Worst Spongebob Squarepants Episodes

The Top Ten

A Pal for Gary

I just loathe this episode. Spongebob Ignorantpants ignores the lady's warning about Puffy Fluffy. The instant he ignores it, you just want to make Spongebob absorb corrosives. He blames Gary for everything harmful that Puffy Fluffy does. He scolds Gary for protecting himself?!?
He also doesn't care about Gary when Puffy Fluffy is about to eat him, saying "Gary! Put Puffy Fluffy down right now!" instead of "Puffy Fluffy! Put Gary down right now!" Gosh, did I want to smash the TV because of that yellow, porous jerk.

Well, One Coarse Meal, I don't believe that it's too bad to compare with THIS (but it's still at the 10 ten list for me). Oh, yes... THIS episode is too bad, that even I didn't remember very well the episode, when I saw many people complaining about it. And I will say ONE thing... Why the hell did you believe that was funny the same time that doesn't make any SENSE? Really, how can SpongeBob feel sad about letting Gary in the home, the SAME TIME you ignore everything that Gary that Puppy Fluffy is a bad guy. I tried to laugh, because this recipe of laugh (in that show with Puppy and Gary) always manages to entertain people and make them laugh, but I couldn't laugh, as SpongeBob seemed earlier to feel very, very, VERY bad about what I said earlier (it doesn't make sense). Puppy Fluffy transforms into a monster that tries to kill Gary. The house gets on fire and SpongeBob comes to see what happened. Which was its fault about the fire on the house! "Gary! Put Puffy Fluffy down right now! ". I'M DONE.
One Coarse Meal

Ah... SpongeBob SquarePants... when you think of a great family friendly children's show, this is probably one of the things that comes to mind, right? Well, if you've never seen this episode, please watch. It will change your mind COMPLETELY. No joke. What makes this episode so bad? What makes it worse than the episode A Pal For Gary, an episode FILLED with abuse of Gary? Let's get into it. Plankton is trying to (once again) steal the Krabby Patty formula. Pearl shows up, (just to ask for money) and Plankton is terrified because he has heard that whales eat plankton. Mr. Krabs uses this fear to create a master plan to stop Plankton once and for all. Mr. Krabs creates a costume that looks exactly like Pearl, and begins to scare Plankton, even when he's not doing anything that endangers the Krusty Krab. Great message for children, right? Don't worry, it gets worse. Plankton is starting to go insane. Literally insane. He doesn't cut his hair, his toenails, he wears tissue boxes for shoes, and Karen (his wife, in case you didn't know) does nothing to help, because she doesn't believe him when he tells her that there is a whale after him. Plankton decides to end it all. You read correctly. "Well, they probably don't go too far into that detail, right? " Wrong. Plankton goes right in the middle of the road, and lies down on his back. "Well, children probably don't know what's happening, right? " Eh... normally, yes. But then when SpongeBob sees Plankton, he goes outside and talks to Plankton, to which Plankton says this: "Can't you see I'm trying to get run over?! " and "In fact why don't you just step on me? ". So now children know that Plankton wants to die. "Well, Mr. Krabs and Plankton work together sometimes, so if Krabs found out, he would help him, right? " Oh I wish. Because that would make sense. But instead, the writers go to a new low. SpongeBob goes into Krabs' office, and tells him that Plankton is lying in the road. What does Krabs do? Does he rush out there... read more
The Splinter

This episode is more horrible than horrible. So, SpongeBob gets a splinter stuck in his thumb, and Patrick tries to get it out. This already doesn't sound like a great plot, but add grotesque and repulsive imagery and you have the worst episode in SpongeBob history. Why is it worse than One Coarse Meal, where Mr. Krabs drives Plankton to suicide? Because at least I can sit through it. Sure, A Pal For Gary has SpongeBob being a dumb, ignorant character who lets the new pet abuse Gary, but at least I can sit through it. I can't even watch this without looking away from the T.V. every five seconds. Patrick is super dumb in this episode, but it's not like he's being mean to SpongeBob. But if you can't even look at the episode, it deserves to be the absolute worst one.
Stuck in the Wringer

Stuck in the Wringer is the second segment of the second episode from Season 7 of SpongeBob SquarePants. The episode follows SpongeBob as he gets stuck in his wringer after taking a shower. His efforts to carry on with his day while trapped lead to a series of comedic mishaps.

This episode is monstrously evil and the absolute worst cartoon episode I have seen in my entire life. I could rant for pages on why I hate this episode, so let me just say that it is worse the Ren Seeks Help, One Course Meal, Rainbow Falls, bad Family Guy, and even the last 8 (especially the last one) episodes of Death Note. This is toxic for the mind and portrays true cruelty, ignorance, suffering, depression, victim blaming, and so much more in a frighteningly realistic way so SpongeBob can be miserable for laughs. Don't even get me started on the ending. I was 8 years old when I first watched this episode and stayed angry and depressed from the episode for 2 1/2 DAYS! I even like modern SpongeBob humor and creepy factor, but this was cruelty and evil.
Demolition Doofus

First of all, Spongebob Scars her for life, then says this: "I guess for now on we're gonna have to call yo Mrs. Pop! " (Laughs). Then, Mrs. Puff thinks it's right to kill someone to make themselves happy and tries to kill Spongebob. Then, she enters Spongebob in a demolition derby, and lies to him saying it's extra credit! Then during the demolition derby, she says these two lines that I just hate. "I can't watch, wait, I can! ' and " Why are you sill ALIVE! " Then, after the others can't kill Spongebob, she thinks it's right to murder him! Then the ending makes no sense whatsoever! After they crash into her school, she puffs up again, how! Nothing patched up the hole she had! She just blew up. I think everybody knows whats wrong with this episode.
Pet Sitter Pat

This episode is Patrick at his worst. He keeps on torturing Gary while SpongeBob is away. The episode also makes SpongeBob worry about Gary unlike in A Pal For Gary, but the episode uses this as an excuse to torture Gary. The worst part is when Patrick tries to give Gary a bath. He uses a flamethrower and thinks "It looks like fun" and also thinks about using salt to dry him. Salt kills snails, is he crazy! Patrick is so stupid and terrible that he should die because he is the worst character on the show. Yes, even worse than Mr. Krabs. This episode is like a sequel to A Pal For Gary or a terrible rip off that needs to be killed now!
Yours Mine and Mine

Patrick is just really rude in this episode, from stealing SpongeBob's money, calling it sharing, and eating Patty Pal because SpongeBob wants a turn. Why isn't this higher? Yes, A Pal for Gary was abysmal and SpongeBob was a completely naive to what was going on, but other than that and a few other episodes (One Coarse Meal, Demolition Doofus), half of these above Yours, Mine and Mine had to do with Patrick being a complete IDIOT. He tried using salt on Gary in Pet Sitter Pat, and forever glued SpongeBob in the wringer. Patrick used to be a loveable character, and in these episodes from seasons 5-8, he is just amazingly stupid (not in a good way), rude, and just not funny whatsoever.
Atlantis Squarepantis

Where do I even begin. The advertisements deified it, acting like it would be the next SpongeBob SquarePants movie. Instead what we got was sheer garbage. The songs were so torturously awful that I would rather listen to "baby" than most of them. The plot had too many holes to count. 75% of the episode was pointless filler, horrible singing and boring subplots. The humor makes starring at a blank wall look entertaining. Plankton was shoved into the episode out of absolutely nowhere and does nothing to effect the main plot line. Patchy the pirate gets his own pointless subplot, and his own atrocious song. David Bowie makes an appearance as a nightmarish mutant blue burry with probably the most uncreative name comprehensible (lore royal highness). And, of course, the only reason they go to the legendary city of atlantis, which people have been searching for for millennia, is to see the world's oldest bubble, carried across the void of space on foot by one eyed elephants. This is the room of SpongeBob episodes.
SpongeBob, You're Fired!

You guys can say what you want about A Pal for Gary and One Coarse Meal. Those episodes at least told a story. What story does this tell? SpongeBob gets fired, 15 minutes of crappy filler, he is hired again because of mopey dopey sad talk. This was a terrible episode just for the sheer fact that it will bore you so much, you'll need to be on life support just to NOT die of boredom. And speaking of life support, SpongeBob's life support is dead. Not to mention this episode not only screws the continuity of the old awesome episodes, but even the newer bad ones. Why the hell would SpongeBob get fired over a nickel!? It's already been shown in Stanley SquarePants that SpongeBob is fully capable of keeping the Krusty Krab alive on his own. Squidward at least does nothing of value for Mr. Krabs. He doesn't even have seniority anymore. It makes no sense and feels purely like a contrivance just to serve a half-crapped plot. Sure A Pal for Gary was just evil and One Coarse Meal REALLY screwed up making fun of suicide, but THIS. This show has nothing of interest at ALL.
Choir Boys

By my opinion this is the 2nd worst Squidward torture porn ever (the 1st is Squidward in Clarinetland). All Squidward wanted to do was sing at a chorus, and he didn't deserve any of his torment. He is trying to get to the chorus and SpongeBob keep doing things to "Get his attention" like digging a hole in the road. This causes him to land in Jellyfish fields and get stung by jellyfish repeatedly. He ties SpongeBob up with sea kelp. At the end right when Sqidward was going to sing at the chorus SpongeBob comes in singing, and comes out on top. All Squidward wanted to do was SING AT A CHORUS!

By my opinion this is the 2nd worst Squidward torture porn ever! (the 1st is Squidward in Clarinetland). He didn't deserve any of his torment he just wanted to sing at a chorus and SpongeBob keep making it so he can't get to the chorus place by doing things like digging holes in the road to "get his attention". Squidward also gets stung by jellyfish. At the end right when Squidward was going to come on top SpongeBob comes in starts singing and comes out on top. Remember all Squidward wanted to do was SING AT A CHORUS!

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The Contenders

To Love a Patty

There are not enough words to describe how much I HATE this episode. The main reason (but not the only one) is that scene where SpongeBob kills clams to save a sandwich! That scene to me was blatant character assassination, the old SpongeBob would never show such disregard for innocent animals lives! Earlier episodes showed him to be kind and caring, not to mention he's a pet owner, he even raised a baby clam in one episode, what if one of the clams he killed was THAT clam! First time I saw this episode I screamed at the T.V. at the clam scene. Do the writers not watch the old episodes?

Another dreadful episode with a weak plot that relies on gross humor for laughs. The song is awful too and seriously cringeworthy. Actually the thing that bugs me most about this episode is watching SpongeBob rip apart the scallop shells! Hang on a minute! Does anyone remember the episode Rock a bye bivalve? Didn't the kind and caring SpongeBob we all know, raise and nurture a baby scallop in that episode? Yet here we see him brutally murder the very creature he loved and cared for Seems very out of character for SpongeBob to be killing things and that is just MESSED UP! Just highlights how little the new writers understanding of his character is, someone should make them sit and watch series 1-3 thouroughly!
Face Freeze!

This episode was a waste of your time. Ok, SpongeBob and Patrick make disgusting and disturbing faces. Then, Mr Krabs yells at them and says that of they make a face they will hold it forever. what? And then they take the challenge and then get their faces stuck. And now Sandy tries to fix it, which at one point she did, and then she kept going, and made SpongeBob and Patrick look even worse! I hate when Sandy thinks she's so advanced. And then I don't understand Squidward and Mr Krabs make faces for one second, and then they keep it forever! Again, what? And there's no solution! They just stay like that for no reason whatsoever! SpongeBob should be cancelled, NOW!
Boating Buddies

Out of the few post-movie episodes I've watched, this is easily the worst one I've come across. The jokes try so hard to make you laugh, but I just find them all dull. Not to mention it's one of many Squidward Torture Porns.
The episode starts with Spongebob grooming Gary until he hears what he thinks is 'a strange noise'. While investigating what it is, he decides to get Squidward into trouble once again. While trying to escape in a boat, Squidward destroys a stop sign and gets assigned to Boating School.
When asked by Mrs. Puff, Squidward tries to explain what happened while Spongebob stares him down. When Squidward sits down again, Spongebob starts breathing heavily at him in such a creepy way! You see where I'm going with this?
Also, throughout this episode, Squidward gets beaten up by some muscular fish twice. Squidward torture taken too far, am I wrong? Anyway, after being beaten up for the second time, Squidward ends up in a full body cast right before the exam. And he fails because of it.
What more can I say about this episode that hasn't already been said by EVERYONE else who hates this episode? Spongebob is extremely creepy and annoying to the point of wanting to wring him dry. Squidward gets all of his bones broken because the writers think that beating up a character is funny. I don't care how much you like Spongebob, this is one episode you should REALLY try to avoid. Believe me, you'll be thanking me later.
Squid Baby

Squid Baby is an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants from season 9. In the episode, Squidward accidentally hits his head on a mailbox, causing a head injury that makes him behave like a baby. The episode originally aired on July 16, 2013.

Oh gosh. This episode is disturbing. The content isn't as nightmare inducing as squid's visit. But this episode still belongs in the top 10 worst. The entire plot recycles Rock a bye bivalve, and at the same time makes unfunny gags where squidward gets repeatedly banged in the head. The hypocrisy showcase from little yellow book may have been irritating. But the annoyance from this episode makes you legitimately cringe all the way through. You spend the 11 minutes praying for squidward to survive. There is only one other episode with this kind of plot, the one and only, "One coarse meal", a worse episode. And episodes where the character you root for ends up losing are worthy of the top 10 worst.
Little Yellow Book

Okay, clearly Squidward was wrong here. Sure. Reading someone else's private business is a terrible thing. But there's no law that says you should get arrested or get your house taken away for reading someone else's diary. The thing that pissed me off the most was that they were all being hypocrites. They were laughing along with Squidward and they all saw SpongeBob taking off his clothes and dancing like a lunatic. And when he runs away crying and humiliated, they just THROW Squidward under the bus, like they didn't take any part of humiliating SpongeBob. Especially Patrick. He could've told Squidward to stop. Instead, he's all, "Fix me up a krabby patty, SpongeBob! With good ol' FEE-FEE! " And then later, he throws tomatoes at Squidward and Squidward tells him that he was reading it too and he said," Oh, blame everyone but YOURSELF! " As much as I like Patrick, he's has this unhealthy addiction of hypocrisy. And honestly, who even cares about diaries anyway?
Truth or Square

SpongeBob's Truth or Square is a 2009 made-for-television comedy special and an hour-long episode of the American animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants. It was created to celebrate the show's 10th anniversary. The special features live-action segments and celebrity guest appearances.

I was disappointed about this episode they were saying in the commercials that they were revealing the secret formula. I was so excited to see it, but it ended up to be boring, pointless and they didn't even reveal the secret formula. It also shows that Mr. Krabs stalks squidward and SpongeBob which is weird. This was one of the worst specials of SpongeBob ever other than alantis squarepantis. This had lots of build up and they gave us crap.

This episode slash Special was a poor excuse of animation which is nothing more than a complete waste of air time they should call this episode "Lie or Square" because its all this thing really is LIES,LIES,LIES,LIES, and the Patchy the Pirate segments are nothing but pointless filler that literally does nothing for the special Triumph The Insult Comic Dog said it best "Maybe you should consider wearing two eye patches that way you wouldn't be able to see what's become of your life! " which I'm pretty sure is not only directed towards Tom Kenny himself but to the show as a whole, and later as Patchy kidnaps Robin Williams he states "Wait a minute I know this place, this is where careers come to die! ".
Squid's Visit

Not my least favorite, but I voted for it because it NEEDS to be somewhere at the top. Spongebob's most notable trait is that he is really annoying (watch Funny Pants if you want an example), but his second most notable trait is that he is really creepy and always tries to get under people's skin, including mine. This episode is the epitome of Spongebob's creepiness.
Basically, Spongebob wants Squidward to visit his house so badly that he remodels his house to look EXACTLY like Squidward's, and I mean exactly. Every single detail is exact. Heck, Spongebob's not even in the episode a whole lot, but you can still feel his presence. You can almost hear his sinister laugh echoing down the halls.
Also, the ending sucks, too - a notable trope for newer Spongebob episodes.
Someone's in the Kitchen with Sandy

I agree that this episode was pointless and wasted. There was even too many errors and goofs. Why didn't people see that Sandy didn't have eyeballs or mouth? The charcters of the show were seen naked all episodes and technically, Sandy wasn't FULLY NAKED! For crying out loud, she was in a bikini! How come the fish were smart to know about the names of mammals when the fish themselves are naked and Sandy was only in the bikini and they were dumb enough to figure it out. The people being disgusted and throwing things at Sandy were on my last nerves. I hate this episode so much and doesn't make any sense. P.s. I also don't like seeing Sandy arrested for a crime that she isn't actually naked.
Dear Vikings

This was the first SpongeBob episode I actually hated. The show was already pretty weak for me for a while before this episode came out, but I was mostly in denial and just thought that I was "outgrowing" it. But then this episode happened and it just hit me that this show really was going downhill.
This episode was just unbelievable. Every character is so horribly oversimplified, the jokes were bad, the plot was uninteresting. In fact the whole thing felt like a bad preschool show. SpongeBob SquarePants is supposed to be a smart kids show, that anyone of any age could enjoy. This episode is so bad it could insult a 4 year old's intelligence. Then you have the poor excuse of an ending, "now that's what I call, a viking sized adventure".
On a personal level it rubs off me bad because before this I would try to make the case that SpongeBob isn't just for little kids, then they pull this episode as a stab to the back.
Are You Happy Now?

This episode is weak on it's own. It begins with Squidward not being able to remember his "happiest memory" (what about episodes such as Band Geeks and House Fancy, where he actually gets to win? ). He becomes depressed, and it gets worse when the episode references suicide TWICE. Once when Squidward sticks his head in his oven (to pull out some brownies) and when seemingly pulling a rope to hang himself (he's actually hanging a bird cage). This kind of stuff shouldn't be in a kids' show. No one thinks that suicide is funny; it's a very serious topic. If I had my say, I'd pull that episode off air and fire whoever thought it would actually make people laugh.
Trench Billies

I seriously dread watching this episode. The characters are creepy as hell. The only part of this episode I like is when Patrick calls a musical challenge and also the part where they try to go home. They get out successfully, but trying to make them take care of the Trenchbillies' mom for the rest of their lives?
If that were me, I'd have turned down the offer for sure and gotten the heck out of there. There's no way I'd want to take care of their mother. SpongeBob and Patrick definitely didn't want to either.
If that were me, I'd come back with a minigun and kill every single one of those Trenchbillies. I wish they'd made that part of the episode. That would've been funny to watch.
But yeah, SpongeBob and Patrick did the right thing by getting the heck out of there. And the fact that they followed them to the Krusty Krab?
Lastly, the final part of the episode I liked was when they forced Mr. Krabs to marry the leader of their clan. That was awesome. With how much Mr. Krabs is hated by a lot of people, he totally deserved it.
Good Neighbors

Squidward has every EXCUSE to hate Spongebob and Patrick. I'm not saying that I hate Spongebob, but they went too far in this episode. Okay, sure Squidward can be extremely shady at times, but for good reasons and he has every right to. Because it's as if everyone keeps ganging up on Squidward for no reason whatsoever. Squidward did nothing to deserve this kind of torture and for some reason, if he tries to relax for like a few seconds, he'll get tortured for the rest of his life.
Okay as much as I like Spongebob, he has no personality beyond being a nice person. He's not really mature, he acts like a 2 year old and he's too much of a butt kisser to that cheapo Mr. Krabs, and he cries way too much and he has this annoying laugh that makes your ears bleed. So what did Squidward do to deserve this? Nothing. This makes me hate Spongebob at times.
Shuffleboarding

I'v always like shuffleboarding, and I've wanted to try it, so when I first heard of this episode, I thought it would've been good. Wrong.
After SpongeBob and Patrick's superheroes, MM and BB get injured, they were forced to take over their shuffleboarding tournament for them. First of all, there was no shuffleboarding in this episode. SpongeBob and Patrick just left and then they won. But that's not even the worst part. As they were coming home, they started arresting people for no reason! In fact, when they give MM and BB they trophies, the arrested people came back and chased them, even though they were innocent!

SpongeBob and Patrick pretend to be their favorite superheroes and end up arresting all those people for nothing! They even arrested an lady just because she was old! When they did this, I was so mad! Not only that, but there was no shuffleboarding at all! In the first scene, SpongeBob and Patrick are going to the tournament. In the next, they already have the trophies! Definitely the worst episode ever! How is this not number one?
House Fancy

"House Fancy" is the first episode of season 6 of the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants. In the episode, Squidward attempts to outdo his rival Squilliam by making his home look as luxurious as possible. SpongeBob joins in to help, with chaotic results.... read more

This god damn episode is as boring as heck.
Oh and did you see the toenail scene? It was so hilarious!
Wait no... It can't be, the creators actually thought ripping squidward's toenail was able to go through all this and then SpongeBob is famous? You guys see, I never saw SpongeBob as a kids show, take the splinter for example, SpongeBob just got a regular splinter, and it went red, squirted pus in Mr Krabs face and was even bigger then his hand (maybe). Oh, I forgot to say about the title for inspongeiac, it shows SpongeBob's eyes looking tired CLOSE UP. That's all I can say but please, just PLEASE don't mention a friend for Gary.
Bye!

Honestly, I find the toenail scene hilarious. Plus, I don't see the big deal of people hating that scene. It was not even that gory, it was just a few blood, and it is a very normal thing for people to get their toenails ripped off, it happened to me. It is not like he is getting his head chopped of or an arm, he is still alive and has no real bad problems, so I don't see the big deal. I thought it was funny because of how Spongebob was so stubborn to keep pulling out his toenail and the screaming. I have seen more blood and disturbing scenes in The Powerpuff Girls with arms of monsters getting chopped off and blood coming with eyes getting pulled out than what I have seen in this.
Big Sister Sam

Yeah, I'm personally okay with Little Yellow Book, Choir Boys and Smooth Jazz At Bikini Bottom. They all have humour to them and have their moments. However, I personally do not like this episode as much as it doesn't really have much humour at all and the same thing happens over and over, Sam just hurting SpongeBob and Squidward and Patrick yelling "Shame on you! " at them, and nothing really gets done in this episode.

This episode just showcases Patrick's new-found levels of stupidity, completely ignoring the misdeeds of his obnoxious sister. And did she really need to be so horribly stupid, obnoxious, and destructive? It seemed to be a re-do of the Monster Who Came to Bikini Bottom, where Patrick also befriends a huge, destructive beast.