The study is aimed at finding out (1) the translation strategies of humor
translation and, (2) the equivalence level of humor translation. This was
conducted using qualitative research by making an animation TV series as the
data source, SpongeBob SquarePants. From the series, there were only two
similar episodes taken, i.e. Scaredy Squarepants and Squidward, Unfriendly
Ghost. Among the dialogues in the two episodes, the study took 10 dialogues
that include the humor to be the data for the analysis. The analysis was done by
employing the theory proposed by Vinay and Darbelnet (2001).
Based on the analysis undertaken, it can be concluded that (1) the
translation strategies in the subtitles of humor dialogues in SpongeBob
SquarePants series are omission (32,7%), addition (21,8%), literal (18,1%), free
(11%), semantic (11%), calque (1,8%), communicative (1,8%) and transposition
(1,8%), and (2) the subtitle translation has been proved to reach an equivalence,
since most of the sentences (100%) are proved to be equivalent to their source
sentences.