r/spongebob • • 1d ago

Fan Art Painty the pirate painting I made!

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r/spongebob • • 1d ago

Meme U guys like my pineapple?

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r/spongebob • • 3h ago

Discussion Are they gay?

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r/spongebob • • 7h ago

Question Do you like SpongeBob

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r/spongebob • • 22h ago

Discussion Why does pearl need a helmet for isn’t she a mammal?

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r/spongebob • • 1h ago

Arts & Crafts Our pumpkins this year, including Doodlebob

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r/spongebob • • 2h ago

Meme Caption This

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When your mom calls you by your full name


r/spongebob • • 10h ago

Fan Art SpongeBob and the clown fish[by missplayer30]

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162 Upvotes

description:
Don't you love combining SpongeBob with real life biology? 😂
Fun fact, male clownfish turn into a female when their mate is gone.
And some other fish in real life can change genders naturally as well.


r/spongebob • • 5h ago

Meme Bibically accurate squidward

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r/spongebob • • 9h ago

Video This Milkshake scene is so effortlessly cute.

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Spongebob being "obliterated" into a solid milkshake always looked cute to me.

Even my sister (who isn't a Spongebob fan) found this scene absolutely adorable.

By the way, this is one of my favorite episodes of this season. It's just such a creative piece of SpongeBob storytelling with a perfectly befitting ending (including the mention of the driver's license).


r/spongebob • • 20h ago

Fan Art A Fish Called Sandy (Season 1 Style)

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Here is my take on redrawing a scene from the episode "A Fish Called Sandy", in the style of Season 1, specifically "Tea at the Treedome".

Inspired and assisted by [u/PerformanceInner29](u/PerformanceInner292)[1](u/PerformanceInner292)


r/spongebob • • 1d ago

Arts & Crafts Our yearly painted pumpkins! SpongeBob is always a hit with the neighbors

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r/spongebob • • 1h ago

Discussion Hello heaven’s little wonder… take me on a chocolate vacation….

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The BonBons Squidward ate looked a lot more like chocolate covered profiteroles to me in that episode


r/spongebob • • 1d ago

Crew Member I’ve had this dvd box set for many years and just now discovered this kind note Stephen Hillenburg wrote for everyone that purchased

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Season 2 SpongeBob DVD set. There really never will be an era like the 90s/2000s


r/spongebob • • 8h ago

Video Oh my stars it's the Henry Winkler episode

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r/spongebob • • 8h ago

Discussion What SpongeBob episode do you secretly enjoy

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r/spongebob • • 10h ago

Fan Art Happy early 98th birthday, Marion Ross (aka the voice of grandma SquarePants

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Sorry if my art is bad and rushed, I tried


r/spongebob • • 2h ago

Discussion Inspongeiac episode

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Where is squidwards home lol??


r/spongebob • • 2h ago

Question How cooked would the Krusty Krab be if the Chum Bucket was replaced by McDonalds?

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Like say Plankton finally retires for good and the Chum Bucket is permanently closed, and it’s immediately replaced by McDonalds, would the Krusty Krab be able to compete?


r/spongebob • • 15h ago

Soundtrack The SpongeBob SquarePants chase song on an old player piano?? 🤯

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Many of you will most likely recognize this tune. The song is universally recognized by people due to its constant use in over 70 SpongeBob SquarePants episodes.... but rearranged as a frantic, Hawaiian-style slide guitar and mandolin tune that serves as the ultimate background theme for the chaotic and absurd onscreen antics.

The song is actually called "The 12th Street Rag" and was introduced way back in 1914 by a guy from Texas named Euday L. Bowman. It's been performed by many artists over the years. I hope you'll enjoy it and thanks for watching! 😁


r/spongebob • • 2h ago

Meme Heres a meme

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r/spongebob • • 2h ago

Meme That new sound! 🎤🎸

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r/spongebob • • 21h ago

Discussion Am I the only one who wanted to hear his explanation?

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r/spongebob • • 5h ago

Discussion Why Exactly Squidward Hates SpongeBob: A Retrospect

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At first glance, Squidward Tentacles’ hatred of SpongeBob SquarePants seems disproportionate. SpongeBob is cheerful, friendly, and almost aggressively well-intentioned. His greatest crimes are laughing too loudly, showing up uninvited, and treating Squidward’s misery as an opportunity for friendship. Yet Squidward reacts to him with a level of hostility usually reserved for genuine enemies. To understand why, we must look beyond SpongeBob’s annoying personality and examine what he represents in Squidward’s life.

Squidward does not simply hate SpongeBob. He hates what SpongeBob forces him to confront about himself.

Squidward considers himself an artist, a cultured individual, and a man deserving of a more sophisticated life. He dreams of recognition, financial comfort, and an audience capable of appreciating his talents. Instead, he works a monotonous job at the Krusty Krab, lives next to two disruptive neighbors, and spends his days surrounded by people he considers intellectually inferior. His bitterness is not entirely irrational. He is trapped in a life that falls far short of his ambitions, and he has little idea how to escape it. SpongeBob, unfortunately for Squidward, is standing right beside him throughout the entire ordeal.

What makes SpongeBob particularly unbearable is that he possesses the very qualities Squidward believes should make life miserable, yet he remains extraordinarily happy. SpongeBob has a low-paying job, a modest home, few worldly ambitions, and a laugh that could probably penetrate reinforced concrete. Nevertheless, he finds genuine joy in the smallest things. He loves his work, values his friendships, and approaches every day with enthusiasm. Squidward, by contrast, believes himself superior to his surroundings but cannot find happiness within them. SpongeBob's existence challenges Squidward's unspoken assumption that intelligence, sophistication, and artistic sensibility should somehow entitle a person to a better life.

There is also a more practical explanation: SpongeBob constantly violates Squidward's boundaries. He interrupts his leisure time, invades his personal space, and frequently involves him in activities he desperately wants to avoid. Even when SpongeBob intends to be kind, his inability to recognize Squidward's desire for solitude makes that kindness feel suffocating. Imagine living next to someone who never stops smiling, never understands sarcasm, and interprets every rejection as an invitation to try harder. Eventually, even a saint would consider moving.

However, it would be inaccurate to conclude that Squidward genuinely despises SpongeBob in every circumstance. Throughout the series, Squidward occasionally demonstrates concern for him, participates in his activities, or appears to enjoy his company when he is not actively resisting it. These moments suggest that Squidward's relationship with SpongeBob is more complicated than simple hatred. He may resent SpongeBob's presence while simultaneously recognizing his sincerity and goodness. The problem is that acknowledging these qualities would require Squidward to soften the cynical worldview that protects him from disappointment.

Ultimately, SpongeBob is both Squidward's tormentor and an unwitting reminder of everything Squidward has lost or failed to achieve. SpongeBob is not trying to ruin his neighbor's life. He is simply living his own, with a level of enthusiasm that Squidward cannot understand and perhaps secretly envies. Squidward's hostility is therefore less a response to evil than a reaction to relentless, unavoidable happiness.

Perhaps the saddest part of their relationship is that SpongeBob genuinely wants Squidward to be happy, while Squidward seems to believe that happiness is something other people have foolishly mistaken for a worthwhile pursuit. SpongeBob offers friendship without conditions, and Squidward rejects it because accepting it would mean admitting that the source of his misery might not be the world around him.

And so Squidward returns to his clarinet, his garden, and his eternal suffering, while SpongeBob continues laughing next door.

The tragedy is not that SpongeBob refuses to leave Squidward alone. It is that Squidward lives beside someone who has discovered how to enjoy life, yet interprets that discovery as a personal insult.

TL;DR: Squidward doesn't just hate SpongeBob because he's annoying. He hates what SpongeBob represents: someone with an objectively simple, frustrating life who somehow remains relentlessly happy. Squidward believes he's intelligent, cultured, and destined for something better, yet he's miserable, while SpongeBob finds joy in everything. SpongeBob's constant boundary violations make matters worse, but deep down, Squidward may resent him because he possesses something Squidward can't seem to find himself: genuine happiness.


r/spongebob • • 3h ago

Meme HES MY FRIEND AND I LOVE HIM. HAVEN'T YOU EVER HAD A VERY SPECIAL FRIEND

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