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YMMV / SpongeBob SquarePants S 1 E 13 "Scaredy Pants" / "I Was a Teenage Gary"

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Scaredy Pants:

  • Awesome Music: The Halloween version of the SpongeBob theme song, courtesy of The Ghastly Ones.
  • Catharsis Factor: Seeing the townsfolk be immensely terrified upon the sight of SpongeBob's exposed brain qualifies, given how they'd been scaring the bejesus out of him throughout the entire episode, with the likes of Squidward, Mr. Krabs, and even Sandy included.
  • Memetic Mutation: Mr. Krabs choking has become a common image used for out-of-context SpongeBob faces, to the point of being Defictionalized in the form of a Youtooz figure.

I Was a Teenage Gary:

  • Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • Broken Base: A majority of viewers think this episode is one of the worst pre-movie episodes, but others think it's a horror episode done right and has good jokes. There's also a lot of viewers who think it's average.
  • Fanon: Many fans have come to believe that "I'm Your Biggest Fanatic" serves as an Interquel to this episode, believing that the jellyfish convention in that episode takes place in Ukulele Bottom. It also helps that when SpongeBob comes home in this episode, he's wearing the same hat he wore at the start of "I'm Your Biggest Fanatic".
  • Jerkass Woobie: Despite Squidward's disregard of Gary, the remorse and trauma he gets after that can make him really pitiable.
  • Memetic Mutation: Comparing this episode, particularly the snail transformations, to what happens in the horror manga, Uzumaki, or to Heavy Weather from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean.
  • Nightmare Fuel:
    • The SpongeSnail transformation.
      SpongeBob: Something is wrong with meeeee—ow!
    • Then there's Squidward's reaction when he sees SpongeBob after the fact; most of his panic is played unnervingly straight, only to end with him getting injected. The tense music ("House of Horrors", a song known for playing in tense and scary moments in the series) playing during said scene doesn’t help.
    • Negated at the end when Gary, SpongeBob, and Squidward meow to the tune of "Yo, Ho, Blow The Man Down," annoying Patrick. Though considering what we went through to get here, maybe this was intentional.
    • The scenes of the starving, parched, near-death Gary, which can easily hit home for pet owners, especially a shot where he appears to have a spiderweb under one of his eyestalks.
  • Squick: SpongeSnail's eye shrinking and retreating when touched...like a real snail.
  • Tear Jerker: When SpongeBob comes home to see that Gary is extremely sick, he bursts into tears and cradles the little snail in his arms. Definitely a case of Realism-Induced Horror for pet owners.
  • Ugly Cute: SpongeSnail is actually pretty cute, even though it's SpongeBob having gone through a Transformation Horror.

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