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Who's had episodes leaked in foreign countries? SpongeBob SquarePants!

And released others early on DVDs! SpongeBob SquarePants!

Season 2

  • "Graveyard Shift, Krusty Love" aired in South Korea, the Netherlands, Canada, Brazil, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, Australia, the UK and Russia before it's US premiere on September 6, 2002, a whopping 364 days after the episode that preceded it premiered.

Season 3

  • The second half of season 3 aired in many countries before the US.
    • The season finished airing in South Korea in October 2002, Canada in November 2002, and Germany in September 2003.
  • "The Sponge Who Could Fly" was released on DVD on March 4, 2003. It premiered in the US on March 21.
  • "SpongeBob Meets the Strangler" premiered in Canada on November 19, 2002, was released on DVD on January 6, 2004, and then premiered in the US on October 11, 2004.

Season 4

  • "New Leaf" was released on the Karate Island DVD on July 18, 2006, and premiered in the US on September 22.
  • "Once Bitten" premiered in New Zealand on July 27, 2006 and the United States on September 29, 2006.
  • "Wigstruck" and "That's No Lady" were released on the Whale of a Birthday DVD on October 31, 2006. They premiered in the US on November 17 and November 25, respectively

Season 5

  • The Bikini Bottom Adventures DVD, released on June 5, 2007, consisted entirely of episodes that wouldn't air until late July: "Boat Smarts", "Breath of Fresh Squidward", "Bucket Sweet Bucket", "Roller Cowards", "Krabs a la Mode", "New Digs", and "Good Ol' Whatshisname".
  • The episode "Goo Goo Gas" first aired in Germany and Latin America almost two years before it aired in the US (Germany aired the episode in November 2007, but the US didn't air it until July 2009). It would later air in 2008 in several other countries as well, including Canada, South Africa, and the UK. Heck, it was even released on DVD nine months before it premiered.
  • Four episodes late in the seasonnote  were released on TurboNick on November 21, 2007. They aired on TV two days later.

Season 6

  • "SpongeBob SquarePants vs. The Big One" was released on DVD on March 3, 2009. It premiered on US television on April 17, 2009.
  • "Choir Boys" premiered in the UK and Ireland on December 20, 2008, and the US on March 20, 2009.
  • "To SquarePants or Not to SquarePants" was released in the UK and Ireland on June 20, 2009. Its US premiere was on July 17.
  • "Overbooked" premiered in the UK and Ireland on July 11, 2009, and the US on July 19.
  • "No Hat for Pat" premiered in the UK and Ireland on July 18, 2009, one day before its US premiere.
  • "Single Cell Anniversary" was released on an Amazon/iTunes compilation of Tom Kenny's favorite episodes on May 15, 2009. The episode aired on June 3, 2009.
  • "The Clash of Triton" was released through video on-demand services on June 28, 2010. It premiered on July 5.

Season 7

  • "Tunnel of Glove" was released on Nick.com on August 10, 2010. It premiered on February 12, 2011.
  • The entire Legends of Bikini Bottom miniseries was premiered in late January 2011, while the DVD released on November 16, 2010. Strangely, "The Curse of the Hex" was held off until June of 2011, despite still being a Legends of Bikini Bottom episode.
  • "Yours, Mine, and Mine" and "Kracked Krabs" were released on Nick.com on February 18, 2010. They premiered in Canada on March 19 and the US on September 11.

Season 8

  • The vacation miniseries premiered in November 2011, and they all released on DVD on September 20th earlier that year.
  • "Move It or Lose It" premiered in Israel on September 11, 2012, and America on October 21.

Season 9

  • 6 episodes from Season 9note  aired in Greece in late June-early July 2013. It took several months (in most episodes' cases) to over a year and a half (in Yeti Krabs' case) for these episodes to air in the US.
  • "Bulletin Board", an episode from the last quarter of Season 9, premiered in Canada nearly two months before its US premiere. This episode premiered in the US on October 1, 2016. By contrast, the episode premiered in Canada on August 12 of the same year.
  • "Snail Mail", another episode from Season 9's last quarter, also premiered in Canada ahead of its US airdate, although this wasn't as extreme ("Snail Mail" premiered in Canada on October 7, 2016. It premiered in the USA on October 22 of the same year).
  • "The Whole Tooth" premiered in Israel on November 23, 2016, and the US on December 3rd.

Season 10

  • The episodes "Unreal Estate/Code Yellow", "The Incredible Shrinking Sponge/Sportz?" and "Feral Friends/Don't Wake Patrick" (the finale) all have aired in Nickelodeon Israel in March, July and August of 2017. To make matters worse for US, the channels having an English track (Nickelodeon Russia and Nickelodeon Spain) also aired the last two pairs, meaning people have heard the English audio before the US. In the case of Russia, "The Incredible Shrinking Sponge/Sportz?" reruns have been removed from the schedule after 2 weeks since the original airing, and they resumed only a year later.

Season 11

  • "There's a Sponge in My Soup", "Man Ray Returns", and "Larry the Floor Manager" aired in Spain and Portugal in September 2017, before their US airdates.
  • "Sanitation Insanity" and "Bunny Hunt", aired in Spain, Portugal, and Turkey before their US airdates, on March 21, 2018. The latter segment aired in the USA on March 30 of the same year, but the former didn't air until May 7, all in the meanwhile airing in other countries before the US, including in Germanynote , most Central & Eastern Europe countriesnote , Francenote , and Israelnote  (in that order) as well, before the United States. In the United States, the episode got released on Amazon Video and Google Play early on April 21, alongside its sister segment.
  • "Shopping List", has been aired in Nickelodeon Israel on July 4, 2018 and was released in the US in September. Same goes to four episodes which aired in Russia along with the English track on July 26 and 27: "Whale Watching", "Krusty Kleaners", "Patnocchio" and "ChefBob"; they weren't even scheduled to air in the US at the time!

Season 12

Season 12 is notorious among the fandom for having a bad case of this; thanks largely due to the episodes airing extremely out-of-order, more so than any other season of the series, as well as long gaps between airdates (especially towards the end of the season), roughly three-quarters of the season have aired in at least one non-US country in some way, shape, or form. Additionally, the entire season note  was released on DVD on January 12, 2021, well before several episodes premiered in the US.
  • "Gary & Spot" mistakenly aired in the United Kingdom at 4 AM on March 16th. It didn't officially premiere in the United States until July 27th. And before that, in February, its full animatic had been leaked for a few hours (then unofficially re-uploaded).
  • "Pineapple RV" is infamous for this. It premiered in Poland on May 28, 2019, and aired in America over a year later on July 17, 2020. Many other countries had got it earlier, too.
  • In early June 2019, the UK and Ireland premiered some episodes that wouldn't air in the US until later. This includes "King Plankton" and "Stormy Weather" (US premiere: June 22nd), "Sandy's Nutty Nieces" (US premiere: June 29th), and "The Krusty Bucket" (US premiere: August 10th).
  • "Plankton's Old Chum" was released on Sky in Italy on June 9, 2019. Its US premiere was on November 30th.
  • "Swamp Mates" and "One Trick Sponge" aired in Russia on December 12, 2019. They didn't premiere in the United States until April 11, 2020, and even "Swamp Mates" was aired on Nickelodeon UK two months prior, on February 25, 2020 (also the first time the episode was released in English).
  • "Squid's on a Bus" premiered in Russia on July 27, 2019. It wasn't released in the US until September 28th.
  • "Jolly Lodgers" and "Biddy Sitting" were briefly available on Amazon Prime for a few minutes on July 31, 2019. "Biddy Sitting" premiered in the US on February 8, 2020, with "Jolly Lodgers" a month later on March 7, 2020.
  • "SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout" got leaked on Amazon and Canada on July 11, 2019, and it aired in the US a day later. A minor case, but considering it's a major Milestone Celebration, this meant it was spoiled beforehand.
  • "SpongeBob in RandomLand", "SpongeBob's Bad Habit", and "Handemonium" aired in the UK and Italy on September 11-13, 2019. The first two would air in the US on September 21, with "Handemonium" two months later on November 23.
  • "Boss for a Day" was released on-demand in Australia and New Zealand on July 6, 2020, aired on TV two days later, and then premiered in America on July 17th.
  • "My Two Krabses" premiered in the US on January 18, 2021, yet it premiered in Spain, Portugal, and Central/Eastern Europe on October 18, 2019.
  • "Knock Knock, Who's There?" and "Pat Hearts Squid" first premiered in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark on May 14, 2020. The former segment did not air in the US until April 23, 2021, and the latter on July 9 of the same year. Both episodes had already been released on the season 12 DVD by that time.
  • "Pat Hearts Squid" had its US premiere on July 9, 2021. Despite that, it had been released on DVD in January, and aired in foreign countries throughout 2020 and early 2021.
  • "Lighthouse Louie" first premiered in South Korea on February 7, 2020, almost a year before its US airdate (January 18, 2021). In February, it was found on the Nickelodeon CDN in English and HD.
  • "Hiccup Plague" was first released on Nick Israel's website on July 1, 2020 (alongside the remainder of season 12), and its first television premiere was in Greece on September 28, 2020. It didn't air in the US until April 22, 2022. Many other season 12 episodes, such as "Plankton's Intern", "Bubble Bass's Tab", "Kooky Cooks", "Krusty Koncessionaires", and "Dream Hoppers" were also first released on Nick Israel.
  • "A Cabin in the Kelp" had an unannounced premiere on Italy on September 6, 2019. It aired in America on October 12.
  • "Kwarantined Krab" was released on Apple TV in Canada on November 18, 2020. It finally aired on the US in April 29, 2022 — over 3 years after the episode was announced.
  • "Patrick's Tantrum" aired in the US on February 25, 2022 — over a year after its DVD release on January 12, 2021.

Season 13

  • Season premieres "A Place for Pets" and "Lockdown for Love" were released in Canada and on Amazon Prime Video a week before their US airdates.
  • "Goofy Scoopers" first premiered in Canada on November 28, 2021, three months before its US airdate of February 25, 2022. It aired even earlier in November in Russian, too.
  • "Squidferatu" and "Slappy Daze" both aired a few hours early in Latin America, on the same day as their United States premieres.
  • The three Tidal Zone episodes ("Welcome to Binary Bottom," "You're Going to Pay...Phone," and "A Skin Wrinkle in Time") were released on Paramount+ Germany on January 12, 2023, a day before their US premieres.
  • "Abandon Twits" was leaked on November 18, 2022 in Brazil, before it had a US airdate scheduled. It then released on Paramount+ Germany on January 12, 2023, and aired in Italy a day later. It eventually premiered in the US on January 20th.
  • "Wallhalla" was released on Paramount+ Germany on January 12, 2023, and premiered in Italy the day after. It wouldn't reach the US until January 20th.
  • The final three episodes of season 13 — "Allergy Attack!", "Big Top Flop", and "Sandy, Help Us!" — were released on Paramount+ Australia a month before their intended premiere dates.

Season 14

  • "Squidiot Box" was released on Paramount+ Canada on December 5, 2023. It wouldn't premiere in the US until February 12, 2024.
  • "Don't Make Me Laugh" had a completely unexpected, unscheduled premiere on February 12, 2024, right after "Squidiot Box".

Other media

  • The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run was set to release in theaters in May 2020, but in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak it had its release delayed to early 2021, and it chose to forgo a theatrical release entirely in favor of premiering on VOD services including Paramount+, like many other animated films at the time. This does not hold true for the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Canada, where the film still got a theatrical release on August 13th (for the former two)/14th (for the latter), 2020, and pretty much the rest of the world, where the film went available on Netflix starting November 5, 2020.

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