List of fourth wall breaks

The term "breaking the fourth wall" is used to describe an acknowledgement by fictional characters that they are in fact fictional. In such circumstances, they will point out tropes or narrative clichés, and on occasion, they directly address the audience.

Episodes[]

Season 1[]

• In "Help Wanted," when SpongeBob is prepping himself and says, "Look 'em straight in the eye," he briefly approaches the camera and stares at it with one eye open.
• In "Tea at the Treedome," SpongeBob looks at the camera and points back at Sandy, currently wrestling a clam, and explains she is in trouble to the viewer.
• In "Naughty Nautical Neighbors":
  • When Patrick tells SpongeBob that the latter's ugly (because of an insult from one of Squidward's bubbles), he looks at the camera confused.
  • Patrick looks at the camera and congratulates himself after saving Squidward from choking on his fork.
• In "Pizza Delivery," when SpongeBob chastises Squidward during a violent windstorm, the weather suddenly comes to a brief halt, then just as suddenly resumes, as if paused.
• In "Home Sweet Pineapple," when SpongeBob turns the whole screen upside down, Patrick slides off. He falls back down when SpongeBob turns the whole screen back up.
• In "Jellyfish Jam":
  • SpongeBob speaks directly to the viewer while in disguise at the start.
  • Not too long afterwards, SpongeBob mimics the French Narrator while eating bread with jellyfish jelly.
  • Later, the jellyfish SpongeBob initially takes home hums along to "Hello Blues" while using the toilet.
• In "Nature Pants":
  • Squidward says that he believes SpongeBob will spend eleven minutes in the wild before he returns to civilization. Eleven minutes is the average length of most episodes, including this one.
  • Later, at the end, SpongeBob faces the camera saying, "It is great to be home!"
• In "F.U.N.," when Mr. Krabs looks through the telescope, the background that was applied to the screen when SpongeBob and Plankton spell out "fun" is reflected by the lens.
• In "The Chaperone", when a flower pops out of the suit SpongeBob is making, he holds it up and shows it to the audience.
• In "SB-129":
  • While Squidward is in Nowhere, he looks directly at the camera and says, "I gotta get outta here!"
  • Squidward turns his head towards the camera after SpongeBob and Patrick say, "You are [the inventor of jellyfishing], Squidward."
• In "Karate Choppers," Mr. Krabs looks at the camera after he says, "I love money-ay!"
• In "The Paper," when SpongeBob plays "Mary Had a Little Lamb" on his piece of paper, Squidward acknowledges the sheet music that appears in the background.
• In "Texas," when Sandy sings "I Wanna Go Home," Patrick notices the music notes swirling around him. He tries to get them off him and they do when SpongeBob asks Patrick to listen to the song.

Season 2[]

• In "Your Shoe's Untied," SpongeBob asks Painty the Pirate, "Can you show me how to tie my shoes," with Painty responding, "Arr, I just be a painting of a head."
• In "Squid's Day Off," Squidward blows away his thought bubble of SpongeBob accidentally setting the Krusty Krab on fire.
• In "Dying for Pie," SpongeBob greets Mr. Krabs in Squidward's flashback bubble. Mr. Krabs runs off crying when he sees SpongeBob is still alive for now.
• In "Imitation Krabs," SpongeBob looks at the camera after putting a coin in Robot Krabs's self-destruct sequence.
• In "Prehibernation Week," SpongeBob acknowledges and reacts to every instance in which the metal music of Pantera plays.
• In "Life of Crime," Patrick questions the possibility of having a fire underwater, at which point, the fire he and SpongeBob are sitting by abruptly goes out.
• In "Christmas Who?," when Patchy cuts Potty's strings to make him fall, a puppeteer controlling him falls down from the ceiling to the ground.

• In "Survival of the Idiots," when Patrick is dizzy and showing "dizzy clouds" of some sort of drumsticks, he points to them and says, "Hot wings!"
• In "No Free Rides," SpongeBob and Mrs. Puff inadvertently hit the French Narrator and his camera in a boatmobile.
• In "Pressure":
  • When SpongeBob and Sandy are looking at the clouds before racing up the mountain to judge the superiority of sea or land critters, SpongeBob says one of the clouds looks like a flower. Sandy corrects him saying they all look like flowers, all the time.
  • When SpongeBob asks a seagull if he knows Sandy, the seagull turns to the camera.
• In "Welcome to the Chum Bucket," after the song "This Grill Is Not a Home," Plankton says, "All these tears, and the show tunes?" He also seemingly tells the viewer, "I put the brain in the robot, you know." when introducing Robo-SpongeBob.
• In "Graveyard Shift," Squidward gives the viewer a disturbed look once the lights start to flicker.
• In "I'm with Stupid," SpongeBob gives the camera a confused look when Patrick goes on about his parents' visit.
• In "Sailor Mouth," SpongeBob, Patrick, and Mr. Krabs mistake Old Man Jenkins' horn for one of the censor sounds.

Season 3[]

• In "The Algae's Always Greener":
  • After taking the Krabby Patty, Alternate Krabs then introduces himself to the audience by saying, "And he's finally got a Krabby Patty!" This might have actually been Krabs forcing himself into the conversation taking place between Plankton and other people inside the Krusty Krab.
  • Plankton looks at the audience in bafflement while Alternate SpongeBob is shooting clothes at Alternate Krabs.
  • Alternate Krabs asks "Huh?" directly to the camera after being shot with a bra.
• In "Club SpongeBob," Squidward exclaims, "Why must every eleven minutes of my life be filled with misery?!" referencing the eleven-minute runtime of each episode.
• In "Can You Spare a Dime?":
  • The new narrator - voiced by Dee Bradley Baker - tells the audience that they had to hire a new narrator because the old one was tired of waiting.
  • At the end of the episode, SpongeBob changes into his maid outfit in front of the camera as Mr. Krabs and Squidward continue to argue, anticipating the inevitable.
• In "Squilliam Returns," one of the Mini Brain SpongeBobs mentions that they don't exist and are only a "Clever Visual Metaphor for the Abstract Concept of Thought."
• In "Krab Borg," after Squidward throws SpongeBob back into the kitchen, SpongeBob suddenly reappears to which Squidward looks around, wondering how he teleported from the kitchen back to the cash register before asking, "How did you-?"
• In "Wet Painters," Patrick is seen holding one of the time cards. He even tells SpongeBob to move along because he is all out of them.
• In "Krusty Krab Training Video," the Krusty Krab crew hear and occasionally converse with the narrator. Patrick acknowledges the "Talking Ceiling."
• In "Party Pooper Pants":
  • SpongeBob receives an invitation from Patchy, a character played by SpongeBob's voice actor, Tom Kenny, but is unable to read it, as the underwater environment has ruined the invitation. As soon as he notes the sender of the invitation does not understand how underwater life works, he and Patrick immediately throw their invitations into a fire.
  • After SpongeBob and Sandy do some karate in the final song, the screen cracks.
• In "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V," after the Realistic Fish Head introduces the IJLSA, he quickly adds "A subsidiary of Viacom," which is the company that owns Nickelodeon, and by extension, the SpongeBob franchise.
• In "Clams":
  • Mr. Krabs breaks the fourth wall by acknowledging the dramatic music while SpongeBob reels his dollar in, an ostinato in D minor, played in 4/4.
  • He then opens a double-door on the boat, which reveals an orchestra playing the same music.
  • Right after Old Bluelip swims away with Mr. Krabs' one-millionth dollar, a two second close-up shot of Mr. Krabs' eyes is shown as he gathers tears. It nearly looks like he is glaring into the camera.
  • Later, when he uses them as bait, SpongeBob and Squidward question why the clam would appear then when it would not before. The camera pans to Mr. Krabs dressed as a conductor in front of the orchestra, revealing that it is the ominous background music that draws the clam's attention.
• In "Mid-Life Crustacean," Mr. Krabs looks directly to the audience and says, "Everything is all topsy-turvy now!" before going to The Wash!
• In "Ugh," Patchy tips over on his dinosaur, resulting in the camera crew coming in to stand him back up and cutting the feed.
• In "I Had an Accident," the family at the end of the episode looks at each other with confusion, then turns off the show.
• In "Krabby Land," SpongeBob notes on how his activities at home had gotten no acknowledgement when he mentions, "Gee, I wonder what Mr. Krabs has been up to since I saw him last and then went home to do nothing of particular interest 'til this very moment," before his speech is cut off.

• In "Missing Identity":
  • When Patrick stops laughing after an attempt for SpongeBob to retrace his steps, he says, "Sorry, people," referring to the audience.
  • When SpongeBob finishes the story of how he lost his name tag, the waitress says, "You've managed to kill eleven minutes," referring to the length of the episode.
  • SpongeBob looks at the viewers two times. Once when Patrick says, "Could I have another hint?" and second at the end when the waitress tells SpongeBob that she is borrowing Betty's work shirt. Both are references to Jack Benny.
• In "The Sponge Who Could Fly," when SpongeBob lands in the feather truck, he looks at the audience and says, "I guess I spoke too soon."
• In "SpongeBob Meets the Strangler," Squidward chuckles at the camera early on before punching in for work.
• In "Pranks a Lot," Mr. Krabs talks to and shows the viewers his items of defense against ghosts.

Season 4[]

• In "Fear of a Krabby Patty":
  • A transition appears indicating a long period of time with random objects floating by. Old Man Walker questions why he is floating.
  • Plankton, disguised as Peter Lankton, briefly looks at the camera after SpongeBob enters his "psychiatrist office."
  • Plankton's phone call music is the end of the theme song.
• In "The Lost Mattress," Squidward says, "Oh, that figures," to the camera when noticing a guard worm guarding Mr. Krabs' money mattress.
• In "Krabs vs. Plankton," SpongeBob sings the Closing Theme when skipping towards Mr. Krabs' office.
• In "Have You Seen This Snail?," the Nickelodeon logo is seen on the Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy Paddle Ball Set's box.
• In "Good Neighbors":
  • Squidward speaks to the audience while rambling about SpongeBob and Patrick eating up his time alone.
  • Squidward twitches his eye at the viewer once he receives the summons for the destruction that his house caused, and again when SpongeBob and Patrick are doing community service with him next Sunday.
• In "All That Glitters," as SpongeBob is crying over Spat, another SpongeBob appears in the foreground and tells the viewers, "All that glitters, is not gold."
• In "Wishing You Well," Squidward looks at the viewer when he says, "It just gets better and better," when SpongeBob and Patrick are in the wishing well.
• In "Karate Island," Gary looks at the camera briefly before SpongeBob heads for Karate Island.
• In "New Leaf," when the screen seemingly fades to black, Plankton appears and tells the viewer that his "retirement" for most of the episode was all a scheme to get the formula.
• In "Bummer Vacation," SpongeBob asks the viewers if one of them could help him take him out of the toilet when SpongeBob is stuck.
• In "Born to Be Wild," SpongeBob decides to take a shortcut and rides the bubble transition to quickly get into the Krusty Krab and warn Mr. Krabs about a gang of rogue bikers. Mr. Krabs is surprised, wondering where SpongeBob came from, but SpongeBob later states it's not important.

Season 5[]

• In "Friend or Foe," young Mr. Krabs and Plankton say that they can hear Old Man Jenkins' theme song, meaning that they can hear the background music since Old Man Jenkins isn't seen playing an instrument.
• In "Night Light," SpongeBob reads a scary novel in which the author dies before finishing the story.
• In "Waiting," Squidward gives an annoyed look to the viewer as SpongeBob and Patrick cry as their toy was "broken."
• In "Bucket Sweet Bucket," SpongeBob looks at the screen when he says Mr. Krabs has returned from his vacation, and the word "Exposition!" appears above his head in neon letters.

• In "Money Talks":
  • Squidward questions where the music is coming from, and nobody is seen with instruments.
  • The Flying Dutchman looks directly at the camera/audience when saying "Try saying that three times fast," for the words "Selfish shellfish."
• In "SpongeBob vs. The Patty Gadget," when Patchy says Squidward has bad face acne, Squidward angrily says "Hey!", suggesting Squidward can hear the narration.
• In "The Krusty Sponge," Mr. Krabs says, "I love a happy ending," at the end of the episode.
• In "Atlantis SquarePantis":
  • In the opening where Potty calls Patchy in the latter's phone, the phone's ringtone is the SpongeBob theme song.
  • At the bottom of the title screen of the Germ Warrior game, it says "Copyright Nickelodeon 1991."
• In "Pat No Pay," when Patrick is suffering from Krabby Patty withdrawal, SpongeBob says he needs a patty, or else he'll keep mumbling about it for the next 3^1/2 minutes. This is referring to the approximate amount of time remaining in that episode, which altogether is four minutes long.
• In "Blackened Sponge," SpongeBob looks directly at the viewers when walking to the toothpaste cap.
• In "Mermaid Man vs. SpongeBob:"
  • Plankton turns to the audience after removing the label and reveals his Mind Control Shampoo to them.
  • At the end when Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy return to normal thanks to SpongeBob, he winks towards the audience when saying that it's all thanks to Krabby Patties.
• In "Pest of the West," Dead Eye Plankton cracks his whip to the screen after taking over the Krusty Kantina. SpongeBuck also acknowledges only knowing the citizens of Dead Eye Gulch for twenty minutes.
• In "20,000 Patties Under the Sea":
  • The monster looks at the screen saying, "Now that looks like dessert to me." when mistaking Plankton as a Chocolate eclair.
  • Near the end of the episode, Mr. Krabs looks at the viewers with an upset face when he realizes SpongeBob and Patrick let his money go.
• In "The Two Faces of Squidward":
  • In the beginning, Squidward talks directly to the audience when welcoming up to the Krusty Krab.
  • He later tells the viewers to remind him to fire his therapist.
  • He then says to the viewers, "Well, time to go greet the commoners." before he sees all his fans outside the next morning.
• At the beginning of "Banned in Bikini Bottom," Squidward stares directly at the camera while SpongeBob sings "I Love Krabby Patties" very loudly.
• In "Stanley S. SquarePants," after Stanley destroys his television, SpongeBob says, "There was nothing good on TV anyway." He then looks at the camera and adds in an annoyed tone, "Nothing."

Season 6[]

• In "Penny Foolish," Mr. Krabs speaks to the viewer after SpongeBob picks up the "penny."
• In "Dear Vikings," the Vikings say to the viewers, "Sock'n Garten" during Squidward's flashback.
• In "Slide Whistle Stooges," Squidward hides his naked body from view, as if he knows he is being watched, even though he is by himself at home.
• In the end of "Cephalopod Lodge," Squidward looks at the audience before getting his tongue zapped by a jellyfish, and the screen fading to black.
• In "Shuffleboarding," Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy introduce themselves to the TV audience.
• In "Overbooked," Sandy makes an annoyed face at the screen, then crosses over the split-screen to yell at SpongeBob during their call.
• In "No Hat for Pat," Squidward says, "I hate everyone," directly at the viewers after Patrick falls for the second time inside the Krusty Krab.
• In "Truth or Square":
  • After Squidward says he has never fallen asleep on duty, Mr. Krabs reminds him to not give him a flashback, right before a flashback begins.
  • Patchy travels to Nickelodeon Studios, where SpongeBob is just a cartoon, like in our world. It is also mentioned that SpongeBob is voiced by Tom Kenny, who also plays Patchy.
  • Mr. Krabs prepares to discuss the secret formula with SpongeBob in a flashback, but (still in the flashback) notices Plankton is about to take notes and abruptly stops the flashback.

Season 7[]

• In "I ♥ Dancing," Squidward tears the screen in half at the end of SpongeBob's cane-spinning routine.
• In "Stuck in the Wringer," after SpongeBob and Patrick melt the glue that was dried on the wringer with tears, SpongeBob looks at the screen and talks directly to the viewers, saying, "I guess crying does solve your problems after all."

  

• In "SpongeBob's Last Stand":
  • Mr. Krabs hums the theme song when he cleans the tables.
  • When Mr. Krabs wants to know when the approval of the Shelly Superhighway was passed, Plankton responds, "See for yourself, in this conveniently timed flashback" while also looking at the audience.
• In "The Bad Guy Club for Villains," the end credits of the lost episode share the font and background with those that play after virtually every episode of SpongeBob SquarePants.
  • The end credits came from its sister episode.
• In "A Day Without Tears":
  • As SpongeBob cries over the song on the radio, Squidward says "Lucky me, I get to work with him all day." directly to the viewer.
  • Squidward states he has "edited flashbacks together" of SpongeBob crying.
• In "Earworm," when SpongeBob exits the Krusty Krab by flying while singing the Musical Doodle, Mr. Krabs asks the viewers: "What am I running here, a nut house?"

Season 8[]

• In "Drive Thru":
  • When Plankton goes up to the drive-thru, he tells the viewers his plan.
  • One of Pearl's friends screamed in Squidward's ear with a megaphone. Squidward holds his ear in pain, looks at the screen and talks directly to the viewers, saying, "I'm not faking it, y'know. That really hurt... a lot."
• In "A Friendly Game," the French Narrator states, "What follows is a brief construction montage," and, "We hope you enjoyed this brief construction montage." A card reading "Brief Construction Montage" also appears.
• In "Sentimental Sponge," when SpongeBob agrees with Squidward to take photos of memories before they get taken to the dump, Squidward looks at the audience before the bubble transition.
• In "Sweet and Sour Squid":
  • Plankton looks towards the audience when SpongeBob compliments him on his "dress" (the surgical tubing he taped to himself to look like tentacles) after an attempt to make Squidward tell him the Krabby Patty secret formula.
  • At the end of the episode, a dismayed Squidward tells the audience once again that he hates people after the reed from his damaged clarinet falls off while in his grasp.
• In "Ghoul Fools," in The Void, when Squidward finds out his torture, he says, "I guess this is the part where I start screaming," implying that he is telling the audience what happens next.
• In "The Way of the Sponge," when Sandy comes up with an idea, she looks at the screen and talks directly to the viewers, stating what her idea was. Fuzzy Acorns asks whom she was talking to.
• In "Fiasco!," the storyboard images for the Krusty Krab commercial shows the following scene in the episode.
  • It is possible the storyboard images shown are a part of the actual storyboard for the episode.
• In "Planet of the Jellyfish," after the Jellien leader's victims are thawed from the Krusty Krab freezer, Mr. Krabs asks why they're covered in goo. The French Narrator then proceeds to read an "11 Minutes Later" time card, followed by SpongeBob finishing his story on the Jelliens, once again referencing the 11-minute runtime of an average SpongeBob episode.
• In "Super Evil Aquatic Villain Team Up is Go!," Mr Krabs whistles the theme song before the villains come inside the Krusty Krab.
• In "Hello Bikini Bottom!," during "Never Give Up," Squidward and SpongeBob, singing a duet miles apart, announce the point where they both start to play their respective instruments.

Season 9[]

• In "It Came from Goo Lagoon," Plankton wipes the goo off the window so the viewer can see what he is reading.
• In "Plankton's Pet," Plankton breaks the fourth wall by shouting, "Holy plot twist!" when Spot brings him a Krabby Patty.
• In "Séance Shméance," Patrick says, "This is the part of the story where I run around screaming." He does it again when bringing Mr. Krabs but he just runs around the Krusty Krab.
• In "Kenny the Cat," shortly after SpongeBob discovers that Kenny was a fake, he looks directly at the camera and tells the viewers that he should probably seek help in getting through his depression over Kenny's fraud.
• In "Lost in Bikini Bottom," Squidward is drawing his 'distance between two points' example on the screen. Once he realizes he doesn't understand what he is talking about, he scrambles the drawn lines and throws them into the air, resulting in SpongeBob tasting them and enjoying their strawberry flavor. Harold also wears a shirt with his model number on it in this episode.
• In "Tutor Sauce," Mr. Krabs looks at the viewers when SpongeBob crashes his boat through the Krusty Krab for the tenth time.
• In "Squid Plus One," SpongeBob blinks his eyes to the camera when Squidward wanted to ask him a question.

• In "The Executive Treatment," a time card reading "Montage" appears.
• In "Company Picnic," at a certain point, SpongeBob acknowledges the fact that he is in a slow-motion scene.
• In "Pull Up a Barrel," in Mr. Krabs' story, after Captain Scarfish tells Mr. Krabs that he has a cargo hold full of suntan lotion, and right before Squidward laughs at Mr. Krabs in the present, Captain Scarfish and Mr. Krabs look at the screen for a split second.
• In "Patrick! The Game," at the end, Patrick says to the viewers, "Game Over."
• In "SpongeBob LongPants":
  • When SpongeBob gets his driver's license, Mrs. Puff frantically wakes up while looking at the audience, "Oh, oh! Lock your doors. Bar your windows. It's the end of the world!"
  • At the end, she also knows that SpongeBob's driving license had been revoked and therefore says, "Oh, I don't know what that was about, but I'm glad it's over."
• In "Two Thumbs Down," SpongeBob and Patrick's thumbs launch in the air like fireworks, and form "The End," signaling the end of the episode.
• In "Lame and Fortune," Stretch plays a riff on the piano after it falls on his legs.
• In "Goodbye, Krabby Patty?" Squidward's resume shows he has been a cashier at the Krusty Krab for 17 years, which is how many years SpongeBob had been on the air by that point.
• In "Bulletin Board," patty meat splatters on the screen when SpongeBob chops them up.
• In "Snail Mail," the narrator says, "What did I tell you?" when SpongeBob discovers the mix-up in the letter.
• In "Salsa Imbecilicus," Karen plays a laugh track all the times when Plankton gets humiliated.
• In "Mutiny on the Krusty," when Mr. Krabs is fighting the monster, the customers dance in rhythm to the track "Jungle Baby."

Season 10[]

• In "Whirly Brains":
  • When Mr. Krabs and Mrs. Puff have a date in an abandoned alley, Mr. Krabs mentions that they have been dating for 16 years, referencing how this episode celebrated SpongeBob's 16th anniversary.
  • At the end of the episode, Squidward jumpscares the viewers by warning them that the Martians are coming and that the viewers will be their next victims.
• In "Mimic Madness":
  • SpongeBob breaks the fourth wall by imitating the French Narrator. Fittingly, both characters are voiced by Tom Kenny.
  • Squidward bangs on his own eyes that he wants someone to get him out of himself.
• In "House Worming":
  • Plankton asks the viewer if they got his joke.
  • The short ends with the worm indicating to the viewer that he'll reside with SpongeBob.
• In "Life Insurance," Mr. Fitz sticks his hand out of SpongeBob's TV for SpongeBob to sign the Life Insurance contract.
• In "Trident Trouble":
  • The Greek chorus who narrate the episode introduce themselves to the audience.
  • When they tell SpongeBob he is misusing his power, he replies, "Not helping."
• In "The Incredible Shrinking Sponge," when Mr. Krabs thinks of how SpongeBob could be a personal hygienist, a sign appears in his thought bubble. He then grabs it and blows the bubble away from the screen.
• In "The Getaway," the police officers tell the audience at the end of the episode to drive safely and always wear your seat belt.
• In "Patrick's Coupon":
  • Incidental 7 makes a reference to SpongeBob SquarePants being a kids' cartoon when she says, "Looks like some sort of kids' cartoon," after acknowledging that Patrick was on the ground.
  • The moment Mr. Krabs says that he knows the weight of a coupon, Patrick's coupon is suddenly heavier.
  • The ice-cream SpongeBob and Patrick dive into splashes on the screen, forming the words "the end."
• In "Feral Friends," Sandy communicates to the French Narrator in order to figure out how to restore her friends' sapience.

Season 11[]

• In "Cave Dwelling Sponge," Perch Perkins says, "And so, the savage beast finally soothed, life in Bikini Bottom returns to normal...if only for this episode." Spongy Spongy then smashes his club into the camera, ending the episode.
• In "Man Ray Returns," Man Ray acknowledges the narrator's existence upon hearing "the evil Man Ray."
• In "No Pictures Please," Squidward opens and comes out of a flower in the sky, probably aware that the sky is just a backdrop put up to mask out the water reflection.
• In "Stuck on the Roof," Fred acknowledges the fact that it is impossible to have rain underwater, even as a thunderstorm is taking place at the time.
• In "Krabby Patty Creature Feature," Patrick, who is still a Krabby Patty creature, pulls a part of himself and tells the viewers to "have some" before the episode ended.
• In "Teacher's Pests," when Mrs. Puff hits Plankton with the tree, he points at stars over his head and says, "Beautiful stars!" then SpongeBob hits himself with the tree to get the stars but Mrs. Puff takes them.
• In "Sanitation Insanity," when the wind blows through SpongeBob's pores, they whistle the theme song ending.
• In "Bunny Hunt," Bunny Wunny plays "Puka" on his ukulele.
• In "Squid Noir," Squidward asks SpongeBob to stop interrupting his narration for a scene.
• In "Pat the Horse," SpongeBob says, "Horsey? That's not right," to the viewers before thinking a name for Patrick as a horse.
• In "Old Man Patrick":
  • SpongeBob sings the theme song to help Patrick remember who he is.
  • The jellyfish in Patrick's thought bubble shocks him and the sand covers him. The bubble also pops and it gets in his eyes.
• In "Doodle Dimension," DoodleBob draws "The End" on the screen.
• In "Moving Bubble Bass":
  • After SpongeBob and Patrick's pants rip, they hide their rear ends from the audience.
  • Every time Patrick thinks of free lunch, SpongeBob gets rid of his thought bubble.
• In "My Leg!":
  • After SpongeBob is done flashing back to the time he ran over Fred's leg, SpongeBob wiggles his body and says, "Flashbacks tickle."
  • The ending transition breaks Fred's leg.

• In "Ink Lemonade," the episode ends with Squidward spraying ink on the screen, making it black.
• In "Mustard O' Mine," SpongeBob notes several sorts of miners to Patrick, followed by a group of children SpongeBob calls "unaccompanied minors." One of the children plays a rim shot on the drums in response.
• In "Shopping List," Plankton speaks to the viewer a few times when he is in the yeti crab's cave.
• In "Patnocchio," Karen introduces the story to the viewer. Also, Plankton interacts with the light bulbs above his and Patrick's heads. Thirdly, Pearl speaks to the viewer in the commercial parody. Finally, Karen addresses the viewer as she wraps up the story.
• In "Plankton Paranoia," when SpongeBob is whispering to Squidward about their plans, Mr. Krabs then looks down directly to the viewers.
• In "Library Cards," as Patrick absorbs knowledge, SpongeBob drums along to the background music. Also, at the end of the episode when Patrick throws a book in SpongeBob's mouth, SpongeBob turns to the camera to show "The End" on the cover.
• In "Call the Cops," Old Man Walker says hello to the viewer the first time he appears.
• In "Goons on the Moon":
  • When Squidward is trying to find the escape route from the moon, he ends up in the actual Nickelodeon studio where he sees his voice actor, Rodger Bumpass.
  • SpongeBob winks at the camera at the end after becoming a temporary moon.
• In "Karen's Virus":
  • Karen throws a boat in the sky, hitting and knocking down one of the flower clouds.
  • Karen sings a warped version of the theme song in her delusional state.
• In "The Grill is Gone," SpongeBob uses two brushes to scrub the screen, also creating a transition in the process.
• In "Bubbletown," bubble soap splashes on the screen when SpongeBob pops the bubble ducks.
• In "Girls' Night Out," Sandy creates a split screen when she is calling Karen and Mrs. Puff.
• In "Squirrel Jelly," at the end of the episode after Patrick asks "Which one is Sandy?" he looks at the audience with a goofy grin and laughs before getting an iris shot right in his face.
• In "The String," SpongeBob erases the entire cartoon universe by pulling on the titular string.

Season 12[]

• In "Gary & Spot," Sandy narrates the entire episode to the viewers.
• In "The Nitwitting":
  • Patrick rides into the screen and cracks it at the very end.
  • The Empty Heads sing their theme song directly to the camera a few times.
• In "The Ballad of Filthy Muck":
  • The fish in the restroom, in response to Krabs sniffing around his stall, says, "Can't please everyone," to the viewer.
  • The timecard "Zee Next Morning" appears, and the French Narrator almost narrates it, however he can sniff the smell from Patrick midway through.
  • The fish with a large nose looks at the viewers when he says, "Jumpin' Jehoshaphat."
• In "Pineapple RV," Squidward looks at the viewer when he says, "Well, I'm a monster."
• In "Stormy Weather," Gale Doppler says he'll capture Drizzle, "after these messages," which is followed by Gale spoofing an infomercial by asking the viewers if they are constipated and showing them the product.
• In "Swamp Mates":
  • The chief sticks his hand out of the screen when he hears Mama Bass.
  • Patrick looks at the viewers when Bubble Bass takes back his Wonder Whale.
  • He also states that Bubble Bass was "dead for ten minutes," around the actual time period between when Bubble Bass and Patrick entered the swamp and when Bubble Bass wakes up.
• In "One Trick Sponge," the last few notes of the theme song can be heard when all of the cards dissolve and SpongeBob appears in view.
• In "Sandy's Nutty Nieces," Sandy's nieces look directly at the camera when they vow to get rid of Patrick, before he ruins their day.
• In "Insecurity Guards," Squidward's painting smiles and laughs at the viewers at the end of the episode.
• In "Karen's Baby":
  • When SpongeBob suddenly appears at the Chum Bucket, an unseen audience can be heard cheering as if it were a sitcom and SpongeBob then bows down to the mysterious audience.
  • Plankton tells the viewers to wait till he rubs that Chip's first word was "Father!" in Karen's face.
  • Plankton tells the viewers, "That's my boy!" at the very end of the episode.
• In "Jolly Lodgers," when Squidward asks the boat salesman shark if he is the manager of the hotel, he says, "No, I just play one on TV," referring to his one time role as a hotel manager in the episode.
• In "SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout":
  • The French narrator is seen holding the "One little boost to the surface later..." time card, and everyone in the tour bus says bye to him.
  • The birthday song is sung to the tune of the opening theme.
  • At the end of the episode when SpongeBob is telling his age to Patrick, static interrupts him and he plays his nose like a flute and the TV screen shuts off.
• In "SpongeBob in RandomLand":
  • While walking randomly, SpongeBob runs on a flower cloud, causing it to spin.
  • Squidward looks at the audience saying, "Of course!" when SpongeBob catches up with him.
  • He later tells the audience that he hates his life.
  • In the upside-down house, the realtor moves the screen upside-down and towards SpongeBob.
  • The funny lady breaks the fourth wall at the end of the episode.
  • A worm goes through the circle iris, and shows its teeth to the viewers, in which it shows, "End."
• In "Handemonium," SpongeBob sings the theme song to bring in Hans.
• In "Breakin'":
  • Mr. Krabs says that SpongeBob has to take a 5-minute break when 5 minutes are remaining in the episode. Also, SpongeBob only needs one five-minute break every twenty years, which is a reference to the fact that the show was celebrating its twentieth anniversary in the year that this episode premiered.
  • When SpongeBob takes his break at one of the tables, he whistles the closing theme nervously. An urchin also whistles the closing theme when exiting out of the employee break room.
• In "Boss for a Day," the worker fish tells the viewers, "Hey, a penny!" right before he starts going after the rolling penny Mr. Krabs was after.

• In "The Goofy Newbie," SpongeBob plays the theme song ending with his nose like a flute while sitting on Patrick's home.
• In "The Ghost of Plankton," the Flying Dutchman loudly announces the end of the episode to the audience.
• In "Lighthouse Louie," Mrs. Puff says that she has been tossing stuff in her lighthouse for 20 years, which is a reference to the fact that the show was celebrating its 20th anniversary around the time this episode was produced.
• In "A Cabin in the Kelp," Karen, Sandy, Mrs. Puff, and Pearl smash their faces onto the television screen at the very end. Also, Pearl looks directly at the camera and says, "She must be psychic."
• In "The Hankering," Plankton tells the viewers "Get it, upper hand?" after he crushes SpongeBob and Mr. Krabs with a giant robotic fist.
• In "Plankton's Intern," before Plankton uses his monster maker to make a squid, he reveals the bag and shows it to the audience
• In "Escape from Beneath Glove World," a glove robot speaks to the viewers after the animatronic Hieronymus Glove decides to go after SpongeBob and Patrick for revenge.
• In "Krusty Koncessionaires," Squidward walks past a door displaying the name of Tom Kenny (the voice of SpongeBob) and the bathroom door showing the names of his voice actor, Rodger Bumpass, and Bill Fagerbakke (the voice of Patrick).

Season 13[]

• At the end of "A Place for Pets," Squidward stops the iris out to sneeze one final time, and when the iris out closes, it snaps on his nose and he tries to pull it out of the iris.
• In "Under the Small Top":
  • When Squidward gets hit by flour thanks to the flea circus, he asks the viewers "Why is this happening to me?"
  • SpongeBob plays the ending notes of the theme song when he and the flea circus ride away from Squidward's house.
• In "Pat the Dog," when Butcher eats one of SpongeBob's arms, the latter tells the viewers that he hopes that Butcher doesn't develop "a taste for a sponge."
• In "The Big Bad Bubble Bass":
  • SpongeBob plays the theme song ending with his nose like a flute prior to the vault being unlocked.
  • Squidward breaks the fourth wall by scolding at Karen the Blue Fairy and blaming her fairy tale for the destruction of his house.
• In "Upturn Girls," Narlene and Pearl walk to Upturn's. While they are walking, Narlene says "Well, it's like walking through a TV show."
• In "Say Awww!," SpongeBob looks at the camera and tells the viewers that he'll go into an alley.
• In "Patrick the Mailman," Squidward uses his new turbo clarinet to blast SpongeBob and Patrick, and they bump on a flower cloud to drop down to the ground.
• In "Squidferatu," Slappy's head bounces off the camera while the iris closes out.
• In "Slappy Daze," Slappy looks straight at the audience saying that he has to check on Nosferatu.
• The entire special of The Tidal Zone gives many fourth wall breaks.
  • The narrator tells the viewers of the events of each episode.
    • In "Welcome to Binary Bottom," he tells the viewers about the entire town being robots.
    • Also in the said episode, SpongeBot looks at the viewers saying "He's not going to stop."
    • Also in "A Skin Wrinkle in Time," GrandPat has his own version of SpongeBob's theme song, and reenacts what SpongeBob does while in a different dimension.
• In "Salty Sponge," SpongeBob and the Salty Spitoon customers sing a version of the show's theme song, but Barry Cuda interrupts it by raising the screen during the close to the halfway of the song.
• In "Abandon Twits," Mr. Krabs talks and winks at the viewers when he shows them the new S.S. Sea-cret Formula.
• In "Ma and Pa's Big Hurrah," SpongeBob breaks one of the yellow flower clouds when he is bouncing and destroying his house.

• In "Yellow Pavement":
  • Mrs. Puff talks to the audience in the beginning of the episode.
  • Squidward looks at the viewers with binoculars.
  • When SpongeBob gets in the projector he looks at the audience and says "I'm ready for my close-up."
• In "Hot Crossed Nuts," at the end, Mr. Krabs looks at the viewer when he says "Still a nice aftertaste!", and the episode irises out on him.
• In "Sir Urchin and Snail Fail":
  • SpongeBob and Patrick hold hands before going to a talent show with Sir Urchin and Snail Fail, but their hands go over the split screen.
  • When Sir Urchin and Snail Fail retake their show at the end, the former says a line from the theme song "If nautical nonsense be something you wish."
• In "Friendiversary," SpongeBob stares at the viewers with a shocked and confused expression at the end of the episode.
• In "Mandatory Music," the iris out cuts Squidward's nose when it closes.
• In "Gary's Playhouse," SpongeBob sings a variation of his theme song to Gary.
• In "The Goobfather," Mr. Krabs talks and winks at the viewers when he promotes a new Patty Whip. He also looks at them before announcing the Patty Whip.

Season 14[]

• In "Single-Celled Defense," Plankton's laser helmet disintegrates a flower cloud while being attacked by Sandy.

• In "SpongeChovy," Squidward calls the Surface World Pizza chef, portrayed by his voice actor, Rodger Bumpass.
• In "Squidiot Box," the repairman talks about how he hasn't seen an imagination box like SpongeBob's in 25 years, a reference to the main series being 25 years old during the year of this episode's premiere.
• In "Pet the Rock":
  • During a split-screen phone call before SpongeBob says to Patrick that Rolly needs feeding, there are two fourth wall breaks in one scene:
    • SpongeBob and Patrick go through the line at few points, and also look at each other before ending the call.
  • When Patrick sees Rolly covered in trash, he pokes his head and asks the audience what he was supposed to do next.
  • When SpongeBob and Patrick talk to each other on the phone discussing about how Rolly needs a bath, Gary does the invisible table trick and looks at the audience to finish the trick.
• In "Tango Tangle":
  • When Karen and Plankton see the Ray Ray device, they both look at the audience. The same thing happens again at the very end when they say "Uh, oh!" when everyone in the Recreation Centre turns into Ray Ray.
  • At the end, Plankton was about to say "my legs," which is Fred's running gag for the show. However, before he said it, Fred interrupts him by muffling his mouth, saying it for him, and telling him that the line is his.
    • Interestingly, both characters are voiced by Doug Lawrence.
• In "Mooned!" it is revealed that the moon jelly appears every 25 years, referencing the time this episode premiered and celebrating 25 years of the show.
• In "Hysterical History," the theme song is heard when SpongeBob and Patrick are seen in their original drawings.
• In "Kreepaway Kamp":
  • During the scene of SpongeBob, Patrick, and Sandy reading the letter about the reunion, the Kamp Koral promotional logo can be seen during a close-up.
  • At the end of the episode during the reunion, the Trawlers play a rock version of the Kamp Koral Theme Song, and people react by the audience dancing. The Dinghies and Trawlers also sing the version, and the final notes of the SpongeBob theme is referenced at the very end.
• In "Snow Yellow," aside from Hans being the narrator, his page flipping gets interrupted at one point by the Evil Queen, and tells him that she can do her own page flipping.
• In "Sheldon SquarePants":
  • Just like "Pet the Rock," SpongeBob has a split-screen call with his parents, and there are three fourth wall breaks in one scene:
    • SpongeBob and Margaret go through the line at some points, they both boop noses with the former booping Harold's, and they all look at each other before ending the call.
  • SpongeBob presses his face up against the screen while looking for his surprise.

Season 15[]

• In "Big League Bob," in an interior shot of the Culinary Stadium, a promotional art and a stock art for SpongeBob from 1999-2008 are seen.
• In "Bad Luck Bob," SpongeBob looks at the camera twice at the end, one where he says "It was exactly what Squidward said," and again at the end of his "safe side" joke.
• In "The Sandman Cometh," the episode ends with the Sandman blowing sand on the screen.
• In "Student Driver Survivor":
  • Acceleration T. Greenlight gives a cardboard license to Scooter, and his license contains the production code for this episode (325-1434).
  • Later in the episode, this also happens with Carlos Eel, Old Man Walker and Mary, but their licenses contain either voice actor, where they live, or their incidental number.
• In "Stuck in an Elevator," at the end where SpongeBob and Patrick found Squidward in a library cell, he faces the camera being all crazy.
• In "Squidness Protection," after Squidward erases SpongeBob and Patrick with two pencils, he erases the camera as well, ending the episode.
• In "Dome Alone," Nutty Buddy tells the viewers that he wants new friends during the ending.
• In "Wary Gary," when SpongeBob wins an award for Best Acting, he said "If you told me that eleven minutes ago..." referencing the average length of the episode.

Video games[]

Battle for Bikini Bottom (home console)/Battle for Bikini Bottom (Rehydrated)[]

• Right before the scene where Plankton gets dragged away by his new robot army, the cut away starts when one of them sees the camera.
• When SpongeBob speaks with Mr. Krabs in Squidward's Dream after acquiring the section's golden spatula, Mr. Krabs says that he should play the SpongeBob's Dream music in the Krusty Krab.
• In both versions, if the player plays as Sandy and still has one SpongeBob's underwear (in-game health) left or loses one, when she touches one to collect, she says "SpongeBob's underwear, I hope they're clean!" as a hint this is how you revive the health.
  • Similarly, if Sandy collects Patrick's socks, she'll comment, "Well, I s'pose it'll make Patrick happy."
• Some of the NPCs somehow know that the player needs to collect the golden spatulas.

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SpongeBob's Atlantis SquarePantis (home console)[]

• If SpongeBob wears all the avatar customizations, he will state it is cold, and comments that the television screen needs to be heated.
• In Snap Happy!, SpongeBob breaks the fourth wall while wishing that he could continue to take pictures as if this adventure was a game.
• In Tour Trouble!, SpongeBob says that being in the Science Room is like being in a TV.
• In Money Krabbing!, when he mentions that he should have a TV show, he then thinks that would not be a good idea, asking, "Who would watch a show called, 'SpongeBob SquarePants?'"

Operation Krabby Patty[]

• The fourth wall is broken when Plankton politely asks the artist to put the elevator in the correct location with a paintbrush visible.

SpongeBob Marbles & Slides[]

• In the level The Dutchman's Pinball, Plankton breaks the fourth wall by saying, "I bet most players figured it out on the first level!"

SpongeBob's Game Frenzy[]

• If one wins the "Pickles" game, some of the pickles will hit the screen and slide off it.
• If one loses the "Ripped Pants" game, SpongeBob gets angry at the player.
• If one loses the "Plankton's Good Eye" game, Plankton will hit the screen and crack it.

Employee of the Month[]

• When the game starts, the main cast of the franchise can be seen posing for a photo shoot of the show's logo.
• If one clicks on the Operation Krabby Patty poster inside WSEA TV, SpongeBob breaks the fourth wall by saying, "Ooh, Operation Krabby Patty, that was my very first game. Good times, good times."
  • However, it is not the first video game centered around SpongeBob; Legend of the Lost Spatula is. Operation Krabby Patty is, however, the first SpongeBob game for PC.
• Whenever one tries to drag and drop an item to the wrong place, SpongeBob tells the players "I don't wanna do that," "I don't think that's a good idea," or "Why would I want to put that there?"
• If one clicks on the back of Ray's Organic Tanning Salon, SpongeBob says "What a rip-off! I think game developers need a bigger budget to avoid this sort of thing."

The SquarePants Mysteries[]

• Patrick tells SpongeBob that he is on TV, thus breaking the play's fourth wall as he is not supposed to know that SpongeBob is watching.

The Cosmic Shake[]

• One of the time cards says "One Loading Screen Later" with the French Narrator reading it. There are two, but one has a different color.

Shorts[]

• In "Cancer" Squidward breaks the fourth wall when he mentions it's bad karma to eat animated seafood.
• In "Juice Man," SpongeBob breaks the fourth wall when he winks at the viewer.
• In "Plankton Pays," SpongeBob narrates the short to the viewer.

Amusement park rides[]

• In "Jimmy Neutron's Nicktoon Blast," SpongeBob breaks the fourth wall during the Bikini Bottom scene. While being flung around through the town, he calls out to the fish, saying, "Hello, secondary characters!"

Movies[]

The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie[]

• The seat of SpongeBob's pants folds open while he is preparing for his "promotion," revealing his butt. He then hides it from the audience in slight embarrassment.
• Plankton says that Plan Z is "lemon scented" while looking at the audience.
• Plankton looks at the viewers when SpongeBob says, "Well, good luck with that."
• Squidward looks directly at the audience while discussing how happy he is that SpongeBob is not around.
• Squidward says to the viewers, "Some people have no taste in head gear."
• When King Neptune rages for losing his crown, Plankton, overhearing through a payphone, looks at the audience saying, "Plan Z, I love Plan Z!"
• SpongeBob says, "We'll be in Shell City in one more verse," referring how they sing "Now That We're Men" most of the time they spend in the trench.
• Patrick also references the song under the heat lamp by weakly singing, "You mean we're not gonna get the crown, save the town and Mr. Krabs?"
• Plankton walks into the Krusty Krab to change the calendar only to realize it's the day that Mr. Krabs fries (March 14), and looks at the audience upon saying it.

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water[]

• A fish says, "All secondary characters come with me," just as SpongeBob and his friends are about to continue their journey on the surface of the ocean.
• During the rap battle between the seagulls and Bubbles, Painty the Pirate says, "You're making the movie too long."
• Burger Beard writes "The End" in cursive, and the voice actors of the main characters start passing onscreen, until the seagull rips the paper out.
• When Sandy is ranting about the page that says The End, she looks directly at the screen, indicating she was talking to the audience.
• In the credits, Pearl complains, "This dance is so last year!" possibly referencing how delays in the movie's production caused it to be released a year after its intended date.
• In the credits, Squidward hears the "Squeeze Me" song by N.E.R.D and says this song needs interpretive dancing and starts dancing to it in a similar manner to his dance in "Culture Shock."
• When the mother pushing the baby in the stroller says "SpongeBob" this might mean that SpongeBob is set in a universe where they are also fictional. However, some humans in the movie seem to not know about the show's existence as they react strangely to him and his friends.
• When SpongeBob and Patrick eat the cotton candy, Sandy says they're going to travel around the world. They seem to travel the world, but in reality Sandy is using backgrounds to give this illusion.
• When Sandy is running around weirdly she literally says, "Incoherent muttering," which is what she is doing and what the closed captions indicate she is doing.

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run[]

• While being driven by Otto, Patrick says, "This is gonna be like one of those buddy movies."

Spin-offs[]

The Patrick Star Show[]

• Several episodes of the spin-off include fourth wall breaks, as characters advise and tell the viewer lessons and tips.

Season 1[]

• In "Late for Breakfast," Patrick tells the viewers that, "In this family, you gotta be fast or the food's all gone." Also, after he removes Ouchie from his head, the SpongeBob theme song is heard.
• Near the end of "Bummer Jobs," Squidina tells the porpoise after saying a bad word, which was bad word number 11 from "Sailor Mouth," that they are in a family show. Patrick also reveals a rash on his body that says "The End," and comments "'The End' is so itchy!"
• In "Stair Wars," Cecil appears in a thought bubble. GrandPat smacks it away, and Cecil reacts.
• In "Who's a Big Boy?," when Patrick is playing with the test dummy head and the dummy that looks like SpongeBob, he sings to the tune of the SpongeBob theme song.
• In "Just in Time for Christmas," Patrick is able to interact with his thought bubble of Bunny. Incidental 70 can also be seen wearing a shirt with his model number on it.
• At the end of "Klopnodian Heritage Festival," an old woman swats the screen with a flyswatter. Squidina also tells the audience that she would rather walk flies than swat them.
• In the end of "X Marks the Pot," the Star family and Man Ray fly out of Earth after Patrick activated the bomb and appear close towards the camera and Man Ray, in the middle, gets his face smooshed. Then the Star family and Man Ray head for a parallel universe as the latter tries to hold the camera so he doesn't get sucked in.
• In "Pearl Wants to Be a Star," Mr. Krabs and GrandPat tear into the screen to interrupt each others' flashbacks.
• In "Shrinking Stars," when the SpongeBob cake pan falls on GrandPat, the SpongeBob theme song plays.
• In "FitzPatrick," Patrick tells FitzPatrick that he has his own television show that's "beamed down to millions of people all over the world."
• In "Uncredible Journey," the Sun can be seen playing the opening song on violin.
• In "The Drooling Fool," GrandPat pauses his TV while Bunny and Tinkle are drool-stricken, and states "Is this the episode where Patrick can't stop droolin'? Eh, seen it!"
• In "Fun & Done!," when Andrew Fishman's mother breaks down the door, SpongeBob tells her that they just sat quietly for 11 minutes, referencing the length of the episode.
• In the opening of "The Prehistoric Patrick Star Show," Cave Patrick and his cave family reference the theme song for The Patrick Star Show, and they also reenact the theme song.
• In "A Root Galoot," Squidina exclaims that she wishes "this cartoon was over already."
• In "The Starry Awards," GrandPat's face gets smooshed into the screen at the end of the episode.
• In "Get Off My Lawnie," Incidental 180 winks at the viewers at the end of the episode.
• In "Bubble Bass Reviews":
  • Just like "Life of Crime," Bubble Bass points out that fire is unrealistic underwater, referencing both cartoon physics and under the surface and water.
  • One of the errors that happened on the show is shown in a VHS tape Bubble Bass inverted, and on the tape is the production code for this episode (PAT 054).
  • After Patrick and Squidina enter Bubble Bass' house, the former points out all the errors The Patrick Show! has done wrong, and says that they will try and fix the errors.

Season 2[]

• In "The Patrick Show Cashes In":
  • The second season of The Patrick Star Show is mentioned multiple times during the episode.
  • At the beginning, when Squidina wants the rest of the Star Family to get new ways to fund the second season, the episode's production code (PAT 201) is seen on a script.
• In "The Star Games," the Star family tells the audience to scream who should be the host of "Battle of the Gameshow Hosts."
• In "Family Plotz," Cecil says that it'll take eleven minutes for his soupestroni to be ready, referencing the average length of an episode.
• In "The Commode Episode," when Patrick reuses the background full of background characters, the bottom white tape says (PAT 211), which is its production code for this episode.
• In "Much Tofu About Nothing," most of the characters interact at the camera. Patrick and Squidina also talk to the viewer as the former tells them the beginning of the story, and the latter by telling everyone goodnight, a nod on how shows usually end in real life.
• In "Chum Bucket List":
  • Patrick rips through multiple outfits to get ready for his fight, from a tutu, to a recreation of the episode's storyboard, to the track recording script.
  • When SpongeBob tells Patrick if they can go to the doctor after he puts on the show of a lifetime, Patrick replies, "I don't know. Let's see how much screentime this gag takes up first." During his sentence, the scene zooms in to reveal a black background with a duration time, as well as the episode's production code (PAT 213) and the scene number (sc106).
• In "Is There a Director in the House?":
  • After Bunny shows Squidina a poster for Camp Kid, the latter says "Can't this wait until the season wraps?", referencing season 2 of the show.
  • During Slappy's segment "A Cook Too Many," he looks at the audience worrying them when he says "Our dish just needs one more ingredient." Patrick also looks at the viewers worried stating that he doesn't like the segment.
  • Before Cecil starts his segment called "Bonding," he tells the audience to cue the title sequence. The sequence then appears with the same shot of Cecil hugging Patrick, painted by Marta Knudsen.
• At the end of "Face/Off-Model," the Star family and the Easter Bunny wish everyone a happy Easter, and the title for the Easter celebration appears. This is directed towards the audience.
• In "Pick Patrick's Path," the entire episode is a fourth wall break as the viewers are picked to do what Squidina or anyone tell them what Patrick might do.
• In "Time to Eat":
  • When Squidina tells Patrick that the woolly clammoth would live on, Patrick looks at the bottom of the screen and reveals a timestamp with the episode's runtime left.
  • When the segment "Time to Eat" has finished, Patrick thanks the viewers for participating. There is also text above him and Squidina that says "Viewers Like You," addressing the viewer.
  • At the very end, in an alternate dimension where everyone is a woolly clammoth, Patrick eats food thrown at him due to the boring performance at the very beginning. He then licks the camera to end the episode.

Season 3[]

• In "The Patrick Show After Dark," Patrick ends the episode by saying "That's show business!" to the audience before falling over.
• In "Chopping Spree":
  • Patrick narrates the beginning and end of the episode, and sometimes throughout. He tells the viewers at the end that reading bores him out, and acknowledges one of the famous endings by saying that "we part."
  • When Patrick takes the bath bomb away from the comic, Pat the Hapless gets angry towards the camera. Also at the end, when Patrick falls asleep with the comic dropped to the floor, Pat the Hapless has his face smooshed into the screen.
• In "Star-Robics," when Patrick damages himself at the end, he advises the viewers that it is important for them to exercise. Earlier on, Squidina tells Patrick that the viewers want action on his show.
• In "Driven to Drive," when Patrick says "After almost 11 minutes of hard work and practice," he references the average 11-minute runtime of an episode.
• In "Legend of the Lost Bathroom," at the end when a bathroom is seen inside Patrick, Slappy tells the audience that the lost bathroom was inside Patrick all along, and bids a goodnight to them before flushing himself.
• At the end of "Patty Poo," the Lawnies tear Patrick from limb to limb to create more Patty Poos. When the iris appears, Patrick faces the audience as he says the ending line, "Whoopsie-doodle!"
• In "Swaptoberfest," at the end after GrandPat says "That's Swaptoberfest, baby!" after he puts his beard on Slappy, he jumps at the camera to end the episode.
• In "Something Stupid This Way Comes":
  • During the segment "The Cravin'," Pat-gor interacts with the narrator at a few points, and does what the narrator asks him to do: a mighty upchuck. Pat-gor then says "Whatever you want, narrator person," suggesting he can hear the narration. Dr. Plankenstein also interacts with the narrator when he locks the fridge door.
  • At the ending of the episode, the Star family and Pat the Hapless as Gruesome Goober wish everyone a happy Halloween, and when it irises out on all of them, Pat the Hapless as Gruesome Goober winks at the camera.
• In "All Out of Idea Bricks":
  • The show's opening title sequence segues directly into the episode itself by having Patrick pushing the show's logo off. He also interacts with the opening credits.
  • In the ending, when Patrick chases the idea bird from RandomLand, GrandPat appears and says "I have an idea: The end!" acknowledging the end of the episode, and the iris zooms out of the brick from his head.
• In "A Fool Schooled," when Patrick eats soap and bounces Cecil's eyes and the wall, when he mentions SpongeBob's name, the last few notes of the theme song is heard.
• In "Squidina's Holidaze Special," Santa's naughty list mentions the name of the episode's supervising producer Kenny Pittenger as "Kenny P."

Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years[]

Season 1[]

• In "Tag, You're It," SpongeBob tags the camera through the iris, as if he is tagging the viewer, and says "Tag! You're it!"

• In "Cabin of Curiosities," when Lady Upturn blows up the pile of money and gems, Mr. Krabs' wireframe body is shown, and he looks at the camera and screams as if he knows the audience can see him "naked."
• In "In Search of Camp Noodist," after Squidward lies down and tells Mr. Krabs that the latter goes on without him, the latter whistles the first notes of the SpongeBob SquarePants theme song while walking away.
• In "Camp SpongeBob":
  • The SpongeBob SquarePants theme song is heard when the sea bunnies blow a bubble of SpongeBob.
  • The episode ends with a sea bunny grabbing the iris out.
• In "First and Last Aid," when Mr. Krabs pushes down the bumps on SpongeBob's head, they play the tune of the theme song.
• In "Camp Crossbones," SpongeBob's holes play the SpongeBob SquarePants Theme Song.
• In "Reveille Revolution," at the end of the episode when Squidward gets his morning Reveille duties back, SpongeBob smiles at the camera and shows his drawing of Squidward.
• In "Prickly Pests," the ending of the episode reenacts the Kamp Koral Theme Song, but instead, Urnie invites other urchins in an urchin-like camp.
• In "Deep Sea Despot," someone plays the SpongeBob theme song on Squidward's clarinet.
• In "Scaredy Squirrel," the episode ends with the final notes of the SpongeBob theme song being played on an organ. Jimmy Blobfish then appears and says "I love you!" to the viewers.

Season 2[]

• In "Nite Owls," at the end when the fish owl kid is inside his treehole, he advises the viewer to sleep tight and says goodnight to them.
• At the end of "Un-Breaking and De-Entering," the iris pauses midway to SpongeBob and Patrick sleeping on the floor. Gary then appears and pulls the iris away.
• In "Putt Up or Shut Up":
  • When Patrick hands Squidward a club at the former's back, Squidward grumbles at the viewer before he tees off.
  • When Patrick hands Squidward his tongue to be used as a club and when the tongue licks Squidward, he grumbles at the viewer before he and Mr. Krabs tee off.
• In "A Finful of Sand Dollars," Mr. Krabs and Bubble Bass rip off the cinematic black bars during the showdown scene.
• In "End of Summer Daze," Sandy tells SpongeBob and Patrick she will use the express train home due to the SpongeBob SquarePants timeline for when she and SpongeBob meet for the first time in "Tea at the Treedome."

Other[]

SpongeBob SquarePants (musical)[]

• Characters often interact with the conductor.
• During "Bikini Bottom Day," SpongeBob tells Patrick that he is "singing an opening number."
• At one point, during his hellos, SpongeBob greets the live percussionist serving as the sound effects artist.
  • In the televised version, after his other greetings, SpongeBob greets all the viewers at home.
• The Electric Skates give Squidward a list so long, it actually crashes onto the conductor's keyboard, and causes chaos among the pit musicians, one of whom is heard yelling, "My leg!"
• At the end of Act One, the French Narrator tells the audience to "enjoy your last intermission ever." This line is replaced in the TV version since there is no intermission, but several ad breaks.
• During "Bikini Bottom Boogie," two ensemble members appear in the audience acting as crazy Electric Skate fans recording the song with a "shell phone," and at one point, take a "shellfie" with one lucky audience member. The photos were then posted onto the show's Instagram account.
• During the climax, Plankton and Karen appear in the audience to blast the top of Mt. Humongous to cause an avalanche.

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• Season 11 is the season with most fourth wall breaks, with 35 in total.
  • Season 7 is the season with the least, with only six.
  • "SpongeBob in RandomLand" is the episode with the most fourth wall breaks, with a total of six.
• Episodes with Patchy talking to the viewers break the fourth wall.
• The entirety of "Krusty Krab Training Video" and "Pick Patrick's Path" are a fourth wall break.

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