SpongeBob SquarePants/Heartwarming

Season One

• "Naughty Nautical Neighbors". After Squidward sabotages SpongeBob and Patrick's friendship, the two then try to make HIM their new best friend, resulting in all sorts of chaos. Squidward finally decides to get them back together, so he stages a dinner between them and it turns into a competition where the one who drinks the most soda. As Squidward leaves to get more soda, SpongeBob and Patrick have become inflated with the soda bubbles and hiccup some out. They become amused with this so much they become friends, much to Squidward's relief---and horror, for the bubbles destroyed his house.
• A classic example: "Pizza Delivery". After going through hell and back trying to deliver pizza to the customer, the customer demands his drink, which he didn't even order in the first place! SpongeBob then goes all-Woobie and sobs miserably, while Squidward, who we all know is a Jerkass through and through, takes the box and marches right up to the customer. This exchange occurs:

Tom: Another one? Look, I told your little friend I ain't paying for that!
Squidward: Well, this one's on the HOUSE! *shoves pizza in Tom's face*

SpongeBob: *sniveling* Did he change his mind?

Squidward: He sure did. Ate the whole thing in one bite.

SpongeBob: *stops crying* No drink?

Squidward: Nah. Now take me home.

• "Home Sweet Pineapple". Nematodes destroy SpongeBob's house, rendering him homeless. In order to avoid leaving Bikini Bottom, SpongeBob and Patrick try to make him a new home. All attempts fail miserably. Having no choice, SpongeBob first takes a pebble (the only remnant of SpongeBob's destroyed home) and buries it. He sheds a tear on it, and prepares to leave. Squidward, happy that SpongeBob is leaving, starts dancing on where SpongeBob's house used to be. However, we soon learn that the pebble was actually a seed, and the tear SpongeBob shed provided its water, allowing it to grow into a new pineapple and eliminating SpongeBob's need to leave. On top of Squidward.
• In "Texas", the Texas-themed party that SpongeBob and Patrick arrange for Sandy after hearing her pine for her home.

Season Two

• "Christmas Who?" Especially when Squidward dresses up as Santa and gives out his stuff to appease the people of Bikini Bottom.
  • Also when Squidward begins to feel bad when SpongeBob gets depressed because he "ruined" Christmas.
  • At the end of the episode, where SpongeBob gives Squidward a handmade wooden clarinet.
  • "Thank you, Santa...for bringing Christmas to Bikini Bottom!" "I didn't bring Christmas to Bikini Bottom, Spongebob. You did." Keep in mind that this is SQUIDWARD saying this.
• "Band Geeks". You know what scene we're talking about.

Season Three

• "Mermaidman and Barnacleboy V". Barnacle Boy gets fed up with how Mermaid Man treats him like a sidekick and decides to join Man Ray and the Dirty Bubble, and form EVIL. Later on, Mermaid Man asks SpongeBob, Sandy, Patrick, and Squidward to help him save the world and defeat EVIL, by putting on the costumes of the original IJLSA, and in the process, gain each costume's superpowers. The two sides engage battle with EVIL, who end up winning. The ending (and the heartwarming) starts when Barnacle Boy confronts Mermaid Man, and demands three things: one, to be treated like a superhero and not a sidekick; two, to be called Barnacle Man; and three, to get an adult-sized Krabby Patty. The demands being used to make amends is enough, but the clincher comes in the next scene:

Barnacle Boy: *extends a hand* Need a hand...superpal?

(Both Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy have tears in their eyes. They grabs hands, and a card that says "FRIEND" pops up.)

Mermaid Man: Good to have you back on the side of justice, Kyle. Let's go get you that Krabby Patty.

The Movie

• The part when Spongebob and Patrick are dying from dehydration under a lamp, lamenting that they never got to Shell City, or retrieved King Neptune's crown. Suddenly, they see a sign that reads Shell City and see the crown not too far away from them. Overjoyed that they actually reached Shell City, they begin to sing their favorite song, I'm a Goofy Goober, until they dry up completely. The cinema-going pirates are by now in bits. However, a single tear made up of two they each shed trickles down the wire, short-circuiting the lamp's socket. This creates a puff of smoke that sets of the water systems and revives them. This triggers tumultuous applause from the entire audience. What makes the scene even more effective is that Spongebob and Patrick have all along been trying to prove they were men, not kids. However, if they hadn't been so emotional, they would've died.

Season Four

• Gary and SpongeBob's reunion at the end of "Have You Seen This Snail?"
• The ending of "Best Frenemies". Especially after seeing Mr. Krabs and Plankton's past in season five's "Friend or Foe".

Season Six

• The song from "Truth or Square" about the Krusty Krab.
• Mr. Krabs' grandfather still loving him despite the fact he lied about being a pirate in "Grandpappy the Pirate".

Season Seven

• "Kracked Krabs". After Mr. Krabs loses the cheapest crab award, SpongeBob helps him get it back and they both show semblances of their old personalities. They lose it again but they don't care because they still love each other.
• In "Enchanted Tiki Dreams", SpongeBob and Patrick have one of those moments where they realize how miserable they've made Squidward and vow to make it up to him. They spend the entire night creating a paradise for him and making sure he has a wonderful time. Then, even after it all falls apart, they help him continue to relax.
  • Indeed, after all the crap he has been put through these recent years, it is nice to see him actually WIN for a change.

Season Eight

• The end of "Free Samples" with Mr. Krabs letting SpongeBob make money angles with him in the big pile of money. Made more nice when you consider how Mr. Krabs acted in the past few seasons.
• Karen forgiving Plankton at the end of Karen 2.0.
  • It gets better. After the fight, Karen loses all of her power and is deactivated - and Plankton, instead of going for the formula, removes the battery from Karen 2 and uses it to restore his wife. If that doesn't prove he loves his wife, nothing does.

Special Mention

• Several evangelical Christian groups in America criticised the show for advocating homosexuality after a video featuring SpongeBob was supported by the We Are Family Foundation (coincidence), who supports gay rights. Although Stephen J. Hillenburg said SpongeBob was asexual, John H. Thomas, the United Church of Christ's general minister and president, said the United Church would welcome SpongeBob into their ministry:

"Jesus didn't turn people away. Neither do we."