SpongeBob SquarePants may not be the innocent cartoon series everyone thinks it is.
Sprinkled throughout the show are innuendos and on-the-nose jokes that seem more suitable for an adult audience, alongside crazy fan theories and darker moments. Over the years, SpongeBob has been slammed for the show’s storylines.
Most notably an episode called The Endless Summer, which follows SpongeBob and Mr Krabs as they release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, was called out by Fox News for portraying global warming as fact. Sailor Mouth was also slammed by parents for urging children to use “profanity”.
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In the episode titled Texas, SpongeBob exclaims: “Patrick, your genius is showing!” which leads the starfish to cover his crotch in surprise. During a phone call, SpongeBob and Sandy discuss karate to a rather extreme extent and even talk about it over the phone – when replaced with another word, their karate activities don’t seem quite so innocent after all.
Elsewhere in the series SpongeBob makes a joke about dropping soap. The island that is seen above the water is called Bikini Atoll, which is the name of a real life island group in the Marshall Islands.
After the Second World War, Bikini Atoll was used by the United States as a nuclear testing site and every one of the island’s 167 inhabitants were “forcibly relocated in 1946”. Now, for possibly the most horrifying theory of all – the secret Krabby Patty formula.
There’s an ongoing joke throughout SpongeBob that the details of the delicious burger will never be revealed, however fans in the real world think there’s a disturbing reason why. Mr Krabs could be a cannibal as crabs are known for killing and eating each other – and have you ever noticed that not many of these shelled creatures reside in Bikini Bottom?
Don’t forget the burger’s name, which literally means “crabby” patty. Some SpongeBob fans went even darker and have claimed that Mr Krabs is raising his daughter, Pearl the whale, for slaughter.
One theory suggests that each SpongeBob character is addicted to drugs as one Reddit user claimed the sponge’s mood switches could be from “the effects of speed,” while Patrick’s lazy personality could be the result of too much marijuana.
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