SpongeBob SquarePants season 4

SpongeBob SquarePants Season 4
Season 4
File:SBSPseason4-1.jpg SpongeBob SquarePants, Season 4 Volume 1
Release
Original network	Nickelodeon
Original release	May 6, 2005 – July 24, 2007
Season chronology

Season Four of the television series SpongeBob SquarePants premiered on 6 May 2005 and ran until 24 July 2007. Season four consists of 20 episodes. Starting with "Fear of Krabby Patty" / "Shell of a Man" and ending with Squid Wood. 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 3 November 2008.

Episodes

Fear of a Krabby Patty / Shell of a Man

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 has a mental breakdown and 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 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. Mr. Krabs is about to go home until his navy buddies give him the "Manly Toughness Trophy", an award in the reunion saying it was tough to admit he lost his shell. But 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 / Krabs vs. Plankton

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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 mattress, 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. Then when Squidward tries again to look better by saying it was SpongeBob's idea, 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 Squidward to look terrible in front of everybody. After a while they go to the dump to get Mr. Krabs' mattress. 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' nurse pushes him out of the hospital, and he lands into the junkyard right beside his mattress 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

One day, Plankton goes into the Krusty Krab 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, and also fakes numerous injuries. Though Mr. Krabs initially commands SpongeBob to stay away from the trial, considering him to be nothing but a liability, SpongeBob takes over as Krabs' defense lawyer when the previous lawyer slips and injures himself on the floor of the Krusty Krab. SpongeBob spends most of the trial trying to open a briefcase, but what's in it may 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' miserly nature and complain that this is his first day-off in three years) and putting a dollar into a blender to (unsuccessfully) try to prove that Mr. Krabs is not cheap, only make the situation worse. Mr. Krabs and SpongeBob finally open the briefcase, 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. SpongeBob then proceeds to give Mr. Krabs a homemade "Wet Floor" sign to prevent further repeats of the case of Krabs vs. Plankton, but Krabs finds the sign to be too physically pointy (so it injures his claws).

Have You Seen This Snail?

Have You Seen This Snail?

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After getting an official Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy paddle ball set, SpongeBob 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.

SpongeBob receives a new Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy Paddle Ball Set in the mail and decides to take the Dirty Bubble Challenge of hitting the ball 29,998,559,671,349 times in a row. He is totally consumed by the challenge and forgets Gary for ten days. Gary feels neglected and runs away from home. When Patrick arrives, SpongeBob snaps out of it and can't find Gary. SpongeBob finds a note saying that Gary has left in search of a new owner.

Skill Crane / Good Neighbors

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Mr. Krabs purchases a vibrator for Squidward's gaping twat. Nothing much else happens in the episode except for a threesome on one of the tables in the Krusty Krab between Mr. Krabs, Spongebob, and Squidward. The orgy was so immense, that the Krusty Krab was coated with semen. There were no survivors.

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", but they unintentionally annoy Squidward (as usual). He tells them to paint the town polka dots but they accidentally spray him including the eyes making Squidward stumble onto the street where he is almost hit by a boat. The people driving it stop in time and take him to the hospital because they think the polka dots are a disease. Meanwhile SpongeBob and Patrick end up getting his pedicure and when Squidward comes home he gets angry, and tells them they are horrible neighbors. SpongeBob and Patrick agree with Squidward and sadly leave. Later, Squidward decides to set up a new, robotic security system in his home to make sure that SpongeBob and Patrick won't go on another uninvited visit. However, SpongeBob and Patrick accidentally cause his security system to malfunction, resulting in Squidward's house turning into a robot with limbs, and it goes on a rampage and destroys much of Bikini Bottom. After that, the angered citizens of Bikini Bottom make SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidward do community service every Sunday for the rest of their lives. Squidward is bothered by the fact that he's being forced to do this, but SpongeBob and Patrick are excited and seem to be accepting of it.

Selling Out / Funny Pants

Selling Out Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode

Mr. Krabs sells the Krusty Krab to a man named Howard Blandy, and retires. When the new management takes over, the restaurant becomes "Krabby O'Mondays", a sports-themed restaurant. Mr. Krabs is not enjoying his retirement, and when Pearl nags him to get a job, he becomes employed at Krabby O'Mondays 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 Howard Blandy), is keeping them trapped, is forcing them to do their jobs, and is even forcing the production of fake Krabby Patties (made with a strange, disgusting, gray substance) on a conveyor belt. Ultimately, after destroying the Krabby O'Mondays and driving out the customers, Mr. Krabs buys the restaurant back.

• First appearances of Carl (voiced by former SpongeBob SquarePants writer C.H. Greenblatt) and Howard Blandy.

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 will break his "laugh box" and may never laugh again if he doesn't stop. SpongeBob tries hard not to laugh, but he ends up laughing a lot by Patrick Slipping on a Banana Peel a lot, stepping on a whoopee cushion and a Pie splat on the driver that crashed into the whoopee cushion truck. So he goes out of town and buried himself underground. The Next Day, SpongeBob thinks that he has lost his laugh, and starts crying all the time, flooding Squidward's house with a sea of his tears (literally) in the process. Squidward, tired of all the crying and finding it to be more irritating than SpongeBob's laughter, 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 surgically 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.

• In later episodes, Squidward can laugh normally like before. This is unconfirmed since his "laugh box" was surgically removed meaning he probably got it back or it just healed and they implanted it back inside him.^{[This is speculation.]}

Dunces and Dragons

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In this special episode, SpongeBob and Patrick attend 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 arrest SpongeBob and Patrick and throw them into a dungeon. There they meet another inmate, Squidley (who resembles Squidward). Squidley sings a song, explaining that he was once the King's favorite jester until he "told a bad 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. (Patrick is only shocked because he left "The water running at home!").

All three are brought before King Krabs (resembling Mr. Krabs), the ruler of Bikini Bottomshire (medieval Bikini Bottom). King Krabs believes SpongeBob and Patrick to be assassins sent in 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 sentences 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 Jellyfish soon bursts through the castle walls and kidnaps the princess. The King soon begins to actually believe that SpongeBob and Patrick are 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 evil wizard (who resembles Plankton). SpongeBob packs three Krabby Patties for lunch. They almost make it to Planktonamor's lair when they are stopped by the Dark Knight (who resembles Sandy). The Dark Knight then challenges SpongeBob to a fight. SpongeBob wins using his karate skills.

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 resembles 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 them. 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 against Planktonamor and fries him. Planktonamor surrenders, and the Princess is 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 then moves to reveal Squidley, who has somehow been squished under him.

Enemy In-Law / Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy VI: The Motion Picture

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.

Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy VI: The Motion Picture Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode

After decades of being on the small screen, a Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy 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.

Patrick SmartPants / SquidBob TentaclePants

Patrick SmartPants Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode

One day, while SpongeBob and Patrick are playing together, Patrick accidentally falls off of a cliff and the top of his head falls off. But after SpongeBob reattaches the top of Patrick's head, a plug, dangling in it, falls into a power outlet, inside Patrick's head. Suddenly, Patrick's intelligence increases to the point of being a genius, and Patrick fancies himself as being too mature for the childish games he and SpongeBob used to play together before Patrick's I.Q. increased, so Patrick goes in search of a new best friend that will meet his interests' needs. However, Patrick soon realizes that even if SpongeBob's games are childish and immature, he is irreplaceable as a best friend. When Patrick and SpongeBob try to lower Patrick's I.Q. down to what it used to be, they discover that what SpongeBob thought was the top of Patrick's head was not the top of his head at all, but a piece of brain coral that increased Patrick's intelligence when attached to the top of his head. SpongeBob and Patrick then decide to remove the brain coral, and place the actual top of Patrick's head back, causing Patrick to revert back to the idiot he used to be. SpongeBob and Patrick then happily play with each other.

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 / Mrs. Puff, You're Fired

Krusty Towers Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode

Squidward and SpongeBob are going to work one day, and they discover that Mr. Krabs has converted the Krusty Krab into a hotel called the "Krusty Towers" after discovering the mass amounts of money that hotels rake in while on vacation. SpongeBob and Squidward are quickly made new hotel employees. The Krusty Towers have a policy engraved in gold: "We shall never deny a guest, even the most ridiculous request.". Effectively, this means that the hotel employees must do anything and everything that the guests ask them to do, no matter how stupid or unreasonable it is. Patrick becomes the first guest, and Squidward is forced to do many unreasonable things for him (helping him carry heavy bags, giving him a burger without any crust, and a bubble bath). Eventually, Squidward gets fed up and quits, but immediately returns as a guest and starts milking the "deny no guest" policy for all it's worth, much to Mr. Krabs' dismay and Squidward's delight; Mr. Krabs reluctantly grants many of Squidward's unreasonable requests, such as carrying Squidward up the staircase, getting a Krabby Patty with toenail clippings and nose hairs (with Squidward commanding Mr. Krabs to eat it), and constantly re-designing Squidward's room. However, things go awry for everyone when Patrick's cannonball into a swimming pool that Squidward requested for his room causes a cave-in and severely damages the Krusty Towers, reducing it to a one-floored building again and resulting in SpongeBob, Patrick, Squidward, and Mr. Krabs getting hospitalized. Mr. Krabs, who apparently didn't learn a thing from the experience, decides to open a hospital after seeing the $15,000 medical bill he has to 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 very specific teaching methods, 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 the sponge, 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). But, the "million times" saying may also be a figure of speech.

Ghost Host / Chimps Ahoy!

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When the Flying Dutchman loses his touch of scariness and can't frighten people, he temporarily moves in with SpongeBob, just until he can figure out once again how to be scary. However, he procrastinates while living at SpongeBob's pineapple until SpongeBob can't stand his presence any longer and helps him get back on his feet to once again terrorize Bikini Bottom.

Chimps Ahoy! Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode

Sandy is trying to invent something to impress her bosses including a nut cracker who can't crack nuts and Spongebob and Patrick come to Sandy's house and Sandy leaves so Spongebob and Patrick try to invent something to keep sandy in Bikini Bottom. In the end they invent a grooming station and the chimps come.The chimps have very strong English accents.Then a chimp tries out the machine and ends up getting hurt.Then as the chimps leave the nut cracker peels a banana and Sandy gets to stay in Bikini Bottom forever.

• Note: The name of this episode is a pun on a cookie company named Chips Ahoy!.

Whale of a Birthday / Karate Island

Whale of a Birthday Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode

Pearl's sixteenth birthday is approaching, and she wants Mr. Krabs to give her a wonderful birthday party compared to the last fifteen, because Mr. Krabs was too cheap to spend money on good birthday parties for Pearl. This time, Mr. Krabs sends out SpongeBob with his credit card and tells him to spy on Pearl to see what she wants for her birthday. But SpongeBob uses the credit card to buy Pearl everything she took an interest in at the mall, and gets Pearl's favorite boy band, Boys Who Cry, to play. However, Mr. Krabs is not pleased when he discovers that SpongeBob has racked up a huge bill...

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" concept is a scam, and that SpongeBob is really on Condo Island. An elderly-looking man known as "Master Udon" who runs the island is attempting to force SpongeBob into buying a time-share plan there. But SpongeBob doesn't want to, and Sandy engages in hand-to-hand combat with Master Udon. Master Udon seemingly gets knocked over and drowns, but when SpongeBob and Sandy leave Condo 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, trying to lure Squidward...

• Note: This episode is a take-off of Bruce Lee's Fim Game of Death with Sandy wearing a yellow tracksuit.

All That Glitters / Wishing You Well

All That Glitters Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode

When SpongeBob's trusty spatula breaks when Spongebob is making a monster Krabby Patty. Spongebob's spatula goes to hospital so Spongebob gives up everything he owns for Le Spatula. But Le Spatula won't cook Krabby Patties and then Le Spatula runs away and Spongebob goes to the hospital to get his old spatula,but Spongebob's old spatula turns away.So a sad Spongebob goes to the Krusty Krab and sees his old spatula and tries to flip a monster krabby patty.Instead of the spatula breaking Spongebob's arms break.

Wishing You Well Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode

The episode begins with Mr. Krabs looking for some money. When he sees a coin going into a well, Mr. Krabs is angry until he learns that the well is a "wishing well". Mr. Krabs decides to install a "memorial" wishing well (Squidward says you have to be dead to have anything memorial which is correct) at the Krusty Krab, and he makes SpongeBob go into it to collect the money for him. 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 found the magic, as they have discovered a strange, yellow light coming out from the ground. Squidward accidentally falls into the well, and is annoyed by SpongeBob and Patrick as usual, especially when SpongeBob and Patrick say they think claustrophobia is the fear of Santa Claus.

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 soon hit by a bus going "Very, Very Far Away", according to an electronic sign on the bus. Patrick leaves and SpongeBob tries to tell Mr. Krabs that magical phenomena had just happened, but Krabs 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. In an attempt to prove that magic doesn't exist, he wishes that he was steamed and served with a side of melted better. Unfortunately for him, it becomes true, and he is about to be eaten by a human...

New Leaf / Once Bitten

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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 Plankton's store, destroying many of its products. Enraged by this, Plankton 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, finally 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

Squidward attempts to keep Gary from leaving slime trails on his yard by putting up poles of splintery wood, but his attempt fails. As he reprimands SpongeBob, Gary unusually bites Squidward. Patrick convinces him that Gary's behavior 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 get a large variety of strange symptoms, including a rash, slight soreness of throat, bloodshot eyes, loss of balance, messy pants, ticklish rib cage, severally untrimmed toenails, and finally, he/she will become 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, the city begins do be destroyed, and the Krusty Krab becomes an unofficial refuge from the "zombies". SpongeBob arrives at the restaurant, and soon the "zombies" attempt an invasion (although they're stopped). 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. The refugees try to destroy and kill Gary, but before they can do that, a snail doctor known as "Dr. Gill Gilliam" (a re-color of the fish doctor from Suds and I Was a Teenage Gary) arrives and says that "mad snail disease" is a urban legend, a myth, much to everyone's dismay. All of the supposed symptoms are in fact common aliments, and Gary was biting everyone because he had a massive chunk of wood in his foot. Also, nobody was zombies; it was mass hysteria. At the end, Mr. Krabs is bitten by Gary, for reasons unknown.

Bummer Vacation / Wigstruck

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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 fanatical workaholic to try to vacation away 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 convinces Patrick (who temporarily took SpongeBob's job as part of an unpaid internship) to stay home so he can go back to work.

It turns out that SpongeBob "wasted" his vacation trying to get back into his workplace, but this doesn't matter to him because SpongeBob wanted to be there no matter what. 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 walks down the street one day and a strange, tall wig hits him in the head. SpongeBob goes to work and hair end up in the patties.So Spongebob puts on a hair net and everyone laughs at him.Later on Spongebob goes to a movie and blocks the screen.Spongebob has to get rid of the wig so he lets it blow away.Then the wig becomes really popular,so Spongebob borrows Patricks wig.

Squidtastic Voyage / That's No Lady

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SpongeBob and Patrick bother Squidward while he is playing his clarinet, so he accidentally gets the mouthpiece stuck in his throat. So Spongebob brings Squidward to Sandies house.Sandy shows Squidward and Spongebob her submarine. Then Sandy goes in to get some nuts and leaves Spongebob guarding the submarine and then Patrick comes along and ends up shrinking the submarine. Sandy ends up guiding them to get the clarinet bit. The submarine goes into some stomach acid and Squidward drinks soda which boosts the submarine up. In the end Patrick presses grow and then the next day at the Krusty Krab Squidward comes in with a huge body.

That's No Lady Template:Infobox SpongeBob episode

When a businessman tells Patrick to get out of town, Patrick quickly becomes alarmed and rushes to SpongeBob for help, and the two decide to disguise Patrick as a different person so he won't have to leave town. After a series of brief, failed disguises, SpongeBob disguises Patrick as a beautiful female sea star named "Patricia". However, the other Bikini Bottomites think that "Patricia" is SpongeBob's girlfriend, and Mr. Krabs and Squidward fall in love with "her" and try to convince "her" to go on a date with one of them. However, "Patricia" does not want to be bothered by the two, and at the end of the episode, the man who told Patrick to get out of town was actually trying to offer him a brochure to a vacationing resort, and Squidward and Mr. Krabs find out that their beautiful Patricia is actually Patrick in disguise, much to their disappointment and embarrassment.

The Thing / Hocus Pocus

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When SpongeBob and Patrick go on yet another uninvited visit into his house and ruin his attempts to watch a public TV show in peace, an enraged Squidward storms off on a bike ride to calm his nerves, but ends up crashing into a cement truck and covered head to toe in cement. While in Jellyfish Fields, SpongeBob and Patrick discover the unrecognizable Squidward and decide to take him home as a pet, naming him "Smelly". However, when Gary takes an immediate dislike to "Smelly", Patrick decides to keep him at his house. While there, Squidward acts up, and a frantic Patrick calls animal control, who immediately arrive and place Squidward in the zoo, where he is relentlessly teased and taunted for his appearance. Outraged, SpongeBob and Patrick decide to break him out.Spongebob,Patrick and Squidward end up in a jungle area. Squidward then sees his favourite clarinet player and dances along,but then the cement cracks.

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SpongeBob sees a commercial for an apparently really magic magic kit called "Mr. Magic's Magical Magic Kit" and wants one. He immediately goes to the post office and mails Mr. Magic $19.95, places his envelope in a mail box, and stuffs the entire mailbox in the "Outgoing mail" slot breaking through the window with the mailbox in the process.

4-6 weeks later, SpongeBob because of how he was also pulled in the "Outgoing Mail" window with the mailbox, is delivered to his own house with the magic kit to his excitment.

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 bus and leaves. Then, a picky, young boy 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 when he stops reading he thinks his magic turned Squidward into ice cream. He and Patrick follow the brown tile road to the castle of the mysterious man that makes the magic kits, Mr. Magic, but they find him to know nothing about magic (this is a parody of The Wizard of Oz: yellow brick road / brown tile road, and the Mr. Magic Spongebob and Patrick see on arrival is just a projection and the real Horace B. Magic is hiding behind a curtain, like in The Wizard of Oz).

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 Patrick's wish to magically transform into mayonnaise.

• Note: This episode was originally titled "Bibity Bobity Bogus".

Driven to Tears / Rule of Dumb

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SpongeBob fails his boating test yet again. Thinking that it's rigged, Patrick decides to take it himself, and somehow 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 chauffeur. 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 on 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 is wrongly convicted of littering during his trial at court and almost goes to jail, but SpongeBob confesses that he was responsible for the littering incident, not Patrick. Patrick is acquitted, and SpongeBob is jailed. A few months later, he is released. The two friends make up and SpongeBob gives Patrick a license plate that reads "Friends 4Ever". But Patrick got rid of the boat, so SpongeBob puts it on Patrick's back and they go home to celebrate.

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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 as 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 an idiot like Patrick as the king of anything (adding, "King of morons! Maybe!"), so they no longer obey him. Enraged, Patrick vows to ruin Squidward's life. Not so long later, SpongeBob nervously tells Patrick that he is "kind of being a jerk", 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 royal throne.

Born to Be Wild / Best Frenemies

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When SpongeBob sees a motorcycle gang riding through Bikini Bottom called the "Wild Ones", a crazy old farmer tells him that the Wild Ones are the most bloodthirsty, dangerous motorcycle gang one can ever imagine. So SpongeBob spreads the news of the Wild Ones to the other Bikini Bottomites and everyone quickly becomes afraid. However, SpongeBob and Patrick decide to try and fight off the Wild Ones when they come by starting their own motorcycle gang.Everyone laughs at them and then the motorcycle gang comes.They are really called the Mild Ones.In the end Squidward joins the Mild Ones.

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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. He gets mad at the restaurants and immediately after he said "what's your secret" believes Plankton is responsible. But it turns out Plankton doesn't know a thing about the Kelp Shake restaurants. 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 to find out the secret.

First, they go into one of the restaurants where Mr. Krabs gets Plankton into the kitchen by spitting him to there by fake sneezing but Plankton (being too tiny and light) splatters on the door and gets sprayed in the eye by a worker. Mr. Krabs and Plankton retreat and come up with more ideas. Later that night, they try to break into the restaurant by prying the doors open (Plankton uses a mechanical bio arm, then Mr. Krabs uses a crowbar), which didn't work, then try to get in from the roof using a jackhammer which is spoiled by an alarm system that warns them to leave in 3 seconds or they'll get zapped by a laser; Mr. Krabs leaves just in time but leaves Plankton behind and gets zapped. They do more attempts but they all failed. At the Krusty Krab, Plankton realizes that all the attempts are not working and Plankton gets mad at Mr. Krabs because he has to do all the work and Mr. Krabs doesn't. Just when they started fighting, SpongeBob advises that if they want a Kelp Shake, they should just buy one.

Plankton makes Mr. Krabs buy the drink (though Mr. Krabs is reluctant about this) and they take it to Plankton's laboratory and have Karen find out the ingredients. Karen says it contains kelp juice. Mr. Krabs and Plankton are surprised by the ingredient and argue that one of them should've sold the drinks themselves. 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 and they both like 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). After they watch each other mutate (with both shock and laughter), Mr. Krabs and Plankton decide to go back to their usual routine of chasing each other over the Krabby Patty secret formula.

The Pink Purloiner / Squid Wood

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When SpongeBob and Patrick go to Jellyfish Fields to watch the Jellyfish migration, SpongeBob introduces his new very rare net called "Ol' Reliable" and Patrick who's Jellyfishing Net doesn't work anymore, says he admires the net and hopes he gets one sometime. The next day SpongeBob finds Ol' Reliable missing and thinks someone stole the net. After a few days of searching SpongeBob begins to suspect that Patrick stole the net and does anything to prove Patrick as a Jellyfish Net thief and sees Patrick with a Box and after thinking it is containing Ol' Reliable, goes too far when SpongeBob pretends to be a British collector interested in purchasing what is in the box. Patrick says that the box belongs to SpongeBob and then SpongeBob begins to accuse Patrick of stealing Ol' Reliable. Patrick says it isn't Ol' Reliable and it is just a new Jellyfishing Net he made for SpongeBob. SpongeBob feels bad for accusing Patrick falsely and before Patrick can leave Bikini Bottom, they find that SpongeBob left Ol' Reliable on the Bus. So SpongeBob gives up Ol' Reliable to Patrick, to makeup and Patrick accepts SpongeBob's apology, and while the bus riders sigh, at their makeup, the bus driver angrily explains that they do this every week.

• Note: Ol' Reliable was first seen in episode 9, "Nature Pants".

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When Spongebob wants to play with Squidward, but he refuses to play with him. So Spongebob makes a puppet of Squidward so mini-Spongebob could play with mini-Squidward when the real Squidward doesn't want to play with the real Spongebob. Then Spongebob takes mini Squidward to the Krusty Krab and mini Squidward gets a 300 dollar tip and dances for everyone. But when real Squidward does exactly the same moves, everyone thinks he has no talent. Then a record producer comes in as Squidward is gnawing on mini Squidward. Mini Squidward gets a million dollar contract and a sequin suit. Then at the end Spongebob shows Squidward a Spongebob puppet.

• Note: The record producer mentions the Clammy awards a parody of the Grammy awards.

Best Day Ever / The Gift of Gum

Best Day Ever

Main article: Best Day Ever

SpongeBob wakes up and starts singing the Best Day Ever.Spongebob says that his day starts off in the Krusty Krab making krabby patties,then Spongebob goes to Sandy's house to have a session of karate,then Spongebob going jellyfishing with Patrick and with all Spongebob's closest friends are going to see Squidwards clarinet recitel. Spongebob goes to the Krusty Krab only to find out that the Krusty Krab is infested with nemua toads.Then Spongebob plays a note with his nose and the nemua toads follow Spongebob away from the Krusty Krab. Then Spongebob goes to Sandy's house to do karate but when Spongebob gets there Sandy's roof has a leak. So Spongebob tries to play karate, but stop's the leak with his karate glove. Then Spongebob goes to jellyfish field's and takes out his new jellyfishing net,then Patrick breaks his net so Spongebob gives Patrick his new net. Then Spongebob goes to Squidwards clarinet recitel,but forgets his ticket and tries to sneak in. But in the end Spongebob is let in and sits down. But the clarinet recitel has just ended and in the end Mr. Krabs puts on a play called the Best Day Ever. Spongebob keeps singing when everyone is gone and Patrick and Sandy are asleep, but Mr. Krabs and Squidward are awake but tired.

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SpongeBob and Patrick celebrate one of the holidays they made up, Best Friends Day, where the two exchange gifts to each other, being best friends. SpongeBob's gift to Patrick is a robotic butler, but in turn SpongeBob is given Patrick's most prized possession, a giant ball of gum with other various objects (dirty underwear, hair, old slices of pizza, etc.) that Patrick named "Gummy". However, Patrick's gift greatly displeases, disturbs, and annoys SpongeBob into dressing up as a burglar and pretending to steal Gummy from himself. However, the ball of gum explodes, and SpongeBob gets stuck to the exploded Gummy. Before long, all of SpongeBob's other friends (excluding Patrick and Mr. Krabs and Gary) get stuck on the gum, and Patrick helps when he comes over by eating all of the gum. However, Patrick then starts to hiccup, which blows a massive bubble, which pops, leaving all of Bikini Bottom covered in gum, much to his glee.