I kinda see House Party differently than others because when I was younger I had, and maybe still have, this DVD with a few miscellaneous episodes like house party and the valentines day one
There’s so many times where I was like “ how is this episode this low?” Only for it to be followed up with all like 80 episodes after it also being bangers. This show is just special man
i've heard that the reason they did this was because they needed to get squidward out of the shot and couldn't think of a more reasonable way to do it, so they just did something ridiculous instead
100% agreed. I honestly think that’s the funniest moment in the series. As someone who’s watched a shit ton of SpongeBob in my life, that moment is one of the 3-5 moments in the show that can still make me laugh out loud
It's so funny because it makes sense the first time he does it, it's to move squidward out of the way so he can confront spongebob but that second time he just does it for no reason
My favorite thing about the “Squeaky Boots” episode is that Mr. Krabs last freak out was like a reference to Edgar Allen Poe’s “Tell Tale Heart”. Extremely well done and hilarious.
Yeah same, I’ve always loved music and the songs in ‘the sponge who could fly’ are simply iconic to me, they’re like a core memory within my childhood, I get the feeling the poster doesn’t really care for music that much but I enjoyed the video
i kid you not, i genuinely thought that Idiot Box had ACTUAL IMAGINATION SCENES up until i rewatched it a few years ago. i was mindblown when i realized it was actually just my imagination. it's crazy how great our imaginations were as kids. i'm not saying it's any worse now that i'm older, my imagination still runs wild to this day, but man i couldn't believe that was just all in my head
Well, the sequel episode “Squidiot Box” just aired not too long ago, and that has actual imagination scenes. But it’s apparently not as good for that very reason.
Chimps ahoy had one of my favorite jokes in the whole series as a kid. Sandy has a helmet that lets you communicate with peanuts. So SpongeBob puts it on and talks to a peanut. "It says, 'It's dark in here'" and then later the peanut gets put in a grinder with a screaming sound and you just see SpongeBobs face fall in grief and Taps starts playing. Still kills me and I can't quite put my finger on why.
I’m here to file my grievance. Shanghai’d is legitimately one of the funniest pieces of media ever created and should be much, much higher on this list.
I wish you went into the Idiot Box episode more, the imagination scenes are SO iconic. Spongebob and Patrick dramaticizing a desperate escape from an avalanche that parodies a war movie because Squidward kicked the box is SO harrowing to watch as an adult and the jokes hit so well with its concept.
“You're going to have to cut them off with a saw! No, Patrick, I can't do that! Why not? Because I already cut off my own arms.” Like how was this a kids show? 😂
The fact that we reach the great episodes at basically 29:00 with one entire hour left to go really tells you how amazing this show was in it's golden era
@@real1mem3s my comment very clearly conveys that I don't disagree with him in that regard. That's why I giving it weight. Should be obvious, but okay, man. Whatever ruined your day.
“Having pride in your work is nothing to be ashamed of, it’s the only thing that makes it all worthwhile” THIS is only one example from millions for why SpongeBob was so pivotal for me as a kid. Genuine life advice snuck into a humorous kids show. Not to mention I learned how to tie my shoes from that one SpongeBob episode.
My wife had never seen Spongebob, so I bought the first 100 DVD set and we watched them. "It's a giraffe!" Broke the ice for her, shes loved SpongeBob ever since. Still her favorite episode, and scene.
1:19:28 Fun Fact: Before creating Phineas and Ferb, Dan Povenmire worked on SpongeBob as a writer and was the one who created “The Campfire Song Song”.
Ahhh! Perry the Platypus, I see you've stumbled upon my campfire-songinator! Yes, I'm taking a short vacation from scheming to enjoy nature. You know, it's nice to just a nice hike INTO MY TRAP! 🪤 Haha!! Now you may be wondering how a catchy song possibly be evil. Well, it all started...
same thing i was thinking about dude thats crazy that many people like me feel like they remember a small number of episodes... turns out i remember them all
My personal SS tier: 1- SB-129 2- Band Geeks 3- Graveyard Shift 4- Chocolate with Nuts 5- KK Training Video 6- Wet Painters 7- Rock Bottom 8- Mermaidman and Barnacle Boy V 9- Christmas Who? 10- Club Spongebob This was a lot harder than I thought
For me it was that at "D" and snowball effect at "C". Imo two of the best & most quotable episodes besides Club Spongebob. Then again I also respect most other picks of the video
Hash Slinging Slasher being their way of saying he's a drug dealing murderer to get the adult joke past censors is probably the best instance of an adult joke in any kids cartoon ever
I’m sorry but Krusty Towers is an honorary golden episode. Literally every single line is iconic and it’s just absurd joke after joke after joke, it never slows down. One of my absolute favorites. IMDB also seems to agree as it’s the highest rated of season 4 and higher rated than even many Season 1-3 episodes. “We shall never deny a guest, even the most ridiculous request!”, “This is a hotel??”
The funny thing is, I knew every single one of these episodes, but couldn’t tell you a title of any of them. I just never paid attention to that as a kid. I loved every story, and the adventures I went on with all of my underwater friends in Bikini Bottom. This video legitimately made me cry, because I can remember SpongeBob being there for me through so many things I went through as a kid. There are some episodes that, while not being written so well, made me laugh over and over again, no matter how bad I felt inside. Thank you for this. I know it’s just a tier list video, but you really helped me remember just how much this show means to me.
I knew I wasn’t the only one who didn’t know the episode names! I genuinely couldn’t tell you a single one, maybe, just MAYBE 1 or 2 but I couldn’t tell you a single one on the fly
This is me with Simpsons, but even then there weren't any title cards, I just found out the Simpsons' episodes had any names at all well after the fact, like 2013 or so The Title Card for Spongebob was part of the appeal, along with the music accompanying the episode, like "Something Smells"....so sinister and funny given the context
There were some weird rankings I won’t lie. Squidward the unfriendly ghost for example being way to low imo. But having pickles as number 1 might be one of the most based opinions on the internet. I had such an emotional connection to this episode and I’m glad you see it too.
This i've seen. This was like now the tenth ranking kf the golden era episodes where apparently i'm the only guy to enjoy all 3 s3 specials(all 22 min)
Shanghied is still my favorite Spongebob episode. There are so many good jokes and underrated lines in it. One of my favorite lines in the show is from this episode. It’s when the Dutchman tells SpongeBob and Patrick that he’s going to eat them. They scream then Patrick says “wait, I have an idea”, SpongeBob says “what is it Patrick!?” and he responds with “let’s leave”. It doesn’t really seem that funny when I explain it, but it makes me crack up every time I watch the episode.
I never watched the Christmas episode on TV. I had to watch it online out of curiosity because it was the only OG Spongebob episode I had never watched
I was born in the late 90s and grew up watching SpongeBob. It's such a strange feeling to see an old episode of SpongeBob that I never knew existed until now.
This is the first time that I thought about every single golden age Spongebob episode in such detail, and it made me realize how much the show influenced my values growing up. I'm convinced that I'm a better, more rounded person because of it. All thanks to Stephen Hillenburg and his little show. Rest in peace, Stephen.
It is amazing, but so are all the top 5s. They are all amazing. I do agree that Pickle should be nr 1, but I do understand why anybody would take any of the top 5 and put them as their number 1. :-D
Crazy how Squidward dominates the top 10, proving he is the best character to interact emotionally, plot-wise, psychologically, socially, comically with SpongeBob in the entire show
S4 and S5 slept on ngl. People still say they’re good but I feel like it’s more out of obligation than anything. Squidward in Clarinetland is honestly one of my favs
"maybe you can get away with it the first few years of airing it to kids, they'll just laugh about it, but when those kids grow up and make a RUclips video tier listing your episodes 20 years later, this one will be in F tier." These are the things that keep me up at night.
Made me cry how the fact that the two best episodes of this childrens show is the community rallying behind the two most important characters right when their wills are finally broken, both feeling like their purpose in life had been failed, until the people come together and let them know "Hey regardless of how much you annoy us, we respect and value you as one of our own and we want you to succeed".
@@lvl1rock I just finished the whole video after starting it a couple days ago, brilliant job man, I might have swapped some around but like you said, they're all so good!
I’m glad you addressed karate island because I remember riding hard for that episode and then rewatching it present day and it has NO substance or anything clever like at least frycook games had funny and relevant events
Yeah Karate Island is basically Og dragon ball Muscle tower but without any of the funny jokes. We even have a chubby fish that is exactly like the monster Goku fights
It’s actually so accurate, season 4 is such a departure from the 1st 3 and the show never came back. I would have left season 4 off entirely if it wasn’t considered OG. It’s so bad compared to some of greatest cartoon television of all time.
While Plankton is the most prevalent villain, I totally agree that Bubble Bass is arguably the best and most underrated of Spongebob villains, even more evil than Plankton. Why? Because he was he one of the few antagonists to almost singlehandedly cause the Krusty Krab to go bankrupt. He psychologically wrecked Sponge so bad that it forced Squidward to be the new fry cook. But his food was terrible and caused the customers to leave. Had this continued, Mr. Krabs would have went out of business for good, all because of ONE lie. Sure Krabs could've hired someone else, but who else could match Spongebob's fry cook skills AND work for cheap? Even besides that, Bubble Bass is a rare character that really tests Spongebob's fortitude. Him being a lazy, bossy, spiteful, overly-pedantic, and dishonest person in sharp contrast to Spongebob's hard working, easygoing, friendly, accepting, and honest personality. Nowadays, Bubble Bass is just a harmless neckbeard that lives in his mom's basement and is completely useless. But I'll always prefer Season 1 Bubble Bass as a really effective antagonist.
The amount of top tier episodes i never got to see as a kid is criminal, ESPECIALLY sandys rocket and pizza delivery, im tempted to rewatch spongebob now just to relive the nostalgia but also finally get to see these gems
Whatever other people say, holy shit dude, the whole video is an absolute masterpiece. Sure, some ranks in the lower tiers may have been interchangeable, yet the leading episodes of each tier (including SS) depict a real understanding of what makes the whole series (season 1-3 lol) such a memorable masterpiece to this day. With nostalgia in mind, sure, those earlier episodes stick way deeper in out memories than that soulless crap modern Spongebob is, but with so many episodes representing and explaining current topics such as strikes, existentialism and human interaction in manifold it really shows how it is something more than just silly jokes. Thank you a lot for the time and effort that went into creating this list!
Never thought of Pickles like that, but now thinking about it that way and looking back at it, it’s a phenomenal episode, especially considering it was season one
Amazing; thank you for giving me a new appreciation for these episodes on such a deeper level. I never thought I’d hear such an analysis of Pickles of all episodes; well done.
Sb-129 is my all time favorite episode of all time. About damn time it gets some love. I am a huge sucker for reality bending and breaking episodes. Its fantastic. This and ed edd and eddy. I love episodes that just randomly go into that realm of WHAT?!
Whoah, you too mentioned Ed Edd and Eddy here! I just posted my two cents in a comment here mentioning how I have never laughed so hard to a cartoon as I did watching The Strangler episode. Except for when I was 4 years old and watched a specific Ed Edd and Eddy episode where they built a dangerous roller coaster and rode it almost flying. I was so filled with excitement and thought it was hilarious! I have never seen either that scene or that episode since I was 4, and I'm 26 now. And I still remember that scene vividly. Thank you for your comment and thank you for reading and I wish you a great day!
Jesus I didn’t rember season 4 having such a nose dive in quality compared to the first three seasons don’t get me wrong there are some bangers but the quality just flew straight down
Es una temporada que está bien en general, aunque ya la serie presentaba cierto cansancio desde el final de la temporada 3. La temporada 4 tiene varios capítulos desalmados, sin embargo se salva en su mayoría por los especiales y episodios sustancioso que usualmente eran parte del inicio y mediados de la temporada. Es al final de esta donde comienza a cambiar y tomar un rumbo diferente. Los capítulos de la temporada 4 son más experimentales, hay mucho de prueba y error, por ello calificarla es raro. De hecho varios capítulos que me encantan están acá cómo "SquidBob TentaclePants", creo que si nos ponemos a analizar de gran manera los guiones y justificaciones de esta temporada podríamos encontrar muchas cosas realmente destacables, pero nadie quiere hacer ese trabajo porque no es considerada cómo "era dorada" en su mayor parte.
This video gave me a new appreciation for spongebob, thank you I need to get whatever streaming service it's on.. i remember growing out of the show, but I'd guess that what actually happened was the episodes just became more annoying as the seasons went on. This video also made me remember so many episodes and scenes i forgot about! And just how much spongebob has affected us and how we unknowingly quote it all the time. It's like one of those things that can connect any two people (with limitations, obviously depends on the age group) Also, i gotta watch the spongebob movie again. I remember enjoying it SO much as a kid
respect all these takes but i actually really liked the episode where they all turn into snails, its like uncharacteristically fucked up body horror for early spongebob and reminds me of 90s nickelodeon cartoons like ahh real monsters
i think your breakdown and reasoning for each tier is excellent and revisiting the original list from the 2000s is an awesome idea. as others in the comments have suggested, you can debate placements of your favorite episodes and moments amongst yourselves, but the overall curation and quality of the video is amazing! i love the style of OG spongebob tier list/video essay’s and this is up there with the best. great work man.
I know it's an easy argument to make that any kid from any era feels the same way as any other kid from any other era about their respective favorite childhood shows. And maybe there's a good amount of truth to that, but I don't think that means that shows don't vary in quality. And I'm biased because I was born in 1998, and still quote Spongebob in daily life to friends who also remember it as fondly, but I've also seen a lot of television and I don't think that it's very common whatsoever for a show aimed at an audience for children is so well written, acted, animated, has such great music, memorability and constant bar raising creativity. The show always demanded respect by respecting its viewers. It can be hard to be grateful for things in a mind that constantly resets itself in the present, assessing for threats and anxieties and "is that person looking at me?" But it's nice to be able to step back and appreciate how lucky we were to be at the right time and place and age to see this masterpiece of a show. Also, incredibly well made and satisfying video. I can tell how much time this took you to make and it's inspiring how committed you must have been. I may update this comment as the video goes on to include other blunders such as SKILL CRANE BEING OUTSIDE THE TOP 100!? WHAT!? Skill Crane is Top 50. C'mon! But the passion I feel for disagreeing with you is the same passion you felt that drove you to correct that abhorrent and distasteful list that was somehow voted on.
My Top 20 20. Jellyfish Hunter 19. Welcome to The Chum Bucket 18. F.U.N 17. Arrugh 16. Dying for Pie 15. Mermaidman and Barnacleboy 5 14. I Had an Accident 13. Wet Painters 12. SB-129 11. Frankendoodle 10. Pickles 9. Idiot Box 8. Krusty Krab Training video 7. Rock Bottom 6. Graveyard Shift 5. Shanghaied 4. The Camping Episode 🥉 Chocolate with Nuts 🥈 Pizza Delivery 🥇 Band Geeks Honorable mentions: Nasty Patty, Neptune's Spatula, Patrick Smartpants, Squid on Strike, and Spongebob Meets The Strangler
I only watched like three episodes of SpongeBob in my life, I never liked tv so I never really saw most of the popular cartoons. But here I am, watching a marathon of long SpongeBob related videos for some reason. At least the "lore" is really easy to follow lol
55:32 Not to mention it has three endings.. but the only cons to those endings is the fact that two of them end the same way with the Flying Dutchman eating them. SpongeBob's won with them turned into fruit in a blender and chased by the Flying Dutchman as a vegetarian, as SpongeBob wished for in his ending.
Man I gotta say as a fan of the show and as someone who’s watched a lot of top ten lists on epsiodes, seeing you pick genuine choices and not just going with obvious fan favourites was so satisfying. Seeing pickles at the top was so cathartic haha. Finally someone who loves that episode as much as I do! Dunno if it’s the number 1 for me but top 3 for sure.
I never rewatched pickles as an adult. I always considered it just another episode. But the way you pointed out literally everything that episode did right, is way WAY beyond what any kids can comprehend. Its the same reasons i am a huge fan of G4 MLP, so many golden moments kids wont understand until theyre older Its what made both shows for all ages, not just kids
That pickles episode is also my number 1 😂 not only it's like redemption arc or something but the amount of bubble bass throwing squidward was really making me laugh 🤣
Pickles in SS tier is so based. Its always been my favorite episode, not just for the humor but because of the strong writing going on with Spongebob facing not only his nemesis but a loss of confidence in himself, then bouncing back from it. Plus it gets points for the spagetti-western motifs at the final showdown in the Krusty Krab
That list in 2006 was definitely mostly voted by really young kids at that time whose favorites were the most recent. I was 14 by 2006, so I had not really been watching for 2 years. From 99 to 2003 are the best ones.
Starting at like #100 I went "Man, this is THAT low?" just to then go "oh yeah fair that episode's ALSO great". Golden Era Spongebob is one of the best cartoons ever made.
I kinda find it funny that, if Stephen Hillenburg's plan to end spongebob after the movie went through, the strangler episode would've been the last episode of the original show before the movie. I dunno, I just kinda find it funny that would've been the note they would've ended it on.
The squeaky boots x danny brown comparison is ON POINT Also i SWEAR they aired a version of the employee training video where the secret ingredient was ACTUALLY revealed at the end.
"Mrs. Puff You're Fired" is one of my favourite episodes, and by far my favourite from Season 4. So I'm very surprised to see it in F tier. Am I alone?
@@tloz171nfs “It’s a delightful taste sensation” -we would reference that ALL the time It does suffer from slightly weird pacing and comedic timing like all of season 4 but if you look past that, the gags in the episode are nonstop gold. And the episode itself is B2B Krusty towers, which makes it the shining beacon of S4.
It's not one of my absolute favorites but I LOVE the teacher, every scene with him is gold and the driving test with him is just as good, easily the best episode of that season and still memorable years later
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The fact that I went "oh I like this episode" starting from the second to worst thing on the list really says something
Same, I love House Party. Shocked to see it ranked second last.
house party is lowkey in the middle of D-tier and C-tier
Same house party is really good imo
I kinda see House Party differently than others because when I was younger I had, and maybe still have, this DVD with a few miscellaneous episodes like house party and the valentines day one
Let it be a testament to how solid these episodes are.
graveyard shift not making it to top 20 is sinister work
Fair enough! That’s a great episode
One of my favorites bro. Introduction to horror tbh🙂↕️
the noseferatu reference at the end is so funny and unexpected
Christ is Lord
agreed wholeheartedly. opposite day, clams and hall monitor also got snubbed.
There’s so many times where I was like “ how is this episode this low?” Only for it to be followed up with all like 80 episodes after it also being bangers. This show is just special man
1:26:53 That shot of Bubble Bass grabbing Squidward and just throwing him across the room has to be one of the funniest visual gags in the whole show
i've heard that the reason they did this was because they needed to get squidward out of the shot and couldn't think of a more reasonable way to do it, so they just did something ridiculous instead
More behind the scenes on SpongeBob knowledge 😤
100% agreed. I honestly think that’s the funniest moment in the series. As someone who’s watched a shit ton of SpongeBob in my life, that moment is one of the 3-5 moments in the show that can still make me laugh out loud
It's so funny because it makes sense the first time he does it, it's to move squidward out of the way so he can confront spongebob but that second time he just does it for no reason
for some random reason, I paused the video right on that frame and checked the comments to see you comment about it
My favorite thing about the “Squeaky Boots” episode is that Mr. Krabs last freak out was like a reference to Edgar Allen Poe’s “Tell Tale Heart”. Extremely well done and hilarious.
It’s crazy SpongeBob is so good that even D and F tiers I’m like “that’s a a classic”
Yeah i really dont agree with alot of the f/d tier ranks.
Yeah same, I’ve always loved music and the songs in ‘the sponge who could fly’ are simply iconic to me, they’re like a core memory within my childhood, I get the feeling the poster doesn’t really care for music that much but I enjoyed the video
Mrs. Puff You're Fired deserved WAY better.
i kid you not, i genuinely thought that Idiot Box had ACTUAL IMAGINATION SCENES up until i rewatched it a few years ago. i was mindblown when i realized it was actually just my imagination. it's crazy how great our imaginations were as kids. i'm not saying it's any worse now that i'm older, my imagination still runs wild to this day, but man i couldn't believe that was just all in my head
SAME!!
I remembered being apart of the imagination with SpongeBob and Patrick! I would even go inside a box to get the feeling that SB and PS had
Well, the sequel episode “Squidiot Box” just aired not too long ago, and that has actual imagination scenes. But it’s apparently not as good for that very reason.
@@feathdev000 people just think that just because it’s just the same thing as the original, it’s just unimaginative
Don’t you mean it was your
🌈IMAGINATION🌈
Mr Krabs selling SpongeBobs soul for not even a dollar will forever be the funniest thing in all of media for me
Bubblebass having the pickles from last time under his tongue still was crazy levels of hatred for no reason.
Why did he have car keys under his tongue tho? Lol
@@JH-xm5sn He has a whole goblin stash under there.
he got a whole inventory under that tongue
Similarly great scene is when Mr Krabs bashes Squidward saying "get away you barbarian" in squids day off
and the car keys were a whole new level of absolute hysteria
Chimps ahoy had one of my favorite jokes in the whole series as a kid.
Sandy has a helmet that lets you communicate with peanuts. So SpongeBob puts it on and talks to a peanut. "It says, 'It's dark in here'" and then later the peanut gets put in a grinder with a screaming sound and you just see SpongeBobs face fall in grief and Taps starts playing.
Still kills me and I can't quite put my finger on why.
I’m here to file my grievance. Shanghai’d is legitimately one of the funniest pieces of media ever created and should be much, much higher on this list.
facts, it's easily in my top 5, the perfume department scene (especially "i have an idea. let's leave") will never leave my head as long as i live
Agreed
i wish he had ranked it higher!
*the episode moves up one place*
GRIEVANCES?! THIS WHOLE TOWN IS A GREIVANCE
@@Magnemite_ I literally quote this scene when I actually wanna leave
I wish you went into the Idiot Box episode more, the imagination scenes are SO iconic. Spongebob and Patrick dramaticizing a desperate escape from an avalanche that parodies a war movie because Squidward kicked the box is SO harrowing to watch as an adult and the jokes hit so well with its concept.
“You're going to have to cut them off with a saw! No, Patrick, I can't do that! Why not? Because I already cut off my own arms.” Like how was this a kids show? 😂
The fact that we reach the great episodes at basically 29:00 with one entire hour left to go really tells you how amazing this show was in it's golden era
Was just thinking that when I got to around there and looked to see how much longer I had of this video, really crazy to think about
Okay? It's his opinion. Why are you holding so much weight to it? He's just some dude.
@@real1mem3s what are you yappin about big bro?? 🤣🤣
@@real1mem3s in what context is this exactly?
@@real1mem3s my comment very clearly conveys that I don't disagree with him in that regard. That's why I giving it weight. Should be obvious, but okay, man. Whatever ruined your day.
“Having pride in your work is nothing to be ashamed of, it’s the only thing that makes it all worthwhile”
THIS is only one example from millions for why SpongeBob was so pivotal for me as a kid. Genuine life advice snuck into a humorous kids show. Not to mention I learned how to tie my shoes from that one SpongeBob episode.
Remember; licking doorknobs is illegal on other planets
“It’s a giraffe” was the moment I thought of for the bubble blowing episode
My wife had never seen Spongebob, so I bought the first 100 DVD set and we watched them. "It's a giraffe!" Broke the ice for her, shes loved SpongeBob ever since. Still her favorite episode, and scene.
the piano jokes in fear of a krabby patty are hilarious to me for no reason at all
The CH Greenblatt effect
1:19:28 Fun Fact: Before creating Phineas and Ferb, Dan Povenmire worked on SpongeBob as a writer and was the one who created “The Campfire Song Song”.
Ahhh! Perry the Platypus, I see you've stumbled upon my campfire-songinator!
Yes, I'm taking a short vacation from scheming to enjoy nature. You know, it's nice to just a nice hike INTO MY TRAP! 🪤 Haha!!
Now you may be wondering how a catchy song possibly be evil. Well, it all started...
I love that man. I didn’t know that, but it tracks with what I love about the song and phineas and ferb
Dang, in hindsight, that song does have that same Phineas and Ferb feel!
@@Aflay1 didnt....didnt doof do both a camping scheme AND a "catchy song" scheme?!
And he originally wanted Patrick to say "LETTERS LETTERS LETTERS LETTERS"
But the others decided to have him say random letters
I like how quiet a lot of the early episodes were. Many moments with no background noises or music, it’s peaceful.
Its crazy how many episodes i remember. Turns out SpongeBob was a big part of my childhood
Agree
same i never realized how much of it i watched but ive seen almost all the first few seasons
I literally remembered them all
same thing i was thinking about dude thats crazy that many people like me feel like they remember a small number of episodes... turns out i remember them all
My personal SS tier:
1- SB-129
2- Band Geeks
3- Graveyard Shift
4- Chocolate with Nuts
5- KK Training Video
6- Wet Painters
7- Rock Bottom
8- Mermaidman and Barnacle Boy V
9- Christmas Who?
10- Club Spongebob
This was a lot harder than I thought
I think I agree with you. SB-129 and Band Geeks touched me emotionally far more than a funny cartoon has any right to.
god the KK Training video is so good
I personally loved Can You Spare a Dime and No Weenies Allowed too.
I loved just one bite and squidvile and also grandmas kisses
No Weenies Allowed at 115 made my jaw drop. Good list though.
Yeah, that one I definitely didn't agree with, lol.
Nails without milk is a joke that is better than whole episodes of other shows.
Yeah that episode is easily top 25 if not 50 at least on any real fans list I think
dude yeah that episode is easily in my top 20
For me it was that at "D" and snowball effect at "C". Imo two of the best & most quotable episodes besides Club Spongebob. Then again I also respect most other picks of the video
Hash Slinging Slasher being their way of saying he's a drug dealing murderer to get the adult joke past censors is probably the best instance of an adult joke in any kids cartoon ever
WHAT
Damn, you're on the good shit aren't you?
@@pinetreepizza like every single day brother
Just started making some hash of my own recently infact
I’m sorry but Krusty Towers is an honorary golden episode. Literally every single line is iconic and it’s just absurd joke after joke after joke, it never slows down. One of my absolute favorites. IMDB also seems to agree as it’s the highest rated of season 4 and higher rated than even many Season 1-3 episodes. “We shall never deny a guest, even the most ridiculous request!”, “This is a hotel??”
ngl I feel like this episode was originally made for season 3 but they didn't have time
"What's in this thing, rocks?"
Genuinely so funny! One of my
Personal favorite episodes! “This is a test? I DIDN’T STUDY”
I'd swap it's spot with secret box, I found that one pretty repetitive and not necessarily very fulfilling and I'm surprised it placed so high.
@@PhantomOfficial07 no it wasnt
The "my leg!" scream as the SpongeBob universe's Wilhelm scream will never get old.
The funny thing is, I knew every single one of these episodes, but couldn’t tell you a title of any of them. I just never paid attention to that as a kid. I loved every story, and the adventures I went on with all of my underwater friends in Bikini Bottom.
This video legitimately made me cry, because I can remember SpongeBob being there for me through so many things I went through as a kid. There are some episodes that, while not being written so well, made me laugh over and over again, no matter how bad I felt inside.
Thank you for this. I know it’s just a tier list video, but you really helped me remember just how much this show means to me.
I knew I wasn’t the only one who didn’t know the episode names! I genuinely couldn’t tell you a single one, maybe, just MAYBE 1 or 2 but I couldn’t tell you a single one on the fly
I studied the names on purpose so I would be able to know every single one by heart. I was a weird kid.
This is me with Simpsons, but even then there weren't any title cards, I just found out the Simpsons' episodes had any names at all well after the fact, like 2013 or so
The Title Card for Spongebob was part of the appeal, along with the music accompanying the episode, like "Something Smells"....so sinister and funny given the context
Me too 😢
I loved the ps2 game battle for bikini bottom even got remastered on PS4 to experience some nostalgia
You KNOW the comedy of A-tier and onward Spongebob is on point when even clips where he's talking over them still bring tears to your eyes.
no weenies allowed at #115 is enough to make me lose all trust in this tier list. that episode is PURE gold!
Agreed, I had the same feeling about "have you seen this snail?"
@@TheREAL_WatermelonCattea at the treedome was it for me
skill claw in D tier sealed this list's fate for me. AT LEAST C tier imo
Same with putting "Welcome to the Chum Bucket" in S tier.
I was looking for this comment, possibly a top 15 episode for me
Wishing You Well is iconic because of the line “That means he’s afraid of santa clause, HO HO HO” “PATRICK YOURE SCARING HIM”
Also didn’t it have SpongeBob singing in it? For me, any episode featuring songs are hugely nostalgic and memorable
Yeah theres is a song in Wishing You Well, honestly one of my favorites
Yeah the “it means he’s afraid of Santa Claus” line and and whole scene has such great time timing and delivery
There were some weird rankings I won’t lie. Squidward the unfriendly ghost for example being way to low imo. But having pickles as number 1 might be one of the most based opinions on the internet. I had such an emotional connection to this episode and I’m glad you see it too.
This i've seen. This was like now the tenth ranking kf the golden era episodes where apparently i'm the only guy to enjoy all 3 s3 specials(all 22 min)
Bro has beef with season 4
too low*
@@TotalDramaHaroldseason 4 kinda sucks
@@BoldandBrash12 Eh, I liked it
Shanghied is still my favorite Spongebob episode. There are so many good jokes and underrated lines in it.
One of my favorite lines in the show is from this episode. It’s when the Dutchman tells SpongeBob and Patrick that he’s going to eat them. They scream then Patrick says “wait, I have an idea”, SpongeBob says “what is it Patrick!?” and he responds with “let’s leave”. It doesn’t really seem that funny when I explain it, but it makes me crack up every time I watch the episode.
Fun fact: the paper is the rarest episode since it only airs after the Valentine’s Day episode
Not here in Denmark. Because we do not celebrate valentine's day. So that is an American thing.
I didn't even know the paper was an episode before this list don't execute me
I never watched the Christmas episode on TV. I had to watch it online out of curiosity because it was the only OG Spongebob episode I had never watched
@@axelsanchez5849 I had it on dvd as a kid
I was born in the late 90s and grew up watching SpongeBob. It's such a strange feeling to see an old episode of SpongeBob that I never knew existed until now.
I love how no commentary was needed for #66
“He was number one!”
This is the first time that I thought about every single golden age Spongebob episode in such detail, and it made me realize how much the show influenced my values growing up. I'm convinced that I'm a better, more rounded person because of it. All thanks to Stephen Hillenburg and his little show. Rest in peace, Stephen.
Dying for Pie is still number 1 in my heart. Every joke lands and it is the best-written episode in the whole series.
It is amazing, but so are all the top 5s. They are all amazing. I do agree that Pickle should be nr 1, but I do understand why anybody would take any of the top 5 and put them as their number 1. :-D
oh these aren’t pies. they’re bombs. from a bomb factory.
legendary
Tbh, he DID say that all of the top 10 are close enough that you can reorganize it however you want and it'd still be good
Crazy how Squidward dominates the top 10, proving he is the best character to interact emotionally, plot-wise, psychologically, socially, comically with SpongeBob in the entire show
The craziest part about Karate Island being #1 in the original list is that I doubt 50% of the viewers actually understood the punchline at the time.
Which line
@@WonkiWeaboo the timeshare bit
Two things I still say to this day! "We have technology" and "He's just standing there, MENACINGLY!!!"
The fact that you consider part of season 4 a part of the Golden age warms my heart.
Yeah, but he still put most of the episodes in dteir for some stupid retarded reason
S4 and S5 slept on ngl. People still say they’re good but I feel like it’s more out of obligation than anything. Squidward in Clarinetland is honestly one of my favs
@@neonthunder3261 Clarinetland is all the way in season 7, but I agree
@@neonthunder3261 yeah
@@Daniel_d573fjd swear it was season 5 i guess i forgot.
"Spongebob breaks his spatula and is naked the whole episode" S-tier synopsis
"maybe you can get away with it the first few years of airing it to kids, they'll just laugh about it, but when those kids grow up and make a RUclips video tier listing your episodes 20 years later, this one will be in F tier."
These are the things that keep me up at night.
Graveyard Shift in B Tier is an actual tragedy, that's a top 5 Episode
Made me cry how the fact that the two best episodes of this childrens show is the community rallying behind the two most important characters right when their wills are finally broken, both feeling like their purpose in life had been failed, until the people come together and let them know "Hey regardless of how much you annoy us, we respect and value you as one of our own and we want you to succeed".
Krusty towers being so low is a crime
That's my favorite
It's super mid lol
@@epiclight858Honestly I remember it being funnier than I remember. The highlight is the ending when the whole tower falls apart
it gets carried by the "we ran out of cheese" joke for me
I agree, _"Krusty Towers"_ was a great one, I'd put that around high S Tier
Hi I'm spongebob
Sup sponge, how’s squidward doing?
Hi I'm 24 (Only real ones get it)
@@lvl1rock Squidward said for his Christmas wish that people would stop listening to this dunderheads mouth and santa actually got me a dictionary
@@mryeetgamer6990 oh ik "Patrick what's better than 24 25!
@@lvl1rock I just finished the whole video after starting it a couple days ago, brilliant job man, I might have swapped some around but like you said, they're all so good!
I’m glad you addressed karate island because I remember riding hard for that episode and then rewatching it present day and it has NO substance or anything clever like at least frycook games had funny and relevant events
I remember the video game based on it
@@BackupChannel-nq6fgYeah i remember playing so many of those spongebob flash games as a kid
Yeah Karate Island is basically Og dragon ball Muscle tower but without any of the funny jokes. We even have a chubby fish that is exactly like the monster Goku fights
I have respect for it, since the karate master was literally voiced by none other than Pat Morita himself before he passed.
25:32 mr krabs has no legs
Wow 😮
I strongly disagree with a ton of these picks, but respect the effort. Dropping a like.
you’re real for that
the most nostalgia ive ever felt in my life.. and such good takes. thanks brother for the trip down memory road
I really had to temper my feelings for this list, because I was saying “I really liked that episode” to half of the “F tier” episodes. 😂
It’s actually so accurate, season 4 is such a departure from the 1st 3 and the show never came back. I would have left season 4 off entirely if it wasn’t considered OG. It’s so bad compared to some of greatest cartoon television of all time.
@@lukamagicc they got some of their stride back with Season 5. Some of my all time favorite episodes are in that season.
I heard people also like season 9....@@AidanS99
While Plankton is the most prevalent villain, I totally agree that Bubble Bass is arguably the best and most underrated of Spongebob villains, even more evil than Plankton. Why? Because he was he one of the few antagonists to almost singlehandedly cause the Krusty Krab to go bankrupt. He psychologically wrecked Sponge so bad that it forced Squidward to be the new fry cook. But his food was terrible and caused the customers to leave. Had this continued, Mr. Krabs would have went out of business for good, all because of ONE lie. Sure Krabs could've hired someone else, but who else could match Spongebob's fry cook skills AND work for cheap?
Even besides that, Bubble Bass is a rare character that really tests Spongebob's fortitude. Him being a lazy, bossy, spiteful, overly-pedantic, and dishonest person in sharp contrast to Spongebob's hard working, easygoing, friendly, accepting, and honest personality. Nowadays, Bubble Bass is just a harmless neckbeard that lives in his mom's basement and is completely useless. But I'll always prefer Season 1 Bubble Bass as a really effective antagonist.
The amount of top tier episodes i never got to see as a kid is criminal, ESPECIALLY sandys rocket and pizza delivery, im tempted to rewatch spongebob now just to relive the nostalgia but also finally get to see these gems
Whatever other people say, holy shit dude, the whole video is an absolute masterpiece. Sure, some ranks in the lower tiers may have been interchangeable, yet the leading episodes of each tier (including SS) depict a real understanding of what makes the whole series (season 1-3 lol) such a memorable masterpiece to this day. With nostalgia in mind, sure, those earlier episodes stick way deeper in out memories than that soulless crap modern Spongebob is, but with so many episodes representing and explaining current topics such as strikes, existentialism and human interaction in manifold it really shows how it is something more than just silly jokes.
Thank you a lot for the time and effort that went into creating this list!
absolute banger. 100/10 recommend asking this guy what he's up to lately at a house party and getting recommended this video
Never thought of Pickles like that, but now thinking about it that way and looking back at it, it’s a phenomenal episode, especially considering it was season one
The worst episode is the episode when SpongeBob bought a monster for Gary and he treated Gary badly while given love attention to the monster
I agree
The house party episode being that low is genuinely criminal. It’s B tier at the worst imo
Fuckin “firmly grasp it is fire” is a crazy sentence and made me lose my collective shit. Good show sir
9:21 - 10:21 - 11:54 - 12:14 - 13:56 - 17:05 - 27:17 - 27:25 - 31:20 - 38:21 - 39:05 - 42:30 - 47:48 - 48:50 - 53:28 - 54:50 - 1:00:27 - 1:00:58 - 1:02:20 - 1:02:27 - 1:02:48 - 1:04:23 - 1:05:40 - 1:07:36 - 1:08:27 - 1:09:17 - 1:14:25 - 1:17:55 - 1:19:36 - 1:22:18 - 1:23:54 These are my favorite episode tire list
You forgot the “hahaha hahaha… It’s a giraffe!” 💀💀🤣literally in my head rent free since I was 5
Amazing; thank you for giving me a new appreciation for these episodes on such a deeper level. I never thought I’d hear such an analysis of Pickles of all episodes; well done.
Personally I think ranking SpongeBob episodes is insane. I could sit through all 142 of these and enjoy every single second of it
Sb-129 is my all time favorite episode of all time. About damn time it gets some love. I am a huge sucker for reality bending and breaking episodes. Its fantastic. This and ed edd and eddy. I love episodes that just randomly go into that realm of WHAT?!
Whoah, you too mentioned Ed Edd and Eddy here! I just posted my two cents in a comment here mentioning how I have never laughed so hard to a cartoon as I did watching The Strangler episode. Except for when I was 4 years old and watched a specific Ed Edd and Eddy episode where they built a dangerous roller coaster and rode it almost flying.
I was so filled with excitement and thought it was hilarious! I have never seen either that scene or that episode since I was 4, and I'm 26 now. And I still remember that scene vividly.
Thank you for your comment and thank you for reading and I wish you a great day!
Flats' dad's delivery of "Great! Now he's gonna kick _my_ butt!" is a line that lives rent-free in my head.
Jesus I didn’t rember season 4 having such a nose dive in quality compared to the first three seasons don’t get me wrong there are some bangers but the quality just flew straight down
I don't think a show has ever nosedived in quality harder and faster than Spongebob after Hillenburg left.
I always defended season 4 as still good, until I actually rewatched/reviewed as an adult
Krusty Towers was a banger but yeah alot of them are bad
Es una temporada que está bien en general, aunque ya la serie presentaba cierto cansancio desde el final de la temporada 3. La temporada 4 tiene varios capítulos desalmados, sin embargo se salva en su mayoría por los especiales y episodios sustancioso que usualmente eran parte del inicio y mediados de la temporada. Es al final de esta donde comienza a cambiar y tomar un rumbo diferente.
Los capítulos de la temporada 4 son más experimentales, hay mucho de prueba y error, por ello calificarla es raro. De hecho varios capítulos que me encantan están acá cómo "SquidBob TentaclePants", creo que si nos ponemos a analizar de gran manera los guiones y justificaciones de esta temporada podríamos encontrar muchas cosas realmente destacables, pero nadie quiere hacer ese trabajo porque no es considerada cómo "era dorada" en su mayor parte.
@@Bob-wr1mddoes it have dunces and dragons? As a RuneScape obsessed kid, I always absolutely adored that episode, the concept and the music were great
Perfect ad timing:
"Hi, Kevin..."
"Hi. What is your question?"
...
*ARBIES, TWO FOR ONE*!!!
😂😂😂
Bro in scaredy pants when squidward say “ I’ve came for your pickle” I Don’t blame SpongeBob for jumping like that I would be scared too
I wonder if they were being meta with it and referring to "Pickles"? Since that came after. That would be amazing
This video gave me a new appreciation for spongebob, thank you
I need to get whatever streaming service it's on.. i remember growing out of the show, but I'd guess that what actually happened was the episodes just became more annoying as the seasons went on. This video also made me remember so many episodes and scenes i forgot about! And just how much spongebob has affected us and how we unknowingly quote it all the time. It's like one of those things that can connect any two people (with limitations, obviously depends on the age group)
Also, i gotta watch the spongebob movie again. I remember enjoying it SO much as a kid
respect all these takes but i actually really liked the episode where they all turn into snails, its like uncharacteristically fucked up body horror for early spongebob and reminds me of 90s nickelodeon cartoons like ahh real monsters
If SB-129 didn’t make the top 10 I was going to riot. Good job man.
i think your breakdown and reasoning for each tier is excellent and revisiting the original list from the 2000s is an awesome idea. as others in the comments have suggested, you can debate placements of your favorite episodes and moments amongst yourselves, but the overall curation and quality of the video is amazing! i love the style of OG spongebob tier list/video essay’s and this is up there with the best. great work man.
Salty Spatoon being so far down hurt me
Its crazy that I remember every one of these episodes more than 10 years later. Great ranking !
I know it's an easy argument to make that any kid from any era feels the same way as any other kid from any other era about their respective favorite childhood shows. And maybe there's a good amount of truth to that, but I don't think that means that shows don't vary in quality. And I'm biased because I was born in 1998, and still quote Spongebob in daily life to friends who also remember it as fondly, but I've also seen a lot of television and I don't think that it's very common whatsoever for a show aimed at an audience for children is so well written, acted, animated, has such great music, memorability and constant bar raising creativity. The show always demanded respect by respecting its viewers. It can be hard to be grateful for things in a mind that constantly resets itself in the present, assessing for threats and anxieties and "is that person looking at me?" But it's nice to be able to step back and appreciate how lucky we were to be at the right time and place and age to see this masterpiece of a show.
Also, incredibly well made and satisfying video. I can tell how much time this took you to make and it's inspiring how committed you must have been. I may update this comment as the video goes on to include other blunders such as SKILL CRANE BEING OUTSIDE THE TOP 100!? WHAT!? Skill Crane is Top 50. C'mon! But the passion I feel for disagreeing with you is the same passion you felt that drove you to correct that abhorrent and distasteful list that was somehow voted on.
Underrated comment, 100% agree
This just made me realize how many bangers they had. The sheer number is insane. The top 50 was just HITTER AFTER HITTER AFTER HITTER, good lord.
There will never be another show like SpongeBob
I just started the video and if Krusty Krab Training Video isn’t 1 I’m gonna lose my shit
3
Classic episode
My Top 20
20. Jellyfish Hunter
19. Welcome to The Chum Bucket
18. F.U.N
17. Arrugh
16. Dying for Pie
15. Mermaidman and Barnacleboy 5
14. I Had an Accident
13. Wet Painters
12. SB-129
11. Frankendoodle
10. Pickles
9. Idiot Box
8. Krusty Krab Training video
7. Rock Bottom
6. Graveyard Shift
5. Shanghaied
4. The Camping Episode
🥉 Chocolate with Nuts
🥈 Pizza Delivery
🥇 Band Geeks
Honorable mentions: Nasty Patty, Neptune's Spatula, Patrick Smartpants, Squid on Strike, and Spongebob Meets The Strangler
I only watched like three episodes of SpongeBob in my life, I never liked tv so I never really saw most of the popular cartoons.
But here I am, watching a marathon of long SpongeBob related videos for some reason. At least the "lore" is really easy to follow lol
55:32 Not to mention it has three endings.. but the only cons to those endings is the fact that two of them end the same way with the Flying Dutchman eating them. SpongeBob's won with them turned into fruit in a blender and chased by the Flying Dutchman as a vegetarian, as SpongeBob wished for in his ending.
Doing Time is in the top 5 for me. Has 2 of my favorite jokes ever in SpongeBob history.
Lemme guess.
"You ate my only food. Now I'm going to starve."
and
"You do the crime, you do the time. ...Now get out."
😂😂😂
CLAMS at C tier is insane!
God watching the clips of all these classics takes me back. Just legendary stuff that you will never forget.
Rock bottom, pickles, neptunes spatula, and the one with plankton and bob in the beach are my favourites
Rock bottom always made me uncomfortable as kid ngl
Rock Bottom to this day sends shivers down my spine
Man I gotta say as a fan of the show and as someone who’s watched a lot of top ten lists on epsiodes, seeing you pick genuine choices and not just going with obvious fan favourites was so satisfying. Seeing pickles at the top was so cathartic haha. Finally someone who loves that episode as much as I do! Dunno if it’s the number 1 for me but top 3 for sure.
I never rewatched pickles as an adult. I always considered it just another episode.
But the way you pointed out literally everything that episode did right, is way WAY beyond what any kids can comprehend.
Its the same reasons i am a huge fan of G4 MLP, so many golden moments kids wont understand until theyre older
Its what made both shows for all ages, not just kids
That pickles episode is also my number 1 😂 not only it's like redemption arc or something but the amount of bubble bass throwing squidward was really making me laugh 🤣
Pickles in SS tier is so based. Its always been my favorite episode, not just for the humor but because of the strong writing going on with Spongebob facing not only his nemesis but a loss of confidence in himself, then bouncing back from it. Plus it gets points for the spagetti-western motifs at the final showdown in the Krusty Krab
Krusty towers is way too low. For me it’s the best season 4 episode.
That list in 2006 was definitely mostly voted by really young kids at that time whose favorites were the most recent. I was 14 by 2006, so I had not really been watching for 2 years. From 99 to 2003 are the best ones.
I turned 8 in mid 2006 and didn’t even know about this list or voting for it haha
Starting at like #100 I went "Man, this is THAT low?" just to then go "oh yeah fair that episode's ALSO great". Golden Era Spongebob is one of the best cartoons ever made.
The craziest part about rewatching SpongeBob as an adult is discovering Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy were played by Ernest Borgnine and Tim Conway.
Am I supposed to know who they are?
I kinda find it funny that, if Stephen Hillenburg's plan to end spongebob after the movie went through, the strangler episode would've been the last episode of the original show before the movie.
I dunno, I just kinda find it funny that would've been the note they would've ended it on.
The squeaky boots x danny brown comparison is ON POINT
Also i SWEAR they aired a version of the employee training video where the secret ingredient was ACTUALLY revealed at the end.
Every time I watch one of these videos, I feel obligated to rewatch the Golden era again. Good shit
When you realize many of your favorite episodes are nearly a quarter of a century old...
"Mrs. Puff You're Fired" is one of my favourite episodes, and by far my favourite from Season 4. So I'm very surprised to see it in F tier. Am I alone?
Dw I have it a lot higher too. "Would anyone like a bonbon?" gets referenced all the time in my friend group.
@@tloz171nfs “It’s a delightful taste sensation” -we would reference that ALL the time
It does suffer from slightly weird pacing and comedic timing like all of season 4 but if you look past that, the gags in the episode are nonstop gold. And the episode itself is B2B Krusty towers, which makes it the shining beacon of S4.
Agreed.
Nah man, I agree, I like the episode a lot. I prolly wouldn’t put it super high up, but like prolly a solid c tier
It's not one of my absolute favorites but I LOVE the teacher, every scene with him is gold and the driving test with him is just as good, easily the best episode of that season and still memorable years later
You really sold me on Pickles being the best. It is THE episode that explores who SpongeBob is at his core
as someone who was 7 when Help Wanted was first released, and who has seen every episode of the first 5 seasons, your top ten is absolute perfection!
Bubble bass just casually throwing squidward across the room is easily the hardest I’ve ever laughed at a cartoon