Karendy

Karendy is the femslash ship between Karen Plankton and Sandy Cheeks from the SpongeBob SquarePants fandom.

Canon
The two are currently considered to be best friends in canon, and by their own account apparently have been for many years in-universe. However, they did not officially meet until Season 7 of the original series. There had been a few moments where they may have existed within proximity with each other prior to that point, such as the first SpongeBob Squarepants Movie, but having an entirely neutral to non-existent personal relationship until their official meeting. After that point, they had more or less consistently been portrayed as having a positive relationship if not being the close friends they are considered to be now.

SpongeBob SquarePants
When Plankton invites Sandy to his laboratory in Perfect Chemistry, Sandy officially meets Karen for the first time. Though the majority of the episode does not focus heavily on the two or their relationship, it generally sets the tone of all future interactions between the two. Sandy is enchanted by Karen upon first meeting her and squeals in excitement at recognizing the computer brand. She then calls Karen "beautiful" and Karen was quite flattered, thanking Sandy for the compliment.

The two end up meeting again in Salsa Imbecilicus, as they are the only two who were unaffected by one of Plankton's schemes that had recently backfired. After Plankton accidentally created a plague that rendered the entire town more unintelligent than usual, Sandy sought out Karen to figure out what was going on. As Karen explained everything to Sandy, the two agreed that they had to work together to restore intelligence to the town. Karen and Sandy then spend several months together running a college as a result, reeducating the citizens. And at the end of the semester, the two are shown pleased and excited about how well the majority of their students had been doing.

The two of them are later shown to be really close friends in Girl's Night Out when after making a scientific breakthrough, Sandy excitedly calls Karen to meet up and celebrate with Mrs. Puff. At this time Karen was quite frustrated with Plankton's antics back home, and agrees to Sandy's offer. When the three meet-up at the cafe, Mrs. Puff and Karen share their frustrations with Sandy. Sandy sympathizes with their woes and promises to make sure they have the best night out together. Additionally, in response to hearing about Karen's frustrations with Plankton, Sandy devises a way for them to play a prank on Plankton as pay-back. After the fact, they all laugh together and Karen thanks Sandy, telling her that she was right about it making her feel better about her day.

Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years
Taking place 16 years prior to the main series, in an alternate timeline devised by the Sandy of the original series. In the spin-off series, Sandy is depicted as around 10 to 13 years old, while Karen is an ambiguously aged teenage calculator. The two have not officially met or directly interacted in Kamp Koral, as Karen's existence is being intentionally hidden from the campers by Plankton. The closest thing to an interaction the two share in this series is when the young Sandy intentionally trips Karen as she tries to make off with a recipe at the guidance of the older Sandy, with the goal of preventing the creation of the Krabby Patty. However, the young Sandy does not appear to acknowledge Karen or otherwise show any awareness of her existence as anything other than an obstacle devised by Plankton.

Moments
Seasons 7-9=

Perfect Chemistry

 * Upon meeting Karen, Sandy excitedly identifies her exact model and brand.
 * Immediately afterwards, Sandy calls her beautiful to Karen's delight.

Frozen Face-Off

 * Sandy was the one to break Karen out of the ice when she was abandoned by Plankton.

Salsa Imbecilicus
Seasons 10-13=
 * Karen compliments Sandy on her intelligence.
 * The two spend several months working together to reeducate the citizens of Bikini Bottom.

Girls Night Out

 * Sandy bites her lip and twirls her phone cord in excitement as she calls Karen on the phone.
 * Karen affectionately refers to Sandy as "Bushy Tushy."
 * As Karen wheels Sandy and Mrs. Puff around, Sandy has her arms around what would be Karen's waist.
 * When Sandy is knocked unconscious by their prank backfiring, Karen wheels her around in the shopping cart.

A Cabin in the Kelp

 * Karen affectionately refers to Sandy as a "Texas Tornado" as she places a hand on her shoulder.
 * The two sit next to each other when telling scary stories around a camp fire.

Fanon
is considered to be a rarepair within the Spongebob SquarePants fandom, as it's a newer invention of fandom without as much history or interactions in canon. While most SpongeBob ships have had history dating back to the early 2000s, the earliest instance of fanart depicting Karen and Sandy as a couple dates back to somewhere in mid-2016. As a result it is often overshadowed by the fandom's more popular ships, like SquidBob. Despite this, it should be noted that it's become the most popular femslash ship within the fandom regardless.

It should also be noted that the relationship didn't gain much attention within the fandom until after SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical, previously titled The SpongeBob Musical, opened on Broadway in late 2017. As the musical featured actors representing various SpongeBob characters as semi-officially endorsed humanized designs, this increased the popularity of many ships by depicting them as conventionally attractive humans. Thus when the popularity of the musical grew, so did the popularity of various ships involving characters featured in the musical. So as fans online started making fan works of the two in humanoid forms as a result, the ship began to gain more attention.

In fan fiction, a common scenario is for Sandy to have a crush on her married friend while serving a supportive role as Karen navigates her dysfunctional marriage with Plankton. It is not uncommon for such works to end with Karen divorcing Plankton, and then reciprocating Sandy's feelings.

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