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Who spawns factual errors from under the sea? SpongeBob SquarePants!

  • A box of SpongeBob-themed fruit snacks claims that Squidward plays the accordion. He actually plays the clarinet in the show.
  • Rapper Lil Yachty tried to excuse an infamous outburst of factoid failure on his part — namely, claiming in his song "Peek A Boo" that a cello is an instrument that you blow on — by claiming that he thought Squidward played a cello. When corrected on his confusion about cellos, Yachty then explained that he went on to "remember" that Squidward actually played... a flute.
  • This review of SpongeBob SquarePants: Legend of the Lost Spatula calls Sandy a chipmunk and Mr. Krabs the mayor of Bikini Bottom. Respectively, they're actually a tree squirrel and the owner of the Krusty Krab restaurant. (The actual mayor of Bikini Bottom appears in several episode of the show, and looks nothing like Mr. Krabs.) It also indirectly calls Squidward a squid, which is understandable but still a mistake — he's actually an octopus.
  • This article says that SpongeBob once handed Patrick soap and told him not to drop it. He actually does this to his pet snail Gary in the episode "Gary Takes a Bath".
  • This article about writing hooks attributes a line Mr. Krabs said to SpongeBob.
  • People often assume that the show is for preschoolers, when it's actually intended for slightly older children and rated TV-Y7. Examples include several companies behind The Merch note  targeting that audience, as well as this parody of Project Runway by the creator of "Shoes" and TV Guide. (Sling TV used to have the same description as TV Guide, but they later changed it to no longer state the demographic.)
    "A chipper sea sponge and his nautical neighbors make waves in the deep-sea city of Bikini Bottom in this clever and playful kiddie cartoon aimed at preschoolers."
  • TV guides and online websites usually get the summaries of episodes wrong. While most of the errors are partly inaccurate descriptions for the sake of brevity, some notable errors are:
    • In descriptions for the episode "Frankendoodle", the antagonist of the episode is referred to as SpongeDoodle; in the episode itself, he's called Doodle Boy, DoodleBob, or just Doodle, but never SpongeDoodle.
    • "Jellyfish Jam"'s description on Amazon mentions that SpongeBob takes home a jellyfish "over the repeated warnings of his friends." The only person to comment on the jellyfish is Squidward, who is merely annoyed and never tries to warn him.
    • "F.U.N."'s Amazon description says that Plankton tries to steal a "Krusty Krabs' Krabby Patty." The restaurant is named the Krusty Krab, not Krusty Krabs, and SpongeBob makes the patties, not Mr. Krabs or "Krusty Krab." "Krusty Krabs" is also used in the description for "As Seen on TV."
    • "Life of Crime"'s description claims that the balloon SpongeBob and Patrick steal belong to Mr. Krabs. Mr. Krabs does teach them about stealing, but the balloon they steal is being handed out by a balloon vendor.
    • The Amazon description for "Pressure" is "Sandy and SpongeBob get into a fierce competition doing extreme underwater sports." The competition is between Sandy and the other sea creatures (including Patrick, Mr. Krabs, and Squidward), and her challenge is that they must survive on land for a while, with no sports involved.
    • The summary for "Nasty Patty" is that "Mr. Krabs has to whip the Krusty Krab into shape in order to pass health inspection." While there is a health inspection, it's actually about Mr. Krabs and SpongeBob feeding an incredibly unsanitary and disgusting patty to the inspector because they think he's a fake, believing they've killed him, and then trying to hide it from the police.
    • The description for "The Camping Episode" makes SpongeBob and Patrick seem unusually malicious: "SpongeBob and Patrick lure Squidward to their backyard campout." In reality, SpongeBob and Patrick are content to ignore Squidward until he interrupts their camping, and joins in solely due to his own pride.
    • "Whale of a Birthday" claims that Mr. Krabs wants to give Pearl "the best birthday ever"; in reality, it's the opposite, as his cheap ways lead him to do the bare minimum. However, it's SpongeBob who ends up saving the party.
    • "Wigstruck"'s description says that SpongeBob finds the wig in the trash. In the episode, he's walking outside when it hits him in the face.
    • The description of "Best Frenemies" refers to Kelp Shake as "Kelp Smoothy [sic]."
    • The image used for "Atlantis SquarePantis" is actually from "Banned in Bikini Bottom."
    • "The Great Patty Caper"'s preview image is from an associated short, not the actual episode.
    • "Mooncation"'s summary seems to mix up SpongeBob and Sandy's personalities: "Sandy only wanted to spend a relaxing vacation alone on the moon. But it seems she's got a stowaway aboard her rocket who doesn't share her idea." Sandy never plans for her vacation to be relaxing, and instead performs sports using the lower gravity, which SpongeBob happily participates in.
    • A common TV guide description for the season 1 episode "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy", used on Amazon and Pluto TV, reads "Watching reruns of Mermaid Man & Barnacle Boy." Sentence fragment aside, this describes what SpongeBob and Patrick do at the beginning of the episode, but not the actual plot, which is about SpongeBob and Patrick trying to get the eponymous heroes out of retirement.
    • The Sky TV UK listing description for "Culture Shock" refers to the Krusty Krab as the "Rusty Krusty".
  • The Common Sense Media review for the Best Day Ever album confuses the Krusty Krab with the Krabby Patty.
  • This page on the 2000 Kids' Choice Awards calls Patrick a squid when he's actually a starfish.
  • In two Screen Rant interviews for the Tidal Zone event, the interviewer mistakenly refers to it as "the Tidal Wave."

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