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''"Aye aye, captain!"'' }}
A [[Nickelodeon]] [[Animated Series]] about a highly energetic sea sponge who lives in a pineapple under the sea. Absorbent and yellow and porous is he. And if nautical nonsense be something you- ok, you probably get it.
[[SpongeBob SquarePants]] is about the eponymous sea sponge, who is shaped like a kitchen sponge, [[The Pollyanna|is extremely optimistic]], and has the tendency of annoying most who he comes in contact with. Most except his [[Heterosexual Life Partners|best bud]] Patrick Star, a starfish who lives under a rock [[The Ditz|in more ways than one]]. The two seem to spend as much time as possible inadvertently bothering their neighbour [[Grumpy Bear|Squidward Tentacles]], who is, [[Butt Monkey|unfortunately for]] [[Only Sane Man|him]], mistaken by them as the third part of their [[Power Trio]].
Spongebob works at the local [[Xtreme Kool Letterz|Krusty Krab]] restaurant, which serves Krabby Patties, and is owned by his greedy boss Mr. Eugene Krabs. [[Captain Obvious|He's a crab]]. Rivalling the restaurant is The Chum Bucket, owned by [[Harmless Villain|Plankton]], who goes to desperate lengths in order to steal the success of the Krabby Patty formula. But, [[Failure Is the Only Option]].
There's also Spongebob's pet snail, Gary, who communicates with cat-like 'Meows', his Texas-accented spunky squirrel friend, Sandy Cheeks, who lives in an underwater dome and ventures forth wearing a bubble-helmet diving suit. [[And Zoidberg|Oh and Larry the Lobster, Mrs. Puff, and Pearl]]... [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome|Remember them?]]
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The show, first broadcast in 1999, proved to be a HUGE success with both kids and adults. Kids liking the bright colours and silly characters, and adults enjoying its writing, wit and long list of [[SpongeBob SquarePants/Radar|Parental Bonuses]] and [[SpongeBob SquarePants/Radar|Getting Crap Past The Radar]].
''[[The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie]]'' came out in 2004, and a second [[The Movie|movie]] [http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/viacom-paramount-release-spongebob-movie-late-2014-philippe-dauman295695 is to be released in late 2014]. There have also been multiple [[Licensed Game|video game]] [[SpongeBob SquarePants (video game)|adaptations of the show]]; with [[The Problem with Licensed Games|many at the quality you would expect]], and a [[wikipedia:SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom|few that]] [[wikipedia:The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie Game|are surprisingly]] [[No Problem With Licensed Games|good]].
The show is in a constant state of underwater bizarreness, taking frequent [[Refuge in Audacity]] (apparently a wood fire is possible underwater as long as you [[Puff of Logic|don't point it out]]). Funnily enough, creator Stephen Hillenburg has a degree in marine biology. Supposedly, he created a show about a sponge because he was really fed up with [[Small Taxonomy Pools]].
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* [[Acid Trip Dimension]]: The Fly of Despair from "Shanghaied" and "Squidward in Clarinetland"
* [[Acting Unnatural]]: "Life of Crime". SpongeBob and Patrick are panicking because (they think) they stole a balloon. SpongeBob advises, "Just act natural," and, whether out of nerves or sheer stupidity, both of them start gibbering and acting crazy. They are immediately surrounded by a crowd who mistake them for street performers.
** In the episode "Boating School", when SpongeBob is asked to act natural, he gets on all fours and starts grazing like a cow.
** Inverted in the episode "The Bully", once SpongeBob believes Flats will come searching for him in the bathroom, he says he must "act natural". Cue him floating around in the toilet looking like a real kitchen sponge.
* [[Adam Westing]]: [[The Movie]]: "I'm [[David Hasselhoff]]!" "Hooray!"
** Also an actual case with Adam West and Burt Ward playing the younger versions of Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy who are usually played by Ernest Borgnine and Tim Conway respectively, in an obvious homage to The 1960's [[Batman]]
* [[Adult Child]]: SpongeBob's actual age is very difficult to guess. He lives independently, has a job, is trying for his "boating license"...and acts like a five-year-old with ADHD.
** Based on the number of times Spongebob won the Employee of The Month in the movie, he is somewhere around thirty, which is young for a sponge.
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* [[All Just a Dream]]: The episodes "{{spoiler|Procrastination" and "Doing Time}}." It is taken to the extreme in the latter.
* [[Alternative Foreign Theme Song]]: Rip Slyme wrote a new ending theme song for the Japanese version. You can find it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eMyzohXUmQ here].
* [[Amusing Injuries]]: Somewhat justified on occasion, as SpongeBob is, well, [[Captain Obvious|a sponge]].
** This is possibly lampshaded in one episode, where SpongeBob, who has been running from a bully that wants to beat him up, is finally cornered. The bully then punches him, and SpongeBob actually realizes that it doesn't hurt since he's a sponge and absorbs the blows. He then goes through the rest of his day, all night, and through part of the next day with the bully punching him non-stop, the only response being a loud squeaking noise.
** SpongeBob hurts himself to amuse children for Mr.Krabs.
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{{quote|'''Patrick''': Maybe it's your voice.
'''SpongeBob''': Dahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaaa!... [[Sarcasm Mode|good one, Patrick.]] }}
* [[Anti-Advice]]: In "Pizza Delivery", when Spongebob and Squidward get lost together, Spongebob predicts which way to go using his pioneering skills. Squidward goes the opposite way. The camera then pans over to show that their houses are just over a ridge in the direction Spongebob wanted to go.
* [[Anything But That]]: When Squidward finds out about SpongeBob's splinter and threatens to tell Mr. Krabs about it so he'll have to leave work early in "[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|The Splinter]]"
** When SpongeBob gives Patrick a pedicure in Battle of Bikini Bottom. [[It Makes Sense in Context]], they were fighting in a [[Slobs Versus Snobs|battle between clean and dirty]] after seeing a re-enactment.
* [[April Fool's Plot]]: "Fools in April"
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* [[Art Shift]]: Many in "Truth or Square": The opening is redone in really trippy stop-motion (with a new theme by Cee-Lo), a sequence [[Retraux|made to look like an old 1950's-esque TV commercial]], and another [[Retraux]] sequence made to look like an old 1920's [[Mickey Mouse]] cartoon that shows SpongeBob going to work, and ''every single thing has a face.''
* [[Ascended Meme]]: "Are You Happy Now?" seems to have been inspired by the "Squidward's Suicide" [[Creepypasta]]. [[Dude, Not Funny|Why they'd chose that of all memes to ascend...]]
* [[Ascetic Aesthetic]]: Squidward time travelling into [[Ironic Hell|the middle of nowhere]].
* [[Ass Shove]]: Implied. While Patrick is wearing a pair of shorts with a built in pay-phone/walkie-talkie.
{{quote|'''Disembodied Techno-Female Voice:''' If you would like to make a call, please insert twenty-five cents. ''(Spongebob produces a quarter)''}}
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* [[Bad Guy Bar]]: [http://i465.photobucket.com/albums/rr15/Acedude55/SaltySpitoon.jpg The Salty Spitoon.] Also mocked in [[The Movie]].
* [[Bad Job, Worse Uniform]]: When Pearl turns the business into the Kuddly Krab.
* [[Based on a Great Big Lie]]: This is actually parodied in the episode "Arrgh!". SpongeBob and Patrick quickly come to believe their pirate quest is a scam (and that Mr. Krabs has gone Cloudcuckoolander) finding out the treasure map is just a game board they used earlier in the episode. Chance kicks in as they do find the treasure according to the map (the game board) with the remarks of SpongeBob saying "It really IS based on a true treasure map!" The Flying Dutchman comes in to take his treasure back, willing to share with SpongeBob and Patrick. But much to the dismay of Mr. Krabs, he only gains a piece from the game board, and gets replied "But it's based on a REAL treasure chest!"
** It's notable that this is rather Karmic, as it was a fight over the treasure (Patrick and SpongeBob wanted their shares, Krabs wanted it all) that woke up TFD in the first place.
* [[Beach Bury]]: SpongeBob buries a beach goer, Scooter, and then asks Bubble Buddy, his [[Companion Cube|inanimate friend]], to unbury him before the tide raises. We later see him as an angel.
** [[Harsher in Hindsight]]: When you realize Bubble Buddy was alive (not inanimate) the whole time and just let Scooter die.
** In the episode "Ripped Pants", a whale is buried in the sand.
* [[Being Watched]]: "It feels like someone... wants to sell me something!" ''(Salesman behind a rock, to fellow salesman)'' "I told you he was onto us!"
* [[Berserk Button]]: Whatever you do, NEVER call Patrick "tubby". Or eat his chocolate bars and lollipops...you flatfoots !
** Even more so in the the video game version of Truth or Square, where when SpongeBob called Patrick tubby, Patrick turns into a huge one-eyed robot intent on crushing SpongeBob with a mace. {{spoiler|1=Though the battle apparently only happened in SpongeBob's head as SpongeBob was in Plankton's machine the ENTIRE time.}}
** Don't mess up his name tag either.
{{quote|'''Patrick''': [[Punctuated!
** [[Chewing the Scenery|CHOOOOOCOOOOLAAATEEE!!!]] {{spoiler|The guy who says that turns out to like chocolate though.}}
** In Sandy's case, don't talk smack about Texas, or you ''will'' die.
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** Apparently, you should never use Krabby Patty meat as any footwear around SpongeBob, or he will hurt you. (Episode: Battle of Bikini Bottom).
** Gary's undercarriage.
* [[Bigger on the Inside]]:
** SpongeBob's house.
** The safe from the acid trip of "Squidward in Clarinetland".
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* [[Big No]]:
** SpongeBob yells one when Squidward is about to pop 'Bubble Buddy'.
** In the movie, Plankton lets one loose when SpongeBob began zapping the mind-controlling helmets off of the Bikini Bottom residents using [[The Power of Rock]].
* [[Big Ol' Unibrow]]: Squilliam Fancyson.
{{quote|'''Squidward''': How's the unibrow?
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* [[Black Comedy]]: This show, especially in its earlier seasons, contains a surprising amount of dark humor. For example, the entire comedy of "Nasty Patty" comes from SpongeBob and Krabs believing that they've killed the health inspector (he was just unconscious).
* [[The Blank]]
* [[Blind Driving]]: SpongeBob had to learn a driving course blindfolded as part of a [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]]'s [[Training From Hell]]. Unfortunately, he can't drive ''without'' being blindfolded afterwards.
* [[The Blind Leading the Blind]]: "Your Shoe's Untied", where Patrick buys shoes, but doesn't know how to tie them. SpongeBob tries to teach him how, but realizes he's never learned himself.
** Patrick often gives SpongeBob this kind of misguided advice. For example, one episode has Patrick teaching Spongebob how to be mature, with tips such as growing sideburns, puffing out his chest, and developing an appreciation for freestyle jazz. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
** Since they're both mentally six, they're occasionally known to do this to themselves-devoid of anyone to provide them with questionable advice, they'll attempt to deduce the proper course themselves and arrive at exactly the wrong answer through some of the unsoundest logic it's possible to come across.
** In the 'pilot' episode where Spongebob meets Sandy for the first time, Spongebob goes to Patrick for advice about the mysterious concept of 'air'. Patrick claims she means 'putting on airs', or fancy talk. His advice is to go to Sandy's and 'When In Doubt, Pinky Out'. This causes Spongebob, an aquatic animal, to slowly dry out in Sandy's 'treedome'. Patrick enters at one point, and the duo end up completely drying out, but Sandy saves them with water-filled helmets (which become standard attire when visiting her). So, not only is Patrick's advice misguided, it's even dangerous.
* [[Bloodier and Gorier]]: After the movie.
* [[Blowing a Raspberry]]: One episode, SpongeBob goes to Rock Bottom, where everyone speaks in raspberries. When he asks for directions, a Rock Bottomite can't understand his "accent" until SpongeBob starts adding raspberries between words.
* [[Boot Camp Episode]]: When SpongeBob gets Mrs. Puff fired after failing the boating exam once again, her replacement is a drill instructor named Sarge. A drill instructor who just so happens to be [[Mass Effect|Zaeed Massani]]
** And "The Inmates of Summer" where SpongeBob and Patrick get on the wrong ship and end up in Boot Camp. Complete with a character voiced R. Lee!
* [[Boredom Montage]]: "Squidville": Squidward moves into a new neighborhood where everyone has the same interests and hobbies as he does, and gradually gets sick of it. And then he loses it BIG TIME. He attacks people with a reef blower, sings songs, and acts just like Spongebob used to. At the end of the episode, Squidward uses the reef blower as a jetpack while laughing madly (underwater, no less). It then shows Spongebob and Patrick, who were searching for Squidward, unable to find him because everyone looks the same. They then hear Squidward laughing, look up, and say "Well at least we know one thing; it SURE isn't ''that'' guy!" Episode ends.
* [[Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs]]: In "Can You Spare a Dime?", [[SpongeBob]] guesses what job Squidward (who had quit the Krusty Krab) is now doing:
{{quote|'''Spongebob''': Hmmm, I see you've been working on that moustache, the tattered clothes, the awful smell...you're a football player!
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'''Squidward''': No.
'''Spongebob''': A football playing king in space? }}
* [[Break the Cutie]]: This happens to SpongeBob quite a bit. For example:
{{quote|'''SpongeBob:''' ''(strangles Mr. Krabs)'' "Listen, you crustaceous cheapskate!! Squidward has been living in MY HOUSE driving me CRAZY!! '''AND YOU'RE NOT GONNA HIRE HIM BACK ALL BECAUSE OF A STUPID DIME?!?!"'''}}
* [[Brick Joke]]: In what is possibly a parody on the [[Trope Namer]], "The Two Faces of Squidward" has a fish gain the ability to fly out of seeing handsome Squidward, and then proceed to lose his untied shoe. Later in the episode, the shoe falls through the roof of the Krusty Krab, causing SpongeBob to push Squidward into a pole to save him from being hit on the head with it.
** "The Great Snail Race" has one. SpongeBob, who's training Gary, calls him a lady to "humiliate and demean him". Cut to Sandy, who says "I don't know why, but I think I'll kick SpongeBob's butt tomorrow.". The next day, at the end of the episode, Sandy comes out of nowhere, kicks SpongeBob off screen and yells "That's for yesterday SquarePants!".
** In the beginning of The Smoking Peanut, Mr. Krabs is seen abusing the concept of Free Day, taking everything he can. At the end of the episode, it's revealed that the oyster got upset because her pearl was stolen. Guess who stole it?
* [[Broken Smile]]: Mr. Krabs at the end of "Squid on Strike", when he sees that SpongeBob destroyed the Krusty Krab.
* [[Burger Fool]]: [[Subverted]] -- SpongeBob ''loves'' his job. Squidward, on the other hand...
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* [[Can't Get Away with Nuthin']]: "Procrastination."
* [[Can't Stand Them Can't Live Without Them]]: Subverted in ''Nature Pants''. Patrick tearfully tells SpongeBob, "Even Squidward misses you!"; cut to Squidward celebrating the fact that SpongeBob's gone.
** Played straight in Squidsville. Squidward is initially delighted to live in a neighborhood where everyone lives and acts like him, but eventually is bored by it and starts playing with a reef blower like SpongeBob.
*** [[Depending on the Writer|It varies from episode to episode]] whether or not Squidward actually likes SpongeBob deep down or genuinely wants him dead, though usually if there is another person to take this role, Squidward is there to subvert it.
* [[Captain Color Beard]]: "I'm Blindbeard the pirate!"
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* [[Cerebus Syndrome]]: Season seven introduced an actual and extremely dark [[Story Arc]] with amongst other things, Plankton trying to commit suicide.
* [[Charlie and the Chocolate Parody]]: "Atlantis SquarePantis" has shades of this.
** Mr. Krabs Takes A Vacation could also qualify.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: The starfish that was on Mermaid Man's face since his first appearance turns out to be the thing giving him the ability to breathe. [[Unreliable Narrator|Mermaid Man]] is narrating. Then again, all of the origin stories are wacky and unreliable, so who's to say...
* [[Chewing the Scenery]]: "I SAW IT! IT WAS BIG! IT WAS ALLLLL WIGGLY! IT WAS AN '''''<big>ALASKAN</big> <big>BULL</big> <big>WORM!"</big>'''''
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'''Mr. Krabs:''' ... ''(Gaping in shocked silence with his jaw on the ground)'' }}
* [[Cobweb of Disuse]]: In "Pretty Patties", the Krusty Krab is covered in cobwebs when business gets slow. SpongeBob tries to clean one, a spider makes another one. Later, Mr. Krabs himself is seen covered in cobwebs.
* [[Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere]]: Seen more than once.
** Especially the episodes "Idiot Box" and "The Paper", both involving Squidward.
* [[Comedic Sociopathy]]: Everyone to disturbing levels.
* [[The Comically Serious]]: Squidward.
* [[Comic Trio]]: Variant between SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidward.
* [[Congruent Memory]]: Be the crane!
** Spongebob practices driving while blindfolded. When it comes time for him to take his driving test, he finds he can't drive without the blindfold. Oddly this one provides a justification: when he can see what he's doing, it terrifies him.
** "Missin Identity" had him forget where he put his nametag. So he repeats his morning routine ad infinitum, exactly, hoping that this'll help him remembers.
* [[Conjoined Twins]]: Has happened several times: in the movie, we meet two conjoined twins in a bar. In "SquidBob TentaclePants", SpongeBob and Squidward are conjoined because of one of Sandy's experiments. And then there's this infamous quote:
{{quote|''"We're like brothers...only closer."''}}
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** 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".
** The villain, Man Ray, was cryogenically frozen in tartar sauce for a number of years before being unwittingly thawed out by SpongeBob and Patrick, thus he is still in his physical peak. In a much later episode, Manray recognizes an old lady as someone he went to high school with. There was even an episode where SpongeBob and Patrick travel back in time and accidentally stop Man Ray from being frozen originally, thus creating a [[Bad Future]] where Man Ray is the ruler. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
** The episodes "New Leaf" and "Spy Buddies" featured the robot Krabs suit from an earlier episode "Imitation Krabs".
** In "Chum Bucket Supreme", Patrick gives the Chum Bucket a slogan. Said slogan is later seen on a billboard in "SpongeBob's Last Stand".
** In "Rock a Bye Bivalve", Patrick is always seen watching a show where someone gets hit in the head with a coconut with music playing. In "The Thing" Patrick and SpongeBob are watching TV and the music for the show plays again, with Patrick saying he thinks he seen this before and this part is real funny.
** In "Bubble Buddy Returns", [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Bubble Buddy returns]]. Mr Krabs (unsurprisingly) recalls that Bubble Buddy still owes him money.
** In "Whelk Attack", SpongeBob remembers the time that [[Sick Episode|he got "suds".]]
** In "Born Again Krabs", Mr.Krabs is going to be thrown into Davy Jones locker with his gym socks. In Spongebob vs. The big one The Flying Dutchman locks him self in there by accident and the actor Davy Jones throws the socks at him.
* [[Convection, Schmonvection]]: Averted when Mr. Sun lights the room on fire.
* [[Courtroom Episode]]: "Plankton vs. Krabs"
* [[The Cover Changes the Gender|The Cover Changes The Species]]: For the movie, [[Motorhead]] re-recorded one of their older tracks, "You Better Run," with new sea lyrics as "You Better Swim."
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** Usually the character interpretations fall on who the character in focus is. If the focus is Squidward's life being ruined, then SpongeBob and Patrick will have nothing bad happen to them, while when the focus is instead SpongeBob having a problem, everything bad will instead happen to him, usually caused by Patrick.
* [[Deranged Animation]]: Most episodes at some point.
* [[Destructive Saviour]]: In "Wormy", Spongebob and Patrick sound the alarm about a monster (actually a butterfly) and send the entire city in a panic that causes far more destruction than the "monster" would have ever caused.
** On the episode "Sandy, Spongebob, and the Worm", Spongebob and Sandy managed to drive a giant worm away as it fell down a large cliff. However, at the same time the citizens of Bikini Bottom were pushing the city somewhere else in an attempt to get away from the previously mentioned worm and the city ended up at the bottom of the cliff that the worm fell in and so the giant worm landed on top of Bikini Bottom, destroying it.
* [[Detached Sleeves]]: SpongeBob.
* [[Disney Dog Fight]]: SpongeBob thinks that Gary had left him forever to live with Patrick, but at the end he comes back to SpongeBob.
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* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Mr. Krabs' greed is so bad, that even [[Big Bad|Plankton]] is shown to be disgusted by it. Quoted by him, "And I thought '''I''' was evil."
** Squidward, although not ''evil'', is a notorious [[Jerkass]] who hates SpongeBob with a passion. Even so, he was absolutely disgusted when Mr. Krabs sold SpongeBob's soul to the Flying Dutchman for pocket change.
*** Speaking of the Flying Dutchman, he [[Eldritch Abomination|himself]] was surprised that Mr. Krabs was not only eager to [[Deal with the Devil|sell his soul]] and took the whole ordeal lightly. But he also sold his soul ''several times'' to other ghosts, monsters, and to SpongeBob (he was a bit short on pay day).
** Another Squidward example happens in an episode where he and SpongeBob go on a pizza delivery. After the customer refused to accept the pizza, SpongeBob goes into a depression. Squidward, who usually enjoys seeing SpongeBob's misery, actually feels sorry for him, goes up to the customer, and slams the pizza into his face.
* [[Even the Guys Want Him]]: When Squidward got his face reconstructed after getting in the way while SpongeBob was opening a door.
** [[Magic Plastic Surgery]]
* [["Everybody Laughs" Ending]]: Parodied in the episode "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V," which ends with every character featured on the episode laughing one after another, even characters with no reason to laugh, such as Manray and the Dirty Bubble, who are in prison, even though the only "joke" was that Barnacle Boy couldn't finish his Krabby Patty.
** Subverted in a much later episode, "Spongicus". [[SpongeBob]], Patrick, Krabs, and Squidward begin laughing as the music cue signals the end of the episode, but the scene continues. One by one, the characters get bored, stop laughing, and walk away.
*** [[Overly Long Gag|Then]] [[Brick Joke|the sea lion from before roars]] and the episode ends abruptly.
** Also parodied in an episode in with the laughter is broken by an unexpected, angry attack from the sky c/o Sandy.
* [[Everything Explodes Ending]]: "Dying For Pie" ends with the exploding pie completely destroying Bikini Bottom, using [[Stock Footage]] from the Bikini Island nuclear tests to represent said explosion.
* [[Everything Is Big in Texas]]: Sandy.
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* [[Flintstone Theming]]: Nearly everything is replaced by its underwater equivalent.
* [[Flowers for Algernon Syndrome]]: "Patrick Smartpants"
* [[Food and Animal Attraction]]: Gary the snail gets really affectionate towards Patrick over the cookies in his pocket.
* [[The Fool]]: SpongeBob (sometimes) and Patrick.
* [[Forgot to Pay the Bill]]: Subverted. SpongeBob thinks Gary did this when the electricity goes out, but it was actually caused by the Blue Jellyfish cutting the wires.
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* [[Gagging on Your Words]]: Squidward has a hard time saying "I'm sorry" to SpongeBob. So hard, in fact, that at one point [[Your Head Asplode|his head explodes]].
* [[Gainax Ending]]: In-universe: "I Had An Accident"'s ending results in a family staring through their TV at you in disbelief, shaking their heads, and [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|turning it off.]]
* [[Geographic Flexibility]]: Bikini Bottom is shown to be this. In most episodes it's a typical small town, but other episodes have shown that it contains a mall, a racetrack, and an Olympic stadium, among other things.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: An [[SpongeBob SquarePants/Radar|ENTIRE PAGE WORTH OF IT!]]
* [[Giftedly Bad]]: Squidward is not as good at music as he thinks he is.
* [[Gilligan Cut]]: In the episode "Idiot Box", Squidward doesn't understand why the cardboard box will make noises for SpongeBob and Patrick.
{{quote|'''Squidward:''' Why won’t this thing turn on? All right, fine. If you don’t want to show me, I don’t care! I've got better things to do than pace the floor wondering how you two work this thing. ''(Cut to Squidward pacing the length of his living room floor)'' How do those two work that thing?! There's got to be a secret button or a switch or something!}}
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* [[Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal]]: Many of the characters in the show, such as Patrick and Squidward.
* [[Halloween Episode]]: "Scaredy Pants".
* [[Hammerspace]]: In episode "Fear of a Krabby Patty," a frantic, delusional SpongeBob gives Plankton just enough time to squeak out, "Hey where'd you get that piano?" Just before, [[Amusing Injuries|well, you know]].
** Plankton did one of these himself in a much earlier episode, "Plankton!", offering SpongeBob a golden spatula in an attempt to get a Krabby Patty from him. "I've been keeping it in my...secret compartment. SHING! Sparkle-sparkle."
** In "FUN", he hid the Krabby Patty (which is bigger than his body) in his pocket.
* [[Hands Go Down]]: From "Band Geeks":
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'''Squidward:''' Go away! I've got better things to do than watch grown men prance around in ridiculous outfits. (Cut to a man dancing ballet on Squidward's TV) }}
** There was also one from the episode " Big Sister Sam". Go above to see it.
* [[Identical Stranger]]: In "No Weenies Allowed": a sponge identical to SpongeBob only with dark hair and the real deal (wearing a Rainbow Clown Wig) both appear at the [[Bad Guy Bar|Salty Spittoon]] at the same time.
* [[Idiot Hero]]: SpongeBob.
* [[Idiot Houdini]]: SpongeBob and Patrick rely more and more on this trope as the seasons pass.
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* [[Impossibly Delicious Food]]: Krabby Patties, to the point where [[Deus Ex Machina|conflicts can be resolved merely by eating one]].
* [[Incessant Music Madness]]: In "Jellyfish Jam", SpongeBob and a jellyfish keep Squidward up all night playing loud music. When more jellyfish show up and play the music even louder, Squidward has had enough and counterattacks by playing his clarinet. This angers the jellyfish, and when SpongeBob's pleas to stop result in Squidward playing even louder, the jellyfish goes over to Squidward's and stings him.
* [[Incredibly Lame Fun]]: SpongeBob and Patrick once play a game that consists of doing, well, whatever non-sequitur goes through their minds, like climbing a coral to make bubbles to determine a chess move, and make that move by blowing at the chess piece.
** There's another scene where Mr. Krabs hangs out with SpongeBob and Patrick because he feels old. They end up going to the laundromat, reading at the library, sitting in a kiddie pool, et cetera. Subverted at the end when they suggest a panty raid. THAT is subverted when it turns out to be Mr. Krabs's mother's undergarments...
** SpongeBob and Patrick once buy a large TV so they can [[Kids Prefer Boxes|play inside the box]]. They use their imagination to enjoy it so much, Squidwards wants in.
** Subverted on another occasion, SpongeBob gets a "useless" piece of paper from Squidward and then uses it to play all sort of games and use it to swim/fly around.
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: SpongeBob and Patrick argue back and forth with these in Pranks-A-Lot, until they are interrupted with the narrator saying "Several bad puns later...".
* [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]: Plankton.
* [[Ink Suit Actor]]:
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* [[Jerkass]]: Practically everyone in the show at some time or the other, with Mr. Krabs and Squidward being the most prominent examples.
** In "Keep Bikini Bottom Clean," a cop follows Squidward around and continuously slams tickets into his face for even being ''near'' a pile of garbage.
** Patrick becomes one of these any time he gets a taste of power or some sort of reassurance of his "genius" abilities. (The episode where he gets a boat, when he becomes king, the time when his parents come over, etc.) Any other time, he's just [[The Ditz]] taken to its [[Logical Extreme]].
* [[Jerkass Gods]]: Neptune, usually
** Especially in "The Clash Of Triton" where he traps his son in a cage for wanting to meddle in the lives of mortals instead of smiting them, but he gets better.
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Arguably Squidward and Mr Krabs [[Depending on the Writer|on their better days]].
* [[The Jimmy Hart Version]]: The techno song from "Jellyfish Jam" is ''very'' similar to the NBA song "Get Ready For This." [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr-XGEzGgf8 Here's a comparison of the two.]
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** The title card for "Hall Monitor" has similarities to the theme for the late '60s/early '70s action show ''The Mod Squad''.
* [[Journey to the Center of the Mind]]: The dream version in the episode "Sleepy Time." Naturally, Spongebob managed to ruin the dreams of everyone in Bikini Bottom, and he awoke to find a group of annoyed friends and neighbors, insisting he stay out of their dreams because they get enough of him during the day.
* [[Jump Scare]] '''''"Hi, mailman!"'''''
* [[Just Friends]]: SpongeBob apparently has a crush on Sandy. This isn't very noticeable within the show itself, but supplemental materials place special emphasis on it. A survival guide released in 2002 played with the fact, [[media:The_Sponge_Is_Straight_by_helgoth11_5659.jpg|hinting at the crush being "secret"]].
** Sandy's official biography states that she "is the only thing under the sea that SpongeBob likes better than his job at the Krusty Krab."
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* [[Knight Templar]]: Mr. Krabs's increasingly less provoked antagonism towards [[Designated Villain|his rival Plankton]]. While in early episodes, Krabs was interested solely in protecting his own business from the latter's villainous tactics, he became more obsessed in actively destroying any minor success or happiness Plankton achieved out of spite, via unscrupulous methods or not. On occasion Krabs is shown to take offense when Plankton merely isn't suicidally miserable. SpongeBob often plays a role in this as well, albeit due to his naivete and [[Go-Karting with Bowser|on-off friendship with Plankton]], likely more as [[Minion with an F In Evil|a blind follower of Krabs]] than out of spite.
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: The series features phenomena impossible in its underwater setting, like fire, and the characters comment on this.
** "Hey, if we're underwater, then how can there be a-" *fire extinguishes*
** In one episode, a tree is shown wearing scuba gear.
** In "Chimps Ahoy", Sandy's bosses come to visit her and check on her scientific progress. One points out that sending scientists underwater to live in Treedomes for no reason doesn't really make much sense.
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{{quote|'''SpongeBob''': How come it takes more than one squirrel to screw in a lightbulb?
'''Audience''': ''BECAUSE THEY'RE SO DARN STUPID!!!'' }}
* [[Line-of-Sight Name]]: When the Flying Dutchman comes for Mr. Krabs' soul in the hospital, Mr. Krabs insists that he is "Harold Flower", after the flower on the end table.
* [[Little-Known Facts]]: Patrick Star comes up with loads of these, usually in [[The Blind Leading the Blind]] situations with SpongeBob. They both believe them.
* [[Literal Junk Food]]: In the episode "Just One Patty", Squidward is desperately trying to get a Krabby Patty without anyone finding out, going so far as to say that he'll even eat one off the garbage. Sure enough, a customer throws away his patty and Squidward dives right in. [[Funny Moments (Sugar Wiki)|He ends up eating everything except the patty]].
* [[Lost Him in a Card Game]]: Mr. Krabs lost SpongeBob to Plankton.
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* [[Medium Blending]]: Above the surface of the water, everything's in live-action.
* [[Merchandise-Driven]]: In-universe example in "The Krusty Sponge". When SpongeBob's cooking was the sole thing that saved Krabs from a bad review from a food critic, he exploits that for as much as possible with many SpongeBob-themed items, including the Spongy Patty... even though they were rotten.
* [[The Millstone]]: Patrick fits more than the usual. Whenever SpongeBob or anyone has a plan, Patrick is sure to screw it up, or do something stupid to make it worse.
* [[Mirror-Cracking Ugly]]: SpongeBob thought he was this, but it was just his reflection reacting to his smelly breath.
* [[Mismatched Eyes]]: Lord Royal Highness, the ruler of Atlantis, has one blue eye and one green eye. (This is a reference to his [[David Bowie|voice actor's]] [[wikipedia:anisocoria|anisocoria]].)
* [[Missed the Bus]]: Rock Bottom. [[Pun|Full stop]].
* [[Mock Cousteau]]: The Narrator.
* [[Mock Millionaire]]: Double subverted when Squilliam Fancyson pretends to be a [[Mock Millionaire]] to bait Squidward... only to finally reveal he actually ''is'' rich.
* [[Mondegreen]]: "Sweet Victory" from the episode "Band Geeks" has a few lyrics that are often misheard, specifically "the world closing in" being heard as "the wind closing in", "be on the attack with your wings in the wind" being heard as "the only attack with their wings in the wind", and "the games will begin" heard as "the daydream begins"
* [[Money Fetish]]: Mr. Krabs
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* [[Mundane Wish]]: The episode "Shanghaied" had Patrick waste the first wish the Flying Dutchman gave him and SpongeBob on wishing that he knew about the wishes earlier. In one of the alternate [[Multiple Endings]], Patrick used the third and final wish on a pack of gum.
* [[Musical Episode]]: "Atlantis SquarePantis". It's [[Justified Trope|justified]] (partially), though, in that Atlantean technology is [[Disco Tech|powered by singing]].
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]?: "What kind of monsters are we?..."
* [[My Master, Right or Wrong]]: SpongeBob, despite his occasional disgust at Mr. Krabs's actions and sympathy for the people he victimizes, ([[Go-Karting with Bowser|even Plankton]]), generally follows through with his plans blindly, either due to his blind idolization of his boss or the fact his dream job may be at stake otherwise.
* [[Naked People Are Funny]]: Pranking the town as ghosts with no clothes on, among other instances.
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* [[No Dialogue Episode]]: "Reef Blower", aside from one brief caption reading "You!".
* [[No Fourth Wall]]: Any episode involving Patchy the Pirate acknowledges that SpongeBob is a just a show. Other episodes do this as well, such as showing a live family reacting to the [[Mind Screw]] ending to the episode and shutting off the TV.
* [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished]]: The episode "Can You Spare a Dime?" features Squidward quitting his job over a misunderstanding. When he ends up losing his house, Spongebob selflessly takes him into his own home, and takes care of him. Squidward "thanks" him by [[The Thing That Would Not Leave|becoming a freeloader]], forcing [[SpongeBob]] to wait on him hand and foot.
* [[No Hero Discount]]:
{{quote|'''Barnacle Boy:''' Listen, bignose. That guy's been saving your butt since before you were born. Don't you have a living legend discount or something?
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* [[No Matter How Much I Beg]]: [[Trope Namer]]
* [[Non Sequitur]]: One example is in the trope page.
* [[Noodle Incident]]:
** "And that's the story of how I got my head stuck in the fry bed!"
** Whatever SpongeBob did at the Christmas party mentioned multiple times in the episode about Patrick's box.
** The time Mr. Krabs left SpongeBob alone at the Krusty Krab with a [[Noodle Implements|welding torch and rollerskates]]. This somehow ended with the Krusty Krab on fire.
*** Honestly, other then the whole under water thing, you give someone with Spongebobs personality type a welding torch and rollerblades, and it'd be weirder if the place DIDN'T burn down.
** Apparently, one time Patrick forgot how to eat and needed to be fed with a funnel. Another time, he ended up somehow choking on his remote control.
* [[No Party Like a Donner Party]]: Played with in "To Save A Squirrel".
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* [[Out of Focus]]: Sandy, Larry, Mrs. Puff, and a few other recurring characters don't appear as often in later seasons to the point where they are forgotten as characters. It's also driven to the point where they forgot Sandy's ''name'' in one episode (she's referred to as "Sandy Squirrel" in "Keep Bikini Bottom Beautiful").
* [[Overcrank]]: Parodied in the Bubble Buddy episode.
* [[Overly Long Scream]]: Plankton did it once in the episode where he and Mr. Krabs switch places.
{{quote|'''Plankton:''' AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH *Takes a drink of his soda* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! }}
** Squidward's scream when SpongeBob and Patrick walk in on him during his bath, in a scene from "Have You Seen This Snail?" that has been subjected to [[Memetic Mutation]].
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* [[Produce Pelting]]: Squidward is hit with tomatoes during his ballet skit in "Culture Shock".
* [[Puff of Logic]]: SpongeBob doesn't have hair...or does he?
* [[Rampage From a Nail]]:
** One episode has a giant clam behaving this way. Everyone thinks it was because a peanut had been thrown at it; turns out Mr. Krabs stole its egg.
** There was also one episode in which Gary is entirely unruly and goes around biting people. Turns out it was from a piece of Squidward's makeshift security fence, almost making this example a parody.
* [[Rapid-Fire Comedy]]
* [[Raw Eggs Make You Stronger]]:
** In the episode "The Great Snail Race", [[SpongeBob]] puts Gary through Training from Hell to win the titular race. At one point, he maxes Gary an "energy drink" which includes raw eggs, simply "because it's a cliche!"
** Also, in "MuscleBob BuffPants", Spongebob mentions that he "starts off with twenty raw eggs everyday".
* [[Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud]]: Patrick.
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* [[Rule of Funny]]: Laughbox
* [[Rule of Three]]: In the first season episode "Jellyfishing", Patrick helping an injured Squidward hold a jellyfish net.
{{quote|'''Patrick:''' Firmly grasp it in your hand. ''(Patrick places the pole end on Squidward's bandaged hand, but it falls off because he can’t grab it. Patrick picks it up)'' '''''Firmly''''' grasp it. ''(He does the same thing again and the results are exactly like before. Patrick gets angry) '' '''[[Punctuated!
* [[Running Gag]]: "My leg!"
* [[Sadist Show]]: There has been an awful lot of [[Comedic Sociopathy]] in the later seasons.
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* [[Shaggy Dog Story]]: "Procrastination." SpongeBob finally {{spoiler|gets his essay done, but when he turns it in the next morning, Ms. Puff tells him the assignment has been canceled}}.
* [[Shaped Like What It Sells]]: Glove World is made of many different buildings shaped like gloves.
** The Chum Bucket is in the shape of a giant bucket.
* [[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).
* [[Shout-Out]]:
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* [[Smug Snake]]: Plankton, Karen, Squilliam, Bubble Bass, and Mr. Krabs [[Depending on the Writer]].
* [[Snap Back]] -- About every other episode, especially in the earlier seasons. Otherwise, SpongeBob would have been the proprietor of the Krusty Krab for the last eight years or so.
** The above issue has been [[Handwaved]], as the episodes supposedly don't happen in the exact order they come out in. This is at least the case for [[The Movie]], which is ''the'' official ending for the series despite having been produced years ago. SpongeBob {{spoiler|eventually becoming manager of the Krusty Krab 2}} is firmly canon.
** The newer seasons are by no means immune. One early post-movie episode, ''Wishing You Well'' ended with Mr. Krabs being wished away and ''almost eaten''. He was fine in time for the next episode.
* [[Snarky Non-Human Sidekick]]:
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** This has been a ''very'' popular source of parody on [[YouTube]], most involving editing cuss words in.
** Subverted with "Krusty Love." SpongeBob's cursing is filtered into nonsense vocal noises.
* [[So Unfunny It's Funny]]: The show had this, especially in the earlier episodes. The real king is this gem:
{{quote|'''Squidward:''' Why couldn't the 11-year old go to the pirate movie? It was rated [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Aaaarrrrrgh.]] }}
* [[Special Edition Title]]: "Christmas Who?" (done as ''The SpongeBob Christmas Special''), "Whatever Happened to SpongeBob?" (done as ''WhoBob WhatPants''), and "Truth or Square" (done with a remade version of the theme song and stop-motion animation).
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* [[Stock Audio Clip]]: SpongeBob's signature laugh, as well as the offscreen guy shouting "My leg!"
* [[Straw Loser]]: It takes a [[Butt Monkey]] to make SpongeBob and Patrick look like winners, Squidward apparently fills that role.
** Plankton seems to follow a similar comparison to Mr Krabs, who is usually a [[Butt Monkey]] or [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]] himself when the former isn't in the spotlight.
* [[Stupid Crooks]]: SpongeBob and Patrick deliberately attempted to rob a bank in order to try and break Mrs. Puff out of jail from the inside. For masks, both characters wore socks over their heads, which covered their eyes and didn't allow them to see where they were going, and the bank teller treats the entire ordeal as a normal exchange, asking SpongeBob for his name and ID (which he gladly hands over), pulling up his checking and savings accounts, and bluntly informing SpongeBob that he has no money in either account.
* [[Stupid Sexy Flanders]]: In "Squilliam Returns":
{{quote|Squidward: Try to [[Imagine the Audience Naked|Imagine him in his underwear]]...oh no, he's hot!"}}
* [[Suckiness Is Painful]]: Patrick's self-composed song in "Sing A Song Of Patrick", which is so awful that it [[Brown Note|actually]] ''[[Brown Note|kills]]'' the band that records it.
** [[Giftedly Bad|Squidward's clarinet skills...]]
* [[Suddenly Voiced]]: In "The Secret Box", SpongeBob asks Gary if he thinks his plan is good. Gary replies with, "Hmm... ''NO''."
* [[Suddenly Fluent in Gibberish]]:
{{quote|Patrick, I didn't know you spoke bird!
No, that's Italian, Spongebob. }}
* [[Sue Donym]]: In "Fear of a Krabby Patty", Plankton gives his name as "Peter Lankton". It is later shortened to "P. Lankton".
** "Hey, wait a second... is this a prank call?"
* [[Supreme Chef]]: Jim
* [[Surrounded by Idiots]]: Squidward -- ''[[Bigtime]]''.
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* [[Synchronized Swarming]]: Plankton rallies his extended family to aid him in finally stealing the Krabby Patty secret formula.
{{quote|'''Mr. Krabs''': Curse you Plankton, and [[Lampshade Hanging|your ability to join together to form a working human ear!]]}}
* [[
* [[Take a Third Option]]: In the episode where Plankton is trying to build his Chum Bucket Mega Bucket in the Goo Lagoon, he tells Spongebob that nice guys finish last, and that only aggressive people conquer the world. Spongebob kindly retorts with "What about aggressively ''nice'' people?"
* [[Taking Advantage of Generosity]]: Spongebob is often the victim of this.
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'''Gary:''' Meow meow meow.<br />
'''SpongeBob:''' I ''know'' he's still not looking for work! DON'T RUB IT IN! }}
* [[Terrible Artist]] : SpongeBob's crude drawings come to life in the episode "Frankendoodle". Even Patrick criticizes him on his lack of structure and perspective, [[Hypocritical Humour|though his drawings aren't any better.]]
* [[Terrible Ticking]]: Or in this case, squeaking, in "Squeaky Boots".
* [[Tertiary Sexual Characteristics]]: Averted, SpongeBob has curly lashes... though he is a bit girly.
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** SpongeBob when he has to take a vacation.
** the Flying Dutchman, after he wrecks his ghostly ship. {{spoiler|Which had been fixed for 3 months by the time he decided to leave.}}
* [[Punctuated!
** [[Berserk Button|My Name's! NOT! RICK!]]
** BIG! MEATY! CLAWS!
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* [[Took a Level In Dumbass]]: SpongeBob and Patrick after the movie.
** Sandy to an extent following the second season.
* [[Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth]]: In "Born Again Krabs" Mr. Krabs trades Spongebob's soul for 62 cents. Just as he starts to feel bad about it, the Flying Dutchman comes back to return Spongebob after being annoyed by his incessant chatter about his hobbies.
** The Flying Dutchman gave Spongebob and Patrick up as slave crewmen in "Shanghaied" because they were incredibly bad at it. In a subversion, rather than letting them go, he planned to eat them, but they escaped. Then the Dutchman catches them, but he offers them three wishes before they're eaten. After accidentally using up two of their wishes, they use their final wish to turn the Dutchman into a vegetarian. But then they appear in a blender, somehow transformed into fruit, with the Dutchman preparing to eat them.
** In a third Flying Dutchman example, namely "Scaredy Pants", Spongebob is shaved down by Patrick to make him rounder for a sheet he uses as a Flying Dutchman costume to try to scare everyone in the Krusty Krab for Halloween. He fails miserably, but as the entire restaurant is laughing at him the real Dutchman arrives, angered by Spongebob's insulting costume and about to steal everyone's souls. He takes a moment before doing so to explain the concept of being scary to Spongebob, then removes the sheet... and flies away screaming when he sees the sponge had been shaved down to facial features, a brain, and a "spinal cord".
* [[
* [[Training From Hell]]: The episode when a [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]] shark teaches SpongeBob how to drive. It works, but {{spoiler|1=SpongeBob ends up being able to drive only when [[Handicapped Badass|BLINDFOLDED]]}}. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
{{quote|MY PANTS!!!!}}
* [[Troubled Fetal Position]]: Played for laughs with Squidward in "Band Geeks", after another screw-up by his slapdash marching band.
** [[SpongeBob]] does this for a whole episode in which he becomes afraid to go outside, so he decides to live inside his house for the rest of his life. Thankfully, he got over it.
** One episode had Kevin the Sea Cucumber sits in a fetal position and cry for his mommy and blankie when attacked by a King Jellyfish. The other Jellyspotters join in shortly until Spongebob saves them all.
* [[Three Shorts|Two Shorts Format]]: There are occasional episodes containing a third short -- namely, the [[Pilot]] and five of the fifth season's episodes.
* [[Two-Timer Date]]: Averted; you see, SpongeBob had ''three'' appointments booked for the same time, not two.
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** In ''Krabby Road'' we are given a brief glimpse at the formula. However the ingredients are [[Unusual Euphemism|nonsense words comprised of random letters]] akin to something a frustrated person might type when banging on a keyboard.
** A book detailing the series claimed to have the secret formula at the end. {{spoiler|All it read was, in .5-point font, "Congratulations! You know how to use a magnifying glass!"}}
* [[Unsatisfiable Customer]]: Bubblebass.
* [[Unsound Effect]]: Plankton makes habit out of saying these.
{{quote|'''Plankton:''' Oh, look, it's the Krusty Krab, home of the Krabby Patty! '''''CRUSH!''''' ''[Crushes the restaurant, picks up its sign and starts to lick it like a lollipop]'' Lick, lick!}}
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* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Type 1 with SpongeBob and Squidward.
* [[Vocal Evolution]]: [[Tom Kenny]]'s SpongeBob voice was somewhat deeper and nasal in earlier seasons, before becoming higher pitched and childlike later on.
* [[Walk On the Wild Side Episode]]: In one episode, Squidward gets so fed up with Spongebob and Patrick's antics that he decides to move out into a gated community filled with other squids who share his interests. Inside, he finds that everyone else has a Easter Island head house, everyone else loves playing the clarinet, everyone else loves riding their paddlebikes, everyone else loves ballet dancing, and everyone else enjoys eating canned bread. He's thrilled at this, but soon gets bored of the same routine every day, to the point where he starts going out of control and just lets loose while playing around with a leaf blower. The other citizens filled a formal list of complaints, but Squidward tells them off by flying his leaf blower into the sky while screaming wildly.
* [[Watching the Sunset]]: With Squidward.
{{quote|''Spongebob:''' This is great. Just the three of us; you, me, and this brick wall you built between us."}}
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* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: Krabby Patties
** '''[[Memetic Mutation|"CHOCOLATE?! CHOCOLATE!!!!"]]'''
** In the episode "Procrastination". As the name implies, SpongeBob grapples with his denial for hesitation in writing a 800-word essay. In one of his many time-wasting gimmicks, he spends an implied ludicrous amount of time and effort writing the "The" at the start of the paper, so the sequence ends up just looking "awesome" instead of being the [[Hard Work Montage]] it initially appears to be.
** The opening scene of The Movie features a dramatic scene based around the "crisis" of a customer being given a Krabby Patty without cheese, complete with a slow-motion sequence of SpongeBob putting some cheese into the patty. It's a Dream Sequence, but still...
** How about any time the Krabby Patty is brought to the audiences attention by SpongeBob, or at least when it focuses on him making Krabby Patties?
** When a customer gets a Patty with jellyfish jelly added, he's so enthused that he bursts into an impromptu musical number: "LISTEN to me, everybody! I just had a sand-wich! It's no ordinary sand-wich!"
** And in one of the "Legends of Bikini Bottom" episodes, SpongeBob is unconscious due to his Krabby Patty meter being empty. Mr. Krabs gets him to eat one. He then blasts up, explodes into pieces, then regenerates after all of them land together, and then... '''[[Chewing the Scenery|"OHHHHHHHHH, YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!"]]'''
** Mermaid Man. "To the meatloaf... AWAY!"
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?|What Do You Mean, It's Not Heinous?]]: SpongeBob tends to overreact whenever he makes a single mistake during his job, like being late by a minute, accidentally giving a customer a large-sized soda instead of a medium one, being out of napkins...
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* [[Yes, Virginia]]: The [[Christmas Episode]]
* [[You Can Say That Again]]: SpongeBob utters the line in the episode "The Two Faces of Squidward", after Patrick says "We're not just neighbors...", and Patrick, as one might expect, follows through.
* [[Your Costume Needs Work]]: "That's the worst SpongeBob costume I've ever seen!" — Passenger on a train ride that ''SpongeBob himself'' is driving in the episode "The Krusty Sponge"
* [[Your Eyes Can Deceive You]]: A method used by one driving teacher...and it actually works! But now SpongeBob can only drive safely while blindfolded...
* [[Your Television Hates You]]: In "Idiot Box", Squidward is trying to forget about SpongeBob and Patrick playing in their box, but everything on TV is about boxes, even [[Visual Pun|boxing]].
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