Spandy

Spandy is the het ship between SpongeBob and Sandy from the SpongeBob SquarePants fandom.

Canon
SpongeBob and Sandy are best friends. There are two versions of how they met:
 * In “Tea at the Treedome”, SpongeBob met Sandy when she was battling a clam, and they bonded over their mutual enjoyment of karate.
 * In Sponge on the Run, they met in Camp Coral, a summer camp where SpongeBob told her to follow her dream of being a scientist.

The two are good friends, and enjoy many activities together, such a Karate, Sports, and Science, though in the latter SpongeBob mostly does work as an assistant or test subject because he does not know much about science.

SpongeBob and Sandy care for each other greatly, and have shown to be very protective of each other. In “Sandy, SpongeBob, and the Worm”, SpongeBob tried to stop Sandy from fighting the Alaskan Bull Worm because she arrogantly believed she could easily overpower it, only to be proven wrong. In “Karate Island”, Sandy rescued Sandy from Master Udon’s scam, despite the latter’s arrogance in being the “King of Karate”.

Despite their friendship, Sandy can still be annoyed by SpongeBob’s antics, like in “Survival of the Idiots”, and “Squirrel Jokes”. However, at the end of the day, they are still friends, and she forgives him, though she still scalds and/or punishes him for his antics.

Fanon


Despite the late Steven Hillenburg stating that the two will not get together, many fans of the series support this ship. One particular Youtuber, ML482, is a huge fan of the ship, and has many AMV videos dedicated to it. Phantomstrider also enjoys the ship to an extent.

As of November 2021, 47 fan-made Spandy works have been made on Archive of Our Own.

Some Spandy shippers interpret the infamous wedding scene in “Truth or Square” as an argument that SpongeBob and Sandy are technically married, as the priest was real and he was unaware that this was part of a play. However, this scheme was intentionally meant to be a joke on the fan-base.

Fandom
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Trivia
There have been multiple hints that SpongeBob likes Sandy romantically, such as:
 * In the PC game SpongeBob SquarePants: Employee of the Month, SpongeBob has a poster of Sandy in his locker. When clicking on the poster, SpongeBob says, “Sandy Cheeks (sigh). Just looking at her makes me smile.”
 * In “Flowers for Sandy”, SpongeBob gives Sandy flowers with a note reading “To the Smartest, Prettiest Squirrel. Signed A. Friend”.
 * When SpongeBob dies in Sponge on the Run, one of the phrases he says is “Tell Sandy... I love her”.