Shoutout to "SpongeBob vs. the Patty Gadget" for being the one 'man vs. machine' plot where the 'man' completely outperformed the machine fair and square.
Because SpongeBob is THAT much of a legend!!!
Nature Pants (Season 1)
SpongeBob decides to strip naked to be a nudist, sorry I mean "naturist" as he desires to live a free life with the jellyfish. Jellyfish don't wear clothes, so he must take his off to be one of them!
Pranks a Lot (Season 3)
SpongeBob and Patrick are pranked into taking their clothes off as the spray says it "stains clothes". But they accidentally spray them invisible anyway and lose them for the rest of the episode.
For context. The show was renewed for episodes after Season 3 because it did not have enough episodes for TV syndication.
Syndication is actually where a majority of the money comes in for TV programming. It allowed the show to be rerun endlessly on various networks, even...