List of SpongeBob SquarePants Running Gags

Characters

Running gags made from, or about, specific characters:

SpongeBob

• Changes the shape of his body often.
• Every season, his voice changes.
• Eats Gary's food.
• Changes his Krusty Krab working routine every time he is seen at the Krusty Krab.

Patrick

• Blows food into Squidward's face.
• Overestimates SpongeBob's abilities, such as lowering the amount of time SpongeBob has to get King Neptune's crown in the movie.
• Gets SpongeBob in trouble by convincing him to do something he is not supposed to do.
• Eats everything, including things not supposed to be eaten.
• Mentioning Ice Cream.
• Acting or speaking intelligently out of nowhere.
• Saying "Who are you people!!!".
• Unintentionally giving SpongeBob an idea and then when being asked by SpongeBob "say that again Patrick" saying something else that is irrelevant.
• Patrick mentioning food and drinks.
• Forgets who his parents are.

Squidward

• Something bad happens to him, such as getting lost or injured.
• Explodes when falling off a cliff.
• Made fun of about his nose.
• Plays clarinet so badly, the noise is often mistaken for something else.

Sandy

• Her home place (Texas) being made fun of.
• SpongeBob and Patrick messing with one of her inventions
• SpongeBob and Patrick taking her fur

Pearl

• Gets embarrassed by her father Mr. Krabs every time she appears.

Plankton

• Gets squashed by someone bigger than him.
• Plans to steal the Krabby Patty Formula foiled.
• Says "ouch" when thrown out of the Krusty Krab and across the street.
• Commonly gets teased at because he is also known as Sheldon.
• He successfully stole the Krabby Patty once. (The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie)

Mr. Krabs

• Makes remarks on money or prices of the Krusty Krab's food.
• Loses his customers.
• Parts of him come off, such as his arms.
• His eyes sometimes either turn the pupils into dollar signs or turn into blocks of silver or gold
• Turning down something else that is much more important than money for money.
• Sometimes gets sent to the courthouse for crimes involving money (such as stealing the secret sauce because he considers $1.98 to be expensive or not using wet floor signs to save cash).
• Saying that Patrick works at the Krusty Krab to make fun of him/get him out of the Krusty Krab.

Karen

• Putting down Plankton's evil schemes to steal the Krabby Patty formula
• Karen suggesting a plan to Plankton but he dosn't listen and comes up with a plan which means the same thing.

Mrs. Puff

• Always inflates her size after SpongeBob flunks his driver's lesson
• Is sent to jail because of SpongeBob causing destruction while driving
• Hates SpongeBob

Other Characters

• Fred saying "my leg" when injured.
• Barnacle Boy being treated like a child.
• Mermaid Man overreacting when someone says the word "evil".
• Mermaid Man forgetting who Barnacle Boy is.

Specific Episodes

• The Great Snail Race: Squidward's last name being mispronounced or typed wrong.
• Friend or Foe?: Mr. Krabs being called Rag Boy.
• Something Smells: people or things running away when SpongeBob or Patrick speak.
• Hall Monitor: Patrick screaming at everything.
• I'm Your Biggest Fanatic: Kevin getting stung by a jellyfish. Also a member imitating a trumpet by going "wa wa wa."
• Jellyfishing: Someone being stung by a jellyfish in multiple ways.
• Sleepy Time: SpongeBob ruining a dream.
• Rock Bottom: SpongeBob missing the bus.
• MuscleBob BuffPants: SpongeBob's arms coming off after each of Sandy's exercises.
• Gone: Something crashing through a wall.
• Sing a Song of Patrick: People getting hurt or overly annoyed to hearing Patrick's "terrible" song.
• Reef Blower: SpongeBob blowing something off of his yard and onto somewhere else where it is also a seemingly prominent flaw.
• Squid's Day Off: Squidward running back to the Krusty Krab and nothing being wrong there.
• Once Bitten: Everyone in Bikini Bottom screaming and panicking.
• Arrgh!: SpongeBob and Patrick saying that Mr. Krabs is sweaty.

Patchy/Potty Scenes

• Potty the Parrot's strings being cut.
• Potty the Parrot ends up losing his body and only his head remains.
• Patchy the Pirate getting injured.
• Patchy the Pirate's eyepatch switching eyes.

Other

• Something being destroyed, such as the Krusty Krab.
• A riot being thrown when a group of people are angry at someone or something.
• The town going up in flames when something affects the entire town, such as a "monster" or Mad Snail Disease.
• A reference to the average episode's length: 11 minutes.
• Fake time cards, such as "One Debt to Society Later" in Driven to Tears.
• A ton of police, cars and/or officers, chasing someone who broke the law no matter how small the law is.
• A reference to mustaches.
• The police officers arresting people for strange reasons, such as not inviting them to a party.
• All the houses are the same except for the main characters' houses