This is my favorite episode. SpongeBob is television at its best.
Right after the Osbournes
The Square Guy is so popular in my household that my 4-year-old son has taken to using the exlamation “Barnacles!” when frustrated, like when I tell him it’s bedtime.
What about Mrs. Puff, the driver-school teacher?! Don’t you love the way she explodes like an airbag? I just love the episode where she passes Spongebob after extremely lame Extra Credit (the teacher’s secret weapon) because she’s so sick of having him in class, even though he hasn’t a clue on how to drive a boatmobile [snicker snicker]. She has second thoughts, envisioning Spongebob mowing down pedestrians and the city in flames. “I’ll move to another city. Start a new school–NO not this time.” This CRACKS me up! Also, I think in the same episode, Spongebob is chasing Mrs. Puff, who is trying to steal his boatmobile so that he can’t drive. She runs him through a Giant Clam zone, then Cheese Graters and then … EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION!!! I find this particularly funny, of course, because I work for educational television!
FWIW, I think Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy spoof Batman and Robin. In one episode they sing the old song, “Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg” except using Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy. (Hee hee, Mermaid Man.)
There are just so many funny moments. And hey, it’s a teaching tool too! I was playing a jazz tape in the car and identified the instrument soloing for my 4-year-old son, the clarinet, “like Squidward plays.” “Clarry!” he exclaimed. Hee hee.
As the article points out, I just love the sweetness of the whole program. As a parent I get so sick of every cartoon being some battle. Sure it might be good vs. evil, but why does every show have to center around violence? Most Nickelodeon cartoons don’t, and for that I’m so grateful.
Great, now I’ll never get to sleep at night. I saw that episode, but I can’t seem to recall what the deal was with that secret box. Well, perhaps I’ll see it again some time.
I’ll throw in something amusing I saw yesterday. Everyone at the beach is fed up with SpongeBob and his Bubble Buddy, so they decide to (temporarily) solve their problem by tipping something over. I just wish I could remember exactly what they said when they decided to tip something over.
My four-year-old and I watch this show religiously. It reminds me of classic Ren and Stimpy (i.e. when John K. was still doing it and it was brilliant).
Episode nobody has mentioned yet:
Squidward is trying to get some time alone but can’t because Spongbob and Patrick are always around. He tries various things, like a time machine and goes back to the Stone Age – and there’s Proto-Patrick and Cavebob, right there.
And of course, the Employee of the Month.
We could tell you, but then we’d have to laugh at you.
My favorite episode is where SpongeBob gets the Suds. It gets especially funny after Patrick plugs up all his holes, so he just expands like a balloon after each sneeze.
Mindless bit of trivia, Gary has feet.
While we’re discussing the Cartoon Network; do any of you watch “Courage the Cowardly Dog”? Some of those are hilarious.
And taught Spongebob how to tie his shoes after he forgot. He also has a record player under his shell.
Patrick: Heart on stick must die!
Plankton: Come back you porous freak!
Mr.Krabs:- STOP IT!!! STOP IT!!! STOP IT!!!
Gary: “There once was a man from Peru,
Who dreamt he was eating his shoe.
He woke with a fright,
In the middle of night,
To find that his dream had come true!”
My favorite is the Sailor Mouth episode.
When Mr. Krabs stubs his toe on that rock and proceeds to turn the air (water?) blue with ALL 13 BAD WORDS, the sound effects have me laughing so hard that tears run down my cheeks!
Squidward: “Thirteen? I thought there were only seven bad words.”
Mr. Krabs: “Not if you’re a sailor! Ar, ar, ar, ar, ar!”
Awww, Tartar Sauce!
Question:
How large are Spongebob and pals? In the episode where the artist drops his “magic pencil” into the ocean, the pencil is huge to Spongebob et al., but in the episode where Sandy gets them to go on dry land, the “dry” representations of them are normally sized.
And I can’t believe I just tried to nitpick Spongebob. My little brother watches it all the time, so I do as well, and try to notice all the little things like that.
One episode I particularly enjoyed was Pre-Hibernation Week . Watching Sandy drag Spongebob through extreme sports that made Jackass look tame was oh-so-funny.
And Patrick… He raised the bar for comical stupidity:
“Sandy’s a girl?”
“Where’s ‘Leaving Bikini Bottom’?”
Spongebob: Where’d you see that?
"We just passed a sign. It said ‘You are now entering “Leaving Bikini Bottom”.’ "
SpongeBob creator says he won’t renew Nick contract.
I ripped my pants!!!
A couple of weeks ago, I was IMing with Euty, and my 5-year-old daughter aked me who I was talking to. I told her it was my friend Patrick, and asked her if she’d like to see what he looked like. I found his pic online, and she said “That’s not Patrick!” Turns out she thought I was talking to Patrick the Starfish.
Euty, being the Spongebob fan and all-around helluva guy he is, thought this was really funny, as did I.
And today, I got a package in the mail, from Amazon.com. The Spongebob tapes. A gift for me & my kids, from Euty. We’re watching them now.
Thanks, man. You rule!
That is pretty funny, Persephone, but Patrick’s reply to that comment would probably be “What’s a computer?” He may be a lovable starfish, but he’s not too bright. 
Patrick (mouth full of fish hooks): “I sense no danger here.”
After being told you have to do something if you want a trophy:
Patrick: I want to defeat the giant monkey man and save the Ninth Dimension!
SpongeBob: I want to do that too, but you have to start out smaller.
Patrick: How about defeating the smaller monkey man and saving the Eighth Dimension?
Saw one of my favorites today, one that I’ve only seen once before. The one where Squidward pulls together pretty much everyone in Bikini Bottom, and they end up an outstanding marching band performing at the Bubble Bowl. Spongebob on lead vocals, Patrick on drums, Sandy and Mrs. Puff on guitar…it’s a riot! Hope that one gets on videotape!