6.8/10497 votes#1 - A Friendly Game
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 3/26/2011
SpongeBob and Patrick decide to build an indoor miniature golf course in SpongeBob's pineapple house after it has rained outside. Squidward, who was sleeping and annoyed, tells the two to keep the noise down in constructing the course. They must not disturb Squidward, while Patrick distracts SpongeBob to make him lose in the process.
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6.8/10435 votes#2 - Oral Report
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 3/26/2011
While preparing to give an oral report for boating school, SpongeBob comes down with stage fright. SpongeBob asks Sandy for help, and receives a pair of goggles that would enable him to see people in their undergarments, so he will not feel nervous. However, in his oral presentation, his goggles malfunction, which makes SpongeBob to panic and run out with a boatmobile. Beating the red light, it calls the attention of a police, who starts chasing after him.
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6.7/10466 votes#3 - Sentimental Sponge
Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 4/2/2011
Squidward becomes concerned when Patrick convinces SpongeBob that he needs to become more sentimental.
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7.3/10490 votes#4 - Squidward's School for Grown Ups
Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 6/4/2011
When Patrick suddenly grows a beard, he decides it is time to act like a grown-up. He tags along with Squiward, who offers to teach him everything he knows about how to be mature, much to SpongeBob's dismay.
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6.1/10402 votes#5 - The Curse of the Hex
Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 6/11/2011
An evil hagfish curses the Krusty Krab.
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6.1/10370 votes#6 - The Hot Shot
Season 8 Episode 6 - Aired 6/18/2011
SpongeBob gets driving lessons from the son of a legendary race-car driver, Tony Fast Jr.
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5.9/10412 votes#7 - The Other Patty
Season 8 Episode 7 - Aired 6/25/2011
Mr. Krabs and Plankton, his business rival and Chum Bucket owner, set out to find clues on why they have no customers. The enemies find a common enemy—a popular new restaurant—in which they must work together to steal the secret formula of its "Flabby Patty" burgers.
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6.0/10382 votes#8 - Frozen Face-Off
Season 8 Episode 8 - Aired 7/15/2011
SpongeBob and the gang, including Patrick, Mr. Krabs, Squidward, Sandy Cheeks, Plankton and Karen, and Gary, participate in a sled worm race for one million dollars. However, just before the race begins, Plankton sneaks off to the Krusty Krab and uses a robot as his replacement in the race. Plankton goes inside the Krusty Krab to steal the Krabby Patty formula, while the group must keep a yeti, who is attacking them, away.
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6.6/10350 votes#9 - Accidents Will Happen
Season 8 Episode 9 - Aired 7/18/2011
When Squidward gets hurt on the job, he menaces to take legal action unless his employer, Mr. Krabs, agrees to cater to him to his every need. Mr. Krabs, who eventually gets tired of doing everything for Squidward, hires SpongeBob and Patrick to investigate the scene.
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6.9/10427 votes#10 - Drive Thru
Season 8 Episode 10 - Aired 7/19/2011
Instead of paying money to repair a hole in the wall of the Krusty Krab, Mr. Krabs decides to use it to gain more income by turning it into a drive-thru window. However, his two employees, SpongeBob and Squidward, have difficulty in keeping up with orders, which results to wreak havoc.
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7.3/10415 votes#11 - Sweet and Sour Squid
Season 8 Episode 11 - Aired 7/20/2011
Plankton tries to befriend Squidward in order to get the Krabby Patty secret formula. However, Squidward refuses to discourse with him until SpongeBob tells Plankton that he must compliment Squidward's music in order to strike up a friendship. The two become friends and share their music to all of Bikini Bottom.
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4.7/10489 votes#12 - The Googly Artiste
Season 8 Episode 12 - Aired 7/21/2011
When doing arts and crafts with his best friend SpongeBob, Patrick is coveted by everyone in town after an art critic praises his artwork. He soon becomes a famous artist, which makes Squidward jealous. When he reaches an artist's block, Patrick must find new inspirations for his next masterpiece.
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5.2/10432 votes#13 - Barnacle Face
Season 8 Episode 13 - Aired 9/16/2011
The night before a school dance, Pearl gets a barnacle on her face. Mr. Krabs asks SpongeBob to help his daughter remove the blemish to save money, instead of taking Pearl to expensive treatment.
Director: N/A
Writer: Andrew Goodman
6.2/10343 votes#14 - Pet Sitter Pat
Season 8 Episode 14 - Aired 9/16/2011
When SpongeBob gets an invitation to his Grandma's birthday party, he asks his best friend Patrick to pet-sit Gary. However, Patrick only causes trouble, which makes SpongeBob angry.
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6.2/10364 votes#15 - Mermaid Man Begins
Season 8 Episode 15 - Aired 9/23/2011
SpongeBob and Patrick learn the secret origins of Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy from the heroes themselves.
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5.8/10371 votes#16 - Plankton's Good Eye
Season 8 Episode 16 - Aired 9/23/2011
Plankton grows himself another eye because he lacks depth perception. However, it changes his personality and causes him to be nice, because the eye is from SpongeBob's DNA.
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6.3/10422 votes#17 - House Sittin' for Sandy
Season 8 Episode 17 - Aired 9/30/2011
SpongeBob gladly accepts to house sit Sandy's Treedome, while she is away. Sandy first shows SpongeBob what he should do, and all is quiet until Patrick arrives for a visit. The best friend causes chaos and wreak havoc, which results to the house getting destroyed.
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6.3/10373 votes#18 - Smoothe Jazz at Bikini Bottom
Season 8 Episode 18 - Aired 9/30/2011
Squidward and SpongeBob win backstage passes and tickets to Kelpy G's live concert. However, Patrick eats their passes shortly after the concert begins. Losing their passes, SpongeBob and Squidward try to sneak backstage to meet Kelpy G.
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6.6/10425 votes#19 - Ghoul Fools
Season 8 Episode 19 - Aired 10/21/2011
SpongeBob and Patrick find a houseboat haunted by a crew of ghost pirates headed by Lord Poltergeist. The two get caught in a feud between them and the Flying Dutchman.
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5.1/10545 votes#20 - Walking the Plankton
Season 8 Episode 20 - Aired 11/7/2011
Mr. Krabs and SpongeBob win free tickets to a cruise, thanks to Plankton, but they do not know that it is a secret plan to steal the Krabby Patty formula. At the same time, Plankton tricks his computer wife Karen for a vacation, and she is initially excited until when she realizes that this is part of his plan to steal the formula. He lies to her and the both hop on the same cruise as Mr. Krabs and SpongeBob.
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4.5/10544 votes#21 - Patrick's Staycation
Season 8 Episode 21 - Aired 11/8/2011
When feeling that he is doing the same activities every day, Patrick moans that he needs a break. SpongeBob suggests a vacation out of town, which cheers him. When at a travel agency, Patrick is given options, but they are thrown out when it is revealed that he cannot afford a trip. SpongeBob comes up with a solution—a "staycation", a vacation at home—which delights Patrick.
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6.7/10370 votes#22 - Mr. Krabs Takes a Vacation
Season 8 Episode 22 - Aired 11/9/2011
Mr. Krabs takes a vacation with SpongeBob and Pearl to the Bikini Bottom Mint. However, his daughter does not want to tag along, so she stays at a museum. SpongeBob and Mr. Krabs proceed inside the mint, but the tour guide is instantly annoyed by their antics. When two bank robbers seize the mint, SpongeBob and Mr. Krabs stop them and they are rewarded with a special edition one-dollar bill with their faces on it, but Pearl confiscates the dollars and spends them on a new pair of shoes, causing Mr. Krabs to blast endless tear beams in the mint.
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7.2/101,154 votes#23 - Mooncation
Season 8 Episode 23 - Aired 11/10/2011
SpongeBob meets Sandy, who is preparing her rocket to go to the Moon for a vacation. However, SpongeBob accidentally stows away, and when on the Moon, the two set out camp. SpongeBob and Sandy play sports including sandboarding on its craters. After accidentally crashing the sandboard into the fuel tank, they immediately start the rocket because they need to return home before the fuel runs out.
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6.9/10352 votes#24 - A SquarePants Family Vacation
Season 8 Episode 24 - Aired 11/11/2011
SpongeBob invites Mr. Krabs, Pearl, Sandy, Mrs. Puff, Larry, Squidward, and Plankton to watch a slideshow of his family vacation to the Great Barrier Reef. In the slideshow, SpongeBob and his parents are on a family road trip with Patrick, but the two best friends get lost and end up in a forest for adventure.
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6.7/10330 votes#25 - The Krabby Patty That Ate Bikini Bottom
Season 8 Episode 25 - Aired 11/25/2011
While looking for spare change, Mr. Krabs notices an over-sized soybean at Sandy's Treedome. Mr. Krabs is interested in what could have enlarged the plant, and Sandy revealed an experimental growth formula, which Mr. Krabs steals out of sight. At the Krusty Krab, he uses the growth formula on a Krabby Patty, but it keeps on growing until chaos erupts.
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The Best Episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants Season 8
Every episode of SpongeBob SquarePants Season 8 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants Season 8!
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Season 8 Ratings Summary
"A Friendly Game" is the best rated episode of "SpongeBob SquarePants" season 8. It scored 6.8/10 based on 497 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 3/26/2011. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Oral Report".