Original air date: 2/8/2020 (produced in 2019)
After getting banned from the Bikini Bottom Zoo, SpongeBob and Patrick create their own zoo made entirely of bubbles.
"Who R Zoo?" contains examples of:
- Anti-Villain: The zookeeper, who's only enforcing the rules and trying to keep SpongeBob safe from harm.
- Brick Joke: Midway through the episode, Squidward gets his nose stuck on a bubble rhino's horn that runs away. At the end, the bubble rhino is in the real zoo with Squidward's nose still stuck on the horn.
- Burning with Anger: The zookeeper when he yells at SpongeBob to stay out of the animal enclosures.
- Chekhov's Skill: SpongeBob's "Tarzan yell", which alerts the zoo animals to the danger he's in.
- Continuity Nod: The "Species Unknown" area from "The Thing" can be seen in the zoo. Also appearing is the bubble elephant from "Bubblestand", which Patrick thought was a giraffe.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: After SpongeBob saves the town from his bubble animals and puts them in the real zoo, the Zookeeper lifts his ban.
- Get Out!: The zookeeper when SpongeBob continues to break his rules:Zookeeper: (red with anger) That's it! You are banned from the zoo! Get out! OUT I SAY!
- Hilarity in Zoos: The episode details SpongeBob and Patrick starting their own zoo after they are booted for going into the enclosures.
- Jerkass Has a Point: The zookeeper does make a valid point when he warns SpongeBob to stop sneaking into the animal enclosures.
- Loophole Abuse: When given an ankle bracelet to keep him from going into the enclosures, which will go off should he do it again, SpongeBob gets around this by stretching his body, except for the leg containing his ankle bracelet, into the giraffe enclosure. However, he quickly gets caught and is banned from the zoo.
- Medium Blending: All the live-action sharp objects that Patrick confiscates from the old man.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: A lot of the zoo animals are land animal heads on fish bodies.
- Persona Non Grata: SpongeBob and Patrick are banned from the Bikini Bottom Zoo for walking inside the animal enclosures. Fortunately, this doesn't stick.
- Plot Hole: When Plankton spits on a bubble penguin, it grows bigger and stronger. However, the bubble animals are finally "defeated" by jumping back into the bubble soap; this would be a good thing for them.
- Serious Business: That zookeeper really means business when he catches SpongeBob sneaking into the animal enclosures, and warns him not to do it. It eventually comes to the point that he has to put an ankle alarm on SpongeBob, which will go off should he try to sneak into said enclosures again.
- Shameful Shrinking: SpongeBob does this when the zookeeper bans him from the zoo.
- Shout-Out: SpongeBob yells like Tarzan a few instances in the episode.
- Silly Animal Sound: The zoo animals make farm animal sounds when SpongeBob plays a See N Say-like game with them.
- Snot Bubble: SpongeBob makes one, which gives him the idea to start a bubble zoo.
- Start My Own: SpongeBob decides to start his own zoo made of bubbles after getting banned from the real zoo.
- Undying Loyalty: When SpongeBob gets banned from the zoo, Patrick sneaks into a monkey exhibit so he can get banned, too.
- Truth in Television: You are not allowed to enter animal enclosures in real life.
- Waxing Lyrical: Patrick says that the zookeeper "looks like a monkey" and "smells like one too", which are part of the lyrics of an age-old playground version of "Happy Birthday".
- What Happened to the Mouse?: The Krusty Krab and Chum Bucket are destroyed by the bubble animals, and yet we never see if they get repaired.
Original air date: 4/29/2022 (produced in 2019) note
The Krusty Krab goes under emergency quarantine, but no one knows who carries the mysterious illness...
"Kwarantined Krab" contains examples of:
- Accidental Murder: It's highly implied that nobody let out the people Mr. Krabs quarantined in the freezer during his sailor years.
- Added Alliterative Appeal: The various illnesses, Grease Gout, Moldy Measles, Trash Trichinosis, Dust Bunny Bronchitis, and Polyester Plague, in that order. The only exceptions is the Clam Flu.
- Bait-and-Switch: After locking SpongeBob in the freezer, his cries of agony are heard. But then it turns out he's actually having fun, skiing and eating ice-cream.
- Bigger on the Inside: The inside of the Krusty Krab's freezer, which looks more like snowy mountains.
- Bottle Episode: The entire episode is set at the Krusty Krab.
- Gainax Ending: The episode ends with everyone in the Krusty Krab getting sick for real, the Krusty Krab is put under "ultra-mega quarantine", and it drops on top of the Chum Bucket. Plankton then gets sick as well, revealing he was the one with the Clam Flu.
- "I Can't Look!" Gesture: While locking SpongeBob in the freezer:Mrs. Puff: Oh, it sounds like he's really suffering in there! Oh, I can't bare to look...can someone describe it to me?
- Pepper Sneeze: A pepper shaker flies into SpongeBob's nose, causing him to sneeze and making everyone think he is the infected one.
- Platonic Kissing: When banishing himself to the freezer, SpongeBob passes by Squidward and kisses his cheek, causing the latter to panic that he may get infected.
- Quarantine with Extreme Prejudice: Plankton is vaporized after trying to escape the Krusty Krab.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Plankton aborts his plan to steal the formula after discovering the Krusty Krab is under quarantine and escapes through the restaurant's air duct. He is burnt to ashes for his efforts.
- "Shaggy Dog" Story: In the end it's revealed that nobody was actually sick with Clam Flu and Mr. Krabs went paranoid over nothing.
- Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Unfortunately, being trapped together and getting into physical fights, violating each other all the while, causes them to get sick for real, and pretty badly too.
