The bus of Bikini Bottom is a public transportation vehicle that appears in various episodes, starting with debut episode "Help Wanted."
Description
Design and boarding
Bikini Bottom buses are red in the series, but the LEGO set version is orange. They also have porthole windows and periscopes on the top, giving them the appearance of a submarine with wheels. It also resembles the look of a shrimp, while the rear end of the bus represents a fish's tail.
Typically, most of its passengers are regular Bikini Bottomites, though other animals are also allowed to board the bus, as shown in "Dumped," "Have You Seen This Snail?," and "Pet or Pests." Most buses seem to have a "no singing" policy, as seen in "A Flea in Her Dome."
Drivers
- Incidental 41 (usual driver)
- Marty (Employee of the Month video game)
- Incidental 154 ("SpongeBob Meets the Strangler")
- Incidental 6 ("Pranks a Lot")
- Incidental 118 ("Have You Seen This Snail?," "Nautical Novice," and "Patrick's Tantrum")
- Bus driver ("Sand Castles in the Sand")
- Patrick Star (Around Town)
- Bus driver ("Squidward's School for Grown-Ups" and "Squid's on a Bus")
- Tram's Travels tour guide ("No Pictures Please")
- Squidward Tentacles ("Squid's on a Bus")
Bus stops
Bikini Bottom
- Conch Street
- Krusty Krab - "Help Wanted," "Graveyard Shift," "Banned in Bikini Bottom," "Squidward in Clarinetland"
- SpongeBob's house - "I Was a Teenage Gary," "Dumped," "The Pink Purloiner," "Roller Cowards," "Gary's New Toy"
- Sandy's treedome - "Texas," "Chimps Ahoy," "A Flea in Her Dome," "House Sittin' for Sandy"
- Patrick Star's house - "Hooky"
- Squidward Tentacles' house - "Hocus Pocus," "Breath of Fresh Squidward"
- Glove World! - "Rock Bottom," "Roller Cowards," "The Abrasive Side"
- Goo Lagoon - "Sand Castles in the Sand"
- Cephalopod Lodge - "Cephalopod Lodge"
- Jellyfish Fields - "The Pink Purloiner"
- Rock Bottom - "Rock Bottom"
- Island in the Sky - "The Clash of Triton"
LEGO Set
The LEGO Set "The Bikini Bottom Express (3830)" was released in 2008.
Minifigures
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Patrick Star
- Incidental 41
Trivia
- SpongeBob blows a bubble version of the bus in "The Main Drain."
- In general, this is the first vehicle that appears in the whole series.
- Other vehicles appear during the "If nautical nonsense be something you wish" part of the "SpongeBob SquarePants Theme Song," but that sequence postdates the original 1997 pilot version of "Help Wanted."
