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.
Unless you go _further_ and say that their Neptune was more Earth-like once, and this takes place in the past - or that maybe their Earth became more Neptune-like due to climate change/terraforming (we do see aliens at the end).
i guess it can still make sense as her suit is more like a space suit while a skin tight outfit and the helmet woyld make more sense for underwater. and she needs air, so yuh. the bubble bowl,,, idk my brain is fried
@@bonk895 then maybe she was a squirrel from Texas sent on a mission to Neptune instead of a human. She being from Texas is then a reference to Houston, TX, as in "Houston, we have a problem"
@@BierBart12 Either it was a perfect episodes but those were so ugly they were even uglier than the atlanteans in the atlantis special who wrote them in? why? who would wanna see something nasty like this
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.
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.
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.
It’s the first time that I heard someone else had this happened to him. When I was a kid I got so scared. Finally there’s someone else who saw that happen.
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."
Yeah, I had a Spongebob DVD and remember this episode being included on it. That ending and the music that played in the background when the aliens showed up really frightened me. Very offbeat for your average spongebob episode.
it’s the winds of change. The winds of change came, the series needed to end, but “spongehenge” or SpongeBob and it’s legacy will last forever. At the end, SpongeBob is alone, his friends aren’t really his friends and his boss ultimately used him. He realized he was the only one that meant anything to his own life, hence the show. And even after bikini bottom is gone (and the show) SpongeBob will always be a monumental staple.
bro i loved it. i had the same reaction but also at the same time it opened my eyes to art that wasn't necessarily happy and positive but still beautiful and meaningful
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
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?
@@0Flingyding0 Why not? It gives you an opportunity to apply actual science to the situation, something Stephen Hillenburg would have appreciated as a marine biology instructor. Moving the entire show to a different planet for the sake of explaining one tiny part of the overarching theory isn't interesting, it just doesn't make sense and undermines the more credible and actually interesting parts of the theory.
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.
This guys talking out of his ass there's climate change portrayed in bikini bottom through the whole timeline of the show. This guy sounds like he popped one too many adderalls and went all super technical over-analyze mode.
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.
This was insane we literally just discussed this in my World Lit class! What are the odds I'd find a comment about it under a Spongebob theory video lol
@@somber_days I was hoping to find it here as well but found nothing, so i decided to be the first 😂😅 in the hopes that other people would find it as well haha.
There were also similar stones in the game Journey, stone obelisks with holes in them that the wind would blow through. I'm pretty sure they're based off _real_ stone structures in... well, some culture, I forgot which. But they actually make music when the wind blows through them. I swear I saw something on this somewhere. I'll look into it.
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
Still my favorite episode to this day! I don't believe they are on Neptune but still the parallels of the wind coupled with the idea of climate change being the cause is chilling to say the least- Earth truly suffered a silent apocalypse and became a mirror image of one of its brethren planets.
In one of the episodes sandy and Spongebob travel into space and all the planets of the solar system that means that sandy knows about space travel and came from earth's Texas on a ship called space bus. (I am just assuming this don't take my word for it)
I think that evey episode that came after that was spongebob dreaming of his friend and bikini bottom when spending his time in that cave,or it could alternate universe where spmething different happend instead
@@ross8665 I like where you're going, but in some spongebob episodes there's different "endings" to the series. so I think that this episode, is one of the many endings out there.
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.
Junji Ito's stories are less about how uncaring the universe is and more about making horror out of the mundane. Like Long Dreams. The dude goes to sleep and ages thousands of years, to the point where he bases his reality on his dreams, gets rejected by his girlfriend, and soon becomes an immovable husk of a man and he permanently dreams away through his eternal suffering.
@@Odinsday his dreams stretched every time, dreaming for tens of thousands of years in a single instant. Eventually, within that small instance of dreaming, he dreamt for an eternity and crumbled away.
@@ttpbroadcastingcompany.4460 I was okay with what he was saying up to the point where he says that the whole show takes place on neptune. I think that was really just stupid. I'm not one to knock fan theories, but seriously? "Oh yeah, there's tons of evidence that the show that spongebob takes place on Earth, but ackhually they could just be hallucinating, so the winds symbolize the planet neptune!!!" Does he not realize Neptune is a gas planet?
@@TheSpokenBanana If we're being technical, Neptune is actually an Ice Giant. Its composition is much different than jupiter, as it's believed to contain more methane, and possibly even water in one form or another. That said, the show definitely does not take place there, as Stephen Hillenberg has stated it takes place below the real-world location of Bikini Atoll.
@@joldsaway3489 Oh nice, I didn't know that, but yeah, the theory that the show takes place in Neptune all along just because there's wind just rubbed me the wrong way.
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.
Not really in this case, because this show is beyond its own internal consitency and only exists within your suspension of its own reality, that is why that episode with the real/fake gorilla Patrick dilemma can exist together with the future and BC episode, because its a cartoon that follow reality based on whatever is happening within its own context. Its only easiest to explain that they're not on drugs and on Earth but in reality I could buy its a massive hallucination in some shape or form if it all exists as one continuity, which can vary from person-to-person because of your subjective viewpoint of the show.
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.
@@Stonecargo21 David Hasselhoff isn't always the real David Hasselhoff. Sometimes, David Hasselhoff creates other versions of David Hasselhoff to act as emissaries and avatars for David Hasselhoff. That way, David Hasselhoff can oversee amd interact with multiple realities without requiring David Hasselhoff's physical presence. Not only that, some mortals create false idols of David Hasselhoff, not realizing that their false depictions of David Hasselhoff hold no power and are, in fact, insults to David Hasselhoff, leading to great calamaties brought upon them by David Hasselhoff.
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.
I was really surprised when he said it's one of the least liked episodes as it was always one of my favorites. This might have been the first piece of media ever to give me an existential crises alongside the episode "sb-129", no joke. And I was like 6 or 7. Good times...
He already broke the theory by saying that the reality they perceive is false, therefore anything we see in the show or deduce is already invalid. Neptune's mostly made of water as easter sunday is about zombies. And it just became windy on that episode then, not since the dawn of time.
@@WingMaster562 On top of that, Neptune is a fucking block of ice. This..."water" isn't water, and isn't sustainable for marine life in any fashion. This theory kinda sucked.
@@pedroks7756 it's not about being realistic, it's about making sense. Granted this cartoon is not intended to make sense, but people still like making "theories" on it. . That said, im starting to think this video is a half baked attempt for a shitpost. It's not over the top that its obviously satire, and it is not sensical enough for a theory either.
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.
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
Very fascinating. So this eary feeling after that episode is to feel that work ethic he put into stone henge? and the crazyness he went through was sorta the pain he ran into before he left. when he left, somewhere early on he has to imagined that bikini bottom burried real fast way before he got out. really everyone was gone when he got out. He had no clue as well how long they have been gone for. Its really suspensful and shows maybe a different perspective on any situation. Lol i
All because it doesn't show another character afterwards doesn't mean anything, we see the Krusty Krab blow away which could say something about its cheap foundation because Mr. Krabs is cheap so while still in the same storm it would be left as is because why try to rebuild something when you don't have control over the bad weather? You're not gonna go build a house during a hurricane. The town overall looks in good shape despite the wind going on, if everyone were to die or whatever then the amount of time suggested would also mean the towns in very bad shape due to the wind but that's not the case. Overall everyone's fine and the only one to get hit hard was SpongeBob
"And wouldn't it be funny if we made a planet of the apes reference?" I swear to god for such an episodic and ridiculous series both adults and kids alike take this show way to serious sometimes
But neptune first came down onto earth in the year 3000bc from the planet neptune as the true messiah of the sponge NOT poseidon. Also stonehegne was built by aliens on neptune and abducted here . Idiot
this theory was broken when he stole the idea from the writers of the show, and honestly believed it was a "theory" bruh everyone has an imagination, not everyone uses it to spew bullshit and convince 6 millions viewers that it's not bullshit for long enough that this person actually probably made money, from this bullshit, ifs fuckinf sickening c
Yeah idk if it’s cause Izm drunk asf rn or what, but this whoke video was some yappin on a next mevel. Like i aint heard one word homie said, and i certainly don’t see the point kf the bideo or the theory. Like what tf is he even on about? Slongebob is on another olanet? Or they on hallucinations drugs or some shit? Mang fuck this bideo
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.
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 like this explanation of it much better than that episode literally just being the unofficial finale of the show. I think they should give SpongeBob a canonical ending but everyone dying really isn't the best way to do it.
Dude u need to have like a fan meet up LMAOOO I've seen you on so many videos in the comments section I've watched over the years, it's insane 😂 dunno how you do it but good on ya
Stephen Hillenbrand literally says the entire premise of the show is based on the nuclear tests on Bikini Atoll in the 50s, the radiation made the characters come to life.
@@ddl3718 I can tell you that science is as sure as you and I are that we die when we jump off a high enough building we’ll die, that there is no marine life (possibility) on Neptune. Neptune doesn’t really have any oceans. Neptune is a gas giant, there is no real surface at all
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.
but it had a happy and funny ending. it didn’t scare me as a child and i thought the episode was pretty funny but i can see how other people were scared of it
It becomes easier to stomach once you find out it's a reference to The Twilight Zone, happy ending and everything. If I remember correctly, the show is referenced in Spongebob a few times.
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 😂
Yeah, you can make the “its just a dream” with literally any kind of show, it’s one of the worst kinds of theories because at that point you could make anything you say true about the show
@@Earfmover plus he takes evidence from the show saying "oh it's windy it must be neptune" mf if it was a hallucination you don't think wind could happen on earth???
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
Right. Wrote sth similar. According to wikipedia it's even worse. Worse like -200°C atmosphere ontop and superhot high pressure fluid of water, ammonia, methane and some rock particles below with a layer in which even the atoms of water are split up. Appearantly the core is actually producing heat for the mantle.
Agreed. The Neptune part has no supporting evidence whatsoever. Not only that, but his argument start off wrong. Its not wind, this isn't wind at all. They are underwater in an ocean. These are currents. Currents change all the time. You can easily explain all of this as a change in current pattern causing what used to be a calm water area to become uninhabitable or not suitable for the animals that lived there. Change in currents can be caused by earth quakes for instance. So its totally more believable and easily explainable that an earth quake cause a change in the ocean currents that lead to the destruction of Bikini Bottom.
Yeah, this is indeed a far stretch of a theory. I dont intend to sound mean, at least he has pleasang voice than matpat, but he lost me around the planet neptune.
I've recently taken an Ancient Humanities class, and we spent a good couple of weeks thoroughly analyzing Stonehenge, and the religious and cultural meanings for its construction, and this video made me realize that the grim ending of this episode has a lot of roots in ancient Neolithic culture, whether it was intentional or not. Individuals who have studied Stonehenge have determined that it was a site to honor ancestors who had passed away. By looking at African cultures, as well as some other Neolithic cultures, it was concluded that the usage of stone was linked to ideas of death, which backs this claim. Archaeologists have dug up human bones around the site as well, so it was at least somewhat used as a burial sight. Clearly, Stonehenge is meant to represent these ideas, but that's not all. Every year during the summer solstice, the rising sun shines directly down the center axis of the monument, and through something called a Heel Stone, which is a HUGE deal to ancient cultures. Having the sun line up on a solstice or equinox with a grand sculpture meant it was important. (Another example would be the Great Sphinx and the Pyramid of Khafre.) Basically, Stonehenge was used to track the of the various cycles of nature, whether it be the seasons, or the the moon phases, or otherwise. So, why mention all this? It's because there were celebrations held at Stonehenge because of these qualities, and one almost certainly happened during the summer solstice every year. It is eerily similar to the situation at Spongehenge. The aliens mention how the jellyfish gather there every year, and we can clearly see them dancing and swimming all over the place in a sort of celebration. The aliens even call it a migration, which means that it is possible a summer migration that could fall in line with the solstice. Spongebob's unsettling sculptures also reinforce the idea of death, just as the original Stonehenge did. He uses stone, and when he finally escapes his cave, he sees Bikini Bottom and the Krusty Krab deserted. Gone. Passed. Spongebob has unknowingly constructed a monument honoring his past life, which no longer exists. There's more to be analyzed when it comes to the state of the Krusty Krab. It's not as well known, but there existed a wood sculpture similar to Stonehenge only 2 miles away from Stonehenge, down the River Avon, located at Durrington Walls. People have dubbed it Woodhenge. It was the opposite of Stonehenge. Obviously, it used wood, and it framed the setting sun on the summer solstice, rather than when it was rising. It is believed that this site was a companion site to Stonehenge. Stonehenge would be the place to honor death, while Woodhenge would honor life. There were rituals held here too, as the bones of cattle were found in the area of the structure. People feasted here. This structure unfortunately no longer exists, because, well, wood doesn't hold up as well as stone. So, it can be said that Woodhenge has a link to this episode as well. Where does Spongebob enjoy to be through many of the episodes in this show? Where does he spend a great chunk of his life? The Krusty Krab, which is made out of wood, and it's where people feast on food. See the connection? Spongebob considers his job as a fry cook to be very much linked with his very existence, and he even runs towards the establishment before anything else when he escapes. He doesn't consider checking how his house is, or if Gary is okay. He goes to work. What does he see? A destroyed and withered Krusty Krab. Spongebob's Woodhenge, his structure representing life, was destroyed and lost by time, just like our real world equivalent. It is Stonehenge, and in Spongebob's case, Spongehenge that remains. It is likely that these connections were completely unintentional, but I find it uncanny how many Neolithic connections there are in this episode. Thanks for reminding me this episode exists, it was fun to analyze it under this context, as well as view your theories.
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
Just a small disagreement on your suggestion that maybe the jellyfish come back to torture & abuse SpongeBob since he "used them as food & prey" for so long. Throughout the series Spongebob makes it clear he adores & respects jellyfish, he typically catches & releases them & in rare instances collects some of their jelly to use for recreational purposes before then releasing them. There's been many instances where other characters will abuse jellyfish whether for profit or simple annoyance to which then Spongebob is usually found on the moral high ground of the episode. The jellyfish themselves throughout the series are naturally aggressive & defensive creatures usually stinging & chasing away perceived predators in which most cases there is no real threat so it's safe to assume that in this episode there's no reason for them to act any different than they have always acted. Just a thought.
So true, SpongeBob always had a special relationship with jellyfish, but them acting out in this episode couldt be a sort of message towards debunking like heroic veganism and showing that without institutional and cultural ground both, nature still has a threshold for its abuses and retaliates blindly. Hauntingly reminiscent of the fundamental misunderstanding of viral diseases like COVIID when people say "but I did x, y, and z for so long and went on vacation and THEN got it." as though systems in nature record patient history. Super dark for a show like this to narrate an episode of a genuinely well intentioned character suffering the deepest degrees of his ideals to the point of madness, even down to a jellyfish.
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’m exactly the same. I grew up with Spongebob and had seen every episode (up to a certain point - I outgrew it/the later episodes weren’t as good) and Spongehenge was the most odd, standout psychological experience I had watching the show. I could never make sense of what emotion I felt by the end of that episode. “Eerie” is definitely a good adjective for it.
It's like the whole time, it's doesn't seem like it's a joke. It seems serious. The events seem real, and they're all bad but they don't have a punchline
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.
This episode was an emotional rollercoaster as a child who suffered from isolation. Watching Bob isolate himself from his abusive surrounding on my room television where I isolated myself from my abusive surrounding
The idea that this takes place on Neptune has little to no supporting evidence, you seem to be taking this episode more literally than you should be. The wind could definitely be a metaphor, it flew through him making music that came with jellyfish which ended up tormenting him. This episode can be seen as a metaphor for fame, with the wind being the content he creates and the jellyfish being the fans that love it. Just like in real life, the fame came unasked for, it was fun at first but soon he couldn't leave his house without being recognized. His job that he loved was no longer possible with the fans that he now has, his friends now have left him for "being a bad influence" or in other words "fame has changed him". The cave that he runs off to is the new home he hids in, growing so lonely that he starts to "create" music again, in the form of building a statue. When he tries to return home, his home is gone, the simple life that he once loved he can never return to. The statues he creates are his albums, celebrated thousands of years into the future as masterpieces that the jellyfish called them to be. I believe that this episode does have a meaning, a meaning about fame and what it can do to someone, the legacy someone leaves behind, and how its original meaning can be lost in time. It may be about religion, or the worship we give to the people who create. But it's definitely not about how bikini bottom is actually on Neptune.
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.
They aren't the same god, though. Neptune is very heavily influenced by Poseidon and wouldn't have existed without Poseidon, but to say that they're both the same god is just wrong. Look up "neptune vs poseidon" and you will find a number of differences between the two.
@@Benjamin-rj7ds it's heavily influenced, but Neptune was probably a etruscan God originally that the Roman's fused with poseidon when they conquered Greece. That's pretty much all the Roman gods, except for the ones that have no Roman names, because there was no etruscan equivalent (such as apollo). For example, pre Greek conquering Minerva was more of a mercantile/craft kinda goddess and only took on the war like aspect when she fused with Athena. Taking that into consideration just adds to the existential shit this episode had going on, honestly.
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.
I always assumed that Neptune was their god or whatever considering they say “Oh my Neptune” just like we say “Oh my god” idk tho lol Edit: I’m aware that Neptune and Poseidon are the same jesus christ
There IS a lot of water, but it's all ice. Down in the core. Under thousands or millions of times the pressure at sea level on earth. Mixed with ammonia. And STUPID cold.
Don’t pineapples come from earth? Also most of the houses in bikini bottom are car mufflers, I don’t think they got those on Neptune. I believe there was multiple episodes that showed humans in it like the doodle bob one.
This episode always stuck with me due to the fact that the wind seems almost supernatural. Like you said; it just starts one day and never stops. That as a concept terrified me, imagine such a scenario in real life; you're just relaxing in your house, sitting in school, or at work, etc. and suddenly powerful hurricane-like winds start out of nowhere, it's slightly baffling at first, but it's just wind. You hunker down wherever you are and try to wait it out but it just never stops, it goes on for days, weeks, months, years, decades with absolutely no reason or explaination.
In the episode during the 3000 year section they say it's an annual occurrence meaning its just weather being weather, it's basically how in the spring you know it's gonna rain alot or summer with it being hot.
The jellyfish were the rulers of bikini bottom before a "king" took over. That king was forgotten amongst the current civilization of bikini bottom, hence why they argue on the name. The jellyfish seized the opportunity to reclaim their nation. They seen SpongeBob as Pure, harmless and full of good intentions. They saved him from his current reality by showing him the illusion by faults of friends through letting them down. The jellyfish took over bikini bottom and praised SpongeBob as a deity for his pure nature.
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
Two things. One, Neptune is not a God. It is just a planet. Neptūnus is the name of the Roman God. Second, they are not the exact same. Rome had something called Syncretizism, where gods from other pantheons were adopted into its own. While the Roman and Greek pantheons became the most similar, especially looking back. Neptūnus likely began as a God of freshwater springs, for example. That being said, Neptūnus was one of the earliest to be identified with Posidon, so it is more accurate than some other gods, such as Pluto and Hades, or Venus and Aphrodite.
That episode is just a parody of all midlife crisis stories. No real depth to it besides the jokes about Spongebob and Patrick’s lame version of a boys night.
Honestly i have personal theory on spongehedge where it the timeline where present Squidward just vanished in the freezer and future Squidward made another timeline where he comes back with another present Squidward still there but honestly it may be a timeline where SpongeBob was not there for the first movie and in rage king Neptune destroyed bikini bottom because one if the show episode shown that king Neptune likes to mess with mortal fish and Patrick just happen to survive
Poseidon and Neptune are technically just two versions of one god. The former is greek and the latter is roman. Im pretty sure Poseidon came first until the romans conquered (most of) greece
Do note that Neptune likely existed in some way as a Roman god before he became associated with Poseidon, but the historical record (Wikipedia) doesn’t have much about this.
@@lentlemenproductions770 still though, by the time Rome was a thing (even when it was just a large camp of outcasts trying to form a government) it was influenced by the Greek culture and the local vernacular. Even pre achean war, romes religion was modeled on the greek one.
I've always loved this episode. It's like the party episode in the sense that I can vaguely remember it but it doesn't seem like a real episode. Something was off and I can always appreciate those
I feel like the "everyone was just imagining/hallucinating it all along" type of theory is the laziest type of theory imaginable. You can say that about literally anything, with no proof required, and no consequences. I feel like that undermines the rest of this theory.
No one: Karsten: Clearly this one specific episode is about religion on Neptune and the message is about (random rambling) Nickelodeon: Hehe spongeman make stonehenge
Why weren't the winds there before? You do realize that you're basically ignoring all the evidence that the show is on Earth for this theory to even work. Was the sand a hallucination? Were the animals that are all explicitly Earth animals a hallucination? There is no way they were on Neptune the whole time.
He even had an easy out in just saying it was a shifted ocean current caused by climate change or something, which he had already mentioned. I have no idea how the hell "They were actually on the planet Neptune" even occurred to him.
@@beautifulnova6088 Right? You could almost say the ocean follows new bad rules, because It's being ruled badly now by a new bad ruler who, by being a bad ruler, made the ocean's climate bad... with his ruling. Gee, I wonder who this other ruler of the ocean might possibly be... Eh, probably no one important.
I think the whole theory part was just a joke, to prove that this episode has no cohesive reason for anything to happen. He goes insane, just like how spongebob does. Like this dude made some great deep spongebob analysis yet he doesn’t know how planets work?
One character denying a god's existence wouldn't kill it. That makes no sense. And when she "killed god" the wind was already blowing, so there's no way she caused it.
Some of the newer episodes, ‘No Pictures Please’, and ‘The Night Patty’, actually take place in a Spongebob version of the Twlight Zone where nothing makes sense.
Or you know, Spongehenge is just another episode that just happens to have a darker tone. It's probably just a joke about how humans always wonder about the origins of Stonehenge, and it could just be a silly scenario like Spongehenge
yeah, glad i found someone who feels the same way. i don't mind a little reaching but this is overkill, not to mention half the stuff he said is just wrong.
Despite the holes in the theory (David Hasselhoff, Sandy being from Texas, Bikini Bottom being based on the real world Bikini Atoll, etc), this is a well-made video! Nicely done :)
"There are like 20 episodes that debunk this, but they can be ignored by calling them hallucinations. But this episode obviously isn't. And there are definitely serene islands with palm trees on neptune"
@@henri4356 I remember one of the last MatPat videos I watched was a Film Theory that basically said Neville could've also been the Chosen One. Sure, it was less fact and more "If you'd read the books, you'd know that it's an explicitly stated truth", but the guy always backs up his theories with facts and reason, without saying anything that's just off-the-wall wrong. Or at least, that's what I remember from however many years ago that was. I could be wrong, since I think he might be a parody channel that only makes joke theories, but still. Better than "Neptune is windy, therefore this show that clearly takes place on Earth is actually on another planet, despite so much evidence to the contrary that I don't really argue against."
@@bluesbest1 Yea, and film theory/ MatPat at least was fun and animated. It presented the theories as what they were, entertainment. Which is what makes it so hilarious to me that this guy leans so heavily on the smooth jazz, serious film analysis aesthetic. The funniest part is that the whole premise of this video was based on a misunderstanding. Neptune is just the Roman version of Poseidon, and they were literally the same God during the Roman Empire. This reminds me of that old NigaHiga illuminati video, if u haven’t seen it I think it’ll give you a good laugh.
BuT THat’S JuSt A TheoRry
*A film theory!!!!!!*
*Thanks for watching*
A SPONGEBOB THEORY!
Karsten Runaquist moment
*A Gayme theory*
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!
Well I liked the gone episode so funny
What's even worse is that we never knew what happened to Gary or any of other SpongeBob's friends
@@kittykittybangbang9367 they all die after ww3
This episode was my first experience of existential dread
Yes both that episode and this one both gave me a weird feeling as a kid
"This is such a dark and unsettling episode"
*smooth jazz intensifies*
“Who’s playing Squidward’s records again?”
spongbob fr smash bros please
You like _jazz?_
kelpy g vibes
*Ya like jazz?*
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.
Yes, the jellyfish represented demons entering one's body, in my perception, especially with all the pagan references in this episode.
that’s really what y’all thought when u first saw this? where y’all having an existential crisis at 5?
hooked clearly is such a reference ... its even in the title ^^
That makes more sense than this whole video
This makes a lot of sense
I know it’s just a theory but holy shit the being on Neptune thing is an astronomic stretch
It’s not even a stretch, its just impossible
Nice one
bonus points for the relevant use of the word "astronomic."
Sandy literally being from Texas 🤣
Unless you go _further_ and say that their Neptune was more Earth-like once, and this takes place in the past - or that maybe their Earth became more Neptune-like due to climate change/terraforming (we do see aliens at the end).
“bikini bottom takes place on the planet neptune” dude Sandy is from TEXAS
And the fricking bubble bowl
i guess it can still make sense as her suit is more like a space suit while a skin tight outfit and the helmet woyld make more sense for underwater. and she needs air, so yuh. the bubble bowl,,, idk my brain is fried
Bold of you to assume that Neptune doesn't have its own Texas
Texas is more a concept than a place
I live in Texas
@@bonk895 then maybe she was a squirrel from Texas sent on a mission to Neptune instead of a human. She being from Texas is then a reference to Houston, TX, as in "Houston, we have a problem"
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...
It all felt like a nightmare
“Time for work spongebob” 🌞
@@mrpig404 yo I remember that part. I always thought it was funny as shit like so random
"The religious lore of Bikini Bottom"
That is a statement that will live in my head forever
Aliens? I thought they wer ejust creatures fro the future?
@@lorddukfoxyzeppeli7921 That has nothing to do with that comment, but so did I. I thought they were just evolved future creatures
@@BierBart12 Either it was a perfect episodes but those were so ugly
they were even uglier than the atlanteans in the atlantis special
who wrote them in?
why?
who would wanna see something nasty like this
will*
Yes
Even without sound, I can perfectly remember the music that the holes and the jellyfish made from when I watched this as a child.
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.
@FAT COUNTRY Courage is overrated, but it does have its moments.
@@user-fe8gx3ie5v spongebob is also pretty damn overrated too
@@inactiveaccount7728 ikr, this guy really calling courage overrated when spongebob is the overrated of the overrated.
@@inactiveaccount7728 Nope. It deserves all the acclaim it gets.
@@PostalDude_1997 overrated*
"the religious lore of Bikini Bottom."
Ahh. Spongebob theories and words you should never put together in a specific order go hand in hand.
Ikr
Why?
@@ltb1345 because it’s a kids television show, not a complex drama with symbolism and metaphors.
@@hexagonproductions2019 most of these theories are such a stretch to the point where they are funny
@@yourfatboy5359 you should watch skin theory.
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.
Forgot about that episode. Good point right there!
Neptune and Poseidon
I think that the Neptune in the show and the Neptune in the movie are two different Neptunes. One is the god and one is the mortal king.
@@nevergivingup3434 its confirmed from what i remember that these two neptunes are two different beings
Y’know, that episode does bring Godly powers into the question, as well.
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.
that is pretty eerie, when cartoons just randomly derail and function not-normally.
ngl i think i know that one too
Did you or someone you know write over a vhs tape and you were just watching that?
Funny that you say that, i also watched in on german TV.
And it just played like normal.
It’s the first time that I heard someone else had this happened to him. When I was a kid I got so scared. Finally there’s someone else who saw that happen.
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."
Yeah, I had a Spongebob DVD and remember this episode being included on it. That ending and the music that played in the background when the aliens showed up really frightened me. Very offbeat for your average spongebob episode.
Yeah I remember this to, I never really got what it was about but it kinda freaked me out
@@nardo259 it was actually from this episode where i found out about death as a kid lol
and i couldn't swallow the pill that people can die
it’s the winds of change. The winds of change came, the series needed to end, but “spongehenge” or SpongeBob and it’s legacy will last forever.
At the end, SpongeBob is alone, his friends aren’t really his friends and his boss ultimately used him. He realized he was the only one that meant anything to his own life, hence the show. And even after bikini bottom is gone (and the show) SpongeBob will always be a monumental staple.
bro i loved it. i had the same reaction but also at the same time it opened my eyes to art that wasn't necessarily happy and positive but still beautiful and meaningful
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
...Couldn't it just the sound of the holes in the Spongehenges? Or some sponge coral.
Yeah they've shown that coral can sound like SpongeBob's laugh, in Squids Day Off
That’s dark….
@@carlosthunder8262 and sponges have a very long lifespan
True
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?
Because "its climate change bro" is not interesting even a little bit
@@0Flingyding0 Why not? It gives you an opportunity to apply actual science to the situation, something Stephen Hillenburg would have appreciated as a marine biology instructor. Moving the entire show to a different planet for the sake of explaining one tiny part of the overarching theory isn't interesting, it just doesn't make sense and undermines the more credible and actually interesting parts of the theory.
GOOD BOY
thank you for helping me salvage my time, the Neptune part kinda made me regret watching.
@@0Flingyding0 theories aren't supposed to be as entertaining as possible, they're supposed to be as comprehensible and logical as possible.
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.
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
Oh yeah, that could explain why there are episodes are this. That makes sense!
I actually really like this theory. I think it makes more sense canonically. Although, I’m not sure how much canon there really is in spongebob
This one leaves me a lot less creeped out than his
This is good
That is just lazy and a copout
Theory logic: Its windy in this episode and one of the side characters mentioned neptune, sO tHeY gOtTa Be On PlAnEt Neptune
This guys talking out of his ass there's climate change portrayed in bikini bottom through the whole timeline of the show. This guy sounds like he popped one too many adderalls and went all super technical over-analyze mode.
@@hwr2357 It's literally a spongebob theory video I think you need to dial it back a bit
@@diehleeo1449 he’s not wrong though
@@Souphead. SpongeBob's house was literally dropped in the Ocean by a human
@@AskinNukkLeVarr actually no!
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.
Adding that to my list
This was insane we literally just discussed this in my World Lit class! What are the odds I'd find a comment about it under a Spongebob theory video lol
@@somber_days I was hoping to find it here as well but found nothing, so i decided to be the first 😂😅 in the hopes that other people would find it as well haha.
Isn't this a trope? I feel like this happens at least twice in any fantasy adventure story.
There were also similar stones in the game Journey, stone obelisks with holes in them that the wind would blow through. I'm pretty sure they're based off _real_ stone structures in... well, some culture, I forgot which. But they actually make music when the wind blows through them. I swear I saw something on this somewhere. I'll look into it.
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
Same
Fr it is one of my favorites
Still my favorite episode to this day! I don't believe they are on Neptune but still the parallels of the wind coupled with the idea of climate change being the cause is chilling to say the least- Earth truly suffered a silent apocalypse and became a mirror image of one of its brethren planets.
this episode, rock bottom, and that future episode were quite traumatizing as a kid.
SB-129?
Same here
@@lundomphod9484 yeah! i forgot what it was called
Mine was Clarinet World or Land or something like that
@@katsukibakugo7101 That one was tripy
But Sandy is literally from Texas. She even travelled there on bus. It is indeed earth.
But its crazy for how Sandy was never in this episode
In one of the episodes sandy and Spongebob travel into space and all the planets of the solar system that means that sandy knows about space travel and came from earth's Texas on a ship called space bus.
(I am just assuming this don't take my word for it)
I always thought it was weird how sandy wears something more similar to an astronaut suit rather than a diver suit 🤔
@Personal Jesus huh?
@Personal Jesus This heavy-caliber tripod-mounted little old number designed by me and built by me is pointed at you for saying that.
“It’s episode 99B, so this is the last episode.” No further backing
@Mr.Springtrap Canon is weird. It might be since we see Mindy in SpongeBobs birthday bash. She is in line outside his house.
@@theghosttm8245 Its might be the birthday episode is after the first movie?
I think that evey episode that came after that was spongebob dreaming of his friend and bikini bottom when spending his time in that cave,or it could alternate universe where spmething different happend instead
@@ross8665 I like where you're going, but in some spongebob episodes there's different "endings" to the series. so I think that this episode, is one of the many endings out there.
@@R.U.E.Entertainment it could be, I think that the endings are just endings to a day in a universe in a multiverse in a dimension
His house is literally a sunken pineapple, they’re on earth.
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.
so its lovecraftian?
The universe isn't alive though
hellstar remina when it wants a snack
Junji Ito's stories are less about how uncaring the universe is and more about making horror out of the mundane. Like Long Dreams. The dude goes to sleep and ages thousands of years, to the point where he bases his reality on his dreams, gets rejected by his girlfriend, and soon becomes an immovable husk of a man and he permanently dreams away through his eternal suffering.
@@Odinsday his dreams stretched every time, dreaming for tens of thousands of years in a single instant. Eventually, within that small instance of dreaming, he dreamt for an eternity and crumbled away.
The writers of the episode " wtf Is this guy talking about we made this in 10 minutes"
Exactly. It's just a silly nod to Stonehenge. It's not even all that scary.
@@ttpbroadcastingcompany.4460 I was okay with what he was saying up to the point where he says that the whole show takes place on neptune. I think that was really just stupid. I'm not one to knock fan theories, but seriously?
"Oh yeah, there's tons of evidence that the show that spongebob takes place on Earth, but ackhually they could just be hallucinating, so the winds symbolize the planet neptune!!!"
Does he not realize Neptune is a gas planet?
@@TheSpokenBanana If we're being technical, Neptune is actually an Ice Giant. Its composition is much different than jupiter, as it's believed to contain more methane, and possibly even water in one form or another.
That said, the show definitely does not take place there, as Stephen Hillenberg has stated it takes place below the real-world location of Bikini Atoll.
@@joldsaway3489 Oh nice, I didn't know that, but yeah, the theory that the show takes place in Neptune all along just because there's wind just rubbed me the wrong way.
@@ttpbroadcastingcompany.4460 i😀
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.
Exactly. This video should have 45k dislikes for this horrible logic
@@pinkgoergefloyd8340 Im surprised its not more disliked
Seriously, this whole vid is fake smart nonsense.
It’s one of the laziest theories out there for any show
Not really in this case, because this show is beyond its own internal consitency and only exists within your suspension of its own reality, that is why that episode with the real/fake gorilla Patrick dilemma can exist together with the future and BC episode, because its a cartoon that follow reality based on whatever is happening within its own context. Its only easiest to explain that they're not on drugs and on Earth but in reality I could buy its a massive hallucination in some shape or form if it all exists as one continuity, which can vary from person-to-person because of your subjective viewpoint of the show.
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.
You're forgetting that David Hasselhoff is canon, so they ARE on Earth
Maybe David Hasselhoff coexists in multiple realities
@@manuam98 David Hasselhoff OWNS multiple realities, thats why we must always state David Hasselhoff's name when referring to David Hasselhoff
@@Stonecargo21
David Hasselhoff isn't always the real David Hasselhoff. Sometimes, David Hasselhoff creates other versions of David Hasselhoff to act as emissaries and avatars for David Hasselhoff. That way, David Hasselhoff can oversee amd interact with multiple realities without requiring David Hasselhoff's physical presence. Not only that, some mortals create false idols of David Hasselhoff, not realizing that their false depictions of David Hasselhoff hold no power and are, in fact, insults to David Hasselhoff, leading to great calamaties brought upon them by David Hasselhoff.
@@davidhong1934 the hasselhoff theory
@@lawnmower6591 Hasselhenge
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.
I was really surprised when he said it's one of the least liked episodes as it was always one of my favorites. This might have been the first piece of media ever to give me an existential crises alongside the episode "sb-129", no joke. And I was like 6 or 7. Good times...
agreed
for once? *once*?
Who is people?
faxx
This theory has more holes than spongebob himself "maybe its not our moon" **shows clip of spongebob looking at earth**
He already broke the theory by saying that the reality they perceive is false, therefore anything we see in the show or deduce is already invalid.
Neptune's mostly made of water as easter sunday is about zombies.
And it just became windy on that episode then, not since the dawn of time.
@@WingMaster562 On top of that, Neptune is a fucking block of ice. This..."water" isn't water, and isn't sustainable for marine life in any fashion. This theory kinda sucked.
@@blueyandicy there arent talking sponges in the sea on earth either,its a cartoon,do you think it should be realistic?
@@pedroks7756 you just busted him
@@pedroks7756 it's not about being realistic, it's about making sense. Granted this cartoon is not intended to make sense, but people still like making "theories" on it.
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That said, im starting to think this video is a half baked attempt for a shitpost. It's not over the top that its obviously satire, and it is not sensical enough for a theory either.
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.
At night. 🔥
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
Very fascinating. So this eary feeling after that episode is to feel that work ethic he put into stone henge? and the crazyness he went through was sorta the pain he ran into before he left. when he left, somewhere early on he has to imagined that bikini bottom burried real fast way before he got out. really everyone was gone when he got out. He had no clue as well how long they have been gone for. Its really suspensful and shows maybe a different perspective on any situation. Lol i
Are we also doomed for eternal suffering
Out of context “Spongebob was the last survivor doomed to eternal suffering” is such a funny sentence
All because it doesn't show another character afterwards doesn't mean anything, we see the Krusty Krab blow away which could say something about its cheap foundation because Mr. Krabs is cheap so while still in the same storm it would be left as is because why try to rebuild something when you don't have control over the bad weather? You're not gonna go build a house during a hurricane. The town overall looks in good shape despite the wind going on, if everyone were to die or whatever then the amount of time suggested would also mean the towns in very bad shape due to the wind but that's not the case. Overall everyone's fine and the only one to get hit hard was SpongeBob
The writers were probably just like “hey Stonehenge is a pretty neat thing” “let’s write a story on how it was created”
"And wouldn't it be funny if we made a planet of the apes reference?" I swear to god for such an episodic and ridiculous series both adults and kids alike take this show way to serious sometimes
But neptune first came down onto earth in the year 3000bc from the planet neptune as the true messiah of the sponge NOT poseidon. Also stonehegne was built by aliens on neptune and abducted here . Idiot
Is like a chapter of The Twilight zone.
Boy did they “succeed” in that.
Evidence that they are on Earth: In the episode ‘Mooncation’, Spongebob and Sandy are rapidly propelled into the Earth’s climate
also sandy is from texas lmao
@@catie7466 My thoughts exactly
The SpongeBob movie with the Hoff
You mean atmosphere?
Also the spongebob movie
i’m not a fan of most spongebob after season 4, but i liked this episode. very thought provoking
When you have to assume everyone is hallucinating and they are living a false reality, it’s pretty safe to say your theory broke
this theory was broken when he stole the idea from
the writers of
the show, and honestly believed it was a "theory" bruh everyone has an imagination, not everyone uses it to spew bullshit and convince 6 millions viewers that it's not bullshit for long enough that this person actually probably made money, from this bullshit, ifs fuckinf sickening c
yeah
Yeah idk if it’s cause Izm drunk asf rn or what, but this whoke video was some yappin on a next mevel. Like i aint heard one word homie said, and i certainly don’t see the point kf the bideo or the theory. Like what tf is he even on about? Slongebob is on another olanet? Or they on hallucinations drugs or some shit? Mang fuck this bideo
This
if your theory isnt logically grounded enough just say everyone is hallucinating and boom valid theory!
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.
(not trying to be rude)
People like this treat nightmares as dreams
@@jtteope1178 | Nightmares are dreams, just deeply unpleasant ones.
@@DrakoWulf Yes
_AHOY MINOY_
@@thekingofhearts43 | Do you have a quarter?
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.
AYOOO BROTHER!!!!!1!!!1!!
Shit, you're right.
I like this explanation of it much better than that episode literally just being the unofficial finale of the show. I think they should give SpongeBob a canonical ending but everyone dying really isn't the best way to do it.
@@Tabletisch The first movie is the canonical ending.
No... it's the entire krusty krab, you can see the bottom of the krusty krab, and the doors.
bro is not cooking anything, they are on earth lol
"The universe is more powerful than any form of human connection"
Great message, Karsten
Truly a great message
Dude u need to have like a fan meet up LMAOOO I've seen you on so many videos in the comments section I've watched over the years, it's insane 😂 dunno how you do it but good on ya
Stop showing up
Maybe I guess the universe is more powerful....sometimes but we don't have only our connections on our side.
Still great message
@Piano Experience what do you mean?
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
Also, Sandy is from Texas. This guy is pure clickbait.
Stephen Hillenbrand literally says the entire premise of the show is based on the nuclear tests on Bikini Atoll in the 50s, the radiation made the characters come to life.
@@KermitTheGamer21 and I don’t think we even have evidence that marine life can live on Neptune.
@@KermitTheGamer21 watch The Evolution Theory by Alex Bale, it proposes a different theory
@@ddl3718 I can tell you that science is as sure as you and I are that we die when we jump off a high enough building we’ll die, that there is no marine life (possibility) on Neptune. Neptune doesn’t really have any oceans. Neptune is a gas giant, there is no real surface at all
This along with squidward in clarinet land or whatever that was, were probably the most intriguing episodes for me. They felt like fever dreams.
The one where he gets covered in cement?
For real as a 5 yo I watched this episode at night and walked out side and it was windy as Shit and I felt like aliens were watching over me
@@aaron_64 ah lol kelpy g made it less odd 😂
Clarinet land...?
@@matthewlee4834 that one with the locker and the clarinet.
I like the idea that some of the episodes happen in alternate timelines, this being one of them
Here’s the issue. The show was literally created by a marine biologist to educate people about earths oceans. Spongebob takes place on earth.
wow i never knew spongebob takes place on planet earth
@j what planet do you think it took place on?
@@road5973 IDK mars???
Bruh... y’all never see the movie or what?
What do you mean? Spongebob clearly takes place on Pluto lol
Hey nice vid. I'm working on a King Neptune theory myself so this was cool to see.
Fancy seeing you here, Alex!
Just watched your last one, looking forward to the next one keep up the good work 👍
Pulp Fiction am I right?
Eyyyyyyy its "the spongebob guy"
@@bubblyonion Howard
Sandy: "hi i'm a squirrel from Texas"
this man: "HaLlUcInAtIoNs"
lol. he didnt think that simple
Keep in mind Sandy has a jetpack so she can be from planet earth but jetpacketted her way to neptune
@@JETS5 Ah yes a jet pack that can go to Neptune
@@JETS5 idk man we can't even reach Jupiter
Wait, am I a dumbass for not realizing that was satire?
@@flameyboi35 She also had a rocket ship i think
7:10 isn't sandy from texas though. And goes back there regularly
Forrealz. She enjoys barbed q's, as any good Texan would.
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.
I swear it freaked me out
but it had a happy and funny ending. it didn’t scare me as a child and i thought the episode was pretty funny but i can see how other people were scared of it
It becomes easier to stomach once you find out it's a reference to The Twilight Zone, happy ending and everything. If I remember correctly, the show is referenced in Spongebob a few times.
Scared cat. This episode was funny.
it was one of the absolute worst things i ever saw as a little kid
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.
Im dancing with joe hes a cool dude
@@sssunnyd7874 what
@@wizzotizzo joe Biden 👽👽
@@sssunnyd7874 what what
@@wizzotizzo amogus amigos
“In a cosmic sort of way yes”
- Sheldon J Plankton
Plankton can't die right?
Oh my goodness
@@evancain4906 SQUIDWARD
@@tombkings6279 i tried, mr. plankton...
S O I L D I T
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 😂
I know this is probably just made for a gag, but this theory really has more holes in it than the common kitchen sponge
How so? It seems pretty solid to me.
@@trueskateclips7073 i know its random but coyld u make a detailed vid about how to ollie because i cant
@@trueskateclips7073
The fact that everything points to SpongeBob taking lace on Earth & not on a gas giant.
@@trueskateclips7073 the fact that he basically dismisses every single possible counter argument with "most of the show is a hallucination"
@@trueskateclips7073 so you haven’t watch the show right?
This episode was one of those “eerie” childhood memories for me.
this episode should have been the finale. that would have been a dark and eerie way to finish it.
Exactly, it was like a fever dream
for me, it was the episode where SpongeBob buys another pet to keep his snail company and that other pet is some kind of sea monster
Not a fan of theories that say "Ignore everything that doesnt support my claim because its just imagination"
Yeah, you can make the “its just a dream” with literally any kind of show, it’s one of the worst kinds of theories because at that point you could make anything you say true about the show
@@Earfmover plus he takes evidence from the show saying "oh it's windy it must be neptune" mf if it was a hallucination you don't think wind could happen on earth???
This
True, really hated the part where he thought they were on neptune because they were hallucinating
“Its not cannon”
Love how this type of thumbnails this guy made started blowing up like crazy 4 years later.
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
Right. Wrote sth similar. According to wikipedia it's even worse. Worse like -200°C atmosphere ontop and superhot high pressure fluid of water, ammonia, methane and some rock particles below with a layer in which even the atoms of water are split up. Appearantly the core is actually producing heat for the mantle.
Agreed. The Neptune part has no supporting evidence whatsoever.
Not only that, but his argument start off wrong. Its not wind, this isn't wind at all. They are underwater in an ocean. These are currents. Currents change all the time. You can easily explain all of this as a change in current pattern causing what used to be a calm water area to become uninhabitable or not suitable for the animals that lived there.
Change in currents can be caused by earth quakes for instance. So its totally more believable and easily explainable that an earth quake cause a change in the ocean currents that lead to the destruction of Bikini Bottom.
then again there’s fire underwater
The Neptune example was rubbish 👎
And life can't exist on Neptune as the planet is made of poisonous gases like methane and helium.
This honestly sounds like a drunk Mat-Pat conspiracy
Does he still do those, or is he still doing psuedo-advertisements for new games?
Yeah, this is indeed a far stretch of a theory. I dont intend to sound mean, at least he has pleasang voice than matpat, but he lost me around the planet neptune.
Mat pat is trash
OK I'm assuming everyone is in on the joke
Of course we must bash madpat.
I've recently taken an Ancient Humanities class, and we spent a good couple of weeks thoroughly analyzing Stonehenge, and the religious and cultural meanings for its construction, and this video made me realize that the grim ending of this episode has a lot of roots in ancient Neolithic culture, whether it was intentional or not.
Individuals who have studied Stonehenge have determined that it was a site to honor ancestors who had passed away. By looking at African cultures, as well as some other Neolithic cultures, it was concluded that the usage of stone was linked to ideas of death, which backs this claim. Archaeologists have dug up human bones around the site as well, so it was at least somewhat used as a burial sight.
Clearly, Stonehenge is meant to represent these ideas, but that's not all. Every year during the summer solstice, the rising sun shines directly down the center axis of the monument, and through something called a Heel Stone, which is a HUGE deal to ancient cultures. Having the sun line up on a solstice or equinox with a grand sculpture meant it was important. (Another example would be the Great Sphinx and the Pyramid of Khafre.) Basically, Stonehenge was used to track the of the various cycles of nature, whether it be the seasons, or the the moon phases, or otherwise.
So, why mention all this? It's because there were celebrations held at Stonehenge because of these qualities, and one almost certainly happened during the summer solstice every year. It is eerily similar to the situation at Spongehenge. The aliens mention how the jellyfish gather there every year, and we can clearly see them dancing and swimming all over the place in a sort of celebration. The aliens even call it a migration, which means that it is possible a summer migration that could fall in line with the solstice.
Spongebob's unsettling sculptures also reinforce the idea of death, just as the original Stonehenge did. He uses stone, and when he finally escapes his cave, he sees Bikini Bottom and the Krusty Krab deserted. Gone. Passed. Spongebob has unknowingly constructed a monument honoring his past life, which no longer exists.
There's more to be analyzed when it comes to the state of the Krusty Krab. It's not as well known, but there existed a wood sculpture similar to Stonehenge only 2 miles away from Stonehenge, down the River Avon, located at Durrington Walls. People have dubbed it Woodhenge. It was the opposite of Stonehenge. Obviously, it used wood, and it framed the setting sun on the summer solstice, rather than when it was rising. It is believed that this site was a companion site to Stonehenge. Stonehenge would be the place to honor death, while Woodhenge would honor life. There were rituals held here too, as the bones of cattle were found in the area of the structure. People feasted here. This structure unfortunately no longer exists, because, well, wood doesn't hold up as well as stone.
So, it can be said that Woodhenge has a link to this episode as well. Where does Spongebob enjoy to be through many of the episodes in this show? Where does he spend a great chunk of his life? The Krusty Krab, which is made out of wood, and it's where people feast on food. See the connection? Spongebob considers his job as a fry cook to be very much linked with his very existence, and he even runs towards the establishment before anything else when he escapes. He doesn't consider checking how his house is, or if Gary is okay. He goes to work. What does he see? A destroyed and withered Krusty Krab. Spongebob's Woodhenge, his structure representing life, was destroyed and lost by time, just like our real world equivalent. It is Stonehenge, and in Spongebob's case, Spongehenge that remains.
It is likely that these connections were completely unintentional, but I find it uncanny how many Neolithic connections there are in this episode. Thanks for reminding me this episode exists, it was fun to analyze it under this context, as well as view your theories.
Underrated comment
You my good sir deserve the opposite of the menace to society award. You deserve the blessing to society award.
wow this was a great read hope more people see this!
This series is about a yellow sponge that lives in a pineapple
This a better theory than the video lol. Keep studying ancient humanities!
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
Just a small disagreement on your suggestion that maybe the jellyfish come back to torture & abuse SpongeBob since he "used them as food & prey" for so long. Throughout the series Spongebob makes it clear he adores & respects jellyfish, he typically catches & releases them & in rare instances collects some of their jelly to use for recreational purposes before then releasing them. There's been many instances where other characters will abuse jellyfish whether for profit or simple annoyance to which then Spongebob is usually found on the moral high ground of the episode.
The jellyfish themselves throughout the series are naturally aggressive & defensive creatures usually stinging & chasing away perceived predators in which most cases there is no real threat so it's safe to assume that in this episode there's no reason for them to act any different than they have always acted. Just a thought.
So true, SpongeBob always had a special relationship with jellyfish, but them acting out in this episode couldt be a sort of message towards debunking like heroic veganism and showing that without institutional and cultural ground both, nature still has a threshold for its abuses and retaliates blindly. Hauntingly reminiscent of the fundamental misunderstanding of viral diseases like COVIID when people say "but I did x, y, and z for so long and went on vacation and THEN got it." as though systems in nature record patient history. Super dark for a show like this to narrate an episode of a genuinely well intentioned character suffering the deepest degrees of his ideals to the point of madness, even down to a jellyfish.
imagine that episode being the canonical ending to the series.
The 1st movie was actually supposed to be the series finally.
GAGAGAGAGAGA!!! I want to cut my toe nails... NEVER! I am the feet UA-camr. Thanks for being a fan, dear mr
@@AxxLAfriku Stop AxxL
@@zanicthehedge-dog4048 it actually still is, well is supposed to be, idk if nick still recognizes it
@@golem778 Wait why is that the ending but continue to make episodes even though they already had a ending and what? it makes no sense
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’m exactly the same. I grew up with Spongebob and had seen every episode (up to a certain point - I outgrew it/the later episodes weren’t as good) and Spongehenge was the most odd, standout psychological experience I had watching the show. I could never make sense of what emotion I felt by the end of that episode. “Eerie” is definitely a good adjective for it.
@@westernhemlock so true, it's weird seeing other people bring it up.
It's got the twilight zone vibes
@@walmarp I know right
It's like the whole time, it's doesn't seem like it's a joke. It seems serious. The events seem real, and they're all bad but they don't have a punchline
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.
This episode was an emotional rollercoaster as a child who suffered from isolation. Watching Bob isolate himself from his abusive surrounding on my room television where I isolated myself from my abusive surrounding
@thelombax2002 😂😂
@thelombax2002 😂😂
Y'know, I think that's the first time I've ever seen someone refer to him as just "Bob".
@thelombax2002 tell me what true isolation is
It makes me extremely uncomfortable that you referred to him as “Bob.”
The idea that this takes place on Neptune has little to no supporting evidence, you seem to be taking this episode more literally than you should be. The wind could definitely be a metaphor, it flew through him making music that came with jellyfish which ended up tormenting him. This episode can be seen as a metaphor for fame, with the wind being the content he creates and the jellyfish being the fans that love it. Just like in real life, the fame came unasked for, it was fun at first but soon he couldn't leave his house without being recognized. His job that he loved was no longer possible with the fans that he now has, his friends now have left him for "being a bad influence" or in other words "fame has changed him". The cave that he runs off to is the new home he hids in, growing so lonely that he starts to "create" music again, in the form of building a statue. When he tries to return home, his home is gone, the simple life that he once loved he can never return to. The statues he creates are his albums, celebrated thousands of years into the future as masterpieces that the jellyfish called them to be. I believe that this episode does have a meaning, a meaning about fame and what it can do to someone, the legacy someone leaves behind, and how its original meaning can be lost in time. It may be about religion, or the worship we give to the people who create. But it's definitely not about how bikini bottom is actually on Neptune.
ikr? his logic is string wind=spongebob on neptune, like wtf?
Ngl, your interpretation sounds a loooot better. His theory was like er- it's just meh.
Yo this shit got me crying
This makes much more sense
go off bro
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.
LMAOOO yes thank you
yeah came here for this
They aren't the same god, though. Neptune is very heavily influenced by Poseidon and wouldn't have existed without Poseidon, but to say that they're both the same god is just wrong. Look up "neptune vs poseidon" and you will find a number of differences between the two.
@@Benjamin-rj7ds it's heavily influenced, but Neptune was probably a etruscan God originally that the Roman's fused with poseidon when they conquered Greece. That's pretty much all the Roman gods, except for the ones that have no Roman names, because there was no etruscan equivalent (such as apollo). For example, pre Greek conquering Minerva was more of a mercantile/craft kinda goddess and only took on the war like aspect when she fused with Athena. Taking that into consideration just adds to the existential shit this episode had going on, honestly.
Lmao Neptune is the ROMAN version of Poseidon
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.
The Willows ❤❤❤ >>>>
By Algernon Blackwood if anyone's interested
I always assumed that Neptune was their god or whatever considering they say “Oh my Neptune” just like we say “Oh my god” idk tho lol
Edit: I’m aware that Neptune and Poseidon are the same jesus christ
Neptune is literally just the roman equivalent of poseidon
@@neymiiie I know. I can't believe he treated them like there were different gods?
@@AwkwardConverse-ation Y'all are talking like this is basic knowledge lmao. Not everyone knows about this.
@@nachosrule6985 a Google search is all it takes to know
@@nachosrule6985 I've never actually met someone who didn't know that Neptune and Poseidon are the same god with different names.
If you ignore all evidence against a theory by saying the characters are hallucinating, you can make any claim you want
Big brain
"Not only is Neptune made mostly of water,"
This infuriated me way more than it should've
THIS! DID THIS GUY NOT DO 8TH GRADE SCIENCE?!
There IS a lot of water, but it's all ice. Down in the core. Under thousands or millions of times the pressure at sea level on earth. Mixed with ammonia. And STUPID cold.
but blue = water obviously
@@arachidamia5171 *This*
@@blueyandicy its not even 8th grade science i was taught this in 7th grade so this guy really is dumb.
But wasn't there a human on a boat that dropped a pencil, leading to the creation of Doodlebob?
And humans pulling the fishing hooks, and literally David Hasselhoff, and...
@@anotherfreakingaccount I completely forgot the fishing hook episode sadly lol, good point
Don’t pineapples come from earth? Also most of the houses in bikini bottom are car mufflers, I don’t think they got those on Neptune. I believe there was multiple episodes that showed humans in it like the doodle bob one.
He's the one hallucinating, not the characters.
Also Sandy is from TEXAS
Never realised they might be based on car mufflers
@@Boots_293 Texas doesn’t exist
@@lillykoroluk6620 wdym yes it does are u THAT braindead
This episode always stuck with me due to the fact that the wind seems almost supernatural. Like you said; it just starts one day and never stops. That as a concept terrified me, imagine such a scenario in real life; you're just relaxing in your house, sitting in school, or at work, etc. and suddenly powerful hurricane-like winds start out of nowhere, it's slightly baffling at first, but it's just wind. You hunker down wherever you are and try to wait it out but it just never stops, it goes on for days, weeks, months, years, decades with absolutely no reason or explaination.
In the episode during the 3000 year section they say it's an annual occurrence meaning its just weather being weather, it's basically how in the spring you know it's gonna rain alot or summer with it being hot.
The jellyfish were the rulers of bikini bottom before a "king" took over. That king was forgotten amongst the current civilization of bikini bottom, hence why they argue on the name. The jellyfish seized the opportunity to reclaim their nation. They seen SpongeBob as Pure, harmless and full of good intentions. They saved him from his current reality by showing him the illusion by faults of friends through letting them down. The jellyfish took over bikini bottom and praised SpongeBob as a deity for his pure nature.
I like your theory so much
@@tigerkite9520 Thank you!
sponge-messiah theory
This is it. No need for a video explaining it
Their is technically a king and queen jellyfish so this theory could hold
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
Why is one of his key sources some random guy on Quora?! WHAT?!
Lmaooooo i was looking for this
This is a spongebob theory video. This is not a scientific study 😂
@@Hannahgs nah spongebob theorys are scientific work
@@photonenplayer NO
BECAUSE
isn't Neptune just another name for Poseidon in roman mythology?
Yep. It'd be like saying "Jesus makes the wind / No he doesn't, Christ does!" I think it's just a little joke.
neptune is the roman rip-off of the greek Poseidon, but they are essentially the same god
Basically, Roman and Greek gods are just alternate versions of the same god.
@@catsinwonderland7473 Exacly
Two things. One, Neptune is not a God. It is just a planet. Neptūnus is the name of the Roman God.
Second, they are not the exact same. Rome had something called Syncretizism, where gods from other pantheons were adopted into its own. While the Roman and Greek pantheons became the most similar, especially looking back. Neptūnus likely began as a God of freshwater springs, for example. That being said, Neptūnus was one of the earliest to be identified with Posidon, so it is more accurate than some other gods, such as Pluto and Hades, or Venus and Aphrodite.
Please talk about the episode midlife crustacean. You’re really good at dissecting these and I’d like to hear your thoughts
no he isnt good at them lol
@MarsCo exactly! it's almost on the level of skin theory except I think that video was a huge joke
@@mikeyreza yeah honestly I was more thinking the wind was climate change
That episode is just a parody of all midlife crisis stories. No real depth to it besides the jokes about Spongebob and Patrick’s lame version of a boys night.
Honestly i have personal theory on spongehedge where it the timeline where present Squidward just vanished in the freezer and future Squidward made another timeline where he comes back with another present Squidward still there but honestly it may be a timeline where SpongeBob was not there for the first movie and in rage king Neptune destroyed bikini bottom because one if the show episode shown that king Neptune likes to mess with mortal fish and Patrick just happen to survive
I’ll never forget this episode. It made me feel so weird when I was a kid. Chills tbh
Poseidon and Neptune are technically just two versions of one god. The former is greek and the latter is roman. Im pretty sure Poseidon came first until the romans conquered (most of) greece
Pretty sure they conquered all of Greece.
Do note that Neptune likely existed in some way as a Roman god before he became associated with Poseidon, but the historical record (Wikipedia) doesn’t have much about this.
@@lentlemenproductions770 still though, by the time Rome was a thing (even when it was just a large camp of outcasts trying to form a government) it was influenced by the Greek culture and the local vernacular. Even pre achean war, romes religion was modeled on the greek one.
I've always loved this episode. It's like the party episode in the sense that I can vaguely remember it but it doesn't seem like a real episode. Something was off and I can always appreciate those
Exactly. And the medieval episodes. As a kid they all had me in awe and still do these days
"The religious lore of Bikini Bottom" is a sentence I never knew I needed to hear.
I feel like the "everyone was just imagining/hallucinating it all along" type of theory is the laziest type of theory imaginable. You can say that about literally anything, with no proof required, and no consequences. I feel like that undermines the rest of this theory.
No one:
Karsten: Clearly this one specific episode is about religion on Neptune and the message is about (random rambling)
Nickelodeon: Hehe spongeman make stonehenge
Why weren't the winds there before? You do realize that you're basically ignoring all the evidence that the show is on Earth for this theory to even work. Was the sand a hallucination? Were the animals that are all explicitly Earth animals a hallucination? There is no way they were on Neptune the whole time.
It could be an alternate reality if we wanna use every possible possibility.
He even had an easy out in just saying it was a shifted ocean current caused by climate change or something, which he had already mentioned. I have no idea how the hell "They were actually on the planet Neptune" even occurred to him.
@@beautifulnova6088 Thank you. This would’ve made for such a better and more grounded theory.
@@beautifulnova6088 Right? You could almost say the ocean follows new bad rules, because It's being ruled badly now by a new bad ruler who, by being a bad ruler, made the ocean's climate bad... with his ruling.
Gee, I wonder who this other ruler of the ocean might possibly be...
Eh, probably no one important.
I think the whole theory part was just a joke, to prove that this episode has no cohesive reason for anything to happen. He goes insane, just like how spongebob does. Like this dude made some great deep spongebob analysis yet he doesn’t know how planets work?
Imagine the look on those two fishes faces when they find out that they accidentally killed god and caused their entire civilization to die
One character denying a god's existence wouldn't kill it. That makes no sense. And when she "killed god" the wind was already blowing, so there's no way she caused it.
The wind started before they left 5th diner lol
@@jame8266 maybe it started after they killed God, plus this comment was just a joke chill
@@thisisanalt4821 You’re face is a joke!
@@nicegoatdoctor8224 You're joke is a joke!
No, because in season 3 episode 19, the sponge who could fly, he literally says, "Do not worry earthbound people"
Mr. Krabs said in dying for pie that they are on earth
this feels like an elaborate shitpost instead of a genuine analysis and i can’t tell
same tbh
Feel like it began as a genuine theory and he realized how dogshit it was halfway through and gave up
felt like an excuse to have a sponsored video
After seeing how many likes and how little dislikes this video has, finding comments like this are making me feel sane. Thank you.
Audience: "They're not on Neptune, Sandy's from Texas!"
Karsten: "I CAAANT HEAR YOOOOOUUU!!!!"
remember sandy had a teleporter on "Perfect Chemistry"
@@darealpooma5049 and she build a rocket which could reach the moon within 2 minutes. I guess she can travel interstellar
@@gregoryporter-gaming2559 well she could make a teleporter so... yeah!
This episode is closer to The Twilight Zone than Spongebob. The whole thing is just messed up.
Right? I couldn’t even watch it
Yeah, it was so strange and unusual.
Some of the newer episodes, ‘No Pictures Please’, and ‘The Night Patty’, actually take place in a Spongebob version of the Twlight Zone where nothing makes sense.
The joke at the beginning is that Neptune and Poseidon are literally The Same Guy.
Or you know, Spongehenge is just another episode that just happens to have a darker tone. It's probably just a joke about how humans always wonder about the origins of Stonehenge, and it could just be a silly scenario like Spongehenge
Yeah i was enjoying the theory about this being the end but then out of nowhere "PLaanetT NNptuno"
Exactly
These theories are, by design, meant to be over-complicated and jump to unreasonable conclusions. That's the joke.
@@CheddarDefeat no it's not, and no it's not.
That’s what I thought after watching it.
Not gonna lie. As fun as this was, you reeeeeeally reached with these interpretations lol.
yeah, glad i found someone who feels the same way. i don't mind a little reaching but this is overkill, not to mention half the stuff he said is just wrong.
@@superlad6684 it isn’t wrong necessarily it’s just hella far reaching
For reaaaaal, the amount of times I said "Bro stop, shut the fuck up" was too much.
examples? I think everything he said was 100% reasonable
@@Fred-tz7hs bro he was trying to find symbolism for fucking goulash
You had me until "they're actually living on the PLANET Neptune!"... yeah that makes 0 sense
That's why they call it a T H E O R Y but you know you can always explain why it makes 0 sense
@@temblorjamesronald9427 Sandy is literally from Texas
Also Neptune is literally made of gas
Not water
@@temblorjamesronald9427 Sandy if literally from TEXAS and Stephen Hillenberg said the Place takes place in the Bikini Atoll
@@johnsmith-dy1gs Yeah that statement was very weird as well as wrong
Despite the holes in the theory (David Hasselhoff, Sandy being from Texas, Bikini Bottom being based on the real world Bikini Atoll, etc), this is a well-made video! Nicely done :)
Wow, that theory had more holes than spongebob himself
stating the same
@@Nei982 yeah it fucking sucked
*o o f*
"There are like 20 episodes that debunk this, but they can be ignored by calling them hallucinations. But this episode obviously isn't. And there are definitely serene islands with palm trees on neptune"
Yeah, the moment he started talking about Neptune the planet, he went full on crackpot conspiracy theorist.
Im glad not everyone in these comments is in on the circlejerk. This is one of the worst analysis videos I’ve ever seen.
@@henri4356 I remember one of the last MatPat videos I watched was a Film Theory that basically said Neville could've also been the Chosen One. Sure, it was less fact and more "If you'd read the books, you'd know that it's an explicitly stated truth", but the guy always backs up his theories with facts and reason, without saying anything that's just off-the-wall wrong. Or at least, that's what I remember from however many years ago that was. I could be wrong, since I think he might be a parody channel that only makes joke theories, but still. Better than "Neptune is windy, therefore this show that clearly takes place on Earth is actually on another planet, despite so much evidence to the contrary that I don't really argue against."
@@bluesbest1 Yea, and film theory/ MatPat at least was fun and animated. It presented the theories as what they were, entertainment. Which is what makes it so hilarious to me that this guy leans so heavily on the smooth jazz, serious film analysis aesthetic. The funniest part is that the whole premise of this video was based on a misunderstanding. Neptune is just the Roman version of Poseidon, and they were literally the same God during the Roman Empire. This reminds me of that old NigaHiga illuminati video, if u haven’t seen it I think it’ll give you a good laugh.
I wasn't aware that Neptune had its own Texas. Good thing too, otherwise Sandy couldn't be from there.
I always interpreted this episode as just another satire of the Tom Hank's Cast Away movie.