Flower clouds

“	They all look like flowers, SpongeBob. All the time.	”
	— Sandy, "Pressure"

Template:Object Flower clouds are flower-shaped clouds that appear in the sky in every episode of the series.

Description

The clouds appear in the sky and come in various colors. When in Bikini Bottom, they appear normally, but when outside of the town, they appear stretched out and distorted. They are able to fall from the sky, as seen in The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water. They are Bikini Bottom's version of clouds.

Mentions and interactions

Template:Section-expand The flower clouds have been mentioned, moved, or interacted with several times in the series.

In "Pressure," Template:Data:Links and Template:Data:Links watch the clouds. Sandy comments on how they always look like flowers.
In The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, flower clouds ripple a little bit to show the detail of life underwater.
In "Chimps Ahoy," Sandy describes the "flowers up above" when singing about the ocean.
In "Pest of the West," they appear sentient and have faces in the "Idiot Friends" song.
In "Truth or Square," they appear sentient and have faces in the "Rubber Hose Rag" song.
In The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, flower clouds fall down from the sky.
In "Snail Mail," SpongeBob's plane bounces off a flower cloud.
In "No Pictures Please," Template:Data:Links picks up and opens a flower cloud like a door.
In "Karen's Virus," Template:Data:Links throws a boatmobile at a flower cloud and knocks it down.
In "SpongeBob in RandomLand," SpongeBob jumps on a flower cloud and starts walking on it, making it spin and then jumping out of it.
In "Patrick the Mailman," SpongeBob and Template:Data:Links hit a flower cloud in the sky after Squidward blasts them off with his new turbo clarinet.
In "Plane to Sea," the plane bumps into several flower clouds. Two flower clouds form into hand shapes and twist the plane into a pretzel-like formation.
In "Ma and Pa's Big Hurrah," a flower cloud falls down as SpongeBob launches.

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A flower cloud falling down.

In "Single-Celled Defense," Plankton's laser helmet fires into the sky and vaporizes a flower cloud.

Trivia

Despite appearing in every episode of the series, they make their briefest cameo in "Krusty Krushers," only appearing in one scene for a few seconds, where a stunt is performed that requires the stuntmen to launch into the sky.
They later make a short cameo only on the title card of "Plankton and the Beanstalk" while the rest of the episode has shown regular clouds.
The flower clouds are also seen in The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy episodes "Hog Wild." and "Scythe for Sale."
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Flower clouds in The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy.
As seen in multiple episodes, such as "Have You Seen This Snail?" and "Bummer Vacation," the flower clouds co-exist with regular clouds in Bikini Bottom.
Despite being seen in every episode, the only episodes to refer to them by their name are "Pressure" and "Chimps Ahoy."
Starting in season 4, the flower clouds have been digitally edited rather than hand painted, thus the same assets appear in every episode since then.

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Squidward picking up a flower cloud.

Template:Data:Links seems to have the ability to pick up a flower cloud as shown in "No Pictures Please."
In The Patrick Star Show, flower clouds are replaced by star-shaped clouds.

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A flower cloud being able to bounce a plane.

Flower clouds have been shown to be very tough, being able to bounce SpongeBob's plane going full speed.

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Flower clouds in Nickverse.

Flower clouds also appears in the Roblox experience Nickverse but they appear to be 3D.