Case in point: Spongebob and Patrick use their imagination while playing with a cardboard box, much to Squidward’s consternation. With Spongebob, sometimes the simplest episodes prove to be the best. ALL HAIL THE MAGIC CONCH! “Idiot Box” (Season 3, Episode 4) Squidward mocks the two but, of course, when the three end up stranded in the wilderness, their faith in the Magic Conch provides them with food and shelter, while Squidward’s doubt leaves him cold, hungry, and alone. Squidward succeeds in terrifying Spongebob but he can’t explain when his made-up story suddenly becomes real.Īt its core, Spongebob is a tribute to the power of optimism and that is never displayed more clearly than in this episode, where Spongebob and Patrick form a club that blindly follows the Magic Conch, which is essentially a magic 8-ball that is shaped like a conch shell instead. When Squidward discovers that Spongebob is afraid of the dark, he tells him the story of the “Hash-slinging Slasher”, a former fry cook-turned-ghost who haunts Krusty Krab employees at night. Krabs decides that the Krusty Krab will be open 24 hours a day, which means that Spongebob and Squidward, the only two employees, will be working there 24 hours a day. Doodlebob then tries to destroy Spongebob, who must find a way to defeat his creation or cease to exist.
The two believe they have erased the bizarro creation into oblivion but one of his arms remains and Doodlebob is able to return to full strength once he gets a hold of the magic pencil. Spongebob draws “Doodlebob” an animated version of himself who quickly begins wreaking havoc across Bikini Bottom. When an artist drops his pencil while drawing on a boat, Spongebob and Patrick discover the foreign utensil can be used to create living art.
It’s a brilliant twist that shows that deep down, Squidward loves living between these two dummies. But when Squidward finally moves to Tentacle Acres, a community filled with clarinet-playing, canned-bread loving octopuses, he finds himself bored and missing the childish behavior of Spongebob and Patrick. The plan nearly works, as Plankton manages to fool Spongebob but he ends up grossly underestimating how many tests are set in place before Spongebob will give him the formula.Īpproximately 60 percent of the early episodes of Spongebob revolve around Squidward being pushed to his mental breaking point due to his next-door neighbors, so it was only a matter of time before he would try to leave Bikini Bottom for greener pastures. Krabs to try and trick Spongebob into giving him the formula. And perhaps his most brilliant plan is when he builds a robot clone of Mr. Plankton has one goal in life: to steal the Krabby Patty formula so the Chum Bucket, his empty restaurant, will finally get customers. Spongebob and Patrick manage to succeed by being big enough nuisances to convince Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy to use their powers to get their biggest fans as far away from them as possible. When Spongebob and Patrick learn their favorite crime-fighting duo, Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy (clearly modeled after Batman and Robin), are living at a retirement home nearby, they go to meet their now-geriatric idols to try and get them to unretire and once again serve vigilante justice. The realization that the episodes are no longer airing finally caught on and fans are reminiscing one of the funniest episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants to ever air.“Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy” (Season 1, Episode 6) That episode hasn’t been in rotation since 2018 because some story elements were not kid-appropriate, according to a Nickelodeon spokesperson. Krabs feel young again by breaking into a woman’s house to steal her underwear. The second episode being pulled from streaming services is the fan-favorite episode, “Mid-Life Crustacean,” where SpongeBob and Patrick try to make Mr. Reportedly, the episode never aired due to sensitivities surrounding the global, real-world pandemic, a spokesperson for Nickelodeon told CNN Business. In the episode the health inspector quarantines patrons, while those who are assumed to have the virus are shunned and tossed in a freezer. CNN recently reported that an episode from the show’s 12th season, “Kwarantined Crab,” in which a health inspector comes to the Krusty Krab and finds a case of the “Clam Flu,” will not air.