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#48: Sailor Mouth
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Show: Spongebob Squarepants
Original airdate: September 21, 2001

"Yes, sirree, that's bad word number 11. In fact, there are 13 bad words you should never use."
"Don't you mean there are only seven?"
"Not if you're a sailor."

The idea of Spongebob Squarepants, one of the most wholesome cartoon characters ever, and his buddy Patrick launching into a torrent of profanities is just plain funny, so it really didn't take much to elevate Sailor Mouth into becoming one of my favorite television episodes of all time. It's nonstop laughs, from the moment the two learn about swear words at the dumpster (calling them "sentence enhancers"), to when they start using them in the Krusty Krab ("Hi, Squidward, how the (dolphin chirp) are ya?"), to when the two play Eels and Escalators and Spongebob can't resist swearing when he loses... call me immature, but I just can't stop busting a gut at Spongebob swearing. This became my favorite Spongebob episode immediately, even moreso than Band Geeks (which is awesome in its own right, and pretty funny too, but not funnier than Sailor Mouth). The idea that humor is primarily derived from the unexpected is put to the test here, a test that Sailor Mouth passes with flying colors: I was laughing every time Spongebob and Patrick cussed, and by the time Mr. Krabs started doing it after stubbing his toe, I was losing my mind. Sometimes, it really doesn't take a lot to make an episode special.