How Spongebob Explored Existential Nihilism 

Idiot Box, Survival Of The Idiots, Snowball Effect, and Camping Episode

Squidville obviously 🔥👍

Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V

Band Geeks yo

the one that explains how to make a cangreburger. and it's like weird only the narrator and spongebob. also the with the nigth krustykrab

@Rick Corn 4:10 Conspiracy, the universe, spongbob fans, and the writers are biased towards Spongebob and want Spongebob to prosper and get away with being annoying and wanted to torture Squidward psychologically just so Squidward can admit he misses Spongebob and things return to the Status Quo and Spongebob annoys him forever. I think the Matrix and Descartes Evil Demon and want us to suffer forever and feel forever miserable for their pure evil entertainment. Forces from within and outside the universe are consciously pure evil for the sake of it and are sadistic cause they want to make us psychologicaly suffer for their entertainment. Why else did the Universe kill Hillenburg? Cause he knew too much and was trying to save us.

@@jaysmith3173 you freak me out and can I join this cult

@@landon5435 if you spread the word.

@@jaysmith3173 no I'll do you one better I will kill all our enemies

This seems very intentional tho bc the similarities between the Nietzche philosophy and the episode (specifically the “alone” part) r way too uncanny and specific

That moment when Squidward explains the despairing life of a minimum wage worker long before you enter a despairing life of a minimum wage worker.

As a kid that line always upset me, but now it's one of my favorites.

@@Advent3546 4:10 Conspiracy, the universe, spongbob fans, and the writers are biased towards Spongebob and want Spongebob to prosper and get away with being annoying and wanted to torture Squidward psychologically just so Squidward can admit he misses Spongebob and things return to the Status Quo and Spongebob annoys him forever

I think the Matrix and Descartes Evil Demon ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zO0sSJB1TrI.html want us to suffer forever and feel forever miserable for their pure evil entertainment. Forces from within and outside the universe are consciously pure evil for the sake of it and are sadistic cause they want to make us psychologicaly suffer for their entertainment.

Bless Your Soul

You mean like “Bwahaha funny meme face fart noise crazy face lol lmao” Yeah the subtle comedic genius is long gone. Now it’s just obnoxious.

They were always targeted toward children, but they were still enjoyable to other ages as well.

it makes me think cartoons back in the day had a lot of scripts that were cancelled movies/tv shows for adults but reworked to be replaced with spongebob characters/setting for example

Old SpongeBob good, current SpongeBob bad. Like button on the left

Read your bible! (KJV, preferably) ❤️😊

Time travel paradoxes are so cool

HOLY SHIT A TIME PARADOX

Bro saw the top comment

You mean primitive sponge and primitive star?

Read your bible! (KJV, preferably) ❤️😊

Damn

omg true

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Squidward: Who's the barnacle head who invented that game anyway? SpongeBob and Patrick: You are, Squidward!

@@Tadfafty, although paradoxical, i think its funnier to think that there was no alternative timeline, that squidward went back to the past and taught spongebob/patrick jellyfishing, only to later on go to the past to avoid spongebob/patrick jellyfishing, completing the cycle

And at the same time the show doesn't go out of its way to sympathise with him as some tortured genius. Many times when he has shit hurled at him, it's not because he's this misunderstood intellectual. It's because he's being high-strung and pretentious. But he's not really as above the sort of spontaneity of his neighbors as he thinks he is, like in that episode where he lives in that gated community for a few weeks. I dunno, this is just my take

it also shows that in life when you wat to be fancy and a "gentleman" it can get lonely at times, i see them didn't bring back squidwards girlfriend squiliva, which i think they should had; there many times when spongebob and patrick are not around even for the day and he just gets heated and just starts to panic

I always felt bad for Squidward when I was little because he always felt like an older brother that had to watch over his younger siblings

@@toenailclippings Wow, that's actually kind of accurate!

@@toenailclippings wow that makes a lot of sense!!

It's still just basic analysis at the end of the day, not the true meaning.

Did you notice the 666 go by? 1:25

​@@DestroyerOfEvil_69I just did lol. You think it means anything or they just threw it in there because why not.

it's basic analysis with extra fluff and some nihilism thrown in for good measure. the entire video boils down to "Squidward doesn't like SpongeBob and Patrick , he stays alone but he has ego and doesn't like being alone"

@@chiefhydropolis you've perfectly described basically every hacky video essay that plagues RU-vid.

There's also a turquoise square that probably represents Squidward, and it vanishes when he tries to lift it up

Yeah its just as terrifying as the backrooms

4:10 Conspiracy, the universe, spongbob fans, and the writers are biased towards Spongebob and want Spongebob to prosper and get away with being annoying and wanted to torture Squidward psychologically just so Squidward can admit he misses Spongebob and things return to the Status Quo and Spongebob annoys him forever

It use to scare the shit out of me when I was younger

It always freaked me out when all the voices said "alone" forever and ever

So fucking eerie

Get in the pineapple SpongeBob

@@chadfishfruit Go To The Kusty Krub Squidward

SpongeBob puts his hand on Squidward's face after being strangled in a way to show affection...

Congratulations

Congratulations, Jerk!

Wait so is the show past sb-129 not in the original universe?

So basically what I'm hearing is all these episodes Squidward was in an alternate reality and not in his own....

@@Hanz13171And the whole time, the true Squidward from that timeline is in that freezer…

​@@uba5578I'm never gonna look at SpongeBob the same again after reading this.....

And wouldn't this ultimately mean that that the other Squidward frozed to death....

Damn that's dark as hell. They probably did bother, though since spongebob and Patrick thought they were friends. Mr krabs wouldn't have cared though. How come mr krabs didnt look into the freezer of the krusty krab fir over 2000 years? Spongebob needs to go into the freezer to get food. Why wouldn't he report the body? Wtf have you uncovered

New conspiracy

this is hella sad

@@ab-wj8yg ah I guess that does make sense thanks for the reply

But that’s a different, parallel timeline. Even upon returning, there’s a parallel timeline in which Squidward is still stuck in a freezer.

Jesus that actually makes sense!

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Damn man

WAIT

WTF 😨😨😨😨

I would of considered that but I really don't think this is the only episode that has an actual meaning.. funny to say any of this shit about a little cartoony show but it actually makes sense

Which most likely is the case

That’s typically how it is

@@drgog4300you don’t think they were smart enough to include added meaning?

@@maddieb.4282 I'm not saying they're smart. Just what's the point?

Same here.

Now that you've said that I am terrified.... the original "lost episode" or episode that was never supposed to be released..

Whaddaya mean it was never meant to be released, Squidward caused a time anomaly and he effectively screwed up the timeline, if it wasn't for him I would have gotten my driver's licence and Squidward would have gotten a better life

@@spongebobsquarepants8403 why do people roleplay in comment sections just stop

@@Claire.blain. Well that's just my theory on why Squidward is always in constant dread knowing his dreams won't ever be fufilled and he would be stuck in a job he hates

holy shit true

And I'll end any mothafucka like my name in a spelling bee!

@@Frog101_Real It's nice to see a fellow man of culture

Whats the name of the book?

Seek Christ

666th like

I would love to take a class like that

The best kind of essay

Why is Donald Trump pretty and I am not? But why does he only have a wife but I have TWO HOT GIRLFRIENDS who I show off in my masterpiece YT videos? Do you know the answer, dear kir

Every spongebob episode is a memed episode

Oh, there are thesis’ dedicated to meme culture. We live in a strange time.

I dont see why spongebob wouldnt be a fit for a collegiate essay

same bro! i second guessed walking into the freezer at work as well

Don’t wanna get stuck in there and frozen for 2000 years?

There are people paying millions to be frozen.

lol this comment actually made me lol

This and keenan and kel

My life in 10 words

This loneliness is without description.

@@moricwilson *static*

You see, you're not dealing with the average loneliness anymore...

my everyday life in a few words

same

How is my mind in the past? I am (my mind is) presently aware of my phone, my dog barking, the fact I feel warm, and feel hungry - while I am also thinking about what WAS said in this video (the past). You have to be aware of the present in order to DO anything. That quote in the video sounds deep - but actually doesn’t make any sense. Yes, if you want to be super picky - it takes an extremely brief amount of time for what is in front of you to travel through your senses and into your brain and then your mind to react to it, so in a very superficial way it is true - but VERY SUPERFICIALLY. Choosing to focus on and use your mind to think about something that was SAID IN THE PAST is not the same as your mind itself BEING IN the past. FOCUSING ON the past and BEING IN the past are totally different things. So fear not and don’t be nauseous - enjoy the present - and learn from/think about the past when necessary!

@@chrisa-95 you're thinking about it way too literally lmao. good try tho

It’s interesting to think about, as your conscious self is in the present your physical body you call “you” is ever so slightly in the future therefore you can’t truly understand yourself because the future is unpredictable. Like you’re walking your dog, you’re the present, the dog is the future someone could pick your dog up and throw it in a wood chipper randomly. Now you can’t understand yourself because your metaphorical body is in a wood chipper.

@@chrisa-95 this was one cope too hard for you

Did you guys actually get to see the one where Squidward tries Krabby Patties, and the security system Mr. Krabs has is a bucket of gasoline and a robot arm dropping a match? They actually cut the latter part out after a few airings.

I remember those

It's because Squidward is the most cynical character and functions as the audience surrogate on numerous occasions.

And squidward has a popular creepypasta

​4:10 Conspiracy, the universe, spongbob fans, and the writers are biased towards Spongebob and want Spongebob to prosper and get away with being annoying and wanted to torture Squidward psychologically just so Squidward can admit he misses Spongebob and things return to the Status Quo and Spongebob annoys him forever. I think the Matrix and Descartes Evil Demon ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zO0sSJB1TrI.html want us to suffer forever and feel forever miserable for their pure evil entertainment. Forces from within and outside the universe are consciously pure evil for the sake of it and are sadistic cause they want to make us psychologicaly suffer for their entertainment.

because we're all squidward now so it makes it scarier.

because Squidward feels more human than the other characters when you see him through your adult mentality

Ikr, I wasn't exactly scared by it but more psyched out by it. I never really liked watching the episode after that lol

This was literally my favorite episode lol so trippy

Yeah it was traumatizing. But I feel like purgatory, is a process of being stuck in time. Not going nowhere anymore, ever

Kind of weak argument to say they're exploring Nihilism and connect it only with inference. Could easily just be their creative choices to tell the story of what the episode was clearly actually about, which was introversion versus extroversion. Introverts will feel like they want to be alone most of the time, but easily come to suffer loneliness within the infinite landscape of their self. The episode is making the argument that no matter what the individual feels, they must always be a part of community or else they will end up in nothing, alone. The substantiates of time travel and giving Spongebob and Patrick jellyfishing nets, breaking the time machine out of frustration and ending up in nothing is a very good way to do this, because in a way you do make your own prison as an introvert. Admitting he misses society (Spongebob), snaps him out of it, but he doesn't change. He simply realises he needs them and accepts it, just like an introvert would have to. I would believe your point it's inspired by recurring themes and patterns in life and papers written on them, but to say it was specifically one, and that this episode specifically explored Nihilism seems like complete BS honestly. Just seems pessimistic. It's far more likely there was a pattern theme to reinforce the idea that you could be much the same as everyone else with the same needs. In fact you could be so much the same as everyone else, that one of your ancestors could have begun a tradition that alienates you from society today. I think the message that we're all the same in a lot of ways, and that we all need each other even if we have contempt for one another, is a much more likely message for Spongebob to have than "everything is pointless" lol.

To be honest i felt like the episode was trying way too hard to make life seem meaningless. Thinking = goals Goals = purpose Purpose = all you need All you need = reduces anxiety, doubt and to realize your path Reduces anxiety, doubt and to realize your path = Happiness Not implying that one won’t be sad in their life since that would be a lie.

That one was creepy

Lol

lmao

Are you gate keeping existential horror?

@@pepearown4968 are you gatekeeping his gatekeeping of existential horror?

What’s a backroom

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Skull emoji

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Feeling lost and trapped in a place you can’t escape is a scary feeling for a child.

lol i remembered that episode i'm also scared of watching that when i am a kid and feel kinda creepy and scared which kinda feel your in a dark abyss of nowhere and feel your surrounded by monsters LOL

Bro fr it felt so eery it gave me chills, I watched every episode more than once except this one

Also that one episode where jellyfishes are attracted to Spongebob’s sound when the air winds thought his holes is pretty dark.

@@cheriekat oh yeah, that episode scared me when I was little lol

@•keklord chester• I like you too 😏

Agreed

He has seen some things

He's gone through too much

We're all squidward

Did way to much my dude.

MatPat commits labour abuses. ...but that's just a Game Theory.

@@slaughterround643 Wait really? Elaborate

it would be Squidward is going through a Nihilistic Realization or Squidward is experiencing Nihilism

Karstame Theorquist: Squidward is nihilistically suicidal

Dont tou mean Film Theory?

rock bottom scared me so damn much as a kid

Same

I will never forget Rock Bottom. Rock Bottom was terrifying because it was so real. There was no ghosts, there were no monsters, it was about Spongebob in a town he doesn't know, full of fish who could barely understand him, waiting at a bus stop. It's a situation everyone will end up in at one point in their life...

@@parasitegirl6770 it just really annoyed me how unrealistically difficult it was for him to leave.

@@lonelyrooster as a kid, not being able to get home from an unfamiliar place was such a scary thing to happen

"and to prove it I will quote this man that use complicated sentences and doesn't know what he is talking about and also is probably dead."

There's always a hint of optimism in these idea full of nihilism.

@@karlmatthewpepito4439 "Life is meaningless, so I might as well enjoy myself."

@holdenpope exactly the way I see it if there’s no point make your own

They reach heavily too

Y2k

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That makes so much sense

I was born in 1999..

@@Oddie99000 me toooo, may 19th 1999. Watched this episode growing up.

Multiple freezers?

Theory: Squidward prevent anyone open the freezer, to avoid the time travel paradox

Yea how come Mr Krabs and SpongeBob didn't notice that Squidward has been missing from work for a really long time when the krusty krab was open ?

@@jeffreywilliams8499 he wasn’t missing from work because he made it back to the present. There are actually two Squidwards in the Krusty Krab. One awake and working, the other frozen.

@@kaizoisevil i don’t wanna think about this anymore, its like an scp at this point

LMAO

Not philosophically. Mentally

Its not a fools errand, how many millions of kids spent hours watching SB

People have been doing philosophical breakdowns of Spongebob for a while now and I love it.

😂😂😂😂

me too 😔

I didn’t even laugh until you pointed it out. BiG bRaiN

I saw your comment and was waiting for it and it didn’t disappoint

What time did say that

That's so fucking random but I loved it.

Fuck yeah it is 🥴😂

Fax

How scary. I've never had one myself, but I've sure as hell heard about some people's experiences. The mind is crazy powerful, and so is Lucy/mushrooms

This happened to me on shrooms. I was in a room with my friend when the trip started. I walked around his house feeling the fabric of his couch and conceptualizing time but after that we sat down and watched some tv. I watched that flavortown dude eat a burger and it was pretty strange. i started asking existential questions to myself during all of that and it started to come to conclusion explained in the video. I just kept hearing "it is what it is" and i was afraid man. I wanted to go for a walk but my friend never wants to do anything i suggest so i just soaked for a long time in that dark place. The repitition think hit hard too. I was able to shake it all out though. There is alot of darkness in life, but there is just as much light and goodness. I have to remind myself of that alot

That moment where Squidward's relaxing and says "alone", then all the other alones popping up. Then suddenly pan out, more and more, along with the rancorous roar of all the "alones" at once. Yeah. That's a bad trip. The sensation of everything you were previously thinking about being minimized in an instant of what feels like pure fear. Makes me sweaty thinking about it.

Hahaha I agree, and tbh I didn’t really find this theory all that compelling for that reason alone. Like I *highly* doubt the writers were going for anything as deep as this guy is getting at, which makes it all seem all the less interesting to me

@@jadedjimmy that’s why I said accidentally, it’s like the feeling when you make something really wholesome but then you accidentally make people think it means something more, overall interesting topics to poke at though

@@Jotenks well said

@@jadedjimmy thanks lol

@@Jotenks Exactly. Even if the writers didn't intend it, it's still pretty fun to see what people think of these episodes. People may go "Oh, it's just a little kids' show episode. Quit being such a huge nerd." But honestly, I think those people are just fun police, lol.

This intrigued me as a kid

well said!

It scared me as a kid too!! And I have existential panic attacks a lot now lmfaooo

Me too man, like I don't actually understand what was really going on but my intuition kicked in and was telling that "This is fucking weird man, why is this is scary?". This also reminds me of that drunk scene in Dumbo

It didn’t scare me completely but did make me uncomfortable tho lol

Finally I’m not the only one that laughed at this

how so

@Drew What Me or them? And why? they didn't seem like either of those lmao.

@@PIMKAMINA2 ?

I thought I heard that part wrong lol

@Professor Weaboo My friend, no matter from what timeline you come from, being doomed to exist for eternity with nothing but your own thoughts would send anyone insane sooner or later.

I have a huge phobia of this

@@annacontreras6648 I’m so glad I’m not the only who’s terrified of this. I can barely think about it without crying, it’s so terrifying

Fire Punch

I guess that’s why Kars stopped thinking...

Squidward's Heart

And Spongehenge

It also like desensitized me as a kid to death😂😭😭😭

don’t think that’s very dark lmao

They had the best episodes back in the day!

Oh. Oh god. Please don't make my head hurt like that.

I dont even know what this means anymore

In short he built his prison, and will forever serve the life sentence.

@@tonyt1616 yeah, seems like it

Good lord guys its just a spongebob episode

Probably making SpongeBob the most Kafkaesque show ever. Two characters who work for a stifling bureaucratic system (Mr. Krabs) under an equal set of circumstances, though one is able to overcome this situation and live happily independently of it (SpongeBob) while the other wallows in their own misery and cynicism (Squidward).

i am so done with people looking too deep into kids shows...its like they think these characters are real...

@@razkable u be surprised how many kids act like spongebob

@@razkable why are you watching this then lmao

@@citlallirue1300 He has a Naruto pfp, pea brain doesn't surprise me

Oh geez

Yessss

Or the episode where SpongeBob travels through dreams

Aesthetic asf

@@Karmy. BRUUUUUUUUUH! That's a CLASSIC!

You're not perfect.

RETUUUURRRNNNN THEEE SLAAAAABBB! Or suffer my curse!

@@rpd5983 That "you're not perfect" is a reference to the last episode of Courage.

@@CassandraPantaristi He may be referencing the blue fetus creature that appears in one of Courage's dreams and tell him: "You're not perfect", I still don't understand how that particular scene didn't traumatized me as a kid, but as an adult I find it really scary

@@carlosmendoza1177 That episode I don't really remember much honestly.

And it proof in current year.

The problem with the present is that it keeps turning into the past.

people dont think the universe be like it is but it do - black science man

Didn’t know fast and furious got that deep

The philosopher, or the cartoon tiger named after the philosopher?

The whole episode terrified me but the alone scene was the scariest

It freaked me out because he was "alone" but there were voices that weren't his own speaking and they were with him...As a kid I was like "Okay he is alone in nothingness" and then the random voices were there...that made me uncomfortable for some reason.

yea

The fact that it's different voices and in different tone but the worst part is that it doesn't stop

Yep yep yep got a minute in started having ptsd of those things that made not able to sleep as a child sometimes

Lord Aizen is here to reign supreme from soul king and alone to be king 🤣

So.... Evangelion...?

not just any solitude, but solitude in e minor

same

Woah

"look squidward, money!"

Ikr poor SpongeBob

Ah shit now you've gotten me too.

But if nothing matters, then we can decide what matters to us as individuals since nothing in the universe means a thing.

Now its time for "i don´t care". By saying this you allready care enough about the subject to say that you don´t care...

Bruh waS speaking a different language

@@DeathlyDrained yessir Kurzgesagt

Look again, it says assburgers

i never noticed that until you mentioned it wtf 😭

I liked the “huh” more tbh

What does that mean?

LMAO SAME

No it didn't

I had the same experience but had no idea why. I hated that it was the end of SpongeBob. And I hated this episode because I was uncomfortable watching it for reasons I had no idea until revisiting the idea as an adult. But as a child what it looked like, i just thought wow that was the worst episode they could have ended with. Cause I knew it was the last episode when I watched it. It said so on nickelodeon

Yess

You’ll be Ight

I... Love ur pfp. U r cute.

They could just say he's overthinking this

Honestly, this vid is kinda pretentious Like I do think the writers were going for something along the lines of the existential dread but not to the point that the video trys to make it out to be

@@nuclearmonster8084 I was thinking the same before I watched it.

*has a Fairy Tale pfp*

@@danielfecklessness2796 well he is a famous commenter if he were to change his pfp everyone would be confused

So true

I know right

true beauce ucualy good videos are for some weird reasion sponsonred by squarespace

This video is sponsored by Squarepants

@@2twosix6 *Tortellini

they know how to market themselves

Yeah, many people have seen this and wondering why this episode... is this episode? There is a video that mainly describes what this video is.

yoooooo a youtuber i watch which also watched other stuff i watch

@@ok-tr1nw that'll happen : )

Oh, hi. What are you doing here?

All I remember is that is scared the shit out of me as a child lol

those are 2 of my favorite episodes

I recommend watching Jamaican Snuggie reacting to Rock Bottom with his friend. That way you won't be watching it alone and traumatized.

rock bottom always made me feel weird when i was younger

@@rowen42069 pikachu is overrated

@@SMCwasTaken I don't even know anything about pokemon, I made that my profile picture years ago because of the meme and I just can't be bothered to change it😂

Good catch!

Wait, how would they actually know if he actually do it? Did they have ancestors who told them that the person “squidward” made jelly fishing? Soon passing it on generation through generations? Why were spongebob and patrick so calm that they were meeting the person that taught their ancestors how to jelly fish? “You did squidward...” there is a possible chance squidward might be... actually dead. Since he taught spongebob and patrick how to jelly fish. He taught them how to jellyfish. And now he’s here with the ancestors great great 15x grandchildren, and they act all normal, like he didn’t die, like he didn’t disappear. Just to come back. He came back to the present with a time machine and they acted all normal... what if that isn’t the present? What if he’s actually still dead. He’s in the afterlife.

Ah yea my favorite character: sauidward.

@@yoifrdontwannawakeup XD

the most relatable character in SpongeBob SquarePants: Sauidward.