History Headscratchers / SpongebobSquarePants

[[folder: [[Main/{{AlliterativeTitle}} Gorilla's Good Excuse]]]]

[[folder: [[{{AlliterativeTitle}} Gorilla's Good]] Excuse]]

[[folder: [[AlliterativeTitle Gorilla's Good]] Excuse]]]

** For starters, Dale wasn't arrested for truancy, at least not in this instance. He was arrested for violating his parole by carrying fish gummies (an obvious analog for drugs). Second, there was no way for the cops to know that [=SpongeBob=], and by extension Flatts, were skipping school, so they couldn't arrest them with no leads.

* For starters, Dale wasn't arrested for truancy, at least not in this instance. He was arrested for violating his parole by carrying fish gummies (an obvious analog for drugs). Second, there was no way for the cops to know that [=SpongeBob=], and by extension Flatts, were skipping school, so they couldn't arrest them with no leads.

* Was Pyrite Ponderer like the [[PeteBest Pete Best]] and he was replaced with Quickster?

** [=SpongeBob=] was written horribly in that episode, so probably he think he did anything wrong.

** [=SpongeBob=] was written horribly in that episode, so I don't imagine he thinks he did anything wrong.

*** This reads as a non-sequitur, as it has no bearing on my response.

** Different poster than above. I don't know what country you're from, but in the US, "single" is generally used as a term meaning (probably a misuse knowing us) "not currently married or dating anyone". I guess the reason why the writers didn't say "widow" is due to either NeverSayDie, a mistake or as a way for [=SpongeBob=] to confirm that in addition to not currently having a husband, Mrs. Puff is also not dating anyone else.
** Original responder, yeah it's a USA thing then. Over here you can be single regardless of whether or not your were previously married, and people who have gotten divorced can say they're "single again" without it being strange.

** Spongebob is notoriously naive. It's very in-character for him to believe something sight-unseen.

* When [=SpongeBob=] shrinks everyone in Bikini Bottom in "Mermaid Man & Barnacle Boy IV", Margaret to her son about what he's done? What about Harold? How come he didn't have anything to offer to [=SpongeBob=]?

*** To back things up, [=SpongeBob=] stops a jellyfish from going on the road and he is run over by the Mild Ones and holds onto Incidental 80's shirt and sees "Ild Ones". He falls off with the piece ripped and discovers "W". [=SpongeBob=] then says "They're not the 'Ild Ones'. They must be the ''''WILD''' Ones'." Then the prospector hears this and says [=SB=] if knows who the Wild Ones are. It means that "Wild Ones" are a real biker gang that destroy cities and towns in the Pacific Ocean. Maybe they're the tough fish from [[WesternAnimation/{{TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie}} the movie]] or Reg and his tough fish pals at the Salty Splatoon.

** I'm a little confused about what you're not getting, but to break it down: Mr. Krabs assumes that Puff is Mrs. Puff's husband's name because in the USA the wife traditionally takes on the surname of the husband. When [=Spongebob=] says, "Oh no, she's single" Mr. Krabs asks about Mr. Puff because he's confused on how a ''Mrs.'' is single; if she was Ms. Puff he would have just taken "she's single" for granted. He just doesn't know if she's separated from her husband, divorced, a widow, or what. [=Spongebob=] also said "she's single" instead of "she's a widow" because he might not know, himself, what happened to Mr. Puff since Mrs. Puff "doesn't like to talk about it." Additionally, he knew that Mr. Krabs wanted to date her, so he responded that way to convey that Mrs. Puff is unattached and available (what "single" means in a dating context,) while calling someone a widow has a different connotation.

* Did I hear wrong or was Sandy referred to as "Sandy Squirrel" in "The Last Stand"? Did [=SpongeBob=] forget her name or something?

** To note, he sells plaid patties to a Scottish Fish in "Patty Hype" and that made his body plaid (season 2), he saw Krabs wearing plaid in "Model SpongeBob" (season 7), and he and Patrick not only even wear plaid in "A Friendly Game" (season 8), but also later episode "[=ScavengerPants=]" (season 11). Again, this was his worker's diary and maybe he means employees in plaid at the Krusty Krab. Another thing to note is that he takes his clothes off when hearing the Bikini Bottom National Anthem but he and Plankton (in Robo-Krabs) sang it in "Imitation Krabs" (season 2). Again, Squidward plays an instrumental whereas [=SB=] and Plankton sang it. Maybe he means that when he hears it on a radio.

** The actual reason they weren't there is because Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy were shelved after Ernest Borgnine's death. The metacontextual reason is that Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy are still by and large retired, so [=SpongeBob=] wouldn't want to bother them out of courtesy.

** More a land creature and two sea creatures.