Bubbles
Wipes
Both words in one sentence
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To complement the show's setting, SpongeBob SquarePants usually uses bubbles (and an appropriate sound effect) for its wipes, other than the occasional brief cut-away, or whenever else quick transitions are needed.
Source: Idiosyncratic Wipes -
Idiosyncratic Wipes: Between scenes, depending on where the next scene is about to take place, either the Bukins' building or the city filmed from above is shown, with some weird purple bubbles.
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The Russian multi-writer series called Death Zone is about the aftermath of a strange event involving a Negative Space Wedgie that wipes out several major Russian cities and creates five anomalous areas roughly 50 kilometers in diameter separated from the rest of the world by gravity bubbles.
Source: Soviet Superscience
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Wipes and Bubbles. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/bubbles/wipes
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