Running Gag / SpongeBob SquarePants

• Whenever there's a panicking crowd, a guy can often be heard shouting "My leg!"
  • Parodied in the episode "Squid Baby", with "My face, my face!... Also my leg, but mostly my face!"
  • An entire episode, simply titled "My Leg!" was made around this gag. It explains how Fred, a background fish, was the one who always said it, and how he always did it in an attempt to be with a Nurse he's in love with.
• How about Old Man Jenkins as a running gag character? Or his name, rather, considering that it's apparently the name of several different elderly fish in Bikini Bottom.
  • As of lately, there's been one consistent design for Old Man Jenkins, and another old fish who originally went by that alias was renamed "Old Man Walker".
• "Chocolate? Did you say CHOCOLATE!?!"
• In The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, we have the reaction to King Neptune's baldness; "B-B-B-Bald! Bald! Bald!" "My eyes!"
• Various things randomly exploding in a mushroom cloud for little to no reason. Naturally gets combined with the "WTF?! BOOM!!!" meme quite often.
• Mrs. Puff getting arrested, when it's usually SpongeBob's fault. She even spent one whole episode in prison.
• Patrick spending so much time at the Krusty Krab that Mr. Krabs sometimes forgets that he doesn't work there.
  Patrick: (reading card) "One of your shipmates has been a bad pirate! Send him to the brig!" Hmmm. It's off to jail for you, Mr. Krabs!
  Mr. Krabs: Patrick, you're fired!
  Patrick: But I don't even work here!
  Mr. Krabs: Would you like a job, starting now?
  (hands him a Krusty Krab hat)
  Patrick: Boy, would I!
  (snatches the hat back)
  Mr. Krabs: You're fired!
• Plankton getting crushed by a piano in "Fear of a Krabby Patty".
• "Rock Bottom" has a couple, such as SpongeBob missing the bus, which makes up a large part of the episode, and SpongeBob's balloon hitting the bus driver.
• One involving Plankton and Karen. She would suggest a way to steal the formula, but he dismisses her for being random or bothering him, then he would say the exact same idea.

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