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patrick's home kinda makes sense to me. you could argue that since its all made of sand he can redecorate it however he wants to suit his needs at any given moment. as for the electricity working, i think thats just general cartoon logic which spongebob employs a lot. it sorta makes sense that some random TV made out of sand somehow actually works in the silly anything goes world of spongebob. this isn't to say all plotholes can be explained with cartoon logic. like squidward's bedroom being on the first floor in plankton, isn't really cartoon logic since its not for a joke, or even that absurd, just a detail which isn't consistent with the rest of the show.

Everyone asks how Spongebob can afford such a nice house, but it literally fell out of the sky. They should be asking how Squidward, with a cashier salary, can afford a house so big it requires an ELEVATOR

Spongbob being able to understand Gary in one episode then not understand him at all in the next always pissed me off

One inconsistency I've not seen brought up much is Mrs. Puff's school. The interior, in most episodes is just shown to be a single room, but there are a few times it's a whole school with multiple classrooms and even stairs. A good example of this is the episode when Patrick joins SpongeBob to class, the episode makes the school seem huge inside.

4:56 I like to think that SpongeBob barreling through squidwards first floor is a common enough occurrence that he moved up stair after this incident

His decor isn't "models of fish" they're mostly fishing lures that we can assume sank to the sea floor. The real inconsistency, is that the big one on his wall is a top-water popper. These lures are buoyant, making it extremely unlikely and inconvenient for SpongeBob to acquire it.

Considering how much their houses get blown up or get their walls knocked down it shouldn’t be too much of a leap to say they rearranged their house after haha

In Help Wanted, SpongeBob makes like a million patties in less than 30 seconds for the anchovies, but in Neptune’s Spatula it takes him like 5 minutes to make a single patty in the competition against Neptune. That always bothered me, but I realized that it’s because the two episodes are trying to give the viewers two different messages; one is about passion and dedication, and the other is about quality over quantity. My point is, sometimes contradictions in SpongeBob are intentional and are there for a reason.

Squidward's bedroom was on the first floor, until SpongeBob crashed through it and destroyed the walls, which made Squidward move it to the second floor, that way SpongeBob couldn't crash through it again. The Krusty Krab being to the left or right of Conch Street isn't an issue: there are simply two different ways of reaching it. Going to the right (from our vantage point) is a straight shot, while going left (again, from our vantage point) is a roundabout way of getting there.

I need to say that milkshakes at the Krusty Krab make perfect sense when you consider that McDonald’s, Burger King, Chick-fil-a, and Arby’s all have milkshakes; Wendy’s has their frosty which I’d say is somewhere between a milkshake and soft serve ice cream, and Dairy Queen has a whole menu including burgers and chicken strips and such.

I am 87% sure that we do get to see patricks grill again in that one episode where he gets a really rare card with mermaid man or something and the plot revolves around how sponegbob tries to prevent patrick from injuring the card (which patrick, keeps accidetally doing). At one point, patrick tries to clean his grill with the card iirc.

I love over-analyzing cartoons, it's really fun.

I'm convinced the insides of the houses in spongebob are their own pocket dimensions

Squidward’s room in ‘Plankton!’ was always funny to me. Not only is it on ground level when in every other appearance it’s on a higher floor, but both walls that SpongeBob breaks through lead outside. So I like to imagine that in that one specific episode Squidward’s front door leads to his bedroom which is also the only room in his entire house.

My headcanon is that, since they’re underwater, occasionally there’s a strong tide or large animal and entire building can get swept up and moved around, and that’s why the Krusty Krab is sometimes in different places compared to SpongeBob’s house

I love the physical inconsistencies of Bikini Bottom. Keeps it fresh every episode; you never know what you're going to expect, even when taking place in the same locations you've seen a hundred times. Plus, the unpredictable nature of the town fits the non-sensical theme of the show. What I'm not a fan of is when the characters are inconsistent, like when SpongeBob is braindead in one episode, or a maniac that tortures Squidward in the next. The characters should be the grounding feature of the show.

The Krusty Krab menu chopping and changing while keeping its mainstay items is actually exactly how american fast food places work

who gets milkshakes??? brother if there’s a milkshake on the menu at a burger place you know i’m gettin it

Patrick's house is made of sand so he can make whatever he wants anyway

Bubble bass’s order will never get old.

the decorations on spongebobs walls are just lures he found probably

There’s even a gag where two fish argue about whether Neptune or Poseidon are king of the sea in the episode where it’s really windy and the jelly fish are attracted to the whistle noises SpongeBob’s holes make in the wind.

I always remembered Patrick saying he does not have a sister in one episode, but then another episode was dedicated to his sister Sam.

Apparently there was an episode about the Krusty Krab opening a drive-through, and in order for the premise to work they just edited out the windows. You can even see it in the establishing shot.

Another inconsistency that bothers me is the layout of the kitchen at the Krusty Crab. In most episodes, Spongebob’s grill is right by Squidward’s little order window or whatever you call it. In other episodes, the grill and everything is on the other side of the kitchen.

The interior designers and contractors in bikini bottom are making BANK.

You also forgot to mention that in the same episode where Patrick's parents visit that SpongeBob jumps through Patrick's wall and it leads perfect outside despite it being underground

Commenting before watching, apparently they changed who squidward’s mom is, before it used to be an older looking squid but now in (of course) one of the newer episodes show his “actual” mom

I like to think that Bikini Bottom is sort of a chaotic place where people just shift things around constantly without any regard for consistency.

I think the weirdest Spongebob inconsistency I ever saw was in The Healthy Krab. In that episode, Mr. Krabs basically loses it due to stress and snaps on Squidward, ripping the boat Squidward works in out of the wall and rowing it with a paddle to chase him around the Krusty Krab. When that happens, you can see that for some reason the boat is connected to the grill in the kitchen, because you can see it visible through the hole left behind by the missing boat and that it is now unplugged. Squidward later runs back into the kitchen to escape Mr. Krabs and accidentally lands on the grill, which burns him as he proclaims "The grill is still on!" The grill that is still VISIBLY UNPLUGGED in that same shot...

I like the idea of Patrick being so partially unwise that he throws out furniture super often because it “goes bad” like how food does 😭 Edit: So the drive through HAS been used again!! I believe it was season 12 or 11! Because it’s in the season where Spot has “puppies” and it sin an episode SpongeBob gets a self driving car. Squidward runs it to answer your question but the window changed a lot

Patrick once said he was allergic to jumping in a Glove World episode, but yet he was comfortable with jumping all the other times.

for the king neptune inconsistencies i suggest watching the neptune theory from Alex Bale it's actually mind blowing

One that’s always bothered me is how Mr Krabs walked normally all through season 1

One thing you forgot was in the episode "Inspongeiac" Spongebob's house is seen being next door to Patrick's rock. With Squidwards house nowhere to be seen.

I mean, BB has shown a Mayor. He showed up in "The great snail race" and "Doing time". He's also in a mobile game

I think a good reason to have consistency in cartoons is twofold. One you get the reward of paying attention and seeing old unused rooms again and it being fun to see. Two if the location is part of a joke, then the joke isn't overshadowed by us overthinkers thinking about the inconsistency rather than the joke itself.

"That matter to me" already has me cracking up 🤣🤣🤣

Even when I was a kid there were several that I noticed: 1. The Krusty Krab is open on Sundays in Squid's Day Off but then in Good Neighbors, Sunday is Squidward's only day off. 2. SB-129 and Ugh give us two different paleolithic versions of Spongebob and Patrick. 3. There's a kelp tree next to Patrick's house that only shows up in Club Spongebob and is never seen again. 4. There's a coral tree growing next to Squidward's house that only shows up in Christimas Who and is never seen again. 5. Christimas Who establishes that no one in Bikini Bottom konws what Christmas is, but in Secret Box Spongebob mentions a Christmas party as though it's a regular occurence. And perhaps the biggest one: 6. The Krabby Patty Formula is an old Krabs family recipe, something Mr. Krabs invented intentionally, or something created entirely by accident depedning on the episode.

4:40 Squidward was so traumatized from being called "mediocre" that he completely remodelled his house to where he sleeps on the second floor.

In regards to King Neptune, official anniversary art establishes that the King from Neptune's Spatula and the King from the 1st movie are two different people. I presume the latter is merely royalty while the former is an actual god.

The inconsistencies with the houses could be explained away by Bikini Bottom always blowing up. This also could explain the population. However, a lot of people just die in the show anyway so that also explains it.

I kinda respect that they didn't reuse background in a lot a scenarios were they certainly could of

2:16 You know someone's a huge SpongeBob fan when they exclaim "Oh, Neptune" in any context that isn't a direct quotation or roleplay otherwise

Hey, I really appreciate that you have captions; always great to see when channels put in that effort

Nobody orders the milkshake because apparently they burn them

Squidward switches between traveling by bike, walking, and driving as well. In Dying for Pie he randomly drives to work.

You can't hide from me! I heard that music from Lights, Camera, Pants! But in all seriousness, I love this sort of thing. Spongebob is the kind of cartoon where these inconsistencies are expected, so imo that makes it especially fun to dig in and try and make sense of it. The main thing that always drove me nuts was the King Neptune thing. I can see why they wanted him different for the movie, but I dunno, you could have come up with a different name. Could've just used Poseidon, that way we could have still had the OG neptune as a character lmao

its like the simpsons, locations and little details change on a whim to suit jokes. i think its pretty funny

2:55 - I think the thing on top of the rock serves as a TV antenna to get a signal

5:39 I always assumed this was supposed to be Bikini Bottom, as I thought the joke was that they would've already been at the house if Squidward just listened to Spongebob

The amount of times they forgot to include the chum bucket in shots INFURIATED ME

I remember a room in the Krusty Krab where there was a garbage disposal machine and that Patrick played a role in that episode. Don’t know what episode and season tho 😭

In the Krutsy Krab, it was shown to have a trapdoor leading to a massive grease trap as well as a seemingly never ending lost and found.

The part at the end of "I'm With Stupid" where SpongeBob runs through Patrick's wall also makes no sense, since that scene implies that there's a wall of sand around Patrick's house, with the rock being a sort of dome roof, and them being on ground-level; but as previously established, it's supposed to be underground.

*_Maybe the real SpongeBob consistencies that matter to me is really just all the friends we made along the way._*

I believe the Dutch dub also uses both “krokante krab” and “korstige krab” in the first season

9:52 “yadda yadda yadda you’ve probably heard this before” me, who clicked on this to escape work and doesn’t know a lick of spongebob lore: yes of course btan i’ve heard it a million times!! great video fr tho

I feel like since their houses get blown up or destroyed so often it makes sense that there’s some differences between versions. I’m sure after SpongeBob broke through squids bedroom he decided to move it upstairs

The best explanation I have about Bikini Bottom's population count is that it's a small enough town that a highway could easily be built through it to connect two large cities close by. Either that or it's big with tourism for some reason (maybe the Krusty Krab, I can imagine Krabby Patties being world-renowned).

in "doing time" spongebob wonders if "the president's in town" when the police are chasing him

I always liked to think Squidward did have his bedroom on the first level, but then freaky stuff like that kept happening and thought it may feel more comfortable to have some sort of buffer between him and spongebob, so he moved his room upstairs so he had a bit more time to react if spongebob ever invaded his home again

Video got recommended to me btw^^' Well, I wanted to mention that is bugging me since years too, It's about Plankton being Scared of Pearl since she is a whale, but that is something that confuses me since in 1 episode back in the 1 - 3 seasons, plankton changed his life with Mr. Krabs and Plankton was not scared of Pearl at all, but later in next seasons, suddenly he is scared of pearl and acts like he saw her for the first time and it still breaks my head lol

spongebob is just rebuilding his house everytime

this was a great video and I greatly appreciated the Three houses OST

The thing that matters to ME is how WILD Mr Krabs's kill count is! That man has canonically murdered and manslaughtered

I always rationalized Patrick's house as a tardis type case. How it looks on the outside and how it looks inside are night and day pretty much

Multiverse SpongeBob just wakes up in a parallel universe everyday

Fun fact in modern spongebob (Season 12 Episode 10, Shell Games) we can see that Patrick's house isn't a rock at all, but apparently a turtle's shell.

2:55 He has a rooftop antenna lol, what did you think the "stick" in his house was?

I always assumed that the inconsistency could be explained away since the houses get destroyed several times in the show that they are rebuilt or in case of SpongeBob’s pineapple regrown so they regularly change.

I think most people don't care about SpongeBob's consistency, because its fluidity is the only consistent part. Whenever i notice a contradiction, i think "Yeah of course, it's SpongeBob". Maybe watching the whole Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo has lobotomized that part of my brain, who knows.

4:22 - I checked my SpongeBob comic book from November 2007 and that comic is indeed in there

I've seen other people mention that in Pizza Delivery the city that Squidward walks away from is not Bikini Bottom but I always thought that it was. And that it was another example of the show being inconsistent with details like what Bikini Bottom looked like especially because Pizza Delivery was barely episode 5

The one thing that bothers me is the layout of spongebobs house always changing

this video is so funny to me. i very rarely think too hard when consuming media, i'm just there for the vibes, and it's so funny to watch a man lose his mind for 12 straight minutes over a cartoon. thank you for this.

0:17 the entire reason the first three seasons are remembered is because of the continuity consistency? Are you sure it’s not because they’re well written and hilarious?

I like the idea that Patrick changes his house around daily.

SpongeBob's strength. One episode he can barely lift 2 teddy bears then another he's lifting cars like its nothing.

What drives me nuts about Squidward’s house is that the two windows that make up the eyes of his home switch between being apart of either his bedroom or his art/music studio. I remember that occupying a concerning amount of space in my head as a child.

Never thought being an old fart would be useful, but the yellow bamboo thing on top of Patrick's rock is supposed to be UHF-VHF Outdoor antenna. Back before cable, those things were everywhere on roofs in order to pick up TV signals. And since it's an early design from the show, it still has that Tiki-bar aesthetic.

I love the whole idea of this video - taking seriously and keeping track of the world of SpongeBob which was not made for the purpose of being consistent or making sense is really cool and leads to many interesting questions. I would love to see a part 2, this was awesome!

Plankton wants to know the krabby patty’s secret formula but I wanna know what the actual patty is made out of

sometimes things change for making each story in each episode different. if some of these things didn’t randomly change throughout the series and if they stuck with keeping everything exactly the same each and every time (like with setting layouts) they would need to think of many alternatives ways to making the story exist or not making the story happen at all. but with spongebob, it doesn’t seem to be much of a concern for spongebob to keep up with these things though, sometimes the setting and layout of things change just for the story to work, which i completely understand. i’m saying this as an animator + writer and i animate my stories too. sometimes i make things slightly change just for the story to work out the way i wanted to, even if it doesn’t completely add up. but of course i don’t do it to such a level that spongebob does, but still. it’s not supposed to be as noticeable, ur supposed to just keep ur attention on the story but i can see why u would pay attention to these details since they do become noticeable once u become super familiar with the world of spongebob. i’m not trying to overly take this seriously i just wanted to explain this a bit

I think the physical inconsistencies in SpongeBob are part of why the show is so fun to talk about. It's like pointing out how weird and inconsistent SpongeBob's world is adds another layer of humor to the show.

was looking for the perfect youtube video to watch while high this rlly stood out to me thank you

Enjoyed this video, Especially the parts covering Patrick's home cause that tended to be in my mind when i was younger.

Didn’t know Patrick ever had a backyard and a grill, I wish he would use it more often

Patrick's one makes more sense you they can literally dig tunnles in seconds. I feel like Patrick just molds his house to whatever he likes at any given moment

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this video is insanely well-made and well-edited for such a small channel, very good job! :D

you have no FUCKING idea how much i love btan videos

5:02 they did this ALL the time in adventure time, where people would break into finn and jake's house walls and it's seemingly on the first level even though they're in a TREEHOUSE

NOTE THAT: squidward when told sucks at the clarinet, always gets defensive. except when SpongeBob said it he was broken inside... makese sense since spongebob was the ONLY ONE to ever complement him

Bro this video is funny af you got my sub

one of my favourite inconsistencies is Old man Jenkins, he has like 3 different character models 😂

Masterful creating within absurdity in the first 3 seasons. After that the absurdity goes beyond being enjoyable.

Well in defense of the episode "Plankton", perhaps the initial design was to have Squidwards bedroom on the first floor considering it is the first season.

Even tho this came out a minute ago, I can tell this is a gonna be a good video hehe