Automoderated users, Autopatrolled users, Bureaucrats, Comment administrators, Confirmed users, Forum administrators, Interface administrators, Moderators, Rollbackers, Administrators
116,602
edits
SpongeBob SquarePants: Difference between revisions
added new trope
No edit summary |
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) (added new trope) |
||
| (7 intermediate revisions by 3 users not shown) | |||
Line 126:
{{quote|Scooter (as an angel): Dude, he made me experience high tide! (laughs as he ascends to heaven)}}
:* [[Harsher in Hindsight]] when it's revealed Bubble Buddy was [[Real After All]]... and just let Scooter die.
* [[Beach Episode]]: Several episodes take place at the Goo Lagoon, the favorite place of Bikini Bottomites who need to take a dip.
** ''Ripped Pants'' has a sizeable portion on the beach.
** As does ''MuscleBob BuffPants''.
** ''Walking Small'' is the first to fully take place on the beach. And it ends with SpongeBob participating in a volleyball game... [[Be the Ball|as the volleyball]]. [[It Makes Sense in Context|Yeah]].
** ''SpongeGuard on Duty'' has SpongeBob attempt to be a lifeguard... [[Epic Fail|and fail miserably]].
** ''Sand Castles in the Sand'' makes SpongeBob and Patrick duke it out... with [[Humongous Mecha]] made out of sand. Definitely one of those that has to be seen to be believed.
* [[Being Watched]]: From "Jellyfish Hunter", while SpongeBob walks home from work, a blue jellyfish from earlier begins to follow him, resulting in this exchange:
{{quote|'''Spongebob:''' It feels like someone... wants to sell me something!
Line 169 ⟶ 175:
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: In "Opposite Day", Squidward doesn't get to sell his house, but he DOES get to [[Crowning Moment of Funny|chase SpongeBob and Patrick into the distance with a bulldozer]]. In "Enchanted Tiki Dreams" the Tiki Land burns but Squidward gets to knock SpongeBob and Patrick over with a boat swing at the end.
** "Keep Bikini Bottom Beautiful". Squidward manages to one-up Squilliam, but get a littering ticket for the umpteenth time.
* [[
** The other giant objects that the characters live in. Although they're only giant in comparison with the characters, [[Doing in the Wizard|according to]] the movie.
** Well, most of the important buildings follow a sort of a theme, in that they're the sort of things that might appear as decor in fishtanks. Moai, rocks, treasure chests, etc.
Line 247 ⟶ 253:
{{quote| ''"We're like brothers...only closer."''}}
* [[Conspicuously Light Patch]]: Although the ones in older episodes could be attributed to the fairly small budgets at the time, the newer, more [[Nickelodeon]]-backed episodes have no such [[Hand Wave|(weak) excuse]].
** One particularly [[Egregious]] example is the episode "Can You Spare a Dime?", where SpongeBob pokes Squidward's animated nose, and the ''entire rest of his head'' is a much-darker matte painting (see 9:34-9:40 [https://web.archive.org/web/20120219024930/http://
* [[Continuity Nod]]: One of the thugs that wants to enter the Salty Spitoon tells about how he ate a bowl of nails for breakfast. "Without any milk!". In [[The Movie]] one of the thugs in the bar is shown eating a bowl of nails. And yes, without milk.
** In the April Fools episode, Patrick mistakenly says a depressed SpongeBob was "impressed" by Squidward's [[Comedic Sociopathy|prank]]. In Squidward's Tiki Land, Patrick mentions a time he was feeling "impressed".
Line 262 ⟶ 268:
* [[Cowboy Episode]]: "Pest of the West"
* [[Crack Defeat]]: In the episode 'The Great Snail Race' had SpongeBob, Squidward, and Patrick's pet snails ([[The Unintelligible|Gary]], Snellie, and [[Companion Cube|Rocky]] respectively)pitting against each other. Snellie, who is a pure-breed snail, would've won, but she forfeited and comforted an overworked Gary. So the winner? Rocky! It needs to be said that Rocky was an [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|actual rock]]. How it legitimately got to the finish line was [[Offscreen Teleportation|never explained.]]
* [[Crane Game Gag]]: In the episode "Skill Crane", Squidward becomes addicted to a crane game that his boss Mr. Krabs installs. Mr. Krabs further enables the addiction so he can get more quarters from his employee. Ironically, Spongebob keeps winning toys without even trying. In the climax, Squidward gets so addicted that he hijacks a ''real'' crane that rapidly goes out of control.
* [[Crap Saccharine World]]: [[Depending on the Writer]], but Bikini Bottom definitely fits the bill in certain episodes.
* [[Crazy Consumption]]: Squidward eats Krabby Patties until he blows up.
Line 268 ⟶ 275:
* [[Cross-Popping Veins]]: Squidward does it towards the end of both "Tentacle-Vision" and "Squid's Visit".
* [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check]]: Plankton. He is a scientific genius, capable of creating time machines and the like, (among other things that could be tweaked to benefit all ocean life) and yet he insists on working his way up to the top by running a dingy restaurant whose food is [[Human Resources]]. Oh, and trying to steal the Krabby Patty recipe, despite the fact that as long as Krabs is also in business, he'll get all the customers because of the aforementioned dinginess of his restaurant. This was worked around in Plan Z, which [[You Meddling Kids|would have worked if he had tried this ingenious plan from the beginning, before Krabs hired]] SpongeBob, instead of using countless plans that were doomed to fail.
* [[Dance Sensation]]: "The Sponge". Everybody besides SpongeBob and Pearl get mangled up badly, and all [[Crosses The Line Twice|while a peppy rock song is playing!]]
* [[The Danza]]: In "Mermaid Man Begins", the real names of Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy are revealed to be Ernie and Tim. Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy are voiced by [[Ernest Borgnine]] and Tim Conway, respectively.
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Implied for Mrs. Puff.
Line 355 ⟶ 362:
* [[Evil Versus Evil]]: Krabs versus Plankton (in newer episodes).
* [[Expanded Universe]]
* [[Extreme Doormat]]: SpongeBob in some episodes, most notably "Walking Small". As Plankton puts it, "he's like stairs", and the ending (in which he literally becomes [[Be The Ball|a volleyball]] for the whole beach to use) proves how much he really does care about others. Unless the episode calls for otherwise, anyway.
* [[Extra! Extra! Read All About It!]]: "Maniac strikes Bikini Bottom! City paralyzed with fear!"
* [[Eye Scream]]: Crops up a number of times.
Line 757 ⟶ 765:
'''Harold (in German accent):''' Yeah, for the fireman!
'''All:''' Hooray! }}
* [[Rubber Man]]: SpongeBob. Balls, kites, surfboards, you name it, he can become one. Of course, he's a sponge, and sponge material is easily moldable in real life.
** The more traditional superhero sense is spoofed in ''Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V'': Patrick gets the powers of Elastic Waistband, but he ends up seriously mangled (and unable to reform back) from a misguided attempt to help SpongeBob (who's The Quickster). Also, touching his arms with his toes is apparently something Patrick always wanted to do. Who knew?
* [[Rubber Forehead Aliens]]: Man Ray
* [[Ruined FOREVER]]: Mocked [[In-Universe]]. Patchy's reaction upon seeing "just a bunch of cheap walk cycles", thinking it was the [[Missing Episode|lost episode]] he was excitedly counting down to. He threw out all of his SpongeBob stuff, even his [[Goofy Print Underwear]] by ripping it ''out of his pants.''
Line 781 ⟶ 791:
* [[She Is Not My Girlfriend]]: Patrick had to go undercover (because he thinks someone is going to kick him out of town), so he dressed up as "Patricia". SpongeBob had to tell a few folks "she" wasn't his GF.
* [[Ship Tease]]: SpongeBob and Sandy (occasionally).
** If ''The Chaperone'' and ''Bossy Boots'' are anything, SpongeBob has some chemistry with Pearl too. In the former she tries to kiss SpongeBob on the lips (and SpongeBob actually reaches out to kiss back) and in the latter she outright pecks him on the forehead.
** That being said, it's advisable not to read too much into either of these pairings. Stephen Hillenburg has stated outright that SpongeBob is asexual (in the sponge sense of "not reproducing sexually", not the human sense of "not having any sexual attraction") just to ward off the shippers, and SpongeBob, being a cartoon that's meant to run on [[Rule of Funny]] is probably not the show to watch if you're into fictional relationships.
* [[Shout-Out]]:
** Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy reference both the [[Batman (TV series)|Batman TV series]] and [[Aquaman|Aquaman and Aqualad and Manta Ray is based off of Black Manta]].
Line 1,005 ⟶ 1,017:
{{reflist}}
[[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]▼
[[Category:The Nineties]]
[[Category:The Renaissance Age of Animation]]
Line 1,011 ⟶ 1,024:
[[Category:Animal Title Index]]
[[Category:Western Animation]]
▲[[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]
[[Category:Nickelodeon]]
[[Category:Memetic Works]]
| |||