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“	We've received a tremendous response from almost 4 million fans who have voted online for their favorite SpongeBob episodes and we'll reward them with our biggest SpongeBob event ever.	”
	— Tom Ascheim, executive vice president and general manager for Nickelodeon Television^[1]

This is the page about the marathon. For other uses, see Best Day Ever (disambiguation).

Template:Event The Best Day Ever marathon was a SpongeBob SquarePants marathon that aired over the course of 24 hours during November 9-10, 2006. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie television premiere occurred after the marathon. The episode "Best Day Ever" premiered during this event.

During this event, Patchy the Pirate counted down the top 100 SpongeBob episodes while on a boat in the New York City harbor. Fans voted in the weeks prior to the marathon on an online poll. The marathon started on November 9, 2006, and ran through November 10, 2006, and ended with the network premiere of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie and a rerun of the episode Best Day Ever. The marathon raised Nickelodeon's ratings to an average of over 6.7 million viewers and became the network's most highest rated day ever.^[2] The episode Best Day Ever gained a total of 6.7 million viewers^[3] and the network premiere of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie gained a total of 7.3 million viewers.^[4]

On the TV Guides, the series synopsis would appear in the "Info" box in lieu of the episode synopses so as not to give away the rankings. During the 24-hour marathon, regular Nick at Nite programming and Nick Jr. programs were not broadcast on Nickelodeon.

Repeats of the top 10 episodes (referred to as "The Best 10 Ever") were shown on November 22, November 25, December 9, December 29, January 12, 2007, and July 4, 2007.^[5] The marathon (lasting for 1 day (or 24 hours) and the new episode are both called "Best Day Ever." In Australia, the marathon (lasting for 4 days or 96 hours) has another version called "Non-Stop SpongeBob" which premiered on December 23, 2006. On February 1–2, 2008, the "Best Day Ever" premiered on Nickelodeon in Australia.

Top 100 Episodes

Forty-three episodes did not make the countdown as there were one hundred and forty-three episodes released prior to the marathon. "Procrastination" was ranked the 100th episode, and "Karate Island" was ranked the number one episode. The rankings on Turbo Nick are oddly different from the marathon order, and some have changed in the process. The Top 100 episodes are shown in the table below.

Rank	Nickelodeon	TurboNick^[6]
100	Procrastination	Procrastination Sailor Mouth^[7]
99	Hall Monitor
98	Clams
97	Tea at the Treedome	Tea at the Treedome Welcome to the Chum Bucket^[8]
96	Sailor Mouth	Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost Tea at the Treedome
95	Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost	I Had an Accident Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost
94	Welcome to the Chum Bucket	Bossy Boots
93	Bossy Boots ^[9]	Wet Painters
92	Wet Painters	My Pretty Seahorse
91	My Pretty Seahorse	Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV
90	Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV ^[10]	Rock-a-Bye Bivalve
89	Rock-a-Bye Bivalve	Squid on Strike
88	Squid on Strike	Home Sweet Pineapple
87	Home Sweet Pineapple	Squirrel Jokes
86	Squirrel Jokes	Shell of a Man
85	Shell of a Man	Fools in April
84	Fools in April	Krusty Love
83	Krusty Love	Mrs. Puff, You're Fired Dumped
82	Mrs. Puff, You're Fired	The Smoking Peanut Mrs. Puff, You're Fired
81	Dumped	Bubblestand Mrs. Puff, You're Fired
80	Bubblestand	Rock Bottom Bubblestand
79	Rock Bottom	SquidBob TentaclePants Rock Bottom
78	SquidBob TentaclePants ^[11]	Survival of the Idiots SquidBob TentaclePants
77	Imitation Krabs
76	Nasty Patty ^[12]	Nasty Patty (referred to as "The Nasty Patty") Missing Identity
75	Missing Identity	Bubble Buddy Nasty Patty
74	Gary Takes a Bath
73	(skipped)	Texas
72	(skipped)	MuscleBob BuffPants
71	(skipped)	Party Pooper Pants
70	(skipped)	Sleepy Time
69	(skipped)	Krabs vs. Plankton
68	(skipped)	Sandy's Rocket
67	(skipped)	The Lost Mattress
66	(skipped)	Plankton's Army
65	(skipped)	As Seen on TV
64	(skipped)	Graveyard Shift
63	(skipped)	SB-129
62	(skipped)	Idiot Box
61	Suds
60	Whale of a Birthday
59	The Fry Cook Games
58	No Weenies Allowed
57	Wormy
56	Hooky
55	New Student Starfish
54	Opposite Day
53	Mermaid Man & Barnacle Boy VI: The Motion Picture^[13]	Enemy In-Law
52	Dying for Pie
51	SpongeBob Meets the Strangler
50	I Had an Accident
49	Pressure
48	Culture Shock
47	Sandy, SpongeBob, and the Worm
46	The Paper
45	Chocolate with Nuts
44	Karate Choppers
43	Nature Pants
42	Neptune's Spatula
41	I Was a Teenage Gary
40	Jellyfishing
39	Once Bitten
38	Band Geeks
37	Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy
36	Employee of the Month ^[14]
35	The Great Snail Race ^[15]
34	Survival of the Idiots
33	No Free Rides
32	Squid's Day Off
31	Krabby Land
30	Arrgh!
29	Pizza Delivery
28	Prehibernation Week
27	Pickles
26	Patty Hype
25	Your Shoe's Untied
24	Help Wanted / Reef Blower
23	Bubble Buddy
22	Skill Crane
21	Just One Bite
20	Snowball Effect ^[16]
19	Scaredy Pants
18	Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V ^[17]
17	Grandma's Kisses
16	Ugh
15	Krusty Krab Training Video
14	F.U.N.
13	Big Pink Loser
12	All That Glitters
11	Fear of a Krabby Patty
10	Have You Seen This Snail? ^[18]
9	Selling Out
8	Patrick SmartPants
7	The Camping Episode
6	New Leaf
5	Ghost Host
4	Krusty Towers
3	Dunces and Dragons
2	Wishing You Well
1	Karate Island

Episodes that did not make it to the list

Patchy segments

When the Best Day Ever countdown started, Patchy's hook was on his left side. After the next commercial, his hook was on the right side. It has since been relocated to his left hand. Patchy's hosting supposedly took place in real-time alongside the marathon. A few times during the Best Day Ever marathon in the day, the Patchy commercials would take place in the night. Some segments were shown several times. Before the episode Squid on Strike, Patchy is seen reading a men's magazine on Jessica Alba. As Patchy reads an NYC guidebook he can remember only two of the seven seas.

Patchy fell asleep at midnight and woke up at 8:00 a.m. because he cannot remember anything between #85, Shell of a Man (shown at midnight), and #43, Nature Pants (shown at 7:45 a.m.). However, in the middle of the night, Patchy woke up (he lost track of what episode was next) to announce #61, "Suds" and came up with the excuse that he was "resting his eyes." However, he was stumbling over his words in the process, showing that he was half-asleep and, ironically, skipped the numbers 62-73. After that, he went back to sleep.

On Number 6, Patchy was about to "dance" with a broom, but realized that he's on-air, and "continued cleaning," while presenting the number 6, "New Leaf."

A giant, sequined SpongeBob over New York Harbor was lowered as the #1 episode drew closer and closer, a la the famous New Years' Ball in Times Square.^[19]

Transcript

Main article: Best Day Ever marathon/transcript

Film premiere

Several promotional advertisements for the airing of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie showed the film in its original widescreen aspect ratio, however, the airing of the film at 8:00 pm EST was in a cropped full-screen aspect ratio/pan and scan version of the film. Nickelodeon would not air the movie in widescreen until May 2013.

During the airing of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie at the climax of the Best Day Ever marathon, the Nickelodeon logo changes to a semi-transparent version of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie logo.

Trivia

General

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To promote the special and the episode, a SpongeBob Sponge Station was made for the 2006 New York City marathon, where sponges with the words "Best Day Ever" on them, would be handed out by people, including the Nickelodeon Senior Vice President of Consumer Products Hal Snik.^[20]

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Before the premiere of the episode, Best Buy stores across the United States would introduce a "Best Day Ever"-themed Best Buy gift card that doubles as a DVD-ROM packed with music videos, video game reviews, and more. Additional designs of the cards can be found here.
- Also, "Best Day Ever"-themed activities would be held at the Nickelodeon Family Suites Hotel by Holiday Inn, including a themed party called the Bikini Bottom Bash. Throughout November, the hotel released a "Best Day Ever" package to its guests starting at $369.^[21]
Patchy the Pirate's hook changes hands throughout the marathon.

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The "Dedication to Pat Morita" scene.

The dedication card for Pat Morita at the end of "Karate Island" was removed from American television airings and all digital and streaming releases on Amazon Prime Video, Paramount+, and iTunes after this marathon. However, the Polish, Canadian, Australian, Belgian, French, Turkish, Spanish, German, Greek, Russian, Asian, Filipino, Latin American, Malaysian, European, all DVD releases, and the Netflix version (albeit cut short) still have the dedication intact. The dedication used to be left in the UK and Ireland airings,^[22] but has since been removed.^[23]
Despite the event, the new episode broadcast was a standard 11-minute episode, which was followed by the number one episode to fill out the hour, and the premiere of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.
There is an event with the same name in Israel, although it was different.
Even though Patchy claims that "Shanghaied" is one of his favorite episodes, it is not on the list.
The best performing episodes per season were:
- Season 1: "F.U.N." (#14)
- Season 2: "Big Pink Loser" (#13)
- Season 3: "The Camping Episode" (#7)
- Season 4: "Karate Island" (#1)
The worst performing episodes per season were:
- Season 1: "Hall Monitor" (#99)
- Season 2: "Procrastination" (#100)
- Season 3: "Clams," (#98)
- Season 4: "Shell of a Man" (#85)
There is another event that aired in the UK and Ireland and had the same premise called "SpongeBob's Top 100."
In the Netherlands the episode that had the best performance and ranked #1 in this event was "Krabby Land."
"Enemy-in-Law" was originally going to be #53, but was changed at the last minute.

Videos

Gallery

Episode count icons

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Footnotes/References

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External links

Best Day Ever Site:
- Commercial version
- Non-commercial version
Press Release on the Marathon, on October 31, 2006
12 episodes that were not skipped
Watch (German) episode here

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↑ https://www.nickandmore.com/posts/2006-11-13-spongebobs-best-day-ever-is-nicks-best-day-ever.html
↑ https://www.nickandmore.com/posts/2006-11-13-spongebobs-best-day-ever-is-nicks-best-day-ever.html
↑ https://www.nickandmore.com/posts/2006-11-13-spongebobs-best-day-ever-is-nicks-best-day-ever.html
↑ Nickstory - July 4, 2007
↑ Rankings according to nick.com
↑ Rank #100 on television was shown as "Procrastination." This was the same with the TurboNick rank. However, TurboNick later changed the ranking episode to "Sailor Mouth."
↑ Rank #97 on television was shown as "Tea at the Treedome." This was the same with the TurboNick rank. However, TurboNick changed the ranking episode to "Welcome to the Chum Bucket."
↑ "Bossy Boots" was referred to as "Working Pearl" during the marathon.
↑ "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV" was referred to as "Mermaid Man IV" during the marathon.
↑ "SquidBob TentaclePants" was referred to as "Squidward Tentaclepants" during the marathon.
↑ "Nasty Patty" was referred to as "The Nasty Patty" during the marathon.
↑ Mermaid Man & Barnacle Boy VI: The Motion Picture was supposed to be "Enemy In-Law" during the marathon
↑ Employee of the Month was supposed to be Neptune's Spatula during the marathon.
↑ "The Great Snail Race" was referred to as "Great Snail Race" during the marathon.
↑ "Snowball Effect" was referred to as "The Snowball Effect" during the marathon.
↑ "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V" was referred to as "Super Friends" during the marathon.
↑ "Have You Seen This Snail?" was referred to as "Where's Gary?" during the marathon.
↑ Kevin🌐 on Twitter: "While we're waiting for SpongeBob's #BigBirthdayBlowout…"
↑ http://www.gettyimages.com/event/new-york-marathon-nickelodeon-spongebob-sponge-station-72371604
↑ http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nickelodeon-gives-kids-their-best-spongebob-day-ever-with-a-24-hour-marathon-counting-down-viewer-favorites-followed-by-the-best-day-ever-special-and-the-network-premiere-of-the-spongebob-squarepants-movie-56640382.html
↑ Nicktoons UK Christmas Continuity and Idents 2019
↑ SpongeBob SquarePants UK edits - Karate Island

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[2] ttps://www.nickandmore.com/posts/2006-11-13-spongebobs-best-day-ever-is-nicks-best-day-ever.html

[3] ttps://www.nickandmore.com/posts/2006-11-13-spongebobs-best-day-ever-is-nicks-best-day-ever.html

[4] ttps://www.nickandmore.com/posts/2006-11-13-spongebobs-best-day-ever-is-nicks-best-day-ever.html

[5] Nickstory - July 4, 2007

[6] Rankings according to nick.com

[7] Rank #100 on television was shown as "Procrastination." This was the same with the TurboNick rank. However, TurboNick later changed the ranking episode to "Sailor Mouth."

[8] Rank #97 on television was shown as "Tea at the Treedome." This was the same with the TurboNick rank. However, TurboNick changed the ranking episode to "Welcome to the Chum Bucket."

[9] "Bossy Boots" was referred to as "Working Pearl" during the marathon.

[10] "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV" was referred to as "Mermaid Man IV" during the marathon.

[11] "SquidBob TentaclePants" was referred to as "Squidward Tentaclepants" during the marathon.

[12] "Nasty Patty" was referred to as "The Nasty Patty" during the marathon.

[13] Mermaid Man & Barnacle Boy VI: The Motion Picture was supposed to be "Enemy In-Law" during the marathon

[14] Employee of the Month was supposed to be Neptune's Spatula during the marathon.

[15] "The Great Snail Race" was referred to as "Great Snail Race" during the marathon.

[16] "Snowball Effect" was referred to as "The Snowball Effect" during the marathon.

[17] "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V" was referred to as "Super Friends" during the marathon.

[18] "Have You Seen This Snail?" was referred to as "Where's Gary?" during the marathon.

[19] Kevin🌐 on Twitter: "While we're waiting for SpongeBob's #BigBirthdayBlowout…"

[20] ttp://www.gettyimages.com/event/new-york-marathon-nickelodeon-spongebob-sponge-station-72371604

[21] ttp://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nickelodeon-gives-kids-their-best-spongebob-day-ever-with-a-24-hour-marathon-counting-down-viewer-favorites-followed-by-the-best-day-ever-special-and-the-network-premiere-of-the-spongebob-squarepants-movie-56640382.html

[22] Nicktoons UK Christmas Continuity and Idents 2019

[23] SpongeBob SquarePants UK edits - Karate Island

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