The familiar emptiness of Everywhere at the End of Bikini Bottom

[@flashhclubb]

watched this all the way through again. im still amazed at how well you got the themes i was going for. its such a great feeling as an artist to have people see your art for what it really is. love the video, so well done and detailed. thank you very much for making this video and im glad you enjoyed!

[@_owl_]

Blababloo

[@Protato_Gamer]

@@_owl_ skeebobop

[@calvin2045]

Who is this

[@Lottabaggage]

@@calvin2045 the guy who made Everywhere At The End Of Bikini Bottom

[@Protato_Gamer]

@@calvin2045 joe

[@tpsplatinum3562]

I think the reason the Spongebob backgrounds are so eerie without any characters populating them is because they give off liminal space vibes.

[@tpsplatinum3562]

@@h2o_struckmars I mean yeah, more or less.

[@dxublexxsplicitxxsplicit4943]

@RealBatGamer do some lsd and play it

[@We_silly]

Dumbass comment fr

[@tpsplatinum3562]

@@We_silly lol

[@dxublexxsplicitxxsplicit4943]

@@We_silly indeed, just look at yourself. So stupid....

[@unicornman147]

I hadn't even thought about the significance of using the imagination box as the cover art for the album. That's a really fascinating perspective.

[@dustbunny6381]

You know? When I was little I used to watch SpongeBob a lot. Watching it is actually among some of my earliest memories. It's a constant in my consciousness. Always there in some regard. To the point where a lot of my dreams involved it in some way. But because of how surreal and strange the show was sometimes, a lot of the time i would have these absolutely bizarre nightmares about it. Different from other nightmares I had at the time. Nothing was chasing me, my family wasn't abandoning me, I didn't fuck up something that lead to my death. There wasn't really any overt danger. But I remember I would always be stuck watching something SpongeBob related where nearly everything was. Off. I couldn't understand what was happening. Sometimes a character looked wrong or they'd just all be silent, or it'd be stuck on a live action part for a really long time and I couldn't figure out why. No matter what was happening, I couldn't change it. Couldn't turn the TV off, couldn't change the channel, couldn't mute it, unplugging it wouldn't even work. And because it was a dream I couldn't even close my eyes or look away. So I was always just forced to sit there and watch this uncanny version of SpongeBob play out, and it always made me feel queasy and creeped out, sometimes even outright panicking. This album is pushing all the same buttons for all the same reasons. And I can't decide if I love the nostalgia of it all, or if I hate it for making me feel this creeping dread and confusion I used to fall asleep and experience every night

[@listencorp]

That's an interesting reaction and I wonder if it is a common one too. I can't say I've dreamt about Spongebob like that but I had a similar thing with the playing of video games in dreams. There's definitely a hypnotic element to the album I think, if you put in the effort and listen to it properly I think you are likely to have an interesting experience. Also thank you for sharing this! Very interesting.

[@ThePhantasmith]

I used to have nightmares about SpongeBob too, and this comment is uncannily relatable. For me, sometimes the OHHHHHHH part of the theme song would just be playing in the room. No who lives in a pineapple, just oh. And it echoed too. Wasnt really scary but really really u comfortable. Another one id usually have, was those super ugly shots from episodes like just one bite or whatever happened to SpongeBob and those were the worst.

[@bashfulwolfo6499]

I had/have the same exact thing too, one of my earliest scariest dreams (not really a nightmare) was that it was a repeating image of Squidward who started off smiling, but slowly started to frown as the disturbing music playing got more and more disturbing. It would just repeat from the beginning. It was just on the TV and I felt like I couldn’t escape the room because of it. I have a little phobia of like those DVD menu select screens where shows imagery and plays music, which eventually repeats, and a lot of my nightmares involve technology that I just cannot control (maybe the TV is extremely loud, maybe there’s a virus, etc). It just always stood out to me the most than other nightmares, and the Squidward one was easily the weirdest.

[@dustbunny6381]

@@ThePhantasmith oh dude if I heard the theme song ooooooh looping like that when I was younger and I couldn't make it stop I would've actually woken up screaming. Then again, that's probably bc I'm autistic and it sounds like a really weird version of sensory overload. The ugly shots being another focal point for you is really interesting to me though. They never really bugged me all that much when I was younger so much as the sudden medium changes. Like the patchy the pirate segments. I don't know why but kid me just could not parse why the fuck some real guy was in my cartoon all of a sudden, and watching bad things happen to him (or just some other dude dressed like a pirate) seemed to be the plot of a lot of unpleasant dreams. The absolute worst I had it was those fucking alien puppets from Atlantis squarepantis. They made me nauseous while awake and they made me freak out while asleep I'm like 80% sure I had one dream that was just a several hour loop of patchy looking for Encino but he just never finds it.

[@dustbunny6381]

@@bashfulwolfo6499 genuinely, reading that gave me flashbacks to reading squidwards suicide in middle school. I think I've had a dream that was just the reverse of that exact sequence while I was super stoned and trying NOT to think about said creepypasta. Actually going insane over SpongeBob's apparent power over the dreamscape.

[@CaptainLass]

You know your meme/parody is good when you’ve got people analyzing it and explaining it at the same level of the original. Awesome project, you can really tell how much effort was put into this

[@toastbadoinks1921]

lessgoooo i clicked like then it went fro 9k to 9.1k

[@RandomIyProductions]

You know it's good when it appears in a real SpongeBob episode still can't believe that happend

[@Alex_Barbosa]

For me one of the most unsettling things about this album is its thematic relation to Everywhere at the End of Time. That music is what the dementia patient is able to recall. One of the things dementia patients are able to recall consistently, is music from their youthful years. Some will hum along with it because the tune still holds some connections together in their brain, they can recall it, consciously or not, it sticks with them. So when I see that concept used with references to SpongeBob, it feels more personal. Like this is representing my own trip through dementia. It's like I can hear my own youth slipping away into the void of time piece by piece until there's nothing left of myself.

[@lizzylouisewoo]

Something That I’ve already been struggling with as I reach my mid 20s which I know sounds dramatic but it’s true

[@neputendo]

THIS IS YOUR FIRST VIDEO!? BRO THIS VIDEO IS LOOKIN LIKE IT CAME FROM SOMEONE WHOSE BEEN WORKING ON KZbin FOR YEARS THIS IS GREAT

[@ericdigirolamo8904]

WHAT

[@macrofurra]

Aint no way

[@hushfur]

NAAHH NO WAYY

[@squashforsale8466]

Plants

[@skippi99r32]

Probably because this isn't his main account or he came from a certain background

[@TheRatSquid]

KZbin: "Do you wanna watch a video of a british man explaining a Spongebob parody of a Caretaker album?" Me: "Yes."

[@elisa.alexander]

Lmaooo same I had no idea what he was talking about for most of it but I stayed to the end

[@LofiRobotGuy]

Ngl, I had this video playing in the background and I thought this was a video essay about how the environments in the spongebob series created a creepy feeling when they’re empty (kinda like liminal spaces). I had to rewatch the video twice to realize that this isn’t even really a video essay about the spongebob series, but a review of a surreal/experimental indie band’s album that just so happened to have a spongebob theme attached to it.

[@vanguardiris3232]

I love the odd horror of older Spongebob episodes. Had full-on nightmares about the episode Gone - that scene where Spongebob has to hide the puppet he has made of Patrick from his jealous sapient boat? Classic horror

[@Minaiii]

I love that episode! The patty puppet and the car “spying” on him are great

[@weirdcreator24]

I had a nightmares on the one where he was trying to write the essay and everything comes to life.

[@itzelmontalvo6645]

Gone is not an old episode.

[@Red-jl1qr]

@@itzelmontalvo6645 it's like 15 years old what do you mean

[@frank.e.wildcat]

@@Red-jl1qr anything after season 4 isn't classic spongebob

[@softeuph3974]

As someone who has a mom who practically raised their children on SpongeBob, I always found it weird how I’ve met some people who’s parents banned SpongeBob in their house. Growing up I can kind of see why.

[@NateS917]

I can't see why, even as an adult. Cartoons are weird sometimes. I don't believe for a second that those parents banning SpongeBob didn't grow up on looney tunes and Tom and Jerry

[@vincentrandall4299]

For me, I think it mostly reflects on the Stuck In The Wringer episode. When Spongebob was drying himself off after a shower, he slipped on a bar of soap and unfortunately got himself stuck. His friend Patrick, an important character, tries to help him by using glue to "free him". The episode continues with Square pants struggling to live a normal day with the limited use of his arms. But it doesn't become easy on him, as he is forced to quit the Krusty Krab until the wringer was removed from Spongebob. Patrick tries to cheer him up by inviting him to the amusement park. However, it gets worse. Spongebob tries to survive the many obstacles like the swirling teacups that requires hands to hold on. It isn't long for him to be whipped out of the teacup by Patrick and crash to a damaging fall. It cuts to Square pants having a black eye and a sad description on his face. As Patrick comes to the shot, he attempts to give his friend an ice cream, but is rejected and is knocked out of his hand by his wringer. He has felt nothing but hatred on this trap (The Time Wasted In That Cursed Trap). Spongebob snaps at Patrick and hurts his feelings. He cry's and runs to the distance (My Past Friend Who Has Given Up On Me). The towns fish are enraged by his actions, and tells him that his wringer is getting in the way of his heart (My Heart Rips Another Time). It is at this moment, that Spongebob is in his house, alone, with the TV on. His mind is in a broken and depressed state and is not exactly in the right place (Mind Washing Away Slowly Like Sand). He tries to be happy and joyful, but sadness overtakes those expressions. He missed the days he was free and could take on anything (Dancing Is Sadly An Activity Of The Past). When Patrick breaks into his house, he notices the TV is on, but is playing the constant image and sound of static. It could be that the sound was drowning out the outside world, and Spongebob daydreams of the memories he had (That Dance With Her Was So Long Ago). Patrick, in a panic, tries snapping him out of it. He feels that he was the one how ruined his friend's life, and cries on the glue (Bitter Liquid, Release My Pain). The glue wears off, and releases Spongebob from the wringer. As expected, it has a happy ending and the show ends. But what if Patrick didn't save Spongebob? What would have happened if he remained depressed? Would he be able to feed himself or Gary? My theory is arguable, but that episode seems so fitting with the scene and how it plays out.

[@normanclatcher]

"Not fit to live in society..." -SpongeBob, (Stuck in the Wringer) This line haunts me still.

[@hentron420]

Wow this is a very good theory as to which episode this could represent. Well done.

[@Deadflower019]

@@normanclatcher oh my god Stuck in a Ringer is a commentary on disability. This comment is mostly a joke.

[@normanclatcher]

@@Deadflower019 Dementia is a disability. A mentally crippling one at that. So the above comment is a writing exercise that overplays its premise, but I certainly wouldn't call it a joke. ...ah wait, unless you mean _you_ were the one doing a bit just now. In which case, ha ha, good one, you sure showed me...

[@Deadflower019]

@@normanclatcher yep. I was the one joking.

[@higherquality]

The quality is insane

[@Sergo6272]

The background is perfect it gives you a strange feeling of creepiness and that all of it is ending but whit the nostalgic look of SpongeBob

[@dasnogood2051]

I always found the "backdrop" of spongebob creepy af, because of the animation and stuff it feels like bikini bottom is in the middle of a wasteland, the only living beings are in the town, and outside it's just vast emptiness, a few big rocks here and there, but it's just flat sand as far as the eye can see, it feels empty, isolating and it just freaks me out if I focus on it. A good example is the opening cards with the rocks and sand, I never saw it as small rocks in a little part, more like mountainous rocks scattered around a vast, empty and lifeless underwater desert. It just feels so empty and it freaks me out, but I find a weird comfort in the fear.

[@Blinkehyo]

Beautifully made nice video man! I’ve never heard of this before

[@ducksarecooi]

69

[@wings-of-waffles]

I remember, back when I was anywhere from 3 to 5 years old, I was at my grandparent's house for the night. The credits to an episode of what I now recognize as an episode of spongebob. Me and my sister were so scared my grandmother had to turn off the tv. Everywhere at the End of Bikini Bottom is that feeling.

[@dr3dg352]

I wonder which episode could've caused such a reaction! 😳 There were certainly some grim ones looking back, like One Krab's Trash, and the one where they think they've killed a health inspector.

[@real_szop4692]

This reminds me of the credits to every spongebob episode. There are a lot of people (including me) who find it really disturbing

[@korncobb8808]

Thats what I thought this would be about when I clicked haha

[@serranobricks6302]

I personally never understood why people thought it was creepy, I always liked it. Can some explain what’s creepy about it?

[@korncobb8808]

@@serranobricks6302 It's very hard to describe. The best way I can put it is that it made me feel deeply nostalgic even though at the time I was literally too young to comprehend the emotion and it just unsettled me. Weird sense of dread, not to mention that it's a slowed down version of a song most kids are used to hearing more fast paced + a lot of kids heard that song right before their bedtime (a time most kids dread) and so they associated it with that feeling? That's just what I'm thinking based on how I felt as a kid. It was never unpleasant enough to actually upset me or anyone I know, but it was enough to take note of and remember

[@_PinkiePie.]

Y'all are babies

[@korncobb8808]

@@_PinkiePie. i WAS a baby, pinkie pie

[@not_faith124]

apparently theres a whole community of people (including myself) who were terrified of the music at the end of the older SpongeBob shows. i thought it was just me, but i used to scream and cry when an episode would end and then music would play. i still loved SpongeBob tho lmao

[@SomeGuyNamedTodd]

I can't really explain how, but everywhere at the end of time left me more unsettled than anything I've ever seen or heard. It got to the point where even though I still found the album fascinating, I had to avoid it wherever I could. Despite the fear or horror the caretaker album instills, I still find myself clicking on videos like this in anxious caution.

[@nattybunny03]

Same here, it gives me such a strong feeling of dread

[@Ishouldnthavebeensopublic]

Because dementia can happen to anyone and is incurable. It’s like cancer but worse bc you die not even knowing who you are

[@archdiangelo7930]

I would personally rephrase the title from "Familiar Emptiness" to "Empty Familiarity", that seems to me a more accurate description of the thesis. The emptiness isn't familiar, the emptiness wasn't there when we were kids watching the show, experiencing it in its prime. The familiarity itself, by contrast, has become more and more empty as Spongebob continues and slowly erodes over time

[@hellofrqn]

I'm surprised this is your first video. Good video btw. The way you analyze the album is amazing.

[@jadsi]

Ikr

[@hellofrqn]

@@jadsi yeah XD

[@emmasuarez9475]

Never before has a KZbin rec been so tailored to my interests. This video was amazing! I hope more is to come

[@steamtasticvagabond474]

I won’t lie, just hearing 5 seconds of Everywhere at the End of Bikini Bottom broke me for a day or two. I was crying at work (something that doesn’t ever happen) and I barely even touched it. I knew what everywhere at the end of time was, and it was just awful thinking about it applied to SpongeBob. Thinking about the hours, even days of enjoyment brought by everyone’s beloved sea sponge. My beloved sea sponge. And it was just, heart wrenching, thinking about even the possibility of forgetting such a pillar of mine, and so many other people’s childhoods. And unlike Squidwards suicide which attempts to subvert the purity of SpongeBob by adding obviously unwholesome elements, the tragedy of this is the fact it’s just SpongeBob. The tragedy of forgetting such a foundation of my childhood.

[@therealkazevfx]

got this on my recommended today very well produced video this is defiantly destined to blow up keep it up!

[@Foxy02016]

This album is EAteoT but representing childhood dementia, a real thing that effects a concerning amount of kids

[@DarkEclipce]

Wow, a video essay of a SpongeBob parody album became my introduction into Everywhere at the End of Time. When I’m 80 and struggling with my memories I know SpongeBob will be a huge beacon of clarity as I struggle with my memories. I have no doubt that I will end up with memory issues, but I’ve always had SpongeBob. The episodes through my childhood, the memes in my teenage years, the immortalizing nostalgia of my 20’s now.

[@vocaloid_zundamon]

This kinda gives you the feeling of Dead Hope, leading to a Mistful Crimson Morning

[@thekingofhearts43]

my names squidward and im suicidal

[@asrieldreemurr8059]

@@thekingofhearts43 My names SpongeBob and-MMMPHMMMPHHHMMMM!!!!!

[@p3droskiiioficial200]

haha your mods canceled

[@Its_bloon.yt2011]

My name’s bambi and I’m not even in it

[@nolyfe4814]

@@FunkinLeaker *_no_*

[@georgie984]

There was a KZbinr who took the original concept of Red Mist and remade it into something genuinely heartfelt, unnerving, and incredible. They’ve achieved a similar feel to this album, so I recommend checking it out. (Name is VibingLeaf)

[@Charles-ve6cb]

It’s garbage, it’s just like any bullshit analog horror tropes and analog horror fans gobble any ah video they see regardless of accuracy and quality, what I hate about analog horror animation is that it’s just a colored storyboard and nothing else

[@Enfix2509]

@@Charles-ve6cb ngl at least it’s better than 1-4 minutes of Squid having a bad red eye with screams in the background and then ended with legit “haha he sewer slide and no one cared”

[@Charles-ve6cb]

@@Enfix2509 sounds decent than analog horror

[@SgtPineBox]

This is an example of an average internet troll (please don't kill me for this)

[@MoodyRugrat]

I can’t listen to this right now because I grew up with it and care about it and I’ll have nightmares lmao

[@FinancialBlu]

Wow, just wow, for a first video, this blows it out of the water, this video perfectly describes everything that you might need to know and explains why everywhere at the end of bikini bottom is one of the eeriest playlists ever created

[@Aperink]

This feels like it’s gonna be the the next “skin theory” video that everyone gets in their recommend videos tab, lol.

[@sashathedonut]

its alot shorter tho

[@pastaswithnosauce3621]

My theory with the album is that spongebob is the last one left after some big event that happened or maybe somehow he outlived everyone else and is going around bikini bottom remembering what once was as he slowly fades away at least thats my theory

[@dymaxion3988]

In the episode “Spongehenge”, a weird wind starts blowing one day, causing spongebob’s holes to make a musical tone that attracts jellyfish, disrupting his life enough to drive him out of bikini bottom. After living in a cave for a while, he figures out that if he builds big stone replicas of himself in the wind, the jellyfish will stay away from him. When he successfully completes them, he returns to town, only to find the krusty krab long abandoned. Cut to 3000 years later, and a race of aliens are struggling to understand the origin of spongebob’s statues. And the strange wind is still blowing.

[@mayanightstar]

What a relatively obscure thing to make a video essay about and I'm all here for it

[@lialia2268]

I was literally raised on SpongeBob. Sat in front of a tv it was real waded the year of my birth and was BY FAR the show they played 90% of the time. It gives me a strange feeling of nostalgia and has always given me fear… makes me feel happy and afraid simultaneously. All the weird close ups and terrifying storylines/ underlying messages. The hook episode absolutely terrified me

[@dr3dg352]

But they were covered with FREE CHEEESE!

[@therealspeedwagon1451]

Watching this it makes me think of my parents and when they were my age they had the Simpsons and it’s really bonded to them like how SpongeBob has to this generation. Both shows have their similarities in that they both can be fairly upbeat but at the same time have their own dark and disturbing episodes and they both have their own humor with the Simpsons being much more mature. But the thing that strikes me the hardest is that they both have their same decline. My parents only watch the first 7 seasons of the Simpsons just as I’ll only watch the first 10 seasons of SpongeBob and anything after that just feels too oversaturated with color and gross potty humor (although tbh earlier seasons of SpongeBob weren’t afraid to dive into the crude humor but that wasn’t as often). As with the Simpsons it also has the same oversaturation of color but it also has phones and modern technology and the jokes and people who they are making fun of just don’t hit like they used to. This whole thing makes me think of if someone made Everything at The End of Springfield; a playlist of songs going into the slow decay and breakdown of the world of the Simpsons just as EATEOBB does.

[@wingdingfontbro]

This was especially disturbing to me. Just that box, that box lying in the sand in the middle of nowhere was so unsettling to me. And the music, the snippets of music you played were haunting. If the original End of Time were to be disturbing to the elderly now, if their own music and background theme twisted and distorted was frightening to them. This is what that would be for us, at least for me. Everything that had made me up, my childhood, warped and distorted until it were unrecognizable. It’s terrifying. “If you ever die what would your memories start looking like.”

[@Gummy_Pop.]

That album is a masterpiece honestly

[@hazyIane]

thank god recommended sent me this, you got this youtube thing down. cheers to your hopeful future success, i know you have it in you ^-^

[@alexpaces9822]

this is such a nice video and i'm so glad people finally pointed out how amazing this album is! so glad you made this, but i do have to warn you that i've been foretold that people who make these specific types of essay videos will be destroyed by a great flood in the coming days i think

[@listencorp]

I want to say a huge thank you for all those that have watched, liked, subscribed and commented on this first video essay. It's wonderful to see people explaining their experiences of this incredible album and Spongebob and other Spongebob-related media as well. As is mentioned, listencorp is a blog and magazine with a goal of exploring interesting music and media. You can find out more on our website www.listencorp.co.uk, or follow us on twitter or instagram at @listencorp. And keep on the look out for more video/album content here as well.

[@mariorodriguez-ws4xs]

Someone’s mind really looked at the first album cover of the original work (a torn box from each side with a blue tick tock tape on it) and somehow clicked that to the one from sponge bob….not only that, they where able to link it not because they both boxes but because the episode also had a deep imagination theme to it. But what kind of mind was listing to the original albums? How do you get into that kind of…..activity?subject? Humans are incredible. (My take as a atheist and way I had to explain it to my little bro about my grandpa)The mind is just a usb and sadly you never know why….but they can be corrupt so easy. From a flash drive to a SD card they could look totally fine….or maybe there is just a scratch and boom you lost everything. No software or app can bring it back. Yet some others can have a banged up usb they poor coffee on for fun and it’s just fine. You don’t know when, where or why, but it works for now…..hope they last as long as they can but when it’s gone all we can do is put it away and remember what was in it. Enjoyed and took care of my grandpa even though he didn’t remember my name. I was who ever he thought I was when ever he just wanted to hear a voice. Or I would improve and take over conversations. Rip to both him and my little bro I’ll one day sleep forever too.

[@Calypsobunz]

I hope to see more music analysis videos like these! I love how you animate and speak!

[@conelrad22]

Here before this channel blows up, with quality like this its inevitable.

[@saltman8975]

This channel Is about to blow up I just know it Also wasn't he at only 100 subs yesterday? Because now he is at 850.

[@bobbybrine6547]

I doubt it as it only has one video, but the editing and analysis are very good, especially for a first video

[@LicoriceXTT]

Idk what any of this means but u made me sleep so good thanks nice voice

[@JonathanQShrimpling]

What a fantastic video! Excellently researched, executed and a fun, interesting topic too Super excited to see what you do next

[@localdude2979]

My mother used to tell me she dint liked spongebob, what a Karen, then again she said he was too dumb for her liking and always thought Sandy was the only good character, the only one with common sense, my mother never liked nonsense and lack of common sense as any generic mom, however there is more to it my mother never told me, whenever I ask her she only says she thinks spongebob is dumb, she never elaborates about it and tells me the generic "dont make me waste my words boy, if you are so bored read a book"

[@normanclatcher]

Episodes with Sandy or Plankton interested me the most, too.

[@daisyrodriguez3076]

Some reason the characters look like themselves from The Faceless Creepypasta

[@Cadency]

I'm so sad I never heard of this till now. I'd love one of those cassette tapes

[@stereotypical713]

i love this style of SpongeBob that puts me off. This one animation "We gotta get SpongeBob back" by Joe, it gives off this eerie feeling that i would love to see in a full length episode. I know it's a parody but i still love it and its tone.

[@nintonic20]

For what I am assuming is your first video here on youtube, this is an amazing start on the site! Keep going man this was great and can't wait for more!

[@strawberrylemonadelioness]

I for one am thrilled to randomly get recommended Spongebob analysis\ Fan work videos

[@ginnanchor6438]

BROTHER THIS GUY really doesn't stink man, keep it up you don't even know how much of a good work you're doing

[@satirestudios5413]

I understood almost none of this but I enjoyed every second

[@stevogalaxy3692]

I think this album is essentially a more modern version of EATEOT, specifically people who grew up watching these kinds of shows and media. It's like a realism punch in your gut that the nostalgia you had for this show is from place in your life that is much different now, and now you're in a time where you've had to move on. It's a sad and existential feeling, and the album perfectly represents it for me, because I can rewatch those episodes from the earlier seasons of the show however many times I like, I will still never truly reexperience that time in my early childhood where everything felt so right. It can sometimes feel like the jaunty and bouncy tunes I heard all the time in this show sound exactly like this album depicts it, deteriorated, aged, depressed. It's crazy how something as seemingly unimportant as sound quality can impact your memories as much as it has for me. Personally, that feeling of saddened nostalgia was most impactful for me, and that's gotta count Everywhere at the End of Bikini Bottom more than just a meme.

[@jamestomlin5525]

You would have loved hey Arnold and the original rugrats from the 90s, those were also incredible shows

[@masque1659]

I watched Wendigoon’s dissection of the original and it really did mess with me because my greatest fear is losing my mind. This was a whole other story, hearing the music and seeing the scenes that I would wake up to, watch throughout the day, and even fall asleep to as a child disturbed and distorted makes me feel like I’m like 80 and trying to remember that bright yellow sponge that used to bring me joy, but just something about it is not quite right. Needless to say I won’t be sleeping tonight 🙃

[@cartoonmaster2401]

I knew DAMN well the video was gonna use "Wormy" as an example. That weird-ass episode is the only time I'd refuse to watch SpongeBob as a kid. That disturbing buzzing noise is still fresh in my brain almost 20 years later. (And when I grew older, I looked it up, and found out...THAT WASN'T EVEN A F*CKING BUTTERFLY!!!)

[@adrianparra4442]

This feels like an essay that spilled on a video editor.

[@dr3dg352]

This video was my introduction to The Caretaker. I'll be forever grateful!

[@ultimateninjaboi]

The worst part is that its an undersea setting... which only has me imagining all the grossness of stuff thats been under the sea for a long period of time. Namely old shipwrecks and the like.

[@blurblarted]

im a little too scared to watch this alone right now but ill watch this tomorrow for sure lol its really good so far

[@omegaflowey9932]

The thumbnail is the faceless creepypasta

[@divasargentè]

For me growing up and knowing spondgebob still has more episodes for kids to watch makes me want to cry because wow my mom use to put me on her old shows ima be doing it for my kids 😫😫

[@skyshunts]

this was in my recommendations. I haven't watched the show since I was 6 or 5 and now I'm a adult so I didn't know it had this kind of vibe to it. I subscribed

[@yuarentlucky]

I always thought the album was if SpongeBob got da mentia, because it references things only he'd care about, like Gary, and Jellyfishing.

[@Quacka]

What a great video you have a lot of potential

[@areallycoolhat5427]

You're going places, I can tell

[@hjbishop321]

So the music in SpongeBob is what gives it the creepy, eerie, and distorted feelings.

[@psychomanatee3459]

Woah great analysis, and this is only your first video too! Keep it up

[@fluffcake]

Imagine showing this to someone who doesn’t know what SpongeBob is. That would be a horrific experience

[@ComfyKing]

lovely video man, keep it up

[@thealpacaspoon8438]

2nd SpongeBob video I've ever clicked on that was way deeper than I was ready for it to be

[@MexTheTacoLord]

This kept my interest all the way through. Good job! Never knew this was a thing

[@alecelliott7506]

Everywhere at the end of time got alot of emotional reactions out of alot of people, however I never really felt that strongly about the project other than recognizing that it was an interesting concept. This project for me felt alot more like meaningful deteriorating of a mind/show since the music of SpongeBob is something so iconic that I have grown up with. Definitely appreciate this one alot

[@YetAnotherGeorgeth]

Once again I have found myself in the “deep and thorough video analysis of the music theory of meme music” part of KZbin!

[@julissalyssa2764]

1.) Hello! Welcome to KZbin!!! 2.) HOLY CRAP THIS WAS INCREDIBLE!!!! And for a FIRST VIDEO?!?! New Subscriber, I can’t wait to see more!

[@plugnug]

never even heard of this until this popped up on my recommended

[@michal_king478]

The memes they gave us. Literally every spongebob frame is a meme template.

[@zhoubiden6003]

Who up spongin they bob rn???

[@soggmeisterlasagnagarfield]

SpongeBob is the most intellectual kids show imo. I never noticed the emptiness and despair that this brings though. I picked up on the more radicalizing narrative. SpongeBob is in a way critical of society in capitalism. From a Marxist analysis, the main characters fall into categories of class. SpongeBob: proletariat (unaware of bourgeois propaganda/indoctrination Squidward: proletariat (intellectual and thus more alienated) Mr Krabs: bourgeoisie/capitalist (greedy property owner exploiting SpongeBob and squidward) Plankton: petit bourgeoisie (actively trying to take over mr Krabs monopoly) I did not foresee that SpongeBob would be one of the key influences in my politics. Workers of the world unite!

[@slowjj8088]

This vídeo need to be in netflix

[@forgthefrog77]

I got this recommended after watching some everywhere at the end of time videos.

[@Average_Panda]

I’ve always felt that the end credit song sounds so eerie 😅

[@hihunter7]

Death, taxes, and... I forgot

[@rjbradley2923]

everywhere at the end of time... GIVE ME MY SPONGE BOB WITH DEMENTIA-

[@finlandball1939]

Another strict parody of SpongeBob that does a good job in horror and dread is the “I’m Sorry SpongeBob” aka “The Bikini Bottom Horror” comic saga. Good storytelling and a good sense of terror and parody.

[@Ringohulk777]

11:44 this makes me think of the episode where SpongeBob is left behind by the entire town

[@totallyrealname8849]

I remember the good ol days when the caretaker was still midly obscure

[@finlandball1939]

@xX_username_Xx LE BURNING MEMORIES AND TROLLGE GO BRRRRRRRR

[@SquidJustice]

Wow this is your first video? What an interesting topic to be had. The deterioration of SpongeBob and a changed soundtrack that depicts everything at its end. Very interesting video, would like to see more analyses from you honestly

[@CmdrDingus]

i still cant believe they referenced Red Mist in the real show

[@Zephelinn]

I’m getting Alex Bale Vibes. The Website, The Channel, hmm.

[@Natalia-ex8xi]

I'd never even heard of the album before, but nice! I mean, nice as in haunting and sort of makes me want a cry a bit, but really good breakdown/analysis of the source material

[@saeedbaig4249]

Great video! Somehow Everywhere at the End of Bikini Bottom feels more appropriate for this generation than Everywhere at the End of Time (and more disturbing); The Shining already subverted ballroom music - time to subvert this generation's favourite nostalgia.

[@rexyjp1237]

Guys remember. Spongebob has the same origion as godzilla.

[@absolutemaniac7368]

A nuke???????

[@rexyjp1237]

@@absolutemaniac7368 ye. The same exact one. Castle bravo.

[@neondennon]

Misplaced in Time is my favorite Caretaker track, as much as I also like Burning Memory, it’s refreshing to see people talk about one of the other songs. There’s 6 hours of content and people usually just focus on the first few minutes of it. Misplaced in Time, and it’s followup Drifting Time Misplaced, just have this beautifully haunting aura. Lullaby of the Leaves is a calm late summer day, the leaves are rustling high in the trees, then transitions to Misplaced in Time and it feels like watching the leaves getting blown off the tree branches in fall, like each leaf is a memory fading, and in Drifting Time Misplaced it’s seeing those same leaves old and withered getting blown down a decrepit old trail, all the color and life has faded from each one. TL;DR I love Lullaby of the Leaves, Misplaced in Time, and Drifting Time Misplaced. Don’t hand me the AUX cord rn I’m gonna play 10 hours of Drifting Time Misplaced

[@ColdFuse96]

This is the kind of thing that you can only be 100% impacted by if you were actually there to watch SpongeBob when it came out on Day 1. That's something kids of today can't possibly understand, and you know what? I dont think they ever will. We were the lucky ones that got to see the birth, growth, and final dementia downfall of it all.

[@ev5579]

Very well put together!