When SpongeBob Gets Creepy 

I wanted to clarify something real quick. Yes, I know Stephen Hillenburg created the show and episodes (I promise). This was a goof on my part that I wanted to clear up and apologize for! Appreciate you all watching and for the positivity!

That "Alone" sequence in SB-129 creeped me out so much as a kid. Not only was Squidward being in a white abyss scary to me, but the "Alone" texts and voices were even scarier. For some reason, they almost felt like a real person, talking to me through the TV. The specific text that was in the yellow speech bubble was particularly unsettling for me. It almost felt real, like I could touch it. I cannot at all find the right words to describe how this scene made me felt.

The first time I saw doing time as a kid, I had fever already causing a weird perception, that episode didn't do it any favors lol

I can’t believe you didn’t mention the episode where the wind gets so bad that spongebob seeks shelter in a cave for years, making a stone statue of himself to talk to and when he emerge as an old man, he finds Bikini Bottom is a wasteland so he builds larger statues of himself that harness the wind to make music, which in turn draws in aliens who study them

There was also that episode where SpongeBob went in his locker and basically ended up in the backrooms. That one terrified me as a kid.

Imo the scariest Spongebob episode is the one where Spongebob hides Squidward's clarinet, everything about it is just eerie

To this day, I still believe that the creepiest episode of SpongeBob is Spongehenge. It reminds me a lot of SB-129 because of how cryptic and weird it is, but I think it has a way creepier ending and plot. Just the way you can't really wrap your head around anything that happens in it has never sat right with me.

No mention of Graveyard Shift? That episode is the only one that struck me as being scary when I was a kid.

I just wanna say this show has a chokehold on me till this day as I am very fearful of butterflies- if u know u know.

Rock Bottom is especially creepy if you ever had to get home on your own as a kid or gotten lost after dark, I imagine any kids who grew up in places like Chicago or south central LA could relate (At least ones I've talked to growing up) the monsters or odd creatures could act as a metaphor for strangers or creepy people you'd only run into at night. I know it's an odd comparison but it's what came to mind when this episode popped into my head again.

I loved when spongebob got spooky and psychological.

What’s scary is how mrs puff has the amount of strength to tear off TWO peoples faces

If Spongebob scared you, Courage would have killed you.

I liked it when Spongebob had these kinds of episodes. Kids can handle this sort of thing, they're not gonna keel over and start foaming at the mouth if you present them with some slightly spooky stuff every now and then. I wish more cartoons would have episodes like this~. Good video btw, had fun recalling memories of this show~. :)

I was always scared of some of the live action scenes a kid, like the vampire turning on the light and that random girl with pig tails. Also sitting through the credit music at night was unnerving for me.

The horse fly close up in Wormy always scares me the most.

I know this is an episode outside of the classic era, but Planet of the Jellyfish genuinely screwed me up as a kid. Something about the idea of the characters being mimicked by this alien creature (which is left to be a mystery) and having weird eyes and mannerisms really shook me. I always skipped the episode when it was on TV, especially since that episode was together with “Are You Happy Now?” which was equally as creepy honestly. I remember I used to have three Beanie Baby cat plushes, and I remember being terrified whenever they fell off the bed cause I was afraid the Jellion versions of the SpongeBob characters and Creepypasta characters would kidnap them lmao, funny looking back on that stuff now

Squidward in clarinetland always freaked me out as a kid

Squidward torture scenes always freaked me out watching it so bad as a kid

The scariest SpongeBob moment was the butterfly episode. The close up shots of the butterfly with a fly buzzing noise scared the absolute shit out of me that every time I saw the title card of the episode, I would just not watch it. I think that episode alone might’ve attributed to my fear of insects. I’m 17 now and that still freaks me out.

0:02 The fact that this needs to be clarified proves the decline of the show

I always was scared of the hall monitor episode. The ending scene on spongebib running around destroying the city made me uneasy for some reason

It always that god damn piano that plays whenever something creepy happens in the show, with that trumpet squeal at the end. We all know the one I'm talking about and it still gives me chills.

This is one of my favorite videos I’ve seen in a while. I love the focus on SpongeBobs subtler eerieness and hyper surreal moments. The show is already so conceptually surreal, it’s interesting that certain moments stick out regardless. I’m excited to see what else you’ll make!

i was never freaked out watching these as a kid.. in fact most of these were my favourite episodes to watch lmao

SB-129 has always been the most eerie episode in my opinion, the very thought of using a Time-Machine only for something to go wrong and next thing you know your completely outside of Time itself somehow.

i’d say the creepiest one for me was the clarinet forest one where they had the locker

You wanna realize something? The majority of the most creepy spongebob episodes are set at nighttime. I’m sure someone can make a theory out of that.

"Graveyard shift" still scares me 😂

You also could’ve mentioned the Flying Dutchman episode, where when Squidward gets dropped in to that sort of hell, sequins were all the scary faces were

You forgot about the episode where SpongeBob literally remodels his house off of Squidwards house and even the stitching his mother made of a pillow and there's a fire at Squidwards house and at the end we're left with him having tea with a vacuum cleaner and he goes insane it ends with his maniacal laughter and than the screen goes black I have my own theories for this but I'll only discuss them if you rev

SpongeBob after the first season got a weird underlying unease. It's hard to explain but it only got worse when the show got bad after the third season. I had some nightmares related to SpongeBob as a kid. I think Procrastination is the creepiest episode to me because it's the most dream-like and it's exactly what I do.

There is a disturbing amount of body horror in this show

Surprised you didn’t mention the night shift episode. That episode felt like an example of scary stories to tell in the dark with the hashslinging slasher. It always unnerved me as a kid especially at the end with nosferatu. I think the doing time episode is reaching a lil bit. It never felt even the slightest bit creepy or scary to me as a kid. I think it’s one of the funnier episodes actually with all the stunts patrick & spongebob pull to get mrs. puff out. At the very most the episode is a bit psychologically trippy with scene where she is in that yellow box

should’ve mentioned “squidward in clarinetland” such a chilling episode

Graveyard Shift definitely gave me chills back then.

I know it's not an "old" episode but Gone creeped me out as a kid

I was creeped out by the Spongehenge episode. Something about the whistling in the statues

The episode where mr crabs was in the comma always scared me as a kid. It’s the cold organ that would appear in the background music in the hospital scenes that put it over the edge

0:26 Stephen Hillenburg created the episode ideas and the show not Tom Kenny

The old Spongebob episodes were amazing. It's always something well thought out and a true classic

I saw all of these episodes as a kid but nothing terrified me more than 'Ghost Host' from season 4.

Classic Spongebob treated kids properly, not too childish and with a good message, I felt done right

The scariest part of “Procrastination” is how relatable it is. “Can’t have dirty garbage.” 😂

There is always room for a creepy aspect within cartoons you expect to be completely innocent, Its a weird thing to think about

One part that always creeped me out was in the episode “Shanghaied” when they run through the perfume department and at the end of that episode when they’re in a blender being made into a smoothie by The Flying Dutchman.

I'd add "Squid's Day Off" to this list. Similarly to Mrs. Puff in "Doing Time," we watch Squidward slowly lose his mind. It's my pick for the creepiest Spongebob episode. During rewatches of episodes, I usually skip over that one.

Yeah nothing in SpongeBob creeped me out more than the dream sequence in procrastination, especially the chair talking

Rock bottom has still stuck with me years after having watched it for the first time. I think its the imagery of the road going upwards, that implication of not escaping the deepest part of the sea.

I love those old "creepy" episodes and moments

the autophobia meaning made me realize why kids would go with their parents than being *Home Alone*

Dude I’m so glad you made this video I thought I was the only one who loved these episodes but found them creepy

The camping episode will always slap for me

Don’t ignore some of the later episodes as well like the Season 7 episode “Squidward in Clarinetland”

The episode where SpongeBob isn’t left alone by the wind and the statues he built didn’t help and it ends with the aliens visiting was creepy

I still want to see a _real_ hash-slinging slasher show up at some point

Honestly other than SB-129 none of the other episodes scared me as a kid. Like not at all. In fact doing time was actually one of my top funniest episodes as a kid. I use to watch it on repeat lol. But SB-129 was an episode that gave me nightmares. I still avoid watching it to this day as everytime I get to the part where everything is white, I still get a overwhelming sense of dread. Also when squidward gets sent back in time and can't get back, the thought of being lost in a place you don't belong also scares the crap out of me. Me a 23 year old man gets scared of a spongebob episode lol

When I was a kid, I never got past the title of inspongeneac because it scared me enough to avoid the episode all together

The only episode that was mentioned that I was generally creeped out by is doing time because of the hallucinations that Mrs Puff had at the end of the episode, but the other episodes mentioned I personally didn’t find really creepy.

I like your picks for this video , but honestly the only SpongeBob episode I actually found creepy as a kid was Once Bitten

Bruh, how could you *NOT* include the live-action closeup of a horsefly in the Wormy episode?!?! That s**t STILL makes me shutter and gives me the heebie-jeebies and I’m in my 20s!!

For me it was “Nature Pants” when SpongeBob decided to go live with the jellyfish, Patrick decided to try and bring SpongeBob back home by making him a “trophy” with a scary visual of Patrick angry crying and more terrifying music, sent shivers down my spine to see Patrick that sad and that angry 🥶

I think Cartoon Network had the scariest cartoons as a kid for me 😂 courage the cowardly dog had me turning all the lights on to use the bathroom at midnight

Oh my gosh, you are so right about procrastination. That scared me so much as a kid. You should do a video on The Dream episode of Pingu which was the equivalent of Outlast for me as a kid.

This show had crazy visuals

I remember getting the SB-129 creeps as a kid but this video made me rewatch the episode and to say the least I found it fascinating and actually a little funny.

Didn't expect Doing Time and Procrastination here, never realized how those moments could be creepy, I always just found it funny

House of Horror is a terrifying SpongeBob track that sticks with me to this day, and it perfectly suits a lot of the creepy episodes

Procrastination is indeed the most relatable episode, especially as a novelist.

I also remembered an episode with (i think) spiders crawling out of squidwards eyes where squidward had nightmares about spongebob and patrivk

Whoa, you didn't mention Graveyard Shift or Wormy, I'm pretty sure GYS is one of the most creepy episodes. Also, the fact Spongebob is over 24 years old & people are still talking about it now just shows how great the first seasons were.

This was in my recommended. Keep up this content and you're gonna blow up! I loved it

The sea bear episode scared tf out of me. I was so afraid of bears after this but I got over it

Honestly I hope a future season of SpongeBob will return the show to its roots, showing SpongeBob tackling mature and heavy themes, but with a light hearted and innocent look at them.

The episode Night Light scared me as a kid

As part of the 25th anniversary, they're going to show a sequel episode to SB-129, called _"PL-1413";_ starring Plankton as the protagonist.

‘’His clock says some menacing things” is the scariest thing I’ve ever heard

Doing Time is made so much worse when you realise Mrs Puff is in a perpetual loop, stuck in time for eternity in constant terror. That is Hell

the one that creeped me out the most was the gorilla episode, i legit had nightmares about my brother being a gorilla and killing me😂

For adults every single episode ever is terrifying actually

Not sure if u guys remember watching the episode where squidward gets lost in his locker. That shit freaked the hell out of me…

The first time I saw doing time when I was 12. I think Mrs. Puff is trapped with SpongeBob in boating school all day long.

I was always scared by the ghost host episode, the Flying Dutchman part obviously but the scariest part to me was the power within thing, I was like wtf is this

For some reason, even though it’s a bit terrifying, my favourite episode when I was younger, and still now will always be SB-129.

I think there is a type of cartoon humour that The Simpsons tapped into with itchy and scratchy. I believe that after so long of writing this stuff, mainly referring to consistent "young teen" cartoons, it gets to a point where a sadistic side wants to experiment. A call to the void in a form of media where the line is nudged so lightly they you could miss it. A foot on the line of which a show steps beyond what it is known for. Spongebob executes this well through the abstract absurdity of imagery that makes you wonder if it's comedic or unsettling, or if this really is a kid's show after all.

Technically bordering on modern Spongebob, but the “ACTORS” close up in the Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy movie episode always freaked me out…

4:52 the sb-129 was actually my favourite SpongeBob episode I rmbr loving it

Just thought I’d mention that Tom Kenny is the iconic voice actor of SpongeBob, but Steven Hillenburg is the actual creator of the show😅

Spongebob isn't the Goat - The Goat is Spongebob.

Something that always freaked me out about SpongeBob, to this day even (I am NOT good with remotely dark stuff lol), is when characters ‘comedically’ go absolutely insane. The concept of insanity already spooks me, but seeing it happen in a light that’s meant to be comedic in a colorful animated show creeps me out sooo much. When I was a kid, I literally couldn’t even look at it or I’d be up all night. It’s not even just SpongeBob; any show that toys around with insanity as a joke creeped me the heck out.

For me it was the clarinet land episode. The imagery of Squidwards reflections shoving the clarinets in their mouths and then coming out of the mirrors really spooked me as a kid.

SpongeBob is in the background on my tv right now😂🤦‍♂️

Squidward in Clarinetland creepiest episode hands down

It's really strange, I have two very notable nightmares in my lifetime that are SpongeBob related. I was never creeped out by the show really, but they have cameo'd on two separate occasions to scare me. Once as a small child when the show just came out, and one as an adult. Couldn't tell you why.

Squidville is honestly dark because it basically states that if you have depression the only reason to find happiness is if everyone was like yourself

The ending of the episode that is a callback to The Planet of the Apes where Spongebob is basically the last person on earth absolutely horrified me as a child based on how out of nowhere this reveal was, it's also pretty damn sad.

I swear, some shows as a kid fed into my generalized anxiety and even melancholy to such a degree on my development. oof.

Y’all just gonna forget about that one where sponge bob turns into a snail that shit was creepy ash

the scariest episode to me was always rock bottom. Something about the eerie darkness and the ambient drone music gave a nightmarish atmosphere that stuck with me when i first watched it as a child. The moment when the lights turn off after spongebob argues with the ticketer guy was as scary as sleeping by myself for the first time.

Omg I lovvee rock bottom. I love the eeriness and atmosphere of that place. It's really unlike any other episode. It lives in my head rent free.