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Is it just me, or was the the pronunciation of "Nosferatu" changed at some point? In the original broadcast, I remember it being pronounced "nos-FAH-RAH-tu".

This video would've been 10 minutes shorter if you'd just use the term "non sequitur"

I found out about noseferatu on Friday..not from SpongeBob..just because it randomly appeared in my recommended on TH-cam..had 0 clue it appeared in SpongeBob lol

Ironically the sonic 1 movie had more story i know it wasn't like anything special and the set-up was kinda odd but atleast it had some story an arc and development for sonic the story was revolved around sonic's character he went from a coward who hide and run away from others because of his powers to learn not to run away anymore and uses his power to protect himself and...the ones he care about sonic payed off his arc and development in a satisfying conclusion. Look i know sonic 1 wasn't anything special or anything and the story itself was kinda 7/10 at best but atleast it successfully pulled off sonic's character arc very well and payoff with a satisfying conclusion..and i kinda love when a story give the character an arc and conclude and pay off their arc and development in a satisfying way that's good writing if you ask me is it perfect? No.. absolutely not it has it's flaws but still it was quite decent. But with the mario movie... Nothing we got none of that i hope yhe sequel kinda step things up and kimda have the same treatment as sonic movies you know...get better in each sequel.

Really wonder what his thoughts are about the underwater gorilla in the indoors episode

This video is heroically important, not just for SpongeBob, but for the creativity of humanity. Humans need to re-learn the writing elements that made classic SpongeBob great, because we're losing our ability to make creative humor. If it's possible for humanity to produce something as great as classic SpongeBob again, the person who does it is gonna be inspired by video essays like this one.

They could have done a Nosferatu episode as a nod to the gag, but a parody entirely with spongebob characters that follows the storyline of the Nosferatu movie, but doesn't show or mention Orlock himself.

Imagine my surprise when I found out the guy from SpongeBob was getting his own live action movie randomly

I feel like the writers are also missing the fact that the original “Nosferatu” (who’s actually named Count Orlok btw) is just edited shots from the original movie. It makes the scene really eerie in the same vein as the overly detailed frames they’d do in the early-mid seasons before they started making every frame overdone. It’s just one shot of him in the doorway flicking the lights and then another of him looking at the camera then smiling. But in Squidferatu, it’s clearly just another guy from the crew dressed up to look like the original that they took pictures of to edit for animation. It’s too clean. He’s not draped in shadow anymore and they have him placed against the cartoony background of the rest of the show. There’s WAY too many angles of him for him to be scary. If they really HAD to include Orlok again, they should have put the SpongeBob characters IN the world of Nosferatu, not the other way around. Have them make funny quips at the movie, it could work!

Ok but I'd argue the logic isn't the problem, someone like Nosferatu just existing as some ordinary guy who occasionally shows up in a show like Smiling Friends would be funny, Spongebob just can't do that kind of absurd humor anymore

"Do you have any other examples in media where a writer should have let it rest?" I exit out of full-screen and there's a damn Mufasa ad. 😭

I made up a tornado 🌪️ storm coming to town & then it actually happened later that day so Squidward definitely manifested the Hash Slinging Slasher , it just wasn't what he thought it was

Don’t remember ever thinking the original nosferatu bit was all that funny either, but that’s probably in part because I don’t remember the first time I saw the episode, so I have no memory of being surprised by the bit

The fact that they chose to use "The Phantom of the Opera" is just like... another gut punch. The Phantom of the Opera is for sure, MANY TIMES more well known than Nosfer-freaking-atu is. Not knowing who Nosferatu is enhanced the joke for loads of people. But the Phantom of the Opera is pretty well known. Even if you don't know what it is, you've heard of it. And also... the Phantom of the Opera isn't scary? The Phantom is a menacing guy with a scary deformed face, but he's not supposed to be that frightening. Nosferatu is funny because he is inherently scary looking. And the stiffly edited live action footage makes him appear even more uncanny. This stylized drawing of the Phantom just does not hit the same way at all. He doesn't look like a scary character.

the joke at the end of the episode where they go to Noseferatu's castles might have actually worked if instead of the phantom of the opera it was the hashslingingslasher

why at the end did you just randomly say "watch this video here" twice without showing the videos or their titles lmao

That guy who does spongebob theories should do one on nosferatu

you mean: Frankenstein's Monster. Also, you mean: Count Orlok

it wouldve been funnier if it was another Nosferatu flicking the lights dispite him being right there.

The original has to be one of the few truly great bits of referential humor. Even someone who’s never seen Nosferatu and doesn’t know who Count Orlok is can laugh at it because of the sheer absurdity.

This isn’t the same guy from hot tub Time machine 2 is it?

7:50 know what would've made the joke slightly more funny/work? If they brought back that nervous employer character from Graveyard Shift flickering the lights.

The creator said the second movie will be more character driven and will expand the story better. He took the critiques of the first movie to improve the second one

This sounds like Steve's friend "Snot" from American Dad lol

anything after season 3 is non-canon material.

He was great in Season 2 and even for his brief stint in Season... 10? Whichever episode it was Spongebob learned about the night shift att the Krusty Krab during late hours. It was the drawn out episodes that made me ask why and did anyone think it was funny. I have a soft spot for modern Spongebob, but this wan't it.

12:00 roughly 20 years of the Simpsons.

It's hilarious that even your slightly derogatory, low effort Mario impression feels like it does the character more justice than the most boring voice in Hollywood Chris Pratt did lmao

I feel like they used the wrong Chris to voice Mario, though that's just a nitpick of mine

I think Mario should give off some sort of meaning/effect weather he has an arc or not. like in TTYD everyone in Mario’s team changes besides himself due to his kindness, the movie sort of give Mario the “don’t know when to quit” though it kinda falls flat cuz no one learns from it. I also wish they had Mario’s greatest strengths used as his greatest flaws, he’s brave but it means often he gets himself in trouble plowing straight first into danger, he’s forgiving which means he gives chances to others who will inevitably betray him and him never giving up if in a team situation could cost his teammates Health a lot. it’s that kind of “conflict” that I think Mario should learn and use more responsibly like the player learning better strategies.

At least the Nosferatu episode has some good animation.

I wish there were 36 more video essays just like this

Agreed

7:43 It would've actually been hilarious if the Hash slinging slasher was the one flickering the lights 😂

For me the biggest joke is that the guy actually isn't called Nosferatu, but the movie he appears on is 😂😂

8:42 That is literally all modern SpongeBob is now. Every episode is just, "Hey, remember this old SpongeBob bit? Here it is again with none of the context or work to make it good, now laugh!"

seeing him flickering those lights had little kid me creeped out

Kinda funny how the video has more to say about the first gag that wasn't even 5 seconds long than an episode long appearance of nosferatu.

The name kid feratu is so stupid sounding that it actually makes me desire living less.

Modern Spongebob doesn’t have Stephen Hillenburg. They should have ended it when *HE* wanted it to end. It was *HIS* cartoon. Nickelodeon ruined it. I do like episodes after the 2004 movie, but it should have never gone on this long.

Crack comment: So "my leg"s lesson is - instead telling your crush straightforward that you have feelings for them, just cause a lot of accidents and risk your own wellbeing to see them at the hospital and then tell them that you have feelings 🤨

I just interpreted Spongebob's concern for Fred as Spongebob just being friendly and friends with basically everyone in Bikini Bottom. You know, he knows the names of every Krusty Krab customer, makes friends with everyone he meets or at least attempts to as in Flats the Flounder or Sandy, and also technically Pearl and has a poor understanding of mutual friendshios as he considers Squidward as his friend despite him hating Spongebob. So it doesn't surprise me too much that he's so friendly towards Fred

I feel like they could’ve at least made a reference to the Nosferatu episode rather than making a whole episode about him. The episode could’ve been about Squidward delivering mail Mr. Krabs got by accident at the Krusty Krab. As Squidward is bicycling to the address, it gets dark and the street lights begin to flicker, eventually shutting off for a bit, and coming on. Squidward gets to the house, an old lady opens the door and lets him stay the night. Again, the lights keep flickering, and he begins to hear a bunch of noises. In the morning, he discovers the old lady is just making a bunch of noise in her sleep, but still doesn’t know why the lights are flickering. The episode ends with a cutaway shot of Patrick scratching his back against an electrical box, and cuts to black.

Fantastic analysis!

I don’t get it. How is it funny?

This movie and the live action are like Ying Yang: a lot of references with a dent of originality vs a bunch of things disconnected from the games with a slight connection to the them.

The bush gag from The Simpsons is another egregious example of a joke that should've been allowed to rest.

Yes

Brilliant video again

Movie only had fan service