TV tonight: 'SpongeBob Square Pants: Truth or Square'

Mike Hughes | TV America

For 10 years, "SpongeBob" has offered the sort of perverse wit you don't expect from an animated kids show. Now, for its anniversary, it outdoes itself.

One story has SpongeBob and the others trapped inside the restaurant. Naturally, they revert to flashbacks, including his first days eating there and working there.

Meanwhile, his biggest fan plans an anniversary party. He's on the phone to many people, with particularly funny moments from Craig Ferguson, Will Ferrell and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog; he even manages to temporarily kidnap Robin Williams.

There's also music from Cee-Lo Green of Gnarls Barkley (reworking the theme song) and Pink. It's a fine party.

Fox takes a pass on November sweeps

TONIGHT'S MIGHT-SEE: "House" and "Bones," 8 p.m. and 9 p.m., Fox.

Sure, this seems sort of cowardly. For the "sweeps" month, Fox is ditching its Friday line-up and inserting reruns.

Still, these are reruns of a great show and then a good one; that's more than we expect on Fridays.

This "House" centers on a priest who says he saw a bleeding Jesus at his doorstep; complications cause Dr. House to ponder his own faith. Then the "Bones" team has enough to worry about, probing the death of a controversial scientist; making things worse, Angela's dad - played by Billy F. Gibbons of ZZ Top - arrives, looking for revenge.

Other choices

• "Law & Order," 8 p.m. and 9 p.m., NBC. In the first hour, suitcases full of money and drugs are found in one of the apartments of a murder victim; the probe soon leads to a drug cartel. Tentatively set for the second is a case in which an apparent drunken-driving fatality may not be what it appears.

• "Ghost Whisperer," 8 p.m., CBS. Jim's colleague seems nonchalant about a paranormal experience; that might make him a suspect in a med student's disappearance. Meanwhile, Melinda frets when Aiden keeps talking of "The Shadows."

• "Medium," 9 p.m., CBS. When her car is wrecked, Allison borrows an SUV. It turns out to have a radio that lets her listen in on other people's thoughts; things like that seem to happen to her.

• "Ugly Betty," 9 p.m., ABC. Daniel hires Natalie - played by Jamie-Lynn Sigler, who was Tony's daughter on "The Sopranos" - as his assistant. Also, he learns that his mother has a past with Cal Hartley, the money man who took control of the magazine.

• "Monk," 9 p.m., USA Network. To impress a key person, Monk agrees to a camping trip. He soon finds trouble with the guy's son - played by Alex Wolff, 12, a "Naked Brothers Band" star; he also finds a murder case.

• "Numb3rs," 10 p.m., CBS. A brilliant and charming hacker is in a dangerous online turf war.

• "The Jay Leno Show," 10 p.m., NBC. Elizabeth Banks - known for "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," "Scrubs" and more - is the in-studio guest.

• "White Collar," 10 p.m., USA Network. Callie Thorne - who is wonderful as Sheila in "Rescue Me" - plays a seductive woman who tests Neal's new loyalties.