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
  • Squidward's reflection
• Eugene H. Krabs
• Lady Upturn
• Grandma SquarePants
• Fifi
• Nurse
• Robot ^{(single appearance)}
• Sparklenose ^{(single appearance)}
• Lucky ^{(cameo on side of milk truck)}
• Cindy
• Incidentals
  • Fred
  • Incidental 1D
  • Incidental 6
  • Incidental 9
  • Incidental 11
  • Incidental 16
  • Incidental 27
  • Incidental 49
  • Incidental 50
  • Incidental 67
  • Incidental 93
  • Incidental 101
  • Incidental 116
  • Incidental 118C
  • Incidental 124
  • Incidental 127
  • Incidental 153
  • Lady inc
  • ProhibitionPatron 3
  • ProhibitionPatron 4
  • SpeakeasyGGServer 1
  • "Doctor" incidentals
  • "C" incidentals

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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

File:SB1408 recording .mp4

Jim Meskimen, the son 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.]
 ‣ Lovers (Romantic Theme) - Remastered - Jack Bawcomb ["Prudence in Love."]
 ‣ Capering Clowns - Max Saunders [SpongeBob begins to laugh.]
 • Nude Sting - Nicolas Carr [SpongeBob kicked out of the theater.]
 ‣ Zoo Doings - Jack Shaindlin [SpongeBob laughing around town.]
 • Hot Steel and Slide Licks 6B - Jeremy Wakefield ["You're crying over spilled milk!"]
 • Hot Steel and Slide Licks 6C - Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob laughs at the milkman.]
 • Another Krusty Krab Day 2 - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr [SpongeBob sneaking into the Krusty Krab.]
 • Hot Steel and Slide Licks 20A - Jeremy Wakefield ["Don't listen to him. You're beautiful."]
 • Hot Steel and Slide Licks 19E - Jeremy Wakefield [Squidward kisses himself.]
 ‣ Wacky Walk 1 - Sam Sklair, Otto Sieben ["Nobody will hear my laughs in here.]
 • ? - Nicolas Carr [Fifi growls.]
 • Missing Frycook - Nicolas Carr [Fifi attacks SpongeBob.]
 ‣ Drama Sting 6 - Sidney Torch ["I'm a monster!"]
 ‣ Unpreventable - Gregor F. Narholz [SpongeBob running through Bikini Bottom.]
 ‣ This Space For Hire - Sam Fonteyn [SpongeBob in the dark.]
 ‣ Mining Industry - Sam Sklair [In the operating room.]
 • Hot Steel and Slide Licks 19A - Jeremy Wakefield [Nurse grabs SpongeBob.]
 ‣ 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!"]
 ‣ ? ["There's nothing funny in a cemetery."]
 ‣ Behind The Door - Norman Dane [SpongeBob runs into the cemetery.]
 ‣ ? [Clowns having a funeral.]
 • Hot Steel and Slide Licks 37A - Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob wearing a clown nose.]
 ‣ Entry of the Gladiators - Brian Gulland, Richard Harvey ["Would you get off my chest?"]
 • Tension Bits - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Clown sneezes.]
 ‣ At The Circus - Benoit Pimont [SpongeBob leaves the funeral.]
 ‣ Creepy Clowns - Remastered - Ronald Hanmer [SpongeBob in an alley.]
 ‣ 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 everyone's annoyance.
• One of Patrick's expressions at the beginning of this episode is recycled 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.
  • Coincidentally, that is the episode it follows in production order, with this having the production code of 325-1408, and "Squidiot" having the code of 325-1407.
• 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 premiere to be copyrighted in 2024.
• The episode would premiere unannounced on Nickelodeon at 5:19pm, with TV guides indicating that a rerun of "BassWard" would air instead.
• This is Grandma SquarePants' first appearance since "Pet Sitter Pat" over 12 years prior to this episode's airing.

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" reappears.
• SpongeBob visits The Seven Seas theater 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," and a few of the speakeasy patrons from The Patrick Star Show episode "Enemies a la Mode."
• Graffiti that reads "Sharks" and "Pods" can be seen in an alley. This was previously seen in "Whirly Brains."
• 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 Judge 2 and a blue Fred, just like in "Something Smells."