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{{Object
|name = Hot dog
|image = Don't Feed the Clowns 081.png
|producer = [[Weenie Hut]]<br>[[Hotdog Shop]]<br>[[Hotdog on a String]]<br>[[Krusty Krab]] (formerly)<br>[[Incidental 39]]
|owner = [[Master Udon]]
|type = Food
|first-appearance = "[[MuscleBob BuffPants]]"
|latest-appearance = "[[Yellow Pavement]]"
}}
A '''hot dog''' is a food that first appears in the episode "[[MuscleBob BuffPants]]."

==Description==
A hot dog is a grilled or steamed sausage sandwich where the sausage is served in the slit of a partially sliced bun. It sometimes has [[ketchup]], [[mustard]], and/or relish on it as condiments.

==Role in series==
[[Incidental 39]] is the main hot dog salesman. {{Link|Patrick}} and many other citizens enjoy eating hot dogs, suggesting that they are a popular food in Bikini Bottom.

==={{SBSP}}===
===="[[The Chaperone]]"====
{{Link|SpongeBob}} gets sad over the fact that he made a hot dog land in [[Incidental 45|Teen 11]]'s hair, but {{Link|Pearl}} assures him that it was actually quite funny.

===="[[Walking Small]]"====
As part of his new "assertive" attitude, SpongeBob uses his tongue to steal and eat the hot dogs a vendor is selling. He later regurgitates them and gives them back.

===="[[Neptune's Spatula]]"====
Incidental 39 tells [[King Neptune]] that he does not make the hot dogs he sells.

===="[[SpongeGuard on Duty]]"====
SpongeBob steals Incidentals [[Incidental 27|27]] and [[Incidental 7|7]]'s boat to save Patrick from drowning, accidentally stealing their two hot dogs in the process, which he gives back after realizing.

===="[[Club SpongeBob]]"====
Hot dogs are one of the many food items that fell from the table of food from the airplane which SpongeBob and Patrick eat from.

===="[[No Weenies Allowed]]"====
Nerds [[Nerd 1|1]] and [[Nerd 2|2]] at [[Weenie Hut Jr's]] are seen eating hot dogs. A hot dog sausage is also the mascot of the restaurant.

===="[[The Thing]]"====
When SpongeBob expresses disdain for {{Link|Squidward}}'s abduction, Patrick goes off-topic and remarks that his hot dog needs mustard.

===="[[Picture Day]]"====
SpongeBob visits a [[hotdog shop]] where he disguises himself as a slice of [[cheese]] on top of the building's hot dog statue to avoid being targeted by a group of teenagers. When they appear to be out of sight, SpongeBob gets off the statue only to be sprayed ketchup on by [[Incidental 85]], who was actually aiming for his hot dog.

===="[[Nautical Novice]]"====
When SpongeBob gets inside the boat, he points out the hot dog with extra mustard, which has a live-action close-up.

===="[[Boating Buddies]]"====
SpongeBob eats a hot dog for lunch.

===="[[The Play's the Thing]]"====
A hot dog is one of the many items thrown at Squidward by the audience.

===="[[Karate Star]]"====
Patrick chops up many hot dogs into bite-sized pieces.

===="[[Krusty Dogs]]"====
{{Main|Krusty Dog}}
A [[Krusty Dog|menu item of the same name]] is introduced to the [[Krusty Krab]] and becomes so popular that it replaces {{Link|Krabby Patties}}.

===="[[Bubble Buddy Returns]]"====
SpongeBob blows a bubble shaped like a hot dog.

===="[[SpongeBob You're Fired]]"====
Hot dogs are a main item sold at [[Weenie Hut]], a restaurant which SpongeBob applies for a job at after being fired from the [[Krusty Krab]]. After failing to make actual hot dogs, but rather [[Weenie Patty|Weenie Patties]], [[Mister Weiner]] throws said patties on the ground and disqualifies SpongeBob for the job.

Later in the episode, he comes back for him and hires a group of [[Weenie goons|henchmen]] to kidnap SpongeBob because his customers actually loved the Weenie Patties.

===="[[The Sewers of Bikini Bottom]]"====
Hot dogs are one of the many food items sold by the [[drink vendor]].

===="[[Mall Girl Pearl]]"====
[[Marina]] works for [[Hotdog on a String]], a restaurant inside the [[Bikini Bottom Mall]] that sells the eponymous food item, which is, as implied, a hot dog sausage wrapped in string. Pearl tries to apply for a job here but is disqualified after [[Mr. Pepalino]] is injured in the hot dog machine.

===="[[Don't Feed the Clowns]]"====
SpongeBob and [[Incidental C1|little clown]] sell and make hot dogs with mustard and relish.

===="[[Bubbletown]]"====
SpongeBob eats a hot dog in bubble form.

===="[[Squirrel Jelly]]"====
After SpongeBob and Patrick's heads shrink, {{Link|Sandy}} transforms the regular hot dogs into dinky dogs to conform to their recent size change.

===="[[The Nitwitting]]"====
[[List of characters/Background|Incidental EH13]] of the [[Empty Head Society]] is seen trying to eat a hot dog on a string.

===="[[Breakin']]"====
SpongeBob finds sausages inside the [[employee break room]]'s fridge. He sticks them together with toothpicks to make a carousel, then puts it in the microwave. After spinning around, it lights on fire and explodes.

===="[[Escape from Beneath Glove World]]"====
A hot dog stand can be seen at [[Glove World!]]

===="[[Sea-Man Sponge Haters Club]]"====
The meal that SpongeBob serves [[Bubble Bass]] includes a hot dog.

===="[[Say Awww!]]"====
Incidental 39 can be seen serving hot dogs to the [[shrimp]], but then they are both eaten by [[Q.T.-π]].

===="[[Captain Pipsqueak]]"====
After Plankton joins [[E.V.I.L.]], his first task is to get [[Man Ray]], the [[Dirty Bubble]], [[Jumbo Shrimp]], and [[Notodoris]] lunch at [[Super Weenie Hut Jr's]]. Plankton orders a 25 pound bucket of hot dogs. Mr. Weenie Jr. declines to give him his food because he is a member of E.V.I.L. and summons his weenie goons to attack Plankton. In the commotion, Plankton successfully steals the food, which E.V.I.L. eats while congratulating him.

===="[[Welcome to Binary Bottom]]"====
Variants of hot dogs called "robo-dogs" are sold by a robotic Incidental 39. They appear to be parts of a battery cut up and placed in a metal shell.

===="[[Ma and Pa's Big Hurrah]]"====
A hot-dog themed wrestler who resembles [[Master Udon]] appears behind Patrick in the [[wrestling center]].

===="[[Yellow Pavement]]"====
Squidward and his [[boatmobile]] collide with a hot dog billboard when SpongeBob crashes into him during the "Entering Traffic" segment.

==={{TPSS}}===
===="[[Gas Station Vacation]]"====
At [[Gas Land]]'s convenience store, Patrick takes some hot dogs off a roller and makes them into a poodle, akin to a balloon animal. However, the heat burns his hands, and he runs off. Later, the [[Goofy Manager|Gas Land employee]] slips on the poodle, getting his eyeballs stuck in the hot dog roller.

==Role in books==
===''[[SpongeBob Comics]]''===
====''[[SpongeBob Comics No. 10]]''====
''[[SpongeBob Finds a Cave]]''.
SpongeBob participates in a hot dog-eating contest, only for Patrick to tell him that he cannot enter, due to missing a shoe. He walks away crying and falls into a hole, ending up in a cave also containing his lost shoe. As he reaches out to grab it, he is startled by the mysterious blind cave fish, who gives him a choice between the shoe and a magical hot dog.

SpongeBob shows Squidward his new lucky hat, being a hot dog. Squidward does not notice and receives a postcard from Patrick, the winner of the contest.

==Trivia==
*They appear in every season except for [[season 2]] and [[season 10|10]].

==See also==
*[[Weenie goons]]
*[[Hotdog on a String]]
*[[Krusty Dog]]
*[[Weenie Hut]]
*[[Weenie Patties]]

==External links==
*{{WP|Hot dog}}

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