In Imitation Krabs, SpongeBob reveals to Plankton that the secret formula is kept in a bottle and every Plankton episode thereafter, Plankton tries to steal the the formula in the bottle instead of an actual Krabby Patty
So that's the first appearance of the bottle! I was always asking myself when plankton started trying to steal the formula bottle instead of the Krabby Patty instead
Just in the season, or in general? Because I can think of a few moments where he tries to steal the patty rather than the formula in the bottle in episodes that come after Imitation Krabs.
@Azurethewolf168 Dude, when Spongebob returns to the Krusty Krab, it's buried in sand, implying that years have passed since he went away. He spent a long time in the caves creating Spongehenge. It's not the same day. I don't even mean the 3000 years thing, I mean that the story ends with Spongebob leaving town and only returning years later when Bikini Bottom has been abandoned. The series ends. Most characters are probably dead. It's the final episode.
Technically, "The Goofy Newbie" has the second longest passage of time in the series, but five billion years later looks exactly the same due to the whole Earth being frozen for that entire time before finally melting. This caused the entire humanity and ocean to be paused that entire time, thus not allowing anything to evolve within the episode. Although "Squid on Strike" still has the longest passage of time in the series with "One Eternity Later."
There are other episodes like that tho, like the worm episode where Bikini Bottom gets destroyed, or that episode where it gets shrunk. And it blew up in dying for pie. Maybe they just rebuilt every time
I never connected SpongeBob not knowing what snow is and Bikini Bottom regularly getting snow in episodes to come later This implies one of two things 1) the most likely, the writers simply forgot 2) Someone, somehow, invented underwater snow
Or 4) the writers wrote episodically meaning there is no connection because there wasn’t supposed to be any connection. I know it’s cliché and pointless thinking but it’s ultimately true.
Or 5) Aliens invaded the bikini bottom and caused snow, underwater, and our heroes needed to stop the evil wizard with the sword of truth. Thus the great giant tears are heavier than the water that SpongeBob lives in, and freezes softly, becoming snow. That is how scientists bring snow to the bikini bottom.
it's shown in The Snowball Effect that snow in bikini bottom is caused by an iceberg so I think it's entirely possible that there was just never an iceberg floating around prior
This makes sense, because Sandy and Patrick are shown to be very close friends who do often hang out w/ each other. E.g. in Procrastination, I Had an Accident, the brain coral episode whose name I forgot, definitely some others.
1:15 Sponge bob is not actually the only krusty krab employee who can cook kraby patties , squidward was able to cook tons of perfectly good ones in the employee of the month episode, he just cooks them good when he really feels like doing so
Texas could be a key episode, in that one, Spongebob and Sandy know each other, and SpongeBob is already employed. He also mentions everyone else in the Krusty Krab as "your friends" refering to Sandy. He also learns about Texas and that Sandy is from there as well, I think.
Patrick sometimes says strange things that he shouldnt know. I think merry christmas in jellyfishing does not make it definitive that it is after christmas who. I think it would be before due to the character interactions in general.
Earlier in the show Plankton was the only character who used the term “secret formula” for the krabby patty’s recipe, which makes sense since he’s a scientist. Everyone else called it the secret recipe or secret sauce. Later in the show everyone else started calling it the “secret formula”.
I hate to make it dark, but there have been episodes where Plankton or Squidward pretty much die. You could make a case that those are the last episodes we see them. For example, I really can’t remember the name of it but squidward falls off a diving board into a bucket of sharp objects, and doesn’t move. The episode ends shortly after some one liners. And yeah, plankton dies a lot
holy shit, I literally started trying to do this EXACT thing a few months ago with the exact same reasoning as you used. I even caught that squidward didn't remember patrick's name in the exact same way that you did. I would just keep episodes in the order that they're released and then resort them if an episode order doesn't make logical sense, for example you could just keep help wanted before tea at the tree dome since there is nothing to suggest that help wanted happens after that episode. I do headcannon reef blowers being before help wanted chronologically though just because I feel like the events of that episode explains squidward's reluctance to accept spongebob onto the krusty krew in help wanted.
When Spongebob goofs off, I'm pretty sure Mr Krabs could take a couple of the Krabby Patties from his vault and reheat them (the one episode where Squidward goes crazy for Krabby Patties)
An interesting way to aproach this might be going from character to character. Mr krabs might be a good character to explain the pre-help wanted era. Since we know a lot about his past. He ised to be poor and friends with plankton, his grandpa was a pirate, he was a sailor, there was another frycook before spongebob at the krusty krab, etc. Another interesting idea might be how Sponge On The Run and the spinoffs fit into all of this. Are they the new canon? Or is it a different timeline? Since there are a bunch of inconsistencies with the early seasons
Nah you’re the kind of UA-camr that shouldn’t ask for subscriptions cuz if people like one of your videos they’ll prolly like all of them, just keep doing what you do and evolve at your own pace
Until around the mid-late 2010s, Encyclopedia SpongeBobia actually used to try to track the chronology of the whole show! Each episode's page had a section about which episodes have to take place before and after said episode. I guess they probably removed it because they realized they couldn't fully make it make sense...
i once saw a video many years ago that basically tried doing this (can’t find it now unfortunately), but the guy basically positioned episodes in an order that would make sense (one example was that every episode featuring scooter must take place before bubble buddy, since scooter dies in that episode)
In pre-hibernation week, SpongeBob said "I'm ready to devote all my time that I haven't already devoted to Mr. Krabs to you", which he wouldn't do unless he was already hired. And in Christmas Who?, he's seen at the Krusty Krab explaining Christmas to Mr. Krabs, and it definitely is not their first interaction so he must work there by that point. Besides, the Krusty Krab is such a significant part of the show, it should be placed near the beginning (only after Bubble Stand and Reefblower, those episodes feel the most like they set the tone of the whole show, which is what you want for a first episode that takes place before anything else). Maybe SpongeBob just has more days off than we imagine, or the show takes place over many years (enough for SpongeBob to have 374 CONSECUTIVE employee of the month awards, meaning all after the episode Employee Of The Month where he doesn't get it, also not counting the ones he got before then). (Also everything from season 4 onward is non canon I'm just saying)
But why can't it be canon despite Stephen Hillenburg left the show? I mean, it's still Nickelodeon that officially produces the show. And some of the episodes pre season 4 weren't even written by Hillenburg either. Many of the writers from seasons 1-3 continued writing episodes after Hillenburg left. And there are many inconsistencies even within the stuff that Hillenburg himself produced, like for example the appearance of Neptune in season one vs. the first movie. So you would have to decide which version of Neptune is canon, even though both versions are created by Hillenburg. See the problem?
@@_vanessajane it’s just one of those spongeboomers who hate anything past the original movie. I’m not a fan of the newer seasons, but I don’t act like they don’t exist or “aren’t canon.”
I like to pretend that all episodes (minus the specials) are in exact order and then try to find reasons how that could be possible. It's especially fun with the hundred or so times that Bikini Bottom is destroyed.
I swear there's at least one episode where spongebob is off from work but krabby patties are still being served like normal at the krusty krab without him. I just can't think of it. Also, another mini-timeline, we have squidward the unfriendly ghost where spongebob seems to learn about the flying dutchman for the first time, then scaredy pants where they see him for the first time, then all the other flying dutchman episodes.
@@andykishore Were you saying that to me or the other commenter? Because that's exactly what I said in my comment, but you didn't make yours a reply to Kmooly
I think another interesting idea could be going over the weird canonical quirks and worldbuilding in different Spongebob Media, like how Rodents from Texas have challenges in their dreams (proved by one of the video games), and that Sandy and Mr Krabs work together occasionally (in The Krabby Patty Creature Feature, or as I like to call, "The Bugsnax Episode")
I'm pretty sure Spongebob mentions in SB-129 that the Krusty Krab is closed on Sundays. I haven't checked yet if any episodes at the Krusty Krab take place on a Sunday, but it would still make sense for Mr. Krabs to occasionally call his employees in for extra work. The Krusty Krab being normally closed on Sundays is consistent with Spongebob and Squidward being off work in Good Neighbors and many other episodes where they are together.
9:40 Well all I can really get is Help Wanted has to be after Ugh and before Christmas Who, because SpongeBob did work at the Krusty Krab there. I don’t think there’s enough here to place it any more specific than that.
"Ugh" technically has SpongeBob working at the Krusty Krab after the meanwhile time card, although I feel like that was just writers excuse to squeeze SpongeBob into the episode because they knew if they didn't put that scene in there, SpongeBob would not have been in the episode otherwise except for mentions by Patchy. SpongeBob also appears in "Ugh" later in the episode as a cave drawing, but that version of SpongeBob doesn't speak so I don't know how much you want to count it.
This is very fun! Your video actually made me want to think a little deeper about this. And this is what I came up with (feel free to use for a future video in this series): There's a actually a timeline split in Spongebob (one where Squidward is stuck in the freezer and one where he isn't) Timeline #1 Squidward remains stuck in the freezer in SB-129 1. UGH (obviously) 2. Tea at the Treedome (Spongebob meets Sandy) 3. Pre-Hibernation week (Spongebob learn about hibernation) 4. Survival of the Idiots (Sandy is hibernating, Spongebob sees snow for the first time) 5. Christmas Who (Spongebob knows snow, learns about Christmas) 6. Jellyfishing (Patrick knows Christmas, Squidward doesn't remember Patrick's name) 8. SB-129 (Squidward clearly knows Patrick's name, get's frozen for 3000 years) 9. Spongehenge (The final episode of this timeline. Squidward is nowhere to be seen, so we can assume he's still frozen) Timeline #2 Squidward comes back in the timemachine in SB-129. 1. UGH 2. Tea at the Treedome 3. Pre-Hibernation week 4. Survival of the Idiots 5. Christmas Who 6. Jellyfishing 7. SB-129 (Squidward returns with the time machine) 8. The Spongebob Squarepants Movie (Plankton gets the Krabby Patty secret formula, Spongebob becomes the manager of the Krusty Krab 2) (Timeline #2 concludes with Spongebob and Squidward still working at the Krusty Krab one eternity later, as seen in ''Squid on Strike'', with Spongebob probably working at both Krusty Krabs at the same time)
Love your channel! SpongeBob, was most of our childhoods. These videos make great watches for late night “I can’t sleep what am I doing up at 2am sessions” No but seriously, a lot of work must go into these. Keep up the great work!
Wishing you well should have been after help wanted in this timeline, because there’s a scene of SpongeBob working at the Krusty Krab in wishing you well.
My headcanon is that, only season 1-3 + the movie are canon, because the post-movie series has change the plotline so much, it lose the main charasteristics of the story
S4 still had a handful of golden age writers on the show. So the episodes by them could still be considered canon. Or at least any that align with the writing style of the old seasons.
Finally someone getting something together I would do just the first 3 seasons, or at the most the seasons Stephen had the most direction and creative input on
One thing I know could possibly be true, "The Great Snail Race" takes place before "Artist Unknown", because in the former episode, SpongeBob learns for the first time that Squidward's last name is Tentacles. In "Artist Unknown" he just says "I'm ready! Mr. Tentacles" without saying anything.
honestly I think that the help wanted and other episodes in your timeline could be days between them like tree at the treedom and then days later help wanted happens
I think certain scenes take place in different orders. Because of time cards and stuff and in between those timecards (like the 2000 years later one) many episodes are happening within those timecards. Like one scene could take place like 3 or more episodes after the episode. so there is chronologically no way to connect a single episode with another without it making no sense. (Sometimes there is, sometimes there isn’t it mainly depends on the episode) that’s what i think is going on with the timeline (correct me if I’m wrong)
damn it lol you stole my video idea!! ive been planning on making smthn like this for a while. good job tho!! some things i found for my chronology vid that you didnt mention is that spongebob vs. the big one mustve happened BEFORE ripped pants, since in ripped pants spongebob is surfing. breath of fresh squidward happened BEFORE restraining spongebob since in restraining spongebob squidward has 1 employee of the month award. pet or pests happens before spongeguard on duty or any other episode where larry knows spongebob. and obviously every sequel or callback episode happens after the OG episodes theyre referencing or acting as a sequel to. Stephen Hillenberg has confirmed that the original spongebob movie is at the end of the entire series' canon. are you happy now had to have happened BEFORE episodes such as band geeks & house fancy. whelk attack occurs AFTER suds. im sure theres more, but hope this helps. if you wanna do this for the entire show, my idea was to make a bunch of smaller timelines divided by OG spongebob (seasons 1-3), then mid-season spongebob, post-sequel, post-sponge on the run, & w/ the 1st movie being at the end of the TL all together. you can then at te end use these smaller timelines w/ all the notes youve made to try and make the TL as cohesive and accurate as possible based on what we know.
(I didn’t watch the whole video so forgive me if I said something wrong) 1:12 - 1:34 spongebob said that his day off at the Krusty Krab is Sunday, so maybe the other episodes that aren’t at the Krusty Krab take place on Sunday, maybe?
This reminds me of when James Rolfe (AVGN) attempted to parse the Zelda chronological timeline. Ultimately, without any explicit authorial intent, it's all just sheer speculation...and frustration of the part of the analyst. Great video, though!
Thankfully it's all in good humor though, as the true answer is what AVGN says at the end, there is no timeline, it's just fun with some nods. I create Zelda 1 as an interesting idea mirroring my childhood whimsy and fantasies. I create Zelda 2, but since tech is so new, there is no formula, so it is utterly different from Zelda 1. As it's the same console, I keep some canonicity as "Ganon is dead." My company is successful, we create a new console. We start making the originals "as we wished" to have made them. See Castlevania IV (a remake of CV I) and Zelda: LttP (a re-imagining of Zelda 1 -- with the satellite version being a true remake). Zelda: LttP is successful, it's great. Our company is still going strong, and the world is making the leap to 3D. Lets take the concepts of Zelda: LttP and try to put them in 3D. Thus, light dark turns into time travel, and 8 maidens becomes 8 sages, etc. This game becomes one of the most successful ever, and we want to quickly release a new game to capitalize on that, so we re-use the assets and come up with some notion of a second adventure in Termina. As it's the same assets and console, we tie them by referencing Navi and the Ocarina. Our company is big now, and portable systems are in rage too, we create Link's Awakening. The art direction takes inspiration from LttP, but we do pick some characters we've created already in the 3D games to populate the world and nod to the player. The only slight nod to canon is the bosses of the Nightmare, e.g. Agahnim and Ganon, thus one could say this happened after LttP. This too was a success, and we have better technology now. We create the Oracle games. We take inspiration from the our previous handheld, and improve upon it. At best having canon in that, Link is at sea and finds new islands. That's about it, it was only after that that "canon" obsession started to truly arise with the advent of the internet and its boards. Thus prompting the nod to Ocarina with Wind Waker and Twilight Princess and later Skyward Sword. To capitalize even more on peoples' obsession, even releasing that Historia book.
This is a brilliant idea, I wanted to do this myself. the episode "Help Wanted" is essentially a pilot episode, and should have been just at the beginning (well, except for the "ugh", this is interactive))) yes, this is an assumption, but it seems reasonable to me. There is also a connection between the episodes where SpongeBob learns to tie his shoes and all the episodes where he ties them later in the chronology (for example, " Rock bottom").
Spongebob, Sandy, and the Worm was the first episode that really got me thinking about the show's continuity. It made me think the show was operating under a Billy and Mandy-style continuity, where everyone could be dead at the end of one episode only for the status quo to revert to normal next episode. Squidward's statement about Patrick's idea "getting them all killed" inclines me to believe that episode ends with everyone dying, but it's possible SpongeBob could have made some deal with the Flying Dutchman to bring everyone back, similar to what happened in Born Again Krabs. The continuity of the Flying Dutchman episodes is also tricky, since he never seems to recognize SpongeBob in any of the episodes he appears in, and Shanghaied is another episode that has a similar "game over" style type of ending. The boating school episodes are also difficult to order, since the flashback in Doing Time is the only point of reference we have, and it could have happened any time in relation to Tea at the Treedome or Help Wanted. Some chronology that comes to mind is that Your Shoe's Untied canonically needs to come after Just One Bite, since Squidward has never had a Krabby Patty before the latter. Similarly, Spongebob knows how to tie his shoes in Rock Bottom, which means it also needs to come before Your Shoe's Untied. Pressure introduces a confusing bit of continuity with Patrick's "Sandy's a girl" line. It would logically place it as the first time Patrick sees Sandy without her suit, but he sees her without it in Tea at the Treedome. You could chalk it up to Patrick being dim or perhaps even thinking Sandy with the suit is a different person from Sandy in the treedome. However, it is the only time Patrick makes this mistake. It could be used to argue that Pressure takes place before Pre-Hibernation Week or other episodes where Patrick goes back to the treedome, which is interesting since that episode is definitely after Help Wanted.
Pressure does make sense that it would take place pretty early on not just because of the Sandy's a girl thing but also because the whole plot is about them competing about mammals and sea creatures. Then later on in the show, they would be more used to Sandy's presence. It gets me wondering where Squirrel Jokes takes place on the timeline.
Why would you place Sandys meeting before Help wanted? Theres nothing here that proves he wasn't already working at the Krusty Krab at this point. I really want to know your reasoning behind that.
We know that SpongeBob and Sandy were children when they first met. That means that we can put Help Wanted after Tea At The Treedome, because SpongeBob was 13 y.o. in 1999 and I don't think that child labor is legal in Bikini Bottom, so Help Wanted must be set somewhat in the future. Then I would place Plankton! and F.U.N. after Help Wanted and before Prehibernation Week. We see that in Prehibernation Week, SpongeBob already works at the Krusty Krab, so we can say for sure that Help Wanted was before that. Also, SB-129 takes place in 2017 (at least the scenes in the present), because of the calender in the future, saying it's the year 4017 while this future is set 2000 years after the present. I think that the last episode on the timeline should be SpongeHenge, since it shows how Bikini Bottom gets fully destroyed by a storm, with SpongeBob being the only one surviving by sitting in a cave for the rest of his life. This marks the ultimate end of SpongeBob's timeline. In the final scene of the episode, set 3000 years in the future, some aliens discover the giant statues built by SpongeBob, implying that these are the only remnants of SpongeBob's civilization. Quite depressing honestly...
@ There’s proof it takes place after 1999, in SB-129 a calendary in the future says 4017 and since it was exactly 2000 years, so season 1 likely takes place in 2017 and 2018.
@carinaslima I know, but sure this can be said about every episode of the season? Like why would they set a 1999 series in 2017 without providing any further context? SpongeBob never was about visions of the future or anything...
I’d argue Help Wanted is before Christmas Who. In Christmas Who, Spongebob goes to the Krusty Krab to tell Patrick/Squidward/Mr Krabs about Christmas as if all 3 are his closest friends. Spongebob knew of Mr Krabs in Help Wanted (saying “Mr Krabs, please. Ask Squidward, he’ll vouch for me”) but it would make sense that he would have worked there for a bit before considering Krabs as a friend.
Christmas who has gotta be after help wanted cause SpongeBob teaches Patrick, squidward, and Mr. Krabs about santa in the krusty krab while he’s in uniform
Pretty sure Krabs A La Mode (An episode where SpongeBob recognizes Plankton and Mr. Krabs briefly mentions Santa Claus) takes place after both Plankton! and Christmas Who?
I don't think there's enough evidence in the show to make a concrete chronological order of episodes, but there should definitely enough there to place everything around and between 10 anchor episodes with major character introductions/events, most of which you already have in your timeline: Tea at the Treedome Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy 3 (Manray) Help Wanted Krusty Love Plankton! Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy 4 (Small Ray) Christmas Who? Bummer Vacation "Can You Spare a Dime?" is a special case because you could argue that multiple episodes take place between Squidward quitting and him becoming homeless
The entire SpongeBob Timeline Stephen Hillenburg‘s parents screwing Stephen Hillenburg being born Stephen Hillenburg going to art college Stephen Hillenburg getting hired for Rocco‘s modern life Stephen Hillenburg creates sponge boy and the rest is history
Awe, “Christmas Who” has one scene at the Krusty Krab so uhhhhhhhhhh yeah, also Mr Krabs shows up throughout the episode along with Plankton in the song so um that too. ALSO IM NOT TRYIN TO BE A NEEEEERRRRRRDDD so please don’t take it like I am trying to so yeah that’s about it so uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yeah Sandy movie is trash, bye
In Imitation Krabs, SpongeBob reveals to Plankton that the secret formula is kept in a bottle and every Plankton episode thereafter, Plankton tries to steal the the formula in the bottle instead of an actual Krabby Patty
that's a really interesting observation
So that's the first appearance of the bottle! I was always asking myself when plankton started trying to steal the formula bottle instead of the Krabby Patty instead
Just in the season, or in general? Because I can think of a few moments where he tries to steal the patty rather than the formula in the bottle in episodes that come after Imitation Krabs.
Spongehenge is canonically the last episode of Spongebob, at least of the main timeline with the main characters
Please give me a link confirming that and not some lame UA-cam theory…
@Azurethewolf168 Dude, when Spongebob returns to the Krusty Krab, it's buried in sand, implying that years have passed since he went away. He spent a long time in the caves creating Spongehenge. It's not the same day. I don't even mean the 3000 years thing, I mean that the story ends with Spongebob leaving town and only returning years later when Bikini Bottom has been abandoned. The series ends. Most characters are probably dead. It's the final episode.
Technically, "The Goofy Newbie" has the second longest passage of time in the series, but five billion years later looks exactly the same due to the whole Earth being frozen for that entire time before finally melting. This caused the entire humanity and ocean to be paused that entire time, thus not allowing anything to evolve within the episode. Although "Squid on Strike" still has the longest passage of time in the series with "One Eternity Later."
I don't know, from a distance it seemed like Bikini Bottom as a whole was fine.
There are other episodes like that tho, like the worm episode where Bikini Bottom gets destroyed, or that episode where it gets shrunk. And it blew up in dying for pie. Maybe they just rebuilt every time
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Yeah was gonna say man. you changed it?! lookin' good! (:
I never connected SpongeBob not knowing what snow is and Bikini Bottom regularly getting snow in episodes to come later
This implies one of two things
1) the most likely, the writers simply forgot
2) Someone, somehow, invented underwater snow
Or 3. Global cooling. (In the SpongeBob Musical: Live on Stage, Plankton mentions "global cooling", implying it's a thing in Bikini Bottom.)
Or 4) the writers wrote episodically meaning there is no connection because there wasn’t supposed to be any connection. I know it’s cliché and pointless thinking but it’s ultimately true.
@@Just_Shaun I think we all know that, it’s just fun to think about
Or 5) Aliens invaded the bikini bottom and caused snow, underwater, and our heroes needed to stop the evil wizard with the sword of truth. Thus the great giant tears are heavier than the water that SpongeBob lives in, and freezes softly, becoming snow. That is how scientists bring snow to the bikini bottom.
it's shown in The Snowball Effect that snow in bikini bottom is caused by an iceberg so I think it's entirely possible that there was just never an iceberg floating around prior
To be fair, SpongeBob didn't know about Christmas, but maybe Patrick did.
This makes sense, because Sandy and Patrick are shown to be very close friends who do often hang out w/ each other. E.g. in Procrastination, I Had an Accident, the brain coral episode whose name I forgot, definitely some others.
The brain coral episode is called PatrickSmartypants.
@@carlopanis9020Patrick SmartPants
1:15 Sponge bob is not actually the only krusty krab employee who can cook kraby patties , squidward was able to cook tons of perfectly good ones in the employee of the month episode, he just cooks them good when he really feels like doing so
This is going to be tough since SpongeBob has a very loose continuity
Texas could be a key episode, in that one, Spongebob and Sandy know each other, and SpongeBob is already employed. He also mentions everyone else in the Krusty Krab as "your friends" refering to Sandy. He also learns about Texas and that Sandy is from there as well, I think.
Yeah, from that we learn that the Texas arc starts after Tea at the treedom and Help wanted
We be rewatching the whole Spongebob series to help make the timeline with this one 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥
Patrick sometimes says strange things that he shouldnt know. I think merry christmas in jellyfishing does not make it definitive that it is after christmas who. I think it would be before due to the character interactions in general.
Earlier in the show Plankton was the only character who used the term “secret formula” for the krabby patty’s recipe, which makes sense since he’s a scientist. Everyone else called it the secret recipe or secret sauce. Later in the show everyone else started calling it the “secret formula”.
Dude is trying to do the impossible. The SpongeBob timeline/canon is a total paradox
I hate to make it dark, but there have been episodes where Plankton or Squidward pretty much die. You could make a case that those are the last episodes we see them. For example, I really can’t remember the name of it but squidward falls off a diving board into a bucket of sharp objects, and doesn’t move. The episode ends shortly after some one liners. And yeah, plankton dies a lot
This really scratches my balls! Good job!
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holy shit, I literally started trying to do this EXACT thing a few months ago with the exact same reasoning as you used. I even caught that squidward didn't remember patrick's name in the exact same way that you did. I would just keep episodes in the order that they're released and then resort them if an episode order doesn't make logical sense, for example you could just keep help wanted before tea at the tree dome since there is nothing to suggest that help wanted happens after that episode. I do headcannon reef blowers being before help wanted chronologically though just because I feel like the events of that episode explains squidward's reluctance to accept spongebob onto the krusty krew in help wanted.
In Prehibernation Week, SpongeBob mentions dedicating most of his time to Mr. Krabs, to that episode at least takes place after Help Wanted.
When Spongebob goofs off, I'm pretty sure Mr Krabs could take a couple of the Krabby Patties from his vault and reheat them (the one episode where Squidward goes crazy for Krabby Patties)
that makes a lot of sense actually
i remember me and my sister had an entire inside joke around "tabanga-doo" from spongebob b.c. thanks for reminding me of that awe
Spongebob timeline is probably one of the weirdest timelines I ever seen
An interesting way to aproach this might be going from character to character. Mr krabs might be a good character to explain the pre-help wanted era. Since we know a lot about his past. He ised to be poor and friends with plankton, his grandpa was a pirate, he was a sailor, there was another frycook before spongebob at the krusty krab, etc.
Another interesting idea might be how Sponge On The Run and the spinoffs fit into all of this. Are they the new canon? Or is it a different timeline? Since there are a bunch of inconsistencies with the early seasons
6:00 I’m pretty sure Patrick was just yappin
Nah you’re the kind of UA-camr that shouldn’t ask for subscriptions cuz if people like one of your videos they’ll prolly like all of them, just keep doing what you do and evolve at your own pace
I would say that help wanted was intended to be the "first" episode in the timeline because that's how most shows do their first episodes
Until around the mid-late 2010s, Encyclopedia SpongeBobia actually used to try to track the chronology of the whole show! Each episode's page had a section about which episodes have to take place before and after said episode. I guess they probably removed it because they realized they couldn't fully make it make sense...
Technically, there was a proposal that passed to remove the SpongeBob SquarePants timeline from episode pages which is probably for the better.
i once saw a video many years ago that basically tried doing this (can’t find it now unfortunately), but the guy basically positioned episodes in an order that would make sense (one example was that every episode featuring scooter must take place before bubble buddy, since scooter dies in that episode)
Well, it's time for us to complete their work 🗿
In pre-hibernation week, SpongeBob said "I'm ready to devote all my time that I haven't already devoted to Mr. Krabs to you", which he wouldn't do unless he was already hired. And in Christmas Who?, he's seen at the Krusty Krab explaining Christmas to Mr. Krabs, and it definitely is not their first interaction so he must work there by that point. Besides, the Krusty Krab is such a significant part of the show, it should be placed near the beginning (only after Bubble Stand and Reefblower, those episodes feel the most like they set the tone of the whole show, which is what you want for a first episode that takes place before anything else). Maybe SpongeBob just has more days off than we imagine, or the show takes place over many years (enough for SpongeBob to have 374 CONSECUTIVE employee of the month awards, meaning all after the episode Employee Of The Month where he doesn't get it, also not counting the ones he got before then).
(Also everything from season 4 onward is non canon I'm just saying)
Yeah, that actually helps a lot with the timeline
I love that everyone here agreed that season 4 onward is non canon
@@danilfakhrim.4355 Season 4 still has a ton of good episodes though. Episodes like Krusty Towers.
But why can't it be canon despite Stephen Hillenburg left the show? I mean, it's still Nickelodeon that officially produces the show. And some of the episodes pre season 4 weren't even written by Hillenburg either. Many of the writers from seasons 1-3 continued writing episodes after Hillenburg left. And there are many inconsistencies even within the stuff that Hillenburg himself produced, like for example the appearance of Neptune in season one vs. the first movie. So you would have to decide which version of Neptune is canon, even though both versions are created by Hillenburg. See the problem?
@@_vanessajane it’s just one of those spongeboomers who hate anything past the original movie. I’m not a fan of the newer seasons, but I don’t act like they don’t exist or “aren’t canon.”
I like to pretend that all episodes (minus the specials) are in exact order and then try to find reasons how that could be possible. It's especially fun with the hundred or so times that Bikini Bottom is destroyed.
I swear there's at least one episode where spongebob is off from work but krabby patties are still being served like normal at the krusty krab without him. I just can't think of it.
Also, another mini-timeline, we have squidward the unfriendly ghost where spongebob seems to learn about the flying dutchman for the first time, then scaredy pants where they see him for the first time, then all the other flying dutchman episodes.
spongebob meets the flying dutchman for the first time in the episode shangahaid or whatever it's called
"Scaredy Pants" is the first time SpongeBob met the Flying Dutchman.
@@Kmooly It's definitely Scaredy Pants.
@@andykishore Were you saying that to me or the other commenter? Because that's exactly what I said in my comment, but you didn't make yours a reply to Kmooly
@@1colonelsanders Kmooly.
I think another interesting idea could be going over the weird canonical quirks and worldbuilding in different Spongebob Media, like how Rodents from Texas have challenges in their dreams (proved by one of the video games), and that Sandy and Mr Krabs work together occasionally (in The Krabby Patty Creature Feature, or as I like to call, "The Bugsnax Episode")
I like to think that the episodes where SpongeBob isn't working are on the weekends, when the Krusty Krab is closed.
Whyʼs the Krusty Krab gonna be closed on the weekends?
I'm pretty sure Spongebob mentions in SB-129 that the Krusty Krab is closed on Sundays. I haven't checked yet if any episodes at the Krusty Krab take place on a Sunday, but it would still make sense for Mr. Krabs to occasionally call his employees in for extra work. The Krusty Krab being normally closed on Sundays is consistent with Spongebob and Squidward being off work in Good Neighbors and many other episodes where they are together.
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I feel like release order would mostly make sense.
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Well all I can really get is Help Wanted has to be after Ugh and before Christmas Who, because SpongeBob did work at the Krusty Krab there. I don’t think there’s enough here to place it any more specific than that.
"Ugh" technically has SpongeBob working at the Krusty Krab after the meanwhile time card, although I feel like that was just writers excuse to squeeze SpongeBob into the episode because they knew if they didn't put that scene in there, SpongeBob would not have been in the episode otherwise except for mentions by Patchy. SpongeBob also appears in "Ugh" later in the episode as a cave drawing, but that version of SpongeBob doesn't speak so I don't know how much you want to count it.
This is very fun! Your video actually made me want to think a little deeper about this. And this is what I came up with (feel free to use for a future video in this series):
There's a actually a timeline split in Spongebob (one where Squidward is stuck in the freezer and one where he isn't)
Timeline #1 Squidward remains stuck in the freezer in SB-129
1. UGH (obviously)
2. Tea at the Treedome (Spongebob meets Sandy)
3. Pre-Hibernation week (Spongebob learn about hibernation)
4. Survival of the Idiots (Sandy is hibernating, Spongebob sees snow for the first time)
5. Christmas Who (Spongebob knows snow, learns about Christmas)
6. Jellyfishing (Patrick knows Christmas, Squidward doesn't remember Patrick's name)
8. SB-129 (Squidward clearly knows Patrick's name, get's frozen for 3000 years)
9. Spongehenge (The final episode of this timeline. Squidward is nowhere to be seen, so we can assume he's still frozen)
Timeline #2 Squidward comes back in the timemachine in SB-129.
1. UGH
2. Tea at the Treedome
3. Pre-Hibernation week
4. Survival of the Idiots
5. Christmas Who
6. Jellyfishing
7. SB-129 (Squidward returns with the time machine)
8. The Spongebob Squarepants Movie (Plankton gets the Krabby Patty secret formula, Spongebob becomes the manager of the Krusty Krab 2)
(Timeline #2 concludes with Spongebob and Squidward still working at the Krusty Krab one eternity later, as seen in ''Squid on Strike'', with Spongebob probably working at both Krusty Krabs at the same time)
Love your channel! SpongeBob, was most of our childhoods. These videos make great watches for late night “I can’t sleep what am I doing up at 2am sessions” No but seriously, a lot of work must go into these. Keep up the great work!
Wishing you well should have been after help wanted in this timeline, because there’s a scene of SpongeBob working at the Krusty Krab in wishing you well.
My headcanon is that, only season 1-3 + the movie are canon, because the post-movie series has change the plotline so much, it lose the main charasteristics of the story
S4 still had a handful of golden age writers on the show.
So the episodes by them could still be considered canon. Or at least any that align with the writing style of the old seasons.
@@Turbulation1That would be a solution, the good episodes from each season are canon, the bad ones are not.
Finally someone getting something together
I would do just the first 3 seasons, or at the most the seasons Stephen had the most direction and creative input on
That Scardy Pants Halloween episode would take place post help wanted and before any Dutchman appearances and winter ones too.
Maybe the next place to look is with regular side character appearances. First time meeting Larry, Mrs. Puff, Pearl, Mermaid man & Barnacle boy, etc
All I know is that Spongehenge should be at the end of the timeline.
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One thing I know could possibly be true, "The Great Snail Race" takes place before "Artist Unknown", because in the former episode, SpongeBob learns for the first time that Squidward's last name is Tentacles. In "Artist Unknown" he just says "I'm ready! Mr. Tentacles" without saying anything.
New pfp is crazy, literally checked your channel like 2 minutes before this dropped
I didn't know that new community post was going to be the new profile picture.
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@@deutschermichel5807 Indeed
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I always thought it was strange aquidward didn’t know Patrick’s name in the jellyfishing episode
honestly I think that the help wanted and other episodes in your timeline could be days between them
like tree at the treedom and then days later help wanted happens
The whole series is in order except the caveman and future episodes
Not sponge henge
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I think certain scenes take place in different orders. Because of time cards and stuff and in between those timecards (like the 2000 years later one) many episodes are happening within those timecards. Like one scene could take place like 3 or more episodes after the episode. so there is chronologically no way to connect a single episode with another without it making no sense. (Sometimes there is, sometimes there isn’t it mainly depends on the episode) that’s what i think is going on with the timeline (correct me if I’m wrong)
7:29 ...so spongebob walks to to work to the right
Thats a whole other video 😂 existing already even 👀
If you think this is a mess right now, wait until you include the Patrick Star Show
Between Ugh ad Tea At The Treedom there are episodes where Bikini Bottom resembles a medieval Europeab villsge or a wild west era town
Yeah, but Awe said he wouldn't include time travel episodes and flashbacks, so they count as episodes of the present.
@@_Doctor_14 oh lol
damn it lol you stole my video idea!! ive been planning on making smthn like this for a while. good job tho!! some things i found for my chronology vid that you didnt mention is that spongebob vs. the big one mustve happened BEFORE ripped pants, since in ripped pants spongebob is surfing. breath of fresh squidward happened BEFORE restraining spongebob since in restraining spongebob squidward has 1 employee of the month award. pet or pests happens before spongeguard on duty or any other episode where larry knows spongebob. and obviously every sequel or callback episode happens after the OG episodes theyre referencing or acting as a sequel to. Stephen Hillenberg has confirmed that the original spongebob movie is at the end of the entire series' canon. are you happy now had to have happened BEFORE episodes such as band geeks & house fancy. whelk attack occurs AFTER suds. im sure theres more, but hope this helps. if you wanna do this for the entire show, my idea was to make a bunch of smaller timelines divided by OG spongebob (seasons 1-3), then mid-season spongebob, post-sequel, post-sponge on the run, & w/ the 1st movie being at the end of the TL all together. you can then at te end use these smaller timelines w/ all the notes youve made to try and make the TL as cohesive and accurate as possible based on what we know.
(I didn’t watch the whole video so forgive me if I said something wrong) 1:12 - 1:34 spongebob said that his day off at the Krusty Krab is Sunday, so maybe the other episodes that aren’t at the Krusty Krab take place on Sunday, maybe?
Oh cool, I wasn't the only one that thought this.
Finally we needed this
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Here’s a thought.
What if Bubblestand and Reef Blower take place before help wanted?
That's awe-some
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8:42 "Yob"
lol, i love that
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Americans just inventing new sounds
This reminds me of when James Rolfe (AVGN) attempted to parse the Zelda chronological timeline. Ultimately, without any explicit authorial intent, it's all just sheer speculation...and frustration of the part of the analyst. Great video, though!
I remember that episode.
Thankfully it's all in good humor though, as the true answer is what AVGN says at the end, there is no timeline, it's just fun with some nods.
I create Zelda 1 as an interesting idea mirroring my childhood whimsy and fantasies.
I create Zelda 2, but since tech is so new, there is no formula, so it is utterly different from Zelda 1. As it's the same console, I keep some canonicity as "Ganon is dead."
My company is successful, we create a new console. We start making the originals "as we wished" to have made them. See Castlevania IV (a remake of CV I) and Zelda: LttP (a re-imagining of Zelda 1 -- with the satellite version being a true remake).
Zelda: LttP is successful, it's great. Our company is still going strong, and the world is making the leap to 3D. Lets take the concepts of Zelda: LttP and try to put them in 3D. Thus, light dark turns into time travel, and 8 maidens becomes 8 sages, etc.
This game becomes one of the most successful ever, and we want to quickly release a new game to capitalize on that, so we re-use the assets and come up with some notion of a second adventure in Termina. As it's the same assets and console, we tie them by referencing Navi and the Ocarina.
Our company is big now, and portable systems are in rage too, we create Link's Awakening. The art direction takes inspiration from LttP, but we do pick some characters we've created already in the 3D games to populate the world and nod to the player. The only slight nod to canon is the bosses of the Nightmare, e.g. Agahnim and Ganon, thus one could say this happened after LttP.
This too was a success, and we have better technology now. We create the Oracle games. We take inspiration from the our previous handheld, and improve upon it. At best having canon in that, Link is at sea and finds new islands.
That's about it, it was only after that that "canon" obsession started to truly arise with the advent of the internet and its boards. Thus prompting the nod to Ocarina with Wind Waker and Twilight Princess and later Skyward Sword. To capitalize even more on peoples' obsession, even releasing that Historia book.
in wishing you well spongebob is working at the krusty krab, right? so help wanted has to be somewhere before that
In the episode, Patrick says this: *AD plays*
Edit: SpongeHenge is probably where the timeline ends as everyone dies there (even SpongeBob)
I got an AD too.
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I make a SpongeBob timeline in episode order and the first episode takes place in April 2 2009
Love the new pfp
Wait, in Christmas who they all meet in the Krusty Krab and clearly works there. Shouldn’t that be much much later?
This is a brilliant idea, I wanted to do this myself. the episode "Help Wanted" is essentially a pilot episode, and should have been just at the beginning (well, except for the "ugh", this is interactive))) yes, this is an assumption, but it seems reasonable to me. There is also a connection between the episodes where SpongeBob learns to tie his shoes and all the episodes where he ties them later in the chronology (for example, " Rock bottom").
Spongebob, Sandy, and the Worm was the first episode that really got me thinking about the show's continuity. It made me think the show was operating under a Billy and Mandy-style continuity, where everyone could be dead at the end of one episode only for the status quo to revert to normal next episode. Squidward's statement about Patrick's idea "getting them all killed" inclines me to believe that episode ends with everyone dying, but it's possible SpongeBob could have made some deal with the Flying Dutchman to bring everyone back, similar to what happened in Born Again Krabs.
The continuity of the Flying Dutchman episodes is also tricky, since he never seems to recognize SpongeBob in any of the episodes he appears in, and Shanghaied is another episode that has a similar "game over" style type of ending. The boating school episodes are also difficult to order, since the flashback in Doing Time is the only point of reference we have, and it could have happened any time in relation to Tea at the Treedome or Help Wanted.
Some chronology that comes to mind is that Your Shoe's Untied canonically needs to come after Just One Bite, since Squidward has never had a Krabby Patty before the latter. Similarly, Spongebob knows how to tie his shoes in Rock Bottom, which means it also needs to come before Your Shoe's Untied. Pressure introduces a confusing bit of continuity with Patrick's "Sandy's a girl" line. It would logically place it as the first time Patrick sees Sandy without her suit, but he sees her without it in Tea at the Treedome. You could chalk it up to Patrick being dim or perhaps even thinking Sandy with the suit is a different person from Sandy in the treedome. However, it is the only time Patrick makes this mistake. It could be used to argue that Pressure takes place before Pre-Hibernation Week or other episodes where Patrick goes back to the treedome, which is interesting since that episode is definitely after Help Wanted.
Pressure does make sense that it would take place pretty early on not just because of the Sandy's a girl thing but also because the whole plot is about them competing about mammals and sea creatures. Then later on in the show, they would be more used to Sandy's presence. It gets me wondering where Squirrel Jokes takes place on the timeline.
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It's a cartoon. Explains everything, no iceberg necessary
Why would you place Sandys meeting before Help wanted? Theres nothing here that proves he wasn't already working at the Krusty Krab at this point. I really want to know your reasoning behind that.
the episode where mr krabs and mrs puff have to be after
6:00 Wouldn't Patrick saying merry Christmas on a random day show that he doesn't know what Christmas is? SpongeBob doesnt acknowledge it either
We know that SpongeBob and Sandy were children when they first met. That means that we can put Help Wanted after Tea At The Treedome, because SpongeBob was 13 y.o. in 1999 and I don't think that child labor is legal in Bikini Bottom, so Help Wanted must be set somewhat in the future. Then I would place Plankton! and F.U.N. after Help Wanted and before Prehibernation Week. We see that in Prehibernation Week, SpongeBob already works at the Krusty Krab, so we can say for sure that Help Wanted was before that.
Also, SB-129 takes place in 2017 (at least the scenes in the present), because of the calender in the future, saying it's the year 4017 while this future is set 2000 years after the present.
I think that the last episode on the timeline should be SpongeHenge, since it shows how Bikini Bottom gets fully destroyed by a storm, with SpongeBob being the only one surviving by sitting in a cave for the rest of his life. This marks the ultimate end of SpongeBob's timeline. In the final scene of the episode, set 3000 years in the future, some aliens discover the giant statues built by SpongeBob, implying that these are the only remnants of SpongeBob's civilization. Quite depressing honestly...
Sandy and SpongeBob met as adults.
@carinaslima But in season 1, Sponge was canonically 13. At least if we assume that tea at the treedome is set in 1999
@ There’s proof it takes place after 1999, in SB-129 a calendary in the future says 4017 and since it was exactly 2000 years, so season 1 likely takes place in 2017 and 2018.
@carinaslima I know, but sure this can be said about every episode of the season? Like why would they set a 1999 series in 2017 without providing any further context? SpongeBob never was about visions of the future or anything...
@ The facts don’t care.
3:24 Sandy goes to the Krusty Krab to ask everybody including Mr. Krabs where SpongeBob is yet this's before Help Wanted in your timeline.
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I’d argue Help Wanted is before Christmas Who. In Christmas Who, Spongebob goes to the Krusty Krab to tell Patrick/Squidward/Mr Krabs about Christmas as if all 3 are his closest friends.
Spongebob knew of Mr Krabs in Help Wanted (saying “Mr Krabs, please. Ask Squidward, he’ll vouch for me”) but it would make sense that he would have worked there for a bit before considering Krabs as a friend.
can't wait to see branching timelines cause of spinoff meddling like time traveling young sandy.
i just realized the outdo music and intro music is met gala by offset and gucci mane
Could do a video on the end of the timeline, where you work backwards
Christmas who has gotta be after help wanted cause SpongeBob teaches Patrick, squidward, and Mr. Krabs about santa in the krusty krab while he’s in uniform
Since Squidward dose not remember Gary's name your should have put I Was a Teenage Gary before help wented
Can you make a video about the old king Neptune the one from the SpongeBob movie like what happened to him?
Looking forward to next video.😊
"UGH"
So SpongeBob lives 500 feet away from Krusty Krab and must turn left to go there. Get it.
Pretty sure Krabs A La Mode (An episode where SpongeBob recognizes Plankton and Mr. Krabs briefly mentions Santa Claus) takes place after both Plankton! and Christmas Who?
Awe some
I don't think there's enough evidence in the show to make a concrete chronological order of episodes, but there should definitely enough there to place everything around and between 10 anchor episodes with major character introductions/events, most of which you already have in your timeline:
Tea at the Treedome
Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy
Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy 3 (Manray)
Help Wanted
Krusty Love
Plankton!
Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy 4 (Small Ray)
Christmas Who?
Bummer Vacation
"Can You Spare a Dime?" is a special case because you could argue that multiple episodes take place between Squidward quitting and him becoming homeless
The entire SpongeBob Timeline
Stephen Hillenburg‘s parents screwing
Stephen Hillenburg being born
Stephen Hillenburg going to art college
Stephen Hillenburg getting hired for Rocco‘s modern life
Stephen Hillenburg creates sponge boy and the rest is history
Good job sir
You can put Texas before Christmas Who, since SpongeBob thinks “Christmas” is a friend from Texas
I want to smoke weed with awe while we watch Dunston Checks In and eat uncrustables
The only issue with Sandy hibernating is that... well... Squirrel's don't hibernate. I should know, being one myself.
Maybe cuz my phone's cracked but I thought this was 11 seconds and I still clicked lol
"y'all better listen" 😂. Well said 😂
7:29 WHAAAAAT. The show just ruined the video on where the crusty crab is. It's location here is not correct! 😔
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Awe, “Christmas Who” has one scene at the Krusty Krab so uhhhhhhhhhh yeah, also Mr Krabs shows up throughout the episode along with Plankton in the song so um that too. ALSO IM NOT TRYIN TO BE A NEEEEERRRRRRDDD so please don’t take it like I am trying to so yeah that’s about it so uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yeah Sandy movie is trash, bye
Huh?
Ive never been this early that's cool
Epic moment
I did the same thing for a South Park chronological timeline
Lol