Bubblestand / Ripped Pants - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: Bubblestand: When SpongeBob comes out of his house at the beginning, he leaves his front door open. Later on, when Patrick's rock opens up, the front door to SpongeBob's house is completely missing. Then, when SpongeBob hands Patrick the bubble wand, the door is back, and it is now closed. Finally, when SpongeBob and Patrick walk into the house later on, the door is open again. (00:02:30)
Bubblestand / Ripped Pants - S1-E1
Character mistake: Ripped Pants: During the opening credits, Paul Tibbitt's name is misspelled as "Paul Tibibitt" (it is spelled correctly the second time it is shown), and Mark O'Hare's name is misspelled as "Mark O'hare." (00:11:54)
Hall Monitor / Jellyfish Jam - S1-E7
Continuity mistake: Hall Monitor: When SpongeBob sees the open window to the house, the window is opened to the left. When the two fish run out of the house after SpongeBob scares them, the window is opened the opposite way, then reverts back in the next shot. (00:05:19)
Help Wanted / Reef Blowers / Tea at the Treedome - S1-E2
Other mistake: During the show's introduction in Seasons 1-8, when the kids chant "SpongeBob SquarePants!" for the second time, the whole screen shifts slightly to the left. As a result, when the lyric, "If nautical nonsense be something you wish" is sung, the far right side of the screen is slightly mirrored. Note how, when any of the four boats are at the right side of the screen, they are briefly duplicated. (00:00:16)
Jellyfishing / Plankton! - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: In Plankton! When Plankton pulls out a radio player to play his evil music on SpongeBobs pillow, it has disappeared when Spongebob wakes up. SpongeBob didn't move on it.
Continuity mistake: When all of Spongebob's friends are formed around him, there's one scene where Pearl's hat disappears and then reappears, so for a few seconds she's completely bald. Her hair isn't even there.
Jellyfishing / Plankton! - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: In Jellyfishing, when Patrick puts the net in Squidward's hand, at first it is in his left hand, but when he gets the jellyfish on the king jellyfish, it is on his right hand.
Jellyfishing / Plankton! - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: Spongebob crashes through Squidward's house, and his bedroom is on the bottom floor. But in "Shanghied" after Squidward exits the fly of doom, you can see his bedroom is on the top floor, as it is in other episodes.
Bubblestand / Ripped Pants - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: In "Bubblestand" after Squidward blows the huge bubble, he tells Spongebob and Patrick that the ability to blow bubbles is in his genes. If you look at the position of the bubblestand sign, the sign is facing the direction Squidward is talking. The sign had always been facing the street, which means that Squidward was actually talking towards the street, when Spongebob and Patrick are actually to his right.
Hall Monitor / Jellyfish Jam - S1-E7
Continuity mistake: When SpongeBob asks Squidward to play his clarinet better, he is wearing his night shirt which is purple, but in the next shot he is wearing his normal shirt which is brown.
Jellyfishing / Plankton! - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: In Plankton, when SpongeBob steps on Plankton, he steps on him with his left foot, except he pulls Plankton off of his right foot.
Bubblestand / Ripped Pants - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: When Spongebob first shows Patrick the technique for bubble-blowing, there are two red corals in the background - one on his right and one on his left. Later, when he shows Squidward the technique, the red coral on the left side of the screen disappears.
Valentine's Day / The Paper - S1-E16
Plot hole: When SpongeBob goes to Sandy's house, he blows a chocolate bubble with the shape of a heart. Sandy opens a little door and the heart comes in. But, if the heart enters, don't you think that water would have also entered?
Revealing mistake: At the beginning of Rock Bottom, when the bus pulls up in front of Patrick and SpongeBob, right before Patrick steps up onto the bus, SpongeBob's right arm is missing and it suddenly appears as he starts moving.
Sandy's Rocket / Squeaky Boots - S1-E8
Other mistake: In the episode "Sandy's Rocket", Spongebob and Patrick go "alien-hunting." SpongeBob and Patrick are in Squidward's house. But when SpongeBob holds the hot water bottle, and he says "No, it's an egg-sack!", one of the drops leaking from the bottle goes up instead of down.
The Chaperone / Employee of the Month - S1-E12
Continuity mistake: When Spongebob is talking about Annoy Squidward Day, you see a calendar with 28 days, indicating that it's February, but the empty picture on the wall says January.
Audio problem: In the scene where Spongebob is falling into Gary's dream, Spongebob is screaming for at least one second after he hits the ground.
Jellyfishing / Plankton! - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: In Jellyfishing, when SpongeBob and Patrick first take their nets to jellyfishing, they only take their own nets. But when they go to Squidward's house, they have another net, just for him.
Bubblestand / Ripped Pants - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: In the scene where Squidward complains to Spongebob about the construction noise from his stand, Squidward's porthole in the background is black, but from the interior there is a light on (Note: this also happens in every other shot of his house.
Bubblestand / Ripped Pants - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: SpongeBob takes off his ripped pants, and throws them on the ground. His shirt sleeves are perfectly intact. Next, Sandy and Larry are shown playing volleyball. When SpongeBob is shown again, his pants are still gone, and so are his shirt sleeves.
