My favorite was the one where the sea creatures decide to go live on dry land, and as they’re coming up out of the water it changes to live action with a sponge, crab, and starfish on sticks. And then the seagulls attack.
And I love it when SpongeBob crashes the car and Mrs Puff inflates like an airbag.
Oh yeah, from the silliness of SB hitting the bus driver with his balloon accidentally multiple times, to SB making a cardboard cutout of himself “trick” the bus, its a keeper. 
One great Plankton epsiode is when he sees all of his relatives are yokels.
My favorite visual joke is the panicked portrayal of himself SB envisions when the Robot is chasing him- arms flailing, hysterical screams, etc. Also the depiction of Patricks real parents- the fakes are pretty funny too.
Ohhhh…there was this one episode, where Mr. Krabs sells the Krusty Krab to this chain restaurant company, and they turn it into “Krabby O’Mondays.”
Squidward goes up to a table to take orders…and he’s wearing a striped shirt, apron, and suspenders festooned with “flair”.
It took me about five minutes to catch my breath from that one. A show that works in what may be an Office Space reference isn’t stupid. It’s genius, I tell you.
(P.S.: and how many people did they think were going to even remotely get the Man Ray gag? Catching the subtler gags in Spongebob is like finding $5 bills in your coat pockets, sometimes.)
That’s my favorite episode! I can even sing the Journey-like song the band plays:
“The winner takes all
It’s the thrill of one more kill
The last one to fall
Will never sacrifice their will…”
(smiley courtesy of the Princess)
Seconded! The BEST episode EVER!
My (46-year-old) husband & I even have a SpongeBob guest room. SpongeBob sheets & comforter, bedside lamp, alarm clock (plays the theme song!) and a white board on the wall that’s currently sporting my best drawing of an anchor & SpongeBob. For the hubby’s birthday last year I got him a Dairy Queen SpongeBob birthday cake – SpongeChris BirthdayPants! Hahahahaha.
Oh, and my favorite character EVER is Gary. Mrow!
No, we don’t have any children. Why do you ask?
I do have children, so I have an excuse! Cake. Pillow. Party.
Steve Hillenburg seems like a totally cool guy, too. He was brought up on Jacques Cousteau
Re: “The Winner Takes All” – who else thinks the singer doing Spongebob’s singing is the same guy who does the Real American Heroes Budweiser commercials??
My Favorite Spongebob Face of All Time occurs in the episode where Squidward claims to hate Krabby patties, then goes wild for them once he tastes them. It’s Spongebob’s face when he realizes Squidward is lying about what he’s doing in the patty vault. I would buy that face on a t-shirt! 
FYI – the singer on those “Real Men of Genius” ads is the guy who is/was the singer for Survivor (“Eye of the Tiger”).
I love spongebob. its my favorite cartoon! but some episodes aren’t as appropriate for littler kids then others. but still i love it. the episodes you menchend are my favs too. i think ive just about seen every episode!
About the only thing even close to bawdy I can remember on the show was pretty funny- SB for some reason was in need of peanuts, can’t find any, and says something like ‘oh yeah, I know where to find some’, and we get a shot of his toilet, but then it moves up to reveal the peanut plant on the shelf above the toilet.
My 8 year old and I (and occasionally Mrs. BwanaBob) love the show. We have every season boxset (eagerly awaiting Season 6 part 1), plus the theatrical movie.
It’s one of the few kids shows I can stomach.
Recent one that I loved was when Patrick’s horrible song lyrics are put to music and it causes mass hysteria when aired.
Old favorite was the one where Spongebob’s breath was causing various sea-life to commit suicide/run in anguish.
SB makes watching TV with my 3 year old bearable (Although Fairly Odd Parents isn’t bad, the movie where there were traveling from TV show to TV show had me in stitches), but I absolutely can’t stand Patchy. IDK if they are going for something I’m just not getting or what, but I don’t find his intros amusing in any way, shape or form.
Here’s a longer and more informative article about Stephen Hillenburg. It says SpongeBob was intentionally created as an innocent, like the characters played by Charlie Chaplin.
Just gotta point out I think SB’s parents aren’t “natural sea sponges” - they’re just older, more used-up sponges. Ditto his grandmother, who looks even more used.
I may be wrong, but that’s how I’ve always looked at it.
I wonder …
Crap.
The singer is David Glen Eisley. Suprisingly, the song was not originally composed for the show- it, and most of the other music that appears in the show, is provided by Associated Production Music, which provides multitudes of music in various styles, but whose old-fashioned style of music is used not only in SpongeBob, but in other comedies in ironic fashion such as Ren & Stimpy, The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, and countless others.
More about SpongeBob himself: he was originally called “Spongeboy,” but this name was dropped for legal reasons. In the book Not Just Cartoons- Nicktoons! (Jerry Beck, editor, DK Publishing/Melcher Media, 2007), Hillenburg comments that SpongeBob is “a nerdy sponge, kind of like an undersea Jerry Lewis…a well-meaning, naive dork,” and that the reason he is a square kitchen sponge is that he is a “square peg in a round hole.” The book also reprints an educational comic about sea life Hillenburg wrote in 1989 which is narrated by a character called “Bob the Sponge” which predates would-be moocher Bob Spongee by three years.
This is my husband’s absolute favorite Spongebob moment. He starts giggling in anticipation as soon as Squidward opens the vault, then falls over with hysterical laughter when spongebob gets that knowing look.
My two favorite episodes are “Sailor Mouth” and the one where Spongebob thinks Mr. Krabs is a robot.
We watch a lot of Spongebob at my house. Every time you ask my son (age 2) if he wants to watch TV he says “BobBob!”
This is one of the few SpongeBob episodes to be edited- the original version had a scene where Squidward snuck into the Krusty Krab at night, but before opening the vault, he dealt with the Krusty Krab’s security system- a bucket of water on top of the door. He laughed it off, of course, but then discovered that the bucket was full of gasoline and the system set the Krusty Krab on fire!
Even without the scene, it’s a funny episode. I’m particularly fond of the denouement:
“You shouldn’t eat that many Krabby Patties, Squidward.”
“Why? Am I going to blow up?”
“No- it all goes to your thighs.”
“And then you blow up.”
We must be married to the same man. That is the only explanation that I can see for the amazing coincedence that my husband has the exact same favorite moment in all of the SB episodes ever created.
This sounds like the basis for the best Lifetime Network movie ever.
“Two wifes…one husband…one sponge. The SpongeBob Affair, a Lifetime original movie.”
If it’s a Lifetime Movie, doesn’t someone have to be dying from some sort of disease/cancer?
