Film Theory: Is Spongebob a Mutant? Solving Bikini Bottom's Most Popular Theory!

[@hholtman276]

Matpat should make a theory on how much money Phineas and Ferb spent that one summer

[@ailixian]

yes !!!!!

[@NamelessM.F.]

I’d like to see that

[@I.o.patrickk]

YES

[@rayman4976]

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[@yamirami8642]

YESSIR THAT WOULD BE COOL!

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

Tom Kenny: *Says there isn't a single pop culture reference in Spongebob* MatPat: _Hold my knowledge_

[@uwu-oo9dn]

Heya!

[@coflyerinc.9367]

Hi

[@Hychargerplug]

Poopoo

[@FishCantFly]

*knowledge has been held*

[@Emerald-vn5eb]

Here before the people who get mad that people are on KZbin

[@michaeliv284]

I have a way to help this theory along. The movie said Spongebob had 374 consecutive employee of the month awards. That is over 30 years and no one appears to change. Bikini Bottom is clearly on an accelerated timetable

[@MrTheratedG]

How? The sun moves exactly the same. There are clear night and day times in the show. So I don’t think there’s an acceleration in time.

[@saraguerrero223]

@@MrTheratedG he means relative to the way we experience time. for them a month could be like a day for us or smth.

[@claudio6391]

> thinking cartoon characters can age at all yeah no, that logic is litterally nonexistant besides, we know that Spongebob was born in 1986

[@SamaX1010]

that's the most realistic approach that i came to i mean it's clearly possible that the sea creatures in bikini bottom have accelerated time

[@claudio6391]

@@SamaX1010 ... you do realize Sandy is not a sea creature, right ? and you know, experiences the same time as everyone else ?

[@KeeperOfUntoldDreams]

Of all the "disturbing" cartoon theories I had come across in the past, this one always felt like one of the least absurd/most plausible ones.

[@Jiffy1200]

This video ripped my childhood out, chewed it up and spit it out right before my eyes in 6 minutes. I was not ready😫😫

[@ManiacElkRev]

What if we've only seen their timeline? Like only after the atomic testing. That would mean the prehistoric SpongeBob and Patrick was really them right after the bombs went off or whenever they first mutated and they were so unique they literally went through our history at a accelerated rate. Leading to what we see today.

[@aweirdnamesoicansearchiton5985]

exactly what i was thinking lmao

[@DJScurvyCarrot]

This! First thought i had at the end of the video when MattPat started wrapping up.

[@thatreallygoodchannel4406]

Exactly what I was thinking that’s where this theory all falls apart

[@teamjones8]

I put that before you but it did. Not load

[@PrettyAnimated]

Also, in one of the Spongebob caveman episodes, they mention that the caveman era took place during B.C. (Before Comedy). There is no historical period in human history referred to as this. This means that what medieval Squidward refers to as the "12th Century" may not mean the same thing as to us landlovers.

[@moowaffels]

I think Tom Kenny meant “topical” more than “pop cultural.” And that is pretty true since most the references mentioned are from more than 2 decades before the episodes aired. the pop culture references flew over most kids heads so I think the focus of those jokes was more the vibe they gave and less so a referential joke. You can easily say he was wrong for using a universal, but I think you’d be missing what he was really trying to say.

[@burnttoast5372]

And they were already old and yet still remembered

[@moowaffels]

@Isaac Bush thank you :) matpat’s comment section is one of the few I like reading.

[@petelee2477]

If you go by the dictionary definition of pop culture then those references are indeed pop culture

[@rosestar1324]

I thought perhaps he just didn't know at those pop culture references were referring to. Not everyone is familiar with every pop culture joke. It's highly unlikely but if it was true, then he wouldn't be lying, just culturally ignorant.

[@haileylandrum4530]

Boost this but what if all of that history happened after the explosion and the primitive era was after the explosion and was the new beginning

[@Red_Tulip]

Matpat: "Movies treat nuclear Like some sort of magic dust" Ad: "There's magic all around"

[@wghardy5577]

The ad isn’t wrong

[@Cr1S....]

panik!

[@detectivebaconyt5737]

So u like memes name every good meme and dead meme that everyone likes in 2017 to 2019

[@spacetacos7574]

I’m having an internal crisis about how accurate the atomic flounder is to an actual radiation victim

[@dibulater640]

@@detectivebaconyt5737 your mom

[@eliasbranch5383]

This theory has been proven in the show. In Feral Friends from season 10, a "Neptune's moon" releases a weird radation that temporarily demutates the members of Bikini Bottom. The caveman episode that's referred to here takes place in the BC era, with BC referring to "Before Comedy", meaning that spongebob timeline is seperate from human history.

[@raptorzeraora2632]

its not proven at all

[@eliasbranch5383]

@@raptorzeraora2632 - Except for the evidence I listed.

[@egg7540]

Spongebob characters have interacted with humans and have been on land, time doesn't flow differently at all for them

[@SuperbbConnor64]

@@eliasbranch5383Which has nothing to do directly with this theory.

[@azaanimations319]

Then how are there trilobites and ammonites in SB-129? Their presence places the episode at least 250 million years ago, in the Paleozoic era.

[@fishateme6339]

Counter-theory: It really is Bikini Atoll, and that the "stone-age" was actually just after the nuclear testing occurred, before the animals were able to develop language and the other things they developed a few decades later. To them, it seems like the stone-age because it was when they first gained sentience, however to us it was just after the nuclear testing concluded.

[@bigawoo]

I agree! I made a comment about this myself,, but I probably should have scrolled a little further first, heh 😅 Additionally, Spongebob’s VA specified that it’s only when the camera dips BELOW the surface that there’s another world. About half of Matt’s rebuttal to that was in reference to the SURFACE world I don’t know how much this proves or disproves that part of the theory, but I thought it was important to mention ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@bangdreamgirlsbandparty6018]

I was thinking this exact same thing!!!

[@Overlord454ss]

Darn as i was typing mine and saying the same thing you posted this. To be fair i didnt see it till i refreshed youtube but yeah I agree with you.

[@Anarch-Y5]

I was just about to comment the same thing

[@chokfigaming]

Only problem with this is it doesn’t explain the actual prehistoric animals in sponge-gar but maybe time travel radiation…

[@rawr1208]

ah one small problem, spongebob, the show specifically it shows how quick their civilization grows, it goes from stone age to 1900's as you can see in spongebobs family tree, look at southpark for an example, specifically cartmans seamen

[@SoicAngellis]

We seriously need Matpat to do some way to acknowledge this

[@vilistarlight10]

He does mention this.

[@Shenhoo]

i was thinking the same but then if time went that fast we would have traversed time through the show being live. also remember that one episode when squidward goes to the future and travels 2000 years to a civilization that still works and the only thing is that everything is chrome color but you can see a car and a persom painting them. Also ALSO it would be another time on earth when David Hasselhoff showed up

[@SandraNLN]

@@vilistarlight10 No he doesn't (at least I didn't hear it. Please timestamp if I'm wrong). His whole counter-argument to the theory is that they've been around since "centuries before humans started nuclear testing." Whereas there's nothing to say that the denizens of BB don't count 'centuries' differently, it could be a human decade or a human year for all we know. So 12th century could have been as little as 9 years earlier. With nuclear mutations, who's to say that it didn't accelerate the growth and development rate of creatures who already have lifespans vastly different than that of humans, and reproduction rates that can be in the thousands per year. Of course, then you get into biological age differences in such a diverse group. which opens a whole different can of worms. You'll have Larry the Lobster who could go over 100 years, Patrick's got about 30, Mr. Krabs only has like a decade in him, Pearl will go to about 70-80. And then there's spongebob. Who himself could live to hundreds of years old, maybe over 1000. Maybe the radiation found an ancient sponge who was the catalyst for the development of the civilization as we know it? XD

[@BananaTheNinja]

@@SandraNLN That's exactly what I was thinking, who's to say that they measure things at the same rate as us?

[@Synthespian13]

I’d like to point out one thing. You talk about how they have a culture that develops over time and that’s why it doesn’t hold up. But animals have shorter life spans than humans. They could have gone through many generations before we get to modern day. Given testing was done in the 1940 and 50s, in animal lifespan, enough time could pass from them to go from primitive to modern…don’t you think?

[@ftwkh85]

then amplify that short life span with the first couple generations dying out quickly because of high radiation levels and it almost completely fixes the issue since your perception of time is directly correlated with how long you have lived.

[@conaireparsons9672]

I think is important to look at each life span though. sure many rodents can breed fast and live very short lives, red rock crabs live for about 8 and octopus are around 4 years so your fine with squidward and Mr. Krabs... but starfish can live around 35 years, sperm whales for 70 years, and sponges can live for hundreds of years (possibly thousands), so they might live just a teensy bit longer then humans. at the very least most of these species don't bread fast enough to "evolve a civilization" in such a short time.

[@EndieGaming]

@The James Show an ammonite is shown swimming by in the episode SB-129 and ammonite were alive 66 MILLION years ago.

[@bleddynwolf8463]

the ammonite

[@haileylandrum4530]

Boost this but what if all of that history happened after the explosion and the primitive era was after the explosion and was the new beginning

[@jewelhenson3034]

Fun fact: the creator of SpongeBob has a degree in Marine Biology so many of the things seen in the show are accurate. Such as the way scallops move in the show.

[@petermarsella6537]

I think when Tom Kenny said there aren't pop culture references, he meant the characters themselves don't acknowledge pop culture. A key note is the fact that Spongebob and Patrick didn't know David Hasselhoff. The series is disconnected from the real world in that the characters don't interact with real world events, not that the show doesn't reference it. But that's my guess

[@shelly.618]

They knew who he was in the movie tho..

[@shelly.618]

Pretty sure anyways

[@shelly.618]

Nvm he says who are you when he pulls up so sorry

[@adrianh2048]

Sandy still acknowledges she is from texas though

[@animefan2454]

My headcannon is that Spongebob takes place in the live action Nick show universe.( iCarly Big Time Rush Victorious Haunted Hathaways Drake and Josh etc) but in the ocean of the universe

[@ci8387]

What if, spongebob's prehistoric era started after the nuclear test, maybe they have a calender of their own, it is surely possible that their "history" started after the nuclear tests. Edit: they can have a totally different calender where the year 1 (1 July 1946) is the time the nuclear test was goin on, and then they started to evolve at a very fast rate, but what totally debunks this theory is that Sponge bob started in 1986, and our sponge boi hasn't aged a day, from the past 40+ years, mr.krabs calls him a "kid" and we haven't seen any feature of him growing old, so ya I debunked my own theory and I wasted your time. I beg you, prove me wrong Edit 2: now that I think of that I guess I was right, and SpongeBob when it started was set ahead in time, so the first evolutionary step of spongebob's world would be in 1986, so yes they evolve way faster than any creature, and we also see that the sponge bob family chain is pretty short, the great great great grandpa of sponge bob was a early human (which sounds like a long time and it is, but very short in this context). So save the sweat and try not to debunk this theory I beg you. Edit 3: creatures in bikini bottom see a major evolution every 5 years, which is shocking considering spongebob's age right now, i keep on debunking myself Or maybe one day in bikini bottom is less than one day on ground according to their calander (maybe) so maybe the lifespan of sponge on ground maybe 5 years, and in bikini bottom they have a standard lifespan of 80 (bikini) years

[@Loopy_lollipop]

Pardon the pun but I guess it could of been their "big bang"

[@funnsiide]

That what i was thinking

[@jadaavant490]

Why isn't anyone else thinking this, I thought the same!

[@michaelcanty407]

Exactly what I was thinking

[@Calebmcf12]

Yo I literally just commented something like that

[@similar_username]

Edit for a clearer picture since my first comment was a bit confusing: Maybe their history was sped up by the radiation.. As mat said, radiation causes rapid cell mutation, aka evolution. That would explain how they were able to evolve from prehistoric (cavefish) to the modern fish in the span of 40 years(nuke testing to the pop culture references). Also that would explain why spongebob looks so different from his parents. Also also, a giant snail (prehistoric gary) may be directly caused by the initial radiation, there are documented cases where radiation grew fish way past their normal size in fukushima, meaning the prehistoric setting was the initial fallout from the nukes. Mat briefly referenced radiation poisoning, the organ failure part, and that could explain the cultural differences from the medieval bikini bottom since time is not the factor for culture but generations. Shorter life spans will lead to more cultural differences within the same amount of time since if people die faster their kids have less culture to inherit making them interpret culture in their own ways leading to differences. Also, since they were now getting more advanced, and more standardized (some fish are spreading their population instead of mutating, though some mutations are still occuring like spongebob himself since radiation stays in the area) the nukes have probably stopped, thus this would be when the U.S. stopped dropping nukes. Also, maybe the nukes also killed the original jelly fish population that formed the lagoon, just to connect to mat's other theory. This would mean that their entire history, prehistoric to modern times, happened within the span of 50ish years due to radiation, and somewhat prove the original theory. Let's ignore the fact that radiation practically makes you sterile. But a possible solution would be maybe a one in a million fish (like the initial prehistory population, since the ocean has millions of creatures compared to the tens we saw in the prehistory) had the lucky mutation that makes their reproductive organs immune to damage to the point of infertility, thus inbreeding within these fish will still cause mutations with the added radiation and their reproductive systems are practically immune, passing that mutation on to their offspring, and continue the cycle of mutating and inbreeding. the original comment I left: What if, their "history" was accelerated due to radiation, like they were prehistoric when we first started dropping nukes, then as we stopped they continued to evolve rapidly because of radiation as you said radiation accelerates evolution. And we today see them as they are, making pop cultural references current to their time, and their prehistory was just 40 years before. Generations would live short due to radiation poisoning and that would explain the rapid cultural growth This would explain most of the inconsistencies.

[@Finalizor]

hmmmmm maybe? can you explain it a little more

[@similar_username]

@@Finalizor I'm not sure if there's more to it than what I said, but I can maybe simplify it/elaborate to be easily understandable. As mat said, raidation causes rapid cell mutation, aka evolution. That would explain how they were able to evolve from prehistoric (cavefish) to the modern fish in the span of 40 years(nuke testing to the popculture references). Also that would explain why spongebob looks so different from his parents. Also also, a giant snail (prehistoric gary) may be direcly caused by the initial radiation, there are documented cases where radiation grew fish way past their normal size in fukushima, meaning the prehistoric setting was the initial fallout from the nukes. Mat briefly referenced radiation poisoning, the organ failure part, and that could explain the cultural differences from the medieval bikini bottom since time is not the factor for culture but generations. Shorter life spans will lead to more cultural differences within the same amount of time since if people die faster their kids have less culture to inherit making them interpret culture in their own ways leading to differences. Also, since they were now getting more advanced, and more standardized (some fish are spreading their population instead of mutating) the nukes have probably stopped, thus this would be when the U.S. stopped dropping nukes. Also, maybe the nukes also killed the original jelly fish population that formed the lagoon, just to connect to mat's other theory. That's practically all to my hypothesis though, since that's all that was refuting the original theory.

[@Finalizor]

@@similar_username what if there are parallel universes

[@ElizabethJones-pv3sj]

So how would they measure their version of a 'year' for humans its a full cycle of 4 seasons and judged by the sun's position in the sky. Underwater you'd have to assume the sun's position in the sky would be less relevant but there must be cycles. Maybe the moon is the basis of their definition of a 'year'? It does have some influence on the ocean in the form of tides.

[@Chipster321]

But they make references to Centuries. At the very least 12. It hasn’t even been 1 century since the nuclear testing.

[@zlch4021]

So this begs the question: How DID the nuclear experiments affect bikini bottom? Clearly bikini bottom existed at Bikini atoll when a bunch of humans started dropping bombs on them- how did the bikini bottomers of the 40s react to that? A very interesting theory! There is nuclear fallout left throughout the show, like in that one episode where SpongeBob accidentally creates a monster from the vats of nuclear acid just chilling around, so clearly there were nuclear weapons around bikini bottom!

[@ricklewis350]

I bet it might have given Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy their super powers.

[@kmanalpha453]

Or the ‘prehistoric’ time period is directly after the nuclear testing. There’s nothing that says their grasp of time is the same as a humans, especially considering shorter life spans. Maybe they went through all those stages of advancement since the testing.

[@rylansailors7397]

This is exactly what I was thinking.

[@thatreallygoodchannel4406]

Yeah I agree a lot of people think this as well

[@defnotnath4nie129]

that's what i was thinking but they only problem is the spongebob characters have been around for 2 decades so their lifespans being different is a little unlikely. unless the show is a phineas and ferb type where the passage of time isn't relevant. but whales like pearl also get in the way since they have very long lifespans

[@prefeitogustavo124]

that's a valid point, it would work alone, but we have seen in many episodes, as a day-to-day feature, they measuring time just like humans. Clocks with 24 hours, they counting 60 seconds, which means they measure time just like us. And the episode is named "Sponge Bob BC", it's not an specific time, but it stills Before Christ. And I can pretty much remember Squidward time travelling and the number of the year decreasing to hundred and hundred years ago. And to be honest, maybe in the West Bikini Bottom episode (that I don't remember the name) we may have seen the year specifically. So, again, it would work (also because it may explain the weird and plants we see in pre-historic bikini bottom) but as far as the lore itself seems to not care about it, it turns out invalid

[@RobProb-X]

Alex Bale fans: ohhohohoho we have a world instore for you

[@aeyenthelobster4858]

I’m surprised you didn’t mention the episode feral friends, which shows that a green moon that comes up every 100 years and devolves the bikini bottom citizens into normal fish, confirming that the bikini bottom citizens are highly evolved sea creatures, so while they may not be evolved from radiation, they definitely evolved from regular fish

[@shikoshiko6602]

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[@NamelessM.F.]

yea

[@joshstraub6972]

oh yeah, i forgot about that

[@pkmntrainermark8881]

Well, that's... interesting.

[@bently21]

@keep rollin no

[@MikeyDL69]

MatPat’s videos in general: Well yes, but actually no.

[@toainsully]

Actually, the correct term is: "Good guess, but actually no"

[@DaveTheAverageGamer]

Alex bale: hahahaha.. ŃØ

[@A_HappiLittleMiku]

So true

[@center4nerds]

Or probably not, but actually yes.

[@victoriahayward5081]

The Ocean time might work different.

[@Sefay38]

matpat I am crying right now! I need you to do a pt.2 because you have only scratched the surface of this theory!

[@blangaman983]

“It’s time for me to ruin your childhood!” “Yes, matpat…”

[@keruwa]

someone already make this theory before mat pat the channel call "alex bale" plus he make 3 theory in 1 video about this theory the war and krabby patty secret formula watch it and you will be shock

[@keruwa]

@Terminator PlayZz ✅ watch the theory its good

[@keruwa]

@Terminator PlayZz ✅ from alex bale

[@SomeTheorist9090]

This Cartoon is clearly from the Apple For All Mankind TV series universe.

[@keruwa]

@@SomeTheorist9090 someone already make this theory before mat pat the channel call "alex bale" plus he make 3 theory in 1 video about this theory the war and krabby patty secret formula watch it and you will be shock.he make theory HOW can they be a mutant like in the story its all because of the neptune u should watch it and u will know

[@JetblackJay]

Oh wow matpat acknowledged the prehistoric stuff nice

[@diamond9030]

Clearly, he acknowledged Alex Bale

[@bng_ultra646]

@@diamond9030 very clearly

[@Rand7pro]

Yeah

[@chanteedenwe87fggythe87]

Maybe it is not a secret.

[@gerardperalta1202]

This theory was alex bales theory FIRST

[@lyndseystrait1513]

🤔 Matt Patt never considers that the Bikini Bottom historical time line might not be the same as the human one (ex. the medieval period for SpongeBob’s world might not be the exact same as the human world). Regardless, very interesting and otherwise thorough theory.

[@raptorzeraora2632]

it is the same

[@KingYoshi93]

Yea, maybe the prehistoric era in SpongeBob started shortly after the nuclear bombs.

[@azaanimations319]

@@KingYoshi93Then how the heck are there ammonites and trilobites in SB-129?

[@atomicslash5774]

What if all that history happened in those 75 years, all of the characters are the same if you ignore the classic cartoon trope of using characters in a past-era episode. What if each nuke reset the bikini bottom population and made them smarter each time. I'm just saying.

[@Finalizor]

interesting theory but that would have to involve a time shift or something

[@krakios3950]

Well yes but what about older characters? Like Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy are clearly extremely old, I'd say at least low seventies, and they are normal humans. I mean they have superpowers but it's been shown that they came from land. They did, of course, go to Bikini Bottom as adults but that's still 60/70 odd years of life

[@gerardperalta1202]

This theory was alex bales theory FIRST

[@carmalizedvegetation5096]

Would be nice, I want smarter Patrick again

[@Bduboff]

I could see that however I wouldn't say Spongebob or Patrick are smart in their current version.

[@frylock0193]

One thing you didnt take into account is that the characters in the show could have a sped up life span due to the radiation and there evolution didnt span hundreds or thousands of years(evolution) but only a couple decades and all that history spaned only a short period of time. Making the theory plausible.

[@georgesheppard5391]

Agreed^ could be a chance no matter how small that their society evolution mimicked humans but just at a greater speed. Plus, being different animals to humans maybe they experience time differently like dog years? So one year for us is 100 for them etc

[@mikeheise3432]

I was thinking the same thing as soon as the episode ended! Tom Kenny did allude to Bikini Bottom being it’s own world. Perhaps time moves differently there?

[@magnusschmidt2009]

exactly

[@melaniesoto7187]

Exactly! Finally, someone understands this!

[@3c0746]

FryKey

[@debzebra4944]

I believe from hearing somewhere that the show was created to teach children about marine life. It also shows a form of pollution in the show. The houses in Bikini Bottom are car mufflers.

[@sethery10]

Pretty sure that was a different Film Theory episode

[@Mrs.Self.Distruct]

Stephen Hillenburg the creator of SpongeBob was a marine science educator prior. My favorite Nickelodeon cartoon as a kid was Rocko's Modern Life and that was his first job in animation hired for it and then he made good ol' SB.

[@catyt5394]

@@Mrs.Self.Distruct With Tom Kenny as, well SpongeBob

[@antoniosgaminglife4278]

a spongebob theorist named Alex bale disproved this theory and he found out how they became like that, what happened to pearls mother and the Krabby patty formula all in one video here's the link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZypgWxod8uei7c

[@Mrs.Self.Distruct]

@@antoniosgaminglife4278 I love his theory vids on SB!

[@Zaws21]

Somewhere under the sea: "War... War never changes..."

[@Beans_OW]

I love how Mat completely neglects to consider the fact that the surface/human world has little to no interaction with Bikini Bottom and the time periods under the water probably don’t line up with the real world counterparts Like the prehistoric spongebob times could just be 1970

[@itsmytoast666]

I literally came here to and then commented the same.

[@jezonesjezz7179]

Just like Tom Kenny said it is kinda new planet so it has a chance to not line up the Bikini Bottom timeline irw

[@keruwa]

someone already make this theory before mat pat the channel call "alex bale" plus he make 3 theory in 1 video about this theory the war and krabby patty secret formula watch it and you will be shock

[@Chipster321]

That doesn’t work though because they (modern current Bikini Bottom) has interacted with our own modern times (As Matpat showed early on.). They interact with David Hasselhoff for Pete’s sake. So for their primitive times to be sometime like the 70’s doesn’t add up. Unless they have centuries worth of cultural development in only a few decades, the timeline doesn’t work even if you put their primitive times as the time nuclear testing was happening. But considering they do have centuries and it has not been a century since the nuclear testing, the theory doesn’t work.

[@adarheim1013]

@@Chipster321 someone commented that maybe it was due to the accelerated culture growth cause of the shorter lifespan from the nuclear fallout

[@ingame203]

I think this all has to do with Neptune. Because of “Neptune’s Moon” of turning them back to normal fish might be the 1st hint of how they became a humanoid version of a human.

[@bng_ultra646]

Two words dude. Alex Bale

[@zarthy4169]

Yeah, did you get this from Alex Bale?

[@poop_content]

Alex bale

[@ingame203]

@@zarthy4169 Kinda, but I think we need more evidence that they turned into these humanoid creatures.

[@zarthy4169]

@@ingame203 Okay.

[@henrycooksey3282]

Matpat: "... Basically in the Middle of Nowhere" Me: ...darn now I want a courage the cowardly dog theory

[@gerardperalta1202]

This theory was alex bales theory FIRST

[@ejstudios7087]

Well the SpongeBob nuclear mutation theory can still work if you consider the fact that Evolution in SpongeBob‘s universe could be faster then it is in our own

[@egoxworld5401]

What if the “Medieval and Pre-Historic” times were after the explosion, and the current setting is them barely catching up. Also meaning that time could work differently Thank you for 500 likes, I’ve never received so many ever. Thank you

[@MissNayNay]

That is an excellent point. I mean, when the show first aired in 1999, it took on a 1950's aesthetic and vibe. So the 1940's could be their prehistoric era.

[@mariusbinder1670]

Lol, just noticed and commented the same thing. Shouldve read the comments before

[@Endershock1678]

Here's the issue with that, Spongebob has interacted with humans in the modern day in both the movies and even the special, which means that the modern day in Spongebob's world should correlate directly to our world. In fact, Spongebob meets real life living humans like David Hasselhoff in the movie and a ton of other people during their anniversary special which takes place in his modern day, and has episodes where modern day devices like the #2 pencil falls into the ocean, which means that if your theory is correct, then mankind just hasn't progressed at all in thousands of years and the real humans he met are immortal or time travellers. I'm gonna go ahead and go Occam's razor and say the theory doesn't hold water. This if further debunked by the sea life argument. While we haven't explored ALL of sea life, we know exactly what sea life is in Bikini Atoll, so if our "modern day" was Spongebob's prehistoric history, then the sea life we see in that part of the ocean should match up to how we see them today, which simply doesn't work because while we haven't explored all of Bikini Atoll, I think we would notice if there were those sorts of creatures in it. It wouldn't match the biology part of the video if the sea life that matches it today HAPPENS to be thousands of years later, while the one that should be in the Atoll Islands now are mutations. In fact, many species brought up in those episodes are extinct ocean species, which debunks it further.

[@Brezzy_2_Eazy]

Facts thats what i was thinking

[@nickolascrousillat4265]

@@Endershock1678 There have been cases where extinct species have resurfaced. After the nuclear bombardment the sea life would first have had to devolve and harden to survive the harsh environment thus picking traits older relatives of theirs used to survive when earth was just forming big marine life. Then rapid evolution would occur leading to the random chance of certain species of marine life gaining intelligence and soon enough sentience.

[@YOEL_44]

If we take into account that most animals live way less years than us humans, we could also guess thay they progress way faster than us, what they lived like the prehistoric era, could have happened just a few years after the nuclear testing, there's not a realiable way of matching the series timeline, to the real world (that I know of...)

[@Craftlngo]

this is a very good point!

[@theblue389]

And to add on to that, most of the "prehistoric" scenes in bikini bottom take place in discoloured green, murky water. Maybe this points to that era taking place shortly after nuclear testing?

[@mene1in]

They mention the rough date when they time travel

[@asterhaven573]

Came here to comment this 👏

[@Jojozilla426]

@@mene1in yeah but they might have their own dates, maybe a year is much shorter to them or they dont count in years

[@Pooka_]

Unless they specifically mentioned the year of those pre-historic episodes, we can still say that their pre-historic era was way more recent I.e after the nuclear bombings and they evolved much faster thanks to the mutations. I haven't watched SpongeBob much so I don't know if this is not viable theory by some other info given in it.

[@NadiaMattson]

Honestly a lot of people thought of this I’m a bit surprised he didn’t cause it really does make sense you knwo

[@Pooka_]

@The James Show I see

[@bleddynwolf8463]

the ammonite

[@haileylandrum4530]

Boost this but what if all of that history happened after the explosion and the primitive era was after the explosion and was the new beginning

[@cpasr8065]

How do you go from tissueless (irl sponges) to having a brain (or similar) in less than a century? IIRC sponges live for centuries or even millenia, so even if their lifetime sped up by a factor of a million, by magic, (3-30 a day) -thats a hundred thousand to million generations, (equivalent to about 1-20 million years in human generations) which is extremely tiny in evolutionary timescales.

[@iluvemosandcats]

At 5:30 when it shows the photo u see the little island on the right that is shown in every beginning of the episode

[@WhiskE308]

There is nothing in the show specifically saying that their medieval period was at the same point of history as ours, same with the prehistoric period, those could have all happened after the nuclear testing.

[@WildRabiea]

Was thinking the same thing!

[@CodyDeabold]

Yeah but how do they have a “12th century” since 1954? You’d have to assume their time moves waaay faster and I feel like that theory just doesn’t add up. Seeing as Spongebob was born in 1986 with that speed of time he would be literally hundreds of years old by now.

[@liarbility568]

Also, it doesn't explain Sandy herself. What, was there a squirrel with a fish bowl on her head b4 the testing started? Could make a good alternate universe theory, where every movie, cartoon, and TV show exist in 1 universe (considering Hasselhoff is acting like his lifeguard character, we could'vegot the character's name wrong when we made the 'fictional' TV showin our universe), but the nuclear theory is a bust.

[@bucket9144]

@@CodyDeabold Spongebob's birth year was shown on his driver's license, meaning that it is 1986 according to Bikini Bottom's record of history, not humanity's. The idea that their years are labelled differently than ours is still a possibility.

[@rossdrummond2333]

@@bucket9144 I think what cody is meaning is that their dates don't need to start at the same time as ours. Like in the traditional Chinese calendar it's the year 4718. Does bikini bottom follow the Gregorian calendar?

[@joshymicmac]

What about all of those episodes including patchy the pirate? He literally watches spongebob in the “Lost episode” episode. He also appears in several Christmas specials and even writes a letter to spongebob, which spongebob receives meaning that they both exist in the same world.

[@itsPlasma06]

There's an alternative to this theory that does add up with both science and lore, as proposes by Alex Bale: Bikini Bottom is a place with a high concentration of naturally evolved sea creatures. The main argument for this theory is the Season 10 episode "Feral Friends", where a phenomenon known as Neptune's Moon causes all Bikini Bottom inhabitants except for Sandy to devolve into primitive animals, which is just straight up referred to as "devolving". I personally quite like this one.

[@avramweiss4125]

Yes Alex bale Is awesome

[@IzLidk]

so they are evolving, just backwards

[@alwaysfocused807]

@@avramweiss4125 he is

[@JackAnimatesandiscoolhehheh]

the "prehistoric" sky at 12:15 looks like the aftermath of a nuclear explosion

[@raptorzeraora2632]

no it doesnt

[@EUGE_T_T]

Actually, the prehistoric era could be the outcome of the nuclear tests, and Bikini bottom evolves through time all the way to the present. Maybe Bikini Bottom is not all the way connected to our history. Like what Tom Kenny said about the show being it's own world.

[@veryhot7384]

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[@tba2098]

kind of what I thought

[@bakamitai6654]

Those episodes canonically take place during the Cambrian explosion a time millions of years ago where sea life started evolving into more complex creatures

[@creativename6869]

@@bakamitai6654 again that may be true for them but for us it just one of the nukes

[@ranjira7893]

or maybe its the result of tears in time space created by the bombs weakening the walls of reality making it exist in multiple histories alternate timelines or parallel worlds ...

[@ShortHax]

Um, I believe Stephen Hillenburg is a puppet master and the characters are all following his orders, as who would sell Spongebob to the Flying Dutchman for 62 cents?

[@Ocmkhi]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/bISng4l9i86epJo

[@gavros9636]

You are underestimating the greed of Mr. Krabs.

[@spookybells5099]

E

[@memyself2124]

First

[@jamalski24]

It’s understandable if it was 69 cents

[@templetonf]

6:43 "Why is the Hulk green and super strong?" Shows a picture of gray Hulk

[@lve_khen8004]

It's the comic... 👀

[@ekkoashley3388]

No matter how old Ive gotten , SpongeBob takes me back to my childhood. It was the best show imo when it launched, same kind of shenanigans that cat-dog got into. Saturday mornings will never be the same... Smh

[@Squidy-wg5vb]

One issue, they are still (mostly) sea creatures who experience time differently, so the 1950s to today is not long at all if you take their lifetime into account it could feel more like centuries to them. They were attacked and then made life from stone to screen in a matter of a 70 years, because time, or I guess everything is relative.

[@Matt-sn3lo]

I was about to say that maybe the radiation cause of their development to accelerate and after they stopped testing the nuclear weapons in the area it allowing for their rapid development to level out to a more normal if not slower pace

[@Gamm3r5]

Is there the possibility that they are in the “future” in our time? It explains the references and maybe they start their timeline when the bombs went off

[@laurendavis7353]

I was coming here to say the same thing!!

[@saiyanfang1047]

David Hasselhoff

[@Gamm3r5]

@@saiyanfang1047 Oh right, well that kinda breaks it. Good point though!

[@mintberrycrunch3630]

@@Gamm3r5 well hold up, are any of the movies considered canon

[@Gamm3r5]

@@mintberrycrunch3630 hmmm, as far as I remember they aren’t referenced in any episode. If anyone has the time to find out it would help

[@Verillionmiles]

“Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?” “According to the man who keeps yelling at me on the street, the man who keeps yelling at me on the street.”

[@mattydins]

@about you Why are you posting this?

[@mugiwaramochi]

Can you make a spongebob theory on Mrs. Puff's Character? The way her character information is written is really interesting!

[@aadityachhitarka1938]

I like how we are scientifically discussing a sponge living under the ocean

[@SandraNLN]

But sponges do live in the ocean. Like real ones (not plastic dish sponges, although that seems to be what spongebob really is anyway, haha).

[@aadityachhitarka1938]

@@SandraNLN I didn't know about them, thankyou, they seem fascinating

[@aadityachhitarka1938]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYm9f4KjedRnma8

[@hikari1690]

In a pineapple that doesnt seem to have gone bad... Maybe cause it's in brine though? But hey that's just a theory! A f*gets silenced by DMCA*

[@rockingbeat]

You backed away too far. Film theory is "maybe the Jedi are evil" not "it's just Mark Hammil on a sound stage" lol

[@skillcollector9800]

I wonder if their version of "ancient times" was actually only 20 or 30 years ago and their society just evolved very quickly. It would explain why even in the caveman era it seems like characters almost identical to Spongebob and Patrick existed.

[@raptorzeraora2632]

It is ancient times, in the episode "ugh" you see a pterodactyl flying above bikini bottom

[@MikePhantom]

@Jenfletcher56 it really doesn't matter what it is. its a driving force in the show and any attempt to reveal it would jsut make it less important. its like the briefcase in pulp fiction. there is NOTHING in the brief case that has an tangible existence. its merely the idea of it and how people react to it that drives the story.

[@pretzelboi86]

I don’t think MatPat took into account that the beginning of time for them would be a few years after the atomic blast, after all Rome wasn’t built in a day and neither was bikini bottom.

[@stoneeagle1254]

ya exactly, what if time passes differently in bikini bottom??

[@stoneeagle1254]

like with each tide a new day or something of the sort

[@Dragonlightning]

Exactly. They'd have their own timeline, they wouldn't necessarily share ours

[@necromancer4454]

So years after the testing of the nuclear bombs is when bikini bottom started its pre historic era

[@timlin.]

Exactly my thoughts

[@Jonny.12k]

What about if the nuclear bombs actually speeds up the growth meaning one second for us is 100 years for them

[@TheGameronwheels]

The opening was a missed opportunity for the one guy to scream "my leg!"

[@antoniosgaminglife4278]

a spongebob theorist named Alex bale disproved this theory and he found out how they became like that, what happened to pearls mother and the Krabby patty formula all in one video here's the link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZypgWxod8uei7c

[@InvasionAnimation]

They might not live as long as humans. So faster lifespans, faster advancements, this theory could still work!

[@moowaffels]

“Sponges can live for hundreds or even thousands of years.” Google disagrees. But if they’re lucky they can reproduce once per year, so I guess there could be a population boom. Unfortunately I also found an article that mentioned sea sponges being highly resistant to radiation and cancer so eeehh. 🤷‍♂️

[@evildoggo22]

Hasn’t the show been airing for decades and every character hasn’t changed at all in age?

[@OMGoobero]

but sponge bob is like this in that one episode where squidward time travels

[@tomergngn]

@@OMGoobero maybe every episode it's a new sponge, and that's why he can die almost every episode without a problem

[@nightskysbh860]

That’s what I was thinking

[@thatboi567]

I see a people saying that time for them is different than us humans, like 20 years is a century to them, but there is the problem that pre-historic animal life is in the stone age of bikini bottom.

[@Voshed518]

I made a comment on this

[@kssm]

10 yrs is a centery to them, possibly and the nukes could have started a fast evolution cycle

[@shepherd9217]

Perhaps the "stone age" for them was immediately after the bombs and it's been on a super fast tract evolution? Is there any reason their stone age should line up with the estimated time for ours?

[@jacka5589]

@@kssm If it goes back to prehistoric times like that a day is a century to them cause that goes back hundreds of thousands of years for them

[@axo23867]

@@kssm 1st the only thing we see in the show that controls there evolution is Neptune's moon which comes out every 100 years and de evolves the residents of bikini bottom which means they are at least over 100 years and the person who explains it is non other then the French narrator who we see in that same episodes a human and that means he did not get effected by the "nuclear bombs" which means it was a real 100 years. Now you may be asking then what caused the residents of bikini bottom to de evolve well the moon that de evolves every one is called Neptune's moon what i think happened is they were once normal fish but Neptune wanted some people to worship him so he made the fish into smarter fish and in return they considered him as there god and i have proof Neptune has been shown to be able to change peoples appearances and minds and from details in the show

[@theleonpasta7336]

You forget that canonically know how the people of Bikini Bottom gained their sentience, the Green Moon or Neptune's Moon caused the normal sea creatures to become what they are, that's why they have centuries of history, this naturally occurring radioactive phenomenon likely rested dormant on the seafloor eventually causing the mutations we see before tectonic shifting buried it letting the mutated life that had resulted flourish. In the episode we see "Neptune's Moon" appear almost like a comet making me theorize that it was only brought back up due to volcanic activity blasting it up, why it was able to suddenly de-evolve the characters doesn't really make any sense but maybe you could argue that Neptune's Moon has an alien origin or was actually created by the Gods that we know exists in SpongeBob's world.

[@quinnethythe1st677]

The lifespan of fish is Shorter then ours so they could’ve live through those areas but they just develop faster because the lifespan isn’t as much so they did more and less amount of time

[@Mr69BlackDragon]

I was thinking that also, there's no reference point as to what time it actually was during the prehistoric period in bikini bottom.

[@alibekzholaman2923]

Bruh, spongrbob has been the same age for 20 years

[@jackolancer]

I mean I was kinda thinkin that too, even notice how the water looks in the past in the show compared to present

[@raptorzeraora2632]

Thats not how time works, it doesnt matter how long or short your life span is, time moves the same as everywhere else on the planet, they dont develop faster at all jeez

[@Rojob]

Tom kenny was quite clearly saying that nobody makes pop culture references in the show, maybe they’re references, but spongebob never goes “this is like thanks giving at tom hanks house” like gex.

[@Uselessceilingfan]

Gex

[@Maximise07]

When time travel canonically exists in the show, can the chronology of events really be considered absolute evidence?

[@matthewscorner2990]

I don't see why not. In fact, I think that'd be the main thing sticking it. The fact we know it's time travel means you can't pass it off as an alternate dimension or something. It shows that this is the way the world has been.

[@ozone20rulez]

@@matthewscorner2990 I think he means that its possible that the advanced marine life started in the radiation experiments, but got sent back in time, seeding the rich history of Bikini Bottom.

[@KageRyuu6]

@@ozone20rulez Pretty sure he means that the time periods they reference aren't neccessarily the same that Humans reference, their Prehistoric timeline could start shortly after the testing at Bikini Atoll.

[@matthewscorner2990]

@@ozone20rulez Maybe, but if people far enough in the future that they have access to time travel can use it and go back, then how has the race only advanced as far as caveman behavior? Surely, they'd at least a slightly stronger grasp on more advanced technology or communication.

[@Maximise07]

@@matthewscorner2990 Nah, because stuff being there in caveman times or medieval times could have just been modern times people time traveling back to the past. Sure cavebob was stupid.. but can you imagine spongebob's child in a world without schools? He still hasn't learnt to drive a boat, I can imagine his nature child being caveman intelligence. Or just a more mutated version of him.

[@bidoofo]

No one has even been 5 minutes into it and they’re already having loads of theories. *I love this channel and the fans.*

[@А4Топ-п3д]

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[@danielled8665]

“Everyone knows nuclear material isn’t good for your health” Tell that to all the people buying those “Ion bracelets” and such, there was a thing for a while where people were buying radioactive material in the pseudo-health world to get the “benefits” they were emitting. Like those copper bracelets but full of Thorium.

[@roonkolos]

At that point, natural selection is a blessing

[@jsn1252]

Except, you know, that Thorium is an alpha emitter (i.e can't penetrate the skin) and even if you did ingest it, is so minutely radioactive that a _banana_ is a greater radiological hazard. But the LNT model is bunk, so that small amount of radiation may actually be _good_ for you.

[@whatever9982]

radioactive snap bracelets sounds like a band name

[@thesupernaturalhouse]

imagine being a new fbi agent and you see this Jake(new fbi agent): hey Jim, this guy is looking up stuff about nuclear weapons and toxic waste Jim: what's his name Jake: uh-huh, matpat,, also known as Mathew Jim: oh him, yeah don't worry he does this all the time, he once looked up how long a corpse can go without rotting and if you can wear it as a suit Jake: and..... and we shouldn't be worried Jim: yeah trust me it's fine

[@bruh.4992]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/bXq3daGna7-Ehbc...

[@oliveroates]

Is that actually a thing he researched for a video?

[@praisethesun5873]

@@oliveroates fnaf leads people to the weirdest places

[@amaliadragan2480]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/nIeYeGiJhM10fMU

[@swiftcheese7150]

As a loyal theorist myself, I would like to say : what if spongebob's timeline started at when they became sentient. basically, didn't us humans have a different start and evolution in the universe. the spongebob timeline may have started in between ours, but that still will not clash with the fact that it can just evolve near the same as humans. besides, all of bikini bottom doesn't know about the land aside from that one island.

[@tyrannosaurusvex5703]

Although, we don’t know exact dates, their prehistoric era doesn’t necessarily have to line up with ours, it could be a lot faster or even slower, then our time. Same with years. 10 years to them could be like 20 to ours. Like dog years lol

[@quinnfarris]

sea sponges do live like 10 thousand years so like. wouldnt surprise me

[@raptorzeraora2632]

Nope, there's a pterodactyl flying above bikini attol in the episode "UGH", plus 10 years for them is still 10 years for us go back to school

[@smilerpunk922]

There are ammonites in prehistoric bikini bottom which definitely didn’t exist in the 60’s

[@raptorzeraora2632]

@@smilerpunk922 Yay another smart person

[@sawyer_no_u7139]

What if time went faster for them like how a human year is 7 dog years it could be a human year is 100,000 bikini bottom years or something similair to that.

[@LoRosa0224]

YES!! I thought something similar because why else would we be seeing the prehistoric bikini bottom, and what if the prehistoric bikini bottom where they're starting to develop more is a result of Squidward going back in time and pushing forward their evolution (like how if a time traveler or e.t came here and spoke with us and gave us tools) and that was the RESULT OF THE BIKINI ATOL TEST

[@saiyanfang1047]

nope, they have the gregorian calendar

[@sawyer_no_u7139]

@@saiyanfang1047 they could possibly have a different (faster)day and night cycle considering we dont know how deep they are and is very likely they dont get sunlight from our sun

[@saiyanfang1047]

@@sawyer_no_u7139 no they absolutely get light from the sun you can even see it there is Rock Bottom which is that deep and you can see the difference Rock Bottom is in the Twilight Zone and is near the bottom of the ocean, also no creature that likes in Bikini Bottom could survive in the twilight zone sperm whales can live close to it but not in it

[@sawyer_no_u7139]

@@saiyanfang1047 I think that we are both overthinking this it's a fricking kid's show

[@uwu-oo9dn]

I just noticed how the people of bikini bottom live in metal cans.. it’s truely impressive how much effort they’ve put into Spongebob to make it sense even if it is a cartoon.

[@ENDERLICOT]

Also. Crusty crab is a crab cage (used to catch crab) Patrick lives under a rock. His IRL equivalent does too (for certain species)

[@uwu-oo9dn]

@@ENDERLICOT Wait, starfishes live under rocks? I thought they did that as a joke.

[@viridiantheforest1037]

@@uwu-oo9dn I think it just adds to it, he's a starfish therefore he lives under a rock with a demeanor/intelligence that suggests he's been living under a rock

[@wetveggie]

I think they're car exhausts

[@uwu-oo9dn]

@@wetveggie it could be.

[@TheBathTubMan]

Goodbye matpat thank you for everything.

[@TheTheorizer]

Gary is a 4D Jovian Dolphin

[@nobody-jz7wl]

m

[@DopeDevastation]

Yes

[@Mfriesjuice]

Hey its that one guy

[@bangsbangstrashgang]

Mort tho

[@tyreegreen9796]

The Theorizer, love your content by the way, anyway that's all.

[@CazicTheProtogen]

I mean, its still possible, because they could just have advanced quickly.

[@EndieGaming]

The theory is destroyed once you realize that sandy has the “mutations” as the rest of the cast despite the fact that she would have come there YEARS after it would have affected her like it did spongegar.

[@ianssirenproductions]

well I didn’t expect you to be in the top comments

[@ianssirenproductions]

Also this theory has been debunked by Alex bale with solid evidence

[@CazicTheProtogen]

@@ianssirenproductions why are YOU here?

[@ianssirenproductions]

@@CazicTheProtogen I just saw this in my recommended

[@madkirk7431]

To everyone saying "someone finally aknowledged the prehistoric episodes" Alex Bale already did that Also my theory about that theory is that the "prehistoric" times are only prehistoric for the fish, and it wasn't long after the test.

[@rhidiansigler6836]

Yes that's what I'm saying

[@hyyxl1697]

Can’t wait for the official SpongeBob timeline.

[@beckfenn5559]

When first gaining intelligence, The creatures of Bikini bottom wouldn’t immediately be able to talk. It could be that the prehistoric bikini bottom takes place right after the nuclear bombs drop and the different eras in SpongeBob go by a lot faster than ours did.

[@Rockastorm]

That's what I thought they might have just experienced different eras accelerated pace to us

[@koro4632]

This is what I was thinking. Because we don't get a clear connection between human time and Bikini time, we have no way of knowing if they match up. Fish lifetimes are much shorter than humans in many cases so maybe the way they keep track of time is different.

[@lifefight3533]

I agree

[@pvic6959]

I like this idea!

[@samim4855]

i agree and just like matt says, the nuclear gardens were accelerating the rate of selective breeding, so it makes sense for bikini bottom society to be accelerated after nuclear exposure!

[@ZoroPTD]

Theory idea: why do pokemon nature's affect which stats increase?

[@milanalvarez3825]

Simple, the same as real life.

[@bluestories7816]

Its because it lines up with real life personality think about it a bit

[@Joe_Mama.also_YTHandlessuckass]

That's just how animals work in general, even humans, Pokémon is basically that but impossibly faster

[@deathpyre]

... The "medieval" and "primitive" times could really just be time relative to them. The primeval spongebob could be a decade after nuclear testing when life was starting to return to the islands.

[@panvannox574]

Thats what i was thinkin!

[@brunopereira6789]

Exactly what I was thinking!

[@ewakonbike5630]

I posted this exact thing before I read a bit more

[@raptorzeraora2632]

go back to school

[@MegaJesseman]

There is also the fact that Sandy is a land creature. The mutant thing likely was one of the inspirations for the show, but does not necessarily mean they actually are mutants.

[@Diego-qu1to]

Theory idea: "how much money would phineas and ferb need to actually build all the things from the show?"

[@baldconnie6801]

@about you but why

[@HashknightGaming]

That is a very good idea I up voted this bruh.

[@kimwasalreadytaken]

I really want to see this

[@novacancy6682]

Hey, you stole this from another comment

[@HashknightGaming]

@@novacancy6682 So what all that matters is the episode happens.

[@Commenter26]

Sandy is there just to secretly monitor the sentient sea life of Bikini Bottom and conduct breakthrough technology for her homeland of Texas.

[@thegamingfungus9347]

F

[@DarthZ01]

As a Texan, this is not what we're doing. At all. Don't even bother investigating. Just move along, pardner.

[@ACastillo_]

Surprising you don't bring up the fact that if Sandy is sapient, then that could potentially mean other land animals are in the Spongebob universe.

[@ohdang3833]

@@Anil_Kothari You do realize they are making a joke right?

[@gholmes4547]

Just quickly how do we know that medieval time in bikini bottom is perfectly lining up with human medieval time. What if bikini bottoms medieval times was in the 50s and because of the radiation they were thrusted into accelerative evouloution

[@dmp0430]

If you watch at 11:00 jester squid ward says they’ll be lucky to get fed by the 12th century which means it was current with human medieval times

[@Finalizor]

i keep seeing theorys down here like this

[@theangel666100]

@@dmp0430 maybe they count their years differently, fish lifespans are shorter

[@gerardperalta1202]

This theory was alex bales theory FIRST

[@JVCalado]

I imagined the same thing, the "pre-historic era" could be the 40 when they started bombing, when they begun to develop

[@koolishnetwork]

stephen hillenburg was honestly so cool. the way he made his passions into a beautiful show that anyone can love and appreciate is just so wholesome :)

[@mikireivamphamster6550]

There is 1 thing that could get the lore to fit into the theory, which is that there are different calendars and different way of counting time and days. So potentially spongebob could have been following a different calendar and different way of measure time from us.

[@elizabethburns-gundel1052]

This makes a lot of sense. The radiation could have pushed them through, at a more rapid pace, the same stages through which humans developed naturally. Radiation causes random mutations more quickly than Mother Nature, so it might not have taken long for the radiation to create the perfect mutation.

[@tentakrool7032]

Dude there is literally an episode that shows us how they are evolved I think the thing that evolves them is called "Neptunes moon" a green rock that needs to move every 100yrs or something like that, but when it moves they all devolve and become primal and attack eachother. In the episode sandy has to stop them from eating eachother because Neptunes moon doesnt effect mammals (there was a red moon for that) at the end of the episode the moon finds a spot to stop at and all the animals turn back into themselves. Then the red moon moves and sandy, patchy, potty turn primal.

[@mathieuleader8601]

that was a great episode

[@imthedamianator]

Jesus what type of nuclear waste they tested on to make Sponge's sentient and fire to be lit underwater with no issues

[@instantcoffeecos7358]

Underwater fire exists I think

[@pedrocampa2840]

fire can be lit on water but idk about in water doe

[@Cloaph]

Oil leaks

[@foxbuns]

Tom Kenney: you dont see pop culture references that date the show Spongebob: *makes Dungeons & Dragons reference*

[@amydorsey1393]

What if their perception of time is different, like prehistoric times were just after the bombs

[@marc56273]

and their concept of years and centuries could be different

[@claudio6391]

litterally can't, they work by the day/night cycle and count each one of them as days

[@bulletopera409]

@CL Melonshark uh, they might actually be mutations, kinda like how it’s theorize that with nukes, we’d blast ourselves back to the stone age

[@bulletopera409]

@CL Melonshark you know, liken that quote, I don’t know what we will fight with in ww3, but I know that we will fight ww4 with sticks and stones

[@jadaross3975]

riigghhtt thats what im thinking

[@krateproductions4872]

In all seriousness though. I feel really sad for the locals. They were lied as to why they should “temporarily” leave there homes only for their home to be nuked. And they can’t return to it.

[@Nionyx]

*Hear me out* …. But what if their “prehistoric” and “medieval” periods took place not at the same time as *OUR* prehistoric and medieval periods but they happened *AFTER* the nuclear testing. Like the Nuclear testing is what *STARTED* the creatures to become sentient and to develop their own language and started their development and growth. Like how the *Big Bang* started our development, the nuclear testing started theirs.

[@adamdwyer76]

I was just about to type this until I saw your comment. At 12:15 the famous island with the tree looks like something out of Fallout 3 also, which could back your claim.

[@EndieGaming]

Except for the fact that there’s an ammonite shown swimming by in the episode SB-129, and ammonite were last alive 66 million years ago.

[@kingbojs7179]

This makes absolute sense too since radiation also tends to shorten life expectancy which means more generations of fish can be crammed into that time frame. It's also important to include episode 14a when Squidward goes into the future the date is set in 2017 so in the 18 years between the time jump multiple generations where made, and an all chrome future society was built.

[@EndieGaming]

@@kingbojs7179 ammonite was shown swimming, that thing was last alive 66 million years ago.

[@bleddynwolf8463]

the ammonite in 129 disproves this

[@PersonalPineapple]

8:31 VeggieTales Theory

[@Goldenswagger359]

The Neptune Moon in one of the newer episodes basically say that’s the reason.

[@minecraft6829]

Its possible the fish didn't mutate because of radiation but I get what your saying

[@hannahcarolan2521]

I can get on board with this theory apart from one thing... So where did Sandy come from? She couldn't have gained intelligence unless she was exposed to radioactive waste according to this theory, which she wouldn't have been since she's a land mammal from Texas

[@gabrielbautista2784]

Most of the time when they go out of water they turn to realistic fish

[@coledibiase1777]

Also things like Kenny the Cat, or mermaid man, or the Dutchman. Maybe its just a kids TV show and it doesn't have some deep secret?

[@staceybirdsall6047]

Maybe she was sent to bikini bottom to moniter how the radiation has effected and is still effecting the residents ?

[@RobProb-X]

Alex Bale's Spongebob theories Have a much much better explanation

[@antoniosgaminglife4278]

a spongebob theorist named Alex bale disproved this theory and he found out how they became like that, what happened to pearls mother and the Krabby patty formula all in one video here's the link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZypgWxod8uei7c

[@carter1490]

For the location, the Viacom website also says "Dwelling a few fathoms beneath the tropical isle of Bikini Atoll in the sub-surface city of Bikini Bottom" so that settles its location.

[@TheeMoonstar]

He literally said that in the video.

[@carter1490]

@@TheeMoonstar No, he said in the video that the website says it is named after the Bikini Atoll, not that it says its location is beneath it.

[@TheeMoonstar]

@@carter1490 but he had highlighted that exact thing being stated. You know him he just has to cover everything and every piece of evidence.

[@carter1490]

@@TheeMoonstar Hmm. I don't remember him doing that. Could you post a timestamp for that?

[@TheeMoonstar]

@@carter1490 2:30

[@DarkPniEntanglrDarkPniEntanglr]

Even if they really didn't have pop culture knowledge, that in no way means they couldn't be radioactive mutations. If nuclear testing happened and things like sea sponges amd starfish mutated, (which is the theory) , that doesn't mean they would see or know about pop culture stuff.

[@Kortecs125]

Matt, it could be entirely possible that the ‘prehistoric episodes’ could be the exact same characters going through an accelerated evolution. A little like the episode of love, death, and robots episode ‘Ice Age.’ Your theory still may hold up despite your own debunking!

[@raya579]

And they even have some technologies that would look advanced for us. So they are still evolving really fast.

[@cameraman7577]

yeah but squidward came with in time and i dont think they had taken him back there somhow so that means that coudnt be him @Kortecs

[@raya579]

@@cameraman7577 I haven't seen that episode. But what if it was a dream and that was just the regular squidward that wanted to play with them?

[@cameraman7577]

@@raya579 that also a possibility that changes nothing

[@ChangedCauseYT-HateFoxNames]

It could with the flaw of seeing they have calendars that follow are timeline of 354 days a year on there calendar. More then likely they just evolved at the same rate as us. I bring up there calendar because people don't just say. I made a new time measurement system and skip a few thousand years.

[@unusualloser3814]

This reminds me of when in the 1920s-1930s people used to put radium (some radioactive stuff) into medicine. And it actually helped in extremely small doses but if you took too much your body would crumble apart slowly, starting from your skin to your skull

[@MikeTheEnforcer]

You can actually find the story about the guy who's jaw literally fell off because of the radioactive medicine.

[@agirlnamedkris6374]

Waaait! They were putting that in medicine and not just painting clock hands? 🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️ oh wow!! This is why I question what we use today. Like the call backs on baby powder because they’ve determined that Talc is dangerous 😰

[@jeebusyaweirdo3733]

@@agirlnamedkris6374clock hands, compasses, medicines, they had things called revigators to infuse your water with radium, makeups, air craft instruments, all kinds of stuff. That’s not even touching into uranium glass and uranium glazed fiestaware. I actually have a watch hand with radium in a vial, some uranium ore, torbernite, autunite, Trinitite,atomic orange fiesta ware, and uranium glass marbles

[@hollowknightfan5938]

Imagine nickelodeon actually caring for the lore after Stephen's death

[@billalzerouali2528]

HA nice joke nick didn't even care about lore and steven to the lore in the first 3 seasons has so much continuity error SpongeBob has no lore

[@mennadahman3013]

In SB-19 they showed prehistoric sponges and started and were shown in many episodes

[@monkeybabyni5286]

Humans have made the earth grow old before age

[@shikoshiko6602]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hWS1mJ2eg8qmpZo...

[@RucaDoo]

reject humanity return to monke

[@neo-didact9285]

??????

[@shreknocratus4682]

It was already pretty old bro...

[@Neuviletteiudexofmemes]

Considering Humanity is the inevitable result of Life, and Earth is systematically ideal for for supporting life, it’s hardly something you could say is unnatural. The Earths sole use as a rock in space is the creation of species capable of fathoming usefulness, of which it has created three. Crows, Dolphins, and Humans. Crows are in a sustainable amiable symbiosis with humans, and Dolphins are innately handicapped by their reliance on water to survive, and lack of hands. They’re a dead end unless that changes. Therefore, logically, so long as crows and humans are able to survive on earth, the elimination of any other species is insignificant provided it permits the evolution of sentient life. Logically, humans are doing exactly as they should be doing. Learning and evolving. If that requires the sacrifice of untold numbers of extraneous species that cannot even fathom their own existence… Well. Then it’s just another sign that nature can be cruel.

[@ashrrer7139]

“HELLO INTERNET, WELCOME TO FILM THEORY” ah yes the words that give my life joy

[@А4Топ-п3д]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/q3Wmd42iobahqJo

[@KennethKnightBlustripe]

Cough cough Alex Bale

[@ashrrer7139]

@Kasey Lozinski fr

[@ja-king3067]

Fire underwater, Patrick’s fishing licenses, sandys infinite air cage, can a squirrel live that far, or how far is that far. But radiation underwater. 🥺

[@dudeguy2616]

Spongebob the show might have been a document than a funny show.

[@lakeull6041]

What about prehistoric bikini bottom? And, how did David hasslehoff? How did he get there, he could die!

[@veryhot8584]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hWS1mJ2eg8qmpZo.

[@LunarArt-c3r]

Two things, I know I am very late, but what if instead of there time starts when the first few form from the nuclear test, and doesn’t line up with man’s, just has some similarities with it. Also can you calculate what Sonic’s rings are made of here or on film theory 😊.

[@skelyjack3899]

"Sandy comes from the East." False, she goes East. She comes from the West MatPat. Got your lines mixed there.

[@SgtSupaman]

They said that in the footnote. He was supposed to say "west".

[@orion_starchaser]

@@SgtSupaman I thought that said "weast"

[@michaelsmithson6533]

He should’ve said “going East” or “coming from the West”

[@samtheknight]

Direction is subjective. My 90° right, could be your 7° to the left and 10° down. America is both East and West of bikini bottom. But East is closest.

[@ambermasson3934]

The plane in the opening be like: "Screw that ONE island in particular!"

[@bruh.4992]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/bXq3daGna7-Ehbc. . .

[@TheJacobbridges25]

Americas nuclear tests beqsically lol