Bikini Bottom/appearances

Template:LTab Bikini Bottom takes place in almost every episode, short, movie, and video game as it is the main location of the SpongeBob SquarePants series.

• Bikini Bottom was not featured in the "Astrology with Squidward" shorts, the "Nicktoons Battle" short, the "Beware Flying Jellyfish" short, the "Documenting Our Road Trip" short, the "Pest of the West" shorts, the "What if the Mystery Ended This Way...?" short, the "Ask Patrick Anything" short, "The Museum of Cartoon Sponges" short, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water shorts, the "Plankton. A Thank You Would Be Nice." short, and the entirety of Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years except for the episode "Kitchen Sponge."

Episodes where the characters leave Bikini Bottom

• "Pizza Delivery" - Template:Data:Links and Template:Data:Links accidentally got lost away from town while delivering a pizza.
• "Sandy's Rocket" - SpongeBob and Template:Data:Links briefly travel to the surface and into space via Template:Data:Links's rocket ship before descending back into Bikini Bottom. Later, Sandy travels to the moon using a jetpack.
• "Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost" - SpongeBob and Patrick blow a bubble that encases Squidward and floats up to the surface of Bikini Atoll.
• "I Was a Teenage Gary" - SpongeBob and Patrick travel off-screen to a jellyfishing convention in Ukulele Bottom.
• "SB-129" - Squidward gets frozen 2,000 years into the future and finds himself in a chrome version of the Krusty Krab and Bikini Bottom in general. He uses the time machine to go back to the present, but instead finds himself in a primitive version of Bikini Bottom, and later Nowhere.
• "Rock Bottom" - SpongeBob and Patrick accidentally take the wrong bus and end up in Rock Bottom.
• "Neptune's Spatula" - King Neptune brings SpongeBob, Patrick, and various other Bikini Bottomites to his kingdom of Atlantis.
• "Hooky" - Patrick gets caught by a fishing hook off-screen and is put into a can of tuna on the surface before returning to Bikini Bottom.
• "Something Smells" - Two fish grab onto fishing hooks to escape the smell of SpongeBob's foul-smelling sundae, presumably reaching the surface.
• "Big Pink Loser" - Patrick briefly goes up in the air of Bikini Atoll to show "his" award to the island, before losing water and going back into the ocean.
• "Bubble Buddy" - Off-screen, Sandy goes south for the winter.
• "Wormy" - Sandy takes an off-screen vacation to an unknown location, requiring SpongeBob and Patrick to look after her pets.
• "Squidville" - Squidward moves away from Bikini Bottom into the community of Tentacle Acres.
• "Life of Crime" - SpongeBob and Patrick say goodbye to Bikini Bottom and live out in the open to spite their criminal reputations for "stealing" a balloon.
• "Pressure" - SpongeBob, Patrick, Squidward, Template:Data:Links, and Sandy travel to the island at Bikini Atoll.
• "Band Geeks" - The Bikini Bottom Super Band performs at an American football stadium on the surface.
• "The Algae's Always Greener" - Plankton finds himself transported into an alternate-universe Krusty Krab where he is named Mr. Plankton after his invention worked.
• "No Weenies Allowed" - SpongeBob gets briefly flung up to Bikini Atoll after Sandy hits him with her karate glove.
• "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V" - After gaining super-speed, SpongeBob runs all the way around the world back into Bikini Bottom.
• "Born Again Krabs" - Mr. Krabs is abducted by the Flying Dutchman and threatened to spend eternity in Davy Jones' locker.
• "Pranks a Lot" - Sandy goes back to Texas via her acorn-shaped rocket after being scared by "ghosts" in her home.
• "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie" - SpongeBob and Patrick travel to Shell City to retrieve King Neptune's crown.
• "Atlantis SquarePantis" - SpongeBob, Patrick, Template:Data:Links, Sandy, Mr. Krabs, and Template:Data:Links go to Atlantis.
• "The Inmates of Summer" - SpongeBob and Patrick are going to go off to summer camp, but they take the wrong ship and end up in Inferno Island.
• "What Ever Happened to SpongeBob?" - SpongeBob finds himself in New Kelp City after running away from Bikini Bottom due to his friends' mistreatment of him.
• "SpongeBob SquarePants vs. The Big One" - The Flying Dutchman is sent to Davy Jones' locker.
• "SpongeBob's Last Stand" - SpongeBob and Patrick get sent to Nowhere by the police.
• "Rodeo Daze" - Sandy goes to Texas to fight in the rodeo. SpongeBob blows a bubble transporting himself and everyone else out of the sea and onto land to save Sandy in Texas.
• "Hide and Then What Happens?" - SpongeBob uses Sandy's submarine to find where Patrick is hiding, but ends up finding Patrick Not-Star instead.
• "Mooncation" - Sandy and SpongeBob go to the moon.
• "Goons on the Moon" - Sandy and her Science Scout troop go to the moon.
• "Pineapple RV" - Squidward, SpongeBob, and Patrick go to see the Porpoise Peak.
• "Swamp Mates" - Bubble Bass and Patrick get sucked into the Swamp where they search for the Wonder Whale action figure.
• "Squid's on a Bus" - Squidward, SpongeBob, and Patrick briefly visit Crush County.
• "SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout" - SpongeBob, Patrick, and other fish visit the Surface Land while on a tour with Template:Data:Links.
• "SpongeBob in RandomLand" - SpongeBob and Squidward make a delivery in RandomLand.
• "The Hankering" - Mr. Krabs goes to the empty desert to have some chum from Sal.
• "Plankton's Intern" - Karen goes out of town to visit her mother, forcing Plankton to get himself a temporary assistant.
• "SpongeBob's Road to Christmas" - SpongeBob, Patrick, and Plankton visit the North Pole to give a gift to Santa Claus.
• "Food PBFFT! Truck" - SpongeBob and Squidward visit Rock Bottom again.
• "Plane to Sea" - SpongeBob and Patrick get Squidward a ticket to Bora Bora Bottom.
• "Squidferatu" - Squidward and SpongeBob visit Nosferatu's castle to return his mail to him.

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Episodes where the characters almost leave Bikini Bottom

• "Sandy's Rocket" - Sandy plans to go to the moon on her spaceship. SpongeBob wants to come too, but Sandy doesn't have any room for him. Later, SpongeBob and Patrick mess around in the ship and think they have landed on the moon (even though they are still in Bikini Bottom), so they go around capturing everyone and storing them in the ship under the mistaken impression that the citizens are aliens.
• "Texas" - Sandy takes the bus to go back to her hometown, Texas. However, she returns to Bikini Bottom upon hearing SpongeBob and Patrick insult Texas.
• "Chimps Ahoy" - Sandy almost leaves Bikini Bottom again by taking the bus.