History SpongeBobSquarePants / TropesQToZ

** In "Hooky", when Patrick is riding on a hook like a horse, he shouts, [[Series/TheLoneRanger "Heigh-ho, Silverfish! Away!"]]

** There was also one episode in which Gary is entirely unruly and goes around biting people. Turns out it was from a piece of Squidward's makeshift security fence, almost making this example a parody.

** "[=SpongeBob=]'s Last Stand" has one to TheBeatles.

* SorryILeftTheBGMOn: Used several times, first when Plankton pulls out a tiny record player from {{Hammerspace}} to provide musical accompaniment for his EvilLaugh.
** The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX-DB7JaNPM second time he does this]] is a funny moment.
** The episode ''Clams'' an ominous tune starts up, Krabs takes notice. He discovers a full orchestra playing the song.
-->Krabs: Thats a 4/4 String Ostinato in D-Minor and every sailor knows it means death!

* SayingTheSoundEffectsOutLoud: Plankton makes a habit out of this.

* UnsoundEffect: Plankton makes habit out of saying these.
--> '''Plankton:''' Oh, look, it's the Krusty Krab, home of the Krabby Patty! '''''CRUSH!''''' ''[Crushes the restaurant, picks up its sign and starts to lick it like a lollipop]'' Lick, lick!

'''Patrick:''' (whimpering) Why, thank you, Sandy. I would love one. "[TAKE PATTY.]" ''(Takes patty)'' Too bad [=SpongeBob=] isn't here. These are his favorites. I sure wish he'd come home. "[TAKE...BITE... " ''(Bursts into tears)''

'''Patrick:''' (whimpering) Why, thank you, Sandy. I would love one. Take patty. ''(Takes patty)'' Too bad [=SpongeBob=] isn't here. These are his favorites. I sure wish he'd come home. Take...bite...out of patty ''(Bursts into tears)''

** Lampshaded by one Krusty Krab customer, who, upon hearing a SuspiciouslySimilarSong said, "I hated the REAL version of this song".

* YourTelevisionHatesYou: In "Idiot Box", Squidward is trying to forget about [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick playing in their box, but everything on TV is about boxes, even [[VisualPun boxing]].

** ''Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V'' proclaims the IJLSA as "a subsidiary of Viacom," Nickelodeon's parent company.* TrainingFromHell: The episode when a DrillSergeantNasty shark teaches [=SpongeBob=] how to drive. It works, but [[spoiler: [=SpongeBob=] ends up being able to drive only when [[HandicappedBadass BLINDFOLDED]]]]. HilarityEnsues.

** Could also apply to the petfood Snailpo (various episodes) and the restaurant chain Crabby O'Monday's ("Selling Out").
* TrainingFromHell: The episode when a DrillSergeantNasty shark teaches [=SpongeBob=] how to drive. It works, but [[spoiler: [=SpongeBob=] ends up being able to drive only when [[HandicappedBadass BLINDFOLDED]]]]. HilarityEnsues.

* RichBordom Mr. Krabs sells the Krusty Krab for a lot of loot. It's not long before he runs out of things to do in his retirement, goes on a rampage that destroys the Krusty Krab, buys the destroyed restaurant back, and it's all fixed up the next time we see it (in the next episode).

** Also, Spongebob started running his own stand for his "Pretty Patties" after being made fun (for making Pretty Patties) of by Mr Krabs and Squidward.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: Krabby Patties
** '''[[MemeticMutation "CHOCOLATE?! CHOCOLATE!!!!"]]'''
** In the episode "Procrastination". As the name implies, [=SpongeBob=] grapples with his denial for hesitation in writing a 800-word essay. In one of his many time-wasting gimmicks, he spends an implied ludicrous amount of time and effort writing the "The" at the start of the paper, so the sequence ends up just looking "awesome" instead of being the HardWorkMontage it initially appears to be.
** The opening scene of The Movie features a dramatic scene based around the "crisis" of a customer being given a Krabby Patty without cheese, complete with a slow-motion sequence of [=SpongeBob=] putting some cheese into the patty. It's a Dream Sequence, but still...
** How about any time the Krabby Patty is brought to the audiences attention by [=SpongeBob=], or at least when it focuses on him making Krabby Patties?
** When a customer gets a Patty with jellyfish jelly added, he's so enthused that he bursts into an impromptu musical number: "LISTEN to me, everybody! I just had a sand-wich! It's no ordinary sand-wich!"
** And in one of the "Legends of Bikini Bottom" episodes, [=SpongeBob=] is unconscious due to his Krabby Patty meter being empty. Mr. Krabs gets him to eat one. He then blasts up, explodes into pieces, then regenerates after all of them land together, and then... '''[[ChewingTheScenery "OHHHHHHHHH, YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!"]]'''
** Mermaid Man. "To the meatloaf... AWAY!"

* RampageFromANail:
** One episode has a giant clam behaving this way. Everyone thinks it was because a peanut had been thrown at it; turns out Mr. Krabs stole its egg.
** There was also one episode in which Gary is entirely unruly and goes around biting people. Turns out it was from a piece of Squidward's makeshift security fence, almost making this example a parody.

** In the episode "The Great Snail Race", SpongeBob puts Gary through Training from Hell to win the titular race. At one point, he maxes Gary an "energy drink" which includes raw eggs, simply "because it's a cliche!"

'''All:''' Hooray!

* SceneryCensor: Mermaid Man in one episode, with Gary blocking his crotch until he can get a towel on; spoofed with [=SpongeBob=] in the episode "Nature Pants", as he has nothing to hide and in fact spent some...er, most shots without his crotch obscured
* {{Schmuck Bait}}- Would anyone care for a bon bon?

** The Chum Bucket is in the shape of a giant bucket.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Patrick had to go undercover (because he thinks someone is going to kick him out of town), so he dressed up as "Patricia". [=SpongeBob=] had to tell a few folks "she" wasn't his GF.

** The above issue has been HandWaved, as the episodes supposedly don't happen in the exact order they come out in. This is at least the case for TheMovie, which is ''the'' official ending for the series despite having been produced years ago. [=SpongeBob=] [[spoiler: eventually becoming manager of the Krusty Krab 2]] is firmly canon.

** This has been a ''very'' popular source of parody on {{YouTube}}, most involving editing cuss words in.

* SoUnfunnyItsFunny: The show had this, especially in the earlier episodes. The real king is this gem:
-->'''Squidward:''' Why couldn't the 11-year old go to the pirate movie? It was rated [[IncrediblyLamePun Aaaarrrrrgh.]]

** Plankton seems to follow a similar comparison to Mr Krabs, who is usually a ButtMonkey or UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist himself when the former isn't in the spotlight.

* SuckinessIsPainful: Patrick's self-composed song in "Sing A Song Of Patrick", which is so awful that it [[BrownNote actually]] ''[[BrownNote kills]]'' the band that records it.

* SuddenlyFluentInGibberish:

* SueDonym: In "Fear of a Krabby Patty", Plankton gives his name as "Peter Lankton". It is later shortened to "P. Lankton".
** "Hey, wait a second... is this a prank call?"

* TerribleArtist : [=SpongeBob=]'s crude drawings come to life in the episode "Frankendoodle". Even Patrick criticizes him on his lack of structure and perspective, [[HypocriticalHumour though his drawings aren't any better.]]

* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: In "Born Again Krabs" Mr. Krabs trades Spongebob's soul for 62 cents. Just as he starts to feel bad about it, the Flying Dutchman comes back to return Spongebob after being annoyed by his incessant chatter about his hobbies.
** The Flying Dutchman gave Spongebob and Patrick up as slave crewmen in "Shanghaied" because they were incredibly bad at it. In a subversion, rather than letting them go, he planned to eat them, but they escaped. Then the Dutchman catches them, but he offers them three wishes before they're eaten. After accidentally using up two of their wishes, they use their final wish to turn the Dutchman into a vegetarian. But then they appear in a blender, somehow transformed into fruit, with the Dutchman preparing to eat them.
** In a third Flying Dutchman example, namely "Scaredy Pants", Spongebob is shaved down by Patrick to make him rounder for a sheet he uses as a Flying Dutchman costume to try to scare everyone in the Krusty Krab for Halloween. He fails miserably, but as the entire restaurant is laughing at him the real Dutchman arrives, angered by Spongebob's insulting costume and about to steal everyone's souls. He takes a moment before doing so to explain the concept of being scary to Spongebob, then removes the sheet... and flies away screaming when he sees the sponge had been shaved down to facial features, a brain, and a "spinal cord".

* {{Training from Hell}}: The episode when a DrillSergeantNasty shark teaches [=SpongeBob=] how to drive. It works, but [[spoiler: [=SpongeBob=] ends up being able to drive only when [[HandicappedBadass BLINDFOLDED]]]]. HilarityEnsues.

* TroubledFetalPosition: Played for laughs with Squidward in "Band Geeks", after another screw-up by his slapdash marching band.
** SpongeBob does this for a whole episode in which he becomes afraid to go outside, so he decides to live inside his house for the rest of his life. Thankfully, he got over it.
** One episode had Kevin the Sea Cucumber sits in a fetal position and cry for his mommy and blankie when attacked by a King Jellyfish. The other Jellyspotters join in shortly until Spongebob saves them all.

* UnsatisfiableCustomer: Bubblebass.

* WalkOnTheWildSideEpisode: In one episode, Squidward gets so fed up with Spongebob and Patrick's antics that he decides to move out into a gated community filled with other squids who share his interests. Inside, he finds that everyone else has a Easter Island head house, everyone else loves playing the clarinet, everyone else loves riding their paddlebikes, everyone else loves ballet dancing, and everyone else enjoys eating canned bread. He's thrilled at this, but soon gets bored of the same routine every day, to the point where he starts going out of control and just lets loose while playing around with a leaf blower. The other citizens filled a formal list of complaints, but Squidward tells them off by flying his leaf blower into the sky while screaming wildly.

** In the episode "Procrastination". As the name implies, [=SpongeBob=] grapples with his denial for hesitation in writing a 800-word essay. In one of his many time-wasting gimmicks, he spends an implied ludicrous amount of time and effort writing the "The" at the start of the paper, so the sequence ends up just looking "awesome" instead of being the HardWorkMontage it initially appears to be.
** The opening scene of The Movie features a dramatic scene based around the "crisis" of a customer being given a Krabby Patty without cheese, complete with a slow-motion sequence of [=SpongeBob=] putting some cheese into the patty. It's a Dream Sequence, but still...

** When a customer gets a Patty with jellyfish jelly added, he's so enthused that he bursts into an impromptu musical number: "LISTEN to me, everybody! I just had a sand-wich! It's no ordinary sand-wich!"
** And in one of the "Legends of Bikini Bottom" episodes, [=SpongeBob=] is unconscious due to his Krabby Patty meter being empty. Mr. Krabs gets him to eat one. He then blasts up, explodes into pieces, then regenerates after all of them land together, and then... '''[[ChewingTheScenery "OHHHHHHHHH, YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!"]]'''

* [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous What Do You Mean, It's Not Heinous?]]: [=SpongeBob=] tends to overreact whenever he makes a single mistake during his job, like being late by a minute, accidentally giving a customer a large-sized soda instead of a medium one, being out of napkins...

* YourCostumeNeedsWork: "That's the worst [=SpongeBob=] costume I've ever seen!" — Passenger on a train ride that ''[=SpongeBob=] himself'' is driving in the episode "The Krusty Sponge"

* YourTelevisionHatesYou: In "Idiot Box", Squidward is trying to forget about [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick playing in their box, but everything on TV is about boxes, even [[VisualPun boxing]].

'''Harold (in German accent):''' Yeah, for the fireman!\\