List of time cards

Time cards are used throughout SpongeBob SquarePants to represent how much time has passed within an episode. They were identified as time cards by Patrick in "Wet Painters" when he told SpongeBob to hurry up since he was 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.

List

Picture	Text	Episode	Season
	3 Days Later...	"I Was a Teenage Gary"	1
File:SB-129 (59).png	2000 Years Later	"SB-129"	1
	6½ Hours Later	"Imitation Krabs"	2
	A Few Inches Later	"Shanghaied"	2
File:Daytwo.jpg	Day Two	"Band Geeks"	2
File:Daythree.jpg	Day Three	"Band Geeks"	2
	Day Four	"Band Geeks"	2
	A Few Moments Later	"Krusty Love"	2
	One Eternity Later	"Squid on Strike"	2
	Three Days Later	"My Pretty Seahorse"	3
	Twelve Seconds Later	"My Pretty Seahorse"	3
	3:28 AM	"As Seen on TV"	3
	Three Weeks Later	"Can You Spare a Dime?"	3
	Many Months Later	"Can You Spare a Dime?"	3
	So much later that the old narrator got tired of waiting, and they had to hire a new one	"Can You Spare a Dime?"	3
	Tomorrow	"Rock-a-Bye Bivalve"	3
	Tomorrow For Sure...	"Rock-a-Bye Bivalve"	3
	Eventually...	"Rock-a-Bye Bivalve"	3
	UHHH...	"Rock-a-Bye Bivalve"	3
	12:00 Midnight	"Rock-a-Bye Bivalve"	3
File:Wet Painters 059.jpg	One Hour Later	"Wet Painters"	3
	Two Hours Later	"Wet Painters"	3
	Three Hours Later	"Wet Painters"	3
	Meanwhile	"Ugh"	3
	Two Hours Later	"The Great Snail Race"	3
	8:01 PM	"Mid-Life Crustacean"	3
File:Thenextday2.jpg	The Next Day	"Born Again Krabs"	3
	Later...	"Krabby Land"	3
File:Twentyminuteslater.jpg	Twenty Minutes Later	"SpongeBob Meets the Strangler"	3
	Six Hours Later	"SpongeBob Meets the Strangler"	3
	Several Bad Puns Later	"Pranks a Lot"	3
	70 Years Later	"Patrick the Snowman"	None
File:Meanwhile2.jpg	Meanwhile	"The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie"	None
File:Six Hours Later... time card in Skill Crane.png	Six Hours Later...	"Skill Crane"	4
	Later That Same Evening	"Funny Pants"	4
	Several Days Later	"Mrs. Puff, You're Fired"	4
	6 Months Later...	"Ghost Host"	4
	Two Hours Later	"Squidtastic Voyage"	4
File:Driven to Tears 01.jpg	One Minute, Thirty Seven Seconds Later...	"Driven to Tears"	4
File:Driven to Tears 39.jpg	One Debt to Society Later...	"Driven to Tears"	4
	4 to 6 Weeks Later	"Hocus Pocus"	4
	One Pair of Pants Later...	"The Pink Purloiner"	4
File:The Pink Purloiner 50.jpg	Eight Hours Later...	"The Pink Purloiner"	4
	298 Frozen Patties Later...	"The Original Fry Cook"	5
File:3 hours later.jpg	3 Hours Later	"Breath of Fresh Squidward"	5
	Epilogue	"Slimy Dancing"	5
File:Sing a Song of Patrick 38.jpg	The Next Day	"Sing a Song of Patrick"	5
	Meanwhile At the Krusty Krab	"Le Big Switch"	5
	10 Seconds Later	"Pat No Pay"	5
	346 Minutes Later	"BlackJack"	5
	Much, Much, Much Later	"BlackJack"	5
File:3dayslaterinmates.jpg	3 Days Later	"The Inmates of Summer"	5
	Opening Night...	"The Inmates of Summer"	5
File:Later1.jpg	Later	"SpongeHenge"	5
	3000 Years Later	"SpongeHenge"	5
File:Oneweeklater.jpg	One Week Later...	"Krabby Road"	6
File:759am.jpg	7:59 A.M.	"Nautical Novice"	6
	Three Weeks Later...	"Not Normal"	6
File:3 days later... in Gone.png	3 Days Later...	"Gone"	6
	Two Hours Later...	"Sun Bleached"	6
	48 Hours Later	"No Nose Knows"	6
File:8hourslaterplanktonsregular.jpg	8 Hours Later...	"Plankton's Regular"	6
File:The Following Thursday... .png	The Following Thursday...	"Porous Pockets"	6
	5 Minutes Later...	"Cephalopod Lodge"	6
File:24 Hours Later... .png	24 Hours Later	"Squid's Visit"	6
File:Muchlater.jpg	Much Later	"To SquarePants or Not to SquarePants"	6
File:Muchmuchlater.jpg	Much, Much Later...	"To SquarePants or Not to SquarePants"	6
File:7 hours later... in No Hat for Pat.png	7 Hours Later...	"No Hat for Pat"	6
File:No Hat for Pat29.JPG	Epilogue	"No Hat for Pat"	6
	Several Song Filled Hours Later...	"Toy Store of Doom"	6
	A Few Minutes Later...	"Chum Bucket Supreme"	6
	A Little Longer Than a Few Minutes Later	"Chum Bucket Supreme"	6
	Two Hours Later	"Chum Bucket Supreme"	6
	3 Days Later	"Chum Bucket Supreme"	6
	15 Minutes Later...	"Chum Caverns"	6
	Several Months Later...	"The Curse of Bikini Bottom"	7
	Thousands of Tears Later	"A Day Without Tears"	7
	16 Paranoia Filled Days Later	"One Coarse Meal"	7
File:GaryInLove TwoHoursLater.PNG	Two Hours Later	"Gary in Love"	7
File:The Monster Who Came To Bikini Bottom 5.png	Much, Much Later....	"The Monster Who Came to Bikini Bottom"	7
File:Yesterday.jpg	Yesterday...	"The Monster Who Came to Bikini Bottom"	7
	Many Hours Later...	"The Curse of the Hex"	7
	75 Years Later	"The Great Patty Caper"	7
	2 Hours Later	"Buried in Time"	7
	One Extremely Annoying Shift Later...	"Enchanted Tiki Dreams"	7
File:Two very boring minutes later....png	Two Very Boring Minutes Later...	"Tunnel of Glove"	7
	Three Hours Later...	"Tunnel of Glove"	7
File:KrustyDogs OneWienerLater.PNG	One Weiner Later...	"Krusty Dogs"	7
File:KrustyDogs TheFollowingDay.PNG	The Following Day...	"Krusty Dogs"	7
File:Meanwhile... .png	Meanwhile...	"Drive Thru"	8
File:Later... .png	Later...	"Drive Thru"	8
File:Just Then... .png	Just Then...	"Drive Thru"	8
	Brief Construction Montage	"A Friendly Game"	8
File:Frozen Face-Off 10.png	Meanwhile, Back In The Lowlands...	"Frozen Face-Off"	8
File:Frozen Face-Off 38.png	One Frozen Wasteland Later...	"Frozen Face-Off"	8
	One Hour Later	"Patrick's Staycation"	8
File:PatrickStaycation5hrslater.PNG	5 Hours Later...	"Patrick's Staycation"	8
	Two Days Later....	"Sandy's Vacation in Ruins"	None
File:Later, In The Void.PNG	Later, in the void...	"Ghoul Fools"	8
File:Plankton's Good Eye 03.png	Approximately 10 Hours Later...	"Plankton's Good Eye"	8
File:EarlyInTheNextMorning.PNG	Early the Next Morning...	"The Way of the Sponge"	8
File:RestrainingSpongeBob OneShiftLater.png	One Shift Later...	"Restraining SpongeBob"	8
File:Two Weeks Later.PNG	Two Weeks Later...	"Are You Happy Now?"	8
	Eleven Minutes Later...	"Planet of the Jellyfish"	8
File:Five Minutes Later.PNG	Five Minutes Later...	"Free Samples"	8
	A Lot of Boring Math Later...	"For Here or to Go"	8
File:Chum-Fricassee Twenty-Four-Hours-Later.PNG	Twenty-Four Hours Later...	"Chum Fricassee"	8
	One Week Later...	"Chum Fricassee"	8
File:Hello-Bikini-Bottom One-Long-Angry-Line-Later....PNG	One Long Angry Line Later...	"Hello Bikini Bottom!"	8
	Twenty Years Earlier...	"License to Milkshake"	9
File:Squid-Baby 72-Hours-Later... .PNG	72 Hours Later...	"Squid Baby"	9
File:138.png	Two Hours Later	"Don't Look Now"	9
	Just Then...	"Yeti Krabs"	9
	...By Sheer Coincidence...	"Yeti Krabs"	9
File:401.png	The Next Morning...	"SpongeBob You're Fired"	9
File:Montage.jpg	Montage	"The Executive Treatment"	9
File:The Next Morning....jpg	The Next Morning...	"Sanctuary!"	9
File:ManyTicTacs.png	Many Tic Tacs Later...	"Patrick! The Game"	9
	Flashback	"Larry's Gym"	9
File:End of flashback.jpg	End of Flashback	"Larry's Gym"	9
File:The next evening.jpg	The Next Evening...	"Larry's Gym"	9
File:OneHourLater.png	One Hour Later...	"Mall Girl Pearl"	9
File:GKB time (1).png	The Next Day...	"Goodbye, Krabby Patty?"	9
File:GKB time (2).png	Later...	"Goodbye, Krabby Patty?"	9
	4 to 6 Days Later...	"Snail Mail"	9
	4 to 6 More Days Later...	"Snail Mail"	9
	The Next Morning...	"Pineapple Invasion"	9
	Moments Later...	"Pineapple Invasion"	9
	More Moments Later...	"Pineapple Invasion"	9
	One Semester Later...	"Salsa Imbecilicus"	9
	Graduation Day	"Salsa Imbecilicus"	9
	One Hour Later...	"Mermaid Pants"	10

Trivia

• "Rock-a-Bye Bivalve" is the episode with the most time cards, being five.
• The "So much later that the old narrator got tired of waiting, and they had to hire a new one" time card is the longest of all of the time cards in the series.
• The time card "Meanwhile at the Krusty Krab" uses the font and background of the title card of the episode, "Someone's in the Kitchen with Sandy."
• The time card "Epilogue" from "No Hat for Pat" uses the same pattern as the season 9 episode "Mall Girl Pearl", except the title card was Pink with Magneta instead of green.
• The time card "The Next Day" in "Born Again Krabs" is the only time card so far to feature characters. It has SpongeBob, Patrick, Mr. Krabs and Squidward in the corners.
• The "One Eternity Later" time card displays the longest passage of time in the series: an eternity.
• The "Three Hours Later" time card in "Wet Painters" is the only one in the series to be held by a character, being Patrick.
• The "Meanwhile" time card in "Ugh" is actually written on a prehistoric wall, with drawings of two jellyfishes and prehistoric hand prints.
• The "Just Then..." and "By Sheer Coincidence" time cards in "Yeti Krabs" was the only time in which more than one time card was represented in one phrase.
• The "UHHH..." time card is the shortest time card with 4 letters, "Later" being the second with 5 letters.
• The "75 Years Later" time card in "The Great Patty Caper" has the same background as the title card for "Pizza Delivery."
• The "One Extremely Annoying Shift Later..." time card in "Enchanted Tiki Dreams" has the same background as the title card for "The Executive Treatment."
• The "One Long Angry Line Later" time card in "Hello Bikini Bottom!" has the same background as the title card for "House Fancy."
  • Furthermore it's the last title card of Season 8.
• The "The Next Morning" time card in "Sanctuary!" is the same pattern as SpongeBob's pineapple, with a magenta aura.
• The "70 Years Later" (Patrick the Snowman), "Meanwhile" (SBSP Movie) and "2 Days Later" (Sandy's Vacation in Ruins) title cards are (currently) the only time cards without a season.
• The very first time card from "I Was a Teenage Gary" (3 Days Later...) and the time card "Twenty Years Earlier", from "License to Milkshake" are silent for unknown reasons.
• The "Brief Construction Montage" time card in "A Friendly Game" is read differently than what it reads in the two instances in the episode it is used.
  • In the first use of the card, the French Narrator reads, "What follows is a brief construction montage". In the second, he reads, "We hope you enjoyed this brief construction montage".
• The title card, "Twelve Seconds Later" has an edited version of the "Help Wanted" title card.