The BEST Episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants
Every episode ever - ranked by fan votes!
Last Updated: Oct 19, 2021
Network: Nickelodeon
The misadventures of a talking sea sponge who works at a fast food restaurant, attends a boating school, and lives in an underwater pineapple.
#4 - My Two Krabses
Season 13 - Episode 8 - Aired Jan 18, 2021
Mr. Krabs steals Squidward's ice cream sandwich and puts it on his shell while he goes into a sauna, in preparation for a date with Mrs. Puff. The ice cream melts, causing SpongeBob and Patrick to enter and see Krabs's shell with a pile of liquid around it, believing he has melted. They take the shell back home and fill it with chum, turning it into a living being. Krabs exits the sauna and tries to get to his date, unaware that SpongeBob and Patrick have already made it there with the chum being.
12.67 
#6 - Bubble Bass’s Tab
Season 13 - Episode 9 - Aired Apr 9, 2021
10.00 
#7 - Band Geeks
Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired Sep 7, 2001
Squidward's old rival brags to Squid about his famous marching band. Feeling outdone, Squid says he has a band too.
8.56 
#8 - Sailor Mouth
Season 2 - Episode 27 - Aired Sep 21, 2001
SpongeBob reads a "bad" word off a dumpster behind the Krusty Krab and he doesn't know what it means.
8.47 
#9 - Knock Knock, Who’s There?
Season 13 - Episode 13 - Aired Apr 23, 2021
8.40 
#10 - The Fry Cook Games
Season 2 - Episode 30 - Aired Sep 28, 2001
Mr. Krabs enters SpongeBob in the Fry Cook Games where he competes against Patrick.
8.32 
#11 - Rock Bottom
Season 1 - Episode 35 - Aired Mar 15, 2000
SpongeBob gets on the wrong bus and finds himself lost in a mysterious part of the sea.
8.23 
#12 - Pull Up a Barrel
Season 10 - Episode 31 - Aired Sep 18, 2015
Mr. Krabs regales SpongeBob with tales from his old Navy days.
8.17 
#13 - BlackJack
Season 5 - Episode 27 - Aired Aug 2, 2007
SpongeBob's parents are missing and with his bully of a cousin, BlackJack, recently released from prison, he fears the worst.
8.15 
#14 - To Save a Squirrel
Season 5 - Episode 39 - Aired Nov 23, 2007
SpongeBob and Patrick stow away on one of Sandy's wilderness adventure.
8.09 
#15 - Just One Bite
Season 2 - Episode 31 - Aired Oct 5, 2001
SpongeBob becomes obsessed with the fact that Squidward has never actually tried a Krabby Patty.
8.08 
#16 - Plankton Paranoia
Season 11 - Episode 43 - Aired Sep 26, 2018
Plankton hasn't tried to steal the secret formula in a while - and that's making Mr. Krabs nervous!
8.05 
#17 - The Bully
Season 2 - Episode 32 - Aired Oct 5, 2001
The new bully in school, Flats, threatens to beat SpongeBob up after school.
8.03 
#18 - Banned in Bikini Bottom
Season 5 - Episode 35 - Aired Nov 23, 2007
Miss Priss, who is against all things fun and delicious, has Krabby Patties banned from Bikini Bottom!
8.01 
#20 - Squidward's SickDaze
Season 13 - Episode 12 - Aired Apr 16, 2021
8.00 
#21 - Lost in Bikini Bottom
Season 10 - Episode 26 - Aired Jul 16, 2015
SpongeBob tries to take a shortcut to work, but becomes lost along the way.
7.97 
#22 - Neptune's Spatula
Season 1 - Episode 39 - Aired Apr 1, 2000
SpongeBob seizes the mythical spatula of King Neptune.
7.96 
#23 - Life of Crime
Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired May 5, 2001
SpongeBob and Patrick end up popping Mr. Krabs balloon and fear the consequences.
7.92 
#24 - Artist Unknown
Season 2 - Episode 28 - Aired Sep 21, 2001
When SpongeBob enrolls in Squidward's community art class, arrogant Squidward attempts to teach him strictly by the book.
7.90 
#25 - Scaredy Pants
Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired Oct 28, 1999
It's Halloween and SpongeBob is the easiest to scare in Bikini Bottom.
7.89