View source for Sea spider

{{Infobox-incomplete}}
{{CTab}}
{{Classification
|name = Sea spider
|image = Patrick's Coupon 003.png
|colors = Black
|kingdom = Animalia
|phylum = Arthropoda
|subphylum = Chelicerata
|class = Pycnogonida
|order = Pantopoda
|first appearance = "[[Bossy Boots]]"
|last appearance = "[[Slappy Daze]]"
}}
A '''sea spider''' is a spider that dwells underwater. They appear in "[[Bossy Boots]]," "[[Patty Hype]]," "[[Ghost Host]]," "[[Wigstruck]]," "[[Ghoul Fools]]," "[[Patrick's Coupon]]," "[[Ink Lemonade]]," "[[Mustard O' Mine]]," "[[The Night Patty]]," "[[Cabin of Curiosities]]," "[[Outhouse Outrage]]," "[[Are You Afraid of the Dork?]]," "[[Squidferatu]]," and "[[Slappy Daze]]."

==Description==
The sea spider looks similar to a [[sea urchin]], and in "Bossy Boots," "Patty Hype," "Ghost Host," "Wigstruck," "Ghoul Fools," and "Mustard O' Mine" they are small and far less menacing. In "Patrick's Coupon," they look very similar to real spiders with a grayish body and red eyes. The spider's legs are hairy and extended to suit the body. They also have a gland on their abdomen to spin out webs.

Sea spiders have monstrous teeth and eight compound eyes.
{{Section-expand}}

==Role in series==
==="[[Home Sweet Pineapple]]"===
{{Link|SpongeBob}} is mistaken for a spider by {{Link|Patrick}}.

==="Bossy Boots"===
One is in the [[Kuddly Krab]] office's safe.

==="Patty Hype"===
When SpongeBob's [[Pretty Patty|Pretty Patties]] [[Pretty Patties (store)|establishment]] takes off, the [[Krusty Krab]] becomes overrun with spider webs. One spider is seen hanging down and crying while watching a sad movie with {{Link|Mr. Krabs}}. When Mr. Krabs is distracted by the news interruption of the hype of the Pretty Patties, the spider steals his popcorn.

==="[[Fear of a Krabby Patty]]"===
When {{Link|Plankton}} appears like one, Mr. Krabs mistakes him for a spider bug.

==="[[SpongeHenge]]"===
When SpongeBob enters the cave, the camera pans to a sea spider on a rock.

==="Ghost Host"===
They emerge from the [[Flying Dutchman]] when he is in his SpongeBob forms.

==="Wigstruck"===
When SpongeBob is wearing [[Ned's wig]] and {{Link|Squidward}} points out that it is infested with parasites, bugs crawl out from it—tickling SpongeBob—and back into it.

==="Ghoul Fools"===
One is in the [[haunted house boat]], where Patrick claims that the spiders are fake.

==="[[Life Insurance]]"===
The sea spider is mentioned several times; SpongeBob and Patrick think that Squidward's toupee is one and smash it whenever they see it.

==="Patrick's Coupon"===
The sea spider fights with Patrick at the beginning of the episode. Patrick attempts to use his sofa chair as a self-defense weapon, but it disintegrates into sand. Patrick then backs up before ending up in a spider web. He tries to free himself to no avail. The sea spider crawls down and Patrick attempts to blow it away, but the sea spider crawls onto him, shoots its web onto Patrick's eye and traps him in a cocoon. The sea spider then cuts the web and Patrick falls to the floor, finding his lost [[Ice Cream (Patrick's Coupon)|ice cream]] coupon in the process.

Patrick then directly speaks to the spider, parting ways with it to go out to buy himself some [[ice cream]].

==="[[The Legend of Boo-Kini Bottom]]"===
Depictions of them are used for [[Halloween (holiday)|Halloween]] throughout [[Bikini Bottom]].

==="Ink Lemonade"===
{{Main|Mildred}}
A sea spider by the name of Mildred appears.
{{Section-expand}}

==="Mustard O' Mine"===
One emerges from [[Walter Haddock]]'s beard and enters his mouth.

==="The Night Patty"===
A talking sea spider resembling Mildred from "Ink Lemonade" is a Krusty Krab night shift customer in [[The Tidal Zone (in-universe event)|The Tidal Zone]].

==={{KKSUY}}===
{{Main|Preda Tory}}
A sea spider by the name of Preda Tory appears. She is one of the members of the Trawler cabin.
{{Section-expand}}

==="Squidferatu"===
{{Section-expand}}

==="Slappy Daze"===
{{Main|Esmerelda (spider)}}

==="[[Squidiot Box]]"===
{{Section-expand}}

==Trivia==
*In "[[Scaredy Pants]]," a land spider appears and the Flying Dutchman later mentions spiders as being scary.
*Sea spiders are a real class of arthropods.
**Creatures more closely resembling real sea spiders appear in "Ink Lemonade" and "The Night Patty" respectively.
*Patrick has a dream where he gets attacked by spiders in "Home Sweet Pineapple."
[[Category:Monsters]]
[[Category:Bugs]]