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Episodes-Season 1

This is a complete episode guide to SpongeBob. We start with Season 1; shows 1 through 20. Each episode is equipped with a summary and, in some cases, a picture. Click on the links below to veiw the other Seasons.
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1a. Help Wanted

SpongeBob wants to get a long-awaited job at the Krusty Krab. But to get get rid of him, Mr. Krabs send SpongeBob on a mission to fetch an unrealistic spatula. While he his gone, though, a group of hungry achovies invade the Krusty Krab, getting out of control and making Mr. Krabs and his employee Squidward panic. Enter SpongeBob, with his super spatula.

1b. Reef Blower

Squidward finds a clam polluting his lawn, and kicks it over to SpongeBob's lawn. SpongeBob then takes out his handy reef blower to take care of the problem. But his simple tidying soon gets out of control.

1c. Tea at the Treedome

SpongeBob meets Sandy, a land squirrel who wears a "hat full of air". When Sandy invites SpongeBob to her Treedome, SpongeBob is overwhelmed by the fact that there's no water. He tries to prove he doesn't need it, but if he doesn't get some he may dry up.

2a. Bubblestand

SpongeBob decides create and manage a bubble stand. Squidward, convinced that bubble-blowing his stupid, gets annoyed when SpongeBob and Patrick start making a lot of noise blowing bubbles, all due to "The Technique". But curiousity may get the best of Squidward, as he tries to prove himself as a good bubble-blower.

2b. Ripped Pants

SpongeBob and Sandy are spending a day at Goo Lagoon when Larry the Lobster invites them to lift weights. SpongeBob, however, ends up ripping his pants and has the whole audience laughing at him. Realizing the comedy and attention that comes from the ripped pants jokes, SpongeBob rips his pants numerous times. But will he know when to stop?

3a. Jellyfishing

Squidward gets in a big accident that puts his whole body in a cast. To cheer him up, SpongeBob and Patrick give him his "Best Day Ever". And what's a good day without a little bit of Squidward's least favorite sport-jellyfishing?

3b. Plankton!

Plankton attemps to befriend SpongeBob, by giving him a golden spatula and asking for a Krabby Patty in return. When SpongeBob doesn't fall for it, Plankton decides to plant a control in SpongeBob's brain to make him obey Plankton's commands. Now all there is between Plankton and the secret Krabby Patty formula is the will of SpongeBob.

4a. Naughty Nautical Neighbors

When SpongeBob and Patrick are sending bubble grams to each other, Squidward jumps in and plays a trick on them to get them mad at each other. In time, both SpongeBob and Patrick go to Squidward to become his best friend. Squidward then quickly realizes that it's better for them to become friends again than to be fighting.

4b. Boating School

When SpongeBob fails his driving test for the 38th time, Patrick decides to help him. The next day, SpongeBob has a walkie-talkie stuck in his head with Patrick giving him instructions throughout the test. All goes smoothly, but what about the fact that he's cheating?

5a. Pizza Delivery

SpongeBob and Squidward are assigned to deliver a Krusty Krab Pizza. But when SpongeBob backs the boat up way too much, SpongeBob and Squidward are left stranded in the middle of a highway. Things get worse when there is a tornado that sweeps the two off the rode. Now all they have to get back home is SpongeBob's pioneer theories.

5b. Home Sweet Pineapple

Nemotoads drink up SpongeBob's Pineapple house, leaving him homeless. After attempting to build a new house, SpongeBob spends the night at Patrick's...then Squidward's...then nowhere. It looks like he'll have to move back in with his parents...

6a. Mermaidman and Barnacleboy

When SpongeBob and Patrick visit their favorite superheroes, Mermaidman and Barnacleboy, they find out that their heroes are retired. Now SpongeBob and Patrick will go through any means nessecary to reunite their heroes.

6b. Pickles

SpongeBob's nemisis Bubble Bass tries one of SpongeBob's Krabby Patties, but when he took a bite there where no pickles! Having gotten a Krabby Patty mixed up, slowly everything in SpongeBob's life becomes messed and and he forgets to do everything. Mr. Krabs, who is facing Squidward's burnt cooking, tries to help SpongeBob by forcing him to make a Krabby Patty, so his life will be back in order and he can face Bubble Bass again.

7a. Hall Monitor

After overdoing his speech, Mrs. Puff lets SpongeBob keep the hall monitor uniform overnight. While roaming the streets, SpongeBob decides to help out the town in different ways, only to accidentally create a mess. When reports about a maniac come in, SpongeBob and Patrick try to catch him. But there is something strangly familiar with the maniac...

7b. Jellyfish Jam

SpongeBob decides to bring home a jellyfish from Jellyfish Feilds as a pet. SpongeBob is sure that the jellyfish is perfectly tame, but he gets it excited by dancing to loud music for hours. And even if the jellyfish is tame, his friends aren't.

8a. Sandy's Rocket

Sandy tells SpongeBob that he could go in her rocket to the moon with her. Later that night, when SpongeBob and Patrick are spraying the windows with Alien-Out, they start the rocket. But when the rocket goes in a circle and crashes back in Bikini Bottom, the two think they're on the moon, and all the Bikini Bottom citizens are aliens. SpongeBob and Patrick then set a goal to capture every "alien" and bring them back to Sandy.

8b. Squeaky Boots

Mr. Krabs hands some boots over to SpongeBob after Pearl rejects them. Thinking the boots were Official Frycook Boots, SpongeBob never takes them off. But the squeaking of the boots soon drives Mr. Krabs and Squidward crazy. Mr. Krabs then makes it his mission to stop the squeaking.

9a. Nature Pants

SpongeBob decides to give up his current life and live a natural and free life among the jellyfish in Jellyfish Feilds. All his friends try to get him to come home, but SpongeBob refuses. But then Patrick wants him as a trophy, if he can't be his friend.

9b. Opposite Day

Squidward tries to sell his house, but won't be able to with troublesome neighbors like SpongeBob, so he makes up Opposite Day, where everybody acts opposite of how they normally do. But instead of being quiet and out of the way, SpongeBob teaches Patrick about the holiday, and ends up tearing down his house. Squidward, trying to make an impression for Bikini Realty, cleans up the mess, making SpongeBob think he is being the opposite of Squidward, and that he and Patrick must be Squidward. And just in time to greet Bikini Realty...

10a. Culture Shock

Squidward has an idea to have a talent show to bring business to the Krusty Krab, with him as host. SpongeBob, who is desparate to be in the show, gets repeatidly turned down by Squidward until he gets the job of mopping after the show. But the night of the show, when Squidward's dancing act fails, a "clean" new star will arise.

10b. F.U.N.

SpongeBob thinks that if Plankton had a friend he wouldn't be so mean, so invited him to go jellyfishing. At first Plankton turns down his offer, but then realizes that SpongeBob's friendship may lead him to the Krabby Patty formula. After a day of F.U.N., however, Plankton becomes excited about his friendship with SpongeBob. But it's up to Mr. Krabs to figure out whether Plankton's gone straight or not.

11a. MuscleBob BuffPants

SpongeBob is tired of being a weakling having to work with Sandy's scary workout tactics. When he sees a commercial for fake blow-up arm mussels, SpongeBob buys them. He fools everyone, including Sandy, who signs him up for an anchor toss competion.

11b. Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost

Squidward makes a wax replica of himself, only to have SpongeBob and Patrick wreck it, thinking they killed the real Squidward. Squidward takes advantage of the situation and makes SpongeBob and Patrick his slaves, with them thinking he's a ghost. SpongeBob and Patrick then become determined that Squidward needs to be put to rest.

12a. The Chaperone

Mr. Krabs replaces Pearl's prom date with SpongeBob, who has to live up to being long, tan and handsome. After creating a stilt-like device to make him taller, SpongeBob encounters many defficulties with making the prom go well, especially with his stilt-legs. And when The Sponge comes on, well, that was that last straw to get SpongeBob and Pearl kicked out.

12b. Employee of the Month

SpongeBob is convinced that he will be the Krusty Krab's Employee of the Month for the 27th month in a row. Soon it gets to much for his co-worker Squidward, who then jumps in the race to prove that anyone could win the award. Then the two workers throw numerous traps on each other, trying to delay their arrival the the Krusty Krab. And when they finally arrive, it becomes too much for Mr. Krabs.

13a. Scaredy Pants

SpongeBob gets afraid of Halloween every year, including Mr. Krabs' Flying Dutchman story. He just wants to be scary for a change. So SpongeBob presaudes Patrick to shape his head round to make him look like a ghost. With his new round head and Patrick, SpongeBob and Patrick beside to play a trick on the people at the Krusty Krab's Halloween party, and SpongeBob haunts everybody at the Krusty Krab by pretending to be the Flying Dutchman. It works until SpongeBob is given away and the real Dutchman comes, but there's something under SpongeBob's sheet that scares even the Dutchman off.

13b. I Was a Teenage Gary

Squidward forgets to feed Gary when SpongeBob goes off on a jellyfishing weekend trip, and Gary becomes sick. But instead of injecting Snail Plasma into Gary, Squidward injects into SpongeBob. Opposite of Squidward's assurance of being fine, SpongeBob turns into a snail just like the just-needed-water Gary. Snail-SpongeBob then haunts Squidward to the point were Squidward finds the plasma in his nose...

14a. SB-129

SpongeBob and Patrick want Squidward to go jellyfishing with them, but all squidward wants to do is play his clarinet. To escape from the duo, Squidwards hides in the Krusty Krab's freezer, but it locks with him inside it. 2,000 years later, in The Future, SpongeTron soon finds Squidward and directs him to his time machine. Squidward then travels too far in the past, ending up in prehistoric times, where he teaches prehistoric SpongeBob and Patrick how to jellyfish, but soon has to escape due to his clarinet playing. Back in the machine, Squidward, who just broke the time-handle-thing, travels to nowhere, and now is at the point where he even misses SpongeBob, which might just be enough to get him home.

14b. Karate Choppers

SpongeBob and Sandy like to play continuous karate tricks on each other. But at work, it poisons SpongeBob's mind, leading him to attack innocent people, leaving Mr. Krabs to give SpongeBob a warning that if he catches him doing karate one more time he'll be fired. But a karate-playing Sandy is just outside, and gets Mr. Krabs to give SpongeBob one more chance after she attacked SpongeBob. But now SpongeBob and Sandy have to find a new past-time, and ignore karate. But who knew they would unleash karate in making sandwhiches?

15a. Sleepy Time

SpongeBob falls out of his dream bubble while dreaming, leaving him to wonder around Bikini Bottom with the ability to enter people's dreams. But SpongeBob's dream-visits disturb the dreamer, and cause the smooth-going dreams to become disasters. No one's happy about, and they'll let SpongeBob know, either by telling when he wakes up or shooting him out of their dream.

15b. Suds

SpongeBob gets a quick nidnight snack, but forgets to close the refridgerator. In the morning his house is frozen, and SpongeBob catches the suds-where when he sneezes bubbles come out of him. After getting booted out of work, SpongeBob calls Sandy to ask her to take him to the doctor. Patrick soon informs SpongeBob that the doctor is a horrible place, and tries to get him cured before Sandy arrives. But Sandy isn't about to let Patrick stand inbetween SpongeBob's suds and a real doctor.

16a. Valentines Day

SpongeBob gets Patrick the best Valentine's Day present ever-a giant balloon made out of chocolate. SpongeBob takes Patrick to the carnival, where on the top of the ferris wheel Sandy will bring in the balloon. But when a scallop bites into the balloon and it goes down, SpongeBob is faced to tell Patrick that his "best present ever" is a friendly handshake. This doesn't please Patrick at all, and soon he goes on a rampage, torturing all hearts and all the people at the carnival. Now Patrick is too mad to listen to SpongeBob, even when SpongeBob claims that the present has returned.

16b. The Paper

Squidward throws away a peice of paper into SpongeBob's posession. Despite Squidward's thoughts, the paper gives SpongeBob a fun-filled time. And no matter what Squidward compares to the paper, nothing is as fun. Soon all SpongeBob's activities drive Squidward to trade everything he owned for thet paper, but he may just not have enough imagination to make the paper work.

17a. Arragh!

Mr. Krabs becomes obsessed with SpongeBob and Patrick's Flying Dutchman's Treasure game, and plays it all night. The next morning, Mr. Krabs invites SpongeBob and Patrick on a real treasure hunt with a real treasure. After a hard day, SpongeBob and Patrick find themselves in Mr. Krabs' empty tent, with the sight-forbiden map right in fornt of them. Tempted, SpongeBob and Patrick touch the map until it opens. SpongeBob and Patrick then find out the map's secret, and that not all games are fictional.

17b. Rock Bottom

After a fun-filled day in Glove World, SpongeBob and Patrick take the wrong bus and end up in Rock Bottom, a strange new city different in many ways from Bikini Bottom. While Patrick manages to get on a bus, SpongeBob doesn't have as much luck, and spends all night waiting for the anti-SpongeBob buses. Finally the wait gets to him, and SpongeBob has to wait in line at the bus help center as the 332nd in line, with still no luck. But a stranger soon helps SpongeBob get back home with an artifact SpongeBob never thought of.

18a. Texas

Sandy gets homesick for Texas, dispite SpongeBob and Patrick's efforts to cheer her up. After Sandy sings her homesickness out to everyone in Bikini Bottom, SpongeBob and Patrick prepare a surprise Texas party for Sandy at the Krusty Krab. Sandy, though, has other plans...like moving back to Texas. SpongeBob and Patrick soon try to lure her to the Krusty Krab by making her chase them after they insult texas many times. But unfortunatly for SpongeBob and Patrick, Sandy is a lot better amoured.

18b. Walking Small

Plankton tries to build a Chum Bucket Mega Bucket at Goo Lagoon, but he is too small to even clear the area. Plankton then searches for someone else to clear the beach for him, and spots SpongeBob. Plankton then tries to teach SpongeBob how to be assertive, but SpongeBob takes everything Plankton says the wrong way. Just as Plankton is about to give up, SpongeBob persuades him to give him another chance, and this time SpongeBob actually clears the beach. But when SpongeBob learns Plankton's plot, he brings up the question of agressivly nice people.

19a. Fools in April

It's april Fool's Day-SpongeBob's favorite holiday, and he's ready to prank everyone in Bikini Bottom. Squidward, however, is not a fan of the holiday, and soon gets annoyed by all the pranks SpongeBob is doing. Squidward soon pulls a prank on SpongeBob to get back at him. But it turns out the prank was alot nastier than what Squidward thought, and he soon tries to apologize, but that's harder than it seems...

19b. Neptune's Spatula

SpongeBob and Patrick go to the Frycook Museum and veiw Neptune's Spatula-the first person that pulls the spatula out of its greese will become King Neptune's frycook. When SpongeBob pulls the spatula out of the greese Neptune appears as promise, but fails to think that SpongeBob is frycook material. Neptune, in turn, challenges SpongeBob-the first one to 1,000 patties wins. But there's one thing that Neptune has to help him that SpongeBob doesn't-magic.

20a. Hooky

Mr. Krabs warns SpongeBob that the hooks have returned, and if you're caught you'll be eaten or sold in a gift shop. Later that day, however, when Patrick presuades SpongeBob to take a break from work and go to the "carnival", SpongeBob finds himself surrounded by the hooks. Patrick informs him that you can ride the hooks and jump off before you get too high, but soon Mr. Krabs finds them and makes them promise never to ride the hooks again. The next day Patrick urges SpongeBob to play "hooky" again, but for SpongeBob, one hook makes all the differance.

20b. Mermaidman and Barnacleboy II

SpongeBob wins Mermaidman and Barnacleboy's Conch Signal-when blown it sommens the heroes-in a contest. For a while, SpongeBob takes advantage of the call and makes Mermaidman and Barnacleboy do a bunch of household chores. Barnacleboy soon removes the Conch from SpongeBob's possesion in exchange for an afternoon on patrol with them. But SpongeBob is more trouble than what Mermaidman and barnacleboy expected...until the Dirty Bubble attacks.