History Headscratchers / SpongebobSquarePants

** [[Wiki/SCPFoundation There is no canon.]]

* How did Mr. Krabs' version of the Krusty Krab commerical 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.

* In "Little Yellow Book" (season 9), it is revealed that [=SpongeBob=] starts clucking like a chicken every time he sees plaid. However, in "Stanley S. Square Pants" (season 5), [=SpongeBob=] briefly met Sandy's Scottish cousin, who was wearing a kilt and a matching plaid hat, and he didn't act like a chicken at all.

First Mr. Krabs assumes that Puff is Mrs. Puff's husband's name, hence the "Aw, she's married". But, when [=Spongebob=] says "she's single", why Mr. Krabs still asks about Mr. Puff? That would be a fitting answer to the statement "she's a widow". ''Also'', we immediately see that there ''was'' a Mr. Puff. who is dead, so Mrs. Puff is ''actually'' a widow, not a single lady.

** (Original Poster) What I didn't get is why [=SpongeBob=] would say that Mrs.Puff is single when it's obvious that she's been married at some point of her life. In my country, being single means one person has never been married. Otherwise this person is married, in a civil union, divorced or a widow/ widower. By the above explanation I understand he was encouraging Mr. Krabs to ask her for a date, but still sounds weird for me. Here we would never call "single" a divorced or widow lady unless we wanted to deliberately lie about her status.

* Why does Mr. Krabs wear a water helmet in Sandy's Treedome in "Overbooked", when crabs are amphibious(meaning they can breathe both air and water)?

** He(except on some occasions) never seems to find the formula, and when he does, it's just a decoy.

** Its been shown often that Mrs Puff and Squidward only hate [=SpongeBob=] because of how he acts during boating and work, ie how he fails every test and how he is "annoyingly" cheerful and/or [[CloudCuckooLander too wacky to reason with]]. In fact, Mrs Puff tries to protect [=SpongeBob=] from going to jail and Squidward has shown concern for [=SpongeBob=] more than one, and both have shown to be protective of his childlike innocence, for instance during the Hall Monitor and Pizza episodes. So its no stretch for them to go to his parties, especially since their other friends will be there. Not to mention this was during the early seasons, when their hatred wasn't as pronounced. Its only the later seasons when they adamantly refuse to have anything to do with him, and even go as far as to try and kill him.

** Not necessarily, it might have something to do with anxiety, as he knows how to drive or, rather, possesses the skills and knowledge to but he becomes anxious, thus causing him to freak out and fail, which is would be a RealLife reason as to why.
*** He doens't seem nervous, though.

** Obviously he shaves, like that one episode where he makes his head from square to round, exposing his brain.

*** This headscratcher calls to mind a conversation I had with my teachers in HS biology class where we did a [=SpongeBob=] themed activity relating to genetics, specifically determining if his respective offspring would be square or round and I asked if my teachers have seen the show, pointing this out. Thinking back on it, in the case of the show, we haven't seen enough of his relatives, much less know which sides of the family they came from to know for sure if squareness recessive or not, though from the relatives we do see that're square, it's possibly recessive. Meta-wise, in terms of why he's square, well, when people hear "sponge", they mostly think about the kitchen sponges, so Hillenburg probably made him more recognizable that way.

** Why personal headcanon is that King Neptune gave all air breathing sea creatures the ability to breath underwater so they could all co-exist with minimal interuptions.

*** Some types of seal can hold their breath for two hours.
** Same with the Pear question above. My headcanon is [[AWizardDidIt King Netune did it]].

*** I've always thought that when someone says "Mother of Pearl" they were exclaiming it in surprise, because this "Mother of Pearl" doesn't exist. Perhaps the same goes for [=SpongeBob=] and Mr. Krabs?
*** Actually, the expression is suppossed to be a standin for "Mother of God"
*** Maybe Pearl's mother is a goddess of the sea, like Leucothea, a goddess who helps sailors in need. Mr. Krabs was a sailor for MANY years, so it's possible he ran into this goddess at least once. Maybe she saved his life, since it's her job to help sailors, and things just sort of...escalated. And she birthed a daughter who looks like a whale. It makes sense that Leucothea would be an appropriate goddess, since Amphitrite is a also a Greek sea goddess who is Poseidon/Neptune's wife. Leucothea has no husband. Maybe Krabs was in the right place at the right time and got lucky with a goddess. He never seems to cowed by Neptune and his family, after all, except in the movie when he's being threatened with murder.

* In the bully episode it was a plot point that [=SpongeBob=] didn't have bones or organs, but in many later episodes he does have them.

** On the same note; why doesn't Squidward quit his job if he hates it so much? I'm sure he can find a better one. I doubt he gets a good pay, and he has [=SpongeBob=] and Krabs to bother him, so him being lazy there isn't worth it.

*** According to the episode "The Original Fry Cook", the only reason he's working at the Krusty Krab is because he believed his clarinet career would take off from there. Also, Squidward has worked longer at the Krusty Krab, so you'd think he would begin to get paid soon after the series began.
** [=SpongeBob=] said he had to pay when he first started. Presumably he's been promoted enough to actually get paid, rather than vice versa.

** On "Squid on Strike" [=SpongeBob=] didn't accept his pay check because "grilling is his passion". I think he may have a "real" (higher paying) job on the side.
*** He's probably still selling candy bars. It also explains how Patrick is able to go without a job.
*** Well in "Shell Shocked" we learn his appendeges can grow back. He's probably a millionaire from organ trading, but keeps the fact hidden.

* In the episode where a dream version of [=SpongeBob=] [[DreamWalker invades the dreams of others]], why, in response, do the people whose dreams were invaded break into the real [=SpongeBob=]'s house, wake him up, then yell at him about it? It's like it's teaching kids to yell at someone for being in your dream.
** In at least two of the dreams [=Spongebob=] visited, he did make it pretty clear that he was purposefully people's dreams, as opposed to being a figment of each dreamer's imagination -- he tells Patrick, "I'm going to a different dream," and tells Pearl "Actually I was looking for your dad's dream." Besides, it's not like Squidward needs a good reason to be annoyed with [=Spongebob=] over something.

* How can [=SpongeBob=] use the oven (and the lights, and the refrigerator for that matter) when they're under water? The electric appliances would have short-circuited from contact with the water.

*** ...It's also the only name he's ever referred to in-series. The only reference to "Poseidon" we get is the "Poseidome" in his introductory episode.

*** He could also move like a speedboat without kicking or paddling; I think its safe to say that The Hoff is an exception to the general human rule.

*** We were listening not to how the fish heard him, but how humans heard him.
*** AnimalTalk can be understood by all the animals, and humans can't understand it.

* If Plankton "WENT TO COLLEGE!" then how did he end up with a [[CrapsackWorld dead-end restaurant job]]? What did he major in that that's all he can do with his life?

*** Actually, he onlys took over Bikini Bottom. And according to the episode where he falls in love with Mr. Krab's mother, when Karen starts blabbing on, Plankton asks "Why did I ever '''buy''' that computer wife?".

** His rivalry with Krabs stems from ''before'' college. Presumably after he got his degree he opened a restaurant in hopes of beating Krabs at his own game.

** VillainousBreakdown perhaps. He used to be somewhat competent, around the same time Krabs started torturing him unprovoked he seemed to lose his mind.

*** Why did Squidward choose to unhappily take his bike to work and eat the same food everyday? He made it more monotonous than it had to be.

** Again, PlotInducedStupidity, to the point were it's an unutterable blunder. Don't worry, we feel your pain.
*** Mr. Krabs probably knows who Karen is. This Troper assumed that Krabs only sold her the box and the toys without an actual Krabby Patty, and the reason Krabs didn't just throw her out was because she had money.

* Okay, in the slide-whistle episode, after Squidward ends up in the hospital, [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick run amuck in the hospital having fun with the slide whistles. Right at the end, they interrupt a doctor sewing up a belly by imitating his actions with slidewhistles while they stand on a skylight above. The doctor starts laughing, and ''pulls the sewed up skin while he laughs''. My question is this: [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Why is there a skylight in what is quite likely an operating room]]?

** It could be that any affection between them burned out over the few dates they had, in particular Mr. Krabs' emotional whipsaw over the money he spent on stuff Mrs. Puff didn't even want. And don't forget, [=SpongeBob=] has been with them all along, which is enough to bollix any relationship.

* '''Just who the dickens is running the Krusty Krab when [=SpongeBob=], Mr. Krabs and Squidward are out having adventures?''' Many times it's obviously a mealtime (like when Mr. Krabs took Mrs. Puff out on a date), prime moneymaking time for any restaurant! I worked in fast food [=(McD's)=] for three years, and this point continues to perplex me.
** In "The Bikini Bottom Triangle", it is revealed that Pearl minds the place when her father is gone. However, it is also revealed some strange seacaptain or something takes care of the restaurant and cooks if everyone else is gone, which begs the question, '''How can some random person be able to take full control of the Krusty Krab and know how to make Krabby Patties without permission, training, or any other necessary requirements?'''
*** That seacaptain is the living embodiment of the Krusty Krab?

** Mr. Krabs has been shown to close the Krusty Krab at random times for illogical reasons, to the disappointment of his customers. This is probably what happens when he, [=SpongeBob=], or Squidward aren't around (or incidents when Squidward has to cook in [=SpongeBob's=] absence take place far more often than is shown). And since the Krusty Krab appears to be by far the best restaurant in Bikini Bottom (not saying much, though), the customers might just deal with it and come back later.

** WordOfGod is that, since the movie was ''supposed'' to officially end the series, any episodes that are produced after the movie are meant to take place chronologically ''before'' the movie. If that makes any sense, [[ExecutiveMeddling which it probably doesn't.]]
*** To this troper, it doesn't. If that was true, it would still mean that every episode would still have taken place before the movie, so it's like saying that all the previous episodes with Larry didn't happen... maybe it's something like [=SpongeBob=] had never gone to that store they were by, and Larry was so surprised to see him there he wasn't sure if it really was [=SpongeBob=]?

* Spongehenge: those statues he carves merits discussion. First off, why on earth do they have that expression? It's the least [=SpongeBob=] could have done to carve them with a more jovial expression, but instead, he goes ahead and gives them this fearful expression that comes off as really, really annoying. Second, if that stone is depicted to be heavy, how on earth would those spindly legs hold up the weight of the statues? Even assuming that the statues are somewhat hollow and that the fluid dynamics underwater prevents the statues from collapsing on their own weight immediately, wouldn't they still erode over 3000 years? And finally, why does [=SpongeBob=] need so many of them? We'd already seen that a single statue was enough to distract them; all he needed after was one good statue to solve the problem.
** The reason he needed more than one was because the jellyfish didn't like the tune the statue made. All of the statues together were able to fix the tune, for some reason.

*** Incidentally, this can be TruthInTelevision, in the sense of how some people that don't or otherwise can't drive (i.e, not having a licence or being impaired in some way) can and, sometimes, do know more about driving than people who can and do drive. It's kind of a weird case of something akin to TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes.

* It bugs me that the fish in some episodes will just throw their food away. If they can't eat it, or someone ruins it, fine. But in episodes like "No Hat For Pat" they throw their food and sodas on the ground simply because they were bored with Patrick. Um... Why aren't you eating it?

*** It's a little farfetched but it's possible that there's enough air pressure to keep the water out while she opens that hatch for about a few seconds.

* Flats the Flounder enrolls in Mrs. Puff's boating school in one episode; later on in that same episode he's seen driving a garbage truck. Of course explanations can be easily thought up for this, like maybe he is driving the truck without a license, or he is such an awful driver that he couldn't get his license yet or it was revoked. But without thinking so hard...

** ...They ''weren't''. At least, I recall them standing ''outside the jail'', unless I'm remembering the episode wrong.

* What I can't believe is how in "Squirrel Jokes," something that [=SpongeBob=] said in a ''comedy routine'' changed the way people treat Sandy so drastically?

** The Bikini Bottomites tend to "follow the herd"--they go along with anything announced publicly (apparently even in a comedy routine). They believed everything in the tabloid Krabby Kronicle; and then there's the mass histeria over "Mad Snail Disease" in "Once Bitten", as a few examples.

** A few throwaway lines have indicated that Mr. Krabs is borderline immortal, like Squidward describing the Vikings as having been around "in Mr. Krabs' day" and another episode showing that his first dime was a giant rock. Presumably it's a family thing. This may have something to do with the fact that IRL some crustaceans don't age, just keep getting bigger (meaning that Mr. Krabs may not just be descended from the tiny crabs who only say "money" that have been shown in prehistoric times, he might have actually ''been'' one of them).

*** There is a rare genetic mutation in lobsters that can make them appear bright red when alive. The chances of a lobster having this is 1 in 10,000,000, meaning Larry is probably the only live red lobster in Bikini Bottom.

** Then again, there's two episodes where Mr. Krabs seems to have learned the hard way that the 24-hour thing isn't a good idea.

** It was a running gag in one of the episodes (can't remember which) when a lot of people tried and had trouble saying his last name, so maybe it's a really subtle running gag in the show, since really no one says his last name in the first place.

* Does Bikini Bottom have some sort of Labor Board? It's astounding how the Krusty Krab is able to stay open when Mr. Krabs does things like pay slightly below minimum wage, having 2 employees staff the entire resturant, and the insane amount of things he does to save a few cents...
** My memory's a bit foggy but Bikini Bottom does seem to have some kind of union organization. There was an episode when [=SpongeBob=] was forced to take a vacation or Mr. Krabs would get fined. Also, in many real life cases of employee abuse it's up to the employees to complain to a higher authority to get better treatment at work. However, [=SpongeBob=] loves his job too much to realize he's being taken advantage of and Squidward only went on strike once with [=SpongeBob=] but nothing came out of it because [=SpongeBob=] destroyed the Krusty Krab. Otherwise, Squidward just complains but doesn't actually do anything.
** I think it was specifically a Fry Cook Union, which makes no sense considering The Krusty Krab and the Chum Bucket seem to be the only fast food restaurants in Bikini Bottom. [=SpongeBob=]'s the only fry cook at The Krusty Krab and all the food at the Chum Bucket is produced by machines. So if there was a union, wouldn't it basically be [=SpongeBob=]? Even if there were multiple fast food places in the city, why would Krabs allow his restaurant to unionize? [=SpongeBob=] would work 24/7 for free and the other union members would likely kick [=SpongeBob=] out for being so annoying.
*** Actually, there have been other restaurants shown or mentioned, but never in detail (that fancy restaurant, those restaurants that keep on stealing [=SpongeBob=] from one another in that one episode). It's likely that either [=SpongeBob=] isn't a member of the union, or Mr Krabs used to have working conditions that were so bad that they make the ones his employees currently have generous by comparison.

*** Who might be a guy dressed up.

*** He also would have ruined the plot and we'd have an much shorter, less funny episode.

** That's just the name of the restaurant. They don't actually serve chum. Maybe the misleading name is why Plankton doesn't get customers?
*** Actually several later episodes have shown that he DOES serve chum. In fact the episode that described why Plankton and Krabs have a rivalry they both got part of the recipe, Plankton's part just said chum, so it stands to reason that's all he cooks.

** That was a post-movie episode. Mr. Krabs has been [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderized]] into an unlikeable DesignatedHero {{Jerkass}} who would go through so much hell to get money that he'll abuse his employees and leave his own business in jeopardy. Not to mention that episode was written by Casey Alexander and Zeus Cervas, two of the most disliked writers of [=SpongeBob=] by many fans of the show.

** Mr. Krabs didn't steal the ingredient intending to frame [=SpongeBob=] (he probably thought Plankton would get the blame, which he did at first.) He only shifted the blame towards his fry-cook when [=SpongeBob=] was almost onto him as the actual thief; [=SpongeBob=] described aloud who the thief would have to be (at the Krusty Krab during delivery, would had to know about the delivery, and would have to know what to do with the ingredient) and Krabs realized that he and [=SpongeBob=] were the only two people who fit that description. By that point he was more interested in not being arrested and wasn't thinking about needing [=SpongeBob=] to cook the burgers.

** Easy marketing to raise awareness. Why bother post a long name like "Have You Seen This Snail?" instead of something sweet and to the point, like "Where's Gary"? It makes the plot somewhat understandable at the beginning so people can expect what's happening.
** The longer titles are the names of the actual episode, the shorter titles are the name for the special (i.e. the episode and all the fanfare surrounding it. Like "You Wish" and "Shanghaied".

** Add to that, how has the Chum Bucket kept open with ''literally'' ZERO customers and no profit for the near half a decade it has been running? The only woes Plankton seems to suffer from this are boredom and depression.

* This is something that has been bugging me for a while. Why does [=SpongeBob=] have to outshine everybody? For example, in the episode "The Two Faces of Squidward", Squidward becomes nice and kind after being electrocuted and as the episode goes on, [=SpongeBob=] becomes jealous because Squidward becomes employee of the month and is (possibly) a better fry cook. [=SpongeBob=] has been Employee of the Month EVERY month since he's been working there. He's the best fry cook in the whole city and, in this troper's opinion, Mr. Krabs was probably just being nice when he said Squidward might be a better fry cook than him (and didn't mean to upset [=SpongeBob=]). Seriously, why does [=SpongeBob=] feel he has to be the best at everything?

*** Why should their hair be the same colour as the rest of them? Do Caucasian humans have beige hair?

*** Considering some of controversy with that, it's possible that writers more or less phased that out.

* Why is there a different Neptune in the movie? It isn't like they couldn't get John O'Hurley, and even if they couldn't, it still doesn't explain the design change. And in the later episode ''The Clash of Triton'', you see Neptune's entire family, and Princess Mindy is never shown. If the movie takes place after the series, you'd at least expect them to try to fix the discrepancies between the two.
** Well, [[WordOfGod the movie will take place after the series, no matter how long the show runs]], which means that there could be a dynasty of gods. Also, in "Krusty Towers", when Squidward wants to redecorate this room, he mentions something along the lines of a potrait of King Neptune VII, meaning there's multiple Neptunes.

* Why didn't Squidward notice that there is a gorilla just sitting around his house in "I Had An Accident"? Instead he was watering his plants nonchalantly.

** I think this comes from the fact that he was already irritated and, a good chunk of the time when people are already irritated, they upset over something trivial.

** The show doesn't really have canon. The Christmas episode could have happened before.
** iirc "Christmas Who" was itself supposed to be a flashback to the time when the Bikini Bottomites first learned about Christmas, so it could even be that it takes place before the series proper.

* So in "The Camping Episode", what were a sea-bear and sea-rhinoceros even doing in Spongebob, Squidward, and Patrick's neighborhood?

* A few problems with "Big Sister Sam". First, HOW COULD PATRICK REUNITE WITH SOMEONE HE HASN'T HEARD FROM FOR YEARS? Did he just see Sam on the street with no words and both signaled that they should meet up? Second, since Squidward's house was thrown by Sam to the right, why didn't the house hit [=SpongeBob=]'s as well? We clearly see his house also destroyed later in the episode and, if they wanted the plot to stay the same, the house could have been thrown towards the street. Finally, how is [=SpongeBob=] still happy and compassionate to Sam at the end of the episode even though she obliterated his house? Has the NegativeContinuity of the show gotten to a point where things that happened a few seconds ago are forgotten?

** People reunite with estranged relatives and friends all the time. Maybe Patrick went on the underwater equivalent of the Jeremy Kyle Show or something, who knows.

* In "Sentimental Sponge", the sanitation police show up when [=SpongeBob=] refuses to throw away his trash. You're telling me that a town of 528 [[strike:people]] [[strike:fish]] sea creatures has its own police squad for cleanliness? RuleOfFunny may apply, but its a bit of a stretch.
** Have you ''seen'' how seriously they take littering? A sanitation police seems right up their alley.

** Because they want to ride it to see what it's like but either don't have boyfriends, or have boyfriends who just aren't there.

* It has been bugging me for some time now about the ending of "Someone's in the Kitchen With Sandy". She got arrested for public nudity. First of all, most fish you see on the show are naked. Squidward has been naked (wait, nevermind, he got a ticket for that once), Patrick and [=SpongeBob=] have been naked, and I mean completely naked. A lot of girl fish wear only their underwear. So how is it that Sandy gets arrested for public nudity if she was only in her underwear, while most fish and most main characters get complelety naked and don't get arrested?

*** Simply so she'd be mocked by the townpeople (so they wouldn't help her) and later arrested for said "public nudity." It's also possible her suit stunk as well from the fur.
** Besides the FurIsClothing, there's a also a case of GRatedNudity.

*** It was built in the movie. It was never shown in any episodes. There was an episode about making a Krusty Krab commercial that had the Krusty Krab's "under study" but that was way before the movie and was really just a quick gag.

** Yes, they are superheroes. It has been shown that they possess highly advanced gadgets and machines, including a shrink ray, an invisible car, and a literal IdiotBall. They also can summon fish to help them (think Aquaman, but with old fish) and can [[KillItWithWater create balls of water to throw at evildoers]].
** I assume they're former "heroes" who did some kind of good public service (policemen, firemen, etc.) who then took up a role as a superhero in the public eye. Of course, now they're old and senile.

* In the episode "The Krabby Kronicle", is it me or did everybody who read the Krusty Krab's newspaper believe every single word? And for that matter, why would scientists try to confiscate Sandy's science awards if she won them all fairly?

** Well, I'm guessing 1) They were too lazy to make new footage of jellyfish flying, 2) Season one used hand-paited cels, whereas afterwards, they use the more modern digital ink process.

* The episode where the jellyfish are attracted to [=SpongeBob=]'s holes when the wind goes through them and it makes music he hides in a cave and decides to make a stone [=SpongeBob=] to talk to. After he realizes that the jellyfish are attracted to the stone [=SpongeBob=], he tries to leave it there so the jellyfish swarm around it and he can leave. But the stone [=SpongeBob=] sounds awful. He decides to make another in a different size, but he's not sure what size would work so he decides he has to make a bunch of them. There's my problem. He makes a bunch of them, but they're all the same size which defeats the purpose of making a bunch.
** He needed to figure out how to carve the rocks so it would produce the same noise he makes. Thus, he makes a bunch of them.

* What is the Krusty Krab considered? At times it's a popular and respected local place, or a restaurant well-known throughout the sea.. But at other times it's a poorly received place.
** It really depends on the episode. There were episodes when Squidward was forced to take over for [=SpongeBob=]'s position and we all know Squidward can't cook Krabby Patties. There are also times when [=SpongeBob=] really messes up and then everyone leaves. Or basically, it's a RuleOfFunny. And let's not forget how the resturaunt can be dirty at times.

** He probably ate his lunch, or something. Remember, he's in the Krusty Krab. And it was supposed to be a false lead-in to make you think he DID eat the pie.

*** He couldn't have. Remember how one tiny piece of the pie was enough to blow out the entirety of Mr. Krabs' office.

*** Maybe making fruit tarts was part of his friendship list?

* In "Big Pink Loser", three people call the Krusty Krab and ask IF it's the Krusty Krab. Why? Why would people call a place and then ASK if it's that place? It's confusing....
** Making sure you've got the right number? Phone numbers do occasionaly change after all.

** They audition together but have to perform seperately? And we actually don't know if their dance was a limbo; it could have been something else.

* How come Pearl always hangs out with those so called "friends" of hers on the episode "Whale Of A Birthday," when they constantly belittle her? And what gave them the right to act like party inspectors for her party?

** Maybe she was very lonely for a number of years until she met her pals and that could be why she doesn't consider ditching them. Plus, high school is often seen as a "popularity contest" of sorts.

* So Krabs took the secret ingredient to the secret formula in "The Patty Caper". '''How?''' Did he just jump on the truck unnoticed? And how did the S.W.A.T. team or security team or whatever it was not notice that the suitcase was empty?!

** None of the characters really have a clear-cut age. Sure, [=SpongeBob=] is ''officially'' twenty-three, but numerous episodes point to him being much older (hundreds of 'Employee of the Month' awards, his countless failed driving tests etc.), and he also behaves much like a hyper five-year-old. But I'd ''guess'' that he's about late 30s/early 40s. As for dentures... maybe he played the clarinet in such a way that broke his teeth? Who knows...

** Squidward remembered how happy he was before [=SpongeBob=] started working there, however, he probably didn't remember that frycook's name.

** [=SpongeBob=] has never really had a set level for how good he is at karate. Even in the older episodes it seemed to switch between Sandy beating him every time with little effort to him always beating Sandy. So it seems to just be following the old tradition of using whatever fits the episode.
** Many of [=SpongeBob=]'s secondary attributes [[DependingOnTheWriter vary by episode]]. One day he's struggles to lift two marshmallows on a stick, and the next he can rip a mailbox off its hinges with ease.

** Eleventy Seventh IS NOT 117th. In a TV Guide article about Truth or Square, someone (I forget who) said that they chose Eleventy Seventh because it's a timeless number, that way they can show the episode every year. Of course this is undermined by the Chum Bucket celebrating 50 years and Patchy the Pirate outright stating that it's [=SpongeBob=]'s 10th anniversary.

* What's the deal with Old Man Jenkins? In several episodes in which he makes an appearance, he looks COMPLETELY different. In the episode "Sailor Mouth" (the cursing episode), Jenkins is portrayed as a short old man, with a green-ish color, with rounded glasses and what appear to be liver spots on his head. This look stayed constant through many of his appearances. However, there are a few other looks Jenkins displays throughout the series. In the episode "My Pretty Seahorse", Jenkins is eaten by Sponge Bob's seahorse Mystery. He is spit out a few scenes later, and the result is a short, blue fish, with circular glasses not much unlike his first iteration. He is also wearing clothes akin to [=SpongeBob=]'s, but rounded a bit to fit his body, unlike the white shirt from his first look. Later, in the 'Lost Episode', Jenkins is shown shaped akin to the many generic fish, but extremely old looking, almost wilted. He also doesn't have glasses with this look, and takes on a completely different personality: he is a farmer, who becomes Cannonball Jenkins after [=SpongeBob=] angers him by destroying his grain silo. He later appears similarly to this incarnation in the episode "The Main Drain", in which he gets shorter, becomes green, and has a grey beard. his attire is similar to his farmer Jenkins look, minus the straw hat. Not to mention the fact that in his speaking roles, his voice seems to change often. Is all of this ever explained? I know the show has a ridiculously convoluted continuity, but this might be pushing it. The only explanation I can come up with is multiple people named Old Man Jenkins.

** In the show's early seasons, many characters went by Jenkins, but two important supporting characters both went by the nickame "Old Man Jenkins". These characters have since been separated into "[[https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/File:Jenkins_(2).png Old Man Jenkins]]" and "[[https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/File:Incidental_83_Character_Model.jpg Old Man Walker]]".

* HOW is it that [=SpongeBob=] showed he was boneless in Squirrel Jokes, but in other episodes he has bones, ( skull, spine, etc. )

** He's a sponge, his bones are more malleable than a veterbrate's.

* This may or may not have been discussed already, but I'm watching "Whatever Happened to [=SpongeBob=]?" at the moment, and I wonder: [=SpongeBob=] left a year's supply of snail food for Gary, right? If it was that long, wouldn't ''someone'' (most likely at the Krusty Krab) have known that [=SpongeBob=] was missing and gone looking for him? Or did Gary just eat that huge supply incredibly quickly?

* In the episode where [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick (and Squidward before we went down the "Fly of Dispair") become the Flying Dutchman's crew, after [=SpongeBob=] tells Squidward that they get three wishes, and that Patrick used the first and he used the second (to get Squidward there) Squidward tells [=SpongeBob=] to wish for something to make it so they don't get eaten. How does Squidward know they're about to get eaten? He got there after they talked about it and no one mentioned it to him.

* How come the con artist in "Chocolate With Nuts" [[KarmaHoudini gets away all the things he did?]]

** All he did was lie about his personal circumstances in order to sell legitimate products to them. [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick lie about the products themselves and manage to come out on top.

** Considering that the old (i.e, pre-movie) episode "Just One Bite" had Squidward being unable to stop eating Krabby patties after only trying one as it's entire plot, I think it's fairly safe to say that the customers of the KK enjoy the good burgers and ignore the not-so-good everything else.

** In fact one time he ''did'' get a restraining order against [=SpongeBob=], which worked out about as well as you'd think it would. Of course Patrick wants in on the fun as well.
*** Restraining orders can only work if both sides follow it. Besides living next door, Sponebob and Squidward work at the same place, so, a restraining order wouldn't work as they'd need to communicate with one another to do their jobs, as it'd be void.

* Something that got me while I was overhearing an episode of [=SpongeBob=] from my niece's room: Why doesn't Plankton use his other talents to acquire business? He's a robotic and engineering genius, and he has created AI so sophisticated that it could actually be considered sentient. Why doesn't he just sell his robots and all the products of his mad genius to the Bikini Bottom military and other top buyers, rather than using them to try and steal a secret formula for fast food in a run-down, middle-of-nowhere hellhole of a restaurant in increasingly-cartoonish plots? Hell, if it's just about beating Krabs, he could ''buy'' the Krabby Patty secret formula from the greedy bastard and then perfect it for his own restaurant, putting Krabs out of business for good. He could even humiliate Krabs further by hiring Squidward and maybe even [=SpongeBob=] (who would undoubtedly lose respect for Krabs due to the latter's lack of integrity) at triple the wages they were normally getting working under Krabs, then he could maybe even hire Krabs in a false gesture of pity and put him to work cleaning toilets or something. Shit, man. It would be so easy. Why hasn't he done this?

** There's been a few episodes where he's had to deliver the food to a table. I would imagine that he dresses formally just in case, since I don't think it would look good on the Krusty Krab if someone in a dirty fry cook's uniform was in charge of bringing orders to tables. A better question would be why [=SpongeBob=] doesn't wear an apron.

** As before, RuleOfFunny. [=SpongeBob=] has no trouble at all yanking his arms off, right up to the minute he NEEDS to do so. Then of course he totally forgets how during his sufferings.

** It could be meant to mean something along the lines of "There are seven words that should never be spoken. Well, technically, there's thirteen but only sailors know words #8-13. Same way as a little child might know 'fuck', 'shit' or 'damn' but probably not a lot of racist slurs but adults tend to know lots of those type of swears, even if they don't use them. Of course, you do warn kids those are bad words but why would you say ... teach your child Mandarin swear words, if they're not likely to come across them? "There's this word. Don't say it." Why not y'know just not teach me the word in the first place? I'm sure naval brats are taught about "The Thirteen Words That Should Never Be Spoken". Make sense?
** The words may be numbered different for Sailors and Non-Sailors. [=SpongeBob=] says the word that's #11 for sailors. The extra ones either change meaning around sailors, or the only way to learn the word and meaning is word-of-mouth.

** Actually the SetBehindTheScenes for Atlantis Squarepantis shows that its just a hole cut into the painting where the mouth's supposed to be.

** How could Santa even get fooled by the robot and think it was [=SpongeBob=] when the real [=SpongeBob=] was right next to him!
*** My best guess would be RuleOfFunny, even though its not that funny.
** That was said in song, I doubt that was meant to be taken literally, also Santa has to deliver to BILLIONS of people (and fishes apparently), if he had an eye on everyone, it's probably not at once.
*** Santa is either retarted or was asleep when Plankton was sleeping

** And no doubt Mr. Krabs would have tripled the price or ask for a major cut of the profits once he understood what was going on.

* In TheMovie, what was the point of opening a second Krusty Krab right next to the original? It would make a lot more sense if it were placed in a much different location in Bikini Bottom or in a different town or something, since having the same restaurant be close to one another wouldn't be too convenient if one lives somewhere else.
** RuleOfFunny, and Mr. Krabs was asked about it and he said he did it for the money. I doubt that he thought about ''where'' he was going to put it.

** My personal theory is that Mr. Krabs remembered the events of the show's pilot, ''Help Wanted'' -- where the restaurant got flooded by hungry anchovies when deciding where to put the restaurant. He figured that if another event like that happened, if he placed it somewhere else, any hungry customers he couldn't serve would likely take their business (and their money) elsewhere if they had to drive far enough away, whereas if they only had to walk next door, they'd likely just go to the other Krusty Krab.

** In another episode, "Someone's in the kitchen with Sandy",the cops and the other people mocked her and even arrested her because she had didn't have fur.

*** As anyone with a dog or cat can tell you, fur or feathers making it easier for fleas to breed or hide but they don't ''need'' said fur or feathers to feed on their hosts, so shaving probably wouldn't help either way. Flooding her treedome would probably be more effective, as she's treating the environment, not just her fur/skin.

** Well... this particular pineapple was hollowed out and filled with water. Plus there are glass windows with metal rings around them. Not to mention all the fishing lures, picture frames, bathroom and kitchen stuff (which are presumably quite heavy). It all adds up and so we'll just say it makes the pineapple dense enough to stay at the bottom of the sea. For the record, this troper saw the episode that showed how he got his house (Truth Or Square, I believe) so... We could also just say WaterIsAir, a theme of the show, since an ordinary pencil fell to Bikini Bottom the same way.

** That and art supplies can get pretty expensive and success mostly depends on whether or not one is hired by a larger company or works independently. Likewise, Squidward is shown to be an artist but, for some odd reason, no one likes his paintings and the fact that some might not buy them, so he has to be work as a cashier.
*** ICR the name of the episodes but there were two episode where he tried to do other jobs but wound up making krabby patties. Two, while he is better at art than Squidward, art might not be his passion. It's hard to walk away from something if you've been doing it for awhile.

** It said "We shall not deny a guest even the most ridiculous request". It didn't say that they wouldn't do so at a higher than normal price.

** Sponges can live for up to 15, 000 years, so twenty something is still quite young for him.

** He probably figured that Mr Krabs would insist he take more time off if he went straight to the hospital as opposed to just going home after showing up sick.

* In "The Chaperone," Pearl's junior prom date dumped her, so Mr Krabs suggest that she let [=SpongeBob=] take her to the prom. Pearl is reluctant to agree, but only because [=SpongeBob=] is.... well.... a dork. But Pearl is 16 in the episode, and [=SpongeBob=] is later implied to be in his twenties. Isn't it a little weird for a grown adult to be the prom date of a sixteen-year-old girl?

* Why does [=SpongeBob=]'s karate garb include protective head gear if he's a sponge?

* Why does [=SpongeBob=] have so much respect and admiration for Squidward even though Squidward treats him like garbage a great majority of the time? I get that [=SpongeBob=] is a NiceGuy who has a kind word for everyone, but Squidward is so EasilyForgiven, and we haven't seen an episode where Squidward has gone too far for Sponge to tell him off and ''not'' forgive him for a while. He's even told off Mr Krabs! But not Squidward. Is there some reason why he's so quick to forgive the guy who berates him and verbally abuses him constantly?
** Perhaps [=SpongeBob=] is aware of how awful Squidward's life is (though he generally doesn't understand he is the main cause of it), thus making his constant grouchiness and outbursts justified and tries as hard as he can to keep Squidward happy?

* If Mr Krabs apparently knew what the suds were, why did he just send [=SpongeBob=] home? Why didn't he call him a cab and send him to the hospital, given what the treatment involves?
** Maybe he was afraid he would have to pay the bill at first...Like, workman's comp, or something? But then [=SpongeBob=] gets in an argument with Sandy and Patrick and his disease ends up destroying the Krusty Krab -- you can tell in that scene that Mr. Krabs is angry, and moneygrubber or no, he still does care about [=SpongeBob=] and seems to want what's best for him.
** Business standpoint in the sense of, while he cares for [=SpongeBob=], it wouldn't make a lot of sense (along with that not being a good use of his time) to call for a taxi to take [=SpongeBob=] home or a hospital, especially when [=SpongeBob=] shouldn't have come to work in the first place, along with the fact that Krabs is tightwad
** It's likely that he knew that while the Suds would take [=SpongeBob=] away from work for a few days, it wasn't a serious condition, and the fact that he's a tightwad likely explains why he didn't just call a taxi. A better question would be why he didn't drive [=SpongeBob=] there himself, since he is shown to own a car at several points.

* If [=SpongeBob=] is incapable of driving a boat, but he can drive a rock and a sandwich and anything else.... why does he not just find a rock or a giant sandwich to drive?! Why does the kid even needs to be in boating school if he can drive other things?

** The character who refers to [=SpongeBob=] as "boy" most often is probably Mr. Krabs, and [[TruthInTelevision that's just a thing that older people in general do, even to people who are legal adults.]] A good example is professional sports, where retired players will often refer to twenty-something players as "kid" or "young man." Even in [[ProfessionalWrestling pro wrestling]] (no idea how we went from [=SpongeBob=] to Wrestling/{{WWE}}), Wrestling/JimRoss referred to Wrestling/ShawnMichaels as a "young man" until the day Michaels retired... at the age of 44.

** It looks like he just put heavier clothes on top of what he normally wears. He either may not have had the energy to actually change out of his shorts, or he might have been hesitant to do so, since that would necessitate removing his shoes, which he pretty much never does (likely because he doesn't know how to tie them). It's a stretch, but hey, it's worth somethin'.
** In ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie'' (which, if I recall correctly, takes place after said episode), he's shown to only have a bunch of the same outfit in his closet. While we can assume that he might have clothes for other seasons put away, he doesn't.

** A snail's tongue is apparently the roughest thing in creation and is covered with thousands of very small teeth (so as to deal with vegetation). something Gary's size in a typical room might well ''really'' muck up the furniture?

And on top of all that, she had the nerve to say, at the end of the episode, "If y'all wanted water, ya shoulda asked!", despite the fact that [=SpongeBob=] DID ask for water at one point, at which point she ignored him to go and put her flowers in a vase. [[SarcasmMode Yeah, Sandy. He totally should have asked for water.]] '''''Did you go deaf or something?'''''

** Moreover, why would he want to die if the whole reason he's freaking out is because he doesn't want Pearl to kill him?

* How do [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick's water helmets protect their entire bodies from dry air? Shouldn't their arms and legs wither away from dehydration? Also, how can they survive without their water helmets in snow (episode "Survival of the Idiots")? Yes, snow is technically water, but snow on land isn't the same as water the ocean; there's no air in the ocean, whereas there's still a lot more air than snow in Sandy's treedome. Plus, when they go up in Sandy's tree, there's no snow or water, and they suffer no ill effects.
** ArtisticLicenseBiology but they're "breathing" the water in, so it may cycle through their systems hydrating the rest of themselves from the inside. As for the rest of it, [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick don't actually ''need'' to breathe the water to stay hydrated--there's multiple times in the series when they've been just fine for a while above-water (presumably as long as it's not hot and dry out.) The whole thing with the snow was that they can remain hydrated since they're surrounded by wetness (and the Dirty Dan fight would probably have been difficult to do if they were wearing helmets) and they weren't up in Sandy's tree for very long.

** [=SpongeBob=] didn't always work for the Krusty Krab, so it's likely that Plankton was throwing card games from before then. As for the first dime, Krabs is very greedy. He'd likely take any form of money as long as it's valid somewhere.

** It might not be a profanity necessarily (as in something that a child would be scolded for saying), but more of a less-harmless exclamation. It's also used as a sort of euphemism that seems to equivalent to how we use "bugger" or "bastard" (although not as profane as the latter)-- Mr. Krabs often calls [=SpongeBob=] "Ya little barnacle." It still doesn't really make "Barnacle Boy" any more logical, but... maybe it has ''another'' meaning that we don't know of? Maybe actual barnacles are known for being tough or whatever.

* The ending of "Are You Happy Now?". Squidward goes insane, and all [=SpongeBob=] does is sigh dreamily and say "He's so handsome." O...'Kay? What was this supposed to imply? It came out of nowhere. Does this mean that [=SpongeBob=] only wanted to fix Squidward's depression (and for some reason assumed that hundreds of paper mache versions of ''himself'' would do it) because he wants to [[HoYay bang him]]? It brings a completely new (and unsettling) dimension to the episode.

** I believe a part of Squidward secretly likes working as the Krusty Krab, in the same vein he likes [=SpongeBob=] as his neighbor. So long as he gets his paycheck, he's cool with putting up with whatever goes on there. Plus, it seems Mr. Krabs may have reneged on the whole "Open 24 hours" deal after that episode, as it's never shown open at night in any others. And as for "forcing his employees to pay HIM", it was a joke from ''one episode'', people. Learn to get it go.
** He'd also need [=SpongeBob=] to back him up on those claims, since if he made them himself, Mr Krabs could claim he's lying -- and since [=SpongeBob=] loves to work there, that's not going to happen.

* So the whole joke with Patrick is that he's so stupid because RealLife sea stars don't have any brains, right? Well, if that's the case, then how come [=SpongeBob=] isn't as stupid as Patrick, seeing as real life sponges don't even have any ''respiratory system'', much less an actual brain?

** The show anthropomorphizes all kinds of lower life forms, so a pepper isn't out of the realm of possibility. Furthermore, it's done in live action like other surface dwelling creatures.

* In "One Course Meal" Mr. Krabs got some major backlash from fans for how he tormented Plankton and drove him to suicide but has anyone forgotten that Plankton framed Mr. Krabs for stealing Neptune's Crown, resulting in him getting frozen for days, toke sadistic glee in taking the Krabby Patty Formula right before his eyes literally resulting in him shedding a tear, brainwashed everyone in Bikini Bottom making them his mindless slaves, treated his (almost) untimely death at the hands of Neptune by fire as he begged for his life like entertainment and tried to KILL [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick after they returned with the crown and that's only a list of the terrible things he's done in the movie? Mr. Krabs forcing him to suicide after he attacked his restaurant is worst then all those atrocities and seasons worth of more?
** The main difference between Plankton and Mr. Krabs is that the latter has always been established as a villain, even if he's [[StupidEvil utterly incompetent]]. Mr. Krabs is supposed to be a one of the [[DesignatedHero 'heroes']] of the show, so to speak, and in the earlier episodes, he was fairly reasonable with his greed being a flaw more than his {{Flanderization}} defining trait. The problem, as a result, is that the writers intended for the audience to forgive [[DesignatedHero Mr. Krabs ]] while Plankton ultimately got punished in the end of the movie. [=SpongeBob=] was a false hope in this episode; seeming to empathize with Plankton with Mr. Krabs's fake fear of mimes. [=SpongeBob=] being the audience's main insight on the series, as such, was the writer's way of telling us ['You should support these actions'

** For the sake of plot?

** [=SpongeBob=] is, by nature, kind of a spineless doormat, both in pre-movie (Walking Small) and post-movie (Treats!) episodes. It's a reoccurring character flaw that's been established in multiple episodes. He's overly nice and he lets people take advantage of him. "You just let people step all over you! You're just like stairs!" to quote from Plankton in "Walking Small." [=SpongeBob=] didn't "evict" Squidward until he was so distressed and worn-out by the situation that he completely snapped altogether.

** The spasms were proably just a stitch. The wheezing noise... maybe it was because he was sad?

*** In the long run, it likely would earn him more money, but in the short run, it would be a loss, and as Mr. Krabs has demonstrated in episodes like Jellyfish Hunter, he doesn't exactly take the long run into consideration (as he likely would've made [=SpongeBob=] focus on increasing Jellyfish populations as opposed to capturing all the Jellyfish in the aforementioned episode).

* Come to think of if, I noticed in the episode "Money Talks" that Mr. Krabs doesn't like spending money. So why does he love money so much when he doesn't even want to spend it on anything?

*** His first dime was a giant rock, something he very likely knows he ''can't'' spend anywhere. It could be that he's a collector, and views each coin/bill as unique (plus, we never see customers paying with checks or credit/debt cards).

*** Mr. Krabs is also established to have grown up poor in a post-movie episode; it's not unreasonable that people who grow up poor and manage to find success later in life would be nervous of ever becoming poor again, leading them to hoard their money rather than spend it and just be happy to be rich.

-->'''Mr. Krabs:''' I can't spend all of you, 'cause none of you would spent on the stuff I want.

*** I'd imagine that he leaves that responsibility to Pearl, since she doesn't seem to have the same qualms he has about spending money.
** In "Krab Borg", he says that he actually does pay for essential items he needs such as a blender ($24.95), toaster ($32.50), a bigger blender ($62.67).
** He probably takes advantage of events that offer fresh refreshments such as in "Band Geeks" where he joined Squidward' band [[JustHereForTheFreeSnacks just for that perk]].

* But really though, did the customer from "Pizza Delivery" actually order his Diet Dr. Kelp to go along with his Krabby Patty pizza in the first place? Even though [=SpongeBob=] points out on his notebook that he didn't, in the customer's defense, in the case that he truly did, him berating the shit out of him and slamming the door on his face would be somewhat justified.
** You might recall that Mr. Krabs is the one who took the call. He may not have told [=SpongeBob=] that the customer wanted the Diet Dr. Kelp, so in a way, the berating and slamming is justified, but blame Mr. Krabs for not paying attention. And if you listen closely, the customer can still be heard talking after Krabs hangs up the phone, so it's possible that he DID order a drink.

** OP, you really think it's justified to act that way just because of a missing drink? Whether the guy ordered it or not, the point was that ''[=SpongeBob=]'' didn't know about it, so it was still wrong to get upset with him, especially to go so far as to say, "Didn't you ever ''once'' think of the customer?!" We're meant to see him as wrong because he immediately assumes the worst about what happened by jumping to the conclusion that Sponge just didn't care, when the entire episode leading up to that was demonstrating that that ''wasn't'' the case. That's why he was in the wrong.

** It was at night, and the Krusty Krab isn't exactly in the best of shape. It could be that there's lights on the outside that would normally illuminate the outer walls that weren't working properly, and they just so happened to make his nostrils glow red.

* In "Pizza Delivery", if [=SpongeBob=] sings that the Krusty Krab Pizza is for "you and me" (which is presumably reffering to Squidward and [=SpongeBob=] respectively), then how come he refuses to let Squidward take a slice from it later on when they get hungry and says it's for the customer all of the sudden?

** [=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 were helping him take to the air once more. He doesn't need inflated pants anymore when he has jellyfish friends.

* Does anyone have an reasonable explanation for the random apple chasing the teens in "The Chaperone?" (other than RuleOfFunny)

** [=SpongeBob=] is near panic, extremely twitchy and is pointing an industrial strength fire house with a spicy condiment at him and the imitation. Does this look like the kind of situation you can reason yourself out of? [=SpongeBob=] would just go "I'm asking the questions around here!" and shut him up. Especially since Mr Krabs has been shown to be less than eloquent under pressure.

*** Right, because someone as obsessed with the Krusty Krab as Plankton couldn't possibly know the restaurant's business hours and the prices of its food.

* In the episode "Feral Friends", how was Sandy unaffected by Neptune's Moon but WAS affected by Neptune's Sun? If you make the argument it only works for warmbloods/air-breathers, that does not excuse Pearl, who was affected by the former and not the latter? Does the Sun work for land animals if that's the case?

** It's possible that it's a vintage/antique vending machine. The dude loves his knick knacks and antiques, after all!

** Also, Squidward wanted to see the condition of the Krusty Krab in-person, back when "Squid's Day Off" aired we didn't have smartphones that came with [=FaceTime=] or video chat allowing you to see the person you're talking to.

** The police aren't terrified of him. If he strangle [=SpongeBob=] in public there's the possibility they'll see him and arrest him.

*** Except 1: He escaped the Cops pretty easily and apparently escapes them constantly, and 2: Only Morons would tattle on him at this point (like [=SpongeBob=]), so I don't think he would care much. I also don't think the Cops would think about drawing anything greater then Batons on anyone, even the Strangler, who apparently scares even the toughest of Fish in the sea...

** Maybe there are a few specialised ones in there?

** Or maybe Mr. Krabs did eat pizza before the episode began, kept the box and used that for the delivery to give to Squidward.

** In "Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost," Squidward has a comic book about the origins of the Flying Dutchman. Perhaps he read about the Flying Dutchman and the comic mentioned that the Dutchman eats people who displease him?

* Wouldn't Plankton's business do better if he relocated in a shark-heavy area?

* That episode where Patrick prepares his house for a visit from his parents really bugs me. If the couple that first came to visit Patrick were not only not his real parents, but also remembered that they had no son to begin with, how were they aware of Patrick's previous blunders? It also doesn't help that Patrick clearly doesn't know who these people are after their names are revealed.

*** It could be that they play out this same routine ''every year'', and then forget about it afterwards.

*** [=SpongeBob=] can re-grow body parts relatively quickly, depending on what kind of injuries he's sustained or what the plot demands, but that doesn't mean he likes being injured. He's extremely intolerant of any kind of pain (this is the guy who outright stated that he cried for 20 minutes after stubbing his toe,) and he gets scared easily. Just because he's a sponge and can re-grow body parts, doesn't mean that he wouldn't be traumatized and in agonizing pain if someone walked up to him and shot him in the face.

* Why does Barnicle Boy look like a human version of Squidward? Is there a reason for this, or is it coincidence? Their voices sound similar, and they are both deadpan snarkers.

* In "Truth or Square", Patchy is informed [=SpongeBob=] isn't coming to the tenth anniversery special. How come it never occurred to anyone to tell Patchy that he's not coming because [=SpongeBob=], oh, I don't know, '''DOESN'T EXIST?'''

* How does Squidward wear underpants when all he is shown to wear most of the time is a brown t-shirt.

---->'''Bob''': "That's ridiculous: what could kill you and requires soda to rectify? Much less specifically coca-cola!"

* One can understand where most of the misconstrued ideas about Texas were coming from in the party [=SpongeBob=] arranged for Sandy, but for "squaredancing", it seemed like all he had was Flats the Flounder holding a large square thing. How exactly does the "dancing" part fit into that?

** And as for why, maybe he didn't know what squaredancing was.

* In the episode "Survival of the Idiots," the conditions in Sandy's treedome are that of a terrestrial winter. Given that it's a fully enclosed ecosystem, why would she have it set up like this? Can she not hibernate otherwise? And for that matter, why exactly does she have to hibernate in the first place? Would not hibernating screw up her internal clock or something?

* 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 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?

* In "The Splinter", when Mr. Krabs pulled out [=SpongeBob=]'s splinter, causing only confetti and pus to spray on Krabs, why didn't blood flow out on his splinter infected thumb? We see throughout the episode his splinter injured thumb is red and there's a red vein on his swollen thumb before Mr. Krabs pulls the splinter out, just close enough to cause blood to come out.

** Kenny the Cat appears to have a large fanbase, at least until he's exposed. Maybe the singer had heard of him, and thus knows what a cat is.

** He thought [=SpongeBob=] would reverse his annoying behaviour, but didn't think through what ''other'' behaviours he'd also reverse.

* Sure, it makes sense for most of the characters to be as small as they are, but waht about the Whale characters (not just Pearl, but adult whales as well), and also the Chimps and Kenny the Cat?

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* In "There Will Be Grease", Krabs and Plankton find some miracle all-purpose grease under their restaurants. A few days later, [=SpongeBob=] shows up, having used the grease for basically everything (feeding it to him and Gary, rubbing it on his body, brushing his teeth) and reporting that it worked great. At the end of the episode, though, everyone the grease was sold to demands their money back due to negative side effects. It's unclear how much time had passed, but it's effects that are noticeable and would have happened within a day at most. How come [=SpongeBob=] and Gary didn't have any negative side effects when they had been using it for a longer period of time?

* * 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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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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* So in Sailor Mouth, Krabs says there are 7 words you should never say, and also says it is 13 if you're a sailor. Given that the show treats sailors like how most media does {{pirate}}s, why do the sailors have more unspeakable words than normal folk? Shouldn't they have less?

** Correction: Scabies is a rash caused by by a skin mite (''sarcoptes scabiei'') and it's highly contagious. Other than that, yes, in the context of the joke, it's an STI, as that was an apology cake.

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** OP, you really think it's justified to act that way just because of a missing drink? Whether the guy ordered it or not, the point was that ''Spongebob'' didn't know about it, so it was still wrong to get upset with him, especially to go so far as to say, "Didn't you ever ''once'' think of the customer?!" We're meant to see him as wrong because he immediately assumes the worst about what happened by jumping to the conclusion that Sponge just didn't care, when the entire episode leading up to that was demonstrating that that ''wasn't'' the case. That's why he was in the wrong.

* How did everyone believe SpongeBob's Anchor Arms were actually real? Couldn't have they seen the ad?

*** Actually, according to this [[https://bit.ly/3wvtRFh article]], they (or rather that species) can move, they just probably don't or do it enough on their own accords anyway (it seems like they ride the currents until they "root", usually). To answer the point about movement, with Spongebob, taking the info about sponges into effect, he probably could get enough current (I'm guessing the underwater version of wind) to get going, while Patrick, well, that part's been answered.

*** To add to this, Sandy's the only squirrel they actually see in Bikini Bottom and, since the Bikini Bottomites have only seen one squirrel, they'd be more likely to believe his jokes about her supposed stupidity and take them to heart, as, unlike Spongebob, they haven't had any one-on-one interaction with Sandy nor have they met any other squirrels (before or after) to know otherwise.

** Except "Spongebob, You're Fired" blatantly shows Mr. Krabs is a terrible fry cook. It's even implied he asked Squidward to find [=SpongeBob=] to beg him to come back.

* 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.
*** So what if Spongebob HAD understood what striking meant? Would he STILL have gone along with it?

*** This headscratcher calls to mind a conversation I had with my teachers in HS biology class where we did a Spongebob themed activity relating to genetics, specifically determining if his respective offspring would be square or round and I asked if my teachers have seen the show, pointing this out. Thinking back on it, in the case of the show, we haven't seen enough of his relatives, much less know which sides of the family they came from to know for sure if squareness recessive or not, though from the relatives we do see that're square, it's possibly recessive. Meta-wise, in terms of why he's square, well, when people hear "sponge", they mostly think about the kitchen sponges, so Hillenburg probably made him more recognizable that way.

** In "Spongebob Roundpants", it's revealed that if he changes his wardrobe, chaos ensues because he doesn't live up to his name.

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** Especially since the house is right around the corner from the Krusty Krab, so if he REALLY wanted his drink he could have asked for him to go get it. [[FridgeBrilliance Then again, SpongeBob and Squidward DID take a really long time to get just the pizza to him, so he might have been cranky about that too.]]

* 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?

** Correction: Scabies is a rash caused by by a skin mite (''sarcoptes scabiei'') and it's highly contagious. Other than that, yes, in the context of the joke, it's an STI, as that was an appology cake.

*** As anyone with a dog or cat can tell you, fur or feathers making it easier for fleas to breed or hide but they don't ''need'' said fur or feathers to feed on their hosts, so shaving probably wouldn't help either way. Flooding her treedome would probably be more effective, as she's treating the enviroment, not just her fur/skin.

*** ICR the name of the episode but there were two episode where he tried to do other jobs but wound up making krabby patties. Two, while he is better at art than Squidward, art might not be his passion.