History Awesome / SpongeBobSquarePants

* After an electric shock affects Squidward's brain in "A Breath of Fresh Squidward", he ends up as friendly, competent and beloved as [=SpongeBob=], to the point of finally winning Employee of the Month and breaking the latter's winning streak. Extra points for spending most of the episode basically getting indirect payback on [=SpongeBob=] and [[LaserGuidedKarma driving him crazy]] with his own clingy, over the top antics.

* After an electric shock affects Squidward's brain in "A Breath of Fresh Squidward", he ends up as friendly, competent and beloved as [=SpongeBob=], to the point of finally winning Employee of the Month and breaking the latter's winning streak. Extra points for spending most of the episode basically getting indirect payback on [=SpongeBob=] and [[HypocriticalHumor driving him crazy]] with his own clingy, over the top antics.

* In "Squilliam Returns", Squidward's plans to make Squilliam think that he is the owner of a five-star restaurant end up starting to derail at the last minute. Luckily, [=SpongeBob=] manages to transform the Krusty Krab into a five-star restaurant within '''seconds''', and Squidward succeeds in having another victory over Squilliam (even if it [[DownerEnding didn't last long]])]]. This episode, along with "Band Geeks", both show that [[HiddenDepths SpongeBob has the power to help out Squidward when he's in need. (Well sure, the fact that he was given a book called "How To Become A Fancy Waiter in Less Than 20 Minutes" may have helped as well.)

* The stand-off at the end of "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS1E6MermaidmanandBarnacleboyPickles Pickles]]". After going into a funk for forgetting to put pickles in a Patty, [=SpongeBob=] loses his confidence. This leads to a HeroicBSOD sequence of him failing the order of simple tasks (from word order to cooking). After days of help from Mr. Krabs, he eventually remembers the order, and we get the badass sequence. With [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqvq_B5WeH4 this]] music playing, we see the epic western-esque stand off between Bubble Bass and [=SpongeBob=]. The facial expressions, [=SpongeBob's=] cool, confident demeanor vs the roars of Bubble Bass, the tension, it was all worth it in the end as [=SpongeBob=] figures out that [[spoiler: Bubble Bass was hiding the pickles for both confrontations (along with, inexplicably, someone's car keys) under his tongue.]] He deserved all the cheers at the end.

* In ''Neptune's Spatula'', [=SpongeBob=] pulls a golden spatula out of ancient grease, fulfilling an ancient prophecy about someone destined to be Neptune's personal fry cook. Neptune doesn't believe [=SpongeBob=] has what it takes. Neptune challenges him to a cooking contest. If he wins, he gets to be the fry cook; if he loses, he has to give up his job forever. [[spoiler: [=SpongeBob=] only makes one patty, [[CurbstompBattle while King Neptune is able to make hundreds]]. [=SpongeBob=] loses, until it turns out that [[QualityOverQuantity the crowd hates the patties King Neptune made, while King Neptune finds [=SpongeBob's=] patty delicious]]. But instead of being Neptune's cook, [=SpongeBob=] becomes King Neptune's mentor.]]

* In "Squilliam Returns", Squidward's plans to make Squilliam think that he is the owner of a five-star restaurant end up starting to derail at the last minute. Luckily, [=SpongeBob=] manages to transform the Krusty Krab into a five-star restaurant within '''seconds''', and Squidward succeeds in having another victory over Squilliam [[spoiler: (even if it [[DownerEnding didn't last long]])]]. This episode, along with "Band Geeks", both show that [[HiddenDepths SpongeBob has the power to help out Squidward when he's in need]]. (Well sure, the fact that he was given a book called "How To Become A Fancy Waiter in Less Than 20 Minutes" may have helped as well.)

* Plankton finally getting his dream to grow an extra hundred feet [[spoiler: or rather, centimetres, considering his scale]] to be able to crush his enemies in "Wishing You Well". One of the very few episodes to leave him on a happy note, merrily smashing large buildings to a pulp.
* In "Rule of Dumb", Patrick becomes king after it's discovered that he is of royal descent, then he proceeds to be an asshole by taking other peoples' things and do whatever he wants. Then, when he attempts to destroy Squidward's house in order to build a personal amusement park, wait for this...[[spoiler: '''SQUIDWARD,''' ''the biggest ButtMonkey in the show,'' is able to get the construction workers to stop messing with his house and convince them that Patrick is an incompetent ruler, so he shouldn't be listen to!]] Then, when [=SpongeBob=] tries to get Squidward to comply by signing a treaty,[[spoiler: Squidward (non-fatally) puts it through [=SpongeBob=]'s forehead.]]

* In one episode, Mr. Krabs discovers Gary has a "talent" for finding spare change, so he begins to take Gary around Bikini Bottom, stealing all the spare change he can find while keeping [=SpongeBob=] distracted by assigning him multiple tasks at the Krusty Krab. Eventually, one of Mr. Krabs' victims bumps into [=SpongeBob=] on the street, indirectly claiming his change was stolen by Mr. Krabs. The writers could've easily made [=SpongeBob=] dismiss the whole thing, but instead, he goes full PapaWolf, confronts Mr. Krabs at his next heist, and straight up ''stands up against his own boss'' for abusing Gary. Considering how he seldom does that, it was great seeing that [=SpongeBob=] was setting that {{Jerkass}} straight. Unfortunately, this glorious moment is cut short considering that [[spoiler: during the whole confrontation, Gary was collecting an ''entire tidal wave'' of change, distracting Mr. Krabs and prompting [=SpongeBob=] and Gary to make a break for it. Mr. Krabs ended up in the hospital, and all the change he heisted was used to pay his health bills.]] [[LaserGuidedKarma Served him right]].

* "Frozen Face-Off". How badly does Plankton want the Krabby Patty formula? [[spoiler: He goes as far as to rip a piece of the safe holding it off, before ripping THAT in half, and than proceeds to rip apart an ATOM, all with his BARE HANDS! This results in an atomic blast, destroying the Krusty Krab, as well as the safe...but NOT PLANKTON! Plankton, a being so small that he is defeated by being stepped on, SURVIVES AN ATOMIC BLAST, while being right in the center, something that would kill ''ANYONE'', he survives. All because he wants the Krabby Patty formula.]]

* The first five minutes of "Little Yellow Book", in which Squidward '''finally''' gets back at [=SpongeBob=] by reading embarrassing entries in his diary, [[spoiler:regardless of the entire town alienating him for the remainder of the episode. At the end he also reads [=SpongeBob's=] other diary while the town is pelting him with fruit and is laughing so hard [[WorthIt he doesn't even care]].]]

* Even with all the terrible things Mr. Krabs has done throughout the show (especially in recent seasons), he was able to have an awesome moment in "Seance Shemeance" when he [[spoiler: single-handedly defeated and rounded up all the ghosts and ghouls into the bubble... with a mop!]]
* In the ''[=SpongeBob=], You're Fired'' special, [[spoiler:SQUIDWARD of all people saved [=SpongeBob=] from the other restaurant owners who were fighting over him and brought him back to the Krusty Krab to work again]].

** Plankton [[WhatTheHellHero chewing out Mr. Krabs for not caring about Pearl,]] ''twice.'' [[spoiler:The second time, he sends Mr. Krabs into a HeroicBSOD.]]
** Mr. Krabs [[spoiler:breaking everybody out of the Krusty Krab using "the strongest force under the sea-- --[[ThePowerOfLove A DADDY'S LOVE FER HIS DAUGHTER!]]"]]
*** [[spoiler:Then he tries to use this same power to rescue Pearl, but Plankton decides to save her instead, since he wanted to redeem himself.]]

--->'''Sandy:''' PATRICK-- [[spoiler:YER HELMET'S MELTING!]]

*** Even better, he actually predicted it by [[InvokedTrope invoking]] ChekhovsGun in part 1, and in the cliffhanger he even said he wasn't sure how his helmet would save the day. Now he has the perfect use for it! [[spoiler:Well, almost...]]

** Then there's the story that the cover is based on, "Super Villain Team Up," where Plankton does a VillainTeamUp with Man Ray (and eventually Man Ray's entire rogues gallery thanks to [=SpongeBob=]'s obliviousness to his motives) to steal the Krabby Patty formula. If they hadn't [[spoiler:destroyed the Krusty Krab for 8 hours straight,]] they would've won, and their plan is ultimately thwarted by Mermaid Man and Golden Doubloon, AKA Mr. Krabs who's been trained by Mermaid Man to become a superhero. The Gilded Guardian manages to use his coin weaponry to easily take down all of the Mermaid Man villains EXCEPT Man Ray, who easily deflects the coins with his Galactic Glove, so [=SpongeBob=] makes Man Ray vulnerable by using an "[[MundaneUtility Oven Mitt of Destiny]]" to easily yank the glove out of Man Ray's hand, allowing Golden Doubloon to finish the job. Once all that's said and done...

* "Karate Choppers", mainly the ending, when Mr. Krabs catches [=SpongeBob=] and Sandy having karate-chopped the whole park after he sternly banned [=SpongeBob=] from karate. Although initially furious with the duo, he quickly realizes how to put their destructive hobby to good use when he sees all of the sandwiches they made with their karate skills, and brings them on to rapidly assemble Krabby Patties with their karate, [[WinWinEnding allowing SpongeBob to keep his job, both him and Sandy to keep their hobby, all while making Mr. Krabs extra money.]]

* In "Squirrel Jokes", spongebob's insulting jokes begin go beyond hurting Sandy's feelings and causing people to demean her openly. When she asks him to stop, and he faces a crowd who are eagerly expecting more squirrel jokes and will not respond well without them, he has an internal crisis. Initially, [[HopeSpot it looks like Spongebob will do the right thing and has abandoned his act]], only for him to [[TearJerker burst right back out through the curtain with the squirrel insults cranked]] UpToEleven, choosing his career over his friends. Sandy decides to punish him in an ''amazingly'' petty way by inviting him over to the tree dome and taking on the persona of a genuinely stupid hillbilly until her antics cause Spongebob harm. She doesn't quit at the first sign of relent, either, but pushes him until she can be very, ''very'' sure he gets the picture.

* SpongeBob utterly losing it at the end by screaming and bursting out the door at the end of "I'm With Stupid". One of the very few scenes in the pre-movie era where he gets genuinely angry.

* Squidward ''finally'' gets a restraining order on Spongebob, even though it's protrayed as a bad thing.

** Patrick tries to shatter the glass jar everyone is in using his head. This line alone lets out all kinds of badass:

** Plankton [[WhatTheHellHero chews out Mr. Krabs for not caring about Pearl,]] ''twice.'' [[spoiler:The second time, he sends Mr. Krabs into a HeroicBSOD.]]

Who amazes viewers from under the sea? [=SpongeBob=] [=SqaurePants=]!

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic "And it's sweet, sweet, sweet victory, YEAH!"]]'']]

** Earlier in episode, we havd this:

** What rating of this episode on Website/IMDB? ''9,8!''

** Granted, the NoHoldsBarredBeatdow was hilarious well-deserved karma after Patrick assumed the wallet Man Ray wanted to give back to him wasn't his, even after clear evidence and repeatedly dropping a box onto his foot. Even after [=Spongebob=] turned on the tickle belt, Man Ray still continued to beat up Patrick! He was THAT dedicated to making him pay for his stupidity!

* As [[DudeNotFunny revilled]] as "Gone" is, [=Spongebob=] shoving Patrick off the bus was extremely worthy, especially since he was one of the people who was participating in "National No Spongebob Day.
** It's also awesome for people who don't like Patrick for [[{{Jerkass}} his recent behavior and actions]].

** Plankton also deserved it since he showed [[NoSympathy no sympathy]] when [=SpongeBob=] was crying when he thought "Gary" was about to pass away.

'''Patrick:''' I've got one! I'm thinking of a number between 1 and 100, what is it?\\

** Another awesome moment goes to the [[SeasonalRot writers]] of all people. In the beginning, [=SpongeBob=] says that he gave Patrick his brain for two chocolate bars, something a viewer could forget about. But when [=SpongeBob=] is helping Squidward, he acts really out of character and just out of it (EX: he is asked to paint a faded spot of the wall in Squidward's house. Normally, he would just do it and probably mess up in someway, but instead, he absorbs the paint and covers the whole room.) Then, when Patrick appears, he reveals that [=SpongeBob's=] brain really was given to him. One could expect the writers to make [=SpongeBob=] really stupid, but instead they had him act unlike his normal himself. [[SincerityMode Pretty good writing for an episode otherwise considered pretty lackluster.]]

* The fight scene in "Sand Castles in the Sand". They just had enough badassery to create all of that with nothing but sand. The battle also ends in the most awesome way possible. After Patrick ''nukes'' [=SpongeBob's=] castle, [=SpongeBob=] ''kamikazes his fighter jet into the [[ItMakesSenseInContext giant robot head Patrick was piloting]]''!
** Onto that note, Patrick firing a cannonball at [=SpongeBob=]'s forces.

** The episode itself can be considered a meta example for the writers, since it was written during ''[[SeasonalRot season 6]]'', widely considered one of the major points of the series DorkAge, and managed to be met with such high praise that [[WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter One of the harshest critics of this era of Spongebob]] called it "[excluding "Band Geeks"] probably my favorite episode". Perhaps this was a very early omen of the series' [[WinBackTheCrowd eventual recovery being set in motion.]]

** The episode itself can be considered a meta example for the writers, since it was written during ''[[SeasonalRot season 6]]'', widely considered one of the major points of the series DorkAge, and managed to be met with such high praise that [[WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter One of the harshest critics of this era of Spongebob]] called it "[excluding "Band Geeks"] probably my favorite episode". Perhaps this was a sign of the series' eventual recovery.

** The episode is so beloved, in fact, that ''dozens'' of animators collaborated together to make a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxRD3wgOgjA reanimated version]] on Youtube for free.

* A minor one, but Sandy [[LiteralAssKicking kicking Spongebob's rear end]] at the end of the episode for [[LaserGuidedKarma having made a sexist comment]].

* Squidward got one in "Pizza Delivery". After going through hell, [=SpongeBob=] finally got the pizza to the customer, who proceeds to bitch and scream about how they didn't bring him a drink (which he didn't order) and refuses to take the pizza. [=SpongeBob=] returns to Squidward in hysterical tears, and Squidward -- who, mind you, despises [=SpongeBob=] -- goes back to the customer...and has a ''major'' PapaWolf moment.

** Followed by Squidward's epic line: "He ate the whole thing in one bite."

** Plankton [[WhatTheHellHero chews out Mr. Krabs for not caring about Pearl,]] ''twice.'' [[spoiler:The second time, he sends Mr. Krabs into a HeroicBSOD]]

* [=SpongeBob=] epically [[BewareTheNiceOnes chewing out]] Randy Albacore in "The Liar!" for humiliating him when no-one would believe that [=SpongeBob=] had met him.
-->'''[=SpongeBob=]''': You... '''RUINED MY LIFE! EVERYONE THINKS I'M A ''LIAR'' NOW BECAUSE OF ''YOU!''''' Why don't you ''leave me alone''? Why didn't you ''ignore'' me? I'm ''not'' a liar! But because of ''you'', no one ''believes'' me now!
* Patrick beating the literal pulp out of Gourdy in 'Gourd of Horror'.

* Even "A Pal For Gary" has an awesome moment - upon seeing his master in danger of being eaten, Gary immediately overcomes his fear of Puffy Fluffy and bravely whips the monster to knock [=SpongeBob=] out of his mouth and drive him away. It becomes twice as awesome when you remember that [=SpongeBob=] has treated Gary like crap throughout the whole episode, yet Gary STILL chooses to come to the rescue instead of leaving [=SpongeBob=] to die.

* In "One Coarse Meal", [=SpongeBob=] actually pulls an EverybodyHasStandards moment as he calls Mr. Krabs out for scaring Plankton into eventual suicide. It's no doubt our favorite sponge wants to defend his worst enemy.

* In "One Coarse Meal", [=SpongeBob=] actually pulls an EverybodyHasStandards moment as he calls Mr. Krabs out for scaring Plankton into eventual suicide. It's no doubt our favorite sponge wants to defend his worst memory.