Written by Solomon Georgio (Sharks vs Pods) / Kaz (CopyBob DittoPants)
Storyboard by Shellie O’Brien (Sharks vs Pods) / Howie Perry (CopyBob DittoPants)
Animation Director: Tom Yasumi (Sharks vs Pods) / Alan Smart (CopyBob DittoPants)
Original air date: 5/4/2016 (produced in 2015)
A confrontation with the toughest gang in town, the Sharks, may be too much for even SpongeBob to handle.
"Sharks vs. Pods" contains examples of:
- Actor Allusion: Any shark played by Henry Winkler just has to have a leather jacket and act like a greaser.
- Animation Bump: The dance sequence, done by David Gemmill.
- Continuity Nod: There's a picture of the Hydro-dynamic Spatula.
- '50s Hair: The Sharks'.
- Greaser Delinquents: The rough and tough shark gang Spongebob joins. He suspects they're thugs and fears for his safety, but they turn out to be performers.
- Hellbent For Leather: The Sharks and the Pods.
- Medium-Shift Gag: As Spongebob says "I have to get ready to fight", the shot is focused on a close-up of his face, and his body is textured much like an actual kitchen sponge.
- Officer O'Hara: The police speak with Irish accents.
- Rock & Roll: The musical genre for the episode as a tribute to The '50s.
- Running Gag: The sharks crying over Jonnie.
- Saving the Orphanage: When Patrick appears out of nowhere at the end to exclaim "Yeah! We saved the rec center!" There was no rec center even mentioned in the episode (which Squidward lampshades).
- Shout-Out:
- The plot is a parody of West Side Story.
- SpongeBob's line "Eyyy new friends" is a reference to Happy Days.
- Sharkface's name is a spoof of Scarface.
- Patrick's line "We saved the rec center!" is a reference to Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo.
- Special Guest: Henry Winkler as Sharkface, Michael McKean as the sharks. This is the first time in the show a guest star had guest starred for a second time but voices another character (in McKean's case, he plays earlier Captain Frostymug in "License to Milkshake").
- Threatening Shark: The Sharks start off appearing to be a gang of thugs, but ultimately subverted in that they're performers.
- Title Drop: SpongeBob does this in the German dub (the German title is "Verbrecher auf mitgliedschaft"- "criminal member")SpongeBob: Yay, ich bin kein verbrecher auf mitgliedschaft!
- Versus Title
Original air date: 5/5/2016 (produced in 2015)
Plankton makes clones of SpongeBob to learn the secret formula, but his plans may be ruined by the original SpongeBob.
"CopyBob DittoPants" contains examples of:
- All Just a Dream: Squidward believes that he's dreaming after he sees SpongeBob with one of his clones. Subverted, as he is not dreaming after all.
- Big "NO!": By SpongeBob when he learns the clones will eventually vanish from existence.
- Brick Joke: Squidward becomes convinced he's dreaming early on in the episode and quits his job. He returns near the end, still convinced he's dreaming, to crush Plankton under the belief he can fly.
- Clone Degeneration: Because Plankton used cheap toner to make the clones, after a while, they desaturate before they all roll up and disappear from existence.
- Clones Are People, Too: SpongeBob gets along with the clones. When all of them start to disappear, he's devastated.
- Color-Coded for Your Convenience: The SpongeBob clones have blue ties in order to tell them apart from the real SpongeBob (who wears a red tie).
- Color Failure: The clones get a light grey hue just before disappearing from existence.
- Do Not Call Me "Paul": When Plankton checks up on the first SpongeBob clone and he refuses to tell him the formula after befriending the real SpongeBob:SpongeBob Clone: Oh, I can't tell you that, it's a secret! By the way, my name is Me Two.
- Embarrassing Tattoo: To remind Karen of his genius, Plankton tattooed a picture of himself looking smart on her hard drive. She's not happy about it.
- Final Speech: Before he vanishes from existence, "Me Two" utters, "I feel funny..."
- Identical Twin ID Tag: The SpongeBob clones wear blue ties to differentiate them from the real SpongeBob, who wears a red tie.
- Karma Houdini: Subverted—Plankton is glad that he hasn't gotten punished, only to be stepped on by Squidward, who is attempting to fly.
- Killed Mid-Sentence: A SpongeBob clone is about to tell Plankton the formula, but disappears before he does.
- Laser-Guided Karma: When SpongeBob refuses to step on Plankton, he gladly assumes he won't receive a punishment for his actions this time, only for Squidward to fall on top of him seconds later.
- Me's a Crowd: Plankton makes several clones of SpongeBob.
- No Sympathy: Plankton is shocked when all the clones vanish, not even caring about how sad SpongeBob is that he is losing his friends.
- Ocular Gushers: SpongeBob sheds them as he sees the clones vanish from existence.
- Oh, Crap!:
- When Me Two starts to fade away and tells SpongeBob he came from the Chum Bucket, it causes the sponge to shockingly realize the clones were all a trick sent by Plankton.
- SpongeBob is shocked when Me Two vanishes out of existence, followed by Plankton getting the same treatment as all the other clones vanish as well.
- The Power of Friendship: SpongeBob takes a liking to all the clones, treating them as friends and close compadres, which in turn is what causes them to turn against Plankton and protect the formula.
- Punny Name: SpongeBob names his first clone "Me Two" (me too).
- Shout-Out:
- The scene where a bunch of clones march out of the Chum Bucket to the Krusty Krab is a reference to The Wizard of Oz.
- Patrick's line "Life is but a walking shadow" is a reference to Macbeth.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Mr. Krabs doesn't find it odd to see multiple SpongeBobs asking for the krabby patty formula. Instead, he is more determined to split up SpongeBob's paycheck among them rather than pay them individually.
