Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV / Doing Time - S3-E1
Plot hole: In "Mermaid man and Barnacle Boy", Plankton is shown as taller than the town at the end of the episode. However, when Spongebob is shrinking the people of Bikini Bottom, their sizes in the pickle jar seem to be equal with Plankton's actual height. In reality, Plankton should have been around the same size as the rest of Bikini Bottom's residence after the shrinking, not 5 times taller.
Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV / Doing Time - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: In the scene where the guard pulls Mrs. Puff out of the rock yard, her hat is red, then blue, then red again throughout the cuts in the scene.
Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV / Doing Time - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: When mermaid man and barnacle boy are looking for the invisible boatmobile, there are boats all over, even in front of the windows, but when Spongebob is inside running towards the door there are now no boats visible out the window.
Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV / Doing Time - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: At the start of MMIV, SpongeBob rips off a person's pocket to get a pen. He totally rips it off, but none of the pocket's material is visible later.
Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV / Doing Time - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: In MMIV, there is no phone next to the door when SpongeBob shrinks the pickles. Later, Squidward calls on a phone.
Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV / Doing Time - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: At the start, when Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy run out of the Krusty Krab there are cars everywhere. When SpongeBob runs to try and get Mermaid Man's autograph inside the Krusty Krab there are no cars visible.
Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV / Doing Time - S3-E1
Other mistake: When the citizens pop out of Sponge Bob's holes near the end of Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy 4, if you look closely, Sandy's head is gone except her eyes and nose.
Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV / Doing Time - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV: When SpongeBob runs into the kitchen with Mermaid Man's secret utility belt, the door swings open facing away from the grill, but when Squidward demands to know what's going on in the kitchen, the door opens the opposite way.
Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV / Doing Time - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: In "Doing Time", Spongebob's entire face fills the chili bucket, but when he peeks out, his body is relatively smaller than the bucket.
Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV / Doing Time - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: When SpongeBob zaps the pickles, he is standing next to the door. He instantly moves to the center of the room in a subsequent shot.
Answer: I think that this was supposed to be an intended joke. Patrick is too stupid to remember or achieve most things and SpongeBob is able to remember and achieve most things, but the one thing that SpongeBob cannot achieve, is the one thing Patrick can achieve on the first go.
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