SpongeBob Theory: Two RACIST Episodes.... 

Bro laid down the facts and the feels. Killin it from coast to coast.

Spongebob literally having to learn the golden rule, after having been a role model for kindness, was a really good show for the writers. It was teaching kids to be kind, and showing how even the best can fault.

Spongebob/Sandy episodes were always my favorite as a kid. I can't describe it but it had a sort of almost more realistic vibe than other character dynamics.

You forgot to mention how Sandy starts to actually feel stupid. This actually happened to me, as time passed and people treated me like I was different to society, I started feeling like I was, like I'd never fit anywhere, like I was inferior to everybody else. I just think it's something interesting to point out.

The Squidville Episode was another racist episode, showing segregation, forced conformity, only people who were Octopuses were allowed, and the security guard denied Patrick and Spongebob entry, saying "Your kind isn't allowed here".

When I was a kid, I took the line "I think she should buy both" meant if you can't decide you should get both. Rewatching it as an adult I realize they were talking about the fact that she smells bad. 😶

What about the episode "Squidville"? The octopi at Tentacle Acres were racist/specist towards sponges & sea stars, and Spongebob & Patrick couldn't identify Squidward from the other octopi.

Sandy calls them rats with wings which as far as I'm aware has never been used as a term for Seagulls. Rats with wings originally was a used to describe NYC Pigeons and this is the only instance I've ever heard of someone using it to refer to a bird that isn't a Pigeon.

I can relate to the first episode. Was in a friend group with 8 caucasians and I was the only different race (African American). Was always subjected to racist remarks and sometimes they’d even call me the hard R, but then I was told it was okay because “they’re friends with a black person (me)” and that they “don’t mean it literally.” Everyone just thought it was some big joke and I wasn’t allowed to express my frustration towards them because then I’d be considered “too weak” for feeling offended. Yeah, that was a 5-6 year situation-ship that I’m glad to have disassociated myself from.

This is the exactly how you stop discrimination, knowing your actions, understanding the logic of it all!

Bro invented a slur for fishes, last thing i expected out of this video

I know this might be a bit unrelated to the topic of the video but does anyone else just despise the Bikini Bottom citizens 😭? Whether it's them bullying Sandy for being a squirrel, bullying Spongebob for having a close relationship with his grandma, or just being absolute a-holes to everyone, I just can't stand them lol. If someone jokingly said they became a villian because they used to live in Bikini Bottom, I'd completely understand 😂. Anyways, I love your analysis on the two episodes! I was hoping someone would discuss their metaphors and subtext.

as a mixed girl in a Latina friend group I relate to sandy very much, they would single me out, force me to do everything for them to the point I was just their personal maid, would bully me, steal my stuff ect. (Although I’m part Latina still I’m still not Latina enough for them) I would even try to dress like them, wear my makeup like theirs, sometimes even straighten my hair so I could look more like them, unfortunately I’m still in this toxic friend group

I was made fun of and bullied for being different (I have autism) so it hits home when you said that it could be about anything

Great video! I always saw Pressure as an allegory for the "Boys vs Girls" tropes you'd see in most kid's shows (though SpongeBob did it way better). Squirrel Jokes has two good lessons for comedians: Don't Punch Down, and if your jokes go after somebody, you have to go after everybody, including yourself.

He’d give us the most chill intro and call this video a thing about racism 💀

" I would rather be alone and have no friends than have friends that make me feal lonely" -Someone on the internet

"im half seacreature, i have seacreature friends, its just a joke"

I used to be a part of a friend group back in high school who would make fun of a kid who had a stutter. Needless to say I look back at that and scrunch in disgust at the thought. Don’t make fun of people because of disadvantages they have. It’s just plain wrong.

If we don't argue like a married couple, then you aren't my friend

6:13 The bleeps lowkey made it funnier lol

I love how Squirrel jokes puts Spongebob in the wrong for making fun of squirrels, yet it's okay to make fun of fish and crabs.

There was an episode where sandy goes to texas for a rodeo and spongebob freaks out thinking she needed to be saved so he goes around town asking someone to go with him but no one cares. In one instance he grabs gary and gets ready to pack but gary refuses. You dont know what gary is saying (cause hes meowing) but basically gary asks whos sandy and spongebob says the squirrel. He meows again (assumingly asking what color) and spongebob replies "no, brown" and gary slithers off after hearing that. Idk what joke they were going with that but that definitely was a weird thing to include

I didn't see any racism in Pressure when I was a kid, only unhealthy competition.

The fact that Sandy was the main point of racism of both these episodes is depressing to me, yet she still calls herself a friend of the main cast

This is the most zoomers, terminally online shit I've ever seen lmao

"Chum chewer" wouldn't work because nobody eats at the chum bucket

As a Jewish woman I was taking those episodes deep.

Squirrel Jokes always bothers me whenever I watch it. It made Sandy seem like a hypocrite and SpongeBob seem like a racist jerk.

This reminds me of something that happened to me in 7th grade. I was playing games on my school chromebook with a "friend" who is now expelled and I hate him with every morsel of my body(he did something very bad to me). I kept losing(game is entirely rng) over and over and everybody was laughing at me and having a great time, but out of nowhere he says "you're losing because you're white". I moved seats and didn't talk to him for the rest of the period

14:19 at that point its not a microaggression, its a macroaggression 😭 in all seriousness, great video!! you explained your points really well while still being funny :]

I've been alienated millions of times called slurs and mocked. I am Bulgarian and partly Russian. I'm always alienated for it. I'm discluded in some stuff with AR guys because I like Kalashnikovs too

Was not expecting much from a vid with low views and little subs but was surprised by how good this vid was. Well done 👍

Now that I’m an adult and living on my own I don’t really run into problems like this too often anymore but I do acknowledge it

This is one of those videos you wouldn't expect to be serious but It is

[Long Comment Warning] & [Probably not easy to understand cause English isn't my native language] The best thing about the Squirrel Jokes episode is that it's technically relatable to everyone in a way, you can interpret this as a commentary about racism (Which is the obvious association) but it can also be a metaphor for discrimination in general and not just racism. Like how people can treat others differently purely for either their intrest, ethnicity, religion Ect. Even if you are the same race as everyone, if the other 3 stuff i mentioned are different, they might treat you differently. I too experienced discrimination before and had people joke about me in a similar way, so the squirrel jokes episode made me feel relaxed and makes me feel better. Pressure is more of a funny episode than a topical episode, but it can also be a great life lesson how fights and arguments are silly. Honestly i am glad these episodes exist, as i personally don't like "topical" episodes (as a matter of fact i sometimes even hate them) but these do in just the right way, where it's topical enough where you understand the message, but doesn't treat you like an idiot and just let's you enjoy the ride.

Stellar video! Honestly super underrated channel, you deserve more love and hopefully it comes your way! 🤝❤️

6:24 Sandy couldn't last a few seconds without breathing making her wear a pickle jar while 8:02 SpongeBob and the others actually enjoyed being on land. Patrick even said that he might keep a seconds rock on the surface.

I think maybe you meant these episodes were ABOUT racism. They weren't rascist themselves.

I hate those marine life critters. Im a mammal. Im better than those... those... those darned Chum chewers. Gullible guppies. Wet body. Gill Bill. Salty Sally. Fin freak. Slimey scales. Corral cowards. Blub Bobs. Glub duds. Thumbless thing. You critters can't fly we gots wings. Us fellers got thumbs and overalls. Wes got thems burrowing critters. Shooooo we got the whol' dang sky to gander at pardner what do you swimmers got? Salty wa-tor.👨‍🌾

Despite being white and at most catching stereotypes about being Italian and often joking about my tendency to steal things because I’m Romanian, something that DOES kinda feel like racism is people treating me like a kid and babying me all the time because I’m on the Autism Spectrum and because I look innocent because of my big eyes and simplistic way of speaking.

You forgot the episode where Squidward lives in a segregated community

The SpongeBob musical also has this same level of discrimination against Sandy. As she gets bullied out of town because she breathes air

Pressure is one of favorite episodes, it's tells you that some people good at something and another people good at another, this competiting is nonsense and how "sea creatures better than land creatures" mindset disaproven us that people has their own different ways and competition is no solution and that seagull scene is very funny. Btw SpongeBob calling Sandy a "air-breather" and Sandy calling SpongeBob "Chum chewer" is so hilarious.

It doesn't really make sense to me that a human with another skin color is somehow a race or is a type of "sub human". A human is still a human regardless of how light or dark their skin is. There are racial difference between a human or a saiyan or a human and a viltrumite, but those are two different (fictional) species. The entire of concept of race among humans has done nothing but divide us.

I'm only violently racist in one friend group and never do it publicly. I'm an upstanding individual.

sometimes what you say fits the movement of their mouths kinda funny

People think it's not racism because they aren't black and white, but there can be different people that get racism, such as sandy and spongebob, sandy is a land life creature, and SpongeBob is a water life, but sandy has a helmet, so shes no different.

If I had a nickel for every Spongebob SquarePants episode from 2001 that deals with racism, specifically towards Sandy, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

Ive always liked Sandy because i tend to struggle fitting in a lot because i am often very different from my peers

Sandy had put on a Fish Face in the Halloween Special when she made a reference about being a gold fish in a bowl.

I genuinely don't get people turning a literal childrens cartoon into something racial related... You just can never escape it

That your mom joke had me rolling. Fire vid as always

Ngl while I didn’t sympathize with sandy in the peer pressure episode because sandy started it, but I felt really bad for her in squirrel jokes like why did splung bloog say those jokes…..

Nahhh that's why my dad tried to make me a sandy costume 💀

0:48 the word racist is spelled raicst

this is my favorite spongebob theory of all time. i love ur own opinions in the video and ur style of editing. keep it up ❤

Bro missed the opportunity to say "every bubble-blowing-baby will be beaten senseless by every able-bodied-patron in the bar"

I died laughing almost halfway through the video saying you dirty chumchewer

Sandy was the only one in the crowd who wasnt booing at him, still she gets destroyed… :(

I’ve dealt with racism before I think. I’m a ginger who goes to school but my class and other classes don’t even care if I get hurt like getting hit in the face really hard by a basketball but they laugh and that started a bloody nose and a tiny crack inside my nose and even if one kid does a tiny trip like a rock and falls down whole bunch of students ask if he is okay which I don’t know if it’s racism or just a huge coincidence of bad luck events

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I can't really relate too much but if I had to think about it it would be without the racism where I would be in an all white class and be the only person that isn't because I'm half white and half black

I like losing to my friends, when they're happy so am I.

0:10 I’m guessing sunbleached and sitk with sandy

Squirrel jokes was horrible while Pressure was great!

Why tf do people think Sandy is stupid? She's one of the smartest lifeforms in the entire ocean

This video hits hard, and I think it's an important one to make. I'm white, and one of the best things I learned was that I'm more ignorant than I think I am. Not because I'm proud of it, but because it makes sure I remember that I can always learn. It helps me realize just how biased my subconscious can be. While I was fortunate to not be one to completely fall into the "racism pipeline" for lack of a better term, my younger self still often parroted ignorant and hateful rhetoric, simply because I heard it from an adult, or because I wanted to be recognized by the kids saying it. I'm not gonna say I'm perfect now, but it was videos like these that helped me get a new perspective on things and helped get the wheel turning for me and open myself up to learn. Again, I'm by no means an expert, but I'm glad I was able to break away from it before it was too late. It's hard to break away from the biases that were present all around you since you were young. Whether it was from the news, adults in my life, and sadly the most common, the kids around me. Things like racism, sexism, etc. is like a self feeding cycle. The adults who were once kids being taught to hate pass it down onto their kids, and their kids who can't comprehend the gravity of what they're saying yet, then spreads that to the other kids, whether in school or the playground, which then begins to see those of marginalized groups get isolated and singled out. The kids who never learn from their ignorance then pass it down to their kids, and the cycle repeats. I don't think ignorance is inherently malicious. What I do think is malicious is continuing to push hate and bigotry and feigning ignorance, despite being told just how hurtful and dangerous one's actions and words are. That denial is what leads someone to being to truly hate a group of people. Instead of seeing people call them out as a chance to learn, they see it as a personal attack and they begin to see those people as lesser and something to hate. That's when we get truly hate-filled individuals, and those people are the ones that seek out people like them and dedicate themselves to said hate. Ok this is a lot to get from a video about Spongebob, but I'll just say that the fact I didn't fully get the racism allegory in these episodes, despite seeing them a bunch of times until watching this video, proves my first point. TL;DR: Ignorance is like a disease, if caught early, it can be recovered from and learned from, left unchecked, it progresses into a hate-filled virus that takes over one's mindset and body and will cling to its host like a tumor until it can destroy everything around it and will do anything to survive and fester. While your video might not make someone do a complete 180 overnight, I do think it'll get people to start thinking a bit harder and re-examine themselves. Also apologies for the yap sesh. I'm no writer, but I hope it at least made sense.

There’s this group of people at my Special School who bullies me for being Autistic, Gay and Tall. One of the people in that group is in my class and he always makes homophobic jokes. 😢😭

I feel this. I've dealt with alot of judgment and backstabbing over the Years. Many different reasons. My Race, my Gender Identity, my Sexuality, my Religion, my Interests, my Style, my Relationship, my Physical Strength, my Work Ethic, my plans for the future and my Disabilities. Possibly more. 1. I'm part German, Canadian Native American and more. I feel it's important to take pride in the good parts of your Heritage. I do this by learning about my Heritage, listening to Music at times of my Heritage and having a want to learn the Languages. (I currently have 15 Languages on Duolingo I plan on working on. And a Beginner Level in three I say. German, Polish and Zulu.) But yeah I've had People mock me for being part German by People that are themselves. 2. My Gender Identity is Demiboy. Sadly I can't say it is Publicly because I can't come out about being Trans in Person. And even if I did I most likely be disowned by my Parents. Which is my only shelter right now. 3. I'm Pansexual. 4. I'm an Atheist. And yeah I feel everyone's choice on what they Believe is valid. You do you you know? Despite this I have recived alot of bullying. 5. I like learning about just about anything. But I have no real interest in Politics, Sports, living/being in a City and Gyms. Not willing to deal with alot of the drama. Also I can't really do much at a Gym honestly. I have a Heart Condition. 6. Be it my taste in Clothing or my Art Style. People love to be judgy of it. I love wearing Shirts with fun prints on them. (Like my Angel Bunny Shirt with Them drinking Boba and looking super cute. Or something dark. Like my Shirt that has a Wolf Skull and a Heart. With the words "END OF DAYS".) Which my drawn Art I normally draw Monster Humaniods. Some with Disablities. Or I draw something abstract. Which my Current Drawing I need to finish for a Project is of two Lesbian Monster Humaniods. They are Cuddling and Kissing. Both Adults. 7. I'm in a 7 Year Long Distance Relationship. We commuicate so well with each other so well that we don't fight. We're 10 Years apart in age. We're both Disabled Adults. And spoil each other. They Identity as Genderfluid and are Bisexual. They are debating about being Trans as well. 8. I'm not Phycially strong enough to do certain things. (Hey I'm fairly ripped. But People expect me to lift a Big Bucket of slop like it's nothing at my Last Job. That is heavy.) 9. I prefer quality over quantity. Which takes longer than they like. 10. I plan on moving to Estonia or Germany with my Partner. We plan on Adopting two Disabled Little Girls. (Like real little.) I'm trying to get a Small Business going for us. It be a down to Earth place so to speck. But also want it to be fun. Also if we still are in the US when we go to adopt I plan on Home Schooling them. I don't want them to go through the Hell I did. 10. I have Depression, Anxiety, Social Anxiety (It's doing better. Still freeze up at times.), PTSD, Dyslexia (Which causes me lovely problems. Like Memory Lost at times.), a Heart Condition, a Baker Cyst in my Right Knee, Plantar Fasciitis in my Left Foot, Arthritis and Scoliosis. Plus I'm a Klutz. So I'm royally screwed. Sorry for how long this became. And sorry if there is any misspellings.

Ngl, I used to LOVE spongebob as a kid, but that peer pressure episode, where they were racist towards Sandy, I hated it so much, found it disgusting and annoying, and I was a kid who was still wondering why is Squidward so sad

Hell i make fun of myself. Expecally my Autism.

This is good stuff, from the editing of the video to how you have music playing in the back

after reading the title these are now my new favorite episodes of spongebob

All my homies love the Undertale music.

Amazing video! In the friend group i am, there's a friend that just for being a little dark they boter him with racist jokes, i always try to stop them so he don't felt bad, but at this point he's just used to it

Maxwell Atoms is way more racist than SpongeBob. Because Maxwell made a blackface gag in Bunnicula (2016).

I think there was a study where a class of kids were separated based on eye color and one was treated better than the other. The “lesser” group started falling behind while the “superior” group was found to have learnt better due to the different treatments. One group was told they weren’t as good as the other so they internalized it while the other group internalized the praise they got for their “superior trait”

This is really well edited!!

Sandy don’t mess around

Not really racist more so Speciesism I always thought of these episodes as the sea creatures will inevitably get some misunderstandings with Sandy it would be like if you were friends with an alien you’ll never understand their POV because you can’t and because of that you’ll often get frustrated with each other even if you do care for each other But the second episode definitely is a worse offender in the context of the video

What does "racist" even mean anymore?

18:48 I think you should have covered the very end of the episode where the basic conclusion was making fun of everybody is ok, he joked about everyone, i think the messagge was "satire should not be exploited by beliefes they need to rely on facts", wich includes also the right of comedy and "free speech".

That episode wasn't about race. Sandy was mocked for being a hillbilly, Sandy is from Texas and has a Southerner accent. Sandy being a Texan misfit was always a theme is the series, she was wearing overalls and had bad teeth by the end of squirrel jokes, which are hillbillies stereotypes.

"Is that a racist cartoon?" These words aged like wine

Morale of the video. Be careful with whatever word you say lest you might say something insulting.

I remember watching one and didnt get the point

spongebob... that dang soapsoaker

At least Mr.krabs can breath 🫁 land or dose he has no lunges? Mabye both i guess?

the intro made me feel so good, thanks for that

As someone who is autistic but also middle class white cis-strait male, I"ve been both discriminated against and been apart of the group discriminating against *fill in the blank* group of marginalized people. When I was in elementary school I was often excluded by my peers for being a "retard" and during my first year in high school many teachers refused to implement my IEP or made me implement my own accomodations because I wasn't important enough to pay attention to. Then when I went to college, I found myself being, much to my regret and shame now, being the insensitive or even cruel asshole stepping on other peoples' identities intentionally or not. Much to my horror and chagrin, I've found myself continuing to do hurtful things to other people with the most recent example being that I lost a Jewish friend that I had in that I got so fed up with the current round of violence of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in that I've been taking 'a plague on both their houses' approach years after I promised this friend I wouldn't take a stance or side in the conflict. I tried my best to appoligize for my actions but there is little room for forgiveness for deconstructing both the modern iterations of the Israeli and Palestinian identities as being both made up and conditional concepts (I've become really cynical of aggresive nationalism in general over the past 10 years due to both studying history and learning about current events) and signing a cease fire petition for the sending of humanitarian aid for what my ex-friend considers practically Nazis. The most embarrassing thing I've done in relation to doing something racist is saying a whole bunch of racial slurs to a black woman thinking I could pull off Mel Brooks' brand of offensive humor and oh boy did it crash and burn.

can relate. was the only white kid in a black school. even the teachers joined in.

Bro I just discovers your channel I your channel is total masterpieces continue like this keep up good video

Sandy being from Texas kinda makes sense of why she's mostly the "offensive" one. 💀

“A wallet, a watch, a waffle?!” 😂

Not the undertale background music

I did click on this video but fortunately an ad pop up so I can pause and give this comment without viewing this (the video might be better than the title) and say that’s the literally the point of these episodes it’s supposed to be a message for kids not to be assholes when they grow up. And if he already said all of this in the video already, oops my bad.

Its racist to squirrels... 🤷‍♂️

It is wacky that a guy making a video about spongebob being racist has given me the courage to confront my friend group whos constantly been making jokes at my expense since a guy that doesnt like me joined

I just realized something when spongebob and sandy gone in a “””race””” 💀💀💀💀💀