SpongeBob SquarePants Episodes That Only Adults Understood

Nickelodeon has never been a network to shy away from adult humor, grown-up themes, and clever innuendos in their most popular children's programming.

Grab a Krabby Patty and dive below the waves to explore some things you probably didn't know about the yellow and absorbent SpongeBob SquarePants.

A show that runs for as long as "SpongeBob" has tends to scrape the sides of its writers' and animators' creative jam jars, trying to get anything new on the plate after literally hundreds of episodes. As a result, some pretty dark stuff has wiggled its way out of Bikini Bottom.

Considering how long the series has graced the small screen, it should come as no surprise that it would suffer the odd misstep now and again. Though rare, some "SpongeBob SquarePants" installments take things a bit too far for too much of their runtime.

Hillenburg's reason for having SpongeBob live in a pineapple was both totally understandable and completely unexpected, just as you might expect from the mad genius behind Nickelodeon's longest-running show.