Life Insurance
Original air date: 3/18/2017 (produced in 2016)
A misunderstanding leads SpongeBob and Patrick to try and prove to Squidward that their life insurance protects them from any danger.
Life Insurance contains examples of:
- Bullying a Dragon: As a way to prove that he can no longer get hurt, Squidward intentionally ticks off a large muscular guy. Thankfully, the guy's punch misses Squidward and hits him instead.
- The Cameo: Fiasco appears painting a brick wall that Squidward walks through.
- Childish Pillow Fight: SpongeBob and Patrick do this as a way to test their life insurance.
- Coincidental Broadcast: The life insurance commercial comes on after SpongeBob falls down the stairs and injures himself around his house.
- Contrived Coincidence: As soon as Squidward takes away SpongeBob and Patrick's life insurance papers, he narrowly avoids danger in rapid succession and is convinced he is invincible as they say. They even get struck by lightning instead of him.
- Death Course: The Sushi Maker.
- Dodgy Toupee: Squidward wears one most of the episode.
- Dramatic Thunder: When SpongeBob introduces his obstacle course The Sushi Maker.
- Fearless Fool: Squidward when he believes life insurance means invincibility.
- Irony: SpongeBob and Patrick try to save Squidward from taking the Sushi Maker, but instead rock him from the ladder and cause him to go through it anyway.
- I've Heard of That — What Is It?: Squidward says he's gonna run SpongeBob dangerous obstacle course because he's got moxie.SpongeBob and Patrick scream in fright, but then ask what's moxie?
- Magic Feather: SpongeBob and Patrick are led to believe that "life insurance" is something that protects them from getting harmed. It is really the amount of money one will receive when someone dies.
- Oh, Crap!: SpongeBob's reaction that life insurance isn't what he thinks it is... and that Squidward is most likely going to die.
- Running Gag: Someone mistaking Squidward's toupee for a sea spider.
- The Television Talks Back: The commercial selling life insurance. The salesman even offering SpongeBob a pen to sign the life insurance form.
Burst Your Bubble
Original air date: 3/18/2017 (produced in 2016)
When SpongeBob blows himself a Bubble Boat, everyone else in town wants one.
Burst Your Bubble contains examples of:
- Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere: After failing his boating test, SpongeBob walks through town and sees Larry, Mr. Krabs, and Patrick spending time with their boats.
- Later, after everyone's driving bubble boats, Mrs. Puff doesn't have a boating class anymore, and is the only one driving a regular boat.
- Fan Disservice: In one scene, SpongeBob comes across Mr. Krabs washing his boat wearing a skimpy tank top and short jeans, shaking his ass in a very suggestive manner. It would probably be sexy if it weren't Mr. Krabs doing the action.
- Insignia Rip-Off Ritual: When the police declares bubble boats are now illegal, he breaks SpongeBob's bubble wand in half.
- Loophole Abuse: Because there's no license needed to drive a bubble, SpongeBob can't be arrested or pulled over.
- Shameful Shrinking: SpongeBob does this when he sees that even Patrick owns a boat.
- Status Quo Is God: Because of how fragile bubble boats were from sharp objects (or Mrs. Puff expanding), bubble boats are banned forever.
- Swapped Roles: When Mrs. Puff has to learn how to drive a bubble boat, SpongeBob is the one who is the driving instructor and she is the student who can't get the hang of driving.
- Yank the Dog's Chain: SpongeBob is so excited to be able to drive by bubble he wastes no time gushing to Gary how incredible it was. By the end of the episode, he's not allowed to drive, let alone make bubble boats anymore.
