Original air date: 2/16/2009 (produced in 2008)
SpongeBob and Patrick fill in for Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy at a shuffleboarding tournament.
"Shuffleboarding" contains examples of:
- Ambulance Cut: After SpongeBob and Patrick lands on the old duo in the Mermalair, the scene cuts to an undisclosed siren. It turns out to have been an ambulance, as Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy has ended up at the hospital in the next scene.
- Bait-and-Switch: After the antics at the Shady Shoals, we cut to a siren, likely one of the police because of what the idiotic duo did. But after a fade to black, we find out it was an ambulance siren and that Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy had to be taken to the hospital. They didn't look hurt before SpongeBob and Patrick landed on them either, playing into this more.
- Disproportionate Retribution: SpongeBob and Patrick throw the Bikini Bottom citizens in the jail for the pettiest reasons possible. One guy even gets thrown in jail because his shoes were untied.
- Halfway Plot Switch: The original reason for SpongeBob and Patrick passing themselves off as their heroes was so they could partake in the shuffleboarding tournament in their place. Not only does it suddenly become them enforcing justice (very badly) halfway through, they win the tournament offscreen.
- Misplaced Retribution: Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy get blamed for everything SpongeBob and Patrick did while the latter two get off scot-free.
- The Last Straw: When SpongeBob and Patrick arrest a bunch of people, the Bikini Bottom Jail begins to expand in size due to going overcapacity. It finally explodes when they squeeze in Man Ray and the old woman he was talking to at the laundromat.
- Lawful Stupid: SpongeBob and Patrick.
- Never Trust a Title: The actual shuffleboarding tournament isn't seen at all. Instead, the episode skips ahead to when Spongebob and Patrick have already won the tournament, and the remainder of it consists of them arresting innocent people for incredibly minor reasons.
- Shrunk in the Wash: During their battle at the laundromat, Man Ray throws his detachable head like a flying disc at SpongeBob, but it misses and flies into a washer that SpongeBob turns on as Man Ray protests that his head is dry clean only. The next scene shows his head shrunken and his voice now higher to match, and it's still that way at the end of the episode.
- Torches and Pitchforks: In the ending, Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy are chased by the citizens who were wrongfully arrested by SpongeBob and Patrick.
- Unsound Effect:
- "REMOTE!" appears when Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy are watching TV at the beginning, followed by "NAP!" when they suddenly doze off.
- When the Mermarang starts to go amok, it is initiated with "PANIC!" appearing.
- "BLING!" appears when Barnacle Boy gives SpongeBob and Patrick their rings; this is followed by "RING!" when they change into their costumed selves.
- Villains Out Shopping: Man Ray is seen doing his laundry at a laundromat and chatting it up with his old prom date.
Original air date: 2/19/2009 (produced in 2008)
Squidward pretends he's his arch-rival Squilliam to teach at a music class.
"Professor Squidward" contains examples of:
- Butt-Monkey: Squidward.
- Class Clown: SpongeBob and Patrick both act like this in Squidward’s music class.
- The Door Slams You: Squidward gets the door slammed on him when he tries to block his students from leaving.
- Failed a Spot Check: The headmistress points out Squidward's lack of a uni-brow at the end, which she somehow didn't notice at the beginning.
- Hypno Pendulum: Apparantly the metronome serves as one to SpongeBob and Patrick.
- Identity Impersonator: Squidward pretending to be Squilliam in order to teach a music class.
- Innocently Insensitive: When Squidward convinces the two headmasters that he is actually Squilliam, they laugh at the thought of someone going to their own enemy's music recital- which is what Squidward was actually doing.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Squidward was right to call out SpongeBob and Patrick for disrupting the class.
- Laser-Guided Karma: The episode ends with Squidward being arrested for impersonating Squilliam (with Squilliam himself laughing at his predicament).
- Madness Mantra: SpongeBob and Patrick endlessly say "Tick, tick, tick, tick..." when being hypnotized by the metronome.
- Mistaken Identity: The whole plot is kicked off when the heads of a school mistake Squidward for his rival Squilliam, and Squidward deciding to go along with it when hearing he would teach a music class.
- Oh, Crap!: Squidward does this when SpongeBob and Patrick apologize to Squidward, calling him by name and thereby giving away his identity.
- Overly Long Gag: SpongeBob and Patrick saying “tick, tick, tick, tick…”
- Paper-Thin Disguise: Squidward doesn't look or sound anything like Squilliam while impersonating him, but nobody (except Spongebob and Patrick) bats an eye. Averted near the end, where one student says he knew Squidward was a faker from the first minute (but he still didn't say anything earlier).
- Parental Bonus: SpongeBob and Patrick are hypnotized by Squidward's metronome.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: The students angrily walk out of the class after learning that Squidward was impersonating Squilliam, with one fish saying they’re going to get their tuition money back.
