Stuff Blowing Up / SpongeBob SquarePants

A friendly reminder of why you don't mess with Texas.

"When that pie goes up to bat— I mean, hits his lower intestine... BOOM!"

— Mr. Krabs, "Dying for Pie"

If there's one thing that happens in Bikini Bottom second to nautical nonsense, it's the amount of explosions that happen on a near-daily basis. Bikini Atoll was a nuclear test site, and apparently, the explosions never stopped.

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• In "Jellyfishing", Squidward accidentally swallows a jellyfish while bicycling, which he accidentally gets in his shirt and stings him, causing him to lose control of his bike as a result, sending him tumbling off a rocky cliff. Upon hitting the bottom, he explodes into a mushroom cloud.
• In "Naughty Nautical Neighbors", the amount of soda SpongeBob and Patrick had been given by Squidward is burped out into hundreds of gas bubbles, and when they all violently pop at once, they cause Squidward's house to explode into nothing but debris.
  Squidward: I should just walk away, right now.
• In "Employee of the Month", SpongeBob and Squidward race to make more Krabby Patties than each other, multiplying their output to the point that they make patties by the thousands that eventually fill the Krusty Krab to the brim and somehow cause it to be destroyed in a fiery explosion.
• In "Suds", a now-giant SpongeBob sneezes with enough force that it causes the Krusty Krab to explode.
• In "Texas", a bloodlusted Sandy chases after SpongeBob and Patrick for making fun of Texas, and when she lassos Patrick and pulls him into the horizon, he explodes into a mushroom cloud upon vanishing from sight.
• In "Something Smells", SpongeBob's bad breath causes a driver to lose their vision, and after recklessly driving for a short while, their boat spontaneously combusts, killing the driver and leaving nothing but a pipe frame. ...Which an officer still gives a ticket.
• "Dying for Pie" has no short of seven explosions, what with the titular pie being a bomb. When Mr. Krabs accidentally drops a crumb from the pie when trying to get his milk, the resulting explosion levels his entire office. Then, when SpongeBob seemingly eats the pie, Squidward has an Imagine Spot of him exploding into a million pieces. He then has another thought of SpongeBob exploding while he waits for the sunset alongside him. Once sunset finally arrives, a giant explosion happens, leaving Squidward a sobbing wreck, until another explosion happens that knocks over the brick wall he built, showing that SpongeBob has been blowing Cartoon Bombs made of bubbles, of which he blows a third one. Finally, after revealing he still has the pie, he trips over a rock and throws it in Squidward's face, with the resulting explosion destroying all of Bikini Bottom in a recreation of Crossroads Baker.
• In "Imitation Krabs", SpongeBob inserts a penny into Robot Krabs' chest, which activates his self-destruct mode, causing Plankton to run back to the Chum Bucket screaming, and the restaurant viscerally exploding.
  Plankton: Coin-operated self-destruct. Not one of my better ideas...
• In "Wormy", when SpongeBob and Patrick are celebrating "saving" Bikini Bottom from the "monster", a meteor can be seen hurdling into a building, causing it to fall to the ground and then explode into a mushroom cloud.
• In "Gary Takes a Bath", one of SpongeBob's ploys to get Gary to take a bath is to strap a bomb to his chest, saying it'll explode in 3 seconds unless he takes a bath. Gary proceeds to do nothing, letting SpongeBob explode into a pile of ashes.
• In "Band Geeks", the flag twirlers spin their flags so fast that they fly up into the air, hurdle toward a blimp, and cause it to explode upon impact. Cue a trumpet player playing Taps and Squidward curling up in a Troubled Fetal Position.
• In "The Algae's Always Greener", Mr. Plankton promotes SpongeBob to register duty, causing him to randomly grow a fuse in his head and literally explode in excitement.
• "My Pretty Seahorse" has two explosions, first with Squidward having a Call-Back to "Jellyfishing", with his bike losing the front wheel, tossing him off a rocky cliff, and exploding in a mushroom cloud when he hits the bottom, and second when Scooter puts his quarter in Mystery's "coin slot", causing her to kick him into the horizon and make him explode upon impact.
• Five explosions happen in "Just One Bite". First, when Squidward condemns the Krabby Patty after taking one bite, the two hearts in SpongeBob's eyes transform into two mushroom clouds. Later on, Squidward kicks over the Krusty Krab's burglar alarm, thinking it's just a bucket of water, until he recognizes the scent as gasoline, with a robot arm dropping a match on the puddle and making Squidward explode. He runs into the kitchen, where another gasoline bucket drops from the ceiling and makes him explode once again. Finally, after eating one too many Krabby Patties, SpongeBob tries to stop him.
  Squidward: What's gonna happen?! Am I gonna blow up?!
  SpongeBob: No, worse! It'll go right to your thighs!
  Squidward: My thighs...? (his thighs are bloated)
  SpongeBob: (beat) And then you'll blow up! (the Krusty Krab explodes)
• In "Doing Time", SpongeBob lays the entirety of Mrs. Puff's Boating School to waste with his reckless driving, and when he drives through the classroom itself, the building falls to the ground and then explodes.
• In "Squilliam Returns", SpongeBob's brain is full to bursting, and when he thinks he's about to explode, he literally explodes in a mushroom cloud, but remains just fine afterward.
• In "The Great Snail Race", Gary, after being pushed too hard by SpongeBob's training regime, has both of his eyeballs explode, followed by his shell to reveal a motor engine underneath, and when he finally crashes into the wall, he explodes into three mushroom clouds.
• In "SpongeBob Meets the Strangler", when SpongeBob reveals he had a spare key under the mat, the Strangler's head opens up like a flap and lets out a tiny mushroom cloud in anger.
• In "Pranks a Lot", Frank offers Patrick a stick of gum, which causes his head to explode and reveal a bone, with Frank revealing it was Exploding Chewing Gum, only $9.95.
  Patrick: I don't get it.
• In "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy VI: The Motion Picture", SpongeBob hires Sandy as the movie's demolitions expert, with her blowing up Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy three separate times. Of course, this also comes with some confusion when SpongeBob hires Plankton as the boom operator.
  Sandy: Did somebody say boom?! (explosion)
• In "Mrs. Puff, You're Fired", Sgt. Roderick forcing SpongeBob to drive for Mr. Fitz without a blindfold causes him to crash into a giant oil canister, which ends up blowing up the entire Boating School.
• In "Best Day Ever", SpongeBob tells Gary that he's so excited, he thinks he's gonna explode. Cue him actually exploding.
• "Friend or Foe" has two explosions. First, Plankton launches the bottom of his cake rocket into the safe containing the Krabby Patty Formula, which counts down until it explodes, allowing him to get his hands on the Formula. Then, when it cuts to him and Mr. Krabs in elementary school, Plankton creates a concoction that he says will "blow everyone away", but it only explodes on him.
• "Spy Buddies" has four explosions. First, when the Krabby Patty containing SpongeBob and Patrick's mission briefing is set to self-destruct, Patrick puts it in his pants to lessen the blow, causing SpongeBob to have an Ash Face and Patrick to lose his entire torso. Then, when the two hop into the Spymobile, Patrick decides to hit the self-destruct button, causing the Spymobile to explode. Later, Patrick can't hold it in anymore, and his laser pants go haywire, causing the Chum Bucket's glove to crash into the restaurant and make it explode. Finally, when Patrick pops Plankton's blimp, it hurdles into the Krusty Krab and causes it to explode upon impact.
• In "Roller Cowards", the Fiery Fist O' Pain is outfitted with a pyrotechnics system that causes an explosion at the last drop. Said explosion is seen four times in the episode.
• In "SpongeBob vs. The Patty Gadget", Squidward cranks the Patty Gadget into overdrive, but accidentally breaks the lever and runs out of the Krusty Krab. SpongeBob continues to make Krabby Patties until the Gadget gives in, and it promptly explodes with a blast loud enough that it wakes King Neptune.
• In "Sing a Song of Patrick", Patrick's song causes two pilots to rip their control panels out in pain, parachute out of their plane, and let the plane crash into a fireworks factory.
• In "The Krusty Plate", SpongeBob crosses the Spot-Master 6000's beams at the potential risk of ending all life, and reaching maximum power causes the Krusty Krab to explode in another recreation of Crossroads Baker.
• In "Pat No Pay", Patrick throws a money sack into the trash chute, thinking it's a trash bag, causing the trash compactor to clog up and eventually explode, destroying the Krusty Krab.
• In "The Battle of Bikini Bottom", SpongeBob steams red with anger from Patrick wearing Krabby Patties at socks, eventually causing him to explode and send Patrick flying out of the Krusty Krab and into a dumpster.
• "Stanley S. SquarePants" has four explosions. First, when Stanley marvels at SpongeBob's television, he mentions to him that Uncle Sherm never let him watch TV back at home, and when SpongeBob asks why, the television explodes, with Stanley saying, "That's why." Second, when SpongeBob lets Stanley man the cash register, he presses a button, causing the register to explode and then catch fire. Third, Harold has grown fed up with Stanley making the two cosplay, causing him to literally explode in anger. Finally, when Mr. Krabs sends Stanley to work at the Chum Bucket, he enters the restaurant, and it ends up exploding.
  Stanley: Sorry, boss.
• In "House Fancy", Squidward's vacuum goes on a rampage and sucks up everything in the house, until it explodes and destroys Squidward's house, with the debris looking akin to abstract art.
• In "Slide Whistle Stooges", Squidward hijacks an oil truck and drives it loonily, only to then notice a cliff up ahead, drive off it, and explode upon hitting the bottom.
• In "Shuffleboarding", SpongeBob and Patrick have all of Bikini Bottom thrown in jail for the most mundane reasons, and upon throwing Man Ray and Mable in, the prison explodes, with the townsfolk falling from the sky.
• In "Sand Castles in the Sand", SpongeBob directs Patrick's anti-air missiles into crashing into his castle, and in retaliation, Patrick drops a nuke made of sand on SpongeBob's castle. As a last-ditch effort, SpongeBob flies his sand jet directly into Patrick's robot head, causing the two to explode.
• In "Chum Bucket Supreme", Plankton shoving a Chum Stick into SpongeBob's mouth causes him to swell until he explodes, lifting the Chum Bucket off the ground.
• In "Single Cell Anniversary", Karen is so touched by Plankton's song that she begins crying Tears of Joy, which splash onto her mainframe and cause her to short-circuit. Right as she's ready to load the Krabby Patty Formula, she ends up exploding, with Plankton lamenting and SpongeBob celebrating.
• In "Squidward in Clarinetland" a vacuum known as "The Pressure" begins sucking up the entirety of Clarinetland, and upon exploding, it leaves behind a mushroom cloud visible from space.
• In "Rodeo Daze", Plankton plans on carrying a stack of dynamite all the way to the Krusty Krab, but he doesn't even get halfway across the street before it explodes on him.
• In "That Sinking Feeling", Patrick plans to mail himself over to SpongeBob's house, but he can't fit into his mailbox, causing it to topple over and somehow combust into a fiery explosion.
• In "The Wreck of the Mauna Loa", the Mauna Loa becomes free of its moorings, ends up flipped up into the air, and comes crashing back down to the ground, exploding in a mushroom cloud.
• "Frozen Face-Off" has two explosions. First, Plankton hooks up a bunch of dynamite to the Krabby Patty Formula's safe, but upon exploding, the safe sustains no damage. Later, Plankton has had enough with the safe's durability, causing him to rip a piece of the safe off, rip one of its molecules in half, and then rip one of its atoms in half. Plankton then realizes ripping apart the atom was a mistake, and yet another recreation of Crossroads Baker is created, which destroys the Krusty Krab and finally opens up the safe.
• In "Ghoul Fools", the Flying Dutchman plans on taking Lord Poltergeist out by ripping out his eye, transforming into a nuke, and dropping it on his ship, with the explosion resulting in everyone on Lord Poltergeist's ship being sent to the Void.
• In "Mermaid Man Begins", part of Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy's backstory has a tidal wave of acid send the two careening into a bomb testing site, where the explosion exposes them to radium gases.
• In "Karen 2.0", a little after her defeat, Karen 2's head starts to shake violently until her screen ends up exploding.
• In "Demolition Doofus", Mrs. Puff becomes so enraged with SpongeBob that her pupils transform into him laughing, until he explodes from the inside out.
• In "Extreme Spots", after Not Dead Ted gets stung by a giant jellyfish, it throws him in between Johnny Krill motorcycling and Grand Maul Granny surfing on a wave of jellyfish, and the members of the Drasticals colliding causes them all to simultaneously explode in a nuclear blast.
• In "Gary's New Toy", after Gary's ball crashes into the television, it ends up catching on fire, with the fire eventually spreading to the whole house. While the firefighters are trying to put out the fire, the television then explodes much later than anticipated.
• "Jailbreak!" has two explosions. First, one of Plankton's lackeys is seen committing a bank robbery by tossing a bucket of chum into the bank, until it explodes into noxious gas, blindsiding everyone who's already in the bank. Then, a tower guard stops Plankton in his tracks, only to then realize he's right beside his own mixture of chum and soap that's about to go off, exploding both him and the wall.
• Two explosions occur of the same nature in "Evil Spatula". The Krabby Patty Formula calls for a drop of disulfide, but SpongeBob accidentally squeezes two drops in, causing the mixture to explode and reduce SpongeBob and Mr. Krabs to dust. Later, when Plankton has Mr. Krabs tell him the Formula, he's told to pour the entire bottle of disulfide into the mixture, causing the entire Chum Bucket to explode.
• In "It Came From Goo Lagoon", Plankton successfully blackmails Mr. Krabs into giving him the Krabby Patty Formula, but when he opens up the paper, it's revealed to be a decoy laced with a stick of TNT that promptly explodes on Plankton.
  Plankton: Darn it, Krabs!
• In "Tutor Sauce", SpongeBob's reckless driving results in a highway disturbance, causing a whole bunch of boats to come crashing into the Krusty Krab, until an oil truck crashes into it and causes the restaurant to explode.
• In "Company Picnic", once Plankton's ruse has been found out, Mr. Krabs sticks Plankton on a paper plate coated in mustard, and throws the plate like a frisbee into the horizon, where it somehow explodes into a mushroom cloud upon landing.
• In "Married to Money", while on their honeymoon, Mr. Krabs accidentally cries into Cashina's mouth, causing her to explode and be revealed as Actually a Doombot.
• In "Pineapple Invasion", Plankton hooks six TNT sticks up to the Krabby Patty Formula's safe, then hooks the fuse of one up to a battery, causing them all to explode at once.
• In "Snooze You Lose", SpongeBob and Patrick accidentally pilot Squidward's body into a female fish, causing her to fall to the ground and resulting in her smartphone exploding.
• "Plankton Retires" has two explosions. First, Plankton sticks a stack of gunpowder shaped like Mr. Krabs' face on top of the Krabby Patty Formula's safe, hooks it up to a detonation plunger, and causes it to explode. Then, when the SpongeBob, Mr. Krabs, and Plankton robots are partying in Dullsville, they end the episode by exploding all at once.
• In "The Getaway", SpongeBob accidentally knocks into two boats while being blinded by boat wash suds, causing the two boats to spontaneously explode.
• In "Stuck on the Roof", Sandy's Extend-O-Boots accidentally kick Squidward off into the distance, which causes him to explode upon landing.
• In "Teacher's Pests", SpongeBob slowly drives his test boat up to the wreckage caused by Mr. Krabs and Plankton, and upon his test boat tapping theirs, they all explode into a giant nuclear blast.
• In "Old Man Patrick", after Marco attempts to beat up Clarabelle, she uppercuts him into the distance, where he explodes upon hitting the ground.
• In "Bottle Burglars", Plankton attempts to open up the bottle containing the Krabby Patty Formula by dropping a whole bunch of explosives on it at once. It doesn't work.
• In "My Leg!", SpongeBob attempts to use a table leg to show Fred a safer way to chop up wood, but he accidentally ends up getting stuck in the saw blades, resulting in the entire lumbering factory that Fred works at exploding.
• In "Plankton Paranoia", Plankton pulls the Krabby Patty Formula out of its bottle, but doesn't account for the fact that a stick of TNT is also hiding in there, blowing up the Chum Bucket.
  Plankton: Mommy!
• In "Library Cards", Patrick throws the television down the stairs, with Snail Fail and Sir Urchin from the show playing on it reacting to each step they hit, only for the television to explode when it's off-screen.
• In "The Grill is Gone", Mr. Krabs flicks Plankton out of the race, and upon colliding with a rock, he ends up exploding.
• In "Bubbletown", when SpongeBob slips on bubble soap and accidentally destroys Bubbletown, he ends up popping the school, which causes it to explode in a mushroom cloud made of bubbles.

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