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[[caption-width-right:350:''I'm a Goofy Goober!'' '''''ROCK!''''']]

* The [[MundaneMadeAwesome beginning dream sequence]] of [=SpongeBob=] being an agent-like manager.
* Pretty much the entire scene after [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick race from the Krusty Krab 2 to save Mr. Krabs, but special note goes to the introduction of [[CoolCar The Patty Wagon]]. It's featured in all the trailers, but to hear [=SpongeBob=] coolly run through its "fast food" features and to have it blast out of the restaurant is still pretty damn epic. If anyone can make driving a burger equivalent of the wiener-mobile look cool, it's [=SpongeBob=].
** "You don't need a license to drive a sandwich."
* Dennis roughing up the people he comes across. Examples include ripping the mouths off the two laughing rednecks and punching the thug leader back into the tug, which then ''sinks''.
* Squidward becoming aware of Plankton's evil plan, and actually taking action in stopping it. Too bad that Squidward didn’t anticipate Plankton [[MoralEventHorizon activating the mind-control helmets]] before he could even do anything about it.
* Plankton's behavior in this movie is a villainous example, being that much more of a threat than any other time we see him. It's a nice change of pace for Plankton fans, seeing their [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain favorite villain]] [[TookALevelInBadass become a serious threat]].
* "Now that we're men. We can do anything! Now that we're men..."
* [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick's SwissArmyTears reviving them from their DisneyDeath after being dried up beneath a heat lamp, which has everybody in the audience, especially the pirates cheering to see their heroes come back to finish what they started.
* The fish that the cyclops killed coming back to life and getting their revenge.
* '''Creator/DavidHasselhoff''' [[DeusExMachina showing up from nowhere]] to get them to the Krusty Krab in time, and using his ''pecs'' to shoot them down there in time.
--> '''[=SpongeBob=]:''' But we'll never be able to float down in time!
--> '''David Hasselhoff:''' ''(confidently)'' Who said anything about ''floating?''
** The fight with Dennis on Hasselhoff's back.
* How '''narrowly''' [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick save Mr. Krabs -- something that wouldn't have happened had Mindy stalled King Neptune for one less ''second'' or had Hasselhoff been any slower -- followed by an epic explosion that torches the latter. Just imagine the despair that Mindy and Mr. Krabs were feeling, followed by the sheer surprise then relief after that.
* Three words: '''''[[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic GOOFY. GOOBER. ROCK.]]''''' It's the page image for '''''so many''''' reasons.
** Context: [=SpongeBob=] gives an IAmWhatIAm speech before singing a hard rock rendition of the Goofy Goober Theme Song[[note]]this version being a parody of the already-awesome "I Wanna Rock" by Music/TwistedSister[[/note]], leading up to him using ThePowerOfRock to break everyone free from [[KnightOfCerebus Plankton's]] mind-controlling helmets.
--->'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' I guess you're right, Plankton. I ''am'' just a kid.\\
'''Plankton:''' [[ShutUpKirk Of course I'm right!]] Okay, Neptune, time to kill-\\
'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' And you know, I've been through a lot in the past six days, five minutes, 27-and-a-half seconds. And if I've learned anything during that time, it's that you are who you are.\\
'''Plankton:''' ...that's right. Okay, Neptune-\\
'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' And no amount of mermaid magic... or managerial promotion... or some other third thing... can make me anything more than what I really am inside: a kid!\\
'''Plankton:''' That's great, now get back against the wall-\\
'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' ''(using the microphone from behind the cash register)'' But that's okay!\\
'''Plankton:''' What? What's goin' on?\\
'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' 'Cause I did what everyone said a kid ''couldn't'' do! I made it to Shell City, and I beat the Cyclops, and I rode the [[Creator/DavidHasselhoff Hasselhoff]], and I brought the crown back!!\\
'''Plankton:''' Alright, we get the point!\\
'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' So yeah, I'm a kid, and I'm also a goofball, and a wingnut, and a knucklehead mcspazatron!\\
''(dry ice mist appears and Spongebob gets a DramaticSpotlight)''\\
'''Plankton:''' What? ''(coughs)'' What's goin' on here?\\
'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' But most of all, I'm...\\
'''Plankton:''' Okay, settle down...\\
'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' ''I'm''...\\
'''Plankton:''' Take it easy!\\
'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' '''''I'm'''''...\\
'''Plankton:''' ''[[OhCrap What the scallop?!]]''\\
I'M A GOOFY GOOBER!!!\\
'''ROCK!!!'''
** Then when Plankton tries to have [=SpongeBob=] captured, [=SpongeBob=] explosively transforms into a rock and roll wizard with a Goofy Goober electric guitar, which he uses to deliver a face-meltingly awesome guitar solo that frees the brainwashed citizens.
** Plankton confirming the reason why [=SpongeBob=] is able to destroy the helmets is because of how awesome he rocks.
--->'''Plankton:''' His chops are too righteous!! The helmets can't handle this level of rock and roll!!
** Before Plankton can command Neptune to do anything, [=SpongeBob=] blows his helmet up, freeing him from Plankton's control and allowing Mindy to reunite her father with his precious crown. Plankton, [[OhCrap realizing his defeat]], [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere attempts to flee the scene]], only to be [[LaserGuidedKarma trampled by the stampede of now-freed Bikini Bottomites as he screams in pain.]]
* Plankton being arrested after [=SpongeBob=] foils his plan, and [[SquashedFlat being flattened to the point where an officer had to scrape him up with a snow shovel]]. After all of the awful things he did both in this movie and in the show, [[LaserGuidedKarma he totally deserved it]]. And nobody bought his feeble protests that he was [[BlatantLies just]] [[JustJokingJustification kidding]].
* The ending when Mr. Krabs realizes his mistake of doubting [=SpongeBob=]'s abilities due to the latter's immaturity, and rightly awards [=SpongeBob=] the position as the Krusty Krab 2 manager.
* The cinema janitor in TheStinger asking the pirates to leave the theater. She's threatened at ''swordpoint'' and still asks them to leave. They do so.
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