SpongeBob SquarePants season 3

Season 3 (2002-2004)
Season 3
Release
Original network	Nickelodeon
Original release	October 5, 2001 – October 11, 2004
Season chronology

Season Three of the animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants on Nickelodeon aired 37 episodes from October 5, 2001 with "Just One Bite" and "The Bully" to October 11, 2004 with "SpongeBob Meets the Strangler" and "Pranks-A-Lot". The show was put on hiatus during 2003. Episodes aired every few months after that date until October 11, 2004 which it ended. The show was put on hiatus again, however, and Season 4 would not begin until 6 May 2005. Like previous seasons, season three consists of 20 episodes. Season 3 was released on DVD in Regions 1, 4 and 2 on September 27, 2005, November 8, 2007 and December 3, 2007.

Episodes

"The Algae's Always Greener"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode Plankton wants the Krabby Patty secret formula, so he uses a machine that switches lives with Mr. Krabs, to see what it's like. Plankton gets so close to getting the Krabby Patty, but he is challenged by all the things Mr. Krabs has to face, such as SpongeBob’s weekly performance review, Squidward's hatred against working with SpongeBob, Pearl wanting a bigger allowance, Squidward's awful performance, and invasions from his rival (who is now a naked Mr. Krabs), and the horrid "Victory Screech" that the staff and customers of the Krusty Krab emit after a failed invasion by the rival. Eventually, all of these disturbances cause a deeply bothered Plankton to restore the universe back to normal by pressing a button strapped to his chest, which was underneath a suit that he was wearing during his time as the Krusty Krab's owner/manager.

"SpongeGuard On Duty"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode SpongeBob volunteers for life guard duty at Goo Lagoon when Larry the Lobster mistakes ice cream on SpongeBob's nose for sunscreen, the official sign of a Goo Lagoon lifeguard. When Larry swims to save a stranded and drowning swimmer, SpongeBob begins to struggle with the fact that he cannot swim, and thus, cannot save lives (not even his own). When Larry leaves SpongeBob in charge, the sponge tries to prevent disaster by closing off the beachfront, offering everyone free ice cream, and invoking the one-hour waiting period after eating. Then Patrick shows up misunderstanding things and running into the water, and SpongeBob must save his pal. But he fails (because of Patrick), and Larry rescues them both. He then gives them swimming lessons.

"Club SpongeBob"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode SpongeBob and Patrick form a club, in a clubhouse that hardly has any room. When SpongeBob states that the cephalopod wouldn't fit in, Squidward becomes offended and decides to try to join anyway. Despite SpongeBob and Patrick's pleas to stay out, Squidward squeezes himself into their tiny clubhouse. As it turns out, Patrick was speaking literally when he said Squidward wouldn't fit in, to which SpongeBob adds that they have been stuck in the clubhouse for 3 days. While trying to climb out, Squidward causes the clubhouse to land in a tropical forest in the middle of nowhere. While he seeks for a way out, SpongeBob and Patrick take the advice of their "Magic Conch Shell" (a parody of the magic conch from Lord of the Flies and the popular Magic 8-Ball), which tells them to do "nothing" and wait, a method that surprisingly works to their advantage. Meanwhile, Squidward does not share his companions' belief in the supposed powers of the shell. When supplies fall from the sky, Squidward keeps asking the magic conch, "Can I have something to eat?", though the magic conch keeps replying with "No". The last time that he asks, he gets really angry. Eventually, a potential rescuer arrives, but he is also a Magic Conch Shell's club member (much to Squidward's dismay). The conch tells them to do "nothing" again and sit down. Squidward then decides to surrender and sit down with the three.

"My Pretty Seahorse"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode SpongeBob finds a lost sea horse near his house one day and decides to adopt it. He names her "Mystery". When SpongeBob brings Mystery to work one day, Mr. Krabs orders him to get rid of her. The sponge decides to hide Mystery inside the restaurant, only to see that it's quite difficult to cook food and keep a wild animal from being seen at the same time, since Mystery keeps escaping and eating everything in sight, including one of the customers and all the money in the restaurant's safe.

• First (and only) appearance: Mystery the Seahorse

"Just One Bite"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode Squidward eats a Krabby Patty after saying that he don't like this patty. But at 3:00 AM, Squidward goes to the Krusty Krab to eat many patties, which causes him to explode.

• "Just One Bite" was later altered from its original airing on October 7, 2001. Originally, when Squidward heads for the Krusty Krab's Patty Vault, he opens a trap burglar alarm containing gas. A robot hand drops a match on the gas, causing Squidward and the room to go on fire. Squidward goes into the fry-cook room in panic, and the same process happens again. This scene was removed from later airings and DVD prints (including the "Complete Third Season" DVD) and was replaced with another scene where the camera zooms into the Patty Vault without Squidward saying his censored lines, and Squidward enters the vault without getting burned by the traps. Neither Nickelodeon nor Viacom ever explained the cause and reason for this, although similarities between the 9/11 attacks may have been why it was deleted.
• There is a continuity issue in this episode as well. Though Squidward claims to have "never tasted a Krabby Patty", this is actually false. In "Your Shoe's Untied", which aired on November 2, 2000 (almost a year before this episode was aired), SpongeBob accidentally launches hundreds of Krabby Patties directly into Squidward's mouth when SpongeBob trips on his untied shoe, gorging Squidward and causing him to grow to a enormous size. It's possible he protested without actually tasting them.
• This episode spoofs the beloved children's book Green Eggs and Ham, with SpongeBob as Sam-I-Am, Squidward as the picky man, and the Krabby Patty as the green eggs and ham.

"The Bully"

SpongeBob is terrified when a new student appears named Flats who wants to kick his butt.

• Third appearance of Boating Students.
• Third appearance of Flats
• Note: Though it may seem so, this is not Flats's first appearance. His debut was in fact in the Season 1 episode Sandy's Rocket. When SpongeBob and Patrick believe they are on the Moon (when in reality they are in Bikini Bottom, Earth), and wrongly assume that the Bikini Bottomites are untrustworthy aliens that are disguised as the citizens of Bikini Bottom, SpongeBob hides behind the door in Flats's bathroom mirror and traps him using a net gun. Flats made a second appearance in the episode Texas in season one when sandy realizes that her real home is in Bikini Bottom.

"Nasty Patty"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode A health inspector comes to the Krusty Krab. SpongeBob and Mr. Krabs make a nasty patty and give it to the health inspector because they think he's a fake inspector. After he faints from eating the patty, SpongeBob and Krabs think they killed him.

"Idiot Box"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode SpongeBob and Patrick enters a box and they make "imagination". Squidward enter in the box at the night and thinks he's piloting a car, but he is teleported to the dump, literally.

• During the liftoff sounds, NASA commentator Steve Nesbitt can be heard during the "ascent".
• The commentary of the launch was of the fatal STS-51-L Challenger mission.

"Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode When Mermaid Man accidentally leaves his belt behind as he and Barnacle Boy leave the Krusty Krab, SpongeBob picks it up and proceeds to test it out with a barrel of pickles. Amazed at what it does, he shrinks the kitchen props. As he serves Krabby Patties to cockroaches, Squidward discovers the belt. Surprised that Mermaid Man lent it to SpongeBob, he picks up the phone and threatens to tell on him. SpongeBob is concerned that Mermaid Man will be mad, so he shrinks Squidward in order to stop him. Squidward grows angry and demands him to unshrink him this instant or he is gonna be in very big trouble. SpongeBob agrees and tries to, but unfortunately, he doesn't know how to, so he runs over to Patrick's house, where Pat thinks Squidward is an action figure. After being told by SpongeBob to stop playing with it, Pat advises him to turn the M on the belt upside-down to make a W for "Wumbo" and SpongeBob proceeds to fire away, but he accidentally shrinks Patrick. SpongeBob quickly panics and shrinks everybody in Bikini Bottom, including Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy. It is quickly discovered that the shrink ray's effects are irreversible, so the Bikini Bottomites climb into SpongeBob's body through his pores and begin to attack him on the inside; before they can do any real damage, SpongeBob atones for his mistakes by shrinking the city of Bikini Bottom and himself, allowing everyone to live out their lives peacefully. However, Plankton soon arrives back from his vacation to find a city his size.

Note: There is a flaw in size and comparison between Plankton and several shrunken citizens in the whole episode. At first shrunk Squidward, Patrick and later Sandy were a few centimeters taller than Plankton (Take a view of SpongeBob's exact size). Then, later, inside the jar, they're were smaller than him until Bikini Bottom returns to it's normal size.

"Doing Time"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode Apparently, Mrs. Puff goes to jail because she is blamed when SpongeBob recklessly drives and crashes his boat again. SpongeBob feels sorry for what he has done and tries to bust her out of jail with Patrick. This does not work as Mrs. Puff enjoys being away from a dangerous person like SpongeBob. Continuous attempts by SpongeBob and Patrick to get Mrs. Puff out of jail get her in trouble with the prison wardens, and eventually, she is locked up in a straight jacket, and placed in solitary confinement (in a room made of Sponge(Bob)). She then seemingly wakes up and finds it was just a dream, and they're still having their boating exam, and SpongeBob gets arrested for crashing his boat. Mrs. Puff then begins to relax, only for a cop to say that she "already did her time [in jail]", but she sees herself in a prisoner outfit and in shackles. She then seemingly wakes up from a dream, only to find that a strange prisoner from the jail is driving a boat that they're in, and is headed for disaster. She then wakes up (supposedly this time, it's not part of the dream she had earlier), and SpongeBob is doing the exam, but as usual, his reckless driving will lead to trouble. Mrs. Puff screams, but then says, "Just forget it." Mrs. Puff goes to prison in a previous episode and in ditch'n for not going to jury duty.

"Snowball Effect"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode A snowstorm hits Bikini Bottom, thanks to a glacier that settled above the city. For SpongeBob and Patrick, this means snowball fights. An attempt to recruit Squidward is unsuccessful, as he finds such an activity to be immature, until the prospect of his neighbors injuring each other entices him. But pretty soon, Squidward goes overboard with the whole thing. Eventually, SpongeBob and Patrick decide to go inside, but Squidward thinks they're still outside and playing (partly because of a tree that is dropping snow on him, which he thinks is SpongeBob and Patrick still throwing snowballs at him).

"One Krab's Trash"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode Mr. Krabs sells some junk. He sold a toilet plunger to Patrick, but when he said that it looks like the toilet plunger he threw out last Tuesday, Mr. Krabs flips the bottom part over and says that it's an 18th century soup ladle. Mr. Krabs sells it for $5, but when Patrick says "He only has 7," and Mr. Krabs takes the offer, he calls himself a smart shopper. Among the other junk there was a novelty soda-drink hat, which SpongeBob purchases. When Mr. Krabs finds that the hat is rare, and worth a million dollars, he tries everything he can to get it back. Eventually, he pretends to be the "Ghost of Soda-drink Hats", and tells SpongeBob that the hat once belonged to a now-deceased person named "Smitty Werbenjaegermanjenson". He tells SpongeBob that if he doesn't place the hat in Smithy's grave, he'll be cursed. So, a frightened SpongeBob decides to fulfill the command, though he apparently placed it in the grave of "Smitty Werbenjaegermanjanson". Mr. Krabs defiles his grave and takes the hat, only for Smitty Werbenmanjanson to rise from the dead in the form of an animated skeleton, and asks Mr. Krabs to give him the hat back. Mr. Krabs refuses, so Smitty summons the "army of the living dead" to kill Mr. Krabs and take the hat back. But Mr. Krabs defeats them all, and leaves the graveyard. He then tries to sell the hat, only to learn it is it is now considered worthless, since a warehouse full of them was recently discovered. Then, SpongeBob passes by with his new hat, which claps with hands on it, and it is worth even more money  — a billion dollars. Mr. Krabs then cries. Squidward is passing by and mocks Mr. Krabs by saying "What a Baby!" a verse which Mr. Krabs said by watching Squidward dig up a grave of his "Own Wishes, Hopes and Dreams".

"As Seen On TV"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode The Krusty Krab makes a low-budget TV commercial, starring Mr. Krabs, Squidward, and Pearl. SpongeBob is in it, too, but only the very top of his head can be seen from the dining area, and only his chest is seen on a close-up of a Krabby Patty. When he heads to work the next morning, SpongeBob is completely convinced that his few seconds on TV would make him a star to many, even though his face was never seen, and the inflation of his ego gets in the way of his kitchen duties.

"Can You Spare A Dime?"

Mr. Krabs loses his lucky dime, the first dime he ever earned when he started his business and keeps in the back of the register for luck, and accuses Squidward of stealing it since Squidward is the cashier. Furious, Squidward quits, and sets out to make his dreams of becoming a star come true. However, his pursuit fails to see anything new happen to him, and he loses his house in the process. SpongeBob finds Squidward on the street, completely oblivious to what has happened to Squidward, and thinks that Squidward is one of the crazy careers he dreamed up (A football playing king in space, with a mustache). Squidward says he has no job, and SpongeBob asks where he is living. Squidward at this point is living in a box, but a man has him leave the box. After Squidward tells SpongeBob that he has no home, SpongeBob asks him what happened to his paintings. Without a home, Squidward tried to sell his paintings, but since no one wanted to buy them, he had to eat them for food. SpongeBob lets him move in to his house, but Squidward quickly takes over. Gary notices this very quickly, but SpongeBob refuses to listen to Gary, and continues to let Squidward stay, until months after SpongeBob can't take it anymore. SpongeBob tries to convince Mr. Krabs to hire Squidward back. Mr. Krabs refuses because he still believes that Squidward stole his dime. SpongeBob explodes in rage and strangles Mr. Krabs, finding out the dime was in his pocket. Mr. Krabs then agrees to re-hire Squidward, but then accuses him of placing the dime in his pocket.

"No Weenies Allowed"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode SpongeBob wants to get into the Salty Spitoon, the toughest club in Bikini Bottom. Sandy Cheeks got in instead of SpongeBob. The guy at the front door says he is a "weenie" (weakling) and has to go to restaurant called "Weenie Hut Jr.'s". SpongeBob is in denial, saying he is tough enough to get in but still ends up at Weenie Hut Jr.'s and meets two real "weenies" once he's in there. He then tries to get into the Salty Spitoon numerous times, but fails and ends up back at Weenie Hut Jr.'s each time. SpongeBob realizes that Patrick always goes to Weenie Hut Jr.'s and tries to get Patrick to fake a fight with him so he can get into the Salty Spitoon. At first, it's a fake fight. But when SpongeBob calls Patrick, "Tubby", an angered Patrick punches SpongeBob. However, SpongeBob reminds Patrick that he was supposed to let him win, so Patrick agrees. But just then, an invisible fighter appears and starts to beat up Patrick. After that, the invisible fight throws Patrick up and down, stunning Patrick. Then, the invisible fighter grabs Patrick's pants, then the invisible fighter lets go, flinging Patrick. The invisible fighter then goes to Patrick, full speed, and continues to beat up Patrick. SpongeBob seems to be the victor, so he is granted permission to enter. But when SpongeBob gets in, he slips on an ice cube. The next thing SpongeBob knows, he is in an ambulance on the way to a hospital with Sandy. At the hospital, the doctor says he has gone to the wrong hospital (because SpongeBob described his injuries as "booboos") and tells him to go to a hospital called "Weenie Hut General". SpongeBob then goes into denial once again.

"Squilliam Returns"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode Squidward is on his lunch break and he spots his arch-rival from high school, Squilliam Fancyson, who is very wealthy and succeeded in everything Squidward failed at since high school. Squidward says he owns a five star restaurant and it has great food. After successfully asking Mr. Krabs if he can run the restaurant for one night, Squidward makes Mr. Krabs the cook, SpongeBob the waiter, and Patrick the coat-check. But once everybody proves to be completely inept, Squidward prepares to confess the truth to Squilliam. However, when Squilliam arrives, SpongeBob is the best waiter ever because he (literally) emptied his mind of everything except fine dining and breathing. Squilliam loves the restaurant and asks for SpongeBob's name. But SpongeBob does not remember his name, and in a mental breakdown, he ruins the Krusty Krab, revealing it is normally a fast-food restaurant. Squidward then admits he is really a cashier, and owns no restaurant. Squilliam tells him he's also a cashier who's not in the upper-class, but soon reveals it was actually a lie. Squilliam and his friends leave. Squidward is very sad.

• The plot of this episode makes it seem as though Squidward and Squilliam have not met before in the series, even though Squilliam appeared in the Season 2 episode Band Geeks.

"Krab Borg"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode SpongeBob watches a scary robot movie and thinks everything is a robot, even Gary. The next day, SpongeBob thinks Mr. Krabs is a robot and convinces Squidward to believe him. They soon believe that robots have conquered the world, and they team up to overpower and question the "robot" and find out what he did with the "real" Mr. Krabs, oblivious to the fact that the Mr. Krabs they see is not a robot, and is no fake. The interrogation involves torturing him (like slapping him and destroying many of his valuables) in an attempt to "find out" about the location of the "real" Mr. Krabs. When they find out Mr. Krabs isn't a robot (and is the genuine Mr. Krabs), SpongeBob recalls that the ending of the movie revealed the events of the movie was just their imagination. He gives a nervous laugh and then says, "Hey, it's time to feed Gary", and runs off evading trouble.

"Rock-a-Bye Bivalve"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode Patrick and SpongeBob are outside one day and find an abandoned baby scallop, the undersea equivalent of birds. Since it does not have any parents, they decide to pretend to be parents of the scallop; SpongeBob is the "mother" while Patrick is the "father". SpongeBob likes the idea until he has to do all the work caring for the baby. SpongeBob shows Patrick what he has to do all day. Patrick still does not work with SpongeBob and eventually they start fighting. The baby scallop learns how to fly and SpongeBob and Patrick stop fighting while the scallop flies away.

"Wet Painters"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode Patrick and SpongeBob are hired to paint Mr. Krabs' house, but are told that it is permanent paint, threatening to amputate their butts and mount them over his fireplace if they get even one drop on anything but his walls. After they finish painting, chaos ensues when they get a tiny drop of paint on Mr. Krabs' first dollar. SpongeBob desperately tries to remove the paint from the dollar, but only ends up spreading it all over. When Mr. Krabs comes back, he licks the paint off and reveals the paint is saliva-soluble. When Mr. Krabs informs them that his previous warning was just to mess with them, SpongeBob and Patrick get angry and storm off. Mr. Krabs laughs at his charade so hard that spittle gets scattered all over the walls and ruins the paint job.

• Note: Painty the Pirate makes a cameo appearance as one of the pictures SpongeBob hides behind. This is among the times the fourth wall is broken.

"Krusty Krab Training Video"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode A training narration of the Krusty Krab, demonstrating what work is like and how it takes place at the Krusty Krab. The entire episode is formatted like a sort of an employee training video, and features an anxious SpongeBob waiting to make a Krabby Patty. However, when he finally learns the recipe, the video abruptly ends before it's revealed to keep it secret.

"SpongeBob's House Party"

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A double-length episode. Click the link above for more info.

• Note: "Party Pooper Pants" is another name for this episode.

"Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode Barnacle Boy is sick of being treated like an actual boy by Mermaid Man (and everyone else), so he decides to become evil and teams up with the Dirty Bubble and Manray. Barnacle Man (as he is now called) and his gang go around town doing evil. SpongeBob, Squidward, Patrick, Sandy, and Mermaid Man team up to get Barnacle Boy back. Everybody but Mermaidman fails to do so. Barnacle Boy tells Mermaid Man that there are just 3 things that he wants. He wants to be treated like a real superhero (and not just Mermaid Man's sidekick), to be called "Barnacle Man", and to get an adult-sized Krabby Patty, which Mermaid Man agrees to. Barnacle Man goes back to the good side, and his friendship with Mermaid Man is restored. Notes:

• Mermaid Man refers to Barnacle Boy as "Kyle" later in the episode, suggesting that may be his real name.
• The IJLSA is said in this episode to stand for The International Justice League of Super Acquaintances, while in the 7th season episode "The Bad Guy Club for Villans", it was said to stand for The International justice Lodge of Super Acquaintances. Also, The Quickster was replaced by the Pyrite Ponderer in The Bad Guy Club for Villains. As well, Captain Magma's name was changed to Professor Magma. The Elastic Waistband's power was changed from changing shape to holding in an exceptionally large belly.

"Clams"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode Mr. Krabs earns his millionth dollar, and rewards SpongeBob and Squidward by taking them clam fishing for the weekend (though Squidward doesn't like this reward). A major problem soon arises, as Mr. Krabs loses his millionth dollar when a giant clam snatches it away (due to SpongeBob accidentally hooking it while fishing). The mishap sends him over the edge, as he forces SpongeBob and Squidward to find the dollar, telling them they can't leave until it's found. To show he's serious, he tosses all of their food overboard, leaving only one sandwich (a parody of Herman Melville's classic, Moby-Dick). When they try to sneak away, Mr. Krabs goes completely insane and uses the two as live bait. But, as the clam is about to eat them, he seizes the opportunity to get his dollar, causing him to get eaten. When the two think he's gone for good, he reappears with the dollar but he traded his entire body except for his head and left arm for it.

• This episode also spoofs Steven Spielberg's film Jaws.

"Ugh"

Prehistoric ancestors of SpongeBob, Patrick and Squidward  — SpongeGar, Patar, and Squog (respectively), discover fire after a lightning bolt strikes a piece of wood and sets it ablaze. After realizing that food can be cooked over the fire, the three have a feast with their surroundings as the food. After their feast, the three cannot decide on who would keep the fire at their house for the night, and fight over it. But rain puts the fire out. After SpongeGar and Patar apologize to Squog for their arguments, just as he prepares to hit SpongeGar and Patar over the head, Squog gets struck by lightning, and gets set ablaze.

Meanwhile, in a prehistoric home, Potty the Parrot and Patchy the Pirate argue over which era is better, the future or the past; Potty prefers the future, and Patchy prefers the past. Eventually, though, Potty unites a futuristic robot and a prehistoric caveman together, and they sing a song. And despite Patchy soon becoming interested in the future too, Potty gives him a T-Rex, which bites him.

"The Great Snail Race"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode SpongeBob and Patrick discover that Squidward has ordered a female purebred snail named Snellie, who he plans to enter in Bikini Bottom's most famous snail race. SpongeBob decides to enter Gary in the race, despite being scoffed at by Squidward because Gary is a mutt. Patrick also decides to enter a rock that he confuses with a snail named "Rocky" (despite being told continuously by other characters that Rocky is a rock). SpongeBob and Patrick enter the snail and rock in the race anyway, but SpongeBob trains Gary roughly and nonstop, resulting in Gary falling apart in an ironic fashion (his insides basically are pieces of machinery). However, just as Snellie is about to cross the finish line, she turns back to comfort Gary, and the two snails fall in love. However, at the end of the episode, one question remains: who won the race? It was revealed that Rocky somehow won the race.

"Mid-Life Crustacean"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode Mr. Krabs has hit his mid-life crisis, so he decides to tag along with SpongeBob and Patrick when they have a night in the town, hoping that he will feel young and wild again. However, Mr. Krabs quickly finds that SpongeBob and Patrick's idea of a wild night is anything but wild, or even cool They go on a panty raid to go look for girls underwear only to find out that is Mrs. Krabs house and Mr. Krabs gets grounded for the rest of the night SpongeBob comes back to apologize for what happened and Mr. Krabs forgives him on his race car bed.

"Born Again Krabs"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode One night during closing, SpongeBob finds an old, moldy Krabby Patty under the grill. Mr. Krabs forbids him to make another one until the moldy Krabby Patty is sold, causing the restaurant to go for weeks without customers. When the penny-pinching crab takes a bite from the patty, he ends up in the hospital with a potentially fatal case of food poisoning. Mr. Krabs makes a deal with the Flying Dutchman that he can keep his soul if he promises to never be cheap again, a deal he's good at upholding for a while. But when Mr. Krabs loses all of his money, and finds out that the he is awake, he finds the deal too hard to uphold, and becomes cheap again. When the Flying Dutchman arrives, SpongeBob puts himself before Mr. Krabs, hoping that Mr. Krabs will prove himself to be not cheap. But instead, Mr. Krabs carelessly gives him to the Flying Dutchman in exchange for 62 cents. Squidward scolds Mr. Krabs for selling out the only person who stood up for him, and Mr. Krabs begins to regret having sold SpongeBob. The Flying Dutchman returns SpongeBob, but not because of Mr. Krabs' regret for selling SpongeBob, but because SpongeBob being deemed by the Dutchman as "a fate worse than death" because he talked up a storm after just 30 seconds.

When the Flying Dutchman returns to his residence, he answers a call. But it turns out to be from SpongeBob, who again chatters and annoys him.

"I Had an Accident"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode SpongeBob shatters his rear end in a sand-boarding injury. So, he decides to stay indoors for the rest of his life, leaving Sandy and Patrick to try and convince him that the outdoors aren't always so dangerous.

Eventually, Sandy and Patrick are attacked by what seems to be a gorilla while trying to get SpongeBob to come outside. SpongeBob finally gets over his fear of the outdoors, allowing him to come outside to attempt to save Sandy and Patrick. However, SpongeBob is ripped in half by the gorilla, but is still able to express his newfound fear of gorillas, with Sandy and Patrick expressing the same fears. SpongeBob then says out loud, "What's a gorilla doing underwater in the first place?". The gorilla then says, "Well, you see, it's funny because... GEORGE! THEY'RE ONTO US!". What seems to be a zebra then appears, and they run away from SpongeBob, Sandy, and Patrick.

• Note 1: For unknown reasons, on Bright House networks and Nicktoons Network, this episode is called "Safety Freak SpongeBob".
• Note 2: This is the only SpongeBob episode that is revealed, at the end, to have been watched on a TV by a family. They then turn the TV off.

"Krabby Land"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode It's summer in Bikini Bottom, and that means the kids are out of school. For Mr. Krabs, their temporary freedom means more profit for him (even he raises the price of cheapest Krabby Patty meal, "Kiddie Meal", into most expensive in menu). To attract them, he sets up a playground consisting of rusty, poorly-constructed, and dangerous equipment, with a promise to the kids that they would get to meet Krabby the Clown before the day's end. However, he soon finds out that the kids probably shouldn't be underestimated.

"The Camping Episode"

SpongeBob and Patrick go camping one night, which excites their neighbor Squidward, who hopes that the two will get lost in the woods and never come back. However, Squidward soon learns that SpongeBob and Patrick's chosen campsite was ten feet within SpongeBob's pineapple. The two get Squidward to join them in camping after Squidward is convinced that SpongeBob and Patrick think that he is weak for not going camping in the first place. But Squidward is forced to endure the camping rituals of SpongeBob and Patrick, such as roasting marshmallows and singing campfire songs, resulting in SpongeBob's musical number "The Campfire Song Song". However, Squidward decides to play his clarinet, which startles SpongeBob and Patrick because apparently poor clarinet-playing is strictly prohibited in the underwater wilderness because doing so can attract a creature called a sea bear. Squidward doubts them at first, believing sea bears are hoaxes, as SpongeBob and Patrick present him with a tabloid newspaper front page entitled "Sea Bears and Fairy Tales are Real". After learning the doings that can attract sea bears, Squidward tries to prove they are untrue by performing those actions. And Squidward eventually does attract a sea bear which mauls him and leaves SpongeBob and Patrick perfectly unharmed because they drew an anti-sea bear circle in the sand. And the sea bear does keep on coming back and maiming Squidward until Squidward hops into the anti-sea bear circle as well and the sea bear goes away. However, the episode ends just as Squidward learns about sea rhinoceroses...

"Missing Identity"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode On a rainy day in a diner, SpongeBob recounts a recent tale in which he loses his nametag:

Mr. Krabs is to do a surprise uniform inspection, with the consequence of the least prepared employee getting "the boot" (which is literally, a large stinky boot that must be worn for the rest of the workday). SpongeBob recruits Patrick to help him retrace his steps to find his nametag, but quickly learns that this method isn't perhaps the best one, and that Patrick isn't much help at all. After searching in a dumpster, he finds out he was wearing his shirt backwards, and when he puts his shirt on the right way, he discovers that his nametag was on all along. However, because he was in a dumpster, SpongeBob smells awful, so Mr. Krabs boots him out of the Krusty Krab.

Note: You may slightly notice the missing nametag in shortcut by witnessing Spongebob's lack of backtracking which he changes his clothes.

"Plankton's Army"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode Mr. Krabs tells his employees that today is the 25th anniversary of Plankton's first attempt at stealing the Krabby Patty's secret formula. Plankton, meanwhile, tries to hire henchmen to help him steal it, but he's too small. He has another idea: he'll hire as many of his relatives as possible to help him steal it. They invade the Krusty Krab, and trap Squidward, SpongeBob and Mr. Krabs in a toilet. Plankton does a Snare Drum roll and reads what seems to be the secret formula, and it says that plankton are part of the recipe. This scares off Plankton and his relatives (except for one of them, who is illiterate and whom Mr. Krabs commands to "Get Lost!"). After the Plankton family flees from the Krusty Krab, Mr. Krabs points out that the recipe that the Planktons read is a fake, says that he's sure Plankton will eventually realize that it's a fake and attempt to go after the real formula, but says he hid the real formula in a place that nobody will ever find. But when Squidward correctly guesses the hiding place (at Mr. Krabs' home, under his mattress), Mr. Krabs hurriedly attempts to find a new hiding place for the real formula.

"The Sponge Who Could Fly" ("The Lost Special Episode")

Main article: The Sponge Who Could Fly

Live-Action Segment A: Patchy discovers an episode in which SpongeBob tries to fly.

SpongeBob wishes to fly with the jellyfish.

Live-Action Segment B: At the end, Patchy accidentally wrecks the tape, causing it to never be seen again.

"SpongeBob Meets the Strangler"

SpongeBob tattles on the "Tattle-tale Strangler", a criminal who promises to strangle anyone who reports on him and his crimes. He escapes the police's clutches and wants to go after SpongeBob for tattling on him. SpongeBob wants a bodyguard to help protect him from the Tattle-tale Strangler. He asks a lot of people, but they are all too scared of the Tattle-tale Strangler. Then just when he was going to leave town, someone claims to be offering help. The man is the Tattle-tale Strangler wearing a fake mustache. SpongeBob doesn't know this though, and allows him to become his bodyguard. The strangler is trying to get him alone so he can strangle him without getting caught. But every time he tries to strangle him, SpongeBob is either talking to him, doing something, or he is with another person(s).

After a while, the strangler gives up and tries to run away from SpongeBob. He ends up confessing and staying in jail. He is glad that he is away from the "yellow idiot" (SpongeBob), but is then surprised to see Patrick (who turned himself in because of a lie that the Tattle-tale Strangler told to the extremely gullible starfish, making him think he is the Tattle-tale Strangler) as a cell-mate. Patrick says to the Tattle-tale Strangler, "Hey Mac. What are you in for?".

"Pranks a Lot"

Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode In the original series finale, SpongeBob goes to the "Palace of Pranks" with Patrick and says he got his Gag Seanut Brittle Can (a spoof of peanut brittle) from there saying it's a gag. Patrick assumes that there is really Brittle inside and opens it only to discover it was a Prank.

They go inside and purchase "Invisible Paint", a can of spray-paint that can turn things invisible. SpongeBob and Patrick intend to use it to spray a park bench, and then sit on it, making it look like they are floating (and so the people around them will be amazed by this as a result). Remembering a warning that the paint stains clothes, the two completely strip down to their birthday suits, then fight over who should spray the bench, leading them to spray each other until they're completely invisible, and also end up accidentally spraying it onto their clothes. So, SpongeBob and Patrick decide to go around tricking people into thinking they're ghosts. At first, it works, as they scare everyone in town, including Mr. Krabs, who initially claimed that he couldn't be scared. But Mr. Krabs eventually finds out (by throwing water at them, as he was trying to put out a lit match that they were going to use to burn a dollar bill as part of their plan of torturing him), and gets back at SpongeBob and Patrick when he makes a show called "Live Nude Pranksters", which show SpongeBob and Patrick's nudity to the customers of the Krusty Krab.