Time cards are used throughout SpongeBob SquarePants to represent how much time has passed within an episode, performed by the French Narrator. They are identified as time cards by Patrick in "Wet Painters" when he tells SpongeBob to hurry up since he is all out of time cards, breaking the fourth wall. So far, the record for the most time cards in an episode is five, in "Rock-a-Bye Bivalve."

The first time card ever used was "3 Days Later..." in "I Was a Teenage Gary," although the French Narrator did not read it. He would later read the next card, "2000 Years Later" seen in "SB-129" and so on. The "Twenty Years Earlier" time card in "License to Milkshake" is not read either.

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Trivia

A "15 Minutes Later" time card is used in the online game Plankton's Patty Plunder .

. Season 10 has half as many time cards as episodes.



