SpongeBob SquarePants season 4

SpongeBob SquarePants Season 4
Season 4
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No. of episodes	38
Release
Original network	Nickelodeon
Season chronology

Season Four of the television series SpongeBob SquarePants premiered on 5 May 2005 and ran until 30 March 2007. Season four consists of 20 episodes. Starting with "Fear of Krabby Patty" / "Shell of a Man" and ending with "Best Day Ever" / "The Gift of Gum". Volume 1 of Season 4 was released on 11 September 2006 in Region 1, followed by Volume 2 on 8 January 2007. The Season was released its entirety in Region 2 on November 2, 2008.

Episodes

"Fear of a Krabby Patty"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode In the first new episode, Mr. Krabs makes new business hours for the Krusty Krab, but he notices that Plankton's business hours at the Chum Bucket are 23 hours a day, so Mr. Krabs decides to compete with Plankton by opening at 24 hours a day. However, Mr. Krabs has been manipulated into unwittingly following a plan made by Plankton; Mr. Krabs will run his employees ragged, and Plankton will force SpongeBob to tell him the Krabby Patty formula when he mentally falls apart from exhaustion. Seeing SpongeBob's hardiness to the work times, Plankton anonymously orders 10,000 Krabby Patties. Eventually, SpongeBob becomes afraid of Krabby Patties after going through such a large and lengthy amount of labor. Plankton pretends to be a psychiatrist, naming himself "Peter Lankton" (or P. Lankton for short) to complete his plan. Much to Plankton's dismay, SpongeBob stays asleep during a hypnosis session, where he overcomes his phobia in a dream, and goes back to the Krusty Krab fully rehabilitated; Plankton has failed once again. In the end, Mr. Krabs decides to make a 23-hour shift; this is at first perceived to be a joke, but Mr. Krabs soon reveals that he is serious.

• Note: Mr. Krabs' "24 Hours A Day" strategy at the Krusty Krab is nothing new; it was first used in the Season 2 episode "Graveyard Shift".

"Shell of a Man"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode Mr. Krabs is planning to go to a Naval Reunion, but he molts his shell right before the event. So SpongeBob attempts to pretend to be Mr. Krabs by wearing his recently molted shell. At the reunion, everything is going well, until SpongeBob has to fight one of Mr. Krabs' old Navy buddies. The shell cracks and SpongeBob is exposed. Mr. Krabs comes out from his hiding place and reveals that he is the real Mr. Krabs, and looks different because he molted his shell. All of his Navy buddies then reveal that they all had secrets to hide themselves. The episode ends with Mr. Krabs whispering to SpongeBob that his shell will grow back eventually, and the two then laugh.

"The Lost Mattress"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode Mr. Krabs can't sleep because of his lumpy old mattress, so SpongeBob and Patrick buy him a new mattress. Squidward, thinking Spongebob and Patrick are trying to make him look bad, writes, "This was all my idea! Love Squidward" onto their card to look better than Spongebob and Patrick. Mr. Krabs is upset though because when Squidward reveals he tossed the lumpy matress, Mr. Krabs tells him all of his money was in the mattress. Mr. Krabs ends up in the hospital suffering from shock, and goes into a "cash coma", and will only recover when his money returns. Squidward doesn't look better, and instead he looks terrible in front of everybody. A police officer, finds Squidward's message on the card and tells Squidward that he will go to jail if Mr. Krabs doesn't recover, leaving SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidward to retrieve it. They find the mattress at the junkyard, but it's guarded by a giant worm who is very aggressive. Squidward tricks Patrick and SpongeBob into doing all the hard work, but his plans backfire again, as he is bitten several times by the worm. Eventually, to save space in the hospital, Mr. Krabs's nurse pushes him out of the hospital, and he lands into the junkyard right beside his matress full of money. He scares the worm away and says that he will never leave his money alone again. The episode ends with the angry worm chasing Squidward away.

"Krabs vs. Plankton"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode Plankton goes into the Krusty Krab one day and slips on a wet floor. He files a lawsuit against Mr. Krabs for everything he has, including the Krabby Patty's secret formula, because there was no "Wet Floor" sign, also faking numerous injuries. When Mr. Krabs' defense lawyer slips and injures himself on the floor, SpongeBob takes over. SpongeBob spends most of the trial trying to open a briefcase, but what's in it can help Mr. Krabs win the case. Many of SpongeBob's attempts to help Mr. Krabs, such as calling Squidward as a witness (only for Squidward to confirm Mr. Krabs's miserly nature and complain that this is his first day off in three years) and putting a dollar into a blender to prove that Mr. Krabs is not cheap, only make the situation worse. They finally open it, and it contains a Krabby Patty, which SpongeBob uses to force Plankton to reveal that he had gone to the Krusty Krab to steal the formula. Plankton's ruse is exposed, and Mr. Krabs is acquitted.

"Have You Seen This Snail?"

Main article: Have You Seen This Snail?

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode After getting an Official Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy Paddle Ball set, he goes for the Dirty Bubble challenge (hitting the paddle ball nearly a trillion times in a row), causing him to forget to feed Gary. He thinks SpongeBob doesn't want him anymore, so he runs away. When SpongeBob discovers what has happened, he frantically attempts to find him.

"Skill Crane"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode Mr. Krabs purchases a claw vending machine for the Krusty Krab. SpongeBob wins something from the machine every time he inserts a quarter, while Squidward loses every time. This drives Squidward insane, and soon he puts all of his money, as well as the deed to his house, into the machine, trying to beat it. When SpongeBob tells him the secret to winning, Squidward finally wins a prize, a hairless teddy bear. His constant bragging soon gets him into trouble, though.

This episode is a parody of an episode of The Twilight Zone, The Fever, which is about a slot machine. The machine chinks out a name just as the squeak on the crane itself does.

"Good Neighbors"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode It's Sunday, and Squidward just wants to relax. He has a pedicure scheduled for later in the afternoon, but SpongeBob and Patrick are spoiling his day. Spongebob and Patrick call themselves "Good neighbors" annoying Squidward. When Squidward is taken to the hospital by a couple who mistakes him for an ill person, SpongeBob and Patrick end up getting his pedicure, so Squidward gets angry, and tells them they are horrible neighbors. Spongebob and Patrick agree with Squidward and sadly leave. Spongebob and Patrick drives Squidward to set up a new, robotic security system in his home. However, Spongebob and Patrick accidentally cause his security system to malfunction, causing Squidward's house to turn into a robot with limbs, and causes much destruction to the city. After that, the citizens of Bikini Bottom make Spongebob, Patrick, and Squidward do community service every Sunday for the rest of their lives. Squidward is obviously bothered by this, but SpongeBob and P.atrick are excited

"Selling Out"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode Mr. Krabs sells the Krusty Krab and retires. When the new management takes over, the restaurant becomes "Krabby O'Mondays" (a parody of T.G.I. Fridays), a sports-themed restaurant. Mr. Krabs isn't enjoying his retirement, and when Pearl nags him to get a job, he gets a job there as a busboy. Squidward then secretly begs Mr. Krabs for help, and Spongebob looks very sad. Mr. Krabs then realizes that their boss, Carl (who works under the new owner of the restaurant), is keeping them trapped, is forcing them to do their jobs, and is even forcing the production of pseudo-Krabby Patties (made with a strange, disgusting substance) on a conveyor belt. Ultimately, after destroying the Krabby O'Mondays and driving out the customers, Mr. Krabs buys the restaurant back.

"Funny Pants"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode SpongeBob finds a simple comment by Squidward ("Another day, another nickel") to be uproariously funny, and laughs about it nonstop, stating, "It's funny because it's true!". Eventually, an irritated Squidward tells him that he may never laugh again if he doesn't stop. SpongeBob thinks that he has lost his laugh, and starts crying all the time, flooding Squidward's house with a sea of his tears (literallly) in the process. Squidward, tired of all the crying and finding it to be more irritating than SpongeBob's laugh, tells him that he never lost his laugh, and then blows his laugh box (a laughter-enabling organ that Squidward did not know even existed) out while laughing at his own joke.

At the hospital, Squidward's laugh box is removed. So, SpongeBob then voluntarily gives a portion of his own laugh box to
Squidward  — but to Squidward's horror, he must now laugh like Spongebob as a result!

"Dunces and Dragons"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode Dunces and Dragons is a special, double-length episode.

The story starts off with SpongeBob and Patrick attending a show called Medieval Moments, which performs medieval Bikini Bottom-style jousts. Once the show starts, the host asks for two volunteers to participate in the joust. Spongebob and Patrick volunteer and are chosen thinking they will just watch the joust up close. When they find out they are actually in the joust they panic. Patrick is hit by the jousting stick while Spongebob is thrown off his seahorse. Both fly out of the stadium, and for some unexplained reason, travel back to the Middle Ages. However, the two are unaware that they have traveled through time at all...

SpongeBob and Patrick land in a field. They meet some knights who believe that they "fell out of the sky", so they think they are witches. But SpongeBob and Patrick think the knights are really role-players, and SpongeBob and Patrick are still unaware that they are time travelers, and SpongeBob and Patrick do not consider themselves to be witches. The knights sentence them to a dungeon. There they meet another inmate, Squidley (who resembles Squidward). Squidley explains that he was once the King's favorite jester until he told a joke that "gave him a stroke". The three see a monstrous jellyfish (which Squidley refers to as the "Dragon Jellyfish") go on a rampage through a nearby village. It is only after this do SpongeBob and Patrick realize they have traveled back to medieval times.

All three are brought before King Krabs (who resembles Mr. Krabs), who is the ruler of Bikini Bottomshire (medieval Bikini Bottom). He believes SpongeBob and Patrick to be people ordered to destroy him (though this is not true), and when Squidley sings a song that satirizes King Krabs, he is obviously offended. So, the king orders all three to be beheaded with a guillotine. However, Princess Pearl, King Krabs' whale daughter, says that according to a prophecy, Spongebob and Patrick are "two strangers who fall from the sky" who will be ordered by the king to defeat the evil Dragon controlled by the evil one-eyed wizard, Planktonamor. The dragon bursts through the castle walls and kidnaps the princess. The King soon begins to actually believe that SpongeBob and Patrick are in fact the prophesied heroes of Bikini Bottomshire, and sends them on a quest to defeat Planktonamor and his Dragon Jellyfish. When Squidley plays with his clarinet badly, King Krabs orders him to accompany SpongeBob and Patrick on their quest to "provide them with entertainment".

The three set off to defeat the wizard. SpongeBob packs three Krabby Patties for lunch. They almost make it Planktonamor's lair when they are stopped by the Dark Knight (who resembles Sandy). The Dark Knight then challenges Spongebob to a fight. Spongbob wins using his karate skills. SpongeBob is about to destroy the Dark Knight, but he soon decides to spare her life.

Impressed by his kindness, the Dark Knight becomes SpongeBob's ally. The four head to Planktonamor's lair and finally confront the evil wizard (who resmbles Plankton). The fight looks like it's going well until the dragon shows up. The dragon corners Spongebob and Patrick. Patrick asks Spongebob if they can eat the Krabby Patties. Spongebob pulls out a patty, and the dragon stops attacking. Spongebob finds that he can gain control of the dragon if he feeds it Krabby Patties. Spongebob finally wins over the dragon with the Krabby Patties, and the dragon turns on Planktonamor and fries him. Planktonamor gives up, and the princess has been rescued.

Shortly after the princess is rescued, a huge celebration is held and Spongebob and Patrick become the heroes of all the residents of Bikini Bottomshire. But when they are riding through town on seahorses during the celebration parade, Squidley stats playing the clarinet badly. An angered villager attacks Squidley by throwing a rock into his throat, knocking him out. These incidents drive the seahorses mad. They throw Spongebob and Patrick up into the air. Spongebob and Patrick crash through what seems to be the window of a castle. When SpongeBob and Patrick wake up, they are in the present day at Medieval Moments, with the staff all around them. Spongebob begins to think that their trip through time was a dream, and he says this to Patrick. However, Patrick responds by saying, "Try telling that to Squidley.". Patrick them moves to reveal Squidley, who has somehow been squished under him...

"Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy VI : The Motion Picture"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode After decades of being on the small screen, a Mermaidman and Barnacleboy movie is finally being produced. But instead of using the elderly superheroes, the studio making the film will use much younger, better-looking actors to play the lead roles. Infuriated, SpongeBob and Patrick set out to make their own film, using the real Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy, and with Pearl in a starring role. They also recruit some of their friends to help out, with Plankton operating the boom microphone, Squidward doing makeup, and Sandy doing the stunts. The end result is a low-budgeted, poorly edited, short film that no one in the heroes' official fan club cares for, but the stars are quite proud of it regardless.

• Note: In the scene where Spongebob realizes that there's a lens cap on the camera, he asked Patrick did he just put that on after the crash, in which Patrick responds "Nope I didn't want to lose it so I put it there right before we started filming". But if you look closer when Pearl and everybody else are in the sky, the lens cap is not on the camera, proving that he filmed the entire thing.

"Enemy In-Law"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode Plankton falls in love with Mama Krabs, and begins to date her. When Mr. Krabs finds out, he tries to convince his mother that Plankton's only after the Krabby Patty secret formula, but Mama Krabs orders her son to stay out of her personal affairs. Mr. Krabs painfully obliges... until Plankton decides to pop the question.

"Patrick SmartPants"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode After falling off a cliff, Patrick's intelligence somehow increases very significantly. SpongeBob tries to get Patrick to play with him, but he begins to find SpongeBob to be too childish and declines. He begins to hang out with Squidward and Sandy, but they find his intelligence and recently-gained snobby demeanor annoying and throw him out. SpongeBob and Patrick want to hang out with each other again, so they decide to try to figure out a way on how to make Patrick revert to his previous self.

"SquidBob TentaclePants"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode SpongeBob and Squidward become fused together as the result of an accident involving Sandy's new invention: a teleporter. They are so mixed up that Mr. Krabs tells them they can't work at the Krusty Krab until they are back to normal. During Squidward's clarinet concert, their disguise falls off and everybody becomes amazed at how they are morphed together, but Sandy spoils the moment by separating the two, using a device called a "molecular separator ray". Desperate to fuse with SpongeBob again, Squidward fiddles with the molecular separator ray, but accidentally fuses himself, SpongeBob, Patrick, Sandy, Mr. Krabs, Pearl, Larry, and Mrs. Puff together into a combination of people that looks a bit blob-like and ill. They are later seen at a clinic, with Squidward talking to the doctor (or psychiatrist) about his troubles. Squidward says that his problems began when he "was born". All the other people who got mixed into the combination are then shown to be moaning as if they were sick.

"Krusty Towers"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode SpongeBob and Squidward are going to the Krusty Krab one day and find out it is now a tall, towering hotel called the Krusty Towers, set up by Mr. Krabs because of the money that hotels rake in. The Krusty Towers has a pledge that says "We shall never deny a guest, even the most ridiculous request"; effectively, this means that the all of hotel staff must do whatever the guests ask of them, no matter how ridiculous and unreasonable it is. Patrick becomes the first guest, and forces Squidward to do numerous things for him, such as unclogging his toilet, peeling the bun off of a Krabby Patty, and giving him a bubble bath. Squidward is annoyed by these tasks, so he quits his job and leaves, but subsequently returns as a guest and takes advantage of the "deny no guest" plaque, forcing Mr. Krabs and SpongeBob to do things such as redesign his room several times and eat Krabby Patties topped with nose hair and toenail clippings.

In the end, Squidward requests a pool in his room. Patrick does a cannon ball when he wants to swim, but the cannon ball was too heavy and destroys the Krusty Towers. At the local hospital, where everyone caught in the accident (Mr. Krabs, SpongeBob, Squidward, Patrick) has been hospitalized at, Mr. Krabs decides to make the Krusty Krab into a hospital after seeing the very expensive bill he must pay, wanting that much money.

"Mrs. Puff, You're Fired"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode Mrs. Puff gets fired because SpongeBob has failed his driving test over a million times, with the supervisor refusing to believe that SpongeBob is unteachable and blaming his failures on Mrs. Puff's incompetence. Then, a new teacher comes in and he is very strict. He teaches SpongeBob very well and SpongeBob passes most tests with flying colors. Unfortunately, due to the new teacher's strict drills and teaching method, SpongeBob can only drive while blindfolded, and is not allowed (under penalty of the law) to drive blindfolded. SpongeBob drives all over town with his bare eyes and destroys much of the city. Since the best teacher can't teach SpongeBob, Mrs. Puff has to keep teaching, much to her dismay.

Some do not consider this episode to be canon to the show due to SpongeBob having failed his driving test over one million times. This number is ridiculously huge and would require an extremely long amount of time to take and fail each test, more than occupies one's lifetime, despite SpongeBob still being young. In "Driven to Tears", SpongeBob has failed his driving test 57 times (meaning he has failed it 19 more times prior to Boating School, a much smaller and more logical number).

"Ghost Host"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode The Flying Dutchman's ship breaks, so he decides to go to live with SpongeBob while repairs are being made to his ship (though he stays there for a little while even after his ship is fully repaired). The Flying Dutchman has a great time scaring the heck out of Sponebob, but eventually, Spongebob doesn't recognize him as scary anymore, and everyone else seems to be too ignorant to recognize the Flying Dutchman's existence. The Flying Dutchman believes he isn't scary anymore and loses his confidence, so Spongebob decides to help him. Spongebob eventually convinces the Flying Dutchman to scare Squidward, who doesn't believe in ghosts. Squidward becomes extremely terrified, as they had planned, thus restoring his confidence. The Flying Dutchman then gives Spongebob a "present" for his assistance to him, and then leaves Spongebob's neighborhood. Spongebob opens the packaging and finds a monster inside. The monster seems to eat him, though Spongebob simply laughs and praises the prank that the Flying Dutchman performed on him.

"Chimps Ahoy"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode If Sandy doesn't create an out-of-this-world invention in order to impress the scientists who fund her, she'll be forced to leave Bikini Bottom forever!

"Whale of a Birthday"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode It's Pearl's 16th birthday, and every one of her last 15 parties have been pathetic, since Mr. Krabs ruined them all by spending almost no money every year. Pearl demands that her dad is not cheap this year and throw her a completely "coral" party, and that her life will fall apart if he doesn't. Pearl gives Mr. Krabs a list of everything that she wants at her party, including her favorite band, "Boys Who Cry". She makes her dad promise that he won't be cheap like every other year, and he reluctantly agrees. Pearl goes to the mall with her friends and Mr. Krabs asks SpongeBob to follow her around and see what she likes. SpongeBob ends up maxing out Mr. Krabs' credit card when he buys everything that Pearl lays her eyes on, including a handsome boy (who is literally bought after being swiped at a till) and a car. The party is lame (Mr. Krabs has a sign on the wall which says "IT'S A BOY" (with BOY scribbled out and GIRL written above it), there is stale popcorn from his house, dishwater instead of punch, a portrait of Pearl which Mr. Krabs asked Squidward to make out of raw Krabby Patties, the cake is made of cardboard and covered in frosting to make it look real, and Squidward is the singer instead of Boys Who Cry). Pearl runs out of the Krusty Krab sobbing, and Mr. Krabs says he will make it up to her. SpongeBob appears with a delivery truck full of everything he bought at the mall. He even got Boys Who Cry, they sing the song "It's All About You" and Pearl forgives her dad. However, Mr. Krabs is driven crazy when he discovers how much money he must pay as the result of SpongeBob's shopping spree.

"Karate Island"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode SpongeBob receives an invitation to take part in a competition on mysterious Karate Island for the supposed chance to be crowned "King of Karate". But it turns out that the "Karate Island" thing is a scam, and that SpongeBob is on Condo Island, and an elderly-looking man known as "Master Udon" on the island is attempting to force SpongeBob into buying a time share plan there. But SpongeBob doesn't want to, and Sandy seemingly causes Master Udon to drown, but when SpongeBob and Sandy leave the island, Squidward arrives on the island in an attempt to be crowned "King of Clarinets", and Master Udon is shown to be in fact alive and well...

"All That Glitters"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode When SpongeBob's trusty spatula breaks mid-patty flip, he replaces it with the hi-tech "Le Spatula". But SpongeBob soon discovers that new isn't always better. So he tries to get his old spatula back.

"Wishing You Well"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode Mr. Krabs decides to install a wishing well at the Krusty Krab, and he makes SpongeBob go into it to get the money. Patrick falls in, and with nothing else to do, they try to dig towards the "magic", which, when revealed, will supposedly cause the well to actually grant wishes. Eventually, they are convinced that they have revealed and activated it, as they have discovered a strange, yellow light in the ground. Squidward accidentally falls into the well, and is annoyed by SpongeBob and Patrick as usual. The next morning, when the three get pulled out of the well by Mr. Krabs (as he expected that some money has been collected), Squidward wishes to be far away from SpongeBob, and he is promptly hit by a bus going "Very, Very Far Away", according to an electronic sign on the bus. SpongeBob tries to tell Mr. Krabs that magical phenomena had just happened, but he is skeptical. Even after seeing the wishes that were granted (Sandy getting a fancy waterproof telescope, Mrs. Puff getting a new hot rod, and Plankton becoming a giant), Mr. Krabs refuses to believe, and in an attempt to prove that magic doesn't exist, wishes that he was steamed and served with a side of melted better. Unfortunately for him, it comes true, and he is about to be eaten by a human. Mr. Krabs states "I do believe in magic!" several times, but then yells out "Oh nooooooooooooooooooo!". The screen turns black, and a chomping sound is heard- suggesting the human maybe starting to eat Mr. Krabs.

"New Leaf"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode One day, Mr. Krabs discovers that Plankton has turned the Chum Bucket into a knickknack store called the "Chumporium". Plankton claims he is not opposing him anymore, but Mr. Krabs remains convinced that it is all just another scheme to steal the Krabby Patty recipe. He later goes on a rampage through Planton's store, destroying many of its products. Plankton is seemingly upset by this and orders Mr. Krabs to leave. On his way out, Mr. Krabs "accidentally" drops the Krabby Patty recipe, and Plankton throws it right back at him, seemingly convincing Mr. Krabs that Plankton has indeed changed. He apologizes over the phone that night. They later hang out, and Mr. Krabs later decides whether or not he should give Plankton the Krabby Patty recipe. He then decides to give Plankton a bottle that supposedly contains it, claiming that it is because he trusts him with it. When Plankton arrives at his store, he reveals (probably to the audience) that he had attempted to manipulate Mr. Krabs into letting him learn the recipe, and believes that he has succeeded. He then decides to read what is supposedly the recipe, but discovers it is actually a letter that reads, "Gotcha! Love, Mr. Krabs". Mr. Krabs then comes up to Plankton and says that he never trusted him with the Krabby Patty recipe, and that he decided to perform a prank on him that involved tricking him into believing he gave him the recipe.

"Once Bitten"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode One day, Gary is unusually grouchy and bites Squidward. Patrick convinces him that Gary's grouchiness has been caused by him getting infected with "mad snail disease", and that if somebody receives a bite from a snail infected with the disease, they will receive a number of symptoms, one of them involving being turned into a zombie. Soon, almost everybody else is also convinced that this disease exists, and Gary starts biting more and more people. And eventually, people think that the disease is airborne.

Soon, the town is receiving internal attacks from people who've been convinced that they have been infected and zombified, and the Krusty Krab becomes an unofficial refuge from the "zombies". SpongeBob arrives at the restaurant, and soon the "zombies" attempt an invasion. A bit later, Gary arrives there, and the refugees are frightened. SpongeBob tries to convince them Gary is not a monster, but Gary bites SpongeBob. SpongeBob sadly says, "Gary! How could you?!". The refugees try to destroy Gary...

....But before they can do that, a man known as "Dr. Gill Gilliam" arrives. He states that he is a snail doctor and a snail disease expert, and removes a mind-bogglingly large splinter from Gary's foot. He tells everyone that there is no such thing as "mad snail disease", that nobody became a zombie, that all the other supposed symptoms of mad snail disease could be explained with "common ailments", and that the entire concept of mad snail disease was simply a load of mass hysteria. However, not so long later, Gary, for some reason, bites Mr. Krabs...

"Bummer Vacation"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode Mr. Krabs says SpongeBob has to take a vacation, or else he will be fined for not giving SpongeBob a vacation. However, SpongeBob is too much of a workaholic to try to vacation from the Krusty Krab, and when SpongeBob violates the rules of how to spend his official vacation way too many times, Mr. Krabs takes him far away from the Krusty Krab, and into a kelp forest. Soon, SpongeBob starts to believe that Mr. Krabs is forcing him to go on a "permanent vacation", so he gets Patrick (who temporarily took SpongeBob's job) to stay home so he can go back to work.

It turns out that SpongeBob "wasted" his vacation trying to get back into work, but this doesn't matter to him because he wants to be there. And apparently, Mr. Krabs won't have to pay any fine, as SpongeBob is said to have "used up" all of his vacation time.

"Wigstruck"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode SpongeBob's walking down the street one day and a strange wig hits him in the head. SpongeBob keeps bothering everybody with his new wig, so Sandy makes him take it off and lets it blow away with the wind. The wig hits a member of the famous band "Ned and the Needlefish" (who happened to have needed that wig or else he would be fired), and suddenly the wig becomes a very popular trend simply because he (the band member) wore it.

"Squidtastic Voyage"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode SpongeBob and Patrick bother Squidward while he is playing his clarinet, so he accidentally gets the mouthpiece gets stuck in his throat. SpongeBob and Patrick have to go in Squidward's body to get the mouthpiece out of his body using Sandy's shrinking submarine. When they get to the mouthpiece, SpongeBob cuts it in half so Squidward gags it out of his body. But Patrick makes the sub large again inside Squidward (because he misheard a command given to him by Sandy), so havoc ensues the next day.

"That's No Lady"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode A strange man tells Patrick to "Get out of town!". Patrick interprets this as a threat, so he runs away. But unknown to Patrick, the man's saying was not a threat, but rather the first part of an attempt to get to get him to go on a vacation to a resort. When Patrick reports this encounter to SpongeBob, his friend convinces him that the man has been paid to try to assassinate Patrick, furthering the starfish's fears. So, SpongeBob disguises him as a girl named "Patricia". Many men throughout the city think the disguised Patrick is pretty, and Mr. Krabs and Squidward are among them. Mr. Krabs and Squidward attempt to ask "her" out. Patrick is annoyed by this, so he reveals his true form and Squidward walks away embarrassed. Patrick is fired and Mr. Krabs sadly says he'll be in his office for the next 20 years if they need him. Then, SpongeBob and Patrick learn the "scary guy" that the starfish met earlier was just trying to advertise a resort to him.

"The Thing"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode Squidward is riding his bike one day and gets covered in cement. SpongeBob and Patrick find him, think he's a wild animal, and start to keep him as a pet. Squidward leaves SpongeBob's house, but the authorities catch him and put Squidward in the local zoo. SpongeBob and Patrick manage to break Squidward out and take him to a clarinet concert with other "things" (creatures that look like Squidward wearing his accidental "disguise", but are of different species and not wearing cement), where the concrete covering Squidward breaks off, revealing his true squid figure...

"Hocus Pocus"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode SpongeBob buys a magic kit and starts doing magic tricks. Squidward is laying on a lounge chair, and SpongeBob shows up. SpongeBob tries to perform a magic trick for Squidward- who, as usual, wants to stay away from SpongeBob and his activities, so he gets a ride on a motorbike, driven by a passer-by, and leaves. Then, a picky child throws away his pistachio-flavor ice cream onto Squidward's lounge chair. SpongeBob was too busy trying to perform the magic trick to notice Squidward's disappearance (and was too busy to know the real reason for how the ice cream got on the chair), so he assumes that he magically turned Squidward into ice cream. He goes to the man that makes the magic kits, but he finds him to know nothing about magic.

When SpongeBob arrives back in the neighborhood, The real Squidward then shows up, and throws the ice cream away. Patrick asks SpongeBob to magically turn him into a jar of mayonnaise, as he believes he can eat himself that way. SpongeBob agrees, and successfully grants his wish to magically transform.

"Driven to Tears"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode SpongeBob fails his boating test again. Thinking that it's rigged, Patrick decides to take it himself, and passes with a perfect score. When he goes to get his license, Patrick is told that he's the millionth Bikini Bottomite to pass his or her test, winning him a free boat. He becomes SpongeBob's personal chauffer. Their friendship is tested when SpongeBob becomes jealous, but it doesn't help that Patrick rubs his license in SpongeBob's face every chance he gets, calling himself a "driving genius." Patrick also turns out to be a terrible driver, violating all sorts of laws on the road, such as making illegal U-turns and running stop lights. No longer able to tolerate Patrick's attitude, an enraged SpongeBob says that he (Spongebob) should be the millionth Bikini Bottomite to pass his test, and thinking that Patrick don't deserves the license since he (Spongebob) worked so hard to try to get it (the license), rips up Patrick's license and throws it out the window. Eventually, a police officer sees the litter and chases them. The police officer thinks Patrick was responsible for the litter, and arrests him. Patrick almost goes to jail, but Spongebob reveals he was the one who did it, not Patrick. Spongebob is jailed and a few months later, he is released. The friends make up and SpongeBob gives Patrick a license plate that says "Friends 4Ever". But Patrick got rid of the boat, so Spongebob puts it on Patrick's back and they go home to celebrate.

"Rule of Dumb"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode A member of the "Royal Ministry" finds that Patrick descends from royalty, and that he deserves to be King of Bikini Bottom. He tells Patrick about this, and gives him a crown.

With SpongeBob his loyal servant, Patrick takes the throne, but he abuses his power when he declares that all of the property that everyone else owns is now his. After several weeks of taking other people's property, Patrick attempts to move Squidward's house and build a ferris wheel in its place. Angered, Squidward successfully convinces all of the Bikini Bottomites (minus SpongeBob) that they shouldn't recognize a moron like Patrick as the king of anything, so they no longer obey him. Enraged, Patrick vows to ruin Squidward's life. Not so long later, not even SpongeBob wants to be near Patrick, and he quickly sneaks away while Patrick suffers a psychotic meltdown. After looking into the mirror, Patrick becomes horrified when he sees a monstrous version of himself, and then runs into the "Royal Minister", who has discovered that Gary, not Patrick, is the true heir to the throne...

"Born to Be Wild"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode SpongeBob sees a group of men on motorbikes heading to Bikini Bottom, and thinks that they are called "The Wild Ones". He then meets a strange old man, who says that The Wild Ones are a vicious biker gang who have destroyed entire cities. SpongeBob suspects that they are planning inflict disaster upon Bikini Bottom. SpongeBob warns a number of people about The Wild Ones, but only Patrick seems to view them as a threat. Later, SpongeBob and Patrick believe that they can scare off The Wild Ones by forming a scary biker gang of their own. But they aren't using motorbikes, and they are unaware that nobody around them views them as scary (i.e. they view sarcastic comments about their "scariness" as actual signs of fear).

Eventually, SpongeBob and Patrick meet the bikers that the sponge saw earlier. But as it turns out, there was some confusion; these bikers are really "The Mild Ones" and not "The Wild Ones", and they do not seem to be planning to cause destruction in Bikini Bottom. As The Mild Ones leave, Squidward decides to join them, because he always wanted to be part of a biker gang.

"Best Frenemies"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode One day, a strange chain of restaurants that have recently appeared in Bikini Bottom is causing Mr. Krabs to lose miserably in the restaurant industry (i.e. losing customers), and it is because they are growing larger (in terms of the number of restaurants, because they are multiplying like bacteria and seemingly coming out of nowhere), but mostly because they are selling an extremely popular brand of drinks called "Kelp Shakes" that even his own daughter Pearl and his employees are drinking. Mr. Krabs and Plankton believe that finding out the secret to making these beverages and then selling them will help them gain customers, so they decide to put their differences aside (at least for now) and find out the secret. Plankton gets mad at Mr. Krabs because he has to do all the work. Plankton makes Mr. Krabs buy the drink (though Mr. Krabs is reluctant about this) and they take it to Planton's laboratory and have Karen find out the ingredients. Karen says it contains kelp juice. They then decide to drink it, but they did not know that Karen was not finished saying what the ingredients were. Karen tells them that there's another ingredient in it, but Mr. Krabs and Plankton don't care and continue to drink it. She tells them that they're making a big mistake, but they still don't care and drink it some more. After finishing it, Mr. Krabs and Plankton decide to get some more. But immediately after they leave the Chum Bucket, they find that SpongeBob has had kelp grown from his body. He says that all of the Kelp Shake restaurants have been shut down, and SpongeBob runs away and cries. They soon find SpongeBob is right; the Kelp Shake restaurants have been closed forever, and that is because the Kelp Shakes contain hazardous material, as they see two men in hazmat suits cleaning up the restaurants, saying it will take "decades" to clean it up, and they feel sorry for whoever drank it. They soon find that this mysterious Kelp Shake toxin is also mutagenic, as it gives them a mutation similar to SpongeBob's mutation (and thus is the reason SpongeBob received that mutation). Plankton then decides to steal the Krabby Patty secret recipe, but Mr. Krabs gives him a head start. They then merrily decide to participate in a chase scene, with Mr. Krabs chasing Planton, which both of them enjoy.

"The Pink Purloiner"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode SpongeBob wants to go jellyfishing one day and can't find his jellyfishing net. SpongeBob goes to Patrick and he begins to think Patrick stole his jellyfishing net. SpongeBob finds his jellyfishing net and apologizes to Patrick for what he had done, and Patrick forgives him.

"Squid Wood"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode Squidward refuses to play with SpongeBob yet again, so SpongeBob makes a small, wooden, puppet replica of Squidward, that he names "Mini-Squidward". Squidward begins to like the puppet until it SpongeBob starts making it "accomplish" Squidward's dreams. A man comes to take Mini-Squidward away to become a star. SpongeBob, lonely, builds a small, wooden, puppet replica of himself named "Mini-SpongeBob", and Squidward gets annoyed once more.

• The "Mini-Squidward" in this episode has a resemblance to the one seen in the Season 1 episode "The Paper".

"Best Day Ever"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode SpongeBob thinks that he is going to have the best day ever and his day starts out by going to the Krusty Krab. The Krusty Krab is closed, so he goes to Sandy's house. Sandy's dome is leaking, so she can't do karate with SpongeBob. He goes to Jellyfish Fields with Patrick, but Patrick breaks his net and has to borrow SpongeBob's. SpongeBob ends the day by going to Squidward's clarinet recital. However, the security guard refuses to let him in (as he doesn't have a ticket) until he tells the guard his name. When the guard learns this, he tells him that he's on the V.I.P. list. SpongeBob finally gets in- but at the end of the show. Squidward and the others notice SpongeBob is sad and they put on another show for him.

• Note: The song from this episode is the title track for the SpongeBob SquarePants: The Best Day Ever album.

"The Gift of Gum"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode It is "Best Friend's Day", a holiday SpongeBob and Patrick celebrate, in which they're expected to give each other gifts. SpongeBob gives Patrick a robotic butler, and Patrick gives SpongeBob a large ball consisting of many pieces of gum and strange objects that Patrick has named "Gummy". SpongeBob is disappointed, as he thinks it is gross, extremely weird and creepy, and nowhere as good as the gift he gave to Patrick.

SpongeBob tries to get rid of it, Every time he tries to trash the gum, Patrick catches him. Eventually, SpongeBob, and a lot of other people, get stuck to the gum. Patrick comes by, and reveals that his gift is bothering him, as it is constantly trying to comfort him whenever he doesn't feel like it. Patrick has to eat up the gum to get rid of it. SpongeBob tells Patrick he wants to get rid of the gum and Patrick says he won't feel bad. However, Patrick blows a bubble with the gum, so all of Bikini Bottom is covered in gum.