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** A majority of episodes from Seasons 1-3, such as "Bubblestand", "Naughty Nautical Neighbors", "The Secret Box", and "Dumped", have the only background being Conch Street, with SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidward (sometimes Gary joining) being the only ones present.



* BrightnessShadows: creates shadows for explosions and bright lights, memorably when King Nemptune's bald head shown so brightly it blinded everyone around him.

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* BrightnessShadows: creates shadows for explosions and bright lights, memorably when King Nemptune's Neptune's bald head shown so brightly it blinded everyone around him.



---->''Later the same episode...''

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* AppleOfDiscord: The Patty Pal toy in "Yours, Mine and Mine". It causes [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick's feud for Patrick refusing to share it, kicking off the episode's conflict. It's so worse that even Mr. Krabs is upset at the two for letting a single toy nearly ruin their friendship.



** In "Scavenger Pants", [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick ask Mrs. Tentacles to adopt them so they become Squidward's brothers, completing the scavenger hunt; however, this cannot be possible in real life as A) they both already have living biological parents, and B), both of them are legal adults.

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** In "Scavenger Pants", [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick ask Mrs. Tentacles to adopt them so they become Squidward's brothers, completing the scavenger hunt; however, this cannot be possible in real life as A) they both already have living biological parents, parents under their care, and B), both of them are legal adults.
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** [=SpongeBob=] in "Pizza Delivery" when the customer who ordered the pizza asks where his drink is.
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* BackgroundMusic: One of the main aspects of the show is their unique use of background music. Unlike many other TV shows, ''[=SpongeBob=]'' mostly takes music from different stock audio companies, including APM. Much of the background music focuses on the [[MoodMotif mood of the characters]] which makes the show's background music special.
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* BodyWipe:
** "Valentine's Day" when Patrick starts to rampage after thinking he didn't get a good valentine.
** "Texas": when Sandy is chasing [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick. While carrying a lasso she fills the screen with her foot.
** "Whelk Attack" where Mr. Krabs tries to give Krabby Patties to the whelks. He walks out the Krusty Krab with a plate full of Krabby Patties and walks towards the screen.
** "Bummer Vacation" with [=SpongeBob=] accusing Mr. Krabs of replacing him.
** "Squidward, the Unfriendly Ghost": When [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick about to clean Squidward's back room.
-->'''Patrick:''' "Oh, coming!"
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** [=SpongeBob=] in "Valentine's Day" when Sandy tells him to go to Plan B.
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* ComicalNapDrool:
** Patrick does this almost ''every'' time he's asleep, with the worst and most nausea-inducing instance being in "Home Sweet Pineapple", where he turns into a literal, overflowing ''hot spring'' of drool, and [=SpongeBob=] -- who is spending the night at his house after his pineapple home is destroyed by nematodes -- ends up absorbing all of the saliva coming out of Patrick's mouth.
** Sandy is also prone to this, with the two prime examples being during her hibernation in "Survival of the Idiots" and once she's sleeping at the end of "Prehibernation Week".
** Even [=SpongeBob=] himself drools in his sleep every once in a while. At the beginning of "I Was a Teenage Gary", he drools while asleep in his chair, and in "Welcome to the Chum Bucket", he falls asleep in the middle of Plankton’s story and drools right on the latter's head.
** In the episode "Pickles", Mr. Krabs falls asleep and drools during the long wait for [=SpongeBob=] to remember how to make a krabby patty.

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** Twice in "[=SpongeBob=] [=SquarePants=] vs. the Big One"; one by Patrick when the Big One eats his surfboard, and another by [=SpongeBob=] when JKL sacrifices himself to save Mr. Krabs' cash register.
** [=SpongeBob=] at the very end of "The Abrasive Side" when he sees [[HereWeGoAgain Grandma has the abrasive sponge]].



** "[=SpongeBob=]’s Big Birthday Blowout: [=SpongeBob=]’s birthday party ends up a being a disaster that leaves his house trashed, but [=SpongeBob=] is glad of his friends’ efforts and Patchy finally gets to meet [=SpongeBob=].
Also, everyone sings his theme song.

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** "[=SpongeBob=]’s Big Birthday Blowout: [=SpongeBob=]’s birthday party ends up a being a disaster that leaves his house trashed, but [=SpongeBob=] is glad of his friends’ efforts and Patchy finally gets to meet [=SpongeBob=].
[=SpongeBob=]. Also, everyone sings his theme song.



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* AccidentalGoodOutcome:
** In one comic, a cleaning product causes a lump of Gary's slime to turn into a slime man. While the citizens are at first angry that he gets slime everywhere, they become pleased once they realise it's beneficial in some ways (for instance, it fixes one fish's squeaky door and clears another one's skin).
** In "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS3E2ClubSpongeBobMyPrettySeahorse Club [=SpongeBob=]]]", a nearby plane is about to fall, so it jettisons some food and other things... which land near [=SpongeBob=], Patrick, and Squidward, who are lost in a jungle. [[JokeAndReceive And this was right after Squidward had said, "As if the solution to all their problems would fall right out of the sky!]]".
** In "Stuck in the Wringer", [=SpongeBob=] is trapped in a wringer, and his plight has been made worse by [[LethallyStupid Patrick squeezing permanent glue in it.]] [[Characters/SpongeBobSquarePantsPatrickStar Patrick Star]] ends up crying TearsOfRemorse, which land on the wringer and free [=SpongeBob=] from it.
** In "Ripped Pants", [[Characters/SpongeBobSquarePantsTitularCharacter SpongeBob SquarePants]] [[SplittingPants tears his pants]] (hence the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin episode's title]]) in front of a bunch of people, including Sandy. He's initially embarrassed by it until he sees how much it's made them all laugh, and he decides to keep amusing them with more jokes about torn pants.
** In "The Goobfather", [=SpongeBob=] is delivering an order to Bubble Bass when he trips on a loose nail. The food bounces off the table and splats into the ceiling fan, mixing it up into a smoothie-like substance. Bubble Bass likes it and Mr. Krabs decides to sell it as an official new food.
** In "The Sponge Who Could Fly", [=SpongeBob=]'s hair dryer gets in his pants while he's on the phone, causing them to inflate. He begins to float and he is overjoyed now that he's achieved his dream of flying.
** In one episode, [=SpongeBob=] accidentally slips on grease, leading to Mr. Krabs emptying the grease tank outside the [[LethalEatery Chum Bucket]], giving Plankton the idea of using the grease in his cooking.
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* BrightnessShadows: creates shadows for explosions and bright lights, memorably when King Nemptune's bald head shown so brightly it blinded everyone around him.
--> '''Bystander Fish:''' ''[[MemeticMutation MY EYES!]]''
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* CorrectiveLecture: In the episode "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS2E18SailorMouthArtistUnknown Sailor Mouth]]," after [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick [[SwearWordPlot learn a swear word]] and start [[InnocentSwearing innocently cussing]] in front of everyone at the Krusty Krab, Mr. Krabs is not happy. When [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick explain that they had no idea that the word was bad, Mr. Krabs explains to them what bad words are, and tells them to never use that word again. Of course, they do it anyway.
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* AmbiguousRobots: Spongetron and Patron in "SB-129".
** [=SpongeBob=]'s pet clam, Shelley, was claimed to be a mechanical decoration by Paul Tibbit but is treated as a living pet whenever she is acknowledged.

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* CatchPhrase:CelebrityPower: The movie, with Creator/DavidHasselhoff.
* ChaosArchitecture: [=SpongeBob=]'s pineapple, Squidward's Easter Island home, and Patrick's rock are constantly subject to change depending on the episode. Patrick's rock is justified on account of Patrick making most of the furniture out of sand. The interior of the Krusty Krab is rather consistent, although the ''location'' of it is subject to change as well.
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* CelebrityPower: The movie, with Creator/DavidHasselhoff.
* ChaosArchitecture: [=SpongeBob=]'s pineapple, Squidward's Easter Island home, and Patrick's rock are constantly subject to change depending on the episode. Patrick's rock is justified on account of Patrick making most of the furniture out of sand. The interior of the Krusty Krab is rather consistent, although the ''location'' of it is subject to change as well.
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*CounterProductiveWarning: In the episode "Enemy In-Law", Plankton starts dating Mr. Krab's mother, which Mr. Krabs disapproves of. He goes to confront Plankton and tell him that he will never get the Krabby Patty formula from her since he is not family. Turns out that not only was Plankton dating Krab's mother out of actual interest, but he didn't even know she knew the formula. So from that moment he actually focuses on marrying her so she will tell him the formula.
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* CrazyWorkplace: The Krusty Krab only has two employees plus their boss, yet these three characters are enough to make the place quite the interesting dining experience. The boss, Mr. Krabs, is as [[{{Greed}} Greedy]] as one can possibly be, and will do anything and everything just to get some cash, even if it involves harming his customers. The cashier, Squidward, is an ApatheticClerk who couldn't care less about his job or his life, which makes him act extremely rude to almost everyone that he serves. The cook, [=SpongeBob=], is a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who is not only really good at his job but is overly passionate about it. Together, these three will always guarantee that [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity Will Ensue]] whenever the Krusty Krab is open.
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* AbsurdBrandName: The episode "Roller Cowards" has [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick attempt to [[BraveTheRidePlot gain enough guts to ride a new roller coaster at Glove World]]. Said coaster is called the Fiery Fist O' Pain, which the advertising of does not shy away from how much it lives up to its name:
-->'''TV Announcer''': It's ''big!'' It's ''fast!'' It's ''painful!''
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* AlternateSpeciesCounterpart: In "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS12E13SpongeBobsBigBirthdayBlowout SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout]]," [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick head to the surface world, where they go to the Trusty Slab, where they encounter [[RogerRabbitEffect live-action]] human versions of the show's main cast. Better yet, these human versions are portrayed by the same voice actors as their underwater counterparts, i.e, Creator/TomKenny portrays human [=SpongeBob=], Creator/BillFagerbakke portrays human Patrick, Creator/RodgerBumpass portrays human Squidward, Creator/ClancyBrown portrays human Mr. Krabs, Carolyn Lawrence portrays human Sandy, Creator/MrLawrence portrays human Plankton, etc.
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--->'''SpongeBob:''' Thanks, uh..."Betty"?\\

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--->'''SpongeBob:''' --->'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' Thanks, uh..."Betty"?\\

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