Funny Pants
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| Writer(s): | Luke Brookshier Tom King Steven Banks |
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"Funny Pants" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season four.
Brief summary: SpongeBob keeps laughing. One day, Squidward tells SpongeBob to stop laughing, or else he will "break your laughbox." But after 24 hours without laughing, SpongeBob loses his laugh. Squidward becomes sympathetic, and confesses that laughboxes aren't real. After that, Squidward is then thrown into a fit of laughing, and loses his laugh. Squidward is then shown in a hospital, and it's revealed that SpongeBob has donated part of his laughbox to Squidward, enabling him to laugh, except with SpongeBob's voice.
Time/Date: Unknown
Time cards shown:
- Later that same evening
Characters Present:
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Squidward Tentacles
- Sandy Cheeks
- Patrick Star
- Eugene Krabs
- Krusty Krab Customers
- Bikini Bottomites
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- Tom
- Doctor
Songs: None
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Squidward has had enough of SpongeBob's incessant laughter, so he tricks his neighbor into believing that SpongeBob has a laugh-related illness. According to the made-up disease, if SpongeBob laughs one more time in the next 24 hours, his laugh box will explode and he will never laugh or giggle again. For the rest of the day, SpongeBob fights every single urge to chuckle. First, he sees Patrick trip over a banana peel, and runs away. Next, he sees that whoopee cushions are all over the town. Then, he buries himself to never be interrupted by a joke during the night. The next morning, SpongeBob discovers that he completely lost the ability to laugh. He tells Patrick that he has lost his laugh, but when Patrick looks inside SpongeBob and lights a match, he runs around in circles. Later, SpongeBob goes to the Krusty Krab to tell Mr. Krabs that he has lost his laugh. Mr. Krabs says that money always makes him laugh, but SpongeBob doesn't feel a tickle. SpongeBob consults Sandy, who is a scientist. Sandy gives SpongeBob books about laughter. SpongeBob reads the books, but still doesn't have any effect on his laugh box. Meanwhile, Squidward, for the first time ever, has peace and quiet. Now utterly grief stricken, all SpongeBob can do is cry his eyes out, meaning more noise than ever. Squidward finally confesses to the sad sponge, as the weeping has been more annoying than SpongeBob's giggles and after Squidward admits everything, SpongeBob laughs to see it has been a good joke and Squidward joins in the laughter. When Squidward says "You even fell for the thermometer in the onion boil routine!" SpongeBob immediately stops laughing, and goes inside his house. When Squidward laughs too much, he is taken to the hospital. Later, it is revealed that Squidward has lost his laugh and the doctor points out that someone has given him half of their laugh box. It isn't Patrick, Sandy or Mr. Krabs, it was SpongeBob. Squidward starts to laugh like SpongeBob and runs out of the building.
[edit] Trivia/Goofs
- This episode was originally titled "Unfunny Pants", but when it aired on Nick, it was changed to "Laughbox", and then was later changed to "Funny Pants".
- After Patrick slips on a banana peel several times, he says "Okay, right foot first..." but he actually picks up his left leg. He may have done this because he is an idiot.
- The title card is similar to the title card from Squirrel Jokes.
- When Spongebob goes to Sandy for help, Sandy tells him that laughter is not caused by his laughbox, but later, he still believes it when Squidward comes to apologize.
- When they show the title card there is a piece of music that was in the episode The Lost Mattress.
| Preceded by "Selling Out" |
SpongeBob SquarePants episodes | Followed by "Enemy In-Law" |
