The 10 Banned/Controversial Spongebob Episodes
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- Howdy! Spongey's had his share of controversy too 🙂 Here's my tale of them.
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i watched the baby clam episode when i was a child and i never thought twice about why spongebob and patrick were raising the baby clam. gay or straight never even crossed my mind, it was just a funny episode of two friends raising a baby clam. adults were the only ones with the problem.
Preach! 👏🏾
They think it'll turn kids gay , jokes on them I was gay before watching it
Well its obvious enough that marks are made by society. No child would consider 2 same gender people being together not normal if they didnt know what the normal is. This brings us to the conclusion that normal and not normal don't exist
True but nowadays they’re trying to make you think about it .
There's literal gore in this show but all they focused on is the big scary gay
Fun fact: Out of all the Nicktoons to air in the 1990s, Spongebob is the only one still in production, and the longest running one
@@omglarryisepic8973 ✨ indeed ✨
Should have ended right after the first movie ☠️
Spongebob ended in like 2019
@@am2382 Well it’s incredibly popular and I doubt Nickelodeon would want to end it when it rakes in so much money
@@Mooms That's actually why it's still on Nick.
For a GOOD example of dark humor in SpongeBob, watch Nasty Patty. A plot literally about trying to cover up an assumed murder, but the jokes are actually funny and varied, and the characters actually act true to themselves.
I love that episode!! Best dialogue:
Mr. Krabs: HIS HEADS STICKING OUT!!!
SpongeBob: sorry Mr. Krabs, I thought he might need some air
Mr. Krabs: they don’t need air where he’s going👹
@@jules6735 💀
but midlife crustacean was banned 😂😂😭
Absolutely
@@jules6735 Dude I didn't get so many of the jokes as a kid XD
*Fun fact:* Tom Kenny, Clancy Brown, and Bill Fagerbakke really WERE swearing when they recorded the dialogue for "Sailor Mouth."
@@Mister_Oddity We all do.
Noice
Interesting!
i want the cuss included version lol, thatd be entertaining
This is not true. Voice actor Tom Kenny reveals in the description of this episode in the iTunes collection, SpongeBob SquarePants: Tom Kenny's Top 20, that they actually improvised fake profanities that would be censored by the humorous sound effects later. He adds jokingly, "I was laughing so hard [recording this episode], they recorded me while I lay on the floor of the sound booth."
Fun fact: The dolphin swearing sounds from sailor mouth arent actually from dolphins. Its the sped up 'laugh' of a bird called the kookaburra.
unrelated & old comment but i recognize ur feeding frenzy pfp!! :D
It amazes me how sensitive people can get over the most harmless jokes in a kids show and yet they still air House Fancy where Squidward gets his toenail ripped off
Wait, Squidy has a toenail? I have no idea
Ikr
That and the infamous splinter episode and face freeze one. I still shudder like someone's walking over my grave with those episodes. But nah, cussing with dolphin censors and raising a baby clam as two consenting adults who happen to be male? Won't someone please think of the children?! 🙄😬😂😂😂
@@caitlyntilsonor when squidward turned into one of those mummified animals
You can blame the women, and flanderized men.
I never saw SpongeBob and Patrick being a romantic loving couple. I always saw it as them mocking the parenting life
I really hope their not together! I bet they were just mocking the parent life probably
@@ArcadeN9Yes but, SpongeBob is also confirmed to be asexual.
@@p0ggieking3 asexual is different than aromantic
“Wormy” is another banned episode of Spongebob. Aired during the second season, it was banned in multiple countries due to the closeup of Wormy, which was deemed to scary for kids.
Not Wormy!
I remember being surprised that the wormy close up scared a lot of people when i used to think it was really funny lol
@@megumiseyelashes6706 exactly thank you
I'm pretty sure that episode is the main reason I'm terrified of bugs LMAO
Childhood trauma.
So let me get this straight. The episode meant to teach you NOT to swear... had people claiming that it promoted swearing?
Yep
Apparently, the world is so twisted. I feel like most of those strict parents/adults that criticize things like this just want an excuse to not like it, so they twist the overall meaning of something to validate their opinion that’s completely biased. Idk how someone could see this as promoting swearing, it’s literally means the exact opposite, SpongeBob and Patrick keep getting in trouble for swearing. How do they not get it
Yes, and this episode didn't even reveal them. This is like someone saying that they are pro at Minecraft without knowing how to play it.
We need a good culling.
Listen I'm all for swearing I do it alot myself but if you don't think a kid is more likely to swear when they see it on TV then you're just fooling yourself you think I would havd such a potty mouth had it not been for Beavis and Butt-Head Family Guy and South Park?
"Where's the tentacles?"
He was probably home sleeping after playing the clarinet.
or he went to the clarinet stuff
You're so wrong for this joke and I feel horrible for laughing so hard ! 🤣😭X
Well he was briefly in the episode for a few seconds
Nice
Censorship in Spongebob is basically just removing things to shut up the groups that yell the loudest. Compare the Panty Raid and "swearing" to the images in Face Freeze and the drawn out mutilation of Squidward in House Fancy.
I'm also that episode of Sandy getting her fur stolen and running around town "naked", even getting conveniently censored despite still wearing her usual indoor attire, is still up even though that's no less lewd than Panty Raid, which was a small part at the end of an episode versus the WHOLE episode.
I’m surprised the Health Inspector episode wasn’t on the list with Krabs and Spongebob trying to (potentially) cover up a murder.
_"The dark deed is done, Mr.Krabs."_ 😱
I have a headcannon for why Krabs' alarm clock calls him old. I think Plankton made a "Free alarm clock" to insult Krabs as petty revenge. Krabs doesn't get rid of it because it's free.
I thought it was a radio calling him old
@@mostar1219 It was both a radio and an alarm clock
That makes perfect sense
Reminds me of Duck Dodgers's alarm clock. "Wake Up! You are Lazy and Worthless!"
Pfff
Midlife Crustacean and Salior Mouth were episodes my parents thought were hilarious. Heck they made a game from Potty Mouth. Where we made up words that weren't even curses but we would say them like in the show.
Heck we still do that when we don't want to curse.
How the Butt Cake are you.
Also I have a video tape of that deleted scene of One Bite and I thought that was insane because I thought I learned something amazing!
Lol
I suppose you mean Sailor Mouth, Potty Mouth is from Loud House.
I love that
Sailor Mouth is one of my favorites
that's kind of adorable
honestly, my mom loved Rock A Bi-Valve. The joke about why Patrick couldn't be the mom was the hardest I've seen her laugh in a long time.
On the orientation thing, I think Stephen Hillenburg has stated that Spongebob is _asexual_ (like all sea sponges).
So yes. Spongebob is an ace icon.
Yep
@@TankTheArtist777 Honestly, Spongebob being asexual might be even more controversial due to how many people interpret his character and how many people say that asexuality doesn't exist.
The ace icon I didn't know I had but needed growing up.
Spongebob is ASEXUAL, but no one said he's ACE. learn the difference before you comment stuff like that.
@@kingasurowiecka9465 I know the difference. Who says he can't be both biologically and characteristically asexual?
Do you know that the dolphin sound that censors out the profanity in Sailor Mouth didn't came from a dolphin? This "dolphin" sound that is used in Sailor Mouth, along with other many instances of dolphins in cartoons is actually the call of the kookaburra sped up and put into high pitch. Also, the kookaburra's call is used for jungle ambience in cartoons regardless of the geographical location. By the way, kookaburras can only be found in Australia in the wild.
I was looking for a comment about this! I knew it wasn't an actual dolphin since they actually squeak and kinda chirp, but i couldn't remember what animal they supplemented! Thanks!
@@dandy432 Minecraft’s dolphin’s use real
dolphin noises, actually, so they’d sound something like that.
You learn something new every day.
The Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan films introduced fellow Non-Australians to an old and fake sounding Hollywood variant of the crazy Kookaburra call that we Australians have all known and loved to bits.
But even then, such a ‘kookaburra’ calling sound was made and recorded by a guy born without legs.
@Safwaan a wheelchair probably
"Mid Life Crustacean" being banned has really pissed me off. Given by the fact Nickelodeon banned it over the panty raid scene (a scene that shows kids why you shouldn't break and enter other people's houses for panty raids) goes to show they clearly think children would pull the same stupid stunt SpongeBob, Patrick and Krabs did in that episode. This ban was completely unnecessary and it's them pulling out that move just to say they don't respect children's intelligence.
I agree with you
I agree. Good thing we got it on the season 3 dvd, top 100 and probably another dvd.
@@thecodester6669 I have the Season 3 DVD, and nobody at Nickelodeon took it out of any of the releases.
"Mid-Life Crustacean" is left intact in some countries such as Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Russia.
Agreed
Tbh as a kid, I saw the deleted scene with gasoline and a match, I thought it was honestly the scariest thing I’ve seen despite the gorilla episode. Like we see no one in the Krusty Krab, it’s dark, and suddenly a scary robot claw is seen holding a match as well as the chilling music when he realized it was gasoline.
Yeah, I saw that and it gave me the chills because of all the episodes being goofy and enjoyable, that one was more dark. I still get creeped out just thinking about it. It kind of reminds me of "Red mist" but that's my mind being weird.
Which episode are you talking about 🤠
@@zenz_bro just one bite
Fun fact: The car deleted scene in "Procrastination" was removed due to the Episode airing at a time when Racing Fatalities were at it's peak. And it aired at a time when Famous 7 time NASCAR Cup champion Dale Earnhardt SR. Passed away in a crash and they didn't want to connect to the scene to the death of many Racing drivers passing away in crashes at the time. So they removed the scene for Spongebob commiting Vehicular manslaughter
If they really wanted to be ahead of its time, they could have had Patrick as the stay-at-home spouse Since spongebob is the only one out of the 2 that's actually employed
Wait now i just thought of something spongbob is still employed during this episode does mr krabs just let him have days off back then for him to do this?
@@superboy1200 it's inconsistent. One minute, he only has Sundays off, the next minute, he suffers while taking a forced vacation, the next minute he goes to Ukulele Bottom for three days for a convention
The Krusty Krab must’ve been in shambles while spongebob was taking care of the scallop! 🤣
@@superboy1200 maternity leave
@@mostar1219 maybe the problem is people are so pretentious they expect continuity out of a show for toddlers
I imagine SpongeBob’s Last Stand was controversial because *some* people in the US are very against anything promoting environmentalism, especially if it portrays business as the enemy.
Thanks for adding “some.” The quantity of people who seem to believe all Americans are the same is appalling.
Me: Are these some so-called Environmental Animated Movies like Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 a joke to you?
As an environmental science major this episode missed my impression but I believe the environmental movement shown in this episode just holds truth behind the main issues regarding the connection between capitalism and the state of the environment.
Yet, like this video mentioned there should’ve been a perspective of sustainable business incorporated in this episode in order to make a greater impact
no i completely agree. i liked the episode because it’s pretty forward
Typical America. Money over life.
okay the “that’s it? where’s the tentacles?” made me laugh so hard, it’s so true lmao.
You know I never understood exactly what sparked the “SpongeBob promotes homosexuality to children” opinion before this, so thank you for answering a question that I have wondered for many years.
I actually had a pretty real issue with this so-called controversy about 9 to 10 years ago when my son was around kindergarten age. Both my husband and I at the time Lived next-door to his parents and our entire family went to a pretty conservative church. Well just by chance my son got very into SpongeBob and I frequently let him watch it at our home. However when many of our church friends and family found out after my mother-in-law found out, I was hit with all kinds of backlash for allowing him to watch this and buying him SpongeBob clothes and toys. Now I had never heard anything about this controversy before. Suddenly I had all of these people telling me that SpongeBob was homosexual/promoting homosexuality. And I found it almost comically absurd that any reasonable adult could argue that a cartoon Character could even have a Sexual Orientation. And if there was any direct or overtly sexual messages of ANYKIND in the cartoon, I would never allow my young child to watch it.
Even considering the episode you discussed that apparently began this misinformed ignorant opinion, The episode does not show anything such as them getting married, setting out wanting a baby together, or anything overtly romantic between them. I mean even when they are living together it does not show anything as suggestive as them sleeping in the same bed, I mean yes they do share SpongeBob‘s bed but not snuggled up together actually it shows them trying to do it in a comical way Without even any physical contact.
I took a lot of heat for refusing to ban my son from watching the show. And even when I repeatedly asked, what or where can I find some kind of direct reference of content of any sexual nature at all, The same individuals could not tell me but simply gave me ignorant statements along the lines of” just look at how he talks and acts” or “everyone knows that’s the message Nickelodeon’s intending to portray”.
And I choose to be a good Christian by loving all of my fellow man and extending kindness to my fellow man By judging them on the kind of human being they are and understanding I have no right to pass any judgment on them further than that. So despite My personal and religious beliefs, I know that I have no right to pass judgement nor look down on the LGBTQ+..or any other community for that matter. (Anyone who reads and believes in their Bible like me, should know that we all fall short of God and are sinners by nature in one form or another and he directly tells us that judging others puts them closer to heaven than us).
Adults should also be smart enough to remember with shows aimed at small children, almost all kids that age just see the humor and direct message presented,And take it at face value, most cannot possibly understand the complexities of adult issues and apply them to their cartoons.
I remember when my little boy watched the episode in question, he never even made any kind of mention to me about the baby having two daddies, or about it being wrong or even strange. He simply saw it as two friends working together to help the little scallop. He laughed more about SpongeBob growing so many arms to do all of those chores and Patrick pretending to go to work but going and sleeping under his rock all day and Remember those parts well enough that that’s what he mentioned afterwards.
And it was things like that that he enjoyed the show for even when there was a little bit of social commentary here and there it was pretty much lost on him. Because he was a child, he was still simple innocent and naïve to complex or adult issues. I wish more adults realized that when we take children’s cartoons (as long as they don’t contain clearly inappropriate material), we are the ones who make children aware of grown-up topics instead of doing what we should do as good parents and protecting the time they have to enjoy that period of carefree innocence, because the world will take it from them soon enough. In the end I told all of my detractors that I frankly thought they were acting less educated than my kindergartner by arguing to me that a cartoon sponge can be a Homosexual 🙄.
I refused to put a stop to him watching it at my home, and although his grandma and grandpa did all they could to try to deter him from wanting to watch it, and went out of their way to get him to find a new “favorite cartoon”. But in the end when he asked why he wasn’t allowed to watch it over there, they couldn’t give him a good explanation. Because when they were interacting solely with my son, even they didn’t fully buy their own argument. If they truly Believed that this cartoon portrayed some kind of homosexual message that my child was capable of understanding and picking up on…they could’ve simply said just that. But they knew in their hearts that my son didn’t have any concept of sexual relations or matters, and they didn’t want to be the ones to actually do what they were accusing a cartoon of, and put an adult message he was way too young to hear in his head.
Parents……if instead of us picking apart everything our children may see & hear for some kind of perceived Political Incorrectness or Argument. Then fighting constantly to block out, sensor, and wall off, all subject matter, even if imaginary, that conflicts with our values. Maybe put that time to actual good use, Like I used to. Actually sit down and watch the shows your kids like, Watch or play their favorite video games with them, and talk to your kids while they’re engaged with things they enjoy, ask them about why they like that particular thing and ask them to Explain a little bit about it to you. This grants you an actual understanding of how your child sees this content and what makes it attractive to them.
To many parents in the world today are forgetting the importance of maintaining an actual dialogue with your child. They enjoy the convenience of having technology too act as a surrogate parent, and assume enough censorship eventually will be enough to protect all children. I know it takes a little more time, but look at and evaluate your child as an individual. Have conversations every now and then, allow them to ask questions, and despite any personal feelings you may have allow them to speak and listen to them even if the topic is uncomfortable or something you strongly disagree with.
No matter how hard you try there will come a time when you cannot keep total control of outside influence. And if you only allow discussion and understanding that lines up with your views. That is the point where we fail them as parents. As their age and understanding permits we have to allow them to be exposed to real world issues.
And if you don’t foster and nurture this open dialogue, and let them know you will always be there with understanding and an open mind if they need to talk.
You will just hurt both yourself and your child in the long run. Because you will not stop them from finding out about a topic if they are curious. You will just cause them to seek advice elsewhere, that may not be from someone good or may be incorrect altogether. You may also prevent them from coming to you for help if a serious matter arises and they’re life or wellbeing may depend on it.
Preventing children from vulgar language, obscenity, sexual material, violent movies & video games, sensitive topics, inappropriate music or anything else, will never take the place of an involved loving parent.
You can teach your child what your religious or family values are on certain matters, while still responsibly educating them on those issues and teaching them that we don’t have to agree with others beliefs, but we I have to respect them as individual people and we have to respect their right to have their own beliefs.
Tom Kenny actually convinced Nick to let them curse for real and they can bleep over it, so it'll feel more natural when they said their lines. XD SOOOOooooo..... There is an audio file out there SOMEWHERE with the cast cursing and no dolphins bleeping it out.
😮 Wow That's pretty cool of Mr. Kenny to do. I betcha the guys must have had some serious fun doing that in the recording studio.
WhAt AbOuT tHe ChiLDRen!?
Even as a child, I understood the lesson from Sailor Mouth and most of the suggestive lines, I didn't understand.
It's hilarious how "adults" wage war on SpongeBob. I remember being told that pediatric nurses couldn't wear SpongeBob scrubs, because they were "too controversial".
Alternative title: "usa parents too sensitive to most cartoons list."
Although, a few episodes like the disgusting pet episode are definitely flipping terrible
For the episode Procrastination, I don’t really understand why people thought Patrick was taking Sandy’s bra off. The only strap on her bra is around her back and it’s visible in the scene. It kind of sucks that Procrastination had so many deleted scenes in general too.
Pulling "Midlife Crustacean" is stupid, because the point of it ended up being that it was a bad idea in the first place.
I assumed it was pulled for being inappropriate
@@Mister_Oddity yeah, stealing people's underwear is wrong, but the point is that you *shouldn't* listen to people like Patrick who suggest doing stuff like that. It's not like it was a stunt put in just to be shocking, because Mr Krabs gets rightfully punished for his behavior.
@@CinnamonGrrlErin1 except they stated it like they have done it many times before and seeing an adult man steal underwear from a house is gross. the entire episode would feel COMPLETLY different if it weren't his mother's house which Patrick said they steal underwear from all the time
Squidward Tentacles Vs Knuckles The Echidna
Squidward Tentacles
Powers:Toon Force Reatily Warping 4th Wall Awareness Immortality Dimensional Travel
Power Level:34.8 Sextillion
Knuckles The Echidna
Powers:Super Strength Punch That Hits Like An Truck 4th Wall Awareness Immortality
Power Level:348 Quintillon
“That’s it? Where’s the tentacles?”
Strider, you really know how to make me laugh!😂
Hi.
The tentacles are somewhere
And no, I’m not telling you where
Probably playing the clarinet in a tiki house.
Im a gay man myself and honestly rock-a-by bival was ironically such a sweet ep, i liked how nobody cared that spongebob and patrick were both men they were just confused about the logical of a sea star and a sponge raising a shell fish lol which was pretty refreshing from the constant “EW TWO MAN KISSING” jokes cartoons loved to do at that time
its just a bit odd that they choose that worlds version of birds for the kid. but yeah it was a good episode
It's a good video, as always, but as a follow-up to the whole thing about "stereotyping people and them disliking it," Jacksepticeye recently did a video where he was reading reviews of his channel on a website that tells parents about content for children. Most of the negative reviews for Sean's channel (and even some of the positive ones) did nothing but bring up swearing and he was basically like 'I spent all of this time promoting focusing on your mental health, raising all of this money for charity, and trying to be a good force in the world...and all anyone remembers about me is the swearing.'
I had started watching this before I saw that video from Sean, but seeing him come up as the image for "swearing in the TH-cam gaming space" after seeing him talk about how that's anyone seems to know about him hits a little differently than it probably would have before.
With the banning of mid life crustacean, it shows that Nickelodeon has a double standard. They get rid of one SpongeBob episode but keep the mountain of adult jokes and innuendos from icarly, drake and josh and victorious. FYI the three shows I mentioned were created by Dan Schneider.
They pulled the Beck’s “uncle Barbara” joke from that one Victorious episode, probably because it was mildly transphobic.
To be fair, those shows are mostly aimed at teenagers.
@@TheBlueLink3 more like tweens
Dan Schneider, people forgetting that he's a huge pedo and foot fetishist weirdo.
Tbh, I kinda thought some of the episodes were pretty much teaching kids about adult things. For example, the "sailor mouth" episode was just telling kids that cursing is bad and that they shouldn't do it otherwise they will get in trouble. I can see how it can be controversial to some parents but to me, its just teaching a very valuable lesson to kids.
hi there Whitty
Selling out imo is way better then sailor mouth because its way ahead of its time for big corporations. You sell out your work and if they don’t like it. They take it away from you and you can’t do anything about it. The funny thing is that this episode was by C.H Greenblatt. Creator of Harvey Beaks and the same thing happened to C.H Greenblatt except Carl (based of Greenblatt is the Mr.Krabs/Nickelodeon and the workers are Greenblatt and his team) and things falled apart resulting in his show being cancelled. Quite the scary harsh truth that happens to hard working show creators on big corporations selling out their soul only to get short term attention.
@@BlindmanPepperspray Personally I agree, it is a shame how some shows had so much effort put into them just to have them be shut down. But, I was just using sailor mouth as more of an example than a statement. There are probably better interpretations out there but I was just trying to make an example.
@@BlindmanPepperspray Yeah. I actually find it sad about what happened to Harvey Beaks. I don't want to jump to conclusion that Spongebob is behind all of the cancellations of the Nickelodeon shows, whether they are good or not, but I kinda wish Harvey Beaks should deserve a second chance. Loud House is considered to be lucky enough to survive the Russian roulette.
That being said, I think the "tradition" of cancelling shows that are not as popular as Spongebob in terms of ratings should be ditched out and fired the executive producers for being held irresponsible.
@@BlindmanPepperspray I kinda liked Harvey Beaks and pretty sad about the show's cancellation. I tend to hate some actually good shows that cannibalized by SpongeBob, like that show and Mighty B for some reason. I mean they're legit good and actual hardwork is there by then killed by execs
Wow, that Clam Flu episode seems so strange and atypical to me that it feels more like a creepypasta about a lost Spongebob episode than a real Episode... but it is 100% real... that's so insane.
Which one??
@@Unidentified952 Kwarantine Karb
@@DomSucksatGranny OH YEAAAAH I remember now, ty lol
I hope to love someone as much as Strider loves the Blandy Franchising Company.
7:50 Also, if there hasn’t been a Krusty Truckstop episode, there had better be a special 2-parter in the future.
Strider is definitely the Mr. Rogers of this generation. He’s not afraid to talk about important topics and talks about them in a very detailed, yet easy to understand manner. He doesn’t talk down to anyone and respects his audience. Plus, he’s just so naturally funny and entertaining. He was one of the very first TH-camrs I ever came across and I’m still here to this day about 8 years later. 🧡
true he feels like a true friend
As a newcomer even I have to admit that he's the type of guy you'd go out of your way to talk to
Dang I’ve only been watching him for 6, and I thought THAT was long.
he was kinda shit for a few years but yeah hes definitely improved a lot since
now i want to see him do the mr rogers intro
I always loved how Spongebob has some dark episodes that are fine for kids and appeal to adults. I'm growing up and watching cartoons is getting harder but shows like Spongebob Glitch Techs Trollhunters Digimon the Thundercats Anime Ninjago Avatar and TMNT 2012 are shows that have dark themes and more or less mature tones. That helps me get into a show when It's more mature and has some darker themes.
The only american animation I watch is Ninjago
Trollhunters, imo, is a masterpiece. I'm 17 and it had me hooked enough to binge the whole series! Trollhunters, 3Below, Wizards, and Rise of the Titans. It appealed to me well and I embarrassingly have been extremely hyperfixated on it since the movie released, the story just appeals to me and the humor is amazing.
Oh yeah, Troll hunters is great. There’s a movie; it’s fairly great.
That number one spot seemed like it had great potential for humor. A health inspector randomly walks into the Krusty krab, says “one of you is infected” and leaves. From its portrayal here, that seems like it would be the funniest part of the episode.
12:38 exactly! Dark Humor while also making it okay for KIDS is very tricky which is why you don't see that many dark humor kids cartoons out there. Although The Ghost and Molly Mcgee does have little sprinkles of Dark humor in it from the bits I've seen. So while not nearly as dark-humored as Invader Zim, Grim Adventures, or Courage the Cowardly Dog, it is sort of making a comeback
I find it interesting that Midlife crustacean was pulled from rotation and streaming services. My grandparents own a CD of a bunch of early SpongeBob episodes and it’s on there. My grandad loves the episode. I’m so used to seeing it that I never even realized it was pulled from the show
I own the German DVD and I think it's on it
It’s a real bummer considering it’s sister episode is the snail race, a classic. It’s gone from streaming for simply being attached to midlife crustacean :,(
@@HungryDuck3312 This is why physical media is important.
it got pulled this year so that’s why you didn’t notice
@@HungryDuck3312 snail race is still streaming
2:59
The tentacles are on Squidward
10:06 I thought it was weird cause she looked life less and didn't move
15:56 that is Emerald comedy! hilariously outstanding work strider!
I think the Squirrel Jokes episode perfectly illustrates what the late, great, Sir Terry Pratchett said about satire. "Satire is meant to ridicule those in power. If you're punching down to those who are hurting, that's not satire, that's bullying."
He never said that though. Sir Terry himself would satire those who aren’t in power, since everyone deserves criticism regardless of their standing.
@@Dracomut Depends what you define as "power". He certainly didn't make jokes at the expense of people who are already facing cultural oppression.
@@TheNightmareRider Or you could be like South Park or Louis CK and not give a shit. Why settle for offending one group when you could go for all sides, including your own?
@@skeetermania3202 Because offence is not a virtue, and minorities suffer under the prevalence of stereotypes. Perpetuating harmful myths does not make you some kind of comedy genius.
@@TheNightmareRider Really? I don’t think any sort of group should be exempt from some kind of mocking.
Mid Life Crustacean: *Has a panty raid*
Nickelodeon: Too inappropriate.
One Coarse Meal and Pet Sitter Pat: *One has Krabs torture Plankton to the point of suicide and another has Patrick abuses someone who is suppose to be like a cat*
Nickelodeon: Kid friendly.
Me: OBJECTION!!!!!!
Also Me: *brings tanks and planes*
Fun Fact: The deleted scenes in the episode procrastination were recently added back to the episode. Not sure if it still is though
no they weren’t
@@alejandrohernandez-pq4wu they were added back about 2 years ago. They might of only been restored for when the show airs on nicktoons and I know for a fact that they were intact on the few teennick airings the episode had. They might be cut in the main channel since they also speed up older episodes, but last time I saw it on the main channel it had all of the scenes intact. If you still don't believe me you can look it up, which is something you should of done before trying to disprove me.
@@spongebobsquarepants725 anyhoo
Mr Krabs Vs Dr.Robotnik
Mr Krabs
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Dr.Robotnik
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Power Level:100 Quadrillion
The ONLY thing I really adored in the "Fired" episode was the fact that Spongebob found SOME happiness when he cooked "Pet" food for Gary
And him seeing Gary happy made him happy ❤
9:50 I always thought as a kid, Patrick was rubbing chocolate ice cream on Sandy. Because it just looked like it and that would be something Patrick would do.
Patrick Star Vs Tails The Fox
Patrick Star
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Tails The Fox
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Power Level:225 Millon
i feel like a lot of these "controversies" are cases of families being overly sensitive. i was raised on SpongeBob, and my parents were always watching it with me, and they never had a problem with them, and found a lot of these episodes funny.
my dad actually really liked Sailor Mouth, and would laugh a lot during it, especially with the Eels and Escalators scene.
and on the subject of cursing, personally i think the only real "bad words" are slurs, because those words are used to hurt people (real slurs, not words like "bitch", because while bitch is used to insult people, it's not a slur, because it can be used for anybody, and can also be a verb. actual slurs are used to oppress certain groups of people. which i see as bad. although over-using swear words can be annoying, in small amounts and in certain situations, swearing is fine to me).
but like, if SpongeBob offends you, maybe watch something else... although nowadays people can find offense in everything, so maybe just sit in a quiet room by yourself and don't consume any media at all.
i hate how people get offended over just about everything. there are some things that we should find offensive, but kid's cartoons shouldn't be one of them, especially SpongeBob.
i know there are problematic kid's shows, but go after those, instead of picking apart otherwise inoffensive cartoons to find something to be offended by.
don't shelter kids so much that you don't let them consume good media. let them explore media, and let them figure out what's offensive and what isn't.
sheltering kids too much is what causes them to grow up and find everything offensive.
i apologize for the rant...
"bitch" can become a slur if used to do so, but usually isn't.
Those oversensitive parents are conservative parents
@@robfobjanstar And here we have the political baitor in its natural enviroment
I 100% agree with this rant
My parents are religious but they always let me watch anything
7:22 Induced Demand and Car dependency: "Am I a joke to you?"
17:24 that’s my path
Funny about #3 being controversial for 'villifying big businesses' when... in our modern day, more and more well loved and big businesses are showing their true evil colours.
Nestle, Nintendo (Somewhat), Activision Blizzard, Roblox, Walmart, Chick-fil-a, Amazon, Google, so on and so so forth. This episode aged really well considering how its becoming more and more true
In the words of Mr. Krabs talking about a Greediness joke targeted at him in Squirrel Jokes: "HARHARHARHARHAR! It's funny... because it's true!"
@@espurrseyes42 "it's true! I am cheap!" Is the line.
@@Lavender_Fox
I must've been thinking of a different episode, because I distinctly remember him saying that line at some point in something.
@@espurrseyes42 maybe he said both at some point.
Nintendo only somewhat? Are you serious? You obviously don't know anything about them
I remember the first time finding out about the ‘Procrastination’ deleted scene. It was weird because it wasn’t deleted in my copy. Plus, that one scene never stick out to me as offensive either
“You let them out of the freezer once they were better, right?”
“Huh? I supposed someone let em out...eventually”
That was kinda dark for spongebob
I don't remember which episode it is (I think it's Squidward in Clarinet Land), but there's another episode where Mr. Krabs brings his old navy locker to the Krusty Krab for Spongebob and Squidward to use, and when he opens it there's a skeleton inside. He says something like "I forgot about that prank" and disposes of the body.
Mr. Krabs has canonically killed someone out of negligence before, so it's likely his navy buddies died in that freezer too.
2:19 Oh gee, I wonder what it could possibly be considering how you mentioned it EARLIER IN THIS ENTRY!
Fun fact about Sailor Mouth: in the script, it was basically [ad-lib almost cursing]. The actors, unable to do this in a way that sounds natural, decided to just swear outright and bleep it out later. So, there exists audio out there, deep in Nick's vault, of Mr. Krabs, Spongebob, and Patrick swearing.
Actually building more roads DOES NOT reduce traffic. The increased supply makes people want to drive more and the free space is quickly filled up, paradoxically causing MORE traffic. This is called induced demand and has been observed many times.
Ratio
uh okay?
Could you point to examples?
@@skeetermania3202 look it up
So true
9:33
Something really weird happened relating to the deleted scenes
My sister was watching SpongeBob while I was doing homework in the family room and that episode was playing, then I was in shock when I saw that very scene appear in the episode.
It looks like they either put it back in or the streaming service (I don’t know what it’s called) possessed original cut.
23:57 nah it is, the pandemic taught me that all too well
(Trigger warning)
I'm very surprised Nick didn't pull One Coarse Meal off the air for Mr Krabs pushing Plankton to suicide.
Seriously the signs are there. Plankton gets mentally crippled by Mr Krabs and Plankton lays on the road, waiting for a bus to put him out of his misery, and all Mr Krabs did was laugh at his misery and seemed like he didn't give a shit he was pushing someone to offing themselves.
Why did you have a tg?
And they won’t anytime soon. Are you happy now? will likely get the ax since Nick stopped airing it 2yrs ago.
@@rodrigomontalvo910 I…
So the episode that was a pretty Ok representation of depression will get pulled off the air but a greedy crab torturing a plankton to attempted suicide won’t,-
@Nevo Mizrachi Because suicide is a sensitive topic and some people aren't comfortable with reading about it. One example is people who lost someone close because they offed themself.
I honestly think that Sailor Mouth played a big role in my choice to not use swear words! That and my mother of course. 😂
When I was a kid I thought the dolphin noise was the curse
@@cradica 😂😂 I could see why cause of the joke about Old Man Jenkins’ Jaloppey at the end!
The deleted scene in procrastination always confused me. I remember sandy looking like some kinda of plushie randomly and I thought it was kind of creepy.
10:30 THIS MADE ME LAUGH OUT LOUD HAHAHA
SpongeBob: “Are You Sure?”
Squidward: “Does THIS Look ‘Unsure’ To YOU?!”
SpongeBob: “No.”
Good now go spread the word
It's funny how western animation is put under so much scrutiny for gender rolls, cursing, environmental views and pantie jokes. But nobody questions that its a show about a talking sponge living in a piece of fruit...
agreed but still it is a good show
Society moment
Japan has no scruples to add a few tentacle scenes and waifu material
Then you look at Japan. Lol they don't hold back at all
@@joffreybaratheon4904 That's kind of an obvious one.
Standards of censorship constantly change through time, we went from being scared to bare ankles to banning episodes of spongebob 💀
20:28 even as a kid, I already knew what they were censoring out lol. As an "adult" I still don't see the issue in cussing. "cuss words" are just words that as a society you're TAUGHT to think they're "bad" and as you get older, the cuss words are more accepted to the point it's very common for teens and especially adults, to cuss. Plus they ARE "sentence enhancers" depending on how they're used. Often times cussing is used to represent when a character is overwhelmed with frustration and reaching their breaking point. But when a character cusses almost all the time, it can make them seem less intelligent. Really, the older you get, the more cussing becomes like a balancing act
I always knew what censoring was.
I almost drowned in coffe when you said: "That's it? Where are tentacles? "
I still don't forgive Nick for cutting out the scene where Squidward breaks into the Krusty Krab in "Just One Bite". That part still leaves me in stitches.
Squidward: this isn't water. This is... *0-0* GAS!
I think it's because the episode aired in the 9/11 era. I find it understandable to remove such content, but if it's not, then the survivors who watched the show might ended up getting scarred.
For me, I didn't noticed that scene as a kid until I got older.
@@poweroffriendship2.0 oh trust me, I've heard of that reasoning but at the same time that's a bit of a stretch.
@@Zacman1123 Yeah.
At the time I think it was probably better to err on the side of caution, but I don't see why it has to stay a deleted scene nowadays.
@NovaSparks Apparently it's uncut in South Korea as well. There is an official Korean dub of that scene that has surfaced online recently.
24:57 well if I went back in cartoon time I woud disguise as Patrick and get him immediately away from that place and give them more ingenious ideas of more squirrel jokes while being on a roll about making fun of all squirrel reptiles. It’s not personal it’s just Business. Butt monkey business.
Fun fact about “Sailor Mouth”: Tom Kenny stated in a Phoenix Comic Con panel I attended back in 2019 that while recording for the episode, he and the other voice actors were legitimately swearing!
"That's it, wheres the tentacles"
-PhantomStrider 2021
I have a hard time believing that Sailor Mouth was pulled. For starters, you don't even hear any swearing; just a bunch of random sound effects (mostly dolphin squeaks). Also, the episode is all about discouraging the behavior! The only thing I can think of is that parent groups pretty much watched the episode right up to the scene where Patrick started encouraging Spongebob to use the new word that he learned.
It wasn't pulled 🙂 It just received controversy in the media.
Hi Strider!
@@phantomstrider I’m gonna be honest, I disagree with you in your other spongebob videos, I don’t like Shipping SpongeBob and Sandy, I am not a Spandy Shipper (in my opinion), I’m also not a shipping person in general either, I don’t like to watch spongebob for romance, I like to watch spongebob because it’s fun and relaxing kids show.
The swearing episode reminded me of an 'Arthur' episode where D.W. learns a "bad word" and a 'Rug-Rats' episode where Agelica learns one aswell; so I guess it's a well use plot device in cartoons where a character finds out about the certain word but is to young to know any better about not saying it, however unlike Angelica and D.W. who are little kids Spongebob and Patrick are both full grown adults so it's kind of odd to seem them act so naive about curse words.
Sandy Cheecks Vs Amy
Sandy Cheecks
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Amy
Powers: Immortality Invincibility
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9:23 ...I almost rolled my eyes at if this was the reasoning of insulting the audience's intelligence, until I remembered the incident where a young Beavis & Butthead viewer set fire to his house, which killed his little sister. Then I started thinking "maybe we give kids' intelligence too much credit"...
Actually that was proven fake the mother lied since she didn’t even have cable
"Are you feeling it now mr krabs" was one of the most quoted moments in spongebob when I was growing up. Even in highschool I have memories of people quoting it and getting laughs. Now that moment is banned due to a panty raid that was portrayed as a cautionary tale. That's just sad.
Idea:Top10 Best Dark Age SpongeBob Episodes.
(Not Normal and Abrasive Side are strongly Good Episodes of this era)
The way Boo says “Howdy” is cute 🥰
your channel is so chill and fun to watch
Fun Fact: The crash at 10:33 was likely removed due to the tragic death of NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt Sr during a race in 2001
Figures that about half of these controversies are politically motivated. The "Sailor Mouth" issue clearly was just an absurd, uptight, zero-tolerance complaint with little to nothing to back it up (reminds me of "Banned in Bikini Bottom"). For that "Just One Bite" scene, I mean, the whole Tide Pods incident made me lose confidence that some kids _wouldn't_ try that. Then again, this stunt would fit right into Looney Toons and other such cartoons, and _they_ repeatedly give the impression that any number of lethal things would only give you mild to moderate injury.
*Midlife Krustace is a Wonderful Classic.*
This guy deserves more subscribers! I watched you talk about legos now this, I'm hooked.
Thank you! It's always a comfort to know new viewers still like my vids 🙂
2:24: Extremely sus footage
I still love mama crabs punishing the three of them for their sailor talk 😂
Boo: *tiniest little “howdy”*
Everyone: AWWWW
I love the welcoming atmosphere I get from your videos! It puts me in a great mood!
I think you hit the nail on the head about how a show stops being quality when the characters are changed to fit the plot rather than the characters reacting to the plot in their own way
8:35 This cover, It feels like a fever dream, I was wondering if I was dreaming when I remember missing It, so It was real all along?
You know what, I kind of agree with Patrick 18:09. That's how I view most "curse" words.
I always thought "Rockabye Bivalve" was just the show's saturation of typical sitcoms
Fun fact: Kwarantine Krabs did ger an airring in Serbia. I dont remember when,but i remember watching it on cable television.
What would've made the filler episode more enjoyable is if our spongy protagonist got a job at a sandwich shop since Krabby Patties or burgers in general are technically sandwiches. Mr. Krabs, disappointed at SpongeBob's success at his new job tries to hire him back but he refuses leading into a sort of mini-season where Krabs tries to re-hire him to no avail eventually culminating into the filler's episodic plot but reversed.
Phantomstrider can you make...
Top5 Best and Worst Modern South Park Episodes.(Season 17-...)
I like your profile picture. Robo and real fizz are my favorites
Fun fact: the episode One Course Meal gave birth to a creepypasta known as Plankton Gets Servered, premise of the creepypasta: basically the same as the og episode, but Plankton doesn't believe Spongebob when he gets told that Krabs is using a Peral costume to scare Plankton, so Plankton decided to wait on the road for a bus to run him over, in which it does, it also depicts Heaven and Hell, I don't know how to explain that part so I suggest looking at the creepypasta for yourself
Loved this video!! Always look forward to your content!!!
Dang, I really love the passion you put into your videos and how respectful you are to your audience.
Strider is still one of my favorite TH-cam people, he has a very down to earth Mr Rogers way of explaining important or serious issues, also while i understand some bans: Squidward being lit on fire multiple times, the cruel out of character way of spoungebob/Krabs & of course #1 being poorly based on a current serous issue. i have to agree that most of these reasons bans/controversal episodes seem to have come from stupid or overly sensitive reasons
I really like the joke of putting the Krusty Krab on top of the Chum Bucket because it's "somewhere no one ever goes," making it perfectly safe for Bikini Bottom. I understand why the episode was banned, but that alone is a good payoff to the episode, I think
Thanks for doing this episode.
It's nice to know you saw my comment suggesting the top 10 Spongebob controversies.
As an autistic TH-camr it means a lot to me to get noticed and I had thought the comment had disappeared when I couldn't find it again.
:)
That said, I remember watching Procrastination here in Britain, while the scene with Patrick putting sun cream on Sandy was aired uncensored (even though the UK could get rather puritanical with Spongebob such as cutting lines where characters said 'Oh my aching tentacles'), I do remember a modification to the driving licence fantasy where Spongebob imagines getting his driving licence and instead of the car crashing they showed a monster truck crashing through parked cars in an event, perhaps feeling the footage would have enough context not to be a problem.
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