Cross-Dressing Voices: Patrick and Mermaid Man are voiced by Ikuko Tani (an old lady) in Japanese; Plankton, however, is voiced by Chie Matsuraa, a young woman who doesn't even try to match Plankton's English voice.
In the episode "Mid-Life Crustacean", a driver that mocks Spongebob and company shares the exact same voice actress (and voice) as Kevin from Ed Edd N Eddy. There's even a Shout Out in his dialog...
Driver: Hey, you guys must be lost; Doofus Drive is around the corner!
Non-Singing Voice: Ever wonder why Mr. Krabs sounds so weird when he sings in "Welcome to the Chum Bucket"? Yes, that's Dee Bradley Baker singing, not Clancy Brown though he does his own singing in all other episodes.
The Other Darrin: Man Ray's first appearance in "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V" was voiced by Guy Siner and John Rhys-Davies. Man Ray's subsequent appearances have been voiced by Bob Joles.
Every Background fishes voices changed a lot.
Recycled Script: A few old episodes of the show seem to have recycled plots from other Nicktoons. "Toy Store of Doom", for example, has essentially the same plot as the Rugrats episode "Toy Palace" (they get locked in a closed toy store and are afraid the toys will attack them), while "Banned in Bikini Bottom" (Krabby Patties are outlawed and Mr. Krabs starts selling them at SpongeBob's house secretly) is similar to the CatDog episode "Just Say CatDog Sent You".
"Picture Day" has a recycled script from an episode of a Disney show: the Recess episode "One Stayed Clean". "Big Pink Loser" is also extremely similar to "Copycat Kid".
"Sailor Mouth" is very similar to "Bleeped", but airs much more frequently.
"Squid Defense" is very similar to the Hey Arnold! episode "Mugged"
What Could Have Been: Apparently Adult Swim asked if the creator would be willing to make a Darker and Edgier SpongeBob show on their network, where Patrick and SpongeBob would be a gay couple, ala Ren and Stimpy. He declined.
Early production sketches indicate the cast was originally human.
Word Of God: Stephen Hillenburg has made it perfectly clear that Spongebob is (despite what most Moral Guardians and the LGBT community seem to think) asexual. He also adds that Spongebob has a chaste crush on Sandy.
In terms of the series itself Word Of God also states that in spite of the series continuing to this day; the original team members and the Hillenburg himself say that the first theatrical movie is the end of Spongebob's story.
