Aren't you just jealous of his glamorous, new lifestyle?
Porous Pockets
Original air date: 11/28/2008
When SpongeBob suddenly becomes rich, he gets surrounded by new friends, but forgets about Patrick.
"Porous Pockets" contains examples of:
- Acquired Situational Narcissism: Being rich causes SpongeBob to suddenly forget about Patrick.
- Alliterative Title: Porous Pockets.
- An Aesop:
- Money can't buy you friendship. True friends like you for who you are, not for what you have.
- Making new friends is important, but don't ignore your old ones. Also, your new friends might not seem as friendly as you think.
- Don't spend all your money in one place. Be frugal about it, rather than dedicating it to just a single cause.
- Big "NO!": SpongeBob screams it when he realizes all his money is gone.
- Dumbass Has a Point: Patrick is unusually competent in this episode, as he notices strangers in SpongeBob's mansion and actually warns him not to keep giving his money away.
- Easily Forgiven: Patrick is quick to mend fences with SpongeBob at the end despite the snobbish and negligent attitude he displayed throughout the episode.
- Eye Scream: When trying to decide what to spend his money on at the mall, SpongeBob visits a pet store where baby scallops latch onto his eyes. Patrick then pulls them off, ripping off SpongeBob's eyelids in the process.
- False Friend: After becoming rich, SpongeBob attracts a large group who he considers his new friends. As soon as his fortune dries up, SpongeBob's "friends" promptly ditch him.
- Five-Second Foreshadowing: The absence of the money in SpongeBob's pants after Patrick is thrown out gives a big lead-in to the reveal he's gone completely broke.
- A Fool and His New Money Are Soon Parted: Really, would anyone expect different of SpongeBob?
- Here We Go Again!: The episode ends with Patrick presenting an enormous diamond he found from the diamond mine.
- Horrible Judge of Character: SpongeBob realizes too late that his new "friends" only stuck around because of his newfound wealth.
- It's the Best Whatever, Ever!: After he and Patrick spend time at the mall, SpongeBob declares it the "best shopping day ever", to which Patrick replies, "You Can Say That Again!". SpongeBob, of course, doesn't hesitate to say it again.
- Jerkass Ball: SpongeBob becomes extremely mean towards Patrick after becoming rich and ignores his warnings about the moochers.
- Jerkass Realization: SpongeBob apologizes to Patrick for his actions after losing all his money and being abandoned by the moochers.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: SpongeBob gets his hands on a fortune and generously buys ice cream for a stranger. Cue an enormous crowd of moochers skulking for free money until SpongeBob is bone dry.
- Not on the List: What inevitably happens to Patrick when he tries entering SpongeBob's new Big Fancy House. He gets past SpongeBob's butler with the old "your shoe's untied" routine (which, in a twist, is actually true).
- Rags to Riches: Discovering a pearl from the ailing clam gives SpongeBob incredible wealth and a rich life. However, it doesn't last long.
- Shopping Montage: Of SpongeBob and Patrick at the mall. However, it turns out it was a window shopping montage, and the first things they buy are two lifetime supplies of strawberry gum completely offscreen.
- Smart Ball: Patrick is unusually smart and down-to-earth in this episode, conning his way past SpongeBob's VIP list and warning SpongeBob to not throw away his money on his newfound "friends", who of course, are just using him.Patrick: SpongeBob, if you keep throwing your money away like that, you won't have any left, and... then...
- Taking Advantage of Generosity: What started as SpongeBob being generous enough to buy a stranger ice cream evolves to him basically throwing money to an enormous crowd of moochers.
- Whole-Plot Reference: The episode has an identical plotline to the Parable of the Prodigal Son. SpongeBob gains incredible wealth and ditches someone he was close to like the protagonist does, and in the end, he immediately loses it all and is forced to go back to his old life and make amends with the person he wronged.
- Worthless Yellow Rocks: SpongeBob and Patrick decide to use a giant pearl and an even more massive diamond as volleyballs. An appraiser noticing the former and buying it from SpongeBob is what kicks off the plot.
Choir Boys
Original air date: 3/20/2009 (produced in 2008; first aired in the UK and Germany on 12/20/08)
SpongeBob wants to come to Squidward's choir audition, but Squidward is determined to go there alone and not hear SpongeBob's song.
"Choir Boys" contains examples of:
- Animate Inanimate Object: Squidward's toilet frowns when he doesn't use it; the toilet paper also talks about it.Toilet Paper: Don't feel bad. He didn't use me yesterday, either.
- Broken Record: "Can I come? Can I come? Can I come? Can I come? Can I come? Can I come? Can I come? Can I come? Can I come?"
- The Bus Came Back: Grandma from "Have You Seen This Snail?" appears as the choir pianist.
- Butt-Monkey: Squidward, naturally.
- Felony Misdemeanor: Disguised as a cop, SpongeBob tickets Squidward for "reckless frowning" and not listening him sing.
- Hard Truth Aesop: Passion doesn't correlate to talent. Squidward may have wanted the role more, but SpongeBob was actually talented enough to get the role over Squidward.
- Jerkass: Both Squidward and SpongeBob are this here. Earlier in the episode, Squidward went out of his way to harass SpongeBob and act deliberately rude and arrogant toward him (and not to mention, he expressed visible joy at the thought of SpongeBob being depressed), but SpongeBob himself wasn't much better in this episode as he also deliberately went out of his way to harass and torment Squidward, all in an attempt to get him to listen to his song and let him come to the choir audition.
- Jerkass Ball: SpongeBob seems to be tormenting Squidward deliberately in an attempt to get the latter to listen to his song and let him come to his choir audition.
- No Sympathy: Early on when Squidward sees SpongeBob lonely with no one to play with due to the fact Patrick is away, he shows no remorse over his sadness.
- Overly Long Gag: SpongeBob and Squidward clearing their throats which happens multiple times.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: Though Played for Laughs, SpongeBob actually does something nice for Squidward by having him turn the pages in his music sheet at the concert.
- Written-In Absence: SpongeBob mentions when he first appears that Patrick is at a family reunion.
