Original air date: 8/2/2007
Picture Day is about SpongeBob trying to stay clean for his big school yearbook picture.
Picture Day includes examples of:
- An Aesop: It's important to dress nice for your picture, but you don't have to be perfect.
- Apathetic Teacher: Mrs. Puff doesn't express the least bit of concern about SpongeBob crying during his school picture, and only wants to get the picture over with.
- Bizarre Taste in Food: Patrick likes peanut butter and jelly on tacos instead of bread slices.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: The teenagers assaulting everyone with the water balloons seems similar to a school shooting.
- Family-Friendly Firearms: The fact that the teenagers use ketchup-filled water balloons to attack the town. They are one of the hazards Spongebob faces.
- Hope Spot:
- SpongeBob attempts to protect himself with Spongegloss, a protective sheen like substance. Ironically, it inadvertently caused a truck of water to spill on him, washing the gloss away but still relatively clean. Then three more trucks crash in succession; stamps, oatmeal, and glue.
- Patrick protects SpongeBob in a jelly jar and takes him to boating school in a flash... but once he gets there he mistakes SpongeBob for jelly and puts him on his sandwich, dirtying him once more.
- Inelegant Blubbering: While getting his school picture taken, SpongeBob doesn't stop crying, even after the photographer cleans him up and tries to make him more presentable.
- Non-Nude Bathing: After getting dirtied by stamps, oatmeal, and glue, SpongeBob washes himself off at home with his clothes still on.
- Picture Day: The main premise of the episode. Spongebob has to get to boating school for his picture but has to avoid all the dirty hazards in his way.
- Teens Are Monsters: The teenagers get let out of school and attack everyone around town by throwing Ketchup balloons at them.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: Squidward gets a good laugh at Spongebob's expense with no repercussions.
Pat No Pay involves Patrick eating up Krabby Patties but he doesn't have any money to pay them off with, which prompts Mr. Krabs to force him to Work Off the Debt.
Pat No Pay includes examples of:
- A Day in the Limelight: Patrick takes on the lead role instead of SpongeBob here.
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: In the end, the Krusty Krab gets destroyed in the ensuing explosion of Patrick overloading the garbage shredder, all of Mr. Krabs' money gets decimated by said shredder, and Patrick's begging him for more Krabby Patties. ("Can I eat now?")
- Balloon Belly: Patrick after eating literally multiple dozens of Krabby Patties. It quickly vanishes after Mr. Krabs finds out Patrick doesn't have any money to pay for them and locks down the Krusty Krab with steel gates.
- Big Eater: Patrick, who gains a Balloon Belly that is several stories tall from eating so many Krabby Patties. And only after minutes of working he gets hungry for more.
- Bottle Episode: Takes place entirely in the Krusty Krab, and only features Patrick, SpongeBob and Mr. Krabs.
- Butt-Monkey: Mr. Krabs, but he brought it onto himself by feeding Patrick a huge quantity of Krabby Patties before charging him.
- Dagwood Sandwich: A mild variant - Mr. Krabs feeds Patrick Krabby Patties with 4 or more layers of cheese to the point there's at least twice as much cheese than there is the beef patty.
- Didn't Think This Through: Mr. Krabs asks for merely Patrick's word that he can pay for those Krabby Patties first and then give him his food rather than order Patrick to pay first and then get his food.
- Excuse Plot: There's really no plot or character development, it's just Patrick (unknowingly) torturing Krabs.
- Fat Idiot: Patrick somewhat gets flanderized over how fat and stupid he is in this episode.
- From Bad to Worse: At the beginning, Mr. Krabs was near bankruptcy because there weren't any customers coming for a while. At the end, Patrick literally shreds all of Krabs' money and has destroyed the Krusty Krab.
- Idiot Ball:
- Aside from everything Patrick does and says, SpongeBob himself should have known better than to bring a bag full of Mr. Krabs' profits anywhere near a garbage shredder.
- Also Mr. Krabs for giving Patrick so many Krabby Patties without charging him money first.
- Idiot Houdini: Mr. Krabs doesn't seem to follow through with his Persona Non Grata threat to Patrick, as, due to Negative Continuity, Patrick is still seen at the Krusty Krab in later episodes despite destroying both the restaurant and Krabs' profits, and the worst he gets is an unimpressed look from Krabs himself.
- The Klutz: The more work Mr. Krabs assigns to Patrick, the more destruction Patrick causes.
- Law of Disproportionate Response: Patrick freaks out when Mr. Krabs orders him to destroy all the garbage or he'll never eat another Krabby Patty. But after he overloads the garbage shredder making it explode along with the Krusty Krab itself and shredding all of Krabs' profits, Patrick excitedly asks, "Can I eat now?"
- Persona Non Grata: After all the chaos he caused trying to work his debt off, Mr. Krabs threatens to do this to Patrick if he screws up his garbage disposal job.
- Plot Hole: Mr. Krabs' cash register at the beginning was empty (except for the spider webs) but later on he immediately hands SpongeBob a bag full of cash and orders him to store it in his vault. The spider webs would indicate it's been several days since they had even one customer and Mr. Krabs surely would have already put away that money in his vault by now if that money isn't recent.
- Vacuum Mouth: Patrick brings this back from "Grandma's Kisses" to eat 37 Krabby Patties all in one bite.
- Work Off the Debt: The main plot of this episode. Though it backfires, Patrick just ends up costing Krabs even more money than to begin with.
BlackJack is about SpongeBob fearing the return of his cousin Blackjack who he coincides with the sudden disappearance of his parents.
BlackJack features examples of:
- Armor-Piercing Question: Uncle Captain Blue asked Spongebob this question...Uncle Captain Blue: Do you have any idea what people like that do to people like you?
- Berserk Button: SpongeBob is bothered to the point Uncle Captain Blue doesn't hear his cries because of the loud music, to the point he rips the record player out of the wall to stop the nonsense.
- The Bus Came Back: Grandma returns after a 4-season absence since "Grandma's Kisses".
- Dirty Coward: Uncle Captain Blue abandons SpongeBob to confront BlackJack on his own, and drives off.
- "Everybody Laughs" Ending: The episode ends with SpongeBob, his parents, and Blackjack all having a good laugh.
- Given Name Reveal: SpongeBob's dad's first name is revealed to be "Harold".
- Half the Man He Used to Be: At one point, SpongeBob imagines BlackJack ripping him in half.
- Hard-Work Montage: SpongeBob getting forced to work menial chores by Uncle Captain Blue All for Nothing for hours. Also doubles as torture. It finally stops when SpongeBob pulls the plug on Blue's record player and finally makes him listen.
- Hypocritical Humor: Blackjack for calling SpongeBob a "little man".
- Jaywalking Will Ruin Your Life: SpongeBob's dad claimed that Blackjack went to prison for years because he littered. Yeah, that's totally worse than domestic violence such as brutally assaulting SpongeBob. At least, he’s less of a threat now.
- Letting the Air out of the Band: SpongeBob invokes this by physically pulling the plug on Uncle Captain Blue's record player.
- Out of Focus: None of the main characters except SpongeBob himself and Gary appear.
- Poor Communication Kills: Uncle Captain Blue keeps misinterpreting SpongeBob wanting to do chores instead of warning him about BlackJack because he keeps doing loud activities whenever he tries to talk to him.
- "Shaggy Dog" Story:
- It turns out that Blackjack is now much smaller than SpongeBob, indicating that Blackjack never grew up big like SpongeBob and the rest of the SquarePants family did.
- And earlier, Blackjack's house turns out to be right next door to Uncle Captain Blue's.
- Special Guest: Marion Ross reprises her role as Grandma SquarePants.
