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* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': Played with at "Procrastination", Spongebob is tasked with writing an 800-word essay on what not to do at a stoplight. After stalling until the last minute, he realizes he can just start listing everything he did up to that point... which technically ''is'' on-topic, because the assignment was so ridiculously open-ending.

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* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': Played with at in "Procrastination", where Spongebob is tasked with writing an 800-word essay on what not to do at a stoplight. After stalling until the last minute, he realizes he can just start listing everything he did up to that point... which technically ''is'' on-topic, because the assignment was so ridiculously open-ending.open-ended.
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* DoubleSubverted in ''WesternAnimation/TheWeekenders'': Lor has an assignment with a long page-minimum ''and'' a specified font size. However, Carver points out no ''paper'' size was specified.
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SpongeBob wasn't padding, he was wasting time on something that would NOT increase the word count.


* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "Procrastination", Spongebob is tasked with writing an 800-word essay on what not to do at a stoplight. A montage shows him ardently scribbling on a piece of paper and satisfiedly dropping a steaming pencil... only for the following shot to reveal that [[UnimpressiveProgressReveal he has only written the word "the"]], in a [[https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/Procrastination/gallery?file=Procrastination_106.png ridiculously large and stylized font.]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In Played with at "Procrastination", Spongebob is tasked with writing an 800-word essay on what not to do at a stoplight. A montage shows him ardently scribbling on a piece of paper and satisfiedly dropping a steaming pencil... only for After stalling until the following shot last minute, he realizes he can just start listing everything he did up to reveal that [[UnimpressiveProgressReveal he has only written point... which technically ''is'' on-topic, because the word "the"]], in a [[https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/Procrastination/gallery?file=Procrastination_106.png assignment was so ridiculously large and stylized font.]]open-ending.
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** Rachel mentions doing this in an early story, turning four pages' worth of material on the Salem witch burnings into five pages by messing with fonts and margins.
** Marco wrote a three-page paper "[[SelfDemonstratingArticle on the topic of how to write a thousand words and say nothing. Zero. Nada. Squat.]]" Then Jake suggests "[[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness the use of rhetoric to obscure a lack of content]]." It gets him a B.

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** In ''The Reaction'', Rachel mentions doing this in an early story, turning stretching four pages' worth of material on the Salem witch burnings content for a school paper into five pages by messing with fonts and margins.
margins and hoping the teacher doesn't notice anything's off.
** Marco wrote writes a three-page paper "[[SelfDemonstratingArticle on the topic of how to write a thousand words and say nothing. Zero. Nada. Squat.]]" ]]". Then Jake suggests "[[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness the use of rhetoric to obscure a lack of content]]." content]]". It gets him a B.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "Procrastination", Spongebob is tasked with writing an 800-word essay on what not to do at a stoplight. A montage shows him ardently scribbling on a piece of paper and satisfiedly dropping a steaming pencil... only for the following shot to reveal that he has only written the word "the", in a [[https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/Procrastination/gallery?file=Procrastination_106.png ridiculously large and stylized font.]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "Procrastination", Spongebob is tasked with writing an 800-word essay on what not to do at a stoplight. A montage shows him ardently scribbling on a piece of paper and satisfiedly dropping a steaming pencil... only for the following shot to reveal that [[UnimpressiveProgressReveal he has only written the word "the", "the"]], in a [[https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/Procrastination/gallery?file=Procrastination_106.png ridiculously large and stylized font.]]

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