The Incredible Shrinking Sponge
Original air date: 12/2/2017
SpongeBob must figure out how to do his job after accidentally shrinking himself.
The Incredible Shrinking Sponge contains examples of:
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: At the end, SpongeBob absorbs too many bubbles, making him grow into a giant.
- Eek, a Mouse!!: Squidward acts like this when he sees a sea urchin in the Krusty Krab, and afterwards, tries to hit it with a steel pipe. He tries to do the same thing with SpongeBob who he mistakes for a sea urchin.
- Eye Scream: When Squidward has to work the grill, he accidentally flips a Krabby Patty into his eye, causing it to get horribly burned, then he relieves it with a baster full of water.
- The Farmer and the Viper: The sea urchin tries to eat SpongeBob after he helped it escape a mouse trap.
- Hand-or-Object Underwear: The small SpongeBob briefly places pickle slices over his front and back.
- Height Angst: Subverted with Plankton, who celebrates that he is now an inch taller than SpongeBob. SpongeBob gets this briefly when his small height prevents him from fry cooking.
- Here We Go Again!: SpongeBob regains normal height, but absorbs so much suds he grows into a giant.
- Incredible Shrinking Man: The main plot of the episode is SpongeBob himself getting shrunken down to size due to the intense heat coming from the grill.
- Shapeshifting Excludes Clothing: SpongeBob's clothes do not shrink with him, leaving him naked for most of the episode.
Sportz?
Original air date: 7/16/2017
SpongeBob and Patrick accidentally receive Sandy's box of sporting equipment but do not know how to play the sports, so Squidward decides to use their idiocy and invents a new sport to get back at them for annoying him, until Sandy catches on.
Sportz? contains examples of:
- Abusive Parents: Implied. When Squidward attempts to complain to his mother that Sandy's cheating, she simply snaps that she doesn’t care.
- Badass Long Robe: Squidward wears one as part of his role as the Rule Giver.
- Bully Hunter: Sandy, instead of being angry that a parcel posted to her was opened by someone else, is outraged by Squidward’s actions. Standing up for SpongeBob and Patrick, she challenges Squidward to a sports tournament. Not only does she win every game, but Squidward is maimed in the process.
- Characterization Marches On: Once again, SpongeBob acts nowhere close to how he acted back in "Pizza Delivery" when Squidward tried to lull him into eating the Krusty Krab pizza and SpongeBob was able to catch on.
- Compressed Vice: In this episode, SpongeBob and Patrick don't know what sports are and are really poor at them, not even knowing how to play them the right way; in past episodes, they know every sport and excel at them.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Sandy easily beats Squidward during their competition, to the point where the latter is not only horribly injured but fails to earn a single point.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Squidward was rightfully angry about his garden being destroyed, but he went way overboard with his payback.
- Dumbass Has a Point:
- Despite their reckless way of sport uses, both Sponge and Pat did prove a point when they politely ask Squidward to teach them how to play them correctly.
- One of the sports Squidward teaches is using ice skates as "running shoes"; during the sport, SpongeBob was correct to ask Squidward if they are playing the sport properly because the skates are hurting his feet from running in them on bare ground.
- Failed a Spot Check: SpongeBob and Patrick don't look on the side of the box that has Sandy's name on it.
- Flaw Exploitation: Upon seeing how SpongeBob and Patrick don't even know what sports are and how to play them correctly, Squidward decides to use this flaw by teaching them more improper rules that cause them to hurt and injure themselves nonstop.
- Good Angel, Bad Angel: Squidward is asked by SpongeBob and Patrick to teach them how to play sports properly and is given advice on what to do by angel and devil versions of himself. Angel Squidward advises that he must give them the right information so they don't hurt themselves, while Devil Squidward sadistically gloats that Squidward has the opportunity to trick the two dolts into hurting each other as payback for all the times they annoyed him. Angel Squidward ends up agreeing with Devil Squidward after he gets hit by a tennis ball.
- Ill-Fated Flowerbed: Squidward's begonias get trampled by SpongeBob and Patrick's thanks to their poor sport antics.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Squidward does indeed make a point by showing Sponge and Pat the different sports equipment and telling them about them, which inspires SpongeBob who asks him to teach them how to play.
- Laser-Guided Karma: In retaliation for SpongeBob and Patrick's injuries (and not teaching them how to play the sports correctly as they asked), Sandy forces Squidward into a sporting competition that ends with him being horribly injured himself.
- Medium Blending: At one point, Squidward ends up getting his body sliced up into live-action calamari that contains his eyes.
- Series Continuity Error: SpongeBob and Patrick don’t know what sports and the equipment they received are, but in past episodes, they do.
- Title Drop: Several times over the course of the episode.
- Twisted Ankle: SpongeBob and Patrick get painfully swollen ankles after Squidward makes them run in ice skates.
