Every Classic Spongebob Episode Ranked

Spongebob and Patrick sell chocolate bars to make money. / Barnacleboy turns evil to protest Mermaidman treating him like a child.

Curiosity is killing Spongebob as he tries to invite out what is in the box that Patrick keeps with him: Squidward wants to form a marching band.

Spongebob unknowingly snitches on a notorious strangler, who vows revenge. Later, Spongebob and Patrick prank the whole town by pretending to be ghosts.

Mr. Krabs converts the Krusty Krab into an amusement park. Spongebob, Patrick, and Squidward go camping.

Spongebob and Patrick learn a curse word and begin using it frequently. Squidward decides to teach an art class, but Spongebob is his only student.

Believing a health inspector to be an impostor Spongebob and Me, Krabs create a disgusting Krabby Patty to feed him; SpongeBob and Patrick play with a box.

After Mr. Krabs loses a card game to Plankton, Spongebob is forced to work at the Chum Bucket. Later, Spongebob and Patrick discover a magic pencil that brings anything they draw with it to life.

The Krusty Krab is open for 24 hours a day to make more money, and Squidward scares Spongebob with the "hash slinging slasher."/ Ms. Puff comes to the Krusty Krab and Mr. Krabs gets Spongebob's help to woo her.

Krab Borg: SpongeBob stays up late one night watching a sci-fi film where robots take over the world. He comes to work paranoid and Squidward scoffs at him. Through a series of wild coincidences, SpongeBob gets it in his head that Mr. Krabs is a robot and convinces Squidward the same thing, too. In a paranoid fit, SpongeBob and Squidward tie up Mr. Krabs and interrogate him as to where he has put the real Mr. Krabs. Mr. Krabs tries to convince him that it is him, but Squidward and SpongeBob are too deeply involved in the fantasy and abuse Mr. Krabs in order to get the information. In the end, Squidward asks SpongeBob how the movie ended. SpongeBob confesses that in the end of the movie, the robot wasn't a robot after all but a real person. Mr. Krabs yells "I told you so". SpongeBob splits and Squidward is left taking the blame for it all. Rock-a-Bye Bivalve: SpongeBob and Patrick find an abandoned baby clam and decided to rear the child as their own. SpongeBob takes on the role of mother, while Patrick becomes the Father who goes to work (under his rock to watch TV with a briefcase full of doughnuts) all day. When the stress of motherhood begins to get to SpongeBob, and he asks Patrick for help, Patrick restates that he has to go to work. He spends less and less time at home and Patrick and SpongeBob fight more and more. When SpongeBob finds out where Patrick has really been spending all of his time, he is livid, but their baby clam has grown up and is ready to fly away on its own. Patrick and SpongeBob put aside their differences to watch their child fly away.

Mr. Krabs' addiction to a board game SpongeBob and Patrick invite him to play inspires him to bring the two on a real treasure hunt./SpongeBob and Patrick take the wrong bus home from Glove World and get stuck in an unfamiliar place.

Spongebob, Patrick, and Squidward become unwilling crew members aboard the Flying Dutchman's ghostly pirate ship. Spongebob attempts to give Gary a bath.

Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy fight one of their toughest enemies, ManRay, after Spongebob and Patrick free him; Spongebob tells mean squirrel jokes.

Spongebob and Squidward must deliver a pizza for the Krusty Krab. Later, Spongebob's pineapple house is eaten by nematodes, leaving him homeless.

When Squidward unknowingly gives Spongebob a pie laced with explosives, he attempts to make Spongebob's last day on Earth meaningful. Plankton builds a robot that looks like Mr. Krabs in an attempt to steal the formula.

Plankton uses one of his devices to get a glance into the life of Mr. Krabs, which is not all that he expects it to be; After being mistaken for a lifeguard by Larry, SpongeBob must protect his lie a well as the safety of the beach goers.

Sandy, SpongeBob & The Worm: A large worm is terrorizing Bikini Bottom and SpongeBob is terrified of it. Sandy thinks SpongeBob is chicken and drags him out into the wilderness to take the worm on. When they finally see the worm, it turns out SpongeBob was right - it's ferocious. It chases Sandy and SpongeBob hi and lo. Sandy and SpongeBob run for their lives while fighting over whose fault it is. In the end, they get away and become friends again. Squid of Strike: Believing Mr. Krab is taking advantage, Squidward convinces naive SpongeBob to join with him and threaten Mr. Krabs with a strike. When Mr. Krabs fires them both, a frustrated Squidward tries to teach SpongeBob the art of picketing, but business only gets better for Mr. Krabs, and Squidward is forced to make a stump speech about how they will "destroy the establishment." When Squidward has nightmares about being unemployed with SpongeBob forever, he caves into Mr. Krabs and they both reach an agreement, but only after SpongeBob has taken Squidward literally by entirely destroying the Krusty Krab.

Mr. Krabs decides to host a talent show at the Krusty Krab in an attempt to boost customers, meanwhile Squidward sees it as his opportunity to break through./A new friendship between SpongeBob and Plankton causes issues at the Krusty Krab.

When Squidward tries to gain access to Spongebob and Patrick's "secret" club, the three of them end up stranded in the woods. Spongebob decides to adopt a wild seahorse.

Pre-Hibernation Week: SpongeBob hides from Sandy. Life of Crime: SpongeBob and Patrick borrow a balloon from a store and accidentally pop it.

Jellyfish Hunter: When money hungry Mr. Krabs discovers that customers love SpongeBob's special jellyfish jelly Krabby Patty, he convinces Spongebob to bring him as many of the jellyfish as he can. Spongebob easily brings in herds of the gentle creatures and empties the entire jellyfish field, with the exception of his favorite one, Ol' Buzzy. However, Ol' Buzzy isn't happy with SpongeBob's lack of respect for the jellyfish fields, and hunts after Spongebob to reveal to him the horrible conditions under which Mr. Krabs is keeping all the jellyfish. When SpongeBob realizes what he has done, he joins forces with Ol' Buzzy to free all of the jellyfish from greedy Mr. Krabs. The Fry Cook Games: The fast food Olympics are taking place and Krabs has entered SpongeBob to compete in all the events. As Patrick watches SpongeBob train, he decides he wants to play, too. SpongeBob explains to him that you have to actually work at a fast food place to enter. Patrick quickly gets a job with the Chum Bucket and Plankton enters Patrick in the Olympics as his champion. SpongeBob and Patrick's friendship is torn apart as Mr. Krabs and Plankton whip them into killing machines. They compete and it's all tied until the last event when SpongeBob and Patrick both realize that they can't let any old competition get in the way of their friendship. Mr. Krabs and Plankton end up wrestling for the championship title.

Squidward is annoyed by Spongebob and Patrick's antics in the Snow. / Mr. Krabs accidentally sells Spongebob a priceless item and he tries to get it back.

Squidward is forced to eat a Krabby Patty; A large and mean new student joins Mrs. Puff's boating class and immediately decides that he wants to cause bodily harm to SpongeBob.

Spongebob tries to get into the Salty Spitoon, the toughest club in town. Squidward must turn the Krusty Krab into a five-star restaurant in order to impress his nemesis, Squilliam Fancyson.

As Seen on TV: Krabs makes a low budget commercial and SpongeBob is in it for one second. After the commercial airs once at three in the morning, a blind man recognizes SpongeBob. SpongeBob's head blows up and he tells Mr. Krabs that he is going to have to quit the Krusty Krab now that he's a big famous star. Spongebob is convinced that his public needs him. When his public demands that they see him frying Krabby Patties, SpongeBob doesn't think he's anyone to deny them. He ends up cooking patties just like he always has. Can You Spare a Dime?: Squidward is fed up with Mr. Krab's insults and he quits, bragging about how easy it will be to find another job. But of course, it's not and Squidward falls upon hard times. He goes though all his savings and is dirt poor. Having no where else to turn, he asks SpongeBob if he can crash at the Pineapple for awhile, just until he gets back on his feet. SpongeBob's heart goes out to him, but soon Squidward takes advantage of SpongeBob's hospitality and becomes the house guest who has completely overstayed his welcome. SpongeBob has to beg Mr. Krabs to hire Squidward back at the Krusty Krab.

While at a restaurant, SpongeBob tells of how he once lost his own name tag and spent an entire day trying to hunt down the elusive label; Plankton hires an army who happens to be his redneck cousins.