

It’s one of the better special episodes, and is surprisingly funny and clever for being such a recent episode.

Ruffy (The Butler) who counteracts the goofiness of Spongebob and Patrick, only to be later exposed as the real bandit. It features a terrific new character and straight man in Orin J.

For a full length episode (22 minutes instead of the typical 11) it has a lot of references and call-backs, and has a lot of time to successfully pull off an entire mystery story. The TV special known as “Mystery with a Twistery” is actually a thinly veiled adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express but I use the word adaptation very very loosely. “The Great Patty Caper” (November 11 th, 2010)įrom the oldest entry on the list, we now get to the newest one. You may remember this particular segment from:ĩ9. It’s hard to think what the world would be like without the yellow sponge, and it’s a good thing this initial pitch episode not only did well enough to land it into a full series, but is good enough to still enjoy fifteen years later. It’s an ambitious premiere for a kid’s show, and has a diverse range of humor and animation styles. It helped establish SpongeBob’s enthusiasm for The Krusty Krab, Squidward’s apathy towards The Krusty Krab, and the tone for the series, all within a brisk eight minutes. What better place to start on this list than the first episode of SpongeBob? The pilot for the show is the only episode in history to have three segments instead of the usual two, and “Help Wanted” is the second best of the bunch (another is further down the list). So just know that you are not crazy, and that I am purposefully being weird about the jargon. But some episodes are only one long segment, and sometimes there are three in one, since this show doesn’t like being pinned down to one structure. Really, an episode of SpongeBob is two segments put together with commercials, and so technically this is a list of the 100 greatest segments. You may notice the interchangeable nature of the word “episode” in this list.
