Episode 1: Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV
2002-01-2111 min
After Mermaid Man accidentally drops his utility belt, SpongeBob finds it and can't resist trying it on.
Season guide
SpongeBob SquarePants Season 3 — Episodes and Where to Watch
40 episodes · first aired 2002-01-20
Check out some of the funniest moments in SpongeBob history, like when Plankton trades lives with Mr. Krabs, SpongeBob patrols the beach, Patrick comes to school, the boys go camping, SpongeBob throws a party to remember, and more!
Episode guide
Episode 2: Doing Time
2002-01-2111 min
After SpongeBob accidentally drives into a shipment of juice to the senior home, Mrs. Puff is mistakenly arrested.
Episode 3: Welcome to the Chum Bucket
2002-01-2111 min
SpongeBob is forced to work at the Chum Bucket.
Episode 4: Frankendoodle
2002-01-2111 min
SpongeBob creates DoodleBob.
Episode 5: Snowball Effect
2002-02-2211 min
SpongeBob and Patrick try to show Squidward how much fun it can be to play in the snow.
Episode 6: One Krab's Trash
2002-02-2212 min
Mr. Krabs has a garage sale and sells SpongeBob the most valuable of items.
Episode 7: Nasty Patty
2002-03-0111 min
A health inspector shows up at the Krusty Krab, and while he is there, SpongeBob and Mr. Krabs see the news about a guy passing himself off as a health inspector to get free food. Mr. Krabs is so mad he and SpongeBob make a Krabby Patty made with a bunch of nasty things. After it is served to the inspector he chokes on a fly and the two think he died from the patty. They later find out that he was a real health inspector, and that the other one was caught. Now, what will SpongeBob and Mr. Krabs do with the dead health inspector?
Episode 8: Idiot Box
2002-03-0111 min
SpongeBob and Patrick buy a big screen TV, just so they can use the box using imagination, while Squidward refuses to believe that they are using their imagination inside the box on account of all the noise they are making.
Episode 9: As Seen on TV
2002-03-0811 min
After SpongeBob has a small role in a commercial for the Krusty Krab, he thinks he is now famous.
Episode 10: Can You Spare a Dime?
2002-03-0811 min
Squidward quits his job after Mr. Krabs accuses him of stealing the first dime he ever made, but Squidward has a hard time finding a new job.
Episode 11: No Weenies Allowed
2002-03-1511 min
Spongebob must find a way to prove that he's tough so he can get into the Salty Spitoon.
Episode 12: Squilliam Returns
2002-03-1512 min
When Squidward's old school rival, Squilliam, returns to Bikini Bottom to brag to Squidward, Squidward tells him that he owns a five star restaurant to get him to stop. Squidward must get Spongebob to turn the Krusty Krab into a fancy restaurant before Squilliam arrives.
Episode 13: The Algae's Always Greener
2002-03-2212 min
Plankton invents a machine enabling him to switch lives with Mr. Krabs, but he finds out that Mr. Krab's life isn't as good as it seems.
Episode 14: SpongeGuard on Duty
2002-03-2211 min
SpongeBob volunteers for a lifeguard job, despite the fact that he can't swim.
Episode 15: Krab Borg
2002-03-2912 min
After watching a horror movie, SpongeBob thinks that Mr. Krabs is a robot.
Episode 16: Rock-a-Bye Bivalve
2002-03-2911 min
SpongeBob and Patrick find an abandoned clam and decide to take care of it.
Episode 17: Wet Painters
2002-05-1011 min
Mr. Krabs has SpongeBob and Patrick paint the inside of his house, with a strict rule to not get paint on anything besides the walls.
Episode 18: Krusty Krab Training Video
2002-05-1012 min
A training video for new employees of the Krusty Krab, which goes over the basics of being a good employee.
Episode 19: Party Pooper Pants
2002-05-1724 min
SpongeBob buys a "Throw The Best Party Ever" kit and invites all 177 of his closest friends to a house party. But when he accidentally locks himself out of his house during the party, he must try to get back in.
Episode 20: Chocolate with Nuts
2002-06-0111 min
SpongeBob and Patrick decide to become rich entrepreneurs by selling chocolate bars door to door.
Episode 21: Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V
2002-06-0112 min
After being treated too much like a child by everyone, Barnacle Boy quits being a superhero and decides to be a supervillain.
Episode 22: Club SpongeBob
2002-07-1211 min
SpongeBob and Patrick's club is too small for Squidward... literally. But Squidward forces his way in, "propelling" the clubhouse into the middle of nowhere.
Episode 23: My Pretty Seahorse
2002-07-1211 min
It's spring in Bikini Bottom, and SpongeBob finds a wild seahorse and decides to keep her.
Episode 24: Graveyard Shift
2002-09-0612 min
SpongeBob and Squidward work the night shift.
Episode 25: Krusty Love
2002-09-0612 min
Mr. Krabs falls in love with Mrs. Puff.
Episode 26: New Student Starfish
2002-09-2012 min
Patrick gets bored everyday when SpongeBob goes to boating school, so SpongeBob insists that Patrick could join him. But what happens when Patrick makes SpongeBob lose a Noodle Student Star?
Episode 27: Clams
2002-09-2012 min
In celebration of Mr. Krabs' one millionth dollar, he takes Squidward and SpongeBob on a fishing trip. After a giant clam snatches his precious dollar, Mr. Krabs tries to get it back.
Episode 28: The Great Snail Race
2003-01-2412 min
When Squidward gets a purebred snail named Snelle, SpongeBob challenges him in the great snail race.
Episode 29: Mid-Life Crustacean
2003-01-2411 min
When Mr. Krabs feels like an aging old man, he tries to feel young again, so he goes out with SpongeBob and Patrick for a night on the town.
Episode 30: The Sponge Who Could Fly
2003-03-2124 min
SpongeBob tries his best to make an invention that allows him to fly. When all of them fail, people start to think that SpongeBob is crazy until he puts a hair dryer his pants. The hot air in his pants allows him to fly! But then, people start asking SpongeBob to do things for them, stopping him from flying with the jellyfish.
Episode 31: Gary Takes a Bath
2003-07-267 min
The day that Gary has to take a bath arrives, but he doesn't want to take one.
Episode 32: Born Again Krabs
2003-10-0412 min
After Mr. Krabs eats a rotten Krabby Patty to save money, he ends up hospitalized for food poisoning and bargains with the Flying Dutchman for his soul, leading him to second-guess his cheap and miserly ways.
Episode 33: I Had an Accident
2003-10-0412 min
After SpongeBob shatters his buttocks in a sandboarding injury, he becomes paranoid of everything and confines himself to his own home with inanimate objects for friends.
Episode 34: Missing Identity
2004-01-1911 min
While at a diner, SpongeBob tells the story of when he lost his name tag.
Episode 35: Plankton's Army
2004-01-1911 min
It's the 25th anniversary of Plankton's first attempt to steal the Krabby Patty Secret Formula, and Plankton enlists his relatives to help him try again.
Episode 36: Ugh
2004-03-0524 min
SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidward's long ago ancestors, SpongeGar, Pattar, and Squagg, discover fire.
Episode 37: Krabby Land
2004-04-0311 min
The first day of summer lures Mr. Krabs into making a children's theme park, which doesn't turn out the way he thinks it should.
Episode 38: The Camping Episode
2004-04-0311 min
SpongeBob and Patrick decide to go camping for the weekend, they camp out in the backyard. Squidward lures a sea bear to the campsite by doing stuff that would allure a sea bear.
Episode 39: SpongeBob Meets the Strangler
2004-10-1111 min
SpongeBob goes on his early litter patrol when he catches The Strangler. After he calls the police, The Strangler (disguised with a fake mustache) decides to be SpongeBob's bodyguard. After three parties at SpongeBob's house, The Strangler tries to strangle SpongeBob, but never gets the chance to be alone.
Episode 40: Pranks a Lot
2004-10-1111 min
SpongeBob and Patrick buy a prank called Invisible Spray. After taunting each other with the spray, they run out and decide to haunt Bikini Bottom while being invisible, preferably being ghosts. But with their last victim Mr. Krab, he washes them out with water and exposes them nude (they took their clothes off because the spray stains clothes) to the whole Krusty Krab, embarrassing them.
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