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Clancy Brown, Lori Alan, Rodger Bumpass, Mary Jo Catlett, Bill Fagerbakke, Tom Kenny, Carolyn Lawrence, Mr. Lawrence, and Jill Talley in SpongeBob SquarePants (1999)

Quotes

SpongeBob SquarePants

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  • Fred: My leg!
  • Patrick: The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma.
  • [thought bubble for Patrick shows a carton of milk tipping over and spilling]
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: I'm every bit as good as Larry, and if I'm not, then may I be struck by...
  • [rumble of thunder]
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: ... a flying ice cream truck.
  • [a shadow forms over SpongeBob; chimes play]
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: And live!
  • [the flying ice cream truck stops short of crushing Spongebob]
  • Larry the Lobster: [on megaphone] Please do not land flying ice cream trucks on the bathers.
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: I guess Grampa SquarePants was right: Never run for a bus...
  • [Imitates Grampa SquarePants]
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: ... especially one that's going up at a 90 degree angle.
  • Squidward: Oh why must every eleven minutes of my life be filled with misery? Why?
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: You okay Patrick?
  • Patrick: Finland!
  • [SpongeBob appears on the horizon]
  • Sandy Cheeks: Here, Patrick. Have a Krabby Patty.
  • [whispers]
  • Sandy Cheeks: Psst. There he is Patrick, say your line.
  • Patrick: [picks up paper] Why thank you, Sandy. Take Patty. Too bad SpongeBob isn't here to enjoy this. These are his favorite.
  • [on the verge of tears]
  • Patrick: Take bite.
  • Squidward: Okay now. How many of you have played musical instruments before?
  • Plankton: Do instruments of torture count?
  • Squidward: No.
  • Patrick: Is mayonnaise an instrument?
  • Squidward: No Patrick. Mayonnaise is not an instrument. Horse Radish is not an instrument either.
  • Squidward: [To Krabs.] Why don't you go and ask Cowbob Ranchpants and his faithful companion Sir Eats-a-lot?
  • Mr. Krabs: SpongeBob. What's the meaning of all the nicknames?
  • Squidward: [Curls into a ball and rocks back and forth] Future... Future... Future...
  • [Spongetron drops a brick on his head]
  • Squidward: ... Thanks.
  • [opening sequence]
  • Painting: Are you ready kids?
  • Kids: Aye Aye Captain!
  • Painting: I can't hear you!
  • Kids: Aye Aye Captain!
  • Painting, Kids: Ohhhh... Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
  • Kids: SpongeBob SquarePants!
  • Painting: Absorbent and yellow and porous is he!
  • Kids: SpongeBob SquarePants!
  • Painting: If nautical nonsense be somethin' you wish.
  • Kids: SpongeBob SquarePants!
  • Painting: Then drop on the deck and flop like a fish!
  • Painting, Kids: Ready? SpongeBob SquarePants! SpongeBob SquarePants! SpongeBob SquarePants! SpongeBob SquarePannnnnts!
  • [Hearty laugh]
  • Painting, Kids: [SpongeBob plays flute using his nose]
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: Oh, tartar sauce.
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: [sly look] You like Krabby Patties, don't you, Squidward?
  • Squidward: Okay i want everyone to stand in straight rows of five.
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: Is this the part where we start kicking?
  • Squidward: No SpongeBob. That's a chorus line.
  • Patrick: Kicking? I wanna do some kicking!
  • [kicks Sandy]
  • Sandy Cheeks: Ow! Why you...
  • [gets into a fight with Patrick]
  • Patrick: [screams loudly]
  • Patrick: Who ever's the owner of the white sedan you left your lights on.
  • [repeated line]
  • Mermaid Man: EVIL!
  • Squidward: I knew i shouldn't have got out of bed today.
  • Mermaid Man: That guy over there used to be the Atomic Flounder. I know he doesn't look like much now, but he could go back to crime
  • [snaps fingers]
  • Mermaid Man: just like that
  • [Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy chuckle; SpongeBob suddenly tackles the Atomic Flounder]
  • Atomic Flounder: Help, somebody there!
  • SpongeBob: You're under arrest, Atomic Flounder!
  • Mermaid Man: No, lad! Don't!
  • SpongeBob: But you said he could turn back to crime
  • [snaps fingers]
  • SpongeBob: like that.
  • Atomic Flounder: What? Get off me! If I weren't retired I'd... I'd... Roar!
  • [Breathes radiation on Barnacle Boy's face, burning it]
  • Atomic Flounder: ... do that.
  • Squidward: Once again, i hate people.
  • Plankton: [yells] Lady, someone should put you in a box to drift in the river!
  • Elderly lady: [pauses, sadly] ... you're right.
  • Barnacle Boy: Uh Mermaid Man?
  • Mermaid Man: Yes Barnacle Boy?
  • Barnacle Boy: We're not in the invisible boat mobile are we?
  • Mermaid Man: Uh. Nope.
  • Personified Krabby Patty: Just remember SpongeBob, I'll always be right here.
  • [points to SpongeBob's Chest]
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: In my heart?
  • Personified Krabby Patty: Actually in your arteries.
  • Patrick: Breakfast!
  • Mr. Krabs: SpongeBob! Squidward! What's the meaning of this? Untie me this instance!
  • Squidward: Shut up!
  • Mr. Krabs: Sweet Davy Jones! What the heck is going on?
  • Squidward: I said shut up you bucket of bolts!
  • Plankton: SpongeBob what do you want?
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: Well it's just that it's Tuesday again sir and i was wondering if i can have my weekly performance review.
  • Plankton: Review?
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: Oh yes please sir please!
  • Plankton: But i've never reviewed anything. Except those foreign exercise videos my cousin sent me.
  • Squidward: SpongeBob do you remember that talk we had about personal space?
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: It's okay Squidward i'm official look!
  • Squidward: Co-Cashier?
  • Plankton: So have you two known each other long?
  • Squidward: You can't do this to me Mr. Plankton! If you think i'm gonna stand out there all day listening to...
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
  • Squidward: Then you must have coral wasted in your frontal lobe!
  • Plankton: So what do you want me to do about it?
  • Squidward: I'd like my view to be a little less yellow if you know what i mean.
  • Plankton: Hope you like grey.
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: Hey Squidward, i can see you though this little window.
  • Squidward: Oh how touching. I'm gonna go home and throw up.
  • Mr. Krabs: David H. Jones!
  • Patrick: Listen up SpongeBob Secret Stealer Pants! If you ever come near my secret box again, we won't be friends anymore!
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: But we're supposed to be friends forever.
  • Squidward: I was trying to take a nap over here!
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: Hang on Squidward. Patrick was just about to figure out where this last piece of this puzzle goes. Weren't you Patrick?
  • Patrick: Who's the green guy?
  • Squidward: It's the last piece of the puzzle! There's only one place it can go right here!
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: Squidward! It wasn't your turn! That's cheating.
  • Squidward: Cheating? It's a jigsaw puzzle you can't cheat!
  • Gary The Snail: Meow
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: The Krusty Krab Pizza! Is the Pizza! For you and me!
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: He didn't call them Mr. Krabs. We did. I needed some help investigating the accident. Right buddy?
  • Patrick: Breakfast. Green. Finland.
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: Mega Bucket? You've used me for land development! That wasn't nice!
  • Plankton: Haven't you heard SpongeBob? Nice guys finish last. Only aggressive people conquer the world!
  • [laughs evilly]
  • Patrick: Squidward! Your ceiling is talking to me!
  • Squidward: Are you gonna order something or just make friends with the paneling?
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: Could you show me how to tie my shoes?
  • Painting: Arrgh! I'd just be a painting of a head.
  • Patrick: Oh boy that was some party! Oh hey SpongeBob! Hey Junior! What? What?
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: Oh nothing.
  • Patrick: Oh what a relive for a second there I thought you'd be mad at me.
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: Do you remember what you said to me this morning?
  • Patrick: Something about root beer right?
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: No.
  • Patrick: Oh wait let me guess let me guess! I give up!
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: Does you can take the night off pal ring a bell?
  • Patrick: I don't need this.
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: What? Where do you think you're going?
  • Patrick: I'm going back to work!
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: Work?
  • Patrick: He got hit in the head with two coconuts!
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: So this is work?
  • Patrick: You know it's not as easy as it looks. Sometimes i gotta move the antenna, sometimes i lose the remote and sometimes my butt itches real bad.
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: Oh you poor poor thing. By the way you forgot you briefcase!
  • [opens up the briefcase showing sweet desserts and dumps them on Patrick]
  • Patrick: Oh. So this is the thanks i get for working overtime!
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: Overtime?
  • Patrick: Yeah overtime pal! You know what that means? It means working when you're too tired to work! You just keep going on working and working!
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: Oh boy yeah you're working ! And that's the kind of work you're doing? Show me where to sign up for it because i've been working my fingers to the bone! You never helped! Never!
  • Patrick: Do i get my reward yet?
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: You have to work for it remember?
  • Patrick: Tarter sauce!
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: Why are you here to rescue little old me?
  • Barnacle Boy: Pipe Down! You're gonna wake Mermaid Man and he's ornery when his nap is disturbed.
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: Ever alert Mermaid Man has trained himself to sleep with his eyes open.
  • Barnacle Boy: Con funded! Get away from him!
  • Mermaid Man: Stop shouting i'm napping!
  • Barnacle Boy: It's not me you old coot!
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: Hey Mr. Krabs!
  • Mr. Krabs: What is it boy?
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: Squidward just told me a hilarious joke and i thought you might like to hear it.
  • Mr. Krabs: Is it true Squidward? Is it hilarious?
  • Squidward: Um yeah sure.
  • Mr. Krabs: Well let's hear it lad.
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: Okay here it goes. Um how did it go Squidward?
  • Squidward: Um it went um let's see ah Why couldn't the eleven year old get into the new pirate movie?
  • Mr. Krabs: Why?
  • Squidward: It was rated Arr!
  • [laughs]
  • Squidward: Arr! Because it's about pirates.
  • Mr. Krabs: I'm not paying you to do stand up Mr. Squidward! Now get back to work!
  • Plankton: What's the deal Karen?
  • Karen: The deal was that i paid Nat to eat your chum so you'd quit your constant complaining.
  • Plankton: All this time i never had one regular costumer?
  • Karen: Duh.
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: Squidward's father never hugged him. Isn't that sad?
  • [cries]
  • Mr. Krabs: Yes i suppose that is rather sad but Squidward can hug himself during his break. Now get back to work!
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: Just like the robot in the movie! He couldn't cry either.
  • Squidward: SpongeBob this is getting ridiculous. I'll have you know my father loved me very much.
  • Squidward: All right you two! Out! And don't even think about jogging your empty skulls for the rest of the day! Or tomorrow or next week
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: Squidward does that include...
  • Squidward: Yes it does!
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: Gee Patrick. Do you think Squidward was trying to tell us something?
  • Squidward: Yes i was! You call yourselves good neighbors? You're the worst neighbors ever! You don't deserve to wear these fezzes!
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: Gee Pat. Maybe President Squidward's right.
  • Patrick: Yeah. I guess we're not good neighbors after all.
  • Squidward: No you aren't! You're horrible neighbors! And stop calling me president!
  • Patrick: Good old secret box. Let's see what's inside.
  • [giggles]
  • Patrick: Nighty night boxey.
  • SpongeBob: Are you ready to rock Squidward?
  • Squidward: No.
  • SpongeBob: Good! Cause we got costumers!
  • Sandy Cheeks: SpongeBob's acting jumper then a rattlesnake in a pickle barral.
  • Gary The Snail: Meow.
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: Gary! Squidward is not a free loader and he will never take advantage of me!
  • French Narrator: Three weeks later.
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: He's just having a hard time getting his confidence back.
  • French Narrator: Many months later.
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: I'm sure he's close to a break through.
  • French Narrator: So much later that the old narrator got tired of waiting and they had to hire a new one.
  • Gary The Snail: Meow meow meow.
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: I know he still isn't looking for work! Don't rub it in!
  • Patrick: Nice dress.
  • Squidward: It's a nightshirt!
  • Sandy Cheeks: Tell that to your mama Squidward!
  • Squidward: Mama?
  • French Narrator: A slow day at the Krusty Krab.
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: Hey Squidward check this out. Two ordinary krabby patties but when expertly tossed with the skill of a champ they become...
  • Patrick: A one-way ticket to pain!
  • Patrick: It's a game! It's a game!

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