There seems to be some misunderstanding so I'll state this to avoid any further confusion: - No I do not hate this song and I think it fits for the show as many of you pointed out - Associating the song with a traumatic experience could be an good explanation for this and I appreciate outside opinions on this topic - I beg of you to watch the whole video before you comment cus I'm seeing a lot of rage and asking questions that I answer in the video - Dissonance doesn't mean having "no melody", but more like having an unsettling melody. A lot of the music homies pointed that out But yeah I just felt the need to point somethings out and correct myself a bit. Have a good day boys 👋
@@Shamrocker- i never found the spongebob outro creepy until i watched this video lol. i think its because i would only watch spongebob in the morning or when i was with my family
@@Shamrocker- though the gumball intro used to scare me because the show would air late in the day and i would usually watch it alone in the living room before bed
I think part of it is the almost jarring shift from cartoon antics to calm, uninterrupted music. Cartoons usually have other sounds playing over music, like characters talking and sound effects. Then in-between just that brief period of music on a static screen as the credits go by, before you're immediately thrown back into the next show. Strange moments of quiet are kind of unnerving, it's like how you know you're in danger if everything suddenly goes quiet in a forest. And there's the obvious negative association of the cartoon being over of course. It's especially unnerving if you're watching it on a dvd or vhs, which is likely if the credits song is left to play instead of cutting to an advertisement, because it means the dvd is over, which can be especially unnerving at night time because you're just left in darkness afterwards (this is probably why some people also recall being frightened by the background music on dvd menus, it's a similar jarring shift.) It is very similar to the liminal space thing, it's an area that's meant to have people and sounds left briefly empty and quiet for a moment.
Honestly, I never knew this creeped people out. To me it just sounds like chill beachy tunes. Something I would hear in a gift shop or something. I like it alot. In fact it's kinda nostalgic.
Well, Its a part of the song that personally i think, made people feel weird or uncomfortable, if you look at 1:26, you'll see why i was uncomfortable at the time, the melody is in general pretty weird, and he chaotic nature of the show doesn't fit the calm melody at the start, its like calm 1:26 part is energetic a bit, and back to calm....
it actually does comfort me but i do have a slight conditioned response to be sad when i listen to it but literally only because the song signalled the end of a spongebob episode :(
Your mind likes to find patterns, and if it can't fully understand a pattern it freaks out a little. Dissonance basically trips a wire in our brains that's _supposed_ to alert us to something potentially concerning, even when there's nothing really wrong there.
But whats important to mention is that the “wire” is something that is largely cultural. There are many other, non western cultures with a musical tradition where dissonance is a major factor
maybe its some similar reason why people can get motion sick. but only similar because its not like you get nauseous. but the brain is tricked into thinking your senses are skewed, feeling movement but not seeing movement, or doing movement. so the senses must be miscommunicating. maybe the discomfort from music is the brain questioning if something is wrong with your hearing, so it alerts you to be wary about it
@@Karo-AUTTP-UTTD we associate dissonance with certain ideas because weve grown up with that dissonance being used in those contexts. A lot of western scores that are supposed to have a dangerous or scary feeling to them use dissonance, leading us to associate dissonance with those ideas. Play the same track that invokes that feeling to someone from, say, ancient arabia, and they wouldnt get the same feeling from that. Cultural may be the wrong word though, maybe personal is a better choice. Its also worth mentioning that there are different kinds of dissonances that bring out certain feelings from certain people. Regardless, this comment is wrong. There is no inherent feeling or connection to dissonance that is shared by all or most humans.
@@Big_Hoggernah I was deadass scared of this song when I was little. I would watch it at night and whenever the episode would end and the song played, my parents said that I would scream.
@@Big_HoggerNah. I didn't watch the show often, I almost never did. But it was SO bizarre, and it repently shows a empty song that i never found "happy" or "goofy" but a strange mix of dumb and mysterious vibe in it. I was genuinely scared because it used to repeat in my mind over and over until i forget about it. I think it was mostly because my favourite shows were the backyardigans, jelly jam, etc. Which were less bizarre than Spongebob
As a kid, it always felt like a rarity whenever nickelodeon actually plays the outro of SpongeBob, instead of skipping the credits and replacing it with an ad for the next show in their channel. So whenever I do get to hear the outro song, it always felt so special.
They play the outro sometimes as background music during certain scenes within the show, but that doesn't seem to creep people out. I do think it is a liminal space thing, as you are hearing the same melody unadulterated. When the melody is used in scenes, there's usually sound effects or dialogue over it, but there isn't any in the outro.
Yeah same when I hear that song it always reminds me of simpler times and also when I was little watching these on vhs they would play the outro for every episode at the end back to back
I was always scared because my mom set a timer on my tv i dont know if anyone else can relate to that but hearing the outro and then your tv just turning off randomly would just scare the shit out of me especially after the monkey costume episode
"I Had an Accident" was the name of that episode. And, to tell you the truth, I never liked how that episode ended; it felt less like it ended and more like it just stopped. Looking back, though, a lot of the endings to SpongeBob episodes felt like that.
The outro was a bop for me, haha. However, one of their production songs, "The Lonely Stranger", has bothered me FOR YEARS. It's one of the worst earworms to ever get, imo, so listen at your own risk if you decide to look it up. Another unnerving one would be their production song, "Shock." It's crazy how much horror music was used in Spongebob. Imagine that music being used in liminal horror imagery, ESPECIALLY with that haunting reverb. God forbid someone use "Satanic" from Ren & Stimpy's production soundtrack.
I loved Frankendoodle but I always dreaded that one scene near the end where SpongeBob starts talking science jargon and that track plays. I'd also cover my ears whenever "House of Horror" would play lol.
then it would seem The Lonely Stranger did it's job well, from my listening it's literally meant to be creepy and unsettling since it's usually played during the creepy and unsettling parts of the show
My personal theory: Spongebob episodes often end on disturbing jokes or scenes that could be interpreted as cliffhangers (a sea rhino about to maul Squidward; Spongebob and Squidward transformed into snails; Bikini Bottom destroyed by a worm or a bomb; etc.) Maybe some kids who grew up watching the show were disturbed by an episode's ending and associated that feeling with the credits song which played immediately afterwards.
I agree with this, a different take on it that I didn’t even think about. Some SpongeBob episodes have those cliffhanger or endings that feel unfinished or are cut off the second something is about to happen to the characters, and the song that plays at the end of the show could make a kid feel like something bad has happened to the characters offscreen but they cut to the end credits and play that creepy song at the end. Definitely a good explanation for it 👍🏻
I honestly couldn't understand why the outtro theme was "creepy" until you explained it under the context of liminal spaces. I normally watch TV in the living room where there's a lot of open space and usually at least one person nearby, but this video reminded me of my experiences watching Spongebob as a kid, where I basically watched it on a small box-shaped TV in a smaller, more enclosed room. I think it just hits different depending on where you're watching and what's going on around you, cause the end credits really do a good job of making you feel hyper aware of your surroundings once your attention's pulled out of the show, and if you're watching alone in an isolated environment, then yeah, it'll probably feel a bit weird or unnerving. By the way, I'd also like to add that I don't normally write comments on youtube, but I thought this video was really interesting and I wanted to share my own thoughts on the matter. Remembering how the end credits made me feel during my childhood is such a weird experience and I completely forgot about that feeling until just now lol.
I gotta agree its almost like super happy music in a creepy setting makes the song creepy especially since happy cute+creppy things make your brain freak (like how laughing kids in a horror movie are suuuper creepy when they shouldnt be)
I remember being home sick and falling asleep to my Spongebob VHS and then waking up disoriented in the empty dark living room hours later with those end credits playing.
I find it interesting how people are more worried in an isolated and smaller environment than an open one with a lot more potential threats. I kinda get it, though.
It isn't the music itself that feels unnerving. It's the overall theme of where you listen to it. I feel like the yellow/white background at the end with the tune of the outro really sets the way of your feelings toward the music. The background makes it feel like the typical old/fancy antique vibe if that makes sense and the music fits perfectly with that vibe. If you take the background away and put something else, unless you're really focusing on the song, you aren't gonna feel quite unnerved compared to when you listen to it with the casual yellow/white background. It also depends on where you're at when you listen to this song. If you're in a dark room listening to this, the wavy-ness of the background and the uncomfortable melody will put a intense, unnerving feel. Overall, this music is only unnerving with a certain, particular setting. Otherwise it feels like a genuinely normal themed spongebob soundtrack.
It really is the context that matters. I don't see anyone saying it freaked them out whenever this exact song would play during the episode. The song never bothered me, but sitting through the outro on tape (since they never aired *just* the outro on TV) felt a bit like seeing something that wasn't really meant for you. Like being in school after-hours, a liminal space in video form.
Personally, I don't think it's just the music that is unnerving. When I was a kid, once the outro for the show had ended, I was left with a sinking silence that filled the room with a black/static screen since it was on VHS. The music is creepy not just because of how it sounds, but the dread of knowing what comes after. When reality once again hits. At least, that's how I felt about it.
I absolutely LOVE the outro for SpongeBob. So nostalgic, so goofy, it captures the attitude of the show so well, and it's SUCH a BOP. I'd just be absolutely JAMMIN' at this is a kid
You don't know a what a bop is. A bop, for example, is Aubergine Man's Atrocious Anthem from Dayshift at Freddy's. (Although, yes, it was pretty good and I respect your opinion.)
when i was younger, the spongebob outro was never unsettling but i've had to get multiple mris as a teenager at a children's hospital. since they usually took about an hour and you had to stay completely still, they offered to let you listen to music or watch something from a selection of dvds they had. there were a couple spongebob dvds and i chose one for one of my scans. but in the process of setting me up with an iv and getting the machine going, they forgot to press play on the dvd so the main menu selection screen music, which was the same music as the outro, kept playing on a loop i was too shy and nervous at the hospital to say anything so i listened to the loop of the outro play for about 45min while the machine periodically told me to inhale and hold my breath. now, the song feels like torture
ok. stop. full stop. are you fr? like is this story real because I’m actually freaking out rn. I had almost the exact same experience. It was about halfway through my MRI and the episode had ended and they would’ve had to click to start the next one, and I remember specifically it was an episode about a party of some sort, but SpongeBob gets locked out of his house??? or something, I was kinda spacey because I have a bit of a weird reaction to the contrast fluid they use, and I get sort of dizzy and brain fog-y. Anyways, they never turned it to the next episode so the outro/menu music just kept repeating for about 30-35 mins. I was about 8 years old and very nervous LMAO so I didn’t say anything, but having my reaction to the contrast fluid, being in a dark box basically and listening to that music…uhhh bro, nightmare fuel. Ok, but anyways lol it’s freaking me out how we both have mri experiences with this song like…glitch in the matrix orrr…
@@elianayvonne7386 omg no way. they jus be traumatizing kids during mris by not playing the episodes. i'm glad i wasn't the only one too nervous to mention to the doctors /techs that i was listening to the same music on a loop while they were putting contrast in my veins lmao
I saw someone explain this that perfectly explained it for me. Imagine you start watching spongebob at 5pm. After hours of watching and the outro plays, you realize it's 8pm and you look around and you're alone. It feels creepy realizing that, which is why it felt creepy for me.
Just heard fot the first time in years and i kinda got chills, It's like the feeling when you look at a painting that looks normal and realize there's disturbing things hidden in the painting.
I remember how eerie and chilling the outro music was for me as a kid. The chilling thing was i watched spongebob on dvd and sometimes fall asleep and when id wake up hear the outro music repeatedly playing, still gives me chills.
I actually liked it, I myself never found it creepy. Also SpongeBob never had a bad song. Campfire , ripped pants, BANGERS , ma boy ain't ever had a bad track
I had no idea people found it creepy, my dad told me he really likes the song so I never looked deep into it or thought it was creepy. Very interesting though!! I can actually see how it creeps some people out
Right, now the chase song however, that comes on when they're being chased or have to rush to finish something, definitely induces some level if stress lol but even so I find thatsong to live in my head rent free
The song always disturbed me as a kid because the only time it ever played on TV was after the grotesque episode where everyone fuses together. For the next several years it's all I could think of when I heard the song and the episode still haunts me.
Usually on cable TV it is accompanied by other commercials and other things, but the credits alone just feels wrong, like no one's there, I can see why they referenced liminal spaces
I've watched Spongebob for 18 years now, and I find myself humming this song frequently. Never found it creepy at all, I actually find it extremely catchy
Perhaps it’s the odd contrast between the end credits and the rest of the show. SpongeBob and Gumball are both incredibly bright, goofy characters, with colorful, goofy worlds. After so much energy, the slow, not in-your-face tone of the end credits almost hits you with a whiplash from how different it is from the rest of the show. And you connect that to stuff like being in a room late at night, or when the day is ending, giving you that sense of nostalgia. My two cents at least.
I remember waking up to this playing on several occasions, sometimes when I wasn't even watching spongebob, and it seemed to go on forever. Like 10+ minutes, to where in my dream it felt like I've been hearing it for hours. Super disconcerting to wake up to.
I think another reason the SpongeBob outro creeped people out that wasn’t mentioned in the video (or at least why it creeped my out) was the fact that it feels so final, the show basically telling you that the “fun’s over” and pulling you back into reality It also helps that if you were watching the show alone at night, the theme was the last thing you heard before being plunged into the dead silence of your house (It was the anticipation of the silence that would really scare me)
Absolutely true, especially when there are strange commercials on afterwards. Kurtis Conner has a video about Canadian PSAs where there’s a skit of him watching the SpongeBob credits and then being jumpscared by the government of Canada telling kids not to touch needles or whatever
I remember this. It isn't outright "Scary" but rather a little unnerving. Like it kind of relaxes you but at the same time leaves you feeling unsettled. But a calm kind of unsettled. Idk, it's hard to explain. Also, it's nostalgic in both a way that's pleasant and dreadful at the same time. Like you wouldn't want to listen to it in a dark room alone.
@@Eternal_Sufferring Well boy do I have a film for you. Or, at least part of it. There's this one part of Sponge Out Of Water (2012) where Spongebob and Plankton go 2 days into the future, finding that without Krabby Patties, Bikini Bottom became a wasteland, with an aged Patrick sat upon what once was the Krusty Krab.
@@elizabeth43267I know I am saying, haters are gonna keep calling the the outro creepy, and many fake fans of SB are gonna keep just saying that it is creepy because they are fake SB and sick of watching it by moving on to other shows, the outro is not creepy they just want to hate on it!
@@maggie7794 well... I'm one of the non-fans who don't hate the outro, and just find it creepy. Are you going to label me as a hater simply because of my perception towards the outro? Not meant to start a fight, I'm just curious.
Im fairly sure the frightening factor in the song is due to the awkwardness of sitting while watching a faded floral yellow and white background that has an old feeling to it, the song playing in a loop making it feel longer stretching the time, the song feeling goofy but yet so strange, all that paired with the fact that as a child your parents probably left you watching tv by yourself in your room could fill you with a sense of insecurity and discomfort
você está totalmente certo! Sempre que eu ficava sozinho em casa eu ficava assistindo desenho e muitas das vezes era bob esponja, eu gostava tanto do desenho que eu esquecia do medo de estar sozinho, mas quando a musica de encerramento começava era como se minha companhia fosse embora de novo e o sentimento de solidao voltava ate terminar de vez e começar outro episodio ou desenho pra me distrair
I was never feeling creeped out by this song as a child, but Spongebob episodes' ending always had a more emotional effect on me than any other Nicktoons did. I think the closing theme and its musical notes made me more sad and empty, like the fun was over. It psychologically made me want to watch more Spongebob episodes. I never knew how to explain this. It personally became a little eerie to me after Stephen Hillenburg passed away, and it also made me reflect to my childhood and the people I had in my life back then who are no longer here with us anymore. I still love it as much as I love all the classic episodes!
Couldn’t have explained it better idk what it is but the outro was always unnerving for me because it was late at night and my mom was at work and my dad was working as a truck driver so home alone watching SpongeBob was always scary I even left the lights and tv on cuz I didn’t like the dark a lot(I used to watch SpongeBob 1 hour before my mom got home so I wasn’t alone for that long😂) same with gumball but gumballs wasn’t as scary since I didn’t watch it on dvd but I watched SpongeBob dvd only so I had to switch the dvds out and it would take a few minutes for the disc to go in and play since my DVD player was pretty trash😅
You took the words right out of my mouth. The picture with all the Planktons holding hands along the last part of the outro makes me feel soo nostalgic
Damn I can feel what you are saying. This show was just the best. There's no need to debate in my opinion. I celebrated my 25th birthday this year, I had a party and after all my friends went back home, I swear I was crying while listening to this outro completely drunk at 4 a.m 😅 yeah I'm a sensitive dude but it just made me feel soooo nostalgic, it also made me realize that I was growing old and that the innocence of the time I used to watch Sponge Bob was just gone. That comment was SO depressing 🤣 sorry ahah
A lot of these show outros we grew up with seem to share this feeling of sadness and finality to a show that wasn’t even over yet. I never remember feeling creeped out by any of these, but I do remember a strong feeling of sadness when the episode ended. Adventure Time’s “come along with me” credits always made me feel like the show was all over and was finally coming to a close, despite that not happening for another six years.
They always felt like when the show actually ended, they would provide closure to the feelings the song gave. Maybe finally give the familiar song lyrics, or maybe we'd finally see that cliff under a tree.
i was going to talk about come along with me as well!!! it was so fricking insane... even the first time watching it made me feel incredibly sad, it was unnerving to the point of me disliking the show all together or just changin the channel before the outro song hits
I have no idea why this song creeped me out so much. I didn’t have a bad memory associated with it and nothing traumatic happened to me during the time I watched it in my life. The unsettling nostalgia makes the most sense in my case. I definitely think that SpongeBob outro is liminal music to me. This video described it perfectly. I would always turn off the tv when the outro played in the dark and I got that sinking feeling of dread
This, 100% If the episode ended on a high note, this song felt like it was pulling that happy ending away, reseting it all as if it were limbo. On bittersweet, and straight up bad endings, this song felt nearly mocking to both the characters and the viewers Its weird to explain, but i totally feel you lol
To me, the fear wasn't in the song itself but rather how on VHS and DVD it'd just go black afterwards, nothing. and being a kid at night, nothing is more terrifying.
I had Spongebob DVDs once (yes, they're all brutally scratched and unplayable, as you can guess) but the outro never once creeped me out and I used to watch these at 10 pm, which is basically 4 am for me as a kid
this makes sense! i commented talking about how it was probably the dissonance paired with the concept of an end, and you kinda gotta think--as a child, not many have been through so much. we aren't yet familiar with the concept of an end, and so it can be super scary or unnerving, and at that age, things tend to make an impact edit: hence the impact could also partially explain why outros from unfamiliar shows won't feel the same. also yes, the lack of control he mentioned
always for some reason when i would be at my grandma's, i had always watched spongebob on a disc. Every episode would have this song, and it creeped tf out of me. thanks for covering it, i felt like i was weird that whole time.
I find it both creepy and relaxing. In my head, I picture it as if you were walking through an abandoned mall that use to be a live, and happy place, but soon became abandoned and falling apart, but the happy song now warped, and old still echos throughout, still trying to keep those happy times alive. the song also sounds disappointed, if that makes any sense. or I could think of it like relaxing on a beach at dark, drinking a nice drink, but sometimes when I listen to it, I feel like somebody’s watching me, but I don’t know why.
Yeah I don't see it still at 20, still an insanely calming song and now it's even nostalgic to the point of sadness imo. People just have weird music tastes lol, the people that find it weird only listen to one genre bet that.
The song creeps me out for two reasons: 1: when I watched SpongeBob on Sunday nights, this would make me uncomfortable for the upcoming school day. 2: Some of the instruments used in the song, not just SpongeBob, but it sounds like toys from my basement. This makes my uncomfortable because my basement was extremely large, dark, and scary.
Seems like there are more people who aren’t creeped vs those who are. I think maybe the comments on the video for the outro theme on RU-vid just has a lot of stories confirming the bias.
The song wasn't exactly creepy to me, it was just weird. I think it's because of the contrast. Here you are, watching SpongeBob, seeing all sorts of characters interacting, making you feel like your in a room with them, but then the credits hit and boom, nothing. made me feel alone, and like, everything ended. Nothing's left except this song that feels like it will never end.
Same. Everything has to be creepy and surreal to people. I don’t get it. Wait I’m coming back to say I was wrong. He played the rugrats credits theme and that for sure creeped me out for some reason. So I guess I do get it after all. 😕
I never thought either the Spongebob or the Gumball outros were creepy, but I can definitely see now why it feels that way. I definitely feel like the music has a very empty and liminal feeling, especially since it can loop so easily over and over without changing tune. If I sit and listen to it now, just on its own, I definitely feel something in me start to feel unsafe or freaked out, slightly almost like I'm about to go insane. It's very interesting to me now that I've found this video. I think maybe if the outros had lyrics to break up the jangly tunes that potentially it wouldn't have as much of an impact.
This song never felt creepy to me. Really it just caused me to space out, in a way I didn't like. It was like a weird form of hypnosis. It would cause me to just notice feelings on my skin, and it made me think back on the spongbob episode badly.
So, for me, what was creepy about the end credits of any of these shows was the fact that I was now alone, in a dark room. While the show was playing, as stupid as it sounds, I essentially had company. Now that I was alone I would feel significantly more vulnerable. That's just my perspective. Listening to the song doesn't really make me feel any way
i understand this so much. pretty much with any show, when the credits roll and the characters voices just stop and im left "alone", its sooooo unnerving and forces me to go to the next episode quick
This is how I always put it since I was a kid, I thought “damn now I’m alone and I have to sit here for 2 mins for the next cartoon or get up and do something else” it was an uncomfortable and unique feeling lool
Wtf... i had a freaking nightmare years ago and this was basically this background 0:58 idk how i freaking remember this.. im actually freaking out right now.. the beige wall, the SpongeBob palm tree and sand, i was in a small room too.. im actually about to cry im not joking... im terrified..
I also love it but it still made me feel some sort of nostalgia and another emotion that i can't identify Wasn't scared of it when I was younger though
The ending has never creeped me out, but it always gave me this weird feeling like it doesnt belong. It doesnt help that it would rarely play on tv, so when it did randomly get left in it would feel strange. Edit: Im actually pretty sure the reason its always felt weird to me is the background + the music
the song sounds like the musical equivalent of what i could imagine a bad acid trip is like. the universe bleeds and all that is left is abstracted existence. syrupy and drunk. very cool.
The song creeps me out because the episodes (well the newer ones) are very chaotic, loud, and full of “wacky” things but then you just get this “still” image of flowers while that weird tune plays in the back. It always made me feel empty and like something “bad” is coming. I always kinda thought of it like a bad omen. I also think this kinda “resonates” with the old episodes. The old episodes were filled with so much care, funny jokes, and “love” and when that song played it just felt like as I said “empty”. This song just feels so “nostalgic” in a way like I’ve “heard it before”. It kind of reminds me of a “liminal space”, empty, dark, cold, and lonely.
never thought about putting this outro on newer episodes. I myself aren't creeped out by the original, but seeing it move drastically from crazy and whacky to a "liminal space" song would feel pretty creepy.
That's exactly how I'd put it. The song doesn't really feel full, so it feels like somethings missing, like the episode truly isn't over. It's almost "sad" in a way. Especially when you're done with a fun episode and it hits you that "it's over."
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The sound feels like your in the 90s at your grandma's house and there's a lamp and your eyes are like in the 90s camera lenses and then your just watching the end.
idk how to explain it but it kinda feels like getting out of a trance and coming to your senses in an unfamiliar place, like you were so invested in the episode you didnt realize how much time had passed until you got to the outro and now it all hits you; The sun has set and the lights are off, your parents have already gone to sleep. You're alone in the dark as this offbeat melody plays in front of you
couldn't have said it better myself. It's just so unerving and with the atmosphere of being a kid alone while everyone is sleeping just hits so right in every wrong way.
Nah dude, I have the 100 Episode DVD Box, and one night I was playing the first 12-ish episodes as just background noise. Then, once all of those episodes ended, the credits started rolling ALL of the credits compiled into one, unbroken, 5 minute long credits sequence with THIS song on loop. I NEVER thought the song was creepy, but for some reason hearing that song on loop for 5 minutes straight - no cuts, no nothing - freaked me out enough that I just stopped my DVD player.
Omg same! I forgot how many episodes I saw and then the long end song played, it scared the living soul out of me because it was very late, dark, and the loop freaked me out, I can hear it playing in my head again and I haven't even finished the intro to the video.
I never did find it ‘creepy’, but I do feel the Amazing World Of Gumball outro would be the kind of music that would play right before something goes wrong.
TBH as I have watched the episodes so, so many times the ending never ends "good". Like one episode had a great ending, and had a funny bit to end it on the usual note.
This is crazy because when I was younger this song made me feel very weird but I still loved it. It is now like a nostalgic and unsettling feeling mixed together. When I was younger, I wasn’t spooked about or anything, just made me feel a certain way.
Why do people find this song creepy? It's a cute happy little jaunty twang tune. Sounds like a cross between a banjo around a beach campfire and an old well-loved music box!
Well, what do u expect from people who are non-musicians and people who doesn't know anything about music? Of course they'd say it's creepy or whatsoever even though it isn't. They just don't know their sh*t man.
@@mean_ice2833 This sounds more like you describing the OPPOSITE, because if you DO know music you can tell why it could be considered creepy while if you DON'T it'll sound like any other melody to you.
Interesting video. me personally, it was the end credits song for Hey Arnold that used to give me shivers😭😩it was a groovy tune but eerie and spine chilling also, yet I don't ever see videos of others speaking on that one. I see why you feel the way you do with this song though💯
Yeah after watching this video and reading some of the comments and other videos of this song, l thought l was the only one that found this song nostalgic😂
I think it's mostly because people have never had melancholy explained to them. So they're just left with the cold uncanny valley feeling rather than comfort.
I remember in a Gooseboose video someone explained why some sounds can make people feel unsafe or uncomfortable. It went along the lines of, "not so good households" essentially. Hearing the tune play in the background of a fight between parents, trying to distract yourself from the screaming or possibly watching a show to forget trauma that happend not to long ago, I feel it to, not as severely as some but I very well do. It's typically for cartoon or childish game themes with no lyrics I've noticed, it amps up the yelling of fights and shoves you back into your traumatic time when you least expect it. Watching your favorite show for nostalgia factor just to slowly fade into your memories.
i actually can second this. i was afraid of everything at a child. from the static of the CRT, to the Disney FastPlay intro, to the THX theme. i didnt have... the best childhood, and there was some traumatic shit constantly going on. im pretty sure this made me constantly afraid and causing so much anxiety from normal things that were only a little bit off or just a little too loud.
I can relate to this a bit too! Not in the exact way you're describing, but I can at least say that photos of liminal spaces make me feel extremely uncomfortable. I have C-PTSD from ongoing childhood abuse, and I don't remember all of it, but I do know that it was enough to cause chronic dissociation and dissociative amnesia around my childhood and adolescence. Looking at liminal spaces can, at worst, make me dissociate (at least, more than usual- the dissociation is still an ongoing thing that I struggle with) and I think it's because of that sense of wrongness and the vibe of altered reality + the fact that I lost my 'innocent' years to trauma, isolation, and illness. A lot of liminal space photos are of things that you'd associate with childhood or teenhood, and I think that's another factor. Really unfortunate- I'm a big fan of 'cursed' images and that general type of horror, but of course, I have to avoid them for my mental health. It's fine if I don't look too long. Definitely *cannot* handle traumacore images, though, especially with liminal spaces involved. I hope you're both doing okay! This was really relevant to me because I've been struggling a lot recently with the hyperarousal/hypervigilance aspects of PTSD especially, and even if someone doesn't have PTSD per se, I know dealing with the effects of trauma is absolute hell sometimes.
People have already explained the trauma theory, but I'd argue trauma isn't even necessary. If you loved SpongeBob as a kid, the credits meant the fun was over. No more SpongeBob. Maybe it even meant bedtime. So as a kid, you felt a sense of "aww dang it" everytime the credits played and it's just programmed in you.
It never creeped me out as a kid, but I can see your point. The dissonant and distorted cords of the ukelele are sort of creepy. Same with the Gumball outro theme... but I feel like that one was intentional.
It blows my mind that people get creeped out by this song. Even as a kid it never had that effect on me. I actually really like this song. Something about it’s simplicity is really nice.
Same, although it’s interesting to hear that people associate this song with the feeling of liminal spaces which is a concept that actually creeps me out. A large empty room. Don’t get that from the song though. I find it to be a pretty tasty jam actually.
@@avicl8760 it sounds eerie to some people like its never ending. plus the lack of other sounds and the fact that its the outro as a combo is unnerving
All I got to say is I genuinely have a 1-hour version of the SpongeBob outro on my playlist, and I love it, this was my childhood in a nutshell. I specifically love it for the way it sounds, it's just beautiful to me. Thank you for the video, have an amazing day!
Honestly it always felt whimsical, silly but childlike and relaxing. It gives me the vibe of being 7 years old or so, chilling out on an early Saturday morning and making sandwiches while waiting for SpongeBob to start lol But this is the first time I've seen a video from this channel, I really liked it, the exiting is amazing tbh :D
Liminal spaces can get really freaky. I remember when my grandparents decided to move when I was in middle school, I walked down the hallway to my grandmothers room, seeing every single room empty. By the time I got to my grandmothers room, I started balling in tears. Leading up to them moving, I was never really too upset about the situation, but seeing those rooms that were a major part of my childhood totally spotless was one of the most off-putting emotions I’d ever felt.
My family has moved more times throughout my childhood than I can remember right now, each time to a faraway state (although we did repeat a few states and cities after a while), and reading this hit me hard. My grandparents’ houses were like the one constant place throughout my life that was always there no matter where I was living, and I don’t know what I’ll do once they’re gone and those houses are sold. I don’t think I could even bring myself to go near those houses again after they’re sold because it would hurt too much…
@@pickledkool-aid It’s definitely tough but every now and then I’ll do a little drive to their old neighborhood. I’ll stop right outside and just look at the house for a little, remembering all the sleepovers and dinners we had. My family’s Catholic too so every Sunday after church, my mom would bring us there. My mom and grandfather would talk over coffee and my grandma would keep us occupied playing board games or watching TV. I didn’t know at the time but they moved because my grandmother had developed dementia and needed to be further downstate if/when it got bad so she could get the care she needed. At times I miss when things were simpler, but I tend to leave with a smile after reminiscing on those days. I know now I was very lucky to grow up with such a loving and supportive family, so it’s nothing I take for granted. 🫶
It just feels like Spongebob theme song: When you left your tv show at night and your at bed all light closed and the song is still playing its creepy Or Washing the dishes at night an suddenly the outro just played out of nowhere The amazing world of gumball: Some clowns that is approaching you or your house
I thought the outro was whimsical, to match the show and the characters. And I've always liked liminal spaces and music, the feeling of being in a mall at closing time is fascinating to me. And dissonant music (Ligeti, Penderecki, etc). Even uncanny valley, like Shaye Saint John and Japanese robots, love that stuff. To me it's entertaining. I guess I just like oddities. The best way I can describe it is how some people like horror or roller coasters, they're thrilling because they're scary. Actually, I like thrill rides, but horror is tough for me to watch, especially body horror, oof :/
It was a pretty rare occurrence for TV stations to actually air the credits sequences; usually that was reserved for home media releases. I think that's the primary reason - the shock of some element being out of the ordinary during something that is regularly so familiar. There's also the element of isolation; when those credits roll, another show doesn't play. It's just the end. It's like you've been cut off from routine.
It always gave me a more depressing feeling as a lil kid. It felt empty, liminal even. When I hear the Spongebob outro, I think of The Backrooms (Not the creepypasta Backrooms with monsters, but the original concept).
I was always creeped out by this song when i was a child When a episode ended, i felt so alone and always imagined like, a vast space with this song playing in echoey as something was there, and vast space would always be a hotel backroom with this song
There is a mall near my house that has creepy service corridors (the back hallways for the employees that go behind the stores, usually used for deliveries) with horn speakers on the wall. Imagine this song playing on those speakers back there...
I get it. I remember some shows that I would watch on Nighttime and when the outro came on there were only intros and no charactars and it made me feel alone, too.
Never really thought of this song as creepy or distressing tbh. Sure it's a mess, but it's also lighthearted and goofy, and really fits the Spongebob style. Heck, if you asked me to think of one Spongebob related tune, chances are it'd be this one. I think there was a Spongebob game I played as a kid that had this as the title theme though, so maybe I don't associate it with a liminal space as much as others.
imagine being in a dark, long hallway and the spongebob outro starts playing and it’s even more echoey going thru the hall. or a slowed down version of the gumball outro with static in the background.
It's being a bit over exaggerated. To me it does have a goofy funny feeling. It's only when people think about it, that they find it more unnerving than they remember.
I’ve never heard of this experience, I always thought the song was cute and fitting for the show. Honestly, it’s one of the mode nostalgic parts of the show for me.
I personally feel as if this song is the must creepy bc as a young child I often would watch cartoons alone in the dark, so naturally the characters in the show provided company that distracted me from my somewhat unsettling surroundings. however, when the episode would end and an extremely discordant tune like this with a weird key would play, I immediately got pretty paranoid.
Not sure if anyone can relate to me… but I literally never experienced this outro as a kid, and I watched SpongeBob ALL the time throughout the entire 2000’s. Maybe it’s because we had Direct TV, but we got an ad during the credits instead. The only time I watched this outro was once in a blue moon when I watched SpongeBob at my friend’s house.
