History HilariousInHindsight / SpongeBobSquarePants

* In "Idiot Box", [=SpongeBob=] makes a rainbow between his hands as he says the word "Imagination". Kind of reminiscent of [[Series/''ResshaSentai[=ToQger=]'']] and it's Rainbow Line fueled by imagination. They even use the English word instead of the Japanese for "imagination"!

* In "Bossy Boots", a fish mocks [=SpongeBob=] by offering him a ride to a "big doofus convention". We ''do'' see a society of idiots in "The Nitwitting", complete with rules and traditions, and [=SpongeBob=] joins them for a day.

* In "Idiot Box", [=SpongeBob=] makes a rainbow between his hands as he says the word "Imagination". Kind of reminiscent of [[Series/''ResshaSentai[=ToQger''=]] and it's Rainbow Line fueled by imagination. They even use the English word instead of the Japanese for "imagination"!

* In "Idiot Box", [=SpongeBob=] makes a rainbow between his hands as he says the word "Imagination". Kind of reminiscent of [[Series/''ResshaSentai[[=ToQger''=]]]] and it's Rainbow Line fueled by imagination. They even use the English word instead of the Japanese for "imagination"!

* In "Idiot Box", [=SpongeBob=] makes a rainbow between his hands as he says the word "Imagination". Kind of reminiscent of [[Series/''ResshaSentaiToQger'']] and it's Rainbow Line fueled by imagination. They even use the English word instead of the Japanese for "imagination"!

* In "Idiot Box", [=SpongeBob=] makes a rainbow between his hands as he says the word "Imagination". Kind of reminiscent of [[Series/ResshaSentaiToQger|''Ressha Sentai [=ToQger=]'']] and it's Rainbow Line fueled by imagination. They even use the English word instead of the Japanese for "imagination"!

* In "Idiot Box", [=SpongeBob=] makes a rainbow between his hands as he says the word "Imagination". Kind of reminiscent of [Series/ResshaSentaiToQger''Ressha Sentai [=ToQger=]'' and it's Rainbow Line fueled by imagination. They even use the English word instead of the Japanese for "imagination"!

* In "Idiot Box", [=SpongeBob=] makes a rainbow between his hands as he says the word "Imagination". Kind of reminiscent of ''Series/Ressha Sentai [=ToQger=]'' and it's Rainbow Line fueled by imagination. They even use the English word instead of the Japanese for "imagination"!

* In "Idiot Box", [=SpongeBob=] makes a rainbow between his hands as he says the word "Imagination". Kind of reminiscent of ''Ressha Sentai [=ToQger=]'' and it's Rainbow Line fueled by imagination. They even use the English word instead of the Japanese for "imagination"!

* Karen's name, by itself, would just become unfortunate relation to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_(pejorative) "Karen" stereotype]], except it becomes this with the fact that she's ''married'' to a manager.

* In "Idiot Box", [=SpongeBob=] makes a rainbow between his hands as he says the word "Imagination". Kind of reminiscent of ''Ressha Sentai [=ToQger=]'' and it's Rainbow Line fueled by imagination. They even use the English word instead of the Japanese for "imagination"! '''Looks like FanMyopia, but I could be wrong'''
* A character with a lonely house life has a holographic "meal" prepared for him by his AI wife. Are we talking about Plankton and Karen, or [[Film/BladeRunner2049 Officer K and Joi?]] '''Looks like FanMyopia, but I could be wrong'''

* Any time someone used "[[WesternAnimation/SouthPark fish sticks]]" as an UnusualEuphemism.
* In the movie, [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick [[WesternAnimation/RegularShow stop a monster from eating them by hamboning]].
* C.H. Greenblatt was one of the writers of the show before leaving for Creator/CartoonNetwork [[WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}} for his own show]], [[WesternAnimation/FishHooks eventually, he writes for a show with a fish-based premise.]]
* In the episode "SB-129" where Squidward went to the future, Spongetron says that "everything is chrome in the future". Website/{{Google}} Chrome seems pretty popular nowadays.
* In the ''Hall Monitor'' episode, Patrick described the Maniac as just standing around '''menacingly!!'' Compare this to a HumanoidAbomination [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos known for being scary just for standing around]].
* In "Squidtastic Voyage", Patrick thinks that the world growing is more likely than the sub he and [=SpongeBob=] are in shrinking. Well, in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', the ResetButton of Baljeet's watermelon (and Candace) being 50 feet tall is pressed via a gas that makes everything grow 50 times their normal size affecting ''the universe''.
* In "Hooky", [=SpongeBob=] panics over the thought of being sold in a gift shop. Guess what happened in ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie''?
* Remember the "Texas is Stupid" mocking to Sandy? Well there is now a show called {{WesternAnimation/Motorcity}} that has an idiotic character named Texas, who is a GeniusDitz at best.
* Creator/DeeBradleyBaker voices various fish characters and minor characters. One of his most famous roles would later be a [[WesternAnimation/AmericanDad talking fish.]]

* "Party Pooper Pants": "Well, well, well. What do we have here? A burglar bunny!" Sounds like an awful accurate description of [[VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosU Nabbit]].
* In "Can You Spare A Dime?", Squidward justifies quitting his job at the Krusty Krab by stating that he can be anything he wants, like "a football player, or a king, or a spaceman". [=SpongeBob=] answers by combining all three suggestions into "[[BreadEggsBreadedEggs a football-playing king in space]]", which would later come to be a pretty accurate description of one [[Series/KamenRiderFourze Shun Daimonji]].
** And you can also add ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey'' to the list, given how you can A) mix and match costume parts, B) acquire [[spoiler:a football player costume in the Moon Kingdom ''and'' a king costume in Dark Side]], and C) [[spoiler:actually go to space]]. This setup has the bonus of ''also'' including [=SpongeBob=]'s extra "With a mustache!" characteristic.
* Speaking of ''Kamen Rider'', in "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V", an organization called "E.V.I.L" exists - which stands for "Every Villain Is Lemons". Did they predict [[Series/KamenRiderGaim Ryoma Sengoku/Kamen Rider Duke]]?
*** Or [[WesternAnimation/AdventureTime Lemongrab?]] Or the [[WesternAnimation/Cars2 Lemon cars?]] Or [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Bill Cipher?]] Or [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse Yellow Diamond?]] [[OverlyLongGag Or]] [[WebVideo/DontHugMeImScared Roy?]]
** Also in that episode, a fish can be seen kissing a pillow. This was before [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakimakura dakimakuras]] were a thing.
* In "Dunces and Dragons," Sandy's ancestor is known as "Film/TheDarkKnight".
* In "As Seen on TV," Mr. Krabs questions the [[WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie second Krusty Krab]] that Squidward is using in the commercial.

* The episode "I'm with Stupid" has a TwistEnding: [[spoiler:Patrick's "parents" are not actually his parents. The Creator/MNightShyamalan movie ''{{Film/The Visit}}'' has a similar plot twist.]]
* There was a short for Nickelodeon's [[Advertising/{{Nickmas}} "Ha Ha Holidays" block]] from the early 2000's called ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGPbeKdDBRE Patrick the Snowman]]'' that also served as a crossover between this show, ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheWildThornberrys''; a few years later, ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfFrostyTheSnowman'' would not only feature voice actors who worked on one or more of these shows but Patrick's voice actor (Bill Fagerbakke) played the part of [[WesternAnimation/FrostyTheSnowman Frosty himself!]] ''With the same voice!''
* In the episode "Krab Borg", one of the ways to tell if someone is a robot is to use love, because according to [=SpongeBob=], robots can't love. [[WesternAnimation/WallE 6 years later...]]
* When [=SpongeBob=] was thinking up of ideas for a substitute friend in "Bubble Buddy," one of them was "Stick Buddy." [[Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers Prior to Italy, Germany's only friend was a stick.]] [[Literature/WarriorCats Jayfeather]] would know about that, too.
* In "Pickles," [=SpongeBob=] completely fails to sleep on a bed properly and chooses to sleep in between the mattress and bed frame at first just like how [[AmnesiacHero Josuke]] [[CloudCuckooLander Higashikata]] from [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureJojolion Jojolion]] does early on.
* In "Idiot Box", [=SpongeBob=] makes a rainbow between his hands as he says the word "Imagination". Kind of reminiscent of ''Ressha Sentai [=ToQger=]'' and it's Rainbow Line fueled by imagination. They even use the English word instead of the Japanese for "imagination"!
* At the beginning of "The Slumber Party", Pearl yells "[[WesternAnimation/AdventureTime UNACCEPTABLE!]]".
* "Sponge Guard On Duty": "I'm not just ready, [[{{VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys}} I'm ready Freddy]]."
* Patrick's line of "You're gonna miss the '''panty raid'''." in the episode ''Mid-Life Crustacean''. It was already a funny joke to begin with, but then the ''VideoGame/SenranKagura'' series comes out several years later which has an online mode that includes ''literal'' panty raids. Some fans of the series even used Patrick's exact line as a way to welcome players into an online match.
* In "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy II", Mermaid Man's speech to Barnacle Boy after the latter berates [=SpongeBob=]. Some of the words being "Don't squash his enthusiasm. After all, he could be the hero of tomorrow, or the villain." [[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles Sound familiar?!]]
* [[http://data.whicdn.com/images/33604802/original.png This image]] from "Just One Bite" is a lot funnier due to the circumstances surrounding the [[FetishRetardant [=McChicken=] video]].
* The scene in "I Had an Accident" where a gorilla threateningly picks up [=SpongeBob=] seems to have gotten more popular after what happened with Harambe in the Cincinnati Zoo.

* In "Club [=SpongeBob=]", [=SpongeBob=] suggests Squidward consult the magic conch about what food to eat, to which Squidward mockingly replies "''Right after I consult the magic toenail''". Three seasons later, a toenail [[SuddenAnatomy magically appears on Squidward's foot]] [[AgonyOfTheFeet to be grotesquely peeled off]] by [=SpongeBob=] in "House Fancy".
* The episode "Best Day Ever" ended with [=SpongeBob=] and friends singing the song of the same name as part of a stage performance. Years later, the song would be featured in ''Theatre/TheSpongeBobMusical''.
* A character with a lonely house life has a holographic "meal" prepared for him by his AI wife. Are we talking about Plankton and Karen, or [[Film/BladeRunner2049 Officer K and Joi?]]
* This certainly would ''not'' be the last time Tom Kenny would voice a character [[WesternAnimation/FinalSpace that took care of a Gary who liked eating cookies]].
* The premise of "Krusty Dogs" involves the Krusty Krab getting a new menu item and changing its name. In Summer 2018, IHOP temporarily did the same, changing their name to "[=IHOb=]" to promote their new "Ultimate Steakburgers" (though unlike the Krusty Krab, they did not remove their signature menu item).
* ''[=SpongeBob=] Freestyle Funnies 2018'' involved the entire Mermaid Man RoguesGallery coming together. Did United Plankton Pictures just predict ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate''?
** It's also similar to [[VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon Team Rainbow Rocket]] from the previous year.

* How does Squidward enter the world of clarinets in "Squidward in Clarinetland"? [[WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}} Crawling through a small door]].
* In the episode "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy III," [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar Man Ray, a supervillain wants and uses a gauntlet-shaped weapon to turn his enemies (SpongeBob and Patrick) into piles of ash.]]
* In ''[=WhoBob WhatPants=]'', [=SpongeBob=] becomes mayor of New Kelp City. Nine years later, [=SpongeBob SquarePants=] [[https://mashable.com/2017/12/01/nyc-mayoral-results-write-in-votes/ joined the likes of Big Bird, Capn Crunch, Daffy Duck, Donald Duck, Jon Snow, Wonder Woman, and Yoda in getting one write-in vote for Mayor of New York City]].
* In "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy VI: The Motion Picture", [=SpongeBob=], Patrick are horrified of the heroes in the Mermaid Man movie being potrayed by "[[SynchroVox actors]]". Fast forward a decade and a half later, and [=SpongeBob=] is adapted into a Broadway musical, starring real-life "actors".
* What was the first thing we see Squidward do in the first episode? Removing graffiti of himself [[Theatre/TheSpongeBobMusical with the caption "Loser"]].
* Episodes with rocks that move on their own seems to be RuleOfFunny at first but many years later in real life, there is a phenomenon known as the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyHcs7B27Zk sailing stones]], which is pretty much what you expect.

* In "No Weenies Allowed," the mascot of Weenie Hut Jr's looks exactly like [[WesternAnimation/SausageParty Frank]].
* Karen's name, by itself, would just become unfortunate relation to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_(pejorative) "Karen" stereotype]], except it becomes this with the fact that she's ''married'' to a manager.
* You know that episode where [=SpongeBob=] was playing a song for Squidward using a violin, and accidently hits Squidward's painting with a violin's bow like a bow and arrow? Heh...."[[VideoGame/FireEmblemFates Violin Bow]]".
* Mr. Krabs is an {{expy}} of Scrooge [=McDuck=]. The show was ahead of its time in [[spoiler:[[WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017 giving him a daughter]]]].
* Earlier airings of "[=SpongeBob=] in Randomland" featured a shot that was pretty much a kid-friendly version of [[Fanfic/SquidwardsSuicide Red Mist Squidward]]. The shot ended up getting censored, just like the supposed lost episode from the {{Creepypasta}}.

* There was a short for Nickelodeon's [[Advertising/{{Nickmas}} "Ha Ha Holidays" block]] from the early 2000's called ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGPbeKdDBRE Patrick the Snowman]]'' that also served as a crossover between this show, ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheWildThornberrys''; a few years later, ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfFrostyTheSnowman'' would not only feature voice actors who worked on one or more of these shows but Patrick's voice actor (Bill Fagerbakke) played the part of Frosty himself! ''With the same voice!''

* Earlier airings of "[=SpongeBob=] in Randomland" featured a shot that was pretty much a kid-friendly version of [[WebOriginal/SquidwardSuicide Red Mist Squidward]]. The shot ended up getting censored, just like the supposed lost episode from the {{Creepypasta}}.

* Earlier airings of "SpongeBob in Randomland" featured a shot that was pretty much a kid-friendly version of [[WebOriginal/SquidwardsSuicide Red Mist Squidward]]. The shot ended up getting censored, just like the supposed lost episode from the {{Creepypasta}}.

* Mr. Krabs is an {{expy}} of Scrooge [=McDuck=]. The show was ahead of its time in [[spoiler:[[WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017 giving him a daughter]]]].

* Karen's name, by itself, would just be an {{Unfortunate Name|s}} in relation to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_(pejorative) "Karen" stereotype]], except it becomes this with the fact that she's ''married'' to a manager.

* The episode "I'm with Stupid" has a TwistEnding: [[spoiler:Patrick's "parents" are not actually his parents. The Creator/MNightShyamalan movie {{Film/The Visit}} has a similar plot twist.]]

* In the episode "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy III," [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar Man Ray, a supervillain wants and uses a gauntlet-shaped weapon to turn his enemies (Spongebob and Patrick) into piles of ash.]]

** Or [[VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon Team Rainbow Rocket?]]

* ''[=SpongeBob=] Freestyle Funnies 2018'' involved the entire Mermaid Man RoguesGallery coming together. Did United Plankton Pictures just predict VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate?

* In "Squidtastic Voyage", Patrick thinks that the world growing is more likely than the sub he and Spongebob are in shrinking. Well, in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', the ResetButton of Baljeet's watermelon (and Candace) being 50 feet tall is pressed via a gas that makes everything grow 50 times their normal size affecting ''the universe''.

* In "Can You Spare A Dime?", Squidward justifies quitting his job at the Krusty Krab by stating that he can be anything he wants, like "a football player, or a king, or a spaceman". Spongebob answers by combining all three suggestions into "[[BreadEggsBreadedEggs a football-playing king in space]]", which would later come to be a pretty accurate description of one [[Series/KamenRiderFourze Shun Daimonji]].
** And you can also add ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey'' to the list, given how you can A) mix and match costume parts, B) acquire [[spoiler:a football player costume in the Moon Kingdom ''and'' a king costume in Dark Side]], and C) [[spoiler:actually go to space]]. This setup has the bonus of ''also'' including Spongebob's extra "With a mustache!" characteristic.

* In the episode "Krab Borg", one of the ways to tell if someone is a robot is to use love, because according to Spongebob, robots can't love. [[WesternAnimation/WallE 6 years later...]]

* In "Pickles," Spongebob completely fails to sleep on a bed properly and chooses to sleep in between the mattress and bed frame at first just like how [[AmnesiacHero Josuke]] [[CloudCuckooLander Higashikata]] from [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureJojolion Jojolion]] does early on.
* In "The Idiot Box", Spongebob makes a rainbow between his hands as he says the word "Imagination". Kind of reminiscent of ''Ressha Sentai [=ToQger=]'' and it's Rainbow Line fueled by imagination. They even use the English word instead of the Japanese for "imagination"!

* In "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy II", Mermaid Man's speech to Barnacle Boy after the latter berates Spongebob. Some of the words being "Don't squash his enthusiasm. After all, he could be the hero of tomorrow, or the villain." [[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles Sound familiar?!]]

* In ''[=WhoBob WhatPants=]'', Spongebob becomes mayor of New Kelp City. Nine years later, [=SpongeBob SquarePants=] [[https://mashable.com/2017/12/01/nyc-mayoral-results-write-in-votes/ joined the likes of Big Bird, Capn Crunch, Daffy Duck, Donald Duck, Jon Snow, Wonder Woman, and Yoda in getting one write-in vote for Mayor of New York City]].
* In "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy VI: The Motion Picture", Spongebob, Patrick are horrified of the heroes in the Mermaid Man movie being potrayed by "[[SynchroVox actors]]". Fast forward a decade and a half later, and Spongebob is adapted into a Broadway musical, starring real-life "actors".

* You know that episode where Spongebob was playing a song for Squidward using a violin, and accidently hits Squidward's painting with a violin's bow like a bow and arrow? Heh...."[[VideoGame/FireEmblemFates Violin Bow]]".

* You know that episode where Spongebob was playing a song for Squidward using a violin, and accidently hits Squidward's painting with a violin's bow like a bow and arrow? Heh...."[[VideoGame/FireEmblemFates Violin Bow]]".

* In "Hooky", [=SpongeBob=] panics over the thought of being sold in a gift shop. Guess what happened in ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie''.

* In the episode "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy III," [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar Man Ray, a supervillain wants and uses a gauntlet-shaped weapon to turn Spongebob and Patrick into piles of ash.]]

* In the episode "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy III," [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar Man Ray uses a gauntlet-shaped weapon to turn Spongebob and Patrick into piles of ash.]]

* Karen's name, by itself, would just be an {{Unfortunate Name|s}} in relation to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_(pejorative) "Karen" stereotype]], except it becomes this with the fact that she's ''married'' to a manager.

* When [=SpongeBob=] was thinking up of ideas for a substitute friend in "Bubble Buddy," one of them was "Stick Buddy." [[Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers Prior to Italy, Germany's only friend was a stick.]]

* Patrick's line of "You're gonna miss the '''panty raid'''." in the episode ''Mid-Life Crustacean''. It was already a funny GettingCrapPastTheRadar moment to begin with, but then the ''VideoGame/SenranKagura'' series comes out several years later which has an online mode that includes ''literal'' panty raids. Some fans of the series even used Patrick's exact line as a way to welcome players into an online match.