Exactly, placebo only works because people are led to believe that they are taking medicine. These people don't have any knowledge about the jerktonium, and therefore could never, under any circumstances, be under a placebo effect.
I see what you were trying to say, but it can if they don’t know the ingredients, it can’t if they don’t know it was supposed to be anything other than ordinary fruitcake A placebo would be there is no jerktonium but plankton has told people it would make them jerks upon eating
Plankton never told any of the fish the fruitcake had jerktonium. SpongeBob was even the one who gave it to everyone. The only people who knew the ingredients were plankton, Karen, and the viewers
@@JcmachineShortsSandy to SpongeBob "You took food from plankton?" SpongeBob:Yes Sandy:and feed it to the people? SpongeBob:Yeah Sandy:You're idiot My fav part 😂, my another fav was santa telling a kid to get a job and santas driver just got out of the vehicle while it was moving, the random fishes are arguing about some random xmas songs that are ridiucolulus 😂
Sandys scientist self is just as high as spongebobs happiness, thats why she still helped because in the name of science regardless of how happy or mad she is, she’ll help people
eh... its like an 8/10 for me. i think Santa Claus is coming to town from the ealry 70's was way better, despite this special being somewhat a parody of that classic with the patchy segments. @@lisaswayne8241
My theory is that jerktonium isn't a placebo, but it brings out the worst of peoples personalities. Say if someone that isn't from bikini bottom consumes it, the result wouldn't be as extreme as if someone from bikini bottom consumes it. This is because the bikini bottom resident was already a jerk, and the jerktonium just amped it up. So, the result of consuming jertonium really depends on how much of a jerk the consumer was originally.
Aren't there episodes where Spongebob himself is a complete jerk to some people? Stuck in the Wringer is one of those episodes where where he ends up being rather mean to Patrick. Naughty Nautical Neighbors is another one, where Spongebob and Patrick are tricked into legitimately hating each other. It has been shown that even Spongebob can be at his worst sometimes.
So, jerktonium is like radon and radium So, its almost like lead, but only affects the brain, and sound waves can disrupt it? Thats specific enough to be likely.
The jerktonium doesn't make you a jerk, it just takes your forces to keep your inner jerk 0 and you can't stop it from exiting you, this meaning it isn't a placebo, it just takes your worst intentions out, also this would explain why spongebob was immune, he didn't have any bad intention ever in his life
I think the reason almost all of bikini bottom is evil is because despite the human like forms they take they’ll still wild life deep down it’s all shown in feral friends where the sea creatures especially squidwrad and pearl all become wild and dangerous.
This theory, while being not far from the truth, was wrong. It cannot be a placebo effect due to SpongeBob gives out jerktonium fruitcakes without knowing of jerktonium. The people who eat them also don’t know about jerktonium because SpongeBob did not know and could not tell them. This whole scene is like 2 sentences at time stamp (1:46). It is way more likely that jerktonium reacts will people in a poor way, bringing out inner jerk and magnifying it. This would explain why SpongeBob was not affected, having no inner jerk and being a flower of goodness. Sandy was affected but as she is never really a jerk would still help SpongeBob. Her inner jerk was not that strong. Other people, being cured by a finger snap would have very weak inner jerks and have it fail easily. In summary, people are jerks to diffrent levels with SpongeBob not being a jerk at all. The jerktonium brings out inner jerks of people due to some biological connection. This is no placebo, proably just a result of a radioactive material plankton found (it literally glows - 4:01) in bikini bottom or bakini atoll, a nuke testing site.
As other people have pointed out, it’s only a placebo if and only if: 1. The townsfolk were told beforehand that there was something called “jerktonium” in it (whether or not it was there). However, Plankton’s plan on the first place was to make the jerktonium a secret, so it wouldnt’ve worked as a placebo. 2. The townsfolk actively agreed and believed in jerktonium’s power, as if it were a doctors prescription. However, I don’t think everyone, ESPECIALLY not Sandy or Mr Krabs, would believe that plankton’s Jerktonium actually works unless it is proven. So, not a placebo.
if this were the case you could argue it would technically be a nocebo effect, since being a jerk is a negative outcome, but it is not as the fish are not told before eating the fruitcake of its effects, so no placebo or nocebo here
Fun fact this episode aired on CBS. At the time (back on 2012) my parents didn't have cable so I had to watch SpongeBob at my grandma, aunts, or on DVD. Also I didn't use streaming services at the time so I didn't look for SpongeBob online. At the time I thought it was so cool that one of the local antenna channels was showing a SpongeBob christmas episode and I think since then it's the only SpongeBob episode that aired outside of nick (not including streaming).
@@TMNTfan20035 your right about Mr Krabs but squadward is different reason maybe they sponge bob friendship love will that he being kind to them is also not affected. Will Patrick hate him from the beginning even Mr Krabs as well from help wanted. Squadward is just joking about hating SpongeBob and i think maybe plankton eating some of it off screen and it doesn’t work on him either
1:21 Not really. Santa should be able to see Plankton planning out his scheme and therefore Plankton should end up on Santa’s naughty list. Same goes with the Robot (Which you called Toybob despite the fact that he’s never called that the episode).
2:26 never noticed before, but that sheet music has an extra space in it, and a lot of it doesn't fit within 4/4 time, either too many, or too few beats. As a musician, this hurts badly... Edit: And, even though it's implied to be the beginning, it doesn't have a spot that says where to repeat to
the ONLY WAY this works is if the jerktonium and its effects was known to the entire town but it was not, as for something to be a placebo it needs to be known in the first place but it was only plankton that knew what the Jerktonium was
Hey man I just finished the Mandela video and I wanted to say here in case you didn’t see it, yes the KK opened for 25hrs in one episode, no it wasn’t that one it was season 4 I think, ok bye
@@Lilskixxx I know, I already said this 3 times. THEY DONT NEED TO KNOW THE INGREDIENTS, THEY NEED TO KNOW THE EXPECTED EFFECT, IM NOT SAYING THEY KNEW THE EFFECT, JUST THAT YOUR COMMENT SHUOD BE ABOUT THE EFFECT NOT INGredient
@@ChiefMakes it is, no one knew the ingredients except for plankton meaning it couldn’t be a placebo unless he told them it would make them mean but he didn’t so no it’s not a placebo
@@oshinmane I think yt removed the comments. I said that the ingredients don’t matter only the expected effect, I’m not defending the video just saying the comment should have said they never knew about the effect.
@@ChiefMakes Bro it can only be a placebo if they know what the intended effect is. Since no one told the fish of bikini bottom about the fruit cake with "jerktonium" in it, it can't be a placebo and that somehow they did get effectred with a new chemical
The problem with calling it a placebo is a placebo doesn’t work if you don’t know that it’s supposed to do anything It is literally reliant on you expecting it to do a particular thing, that’s how the placebo effect works No one was aware that this was supposed to make them jerks
I can’t believe you forgot to mention how Squidward is also immune to Jerktonium because he’s “already a jerk” (AKA he has depression and everyone in Bikini Bottom hates him for it)
also not to mention he didn't even eat the fruit cake because he was home all day and ingored spongebob (also krabs was a jerk despite not given the cake so there's another plot hole, unless the infection is airborne or "current-borne")
Well sometimes people want to blame innocent folks which happened to me, my dogs blame me for something i didnt do and only after i say sorry they come back otherwise they wanna bite that or people like being jerks in general 😅
I know many people pointed it out already, but it can't be a placebo if they think it's just a normal fruitcake, they have to know what it's supposed to do for it to work like that
Ive been watching this special for years and its one of my favorite pieces of Spongebob media. This was such a fun video to watch...even if its completely wrong because no one knew about JT beforehand