Written by Marc Ceccarelli, Luke Brookshier, and Mr. Lawrence (Don't Look Now) / Casey Alexander, Zeus Cervas, and Mr Lawrence (Seance Schmeance)
Animation Director: Tom Yasumi (Don't Look Now) / Alan Smart and Tom Yasumi (Seance Schmeance)
Original air date: 10/14/2013 (produced in 2012)
SpongeBob and Patrick watch a horror movie, and become convinced that the villain of the movie is after them.
"Don't Look Now" contains example of:
- An Aesop: Face your fears.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Squidward is scaring SpongeBob and Patrick to near death all because they were frightened by a horror movie and woke him up.
- I Warned You: Squidward, at the beginning, warns SpongeBob and Patrick that watching Fisherman 4 will scare them. He is proven correct, but that doesn't stop him from scaring them further in the middle of the night.
- Humans Are the Real Monsters: Expanding on the fisherman threat from the season 1 episode Hooky, humans are once again depicted as evil and bloodthirsty predators as this episode establishes a horror movie series, which is all about a human who hooks and kidnaps fish (and steals a child's ice cream), presumably to kill and devour them when they're in his grasp.
- Kids Shouldn't Watch Horror Films: Given that SpongeBob and Patrick are adults who act like children, seeing a horror movie naturally leaves them terrified.
- Laser-Guided Karma: After spending the majority of the episode scaring the bejesus out of SpongeBob and Patrick, Squidward gets beat up and taken to the hospital in the end.
- Movie-Theater Episode: This episode begins with SpongeBob and Patrick going to the movie theater to see Fisherman 4: Attack of the Hook. The movie frightens them to the point where they miss the ending due to shutting their eyes out of fear, and they are convinced that the movie's villain, the Fisherman, is after them.
- Punctuated! For! Emphasis!:SpongeBob: Must! Close! Eyes! Too! Scary!
- Shout-Out:
- The fisherman in the movie may be based on the killer from I Know What You Did Last Summer.
- SpongeBob and Patrick are relieved that what they thought was the Fisherman is actually Slasher Magee, who's basically Jason Voorhees on a tricycle.
- Slasher Movie: SpongeBob and Patrick see one about a killer fisherman.
- Spiritual Antithesis: To the season 1 episode Hooky. Both episodes feature Squidward pretending to be a human fisherman and hooking SpongeBob, but he does it for completely diferent reasons (Scare 'Em Straight in Hooky, For the Evulz here). SpongeBob and Patrick are afraid of being hooked throughout this episode, while Hooky had them becoming thrill seekers who deliberately rode hooks and jumped off them for fun.
- Tear Off Your Face: When Patrick goes into SpongeBob's house and the fishing line gets caught in the door, he tries so hard to break free that his face comes off, revealing his skull underneath. He grows a new one by simply stretching the skin on his forehead over his skull.
Original air date: 10/14/2013 (produced in 2012)
SpongeBob attempts to make contact with the holy Sandwich Spirits in order to uncover a long lost sandwich recipe.
"Séance Schméance" contains example of:
- Big Damn Heroes: Mr. Krabs.
- Brick Joke: At the sight of the numerous ghosts trashing the Krusty Krab, Patrick just screams and runs around the outside of the restaurant. At the end of the episode, he's still running around, but is now howling instead of screaming.
- Nonindicative Name: The "Rusty on Rye" sandwich is a rye sandwich made of speckle slathered between two pieces of carved driftwood and dipped in shellac. The only reason it has "Rusty" in the title is because of its maker Rusty Rickets.
- Satiating Sandwich: Zig-Zagged by the "Rusty on Rye"— it's made out of plywood and spackle, but Old Man Jenkins seems to like it anyway.
- Shout-Out: When SpongeBob looks through his brain for a Rusty on Rye, the first thing he comes to is "Ramblin' Ham". This is a reference to the song Ramblin' Man by The Allman Brothers Band.
- Soap Within a Show: Squidward watches one at the beginning.
- Spooky Séance: The plot of the episode focuses on SpongeBob and Patrick holding one to uncover the long-forgotten sandwich recipe.
- The Thing That Would Not Leave: Mr. Krabs says this about ghosts to SpongeBob, comparing them to relatives that don't leave, after he exorcises Rusty and his ghostly clients from the Krusty Krab.
- Word, Schmord!: The episode title.
- Wrong Restaurant: An old man keeps coming into the Krusty Krab and ordering a sandwich from the restaurant that used to be there but closed years ago, thus setting up the plot.
