The “SpongeVerse” Is A JOKE 

One last video for the year. How Did We Get Here? - 0:00 Broken Canon: Sandy's "Time Travel" - 2:22 Broken Canon: The Secret Formula - 4:18 Broken Canon: Patrick's "Parents" - 6:05 The Staff's Intent - 7:06 Debunking The "Vacuum" - 8:48 Why It Matters - 10:27 Debunking The 'Dimensions' - 11:13 Too Safe - 13:04 What Kamp Koral Offers - 13:43 What The Patrick Star Show Offers - 14:55 How It's Too Safe - 16:26 Debunking the "Episodic" Argument - 17:46 The Actual Excuse - 19:20 It's ALL The Same - 23:38 The 'Planet Sheen' Example - 26:04 The 'Casagrandes' Example - 27:10 Addressing "Bubble Bass Reviews" - 27:51 The 'American Dad' Example - 28:29 What Happens Now? - 29:42

Poor Steven Hilenberg. It’s honestly a shame what they’ve done to his show.

…The Spongeverse?

If any character could've made a spinoff work It would be Sandy... Have it take place with her family in Texas this makes a distinctive world with unique characters & can have new stories that can be told

SpongeBob was specifically not created for a "spin-offverse." It just leads to so much confusion and complications for a simpler show about the adventures of a seas sponge. This is why Hillenburg was not on board with the idea.

Remember that one episode where Mr. Krabs decided to turn the entire restaurant into one big Spongebob theme, including the Krabby Patties? Years have passed since that episode first aired, and Nickelodeon still didn't get the satire.

There will never be anything funnier than when a company makes an episode about overmilking something being bad, only for them to do it themselves.

I have a funny theory about the broken canon with Patrick’s parents. His _real_ parents are the ones that have been around since the beginning of the main show. However, because Patrick is such an idiot, he constantly mistakes Cecil and Bunny from The Patrick Star Show as his parents and spends long periods of time with them and in turn, they also mistake him for their son. This is easy to believe considering how in the original episode where Patrick’s real parents debuted, he spent the whole episode with a completely different set of starfish and didn’t realize they weren’t his parents until they said their names. Those starfish also didn’t remember they didn’t have a son until then, so this kind of thing is pretty common in the starfish community. It would be funny if they did an episode about this in The Patrick Star Show, where Patrick and his fake family realize this mistake and Patrick goes back to live with his real parents again, only for them to forget again at the end of the episode or something.

This is a cinematic masterpiece. My favorite part was when Alpha Jay Show said “It’s Spongversing time” and proceeded to Spongverse all over Nickelodeon.

To be honest SpongeBob making the formula also clearly contradicts the episode "Friend or Foe?" (still an episode vaguely a part of original SpongeBob, shown to the public in 2007) where Plankton and Krabs canonically been friends prior to their rivalry as kids, which began with them MAKING THE FORMULA. Krabs and Plankton both discover the secret formula together (naming it the "Plab Patty" as a spin on their names) and then when they fought on it, thus ripping the original recipe in half, both of them go their separate ways providing a different conclusion to how the delectable dish would be made, aka inventing the chum burger and the krabby patty since one went with homemade ingredients while the other went to science. That completely gets contradicted with BOTH krabs and plankton learning that SpongeBob made the first krabby patty recipe in Kamp Koral... either way that spinoff series is the death of the original canon.

Rule #17 of cartoons: If a family-family cartoon gets really really popular, there’s gonna be another show but with babies.

as a FNaF fan, i assure you, the canon counting and not counting at the same time isnt new

I seriously don't understand why they keep making new SpongeBob episodes and why they're so stubborn on continuing the spin-offs, It seems like such a waste of money. Sure they may be getting a little bit of extra money from the revenue, but as you stated before anytime anyone thinks of SpongeBob they always think of the first 3 or 6 seasons. On most of the SpongeBob official social media accounts you'll see pages and pages of people complaining every single time they post anything from a more recent season. It's not even just the die-hard fans, not a single casual fans I know irl has either enjoyed anything recent or simply doesn't watch it. The most common thing you'd ever hear people say is that they miss old SpongeBob, so why not bring it back? Hear me out, what if they cancel the two spin-offs, give the show a series finale (I'd recommend something that takes place after the 1st SpongeBob Movie) and just air reruns indefinitely? I'm pretty sure at LEAST 80% of people who want to watch SpongeBob will throw on an older episode on Paramount+ or watch old DVDs, so if anything reairing older episodes instead of super recent stuff would probably bring in more viewers anyways. It's not like they don't have enough episodes, they have two entire decades worth of content. Not only that, but it would be way more cost effective to just reair everything they already made instead of making anything new, and they could use the money that would normally be spent on SpongeBob on new projects or revivals of other shows. I guarantee merchandise is where most of SpongeBob's profits come from anyways. The Peanuts series for the longest time didn't make anything new simply because they didnt need to, they survived solely on conmercials, merchandise, reairings of their older specials, and reruns of their comics. I really feel like SpongeBob could very easily last indefinitely this way. They. could keep making video games, toys, box sets, try to get a more prominent presence theme parks like Universal, and occasionally make stand alone animated shorts. Im not a business man, but I really feel like Brian Robbins is going about this all wrong. Cable is slowly dying, most people use streaming apps, and most people stream older episodes anyways. It almost feels like he's intentionally trying to sabotage the series with how much his "vision" has messed with the show's legacy. I feel like the current state SpongeBob is the worst its ever been, even worse than it was during Seasons 7 and 8. Good video as always man.

“When you run out of ideas, you just do Muppet Babies.” “You know, one of these days, they’re going to want to make _Spongebob Babies_ That’s when I’m out of here.” Holy shit I never realized this aged really really well

Miguel O'Hara looking at this be like "This is not a canon event, this is just bullshit"

The Sandy thing is called a bootstrap paradox, she does it because she already did in the past, at the moment of that loop being created there was no longer a point where she realised she needed to preserve it, only that she knew she had to (possibly because of the threat of not doing it and being literally erased from time itself).

7:00 also another note, there's a brief line in Something Smells when Patrick says, "Oh, my gosh, if my sister finds out... wait, I don't have a sister." which directly contradicts this episode with Patrick's sister.

Nickelodeon: “The children? I don't care about the children. I just care about their parents money.” 🤑

Wow. So even the directors knew that Stephen wouldn’t want Kamp Koral to happen, yet they had to do it anyway. That’s just sad.

The fact that there are so many SpongeBob spin-offs, new episodes, and reruns on that channel… Nickelodeon used to literally have a roster of great and original animated projects. Many of which had their own unique flavors of style and themes. Now it’s pretty much just one hydra under the sea 🌊

-Fun- fact: on the SpongeBob channel they posted family tree’s for each of the main characters that were made before the Patrick show. Showing that they don’t only go against cannon, but also their own Advertising

This is one case where it would make sense if it was dream, because these new SpongeBob shows have been a nightmare

A reminder that the one continuty I will always point out is Spongebob being AFRAID OF ICECUBES and stepping around some in the new Salty Spitoon episode. Clearly there is a continuity if character growth HAPPENS. If a character can become afraid of something and REMEMBER it, there is a continuity.

Me in 2004: Please don’t end this show after the movie, I wanna see more seasons of the series, Nick. 20 years later: Okay, this series has been gone too far, none of these new episodes aren’t so great especially the spin offs and when will this show ever going end, it’s been 25 years now, Nick.

You know the thing that confuses me? On the new episodes they always put Stephen Hillenburg as the executive producer but the guy’s been dead since 2018 like how is he the producer for these episodes if he’s gone? It just feels gross to me

They really ruined the Spongebob canon lore by making it more baby like and removing all of the worth of the older episodes, and made Sandy a time traveler and making Gary met Spongebob in camp coral rather than the pound? Wow their bad at story writing. They can't even keep themselves from changing Stephen's actual story and perfectly organized stories. The supposed parents for Patrick ruined the theorist community. It sucks. They ruined Squidward with cartoony expressions and making him grumpy but more on the child like side. And hoe did squidward turn into Handsomeward if it was because of Spongebob's passion and positive or somewhat like that...with a door slam?! Yeah no the community knows more about the Spongebob lore instead of the newest owners for Spongebob. I miss the more depressing yet funny episodes. I miss squidward being bad yet kind to Spongebob because of guilt. Man this sucks.

This is what happens when you puppet the corpse of a show that should have ended years ago. It's OKAY for things to end, people.

It's totally fine if the writers want to have loose continuity within the show and not have much cohesion between episodes. The problem is you can't make a good connected universe if you do that. People like connected universes because they can rely that everyone and everything in it will stay relatively consistent so it all makes sense that it exists in the same universe. I also feel like Nickelodeon is taking advantage of their young audience they are aiming at. Spongebob has been going on long enough that a lot of kids today probably don't know the original lore and Nick believes that this gives them the freedom to do whatever they want with the show and characters. It's like historical revisionism, except with a cartoon show.

Nickelodeon: *looks at Steven Hillenburgs grave* Also Nickelodeon: “am I really going to dig up his grave for money? OF COURSE I AM!”

I think the issue is as time has gone on we've started to get fans of the original series to physically work on the show, and they don't like the middle seasons, like many fans, so they use the excuse "well, we don't see canon as a thing we have to follow exactly" so they don't have to have the tone of the show fit with those middle seasons. This also explains why the last few seasons have just been reference, reference, reference, as again, these people grew up as fans. And as fans that saw this as a massive inspiration (clearly), they seemingly don't understand why the best episodes, scenes, and jokes are the best, just that people really like them. So you got this awkward situation where they don't want to emulate the middle seasons, and want to do callbacks to the older seasons, but have a vastly different way of approaching every aspect of making a cartoon, so the show feels disjointed as of late.

SpongeBob: into the spongeverse

The multiverse trend has become a fatigued and overrated means of telling a story, particularly the multiverse stories that exist as a means of milking a franchise/existing just for fanservice compared to shows like, say, Fionna and Cake from Adventure Time (oh, include Adventure Time as well since the multiverse concept was introduced during the series) or the Spiderverse movies. What these executives don't realize is that the multiverse concept exists to build up the characters from a main universe/to give characters development, but most of the time, executives have led the multiverse to becoming, "Wow, look at that lore and thag different version of a character! So cool!", instead of existing to build up characters. The most that's changed in terms of SpongeBob are newly established dynamics and the animation style, the rest of it is pure annoyance, fanservice, and the such. This is coming from a huge SpongeBob fan that broke VCRs due to my love for Spongebob (rewinding to watch moments I enjoyed repeatedly), by the way. I enjoy what some of super-modern Spongebob does, but I still see it as a missed opportunity to just keep it as a show that ended after its first theatrical release, because at least like Gravity Falls, Stephen saw it as a means of ending the show on his terms, but as long as corporate Nick does what it does, it's gonna milk Spongebob until its last day on the air in, say, 4023, whatever. As long as Spongebob continues to take no risk and ride off of references without understanding why such a reference would be impactful for the viewer (like if there was a reference to "Hooks" and Spongebob makes a comment about never going on one again [which would show character development] vs. plopping the King Neptune crown in a pile of assorted crap on a shelf), Spongebob will just, well, be itself: a show continously draining by the day as it loses its milk. Spongebob could've gone the Gumball route, or hell, at least found a way to make characters change to where they would be compelling for viewers, but nope, Nick would rather the creatives play it safe and keep the characters static for the sake of brand-recognition and merchandise sales. If Nick really wants a universe of their own, they should've aimed to finding an original show that could fit that role, and yes, I can at least understand *WHY* they want SpongeBob to take that role, but Spongebob just is not the show to do it. SpongeBob is like the Simpsons and Family Guy, there is no such thing as continuity and status quo is God, so trying to interject any form of continuity by diving in head-first is by no means a healthy venture. If anything, say, shoving the two redneck characters from 'Kamp Koral' into Spongebob is just forcing us to be reminded that SpongeBob has spinoffs rather than it being something to be enjoyed. I doubt with Spongebob for so long being seen as a static show with the lightest continuity imaginable would suddenly change in popularity if they interject continuity by shoving their spinoffs and main show together. The damage has already been done, they went into this multiverse venture very poorly. Nickelodeon has been afraid to do *anything* creative since Spongebob became their corporate cow, and the only times they have done so is if they manage to get the same ratings as Spongebob (or even higher), and they too suffer the same fate. Overall, corporatism has been tainting art for years, and it isn't going to stop, either as long as they continue to have their properties receive attention and profit. Some things are better ended on their own terms, regardless what a corporate company says. Taking risk is not always a bad thing, because after a while, people will want something new, that's just the human condition, but alas, when children are so easy to make cash off of, it's no wonder that companies like to take advantage of them and see them as things to shove garbage in front of and expect them to consume it without problem, regardless whether it tastes like candy or vomit. *Spongebob should have died after the first movie. Period.*

I find this whole situation really ironic considering that episode where Patrick made a game and the whole comedy revolved around Squidward getting frustrated that Patrick's rules were clearly contradictory and made up or rectified as the game went along.

I've brought up the idea before but Nick should do a mini-series adapting Battle for Bikini Bottom, heck any of the SpongeBob games with original plots would do as well.

Treating the canon as a mere "suggestion" is just a clear sign of bad writing.

The formula stuff makes even less sense as I'm pretty sure Krabs and Plankton accidentally create the formula during "Friend or Foe" in a flashback

Don’t forget that about Avatar and tmnt were also beating SpongeBobs ratings ever since they first premiered in 2005 and 2012. However due to the massive popularity of avatar Nick decided to do a spin off named legend of Korra before the sponge had its own sequels. For the turtles, they had no sequel but rather a new show called Rise of the tmnt in 2019 which most people say didn’t really care for but sum casuals still enjoy the art style, action and comedy. Fairly odd parents would never have sequels since it’s just a one show that rival SpongeBob during their early glory years until they eventually had a live action reboot on paramount + that we know should have NEVER happened but despite it I still enjoy watching what made the first seasons of both shows so memorable.

A Sheen series could've work if it was about that boy he beat in that episode "crouching jimmy, hidden sheen" wanting revenge. He kidnaps libby, and the monks. He tells Sheen if he wants to save them he'll have to fight his was through his goons without Jimmy's help.

I haven’t even given the other shows a look…and everything i’ve seen tells me that’s for the best

Didn't the official SpongeBob channel say that this was caused by The Timeline being split into alternate universes?

It annoys me deeply that there are so many better shows that get cancelled after 1 season, but Spongebob is basically immortal since it was really successful back in the day. Hell, it was even the main reason so many shows from the 2000s/2010s got cancelled early.

Bro. They literally aired Tea In The Treedome just before a Kamp Koral episode

We all just need to accept that spongebob has fallen off just like the Simpsons and dragging it on further kills the childhood feeling we once had

I grew up on and absolutely loved this show. Literally a staple of my childhood and portion of my comedy, im now a mom and my son is obsessed with. Watching the newer stuff just crushes my heart. Its so different to the OG shit, i cant explain it.

“Take me to the 4th dimension.” What about the SpongeBob 4D movie theme park ride? Debunked your debunk.

steven should of had written in his will: you are legally not allowed to continue my show, it ends with my death

Kamp Koral and the Patrick Star Show should just be declared non canon.

"Bubble Bass Reviews" being a Nostalgia Critic reference and talking about Internet reviewers has justified the existence of The Patrick Star Show in my eyes.

Nickelodeon's downfall needs to be studied

Technically the “they exist in seperate dimensions” argument isn’t debunked by that. Each episode supposedly takes place in a seperate parallel universe, so while some things might be canon in one episode, they aren’t in others. It’s a stupid way of doing things and I think they should have just stopped at like season six of SpongeBob and started on something completely new.

At least Scooby Doo manage to be different in a few cartoons like 13 ghosts and Mystery Inc

“Okay, I already had enough of these things. Both the spongy and multiverse junkyards are dumb and weird.” - Jax, The Amazing Digital Circus, October 2023 (maybe)

Shows like this are not meant for a massive MCUniverse thing, and yet here Nickelodeon is, pretending like the Spongeverse should exist - because Brian and Kevin Feige said so. And so now you have - fans of the original show shoehorning references and continuity in, while the other half is like, Spongebob is a loose cannon cop on the edge who doesn’t play by the rules, so the result is a Frankensponge of a canon because a story bible doesn’t exist. Hell, even The Marvel Universe was a fluke at first before they started realizing, “Hey, this universe thing works.”

In my mind, real SpongeBob ended with the first movie and a handful of acceptable episodes from the next few seasons. What is made today is an insult to the show’s legacy and its original fans. Character assassination, baby-fication, worse art direction, bad comedy and misunderstanding of the show’s established history led to the dismal condition it is in today. This show has been on life support for like a decade and a half and needs to be taken out back.

This is why they went after AI sponge, because they knew it was better than this

As far as I'm concerned Spongebob ended with the first movie and everything afterwards is just bad filler.

About the formula, in Friend or Foe, it was shown that the formula was accidentally created by young Mr. Krabs, and he started selling it. In the episode where Plankton falls in love with Mr. Krabs’ grandma, Mr. Krabs says it’s a family recipe. So now, it was made by Mr. Krabs as an accident, as a family recipe, and by SpongeBob at Kamp Koral.

SpongeBob definitely should've ended with the first movie in 2004.

But wasn't spongebob's whole thing has always been that there isn't a continuity? Why do you thinks there's two separate king neptunes?

The biggest inconsistency is that Spongebob apparently made the formula, but Krabs made it as a kid according to Friend vs. Foe. Therefore, it must have already been made before Spongebob did. Plus, during the time sponegbob was a baby, shown by Truth or Square, Krabs was working the Krusty Krab.

LETS be honest. They dont care,Dont care about canon,dont care about enjoyability,dont care about being GOOD,They was just throwing shit in so the canon would make sense,Just shooting a gun with their eyes closed hoping to hit the bulls-eye They really became mr krabs money money money. Nick died in the same coffin Steve died😢

honestly i think we should just collectively decide that only the main show is cannon, even if the executives say the spinoffs are as well . i mean, if we all agree they're not cannon, even if the executives say they are, are they really?

I feel like I'm being reminded of PPG 2016. Both of which cant make up on what level on consistency should the story/plot take fold. From one episode saying the girls are going back to PokeOaks Kindergarten again to now making them go to an Elementary school where education is all over the place on who is learning what. We had an episode of where Buttercup for some knows advanced math. In another episode Bubbles gets a broken arm, not from fighting their villain but how she gets injured makes no sense given how shes a power puff girl. And lastly the origin of the professor making the girls hurts my very soul. Point is, Nick much like CN, are terrible when it comes to not letting a show die, not do spin offs or crossovers without the proper respect towards the original creator.

Seasons 1-12 are canon and the only spongebob i will watch. tbh the later seasons aren’t great but 12 was the last one to actually have hillenburg working on some episodes. Season 13 makes the camp coral stuff canon with episodes like upturn girls.

At this point nickelodeon should hire a team of writers to study the humor of season 1-5, go back to season 5 artstyle (personally season 5 has the perfect balance of old and modern spongebob).

I think my main issue isn't that the spin-offs are made. It's that the ones making the spin-offs aren't trying more than they actually could and should.

They did spongebob dirty.

I blame Nickelodeon, this is what happens when they put all of their focus on two shows instead of trying to expand their horizons.

This is why I only consider the first 3 seasons cannon.

You know? With the show possibly reaching the 20th season and even higher it is gonna be much harder to refrence or callback to older episodes just because of the sheer ammount of episodes

Anybody claiming that there are “different dimensions” or there is a “SpongeVerse” is just desperately trying to cover up lazy and thoughtless writing demanded by greedy and soulless executives lmao

The biggest issue for me with a lot of the newer episodes of SpongeBob episodes is that they're clearly written by fans of the classic show. So you'll get callbacks to characters or moments that appeared in like one or two episodes, and that stuff will get elevated to get their own episode. Stuff like Bubble Buddy, DoodleBob, Bubble Bass, Sea Bears, My Leg Guy, Ms. Puff and Mr. Krabs dating, Handsome Squidward, etc... and all of this just feels like fanfic. Like, it doesn't feel like a natural episode of the show that the original writing team would've written. The original couple seasons, and even quite a few seasons into the post-movie era, NEVER did callbacks like this. The closest I can think is having a season 1 episode introduce a new character like Sandy, the Flying Dutchman, or Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy, who would go on to be reoccurring characters later, but they stopped that after, again, like season 1 once the cast was pretty filled up. But now they'll reference fan-favorite classic episodes, or memes and it just feels like I'm watching some guy's SpongeBob fan fiction.

tbh i wouldn't be surprised if they'd reveal that Kassandra from Spongebob game was trying to mess up dimensions ir whatever you'd call that to make a gateway to return. being honest even if far stretched it'd would be kinda cool final battle

Jay: (states that SpongeBob couldn’t have been the creator of the Krabby patty secret formula) Me: And there’s no way SpongeBob could have memorised the formula either, in the movie Sponge Out Of Water after SpongeBob and Mr Krabs find that the patty freezer is completely empty Mr Krabs chose to rely on SpongeBob’s memory so he could make more Krabby patties but then SpongeBob states that it would’ve violated his employment contract if he remembered even the slightest thing about what goes into a Krabby patty.

The amount of inconsistencies is EXACTLY WHY the main creator of the show did not want Spongebob babies because if babies were to exist then they would have to find a way to give everything reason of which clearly the current showrunners failed at.

I know Hilenberg's SpongeBob story world was pretty good. In its early days, it actually did tell a story, and it was as wholesome as it was goofy, while at the same time referencing real life hopelessness for us adult folks. It was *good.* Now...? Now it's just... Televised ADHD. Newspaper comic strips animated. Background noise for kids so they leave mommy and daddy alone. Never once have I seen recent "comedy" cartoons have any kind of respect for lore, storylines, and alliteration unless it's for an immediate punchline. It's... Honestly disappointing, as far as I'm concerned, but I'm also a writer who never invested in hyperbole and short-term entertainment. I prefer the more traditional storytelling of long arcs, linear progression, and lasting character development. Old SpongeBob *kind of* did that? At least, everything made sense and had references and relationships brought up as jokes and plot twists in later episodes... Now it's just episodes of distraction. "Here, have this funny episode that has nothing to do with everything else around it so you forget about it a couple days later if it isn't memed!" It ends up getting recycled later, since it's *so* random that there's really nothing new to be presented. It's very... Samey. ...I'm probably harsh, but I watched something I watched come into the world as something new and fresh and funny get turned into something honestly just noise as soon as the original creator passed away and the suits decided to squeeze money out of it. Makes me sad.

This is the scream desperation when you're running out of ideas and milk even further by copying what's popular in the culture.

SpongeBob is one of the shows that no one knows exactly what to make of despite it being very popular. Is it propaganda for capitalism or a somewhat-subtle critique of it? Was it intentionally written knowing that adults would like it too? Is it purely an out-of-order, "reset button" story where episodes don't really influence each other, or at least somewhat serial/truly episodic? Are the recent throwbacks to past plots pandering or an attempt at making a somewhat consistent canon? Are Krabby Patties in fact made with the first letter in each word of "people order our patties", from a mysterious nearby pipe? If SpongeBob's house is just a pineapple and nothing more, how come each time it's replaced has the exact same furniture, electronics, books, and all? How come none of the characters can swim despite being underwater? Why do they even act like gravity is keeping them to the ocean's sandy ground? Why hasn't Sandy died from eating saltwater-soaked food? Why do the characters seem to survive major injuries with instant recovery, while ending up in the hospital for much less? Alas, it's a cartoon. And not one very conducive to a 'verse, though Alex Bale does pull off a convincing interpretation.

I think i agree with the people who said the show “ends” in the second or third season at this point

The best analogy I have for the spongebob franchise universe (old episodes, new episodes, movies, spinoffs, games) is that it's a series pf bubbles. These bubbles are their own "universe", and sometimes bubbles are contained within bubbles. The bubble and people living inside the bubble won't know they're inside one. But those with a bubble inside of their bubble know of and can even interact with said bubble. Idk, I can see it but it's kind of hard to explain. There might even be additional factors, like surfaces where two bubbles touch - the random, non-canonical references perhaps

I find it interesting as an older cartoon fan how everyone expects "lore" in their cartoons now. Even cartoons like 'Loud House' gets grief from their fans about it. Is it because of anime? Or that cartoons are being watched more and more by teens/adults? People just expecting "more" from cartoons because Disney was so good? (Emphasis on "was") I'm really curious. When I was growing up, cartoons didn't care and expected no one else to care. There were shows like 'Gargoyles' that had extensive lore and careful story planning, but then most of the other cartoons were like, for example, 'Josie and the Pussycats' that had twin siblings but every other episode they seemed to forget they were twins and would be like "I'm the older sister here!" "I'm the older brother!" Like they didn't even have the 'Scooby-Doo' multi-universes/shows excuse, it was the same cartoon, same season lol

I just came up with a theory on why the lore is just not so consistent and stuff, and yes I know the actual reason is just because the show writers are lazy probably, but I mean like a probable canonical reason, anyways my theory is that season 1 where sandy and spongebob first meet takes place before sandy sends a past version of herself in the past, which I thought could be a clone version of Sandy herself that sandy aged backwards to a certain age until she got ready to send the clone into the past, after sending the kid clone sandy into the past, somehow original sandy screwed up the future and accidentally made a parallel timeline that is different than her own timeline which could start in the future seasons past season 4,5, or 6, maybe 7, thats why adult sandy in the patrick star show has glasses despite sandy not having glasses in the main show and could be a reason why big sister sam was replaced by Squidina and why Patrick's parents look different or the fact time travel happens constantly in the patrick star show because there was technically time travel in the past from kid clone sandy which is an adult in the patrick star show. And I'm quite still upset nickelodeon did Stephen Hillenburg so dirty by going against his dying wishes of even making spinoffs or prequels or sequels to the origina spongebob, but as soon as he died they did anyways.

How I would fix the Patrick's parent's issue. They sometimes like to wear costumes that look like the old parents.

It's possible that Sandy's time travel/manipulation created an entirely new timeline. This means that from the moment Sandy sends her younger self to Camp Coral, the timeline splits into two timelines. A timeline in which the events from the original series take place and a timeline in which the events from Camp Coral take place.

Warner Brothers and Paramount executives might merge, I’m scared.

Its all just nostalgia pandering at the end of the day. Even as a fan of modern SpongeBob myself a good handful of the newer eps feel like nicks futile attempt to squeeze that last bit of milk out of their number 1 chash cow

There's a episode where young Mr Krabs and Plankton worked together selling patties on a food-truck and because of a fight they created the secret formula and Krabs keep it.

4:20 You forgot Friend or Foe, where Eugene accidentally creates the formula when he was in school.

It cracks me up because, by making it so SpongeBob was the one to develop the formula at an early age, they opened up another issue with the continuity since Mr. Krabs and Plankton developed the formula accidentally when they were children, and the resulting fight over who was responsible is the reason why they don't talk to each other anymore. It was supposed to be the driving force behind their feud and why Plankton feels obligated to have it.

Sad to see what spongebob has become

Well, that is to be expected . The truth is times change and this show will keep getting milked forever. The original SpongeBob SquarePants died a long time ago. The show kept getting watered down to the point where it is not enjoyable anymore. It is not out show anymore, the only solution is to accept reality and move on.

"take me to the 4th dimension then." that made me laugh so hard. Also as an OG sponge fan, it's sad seeing what Stephen Hillenburg created being destroyed for the sake of profits. I just know he's turning in his grave.

14:26 the nurse character is actually from the normal show in the episode 'the checkup'

It’s actually pretty sad that the writers are so unbelievably out of ideas that they need to keep bringing back characters and jokes from early seasons just to fill an episode. People need to just stop watching this show so it can finally end with what little dignity it has left.

Question: Isn't the big reveal at the end of I'm With Stupid that Patrick assumed they were his parents, with that not actually being the case, thus making it possible for the new parents to exist? I haven't seen the episode in the while, but I'm pretty sure it was revealed they were not his actual parents somewhere

Ok but narline is definetly a producer's foot fetish character right?

Hillenburg never wanted Spongebob spin-offs

Who’s taking SpongeBob seriously enough to make a universe video about it? Not sure if this is a joke video or a legit look into SpongeBob canon.

Theres an entire episode where plankton and krabs argue about who made the formula so one of them made it

This is disappointing. They should just let it end