SpongeBob Lost And Not Found Revived

While not working, SpongeBob spends much of his time playing with his best friend, Patrick Star. The two have known each other since their early childhood, and are members of the "Best Friends Forever Club."^{<a href="https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/SpongeBob_SquarePants_(character)#cite_note-The_Secret_Box-18" ]<18]<="" a=""></a>}<a href="https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/SpongeBob_SquarePants_(character)#cite_note-The_Secret_Box-18" ]<18]<="" a=""> Their usual activities include jellyfishing, bubble blowing, and various others. The two's antics are of constant annoyance to their next-door neighbor, Squidward, and he has been repeatedly put into harm's way as a result of their actions. This is shown when SpongeBob innocently sends </a>DoodleBob to prank Squidward, only for the drawing to beat up Squidward in "Frankendoodle." Because of their annoyance, Squidward has tried to move away numerous times, but always ends up returning.^{<a href="https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/SpongeBob_SquarePants_(character)#cite_note-Squidville-19" ]<19]<="" a=""></a>}<a href="https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/SpongeBob_SquarePants_(character)#cite_note-Squidville-19" ]<19]<="" a=""> </a>

<a href="https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/SpongeBob_SquarePants_(character)#cite_note-Squidville-19" ]<19]<="" a="">Despite Squidward claiming to hate SpongeBob and Patrick, they are completely oblivious to this and believe they are his best friends. Squidward is usually shown to dislike SpongeBob in particular, but the two share a close relationship. Squidward has hinted that he likes SpongeBob a lot more than he lets on. In "</a>Graveyard Shift," he admits this when he tells SpongeBob, "No matter what I've said, I've always sort of liked you!" Also, in "SB-129," he misses SpongeBob after becoming trapped in a blank dimension. In "Dying for Pie," he shows sadness over SpongeBob being set to explode at sunset from eating the exploding pie, although this doesn't happen since SpongeBob kept the pie in his pocket the whole time and didn't eat it.

One of SpongeBob's good friends is a squirrel from Texas named Sandy Cheeks, who wears a special suit and helmet to survive underwater. When SpongeBob first met Sandy, she invited SpongeBob to her airtight home, and SpongeBob, not knowing what air is, accepted. After giving in to his need to breathe water, SpongeBob and Patrick got bowls of water to wear over their heads from Sandy, which they typically wear whenever they visit the treedome. Sandy enjoys SpongeBob's company and they enjoy doing extreme sports together, most notably karate.

SpongeBob's skills in karate are shown to vary quite considerably; for example, in "Karate Choppers," he equals and even outmatches Sandy in skill. However, at most other times he is so weak to the point where Sandy can send him flying a considerable distance with a single punch, which happens in "No Weenies Allowed." In "Karate Island," Sandy openly states that her karate skills are better than SpongeBob's by "a country mile."

Another of SpongeBob's friends is Mr. Krabs' whale daughter, Pearl Krabs. According to "Bossy Boots," Pearl thinks SpongeBob is "full of style," "oozes fashion," and most importantly, "is a great pal." Pearl goes to prom with SpongeBob in "The Chaperone" to make her feel better over being dumped by her boyfriend. In "Tunnel of Glove," it is revealed that Pearl's classmates think SpongeBob is her boyfriend, and SpongeBob inadvertently supports this by saying "Well, I am a boy, and I am her friend." The two then go on the Tunnel of Glove ride together. In "A Cabin in the Kelp," Pearl uses SpongeBob as a way to prank the Gal Pals, as her suspicion detects that the titular group will prank her first and is utterly saddened by the fact SpongeBob is missing. She is later delighted about how SpongeBob is safe but is just lost within a forest.

SpongeBob attends Mrs. Puff's Boating School, where he is taught by his idolized teacher Mrs. Puff. He studies extremely hard for school and knows every answer to the oral exam, but he becomes extremely nervous when actually behind the wheel of a boat, causing him to fail the final exam every time. According to the episode "Mrs. Puff, You're Fired," SpongeBob has failed the exam 1,258,056 times, and is the only creature in the history of the school to fail the test.

Despite his inability to drive a boatmobile properly, SpongeBob is able to drive/ride various other things capably, including a rock, a rocket ship, a sandwich car, and a submarine. SpongeBob claims that he does know how to drive, but simply panics behind the wheel and cannot concentrate. In "Mrs. Puff, You're Fired," SpongeBob receives extremely good training from Mrs. Puff's very tough military-like replacement and learns how to drive capably, but can only do so while blindfolded due to the teacher's strict drills and very specific teaching methods.

Description

SpongeBob is a sea sponge with a rectangular shape. He is light yellow (whose exact shade of yellow is designated by Pantone to be SpongeBob Yellow^{<a href="https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/SpongeBob_SquarePants_(character)#cite_note-20" ]<20]<="" a=""></a>}<a href="https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/SpongeBob_SquarePants_(character)#cite_note-20" ]<20]<="" a="">) with a light olive-green outline. In earlier episodes, he is wider near the top and gets skinnier going further down, akin to that of a trapezoid. However, in the more recent episodes, he is more of a regular square shape. </a>

<a href="https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/SpongeBob_SquarePants_(character)#cite_note-20" ]<20]<="" a="">SpongeBob has light olive-green pores, dimples with three freckles on each cheek, a large mouth with two prominent front buck teeth, a slight lateral lisp, a long, slightly curved nose, and large light blue eyes. His eye color seems to be, uniquely, a shade of pacific blue complimenting the blue ocean background. He has three exceptionally wide, exposed, and effeminate eyelashes on each eye (which disappear whenever his eyes are closed or his brows are lowered), which have sometimes been shown to be numerous eyelashes akin to a human, which is best prominent in "</a>Tutor Sauce" when he is seen breathing heavily during a close-up.

Although rarely seen in the series, he has light yellow hair that goes hand-in-hand with his skin color, as seen on his driver's license, the spin-off series The Patrick Star Show, and in the episode "The Sponge Who Could Fly." However, in the episode "Krusty Krab Training Video," he instead has a simple strand of black hair.

He typically wears a white shirt with a scarlet-red tie, black leather shoes with white shoelaces, white socks with blue and red stripes, and brown rectangular pants with a black belt. While working at the Krusty Krab, he wears a tall, white hat with a small blue anchor illustration as a uniform. SpongeBob usually sleeps in his briefs, and at other times-beginning with season 5-his pajamas. However, he occasionally sleeps with his entire outfit on, which was more common in season 1, most notably the episode "Sleepy Time."

In various spin-off media, he is slightly redesigned. In Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years, his outfit stays mostly the same as in the original show, but now he wears a red cap and a handkerchief, as well as brown boots. In The Patrick Star Show, SpongeBob has a bit of yellow hair on his head, wears a bow tie, and black-and-white saddle shoes.

Though SpongeBob has always been voiced by Tom Kenny, his voice has changed throughout the series; his voice is lower than normal in season 1. After the first movie, his voice noticeably changes, increasing in pitch, along with other changes. After season 9, his voice slightly decreases in pitch.

Even though he is a sea sponge, he has legs and is able to move, just like the other sponges in the show. This is pointed out in "I Had an Accident," when he says that he will stay in his house forever, and he shouldn't have even been walking in the first place because he's a sponge.

Health

While SpongeBob is generally lucky in life and healthy, he has on several occasions faced health problems in the series, which are usually caused by his tendency to fall for antagonists' manipulation or simply by accident. On a side note, he is an invertebrate and thus lacks bones, making him immune to physical harm; however, this varies greatly by episode, as sometimes SpongeBob is depicted as having bones and thus prone to suffering injuries, while in other episodes, most notably "The Bully," he has none and is, therefore, accepting of his said injuries. Like most other characters from the show, he has faced many fatal injuries and near-death experiences. However, due to cartoon physics and negative continuity, he sometimes recovers immediately afterward without medical support. Such instances are played for comedy and do not affect the plot, therefore they will be overlooked when taking into account SpongeBob's health. However, SpongeBob has on more than one occasion faced ongoing medical conditions and injuries that have even been the core of the plot.

The first prominent instance of SpongeBob's health deteriorating is in "Tea at the Treedome," where he for the first time enters an air pollution, Sandy's treedome, after meeting a new friend. Due to the insufficient amount of water in her house, he starts to shrivel up before eventually passing out--along with Patrick--on the ground from hypothermia. Both he and Patrick are subsequently revived by Sandy's new creation, water helmets.

Towards the end of "Jellyfishing," he and Patrick get stung by the Queen Jellyfish and are left covered in bandages.

In "Plankton!," Plankton takes control of SpongeBob by entering into his head at night and using a control on his brain to control SpongeBob's body movements as a means of obtaining the Krabby Patty secret formula for Plankton to hear out loud.

In "Pickles," after Bubble Bass tells SpongeBob he forgot to put pickles on his Krabby Patty, SpongeBob falls into a state of despair as he loses his confidence. He starts doing everything backwards, like talking improperly, walking backwards, and hammering a piece of toast into his kitchen counter. He is cured from the state once he abruptly makes a Krabby Patty while listing all the ingredients as he puts them together in that order, which was an angry attempt to prove Mr. Krabs that he can't make one contrary to Krabs' encouragement.

In "I Was a Teenage Gary," Squidward accidentally injects SpongeBob with the snail plasma when he meant to inject it into Gary. This causes SpongeBob to transform into a snail and say nothing but "Meow" as he chases Squidward around. Instead of being cured, Squidward himself gets injected with the needle too and sings with Snail-SpongeBob and Gary on the fence towards the end.

In "Fools in April," he gets his leg tied to a rope while cleaning up a mustard stain on the floor of the Krusty Krab as part of Squidward's prank. SpongeBob gets sent flying into several poles, windows, and bags of flour, and ends up in a trash can covered in garbage. This causes him to cry and run home, falling into a state of depression afterwards.

SpongeBob's sickness is a plot point of "Suds," where he becomes infected by the eponymous disease which gives him a cold and causes him to sneeze pink bubbles through his pores. He caught it from accidentally leaving his freezer open overnight and falling asleep in the kitchen. "Doctor Patrick" tries to cure SpongeBob by using many ridiculous methods which only worsen his condition and inflate him into a giant ball, causing him to roll down a hill and crash into the Krusty Krab, which makes him sneeze a massive number of bubbles and deflate, albeit still with a cold. He is eventually cured by Incidental 116 utilizing a special treatment for sponges.

In "Something Smells," he gets a bad breath from eating a sundae with ketchup, onions, and his peanut plant. Everyone in town turns away from him vehemently, which Patrick thinks is because he's ugly, but they find out in the end that it was the sundae when Patrick develops rancid breath from eating it too.

In "Prehibernation Week," Sandy takes SpongeBob on numerous increasingly dangerous adventures where they participate in extreme sports games, drastically injuring SpongeBob and taking a toll on his health.

At the end of "Survival of the Idiots," Sandy, having had her fur ripped off by the duo, uses SpongeBob and Patrick's bodies as a replacement; since the two are in her treedome and have no provision of water, they nearly die from hypothermia again.

In "Squirrel Jokes," SpongeBob suffers from hypothermia yet again upon entrance of Sandy's treedome and is given too much water by her through a hose, inflating him to the point of taking up the dome's capacity.

SpongeBob's health is put at risk in "The Bully" when a new classmate, Flats the Flounder, joins and threatens to kick SpongeBob's butt. Concerned for his safety, SpongeBob pulls off many attempts to hide from the bully and expose him, but no one in town can help him. As a result, SpongeBob comes to terms with Flats harming him and lets him "kick [his] butt." However, SpongeBob's body simply absorbs Flats' punches, leading to no harm whatsoever; in fact, SpongeBob lets Flats harm him routinely everyday until Flats passes out unconscious in class one day.

In "No Weenies Allowed," he breaks his fingers after a failed attempt to crack his knuckles and soaks them in an ice cream sundae to heal them. Towards the end of the episode, after his goal of being tough enough to enter The Salty Spitoon is finally achieved, he slips on an ice cube and falls to the ground, having to be sent into an ambulance afterward. Due to him describing his condition as "boo-boos," the Purple Doctorfish suggests he seek care at Weenie Hut General.

In "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V," SpongeBob and the rest of IJLSA (The International Justice League of Super Acquaintances) team were left injured and hospitalized following their battle with the E.V.I.L. (Every Villain Is Lemons). SpongeBob has to use a wheelchair and wear a cast over his head to counteract his injury.

In "I Had an Accident," SpongeBob faces a sandboarding accident in which he severely injures his buttocks and is sent to the hospital. His injury was nearly fatal as each piece of his buttocks was glued back together and taped, and he would have been permanently subject to the Iron Butt under much worse circumstances.

In "Krabby Land," he suffers much harm which includes getting bubble soap in the eye, being beaten up by tough fish, and being forced to eat lima beans while entertaining the children.

In The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, SpongeBob and Patrick are kidnapped by the Cyclops and placed on a table where a lamp sits. Due to the pressure of the lamp's heat, SpongeBob and Patrick start to shrivel up and eventually pass away. However, the tear they shared beforehand finds its way into a power outlet and activates the ceiling sprinkler system, subsequently reviving them.

Sometime during the events of "Funny Pants," SpongeBob underwent surgery to have his laugh box transplanted to Squidward out of sympathy for the latter rupturing his own.

In "Krusty Towers," SpongeBob alongside Patrick, Mr. Krabs, and Squidward are sent to the hospital and treated in medical beds following the fatal destruction of the eponymous hotel, which the group was in during the incident.

In "Fungus Among Us," SpongeBob finds a suspicious green substance known as "ick" on his bedroom floor and attempts to clean it up, but fails and as a result, the ick contaminates him and becomes contagious. Due to his unhealthy status, the SWAT Team arrives at the Krusty Krab and quarantines SpongeBob in a plastic bubble in his house, which is eventually popped by Patrick swinging a pirate hook. He is cured towards the end of the episode when Gary uses his slime to rid everyone of the ick.

In "The Splinter," SpongeBob trips and falls off of the ceiling of the Krusty Krab kitchen in a failed attempt to retrieve his spatula. He falls on the wooden ground and gets a splinter lodged into his thumb. He goes to Patrick for help; however, due to his unprofessional remedies and lack of a medical license, Patrick only makes matters worse by hammering the splinter further into SpongeBob's thumb and healing his wound with garbage from the dumpster, which not only causes SpongeBob more pain but also causes his thumb to swell up severely and produce pus. He is finally cured when Mr. Krabs, with his strength and claws, simply pulls it out, removing SpongeBob's injury and returning his thumb back to normal.

In "A Life in a Day," Patrick's obsession with copying Larry the Lobster goes to his head and prompts him to bring SpongeBob along to perform the most extreme stunt yet: crashing into Ripper's Reef, an island consisting of stalagmites. The aftermath of this stunt lands the duo along with Larry--who got injured while trying to save them--in the hospital, covered in bandages and wearing casts over their heads.

In "Stuck in the Wringer," SpongeBob gets stuck in his bathroom wringer while trying to rinse himself off and calls Patrick for help. However, instead of helping him, Patrick surrounds the wringer with superglue, impeding SpongeBob's escape. Throughout the episode, SpongeBob uncontrollably moves very clumsily and eventually gets kicked out while trying to do his job at the Krusty Krab. His health continues to deteriorate, as he is unable to consume food or drink due to the wringer's blockage of his digestive system, and gets a black eye at the carnival. He is cured at the end of the episode when both he and Patrick cry an abundance of tears to dissolve the glue, which facilitates his escape from the wringer.

In "Earworm," SpongeBob gets addicted to a song he hears on the radio called "Musical Doodle." His addiction is revealed to be an infectious earworm that takes over his entire body. At the end of the episode, it leaves SpongeBob after being driven away by Squidward's clarinet playing, and infects Squidward instead.

In "The Hot Shot," he gets into a boat accident which leads to him getting injured and being in a body cast at the end of the episode.

SpongeBob has also been shown to have some mental health problems before. This becomes evident in "InSPONGEiac" after he fails to fall asleep and develops insomnia as a plot point. Previously, in "Krab Borg," he suffered serious psychological trauma from watching a horror movie on TV about a robot chasing a man and started to hallucinate ordinary items in the Krusty Krab kitchen as robots, eventually starting to believe that Mr. Krabs is a robot after hearing him talk like one, which also displays SpongeBob's conflation of fantasy with reality. SpongeBob's obsessions have also gone to unhealthy extents: In "I'm Your Biggest Fanatic," he tries to impress his idol Kevin C. Cucumber by injuring himself in ways such as punching himself in the face and jumping off a building. In "Bummer Vacation," SpongeBob struggles to get his mind off his job at the Krusty Krab while on vacation from it and is replaced with Patrick for the time being; SpongeBob seeks his revenge on Patrick by waiting for him to get home and cornering Patrick in his rock while making threatening faces and noises giving the implication he's going to eat him. SpongeBob sabotages Patrick by quarantining him in his house and forcing him to watch static on his TV screen, then disguises himself as Patrick in the kitchen to get his job back. In "Squid's Visit," SpongeBob persuades Squidward to visit his house by redecorating his own pineapple into an exact replica of Squidward's Easter Island Head, getting every detail right including a crack in the wall. In "Sentimental Sponge," SpongeBob develops a sentiment for his thrown-away garbage due to the memories they bring and nostalgically preserves the trash in his house. He even collects jars of grill grease and his own sweat, with the epitome reaching once he begins to dress up in used garbage, names it, and takes up so much capacity in his house with it that the trash finds its way onto Squidward's property. In "SpongeBob's Bad Habit," he develops an obsessive routine of biting his own and others' fingernails.

In "Two Thumbs Down," after giving so many people thumbs-ups, SpongeBob eventually develops sore thumbs and ultimately loses the use of them, having to put them in mini wheelchairs to counteract his injury at the hospital.

In "Unreal Estate," after Squidward invades his house at night and covers it in pepper, the resulting reactions make SpongeBob believe that he is allergic to his own home and set up the conflict of him having to go find a new one.

In "Mimic Madness," SpongeBob begins to copy people to their amusement, but eventually gets physically addicted to it through a disease called Mocking Mimicry Madness, and cannot remember his own identity. After all his friends help him by imitating SpongeBob's personality, he regains his old identity but unfortunately all of his friends catch it.

In "House Worming," Prickles the worm and his friends land inside of SpongeBob and throw parties inside of him. It is not much of a problem at first, but it eventually takes control of him and drives him insane. However, they get annoyed by his laughter and go to Squidward at the end of the episode.

In "Sportz?," Squidward forces SpongeBob and Patrick to engage in many increasingly excruciating sports games in an attempt to get them killed. Near the end they pass out severely injured on the sports field before Squidward's karma is served.

In "Cuddle E. Hugs," he becomes sick after eating an Aged Patty and begins to hallucinate a giant hamster as a side-effect.

Personality

SpongeBob is a fun-loving, hyperactive, clueless, and childish sea sponge with a happy-go-lucky personality. Despite being portrayed this way, he is relatively smart and knows right from wrong, an example being telling Patrick not to draw his picture of calling Mrs. Puff a "big, fat, meanie" because she's a teacher. He is extremely determined and will often stop at nothing to accomplish a task. He is also somewhat dramatic to the people who are kind to him: for example, to the mailfish.^{<a href="https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/SpongeBob_SquarePants_(character)#cite_note-Karate_Island-21" ]<21]<="" a=""></a>}<a href="https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/SpongeBob_SquarePants_(character)#cite_note-Karate_Island-21" ]<21]<="" a=""> He is also over-confident. Sometimes, though, he shows his devious side when trying to get </a>Mr. Krabs and Plankton to work together.^{<a href="https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/SpongeBob_SquarePants_(character)#cite_note-The_Other_Patty-22" ]<22]<="" a=""></a>}<a href="https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/SpongeBob_SquarePants_(character)#cite_note-The_Other_Patty-22" ]<22]<="" a=""> He sometimes makes mountains out of molehills, such as losing </a>his name tag.^{<a href="https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/SpongeBob_SquarePants_(character)#cite_note-Missing_Identity-23" ]<23]<="" a=""></a>}<a href="https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/SpongeBob_SquarePants_(character)#cite_note-Missing_Identity-23" ]<23]<="" a=""> It is also suggested that he deceived the </a>Tattletale Strangler in an elaborate plot to get him back to jail. When he first met Plankton, he was almost quick to befriend him, but quickly realized Plankton's true intention was to take advantage of him to steal the Krabby Patty secret formula. Plankton himself is surprised that SpongeBob was smart enough to see through his manipulation, telling him, "Gee, and I thought you were stupid."

SpongeBob is very kind-hearted and innocent, and very rarely acts openly naughty to anyone, even those who find him an annoyance and act cruelly to him. He is a very selfless and loyal person, especially towards those close to him. His selfless nature is most notably shown in "Best Day Ever," where he sacrifices his "perfect day" to help his friends. Despite his well-meaning intentions, SpongeBob's actions often annoy and cause trouble for those around him, most notably his next-door neighbor, Squidward.

SpongeBob can become scared easily and usually panics when frightened. He is afraid of the dark^{<a href="https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/SpongeBob_SquarePants_(character)#cite_note-Night_Light-24" ]<24]<="" a=""></a>}<a href="https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/SpongeBob_SquarePants_(character)#cite_note-Night_Light-24" ]<24]<="" a=""> and clowns</a><a href="https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/SpongeBob_SquarePants_(character)#cite_note-Rodeo_Daze-25" ]<25]<="" a="">. He also hates </a>hot sauce.^{<a href="https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/SpongeBob_SquarePants_(character)#cite_note-Karate_Choppers-26" ]<26]<="" a=""></a>}<a href="https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/SpongeBob_SquarePants_(character)#cite_note-Karate_Choppers-26" ]<26]<="" a=""> Occasionally, SpongeBob is too ignorant to notice impending danger and his unworldly thinking may put himself or others in peril. He also cannot detect lies or malice as easily as the other characters, mainly due to his naivety. This is particularly evident in episodes featuring Squidward, such as "</a>Giant Squidward," "Good Neighbors," "Squid's Visit," and "Tentacle-Vision." In these episodes, as well as many others, SpongeBob believes he is making Squidward happy, even though he's actually making him miserable. One non-Squidward example is in "A Pal for Gary," when Gary is being violently attacked and nearly eaten by Puffy Fluffy, SpongeBob takes no action and instead accuses Gary of harassing Puffy. Another example is "Home Sweet Rubble," when it takes SpongeBob a few moments to realize that his house is in serious need or repair. Furthermore, SpongeBob also goes to great lengths to impress others and achieve his goals, even if they involve malice, as seen in "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy II," where SpongeBob wrongly attacks an innocent Atomic Flounder to impress Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy. SpongeBob attempts to steal Patrick's secret box in "The Secret Box." He also tries to steal Betsy Krabs' underwear along with Patrick and Mr. Krabs in "Mid-Life Crustacean" as part of the "panty raid." In "Doing Time," SpongeBob and Patrick force the receptionist of the local bank to give them all his money; this was done in an attempt to get arrested and free Mrs. Puff from jail. In "Hall Monitor," SpongeBob enters the window of a couple's house and disturbs them while on hall monitor duties; this was done to show them the consequences of leaving a window open. In "The Great Snail Race," SpongeBob overexerts Gary to prepare him for the following snail race. This causes extreme discomfort to Gary and eventually results in him collapsing on his way to the finish line; however, SpongeBob eventually noticed the error in his ways. 

In "Employee of the Month," SpongeBob sets up many traps on Squidward in an attempt to sabotage his Employee of the Month Award. In "Just One Bite," SpongeBob handcuffs himself to Squidward, forcing him to eat a Krabby Patty. In "Shuffleboarding," he and Patrick, while dressed as Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy respectively, go around arresting citizens for actions that do not count as crimes, such as chewing gum too loudly and being too old. In "SpongeBob's Last Stand," SpongeBob and Patrick resist the government-sanctioned construction of the Shelly Superhighway and encourage the rest of the town to join their protest through a song. The police eventually notice the boys rebelling against the government's authority and imprison them in the middle of nowhere. However, on SpongeBob's part, his arrest was for playing the sitar without a license.

SpongeBob also feels the need to impress Mr. Krabs and to protect the Krusty Krab and the Krabby Patty secret formula at all costs. In "Call the Cops," SpongeBob and Mr. Krabs impersonate police officers in hopes of retrieving the secret formula. He also likes to impress his boating teacher, Mrs. Puff, despite his reckless driving. Beginning with "Boating School," an ongoing plot point is SpongeBob failing his driver's test due to his inability to drive safely. His poor driving skills have caused him to run over pedestrians, rapidly switch lanes, drive on the sidewalk, crash into buildings and property, harm his passengers, and lastly damage his vehicle. Despite all the damage he causes, SpongeBob is never arrested or charged for his dangerous driving; instead, Mrs. Puff is, who the authorities believe is failing to educate him.

These actions can often lead to SpongeBob entering by trespassing. SpongeBob and Patrick have a frequent tendency to enter Squidward's house without his consent, which reaches its epitome in "Good Neighbors" and becomes a plot point of the said episode. Additionally, in "Survival of the Idiots," he and Patrick invade Sandy's treedome during the winter with little regard to the "Keep Out" sign on her door. In "The Thing," after getting caught by the SWAT Team, SpongeBob and Patrick hide from them by trespassing into the sewers. SpongeBob also invades the sewers with Squidward in "The Sewers of Bikini Bottom," although they did it to retrieve the safe, so this can be justified. In "Toy Store of Doom," SpongeBob and Patrick stay in Toy Barrel past its open hours and hide in a dollhouse so as not to be caught by the security guard.

SpongeBob's personality trait of wanting to impress others and achieve his goals has led to him having a criminal history. However, due to his naivety and gullibility, a lot of these crimes have been committed unintentionally or through the manipulation of others, mainly Squidward, Plankton, Karen, or Mr. Krabs. He has been arrested a total of seven times: for "stealing" a balloon in "Life of Crime," failing to invite the police to his party in "Party Pooper Pants," littering Patrick's driver's license in "Driven to Tears," playing sitar without a license in "SpongeBob's Last Stand," falsely accused public disturbance in "Cave Dwelling Sponge," impersonating a police officer in "Call the Cops," and unintentionally terrorizing a majority of Bubbletown in the episode of the same name.

SpongeBob's innocence also makes him overly trusting and very gullible^{<a href="https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/SpongeBob_SquarePants_(character)#cite_note-Gullible_Pants-27" ]<27]<="" a=""></a>}<a href="https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/SpongeBob_SquarePants_(character)#cite_note-Gullible_Pants-27" ]<27]<="" a="">, easily manipulated by people who intend to use and/or harm him, such as Squidward, Mr. Krabs, and Plankton, and he is clumsy. In "</a>Walking Small," SpongeBob assists Plankton in driving the attendants at Goo Lagoon away to make an unauthorized development to its property. However, this was done out of manipulation, and SpongeBob regrets his actions after learning Plankton's motive, therefore returning the beach to its previous state. In "Sandy's Rocket," SpongeBob and Patrick go around capturing everyone in Bikini Bottom and trapping them in the spaceship, believing that the entire population is formed of aliens.

Even though he is generally good-natured and easygoing, SpongeBob can get angered easily. When frustrated and angered, SpongeBob can be sarcastic, rude, and condescending to his friends, even Mr. Krabs^{<a href="https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/SpongeBob_SquarePants_(character)#cite_note-Can_You_Spare_a_Dime?-28" ]<28]<="" a=""></a>}<a href="https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/SpongeBob_SquarePants_(character)#cite_note-Can_You_Spare_a_Dime?-28" ]<28]<="" a="">, whom he treats as a father figure. Squidward is the only character whom SpongeBob never insults when he is angry, except for the episodes "</a>Can You Spare a Dime?" and "Breath of Fresh Squidward."

In "Hooky," SpongeBob is encouraged by Patrick to ditch work during his shift, which causes the unsupervised grill to produce mass amounts of smoke. He believed King Neptune's trident was his spatula and decided to help all of Bikini Bottom when he was destroying the town after going mad with power in "Trident Trouble." In "Hall Monitor," he lets his rank of hall monitor go to his head and becomes known as the maniac for his destruction of the city before receiving a scolding from his teacher who was arrested for it. During "Ditchin'," SpongeBob ditches boating school to attend the Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy meet and greet, which affects his driver's education and eventually gets Mrs. Puff arrested. Even stated in "Goons on the Moon" that he is a menace despite his good nature.