Don't Make Me Laugh

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"Don't Make Me Laugh" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 14. In this episode, SpongeBob suddenly finds everything funny, much to everyone's annoyance

Characters

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Patrick Star
• Usher
• Squidward Tentacles
• Eugene H. Krabs
• Lady Upturn
• Grandma SquarePants
• Fifi
• Lucky ^{(cameo on side of milk truck)}
• Incidentals
  • Incidental 1D
  • Incidental 6
  • Incidental 9
  • Incidental 11
  • Incidental 16
  • Incidental 27
  • Incidental 49
  • Incidental 50
  • Incidental 67
  • Incidental 93
  • Incidental 101
  • Incidental 118C
  • Incidental 153

Synopsis

SpongeBob and Patrick are going to see a funny movie, but end up in the wrong theater, seeing a romantic movie called Prudence in Love. When Patrick starts laughing, SpongeBob laughs along with him: the years of excessive laughing cause SpongeBob's funny bone to get stuck in high gear, making him laugh uncontrollably. His laughing annoys the rest of the moviegoers and the usher kicks him out. SpongeBob cannot stop his laughing and tries to hold it in, but this does not work.

As SpongeBob tries to go back home, he sees a man wearing a funny hat and laughs, mistakenly offending him. He then laughs at a milkman crying over spilled milk. The next day, he goes to work and tries to stifle his laughter. He runs into Squidward and laughs at his face, and locks himself in the storage room so nobody will hear him. However, the vents carry his laughter into the dining room, making everyone leave. Mr. Krabs comes in and tells SpongeBob to stop, but Lady Upturn and Fifi enter, angered that nobody has taken their order. Fifi swipes a patty from the grill and Lady Upturn falls when lunging at her, making SpongeBob laugh. Mr. Krabs kicks him out, although SpongeBob claims he is not laughing at person. Fifi attacks him and he leaves the restaurant.

SpongeBob runs through town, laughing. He locks himself in a dark building, hoping that there will be nothing to laugh at, but he ends up in a hospital operating room. As a doctor operates on a robot, his tears of laughter short circuit the robot and make it attack the doctor and nurse. He runs away and finds himself unable to stop laughing, deciding to go to the cemetery so nothing will make him laugh. However, he ends up at a clown funeral, which he finds funny. The supposedly dead clown comes to life, making SpongeBob laugh. He leaves but trips over a stand with a flower wreath. It makes the clown sneeze and his nose explodes, and SpongeBob runs away laughing.

Hours later, SpongeBob's laughter has made his mouth take up his entire face. He sees a movie called Weep playing in theaters, which consists of people crying, and decides to watch. However, he starts laughing, driving the patrons away. He runs into his grandmother, who claims that she also got her funny bone stuck at SpongeBob's age, and it happens to everyone in the family. Accepting that laughter is a part of his family, SpongeBob sits next to his grandma and laughs at the movie with her. Patrick is crying at the movie, but only because he ran out of popcorn.

Production

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Jim Meskimen, the daughter of Marion Ross (voice of Grandma SquarePants) shared a clip of her lines being recorded for this episode at TikTok on January 27, 2023.

This episode was confirmed on September 5, 2023.

Music

( ‣ ) Production music

( • ) Original music

( ◦ ) SpongeBob music

 • Kailua Jubilee - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Title card.]
 ‣ Show Opener - Dennis Berry, Stuart Crombie [Opening.]
 ‣ Capering Clowns - Max Saunders [SpongeBob begins to laugh.]
 ‣ Zoo Doings - Jack Shaindlin [SpongeBob laughing around town.]
 • Another Krusty Krab Day 2 - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr [SpongeBob sneaking into the Krusty Krab.]
 ‣ Wacky Walk 1 - Sam Sklair, Otto Sieben ["Nobody will hear my laughs in here.]
 ‣ Unpreventable - Gregor F. Narholz ["Im a monster!"]
 ‣ This Space For Hire - Sam Fonteyn ["If there's nothing to see, there's nothing to laugh at, right!?"]
 ‣ Dramatic Chords And Bridges 2 - Remastered - Sten Clift [Robot malfunctions.]
 ‣ Drama Unlimited 2 - Remastered - Ronald Hanmer [Robot chases SpongeBob and the Doctors.]
 • Spongemonger - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield ["That is not funny!"]
 ‣ Behind The Door - Norman Dane [SpongeBob runs into the cemetery.]
 ‣ Goodbye Rodney - Peter Winslow [SpongeBob continuing to laugh at the sad movie.]
 ‣ Treasures of the Heart - Alan Paul [SpongeBob talks to Grandma SquarePants at the theater.]
 ‣ Goodbye Rodney - Peter Winslow [Ending.]

Trivia

General

• The plot of this episode is similar to the season 4 episode "Funny Pants," as both episodes involve SpongeBob finding everything funny, much to Squidward’s annoyance.
• One of Patrick's faces at the beginning of this episode is traced from "SpongeBob's Bad Habit."
• This episode marks the the return of Kailua Jubilee since Knock Knock, Who's There?.
• On a side note, this track hasn't played in a title card since My Leg!.
• This episode was paired up with "Squidiot Box" during the original American airing.
• This is the first episode in the main SpongeBob SquarePants series to be copyrighted in a year that ends with a four. However, the The Patrick Star Show episodes "The Commode Episode," "Tying the Klop-Knot," "Chum Bucket List," and "Big Baby Patrick" were the first ones to be copyrighted in a year ending with a four, despite being leaked in 2023.
  • This is also the first episode to be copyrighted in 2024.
• The episode would premiere unannounced on Nickelodeon at 5:19pm, with TV guides indicating that "BassWard" would air instead.
• This is Grandma SquarePants' first appearance since "Pet Sitter Pat" over 12 years ago.

Episode references

• The octopus vendor from "Walking Small" is at the concession stand.
• The usher at Reef Cinema is the same one from "Best Day Ever."
• The hat store from "My Pretty Seahorse" makes a reappearance.
• SpongeBob visits The Seven Seas from "SpongeBob LongPants" to watch Weep.
• The Krusty Krab storage room from "Imitation Krabs" is seen again.
• Many one-off characters from previous episodes return here: the green fish in the stands from "Boating School," some of the fancy fish from Squidward's dream in "Sleepy Time," the doctors from "Code Yellow," the clowns from "Don't Feed the Clowns," one of the sweet-easy patrons from "Enemies a la Mode."
• Graffiti that reads "Sharks vs. Pods" can be seen in an alley.
• The purple doctor has orange arms, like he did in "I Was a Teenage Gary."
• A poster of SpongeBob reads "Laughing Maniac," referencing when he is called the "open window maniac" in "Hall Monitor."
• When SpongeBob is watching Weep, the patrons he bothers are a blue lady with red hair and a blue Fred, just like in "Something Smells."

References

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