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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 (Animation)/Radar|Parental Bonuses]] and [[SpongeBob SquarePants (Animation)/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 [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/SpongeBob_SquarePants:_Battle_for_Bikini_BottomSpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom|few that]] [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/The_SpongeBob_SquarePants_Movie_Game: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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=== The series is the [[Trope Namer]] for: ===
* [[IveI've Heard of That! What Is It?]]
* [[No Matter How Much I Beg]]
* [[The Ugly Barnacle (Literature)|The Ugly Barnacle]] (not exactly a trope, but a [[Just for Fun]] page)
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{{quote| '''Patrick''': Maybe it's your voice.<br />
'''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 butBut 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 FoolsFool's Plot]]: "Fools in April"
* [[Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?]]:
{{quote| '''Flying Dutchman''': Who dares disturb the Flying Dutchman?<br />
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* [[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)''}}
* [[At ArmsArm's Length]]: Krabs and Plankton
* [[Attack Backfire]]: Mermaid Man mistakes Spongebob for evil and attacks with his trademark Water Balls. Spongebob enjoys it.
* [[Author Appeal]]: The show was created by a former marine biologist. In all honesty, could you imagine anybody else creating a cartoon about a talking sea sponge?
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* [[Auto Cannibalism]]: [[Played for Laughs]]; SpongeBob scarfs down a bucket of his own severed arms (they regenerate) like popcorn during Squidward's [[Ghost Story]].
* [[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.
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** 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?<br />
'''Squilliam''': [[Insult Backfire|It's big and valuable.]] }}
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** 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!<br />
'''Squidward''': No.<br />
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** 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 (Music)|Motorhead]] re-recorded one of their older tracks, "You Better Run," with new sea lyrics as "You Better Swim."
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* [[Darker and Edgier]]: [[The Movie]], and several episodes focusing on Plankton and Squidward.
** The series as a whole starting in season four.
* [[Dead MansMan's Chest]]: "The Nasty Patty".
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Squidward and Karen. ''Big Time''.
* [[Delayed Reaction]]: Happens a lot.
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* [[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.
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* [[Evil Versus Evil]]: Krabs versus Plankton (in newer episodes).
* [[Expanded Universe]]
* [[Extra! Extra! Read All About It!]]: "Maniac strikes Bikini Bottom! City paralyzed with fear!"
* [[Eye Scream]]: Crops up a number of times.
{{quote| '''[[Paper-Thin Disguise|Tattle-Tale Strangler]]''': Get your feet out of my eye sockets! ''[screaming]''<br />
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** The nerve of that guy and his driving eyeballs!
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: Barnacle ''Man'' in "Super Friends".
* [[Fan of the Underdog]]: SpongeBob and Patrick seem to be the only entities in Bikini Bottom that actually like Squidward and consider him as wonderful and talented a being as he himself believes he is. Unfortunately their stupidity and clinginess still manages to cause him [[Stop Helping Me!|as much suffering and pain]] as everyone else's harshness.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Played for laughs when SpongeBob became a lifeguard:
{{quote| '''SpongeBob''': There are sharks in the water!<br />
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** Squidward: Melancholic
** Sandy: Choleric
* [[Freak -Out]]: Most of the characters have this at least once.
* [[Funny Animal]]: Nearly everyone.
* [[Fun With Acronyms]]: '''E'''very '''V'''illain '''I'''s '''L'''emons. [[Don't Explain the Joke|"Otherwise known as EVIL."]]
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** [[Ambulance Cut]]: Subverted temporarily in the episode "Born Again Krabs". Mr. Krabs prepares to take a bite out of an old, filthy, tainted patty. Just as he is about to bite down on it, the shot cuts to an ambulance, implying that Krabs was now being rushed to the hospital. As it turns out, the ambulance was only passing by the Krusty Krab.
{{quote| '''Mr. Krabs:''' Oh, look. An ambulance. Now then, where was I? ''(He takes a bite out of the patty, and the Trope is played straight afterwards.)'' }}
* [[Go -Karting With Bowser]]: You shouldn't be surprised if SpongeBob invites ''even Plankton'' to one of his parties.
** Mr. Krabs and Plankton have also played poker every Tuesday night for years.
* [[Good Guy Bar]]: The Weenie Hut.
* [[Good Times Montage]]: F.U.N. That is all. Also the montage of playing with Wormy.
* [[Grand Finale]]: [[Word of God]] has confirmed that, no matter what happens in the show or how long it goes on, the movie is the series finale.
* [[Gross -Out Show]]: Many of the newer episodes venture into how-disgusting-can-we-make-it territory.
* [[Gross Up Close -Up]]: "The Nasty Patty," "To Love a Patty," and a lot more episodes.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnE5olqKDvQ&feature=related "MORE."]
* [[Ha Ha Ha No]]: Mrs. Puff in ''Wishing You Well'', when SpongeBob asks if he can take a ride in her new hot rod.
* [[Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow]]: Squidward.
* [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]: Patrick's sister, Sam. The episode even gives us this exchange:
{{quote| '''Sam''': What Patrick doing? Why Patrick talk to meanies?<br />
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** [[Word of God]] confirms that Squidward is in fact an octopus. In a commentary on [[The Movie]] DVD, he says that calling him "Octo-ward" didn't sound right, it was too difficult to animate him with eight legs, and early drafts that gave him the ability to produce ink...[[Does This Remind You of Anything?|just didn't look right]].
** SpongeBob's healing factor is so powerful that there are several gags involving [[Spong Bob]]'s arms or legs being ripped or broken off. One hilarious example is in the episode "The Graveyard Shift", where Mr. Krabs decides that the Krusty Krab will be open 24 hours a day. So Squidward and SpongeBob are stuck there all night. To pass the time, Squidward tells a scary story about the "Hash-Slinging Slasher". SpongeBob bites his nails...then chews his fingers off...then his arms are being fed into his [[Buzzsaw Jaw]] as soon as they regenerate...[[Overly Long Gag|and then he eats a bucket of his arms like a bucket of popcorn.]]
*** [[I Thought Everyone Could Do That!]]: When Squidward gets to the part where the Hash-Slinging Slasher cut off his own hand, SpongeBob doesn't react. In fact, he even demonstrates. Then Squidward explains that it didn't grow back, and suddenly SpongeBob is terrified.
* [[Heel Face Revolving Door]]: Man Ray.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Mr. Krabs in "One Krab's Trash"
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* [[Kill It With Fire]]: In the castaway episode.
* [[Kitschy Local Commercial]]: When Mr. Krabs decides to make a commercial for the Krusty Krab, Squidward initially goes all out to make it as extravagant as possible. Krabs then decides it's too much and goes for a cheesy commercial on at 3AM.
* [[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*
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* [[MacGuffin]]: The Secret Formula, arguably.
* [[Mad Scientist]]: Plankton
* [[Make -Out Point]]: "Ah, makeout reef. Good times. ''Gooood times.''"
* [[Marshmallow Dream]]: SpongeBob dreams of eating Krabby Patties and wakes up chewing on his pillow.
** Also referred to on "Sleepy Time". When [[SpongeBob]] meets Gary in the dreamworld, the now erudite Gary tries to explain to him the concept of dreams as a view to another world. When an [[Emily Dickinson]] poem goes over SB's head, Gary recites one more his speed: "There once was an old man from Peru; Who dreamed he was eating his shoe; He woke with a fright; In the middle of the night; To find that his dream had come true".
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* [[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 (Music)|voice actor's]] [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:anisocoria |anisocoria]].)
* [[Missed the Bus]]: Rock Bottom. [[Pun|Full stop]].
* [[Mock Cousteau]]: The Narrator.
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* [[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.
{{quote| Tour Bus Driver: And if you look to your right, you'll see two naked guys fighting over a can of paint.}}
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** SpongeBob sometimes. Notably when Patrick is a stupid jerk towards him.
*** Strangely enough, Gary, who often proves that he's somewhat smarter than this owner.
* [[Opening Shout -Out]]: Used in "Truth or Square". "Who lives in a rock on the sea floor? PATRICK STARFISH!"
* [[Opposite Day]]: The eponymous episode from season 1.
* [[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").
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** "I wumbo, you wumbo, he she we, WUMBO. Wumbo, wumboing... wumboligy? The study of wumbo? C'mon SpongeBob it's FIRST GRADE!"
* [[Perpetual Frowner]]: Squidward.
* [[Pie -Eyed]]: In the 10th Anniversary episode, Patchy shows a SpongeBob short in a 1920's style where everything has this eye style.
* [[Pity the Kidnapper]]:
** The Tattletale Strangler's reaction to SpongeBob.
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* [[Screwed By the Network]]: On their Nicktoons channel, as it only airs when most people are asleep. You were probably confused when you saw this trope on this page if you don't get Nicktoons. (That's probably because they don't ''need'' to air it on Nicktoons.)
** Might just be me, but is this this show leaning towards this trope on their main channel? I mean seriously, this show seems to be suffering [[Schedule Slip]].
* [[Second -Person Attack]]: In "Pizza Delivery", when the fish ordering the Krusty Krab pizza refused to pay for the pizza because Spongebob and Squidward forgot to bring him his soda, Squidward comes back at his door and shoves the pizza in the customer's face, saying "Well, this one's on the house!"
* [[Secret Ingredient]]: Plankton's schemes revolve entirely around discovering the secret ingredient of the Krabby Patty at business rival Mr. Krabs' The Krusty Krab. At one point (after overtaking the restaurant with the help of his millions of hillbilly brethren), Plankton finds out that the secret ingredient is actual plankton ([[Go Mad From the Revelation|Plankton and his family do not take the news well]]), but Mr. Krabs reveals that it wasn't the real secret ingredient, [[Crazy Prepared|just a fake one used to dupe Plankton]]. Another episode involves the entire restaurant going into lockdown as the secret ingredient is air-lifted in.
* [[Seldom -Seen Species]]: Sponge. Also squid and plankton.
* [[Sensitive Guy and Manly Man]]: SpongeBob and Patrick.
* [[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}}.
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* [[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]]:
** Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy reference both the [[Batman (TV)|Batman TV series]] and [[Aquaman (Comic Book)|Aquaman and Aqualad and Manta Ray is based off of Black Manta]].
** In the episode about the Hash-Slinging Slasher, the flickering lights end up being caused by...[[Nosferatu (Film)|Orlok]]? SpongeBob just laughs it off. "[[Oh, Cisco|Nosferatu!]]"
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'''Mr Krabs''': Not if you’re a sailor. }}
** In "New Student Starfish", Patrick's climb up the mountain of light bulbs has a brief shout out to [[The Price Is Right]]'s Cliff Hanger Game, complete with yodeling and lederhosen.
** In "The Camping Episode", Spongebob and Patrick end up smashing a guitar and a drum set, respectfully. Okay, quite a few [[Rockers Smash Guitars]], so that could be a [[Shout -Out]] to any of those bands, right? Fast forward to the episode "Sweet And Sour Squid" where Squidward and Plankton are clearly singing a parody of "[[Tommy (Music)|Pinball Wizard]]", and it seems to indicate that at least one writer among the crew is a fan of [[The Who (Music)|The Who]], meaning that in the Camping Episode Spongebob and Patrick were most likely immitating Pete Townshend and Keith Moon, respectfully.
** During the tenth anniversary special, [[Robin Williams]] asked Patchy if he knew [[Hook (Film)|Captain Hook]]. Granted, this is [[Robin Williams]] we're talking about, so that line was likely to have been ad-libbed, but still...
** In "Squidbob Tentaclepants," Sandy's teleportation device bears a striking resemblance to [[The Fly (Film)|Brundle's telepods.]]
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* [[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).
* [[Sphere Eyes]]: SpongeBob himself.
* [[Split -Screen Phone Call]]: Parodied in "Jellyfishing" as well as many other episodes.
* [[Spoiled Brat]]: Pearl.
* [[Spotlight-Stealing Title]]
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* [[Terrible Ticking]]: Or in this case, squeaking, in "Squeaky Boots".
* [[Tertiary Sexual Characteristics]]: Averted, SpongeBob has curly lashes... though he is a bit girly.
* [[That Cloud Looks Like...|That Cloud Looks Like A Flower]]: SpongeBob watches the clouds go by with Sandy, who then reminds him they are all flowers.
* [[Theme Tune Cameo]]: SpongeBob hums the show's credits theme (usually not heard due to Nickelodeon's [[Credits Pushback]]) in "Krabs vs. Plankton".
* [[The Ugly Barnacle (Literature)|The Ugly Barnacle]]: [[Trope Namer]] {{spoiler|[[Don't Explain the Joke|The entire story is a joke from the episode "Something Smells", showing Patrick's utter incompetence]]}}
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** And he has HUNDREDS of employee of the month awards by the time The Movie takes place. Employee of the month awards that would take 37 years and two months just to win.
** His drivers license says he was born in 1986. So [[Word of God]] is he's twenty three putting the series in 2009.
* [[ValentinesValentine's Day Episodes]]: "Valentine's Day".
* [[Verbal Tic]]: In Rock Bottom, you actually need to raspberry between words (i.e.: '''JUST''' * PPPTPTPTP* '''LIKE''' * PTPTPT* '''THIS''') in order for you to be understood.
{{quote| "What? *pbthbth* I can't *pbthbth* understand *pbthbth* your accent. *pbthbth*}}
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{{quote| '''Mr. Krabs''': ''(Angrily)'' Smooth, [[SpongeBob]]. VERY smooth!}}
* [[Who's On First?]]: "Good Ol' Whatshisname", in which Squidward tries to find out the name of a mystery customer.
* [[WhosWho's Watching the Store?]]: Only three people operate the Krusty Krab, and all three are not always at work at the same time.
** Sometimes Squidward can cook when SpongeBob's not around, although he's not very good at it.
* [[Workaholic]]: SpongeBob ADORES his job at the Krusty Krab, to the point where he ''goes insane'' when Mr. Krabs tries to make him take a vacation.
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* [[Yank the Dog's Chain]]: Some episodes tend to do this to both Squidward and Plankton. Used so often in the later seasons that it's almost the show's signature trope.
** SpongeBob whenever he tries to get his driver's license.
* [[Yes -Man]]: The Jellyspotters
* [[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"
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