Spongebob Squarepants is an American cartoon that was made by Nickelodeon, May 1, 1999 and it is still ongoing. The show has been censored around the world.
Censorship
Post-Production Censorship
Season One
- Episode 3b
- The scene that shows Squidward naked was cut. (due to concerns over nudity.) however, SpongeBob was naked in both Ripped/Nature Pants, both in Season 1.
Season Two
- Episode 18a
- The scene where SpongeBob says "Go (Dolphin noise) yourself!" was cut.
- The scene where Patrick says "(Dolphin noise) you too!" was cut.
Season Three
- Episode 9a
- The scene where SpongeBob says "I dedicate this crash to my best friend Squidward!" was cut.
- Episode 14a
- The scene that shows Sandy kicking SpongeBob's bottom and as a resulted gets arrested was cut.
Season Four
- Episode 3
- Orginally granny was going to be holding a axe, the axe was changed to a cookie tray.
Season Nine
- Episode 17b
- The scene where Larry says "The only thing worse than donuts is ground glass." was cut.
- The scene that shows Larry forcing a glass cup into a fishes' mouth before hitting the guy's head which causes the glass cup to break in the fish's mouth was cut.
UK Censorship
Nickelodeon UK
Season 1
- Episode 5a
- The scene where Squidward says "Oh, my aching tentacles!" was cut, possibly for ad time or mishearings from the execs.
- Episode 13a
- The scene that shows Patrick shaving off parts of SpongeBob's head was cut, possibly for scaring kids or ad time.
Season 2
- Episode 13a
- The Perfume Department Scene Was Cut (Shaved Time: 28 seconds)
- Episode 19a
- The scene that shows No Name cut the power to SpongeBob's house was replaced with a shot of the door outside of SpongeBob's house.
Season 7
- Episode 23a
- The scene that shows Patrick turning the blender SpongeBob is in on was cut.
Season 8
- Episode 8b
- The scene that shows the fat fish scooping up Plankton was cut.
Season 10
- Episode 10b
- The scene that shows the art appraiser mimes hanging himself to demonstrate to Mr. Krabs what "out of the picture" means was cut.
Season 12
- SpongeBob In Randomland cuts out the Red Mist Squidward.
India Censorship
Nickelodeon India
Season One
- Episode 2b
- All the scenes showing SpongeBob ripping his pants with SpongeBob's underwear was blurred.
Season Two
- Episode 1b
- The scene that shows Patrick checking his tan, but instead sees his butt was replaced with a shot of Spongebob.
Poland Censorship
Poland Nickelodeon
Season One
- Episode 3a
- The scene that shows Patrick jamming the net through Squidward's bandaged hand was cut. (As of 2018, this scene is no longer censored.)
- Episode 4a
- The scene that shows Squidward choking on the fork was cut. (As of 2018, this scene is no longer censored.)
- Episode 5a
- The scene where Squidward says "Oh, my aching tentacles!" was cut.
- Episode 7b
- The scene that shows the Jellyfish dance was cut. (As of 2018, this scene is no longer censored.)
- Episode 20a
- The scene that shows Patrick eatting the cheese off the hook was cut. (As of 2018 this scene is no longer censored.)
Greece Censorship
Greece Nickelodeon
Season One
- Episode 5a
- The scene where Squidward says "Oh, my aching tentacles!" was cut.
Indonesia Censorship
Global TV
- All episodes
- Sandy's bikini is blurred.
Indonesia Nickelodeon
Season One
- Episode 15b
- All live action scenes were cut.
Netherlands Censorship
Nickelodeon
Season One
- Episode 16a
- The scene where Patrick says "Patrick needs love too!" it was changed to "3:15"
Canada Censorship
Nick Canada
Season Three
- Episode 18a
- Nick Canada banned the episode due to it's deception of animal abuse.
- Episode 18b
- Nick Canada banned the episode due to the sister episode.
Southeast Asia Censorship
Nick Southeast Asia
- Any scene with the David statue in "Artist Unknown" was cut.
- In "SpongeGuard on Duty", the scene when Patrick accidentally looks at his own butt was cut.
Egypt/Arabic Censorship
MBC3
- Truth or Square
- The wedding scene was cut
- Seasons 5-7
- The episodes "It's a Spongebob Christmas", "Gary's in Love", and "Love that Squid are banned.
- Season 8
- Butt Jokes are cut.
- All
- The Krusty Krabs front side are cut due to the Romeo flags looking like crosses. Some episodes have the flag all red.
Persian Censorship
- All the bikinis are drawn over with dresses.
Italian Censorship
Nick Italy
Season 1
- Episode 1a
- Tiny Tim's song Livin' in the sunlight, Lovin in the moonlight was cut, though the first 7 seconds of song was seen.
- Episode 2b
- The ripped pants songs was cut.
- Episode 15b
- The live action scenes for Spongebob, and Patrick were cut.
- Episode 19b
- The scene when Tom Kenny was taking a shower was cut.
Season 2
- Episode 5a
- The wormy song was cut.
- Episode 15b
- The Sweet Victory song was cut.
Where to find it uncensored
There is no completely uncensored version (Just One Bite fire scene) but The DVD's and American/Australian/New Zealand airings are nearly completely uncensored.