The BEST Episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants
Every episode ever - ranked by fan votes!
Last Updated: Apr 25, 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.
#3 - Knock Knock, Who’s There?
Season 13 - Episode 11 - Aired Apr 23, 2021
10.00 #4 - 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.
8.53 #5 - 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 #6 - My Two Krabses
Season 13 - Episode 6 - 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.
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#7 - 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.
8.31 #8 - 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 #9 - 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.
8.08 #10 - 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.
8.07 #11 - To Save a Squirrel
Season 5 - Episode 39 - Aired Nov 23, 2007
SpongeBob and Patrick stow away on one of Sandy's wilderness adventure.
8.02 #12 - The Bully
Season 2 - Episode 32 - Aired Oct 5, 2001
The new bully in school, Flats, threatens to beat SpongeBob up after school.
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#13 - One Trick Sponge
Season 12 - Episode 32 - Aired Apr 11, 2020
SpongeBob learns a new magic trick, but he can’t find anyone to watch it.
8.00 #14 - 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!
7.97 #15 - Neptune's Spatula
Season 1 - Episode 39 - Aired Apr 1, 2000
SpongeBob seizes the mythical spatula of King Neptune.
7.96 #16 - 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 #17 - The Algae's Always Greener
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired Mar 22, 2002
Plankton has a new invention that allows him to switch lives with Mr. Krabs.
7.90 #18 - Scaredy Pants
Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired Oct 28, 1999
It's Halloween and SpongeBob is the easiest to scare in Bikini Bottom.
7.88 #19 - 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.
7.88 #20 - New Digs
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired Jul 25, 2007
After arriving one minute late for work, SpongeBob decides to move into the Krusty Krab so that he will never be late again.
7.88 #21 - Roller Cowards
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired Jul 27, 2007
The scariest roller coaster ever has just opened at Bikini Bottom's amusement park.
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#22 - A SquarePants Family Vacation
Season 9 - Episode 24 - Aired Nov 11, 2011
When SpongeBob and Patrick get lost on a family road trip to the Great Barrier Reef, they end up on the adventure of a lifetime.
7.86 #23 - Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired Jun 1, 2002
Barnacle Boy wants to be called "Barnacle Man" and rebels when everyone rejects his request.
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#24 - Eek, an Urchin!
Season 10 - Episode 11 - Aired Oct 27, 2012
The Krusty Krab crew have a problem on their hands when SpongeBob finds an urchin.
7.84 #25 - The Idiot Box
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired Mar 1, 2002
When SpongeBob and Patrick get a large screen TV, they throw out the TV and keep the box.
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