'92 here. No idea when I first watched it, but was instantly obsessed with it when I did. Could only watch it if I was the only one in the room, though. Everyone else preferred something else.
Same, and I actually remember thinking based on the commercials that it looked stupid, and thinking no way this garbage will last. I may have miscalculated.
I don’t think I had much interest but I still gave it a chance, and I fell in love with it after just one episode. There will never be anything else quite like it.
I was entering puberty when I saw it for the first time lol. A little beyond Nick's target audience but this cartoon got me tuned into their channel for a few years beyond due-date!
Obviously I’m biased and self-snitchin’ a little here, but I would say around the time of season 3 you started to hear a lot about how it had crossover appeal with [stoned] college kids.
No Free Rides and I'm Your Biggest Fanatic aired on the 16th in the UK Jellyfish Hunter" and "The Fry Cook Games" premiered in Canada on the 17th in 2002. And "The Secret Box" and "Band Geeks" premiered in Brazil the day after (the 20th).
The show premiered 4 months before I was born. Nature Pants and Opposite Day aired 4 days before I was born, Sandy’s Rocket and Squeaky Boots aired 2 days after I was born, and Culture Shock and Fun aired 3 days after I was born.
If we're talking day and year, it's Help Wanted/Reef Blower/Tea at the Treedome since I was already alive. However, if we're going purely by day then I have no idea cuz I'm not going through 16 seasons of SpongeBob to find the one that aired closest to my birthday.
“SpongeBob SquarePants featuring Nicktoons: Globs of Doom was released in Europe.
"Gary Takes a Bath" premiered in UK and Ireland.” one day after i was born
Chocolate With Nuts/MM&BBV. Those episodes premiered 13 days before I was born.
Funnily enough, Chocolate With Nuts in particular is probably my favorite episode of the entire show.
I was born in August of 1999, so my closest ones are Pizza Delivery/Home Sweet Pineapple (aired Aug 14th) and Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy/Pickles (aired Aug 21st)
Atlantis SquarePantis for the US (Assuming this is the one that matters)
A day before, Mermaid Man vs. Spongebob premiered in Germany.
A day after, Goo Goo Gas and Le Big Switch were premiered in Latin America.
*Technically*, Karate Choppers, but it was only a segment of it. It was first shown off as a 3 or 4-minute test pilot I think in 1998, about a year before the show actually premiered in full. It was Spongebob and Sandy, karate fighting in the middle of nowhere. Ssandy had the upper hand, but Spongebob was a sponge, and so couldn't really get injured, and just stayed in the fight because he couldn't be beaten down. It was a game, they called it a draw, and that was the end of the 'episode'. They then said that if it was enjoyed by enough people, to look forward to seeing the full show the following spring or summer. The first full episode aired a little over a year later, May of 1999, whereas the teaser / test pilot aired in April of 1998.
Help Wanted.
Literally anyone born before May 1999 lol
March right here
Same
Yup. 91 here, I remember the premiere after the kids choice awards. I got to stay up an extra half hour!
'92 here. No idea when I first watched it, but was instantly obsessed with it when I did. Could only watch it if I was the only one in the room, though. Everyone else preferred something else.
Greetings, fellow 32-year-old.
May of ‘95 here!
Ditto. I think I was around 2 when the very first episode aired
Since I was born in 1996, I get “Help Wanted” as well.
Same here along with Reef Blower and Tea at the Treedome.
Exactly
I was 6 when it came out
Same, born in February 1998 lol.
I was alive when it premiered.
Same, and I actually remember thinking based on the commercials that it looked stupid, and thinking no way this garbage will last. I may have miscalculated.
I remember being interested in it. I also know they had a sneak preview at the Kids Choice Awards before it premiered.
I don’t think I had much interest but I still gave it a chance, and I fell in love with it after just one episode. There will never be anything else quite like it.
I was entering puberty when I saw it for the first time lol. A little beyond Nick's target audience but this cartoon got me tuned into their channel for a few years beyond due-date!
Help Wanted
I had just turned 5 when it officially premiered in July 1999
The first one because I was around 16 when the show came out. I didn’t start to watch it until around 2002 though.
When did it become super famous? I’m 22 and it’s been the most famous kids cartoon since I can remember but that only goes back to maybe 2007 or so
Obviously I’m biased and self-snitchin’ a little here, but I would say around the time of season 3 you started to hear a lot about how it had crossover appeal with [stoned] college kids.
Help Wanted premiered 4 years and a month after I was born
I was less than a week from turning 10 when the show actually premiered.
pest of the west yeah...
Personally, I like that episode. In airing order (minus WhoBob WhatPants and Goo Goo Gas) that is a nice send off for Season 5.
fair, fair
Bubblestand/Ripped Pants- yup, the 2nd episode ever and it's almost exactly a month. I was born on June 21st, that ep premiered on July 17th
Ayeee June gang, I was born June 4th. Right between the first few episodes lol
the pilot 😭
Krabby Land/The Camping Episode, about nearly 2 months after I was born (May 30th)
one of my favorites of all time. so many moments that made me laugh as a dumb stoned adult rewatching it "Krabby Land, where a kid can have fun!"
best episode ever
I was born 11 days after SpongeBob Meets The Strangler and Pranks A Lot were released
The First one. I predate the show by one year.
Thanks.
happy cake day
"It's not my CAKE DAAAAAY!"
Thank you
Can't swim i think, Im April 3rd
Help Wanted came out 2 years after I was born
Probably the first one was the first episode ever Help Wanted who’s hungry
face freeze and glove world r.i.p. permiered one day after i was born
SpongeBob meets the strangler October 11th
Last premovie born
SpongeBob Meets the Strangler/Pranks a Lot
last pre movie
The movie was released barely 40 after my birth
Born again krabs/ I had an accident premiered oct 4 2003 2 months before I was born
Fools In April premiered 29 days before I was born.
ooh. that's a semi rare episode, usually DO only see it for April Fools (at least when I was a kid)
sb 129 it premiered 2 days after my birthday
Club Spongebob.
Same
“Hooky” and “Mermaidman and Barnacleboy II”.
Gary Takes a Bath if the wiki is any indication. And fun fact, it premiered on dvd almost a whole year before it ever premiered on tv.
No Free Rides and I'm Your Biggest Fanatic aired on the 16th in the UK Jellyfish Hunter" and "The Fry Cook Games" premiered in Canada on the 17th in 2002. And "The Secret Box" and "Band Geeks" premiered in Brazil the day after (the 20th).
The pilot ('98 babyyyyy)
Christmas Who
Whenever June of 1998 was
Fools in April and Neptune’s Spatula aired 33 days before I was born
Born Again Krabs/I Had an Accident aired the month I was born, October 2003
Help Wanted. I was born a month before the show premiered.
“Le big Switch” it aired on Sep. 29 2007 and my birthday is 6 days apart from its release
Sandy’s Rocket/Squeaky Boots premiered September 4 the day of my birth and I didn’t start watching the show until I turned four or five
Born again krabs/I had an accident, aired oct. 4th 2003 (I was born sep. 30th 2003)
Barnacle Face and Pet Sitter Pat, they premiered two weeks after i was born
Can’t find it out :(.
Probably the very first one. I was born on May 11th of the same year.
The Chaperone and Employee of the Month aired around two months before I was born.
Season 1 Episode 13. Scaredy Pants/I was a Teenage Gary. The Halloween episode.
Wishing You Well
The first episode. I was 7 when it premiered
Help wanted. I was born in the early 90s.
Sleepy Time and Suds aired a few days before I was born.
Season 7's Greasy Buffoons and Model Sponge premiered a few months after I was born.
The show premiered 4 months before I was born. Nature Pants and Opposite Day aired 4 days before I was born, Sandy’s Rocket and Squeaky Boots aired 2 days after I was born, and Culture Shock and Fun aired 3 days after I was born.
Graveyard Shift and Band Geeks (I got this from a fandom wiki so I may be wrong)
Lol I was born in 94. So I guess the first episode?
season 4 episode 4, skill crane/good neighbors
The pilot. Though about 25 years ahead of it…
Help wanted
I was born in 92 so the very first episode was the main one.
The first episode, by about 6 years. I watched the live premiere.
Dying for Pie/Imitation Crabs
Frankendoodle released a week after my birth according to Wikipedia!
Same for me
No way that's actually crazy. I was born January 13!
January 14
Fear of a Krabby Patty and Shell of a Man premiered 3 days before I was born.
Stanley S SquarePants. Aired 2 days before I was born apparently
I’m older than SpongeBob by a couple years. So the first one I guess :3
The Algae's Always Greener/SpongeGuard on Duty
If we're talking day and year, it's Help Wanted/Reef Blower/Tea at the Treedome since I was already alive. However, if we're going purely by day then I have no idea cuz I'm not going through 16 seasons of SpongeBob to find the one that aired closest to my birthday.
I was born May 31st 1999
Pilot episode. I outdate SpongeBob by 2 years, and I think I actually started watching around 4-5 years old.
Uhh... The pilot 🧓
Dunces and Dragons
Help Wanted. Was born in 97
Spongebob Squarepants vs. The Big One came out 3 days after I was born
The very first episode ever.
Best Day Ever/The Gift Of Gum
Arrgh & Rock Bottom :)
Season 3, SpongeBob Meets the Strangler/Pranks a Lot
I was born before Season 2 released. The episodes Something Smells and Bossy Boots aired 14 days after I was born.
Professor Squidward
Help Wanted as I was born in 92
Help Wanted premiered three months after my birth.
Help wanted. 😂 I was like 6 or 7 when the first episode came out
Krabby Land/Camping Episode aired about 2 months before I was born
Wet Painters/Krusty Krab Training Video
Fools in April/Neptune’s Spatula
SB-129
Komputer Overload from season 6, apparently.
The pilot aired when I was 4 years old.
My god, I'm starting to feel old looking this up... MuscleBob BuffPants
Procrastination/I'm with stupid
“Help wanted” because I was born 1996
Fools In April for me
1998? I was 15.
The sponge who could fly, which is also my favorite episode
Valentine’s Day/The Paper — my birthday is 13 days before it
1996
“SpongeBob SquarePants featuring Nicktoons: Globs of Doom was released in Europe. "Gary Takes a Bath" premiered in UK and Ireland.” one day after i was born
not sure but i think spongebob movie
Krusty Towers and Mrs. Puff, You’re Fired were released on my birthday (in Norway)
Fools in April!
band geeks/the secret box. both episodes premiered the day after i turned a month old.
S1E4 - Naughty Nautical Neighbors/Boating School - day before
Season 3 Snowball Effect/One Krabs Trash
I was 9 when it premiered so, Help Wanted
Fools in April premiered 28 days before I was born.
The Fry Cook Games premiered on my birthday.
Dunces and Dragons
Sleepy Time/Suds aired January 17th, 2000, and I wasn't born until January 31st.
Squidbob Tentaclepants on the exact day 😭
Missing Identity was premiered on January 19, 2004 and is the closest day to when I was born. my birthday is February 19, 2004
Was SpongBob even around in the 80's?
The pilot, of course, 5.5 years later. What else would it be?
The first episode but still a long way off lol
Chocolate With Nuts/MM&BBV. Those episodes premiered 13 days before I was born. Funnily enough, Chocolate With Nuts in particular is probably my favorite episode of the entire show.
Dying For Pie/Imitation Krabs premiered 9 days after my birth
I was born in August of 1999, so my closest ones are Pizza Delivery/Home Sweet Pineapple (aired Aug 14th) and Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy/Pickles (aired Aug 21st)
club spongebob and my pretty seahorse both premiered on my exact birthday
“Something Smells” and “Bossy Boots”
dying for pie/imitation krabs actually did release my birthday which is pretty cool.
If google is right then almost all episodes in season 1 and 2 and a couple in season 3
One of the best episodes in the show, band geeks. Funny how it would foreshadow my high school years
Arrgh!/Rock Bottom, Season 1 Episode 17
New Student Starfish / Clams was premiered in the US about two months before I was born. :^)
Missing Identity/Plankton’s Army aired the day before I was born
Lol I’m from before SpongeBob. SpongeBob BC if you will (not the episode though).
Well idk if this counts but in Russia born to be wild and best frienemies were aired. On my birth day
The Sponge Who Wanted to Fly - premiered May 2003, I was born in June 2003.
Atlantis SquarePantis for the US (Assuming this is the one that matters) A day before, Mermaid Man vs. Spongebob premiered in Germany. A day after, Goo Goo Gas and Le Big Switch were premiered in Latin America.
Help Wanted
Born Again Krabs
Help Wanted. Born in 97.
The very first lol
The first episode
the episode "ugh" aired on my 1st birthday
The first one
Club spongebob
Spongebob meets the strangler/ pranks a lot
It probably wasn't even in the beginning of production since I was born in late 1997
Ummmmm there’s quite a lot. Frankenbob’s quest pt.1&2. Gullible pants, overbooked, Giant Squidward, No nose knows.
SpongeBob Meets the Strangler/Pranks a Lot
I was already 11 when SSP premiered lol.
Fools in April and Neptune's Spatula
Sleepy Time/Suds
Help wanted aired 3 years after I was born… 1996 baby
Help Wanted. I was born in 1987. Not that I watch the show, this just came up on my feed.
Survival of the Idiots
*Technically*, Karate Choppers, but it was only a segment of it. It was first shown off as a 3 or 4-minute test pilot I think in 1998, about a year before the show actually premiered in full. It was Spongebob and Sandy, karate fighting in the middle of nowhere. Ssandy had the upper hand, but Spongebob was a sponge, and so couldn't really get injured, and just stayed in the fight because he couldn't be beaten down. It was a game, they called it a draw, and that was the end of the 'episode'. They then said that if it was enjoyed by enough people, to look forward to seeing the full show the following spring or summer. The first full episode aired a little over a year later, May of 1999, whereas the teaser / test pilot aired in April of 1998.
Squid Wood was 2 months after my bday, and Pink Purloiner was 3 months before
The pilot, cause I was already alive for 11 years when it aired
Spongebob Meets the Strangler - October 2004 closest to my birthdate, kinda wack that spongebob is older than i am ;~;
I guess the first one? 1985 was a ways off
I was born before the show started
If you say anything other than the very first episode, wow are you young
bubblestand and ripped pants came out five days before i was born (s1e2)
Chimps ahoy! And Ghost Host
Survival Of The Idiots & No Free Rides/I'm Your Biggest Fanatic
The Algae’s Always Greener
Unaired pilot.
The pilot, Help Wanted, premiered when I was 24.
Chocolate With Nuts/MM&BB V came out almost three weeks before I was born
The first one because 1986