All Episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants
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Season 1
8.7/102,921 votesLoading...Help Wanted
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 5/1/1999
SpongeBob goes to the Krusty Krab to apply for the new fry cook job. Against the advice of Squidward, Mr. Krabs, the owner of the restaurant decides to give SpongeBob a chance. Can SpongeBob find the spatula needed for the job and serve all the hungry customers?
Director: Stephen Hillenburg
Writer: Stephen Hillenburg, Derek Drymon, Tim Hill
8.5/102,322 votesLoading...Reef Blower
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 5/1/1999
Squidward and SpongeBob are cleaning up their yards with their reef blowers. When one person ends up cleaning their yard, the others gets ruined. Who will get the clean yard in the end?
Director: Paul Tibbitt
Writer: Stephen Hillenburg, Derek Drymon, Tim Hill
8.4/102,034 votesLoading...Tea at the Treedome
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 5/1/1999
SpongeBob meets a land squirrel named Sandy. He is invited to come over to her house, but he finds out that it is full of air. SpongeBob holds out for as long as he can, which isn't a very long time.
Director: Paul Tibbitt
Writer: Mr. Lawrence, Peter Burns, Paul Tibbitt
8.4/101,888 votesLoading...Bubblestand
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 7/17/1999
SpongeBob and Patrick are blowing bubbles. Squidward thinks it is a simple task, but he can't blow one single bubble. SpongeBob and Patrick need to teach him the proper bubble blowing technique.
Director: Ennio Torresan Jr.
Writer: Stephen Hillenburg, Derek Drymon, Tim Hill
9.2/102,549 votesLoading...Ripped Pants
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 7/17/1999
While at Goo Lagoon, SpongeBob accidentally rips his pants while trying to impress Sandy, causing everyone to laugh.
Director: Paul Tibbitt
Writer: Peter Burns, Paul Tibbitt
8.5/101,900 votesLoading...Jellyfishing
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 7/31/1999
To make Squidward feel better after a biking accident, Spongebob and Patrick take him to go Jellyfishing.
Director: Steve Fonti
Writer: Tim Hill, Peter Burns, Steve Fonti, Chris Mitchell
8.5/101,779 votesLoading...Plankton!
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 7/31/1999
Plankton is always trying to steal the secret Krabby Patty formula, but his tiny size gets in his way. In Plankton's latest scheme, he controls SpongeBob's brain to try and steal the Krabby Patty recipe.
Director: Ennio Torresan Jr.
Writer: Mr. Lawrence, Erik Wiese, Ennio Torresan Jr.
8.2/101,689 votesLoading...Naughty Nautical Neighbors
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 8/7/1999
Squidward is having a peaceful day, until he hears giggling from next door. He gets SpongeBob and Patrick to believe that they hate each other, but now they want to be his best friend.
Director: Sherm Cohen
Writer: Mr. Lawrence, Sherm Cohen, Aaron Springer
8.4/101,649 votesLoading...Boating School
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 8/7/1999
SpongeBob is going to take a driving test, a synonym for disaster. This time is a little different, as SpongeBob gets some help from Patrick.
Director: Ennio Torresan Jr.
Writer: Mr. Lawrence, Erik Wiese, Ennio Torresan Jr.
8.7/101,747 votesLoading...Pizza Delivery
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 8/14/1999
A customer calls and asks the Krusty Krab to deliver him some pizza. Mr. Krabs orders SpongeBob and Squidward to deliver it. SpongeBob will stop at nothing to get the pizza to the customer, even if that means getting lost.
Director: Sherm Cohen
Writer: Peter Burns, Sherm Cohen, Aaron Springer
8.3/101,565 votesLoading...Home Sweet Pineapple
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 8/14/1999
One night, some nematodes feast on SpongeBob's pineapple house. All that is left is a tiny pebble. Now, SpongeBob must live with his parents! How will he get a new house?
Director: Ennio Torresan Jr.
Writer: Mr. Lawrence, Erik Wiese, Ennio Torresan Jr.
8.3/101,535 votesLoading...Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 8/21/1999
SpongeBob and Patrick find that their television heroes, Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy, are retired old people. SpongeBob and Patrick try to get them back into Superhero business again.
Director: Paul Tibbitt
Writer: Mr. Lawrence, Paul Tibbitt, Mark O'Hare
8.3/101,601 votesLoading...Pickles
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 8/21/1999
SpongeBob gives an incomplete Krabby Patty to Bubble Bass for the first time. Spongebob goes crazy, and forgets how to do everything, including his job.
Director: Steve Fonti
Writer: Peter Burns, Steve Fonti, Chris Mitchell
9.1/102,022 votesLoading...Hall Monitor
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 8/28/1999
SpongeBob is finally given the chance to be a hall monitor at his boating school, but he wastes the school day giving a speech and doesn't get to do anything. That doesn't mean he can't be a Hall Monitor outside of school, right?
Director: Chuck Klein
Writer: Mr. Lawrence, Chuck Klein, Jay Lender
8.7/101,605 votesLoading...Jellyfish Jam
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 8/28/1999
A wild jellyfish follows SpongeBob home, so he decides to keep it. The jellyfish loves to party and dance. Unluckily, SpongeBob's house turns into a party overnight with more jellyfish coming by the second.
Director: Ennio Torresan Jr.
Writer: Peter Burns, Erik Wiese, Ennio Torresan Jr.
8.3/101,462 votesLoading...Sandy's Rocket
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 9/4/1999
SpongeBob and Patrick accidentally launch Sandy's rocket, and land back in Bikini Bottom. They think they've landed on the moon and that everyone in Bikini Bottom are aliens.
Director: Sherm Cohen
Writer: Peter Burns, Sherm Cohen, Aaron Springer
9.3/102,165 votesLoading...Squeaky Boots
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 9/4/1999
Mr. Krabs gives SpongeBob a pair of "special" boots because he bought them for Pearl, but she didn't want them. Spongebob loves them, but the squeaking drives Mr. Krabs crazy.
Director: Steve Fonti
Writer: Mr. Lawrence, Steve Fonti, Chris Mitchell
8.4/101,490 votesLoading...Nature Pants
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 9/11/1999
SpongeBob wants to give up his current life to live with the jellyfish against the wishes of all his friends. But, Spongebob learns that a jellyfish life is not an easy one.
Director: Paul Tibbitt
Writer: Peter Burns, Paul Tibbitt, Mark O'Hare
8.4/101,442 votesLoading...Opposite Day
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 9/11/1999
Squidward gets so mad at SpongeBob and Patrick, he decides to sell his house. Squidward needs to get rid of his annoying neighbors so he can sell his house. He tells SpongeBob and Patrick that it is "Opposite Day." Squid hopes that they will act the opposite of what they usually are, annoying. Of course, it doesn't work out as planned.
Director: Chuck Klein
Writer: Mr. Lawrence, Chuck Klein, Jay Lender
8.7/101,524 votesLoading...Culture Shock
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 9/18/1999
A talent show is taking place at the Krusty Krab to get more customers and more money, and Squidward is in charge. He will do anything to prevent SpongeBob from doing participating in it.
Director: Paul Tibbitt
Writer: Mr. Lawrence, Paul Tibbitt, Mark O'Hare
8.4/1011 votesLoading...F.U.N.
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 9/18/1999
SpongeBob thinks that Plankton is evil only because he is lonely and has no friends. SpongeBob becomes Plankton's friend and plays with him. But, Mr. Krabs is convinced that Plankton is evil and that SpongeBob should not be hanging around with him.
Director: Sherm Cohen
Writer: Peter Burns, Sherm Cohen, Aaron Springer
9.0/102 votesLoading...MuscleBob BuffPants
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 9/25/1999
SpongeBob thinks he can get more attention if he becomes physically fit. But he soon finds that exercise is hard work, and orders "anchor arms," which he inflates with air, and looks buff. Everyone finds out how fake he is when Sandy signs him up for the annual anchor toss competition at Muscle Beach.
Director: Ennio Torresan Jr.
Writer: Mr. Lawrence, Erik Wiese, Ennio Torresan Jr.
10.0/101 votesLoading...Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 9/25/1999
SpongeBob thinks he accidentally killed Squidward, so Squidward decides to use it for his advantage. Threatening to haunt them for the rest of their lives, Squidward makes SpongeBob and Patrick his servants.
Director: Sherm Cohen
Writer: Peter Burns, Sherm Cohen, Aaron Springer
8.5/104 votesLoading...The Chaperone
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 10/2/1999
SpongeBob takes Pearl to the prom because her previous prom date dumped her, and she is very emotional about it. SpongeBob and Pearl cause all kinds of mischief, and they eventually get thrown out of the prom.
Director: Sherm Cohen
Writer: Peter Burns, Sherm Cohen, Aaron Springer
10.0/102 votesLoading...Employee of the Month
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 10/2/1999
SpongeBob must try to uphold his position as "Employee of the Month," which he has won for 27 months in a row. But, when Squidward tells him the award is a scam, SpongeBob starts to tease Squidward by saying he could never be "Employee of the Month." Squidward challenges SpongeBob, and then make a mess of everything.
Director: Paul Tibbitt
Writer: Mr. Lawrence, Paul Tibbitt
9.0/102 votesLoading...Scaredy Pants
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 10/28/1999
It's Halloween and SpongeBob tries to scare some kids as "The Flying Dutchman," but the kids just laugh at his silly costume. SpongeBob gets Patrick to shave his head round, so he will look more like a ghost. He goes to the Krusty Krab to show off his costume, but everyone is more afraid of what is inside the costume.
Director: Paul Tibbitt
Writer: Peter Burns, Paul Tibbitt
10.0/101 votesLoading...I Was a Teenage Gary
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 10/28/1999
Gary becomes sick when Squidward forgets to feed him, so a doctor has to come and give Gary some medicine. The doctor has Squidward give Gary the shot. Squidward accidentally gives the medicine to Spongebob instead of Gary, which turns Spongebob into a snail.
Director: Steve Fonti
Writer: Mr. Lawrence, Steve Fonti, Chris Mitchell
8.8/106 votesLoading...SB-129
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 12/31/1999
Squidward becomes frozen while hiding from SpongeBob and Patrick. He stays frozen for so long, he wakes up in the future. Once he's in the future, he thinks he will be able to get away from SpongeBob and Patrick, but it seems where ever he goes, they are always there somehow.
Director: Aaron Springer
Writer: Mr. Lawrence, Erik Wiese, Aaron Springer
10.0/101 votesLoading...Karate Choppers
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 12/31/1999
SpongeBob and Sandy just can't stop practicing karate, even after Mr. Krabs warns SpongeBob that he will be fired. Soon Mr. Krabs finds them in the park using karate to make sandwiches, so he hires them both to make Krabby Patties at a super fast rate using Karate.
Director: Aaron Springer
Writer: Erik Wiese, Aaron Springer, Merriwether Williams
9.5/102 votesLoading...Sleepy Time
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 1/17/2000
SpongeBob leaves his dream in order to see what everyone else is dreaming about. But the other citizens of Bikini Bottom don't appreciate this because in the process of his "Dream Exploring" he wakes everyone up and disturbs their sleep.
Director: Ennio Torresan Jr., Paul Tibbitt
Writer: Mr. Lawrence, Paul Tibbitt, Ennio Torresan Jr.
9.0/102 votesLoading...Suds
Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 1/17/2000
SpongeBob becomes sick after he leaves the door to the fridge open, and his house becomes icy. But when he gets ready to go to the doctor, Patrick scares him, and tries to cure SpongeBob himself.
Director: Ennio Torresan Jr.
Writer: Mr. Lawrence, Paul Tibbitt, Ennio Torresan Jr.
9.5/102 votesLoading...Valentine's Day
Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 2/14/2000
SpongeBob wants to give Patrick the best Valentine's Day gift ever, a chocolate heart shaped hot air balloon. Sandy starts to drive it over to SpongeBob and Patrick at the Valentine Day fair but, scallops attack the balloon, and SpongeBob must stall for time. Patrick goes crazy waiting for his gift, and starts to attack people at the fair.
Director: Chuck Klein
Writer: Chuck Klein, Jay Lender, Merriwether Williams
9.0/103 votesLoading...The Paper
Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 2/14/2000
SpongeBob gets a small piece of paper from Squidward to play with. Squidward thinks that the paper is useless and just gives it away. SpongeBob soon does many fun things with it, and makes Squidward very jealous.
Director: Chuck Klein
Writer: Mr. Lawrence, Chuck Klein, Jay Lender
9.5/102 votesLoading...Arrgh!
Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 3/15/2000
SpongeBob and Patrick play a pirate board game based on a real treasure map. Mr. Krabs joins in and wins a bunch of times in a row. The next day, Mr. Krabs takes the two boys on a treasure hunt, but they find out later that Mr. Krabs is using the game as a map, and is going crazy trying to find the Flying Dutchman's treasure.
Director: Sherm Cohen
Writer: Sherm Cohen, Vincent Waller, Merriwether Williams
10.0/102 votesLoading...Rock Bottom
Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 3/15/2000
SpongeBob and Patrick accidentally get on the wrong bus coming out of an amusement park called Glove World, and head for a city named Rock Bottom. When they get there, Patrick gets on a bus back to Bikini Bottom, and leaves SpongeBob by mistake. How will SpongeBob ever get home?
Director: Ennio Torresan Jr.
Writer: Paul Tibbitt, David Fain, Ennio Torresan Jr.
9.2/104 votesLoading...Texas
Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 3/22/2000
Sandy gets homesick, so SpongeBob and Patrick do as much as they can to cheer her up. When they want to throw her a surprise party and she won't come, SpongeBob and Patrick make Sandy chase them to the Krusty Krab, where the party is being held.
Director: Sherm Cohen
Writer: Sherm Cohen, Vincent Waller, David Fain
10.0/101 votesLoading...Walking Small
Season 1 Episode 37 - Aired 3/22/2000
Plankton's newest scheme involves getting someone to scare everyone away from "Goo Lagoon" so he can create his new restaurant, "The Mega Bucket." He tricks SpongeBob into scaring everyone away from the beach, until SpongeBob realizes what he is doing is wrong.
Director: Aaron Springer
Writer: Mr. Lawrence, Erik Wiese, Aaron Springer
9.5/102 votesLoading...Fools in April
Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 4/1/2000
Squidward wakes up and finds out it is April Fools Day. April Fools Day is SpongeBob's favorite holiday so Squidward becomes paranoid, thinking SpongeBob will play a joke on him. Squidward plays a mean trick on SpongeBob, but after SpongeBob runs home crying, Squidward must apologize.
Director: Aaron Springer
Writer: Erik Wiese, Aaron Springer, Merriwether Williams
10.0/101 votesLoading...Neptune's Spatula
Season 1 Episode 39 - Aired 4/1/2000
SpongeBob and Patrick go to the Fry Cook Museum and are looking at the exhibits, when they come across the a spatula stuck in hardened grease. This spatula could only be pulled out by a fry cook worthy enough to cook for Neptune himself. Spongebob pulls the spatula out with ease, and is excepted to move to Atlantis as Neptune's fry cook! But, when Neptune tells SpongeBob he cannot bring his friends, SpongeBob starts to reconsider. Will SpongeBob leave his friends behind?
Director: Chuck Klein
Writer: David Fain, Chuck Klein, Jay Lender
10.0/102 votesLoading...Hooky
Season 1 Episode 40 - Aired 4/8/2000
Patrick introduces SpongeBob to a carnival but this "carnival" is really colored fishing hooks dropped by fishermen on land. Mr. Krabs warns SpongeBob to stay away and how dangerous they are, but Patrick keeps on talking about how fun they are. Who will SpongeBob listen to, Patrick or Mr. Krabs?
Director: Sherm Cohen
Writer: Sherm Cohen, Vincent Waller, Merriwether Williams
10.0/101 votesLoading...Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy II
Season 1 Episode 41 - Aired 4/8/2000
SpongeBob is awarded a prize for his life size Krabby Patty sculptures of Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy. The prize is the "Magic Conch" as seen in many episodes of the television show "The Adventures of Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy." The conch shell, when blown, will make a noise and Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy will come running! It is meant only for danger. SpongeBob blows the conch for simple chores. Will the heroes be so annoyed they must take back the conch?
Director: Chuck Klein
Writer: Mr. Lawrence, Chuck Klein, Jay Lender