Written by Kaz (SpongeBob LongPants) / Jack Pendarvis (Larry’s Gym)
Storyboard by Lynne Naylor (SpongeBob LongPants) / Fred Osmond (Larry's Gym)
Animation Directors: Alan Smart and Tom Yasumi
Original air date: 2/15/2016 (produced in 2015)
"SpongeBob LongPants" contains examples of:
- Agony of the Feet: When Squidward is ordered to work the grill he accidentally drops a burnt patty on his foot.
- Circling Birdies: After knocking himself into a parking meter, SpongeBob sees circling long pants.
- Department of Redundancy Department:SpongeBob: Wow! Another Mermaid Man reboot. It's how I always re-imagined the reboot would be remade.
- Eating the Eye Candy: A lot of female customers are seen admiring SpongeBob’s long pants.
- Female Gaze: When SpongeBob first walks through the Krusty Krusty with his new long pants.
- Le Film Artistique: SpongeBob goes with a group of adults to Le Cinima to see an artistic foreign film called "The Table", which is just a monochrome still shot of a live-action table.
- Foreshadowing: Mr. Krabs is present watching the Mermaid Man movie alongside Sandy and Patrick. Turns out he's a fan.
- Long Pants: SpongeBob gets one for this episode.
- Negative Continuity: The trailer for this episode states that "we" (the audience) have never seen SpongeBob in long pants. However, he has worn long pants on numerous occasions (such as "The Chaperone").
- Outgrowing the Childish Name: While being mistaken for an adult, SpongeBob's sophisticated peers begin referring to him as "SpongeRobert".
- Shout-Out: The new Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy movie is titled The Dark Tide Rises.
- Snobby Hobbies: SpongeBob finds himself with an overly fancy crowd of False Friends who eat expensive exotic dinners, and have "parties" consisting of drinking coffee, watching the news, and having sophisticated conversations. When SpongeBob suggests they see a movie, they pick an incredibly boring art film.
- Status Quo Is God: Of course, when SpongeBob got rid of his long pants, that means he doesn't get a drive license anymore, much to the relief of Mrs. Puff.
"Larry’s Gym" contains examples of:
- A Day in the Limelight: The first time Larry actually gets an episode centering on him.
- Balloon Belly: Larry gets a pot belly while working on too many files.
- Epic Fail: Larry decides to have SpongeBob lift cotton balls on a cotton swap in place of weights. Even this proves to be too heavy for SpongeBob
- Heroic Build: SpongeBob when he become muscular.
- Loophole Abuse: After Larry tells him that only the first visit is free, Mr. Krabs decides to never leave so he can keep using the gym for free.
- Medium Blending / Sauna of Death: While Larry closes up the gym for the night and finds that Mr. Krabs has still locked himself in the steam room, he finds he has turned into a cooked live-action crab after pulling the door open.Larry: What is that smell? Mr. Krabs, how long have you been in there?! [pulls the door open]
Mr. Krabs: I think I'm done! Would you mind rubbin' a little butter on me? - Never Say "Die": Averted.Larry: You should be in charge of the fun stuff while I sit here in the reception area slowly getting fatter and paler until I die.
- Pec Flex: Larry does one at the beginning.
- Portmanteau: SpongeBob refers to bro hugs as "brugs".
- Swapped Roles: The normally-scrawny SpongeBob becomes incredibly muscular after absorbing too much water during his workouts, while the normally-muscular Larry becomes weak and scrawny from being too busy with paperwork to excercise.
- Truth in Television: Larry finding out that running a gym includes a lot of paperwork that cuts into his own workout time. The prep work and running of a business is very different from the service it provides.
