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1. Shard Calculation

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Calculated Shard: 39 (from laksa106)

2. Crawled Status Check

Query:

curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa039.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://time.com/5647509/best-spongebob-memes/\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://time.com/5647509/best-spongebob-memes/\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

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{"found_url":"https:\/\/time.com\/5647509\/best-spongebob-memes\/","crawl_time":1775506599,"first_indexed_time":1568899949,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,time!\/5647509\/best-spongebob-memes\/ s443","src_root_hash":"9797552172251460839","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"Your Guide to the Best Spongebob Memes Across the Internet","meta_descriptions":["From Mocking Spongebob to Caveman Spongebob, these are the best Spongebob memes, what they mean and why they're so popular."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"Thanks to fans of Spongebob, Mr. Krabs, Patrick, Squidward, Sandy and Plankton,\nSpongebob Squarepants\nhas become ubiquitous.  You can’t seem to log onto social media without coming across some\nSpongebob memes\n.\nStephen Hillenburg, the cartoon’s creator\nwho died last November,\nfirst premiered his legendary series on Nickelodeon in 1999. Twenty years later, Spongebob has found a home online, outside of Spongebob’s fictional underwater home of Bikini Bottom.\n“I can’t think of anything else like it,” Tom Kenny, who has voiced the titular role of Spongebob since the pilot was taped in 1997, tells TIME. He calls Spongebob memes “very relatable but very good-natured, and that just makes me happy.”\nWhile social media can often be a place for hate and vitriol, people tend to give Spongebob a special, kinder treatment, which Kenny appreciates. “I just love that these people are really funny,” he says of meme-makers. “They think of things that I wouldn’t think of.”\nHillenburg’s series, which has always run the gamut of emotions, from goofiness to genuine anxiety or sadness, is “all love,” Kenny says. “He almost gave it this bulletproof vest.” Beyond the happy nature of the show’s characters and plot points, they also lend themselves easily to meme creating. “The characters are complex, but they’re also simple,” Kenny says. “There’s so much for meme makers to work with.”\nWhy are there so many\nSpongebob\nmemes?\nOn Know Your Meme, the internet’s primary database for all things meme-y,\nSpongebob Squarepants\nmemes\ncurrently accounts for 4,635 images. To put that in context, other films and TV shows that make common meme fodder include the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which is only featured in\n276 images\n, and\nThe Simpsons\n,\nwhich has\n1,116 images\n.\n“Overall, if you look at our database, there are few other pop culture properties that are as frequently used in memes as Spongebob,” says Matt Schimkowitz, a senior editor for the site whose job entails sifting through and organizing Spongebob memes submitted by users, as well as defining and explaining the best Spongebob memes. “You can compare him to things like\nThe Simpsons\n, or\nShrek\n, or the\nMarvel\nmovies, and Spongebob just has way more specific formats that have been repeated again and again.”\nSchimkowitz says a combination of factors make Spongebob memes so popular — nostalgia for the past, for one, and the fact that the cartoon was made for children actually makes it easier to design memes. Another reason? Emotions.\n“Pop cultural figures that become very meme-able have a lot to do with their ability to express specific emotions. And Spongebob — and the characters on\nSpongebob —\nare incredibly direct in what emotion they’re trying to express,” he says.\n“There’s no real subtlety in terms of when Spongebob is happy, or when he is sad, or when he is angry,” Schimkowitz continues. “He just is those things, which makes it much easier for people online to use them essentially as emojis and share them to express how they’re feeling about a particular subject.”\nOne more reason: Spongebob’s fame. The yellow sea sponge’s recognizability is also one of the pulls.\n“Everyone knows who he is, so it’s incredibly easy to recognize where these memes are coming from,” Schimkowitz echoes, adding that he’s basically become the “emoji” for this generation.\nAnd that’s a great thing, Kenny says, because there’s nothing inherently negative about the show. “Spongebob is all love,” he says.\nRead on for the origin stories for some of the best\nSpongebob\nmemes, including Kenny’s favorite.\nMocking Spongebob meme\nNickelodeon\nIt’s hard to go one day without seeing mocking Spongebob on Twitter. It’s one of the most simple memes, as it requires no overlaid text. It’s just Spongebob’s mocking, critical face that says it all — and Kenny tells TIME that it’s definitely his favorite.\nIt’s also known as the Spongebob chicken meme, because in the episode this image comes from, Spongebob was literally acting like a chicken. The episode, “\nLittle Yellow Book\n,” originally aired in 2012.\nBut beyond just the facial expression, the meme is now used in another specific way: repeating phrases with alternating capital letters. For the uninitiated,\nKnow Your Meme’s entry on the meme\ncalls this version a “call-and-response” meme, and says that its first use was on Twitter in 2017. It\ncites the first original user\nas @OGBEARD, accompanied the image with the words, “How I stare back at little kids when they stare for too long.”\nCaveman Spongebob meme (or Primitive Spongebob meme)\nNickelodeon\nThe caveman or primitive Spongebob meme, also called SpongeGar, shows Spongebob characterized as — you guessed it! — a caveman. This moment originates from an early episode from 1999 when Patrick travels to the pre-historic era,\naccording to KnowYourMeme\n, but the actual\nSpongeGar character\nis a different prehistoric sponge (one of Spongebob’s ancestors, who first appeared in the season 3 episode entitled “Ugh” in 2004).\nThe caveman Spongebob meme, with Spongebob standing with his arms and legs spread out, can be used to describe an awkward, stressful or uncomfortable situation, or a moment when you may need to brace yourself. Often combined with the “when it’s…” format of memes, this image of primitive Spongebob is typically layered onto another background.\nTired Spongebob meme\nNickelodeon\nTired Spongebob\nuses an image from seasons 1 episode 8. Spongebob is naked because he’s decided to leave behind his regular life in order to live among jellyfish.\nPeople mostly use the meme any time something makes you too exhausted, stressed or winded, and it also tends to be accompanied by the widespread “me after [I do something]” construction.\nSquidward Looking Out the Window meme\nNickelodeon\nIn typical Squidward fashion, this meme comes from a moment of the character’s frustration at Spongebob and Patrick, as he watches them with contempt as they play outside his home. The scene is from season 7 episode called “That Sinking Feeling.”\nThe Squidward meme\ncan be used either to show what it’s like to watch something that looks undesirable and annoying, or something you’re jealous and wistful of. In other words, it’s the best meme for those “FOMO” moments.\n‘No, This is Patrick’ meme\nNickelodeon\nThe\n“No, this is Patrick” meme\nis another in-joke among fans, but it’s also a universal meme can also be used in various situations. In classic Patrick form, voiced by Bill Fagerbakke, the humanlike starfish gets upset on the phone when a caller to the Krusty Krab restaurant asks, “Is this the Krusty Krab?” Unable to understand that the potential customer just wants to know if they’ve reached the line of the restaurant, Patrick, who was only recently employed, goes from affable to increasingly angry, repeating the line, “No, this is Patrick!”\nFinally, the scene ends when Spongebob explains, “Uh, Patrick, that’s the name of the restaurant,” he says.\nThe scene comes from season 2, episode 23,\naccording to Know Your Meme\n. The meme is most often used just how Patrick used it in the episode, in responding to someone asking who you are — or when someone’s annoying you.\nOf course, the TV show had to get in on the joke, too. Spongebob’s Twitter page shared a video of Fagerbakke re-recording the scene in real life.\nSleeping Squidward meme\nThe Sleeping Squidward meme\ncomes from the season one episode called “Home Sweet Pineapple,” when Squidward awakes to remember that Spongebob and Gary are sleeping in bed with him.\nThe way his eyes blink wide open illustrate the feeling of suddenly remembering something. It began with the words, “when you’re about to go to sleep and you remember you have homework.” This meme should be used “when you remember something important in a flash of terrifying clarity,” according to\nEsquire.\nSome people also use a version with Squidward’s eyes closed in both frames.\nWhat makes this meme special to Kenny is the way it demonstrates darker layers that Hillenburg hid throughout the show. “A lot of the memes are about anxiousness and anxiety, and Spongebob has a lot of that hidden,” Kenny says. But it’s the lightheartedness of the show is made with that helps bring so much joy, too. “That’s what makes us human, is the ability to laugh in the face of awfulness.”\nSavage Patrick meme (or Evil Patrick meme)\nNickelodeon\nThe\nsavage\/evil Patrick meme\nalso comes from the season one episode entitled “Nature Pants,” shortly after the moment captured in the tired Spongebob meme.\nConsider this meme the best spongebob meme to use when you want to seem savage or evil. It’s really that simple.","attrs_markdown":"[Skip to Content](https:\/\/time.com\/5647509\/best-spongebob-memes\/#maincontent)\n\n- Menu\n  \n  Close\n\n[Subscribe](https:\/\/time.com\/subscribe-header-time\/)\n\n- [viral](https:\/\/time.com\/tag\/viral\/)\n# Your Comprehensive Guide to the Best Spongebob Memes Across the Internet’s Sea\n[ADD TIME ON GOOGLE](https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/time.com)\n\nShow me more content from TIME on Google Search\n\nby\n\n[Rachel E. Greenspan](https:\/\/time.com\/author\/rachel-e-greenspan\/)\n\nSep 19, 2019 1:21 PM CUT\n\n![](https:\/\/gcp-na-images.contentstack.com\/v3\/assets\/bltea6093859af6183b\/bltefa3c633be6889dc\/698a026b22fb85890ee29c87\/spongebob-memes.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=3%3A2)\n\nNickelodeon (2)\n\nby\n\n[Rachel E. Greenspan](https:\/\/time.com\/author\/rachel-e-greenspan\/)\n\nSep 19, 2019 1:21 PM CUT\n\nThanks to fans of Spongebob, Mr. Krabs, Patrick, Squidward, Sandy and Plankton, [*Spongebob Squarepants*](https:\/\/time.com\/5516450\/spongebob-super-bowl\/ \"undefined\") has become ubiquitous. You can’t seem to log onto social media without coming across some [Spongebob memes](https:\/\/time.com\/5668447\/spongebob-ight-imma-head-out-memes\/ \"undefined\").\n\nStephen Hillenburg, the cartoon’s creator [who died last November,](https:\/\/variety.com\/2018\/tv\/news\/spongebob-squarepants-creator-dead-dies-stephen-hillenburg-1203037362\/ \"undefined\") first premiered his legendary series on Nickelodeon in 1999. Twenty years later, Spongebob has found a home online, outside of Spongebob’s fictional underwater home of Bikini Bottom.\n\n“I can’t think of anything else like it,” Tom Kenny, who has voiced the titular role of Spongebob since the pilot was taped in 1997, tells TIME. He calls Spongebob memes “very relatable but very good-natured, and that just makes me happy.”\n\nWhile social media can often be a place for hate and vitriol, people tend to give Spongebob a special, kinder treatment, which Kenny appreciates. “I just love that these people are really funny,” he says of meme-makers. “They think of things that I wouldn’t think of.”\n\nHillenburg’s series, which has always run the gamut of emotions, from goofiness to genuine anxiety or sadness, is “all love,” Kenny says. “He almost gave it this bulletproof vest.” Beyond the happy nature of the show’s characters and plot points, they also lend themselves easily to meme creating. “The characters are complex, but they’re also simple,” Kenny says. “There’s so much for meme makers to work with.”\n\nAdvertisement\n\nHere’s your guide to the [best Spongebob memes](https:\/\/time.com\/5516450\/spongebob-super-bowl\/ \"undefined\").\n\n## Why are there so many *Spongebob* memes?\nOn Know Your Meme, the internet’s primary database for all things meme-y, [*Spongebob Squarepants* memes](https:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/subcultures\/spongebob-squarepants\/photos \"undefined\") currently accounts for 4,635 images. To put that in context, other films and TV shows that make common meme fodder include the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which is only featured in [276 images](https:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/subcultures\/marvel-cinematic-universe\/photos \"undefined\"), and [*The Simpsons*](https:\/\/time.com\/4667462\/simpsons-predictions-donald-trump-lady-gaga\/ \"undefined\")*,* which has [1,116 images](https:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/subcultures\/the-simpsons\/photos \"undefined\").\n\n“Overall, if you look at our database, there are few other pop culture properties that are as frequently used in memes as Spongebob,” says Matt Schimkowitz, a senior editor for the site whose job entails sifting through and organizing Spongebob memes submitted by users, as well as defining and explaining the best Spongebob memes. “You can compare him to things like *The Simpsons*, or [*Shrek*](https:\/\/time.com\/5432447\/heidi-klum-2018-halloween-costume\/ \"undefined\"), or the [*Marvel*](https:\/\/time.com\/5167535\/upcoming-marvel-movies\/ \"undefined\") movies, and Spongebob just has way more specific formats that have been repeated again and again.”\n\nAdvertisement\n\nSchimkowitz says a combination of factors make Spongebob memes so popular — nostalgia for the past, for one, and the fact that the cartoon was made for children actually makes it easier to design memes. Another reason? Emotions.\n\n“Pop cultural figures that become very meme-able have a lot to do with their ability to express specific emotions. And Spongebob — and the characters on *Spongebob —* are incredibly direct in what emotion they’re trying to express,” he says.\n\n“There’s no real subtlety in terms of when Spongebob is happy, or when he is sad, or when he is angry,” Schimkowitz continues. “He just is those things, which makes it much easier for people online to use them essentially as emojis and share them to express how they’re feeling about a particular subject.”\n\nOne more reason: Spongebob’s fame. The yellow sea sponge’s recognizability is also one of the pulls.\n\n“Everyone knows who he is, so it’s incredibly easy to recognize where these memes are coming from,” Schimkowitz echoes, adding that he’s basically become the “emoji” for this generation.\n\nAdvertisement\n\nAnd that’s a great thing, Kenny says, because there’s nothing inherently negative about the show. “Spongebob is all love,” he says.\n\nRead on for the origin stories for some of the best *Spongebob* memes, including Kenny’s favorite.\n\n## Mocking Spongebob meme\n\n![](https:\/\/gcp-na-images.contentstack.com\/v3\/assets\/bltea6093859af6183b\/blt9563db8fac139684\/698a01cc86f68e3f4c6ed73e\/mocking_spongebob.jpg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16%3A9)\n\nNickelodeon\n\nIt’s hard to go one day without seeing mocking Spongebob on Twitter. It’s one of the most simple memes, as it requires no overlaid text. It’s just Spongebob’s mocking, critical face that says it all — and Kenny tells TIME that it’s definitely his favorite.\n\n\nAdvertisement\n\n\n\nIt’s also known as the Spongebob chicken meme, because in the episode this image comes from, Spongebob was literally acting like a chicken. The episode, “[Little Yellow Book](https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2512000\/ \"undefined\"),” originally aired in 2012.\n\nAdvertisement\n\nBut beyond just the facial expression, the meme is now used in another specific way: repeating phrases with alternating capital letters. For the uninitiated, [Know Your Meme’s entry on the meme](https:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/mocking-spongebob \"undefined\") calls this version a “call-and-response” meme, and says that its first use was on Twitter in 2017. It [cites the first original user](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170519042147\/https:\/twitter.com\/OGBEARD\/status\/860349993579884544 \"undefined\") as @OGBEARD, accompanied the image with the words, “How I stare back at little kids when they stare for too long.”\n\n## **Caveman Spongebob meme (or Primitive Spongebob meme)**\n\n![](https:\/\/gcp-na-images.contentstack.com\/v3\/assets\/bltea6093859af6183b\/blt4a40dc44381c4b77\/698a01cd97cdffd7686b96a7\/caveman-spongebob-spongegar.png?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16%3A9)\n\nNickelodeon\n\nAdvertisement\n\nThe caveman or primitive Spongebob meme, also called SpongeGar, shows Spongebob characterized as — you guessed it! — a caveman. This moment originates from an early episode from 1999 when Patrick travels to the pre-historic era, [according to KnowYourMeme](https:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/spongegar-primitive-sponge-caveman-spongebob \"undefined\"), but the actual [SpongeGar character](https:\/\/spongebob.fandom.com\/wiki\/SpongeGar\/appearances \"undefined\") is a different prehistoric sponge (one of Spongebob’s ancestors, who first appeared in the season 3 episode entitled “Ugh” in 2004).\n\nThe caveman Spongebob meme, with Spongebob standing with his arms and legs spread out, can be used to describe an awkward, stressful or uncomfortable situation, or a moment when you may need to brace yourself. Often combined with the “when it’s…” format of memes, this image of primitive Spongebob is typically layered onto another background.\n\n\nAdvertisement\n\n## **Tired Spongebob meme**\n\n![](https:\/\/gcp-na-images.contentstack.com\/v3\/assets\/bltea6093859af6183b\/blt7d5830523d2fa2d5\/698a01cd09208f52b84156ec\/tired-spongebob-meme.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16%3A9)\n\nNickelodeon\n\n[Tired Spongebob](https:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/tired-spongebob \"undefined\") uses an image from seasons 1 episode 8. Spongebob is naked because he’s decided to leave behind his regular life in order to live among jellyfish.\n\nPeople mostly use the meme any time something makes you too exhausted, stressed or winded, and it also tends to be accompanied by the widespread “me after \\[I do something\\]” construction.\n\nAdvertisement\n\n\n\n\nAdvertisement\n\n## **Squidward Looking Out the Window meme**\n![](https:\/\/gcp-na-images.contentstack.com\/v3\/assets\/bltea6093859af6183b\/bltac51892320ef412d\/698a01ce09208f83244156f1\/squidward-looking-out-the-window-meme.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16%3A9)\n\nNickelodeon\n\nIn typical Squidward fashion, this meme comes from a moment of the character’s frustration at Spongebob and Patrick, as he watches them with contempt as they play outside his home. The scene is from season 7 episode called “That Sinking Feeling.”\n\n[The Squidward meme](https:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/squidward-looking-out-the-window \"undefined\") can be used either to show what it’s like to watch something that looks undesirable and annoying, or something you’re jealous and wistful of. In other words, it’s the best meme for those “FOMO” moments.\n\n\nAdvertisement\n\n## ‘No, This is Patrick’ meme\n![](https:\/\/gcp-na-images.contentstack.com\/v3\/assets\/bltea6093859af6183b\/blt35e3d76a7d4b5071\/698a01cf09208f7f224156f5\/no-this-is-patrick.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16%3A9)\n\nNickelodeon\n\nThe [“No, this is Patrick” meme](https:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/no-this-is-patrick \"undefined\") is another in-joke among fans, but it’s also a universal meme can also be used in various situations. In classic Patrick form, voiced by Bill Fagerbakke, the humanlike starfish gets upset on the phone when a caller to the Krusty Krab restaurant asks, “Is this the Krusty Krab?” Unable to understand that the potential customer just wants to know if they’ve reached the line of the restaurant, Patrick, who was only recently employed, goes from affable to increasingly angry, repeating the line, “No, this is Patrick!”\n\nFinally, the scene ends when Spongebob explains, “Uh, Patrick, that’s the name of the restaurant,” he says.\n\nAdvertisement\n\nThe scene comes from season 2, episode 23, [according to Know Your Meme](https:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/no-this-is-patrick \"undefined\"). The meme is most often used just how Patrick used it in the episode, in responding to someone asking who you are — or when someone’s annoying you.\n\n\nIt was even used as a reply to a viral tweet asking [whether an animal was a bird or bunny.](https:\/\/time.com\/5657404\/bird-or-bunny\/ \"undefined\")\n\nAdvertisement\n\n\nOf course, the TV show had to get in on the joke, too. Spongebob’s Twitter page shared a video of Fagerbakke re-recording the scene in real life.\n\n## Sleeping Squidward meme\n\n![](https:\/\/gcp-na-images.contentstack.com\/v3\/assets\/bltea6093859af6183b\/bltfdcb035cdc69b042\/698a0212b21a9cb759502455\/sleeping-squidward-meme.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16%3A9)\n\nAdvertisement\n\n[The Sleeping Squidward meme](https:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/sleeping-squidward \"undefined\") comes from the season one episode called “Home Sweet Pineapple,” when Squidward awakes to remember that Spongebob and Gary are sleeping in bed with him.\n\nThe way his eyes blink wide open illustrate the feeling of suddenly remembering something. It began with the words, “when you’re about to go to sleep and you remember you have homework.” This meme should be used “when you remember something important in a flash of terrifying clarity,” according to [*Esquire.*](https:\/\/www.esquire.com\/entertainment\/tv\/g28400028\/spongebob-squarepants-meme-guide-explained\/ \"undefined\")\n\nSome people also use a version with Squidward’s eyes closed in both frames.\n\n\nAdvertisement\n\nWhat makes this meme special to Kenny is the way it demonstrates darker layers that Hillenburg hid throughout the show. “A lot of the memes are about anxiousness and anxiety, and Spongebob has a lot of that hidden,” Kenny says. But it’s the lightheartedness of the show is made with that helps bring so much joy, too. “That’s what makes us human, is the ability to laugh in the face of awfulness.”\n\n## Savage Patrick meme (or Evil Patrick meme)\n\n![](https:\/\/gcp-na-images.contentstack.com\/v3\/assets\/bltea6093859af6183b\/blt71a85c8a44730283\/698a02fd09208f07184158ec\/savage-patrick-best-spongebob-memes.png?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16%3A9)\n\nNickelodeon\n\nThe [savage\/evil Patrick meme](https:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/savage-patrick \"undefined\") also comes from the season one episode entitled “Nature Pants,” shortly after the moment captured in the tired Spongebob meme.\n\nConsider this meme the best spongebob meme to use when you want to seem savage or evil. 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All Rights Reserved. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our [Terms of Service](https:\/\/legal.time.com\/terms-of-service), [Privacy Policy (Your Privacy Rights)](https:\/\/legal.time.com\/us-privacy-policy) and Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information.\n\nTIME may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. Offers may be subject to change without notice.\n\nEdit\n\n![](https:\/\/px.outcomes.net\/pixel.gif?v=2&t=1775506601060&r=1467956084176931&pu=https%3A%2F%2Ftime.com%2F5647509%2Fbest-spongebob-memes%2F&po=https%3A%2F%2Ftime.com&if=false&bt=false&dt=bms_0_1-p39_0_1-mbn_1_1&tn=time_sfWhum7NTD4Kx7pJ&tt=page&is=mobian&et=im)","attrs_readable_markdown":"Thanks to fans of Spongebob, Mr. Krabs, Patrick, Squidward, Sandy and Plankton, [*Spongebob Squarepants*](https:\/\/time.com\/5516450\/spongebob-super-bowl\/ \"undefined\") has become ubiquitous. You can’t seem to log onto social media without coming across some [Spongebob memes](https:\/\/time.com\/5668447\/spongebob-ight-imma-head-out-memes\/ \"undefined\").\n\nStephen Hillenburg, the cartoon’s creator [who died last November,](https:\/\/variety.com\/2018\/tv\/news\/spongebob-squarepants-creator-dead-dies-stephen-hillenburg-1203037362\/ \"undefined\") first premiered his legendary series on Nickelodeon in 1999. Twenty years later, Spongebob has found a home online, outside of Spongebob’s fictional underwater home of Bikini Bottom.\n\n“I can’t think of anything else like it,” Tom Kenny, who has voiced the titular role of Spongebob since the pilot was taped in 1997, tells TIME. He calls Spongebob memes “very relatable but very good-natured, and that just makes me happy.”\n\nWhile social media can often be a place for hate and vitriol, people tend to give Spongebob a special, kinder treatment, which Kenny appreciates. “I just love that these people are really funny,” he says of meme-makers. “They think of things that I wouldn’t think of.”\n\nHillenburg’s series, which has always run the gamut of emotions, from goofiness to genuine anxiety or sadness, is “all love,” Kenny says. “He almost gave it this bulletproof vest.” Beyond the happy nature of the show’s characters and plot points, they also lend themselves easily to meme creating. “The characters are complex, but they’re also simple,” Kenny says. “There’s so much for meme makers to work with.”\n\nWhy are there so many *Spongebob* memes?\n\nOn Know Your Meme, the internet’s primary database for all things meme-y, [*Spongebob Squarepants* memes](https:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/subcultures\/spongebob-squarepants\/photos \"undefined\") currently accounts for 4,635 images. To put that in context, other films and TV shows that make common meme fodder include the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which is only featured in [276 images](https:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/subcultures\/marvel-cinematic-universe\/photos \"undefined\"), and [*The Simpsons*](https:\/\/time.com\/4667462\/simpsons-predictions-donald-trump-lady-gaga\/ \"undefined\")*,* which has [1,116 images](https:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/subcultures\/the-simpsons\/photos \"undefined\").\n\n“Overall, if you look at our database, there are few other pop culture properties that are as frequently used in memes as Spongebob,” says Matt Schimkowitz, a senior editor for the site whose job entails sifting through and organizing Spongebob memes submitted by users, as well as defining and explaining the best Spongebob memes. “You can compare him to things like *The Simpsons*, or [*Shrek*](https:\/\/time.com\/5432447\/heidi-klum-2018-halloween-costume\/ \"undefined\"), or the [*Marvel*](https:\/\/time.com\/5167535\/upcoming-marvel-movies\/ \"undefined\") movies, and Spongebob just has way more specific formats that have been repeated again and again.”\n\nSchimkowitz says a combination of factors make Spongebob memes so popular — nostalgia for the past, for one, and the fact that the cartoon was made for children actually makes it easier to design memes. Another reason? Emotions.\n\n“Pop cultural figures that become very meme-able have a lot to do with their ability to express specific emotions. And Spongebob — and the characters on *Spongebob —* are incredibly direct in what emotion they’re trying to express,” he says.\n\n“There’s no real subtlety in terms of when Spongebob is happy, or when he is sad, or when he is angry,” Schimkowitz continues. “He just is those things, which makes it much easier for people online to use them essentially as emojis and share them to express how they’re feeling about a particular subject.”\n\nOne more reason: Spongebob’s fame. The yellow sea sponge’s recognizability is also one of the pulls.\n\n“Everyone knows who he is, so it’s incredibly easy to recognize where these memes are coming from,” Schimkowitz echoes, adding that he’s basically become the “emoji” for this generation.\n\nAnd that’s a great thing, Kenny says, because there’s nothing inherently negative about the show. “Spongebob is all love,” he says.\n\nRead on for the origin stories for some of the best *Spongebob* memes, including Kenny’s favorite.\n\nMocking Spongebob meme\n\n![](https:\/\/gcp-na-images.contentstack.com\/v3\/assets\/bltea6093859af6183b\/blt9563db8fac139684\/698a01cc86f68e3f4c6ed73e\/mocking_spongebob.jpg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16%3A9)\n\nNickelodeon\n\nIt’s hard to go one day without seeing mocking Spongebob on Twitter. It’s one of the most simple memes, as it requires no overlaid text. It’s just Spongebob’s mocking, critical face that says it all — and Kenny tells TIME that it’s definitely his favorite.\n\nIt’s also known as the Spongebob chicken meme, because in the episode this image comes from, Spongebob was literally acting like a chicken. The episode, “[Little Yellow Book](https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2512000\/ \"undefined\"),” originally aired in 2012.\n\nBut beyond just the facial expression, the meme is now used in another specific way: repeating phrases with alternating capital letters. For the uninitiated, [Know Your Meme’s entry on the meme](https:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/mocking-spongebob \"undefined\") calls this version a “call-and-response” meme, and says that its first use was on Twitter in 2017. It [cites the first original user](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170519042147\/https:\/twitter.com\/OGBEARD\/status\/860349993579884544 \"undefined\") as @OGBEARD, accompanied the image with the words, “How I stare back at little kids when they stare for too long.”\n\n**Caveman Spongebob meme (or Primitive Spongebob meme)**\n\n![](https:\/\/gcp-na-images.contentstack.com\/v3\/assets\/bltea6093859af6183b\/blt4a40dc44381c4b77\/698a01cd97cdffd7686b96a7\/caveman-spongebob-spongegar.png?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16%3A9)\n\nNickelodeon\n\nThe caveman or primitive Spongebob meme, also called SpongeGar, shows Spongebob characterized as — you guessed it! — a caveman. This moment originates from an early episode from 1999 when Patrick travels to the pre-historic era, [according to KnowYourMeme](https:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/spongegar-primitive-sponge-caveman-spongebob \"undefined\"), but the actual [SpongeGar character](https:\/\/spongebob.fandom.com\/wiki\/SpongeGar\/appearances \"undefined\") is a different prehistoric sponge (one of Spongebob’s ancestors, who first appeared in the season 3 episode entitled “Ugh” in 2004).\n\nThe caveman Spongebob meme, with Spongebob standing with his arms and legs spread out, can be used to describe an awkward, stressful or uncomfortable situation, or a moment when you may need to brace yourself. Often combined with the “when it’s…” format of memes, this image of primitive Spongebob is typically layered onto another background.\n\n**Tired Spongebob meme**\n\n![](https:\/\/gcp-na-images.contentstack.com\/v3\/assets\/bltea6093859af6183b\/blt7d5830523d2fa2d5\/698a01cd09208f52b84156ec\/tired-spongebob-meme.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16%3A9)\n\nNickelodeon\n\n[Tired Spongebob](https:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/tired-spongebob \"undefined\") uses an image from seasons 1 episode 8. Spongebob is naked because he’s decided to leave behind his regular life in order to live among jellyfish.\n\nPeople mostly use the meme any time something makes you too exhausted, stressed or winded, and it also tends to be accompanied by the widespread “me after \\[I do something\\]” construction.\n\n**Squidward Looking Out the Window meme**\n\n![](https:\/\/gcp-na-images.contentstack.com\/v3\/assets\/bltea6093859af6183b\/bltac51892320ef412d\/698a01ce09208f83244156f1\/squidward-looking-out-the-window-meme.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16%3A9)\n\nNickelodeon\n\nIn typical Squidward fashion, this meme comes from a moment of the character’s frustration at Spongebob and Patrick, as he watches them with contempt as they play outside his home. The scene is from season 7 episode called “That Sinking Feeling.”\n\n[The Squidward meme](https:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/squidward-looking-out-the-window \"undefined\") can be used either to show what it’s like to watch something that looks undesirable and annoying, or something you’re jealous and wistful of. In other words, it’s the best meme for those “FOMO” moments.\n\n‘No, This is Patrick’ meme\n\n![](https:\/\/gcp-na-images.contentstack.com\/v3\/assets\/bltea6093859af6183b\/blt35e3d76a7d4b5071\/698a01cf09208f7f224156f5\/no-this-is-patrick.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16%3A9)\n\nNickelodeon\n\nThe [“No, this is Patrick” meme](https:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/no-this-is-patrick \"undefined\") is another in-joke among fans, but it’s also a universal meme can also be used in various situations. In classic Patrick form, voiced by Bill Fagerbakke, the humanlike starfish gets upset on the phone when a caller to the Krusty Krab restaurant asks, “Is this the Krusty Krab?” Unable to understand that the potential customer just wants to know if they’ve reached the line of the restaurant, Patrick, who was only recently employed, goes from affable to increasingly angry, repeating the line, “No, this is Patrick!”\n\nFinally, the scene ends when Spongebob explains, “Uh, Patrick, that’s the name of the restaurant,” he says.\n\nThe scene comes from season 2, episode 23, [according to Know Your Meme](https:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/no-this-is-patrick \"undefined\"). The meme is most often used just how Patrick used it in the episode, in responding to someone asking who you are — or when someone’s annoying you.\n\nOf course, the TV show had to get in on the joke, too. Spongebob’s Twitter page shared a video of Fagerbakke re-recording the scene in real life.\n\nSleeping Squidward meme\n\n![](https:\/\/gcp-na-images.contentstack.com\/v3\/assets\/bltea6093859af6183b\/bltfdcb035cdc69b042\/698a0212b21a9cb759502455\/sleeping-squidward-meme.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16%3A9)\n\n[The Sleeping Squidward meme](https:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/sleeping-squidward \"undefined\") comes from the season one episode called “Home Sweet Pineapple,” when Squidward awakes to remember that Spongebob and Gary are sleeping in bed with him.\n\nThe way his eyes blink wide open illustrate the feeling of suddenly remembering something. It began with the words, “when you’re about to go to sleep and you remember you have homework.” This meme should be used “when you remember something important in a flash of terrifying clarity,” according to [*Esquire.*](https:\/\/www.esquire.com\/entertainment\/tv\/g28400028\/spongebob-squarepants-meme-guide-explained\/ \"undefined\")\n\nSome people also use a version with Squidward’s eyes closed in both frames.\n\nWhat makes this meme special to Kenny is the way it demonstrates darker layers that Hillenburg hid throughout the show. “A lot of the memes are about anxiousness and anxiety, and Spongebob has a lot of that hidden,” Kenny says. But it’s the lightheartedness of the show is made with that helps bring so much joy, too. “That’s what makes us human, is the ability to laugh in the face of awfulness.”\n\nSavage Patrick meme (or Evil Patrick meme)\n\n![](https:\/\/gcp-na-images.contentstack.com\/v3\/assets\/bltea6093859af6183b\/blt71a85c8a44730283\/698a02fd09208f07184158ec\/savage-patrick-best-spongebob-memes.png?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16%3A9)\n\nNickelodeon\n\nThe [savage\/evil Patrick meme](https:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/savage-patrick \"undefined\") also comes from the season one episode entitled “Nature Pants,” shortly after the moment captured in the tired Spongebob meme.\n\nConsider this meme the best spongebob meme to use when you want to seem savage or evil. It’s really that simple.","meta_canonical":null}

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Boilerpipe Text	Thanks to fans of Spongebob, Mr. Krabs, Patrick, Squidward, Sandy and Plankton, Spongebob Squarepants has become ubiquitous. You can’t seem to log onto social media without coming across some Spongebob memes . Stephen Hillenburg, the cartoon’s creator who died last November, first premiered his legendary series on Nickelodeon in 1999. Twenty years later, Spongebob has found a home online, outside of Spongebob’s fictional underwater home of Bikini Bottom. “I can’t think of anything else like it,” Tom Kenny, who has voiced the titular role of Spongebob since the pilot was taped in 1997, tells TIME. He calls Spongebob memes “very relatable but very good-natured, and that just makes me happy.” While social media can often be a place for hate and vitriol, people tend to give Spongebob a special, kinder treatment, which Kenny appreciates. “I just love that these people are really funny,” he says of meme-makers. “They think of things that I wouldn’t think of.” Hillenburg’s series, which has always run the gamut of emotions, from goofiness to genuine anxiety or sadness, is “all love,” Kenny says. “He almost gave it this bulletproof vest.” Beyond the happy nature of the show’s characters and plot points, they also lend themselves easily to meme creating. “The characters are complex, but they’re also simple,” Kenny says. “There’s so much for meme makers to work with.” Why are there so many Spongebob memes? On Know Your Meme, the internet’s primary database for all things meme-y, Spongebob Squarepants memes currently accounts for 4,635 images. To put that in context, other films and TV shows that make common meme fodder include the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which is only featured in 276 images , and The Simpsons , which has 1,116 images . “Overall, if you look at our database, there are few other pop culture properties that are as frequently used in memes as Spongebob,” says Matt Schimkowitz, a senior editor for the site whose job entails sifting through and organizing Spongebob memes submitted by users, as well as defining and explaining the best Spongebob memes. “You can compare him to things like The Simpsons , or Shrek , or the Marvel movies, and Spongebob just has way more specific formats that have been repeated again and again.” Schimkowitz says a combination of factors make Spongebob memes so popular — nostalgia for the past, for one, and the fact that the cartoon was made for children actually makes it easier to design memes. Another reason? Emotions. “Pop cultural figures that become very meme-able have a lot to do with their ability to express specific emotions. And Spongebob — and the characters on Spongebob — are incredibly direct in what emotion they’re trying to express,” he says. “There’s no real subtlety in terms of when Spongebob is happy, or when he is sad, or when he is angry,” Schimkowitz continues. “He just is those things, which makes it much easier for people online to use them essentially as emojis and share them to express how they’re feeling about a particular subject.” One more reason: Spongebob’s fame. The yellow sea sponge’s recognizability is also one of the pulls. “Everyone knows who he is, so it’s incredibly easy to recognize where these memes are coming from,” Schimkowitz echoes, adding that he’s basically become the “emoji” for this generation. And that’s a great thing, Kenny says, because there’s nothing inherently negative about the show. “Spongebob is all love,” he says. Read on for the origin stories for some of the best Spongebob memes, including Kenny’s favorite. Mocking Spongebob meme Nickelodeon It’s hard to go one day without seeing mocking Spongebob on Twitter. It’s one of the most simple memes, as it requires no overlaid text. It’s just Spongebob’s mocking, critical face that says it all — and Kenny tells TIME that it’s definitely his favorite. It’s also known as the Spongebob chicken meme, because in the episode this image comes from, Spongebob was literally acting like a chicken. The episode, “ Little Yellow Book ,” originally aired in 2012. But beyond just the facial expression, the meme is now used in another specific way: repeating phrases with alternating capital letters. For the uninitiated, Know Your Meme’s entry on the meme calls this version a “call-and-response” meme, and says that its first use was on Twitter in 2017. It cites the first original user as @OGBEARD, accompanied the image with the words, “How I stare back at little kids when they stare for too long.” Caveman Spongebob meme (or Primitive Spongebob meme) Nickelodeon The caveman or primitive Spongebob meme, also called SpongeGar, shows Spongebob characterized as — you guessed it! — a caveman. This moment originates from an early episode from 1999 when Patrick travels to the pre-historic era, according to KnowYourMeme , but the actual SpongeGar character is a different prehistoric sponge (one of Spongebob’s ancestors, who first appeared in the season 3 episode entitled “Ugh” in 2004). The caveman Spongebob meme, with Spongebob standing with his arms and legs spread out, can be used to describe an awkward, stressful or uncomfortable situation, or a moment when you may need to brace yourself. Often combined with the “when it’s…” format of memes, this image of primitive Spongebob is typically layered onto another background. Tired Spongebob meme Nickelodeon Tired Spongebob uses an image from seasons 1 episode 8. Spongebob is naked because he’s decided to leave behind his regular life in order to live among jellyfish. People mostly use the meme any time something makes you too exhausted, stressed or winded, and it also tends to be accompanied by the widespread “me after [I do something]” construction. Squidward Looking Out the Window meme Nickelodeon In typical Squidward fashion, this meme comes from a moment of the character’s frustration at Spongebob and Patrick, as he watches them with contempt as they play outside his home. The scene is from season 7 episode called “That Sinking Feeling.” The Squidward meme can be used either to show what it’s like to watch something that looks undesirable and annoying, or something you’re jealous and wistful of. In other words, it’s the best meme for those “FOMO” moments. ‘No, This is Patrick’ meme Nickelodeon The “No, this is Patrick” meme is another in-joke among fans, but it’s also a universal meme can also be used in various situations. In classic Patrick form, voiced by Bill Fagerbakke, the humanlike starfish gets upset on the phone when a caller to the Krusty Krab restaurant asks, “Is this the Krusty Krab?” Unable to understand that the potential customer just wants to know if they’ve reached the line of the restaurant, Patrick, who was only recently employed, goes from affable to increasingly angry, repeating the line, “No, this is Patrick!” Finally, the scene ends when Spongebob explains, “Uh, Patrick, that’s the name of the restaurant,” he says. The scene comes from season 2, episode 23, according to Know Your Meme . The meme is most often used just how Patrick used it in the episode, in responding to someone asking who you are — or when someone’s annoying you. Of course, the TV show had to get in on the joke, too. Spongebob’s Twitter page shared a video of Fagerbakke re-recording the scene in real life. Sleeping Squidward meme The Sleeping Squidward meme comes from the season one episode called “Home Sweet Pineapple,” when Squidward awakes to remember that Spongebob and Gary are sleeping in bed with him. The way his eyes blink wide open illustrate the feeling of suddenly remembering something. It began with the words, “when you’re about to go to sleep and you remember you have homework.” This meme should be used “when you remember something important in a flash of terrifying clarity,” according to Esquire. Some people also use a version with Squidward’s eyes closed in both frames. What makes this meme special to Kenny is the way it demonstrates darker layers that Hillenburg hid throughout the show. “A lot of the memes are about anxiousness and anxiety, and Spongebob has a lot of that hidden,” Kenny says. But it’s the lightheartedness of the show is made with that helps bring so much joy, too. “That’s what makes us human, is the ability to laugh in the face of awfulness.” Savage Patrick meme (or Evil Patrick meme) Nickelodeon The savage/evil Patrick meme also comes from the season one episode entitled “Nature Pants,” shortly after the moment captured in the tired Spongebob meme. Consider this meme the best spongebob meme to use when you want to seem savage or evil. It’s really that simple.
Markdown	[Skip to Content](https://time.com/5647509/best-spongebob-memes/#maincontent) - Menu Close [Subscribe](https://time.com/subscribe-header-time/) - [viral](https://time.com/tag/viral/) # Your Comprehensive Guide to the Best Spongebob Memes Across the Internet’s Sea [ADD TIME ON GOOGLE](https://www.google.com/preferences/source?q=https://time.com) Show me more content from TIME on Google Search by [Rachel E. Greenspan](https://time.com/author/rachel-e-greenspan/) Sep 19, 2019 1:21 PM CUT ![](https://gcp-na-images.contentstack.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltefa3c633be6889dc/698a026b22fb85890ee29c87/spongebob-memes.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=3%3A2) Nickelodeon (2) by [Rachel E. Greenspan](https://time.com/author/rachel-e-greenspan/) Sep 19, 2019 1:21 PM CUT Thanks to fans of Spongebob, Mr. Krabs, Patrick, Squidward, Sandy and Plankton, [Spongebob Squarepants](https://time.com/5516450/spongebob-super-bowl/ "undefined") has become ubiquitous. You can’t seem to log onto social media without coming across some [Spongebob memes](https://time.com/5668447/spongebob-ight-imma-head-out-memes/ "undefined"). Stephen Hillenburg, the cartoon’s creator [who died last November,](https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/spongebob-squarepants-creator-dead-dies-stephen-hillenburg-1203037362/ "undefined") first premiered his legendary series on Nickelodeon in 1999. Twenty years later, Spongebob has found a home online, outside of Spongebob’s fictional underwater home of Bikini Bottom. “I can’t think of anything else like it,” Tom Kenny, who has voiced the titular role of Spongebob since the pilot was taped in 1997, tells TIME. He calls Spongebob memes “very relatable but very good-natured, and that just makes me happy.” While social media can often be a place for hate and vitriol, people tend to give Spongebob a special, kinder treatment, which Kenny appreciates. “I just love that these people are really funny,” he says of meme-makers. “They think of things that I wouldn’t think of.” Hillenburg’s series, which has always run the gamut of emotions, from goofiness to genuine anxiety or sadness, is “all love,” Kenny says. “He almost gave it this bulletproof vest.” Beyond the happy nature of the show’s characters and plot points, they also lend themselves easily to meme creating. “The characters are complex, but they’re also simple,” Kenny says. “There’s so much for meme makers to work with.” Advertisement Here’s your guide to the [best Spongebob memes](https://time.com/5516450/spongebob-super-bowl/ "undefined"). ## Why are there so many Spongebob memes? On Know Your Meme, the internet’s primary database for all things meme-y, [Spongebob Squarepants memes](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/spongebob-squarepants/photos "undefined") currently accounts for 4,635 images. To put that in context, other films and TV shows that make common meme fodder include the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which is only featured in [276 images](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/marvel-cinematic-universe/photos "undefined"), and [The Simpsons](https://time.com/4667462/simpsons-predictions-donald-trump-lady-gaga/ "undefined"), which has [1,116 images](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/the-simpsons/photos "undefined"). “Overall, if you look at our database, there are few other pop culture properties that are as frequently used in memes as Spongebob,” says Matt Schimkowitz, a senior editor for the site whose job entails sifting through and organizing Spongebob memes submitted by users, as well as defining and explaining the best Spongebob memes. “You can compare him to things like The Simpsons, or [Shrek](https://time.com/5432447/heidi-klum-2018-halloween-costume/ "undefined"), or the [Marvel](https://time.com/5167535/upcoming-marvel-movies/ "undefined") movies, and Spongebob just has way more specific formats that have been repeated again and again.” Advertisement Schimkowitz says a combination of factors make Spongebob memes so popular — nostalgia for the past, for one, and the fact that the cartoon was made for children actually makes it easier to design memes. Another reason? Emotions. “Pop cultural figures that become very meme-able have a lot to do with their ability to express specific emotions. And Spongebob — and the characters on Spongebob — are incredibly direct in what emotion they’re trying to express,” he says. “There’s no real subtlety in terms of when Spongebob is happy, or when he is sad, or when he is angry,” Schimkowitz continues. “He just is those things, which makes it much easier for people online to use them essentially as emojis and share them to express how they’re feeling about a particular subject.” One more reason: Spongebob’s fame. The yellow sea sponge’s recognizability is also one of the pulls. “Everyone knows who he is, so it’s incredibly easy to recognize where these memes are coming from,” Schimkowitz echoes, adding that he’s basically become the “emoji” for this generation. Advertisement And that’s a great thing, Kenny says, because there’s nothing inherently negative about the show. “Spongebob is all love,” he says. Read on for the origin stories for some of the best Spongebob memes, including Kenny’s favorite. ## Mocking Spongebob meme ![](https://gcp-na-images.contentstack.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9563db8fac139684/698a01cc86f68e3f4c6ed73e/mocking_spongebob.jpg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16%3A9) Nickelodeon It’s hard to go one day without seeing mocking Spongebob on Twitter. It’s one of the most simple memes, as it requires no overlaid text. It’s just Spongebob’s mocking, critical face that says it all — and Kenny tells TIME that it’s definitely his favorite. Advertisement It’s also known as the Spongebob chicken meme, because in the episode this image comes from, Spongebob was literally acting like a chicken. The episode, “[Little Yellow Book](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2512000/ "undefined"),” originally aired in 2012. Advertisement But beyond just the facial expression, the meme is now used in another specific way: repeating phrases with alternating capital letters. For the uninitiated, [Know Your Meme’s entry on the meme](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/mocking-spongebob "undefined") calls this version a “call-and-response” meme, and says that its first use was on Twitter in 2017. It [cites the first original user](https://web.archive.org/web/20170519042147/https:/twitter.com/OGBEARD/status/860349993579884544 "undefined") as @OGBEARD, accompanied the image with the words, “How I stare back at little kids when they stare for too long.” ## Caveman Spongebob meme (or Primitive Spongebob meme) ![](https://gcp-na-images.contentstack.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4a40dc44381c4b77/698a01cd97cdffd7686b96a7/caveman-spongebob-spongegar.png?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16%3A9) Nickelodeon Advertisement The caveman or primitive Spongebob meme, also called SpongeGar, shows Spongebob characterized as — you guessed it! — a caveman. This moment originates from an early episode from 1999 when Patrick travels to the pre-historic era, [according to KnowYourMeme](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/spongegar-primitive-sponge-caveman-spongebob "undefined"), but the actual [SpongeGar character](https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/SpongeGar/appearances "undefined") is a different prehistoric sponge (one of Spongebob’s ancestors, who first appeared in the season 3 episode entitled “Ugh” in 2004). The caveman Spongebob meme, with Spongebob standing with his arms and legs spread out, can be used to describe an awkward, stressful or uncomfortable situation, or a moment when you may need to brace yourself. Often combined with the “when it’s…” format of memes, this image of primitive Spongebob is typically layered onto another background. Advertisement ## Tired Spongebob meme ![](https://gcp-na-images.contentstack.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7d5830523d2fa2d5/698a01cd09208f52b84156ec/tired-spongebob-meme.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16%3A9) Nickelodeon [Tired Spongebob](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tired-spongebob "undefined") uses an image from seasons 1 episode 8. Spongebob is naked because he’s decided to leave behind his regular life in order to live among jellyfish. People mostly use the meme any time something makes you too exhausted, stressed or winded, and it also tends to be accompanied by the widespread “me after \[I do something\]” construction. Advertisement Advertisement ## Squidward Looking Out the Window meme ![](https://gcp-na-images.contentstack.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltac51892320ef412d/698a01ce09208f83244156f1/squidward-looking-out-the-window-meme.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16%3A9) Nickelodeon In typical Squidward fashion, this meme comes from a moment of the character’s frustration at Spongebob and Patrick, as he watches them with contempt as they play outside his home. The scene is from season 7 episode called “That Sinking Feeling.” [The Squidward meme](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/squidward-looking-out-the-window "undefined") can be used either to show what it’s like to watch something that looks undesirable and annoying, or something you’re jealous and wistful of. In other words, it’s the best meme for those “FOMO” moments. Advertisement ## ‘No, This is Patrick’ meme ![](https://gcp-na-images.contentstack.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt35e3d76a7d4b5071/698a01cf09208f7f224156f5/no-this-is-patrick.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16%3A9) Nickelodeon The [“No, this is Patrick” meme](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/no-this-is-patrick "undefined") is another in-joke among fans, but it’s also a universal meme can also be used in various situations. In classic Patrick form, voiced by Bill Fagerbakke, the humanlike starfish gets upset on the phone when a caller to the Krusty Krab restaurant asks, “Is this the Krusty Krab?” Unable to understand that the potential customer just wants to know if they’ve reached the line of the restaurant, Patrick, who was only recently employed, goes from affable to increasingly angry, repeating the line, “No, this is Patrick!” Finally, the scene ends when Spongebob explains, “Uh, Patrick, that’s the name of the restaurant,” he says. Advertisement The scene comes from season 2, episode 23, [according to Know Your Meme](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/no-this-is-patrick "undefined"). The meme is most often used just how Patrick used it in the episode, in responding to someone asking who you are — or when someone’s annoying you. It was even used as a reply to a viral tweet asking [whether an animal was a bird or bunny.](https://time.com/5657404/bird-or-bunny/ "undefined") Advertisement Of course, the TV show had to get in on the joke, too. Spongebob’s Twitter page shared a video of Fagerbakke re-recording the scene in real life. ## Sleeping Squidward meme ![](https://gcp-na-images.contentstack.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfdcb035cdc69b042/698a0212b21a9cb759502455/sleeping-squidward-meme.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16%3A9) Advertisement [The Sleeping Squidward meme](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sleeping-squidward "undefined") comes from the season one episode called “Home Sweet Pineapple,” when Squidward awakes to remember that Spongebob and Gary are sleeping in bed with him. The way his eyes blink wide open illustrate the feeling of suddenly remembering something. It began with the words, “when you’re about to go to sleep and you remember you have homework.” This meme should be used “when you remember something important in a flash of terrifying clarity,” according to [Esquire.](https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/g28400028/spongebob-squarepants-meme-guide-explained/ "undefined") Some people also use a version with Squidward’s eyes closed in both frames. Advertisement What makes this meme special to Kenny is the way it demonstrates darker layers that Hillenburg hid throughout the show. “A lot of the memes are about anxiousness and anxiety, and Spongebob has a lot of that hidden,” Kenny says. But it’s the lightheartedness of the show is made with that helps bring so much joy, too. “That’s what makes us human, is the ability to laugh in the face of awfulness.” ## Savage Patrick meme (or Evil Patrick meme) ![](https://gcp-na-images.contentstack.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt71a85c8a44730283/698a02fd09208f07184158ec/savage-patrick-best-spongebob-memes.png?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16%3A9) Nickelodeon The [savage/evil Patrick meme](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/savage-patrick "undefined") also comes from the season one episode entitled “Nature Pants,” shortly after the moment captured in the tired Spongebob meme. Consider this meme the best spongebob meme to use when you want to seem savage or evil. It’s really that simple. 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Readable Markdown	Thanks to fans of Spongebob, Mr. Krabs, Patrick, Squidward, Sandy and Plankton, [Spongebob Squarepants](https://time.com/5516450/spongebob-super-bowl/ "undefined") has become ubiquitous. You can’t seem to log onto social media without coming across some [Spongebob memes](https://time.com/5668447/spongebob-ight-imma-head-out-memes/ "undefined"). Stephen Hillenburg, the cartoon’s creator [who died last November,](https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/spongebob-squarepants-creator-dead-dies-stephen-hillenburg-1203037362/ "undefined") first premiered his legendary series on Nickelodeon in 1999. Twenty years later, Spongebob has found a home online, outside of Spongebob’s fictional underwater home of Bikini Bottom. “I can’t think of anything else like it,” Tom Kenny, who has voiced the titular role of Spongebob since the pilot was taped in 1997, tells TIME. He calls Spongebob memes “very relatable but very good-natured, and that just makes me happy.” While social media can often be a place for hate and vitriol, people tend to give Spongebob a special, kinder treatment, which Kenny appreciates. “I just love that these people are really funny,” he says of meme-makers. “They think of things that I wouldn’t think of.” Hillenburg’s series, which has always run the gamut of emotions, from goofiness to genuine anxiety or sadness, is “all love,” Kenny says. “He almost gave it this bulletproof vest.” Beyond the happy nature of the show’s characters and plot points, they also lend themselves easily to meme creating. “The characters are complex, but they’re also simple,” Kenny says. “There’s so much for meme makers to work with.” Why are there so many Spongebob memes? On Know Your Meme, the internet’s primary database for all things meme-y, [Spongebob Squarepants memes](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/spongebob-squarepants/photos "undefined") currently accounts for 4,635 images. To put that in context, other films and TV shows that make common meme fodder include the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which is only featured in [276 images](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/marvel-cinematic-universe/photos "undefined"), and [The Simpsons](https://time.com/4667462/simpsons-predictions-donald-trump-lady-gaga/ "undefined"), which has [1,116 images](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/the-simpsons/photos "undefined"). “Overall, if you look at our database, there are few other pop culture properties that are as frequently used in memes as Spongebob,” says Matt Schimkowitz, a senior editor for the site whose job entails sifting through and organizing Spongebob memes submitted by users, as well as defining and explaining the best Spongebob memes. “You can compare him to things like The Simpsons, or [Shrek](https://time.com/5432447/heidi-klum-2018-halloween-costume/ "undefined"), or the [Marvel](https://time.com/5167535/upcoming-marvel-movies/ "undefined") movies, and Spongebob just has way more specific formats that have been repeated again and again.” Schimkowitz says a combination of factors make Spongebob memes so popular — nostalgia for the past, for one, and the fact that the cartoon was made for children actually makes it easier to design memes. Another reason? Emotions. “Pop cultural figures that become very meme-able have a lot to do with their ability to express specific emotions. And Spongebob — and the characters on Spongebob — are incredibly direct in what emotion they’re trying to express,” he says. “There’s no real subtlety in terms of when Spongebob is happy, or when he is sad, or when he is angry,” Schimkowitz continues. “He just is those things, which makes it much easier for people online to use them essentially as emojis and share them to express how they’re feeling about a particular subject.” One more reason: Spongebob’s fame. The yellow sea sponge’s recognizability is also one of the pulls. “Everyone knows who he is, so it’s incredibly easy to recognize where these memes are coming from,” Schimkowitz echoes, adding that he’s basically become the “emoji” for this generation. And that’s a great thing, Kenny says, because there’s nothing inherently negative about the show. “Spongebob is all love,” he says. Read on for the origin stories for some of the best Spongebob memes, including Kenny’s favorite. Mocking Spongebob meme ![](https://gcp-na-images.contentstack.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9563db8fac139684/698a01cc86f68e3f4c6ed73e/mocking_spongebob.jpg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16%3A9) Nickelodeon It’s hard to go one day without seeing mocking Spongebob on Twitter. It’s one of the most simple memes, as it requires no overlaid text. It’s just Spongebob’s mocking, critical face that says it all — and Kenny tells TIME that it’s definitely his favorite. It’s also known as the Spongebob chicken meme, because in the episode this image comes from, Spongebob was literally acting like a chicken. The episode, “[Little Yellow Book](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2512000/ "undefined"),” originally aired in 2012. But beyond just the facial expression, the meme is now used in another specific way: repeating phrases with alternating capital letters. For the uninitiated, [Know Your Meme’s entry on the meme](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/mocking-spongebob "undefined") calls this version a “call-and-response” meme, and says that its first use was on Twitter in 2017. It [cites the first original user](https://web.archive.org/web/20170519042147/https:/twitter.com/OGBEARD/status/860349993579884544 "undefined") as @OGBEARD, accompanied the image with the words, “How I stare back at little kids when they stare for too long.” Caveman Spongebob meme (or Primitive Spongebob meme) ![](https://gcp-na-images.contentstack.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4a40dc44381c4b77/698a01cd97cdffd7686b96a7/caveman-spongebob-spongegar.png?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16%3A9) Nickelodeon The caveman or primitive Spongebob meme, also called SpongeGar, shows Spongebob characterized as — you guessed it! — a caveman. This moment originates from an early episode from 1999 when Patrick travels to the pre-historic era, [according to KnowYourMeme](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/spongegar-primitive-sponge-caveman-spongebob "undefined"), but the actual [SpongeGar character](https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/SpongeGar/appearances "undefined") is a different prehistoric sponge (one of Spongebob’s ancestors, who first appeared in the season 3 episode entitled “Ugh” in 2004). The caveman Spongebob meme, with Spongebob standing with his arms and legs spread out, can be used to describe an awkward, stressful or uncomfortable situation, or a moment when you may need to brace yourself. Often combined with the “when it’s…” format of memes, this image of primitive Spongebob is typically layered onto another background. Tired Spongebob meme ![](https://gcp-na-images.contentstack.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7d5830523d2fa2d5/698a01cd09208f52b84156ec/tired-spongebob-meme.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16%3A9) Nickelodeon [Tired Spongebob](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tired-spongebob "undefined") uses an image from seasons 1 episode 8. Spongebob is naked because he’s decided to leave behind his regular life in order to live among jellyfish. People mostly use the meme any time something makes you too exhausted, stressed or winded, and it also tends to be accompanied by the widespread “me after \[I do something\]” construction. Squidward Looking Out the Window meme ![](https://gcp-na-images.contentstack.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltac51892320ef412d/698a01ce09208f83244156f1/squidward-looking-out-the-window-meme.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16%3A9) Nickelodeon In typical Squidward fashion, this meme comes from a moment of the character’s frustration at Spongebob and Patrick, as he watches them with contempt as they play outside his home. The scene is from season 7 episode called “That Sinking Feeling.” [The Squidward meme](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/squidward-looking-out-the-window "undefined") can be used either to show what it’s like to watch something that looks undesirable and annoying, or something you’re jealous and wistful of. In other words, it’s the best meme for those “FOMO” moments. ‘No, This is Patrick’ meme ![](https://gcp-na-images.contentstack.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt35e3d76a7d4b5071/698a01cf09208f7f224156f5/no-this-is-patrick.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16%3A9) Nickelodeon The [“No, this is Patrick” meme](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/no-this-is-patrick "undefined") is another in-joke among fans, but it’s also a universal meme can also be used in various situations. In classic Patrick form, voiced by Bill Fagerbakke, the humanlike starfish gets upset on the phone when a caller to the Krusty Krab restaurant asks, “Is this the Krusty Krab?” Unable to understand that the potential customer just wants to know if they’ve reached the line of the restaurant, Patrick, who was only recently employed, goes from affable to increasingly angry, repeating the line, “No, this is Patrick!” Finally, the scene ends when Spongebob explains, “Uh, Patrick, that’s the name of the restaurant,” he says. The scene comes from season 2, episode 23, [according to Know Your Meme](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/no-this-is-patrick "undefined"). The meme is most often used just how Patrick used it in the episode, in responding to someone asking who you are — or when someone’s annoying you. Of course, the TV show had to get in on the joke, too. Spongebob’s Twitter page shared a video of Fagerbakke re-recording the scene in real life. Sleeping Squidward meme ![](https://gcp-na-images.contentstack.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfdcb035cdc69b042/698a0212b21a9cb759502455/sleeping-squidward-meme.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16%3A9) [The Sleeping Squidward meme](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sleeping-squidward "undefined") comes from the season one episode called “Home Sweet Pineapple,” when Squidward awakes to remember that Spongebob and Gary are sleeping in bed with him. The way his eyes blink wide open illustrate the feeling of suddenly remembering something. It began with the words, “when you’re about to go to sleep and you remember you have homework.” This meme should be used “when you remember something important in a flash of terrifying clarity,” according to [Esquire.](https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/g28400028/spongebob-squarepants-meme-guide-explained/ "undefined") Some people also use a version with Squidward’s eyes closed in both frames. What makes this meme special to Kenny is the way it demonstrates darker layers that Hillenburg hid throughout the show. “A lot of the memes are about anxiousness and anxiety, and Spongebob has a lot of that hidden,” Kenny says. But it’s the lightheartedness of the show is made with that helps bring so much joy, too. “That’s what makes us human, is the ability to laugh in the face of awfulness.” Savage Patrick meme (or Evil Patrick meme) ![](https://gcp-na-images.contentstack.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt71a85c8a44730283/698a02fd09208f07184158ec/savage-patrick-best-spongebob-memes.png?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16%3A9) Nickelodeon The [savage/evil Patrick meme](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/savage-patrick "undefined") also comes from the season one episode entitled “Nature Pants,” shortly after the moment captured in the tired Spongebob meme. Consider this meme the best spongebob meme to use when you want to seem savage or evil. It’s really that simple.
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