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“bikini bottom takes place on the planet neptune” dude Sandy is from TEXAS

"This is such a dark and unsettling episode" *smooth jazz intensifies*

When you have to assume everyone is hallucinating and they are living a false reality, it’s pretty safe to say your theory broke

The more dark and trippy episodes were actually always some of my favorites as a kid, like this one, SB-129, Squidward in Clarinetland, Sleepy Time, Frankendoodle, Rock Bottom, Squidville, etc.

You're forgetting that David Hasselhoff is canon, so they ARE on Earth

"The religious lore of Bikini Bottom" That is a statement that will live in my head forever

I know it’s just a theory but holy shit the being on Neptune thing is an astronomic stretch

Even without sound, I can perfectly remember the music that the holes and the jellyfish made from when I watched this as a child.

Man this episode used to freak me out. It’s sorta like the episode “Gone” where everyone left the city to celebrate No Spongebob Day, but that one had a funny happy ending. This one is darker and more of a genre shift by the end of it. The whistling of Spongehenge is very uncanny, almost felt like a different kind of show. Anyway, I have yet to see anyone make a theory on this, so nice job!

at first i was thinking this episode was sort of an analogy of how addiction can take over people lives. the addiction symbol in this episode being the jellyfish; they literally get into his brain, they follow him to work, rejected from his friends as a negative influence, & drive him out of town.

I vividly remember seeing this episode as a child on german TV. For some reason, after SpongeBob yelled "Hey, you lost your goulash" out of the window, the episode would cut off and another episode would air. The rest of the episode would then air at another time. I don’t know why, but this really stuck with me and kind of adds to the eerie vibe the episode gives me personally.

I'm surprised people don't like Spongehenge, I actually really liked it as a child purely for the abstract feeling of the episode. It truly did feel like we got a glimpse at what was to become of SpongeBob at his end

I think what’s more terrifying is the final scene where the camera zooms into one of the statues mouth and you can hear spongebobs laughter. This means that spongebob’s soul still lingers around spongehenge

The writers of the episode " wtf Is this guy talking about we made this in 10 minutes"

This episode's tone reminds me of the Simpsons scene where the characters abstract into nothingness that ends with Homer telling marge "I'll never forget you". I dont know if this sudden finality episode trope has a name, but they've always done well to stick with me long after viewing.

Second time watching this video and it occurred to me that SpongeBob could've just plugged his holes like he did in an earlier episode when he was sick.

"the religious lore of Bikini Bottom." Ahh. Spongebob theories and words you should never put together in a specific order go hand in hand.

Here’s the issue. The show was literally created by a marine biologist to educate people about earths oceans. Spongebob takes place on earth.

i’m not a fan of most spongebob after season 4, but i liked this episode. very thought provoking

I like the idea that some of the episodes happen in alternate timelines, this being one of them

There is something I think you're neglecting: The Clash of Triton. In that episode, the whole tension between Neptune/Poseidon and his son is that Neptune wants to teach his son to *terrorize the mortals below*, while his son wants to be kind and help the mortals cure their diseases and such. The "this episode is Neptune/Poseidon's revenge" theory is still plausible when we take _that_ episode's Neptune/Poseidon into account, since he absolutely seems like the type who'd wipe out Bikini Bottom for an unknown reason.

There was so much that freaked me out about that episode, the characteres all felt kinda off and especially that frame where the sun was a head...

I remember seeing this as a kid at night and the episode didn't creep me out until the end where you heard sponge's laugh and it was suddenly cut off by that outro music. That was what got me.

This episode always gave me a weird feeling whenever I watched it. Never thought about it or even questioned it. I just sat there, emotionless... Ion know thats just me though 😂

“It’s episode 99B, so this is the last episode.” No further backing

I remember seeing this episode when I was a kid and being really sad by the end. The admission and realization that Spongebob was dead by the end of the episode was something that kid-me never had considered, and to this day I can recall the uneasy feeling of, "Well that wasn't a very good episode at all. I didn't like any of that."

bro is not cooking anything, they are on earth lol

His house is literally a sunken pineapple, they’re on earth.

The format the show creators took to tell the stories they told is honestly fascinating to me, it’s like they made these stories for us for when we grew older. They entertained us as kids but saved us one more piece of entertainment, only one we can unlock with age.

this episode, rock bottom, and that future episode were quite traumatizing as a kid.

This episode- and your analysis- remind my of a cosmic horror story that arguably invented the genre called The Willows. In that there is a special piece of coastline where the wind itself is under the influence of extra-dimensional beings. It’s interesting to think that the wind itself was essentially the undoing of SpongeBob and his world. Cool video.

This episode gave me such a fear that shook the foundation of me and my hand in nature and my position in the concept of time up until the ending where I felt physically sick to my stomache

Saying "The characters were hallucinating the entire time!" is kind of a terrible way to try to prove anything. By that logic anything could be said about the show, since it's all in the characters heads.

My theory is that this episode is just spongebob’s nightmare. After all it starts off in the middle of the night when he was sleeping

I actually really liked this episode when I was younger, I'm surprised to see so many people dislike it! I do still get an eerie feeling from it, after watching such a colorful and fun show "end" in such a dark way. I like to imagine this is the true ending to the show despite it still continuing on after season 5, and that the rest of the stories are just being told out of order.

But wasn't there a human on a boat that dropped a pencil, leading to the creation of Doodlebob?

Fun fact: the statues that make music through their holes is a direct reference to Erewhon by Samuel Butler, where the main character discovers these ancient statues that lead him to a secret civilization.

The writers were probably just like “hey Stonehenge is a pretty neat thing” “let’s write a story on how it was created”

I remember vividly being uncomfortable when I first saw this episode as a child. I remember thinking there were funny moments, however I remember being really uncomfortable when Sponge found the Krusty Krab in ruins and hearing him yell. But now that I’m older, I really like the episode now

This episode made me feel like I was on drugs. Very few episodes gave me this feeling but NEVER have I had it worse then when I watched this episode.

People didn't like this episode, but for some reason this one is the one I remember the most. It's like the writers wanted to make a serious episode for once, and I kinda liked it.

But Sandy is literally from Texas. She even travelled there on bus. It is indeed earth.

I’ll never forget this episode. It made me feel so weird when I was a kid. Chills tbh

7:10 isn't sandy from texas though. And goes back there regularly

I’d just like to point out that the “wreckage” Spongebob finds is literally just the Krusty Krab’s roof and sign, which flew away earlier in the episode. He’s not walking through the post-apocalyptic bikini bottom, he’s walking through the dessert where they landed. The rest of the city, and the people in it, are probably still where they were before - meaning Spongebob might not have even been gone that long.

I know this is probably just made for a gag, but this theory really has more holes in it than the common kitchen sponge

From the episode "Dying for Pie" around 4:30 Mr.Krabs told Squidward "Why ruin his last day on earth" which implies they are on planet earth the whole time.

A video about SpongeBob being sponsored by Square space gave me a good chuckle.

Theory logic: Its windy in this episode and one of the side characters mentioned neptune, sO tHeY gOtTa Be On PlAnEt Neptune

If a show has clear evidence debunking a theory, "No that doesn't count it was a hallucination" is not a proper response to that.

For me. This is actually a lesson and a metaphor that every actor and famous people gains unintentional fame and the jellyfish represents the fans not caring about someone's personal life and just being obsessed to them while spongebob represents the famous people, they couldn't even do things right and normal activities due to their fans always disrupting him and not respecting his boundaries. People always forget that famous people and actors are still humans. They're getting the hate and fame they don't deserve because of their talent

This was one of my favorite and one of the most memorable episodes from my childhood. I loved the sounds and looks of everything from the goulash to the sounds of the statues whistling, this episode heavily appealed to my sensory needs as a child

This theory has more holes than spongebob himself "maybe its not our moon" **shows clip of spongebob looking at earth**

“In a cosmic sort of way yes” - Sheldon J Plankton

No, because in season 3 episode 19, the sponge who could fly, he literally says, "Do not worry earthbound people"

Someone found goulash did have some symbolism, and it’s that goulash is loads of leftovers put in one dish, so the idea that this ep was just the writers leftover ideas in one episode makes sense, like they prolly had an idea of how Stonehenge was created, as that’s a real world mystery, and what would happen if spongebob went crazy, or if it was extremely windy, or an idea for aliens 3000 years later, and they probably even wanted to add into an episode about how they know Poseidon is really the god of the sea and not neptune, but couldn’t fit it in anywhere else so just put it in this one. Plus it makes sense they used all the leftovers as it was ep99

Sandy: "hi i'm a squirrel from Texas" this man: "HaLlUcInAtIoNs"

Not a fan of theories that say "Ignore everything that doesnt support my claim because its just imagination"

I always loved this episode. I loved when we got the eerie SpongeBob episodes, I loved that feeling as a kid.

Coming to the conclusion they live on Nepture and not coming to any conclusion about the statues is certainly a take...

I feel like the whole "show actually takes place on Neptune" angle of this theory is totally unnecessary and just makes the entire thing way less believable. If you take that aspect out you have a pretty plausible theory about the theology of Bikini Bottom. And why ignore the obvious climate change aspect? They're underwater so what you see as wind are really ocean currents. Bikini Bottom is destroyed by shifting ocean currents, which could also explain the characters' erratic behavior towards Spongebob, as well as the change in behavior in the jellyfish and maybe even a physiological change in Spongebob, causing him to produce vibrations as water flows through his body. Polar melt absolutely has an effect on ocean currents, so this adds up pretty neatly to me. Why bring a different planet into the mix? Just to explain where a single nameless side character came up with the name Neptune?

This honestly sounds like a drunk Mat-Pat conspiracy

My interpretation would be, as hinted at the start, during the conversation of the two fishes, that god in their world do in fact exist, weather it be Poseidon or Neptune, and that they are at the mercy of the gods. And the fact that wind blows the food directly to spongebob directly after bringing the topic of the gods up, suggests the gods might have something to do with what happens to spongebob later in the episode. Winds are vigorously blowing, implies indirectly to the start of the end of the world, as seen from many movies (the day after tomorrow, 2012, etc.), and the gods have chosen SpongeBob to survive the end. The gods used the jelly fishes as the way for SpongeBob to survive the storm, taking him to a safe place where he will be safe from the wreckage and the storm. The statues that sponge bob built, is to show to future life, how the people of bikini bottoms looked like, (SpongeBob being chosen by the gods to be the representative of the old myth of a town, the bikini bottoms), a similar narrative to the religious story of Noah. Maybe all that happened because the people of bikini bottoms were straying from the path, or starting to defy the gods.

And on this same topic, i think art, and in general, representation of reality, has a central role in this entire episode: from what we have seen, art, in spongebob world, is submitted to the same rules as modern day art( Squidward creations are en example); it's a form of art very abstrait, so as Hegel already pointed it's "the inevitable evolution of art in all its forms", maximally detached from any concrete shape or rappresentation( for example look at the late creations of Kandisky). In this episode, where spongebob is actually forced to cut his links with society and start living a hermite life in an uneasy nature, he was actually able to return to the root of Art itself, by building the huge statues: a massive( in therme of shape and dimension) and "raw" form of art, just as the egyptian statues one can observe in Luxor or Karnak. This is what, ironically, saves him from this state, he finds a way to peacefully reintegrate human creation in an already hostile nature and appease it( here we could find counteless references to a huge number of traditions in ancient civilizations). At the end, Spongebob is the victim of a Faustian society, who was able, though a socio-cultural regression to free himself( even if only to end up finding a dead world)

If you’ve ever read the Odyssey you see Poseidon’s wrath first-hand, and comparing Spongehenge to Poseidon’s wrath brings up a lot of similarities, especially since Poseidon manipulates the wind a lot in the Odyssey. My theory is that Spongehenge takes place in essentially the rapture in Poseidon’s terms and Spongebob was the last survivor doomed to eternal suffering

"The universe is more powerful than any form of human connection" Great message, Karsten

Friday night. Beer#3 and I'm watching SpongeBob lore while the wife types away on her work emails. This is the life. Happy 2022.

Bro the alien jellyfish episode scarred me

yall im tellin u, "gone" really scared me. the opening has no music. and spongebob goes insane from everyone leaving and goes insane, making himself into anyone else who's gone. that episode was SCARY.

This episode always reminded me of a Junji Ito story, exploring how the universe is uncaring and hostile and how seemingly random occurrences can drive people to insanity. Honestly it shares more in common with his work than I realized upon one viewing.

For some reason, this used to be one of my favorite episodes from the entire show as a kid. Maybe I didn't think much of it, but I just liked it

I do so love to see Lovecraftian horror in my silly fish show

Guess you didn’t get the joke in the beginning of the episode so I’ll give explanation, Poseidon is the god of the seas in Greek mythological and Neptune is the romantic version of Poseidon. So the joke is that both fish are correct but are using different names for the same god.

Evidence that they are on Earth: In the episode ‘Mooncation’, Spongebob and Sandy are rapidly propelled into the Earth’s climate

this took the weirdest most unexplainable turn 😭 “neptune, neptune AHA they’re on neptune we cracked the case 😏”

Man, I remember watching that episode as a kid and I was very sad after watching it... Everytime I heard the song the statues made I nearly cried man...

The show definitely doesn't take place on Neptune... you can't just use "it's all a hallucination" to debunk a boat load of evidence

I've watched SpongeBob over many, many times, and this episode: "Spongehenge", has always given me a different feel than the rest of the episodes. Almost like a more mysterious or eerie feeling. It is like the feeling you get when you are around something very old. I never hated this episode, but I never liked it. I just never knew how I felt about it because it is just... Different than the other episodes

I'd be accepting of this theory if patchy the pirate didn't live in Encino, California, but the lost city of Atlantis episode could explain the source of the wind, as patchy encounters similar aliens that morphed patchy into Encino in tornado like fashion after finding out that they shrank it. This might just be a similar scenario

I actually really like this episode cus if it’s weird tone. I like the “creepier” feel

"Not only is Neptune made mostly of water," This infuriated me way more than it should've

This episode was one of those “eerie” childhood memories for me.

2:03 I never noticed until now but is no one gonna talk about how there’s wind indoors

This episode scared me, but it's also the one I remember the most

Audience: "They're not on Neptune, Sandy's from Texas!" Karsten: "I CAAANT HEAR YOOOOOUUU!!!!"

Imagine the look on those two fishes faces when they find out that they accidentally killed god and caused their entire civilization to die

Here's what I think. The intro where they talk about Neptune and poseidon is important, but mostly to indicate to the viewer that what's happening in this episode is caused by God's will. It's not a "natural" phenomenon. It's a "supernatural" phenomenon. Now the major question to ask is WHY would Neptune do this? Well wind is symbolic. It symbolizes change. If you take the wind symbolism and add it to the 3000 years later plot, you get change over time. And it quite clearly suggests SpongeBob being timeless. If this was the finale, it sends the message that SpongeBob will live on despite the show being over. Nothing more to it. SpongeBob will remain despite the change.

something about this always felt like a fever dream. The ending hits so hard and it's distressing as fuck. That and the health inspector episode are the creepiest in my opinion

If you ignore all evidence against a theory by saying the characters are hallucinating, you can make any claim you want

This along with squidward in clarinet land or whatever that was, were probably the most intriguing episodes for me. They felt like fever dreams.

Im pretty sure this was a metaphor for drug addiction. The jellfyish flying into his brain and not wanting to leave, him becoming gaunt and losing his job, spongebob being a bad influence and abandoned by his friend, ultimately being cut off from society. The wind could be a metaphor for the tiniest coincidence (gulash flying into his face from harsh winds) being able to lead into something as catastrophic as drug addiction. the statues are a representation of his "lifes work being made into stone" like someone who has nothing left but his memories, which is why theyre literally statues of himself. He is trying to recreate his old self as stone while he himself is deteriorating.

1:32 😂 A for effort

Hey nice vid. I'm working on a King Neptune theory myself so this was cool to see.

imagine that episode being the canonical ending to the series.

But SpongeBob doesn't eat jellyfish He catches them and lets them go or rarely as a pet (Or in one episode, he collects some jelly. But I wouldn't call that using them for food or prey for years)

This reminds me of a short story called "Dark They Were, and Golden Eyed". It's about a group of people move to Mars to escape nuclear fallout back on Earth. The main character, Hank, is nervous about what Mars could do to him. When the people make a settlement, wind starts to appear and there is a dense fog. After a few days, an atom bomb strikes New York, making the people unable to go back to earth. After a few months, the people start to change and look more like Martians. They move out of the settlement to an old Martian villa and that is when they fully transform into Martians. Years later, when the war is over, another settlement flies to Mars to stay there and the cycle continues. It's a really dark story that I read in school a few years ago. (Sorry for bad English it is not my first language)

Alternate take: “Spongehenge” is just a really bad nightmare Spongebob had one night.

This theory would be much more believable without the part about the show taking place on Neptune. Neptune is not habitable for what you see in the show. The implied "water" on Neptune does exist, but sea life similar to what we see on the show can't exist in Neptune's "Water". Not to mention that Neptune is far away from Sun, and gets very small amounts of sunlight, so the uninhabitable water is also frozen. I think that this episode points towards climate change a lot more than the show taking place on Neptune. Ocean currents from rising sea levels can cause that wind that destroyed Bikini Bottom, and because of further activity on land, this can also cause the currents to continue from rising sea level. This is still kind of a weird theory, but it's way more solid than the Neptune thing Edit: I’m seeing people being like “well the show is ridiculous so it might be true”. At the same time, the theory’s core reasoning isn’t true. The entire reason he said it was on Neptune is because Neptune is windy. But they’re underwater. Wind doesn’t go underwater, so it’s obviously water currents. Plus, there’s tons of evidence pointing to the episode being on earth: -Sandy is from Texas -There’s an island above Bikini Bottom we see in every episode -They zoom out to reveal that they’re on Earth a few times -There’s a pirate character who is in the water and is clearly human, not adapted for life on Neptune Plus, this episode seems fairly serious, so the wackiness of the show taking place on Neptune seems too silly for this episode

In the episode, you see the Krusty Krab being blown away. Spongebob didn't disappear for years or anything, he was likely just gone for a few days and he stumbled upon where the restaurant was blown towards. This is a much simpler but makes more sense ending to the episode. This episode was likely just written with very linear thinking as some sort of experiment for the writers and definitely wasn't written with any underlining philosophical meaning, but rather some ideas bunched together into a script. The lack of resolution for spongebob was likely intended just to confuse the audience of the episode.