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| 2 | [[folder:Fridge Brilliance]] |
| 3 | * In "Neptune's Spatula", the patties King Neptune makes taste terrible, while [=SpongeBob=] only makes one patty with love, which Neptune loves. It's possible that when Neptune used swordfish to slice the condiments for the patties, it led to a fishy aftertaste. |
| 4 | * In "The Algae's Always Greener" in Season 3, Plankton eats holographic meatloaf. And of course he would - a hologram is light, and Plankton is green, which means he has chloroplasts and can literally live off of light through photosynthesis. |
| 5 | ** This may also explain why he's such a resoundingly terrible cook. Since he eats light, he probably has no idea what would taste good to somebody who doesn't. |
| 6 | * In "The Algae's Always Greener" people are horrified at Krabs's nudity, while no one comments on Plankton's. Plankton is basically a walking spec, so people can't see anything and probably understand he can't find anything to fit. |
| 7 | * "Pizza Delivery": This episode is the only one where Krusty Krab Pizza is sold. Given how disastrous and non-profitable it ended up being, it's easy to see why Krabs discontinued it and [[LaserGuidedKarma serves him right]] too since he forced [=SpongeBob=] and Squidward to deliver it after closing. |
| 8 | ** In a way, this episode also feels more like a Squidward episode than that of a [=SpongeBob=] one; as [[WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter Mr. Enter]] said in his review of the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' episode "Finally a Lesson": he developed his character enough to care more about [=SpongeBob=], and the ending where he [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments defends SpongeBob by]] [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome throwing the pizza on the rude customer's face]] compounds it. |
| 9 | * Sometimes you'll see invertebrate characters having skeletons for the sake of jokes. One might think this is just RuleOfFunny in action, but some marine invertebrates actually DO have skeletons of sorts: Sponges have endoskeletons composed of many small pieces of silicon or calcium compounds, coleoids (cephalopods that aren't nautili or ammonites) have internal shells or a vestigial remnant thereof, and echinoderms (save sea cucumbers) and crustaceans have exoskeletons. |
| 10 | * In the episode "Nature Pants", in response to how long [=SpongeBob=] would last in the wild Squidward remarks "I'll give him 11 minutes". This is the average running time for regular [=SpongeBob=] [=SquarePants=] episodes. |
| 11 | ** A similar joke appears in the episode "Club [=SpongeBob=]" when Squidward laments "Why must every ELEVEN MINUTES of my life be filled with misery?" |
| 12 | * "Opposite Day": Why would [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick surprise Squidward on a random day to celebrate his birthday when it's not actually his birthday? They don't ''know'' when his actual birthday is. He never told them. |
| 13 | * In "The Original Fry Cook", Jim outright states that [=SpongeBob=] will only find greater success once he leaves the Krusty Krab. If you go back to "Patty Hype", [=SpongeBob=] does exactly that; he leaves the Krusty Krab and becomes so successful that he has no idea what to do with all the money he's raking in. Mr. Krabs is lucky that he has [=SpongeBob=]'s UndyingLoyalty. |
| 14 | ** Jim was proven completely correct yet again in "Spongebob, You're Fired", where Spongebob discovers he has a talent for creating excellent snail food. However, instead of starting his own business selling homemade snail food, he goes back to the Krusty Krab at the end of the episode. Essentially, the only thing that's holding Spongebob back is his blind loyalty to the Krusty Krab and being too naive to realize how horrible of a boss Mr. Krabs is, while Jim realized how much of a dump it was and got out as soon as he could. |
| 15 | * Some have noted that, in the underwater world that the show depicts, "barnacle" is a euphemism similar to "shit" ("This is a load of barnacles...", "Aw, barnacles!", etc), so Barnacle Boy's name doesn't make much sense. However, Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy (being human) probably did not realize this until after they chose their names. It would also explain why no one underwater takes Barnacle Boy seriously-- imagine a hero named "[[AtrociousAlias Shit Lad]]". People would probably make a ButtMonkey out of him, too. |
| 16 | ** This likewise would also explain why Mermaid Man would be given relatively more respect; The underwater society of Bikini Bottom appears to be ruled by 2 mermaids, so his name is more closely associated to something the Bikini Bottomites would hold in some reverence/fear. The only reason why he still tends to be seen negatively is mostly due to him being long past his prime. |
| 17 | ** This would also explain Barnacle Boy's annoyance and jealousy towards Mermaid Man getting more respect/recognition to the point where he joins the villains in one episode out of spite: from his view, his lack of respect is due to him being Mermaid Man's sidekick, and he never makes the connection that it's anything beyond petty reasons such as his alias (since, being human, he would not be familiar with the word's meaning in Bikini Bottom). |
| 18 | * In the episode Big Pink Loser, the mailman delivering Patrick's trophy accidentally gives it to [=SpongeBob=], who's dressed like Patrick. So it makes sense that he gave the package to [=SpongeBob=]. |
| 19 | * In the episode "Suds", [=SpongeBob=] comes down with the titular condition after he leaves his refrigerator/freezer open overnight, and his entire house freezes as a result. Obviously, that's not how it works-- if someone were to have his freezer open all night, the items inside would just spoil, and ''maybe'' the temperature of the room might drop a few degrees, but it wouldn't turn one's entire house into an ice cube. But maybe it's different in the [=SpongeBob=] universe because it's underwater. |
| 20 | ** Or maybe his house froze from the inside because it's literally a fruit. It might've been exaggerated, sure, but it makes slightly more sense; He does live in a pineapple under the sea after all. |
| 21 | *** Or it's a mix of both. The fruit is easy to freeze, and the water surrounding it makes it freeze over faster. |
| 22 | * In the episode "The Algae's Always Greener", [=SpongeBob=] wails in despair about "soiling the good Krusty Krab name," and a clearly annoyed Plankton pokes him repeatedly, complaining "Where's the off button on this thing?!" Maybe a simple turn of phrase, or maybe literal, since he's used to Karen, who he really ''can'' turn off if she begins to irritate him. |
| 23 | * "Club [=SpongeBob=]": The Magic Conch Shell doesn't tell Squidward that he's not allowed to eat anything not necessarily just to spite him, but it could also be because the guide who comes to rescue him, [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick is only seconds away too. |
| 24 | * Squidward's nasty asocial attitude makes sense when you realize he brings it almost entirely on himself; he's far too narrow minded, intellectual and egotistical to put himself on the level of anyone else he considers below him or confront his faults. He [[LackOfEmpathy un-empathetically]] expects everyone else to live up to unrealistic high standards that even he can't reach, which is an automatic social brick wall. This would also explain why he's such a lousy clarinet player and tacky painter; he simply refuses to take criticism or supplant his ego so he can learn from others, and his refusal to admit his flaws and learn from his mistakes also keeps him from doing anything practical or rational with his art, and this is his downfall that keeps him from progressing--and it may also be because he's just doing the craft to reinforce his delusions that he's a highbrow cultured personality rather than having any genuine love or respect for the art form (consider that all of his paintings are self portraits, an immediate red flag that he's a narcissist). A real "cultured" personality (I.e. Squilliam) is savvy enough to instantly see through his self-serving sham like the plate of glass it is, and wouldn't be caught dead hanging around an opportunistic, pseudo-intellectual bottomfeeder like him. And the reason most of Bikini Bottom treat him so poorly is because, despite not being very cultured or smart themselves, they are much more practical, street smart and level headed than he is. They're well aware how insufferable he is and have no patience with his all talk and no show attitude. This social pariah status also guarantees that Squidward won't be able to change or benefit from changing anyway, since he's already left a long-lasting bad impression on everyone around him, thus reinforcing his cynicism and lack of passion. |
| 25 | * To parallel the Squidward example, Plankton's miserable status in life can also be blamed heavily on his own flaws, but in a different manner. Whereas Squidward's inability to truly move beyond his current status in life can be blamed on [[CantTakeCriticism his inability to take criticism]] and recognize that [[DunningKrugerEffect he isn't as good as he thinks he is]], Plankton IS genuinely brilliant, [[GadgeteerGenius both at inventing the very numerous robots and machines]] and having genuinely good plans every now and then in his attempts to steal the Krabby Patty Formula. So why does he fail so consistently? Because for all of his strengths, he [[DidNotThinkThisThrough keeps on knee-capping himself by trying to take shortcuts]] to fixing his problems. |
| 26 | ** Mr. Krabs created a successful Krabby Patty Formula while his own failed when they were young men? Plankton tries to steal Mr. Krabs' formula for ''decades'' instead of trying to refine his own ideas into something better. He would've been much better off if he made a secret ingredient of his own. Sure, it probably wouldn't be as tasty as say, a Krabby Patty, but at the very least he could've carved out a niche for himself in Bikini Bottom's fast food ecosystem via legal means. |
| 27 | ** Plankton gets fed up with his lot in life? He switches lives with his rival and finds out the hard way that his rivals' life isn't as easy as it looks...and [[StatusQuoIsGod then goes back to his comfortable status quo rather than learning from Mr. Krabs' situation.]] |
| 28 | ** And it's a pretty consistent pattern of behavior for him, something that is only further highlighted with episodes like when he faked ending the rivalry and opened a store instead while restoring his friendship with Mr. Krabs, finding far more success despite the fraudulent nature of it all. Or when Squidward ends up turning his chum into a gourmet meal in the Chum Fricasee episode with just a little bit of effort and specific cooking instructions. It becomes pretty evident that Plankton's fatal flaw more than anything isn't that he's incapable of being better; it's that he doesn't want to ''try'' to get better, isn't willing to improve or learn from his failures even when other people show him that he doesn't have to REMAIN a failure. |
| 29 | * [=SpongeBob=]'s design. Hillenburg designed him to be a "squeaky clean nerd" when giving him his square shape (not to mention his nerdy buck teeth and freckles), despite him being a sea sponge. So [=SpongeBob=] is a square in both the literal sense... [[StealthPun and a metaphorical sense!]] |
| 30 | * In the episode "The Great Snail Race", [=SpongeBob=] says to Gary that he calls him a lady to "humiliate and demean you." Cut to Sandy walking down a street and she says, "I don't know why, but I think I'll kick [=SpongeBob=]'s butt tomorrow." At first, this scene seems out of context, but when you dwell on it, you realize Sandy somehow heard or sensed [=SpongeBob=]'s sexist comment and she wanted revenge. |
| 31 | * Patrick lives under a rock and he's a starfish. He is literally a rockstar. |
| 32 | * It's been shown dozens of times that Mister Krabs routinely pays low wages, and often charges his employees money. This could normally be taken as a joke, but then it hit this guy. If Krabs pays so low, then [=SpongeBob=] must have learned how to save and spend money that he saves over the course of his career. The fact that his house isn't run down or impoverished emphasizes how well he knows how to spend and save money. |
| 33 | ** "Oh, it's just a $500 dollar bill. This'll never go with my collection!" |
| 34 | ** Maybe he's so secretly wealthy that $500 is worthless to him. In "Patty Hype," he and Patrick had no idea what to do with the money they made, so they literally burned it, buried it, shredded it, and gave it away. There's also [=SpongeBob=]'s "magical private secret rainbow leprechaun bank" from "Life of Crime," which we know nothing about... Also, it's possible that Sponge's parents, and possibly grandma, give him money, too. |
| 35 | *** Don't forget the deal he and Patrick made at the end of "Chocolate With Nuts". |
| 36 | *** [=SpongeBob=] admits himself that sponges typically filter-feed and are usually sessile. He doesn't really have a lot in terms of real ''expenses'' that need covering, assuming he owns his pineapple rather than renting and property taxes aren't a problem and he only ever wears one thing - literally anything he buys is effectively entertainment budget/a luxury good for him. |
| 37 | ** Are we forgetting Gary had a diamond under his shell in one episode, and is a descendant of royalty? |
| 38 | * The same few background fish characters are recycled over and over. Look in crowd scenes like "[=SpongeBob=], Sandy, and The Worm" and "The Fry Cook Games". Notice anything? The same few fish are put into the crowd over and over, noticeably the pink female one. Well, turns out that it's not 100% lazy. There's probably just huge populations of the same species of fish in Bikini Bottom, hence why they're everywhere. Starfish and sponges just don't seem to exist in such high numbers. "Squidville" may justify this to some degree. |
| 39 | ** Fittingly, it's really hard to tell the individual differences of another species for the most part. [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall We're another species.]] |
| 40 | ** That's still a little odd since Bikini Bottom is on the ocean floor, which would make bottom-dwellers like sponges, starfish, octopi or crabs better adapted to it than fish, who would naturally be more likely to form a community based on swimming (we've seen in a few episodes that non-sapient fish ''do'' swim like real ones). |
| 41 | *** It's at the ''bottom'' of ''Bikini'' atoll. Atolls are definitionally formed from coral reefs, so even if it's awfully city-like and the coral is mostly just used the way humans use trees and flowers, it's still a reef ecosystem - and that means fish in addition to bottom-dwellers. |
| 42 | *** ''VideoGame/SpongebobSquarePantsEmployeeOfTheMonth'' lampshades this, as [=SpongeBob=] meets a fish named Leonard (AKA [[https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/Incidental_157 Incidental 157]]) in each of then four levels, until the one in the fourth level reveals he has 4113 [[InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals Identical]] [[AlwaysIdenticalTwins Brothers]]. The other fish in town could have similarly large families. |
| 43 | * The decorations in [=SpongeBob=]'s living room. They're giant fishing lures, right? They're like the underwater equivalent of fishing trophies. Fishermen have their best fish stuffed and hung up on their walls to show everyone what they managed to pull up; fish put up the biggest fishing lures they've managed to ''take down with them'' for just the same reason. |
| 44 | ** Since he is, well, [=SpongeBob=], it would probably be from someone else. Probably from that relative in the painting with the Napoleon Hat and the mustache. |
| 45 | * Mermaid Man sometimes forgets where he is, people's names, and other things... Remember Mermaid Man's line when [=SpongeBob=] turns on a certain orb? He doesn't have a disease or is just old; he is suffering from the side effects of prolonged exposure to the Orb of Confusion. Barnacle Boy was probably never let around it, so he isn't forgetful. |
| 46 | * In "Sandy, [=SpongeBob=], and the Worm", when [=SpongeBob=] protests Sandy fighting the worm, she plays the EverythingIsBigInTexas card...and is forced to eat her words when the worm, indeed, is much bigger than she can handle. The worm's Alaskan...the only state bigger than Texas! |
| 47 | ** Further reinforced by the fact that Sandy, by her own admission, "don't know nothin' about Alaska." The odds are probably pretty good that she had no clue Alaska is larger than Texas. |
| 48 | * In "The Krusty Sponge", Mr. Krabs notes that [=SpongeBob=] has the "thousand-yard scare", a play on an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand-yard_stare actual PTSD characteristic]], the "thousand-yard stare". Krabs remarks that "I had it once meself, back in me service days." This remark makes more sense when you recall Krabs' biography from "Krusty Krab Training Video", which describes Krabs as having sunk into a "deep depression that seemed endless" after fighting in an unspecified war... probably the same one in which he suffered the "thousand-yard scare". The brilliance goes even further once you realize that this makes Krabs a ''[[StealthPun literal]]'' ShellShockedVeteran. |
| 49 | * "Driven to Tears" seemed to imply that [=SpongeBob=] is so bad a driver that even an idiot can pass his test on the first try. However, in the early episode, "Boating School," it was ''Patrick'' who helped [=SpongeBob=] during his drivers test to the point of almost passing the test. |
| 50 | ** In "Burst Your Bubble", Patrick is shown to own his own boatmobile, indicating that he STILL has his license (or has possibly had it for awhile) but prefers to just goof around with [=SpongeBob=] most of the time. All of these episodes actually indicate good continuity. Patrick sucks at nearly everything, but driving is definitely NOT one of them. |
| 51 | *** Patrick was also seen driving [=SpongeBob=] in a boat briefly in the episode "Slide Whistle Stooges". |
| 52 | * In "F.U.N.", near the end when Plankton runs off with the Krabby Patty in the movie theater, he tells [=SpongeBob=] that he didn't ever really want friendship as he stated moments before, and that being evil is "too much fun". Plankton only learns what fun is during the earlier portion of the episode, so as it turns out, it's thanks to [=SpongeBob=] that Plankton learned he has his most fun when doing evil things. |
| 53 | * [=SpongeBob=]'s answer of 1924 in the episode "Boating School": 1924 was the year Mercedes-Benz was founded! |
| 54 | * [=SpongeBob=], Squidward, and Patrick throw away Mr. Krabs' crappy mattress in [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "The Lost Matress".]] Krabs gets angry about this and pins Squidward on the ground, asking if Squidward knew his money was in that matress. Terrified, Squidward asks, "H-h-haven't you ever heard of a BANK?!", which prompts a BigNo out of Mr. Krabs. At first, it may seem like a joke insinuating that Krabs is ignorant and does not realize he can accumulate interest. But this is Krabs we're talking about, whose MoneyFetish must be so out of control that he actually sleeps on it! |
| 55 | ** He was around during the Great Depression, so he may not have trusted banks. His first dime was a giant rock, so it's plausible. |
| 56 | * In "Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost", Squidward threatens [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick that they will feel his wrath, and Patrick whispers to [=SpongeBob=] that they make a cream for that now. Patrick misheard "wrath" as "rash". |
| 57 | * Have you ever wondered why Patrick is [[TheDitz so unbelievably stupid?]] It's a joke based on the fact that [[GeniusBonus starfish don't have brains]]. Not to mention he ''literally lives under a rock.'' |
| 58 | ** Wouldn't that make [=SpongeBob=] dumber than Patrick since sponges are less developed than starfish? |
| 59 | *** Notice how [=SpongeBob=] goes along with almost every single plan Patrick has? It's because he's actually dumber than Patrick. |
| 60 | *** [=SpongeBob=] has enough intelligence to notice when Patrick is particularly stupid, while Patrick goes along with ANYTHING [=SpongeBob=] says for as long as he can remember it. However, there's another bit of Fridge Brilliance here. Notice that [=SpongeBob=] has an extremely low pain tolerance ("I'll have you know I stubbed my toe this morning and I only cried for 20 minutes.") while Patrick has been known to rip his own head off for the fun of it? WordOfGod confirms Bikini Bottom is so named because it's at the bottom of Bikini Atoll-a nuclear testing site. Note that prehistoric [=SpongeBobs=] from "SB-129" and "Ugh!" are just as stupid and masochistic as the prehistoric Patricks (one sticking his hand in a fire and waiting for a good while before hurting, and the other enjoying holding jellyfish in his hand as they sting him). Obviously sponges only developed nervous systems as a result of the nuclear testing? Starfish were obviously less effected if at all and so Patrick still has no brains or nerves (which should mean he can't talk, but that can be excused as RuleOfFunny), hence why Patrick has absolutely no intelligence and doesn't feel pain. |
| 61 | *** [=SpongeBob=] DOES mention "toxic waste dumps" at one point... |
| 62 | *** And Sandy, the only (fully mature) land mammal (more developed brains than fish) in the main cast, is a genius inventor! |
| 63 | *** She also does her underwater research for an organization run by apes, who are known to be intelligent and of course more closely related to our own species than squirrels, and they were quite intelligent as well (and also spoke more formally). Sandy and her bosses' higher intelligence as well as the fact that Pearl's the only aquatic mammal that appears frequently (and unlike Sandy she's still a teenager and thus still has some stuff to learn) raises the question of what an adult bottlenose dolphin would be like in Bikini Bottom, since they're among the more intelligent aquatic mammals. This of which would be answered later and fittingly the dolphin we meet is essentially a prophet. |
| 64 | *** That might explain why Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy have all sorts of crazy gadgets, not because they're just some parody of an aged Batman and Robin mixed with Aquaman, but because they're following that (exaggerated) ladder of species intelligence. |
| 65 | ** This may go to explain why Squidward is the generally the OnlySaneMan - cephalopods are the smartest invertebrates out there! This also explains why Bikini Bottom seems TooDumbToLive-cephalopods are far smarter than fish as well. |
| 66 | ** There is actually another theory in the works. WAY down the page into the FridgeHorror section, there's a section about speculating that Patrick is a sociopath based off his line in "The Card". In case you don't know the line |
| 67 | --->'''Patrick:''' [=SpongeBob=], you can't always expect my usual brand of stupidity. I like to mix it up. Keep you on your toes. |
| 68 | *** Not hard to see why, but however, there are many episodes out there that are counteractive to this, as well as the fact that he literally walks of a construction site a second later. The problem is if Patrick WAS a sociopath, he wouldn't need to do that stuff. So, if Patrick DOES know he's stupid, why does he act it? Well, there are a couple things in motion. Firstly, notice that his friends with certainty are [=SpongeBob=], Sandy... that's it. Meanwhile, [=SpongeBob=]'s friendly enough to befriend a neighborhood and a half, as well as been Patrick's friend for life since infancy. And plus, there is also the line in "New Student Starfish"... |
| 69 | ---->'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' I don't know. What do you normally do while I'm gone?\ |
| 70 | '''Patrick:''' ''[starts to cry]'' Wait for you to get back! |
| 71 | *** [=SpongeBob=] is Patrick's ONLY true friend. It's only because of him did he meet Sandy. Sure, he did have a thing with Larry for one episode, but still, Patrick is pretty much friendless EXCEPT [=SpongeBob=]. And if Patrick was stupid or even just pretending to be, why does he still hang around him? Well, take notice that even after events of this episode, Patrick still has at least shown a conscious effort to be friendly and good while still acting stupid. It wasn't till [=SpongeBob=] was visually upset here did he offer the 4 extra same cards to him. Some may say that's a good reason to un-friend him, but however, the fact is that Patrick tried to make up for it, and even WHEN something looks dumb or stupid (using a flamethrower in "Pet Sitter Pat"), Patrick at least has some reason or logic behind it. So, what IS Patrick's intelligence? It's actually very simple; Patrick is a genius, but acts stupid in order to make others laugh. And seeing how he is pretty much only friends with his lifelong friend, [=SpongeBob=], Patrick most likely values that relationship over any other, and continues to do stupid things to amuse him, and stopping when he realized he went too far. |
| 72 | ** Side note: remember the one scene from that episode where Patrick is putting Gary underneath the hair dryer and he starts to crack and fall apart? If you notice, one of these pieces fall off Gary's lower eyelid. AND HIS EYEBALL IS VISIBLE THROUGH THE NOW EMPTY SPACE. |
| 73 | ** Then again, Patrick has been X-rayed a few times and has had a skull each time. Assuming it's not just rule of funny, that would imply he does have a brain. He is instead stupid because he has received a large number of head injuries to the head (which he pretty much goes one step short of outright saying in Squidward's Ghost) and because his parents aren't particularly bright. From what starfish have been seen NONE of them are particularly bright. His sister for one, is even dumber than he is. He's stupid because he's genetically predisposed towards stupidity. It's not his fault, his species just isn't very bright, likely for the reasons near the top of the page. Thought the head injuries likely didn't help. |
| 74 | * In the episode "The Krusty Sponge", when Mr. Krabs hears a review from a food critic about the Krusty Krab favoring [=SpongeBob=] above all other qualities, he takes the advantage and recreates the restaurant in [=SpongeBob=]'s image. The customers favor the changes going on around the Krusty Krab, and [=SpongeBob=]'s importance in the restaurant sky-rockets. And then it all goes downhill from there as Mr. Krabs starts selling Spongy Patties (really Krabby Patties gone bad). When the customers take a bite out of the meat, they become sick, and [=SpongeBob=]'s popularity decreases. How is this familiar? If you look at this from Nickelodeon's view, this is exactly what happened to [=SpongeBob=] within the studio. If you see the studios as the Krusty Krab in that episode, then you'll see the resemblance between that episode and reality. This makes the entire story into one SelfDeprecation episode by Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}. |
| 75 | ** Add to the fact that the Judge (who could indeed represent the audience) is about to punish Mr. Krabs (Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}) for his Gross Negligence, but because the Judge is such a huge fan of [=SpongeBob=], all Mr. Krabs has to do is get Squidward (dressed as [=SpongeBob=] in the episode) to give the Judge a ride on that [=SpongeBob=] Train. And that's how Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} gets away with their milking of [=SpongeBob=] [=SquarePants=]; by doing an occasional good episode, or giving out some kind of merchandise that just keeps the fans hooked on him even when the fans know he needs a break! |
| 76 | * In "Plankton's Regular", when Krabs makes chum to lure away Plankton's customer, he claims that it's the ''second'' most foul thing he ever tasted. This sounds a bit strange at first, but by the end you realize that Plankton's chum, which he pretended to like, was the first most foul thing... |
| 77 | * Do you remember how [=SpongeBob=] only had to write "'''THREE! MORE! WORDS!'''" to pass his boating "exam" in ''No Free Rides''? "What I learned in boating school is..." The obvious answer to this is "how to drive" (or maybe "how to boat"), which he didn't learn how to do. Maybe that's why he couldn't answer properly. |
| 78 | ** He ''does'' have a moral aversion to lying... |
| 79 | *** "Chocolate With Nuts" would like a word with you. |
| 80 | *** CharacterizationMarchesOn, perhaps? Maybe he didn't mind lying in "Chocolate With Nuts", but grew uncomfortable of the idea by the time "Ditchin'" aired. |
| 81 | *** [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick did say that they were "stretching the truth." They may had use ExactWords as an excuse/justification; after all they weren't lying as far as they knew... |
| 82 | *** Except, Patrick does say this at one point... |
| 83 | ---->'''Patrick:''' Hooray for lying! |
| 84 | * In ''Tea at the Treedome'', [=SpongeBob=] lasts for almost half the episode without water at Sandy's house, while Patrick barely lasts a minute. It doesn't seem to make a lot of sense that one sea creature would last so much longer without being able to breathe than another, until you realize that a sponge will retain water for a lot longer than a starfish. |
| 85 | * Plankton not knowing the whole alphabet at the beginning of ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie'' explains why he had that "letters of the alphabet" song in ''Plankton!''. |
| 86 | ** It's also possible that he never actually finished listening to the song, never learning the entire alphabet, as according to WordOfGod, TheMovie is the last part of the series in chronological order. |
| 87 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX-DB7JaNPM The song doesn't cover the whole alphabet, either]]. |
| 88 | ** Alternatively, he could have just not realized he had a plan Z and only thought he had from A to Y. Z is right there in the back, so it would be kinda easy to miss. |
| 89 | * In "Jellyfish Hunter", [=SpongeBob=] had to struggle to open the door on Mr. Krabs' machine, because it required a voice-activated code. However, even if wasn't voice activated, [=SpongeBob=] still wouldn't be able to open it because he was holding onto the sides instead of the handle. |
| 90 | * In "The Secret Box", [=SpongeBob=] tries to steal Patrick's secret box. When [=SpongeBob=] accidentally ends up in Patrick's arms, Patrick (while sleeping) reaches inside [=SpongeBob=]'s mouth and pulls [=SpongeBob=]'s tongue and laughs. Why did he pull and laugh? Because you have to pull the string of the box to see the actual secret of the secret box. |
| 91 | * Pretty much every character's {{Flanderization}} post-movie makes sense now that the movie's been confirmed to be, chronologically, the last episode. Plankton being an IneffectualSympatheticVillain will lead up to him snapping and turning to a NotSoHarmlessVillain, Squidward's [[TheWoobie Woobie]]-ness will make him strive to work harder and have him become the manager, Mr Krabs's MoneyFetish has him become distracted enough for Plankton's plan to work, and, most of all, [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick's further progress into ManChild territory will have them wonder [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone where they went wrong]] and go on a quest to become adults. |
| 92 | ** Except... It isn't. [[https://twitter.com/VincentWaller72/status/1286675423435186178?t=JFFmOAWTANDjd1KM2rXjvg&s=19 see for yourself]]. |
| 93 | * Squidward always manage to fail ''[[EpicFail epically]]'' whenever he has to fill in for [=SpongeBob=] at the Krusty Krab (except the one time he was stuck in a happy mood, but in that case, he was actively trying to be close to [=SpongeBob=] and had reason to learn, since it was a screw up with his brain, he probably just forgot when he returned to normal). Then it was revealed in a newer episode that he doesn't actually ''know'' the formula for the Krabby Patty. He fails so miserably at making them normally, every time he has to make it, he's normally suddenly forced into cooking a dish he has ''no idea how to make!'' |
| 94 | ** Notably, the one time he succeeds in making edible Krabby Patties, in "Bubble Buddy", [=SpongeBob=] is there to scrutinize him. |
| 95 | ** Also why is he such a terrible clarinet? The clarinet clearly was designed for someone with fingers, not suckers... |
| 96 | *** However, the octopi/squids at Tentacle Acres were actually good at the clarinet. |
| 97 | *** Maybe it's because they were stress free and didn't have pesky neighbors bothering them almost every single time. [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick did interrupt Squidward at times when he practiced playing his clarinet. |
| 98 | * In "Born Again Krabs", Mr. Krabs is frightened into becoming generous. This leads to him becoming bankrupt. This explains why Krabs is such a miser - he needs to be in order to stay in business. |
| 99 | ** One could argue that Mr. Krabs went too far the other way and became ''too'' generous. Since he'd never been generous before, he probably didn't know where to draw the line, just as he normally doesn't know when to stop penny-pinching. |
| 100 | * In "Missing Identity", when [=SpongeBob=] (first) tastes Gary's snail food, he says "Oh well. At least I'll never have to do it again." That seems to foreshadow when he later retraces his steps to find his nametag, and has to taste the snail food again and again. |
| 101 | ** Also later, after [=SpongeBob=]'s first attempt to retrace his steps, after walking off from Patrick to try again, Patrick randomly says "Hi, [=SpongeBob=]" while looking at [=SpongeBob=]'s back, Patrick already found [=SpongeBob=]'s name tag at this point of the episode! |
| 102 | *** In fact, during the rest of the attempts, Patrick's looking at [=SpongeBob=]'s front, not his back, which is probably why he keeps getting his name wrong. |
| 103 | *** Another thing you might have missed when [=SpongeBob=] was retracing his steps, he mirrors the routine he did near the start of the episode, except for the mishap he had when he was putting his clothes on, AKA the point where he "lost" his name tag. |
| 104 | ** If one looks closely, [=SpongeBob=] is missing his collar from the point where he puts his shirt on up until he finds his nametag. The animators foreshadowed the twist for nearly ''the entire episode!'' |
| 105 | * The movie shows that [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick are tiny compared to humans...so what about Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy? Then you remember that the entire town got shrunk with Mermaid Man's belt, and they never reversed it. They ''used'' to be in scale to humans on dry land, but not any more. |
| 106 | ** They never were. See the episode "Suds", particularly the ending. |
| 107 | *** Or, as seen in "Tea At The Treedome", [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick shrink when exposed to air. By the time Sandy arrived, they were the size of a normal sponge and starfish. The reason they were small compared to the diver underwater is because it was super-polluted. |
| 108 | ** Actually, piggy-backing off of that Shrink Ray theory, that might explain why Mermaid Man & Barnacle Boy were retired. In their twilight years, MM & BB must've accidentally shrunk themselves causing them to be the same size as the fish they were defending, to which point they stopped fighting crime. Remember how huge Man-Ray is when we first see him? And what about the fact that Mermaid Man doesn't remember how to unshrink the town? Of course he wouldn't know how then, he couldn't do it when he and Barnacle Boy first shrank. |
| 109 | * In the episode "Slimy Dancing", Squidward is wrestling with leg cramps and everyone mistakes it for dancing. But earlier, when he actually ''was'' dancing, he was apparently so bad at it that a fish in the audience commented, "Is he hurt?". |
| 110 | * In the Halloween episode "Scaredy Pants", Squidward asks what Sandy is dressed as. She's a pet goldfish in a bowl, he says "I don't get it", and she acts as if he's being a stick-in-the-mud. But of course he doesn't get it; the sea creatures don't keep fish as pets--fish are people there. |
| 111 | ** There's also the fact that the characters live in salt water, whereas goldfish are freshwater fish. |
| 112 | * Also, in "Scaredy Pants", the Flying Dutchman claimed [=SpongeBob=]'s "costume" of him to be the most insulting he's seen. As understandable as it is to begin with, Fridge Brilliance kicks in when you consider the costume actually managed to momentarily scare the people at the Krusty Krab a short while ago. |
| 113 | * Why did no one have any problem with [[KarmaHoudini Mr. Krabs]] printing counterfeit money at the end of "The Krabby Chronicle"? Well, it's not as if he's actually going to spend it, is he? |
| 114 | * In one episode, when Sandy asks Mr. Krabs if he needs a helmet while he's in her treedome, he replies that he doesn't. This is because crabs can survive on land, unlike sea sponges and starfish. |
| 115 | * In "Frankendoodle", the artist at sea is Mr. Lawrence, a writer and storyboarder for the show. Of course everything drawn with his pencil would become real in [=SpongeBob=]'s world. |
| 116 | ** He also voices Plankton, which may explain why things drawn with his pencil generally seem to turn evil. |
| 117 | * In "[=SpongeBob=] Versus the Big One", [=JKL=]'s prophecy of "one of you will not be returning" never comes true. But...he never said that someone would ''die'', just ''that they wouldn't return''. What if he meant that the sacrifice wouldn't be able to return to the island? Of course, this is also a Fridge TearJerker, because if the theory is true, then [=JKL=] can never return to his home. |
| 118 | * Squidward can't play the clarinet well due to his lack of fingers. |
| 119 | * In "One Coarse Meal", Mr. Krabs disguises himself as Pearl to scare Plankton. [[LatexPerfection The costume looks identical to Pearl]] until he takes it off, at which point we see very obvious flaws in the costume. Until Krabs took off the costume we were actually seeing what Plankton was seeing. |
| 120 | ** Plus Plankton lacks depth perception, so of course he doesn't have the eyesight to notice its flaws. |
| 121 | * How is Mr. Krabs able to con people so easily? Because almost everyone in Bikini Bottom is TooDumbToLive outside of himself, Sandy, Squidward, Plankton, and a few others. In "One Krabs Trash" he manages to con a guy into spending $10 on a beat-up umbrella by claiming it was previously owned by the Queen of Switzerland. Then in "Bucket, Sweet Bucket" after he remodels the Krusty Krab with pieces of the Chum Bucket and increases the price of a Krabby Patty to $25 he gets a customer to buy four simply because the interior is so classy. And in "Buried in Time" he tricks a customer into spending over $50 on a keychain made of paperclips and cardboard by giving them a coupon for a free ''ice cube'' with a purchase. Nobody calls him out on it because they're too stupid to know he's scamming them. |
| 122 | * Why does Flats the Flounder want to kick [=SpongeBob=]'s butt so badly? In "Sandy's Rocket," an episode which was made before "The Bully," [=SpongeBob=] is seen hiding in Flats' medicine cabinet before he shoots him with the net gun. For years, Flats been tracking [=SpongeBob=] down and plotting his revenge for that incident. |
| 123 | * No one ever found Squidward during the 2,000 years when he was frozen. because they never went looking for him; he came back to the same day he disappeared, so as far as anyone knew, he had never left. That also means there are two Squidwards: one living his normal life, and one frozen in the Krusty Krab, [[FridgeHorror and there will be for the rest of Squidward's life.]] |
| 124 | ** This also explains why Spongebob never comes to his rescue when he goes back to work; Squidward is already there on register like normal, so there's no reason for Sponge to assume frozen Squidward is anything unusual. "Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost" had Squidward create a wax statue of himself, so Spongebob probably thought it was another one of Squidward's art pieces. |
| 125 | * During "The Krabby Kronicle" Patrick is staring at a bus stop, "So the next time it moves, he would see it." It's a bus stop, there are multiple all over the city! |
| 126 | * [=SpongeBob=] has been shown to be very physically weak; lifting plush toys is like lifting heavy weights to him. Why? Sponges are one of the few animals without muscles, so it would stand to reason that [=SpongeBob=] is a wimp. |
| 127 | ** On the opposite end, Sandy being as strong as she is makes perfect sense. Being a mammal, she would naturally have a stronger muscle structure than most of the fish in Bikini Bottom, with only the whales and Larry coming close to her physically. |
| 128 | * [=SpongeBob=]'s grandma is well known for making cookies. Her design kind of resembles a chocolate chip cookie as well. |
| 129 | * Bikini Bottom measures temperature in Fahrenheit. At first, this may seem like CreatorProvincialism, and rather foolish Creator Provincialism at that, because everybody knows that water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit and 0 degrees Celsius, thus making Celsius appear more logical underwater. Except, they're in the ocean. The ocean is salt water. Fresh water might freeze at 32 degrees Fahrenheit, but ''salt'' water freezes at 0 degrees Fahrenheit. It makes perfect sense. |
| 130 | * At first, the ending to "One Krab's Trash", in which the #1 soda hat was revealed to be so worthless that millions of them were thrown in the trash, may seem like a cruel poorly put together KickTheDog moment for Mr. Krabs. But it actually makes perfect sense! Why? Because in the ending, one of the business men pointed out that the #1 hat is so worthless many of them have been dumped in trash containers: the exact same place Mr. Krabs found the hat in the first place. |
| 131 | * Remember when we saw the flashbacks of how Krabs and Plankton were best friends? Remember how back then Krabs's family was so poor he had to wear rags? Suddenly his MoneyFetish makes a lot more sense, doesn't it? It's fueled by a subconscious fear of having to return to that lifestyle. |
| 132 | * In the episode "Dunces and Dragons," Patrick and [=SpongeBob=] go back to Medieval Bikini Bottom and meet the characters' ancestors, including Sandy's who doesn't wear an underwater helmet which land mammals need to breathe. This could be explained by her working for Plankton's ancestor, who was a sorcerer using magic making her able to breathe no problem. |
| 133 | * The episode "Hooky" is a metaphor for drug addiction. Think about it: Patrick warns [=SpongeBob=] not to get too 'too high' on the hooks, what Mr. Krabs says about 'what happens when you don't float back down' is a metaphor for dying of an overdose (you get 'too high' and don't come back down, because you're dead). By the end of the episode, [=SpongeBob=] gives into his temptation to the hooks and exclaims he's 'hooked!' (addicted) and finds it impossible to become unhooked, a metaphor for how difficult it is to overcome an addiction once it's set in. He cannot get unhooked without the help of his friends (intervention). This episode was basically teaching kids a really valuable lesson about drug addiction in a subtle way which kids couldn't possibly understand until they were older. |
| 134 | * In "Karate Star", Patrick's arm is regenerated and the lost arm turns into a new starfish, so why didn't the same happen when Patrick lost his head in "Patrick [=SmartPants=]"? Maybe because the brain coral was not letting it grow, and the actual head was in the sand, so that the sand was not letting it grow either. |
| 135 | * How did a crab have a whale for a daughter? Hybridization. Notice how Pearl is smaller than most whale ''fetuses'' despite the fact that "One Coarse Meal" shows that realistically sized whales do exist in Bikini Bottom? And how other than one episode, Pearl is never shown having to go to the surface for air? She's a half-crab, half-whale. A vertebrate breeding with a crustacean is biologically impossible, but this is [=SpongeBob=], so real-world science need not apply. |
| 136 | * Mr. Krabs shows no visible signs of aging despite being old enough that his first dime was a giant rock: In the episodes set in prehistoric times, everyone else is regular-sized or giant, but the crabs are tiny and only say "money": Crabs don't age-they just keep getting bigger. Meaning the tiny crabs seen in the Stone Age episodes weren't Mr. Krabs' ancestors -- one of them ''was'' Mr. Krabs as a child. |
| 137 | ** Related to the above, that means Mr. Krabs' first dime being a giant stone construct, something that looks like it was carved by a caveman, suddenly make a lot more sense. |
| 138 | * In "Gramma's Secret Recipe", [=SpongeBob=] should've realized something was [[{{Pun}} fishy]] when a plankton showed up at his door claiming to be his grandma. However, since [=SpongeBob=] has known Mr. Krabs and his whale daughter for quite some time now, he probably wouldn't see anything odd about the idea of cross-breeding. |
| 139 | ** Even if Pearl is adopted and not a result of cross-breeding, this still works. [=SpongeBob=] could've just assumed that his grandma was adopted by plankton. And either way, Pearl is a whale that towers over Krabs so [=SpongeBob=] wouldn't bat an eye at his supposed great-grandma being tiny compared to him. He may even thing it's just the norm. |
| 140 | * It's been shown in "Karate Star" that Patrick can regrow his arms and vice versa, like a RealLife starfish. Given how many times Patrick has had body parts cut off over the course of the series, this might explain why Patrick's characterization changes so much - There's probably many, many Patricks who have grown from Patrick's severed limbs and head (same with [=SpongeBob=]). |
| 141 | ** Actually, while [=SpongeBob=] can regenerate his arms (to the point of munching popcorn buckets full of them), it's never shown that he can grow another [=SpongeBob=] from said severed limb. |
| 142 | *** He has, however, proven he can multiply by budding... |
| 143 | * In "Chum Fricassee", Squidward is shown to make brilliant chum, using his grandmother's recipe. In RealLife, octopi are predators of fish while zooplankton only eat other plankton. Going with the FridgeHorror that chum is dead fish, it makes sense that an octopus would make it well while a plankton wouldn't. |
| 144 | * Remember "Ditchin'", where Dale the Fish was arrested for eating his "own kind" - which were actually just gummi fish? Depending on whether you disregard this for being out of context with "The Fry Cook Games," this could actually make sense. Most gummi products are made out of gelatin, which is unused animal parts like cartilage. And many of these use gelatin from FISH! So Dale's eating gummi fish possibly ''was'' cannibalistic! |
| 145 | * WordOfGod on [=SpongeBob=]'s sexual preferences is that he's almost asexual, which makes a lot of sense since he can reproduce by budding. |
| 146 | * Pearl, during the episode "Bossy Boots", is revealed to be putting on a ruse during her tenure at the Krusty Krab so that she'd get fired, since she didn't really want to work there. At first it looks like she just attempts to ruin the restaurant by turning it from a burger joint into some sort of watered-down, kiddy, health-food eatery, and that this is pretty much her entire plan. But what she actually did was systematically break the spirits of each of the Krusty Krab's three employees, in three different ways that were conducive to their personalities.\ |
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| 148 | She made Squidward wear a silly pink outfit and stand outside ''in public'' where he would be seen and made fun of, knowing that it would conflict with his stern demeanor and desire to be taken seriously. She took Krabby Patties off the menu, knowing that [=SpongeBob=] would go insane without them, and she spent money on needless items, which Mr. Krabs would definitely NOT tolerate, even for his own daughter.\ |
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| 150 | At the end of the day, a bratty, whiny teenager managed to outsmart an entire crew of adult employees, [[TheChessmaster manipulating them and correctly predicting their behavior]] on a level that might not be obvious initially. |
| 151 | * The fact that Mr. Krabs attempted to drive Plankton to suicide in "One Coarse Meal" may seem shocking to many at first, seeming like DisproportionateRetribution on his part if one is to assume that Plankton is merely a thief. However, consider that a handful of previous episodes have shown Plankton to have murderous desires to get his way - such as getting excited at the idea of electrocuting an entire town with jellyfish stingers in "F.U.N.", his dream about becoming giant and crushing others in "Sleepy Time", ''actually'' getting the chance to do so at the end of "Wishing You Well", almost killing the gang with the tank in "Atlantis Squarepantis", hiring a hitman to kill [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick in the movie (even if the movie does takes place at the end of the series chronologically, it still gives us a glimpse of Plankton's nature), and perhaps countless other times that haven't been shown to the viewers. While Mr. Krabs' actions appear to be greedy and evil at first (which admittedly isn't helped by the lacking justification he gives to [=SpongeBob=] for doing so, as well as Krabs' previous track record of greediness), they actually make sense once you consider the previous examples; Mr. Krabs was potentially ''saving'' the lives of many, not just killing one. Conversely, [=SpongeBob=]'s resistance to Mr. Krabs' actions still makes sense -- somebody as good-natured and gentle as [=SpongeBob=] would still find the idea of somebody offing himself rather dark, and would naturally try to console or protect anybody who needed help. |
| 152 | * "Chocolate with Nuts" may seem like a very simple and straightforward title for an otherwise memorable episode at first. However, the title [[DoubleMeaningTitle takes on a whole new meaning]] once you consider [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} the kind of people]] shown in the episode -- ranging from the screaming chocolate fish, to even [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick themselves. |
| 153 | * In "Shanghaied", [=SpongeBob=] is trying to figure out who owns the ship, and after the Flying Dutchman declares himself the owner, [=SpongeBob=] says: "This ship belongs to the Red Baron". Fridge Brilliance kicks in when you realize that the Red Baron was a Flying ''Deutch''man. |
| 154 | * You think that Patrick having a sister in "Big Sister Sam" was a good case of {{Retcon}} after Patrick mentions in "Something Smells" that he didn't have a sister. But Patrick tearfully says that he lost Sam at the surf when they were kids. It's possible that this hit him hard enough to deny the incident altogether by trying to convince himself and others that he doesn't have a sister. |
| 155 | * As pointed out by somebody's kid sister on Website/{{Tumblr}}, the reason Patrick is [[TheDitz such an out-of-touch idiot]] is because he [[StealthPun literally lives under a rock]]. |
| 156 | * In "Mermaidman and Barnacleboy III", [=SpongeBob=]'s first attempt at trying to get Man Ray to reform seems simple enough: having him return a wallet to somebody. The plan then seems to be unexpectedly thwarted by Patrick's idiocy. However, there could be more to his test than that -- perhaps [=SpongeBob=] ''knew'' that Patrick would act dumb, so [=SpongeBob=] had Patrick's stupidity planned in order to test how patient Man Ray was. |
| 157 | * In "Krab Borg", besides being driven to paranoia by a scary movie, [=SpongeBob=] had a good reason to think Mr. Krabs was a robot in disguise: something like that had previously happened in "Imitation Krabs" with Plankton controlling the robot! |
| 158 | * In "Suds", [=SpongeBob=] gets the suds and is cured via the "sponge treatment". The [=SpongeBob=] wiki says that the suds are caused by a buildup of soap and bubbles within the sponge, and the treatment involves washing out the excess soap. Remember, [=SpongeBob=] is a sea sponge, not a kitchen sponge. And kitchen sponges, after being used to wash dishes, go unused until the dishes have to be washed again. So in the meantime, kitchen sponges get the suds! Therefore, they get the suds more often than sea sponges! |
| 159 | * Upon first watch, it doesn't seem to make sense that the thing that causes [=SpongeBob=] to leave Bikini Bottom in "Whobob Whatpants" is being yelled at by Mr. Krabs as opposed to Patrick, since in this kind of plot what's supposed to be the last straw is being told off by your best friend. But remember, according to "Welcome to the Chum Bucket", Mr. Krabs has always served as a semi-father figure to [=SpongeBob=], and being rejected by a father is much, MUCH more upsetting than being rejected by a friend. |
| 160 | ** Plus, [=SpongeBob=]'s is shown to be compounded. He gets called "Idiot Boy" by his best friend. Obviously that's gonna sting. But then he gets called that again and again and again and then his father figure uses the EXACT same insult on him. It'd be like if you were called a moron by your friends but then your guardian who you trust to never insult you like that calls you a moron as well. It was the last straw needed to break an already weakened camel's back. |
| 161 | * [=SpongeBob=] gives his tooth for Squidward to use as a reed in "Best Day Ever", and personally donates part of his laugh box to Squidward in "Funny Pants". It makes sense for [=SpongeBob=] to give away random body parts on a whim, since he can just regenerate them. |
| 162 | * Fred's very first "My leg!" gag was in "Boating School". Later on in the episode, we see Fred with a walking cane, as if to indicate he was recovering from the incident. |
| 163 | * You have wonder why Mr. Krabs and Plankton would think the Krusty Krab would automatically go out of business if the Chum Bucket started selling Krabby patties when in real life a lot of restaurants sell similar items, but in hindsight it makes a lot of sense, given that at the Krusty Krab, Mr. Krabs and Squidward regularly mistreat the customers, and Krab's cheapness causes him to frequently jack up the prices, and only getting away with it because the public loves Krabby patties enough to put up with it, of course everyone would go somewhere else if they had another option. |
| 164 | ** Then you factor in that it would be perfectly in-character for Plankton to sell ''his'' patties at a lower price (maybe even at a loss) to undercut his rival. |
| 165 | * Not so much "Fridge Brilliance" as it is a light "Fridge Humor". In "Club [=SpongeBob=]," Patrick says to Squidward, "Cheer up, it could be worse! You could be bald and have a big nose!" The camera pans to Squidward, who looks miserable. The joke becomes a bit more giggle-worthy when you realize that Patrick's "bald and have a big nose" comment applies to the [[CharlieBrownBaldness titular]] [[GagNose character]], as well! |
| 166 | * Pearl's spendthrift ways makes sense due to two facts: 1) She's a teenager, 2) Mr. Krabs is a serious miser. So what's the best way to show teenage rebellion to a miserly parent? Spend money like water! |
| 167 | * Plankton painting a log cabin on the Chum Bucket in "Bucket Sweet Bucket" suddenly makes a ton of sense if you remember his background. |
| 168 | * Mrs. Puff's psychotic behavior might not make sense at first but when you realize that her husband was made into a lamp (and one of her students keeps landing her in the hospital and prison) it [[FreudianExcuse makes good sense]] |
| 169 | * In "Chimps Ahoy", one of Patrick's inventions is "another dimension," which [=SpongeBob=] dismisses as just a mirror, though Patrick's "reflection" shows sentience shortly after. Ordinarily, this would seem like Patrick was a GeniusDitz and did invent a new dimension. But considering the number of "TheManInTheMirrorTalksBack" gags in the show, even if he did create a new dimension, ItsBeenDone, so it's still not a new invention. |
| 170 | * In "Sleepy Time", when Patrick is shown sleeping, a bit of music is playing. What song is it? "Twinkle Twinkle, Little ''Star''." |
| 171 | * In "Mermaid Man & Barnacle Boy V" (or "Superfriends," as it's also called), Mermaid Man explains that the [=IJLSA's=] [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman superpowers come from their costumes]]. Later on in "Mermaid Man Begins," we learn that this applies to him, too, since the starfish on his nose allows him to breathe underwater. |
| 172 | * Sandy's apparent {{flanderization}} into just liking science starts to make a little more sense when you remember how it started: In "Chimps Ahoy", Sandy was stressing out that her bosses were coming over to review her work, causing her to realize that she hadn't made enough inventions and work tirelessly for a week in a desperate effort to impress them before giving up and packing her things. It's only by sheer luck that Sandy manages to impress them and keep her job. It's likely that this episode was a wake up call for Sandy to put a little more focus and effort into science, because though it's a passion and hobby of hers, it's also her ''job''. |
| 173 | * Ever wondered how Patrick thought [[PerfectlyCromulentWord wumbo]] was the opposite of mini? Well wumbo is just jumbo with a W. |
| 174 | * Why is there a giant oak tree in Sandy's "treedome"? It's what gives Sandy her air. |
| 175 | * In "Good Ol' Whatsisname", Whatzit Tooyah is shown to be constantly irate and screams every time he tells Squidward his name, [[WhosOnFirst apparently oblivious of how his name sounds similar to a rude retort]]. Given how frustrating it could be for him to go through life with a name that sounds like a snippy comeback and how easy it could be for him to create a misunderstanding while explaining his name, it makes sense that Whatzit Tooyah would be constantly P.O.'ed. |
| 176 | * In ''Spy Buddies'', there's a subtle RewatchBonus that hints at the ending that Mr. Krabs and Plankton were disguised as each other the entire episode. When [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick get found out at the Chum Bucket, what does the normally GenreSavvy "Plankton" say? |
| 177 | --> '''"Plankton":''' Don't you think I know what you're up to? [[MoneyFetish You wanna eat at the Chum Bucket without your boss knowing! Karen, we got a customer!]] |
| 178 | ** Also, notice how "Plankton" says "your boss" and not "Mr. Krabs". |
| 179 | * Why do [=SpongeBob=] and Mr. Krabs [[UnusualEuphemism refer to somebody's butt as their "captain's quarters"]]? Well, on a sailing ship, the captain's quarters is traditionally located at the rear end... |
| 180 | * In "Cephalopod Lodge", after Squidward is kicked out of the titular lodge, [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick try to get him back in by explaining to the door guard (who's name is Roger) the situation. When both of them decide it wasn't the other's fault, Patrick openly says it's the door guard's fault. It may seem like another moment of Patrick being stupid, but then you realize that this is the ''door guard'' -- he's supposed to make sure no one but members of the lodge are allowed in. And yet [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick somehow managed to get in anyways. So it really ''was'' the door guard's fault that [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick got in. |
| 181 | * Why does Sandy wear a bikini inside her treedome nearly all the time? Clearly she needs to prevent vitamin D deficiency from living in an underwater environment, so the most efficient way to do that is by sunbathing. |
| 182 | * Where exactly did Mr. Krabs get the World's Smallest Violin from? Considering he's confirmed to have stolen other things from Plankton (like a lawnmower), it's a safe bet to assume the violin used to belong to Plankton before Krabs "borrowed" it from him. Or better yet, he won it from Plankton from one of their Thursday night poker games, which they regularly play for 15 years. |
| 183 | * In "Jailbreak!", the prisoners are seen using their sperm whale cellmate as a battering ram to break into the Krusty Krab. In real life, sperm whales really do use their heads (particularly the junk) as battering rams. |
| 184 | * The episode "High Sea Diving" deals a bit with the topic of pollution in the ocean. In it, [=SpongeBob=] "dives" to the surface of the ocean to find a bunch of trash that's been dumped by humans, such as bottles, hair combs, and car parts. One of these car parts falls down to the bottom and is used as a house by a married couple. This potentially means that this is how the Bikini Bottomites have made their strange looking houses all this time- they're car parts that have been dumped into the ocean by humans. |
| 185 | * Patrick having his own room in "Krusty Koncessionaires" may seem utterly random, but it actually makes sense when you consider his later appearance in the episode working a studio camera - he wasn't just lounging there for the sake of it, he's a working staff member! |
| 186 | * Why does Mr. Krabs [[LethalChef suck so much at cooking Krabby Patties]] when he founded a highly successful restaurant with them? Chances are years of relying on [=SpongeBob=] to cook them caused him to get extremely rusty. |
| 187 | ** It's also possible that, given what the Season 5 episode "Friend or Foe" showed about how Mr. Krabs came to develop the original formula, that he might have always been a questionable cook, and was just saved by the random assortment of ingredients falling into the Patty batter compensating for his terrible cooking skills. Remember, the kids he served his food too only said compliments like "flavor!","edible!", and "we can actually hold it down!". Not exactly the highest of compliments. Spongebob might just plain and simple be a far superior cook than Krabs ever was. |
| 188 | * In 'I Was a Teenage Gary' why does the snail Squidward have a shell while [=SpongeBob=] doesn't? Simple: prehistoric cephalopods had shells so Squidward likely has some residual genetics for growing a shell. [=SpongeBob=], being a sponge, doesn't have that same ability. |
| 189 | * Besides the BaitAndSwitch joke, in "Rock-A-Bye Bivalve", why did Patrick and [=SpongeBob=] have their sleeping situation be [=SpongeBob=] sleeping on one set of mattresses, and Patrick sleeping on another set that was under the top one, so that them going to bed meant Patrick was squashed underneath Spongebob's part of the bed? Because Patrick is used to sleeping ''underneath'' his rock every night, so it's likely they did that arrangement to make Patrick feel more at home while he lived in Spongebob's pineapple. |
| 190 | * In "C.H.U.M.S", the leader of the chum society tells Plankton that the toilet ranking on his review must be the highest one possible. The joke makes more sense when you consider that they live in the sewers, and Plankton flushing chum down his toilet is how the city gets its materials. |
| 191 | * In "No Weenies Allowed", Weenie Hut Jr. is attended by a robot instead of an actual fish. It might feel weird at first glance, until you realize Weenie Hut Jr. is such an unpopular, frowned upon place no one would even want to work there, so the franchise owners must build their own employees instead. |
| 192 | * In “Plankton’s Army”, Mr. Krabs gets stuffed in a toilet, then frees himself after getting rid of Plankton and his family, which reveals that Squidward was right under him the entire time. Octopuses like Squidward are famous for being able to squeeze through tight spaces, however, Plankton’s family made a mistake when trying to stuff Mr. Krabs, a crab with a hard exoskeleton, down the pipes. |
| 193 | * In "Biddy Sitting", [=SpongeBob=] asks where an old lady would go, and Patrick says "Back in time!" This seems like a NonSequitur, but ''WesternAnimation/ThePatrickStarShow'' actually shows that Patrick did have a time machine in his house as a kid — of course he'd view it as a possibility! |
| 194 | * In "Who R Zoo?", [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick create some bubble animals with super strong soap, which are unpoppable. However, it's foreshadowed throughout the episode that they're weak to sharp objects. When an old man walks into the zoo, Patrick confiscates all his sharp objects, and Patrick's only attempt to attack the animals is by using a dull bubble hammer. When a sea monster with sharp teeth shows up, the animals all retreat in fear. |
| 195 | * In "Spongebob Meets the Strangler" Squidward happily goes to Spongebob's parties multiple times despite not liking him. Why would he? Because in "Party Pooper Pants" (which coincidentally premiered as "Spongebob Meets the Strangler" was in production) shows that Spongebob can actually organize a really good party. |
| 196 | * In "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V", Mr. Krabs threatens to fire Squidward, and he grumbles angrily. He also threatens to fire him in "New Leaf", causing Squidward to nervously listen to him. Getting fired should seem like a reward since Squidward hates his job, but when he quit his job in "Can You Spare a Dime?", he became homeless and had to live with [=SpongeBob=] for a long time. It's very possible that Squidward doesn't want a repeat of that episode's events. |
| 197 | * In "Pickles", Mr. Krabs gives a distraught [=SpongeBob=] the day off so that he can collect himself. A later episode, "Imitation Krabs", reveals that he ''despises'' giving days off to his employees. Perhaps he was so worried for Sponge's mental health that he was willing to make an exception this time. |
| 198 | * While [=SpongeBob=] may have been a bit of a control freak in Party Pooper Pants all because he's scared of what happens when things don't go to plan, keep in mind that when he brought home a jellyfish and danced to music with it in Jellyfish Jam, the jellyfish got so addicted to music that it invited more jellyfish and wrecked a ton of havoc in his house. It's very possible that [=SpongeBob=] was also afraid of his house getting ruined, even though in the end, he really had nothing to worry about. |
| 199 | * In "The Algae's Always Greener", the Krusty Krab is still called that even though Plankton is not a crab or a Krabs. You might brush this off as any number of things, but there's an actual reason for it. In "Krusty Krab Training Video", it's revealed that the Krusty Krab used to be a retirement home called the "Rusty Krab". Mr. Krabs just painted a big "K" on the sign. Alternate timeline Plankton probably just did the same thing. |
| 200 | * In "Idiot Box", Squidward tries and fails repeatedly to get the box to work, and when he tries to get Spongebob and Patrick to show him, they simply make up lame noises that make him think they're just messing with him. A result of Squidward having a poor imagination? Possibly, but there's another reason: every time Squidward was in the box, he had it open. Every time he heard Spongebob and Patrick's noises, the box was closed. Perhaps the box only "worked" when it was closed, and Squidward never thought of doing that. |
| 201 | * Also in "Idiot Box", there's a scene where Squidward randomly pulls out a sombrero from a box and wonders why he never wore it before tossing it aside. It would be a one-off gag... until "The Camping Episode" has Squidward finally wear that same sombrero, which ends up getting him mauled by a sea bear. Needless to say, that experience must have answered his question, as he is never seen wearing a sombrero again since that episode. |
| 202 | * "Artist Unknown" as a whole is a deconstruction of why Squidward is such a reviled artist by everyone in Bikini Bottom. Art collector/critic Monty P. Moneybags hates all of Squidward's works, and the only flaw he sees with Spongebob's otherwise beautiful David sculpture is the nose Squidward modeled after his own and pasted on it (with Squidward himself saying it wasn't "complete" without it). In fact, the only one of Squidward's works Monty actually ''likes'' is the sculpture Squidward unintentionally creates at the end of the episode and doesn't even realize he made. Why is this significant? Monty hates all of the self-centered art Squidward creates, but he recognizes the masterpieces that have nothing to do with Squidward's image. This means that Squidward's incessant need to model all of his works after himself is what is actively holding him back from being hailed as a genius in the art world. |
| 203 | ** Note that Squidward managed to create a sculpture that was just as, if not even more, beautiful than the one Spongebob created without even trying. This implies that Squidward ''does'' have a natural talent for creating masterpieces just like Spongebob. However, he only managed to do so while throwing a fit and wasn't even thinking about what he was doing. Squidward just can't help but make every single piece about himself when he's actually focused, and doesn't realize that he's producing worthless crap. Another thing to note is Squidward even admits that Spongebob's sculpture is beautiful before immediately backpedaling and telling the sponge his work is terrible. Squidward is clearly capable of recognizing and appreciating true art, but he's so convinced ''his'' artwork is perfect that he can't fathom anyone else's being better, especially Spongebob's. |
| 204 | ** Spongebob is able to create masterpieces without even trying, but once he starts following Squidward's "advice", his work falls to the same level as Squid's. Why does this happen? Because Spongebob no longer has passion for the craft and is convinced that everything he's doing is correct. Aka, ''exactly what Squidward does''. |
| 205 | ** Squidward is actively furious that Spongebob is doing exactly what he told him to do, and that Spongebob is incapable of creating another masterpiece. Squidward knows full well that his artwork is inferior, but he doesn't want to admit it and instead takes the credit for Spongebob's natural talent. |
| 206 | *** Heck, this example alone sums up everything wrong with Squidward: He's noticeably annoyed and exasperated by Monty's criticisms and the quality of Spongebob's art, but rather than taking the hint or learning anything from it, he immediately jumps to stealing credit from Spongebob when Monty absolutely loves it. The fact that Squidward is only interested in the fame and prestige he'd get from people seeing his artwork reinforces his complete lack of passion or respect for the field, preferring to steal credit from a more talented artist rather than listening to a professional or trying to improve his own. |
| 207 | ** Another thing to note is Monty is initially hesitant about Squidward's artwork and only launches into his BrutalHonesty after Squidward asks him why he doesn't like it. It could be chalked up to just Monty being a dick, but keep in mind: he's an ''art critic''. As in, criticizing people's work is his ''job''. It's possible Monty was initially trying to let Squidward down easy, but once he saw Squidward ''genuinely had no idea what was wrong with it'', he started bluntly telling him it was worthless garbage. Monty, being a professional in the field, no doubt recognized almost immediately that Squidward had absolutely no passion or respect for the craft, and reacted accordingly. Not to mention, Squidward's artwork was so terrible, it was ''actively insulting his profession and the art field as a whole'', not helped by Squidward's smug attitude and refusal to heed Monty's criticisms. Not exactly the kind of person whose works you'd want to show off. |
| 208 | * Why is littering regarded as such a serious crime in Bikini Botton? Because they live in the ocean, which is greatly threatened by massive amounts of pollution and garbage. |
| 209 | * It seems rather silly that, at the end of "Your Shoe's Untied", the only person in Bikini Bottom who knows how to tie shoe laces is Gary... who is a snail. But it's much less surprising [[GeniusBonus if you've read up on your Aquatic Biology]], as then you'd know that the part of a snail's body that touches the ground is called its ''[[{{Pun}} foot]]''. |
| 210 | * Barnacle Boy's insistence on being called "Barnacle Man" is dropped after the episode it's introduced in. With how senile Mermaid Man is, it's likely he just forgot about it. |
| 211 | ** Another possibility is Barnacle Boy probably figured it wasn't a big deal as long as Mermaid Man was giving him more respect, since that's what he really wanted in the first place. |
| 212 | ** Or, since this show doesn't exactly follow continuity, it was simply there just for a conflict of an episode. |
| 213 | ** This actually becomes further brilliance since this episode is the last appearance of Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy until Season 4 (they are also absent from ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie''). Since the movie was originally intended to be the series finale, this means we indeed never see Barnacle Man being referred to as his original name again! It also serves as FridgeHeartwarming, since the last we see of the duo is them having a laugh together, and Mermaid Man agreeing to give Barnacle Boy more respect as promised. |
| 214 | * The drill sergeant shark Roderick that replaces Mrs. Puff in "Mrs. Puff, You're Fired." is your standard DrillSergeantNasty... and is also a complete failure of a teacher for the opposite reason. Mrs. Puff is too nice to tell Spongebob that he's a terrible student before her Flanderization kicked in, but Roderick is far too vicious for anyone to stick around. Real Drill Sergeants, or at least the competent ones, know when to ease the cruelty back for the sake of teaching--there's a point where you have to give instruction, not scare recruits. The fact his entire class abandoned him on the spot should have been a hint he's actually an incompetent buffoon, even before he jumps in front of a speeding boat to stop it and the obvious happens. Which brings up another point--he's not even a Sergeant, he's a corporal (only has two marks on his sleeve) playacting at being one. No wonder he couldn't teach Spongebob! |
| 215 | ** Actually, he DID manage to teach Spongebob... by forcing him to drive blindfolded, which is not only illegal, but extremely dangerous as well, hence why Mrs. Puff's boss obviously does not allow him to drive like that during the test. The fact that Roderick's "teachings" involved him forcing his students to use illegal methods once again reinforces how much of an incompetent dangerous fool he is. As much as Mrs. Puff can't stand Spongebob and seemingly fails to teach him anything, she wouldn't be caught dead doing something blatantly dangerous like that since it would tarnish her reputation as an instructor and put her in legal trouble. |
| 216 | ** Yet another reason why Roderick is a failure is that he didn't bother teaching Spongebob how to drive normally or make sure he was ready for the test. He obviously should have known that Spongebob wouldn't be allowed to use a blindfold on the driving test, yet he not only failed to inform Spongebob of this ahead of time, he also didn't have him drive around normally to make sure he actually knew what he was doing. He's a failure as a teacher because while he found a way for the student to learn, he forced them to learn in a completely different way they can't grasp, and didn't do anything to help or ease them into it. |
| 217 | ** Notably, Roderick doesn't even bother looking into ''why'' Spongebob struggles with driving, instead immediately going into harsh, angry lectures that involve a lot of yelling, which is the WORST possible thing you can do for someone who's self-conscious about something. |
| 218 | * Why is Mr. Krabs playing a keytar instead of a normal, stringed guitar in "Band Geeks"? Simple: those "big meaty claws" of his would probably make it difficult to use the strings. |
| 219 | * In "I'm With Stupid", [=SpongeBob=] wears his karate helmet while pretending to be an idiot. This may seem random, but a common stereotype of mentally handicapped people is that they have to wear helmets at all times. |
| 220 | * Why is Spongebob such a bad driver? "Boating School" indicates Spongebob has perfected the written exam by memory, but on the actual ''driving'' portion, he panics and drives like a maniac. Notably, when he has Patrick telling him what to do, he performs flawlessly. Spongebob simply gets overwhelmed by the course and cracks under pressure, losing all control of what he's doing or where he is, and leading to the inevitable crashes. The reason why he hasn't improved at all is because Mrs. Puff gave up on him a long time ago and doesn't bother looking into ways to help, so she just assumes Spongebob is unteachable. |
| 221 | ** This would explain why Spongebob is able to drive well while blindfolded. Since he can't see, it would be easier to disassociate himself from being behind the wheel; hence, he's able to stay calm. |
| 222 | ** Spongebob is also able to drive flawlessly when Patrick is secretly helping him. Having a voice inside your head telling you exactly what to do would indeed make things much less stressful, and Spongebob is able to focus on the course without having to memorize the rules of the road or worry that he's doing something wrong. It also helps that said voice belongs to his best friend, which would do a great job of comforting and encouraging him. The only reason Spongebob starts panicking and loses control is because Mrs. Puff unintentionally reveals he was cheating by doing so. |
| 223 | ** The only other time Spongebob is able to drive successfully is with the Patty Wagon in the movie. However, as he points out, "you don't need a license to drive a sandwich." This could be because Spongebob associates a regular boat with his license and boating school, which causes him to panic out of instinct. However, since the Patty Wagon doesn't need a license, there's nothing to worry about. |
| 224 | *** Another reason could be that Spongebob was focused on saving Mr. Krabs' life, so he wasn't thinking about it. Or he may have actually picked up some things from boating school over the years. |
| 225 | * Mrs. Puff's animosity towards Spongebob makes more sense if you consider "New Student Starfish" as taking place before the other boating school episodes. Mrs. Puff is noticeably nicer and more patient with Spongebob, and Spongebob himself has received countless good noodle stars in class (which seems odd considering how much she dislikes him), whereas back in season 1, she dreaded seeing him on sight and refused to grant him the position of Hall Monitor until she was left with no other choice. While she appreciates Spongebob and Patrick saving Roger at the end of the episode, she never figures out it was Patrick who drew the "Big Fat Meanie" picture and was triggering Spongebob to disrupt the class. It's entirely possible Mrs. Puff began holding Spongebob in a negative light for seemingly insulting her and being a disruption, then her dislike was fully cemented after Spongebob's countless failures on the driving test. |
| 226 | ** From Spongebob's perspective, it's possible he was determined to prove himself to Mrs. Puff after Patrick made him look bad in front of her, so he jumped to take the driving test in an effort to please--only to find out he was way in over his head, and has absolutely no idea what he's doing. Spongebob's repeated failures could be because he keeps convincing himself he needs to impress Mrs. Puff and refuses to consider that he's not prepared for it, thus leading to an endless cycle of inevitable crashes and animosity from Mrs. Puff herself. |
| 227 | * If you think about it, Squilliam has the exact same nasty asocial attitude as Squidward. While Squidward struggles to get by on a day-to-day basis and has nobody who likes him (aside from his annoying neighbors, whom he himself hates) or appreciates his art, Squilliam is always flouting his wealth to anybody who will listen, surrounds himself by yes-men so he has people to show off to, and ''very'' smugly rubs in his success in Squidward's face any chance he gets. All three are blatant signs of narcissism, supported by the fact that Squilliam still hasn't moved on from bullying his high school rival, and constantly reminds Squidward of his lack of popularity and "most likely to suck eggs" title from decades ago as a childish way to piss him off. In essence, Squilliam ''is'' Squidward if he was rich and famous, the only difference being Squilliam knows how to read people and surrounds himself by those who will reinforce his smug rich attitude, whereas Squidward doesn't even make an attempt to make connections with people. |
| 228 | ** "Porous Pockets" has Spongebob strike it rich, and he soon becomes surrounded by people once they realize how much money he has. However, they all abandon him as soon as he runs out, as they were only hanging out with him to take advantage of his wealth rather than any genuine feelings towards him. One can't help but wonder if Squilliam's situation is exactly the same, meaning all of his "friends" and the people who follow him around and laugh at Squidward along with him are simply only doing so because of Squilliam's wealth and status. If this is the case, then Squilliam is just as lonely and miserable as Squidward, the difference being he has money and a name for himself, but nobody to share it with. This would also explain Squilliam's tendency to show off, since his wealth is all he has, and he wants people to know it so he can feel better about himself and convince himself that people care about him. |
| 229 | ** Spongebob genuinely likes Squidward and considers him a friend, and Squidward himself has shown that he cares for the little guy (even admitting he actually sort of likes him) on rare occasions. Ironically, this means Squidward is actually more successful than Squilliam in one aspect, as Squilliam is never shown being around anyone who presumably isn't just doing so for his money/status. Not to mention, Squilliam's horrid attitude would likely drive away anyone who would genuinely care about him in the first place, but Squilliam's success means he doesn't want or care to put in effort to improve it anyways. |
| 230 | * It may take a while, but eventually one understands that there's a reason Patrick told Spongebob "The Ugly Barnacle" beyond him not being all that bright: He's trying to say "it could be worse, at least you're not so ugly it's actively killing people." |
| 231 | * In "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy II", Barnacle Boy is unable to destroy the summoning conch with his "sulfur vison". It may simply be a joke of Barnacle Boy being long past his prime, but considering the conch is one of the duo's own gadgets, it's possible the conch is protected against being destroyed by super powers in case one of the duo's villains managed to take it. |
| 232 | * In "As Seen on TV", why would Mr. Krabs just delegate Spongebob's role in the commercial to a background appearance even though he said he wanted Spongebob to be in the commercial and Spongebob would have been psyched to have a role without asking for extra pay? Spongebob, being the fry cook, is always in the kitchen away from customers, so many of the Krusty Krab's patrons have likely never seen him before. Squidward, meanwhile, being the cashier, is always seen by anyone who goes into the restaurant because he's out front taking people's orders and handing it to them when they're done. Thus, it's actually a good business move-- Mr. Krabs gave Squidward a main role because Squidward is essentially the "face" of the restaurant, and a face that everyone who goes to the Krusty Krab would be familiar with! |
| 233 | ** Another reason is that Mr. Krabs was advertising Krabby Patties, so he obviously needed someone to cook them. Squidward is known to be a terrible cook, and even Mr. Krabs himself has shown to have no idea how to make them. Spongebob's patties, meanwhile, are loved by almost everyone in town, so giving Spongebob a "role" as himself makes perfect sense-- it's something Spongebob is familiar and happy with, and it's a way to show people that yes, the Krabby Patties they consume are indeed made by the cheerful fry cook that loves his job and always puts love and care into what he does. Besides, Mr. Krabs already had the speaking roles taken up by Squidward and Pearl (who's his daughter, so he obviously wanted to include her), so he needed Spongebob to do something, and what better than to have him do what everyone in town already likes about him? |
| 234 | ** Granted, it's unknown if anyone even actually saw the commercial other than Spongebob anyway (due to the ridiculous timeslot Mr. Krabs chose) but that's just a case of Mr. Krabs being his usual cheap self. |
| 235 | * In "Culture Shock", why did the audience love Spongebob's mopping "act" but hated everyone else's? Because kitchen sponges are used for cleaning, and Spongebob was doing exactly that with the mop. Thus, Spongebob was indeed performing a "talent"-- it's what sponges are made to do, and something nobody else in Bikini Bottom was capable of! |
| 236 | ** Spongebob's "talent" was doing something that was natural for sponges, and it wasn't hurting anyone. Everyone else's act involved the individual doing something that they clearly didn't know how to do (Squidward), hurt people in the audience (Pearl), was something the audience couldn't even understand (Gary), or wasn't even an act at all and was simply a front for an ulterior motive (Plankton). |
| 237 | ** Spongebob appearing to clean the stage was a sign that the show was over. The audience hated the show so much that they were relived when it was over (especially after Squidward's horrendous act). Thus, they were cheering because Spongebob appearing was a sign that the awful show was finally over! |
| 238 | * Squidward claims to hate Krabby Patties in "Just One Bite" before it's revealed he secretly loves them, despite how much he tries to hide it from Spongebob. A few episodes later, Squidward is shown eating a Krabby Patty in "As Seen on TV" with no attempt to hide his love for them. Squidward probably stopped trying to hide it after Spongebob discovered he likes Krabby Patties. |
| 239 | * "Pranks a Lot" features Spongebob and Patrick pulling a bunch of childish pranks on people while invisible, only to get publicly humiliated at the very end of the episode (since they were both naked when they were made visible again). Why is this significant? This episode in particular is the final episode before "The Spongebob Squarepants Movie", where Spongebob and Patrick are constantly looked down on for their childish behavior and must prove themselves capable of growing up. The events of this episode no doubt must have been an influence for everyone not taking the duo seriously due to their immature pranks harassing everyone in town and public humiliation at the end. |
| 240 | * Mr. Krabs being in possession of the "world's smallest violin" seems pretty random, especially for an extreme penny-pincher like him. However, it's possible the violin may have been one of the items Mr. Krabs had "borrowed" from Plankton in "Life of Crime" along with his lawn mower. |
| 241 | * There seems to be a running theme with Plankton and musical instruments: the record player in his debut episode, the tuba in "The Frycook Games", and the harmonica and piano solo in "Band Geeks". He even starts his own band in "Krabby Road" (Granted, it was simply a front so he could steal the formula, but still). Fast forward to "The Spongebob Squarepants Movie", and how is Plankton ultimately defeated for good? By Spongebob singing and using an electric guitar to free Bikini Bottom from his control. So this aspect of Plankton's character was actually a ''very'' subtle case of foreshadowing all along! |
| 242 | * At the beginning of "F.U.N." there's a scene where Plankton quickly runs into a magic shop to disguise himself from Spongebob. It's possible this is where Plankton got the inspiration for his magic show act in "Culture Shock". |
| 243 | * In "Patty Hype", why were the townspeople angry at Mr. Krabs over the Pretty Patties when Spongebob and Patrick were selling them as well? Because nobody was in the Krusty Krab when Spongebob first pitched the idea and got laughed at by Mr. Krabs and Squidward. Thus, most people would have assumed that the Pretty Patties were something Mr. Krabs invented as a marketing gimmick for the Krusty Krab since they weren't around to see it was Spongebob's idea! Not only that, Mr. Krabs buying out the stand from Spongebob could have easily been seen as him taking over after Spongebob's shift ended. To an outsider, Spongebob was simply selling a product under the orders of his boss, so he was deemed innocent in their eyes. |
| 244 | * On the topic of Pretty Patties, that may be why Spongebob and Patrick had such little success (at first) selling chocolate bars in "Chocolate With Nuts" compared to their incredible success in "Patty Hype". People were flocking in droves to buy Pretty Patties, only to find that the colored dye used to make them ''also'' changed the color of various body parts, and they were refused a refund from Mr. Krabs on top of it. So it's reasonable that many people in town would be hesitant or straight up hostile when Spongebob and Patrick try to sell them chocolate bars: They already had horrific side-effects the last time they bought a product from the two, so how would they know the duo's chocolate wouldn't have a side-effect as well? |
| 245 | * In "Prehibernation Week", Sandy forces the whole of Bikini Bottom to look for [=SpongeBob=] after she jumps to the conclusion that something terrible has happened to him. At first, they put up posters and search through town. But then Sandy has them look in sulphur fields, poison sea urchin coves and leech farms: places [=SpongeBob=] would not even ''think'' of going to. Because [=SpongeBob=] is gone, Sandy is slowly losing her mind due to the stress of trying to find him and carry on her Prehibernation Week before it’s too late. [=SpongeBob=] willingly agreed to spend all his time with her. Therefore, she believes he’s just as much of a thrill-seeker as she is. |
| 246 | * The health inspector in "Nasty Patty" does his "inspection" by tasting everything on the Krusty Krab's menu. In real life, that's not a health inspector's job; that's a food critic's. A health inspector is supposed to check to make sure everything in the restaurant is clean and safe for the general public, which the inspector in the episode is never shown doing. So in a sense, the health inspector actually ''is'' a phony since he's not doing his job. |
| 247 | * On the topic of the health inspector, the whole reason for that episode's conflict was because Mr. Krabs thought he was trying to get free food, thus enraging him. But by attempting to poison him, the health inspector actually did end up getting free food since he's never shown paying for it after the whole misunderstanding with the police is cleared up (and it's unlikely Mr. Krabs could have charged him for everything without losing face in front of the cops or risking failing the inspection). |
| 248 | * Why doesn't Squidward make any attempt to get away from his dead-end cashiering job and annoying neighbors if he hates them so much? Because he can't. In "Squid on Strike", Spongebob's destruction of the Krusty Krab has Mr. Krabs vow that the both of them will work for him forever in order to pay for the damages. He's completely serious, as indicated by the ending, thus Squidward is forever trapped making pennies at his fast food cashier job, which people like Squilliam gleefully rub in his face. As for why he doesn't try to move away? He did try that in "Opposite Day", which ended up with Spongebob and Patrick pissing off the realtor to the point where she angrily refuses to sell Squidward's house and pretty much slams the door in his face. Thus, it's reasonable that the realtor may have blacklisted Squidward and his house entirely because of this experience, making it impossible for him to sell his house to anyone. Considering both of these were caused directly by Spongebob, it's not hard to see why Squidward can't stand him. |
| 249 | ** This would also explain why Squidward doesn't make any attempt to sell his house when he moves away in "Squidville"; the last time he tried, Spongebob and Patrick completely ruined it. And if he did indeed get blacklisted by the realtor, it makes perfect sense why he wouldn't sell, because he can't. If he wasn't planning on coming back to live next to Spongebob and Patrick, why else wouldn't he sell his house unless he was entirely unable to? |
| 250 | * [=SpongeBob=] has been shown to yodel in "Choir Boys". He learned it from Sandy! |
| 251 | * [=SpongeBob=] points out in "Squidtastic Voyage" that Squidward swallowed his clarinet [[NoodleIncident "again."]] The first time he swallowed his clarinet very well could have been the time [=SpongeBob's=] foghorn alarm blew the clarinet into his mouth in "SB-129". |
| 252 | * [=SpongeBob=] immediately thinking that Sandy’s heading into danger in "Rodeo Daze" is completely unwarranted, and an example of him blowing things out of proportion, isn’t it? Not necessarily. Sandy has SuperStrength and would be just fine on her own. However, she's only one of the strongest people in Bikini Bottom because, as noted in another entry, she’s a mammal and has more muscles than sea creatures. For all intents and purposes, Sandy is, ironically, a NormalFishInATinyPond, at least in the brawn department. She’s been shown to be way over her head, when she went up against another creature, twice: against the Alaskan Bull Worm in "Sandy, [=SpongeBob=] and the Worm", and the Gorilla in "I Had an Accident". When she’s at the rodeo, she’s wrangled a ''bull frog'' as opposed to an actual bull. So, in a sense, [[DumbassHasAPoint [=SpongeBob=] was right to believe that Sandy’s almost suicidal overconfidence could be her downfall]]. |
| 253 | * Every single octopus we've seen on the show has the same large ego, horrid attitude, and looks down on everyone else just like Squidward (most notably Squilliam and every resident of Squidville). Seems like a strange characteristic, but it makes much more sense when you take into account the StableTimeLoop created by Squidward's time travelling in "SB-129". Of ''course'' octopi are so full of themselves: their species were the first ones in recorded history intelligent enough to create their own language, discover music, and create games for entertainment! |
| 254 | ** This also explains why art and music are so prevalent among octopi in general: because they were the ones who created and shared them in the first place thanks to Squidward's actions in prehistoric times. |
| 255 | ** This is even further brilliance when you take into account that real-life octopi are much more intelligent than other sea creatures. So someone like Squidward existing during prehistoric times actually isn't too far-fetched, time machine aside. |
| 256 | * "The Krusty Krab Training Video" has an offhand line about Mr. Krabs fearing robot overlords. This seems rather odd for an old navy veteran and business owner... until you remember that in "Krab Borg", Mr. Krabs was tied up and had his possessions smashed by his own employees precisely ''because'' they thought he was a robot. The experience must have shaken Krabs so much that he developed a fear of robots that would come after him and his money. |
| 257 | ** There is also "Imitation Krabs" where Plankton built a robot of Mr. Krabs to lure Spongebob into giving him the secret formula and almost succeeded. |
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| 261 | * In "Mid-Life Crustacean", [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick take Mr. Krabs on a panty raid at his mother's house. [=SpongeBob=] implies that they knew Mrs. Krabs lived there and that they "hit this place all the time". So [=SpongeBob=] has been knowingly breaking into his boss' mother's house and stealing her underwear? |
| 262 | * In "Squid Defense", Sandy uses an idiom, "frying two fish in one skillet" in ''Bikini Bottom.'' In front of [=SpongeBob=] and Squidward. |
| 263 | ** [[ComicallyMissingThePoint But sponges and octopi aren't technically fish]]. |
| 264 | * In the episode "The Other Patty", Plankton attempts to steal a Krabby Patty, only for it to explode. Mr. Krabs then boasts that every Krabby Patty undigested explodes after 10 feet away from the Krusty Krab. Cut to fat guy walking away without digesting his patty with his wife and exploding. BlackComedyBurst anyone? |
| 265 | ** Thankfully, the explosive parts seem to have been removed (at least for to go patties) during later episodes. However, it makes one think that since Krabs values 99% of things under money and the formula, how many accidents similar to that one had to have occurred for him to relent this security advantage? |
| 266 | * In "Pressure", [=SpongeBob=], Patrick, Mr. Krabs, and Squidward laugh at Sandy as she realizes she needs her helmet to breathe. They were ''laughing at her as she drowned.'' |
| 267 | ** They extended said joke and turned it into an episode called "Bubble Trouble," with very real side effects to oxygen deprivation: dizziness, delirium, and even, at one point, unconsciousness. While there are a couple jokes in the episode, the danger of Sandy actually dying is played more realistically than most physical humor in the show. And of course, [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick helped cause it, and they managed to get Mr. Krabs and Pearl involved. How guilty would they feel if they weren't able to save Sandy, and she actually died? Yeah it's a cartoon, but it's clear this show was trying to portray this more realistically. (They even bring up the fact that Pearl would be full of Oxygen being a whale.) |
| 268 | * In "Stuck in the Wringer" [=SpongeBob=] can't eat with the wringer on (he can't even swallow ice cream, so his esophagus is closed ''tight''), and he can't get the wringer off. Eventually he would have died of starvation. |
| 269 | ** We know he's a filter feeder, so he doesn't need to eat. (And sponges in RealLife are sessile.) Hope that helps. |
| 270 | * In the episode "The Fry Cook Games" Patrick tries to pole vault over a deep-fat fryer. He ends up hitting the handle, and it ends up hitting a crowd of spectators, turning them into fish sticks. Patrick just killed an entire group of people. |
| 271 | ** Let's not forget, a vendor suddenly appears to start selling them, implying that cannibalism is okay in this world. |
| 272 | *** Also note the white fish sticks sign that just ''happened'' to be at that part of the stadium the whole time. Not only did they know it would happen, it probably happened before! |
| 273 | *** Yes it is, because fish eat fish in RealLife. There's nothing wrong with that, it's just nature. |
| 274 | *** [[CarnivoreConfusion But fish aren't intelligent enough to recognize cannibalism in real life...]] |
| 275 | *** "Fish" eating "Fish" is not cannibalism, since "fish" isn't a species, but multiple classes of many aquatic animals. So an eel eating a tuna is no more "cannibalism" than a human eating a cow. The horror comes from the fact that it's sapient creatures being consumed, not that it's "fish" eating "fish". |
| 276 | * There's no way around it: Tentacles Acres is [[FantasticRacism a strictly segregated town]]. |
| 277 | ** So is Bikini Bottom, but this is [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]]. Segregation is legal there, as seen in "Sharks vs. Pods" when an old man banned sharks from his movie theater and in "The Fish Bowl" when a fish said [[FantasticRacism "Take a hike, mammal!"]] When you [[FridgeHorror think about it]], that's pretty friggin' scary. |
| 278 | ** Their segregation would probably stem from primitive animals eating other animals. Maybe that segregation would be partially carried into the present day. |
| 279 | ** The security guards at the gate to Tentacle Acres bluntly tell Spongebob and Patrick that "their kind aren't allowed here" (notably with a sneer and condescending tone) and the general population takes pride in not having any sponges or starfish around. So Squidward's disdain for his neighbors may possibly be more than simple annoyance if all octopi seem to dislike them... |
| 280 | * Another one: Remember how [=SpongeBob=] attacks a group of scallops who are about to eat "Patty" in the episode "To Love a Patty"? While attacking them, [=SpongeBob=] very clearly ''rips one in half''.... |
| 281 | * The police of Bikini Bottom seem to be pretty dumb, and knowing that the lives of the citizens of Bikini Bottom depend on these idiots, just gives a very bad feeling. |
| 282 | * What about the [[NightmareFuel voices in Squidward's blank void]]? ''Where were those voices coming from''? Were they the voices of ''other people who had been trapped in the same void?'' |
| 283 | ** Maybe Squidward was just imagining them. To say he was having a mental breakdown throughout almost the entire episode would be an understatement. |
| 284 | ** Even worse: what would have happened to Squidward if he '''''wasn't''''' ''able to find the machine?'' |
| 285 | *** [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie He'd probably become one of the voices.]] |
| 286 | ** Additionally; the [=SpongeTron=] says "Welcome to the Future". Was that some sort of odd greeting, or did someone else travel to the future, and wind up in Squidward's situation? |
| 287 | * In "Dying for Pie", pirates sell Squidward a pie that turns out to be a nuclear bomb, which he gives to [=SpongeBob=] as a gift (without realizing). The pie ends up hitting Squidward's face and blowing up Bikini Bottom. Now, the pirates that sold the pie bomb to Squidward had a massive load of them (at least a good 40). Think about that - pirates and criminals with a 40+ nuclear arsenal. And that's terrible. |
| 288 | ** Assuming they had 40, and the fact they used footage of the Crossroads Baker test, let's do the math. Baker had a 23 kiloton payload, multiply that by 40, you get 920 kilotons (or 0.92 megatons). That's a 0.92+ megaton time bomb, and careless handling or one wrong misstep and that's a tragedy waiting to happen. |
| 289 | ** And to add on top of that horror, they sold one to Squidward on the spot just to make a mere 25 dollars. If they were willing to kill somebody ''just to make a quick buck'', then it's needless to say that they certainly aren't harboring these bombs for any good intentions... |
| 290 | ** On a more basic note, the whole episode centers on the horror of [=SpongeBob=] essentially dying because he ate a bomb. Who was almost about to do just that before Spongebob? Mr. Krabs. That tiny bite he was about to eat was enough to blow a hole out the back of the restaurant, and the only reason that didn't go off inside Mr. Krabs was because he decided to go for some milk and happened to trip. Also, as much as it's PlayedForLaughs, think seriously about his line after that happens... |
| 291 | --> '''Mr. Krabs:''' So, you tried to ''kill'' me over a little New Age management... |
| 292 | ** And also that this has apparently happened at least ''eleven'' times before. Who wants to bet that that is actually because of those same pirates? |
| 293 | * In "Sandy's Rocket", Sandy tells [=SpongeBob=] that he is to never touch one of her inventions again after the "Whirly Bird Incident". Cut to a field full of graves; just imagine the carnage from that loose propeller that caused so many deaths. |
| 294 | ** If you assume that the episodes aren't in chronological order, the episode "Wormy" could come before "Sandy's Rocket". All those graves were her beloved pets. |
| 295 | * In "One Coarse Meal", how do we know that Mr. Krabs didn't use [[DespairEventHorizon this]] [[DrivenToSuicide tactic]] on other business rivals...''and succeed''? Also, take into account that Plankton and Krabs weren't just close friends, but ''friends at birth'' in "Friend or Foe". Which means that Mr. Krabs was willing to murder his former childhood friend. |
| 296 | * "Bubble Buddy." Bubble Buddy makes a fish experience high tide. Said fish is later seen as an angel, and Bubble Buddy is revealed to be sentient. So that means he watched a man drown. |
| 297 | ** And did nothing to help him. |
| 298 | * Squidward often says stuff like, "Too bad that didn't kill me," and, "I wonder if a fall from this height would kill me." Consider [[TheWoobie all]] [[ChewToy the]] [[ButtMonkey horrific things]] Squidward goes through throughout the series thanks to [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick. He's been mutilated countless times, and on multiple occasions they've driven him to the edge of madness or even careening straight past it ("Squid's Day Off" comes to mind). All things considered, it's quite reasonable that Squidward would ultimately consider suicide just to get away from [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick for good. |
| 299 | * In ''Penny Foolish'' Mr. Krabs goes ''crazy'' just to find a penny that [=SpongeBob=] found. At the end of the episode, it's revealed that it wasn't a penny, but a 500 dollar bill. In ''Born Again Krabs'' we saw Mr. Krabs try to ''tear a guy's arm off'' over a penny. What would he do to [=SpongeBob=] had he known that the latter was housing something that cost 50,000 times as much? |
| 300 | ** It wouldn't be nearly as violent if he ''did'' do it to [=SpongeBob=], because the sponge can just regrow his limbs. |
| 301 | * In ''F.U.N.'', when [=SpongeBob=] and Plankton are in the movie theater, Bubble Bass comes over and sits on Plankton. [=SpongeBob=] asks Bubble Bass to move, because his friend is there. What does Bubble Bass do? He DELIBERATELY STARTS CRUSHING PLANKTON WITH HIS HUGE ASS! Trying to KILL Plankton in other words. Along with an evil grin at [=SpongeBob=], as if he knows that SB is being forced to watch his friend suffer, and BB is [[ForTheEvulz happy about it]]. Is Bubble Bass worse than we think? |
| 302 | ** Considering Plankton's tiny size, it's possible Bubble Bass didn't actually realize he was there, thought [=SpongeBob=] was talking about an ''imaginary'' friend, and was just taunting him, not realizing there actually ''was'' someone there and he actually ''was'' hurting them. |
| 303 | * In "The Algae's Always Greener", episode where Plankton uses the machine to switch lives with Mr. Krabs, we see that Plankton can't survive ONE DAY in his new life, due to [=SpongeBob=]'s perfectionism, Squidward's and customers' behaviour, Pearl's brattiness and finally constant attacks from Mr. Krabs, who tries to steal the formula. Since Plankton switched places with Mr. Krabs and we see that Plankton is driven insane in ONE DAY by living Mr. Krabs' life. Mr. Krabs has to suffer from [=SpongeBob=]'s, Squidward's, Patrick's and Pearl's antics and constant attacks from Plankton, who might ruin his business and if Plankton can't survive ONE DAY and was already driven insane, imagine what this must have done to Mr. Krabs: to be annoyed by his perfectionist fry cook, less than enthusiastic cashier, his bratty daughter and constant danger of his business going down due to attacks from his ArchEnemy, and he must endure it EVERY SINGLE DAY, while Plankton couldn't survive '''''one day'''''. Imagine psychological effects of it on Krabs. Maybe Krabs is insane and very twisted because of the torture he must suffer every day and his JerkAss actions are result from constant torture from other characters? |
| 304 | ** Thing is, Mr. Krabs and Plankton are different characters with different mindsets, personalities, ways of life, and opinions. Mr. Krabs is a great friend of [=SpongeBob=] and has frequently shown that he admires or tolerates his perfectionism and (at least some of) his quirks; Plankton has always disliked [=SpongeBob=] and finds him extremely annoying, so he couldn't possibly be expected to deal with him every single day without snapping. Krabs also understands Squidward's snarkiness but maintains a relationship with a level of respect to him; Plankton has little experience with snarky coworkers (then again, Karen may be snarkier than Squidward) and would prefer an efficient employee, possibly one who prefers not to talk to the boss. Mr. Krabs gets many customers every day and knows how to deal with and cater to them, which is what makes him such a successful businessman; Plankton can count the number of customers he ever had up to that point in the series on one hand, if he even had any by that time, and does not know how to handle the flow of customers that the Krusty Krab usually sees. Mr. Krabs has been a father for eighteen years and loves his daughter unconditionally; Plankton has no experience in parenting and simply sees her as a very annoying burden of a teenage girl. Lastly, Mr. Krabs is experienced in dealing with ludicrous attacks by business rivals; Plankton has never had even one attack by Mr. Krabs towards him (not to mention that Krabs has always had an upper hand with his size). Simply put, Krabs isn't going through a living hell every day because he has more experience living Krabs' life than Plankton. |
| 305 | * In one episode, Plankton steals Sandy's fur. Long story. He turns Sandy's fur into a robot and goes to the Krusty Krab in it. The fur has the bikini on it, but not the diving suit. So Sandy, dressed like she usually is whenever she's at home except for the fish-bowl thing on her head and her lack of fur, goes to the Krusty Krab. On the way, everyone yells at her to put some clothes on while she's wearing a bikini! And at the end, the police arrest her at the Krusty Krab for indecent exposure while she's wearing a bikini! Keep in mind that Squidward doesn't wear pants. Could this mean Squidward ''lost'' his private parts? Possibly even having Krabs cut them off? It is not like Krabs wouldn't cut off people's genitals (he's committed genocide once)... Or worse: what if Bikini Bottom's government is stacked against women? |
| 306 | ** How in the ''hell'' is a government being sexist about female nudity worse than a person having their genitals mutilated? |
| 307 | ** Just to add more on this: some of Bikini Bottom's citizens are not fully dressed (like Squidward) or do not wear clothes at all. Squidward did not wear any clothes in episodes like "The Paper" or "Squid's Day Off", but cops don't arrest him and citizens do not treat the same way they treated Sandy. Comes along when you think about it: Sandy, ''a land animal'', was treated horribly by others even though she was wearing a bikini and was even arrested, yet Squidward, ''a sea creature'', did not wear any clothes at all and was simply ticketed and wasn't treated badly. Does this mean people of Bikini Bottom hate Sandy, because she is a land animal? |
| 308 | ** On the upside, Squidward doesn't have to wear pants because cephalopods don't have genitals. They reproduce with their tentacles. |
| 309 | ** To add, cephalopods reproductive organs are in their siphon, which is above their mouth. Like Squidward's nose. And in Ink Lemonade, we see Squidward shooting ink out of his nose, not unlike a real octopus or squid shooting ink out of their siphon. So Squidward's "tentacle" would be in his nose... |
| 310 | *** Fridge horror if you know much about hentai... |
| 311 | ** Actually, they arrested Sandy because she didn't have any fur and the sight of her pinkish flesh was disturbing everybody. Apparently, in the [=SpongeBob=] world, indecent exposure means you don't have any exterior skin. |
| 312 | ** "Squirrel Jokes" implies that the people of Bikini Bottom may actually hold at least some disdain for land mammals, as they hate Spongebob's jokes until he starts making depreciating ones directed at Sandy, and they continue to mock and laugh at her about it well after the show. Even Spongebob himself, who genuinely didn't mean anything by it, was surprised that Sandy was hurt by him making those jokes, indicating he didn't understand that such jokes could be taken that way (although they laugh at Spongebob's self-depreciating jokes about sea creatures as well, so maybe Bikini Bottom just has a weird sense of humor). |
| 313 | * The episode "Pranks A Lot" features Invisibility Spray being sold in a joke store. Think about what could happen if someone with a sadistic sense of humor, or just someone careless and ignorant of the consequences [[DeadlyPrank got their hands on it]]. |
| 314 | ** And that's just some jackass. [[ParanoiaFuel Imagine if the army got a hold of that]], especially if they're the army ''of a totalitarian state.'' |
| 315 | ** The spray might not be harmful at all. |
| 316 | *** But being invisible would allow a person to get away with a lot of questionable and immoral things. The film Film/HollowMan is a perfect example. |
| 317 | * Episode "Squidward in Clarinetland" has a major bit of Fridge Horror at the beginning of the episode: Krabs opens the locker and there are bones and a skull inside. He says "Appears to be Corporal Sterling, lad. Heh...forgot all about that prank". Does this mean that he locked someone in the locker and that person DIED? Mr. Krabs KILLED SOMEONE. |
| 318 | ** We also don't know Mr. Krabs' rank. Now, think about this. If we don't know his Navy rank, he may have killed one of his own troops or ''his own CO.'' |
| 319 | *** He probably scared one of his troops by putting a fake skeleton in there and ''claimed'' it was Corporal Sterling. Or, quite alternately, the Corporal was the prank's recipient. |
| 320 | * Mr. Krabs has a severe MoneyFetish and has been shown going on a date with money on at least one occasion, which raises the question: [[WhyDontYouMarryIt Just how far around the baseball field is Krabs willing to go with money?!]] |
| 321 | ** Thankfully Krabs could only accomplish this when he's molted. |
| 322 | * In "The Lost Mattress" Squidward said "If you don't get Mr. Krabs' mattress back from the dump, I'm going to murd... ". Now think what letters come after ''murd''? ER, as in '''''MURDER'''''. In "No Hat For Pat" he says "You want me to push you off your precarious perch into a bucket of spiny sea urchins? Oh, if only you were [=SpongeBob=]" while saying this with glee and rejoicing. And in one episode he tried using voodoo dolls on [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick. Finally in "The Curse Of Bikini Bottom" he imagined [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick playing with his lawnmower and getting maimed and then he laughs and looks very happy at this thought. Does it all mean that Squidward wants and is willing to '''murder''' [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick and has attempted to ''kill'' them several times...? |
| 323 | ** Granted, with all the crap [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick put him through, it's hard to blame him. |
| 324 | ** Could also just be a figure of speech, 'murder' is often used in a joke-threatening way towards people who are annoying you, often close friends or family. Obviously you'd never actually do it... |
| 325 | ** This is one of '''MANY''' episodes where Mr. Krabs hasn't done anything wrong by the way. |
| 326 | * In "Shellback Shenanigans" Plankton disguises himself as Gary and [=SpongeBob=] takes him to an animal hospital where he's horribly tortured. If you think about it, this implies the hospital tortures animals all the time. |
| 327 | ** Well, if you think about it, what Plankton experienced may not have necessarily classified as animal torture. Let's face it; painful or uncomfortable medical procedures exist in real life, likely even in the veterinary practice and sometimes they need to be undergone, even if they can feel like torture for a patient. |
| 328 | * In "I Was a Teenage Gary", [=SpongeBob=] gets turned into a snail after being injected with snail plasma. Beforehand he had been panicking about this and asking Squidward what was going to happen to him. Later, Snail![=SpongeBob=] shows up at Squidward's doorstep meowing. Cue Squidward running away, screaming, while [=SpongeBob=] chases him around the house. But then it hit this tropette: if [=SpongeBob=]'s ''mind'' was not affected by the transformation, and he was aware of what was going on and what he'd turned into...what if he had panicked so much that he had been attempting to ask Squidward for help or to call the doctor? And he ran away screaming each time, ''[[AndIMustScream and he couldn't understand [=SpongeBob=] because he couldn't speak snail?!]]'' |
| 329 | * In the episode where [=SpongeBob=] and Partick dig a tunnel under Squidward's house, Squidward at one point says "I'm going to grind you two into chum!" ... Which makes sense if you know what chum actually is.. |
| 330 | ** Makes that even worse in that Plankton sells Chum. Yes, Plankton's selling ground up people. |
| 331 | *** Lampshaded in The Krabby Kronicle. Plankton's Chum made of your chums. |
| 332 | ** Wanna know how Squidward might know about Chum? His Grandma makes really delicious Chum. '''His GRANDMA!''' Think about it for a second, if you will... |
| 333 | * Several episodes show that [=SpongeBob=] is extremely emotional, prone to panicking, SanitySlippage and depression over minor things, if things don't go right for him or if there is any problem (as seen in episodes "Stuck in the Wringer", " I Had an Accident", "Bummer Vacation", "Breath of Fresh Squidward", "Procrastination", "Night Light", "The Algae's Always Greener" and especially [[GoMadFromTheIsolation "Gone"]]). This implies that behind the cheerful and bright personality, [=SpongeBob=] is not entirely sane and rational. This is already major FridgeHorror, but it gets worse. Do you remember the episode "Have You Seen This Snail?", the episode where [=SpongeBob=] is very heartbroken that Gary ran away and spent almost the entire episode being sad and depressed. Considering how [=SpongeBob=] missed Gary and was looking for him everywhere, what would have happened to [=SpongeBob=] and his emotional and mental well-being if he hadn't reunited with Gary? Even worse, is that the elderly fish that found and took care of Gary had previous snails, who died either from being overfed by her or she intentionally fed them up, so that she could later eat them, which means that if Gary hadn't discovered this and hadn't realised that [=SpongeBob=] indeed missed him, Gary would have died. Neptune knows what could have happened to [=SpongeBob=]'s sanity if he found out that his beloved Gary died... |
| 334 | * What would have happened if [=SpongeBob=] hadn't been taken to the hospital in "Suds?" Would he have stayed sick forever- or died?! |
| 335 | ** Early in the episode, he says "I don't get colds. I get the suds." It implies that the suds are the sponge version of a cold; thus, he probably would have gotten over it eventually, just like a real cold. |
| 336 | * Patrick was seemingly able to enter Kelpy G's concert in "Smooth Jazz in Bikini Bottom" without a ticket, then you remember that he ATE Squidward's first ticket. does that mean... [[{{Squick}} OH GOD!]] |
| 337 | ** Maybe it so happens he already has tickets? Right?? |
| 338 | ** Patrick could have just reached into his mouth and pulled them out in a cartoonish fashion. That's always a possibility. |
| 339 | * In one episode, Squidward's grandma has a recipe for really delicious chum; so good it's better than any Krabby Patty. But, as people have posted above, chum is ground up fish. Squidward's grandma might be a serial murderer... |
| 340 | ** Not ALL fish in [=SpongeBob=] are sapient. Lionfish and seahorses have been shown to be non-sapient, so chum wouldn't necessarily require murder of sapient beings. |
| 341 | * In "SB-129", the names "[=SpongeTron=]" and "Patron" would seem to imply that the future versions of [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick are robots. Also, everything is chrome in the future, and when a non-chrome coral starts growing from the ground, a fish immediately shows up to make it look chrome. The obvious explanation for this? The future Squidward was in was after robots had risen up and destroyed most or all organic life. |
| 342 | ** This would explain why Squidward was relatively quick to believe [=SpongeBob=]'s "Krabs is a robot" worries in "Krab Borg," and why he panicked at the prospect of robots taking over the world. |
| 343 | * At first, it seems that it's Rule of Funny, DisproportionateRetribution, or both whenever someone gets busted for littering. However, it makes sense because they all live in the ocean where the ecosystem is so delicate that trash can literally kill one of them. |
| 344 | * From "The Card" we get this line from Patrick: "[=SpongeBob=], you can't always expect my usual brand of stupidity. I like to mix it up, keep you on your toes." Some have interpreted this as meaning that [[WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter he's doing it on purpose.]] All those other times when Patrick did something dangerously stupid, he might have been ''aware'' that it was dangerously stupid the entire time! There's also the fact that he cries genuinely hard whenever something he wants can't be given to him, but when he sees his best friend near death, he doesn't cry nearly as hard or genuinely. And once we add all this knowledge with the events of Pet Sitter Pat...Patrick may even be a bigger [[TheSociopath Sociopath]] than "Bent on World domination" Plankton or "Drive you to suicide" Mr. Krabs. |
| 345 | * In ''The Gift of Gum'', [=SpongeBob=] finds people living in the giant ball of gum, which he tried to ''bury'' and ''throw away'' a few scenes prior. |
| 346 | * In ''A Pal for Gary'', Puffy Fluffy is eventually ran out of [=SpongeBob=]'s house by Gary, and escapes into the streets. We never hear from it again. In other words, there's a several-foot tall, murderous monster roaming the Bikini Bottom ''possibly'' to this very day. |
| 347 | * Remember the episode where Mr. Krabs sold [=SpongeBob=]'s labor to Plankton without [=SpongeBob=]'s consent (and for 62 cents even)? This is referred to as having "sold [=SpongeBob=]", and there's no indication [=SpongeBob=] could just refuse to go with Plankton or quit working for Plankton. No anti-slavery laws in Bikini Bottom? |
| 348 | ** You seem to be confusing two different episodes-- in one, Mr. Krabs bets and loses [=SpongeBob=]'s contract to Plankton in a card game. That legally obligates [=SpongeBob=] to work for Plankton. In another, Mr. Krabs sells [=SpongeBob=]'s ''soul'' to The Flying Dutchman for 62 cents. Since The Dutchman is essentially the underwater equivalent of {{Satan}}, I doubt that anyone's gonna step in and dispute the "transaction." [=SpongeBob=] actually tried that to defend Mr. Krabs, which is what led to that whole scenario, and ultimately led to [=SpongeBob=] being sent to [[{{Hell}} "Davy Jones' Locker."]] |
| 349 | *** Thanks for the clarification, but I'm still pretty sure an employer can't gamble away their employee's contract, and [=SpongeBob=] should have also had the right to quit working for Plankton if he didn't like it. |
| 350 | *** However, Mr. Krabs ''does'' sell Squidward into slavery in "Le Big Switch" when the Krusty Krab goes bankrupt, and shows absolutely no remorse for it (and doesn't get punished, either). What makes this doubly horrifying is that he sells Squidward to the very people who threatened to '''break Mr. Krabs' kneecaps''' over his debts, making one wonder what they planned to do with Squidward as they dragged him out the restaurant... |
| 351 | * "Friend Or Foe" establishes that Mr. Krabs and Plankton's rivalry began when their first customer, Old Man Jenkins, was poisoned after eating their Krabby Patty and each accused the other of messing up the formula. The fact that they pretty much blamed each other for his apparent death back then suggests their feud [[ItsPersonal is actually much more personal]], or at least subconsciously since neither of them seemed to remember him. |
| 352 | ** True, although it's possible Old Man Jenkins wasn't necessarily *killed* from eating their food, as he (and a million other old fish claiming to be named "Old Man Jenkins") appear numerous times after this episode. It is possible, however, that the Old Man Jenkinses we see in the present-day episodes are simply relatives of his, considering the time period this episode takes place in. |
| 353 | * In "Whatever Happened to [=SpongeBob=]", the Bikini Bottomites go on a riot and bring the city to chaos just because [=SpongeBob=] wasn't around to make Krabby Patties. Who knows how they'll react if they find out [=SpongeBob=]'s absence is because of his friends and boss yelling at him and running him of out town... |
| 354 | * Think about what would have happened in "Nasty Patty" if the police did not show up when they did. Since Mr. Krabs and [=SpongeBob=] would not be delayed, they would likely leave Shallow Grave Road immediately and miss the health inspector wash down the hill, so they would think they got away with it. But that means that they would have to live the rest of their lives both feeling guilty that they killed him, and paranoid that somebody would eventually find out. Even Krabs was so worried about this in the episode itself that [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness he was willing to give away money as a distraction]], let alone [=SpongeBob=]'s reactions. And considering previous episodes where he thought he was guilty of a crime, he would probably go and turn himself in shortly afterwards. This would almost certainly bring Krabs down with him, meaning that the Krabby Patty formula would be unguarded and Plankton could just walk right in and take it. Then, as per the movie, he would take over Bikini Bottom, and this time, [[TheBadGuyWins nobody would stop him, because [=SpongeBob=] is in jail, so everyone else in Bikini Bottom would be Plankton's mind-controlled slaves forever]], and all because [[ButterflyOfDoom [=SpongeBob=] never found out that the health inspector was still alive]]. |
| 355 | ** But if you remember in the episode, after the health inspector gets washed down the hill and thrown into the trunk, he wakes up before immediately getting knocked out again. If Spongebob, Krabs and the police weren't there, he would have woken up on the ground and then he most likely would have just made his way back to town to clear up the ordeal. |
| 356 | * In Tutor Sauce there is a scene where [=SpongeBob=] and Mr Krabs cause several boats and a fuel truck to crash into the Krusty Krab with a gas explosion afterwards that destroys the Krusty Krab and leaves Squidward blackened in one of Mr Krabs's attempts at teaching [=SpongeBob=] how to drive. While it is played for laughs especially with the line "Well, at least I didn't hit the Krusty Krab that time." it stops being funny when you realise that there were people in the Krusty Krab and in the vehicles and they died in the explosion. |
| 357 | * A pretty unsettling one for "Welcome to the Chum Bucket." In the episode, Plankton's plan involves removing [=SpongeBob=]'s brain and putting it into a robot so the robot can do his bidding. That seems like your standard evil plan on the surface. However, the plan most likely involves removing [=SpongeBob=]'s brain and leaving his lifeless body somewhere. Canonically, Plankton killed [=SpongeBob=], and [=SpongeBob=] was actually ''dead'' for a portion of the episode before getting his brain back. During the robot scenes in the episode, [=SpongeBob=]'s corpse was just a little ways away off-screen, most likely on an operating table, with a gaping hole in its head. |
| 358 | ** In "House Fancy" and "Whirly Brains", it is shown that [=SpongeBob=] is able to live and function without his brain. So this may be one the few times (maybe even the only time) where hated episodes from down the pipeline actually had a positive retcon. Unless of course, Plankton purposefully did something to keep [=SpongeBob=]'s body from doing that... |
| 359 | *** Plankton likely cryogenically froze [=SpongeBob=]'s body. Even if [=SpongeBob=] needed his brain to function, it doesn't seem like Plankton to leave dead bodies lying around. Or perhaps [=SpongeBob=] was still asleep during the whole ordeal. Surely Plankton put him under before having his brain removed. |
| 360 | * The premise of the episode "Feral Friends" is that Neptune's Moon causes everyone in Bikini Bottom to revert to non-sapient sea life and Sandy being the only one who can keep the main characters from killing each other because she's immune to the effects of Neptune's Moon due to being a mammal from land. Not only does Pearl eat a few people while transformed, but given that Sandy only prioritized protecting Pearl, [=SpongeBob=], Patrick, Larry, Squidward, Mr. Krabs, and Mrs. Puff, it's likely that a lot of fish killed and/or ate each other before the two hours of Neptune's Moon were up and everyone returned to normal. |
| 361 | * In "Squid's Day Off", Squidward imagining [=SpongeBob=] saying, "I will destroy the Krusty Krab," may seem like another one of Squidward's paranoia-induced delusions within the episode, but as we see later on in "Squid on Strike", [=SpongeBob=] isn't above destroying the Krusty Krab... |
| 362 | ** In "The Krusty Plate" it's implied [=SpongeBob=] HAS destroyed the Krusty Krab before, even if it was unintentional. Mr. Krabs even has a few flashbacks, and stupidly remarks something like "eh, nothing bad will happen if I leave [=SpongeBob=] here alone for a little bit"...and of course, the Krusty Krab is totally destroyed in the end. But the plate Mr. Krabs asked [=SpongeBob=] to clean is clean! |
| 363 | * The scene in "[=SquidBob=] [=TentaclePants=]" where Sandy tries to fix [=SpongeBob=] and Squidward's problem of being fused together by sending them through the teleporter again and the pair are implied to take the place of certain stuff when they appear in different locations, with no explanation given for what happened to the things their teleportations caused them to replace. With a woman expecting to be handed her new baby horrified at the sight of a merged porifera and encephalopod (and her baby presumably sent to who knows where with no one to look after the little one) and the boy in school likely scarred for life by the sight of [=SquidBob=] upon opening what was meant to be his birthday present, the scene of the cycloptic alien being dumped by his girlfriend for flirting with the [=SpongeBob=]/Squidward fusion may be the least horrific scene that was promptly glossed over for the rest of the episode. |
| 364 | * Squidward is a colossal jerk towards [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick (more so in recent seasons and, unlike earlier seasons, not always justified), but he really deserves a bit of sympathy. He has two obnoxious neighbours, one of whom he works with, who break into his house whenever they want and annoy the absolute crap out of him, giving him no peace whatsoever. [=SpongeBob=] has shown a very close "relationship" with him, they constantly cause Squidward to get injured and/or become Public Enemy #1 to Bikini Bottom, and they get his ambitions shattered like a cheap plate. The worst thing about it is that Squidward can't do a thing to stop them. The police are useless (unless Squidward himself has committed a transgression in the process of getting [=SpongeBob=] arrested), restraining orders don't work, and moving away solves nothing because [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick ultimately follow him. |
| 365 | * "SB-129". Squidward gets trapped in the freezer for 2000 years and yet ''no one'' notices his frozen and horrified face looking straight from the freezer. Even [=SpongeBob=], who tries to be friends with Squidward, doesn't notice. Did he ignore his neighbor on purpose? |
| 366 | * In "Gary Takes a Bath", [=SpongeBob=] tries to get Gary to take a bath by pretending to telephone the French restaurant. While he was just kidding, that implies that in this version of France, people still eat snails. But these snails meow, so basically this version of France has citizens who do the equivalent of ''eating cats''. |
| 367 | * ''The Splinter'' may be the grossest episode the show has ever done (Due to [=SpongeBob=] getting a Splinter jabbed in his thumb and getting swollen), that red vein on Spongebob's swollen thumb near the end before Krabs pulls the splinter out? one commenter on Website/YouTube said that is a sign of Septicemia! |
| 368 | * In [[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS8E17AreYouHappyNowPlanetOfTheJellyfish "Are You Happy Now?"]], Squidward states that he couldn't recall a good memory, despite him having several moments in the series which could be considered good memories, [[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS2E15TheSecretBoxBandGeeks "Band Geeks"]] being one of the shining examples. While this could be a SeriesContinuityError, the important thing is that ''[[DramaticIrony he]]'' couldn't remember these moments, or consider them "good memories". [[UsefulNotes/{{Depression}} Clinical depression]] ''does'' cloud memory and perception and make the very idea of feeling happy seem impossible. ''This'' is the mindset Squidward lives in. |
| 369 | * What would become of Spongebob, had his friends never get the earworm out of his brain to stop his addiction to music in [[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS7E20TheAbrasiveSideEarworm "Earworm"]]? |
| 370 | * Fridge {{Squick}} really, but in one episode, [=SpongeBob=] drinks snail milk. Snails in Bikini Bottom meow, so wouldn't that be like drinking cat milk? |
| 371 | * In "The Masterpiece", [=SpongeBob=] gets marble for Squidward's sculpture by stealing a chunk from the foundation of a museum, which causes it to collapse. The people inside of it would have died. |
| 372 | * In "The Big Bad Bubble Bass", [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick buy an action figure from the Toy Barrel that turns out to be possessed by a demonic spirit. If the store ''does'' sell possessed toys, [[HarsherInHindsight maybe they were right to be afraid of being locked there overnight]] in "Toy Store of Doom"... |
| 373 | * The first thing Flatts tells Spongebob in "The Bully" is that he's going to kick his butt. Assuming this is in revenge for trapping him in a net gun in "Sandy's Rocket", this means Flatts has spent ''years'' tracking Spongebob down, and finally succeeded by enrolling in his boating school. This means that Flatts ''knew'' Spongebob was taking courses there, and he was planning his revenge while Spongebob was none the wiser. |
| 374 | ** Worse, Spongebob clearly has no memory of the incident, as he doesn't recognize Flatts, and even gives Flatts his ''name.'' So Spongebob unknowingly gave Flatts a name to match his face, which allowed him to track down the location of Spongebob's work and house! |
| 375 | ** Flatts is so determined to kick Spongebob's butt, he tries to ''run him over'' with a garbage truck. And even after Spongebob saves his life by performing CPR on him for five hours and visiting him in the hospital, he ''still'' wants to kick his butt! How much hatred must Flatts have had for Spongebob for him to be ''that'' determined to hurt him? Heck, even after he discovers he can't actually hurt Spongebob, he never lets up in pummeling him until he collapses from exhaustion. This brings up some ''very'' disturbing implications if it was someone else Flatts wanted to beat up... |
| 376 | ** Flatts' own father is terrified of him and apparently gets his butt kicked as well! So not even Flatts' own family is safe from his wrath! |
| 377 | ** Worse, if the "revenge" theory is ignored, that means Flatts wanted to beat up Spongebob for ''absolutely no reason whatsoever.'' And he was prepared to commit ''vehicular manslaughter'' if that is what it would take to get to his victim! |
| 378 | * How poorly does Mrs. Puff handle bullying in her classroom anyway? She seems genuinely upset and concerned when Spongebob informs her about Flatts, but rather than do anything helpful, she goes to Flatts and ''tells him Spongebob reported him'', which naturally makes Flatts want to kick his butt even more. Worse, Flatts lied and told Mrs. Puff he just wanted to be Spongebob's friend, and she believed him! One has to wonder if this wasn't the first time she accidentally made things worse for students that were being bullied in her class... |
| 379 | ** Keep in mind that Mrs. Puff can't stand Spongebob at all, and would like nothing more than for him to leave her boating school for good. It's entirely possible she bought Flatts' incredibly stupid lies and told Flatts Spongebob reported him ''on purpose'' as a way to get rid of Spongebob for good. Even at the end of the episode, she threatens to kick Spongebob's butt herself when it looks like he beat up Flatts! So either Mrs. Puff is ridiculously inattentive when it comes to bullying, or she was intentionally being as unhelpful and antagonistic as possible because it was Spongebob it was happening to. |
| 380 | ** If the second one is true, that means Mrs. Puff not only stood by and allowed one of her students to be beaten to a pulp, but she actively ''encouraged'' it as well, all because of personal dislike for said student. |
| 381 | * Kevin in "I'm Your Biggest Fanatic" tries to run Spongebob off a cliff into a ravine. When Spongebob tries to plead with him, Kevin just casually points to his other "biggest fans" whom have already suffered the exact same fate, and have no way of getting out. Those people are never seen again, even after Kevin gets his comeuppance, meaning Spongebob likely left at least a dozen people trapped in a ravine to die. |
| 382 | ** There's a dozen people trapped down there at the very least. This means Spongebob was most definitely not Kevin's first victim, and Kevin had very likely done the same exact torture to all of them that he did to Spongebob before chasing them off a cliff and leaving them to ''die'' in a ravine. And Kevin thinks all of it is hilarious because they're all "losers"! |
| 383 | ** Kevin hates his "fans" so much that he tortures them both physically (trying to get them stung by jellyfish for a laugh, and tying them up and tricking them into summoning "Queen Jellyfish" with a fake call) and mentally (repeatedly calling them "losers" and cruelly laughing about it). Even worse, it's implied that Kevin doesn't even like or care about jellyfishing in the first place (he admits he was only part of the group for the "fashion" and dismisses Spongebob, who's genuinely passionate about the sport, as a "loser"), meaning he was presumably only doing it for the amusement, since he would be able to get away with torturing people due to his position. The guy is a straight up ''psychopath''. |
| 384 | ** King Jellyfish seems to recognize Kevin and gets enraged upon seeing him. Considering Kevin is terrified of King Jellyfish (and thus wouldn't go looking for him), the only way the two would have encountered each other is if Kevin had pulled the "Queen Jellyfish" schtick with someone else before Spongebob. This means the Jellyspotters chasing their "fans" off a cliff and cruelly mocking them is likely a regular occurrence for them. |
| 385 | * The con man's final scam in "Chocolate With Nuts" involves tricking Spongebob and Patrick into buying out all of his chocolate bars out of pity by pretending to be gravely injured and needing to pay medical bills. Keep in mind, the con man knew the two were selling chocolate bars since he had swindled them twice before. That means he had went through the trouble of buying a bunch of chocolate bars and making up a sob story specifically ''knowing'' he would run into the two again, and they would be very likely to fall for it once again. This means either 1) He went through all of that trouble for Spongebob and Patrick specifically since they were easy targets, or 2) He's just ''that'' good at scamming people. |
| 386 | ** Where and how exactly did he get the body cast and oxygen mask from? |
| 387 | ** Another thing is the timing of his appearance: he appears ''right after'' Spongebob and Patrick amass a large amount of money from people, using the exact same "fake illness" story for sympathy the two were going to use against him... ''before'' they actually knock on his door. It's either a one-in-a-million coincidence, or the con man had been following the two around, biding his time so he could swindle the largest amount possible from them, and knew exactly what they were planning before they had even gotten to his doorstep. |
| 388 | ** Another disturbing thing about the con man is how scarily accurate he is to a real-life scammer. He immediately detects that Spongebob and Patrick are an easy payday, so he constantly hounds them and convinces them that he's looking out for their best interests by selling them overpriced and useless items. Then he bides his time, waiting for the perfect opportunity once the two strike it rich, so he can pull one last con by deliberately targeting said con towards the two specifically, knowing they were extremely likely to fall for it. Then after all is said and done, he laughs to himself about how gullible the two are, showing them absolutely no sympathy whatsoever, and not caring at all that his con involved taking advantage of the kindness of strangers by pretending to be a medical patient needing help to pay for his treatment and hospital bills (which is unfortunately a very common scam in real life). And Spongebob and Patrick never get their money back, meaning he gets away scot-free with everything that he stole from them! |
| 389 | * In "One Coarse Meal" Plankton tried committing suicide. Given everything Plankton has been shown to survive throughout the series, it's possible that Plankton would have ended up being a DeathSeeker that is incapable of dying outside of natural causes if Spongebob didn't help him. |
| 390 | * Near the end of "Patty Hype", all the customers that received Pretty Patties are furious at having their various body parts changed color, and demand a refund for them. Since it's Mr. Krabs they were demanding one from, he naturally refuses and runs away in fear. But even if by some miracle Mr. Krabs had agreed to give everyone their money back (since episodes like "Nasty Patty" show Mr. Krabs is willing to give money away if he's scared enough) he wouldn't have been able to. Because Spongebob and Patrick had already buried, shredded, and burned the money they had gotten. So Mr. Krabs had no way of appeasing the angry mob, and would have actually made things even worse if he agreed to their terms, since Spongebob and Patrick unintentionally got rid of his one bargaining chip! |
| 391 | * The events of "SB-129" means there are now two Squidwards existing simultaneously at the same point in time: one is the Squidward that went to the future and time travelled back to the present, while the other one is stuck frozen in the Krusty Krab freezer. Meaning that for the entire rest of the series, including during the events of the first movie, Squidward will be stuck frozen in the back of the Krusty Krab, where no one will find or help him until 2,000 years later, long after anyone he ever knew or cared about would have died ages ago. |
| 392 | ** The end of the episode, where Squidward inadvertantly creates a StableTimeLoop by introducing Jellyfishing to the primitive Spongebob and Patrick. This means Squidward himself was ''always'' the one who invented Jellyfishing, making his disdain for it that much more ironic since he invented it himself. |
| 393 | *** It's quite possible this could be a reason why Squidward is so disliked by people in town. All the times Spongebob and Patrick have been looked down on and mocked for being immature for liking Jellyfishing and the negative stigma against the sport in general? Everyone in town knows who's to blame for inventing it in the first place. |
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