Maybe living in a pineapple under the sea isn't that great... For this list, we’ll be looking at the most painful, embarrassing, and hurtful experiences SpongeBob has ever had.
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00:00 "Hey!"
00:02 "Ahhhh!"
00:03 Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the top 20 worst things
00:09 that ever happened to SpongeBob SquarePants.
00:11 "You'll get this star back when you earn it."
00:14 "No!"
00:16 For this list, we're looking at the most painful, embarrassing,
00:19 and hurtful experiences SpongeBob has ever had.
00:23 What do you think is the worst thing to ever happen to the beloved sponge?
00:27 Let us know in the comments.
00:29 Number 20. Breaking his butt.
00:31 SpongeBob really should've listened to Sandy and been more vigilant while sandboarding.
00:36 "Don't worry guys, everything's under control, 'cause I'm in-"
00:40 "JETFIRE!"
00:42 He goes over to a cliff and breaks his bottom when he lands on it.
00:46 Ouch.
00:47 After having it glued back together like some bizarre puzzle,
00:50 the prospect of possibly being put into the iron butt
00:54 leads SpongeBob to becoming scared of getting hurt again.
00:57 "One more injury like that and you could wind up like that poor creature there,
01:02 in the iron butt."
01:03 "Oh man, it itches."
01:06 He grows so scared, in fact, that he sees danger everywhere he goes,
01:11 and isolates himself at home. At least he makes some new unlikely friends to share his time with.
01:17 It's hard not to feel for him. The injury itself is bad enough,
01:21 and the psychological consequences end up temporarily being devastating.
01:26 Number 19. Getting yelled at.
01:29 SpongeBob traverses the desert, braves a tornado, and worst of all,
01:33 survives Squidward's relentless negativity all to deliver the first
01:37 and presumably last ever Krusty Krab pizza.
01:41 "The Krusty Krab pizza is the pizza for you and me. The Krusty Krab pizza is the pizza-"
01:49 "And my feet are killing me."
01:50 When a customer calls to have a pizza delivered,
01:53 Mr. Krabs decides that his dining establishment now provides that service and menu item.
01:59 But SpongeBob and Squidward's wayward journey is all for naught when the customer freaks out
02:04 at our favorite yellow sponge for supposedly forgetting his drink.
02:08 "Where's my drink?"
02:08 "What drink?"
02:10 "My drink! My diet Dr. Kelp! Don't tell me you forgot my drink!"
02:16 "But you didn't order any-"
02:18 "How am I supposed to eat this pizza without my drink?!"
02:22 Oh, the ingratitude.
02:23 Seeing SpongeBob sob uncontrollably breaks our hearts.
02:27 He hasn't done anything to deserve this,
02:29 especially considering the effort he put into completing the delivery in the first place.
02:34 At least some good comes out of the ordeal when Squidward shows the guy what's up.
02:38 "Look, I told your little friend I ain't paying for that!"
02:41 "Well, this one's on the-"
02:43 Number 18. Getting fired from the Krusty Krab.
02:47 SpongeBob loves his job at the Krusty Krab, but one day, the unthinkable happens.
02:52 Mr. Krabs fires him just so that the greedy crustacean would save a measly nickel.
02:57 "You know I love you like a son, but you can't argue with a nickel!"
03:01 SpongeBob goes into a depression before finally attempting to get back out there,
03:07 only to get harshly rejected by other restaurants for only being able to produce burgers.
03:12 That is, until they decide they want him back and forcefully take him.
03:16 "My customers love your little sliders. Now get to work!"
03:19 "I'm pretty sure this is illegal."
03:23 The only other times SpongeBob has been fired were for more legitimate reasons,
03:27 but the reasoning for this termination is just absurd.
03:30 Even when he does get his job back, it feels unsatisfying knowing how poorly
03:34 Krabs can treat what is arguably his best employee. Not that SpongeBob seems to mind.
03:39 "All right! Now my life has purpose again!"
03:44 Number 17. His horrible insomnia.
03:47 "Well, what about sleep, young man? Did you get enough sleep?"
03:51 "I did go to bed two minutes later than usual."
03:53 "That's it! You're an insomniac!"
03:56 Cheap old Mr. Krabs snaps at SpongeBob for using a little too much mustard on a Krabby Patty
04:02 and accuses the fry cook of not getting enough sleep.
04:05 This frightens poor SpongeBob until he actually can't sleep,
04:08 and when he asks Patrick to help, the bloated starfish only makes it worse.
04:12 "What kind of a bedtime story was that anyway?"
04:15 "It's called 'The Land of Perpetual Excitement.' You know, it's a get-out-of-bed story."
04:22 "Patrick, I'm trying to go to sleep."
04:23 After a horrific night of hallucinating, he comes back into work exhausted
04:28 and unable to beat his newfound insomnia.
04:31 SpongeBob was perfectly fine until Krabs got into his head.
04:34 It makes you wonder who's more likely to jeopardize the Krusty Krab,
04:38 a slightly tired SpongeBob, or a stingy tightwad who overreacts to a minor inconvenience
04:43 and scares his employees sleepless.
04:45 "I tried! I really, really tried! But my insomnia got the best of me!"
04:51 "Now he's crying away me mustard!"
04:56 Number 16. Krabbyland
04:59 SpongeBob has repeatedly proven that he'll do anything for work.
05:03 When Mr. Krabs opens a disastrously unsafe play attraction to get the kids to the Krusty Krab,
05:08 the little ones aren't impressed, until he mentions Krabby the Clown.
05:12 "We want Krabby! We want Krabby!"
05:16 So Krabs has SpongeBob entertain them until it's time for the central act.
05:20 Unfortunately, the only thing the children enjoy is when SpongeBob hurts himself.
05:24 None of us would blame him if he didn't engage. This can't be part of his job description.
05:32 But in true SpongeBob fashion, he goes all in,
05:36 only to realize that Mr. Krabs has no plan and puts on a poor performance as the clown.
05:41 "Thank you all for coming! Thank you! Eat plenty of Krabby Patties!"
05:47 Poor Sponge. He gives his blood, sweat, and tears for his career and isn't appreciated for it.
05:55 Number 15. Gummy
05:58 SpongeBob and Patrick are celebrating Best Friends Day,
06:01 and Patrick gives SpongeBob his most beloved possession,
06:04 a giant wad of used chewing gum affectionately named Gummy.
06:08 A touching gesture, except that the ball is a foul-smelling eyesore,
06:12 and apparently other poor citizens were trapped in its gooey center.
06:15 "Oh, thank Neptune! Hey guys, I found a way out! Come on!"
06:21 Unfortunately, SpongeBob becomes Gummy's next ensnared victim,
06:24 as the gum covers his entire house, and no one is safe from its sticky grasp.
06:29 On top of that, when Patrick sees everyone tangled in this mess,
06:33 all he can think of is how much fun they're all having with his Gummy.
06:36 Yeah, because nothing says friendship like letting your best friend get
06:39 forcefully entrapped by moldy gum.
06:41 "How would you like your Gummy back?"
06:43 "Yes!"
06:44 "It's yours, buddy. But first you gotta get us out of this."
06:46 "That's easy!"
06:48 Number 14. Squidward reading his diaries
06:52 SpongeBob's grumpy neighbor isn't typically a great friend,
06:55 but this is bad even for him.
06:56 "If I hear the Bikini Bottom Municipal Anthem,
07:00 I can't help but take off all my clothes and dance around in my underwear!"
07:05 Squidward gets a hold of SpongeBob's diary and reads it aloud to the customers,
07:09 who don't even try to stop him,
07:11 and then turns the fry cook's more embarrassing secrets into a humiliating spectacle.
07:15 "Diary!"
07:17 "Squidward!"
07:19 "Oh, good you!"
07:20 SpongeBob runs out in tears, but rather than apologize,
07:24 half of Bikini Bottom goes out of its way to shame and antagonize Squidward to ease their own guilt,
07:29 because hypocrisy is always the way to go.
07:31 Sadly, SpongeBob's the only one to take the high road and forgive his grumpy neighbor,
07:36 until Squidward reads his second diary,
07:38 relishing in SpongeBob's sorrow while being pelted with tomatoes by angry hypocrites.
07:43 "Squidward! Oh, good you!"
07:46 "Oh, good you!"
07:48 Number 13. House Eaten By Nematodes
07:54 Your place of residence being destroyed is devastating under any circumstance.
07:59 And SpongeBob's pineapple house is iconic, making it sting a little extra when he loses it.
08:04 While he and Gary are sound asleep without a worry in the world,
08:07 a slew of nematodes invade Bikini Bottom.
08:10 Soon, they devour the home around our Sponge and his pet,
08:14 leaving them without a place to live.
08:15 "Oh, nematodes."
08:26 Talk about pure bad luck. They try staying with Patrick and even Squidward,
08:31 though those arrangements don't work out so well.
08:33 Thankfully, SpongeBob gets his house back in the end,
08:36 but we could all feel his sorrow when he thought he would have to leave Bikini Bottom.
08:40 Number 12. La Spatula
08:43 At the Krusty Krab, a customer orders a Monster Krabby Patty,
08:47 but it proves too much for SpongeBob as he breaks his beloved spatula.
08:50 "One, two, three!"
08:53 SpongeBob must reluctantly find a replacement spatula
08:59 and comes across the technologically advanced and stupidly overpriced La Spatula.
09:04 "Looks fancy. So shiny. Oh, those lines, so sleek."
09:10 "What am I talking about? I don't need this."
09:13 "Maybe you do need this."
09:16 He ends up selling his whole house, and his clothes, to buy La Spatula,
09:20 only for the sentient tool to rudely leave SpongeBob in the dust.
09:24 This was obviously a lesson about not falling for all the glitters,
09:27 but this was needlessly cruel to have SpongeBob literally give up everything
09:31 for a useless, snobby, glorified cooking device.
09:34 Thankfully, in the end, SpongeBob is happily reunited with his loyal one true spatula.
09:40 "Batula?"
09:41 "You're back!"
09:43 Number 11. Attacked from the Inside.
09:53 Mermaid Man accidentally leaves his belt behind at the Krusty Krab,
09:57 and SpongeBob gets a little trigger-happy with it.
10:00 "There you go."
10:05 "Come again, sir."
10:08 "SpongeBob, what's going on in here?"
10:11 It isn't long before he shrinks every Bikini Bottom resident,
10:14 paranoid they'll get him in trouble with Mermaid Man.
10:17 When the townspeople realize that nobody knows how to unshrink them,
10:21 they revolt in a major way.
10:23 Indeed, they crawl into SpongeBob's body through his pores and attack him from the inside.
10:28 Admittedly, SpongeBob brought this one on himself a bit,
10:31 but we can't help but feel this might have been a bit of an overreaction.
10:35 Getting hurt from within like that is just brutal.
10:38 "We've been shrinking for years!"
10:41 "But this is ridiculous!"
10:42 Number 10. The Suds.
10:50 Oh no, SpongeBob has got the suds! But never fear, Dr. Patrick is here.
10:55 Actually, SpongeBob should have feared Dr. Patrick a lot.
11:00 Being too sick to stay at work is bad enough,
11:02 given how much our yellow friend loves his job.
11:05 But essentially being experimented on just makes everything worse.
11:08 "It appears as though we'll have to plug up these holes.
11:14 This oughta do the trick."
11:16 Patrick scares SpongeBob out of seeing a real medical professional
11:23 and takes over his care, with disastrous consequences.
11:27 The starfish clogs up all of SpongeBob's pores in order to keep the suds in,
11:32 but that's obviously a bad idea.
11:34 Our guy practically explodes after all that buildup.
11:37 How much suffering can one sponge take?
11:45 Number 9. Getting lost in Rock Bottom.
11:48 Anyone who's ever gotten turned around on public transportation in an unfamiliar place
11:53 can probably attest to how scary it is to find yourself lost all alone.
11:57 "Patrick, I think we're on the wrong bus!"
12:02 SpongeBob and Patrick accidentally get on the wrong bus on the way home from the theme park
12:07 and find themselves in a town called Rock Bottom.
12:10 The name of the place alone should tell you how terrifying the ordeal is.
12:14 SpongeBob is abandoned by Patrick, misses several buses,
12:18 and has to wait in that never-ending line with all those unfamiliar creatures,
12:22 not knowing if or when he'll make it home.
12:24 "I am 329th in line, and nobody forget it!"
12:28 Of course he eventually does, but that doesn't make this any less traumatic.
12:36 Number 8. SpongeBob No Pants.
12:40 "Yo-ho, yo-ho! Near the hooks, I'll never go!"
12:44 "Yo-ho, yo-ho! Near the hooks, we'll never go!"
12:47 Mr. Krabs warns everyone about the invading fisherman hooks.
12:50 SpongeBob tries to heed his boss's warnings, but the temptation to play on the hooks,
12:55 made worse by Patrick's prodding, is too strong for our little fry cook,
12:59 and he ends up getting his pants hooked.
13:00 "Glad I got that out of my system."
13:02 "I'm hooked! And that means..."
13:06 In danger of being dragged up to the surface,
13:11 SpongeBob has no choice but to strip naked in front of a group of teenage girls.
13:16 It turns out that Mr. Krabs set up this particular hook to scare SpongeBob straight,
13:20 and while he definitely needed to learn his lesson,
13:23 it was still a little mean to publicly humiliate the little guy like this.
13:26 "Oh, look!"
13:28 "It's SpongeBob nudie pants!"
13:33 Number 7. Not having access to water.
13:37 He needed it.
13:39 When SpongeBob first meets Sandy, she invites him over,
13:42 but she doesn't realize that he needs water to live,
13:45 and he can't bring himself to confess that he can't breathe in the air.
13:48 "That's how I like my air."
13:49 He tries to hold out, with Patrick encouraging him outside the dome,
14:00 but he's suffering more than any person or sponge ever should.
14:04 The only positive might be that this gave us one of the show's most quoted moments.
14:08 "I need it!"
14:10 "No, SpongeBob! No, no, no! Stop!"
14:18 No amount of pinkies up or other kinds of fanciness can help SpongeBob out of this one.
14:23 He and Patrick, who comes in trying to help,
14:26 eventually dry up completely before Sandy saves the day.
14:30 Yikes.
14:30 To say this was a horrifying near-death experience would be an understatement.
14:34 Number 6. Squidward's prank.
14:38 After an initial April Fool's Day prank, SpongeBob vows to leave Squidward alone,
14:43 and starts playing jokes on the customers instead.
14:46 "April Fools!"
14:47 They laugh, he laughs, but the octopus can't take all the joy,
14:54 and decides to ruin the poor guy's favorite holiday.
14:57 SpongeBob isn't even bothering him anymore,
15:00 but he still pulls a really mean prank on the fry cook in front of the whole establishment.
15:05 He tricks SpongeBob into a trap he's laid out,
15:08 sending the sponge all around the crusty crab.
15:11 Our guy flies into the walls, gets dragged under a customer's butt,
15:15 slams into the ceiling, and winds up in the trash,
15:18 while Squidward cackles and celebrates.
15:20 Nobody deserves treatment like that.
15:23 "Oops."
15:23 "April Fools, you little sausage!"
15:34 Number 5. Getting stuck in the ringer.
15:38 "Is it not going well?"
15:40 After taking a shower, SpongeBob accidentally gets lodged in his ringer,
15:44 and Patrick, the "best friend", stupidly makes it worse with forever glue.
15:49 "There you go, buddy! Now you're stuck forever!"
15:53 "Gee, thanks, Patrick! Now I'm stuck f-f-forever!"
15:57 Unable to work, SpongeBob is treated to a day out by his pink pal,
16:01 which mostly consists of Patrick having fun,
16:03 while SpongeBob suffers because of his condition.
16:06 He finally blows his stack and rightfully calls Patrick out for his blundering,
16:10 but the townsfolk shame him for yelling at his so-called friend.
16:13 "You know, kid, your body isn't the problem. It's your heart."
16:18 "You deserve what you've gotten. Come on, we're out of here."
16:24 How is it fair to call SpongeBob the bad guy for standing up for himself,
16:27 especially since this was literally all Patrick's fault?
16:30 These two may be best buddies, but moments like this make us wonder why.
16:34 Number 4. The Splinter.
16:37 "Oh, you really saved me!"
16:39 "Ahhhhhh!"
16:41 At work, SpongeBob gets a nasty splinter jammed in his thumb.
16:47 Not only is it extremely painful,
16:49 but it can't be removed without graphically ripping off his own skin.
16:52 When Squidward scares him into thinking he'll be sent home due to his injury,
16:56 SpongeBob desperately seeks help from Dr. Patrick,
16:59 who only makes the affliction worse than it already was.
17:02 "There appears to be a little bit of swelling."
17:06 "This garbage compress should help that go down."
17:09 "That doesn't look good."
17:16 Not only is the episode needlessly graphic,
17:18 but it's extremely uncomfortable to watch our absorbent protagonist suffer a gruesome injury
17:24 and the paranoia of leaving work early,
17:26 while two of his friends do absolutely nothing to help him.
17:29 Even the removal of the splinter leaves a disgusting taste in our mouths.
17:33 "Problems happen!"
17:35 Number 3. Being Sold.
17:43 By now we know that SpongeBob always gives his all to his job,
17:46 no matter how terrible Squidward or Mr. Krabs are to him.
17:50 When the Flying Dutchman threatens to take Mr. Krabs to DV Jones' locker
17:53 for his horrendous cheapness, SpongeBob has his employer's back.
17:57 "This Mr. Krabs is the most generous, most generous,
18:01 big-hearted, non-skin-flinted crab in the whole sea."
18:04 But though he defends his boss, Krabs wastes no time letting him down
18:08 by trading him for every penny the Dutchman has on him,
18:11 which is only 62 cents, by the way.
18:14 The greedy crab condemns his best worker to spend an eternity suffering for less than a dollar.
18:20 "You think I could have gotten more?"
18:21 Even Squidward doesn't like that one.
18:23 Number 2. Snail Plasma.
18:26 "Now you won't forget my instructions, will you?"
18:29 "I have the memory of an elephant. I'll take good care of Fred."
18:32 "Gary!"
18:33 "Right, Gary."
18:34 SpongeBob goes out of town for the weekend and leaves Squidward to look after Gary,
18:38 only to return home and find his snail pal neglected and sick.
18:42 When they call a doctor, Squidward accidentally injects SpongeBob with snail plasma,
18:46 while Gary makes a full recovery.
18:48 SpongeBob undergoes a painfully hideous transformation into a snail,
18:52 not unlike the iconic "An American Werewolf in London" scene.
18:55 "Ahh!"
18:57 "Gary, I'm fine!"
18:59 "Eww, see?"
19:01 This is even worse than the later episode where Gary runs away.
19:09 At least that has a happy ending.
19:10 But here, SpongeBob is forced to endure the consequences of Squidward's carelessness
19:15 when all he wanted was a fun weekend away.
19:17 Thankfully, Squidward gets rightfully punished at the end.
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19:39 Number 1. National No SpongeBob Day
19:43 Everyone in Bikini Bottom has mysteriously vanished, leaving SpongeBob all alone.
19:52 After weeks filled with paranoia and loneliness, we finally find out what became of the townsfolk.
19:57 It turns out they were off celebrating National No SpongeBob Day,
20:01 a whole day dedicated to getting away from him.
20:04 "A whole day dedicated to getting away from you."
20:06 "A day? But you guys have been away for weeks!"
20:09 "Yeah, well, we kind of milked it a little."
20:14 That's right. They created a whole holiday with the sole purpose of avoiding their poorest friend
20:18 and having fun at his expense. Even Patrick took part.
20:22 "Everybody needs at least one day away from…
20:25 Well, glad you had fun."
20:30 We get it. SpongeBob can be tiresome, but this is just too much,
20:34 and making him feel flattered about it doesn't make it any better.
20:37 "Wow, a whole day dedicated to me."
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