On certain schedules and TV electronic programming guides, different listings for what episodes would air on television could appear. As SpongeBob episodes have the tendency to be repaired with different episodes and sometimes change episode numbers, certain schedules would often log in the wrong information. Sometimes, when episodes would air as a singular segment, its sister episode would be logged, despite not airing or being scheduled at all.
When an episode number is seen inside a red box, it means that it was the packaging number the episode originally had before being changed.
Episode 29 was originally going to air in its entirety on March 17, 2001.[1] Certain newspapers accidentally listed the original pairing of the episode ("Survival of the Idiots" / "I'm Your Biggest Fanatic")[2] instead of the current one ("Idiots" is paired with "Dumped.") Ultimately, "Survival of the Idiots" would air standalone, and "Dumped" would not air until May 11, 2001.
Some papers also listed the original pairing for episode 30 ("Squirrel Jokes" / "No Free Rides") as airing on April 14, 2001, rather than the current one, and the one that was broadcast ("No Free Rides" / "I'm Your Biggest Fanatic.")
"Wishing You Well" was originally paired with "Ghost Host" to make up episode 70, and was listed to air with it on May 5, 2006 on Nick.com.[4] Later on, 70 was repaired as "Ghost Host" / "Chimps Ahoy!," and as such, some sources seemed to have listed the episodes airing in that order.[5][6]
"Spongicus" and "Nautical Novice" were listed to air on March 6 and 7, 2008 on many TV guides,[10] but their sister episodes aired instead. This was due to the fact that their former episode numbers (103B and 102A[11][12][13]) were logged into episode guides, and were listed to air instead of their sister episodes that currently took up those episode slots ("Suction Cup Symphony" and "Penny Foolish").
"One Coarse Meal" was listed to air on March 24, 2010 at 5:45pm on an television guide, under its former title "Plankton Got Served."[14] It's unknown if this was a rerun or premiere, as the two episodes scheduled to air prior to it were reruns, and "Rodeo Daze" actually aired in the 5:45pm slot.[15]
"Safe Deposit Krabs" was originally listed to air on March 9, 2013 at 7:30pm on Nick.com's schedules,[17][18] although this didn't happen and a rerun of "Evil Spatula" aired. This was likely due to the fact that its original episode number was 184b, which was currently "Spatula"'s number.[19]
