Happy No SpongeBob Day! In the episode “Gone” from season 6, SpongeBob wakes up to find Bikini Bottom completely deserted. He begins to lose his mind, acting out the lives of his friends and becoming best friends with a boat. Just as he’s about to chop up a bus with an axe in his madness, all the residents of Bikini Bottom come off the bus.

Turns out they were just celebrating No SpongeBob Day and got a bit carried away, and it’s actually a way for the town to honor Mr. SquarePants. So if you find out your friends have been hanging out without you, burning effigies of you, and dancing on the ashes, you should take it as a compliment.

This is The Reset Button from Classic Nerd, resetting your day.

August 15 in Nerd History

Here are 5 things that happened on August 15th for those of us who chose our own adventure… and only died like 12 times before getting it right.