SpongeBob SquarePants (season 3)
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This article is a list of episodes from season three of the Nickelodeon animated television series, SpongeBob SquarePants. Season 3 began on October 5, 2001 with "Just One Bite" and "The Bully" and ended on October 11, 2004 with "SpongeBob Meets the Strangler" and "Pranks Alot". The show was put on hiatus until January 24, 2003. Episodes aired every few months after that date until October 11, 2004. The show was put on hiatus again, however, and season four would not begin until 6 May 2005. Like previous seasons, season three consists of 20 episodes. Season 3 was released on DVD in Regions 1 and 4 on September 27, 2005 and November 8, 2007. [1]
Contents |
[edit] Overview
| # | Title | Airdate |
| 41a | "The Algae's Always Greener" | March 22, 2002 |
| 41b | "SpongeGuard on Duty" | March 22, 2002 |
| 42a | "Club SpongeBob" | July 12, 2002 |
| 42b | "My Pretty Seahorse" | July 12, 2002 |
| 43a | "Just One Bite" | October 5, 2001 |
| 43b | "The Bully" | October 5, 2001 |
| 44a | "Nasty Patty" | March 1, 2002 |
| 44b | "Idiot Box" | March 1, 2002 |
| 45a | "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV" | January 21, 2002 |
| 45b | "Doing Time" | January 21, 2002 |
| 46a | "Snowball Effect" | February 22, 2002 |
| 46b | "One Krab's Trash" | February 22, 2002 |
| 47a | "As Seen on TV" | March 8, 2002 |
| 47b | "Can You Spare a Dime?" | March 8, 2002 |
| 48a | "No Weenies Allowed" | March 15, 2002 |
| 48b | "Squilliam Returns" | March 15, 2002 |
| 49a | "Krab Borg" | March 29, 2002 |
| 49b | "Rock-a-Bye Bivalve" | March 29, 2002 |
| 50a | "Wet Painters" | May 10, 2002 |
| 50b | "Krusty Krab Training Video" | May 10, 2002 |
| 51a | "Party Pooper Pants Part I" | May 17, 2002 |
| 51b | "Party Pooper Pants Part II" | May 17, 2002 |
| 52a | "Chocolate with Nuts" | May 17, 2002 |
| 52b | "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V" | May 17, 2002 |
| 53a | "New Student Starfish" | September 20, 2002 |
| 53b | "Clams" | September 20, 2002 |
| 54a | "SpongeBob B.C. (Ugh) Part I" | March 5, 2004 |
| 54b | "SpongeBob B.C (Ugh) Part II" | March 5, 2004 |
| 55a | "The Great Snail Race" | January 24, 2003 |
| 55b | "Mid-Life Crustacean" | January 24, 2003 |
| 56a | "Born Again Krabs" | October 4, 2003 |
| 56b | "I Had an Accident" | October 4, 2003 |
| 57a | "Krabby Land" | April 3, 2004 |
| 57b | "The Camping Episode" | April 3, 2004 |
| 58a | "Plankton's Army" | January 19, 2004 |
| 58b | "Missing Identity" | January 19, 2004 |
| 59a | "The Sponge Who Could Fly Part I" | March 21, 2003 |
| 59b | "The Sponge Who Could Fly Part II" | March 21, 2003 |
| 60a | "SpongeBob Meets the Strangler" | October 11, 2004 |
| 60b | "Pranks a Lot" | October 11, 2004 |
[edit] Episode 41
[edit] The Algae's Always Greener
| "The Algae's Always Greener" | |
| Episode №: | 41a |
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| Airdate: | March 22, 2002 |
| Writer(s): | Aaron Springer C.H. Greenblatt Merriwether Williams |
Plankton wants the Krabby Patty formula so he uses a machine that switches lives with Mr. Krabs, just to see what it's like. Plankton gets so close to getting the Krabby Patty, but he is challenged by all the things Mr. Krabs has to face. SpongeBob repeatedly comes into his office, Pearl whines to her "father" about her allowance, and Mr. Krabs comes and tries to steal the formula from Plankton. Plankton gets so annoyed with this life that he goes back to his own life.
[edit] SpongeGuard on Duty
| "SpongeGuard on Duty" | |
| Episode №: | 41b |
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| Airdate: | March 22, 2002 |
| Writer(s): | Jay Lender Sam Henderson Mark O'Hare |
SpongeBob says to Larry the Lobster that he is a lifeguard, so Larry puts SpongeBob on lifeguard duty. SpongeBob actually can't swim, and afraid something grave might happen, he closes the beach and kicks everybody out of the water. Patrick gets into the water and starts drowning. SpongeBob can't swim so he tries to save him without stepping in the water. He finally gets in the water but he starts drowning too. Larry comes and saves them in the ankle-high water, and teaches them how to swim but they get cramps.
[edit] Episode 42
[edit] Club SpongeBob
| "Club SpongeBob" | |
| Episode №: | 42a |
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| Airdate: | July 12, 2002 |
| Writer(s): | Jay Lender Sam Henderson Mark O'Hare |
SpongeBob and Patrick form a club, with a clubhouse that hardly has any room. Squidward decides to join when SpongeBob states that cephalopod wouldn't fit in-literally. While trying to get out, Squidward causes the clubhouse to land in the middle of nowhere. While he seeks for a way out, SpongeBob and Patrick take the advice of their Magic Conch Shell (a parody of the popular Magic 8-Ball and the magic conch from Lord of the Flies), which tells them to do nothing and wait, a method that surprisingly works to their advantage.
[edit] My Pretty Seahorse
| "My Pretty Seahorse" | |
| Episode №: | 42b |
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| Airdate: | July 12, 2002 |
| Writer(s): | Walt Dohrn Mark O'Hare |
SpongeBob finds a lost sea horse near his house one day and decides to adopt it. He names her Mystery. When SpongeBob brings Mystery to work one day, Mr. Krabs orders him to get rid of her. The sponge decides to hide Mystery inside the restaurant, only to see that it's quite difficult to cook food and keep a wild animal from being seen at the same time, since Mystery keeps escaping and eating everything in sight, including one of the customers.
[edit] Episode 43
[edit] Just One Bite
| "Just One Bite" | |
| Episode №: | 43a |
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| Airdate: | October 5, 2001 |
| Writer(s): | Kent Osborne Paul Tibbitt |
When SpongeBob learns that Squidward has never tasted a Krabby Patty, it becomes his obsession to get his miserable co-worker to take just one bite. When Squidward finally does, he hates it. At least that's what he tells SpongeBob. At night, he sneaks into the Patty Vault inside the Krusty Krab. Squidward sees SpongeBob come in unexpectedly and admits he likes Krabby Patties. He eats a lot of the Krabby Patties in the Patty Vault. SpongeBob tries to warn Squidward that eating too many patties at a time will cause him to explode, but before Squidward can hear him, it's too late. He is taken away to the hospital with his head separated from the remains of his body. This episode is one of the few that has been edited. In the original episode, Squidward walks into the Krusty Krab, where gasoline falls from above the door and burns Squidward as a security system. In the edited version this security is missing entirely as he walks over to the vault unharmed.
[edit] The Bully
| "The Bully" | |
| Episode №: | 43b |
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| Airdate: | October 5, 2001 |
| Writer(s): | Jay Lender Sam Henderson Merriwether Williams |
SpongeBob gets a new student at Boating School named Flats, and he says he will kick SpongeBob's butt. SpongeBob goes to Mrs. Puff and Flats' dad, but they both make it worse. Flats still say he is going to beat up SpongeBob, but when he punches SpongeBob it does not hurt because he is spongy. Flats continue to punch all day, but eventually gets tired and falls over. SpongeBob talks to the class a bit and right when he has his fist up (as part of the speech), Mrs. Puff arrives and thinks SpongeBob beat Flats up.
[edit] Episode 44
[edit] Nasty Patty
| "Nasty Patty" | |
| Episode №: | 44a |
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| Airdate: | March 1, 2002 |
| Writer(s): | Aaron Springer C.H. Greenblatt Merriwether Williams |
A health inspector comes to the Krusty Krab and Mr. Krabs thinks he is an impostor looking for free food. SpongeBob and Mr. Krabs give them a patty covered in nasty things like toilet water and toenail clippings. The health inspector swallows a fly and chokes, causing Mr. Krabs to think he killed the inspector. They try to get rid of him by burying him and then putting him in the freezer, all the while having hide this from the police. They eventually confess, but they find out the health inspector was not dead after all, and he passes the Krusty Krab.
[edit] Idiot Box
| "Idiot Box" | |
| Episode №: | 44b |
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| Airdate: | March 1, 2002 |
| Writer(s): | Paul Tibbitt Kaz Mark O'Hare |
SpongeBob buys a new TV but just the box so Patrick and him can play in it. Squidward takes the TV, but cannot concentrate due to SpongeBob and Patrick playing with their "imagination" outside in the box. Squidward thinks they are acting dumb, but he keeps hearing realistic sounds though the box is stationary. One night he sneaks into the box to figure out how they were making those noises, and in resignation he pretends to drive a race car, and the sounds he hears are realistic. In actuality, the box gets lifted by a garbage truck and gets taken away to a dump.
[edit] Episodes 45-60
| # | Airdate | Title | Overview |
|---|---|---|---|
| 45 | January 21, 2002 | "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV" | When Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy leave the Krusty Krab, Mermaid Man forgets his belt. SpongeBob, finding this treasure, immediately starts experimenting with it. SpongeBob shrinks Squidward and Patrick with the shrink ray. Squidward tries to convince SpongeBob to go to Mermaid Man for help, but fearing he will get in trouble, he refuses and is forced to eventually shrink everybody in town as they pass him by to greet him. Everybody gets mad at SpongeBob for failing to return them to normal size, but SpongeBob decides to shrink the whole city and himself, and now everything is relatively correct in size again. Plankton then gets back from a vacation and finds that he is larger then the whole city. |
| "Doing Time" | Mrs. Puff goes to jail because she gets in trouble after SpongeBob crashes his boat again. SpongeBob feels sorry for what he has done and tries to bust her out of jail with Patrick. This does not work as Mrs. Puff enjoys being away from SpongeBob. Continuous attempts by SpongeBob and Patrick to get Mrs. Puff out of jail get her in trouble with the guards and eventually she is locked up in solitary confinement (in a room made of sponge). She then wakes up and finds out it was just a dream, and they're still having their boating exam. | ||
| 46 | February 22, 2002 | "Snowball Effect" | A snowstorm hits Bikini Bottom, thanks to a glacier that settled above the city. For SpongeBob and Patrick, this means snowball fights. An attempt to recruit Squidward is unsuccessful, as he finds such an activity to be immature, until the prospect of his neighbors injuring each other entices him. |
| "One Krab's Trash" | Mr. Krabs sells a blanket full of junk, among them a novelty soda-drink hat, which SpongeBob purchases. When Mr. Krabs learns that the hat is rare, and worth a million dollars, he tries everything he can to get it back. In the end, when he gets the hat back, it is revealed it is now worthless, since they found a warehouse full of them. Then, SpongeBob comes with his new hat, and it is worth even more money-a billion dollars. Mr. Krabs then cries. | ||
| 47 | March 8, 2002 | "As Seen on TV" | The Krusty Krab makes a commercial, starring Mr. Krabs, Squidward, and Pearl. SpongeBob is in it, too, but only the very top of his head can be seen from the dining area, and only his chest is seen on a close-up of a Krabby Patty. When he heads to work the next morning, SpongeBob is completely convinced that his few seconds on TV would make him a star to many, even though his face was never seen, and the inflation of his ego gets in the way of his kitchen duties. |
| "Can You Spare a Dime?" | Mr. Krabs loses his first dime, and accuses Squidward of stealing it. Furious, Squidward quits, and sets out to make his dreams of becoming a star come true. However, his pursuit fails to see anything new happen to him, and he becomes homeless in the process. SpongeBob lets him move in, but Squidward quickly takes over. | ||
| 48 | March 15, 2002 | "No Weenies Allowed" | SpongeBob wants to get into the Salty Spitoon, the toughest club in Bikini Bottom. The guy at the front door says he is a weenie and has to go to Super Weenie Hut Jr.'s. SpongeBob gets Patrick to fake a fight with him so he can get into the Salty Spitoon. The plan works but when SpongeBob gets in he slips on an ice cube. The next thing SpongeBob knows, he is in an ambulance on the way to hospital. |
| "Squilliam Returns" | Squidward is on his lunch break and he spots his arch-rival from high school, Squilliam, who is very wealthy and succeeded in everything Squidward failed at since high school. Squidward says he owns a five star restaurant and it has great food. After successfully asking Mr. Krabs if he can run the restaurant for one night, Squidward makes Mr. Krabs the cook, SpongeBob the waiter, and Patrick the coat-taker. When Squilliam comes, SpongeBob is the best waiter ever because he emptied (literally) his mind of everything except fine dining and breathing. Squilliam loves the restaurant and asks for SpongeBob's name. SpongeBob does not remember his name and in a mental breakdown ruins the Krusty Krab. | ||
| 49 | March 22, 2002 | "Krab Borg" | SpongeBob watches a scary robot movie and thinks everything is a robot, even Gary. The next day, SpongeBob thinks Mr. Krabs is a robot and convinces Squidward to believe him. They team up to overpower and question the "robot" and find out what he did with the real Mr. Krabs. The interrogation involves destroying many of his valuables until he talks. When they find out Mr. Krabs isn't a robot, Squidward gets in really big trouble. |
| "Rock-a-Bye Bivalve" | Patrick and SpongeBob are outside one day and find an abandoned baby scallop. Since it does not have any parents, they decide to pretend to be parents of the scallop; SpongeBob is the mother while Patrick is the father. SpongeBob likes the idea until he has to do all the work caring for the baby. SpongeBob shows Patrick what he has to do all day. Patrick still does not work with SpongeBob and eventually they start fighting. The baby scallop learns how to fly and SpongeBob and Patrick stop fighting. | ||
| 50 | May 10, 2002 | "Wet Painters" | Patrick and SpongeBob are hired to paint Mr. Krabs' house, but are told not to get paint on anything except the walls because it was permanent paint. After they finish painting, chaos ensues when they get a microscopic drop of paint on Mr. Krabs' first dollar. SpongeBob desperately tries to remove the paint from the dollar but only ends up spreading it all over. When Mr. Krabs comes back, he licks the paint off and reveals the paint is saliva-soluble. When Mr. Krabs informs them that his previous warning was just to mess with them, SpongeBob and Patrick get mad and storm off. Mr. Krabs' laughs at his charade so hard that spittle gets scattered all over the walls and washes off all of the paint. |
| "Krusty Krab Training Video" | A training narration of the Krusty Krab, demonstrating what work is like and how it takes place at the Krusty Krab. The entire episode is formatted like a typical employee training video, featuring an anxious SpongeBob waiting to make a Krabby Patty. However, when he finally gets the chance the video abruptly ends before the formula is revealed.[2] | ||
| 51 | May 17, 2002 | "Party Pooper Pants" | SpongeBob decides to throw a party. His planning is unorthodox; making a schedule of what activities will take place at what times. He even schedules what time the guests can have snacks. When the party begins, his friends aren't so willing to stick to the schedule. It's only when SpongeBob get locked out of his house that the party really takes off. Meanwhile, Patchy was having a party of his own. Unfortunately, it didn't go as planned as he was annoyed by Potty's favorite band, The Birdbrains. |
| 52 | June 1, 2002 | "Chocolate with Nuts" | After accidentally getting Squidward's Fancy Living Digest in the mail, SpongeBob and Patrick want to live fancy too. They decide they will sell candy bars. People keep turning them down so they lie about the candy. People start to buy the candy, but when a chocolate maniac catches them he asks for all their chocolate and SpongeBob and Patrick become flattered. With all the money they have they decide to rent out the local fancy restaurant, aptly named 'Fancy!'.
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| "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V" | Barnacle Boy is sick of being treated like an actual boy by Mermaid Man, so he decides to become evil along with The Dirty Bubble and ManRay. Barnacle Man (as he is now called) and his gang go around town doing evil. SpongeBob, Squidward, Patrick, Sandy, and Mermaid Man team up to get Barnacle Boy back. Everybody but Mermaid Man fails to do so. Barnacle Boy just says he wants an adult-sized Krabby Patty, and he goes back to the good side. | ||
| 53 | September 20, 2002 | "New Student Starfish" | Patrick tells SpongeBob that he is bored whenever he spends the day at boating school, so SpongeBob lets the starfish tag along. Unfortunately, this only leads to trouble, as Patrick's antics during class get SpongeBob sent to the back of the room, and costs him one of his "good-noodle stars." SpongeBob's anger leads to a lame excuse for a fight in the hallway between he and Patrick, getting them sent to detention after school. |
| "Clams" | Mr. Krabs earns his millionth dollar, and rewards SpongeBob and Squidward by taking them clam fishing for the weekend. A major problem soon arises, as Mr. Krabs loses his millionth dollar. The mishap sends him over the edge, as he forces SpongeBob and Squidward to find the dollar, telling them they can't leave until its found. To show he's serious, he tosses all of their food overboard, leaving only one sandwich, in a parody of Herman Melville's classic, Moby-Dick. The episode also spoofs Steven Spielberg's film Jaws. | ||
| 54 | March 5, 2004 | "SpongeBob B.C." (also known as "Ugh") | The ancestors of SpongeBob, Patrick and Squidward, named SpongeGar, Patar, and Squog respectively, discover fire (or, as they call it, "fwee-fwee"). In Patchy's world, the future and the past collide in a Stone Age home as he and Potty argue which era is better. The "B.C." is joked to stand for "Before Comedy". |
| 55 | January 24, 2003 | "The Great Snail Race" | Squidward purchases a purebred snail named Snellie, with the intention to race her in Bikini Bottom's biggest snail race, the Running of The Snail, the sea's equivalent to horse racing's Kentucky Derby. In fact, the race's name is a play on the Derby's nickname, "The Run for the Roses." A snide remark that Gary is a mutt has SpongeBob promising Squidward that Gary will be in the race, too. But the sponge's competitive nature causes him to train his snail too hard. Meanwhile, Patrick decides to enter into the race what he thinks is a snail, but is really a rock. The race's end has a surprise winner, and the establishment of Bikini Bottom's newest couple. |
| "Mid-Life Crustacean" | Mr. Krabs has hit his mid-life crisis, so he decides to tag along with SpongeBob and Patrick when they have a night on the town, hopeful that he will gain back some of his rebellious youth. However, it is quickly seen that SpongeBob and Patrick's idea of a wild night is anything but wild, or even cool. | ||
| 56 | October 4, 2003 | "Born Again Krabs" | One night during closing, SpongeBob finds an old, moldy Krabby Patty under the grill. Mr. Krabs forbids him to make another one until it is sold, causing the restaurant to go for weeks without customers. When the penny-pinching crab takes a bite from the patty, he ends up in the hospital with a potentially fatal case of food poisoning. Mr. Krabs makes a deal with the Flying Dutchman that he can keep his soul if he promises to never be cheap again, a deal he's good about upholding for a while. But when Mr. Krabs loses all of his money, he finds the deal too hard to uphold. |
| "I Had an Accident" | SpongeBob shatters his rear end (literally) in a shell boarding accident. He vows to stay indoors for the rest of his life, leaving Sandy and Patrick to try and convince him that the outdoors aren't always so dangerous. | ||
| 57 | April 3, 2004 | "Krabby Land" | It's summer in Bikini Bottom, and that means the kids are out of school. For Mr. Krabs, their temporary freedom means more profit for him. To attract them, he sets up a playground consisting of rusty, poorly-constructed, and dangerous equipment, with a promise to the kids that they would get to meet Krabby the Clown before day's end. However, he soon finds out that kids probably shouldn't be underestimated. |
| "The Camping Episode" | SpongeBob and Patrick set up a tent that's ten feet from SpongeBob's house, intending to spend the weekend there. Squidward reluctantly joins them. At first, the "trip" goes off without a hitch, until they encounter a sea bear. | ||
| 58 | January 19, 2004 | "Plankton's Army" | Mr. Krabs quietly commemorates the 25th anniversary of when Plankton first tried to steal the Krabby Patty's secret formula. Meanwhile, Plankton realizes that, perhaps, maybe one of him isn't enough to nab the recipe, so he calls every plankton in the sea. Plankton and his relatives easily invade the Krusty Krab and overpower the staff, but the formula contains a grave secret that Mr. Krabs insists Plankton is better off not knowing. The episode is notable for the fact that SpongeBob only has four lines of dialogue, and is rarely seen. |
| "Missing Identity" | On a stormy day in a diner, SpongeBob recounts a recent tale in which he loses his nametag. Mr. Krabs is to do a surprise uniform inspection, with a consequence that the least prepared employee has to wear a stinky boot for the rest of the workday. The sponge recruits Patrick to help him retrace his steps to find his nametag, but quickly learns that his method isn't perhaps the best one, and that Patrick isn't much help at all. | ||
| 59 | March 21, 2003 | "The Sponge Who Could Fly" | Patchy discovers a tape containing a lost episode of SpongeBob SquarePants. In the episode, SpongeBob tries to gain the ability to happily soar in the sky so he can fly with the jellyfish, but everybody laughs at him. SpongeBob figures out how to fly (using inflated pants), and the Bikini Bottom citizens take advantage of him, because they think he should do favors for them because he can fly. Cannon Ball Jenkins pops SpongeBob's pants and he learns he can fly without the pants but with a little help from the jellyfish. In the end Patchy ruins the tape so the lost episode will always be lost. |
| 60 | October 11, 2004 | "SpongeBob Meets the Strangler" | After tattling on the Tattletale Strangler for littering, he gets threatened by the Strangler, so SpongeBob gets a bodyguard - the Strangler in disguise. The Strangler keeps trying to strangle him but can't because too many people are around. The Strangler ends up in jail and becomes happy about it because SpongeBob drove him crazy. |
| "Pranks a Lot" | SpongeBob and Patrick pay for an invisible spray can. Patrick points out that the invisible spray can stain clothes, so SpongeBob and Patrick take off all of their clothing. After they spray each other completely, they become the Bikini Bottom ghosts. The last guy to scare is Mr. Krabs, who says he isn't afraid of ghosts. SpongeBob and Patrick try to light a dollar on fire, but Mr. Krabs throws water at them, after he realizes it's them, he shows their nudity to Bikini Bottom, totally embarrassing them. |
[edit] References
- ^ SpongeBob SquarePants episode list, season three. TV.com. Retrieved on 2008-01-19.
- ^ Narrator: Are you ready?
(SpongeBob nods excitedly and makes anxious noises.)
Narrator: Are you sure?
(SpongeBob gets even more excited.)
Narrator: Okay! The secret formula is--
(The episode ends.)
