Worst Spongebob Squarepants Episodes

The Top Ten
1 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.

2 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... more

3 Stuck in the Wringer

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.

4 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.

5 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.

6 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!

7 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.

8 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.

9 Choir Boys

For someone who finds Spongebob annoying Squidward funny, this episode took it way too far. Spongebob just couldn't let Squidward have his moment without him (Spongebob) butting in and stealing the show! I mean, I guess Spongebob isn't a total jerk because he said that he would only join the choir boys if they gave Squidward a part in their choir (I think) but still!

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!

10 Squid Baby Squid Baby is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 9 where Squidward slams his head on a mailbox which causes his head to swell up which makes him look and act like a baby.

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.

The Contenders
11 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.

12 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?

13 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.

14 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!

15 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?

16 Someone's in the Kitchen with Sandy

Plankton and the rest of Bikini Bottom was absolutely CRUEL to Sandy in this episode. Stealing Sandy's SKIN? And she's the one who gets arrested? Are you kidding me, Plankton!? Also, what the heck, Bikini Bottom? So, it's okay if Plankton is naked all the time but Sandy not wearing her spacesuit once (but still wearing a bikini) is a crime? Plankton is my favorite but this episode made me really hate him. Poor 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.

17 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.

18 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

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! ".

19 Are You Happy Now?

"I can't seem to get happy... maybe this would help."
Just like Squid's Visit and One Coarse Meal, this is another controversial episode that just falls flat on its face. It focuses on Squidward spiralling into a deep depression, which, I'll give them credit, it's good for them to tackle a serious subject like that, I was once depressed in my life (never had any suicidal thoughts, I just felt really bad about myself and was in need of support, high school counselor meetings helped... almost), but what they do instead is handle a topic like this poorly and had some distasteful suicide jokes, such as the old "giving himself carbon monoxide poisoning" or "hanging himself" gags, similar to Moe from The Simpsons. I literally thought they would make fun of rape, terrorist attacks or domestic violence in the future after watching this episode, however modern Family Guy tried all those and failed...

20 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.

21 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.

22 Trench Billies

This episode is ugly, disturbing and unpleasant. That's how I'd describe it. It's plot is boring and pointless, it's jokes are terrible (none of them get a laugh), it's tone is mean-spirited the character designs of the Trench Billies are disgusting and hard to look at, it relies on redneck stereotypes because the writers don't know how to write interesting characters anymore, or use the ones that are interesting (or at least used to be). Not to mention that the episode references incest.

Mau was 500 pounds and sat on a couch. Didn't one of the redneck fish appear from the inside of an outhouse and corner the two morons out of nowhere? They also could have stood to keep the spitting to a minimum considering I ate dinner the first time I saw it but I guess gross makes gross product. Money talks as Krabs says! That episode was possibly the most predictable once the plot was revealed. Put that on the list.

23 Ink Lemonade

Welcome to how to make the worst SpongeBob episode of all time. Here, I will demonstrate everything a SpongeBob episode should have in order to make your audience changing the channel:

1. Come up with a nonsense random plot to terrify your audience
2. Begin with Patrick doing stupid things or doing absolutley nothing
3. Make sure Patrick is a prick throughout the episode
4. The story should have Squid torture as the main idea, and make Squidward scream throughout the episode so that the audience can get irritated
5. Make your ending loose

This is the worst episode I have ever seen. The jokes are terrible, the main idea feels like season 6, and this is one of Patrick's worst moments. I will surely never forgive Patrick because he destroyed season 11. I surely have no idea what's gonna happen to the next episodes. Either it's gonna be bad or improved.

24 WhoBob WhatPants?

Another terrible SpongeBob special with a wasted celebrity cameo. This special is nothing, but mean-spirited from the jokes to the characters. SpongeBob's friends are unnecessarily cruel to him when SpongeBob ruined everything by accident. There is even a joke offending the homeless when they can't even watch the episode. Squidward is the most unlikeable character here because he is excited that SpongeBob is gone, and doesn't feel guilty about what he said. The amnesia plot is cliche and pointless to the story. In the end, nothing changed and this whole special was pointless and a waste of time. Also, who could forget the most infamous part of the episode with the worst facial expression in the entire show.

25 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!

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