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* LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy: The creatures of the sea can communicate with humans and generally most other land dwellers.
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* LateToTheRealization: In Season 12's "Jolly Lodgers", Squidward decides to vacation at Hotel Halibut while his home is being rid of a sea urchin infestation caused by [=SpongeBob=]. Unfortunetely, Squidward didn't realize until too late that Hotel Halibut is hosting a jellyfishing convention -- something both [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick obsessively love -- thus [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick are staying there as well.
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* LivingPhoto:
** Happens twice in "Employee of the Month". The first time, [=SpongeBob=] believes that Squidward will be the next employee of the month and imagines Squidward occupying the next blank picture frame and laughing at him. The second time, he looks at the pictures of himself on the wall and they (now wearing Army helmets) give him an pep talk.
** In "Have You Seen This Snail?", Gary runs away when [=SpongeBob=] ignores him to play a paddleball challenge. When he winds up in a new home, Gary looks at the photo of [=SpongeBob=] he brought with him and imagines him shouting "Gary, can't you see I'm busy?!"
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* PropellerHatOfWhimsy: In "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS2E13ShanghaiedGaryTakesABath Shanghaied]]," the Flying Dutchman is looking for someone to scare, and [=SpongeBob=] suggests a muscular and intimidating metalhead. The Dutchman instead looks at someone who'd be infinitely easier to terrify: a small child skipping along and wearing a propeller beanie.

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* PerpetualFrowner: Squidward.

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* PersonaNonGrata:
** In "Cephalopod Lodge", Squidward is banned from the titular organization when he is held responsible for allowing non-cephalopods ([=SpongeBob=] and Patrick) to enter without warning. Despite the duo's successful EngineeredHeroics allowing Squidward's ban to be lifted, he is re-banned when they revealed themselves.
** In "Who R Zoo?", [=SpongeBob=] gets banned from the Bikini Bottom Zoo for walking inside the animal enclosures, with Patrick joining him. Fortunately, it doesn't stick.
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* OddReactionOut: In one episode, everyone cheers when Mr. Krabs gets a new patty-making machine, except Patrick, who is too distracted by needing to pee.

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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: "Can You Spare A Dime?" features Squidward quitting his job at the Krusty Krab and attempting to go out into the world and "unlock his potential." He fails to find a new job, and winds up on the streets, living in a cardboard box (which actually gets ''repossessed''), and begging for spare change. Just when it looks like the most arrogant, self-centered, narcissistic character on the show [[BreakTheHaughty has finally been humbled]] (he even graciously, and sincerely, thanks [=SpongeBob=] for helping him... at first), [=SpongeBob=] begins to spoil him by tending to his every whim and turning him right back into the person he was before.

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"Can You Spare A Dime?" features Squidward quitting his job at the Krusty Krab and attempting to go out into the world and "unlock his potential." He fails to find a new job, and winds up on the streets, living in a cardboard box (which actually gets ''repossessed''), and begging for spare change. Just when it looks like the most arrogant, self-centered, narcissistic character on the show [[BreakTheHaughty has finally been humbled]] (he even graciously, and sincerely, thanks [=SpongeBob=] for helping him... at first), [=SpongeBob=] begins to spoil him by tending to his every whim and turning him right back into the person he was before.before.
** In "Friendiversary", as a last resort to stop [=SpongeBob=] following him around to celebrate his one-sided Friendiversary with him, he erases every memory of him from his mind and memory book so he doesn't remember him. Unfortunately, doing such also erases his memory of the combination to the Krusty Krab safe with the secret formula inside, because it was attached to one of the memories to begin with.

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* OhCrap: In "Boating School", [=SpongeBob=] has one of these moments after it dawns on him that having Patrick assist him in his test is cheating. [[StaggeredZoom The camera even zooms in on his horrified expression three times]], accompanied by a dramatic sound effect.

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In "Boating School", [=SpongeBob=] has one of these moments after it dawns on him that having Patrick assist him in his test is cheating. [[StaggeredZoom The camera even zooms in on his horrified expression three times]], accompanied by a dramatic sound effect.effect.
** Two in "Valentine's Day":
*** Sandy's reaction when she sees the chocolate eating scallops fly toward her, meaning she's going to be late in delivering it.
*** [=SpongeBob's=] reaction when Sandy tells him she's off-course and has to switch to Plan B, and he later has an even bigger one as Patrick closes in on him and prepares to face the inevitable of his furious wrath.
** In "Opposite Day", this is Squidward's reaction when he sees the realtor's boat parked outside his unguarded house.
** [=SpongeBob=] gets two of them in "Party Pooper Pants" when he sees his party guests not following his schedule and doing their own things, meaning in his words, the party will fall apart.
** Gary has ''several'' Oh Craps in "A Pal for Gary", when he sees [[TroublemakingNewPet Puffy Fluffy]] beast up and go after him, and especially when he sees the creature as a monstrous giant.
** In "That Sinking Feeling", [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick get a shared one when they are unable to dig Squidward's house out in time leading to the climatic underground chase. And they get an even bigger one when they have nowhere left to run and Squidward catches up to them.
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* MistakenForToilet:
** In "Plankton Gets the Boot", Plankton walks out of a door, thanking [=SpongeBob=] for letting him use his bathroom, only for the latter to reveal that it was actually his closet. Plankton then tells him he probably needs to get new shoes, implying he used one as a JarPotty.
** Zigzagged in "Roller Cowards" where [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick claim they're queueing to ride a rollercoaster called the Fist o' Pain, only to be told it's actually the line for the bathroom. Ordinarily, this would be an inversion, but since [[BraveTheRidePlot both are scared to ride the rollercoaster]], it's unknown [[AmbiguousSituation if it was a genuine mistake or if they were stalling]].
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* LoopholeAbuse: In "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy III", [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick is about to drive away in the Invisible Boatmobile to stop Man Ray, but [=SpongeBob=] stops, reminding them that he doesn't have a driver's license. Patrick's solution is that because the boat is invisible, you're gonna need an invisible license to drive it, so he digs out "his" for [=SpongeBob=] to borrow.

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