One day, SpongeBob and Sandy are having a good time at Goo Lagoon. A lobster named Larry comes by and asks them if they want to lift some weights. They accept, even though SpongeBob is not in the mood to do weights. Larry and Sandy do several impressive weight stunts, while SpongeBob tries to pick up a stick. When SpongeBob strains to pick up a stick with two marshmallows on the sides, he accidentally rips his pants.
This causes everyone to laugh, prompting SpongeBob to continue making ripped pants jokes. However, some people find SpongeBob's jokes annoying. At some point, SpongeBob fakes himself drowning in order to make a ripped pants joke, but this ended up upsetting everyone, as it causes them, most importantly Sandy, to get upset with SpongeBob for faking a drown, so they continue to play without him.
SpongeBob tries to figure out more ripped pants jokes as the last one did not work but realizes nobody is paying attention to him, and tears off his pants during the course of one of these jokes. The pair of pants suddenly takes on a personality and deserts SpongeBob as well. He sees some other people who make big mistakes. As a result, SpongeBob decides to sing a song about how he lost his friends due to ripping his pants. Sandy forgives SpongeBob for what he did, and he rips his underwear while signing Larry's shorts, making him embarrassed.
On November 14, 2016, recording scripts for every episode from season 1 were publicly released, found on one of the asset discs for the PlayStation video game, SuperSponge. This included the recording script for "Ripped Pants."[3]
"Ripped Pants" is one of Tom Kenny's favorite episodes. He says: "I think one of my favorite episodes is..., "Ripped Pants," the one where SpongeBob rips his pants by mistake and gets a laugh out of it, and then overplays his hand by doing it...too many times, and people get bored with it, and he realizes that jokes have a lifespan. And I think that's something that happened to me a lot as a kid, where you would accidentally hit on something that was really funny and you would just do it over and over and over again, and when people stopped laughing, it was kind of like a slap in the face, it kinda hurt, and then you had to go out and find something else stupid to..., get attention and laughs from your classmates."[4]
This also marks the first episode when SpongeBob is voiced by someone other than Tom Kenny, having Peter Straus' voice used for SpongeBob's singing of that song.
The first episode in packaging and release order to use the track "Grass Skirt Chase."
However, this track was not used for a chase scene in this episode.
The episode "Jellyfishing" features the track in a chase scene, and began production earlier.
The first episode to use "You're Nice" as title card music.
The first episode to have Edgar Larrazábal as animation director.
Fourth Wall Break: Incidental 155 is annoyed to discover that SpongeBob faked drowning to trick him into saving him, so they both look at the camera.File:Ripped Pants 127.png
There is a toy produced by Fisher-Price based on this episode that consists of a SpongeBob whose pants can rip and can sing the "Ripped Pants" song. However, Tom Kenny sings the song instead of Peter Strauss. The song is also shortened, and the verse, "When big Larry...", was cut out.
SpongeBob saying "Oops!" was reused in the online game, Crater Crossing.
SpongeBob addresses the flying disk as a "Frisbee" when reviewing his checklist, but in "Sand Castles in the Sand," he calls the flying disk "Small plastic disc that you throw" as a joke to the fact the term "Frisbee" is trademarked by Wham-O.
The first time is when SpongeBob says to Incidental 40, "Ripped... pants."
The second time is when SpongeBob says to two fish, "Ripped pants a la mode."
The third time is when SpongeBob asks to the fry cook, "Delivery! Did you order twenty cases of ripped pants?"
And the last time is when SpongeBob says, "Hey, everybody! Not ripped pants! Pants ripped off! Huh? Someone call the police. There's a pants thief on the loose!"
When the first view of the weightlifters is shown, there are two huts, but when it goes to a close-up on the weightlifters, the huts are gone.
When Larry lifts the seats that the Bikini Bottomites were sitting on, the background moves in such a way on the close-up on the Bikini Bottomites that it looks like the camera is panning down to the bottom of the seats instead of it looking like the seats are lifting up.
After SpongeBob rips off his pants, he still has his sleeves on for the rest of the episode, save for one shot.
SpongeBob rips off his swimsuit, revealing his underwear, but when the camera zooms out as the other "losers" join him for the "Ripped Pants" song, SpongeBob is seen wearing his swimsuit again.
In several scenes, SpongeBob rips his pants, then in the next scene, they are no longer ripped.
When the five female fish listen to the song, the yellow fish is on the left and the green fish is on the right, but in the next scene, they are switched.
After he rips off his pants, SpongeBob's cuffs disappear when he looks toward Sandy and Larry, but they reappear when it cuts back to him.
When SpongeBob and the others were singing the song, they ripped their pants. After the song, they are not ripped.
In the "Ripped Pants" song, Frank the Whale's eyes are missing in a few shots.
Before Sandy says, "That wasn't funny, SpongeBob! Y'all have me worried sick!," her mouth moves, when it is not supposed to.
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