
A large worm is terrorizing Bikini Bottom and SpongeBob is terrified of it. Sandy thinks SpongeBob is chicken and drags him out into the wilderness to take the worm on. When they finally see the worm, it turns out SpongeBob was right - it's ferocious. It chases Sandy and SpongeBob high and low. Sandy and SpongeBob run for their lives while fighting over whose fault it is. In the end, they get away and become friends again.

Believing Mr. Krabs is taking advantage, Squidward convinces naive SpongeBob to join with him and threaten Mr. Krabs with a strike. When Mr. Krabs fires them both, a frustrated Squidward tries to teach SpongeBob the art of picketing, but business only gets better for Mr. Krabs, and Squid is forced to make a stump speech about how they will "destroy the establishment." When Squid has nightmares about being unemployed with SpongeBob forever, he caves into Krabs and they both reach an agreement, but only after SpongeBob takes Squidward literally and entirely destroys the Krusty Krab.

The Fast Food Olympics are taking place and Krabs has entered SpongeBob to compete in all the events. As Pat watches SpongeBob train, he decides he wants to play, too. SpongeBob explains to him that you have to actually work at a fast food place to enter. Pat quickly gets a job with the Chum Bucket and Plankton enters Pat in the Olympics as his champion. SpongeBob and Pat's friendship is torn apart as Mr. Krabs and Plankton whip them into killing machines. They compete and it's all tied until the last event when SpongeBob and Pat both realize that they can't let any old competition get in the way of their friendship. Mr. Krabs and Plankton end up wrestling for the championship title.

When money hungry Mr. Krabs discovers that customers love SpongeBob's special jellyfish jelly Krabby Patty, he convinces SpongeBob to bring him as many of the jellyfish as he can. SpongeBob easily brings in herds of the gentle creatures and empties the entire jellyfish field, with the exception of his favorite one, Ol' Buzzy. However, Ol' Buzzy isn't happy with SpongeBob's lack of respect for the jellyfish fields, and hunts after SpongeBob to reveal to him the horrible conditions under which Mr. Krabs is keeping all the jellyfish. When SpongeBob realizes what he has done, he joins forces with Ol' Buzzy to free all of the jellyfish from greedy Mr. Krabs.

Squid is teaching an art class at the adult learning center in Bikini Bottom and SpongeBob turns up as his only student. SpongeBob is a natural and Squid crushes his spirit with all his criticism. SpongeBob leaves the class convinced he has no talent. When and art collector arrives moments later and commissions Squid to make a statue for the park, Squid realizes he needs SpongeBob's help and begs him to come back and try again. But SpongeBob can longer perform like he did and his art now comes out as bad as Squid's. Frustrated with SpongeBob, Squid destroys all of the supplies and the land in a heap behind him. When the art collector arrives he asks if the heap is his statue and Squid denies he has anything to do with it. We reveal the heap and it is an amazing statue that gets erected in the park with the plaque underneath reading "artist unknown". Squid is never recognized as an artist at all.

SpongeBob reads a "bad" word off the dumpster behind the Krusty Krab and he doesn't know what it means. He asks Pat who explains to him that it's a fancy word and both of them start using it in every sentence they can. But when Mr. Krabs hears them he goes berserk and warns them never to use it again. Later on, SpongeBob accidentally uses the "bad" word again and Pat runs to tell on him to Mr. Krabs. SpongeBob chases him and in the excitement, Mr. Krabs accidentally stubs his toe and says the "bad" word as well. SpongeBob and Pat can't believe it and they run to Mr. Krabs's mother to tell on him and she makes them all paint her house as punishment.

When Patrick's parents come over for Starfish Day, Patrick gets upset that they still think he isn't very smart. SpongeBob offers to act stupid next to Pat in front of Patrick's parents in order to make Pat look smarter, but their plan backfires when Patrick forgets that SpongeBob is just acting and really does believe SpongeBob is stupid. SpongeBob and Patrick compete with each other to prove once and for all who's smarter, only to discover that Patrick's parents aren't his real parents after all, but identical sea stars who have come to the wrong address.

SpongeBob has an assignment for boating school. He must write an 800-word essay before the next morning. SpongeBob starts to write it, but he gets distracted easily and can't keep his mind on his work. The hours fly by and SpongeBob is exhausted. Delirious, he imagines his pants on the clothesline are talking to him. They mock him for procrastinating and not writing his essay sooner. SpongeBob hallucinates more and we reveal that he was actually dreaming. He has five minutes to write the essay, which he does, describing all the things he saw in his crazy dream.

Ms. Puff pays a visit to the Krusty Krab and Mr. Krabs is instantly smitten with her. He recruits SpongeBob to help him woo Ms. Puff. SpongeBob tries to play matchmaker, but he screws it all up and Krabs threatens his job at every turn. In the end, it turns out she didn't need much wooing, she was into Krabs the whole time!

In order to increase profits, Krabs decides that the Krusty Krab will now be open 24 hours a day. He orders SpongeBob and Squidward to work all night - what's known as the Graveyard Shift. At first SB is scared so Squid taunts him by telling a scary tale about the "Hash Slinging Slasher." Soon, their paranoia gets the best of them and they become convinced someone is stalking them, waiting to kill them it turns out the guy just wanted an application.