Power of Sponges

Power of Sponges is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode/special from season 14, as part of the Surface Land tri-anthology.

Plot
SpongeBob & Patrick decide to go on another Surface Land tour to kill some time besides hanging around, doing nothing. Just to their luck, a bus arrives, & they hop on. Once they arrive at shore, they bypass the beach, & head to a movie theatre at TownsVille. While patrons were eating popcorn, they caught all those that fell on the ground & ate them. Soon the movie started, but was interrupted by a rubberhose plow known as "Earth Plow", who presents them "true theater". Unfortunately, no one enjoyed his skits, so he starts attacking everyone. Luckily, the Powerpuff Girls were there, so they decide to take him on, except Bubbles, who was tied up to a trolley. The bus escapes the ruckus to get some "enjoyment popcorn", where they encounter Professor Utonium, the Girls' dad. When they come back, they see Bubbles trying to help her sisters, who were captured by Earth Plow, & eat some popcorn on the floor. Unfortunately, he rushes at her, attempting to blast her. Suddenly, a powerful force appears between them, as the tourists (as usual) take pictures. A figure emerges from the force, looking just like the other girls, only older & taller. Once Professor Utonium comes back with a popcorn-filled Space Tow Truck garbage can, he seems to recognize the figure as he drops what he has in his hands, & tazes her.

On their way back home, the bus tags along, eating the popcorn that landed on the floor back in the theater. As they return, the mysterious figure was put in a force field. After being urged by the Girls to explain, Utonium starts telling his story: he was trying to find a way to compete with a rival professor, who made the perfect little boy who had similar powers to the Girls. He put sugar, spice, everything nice, & (accidentally) Chemical W into the mix. This resulted in the creation of the figure, named Bliss. While she was powerful & a sweet daughter to the Professor, her powers evolved dangerously, & after an explosive (literally) rage, Bliss was gone, presumed dead. After this, the Professor goes to get his Ham of the Month award. Bliss finally wakes up, & clears that after the incident, Bliss fled to a faraway place called Bird Poop Island, where she met her pet elephant, MIH. After long, she decided to return to TownsVille, where she met Bubbles, who kept her a secret from her sisters. Once Professor Utonium came back, however, he was held at gunpoint by Mojo, revealing the Ham of the Month award was a trick, But he seems to recognize Bliss too, as he was still the Professor's lab assistant by the time the incident happened. He then frees Bliss & convinces her to join him in villainy. Bliss keeps herself, but the force field was not enough to contain Bliss' rage. The tour bus escapes the commotion, only to see Bliss with the Professor, having breakfast, explaining she wanted to give being in a family another go.

They then decide to go on a superhero outing, along with SpongeBob, Patrick, Rube, & the tourists. However, they are confronted with a villain called the Gnat, & as the Powerpuff Girls tell Bliss to take action, with much pressure, Bliss unleashes her uncontrolled powers, blowing up the place they were in. They decide to relax at a swan lake, with Frenchy there to assist the Surface Land bus as they set wheels in the water. Unfortunately, when the Girls argue over ideas on how to calm Bliss down, she explodes into rage again. The Gnat reappears, but soon barely intimidates anyone. After that failed, they go to a demolition derby, giving SpongeBob bad flashbacks to when Mrs. Puff tried to... end him. Bliss then goes to get food, & the tourists follow as to not give SpongeBob a sense Deja Vu from what he was seeing. But while Bliss was still ordering food, they decide to help out the Girls this time once the Gnat appears in a mecha-suit. Not like it ends up adding more because they all are easily curb-stomped by the once-joke villain. During the ruckus, one of the tires on fire is about to hit a concession stand. Luckily, Bliss is able to stop it with her powers, & goes to use them to defeat Gnat & free her sisters & the Surface Land bus.

They go out again to stop a criminal called Chimpmunk Commando. This time, Bliss' usage of her powers go out of hand as she takes on the felon. Professor Utonium catches on & tells Bliss they should go home, as it is getting late, but MIH tells her she go against it, claiming they want her powers. Not only that, MIH is actually disguised as one of the Girls' enemies, HIM. He successfully gets Bliss to take his hand, & because of that, they merge into one entity. The Girls (& Mojo) are able to separate them, but there's one problem: Saturn is about to hit the Earth. So Bliss, Blossom, Bubbles & Buttercup put their hands in the middle, becoming one Powerpuff Girl. This inspires SpongeBob to help them against HIM, so with the magic page & quill from the time he & his friends stopped Burger Beard, he turns himself & Patrick into their superhero forms, as well as bring in their friends, also in their superhero forms, to help. After minutes of fighting, HIM gains the upper hand & strangles the Powerpuff Girls' mega form, & any effort from Invincibubble & his friends to prevent it were shortly cut. He then starts draining the Girls & the magic page of its power, making the Girls drift apart & Invincibubble, Mr. Superawesomeness, Sour Note, Sir Pinch-a-Lot, The Rodent, & PlankTON's superpowers grow weaker. Luckily Bliss, grabs her sisters for them to stick together, freeing them of HIM's grasp, & Invincibubble's group regains their powers. Together, with the help of Bubbles the Dolphin, Patchy & Potty, our heroes unleash all their powers on HIM, causing him to disappear into dust, restore order to the city, & prevent Saturn from slicing the Earth in half. The next morning, Bliss decides to go out into space again to put Saturn back where it was, with a tearful goodbye to her family, & the Bikini Bottom tourists preceding it. After that, SpongeBob & his friends say goodbye to the Powerpuff Girls & the Professor, before the Surface Land bus goes back to the beach & into Bikini Bottom. Old Man Walker is also there for some reason, so they send him off. Following that is a recital of the SpongeBob theme song-shortly turned rap battle between Bubbles the Dolphin & the seagulls before completing the song.

Cast

 * Tom Kenny - SpongeBob, Patchy, Frenchy, Old Man Walker, Harold, Gary
 * Olivia Olson - Bliss
 * Amanda Leighton - Blossom
 * Kristen Li - Bubbles
 * Natalie Palamides - Buttercup, Barry
 * Bill Fagerbakke - Patrick (sea & land versions)
 * Doug Lawrence - Rube, Plankton, Potty, Fred, Larry
 * Tom Kane (archival recordings) - Professor Utonium, HIM
 * Roger L. Jackson - Mojo Jojo
 * Matt Berry - Bubbles the Dolphin
 * Elan Garfias, Caryn & Devin Johnson, Sara Paxton, Camryn Wailing, Harrison Fahn - Seagulls
 * Pat Pinney - Painty
 * ERB - Seagulls & Painty (rap voices)
 * Jason Kaye - Gnat
 * Clancy Brown - Mr. Krabs
 * David Hasselhoff - himself
 * Dee Bradley Baker - Bubble Bass
 * Rodger Bumpass - Squidward, Manward
 * Carolyn Lawrence - Sandy
 * Lori Alan - Pearl
 * Mary Jo Catlett - Mrs. Puff
 * Jill Talley - Karen

Trivia

 * This episode reuses the title card background for "Pineapple Invasion".