life.
* This has bugged this troper for a long time... In one episode, Karen brings Plankton a Krabby Meal, and he plays with the Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy toys before seeing Mr. Krabs on the side of the Krabby Meal box and smashing it up. WHY DIDN'T PLANKTON JUST TAKE THE KRABBY PATTY OUT OF THE KRABBY MEAL?! It was stated earlier in the episode that a Krabby Meal comes with a Krabby Patty, so this is just inexcusable. Plankton even REACHED INSIDE the Krabby Meal to collect the toys. How could he have not found the Krabby Patty inside?!!
** Again, [[Plot Induced Stupidity]], to the point were it's an unutterable [[
*** Mr. Krabs probably knows who Karen is. This Troper assumed that Krabs only sold her the box and the toys without an actual Krabby Patty, and the reason Krabs didn't just throw her out was because she had money.
**** In the episode where Plankton needs to get Karen an anniversary present, she does the obvious thing and buys a Krabby Patty and analyzes it. But another headscratcher is that she is shown printing it out, and even shows it to Plankton in a bottle, but at the end of the episode, she has to load it up again. Then again, she was not about to give it to Plankton until he actually got her gift; so she might have deliberately shredded the first recipe.
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* Okay, in the slide-whistle episode, after Squidward ends up in the hospital, SpongeBob and Patrick run amuck in the hospital having fun with the slide whistles. Right at the end, they interrupt a doctor sewing up a belly by imitating his actions with slidewhistles while they stand on a skylight above. The doctor starts laughing, and ''pulls the sewed up skin while he laughs''. My question is this: [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|Why is there a skylight in what is quite likely an operating room]]?
** You forget, in the new ones, SB and Patrick are [[Karma Houdinis]] to the Nth degree, while Squidward [[Can't Get Away
* Why doesn't Plankton ever try to pump SQUIDWARD for information on how to make a Krabby Patty? He's demonstrated on numerous occasions that he knows how to make them, and he'd probably be pretty easy to buy off, given his hatred of his job.
** Because Plankton doesn't have the money, as a failing businessman, to bribe him.
** Squidward doesn't make the patties anyway. When he DOES, they turn out horrible. And he's never shown he knows about the secret.
*** He can however be made to "provide excellent service" under pressure.
** And now there is an episode ("Sweet and Sour Squid") where Plankton does try to get information from Squidward, not that it did him any good.
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** Yeah, Mr. Krabs has generally become an awful character these days. He used to have redeeming qualities; now he's nothing but a greedy jerk who doesn't care for anyone, whether it be SpongeBob, Mrs. Puff, or his own daughter.
*** But that doesn't answer why when the police are asking her about who tried to raid her garden, she never identified him, despite previously dating him. Like other examples on this page, it's like the writers aren't even paying attention to continuity.
*** In "Summer Job" Krabs actually seems repulsed at the idea of dating Mrs. Puff and spends the rest of the episode blackmailing and torturing her. This is either a case of [[Canon
* '''Just who the dickens is running the Krusty Krab when SpongeBob, Mr. Krabs and Squidward are out having adventures?''' Many times it's obviously a mealtime (like when Mr. Krabs took Mrs. Puff out on a date), prime moneymaking time for any restaurant! I worked in fast food ([[Mc D]]'s) for three years, and this point continues to perplex me.
** In "The Bikini Bottom Triangle", it is revealed that Pearl minds the place when her father is gone. However, it is also revealed some strange Seacaptain or something takes care of the store and cooks if everyone else is gone, which begs the question, '''How can some random person be able to take full control of the Krusty Krab and know how to make Krabby Patties without permission, training, or any other necessary requirements?'''
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*** To this troper, it doesn't. If that was true, it would still mean that every episode would still have taken place before the movie, so it's like saying that all the previous episodes with Larry didn't happen... maybe it's something like SpongeBob had never gone to that store they were by, and Larry was so surprised to see him there he wasn't sure if it really was SpongeBob?
** Larry is presented as vain in most episodes with him in it; he probably just forgot about SpongeBob because he doesn't give a rat's hat about him.
* The episode "A Day Without Tears"... was there any reason SpongeBob called Patrick, other than to ask if he thought he could make it [[Exactly What It Says
** It could be either that, a [[
* Spongehenge: those statues he carves merits discussion. First off, why on earth do they have that expression? It's the least SpongeBob could have done to carve them with a more jovial expression, but instead, he goes ahead and gives them this fearful expression that comes off as really, [[Wall Banger
** The reason he needed more than one was because the jellyfish didn't like the tune the statue made. All of the statues together were able to fix the tune, for some reason.
*** That partially explains it, but we'll [[A Wizard Did It|let magic solve the rest]]. Still doesn't explain why they have that "fearful" expression on them.
*** Maybe the correct musical notes were partially dependent on how he shaped his mouth?
*** Of course, the biggest [[Wall Banger
**** Currents.
* In "Summer Job," how did SpongeBob manage to become a driver's ed teacher if he doesn't have a license?
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** That cold heartless bastard of a bubble.
** Hey, Scooter sounded like he enjoyed High Tide. At least we know who's going to Bubble Hell.
* At the end of Krabby Road, Plankton goes back to jail. I understand that. But why do SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidward get thrown in with him? They had no idea that they were harboring an escaped fugitive.
** ...They ''weren't''. At least, I recall them standing ''outside the jail'', unless I'm remembering the episode wrong.
** I believe that they were inside the prison yard.
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* What I can't believe is how in "Squirrel Jokes," something that SpongeBob said in a ''comedy routine'' changed the way people treat Sandy so drastically?
** [[Fantastic Racism]].
** The Bikini Bottomites tend to "follow the herd"
* Several episodes state (and one episode even emphasizes) that Mr. Krabs is old. If that's so, how is his grandfather still alive? It's enough of a stretch to believe that his mother is...
** Likewise with Plankton. They're at least fifty.
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* Why do SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidward not have hair that is of their color? Whenever they grow hair it's brown or black.
** SpongeBob did have yellow hair in one episode.
*** Why should their hair be the same colour as the rest of them? Do caucasian humans have beige hair?
* The subtle romance. What happened to it?
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** That's the joke.
* In the episode "20,000 Patties Under the Sea", SpongeBob says, "Bye Squidward, bye Mr. Krabs. ...Bye Squidward..." the second one at Squidward being in a slightly more suggestive tone. Patrick lampshades it only for SpongeBob to say "[[Ho Yay|I like Squidward!]]". What bugs me is that it just seems so blatant now, were they even trying? [[Fridge Brilliance|Was it perhaps a subtle parody of all the accusations of SpongeBob's sexuality?]]
** I took it as the more Squidward hates SpongeBob, the more SpongeBob likes Squidward. But what bugged me about the episode was that the submarine couldn't float over the trench. It's a submarine!
* Pearl's disdain for her father. In the episode where Krabs retires, on his first day off, he asks Pearl if she wants to do something with him. Before he even finishes his sentence, Pearl kicks him out and whines about how she can't take it anymore. WTF?
** That's how the show portrays all teenage girls. They all use [[Totally Radical]] slang, hate their parents, and want to go to the mall.
* Why didn't Squidward notice that there is a gorilla just sitting around his house in ''I Had An Accident''? Instead he was watering his plants nonchalantly.
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** The show doesn't really have canon. The Christmas episode could have happened before.
* A few problems with "Big Sister Sam". First, HOW COULD PATRICK REUNITE WITH SOMEONE HE HASN'T HEARD FROM FOR YEARS? Did he just see Sam on the street with no words and both signaled that they should meet up? Second, since Squidward's house was thrown by Sam to the right, why didn't the house hit SpongeBob's as well? We clearly see his house also destroyed later in the episode and, if they wanted the plot to stay the same, the house could have been thrown towards the street. Finally, how is SpongeBob still happy and compassionate to Sam at the end of the episode even though she obliterated his house? Has the [[Negative Continuity]] of the show gotten to a point where things that happened a few seconds ago are forgotten?
** I don't know about the first two but the last one's obvious. First, SpongeBob is an idiot. Look at basically any recent episode for proof of this. Second, SpongeBob is for whatever reason supposed to forgive Patrick for whatever stupid thing he, and by extension his relatives, does.
** People reunite with estranged relatives and friends all the time. Maybe Patrick went on the underwater equivalent of the Jeremy Kyle Show or something, who knows.
* In "Sentimental Sponge", the sanitation police show up when SpongeBob refuses to throw away his trash. You're telling me that a town of 528 <s>people</s> <s>fish</s> sea creatures has its own police squad for cleanliness? [[Rule of Funny]] may apply, but its a bit of a stretch.
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*** He may have been embarrased about molting the shell but he still appeared in front of people without it and no one seemed very shocked that he was naked. Personally, I think the Sandy thing is just a failed attempt at a joke.
** Speaking of her suit, why wasn't she wearing it? Plankton only took her fur and went around without the suit.
* [[The Movie]] takes place after the series, right? So that explains the absence of Mindy, and why SpongeBob has no maturity; he regains it later. But didn't they mention the Krusty Krab 2 later on?
** Because it hasn't been built yet. It was built in the movie.
*** But they mentioned it as if it had been built, and I think we saw it once in an episode right after the movie.
*** It was built in the movie. It was never shown in any episodes. There was an episode about making a Krusty Krab commercial that had the Krusty Krab's "under study" but that was way before the movie and was really just a quick gag.
* So are Mermaid Man & Barnacle Boy actual superheroes, or are they fakes who starred in an old TV show?
** Yes, they are superheroes. It has been shown that they possess highly advanced gadgets and machines, including a shrink ray, an invisible car, and a literal [[Idiot Ball]]. They also can summon fish to help them (think Aquaman, but with old fish) and can [[Kill It
* At the beginning of the episode where SpongeBob breaks Gary's shell, SpongeBob wakes up in the middle of the night after hearing a noise. SpongeBob's phone line has been cut. No explanation is given for this. It's not necessary for the scene, and it isn't presented as a joke. Why was the line cut?
** I think it was to build up suspense and make it seem like a horror movie. He was investigating a strange noise in his house, so it kind of fit. All in all, it [[Nightmare Fuel|was just there to make it creepy]].
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** He needed to figure out how to carve the rocks so it would produce the same noise he makes. Thus, he makes a bunch of them.
** I know but he says he needs to make a bunch of them with ''different sizes''. But they're all the same size when he makes them.
*** It's more the size of the holes that makes the difference; the wind's pitch changes with the holes' size.
* What is the Krusty Krab considered? At times it's a popular and respected local place, or a restaurant well-known throughout the sea.. But at other times it's a poorly received place.
* Anyone notice that the Post Movie episodes seem to give Squidward more [[Throw the Dog
** So? Everything I've read here seems to add up to him ''deserving'' more [[Throw the Dog
** Yeah, back then he got what he deserved because he was a [[Jerkass]]. Now he's basically [[The Woobie]] so he pretty much needs [[Throw the Dog
* Which one of those fellas is the ''real'' Dirty Dan?
** Patrick.
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* I don't understand a lot about the Black Jack episode. For those who don't know, the big [[Twist Ending]] at the end of the episode is that SpongeBob's violent cousin Black Jack is really {{spoiler|about as tall as Plankton}}. Yet while SpongeBob was tiny (older episodes showed this), he got bigger, while Black Jack must have stayed the same... the EXACT same, personality, dress, voice, etc. And why is it none of SpongeBob's relatives tell him how small Black Jack is? Are they really THAT afraid of a guy who [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|littered]] to not see him for as long as SpongeBob had?
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** None of the characters really have a clear-cut age. Sure, SpongeBob is ''officially'' twenty-three, but numerous episodes point to him being much older (hundreds of 'Employee of the Month' awards, his countless failed driving tests etc.), and he also behaves much like a hyper five-year-old. But I'd ''guess'' that he's about late 30s/early 40s. As for dentures... maybe he played the clarinet in such a way that broke his teeth? Who knows...
* Who was that fry cook in "Truth Or Square" that Squidward called "Not-SpongeBob?" He's some weird greasy guy that just has that one appearance.
** [[Exactly What It Says
* Why did SpongeBob become such a failure in karate? In "Karate Choppers", he was just as good as Sandy. In "No Weenies Allowed" and other episodes, he sucks at it.
** I don't remember him sucking at karate in "No Weenies Allowed". But anyway I don't think SpongeBob has ever really had a set level for how good he is at karate. Even in the older episodes it seemed to switch between Sandy beating him every time with little effort (the Ripped Pants episode), to him always beating Sandy (the episode where Mr. Krabs tries to get him to quit). So it seems to just be following the old tradition of using whatever fits the episode.
** Many of SpongeBob's secondary attributes [[Depending
* How is it that they're celebrating the Krusty Krab's "eleventy-seventh" (I'm assuming that's 117th) anniversary? Mr. Krabs founded that restaurant and he definitely isn't 117 years old.
** Did he start the business himself or just became the manager through promotions? Maybe the restaurant IS that old. It could also be that the Krusty Krab is a chain that is 117 years old and Mr. Krabs is a franchise owner celebrating the anniversary of the first Krusty Krab. Or it could be that eleventy seventh doesn't mean what you think.
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* I just finished watching the episode "Yours, Mine and Mine". Now, I know Patrick's intelligence (or lack thereof) has decreased over the series' course, but just how dumb is he ''supposed'' to be? Isn't there a set level of dumbness for Patrick or does his dumbness just rise/drop to whatever level the episode requires?
** In "Tentacle Vision":
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* This may or may not have been discussed already, but i'm watching "Whatever Happened to Spongebob?" at the moment, and I wonder: Spongebob left a year's supply of snail food for Gary, right? If it was that long, wouldn't ''someone'' (most likely at the Krusty Krab) have known that Spongebob was missing and gone looking for him? Or did Gary just eat that huge supply incredibly quickly?
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* Why hasn't Squidward got a restraining order against Spongebob yet? Beforehand, Spongebob was only mildly annoying and overtly cheerful, being the [[Adult Child]] that he was. Nowadays, he's completely insane, and his obsession with Squidward has reached stalker levels of creepy. Squidward would have ''easily'' enough grounds to file a restraining order, so why hasn't he done it yet?
** I'm not exactly sure how restraining orders work, but I don't see how one would help Squidward since he lives next door to Spongebob and works at the same job as him. Not to mention, Spongebob would probably just cry 24/7 over it until Squidward finally got fed up and annulled it. Either that or [[Big Eater|Patrick]] would come out of nowhere and eat it.
* Exactly what are we seeing on [http://images.bcdb.com/ad_im/other/sponge/SquidTastic_Voyage.jpg?u= the title card for "Squidtastic Voyage"?]{{Dead link}} I know it's Squidward's innards, but is it any specific part of him? It kind of looks like brain matter and a stem, but it's a ''tunnel.'' And the brain matter is the color of Squidward's skin (though that may be to further indicate that it's the inside of ''his'' body).
** They look somewhat like blue curly villi, so his intestines?
* In ''New Student Starfish'', when Spongebob was freaking out about Mrs. Puff taking away his good noodle star, why didn't he just tell her that Patrick drew the picture, not him?
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** The clothes that he wears to work can be considered his street clothes, as he wears them all the time.
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