Parental Bonus / SpongeBob SquarePants

• The first movie ending with SpongeBob defeating Plankton with The Power of Rock. The song? A parody of Twisted Sister's "I Wanna Rock".
  • The sequence includes a closeup of shapely legs in fishnets—Patrick's.
• "Do you think this is funny?" "In a cosmic sort of way, yes."
• The surprise appearance of Nosferatu, "wormsign", the titular character's trousers discarding akin to an o-ring separation before his legs erupt into rocket exhaust plumes, etc.
• Watch "Karate Island" and just try and find more than three jokes that aren't Parental Bonus.
• "Sailor Mouth" referenced George Carlin's "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television" routine.

  Mr. Krabs: In fact, there are thirteen bad words you should never use.

  Squidward: Don't you mean there are only seven?

  Mr. Krabs: Not if you're a sailor.

• From the episode "The Secret Box", where the secret that turned out to be in the box was a string. Come on, a string in a box in a Bikini Bottom?
  • Of course, though, the string opens a secret compartment in the secret box that contains an Embarrassing Old Photo of SpongeBob at a Christmas Party.
• And then there's Plankton and his reviewing of "foreign exercise videos" that his cousin sent him.
• When Squidward has convinced SpongeBob and Patrick to wait on his every whim, they move around his sun chair to various locations— one is Too Hot, one is Too Wet, and the one with a background of cancan dancers is "Toulouse-Lautrec"
• The episode that begins with SpongeBob watching a dancing live-action sea anemone on his TV, with a goofy entranced look on his face, leaning toward the screen. When Gary comes in and meows at him, he panics and immediately changes the channel and comes up with a hasty excuse for what he was really watching.
• The episode with the squeaky boots is a parody of Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Telltale Heart.
• Let's see, there's Ned and the Needlefish, an obvious reference to Hootie and the Blowfish, an episode titled "Krabby Road", like The Beatles' album Abbey Road, the episode "Lost Mattress", where, at the end of the mattress shopping montage, SpongeBob goes to reach for a switch in the dealer's hand, who closes it sharply and makes SpongeBob laugh, a reference to Pretty Woman, and some episodes which feature court cases use the theme from The People's Court.
• A musical bonus: In the episode where Patrick becomes smart when he switches his brain with brain coral, he mentions a clarinet piece by "Cornelius Bumpfish". Someone on the writing team must like Steely Dan, whose clarinetist was a man named Cornelius Bumpus.
• In one episode, Patrick dressed in drag and Squidward called 'her' "[his] Rubenesque beauty".
• "You're a man, SpongeBob, and it's about time you acted like one. First, puff up your chest. Then, say 'tax exemption'. Now, you must acquire a taste for free-form jazz."
• This gem:
  SpongeBob: Patrick, your genius is showing!
  Patrick: [covers crotch] Where?!
• In "Squidward's School for Grown Ups," SpongeBob, while preparing for an opera, pulls out a note with a familiar intro, which he proceeds to read to the audience:
  SpongeBob: There once was a man from Nantucket...
  Crowd: [gasps]
  • In "The Getaway", Mrs. Puff has a romantic fling with a getaway driver, by the name of Dorsal Dan (voiced by Steve Buscemi). While they're in a car together, she tickles his foot, which greatly arouses him. It gets more inappropriate when you realize feet are among the most common sexual fetishes.
• The beginning of "Grandmum's the Word" is very suggestive; lit candles, rose petals, bath, Plankton's romantic alter ego Ray-Ray... it's hard to look at this scene and not find it sexually loaded. The fact that Karen is a literal computer alleviates this a lot (and is probably why the writers got away with it).
• Mr. Krabs makes Squidward wear a bridle and pretend to be a horse, leading to this suggestive exchange:
  Mr. Krabs: Hey, get your mule away from my show pony! This here's a Thoroughbred.
  Squidward: Huh? *Mr. Krabs lifts him up*
  Mr. Krabs: Look at that flank. *stretches Squidward forward* Get a load of those locks. Not to mention that loin, eh?
  Squidward: (smirking) Oh, yeah. I'm a real stud.
• In The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, when Plankton is looking at "Plan Z", he becomes excited and sweaty, mumbling "Oh yeah!" in a very suggestive manner, and you can hear a saxophone in the background. The plans also fold out like a Playboy centerfold.