History Headscratchers / SpongebobSquarePants

* At the of "I Had An Accident", one of halves of [=SpongeBob=] wonders what a gorilla is doing underwater which made him and George blow their cover. This ironic since there's Sandy in the bag.

** I've never seen "Little Yellow Book", but maybe whatever caused [=Spongebob=] to act this way around plaid happened sometime after he met Sandy's cousin.

* Clearly everything Mr. Krabs has owned a words that begin with C but are [[MyNaymeIs spelt with a K]] (e.g.: Krusty, Katering, Kamp, Koral). Why does he prefer Ks over Cs.

[[folder: SpongeBob, Patrick and Prison]]

* With all the constant harassment, murders, aiding and abetting, breaking and entering, animal endangerment, and of course, reckless driving crimes SpongeBob did in the show, you would think he'd be in jail for all of this, but no... especially since Mrs. Puff is the one getting jailed for the latter crime.

How come SpongeBob and Patrick hadn't gotten arrested yet? Cause...

** As listed under YMMV’s FridgeBrilliance, Squidward finally returning to the present created a bootstrap paradox in which he returned to the beginning of the episode, therefore erasing the time he spent in the freezer. As for why he didn’t do that in the original “future” timeline, I guess it’s nothing more than RuleOfFunny.

** [[TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie The movie]] outright states that Patrick once wore the same underwear for three years straight, having [[{{Squick}} yellow-stained underwear]] would not be out of character for him.

* The implication of that scene is supposed to be that someone dangerous has invaded his home and cut the line to keep him from calling the police. When [=SpongeBob=] goes downstairs to investigate, he finds out the noise was just Gary roughhousing, which was probably meant to imply that Gary had cut it by accident.

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[[folder:Sponge on Strike]]
* If [=SpongeBob=] loves his job so much, why does he still agree to the strike when he learns what going on strike really means? And more importantly, why doesn't he empathize with Squidward's plight during the whole ordeal?
** [=SpongeBob=] is naive. He hardly understood what a strike was really about. In fact at the end, he was only excited about getting his job back.
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[[folder: The Sponge Who Could Fly, But Never Did Again]]
* If [=SpongeBob=] enjoyed being able to fly so much, why didn't he just, I don't know, ''inflate another pair of pants?''
** [=SpongeBob=] got fed up with the citizens asking him to do non-flying-related tasks for them, so he didn't bother.
** Because in the end, the jellyfish was helping him take to the air once more. He doesn't need inflated pants anymore when he has jellyfish friends.
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[[folder: He Can Afford Snacks, but Not Bus Fare]]
* In "Rock Bottom", [=SpongeBob=] doesn't have change for the bus, but then later when he gets hungry, he has enough money for a Kelp Nougat Crunch snack in the vending machine.
** It was probably an 'exact change' sort of thing.
** Bus fare costs a lot in Rock Bottom?
** He had enough money the whole time, it's just that he was trying so hard to find it that he kept smacking the bus driver around with his balloon and was told to sit down already, and later kicked off with no regrets.
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[[folder: Let's Face it, This Whole Show Doesn't Make Sense]]
* [[ArbitrarySkepticism Why do the fish wear clothes? And talk? And drive around in boats? And have a thriving underwater society? Fish can't do those things!]]
** Because fuck you that's why
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[[folder: Happy Texas party]]
* One can understand where most of the misconstrued ideas about Texas were coming from in the party [=SpongeBob=] arranged for Sandy, but for "square-dancing", it seemed like all he had was Flats the Flounder holding a large square thing. How exactly does the "dancing" part fit into that?
** It's a wordplay moment. He means dancing while holding a square.
** And as for why maybe he didn't know what square dancing was.
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[[folder: Why Didn't He Just Take Out the Money and Keep It in Krabs' House?]]
* In "The Lost Mattress", the conflict starts because Squidward ignorantly threw away Mr. Krabs' old mattress. It was obviously for a good cause since that mattress was shown to be giving him back pain and he was given a replacement, but what really raises the question is why didn't Squidward simply take the money out of the mattress and put it in Krabs' nightstand drawer or whatever, ''before'' proceeding to throw it away? Is Squidward really as dumb as [=SpongeBob=] or even Patrick?
** Go back and watch the episode. Squidward ''didn't know'' there was money stuffed into the mattress until Krabs told him that's where he kept it.
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[[folder:Employee of the Month]]
* If Squidward constantly thought the Employee of the Month award is a scam, then why did he later on compete with Spongebob for the award?
** Probably due to his insecurities and feeling inferior to [=SpongeBob=] who has won it several times.
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[[folder:Emergency Lights On]]
* The lights of the paddy wagon should be on at the end of “Ditchin”. Same with the cop car in “Boating Buddies”.

[[folder:[=SpongeBob=] the Crybaby]]
* [=SpongeBob=] shouldn’t cry when Squidward reads his personal diary at the end of “Little Yellow Book”. He should handle it like a man.
** Spongebob is a notorious crybaby. That has been a core element of his character from the beginning. What's the problem here?
*** He should deal with Squidward’s humiliation. He’s been a pain in Squidward’s neck.
*** Well obviously he didn't.
*** And no one likes having their secrets exposed. But you really can’t hide them for long.

[[folder:Censors]]
* Why is the dolphin chirp used when Mr. Krabs said “With a side of…”?
** Because he obviously used a swear word? It's not that hard to infer.
*** Couldn’t there be a different censor?
*** Guess not.
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[[folder:Arrest Dan]]
* The cops can’t arrest Dorsal Dan. They can arrest Stickyfins Whitning for escaping jail. Dan hasn’t robbed anything.
** Being the getaway driver for a robbery is aiding and abetting criminal actions. They can certainly arrest you for that.
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[[folder:Crazyfish in jail]]
* How has Jack M. Crazyfish end up in jail.
** You mean "not end up in jail"? If so, then it's because he's committed no crimes in spite of his supposed frightening reputation.
*** Troper thought he was in Krusty Slammer.
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[[folder:[=SpongeBob=]’s Ticket]]
* Why does Officer John write and shove a ticket to [=SpongeBob=] at the end of “Keep Bikini Bottom Beautiful”?
** Because he's a dick.
*** But he [[RunningGag has done it with Squidward through out the episode]] and that should be fine.
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[[folder: With great power comes great idiocy]]
* Why does Squidward not use his power as "President of the Good Neighbor Lodge" to his advantage in "Good Neighbors"?
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*** So what if [=SpongeBob=] HAD understood what striking meant? Would he STILL have gone along with it?

[[folder: Apes and Horses Breathing Underwater]]
* Just how did a giant ape and his horse breathe under the water to beat up [=SpongeBob=] anyway?

** Also, that was a ''zebra'', not a horse.
*** A zebra IS a horse....

[[folder:Swearing]]
* Why is swearing taken so seriously here? I mean, nobody makes TOO big of a deal about it in real life, so why is it suddenly treated like some kind of criminal misdemeanor here?
** The REAL question is, why does Mr. Krabs forbid Spongebob and Patrick from saying those words AT ALL?
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[[folder: The time machine]]
* In "SB-129", why is the time machine built into the wall? Wouldn't that be counter-intuitive? Also, how would it be able to just rip from the wall like that?

[[folder: The time machine]]
* In "SB-129", why is the time machine built into the wall? Wouldn't that be counter-intuitive? Also, how would it be able to just rip from the wall like that?

[[folder: A dining sock?]]
* Why does the Flying Dutchman need a sock to eat?
** Maybe he has some emotional issues regarding this.
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[[folder: Does it REALLY matter how Patrick is saved?]]
* In "SpongeGuard On Duty", everybody expects Spongebob to get in the water to save Patrick. Why does it matter? I mean, he did manage to get a boat into the water and, had Patrick not ripped it apart, he probably could've gotten him safely into it.
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[[folder: Wild animals in the Bikini Bottom suburbs?]]
* So in "The Camping Episode", what were a sea bear and sea rhinoceros even doing in Spongebob, Squidward, and Patrick's neighborhood?
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[[folder: The Krusty Krab Commercial]]
* How did Mr. Krabs' version of the Krusty Krab commercial not throw away any money? There had to have been some expenses with the smoke effect, the scene-shifting, and the words appearing over the Krusty Krab.
** One thing that's a given with Mr. Krabs is that while he's cheap and greedy to the absolute extreme, as a businessman, he's shown that he's willing to spend at least ''some'' money if it gets him closer to making much more money (which is why he got angry at Squidward and the production crew he hired during the filming of the original commercial - because he felt like it was an absolute waste of money compared to what they wound up making). You can see what I'm talking about in episodes like "Skill Crane", where he spends money on the titular skill crane because he knew that it would eventually pay for itself and make him a profit (which it did, courtesy of Squidward). That said, bar the smoke effect, virtually everything you listed is the sort of shit that one could easily do in something like Movie Maker at next to no cost, so that's likely the route Mr. Krabs took when making the shoestring budget commercial that we saw.
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[[folder: A security system that turns your house into a giant rampaging robot? Really?]]
* Ok, what idiot thought it was a good idea to make a security system that gives your house robot limbs? And on that note, if it was designed that way intentionally, why isn't it being used by the military instead of as a home security system?
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[[folder: A perfume department on a pirate ship? Really?]]
* Why would a pirate ship, let alone a GHOST pirate ship, even ''have'' a perfume department?
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[[folder:Anger over what YOU said, Squidward?]]
* In "Opposite Day", why does Squidward get all surprised and angry at [=SpongeBob=] for acting, well, opposite when it was HIM who told [=SpongeBob=] it was Opposite Day in the first place?
** He thought [=SpongeBob=] would reverse his annoying behavior, but didn't think through what ''other'' behaviors he'd also reverse.
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