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Time cards are used throughout SpongeBob SquarePants to represent how much time has passed within an episode, performed by the French Narrator. They are identified as time cards by Patrick in "Wet Painters" when he tells SpongeBob to hurry up since he is all out of time cards, breaking the fourth wall. So far, the record for the most time cards in an episode is five, in "Rock-a-Bye Bivalve."

The first time card ever used was "3 Days Later..." in "I Was a Teenage Gary," although the French Narrator did not read it. He would later read the next card, "2000 Years Later" seen in the very next episode, "SB-129" and so on. The "Twenty Years Earlier" time card in "License to Milkshake" is not read either.

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SpongeBob SquarePants[]

Picture	Text	Episode	Season
	3 Days Later... (unspoken)	"I Was a Teenage Gary"	1
	2000 Years Later	"SB-129"	1
	6½ Hours Later	"Imitation Krabs"	2
	A Few Inches Later	"Shanghaied"	2
	Day Two	"Band Geeks"	2
	Day Three	"Band Geeks"	2
	Day Four	"Band Geeks"	2
	A Few Moments Later	"Krusty Love"	2
	One Eternity Later	"Squid on Strike"	2
	Three Days Later	"My Pretty Seahorse"	3
	Twelve Seconds Later	"My Pretty Seahorse"	3
	3:28 AM	"As Seen on TV"	3
	Three Weeks Later	"Can You Spare a Dime?"	3
	Many Months Later	"Can You Spare a Dime?"	3
	So much later that the old narrator got tired of waiting and they had to hire a new one (Dee Bradley Baker's voice)	"Can You Spare a Dime?"	3
	Tomorrow	"Rock-a-Bye Bivalve"	3
	Tomorrow for Sure...	"Rock-a-Bye Bivalve"	3
	Eventually...	"Rock-a-Bye Bivalve"	3
	Uhhh...	"Rock-a-Bye Bivalve"	3
	12:00 Midnight	"Rock-a-Bye Bivalve"	3
	One Hour Later	"Wet Painters"	3
	Two Hours Later	"Wet Painters"	3
	Three Hours Later (Patrick: “Can you move it along? I'm all out of time cards.”)	"Wet Painters"	3
	Please Stand By (While Patchy pulls himself together, let's see how SpongeBob's party is shaping up.)	"Party Pooper Pants"	3
	Meanwhile	"Ugh"	3
	Two Hours Later	"The Great Snail Race"	3
	8:01 PM	"Mid-Life Crustacean"	3
	The Next Day	"Born Again Krabs"	3
	Later...	"Krabby Land"	3
	Twenty Minutes Later	"SpongeBob Meets the Strangler"	3
	Six Hours Later	"SpongeBob Meets the Strangler"	3
	Several Bad Puns Later	"Pranks a Lot"	3
	70 Years Later	"Patrick the Snowman"	Shorts
	Meanwhile	"The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie"	Movies
	Six Hours Later...	"Skill Crane"	4
	Later That Same Evening	"Funny Pants"	4
	Several Days Later	"Mrs. Puff, You're Fired"	4
	6 Months Later...	"Ghost Host"	4
	Two Hours Later	"Squidtastic Voyage"	4
	4 to 6 Weeks Later	"Hocus Pocus"	4
	One Minute, Thirty Seven Seconds Later...	"Driven to Tears"	4
	One Debt to Society Later...	"Driven to Tears"	4
	One Pair of Pants Later...	"The Pink Purloiner"	4
	Eight Hours Later...	"The Pink Purloiner"	4
	298 Frozen Patties Later...	"The Original Fry Cook"	5
	3 Hours Later	"Breath of Fresh Squidward"	5
	Epilogue	"Slimy Dancing"	5
	The Next Day	"Sing a Song of Patrick"	5
	Meanwhile at the Krusty Krab	"Le Big Switch"	5
	10 Seconds Later	"Pat No Pay"	5
	346 Minutes Later	"BlackJack"	5
	Much, Much, Much Later	"BlackJack"	5
	3 Days Later	"The Inmates of Summer"	5
	Opening Night...	"The Inmates of Summer"	5
	Later	"SpongeHenge"	5
	3000 Years Later	"SpongeHenge"	5
	One Week Later...	"Krabby Road"	6
	7:59 A.M.	"Nautical Novice"	6
	Three Weeks Later...	"Not Normal"	6
	3 Days Later...	"Gone"	6
	Two Hours Later... (shown twice)	"Sun Bleached"	6
	48 Hours Later	"No Nose Knows"	6
	8 Hours Later...	"Plankton's Regular"	6
	The Following Thursday...	"Porous Pockets"	6
	5 Minutes Later...	"Cephalopod Lodge"	6
	24 Hours Later	"Squid's Visit"	6
	Much Later	"To SquarePants or Not to SquarePants"	6
	Much, Much Later....	"To SquarePants or Not to SquarePants"	6
	7 Hours Later...	"No Hat for Pat"	6
	Epilogue	"No Hat for Pat"	6
	Several Song Filled Hours Later...	"Toy Store of Doom"	6
	A Few Minutes Later...	"Chum Bucket Supreme"	6
	A Little Longer Than a Few Minutes Later	"Chum Bucket Supreme"	6
	Two Hours Later	"Chum Bucket Supreme"	6
	3 Days Later	"Chum Bucket Supreme"	6
	(sniffles) 15 Minutes Later...	"Chum Caverns"	6
	Several Months Later...	"The Curse of Bikini Bottom"	7
	Thousands of Tears Later	"A Day Without Tears"	7
	16 Paranoia Filled Days Later	"One Coarse Meal"	7
	Two Hours Later	"Gary in Love"	7
	Much, Much Later...	"The Monster Who Came to Bikini Bottom"	7
	Yesterday...	"The Monster Who Came to Bikini Bottom"	7
	Many Hours Later...	"The Curse of the Hex"	7
	75 Years Later	"The Great Patty Caper"	7
	2 Hours Later	"Buried in Time"	7
	One Extremely Annoying Shift Later...	"Enchanted Tiki Dreams"	7
	Two Very Boring Minutes Later...	"Tunnel of Glove"	7
	Three Hours Later...	"Tunnel of Glove"	7
	One Weiner Later...	"Krusty Dogs"	7
	The Following Day...	"Krusty Dogs"	7
	Meanwhile...	"Drive Thru"	8
	Later...	"Drive Thru"	8
	Just Then...	"Drive Thru"	8
	Brief Construction Montage (shown twice) (What follows is a brief construction montage; We hope you enjoyed this brief construction montage)	"A Friendly Game"	8
	Meanwhile, Back in the Lowlands...	"Frozen Face-Off"	8
	One Frozen Wasteland Later...	"Frozen Face-Off"	8
	One Hour Later	"Patrick's Staycation"	8
	5 Hours Later...	"Patrick's Staycation"	8
	Two Days Later.....	"Sandy's Vacation in Ruins"	Shorts
	Later, in the void...	"Ghoul Fools"	8
	Approximately 10 Hours Later...	"Plankton's Good Eye"	8
	Early the Next Morning...	"The Way of the Sponge"	8
	One Shift Later...	"Restraining SpongeBob"	8
	Two Weeks Later...	"Are You Happy Now?"	8
	Eleven Minutes Later...	"Planet of the Jellyfish"	8
	Five Minutes Later...	"Free Samples"	8
	A Lot of Boring Math Later...	"For Here or to Go"	8
	Twenty-Four Hours Later...	"Chum Fricassee"	8
	One Week Later...	"Chum Fricassee"	8
	One Long Angry Line Later...	"Hello Bikini Bottom!"	8
	Twenty Years Earlier... (unspoken)	"License to Milkshake"	9
	72 Hours Later...	"Squid Baby"	9
	Two Hours Later	"Don't Look Now"	9
	Just Then...	"Yeti Krabs"	9
	...By Sheer Coincidence...	"Yeti Krabs"	9
	The Next Morning...	"SpongeBob You're Fired"	9
	242 Explosions Later...	"The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water"	Movies (Cut)
	Montage	"The Executive Treatment"	9
	The Next Morning...	"Sanctuary!"	9
	Many Tic Tacs Later...	"Patrick! The Game"	9
	Flashback	"Larry's Gym"	9
	End of Flashback	"Larry's Gym"	9
	The (Very) Next Evening...	"Larry's Gym"	9
	One Hour Later...	"Mall Girl Pearl"	9
	The Next Day...	"Goodbye, Krabby Patty?"	9
	Later...	"Goodbye, Krabby Patty?"	9
	4 to 6 Days Later...	"Snail Mail"	9
	4 to 6 More Days Later...	"Snail Mail"	9
	The Next Morning...	"Pineapple Invasion"	9
	Moments Later...	"Pineapple Invasion"	9
	More Moments Later...	"Pineapple Invasion"	9
	One Semester Later...	"Salsa Imbecilicus"	9
	Ahhh... Graduation Day	"Salsa Imbecilicus"	9
	One Hour Later... (Realistic Fish Head's voice)	"Mermaid Pants"	10
	Five Minutes Later...	"Code Yellow"	10
	80,000 Impressions Later... (Would you please stop imitating me? It is starting to get very annoying.)	"Mimic Madness"	10
	3,000 Wup-Poos Later...	"House Worming"	10
	Soon After...	"House Worming"	10
	Later... (shown twice)	"Snooze You Lose"	10
	Moments Later...	"Snooze You Lose"	10
	The Next Morning...	"SpongeBob's Place"	10
	Many Unbearable Hours Later...	"Plankton Gets the Boot"	10
	82 Kilometers Later...	"Plankton Retires"	10
	A Little Later...	"Bike Safety Tips"	Shorts
	3 Hours Later...	"Out of the Picture"	10
	One Season Later...	"The Clam Whisperer"	11
	Many Secret Patties Later...	"Krabby Patty Creature Feature"	11
	Moments Later...	"Krabby Patty Creature Feature"	11
	One Nap Later...	"Squid Noir"	11
	One Very Long Digestive Tract Later...	"Scavenger Pants"	11
	Six Months Later...	"Scavenger Pants"	11
	One Pathetic Sob-Story Later...	"Grandmum's the Word"	11
	Later...	"Shopping List"	11
	Many, Many Minutes Later...	"Whale Watching"	11
	Three Hours Later...	"Plankton Paranoia"	11
	The Next Morning...	"Plankton Paranoia"	11
	One Shift Later...	"Appointment TV"	11
	The Next Day...	"Appointment TV"	11
	Zee Next Morning...	"The Grill is Gone"	11
	Later...	"Bubbletown"	11
	The Next... (coughs and gags) The Next Morning...	"The Ballad of Filthy Muck"	12
	Later That Night...	"The Krusty Slammer"	12
	The Next Day...	"The Krusty Slammer"	12
	One Weekend of Pampering Later...	"Gary's Got Legs"	12
	Several Days Later...	"Plankton's Old Chum"	12
	1 Hour Later...	"Broken Alarm"	12
	Late Again...	"Broken Alarm"	12
	You Get the Idea!	"Broken Alarm"	12
	Eight Semesters Later...	"Karen's Baby"	12
	6 Months Later... (Realistic Fish Head's voice)	"Dirty Bubble Returns"	12
	Meanwhile...	"Biddy Sitting"	12
	5,000 Celebrities Later...	"SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout"	12 (Trailer only)
	One Little Boost to the Surface Later...	"SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout"	12
	A few minutes later... (training announcer's voice)	"The Goofy Newbie"	12
	One hour later... (training announcer's voice)	"The Goofy Newbie"	12
	Five Billion Years Later (robotic voice)	"The Goofy Newbie"	12
	Zee Next Morning...	"Pat Hearts Squid"	12
	Later	"The Hankering"	12
	Later That Night...	"Plankton's Intern"	12
	Zee Next Evening	"Kooky Cooks"	12
	One Operation Later...	"Kooky Cooks"	12
	One Million, Zillion, Jillion, Dillion, Cotillion Times Later...	"Escape from Beneath Glove World"	12
	Meanwhile... (Meanwhile, in the palace of King Poseidon, ruler of the seven seas...)	"The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run"	Movies
	Zee Next Morning...	"Goofy Scoopers"	13
	Later...	"Goofy Scoopers"	13
	One Hour Later	"Pat the Dog"	13
	Seven Months Later...	"SpongeBob's Road to Christmas"	13
	The Next Christmas	"SpongeBob's Road to Christmas"	13
	Several Long Days Later	"There Will Be Grease"	13
	Many, Many Toys Later...	"The Big Bad Bubble Bass"	13
	Twelve Sleepless Hours Later...	"Plane to Sea"	13
	The Next Morning...	"You're Going to Pay...Phone"	13
	The Next Morning...	"Abandon Twits"	13
	Many Frame-building Attempts Later...	"Abandon Twits"	13
	Even More Boat-building Attempts Later...	"Abandon Twits"	13
	One Day Later...	"Salty Sponge"	13
	One Humongous Meal Later...	"Karen for Spot"	13
	A Little While Later...	"Arbor Day Disarray"	13
	Later That Night...	"Ain't That the Tooth"	13
	One-- (clears throat) Entrée Later	"Ma and Pa's Big Hurrah"	13
	4 PM (4 o'clock in the Afternoon)	"Ma and Pa's Big Hurrah"	13
	Several Bouquets Later...	"The Flower Plot"	13
	Ten Hours Later...	"SpongeBob on Parade"	13
	80 Minutes Later...	"Delivery to Monster Island"	13
	Many Memories Later...	"Ride Patrick Ride"	13
	One Week Later...	"Sir Urchin and Snail Fail"	13
	Later That Evening (Happy friendiversary)	"Friendiversary"	13
	Later... (Fishmael Tentacles' voice)	"Dopey Dick"	13
	Later	"Plankton and the Beanstalk"	13
	Later...	"Spatula of the Heavens"	13
	Many, Many Unbearable Moments Later...	"Spatula of the Heavens"	13
	The Next Morning...	"Gary's Playhouse"	13
	Many Adorable Hours Later...	"Gary's Playhouse"	13
	Several Days Later...	"Allergy Attack!"	13
	Much Later...	"Allergy Attack!"	13
	One Week Later...	"Big Top Flop"	13
	One Beautiful Christmas Morning Later	"Twas the Night Before Spongemas"	Stand-alone special
	Many Versions Later...	"Single-Celled Defense"	14
	One Week Later...	"Buff for Puff"	14
	Many Meeps Later...	"SpongeChovy"	14
	2,000 ish Years Later...	"PL-1413"	14
	Many Buckets Later... (spoken by Realistic Fish Head)	"The Dirty Bubble Bass"	14
	Meanwhile	"Sandy's Country Christmas"	14
	Many Repressed Memories Later...	"Unidentified Flailing Octopus"	15
	The Next Morning...	"Bad Luck Bob"	15
	One Nap Later	"The Sandman Cometh"	15
	24 Sleepless Hours Later	"The Sandman Cometh"	15
	Several Days Later	"The Sandman Cometh"	15
	One Journey Through Space Later...	"Biscuit Ballyhoo"	15
	Much Tranquility Later...	"Stuck in an Elevator"	15
	Many Invitations Later	"Dome Alone"	15
	Six to Eight Weeks Later	"Dome Alone"	15
	Two Weeks Later	"Wary Gary"	15
	One Hour Later	"Pinned"	15
	Many Hours Later	"Pinned"	15
	14 Hours Later...	"Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie"	Movies
	Days Later...	"Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie"	Movies
	Many Plays Later	"SpongeBob's Super Bowl Party"	Stand-alone special
	Many Superstitions Later	"SpongeBob's Super Bowl Party"	Stand-alone special

Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years[]

Picture	Text	Episode	Season
	Not Much Later...	"Sugar Squeeze"	1 (Kamp Koral)
	Nine Hours Later...	"Cabin of Curiosities"	1 (Kamp Koral)
	Many Hours of Funtime Later...	"Midnight Snack Attack"	1 (Kamp Koral)
	One Minute Later...	"Hard Time Out"	1 (Kamp Koral)
	Later That Day...	"Hard Time Out"	1 (Kamp Koral)
	Many Chilly Hours Later...	"Squisery"	1 (Kamp Koral)
	The Next Day...	"My Fair Nobby"	1 (Kamp Koral)
	One Full Day of Fatherly Fun Later...	"Help Not Wanted"	1 (Kamp Koral)
	One Smelly Week Later...	"Night of the Living Stench"	1 (Kamp Koral)
	One Week Later...	"The Jelly Life"	1 (Kamp Koral)
	The Next Day...	"Kamp Kow"	1 (Kamp Koral)
	The Next Morning, Like Every Morning...	"Reveille Revolution"	1 (Kamp Koral)
	Stupid Early the Next Morning...	"Reveille Revolution"	1 (Kamp Koral)
	The Very Next Day...	"Reveille Revolution"	1 (Kamp Koral)
	The Next Morning...	"Prickly Pests"	1 (Kamp Koral)
	One Minute Later...	"Deep Sea Despot"	1 (Kamp Koral)
	The Next Morning...	"Deep Sea Despot"	1 (Kamp Koral)
	The Next Morning...	"The Taste of Defeat"	1 (Kamp Koral)
	One Week Later...	"Scaredy Squirrel"	1 (Kamp Koral)
	Meanwhile, Deep in the Kelp Forest...	"Five Times the Fun"	2 (Kamp Koral)
	237 Holes Later...	"Nut Madness"	2 (Kamp Koral)
	Many Hours Later...	"Un-Breaking and De-Entering"	2 (Kamp Koral)
	Many Boring Hours of Cleaning Later...	"Un-Breaking and De-Entering"	2 (Kamp Koral)
	Ten Minutes Later	"Swimmin' Holed"	2 (Kamp Koral)
	Later That Day...	"Lords of the Larp"	2 (Kamp Koral)
	Several Soda-Fueled Hours Later	"Lords of the Larp"	2 (Kamp Koral)
	The Next Level	"Lords of the Larp"	2 (Kamp Koral)
	Many Meeps Later...	"Mascot Mayhem"	2 (Kamp Koral)
	13 Seconds Later	"Putt Up or Shut Up"	2 (Kamp Koral)
	Many, Many Painful Holes Later	"Putt Up or Shut Up"	2 (Kamp Koral)
	Several Weeks Later	"Who's Complaining?"	2 (Kamp Koral)
	A Couple of Hours Later...	"Patrick's Star"	2 (Kamp Koral)
	One Movie Later	"Cretins of the Night"	2 (Kamp Koral)

The Patrick Star Show[]

Picture	Text	Episode	Season
	Two Idiots Later...	"Bummer Jobs"	1 (The Patrick Star Show)
	Later...	"Squidina's Little Helper"	1 (The Patrick Star Show)
	Later Still...	"Squidina's Little Helper"	1 (The Patrick Star Show)
	More Later-er...	"Squidina's Little Helper"	1 (The Patrick Star Show)
	The Next Morning...	"Just in Time for Christmas"	1 (The Patrick Star Show)
	Zee Next Day in a Parallel Universe	"X Marks the Pot"	1 (The Patrick Star Show)
	The Next Day...	"Host-a-Palooza"	1 (The Patrick Star Show)
	The Next Day...	"Host-a-Palooza"	1 (The Patrick Star Show)
	One Soggy Week Later...	"The Drooling Fool"	1 (The Patrick Star Show)
	Many Attempts to Fix the Past Later...	"The Patterfly Effect"	1 (The Patrick Star Show)
	Many, Many, Many, Forks Later...	"Home ECCH!"	1 (The Patrick Star Show)
	The Next Day...	"Stuntin'"	1 (The Patrick Star Show)
	One Nanosecond Later...	"Super Stars"	2 (The Patrick Star Show)
	Many Disorderly Days Later...	"10 & 1 Toilets"	2 (The Patrick Star Show)
	Ten Minutes Later...	"The Commode Episode"	2 (The Patrick Star Show)
	Many Heartfelt Traditions Later...	"Tying the Klop-Knot"	2 (The Patrick Star Show)
	Six Messy Days Later	"Cleanin' House"	2 (The Patrick Star Show)
	Meanwhile...	"The Fun Bucket"	3 (The Patrick Star Show)
	Twelve Years Later...	"Who's the Dummy Now?"	3 (The Patrick Star Show)
	The Next Morning...	"Who's the Dummy Now?"	3 (The Patrick Star Show)
	Many Amusements Later...	"Patrick Show Land"	3 (The Patrick Star Show)
	6 Hours Later...	"A Patty in Time"	3 (The Patrick Star Show)
	Later that Same Whoopsie-Doodle Day	"Patty Poo"	3 (The Patrick Star Show)
	Meanwhile Back on the Patrick Show...	"Patty Poo"	3 (The Patrick Star Show)
[[Image:|70px]]	The Next Morning...	"Something Stupid This Way Comes"	3 (The Patrick Star Show)

Miscellaneous[]

Picture	Text	Episode	Season
	Two Weeks Later...	"SpongeBob SquarePants Typing"	Video game
	Limited Time Only!	"Kraft SpongeBob SquarePants Macaroni and Cheese"	Promotional
	15 Minutes Later (unspoken)	"Plankton's Patty Plunder"	Online game
	A Few Hours Later...	"SpongeBob's Game Frenzy"	App game
	Much Later... (unspoken)	"SpongeBob's Game Frenzy"	App game
	A Little Later... (unspoken)	"SpongeBob's Game Frenzy"	App game
	Twelve Seconds Later...	"Minecraft x SpongeBob DLC"	Minecraft DLC
	Three Annoying Songs Later...	"Minecraft x SpongeBob DLC"	Minecraft DLC
	A Very Boring Walk Later...	"Minecraft x SpongeBob DLC"	Minecraft DLC
	One Scary Road Later...	"Minecraft x SpongeBob DLC"	Minecraft DLC
	Spoiler Alert!	"The Cosmic Shake"	Meet the Bikini Bottomites Trailer only
	A Few Seconds Later...	"The Cosmic Shake"	Video game
	A Few Seconds Later...	"The Cosmic Shake"	Video game
	One Loading Screen Later...	"The Cosmic Shake"	Video game
	One Loading Screen Later...	"The Cosmic Shake"	Video game
	47 Seconds Later	"The Cosmic Shake"	Video game
	One Hour Later	"The Cosmic Shake"	Video game
	Two Hours Later	"The Cosmic Shake"	Video game
	Three Hours Later	"The Cosmic Shake"	Video game
	Many Moments Later...	"The Cosmic Shake"	Video game
	An Eternity Later...	"The Cosmic Shake"	Video game
	A Few Moments Later	"PowerWash Simulator SpongeBob SquarePants Special Pack‎"	Launch Trailer only
	Eleven Minutes Later...	"SpongeBob's Crazy Carnival Ride"	Amusement ride
	One Load Screen Later...	"SpongeBob Simulator"	Video game
	A Few Moments Later	"Brawl Stars x SpongeBob SquarePants Event"	Video game
	Several Bad Puns Later	"The Patrick Star Game"	Video game
	One Pair of Pants Later...	"The Patrick Star Game"	Video game
	3000 Years Later	"The Patrick Star Game"	Video game
	Twelve Sleepless Hours Later	"The Patrick Star Game"	Video game

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Trivia[]

• "Rock-a-Bye Bivalve" is the episode with the most time cards, having five. In fact, it has more time cards than the entirety of season 1.
• A time card reading "The Next Day.." mistakenly appears during the credits on disc 4 of The Complete Ninth Season.
• The most common time card is "Two hours later," which has a total of nine appearances in the show, appearing in "Wet Painters," "The Great Snail Race," "Squidtastic Voyage," "Sun Bleached" (shown twice), "Chum Bucket Supreme," "Gary in Love," "Buried in Time" (shown with the number instead of the word), and "Don't Look Now."
  • If not counting a specific time to be said later, then "Later" is one of the two most common time cards, which also has nine appearances in the show.
  • The "70 Years Later" time card is spoken by Stephen Hughes instead of the French Narrator.
  • This does not count the other "Later" time cards such as:
    • "Later, in the void..."
    • "Later That Night," etc.
• The time card "So much later that the old narrator got tired of waiting and they had to hire a new one" is the longest of all of the time cards in the series, with 19 words and 69 letters.
• The time card "The Next Day" in "Born Again Krabs" is the only time card so far to feature characters. It has SpongeBob, Patrick, Mr. Krabs, and Squidward in the corners.
  • If counting not only characters that are in the time card itself, then "Mimic Madness" is the second time where a time card features a character.
• The "One Eternity Later" time card displays the longest passage of time in the series: an eternity.
• The "Three Hours Later" time card in "Wet Painters" is the first one in the series to be held by a character, being Patrick. It would be followed by "One Little Boost to the Surface Later" in "SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout," which was held by the French Narrator.
• The time cards "Just Then..." and "...By Sheer Coincidence..." in "Yeti Krabs" is by so far the only instance in which more than one time card was represented in one phrase.
• The "Uhhh..." time card is the shortest time card with 4 letters, "Later..." being the second with 5 letters.
• The "The Next Morning..." time card in "Sanctuary!" is the same pattern as SpongeBob's pineapple, with a magenta aura.
• The "Two Hours Later" time card from "Don't Look Now" is the last time card to not use an ellipsis at the end. All time cards starting with the "Just Then..." and "...By Sheer Coincidence..." time cards from "Yeti Krabs" have an ellipsis at the end. This would be the case until the "Five Billion Years Later" time card in "The Goofy Newbie".
• The "70 Years Later" (Patrick the Snowman), "Meanwhile" (The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie), "2 Days Later" (Sandy's Vacation in Ruins), "A Little Later..." (Bike Safety Tips), and "Meanwhile..." (The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run) time cards are (currently) the only time cards without a season.
• The very first time card from "I Was a Teenage Gary" (3 Days Later...) and the time card, "Twenty Years Earlier..." from "License to Milkshake" are the only time cards that the French Narrator doesn't read.
• The "Brief Construction Montage" time card in "A Friendly Game" is read differently than what it reads in the two instances in the episode it is used.
  • In the first use of the card, the French Narrator reads, "What follows is a brief construction montage." In the second, he reads, "We hope you enjoyed this brief construction montage."
• The episodes "Sun Bleached," "A Friendly Game," and "Snooze You Lose" are currently the only episodes to display the exact same time card more than once.
  • "Abandon Twits" is the only time a time card from a previous episode has been reused, being reused from "You're Going to Pay... Phone."
• In some dubs, the time card "3 Days Later..." time card from "I Was a Teenage Gary" is read out.
• Season 1 is the season with the least time cards, having two.
• Season 13 is the season with the most time cards, having 33.
• The "80,000 Impressions Later..." time card in "Mimic Madness" has SpongeBob reading this, imitating the French Narrator, who says, "Would you please stop imitating me? It is starting to get very annoying."
• The "The Next Evening..." time card in "Larry's Gym" is read as "The Very Next Evening..."
• The "Later" time card in "SpongeHenge," although by coincidence, is reminiscent of Toonami's sign off bumper, which also reads, "Later." However, the bumper is not read out loud.
• The "One Weiner Later..." title card is misspelled, and should read, "One Wiener Later..." However, "weiner" is sometimes considered an alternate spelling.
• The time card "One Hour Later..." from "Mermaid Pants" and "6 Months Later..." from "Dirty Bubble Returns" is read by the Realistic Fish Head rather than the French Narrator.
• The "70 Years Later" time card from "Patrick the Snowman" is the only time card to be narrated by Nigel Thornberry from The Wild Thornberrys.

• The time cards in the SpongeBob style have been very popular internet memes among YouTubers. They were even parodied in the Disney Channel shows Milo Murphy's Law season 1 episode "Fungus Among Us" which the episode title shares the same title to a season 5 episode as their time card also had a voice similar to the French Narrator and the Amphibia season 2 episode "The First Temple." It was also shown twice in The Garfield Movie, where Vic was trying to talk to Garfield in the dead mall scene, and also when Jon was calling the animal rescue shelter only to be on hold behind a thousand callers. Both time cards were not narrated. In the Teen Titans Go! episode "DC," the way Cyborg says "A half hour later..." is reminiscent of the French Narrator narrating the time cards.
• In "The Goofy Newbie," the "A few minutes later" and "One hour later" time cards" are read by a training announcer while "Five billion years later" time card is read by a robotic voice.
• The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water is the only movie so far not to have a time card. However, it did have a scrapped one reading "242 Explosions Later..."

Time card design trivia[]

• The pattern of the time card, "Epilogue" from "No Hat for Pat" would be reused for the ninth-season episode, "Mall Girl Pearl," except the title card was pink with magenta instead of green.
• The "Meanwhile" time card in "Ugh" is actually written on a prehistoric wall, with drawings of two jellyfish and prehistoric hand prints.
• The "75 Years Later" time card in "The Great Patty Caper" has the same background as the title card for the first-season episode, "Pizza Delivery."
• The background of the "One Extremely Annoying Shift Later..." time card in "Enchanted Tiki Dreams" would be reused for the title card for the ninth-season episode, "The Executive Treatment."
• The "One Long Angry Line Later..." time card in "Hello Bikini Bottom!" has the same background as the title card for the sixth-season episode, "House Fancy." It is also the last time card to be standard definition.
• The time card, "Twelve Seconds Later" in "My Pretty Seahorse" has an edited version of the first-season episode, "Help Wanted" title card.
  • Likewise, the "Three Days Later" time card has the same background as the title card in "Squidville."
• The "Several Song Filled Hours Later..." time card in "Toy Store of Doom" uses the same background as the title card of "Squid Wood," and "Patrick's Staycation, afterwards."
• The "2000 Years Later" time card from "SB-129" uses a recolored version of the background from the title card of "Pickles."
• The "A Few Inches Later" time card in "Shanghaied" would be later reused in the background and font for the title card of "Patrick SmartPants."
• The "Twenty Minutes Later" time card from "SpongeBob Meets the Strangler" uses the same title card background from "Graveyard Shift."
• The "Three Weeks Later" time card from "Can You Spare a Dime?" uses the same title card background for "Jellyfish Hunter."
• The "Day Three" time card in "Band Geeks" uses the same background and font color from the title card of "I Was a Teenage Gary," which is the episode with the very first time card.
• The "One Eternity Later" time card from "Squid on Strike" has the same background as the title card of "The Paper."
• The "Many Months Later" time card from "Can You Spare a Dime?" uses a recolored version of the title card background from "Walking Small."
• The "Two Days Later" time card from the short "Sandy's Vacation in Ruins" has exactly the same title card background as "No Hat for Pat."
• The time card "The Following Thursday..." in "Porous Pockets" has the same background from the title cards of "Naughty Nautical Neighbors" and "Summer Job."
• The "Meanwhile..." time card from "Drive Thru" uses a recolored version of the "Hall Monitor" title card background.
• The "Several Bad Puns Later" time card from "Pranks a Lot" uses a recolored version of the "Opposite Day" title card background.
• The background of the "4-6 Weeks Later" time card from "Hocus Pocus" would be reused for the title card of "Pat No Pay."
• The "346 Minutes Later" time card in "BlackJack" is the same background for the title card of "Mrs. Puff, You're Fired" except its saturation is a little bit pale and has vignette on it.
• The "5 Billion Years Later" time card from "The Goofy Newbie" uses same the font color as "SB-129"s title card except slightly recolored.
• The "The Next Day..." time card from "Appointment TV" uses the same background as the "The Following Day..." time card from "Krusty Dogs", except it's higher in contrast and slightly more hue.
• The "One Hour Later" time cards from "Wet Painters" and "Patrick's Staycation" are exactly the same, except the latter's is slightly zoomed in and recolored.
  • The "One Hour Later" time card from "Pat the Dog" is also the same, but in widescreen.
  • "Mall Girl Pearl" and "Mermaid Pants" however, used the same fontwork, except that both are arranged differently and have full stops at the end.
• The "6 Months Later" time cards from "Ghost Host" and "Dirty Bubble Returns" are exactly the same, except the latter's is zoomed out slightly and recolored.
• The "7:59 A.M." time card from "Nautical Novice" and The "One Shift Later... time card " from "Restraining SpongeBob" are uses the same title card background from "Wormy" but without bubbles.

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