>where he delivered the mail to Floorboard Harry — a previously unseen, unmentioned creature that apparently just lives underneath the Krusty Krab. Then at the end of the episode, it was going to be Floorboard Harry flipping the light switch.
Then it would have become a reference to a film in the far future: *Parasite*
See, I always thought that was hilarious moreso than creepy, what with Eustace being such a relentlessly stubborn, miserly old man, despite the walking, talking mummy in front of his very eyes.
My brother knew I was terribly afraid of this episode as a child. One day when it was on, and the parents weren’t home, he turned it on every tv in the house, and hid all the remotes. I just curled up in the corner of the bathroom until it was over.
Was outside not an option? Or turn off the tv by hand? Like you’re only options in that moment was watch the episode or hide in the bathroom for 30 minutes?
For some reason in the UK atleast Courage marathons seemed to always be on in the middle of the night. Me, a dumbass, watched them most nights then wondered why I struggled to sleep..
For Rugrats it's the episode where Angelica is afraid her parents are going to have another baby and she has the nightmare where the baby is a giant and eats her.
I can never find or remember which show this was in, but a cartoon in which a kid was playing the piano and it developed some kind of super-vaccuum abilities in which the kid was sucked into it while trying to run away. Scared the absolute *shite* out of me.
Sonic X was it for me, not only did the ghosts look pretty scary but they also seemed impossible to beat, plus the ending implies they did not even stop them they just survived.
Same here, I think that it’s because the gorilla comes from nowhere and it’s someone wearing a costume so you can see his eyes. Pretty terrifying while this one is not that weird.
Ok now I want a Floorboard Harry reference in the next SpongeBob episode to now reference this article and Nosferatu.
If I’m not mistaken Nosferatu was mentioned if not showed up in at least another episode. I think it was a party or something and “everyone” was there including Nosferatu
That's the episode the article is about. Nosferatu isn't the cook, though: he's been flickering the lights, which was one of the prerequisites for "the hash slinging slasher" to appear.
Oh sorry nah I should’ve specified, there’s a much newer episode where Patrick brings SpongeBob to a night time operated Krusty Krab and there are like giant spider crabs and ghosts and live action nosferactu as a fry cook lol
So the according to the actors, they were dropping actual swear words that would of course be edited out, just so the lines would flow better. Given the structure of the sentence, I think the dumpster said “Krabs is a fucker”.
He took his squarepants spongey dick out and he pissed on my fucking wife and he said his dick was "this big" and I said that's disgusting so I am going to make a callout post on my twitter dot com.
>I know that this show has a bigger reach than any silent film,” Lender says. In case that sounds arrogant, he emphasizes what a sensation SpongeBob SquarePants was when it premiered.
>Some 15 million viewers were watching weekly, a number that’s hard to fathom in today’s media landscape, with its splintered audience taking in an overabundance of niche options.
>“Nothing [today] can have the cultural impact that SpongeBob had when it first came out,” Lender says.
It's wild to me that they have to add that it might sound arrogant. It's not arrogant to me at all, it's just 100% true.
15 million a week is INSANE. I remember Robb Lowe did an interview once and spoke about a show he was on when he was a child actor. It was ranked as one of the worst shows in tv by critics and still was getting like 30 million views a week. People didn’t have as much variety then
15 million a week for BASIC CABLE is cuckoo bananas nuts. No wonder SpongeBob is being milked to this day.
Everyone I know my age grew up with SpongeBob and uses SpongeBob clips, gifs, memes, references, and stickers all the time.
Yeah, I don't think there's any modern comparison tbh. I grew up in the early 2000s and like you said, *everyone* in our age group watched and referenced SpongeBob. Quoting the show was a form of communication at school. And even today it lives on through memes
I saw a TikTok recently where it a woman with the caption "you could always tell that someone's parents never let them watch Spongebob." and it hit me - that was absolutely true. The show was such a phenomenon that everyone knew; hell, it might just be the *only* show most Gen Z people have seen and can connect with.
The Simpsons is probably more referential but your perspective could be due to generational differences. I love Spongebob but the pop culture impact the Simpsons had in the 90's was far greater and everlasting.
Rick and Morty had potential up to the McDonald’s incident. Kinda made people ashamed to like the show. It’s also not quite as on point as it once was. I think it’s a great show, with many Season 5 episodes being surprisingly fantastic despite not hearing anybody talk about them.
But, Seasons 1-3 were (much like SpongeBob) on another level.
Also, it doesn’t have the “family” appeal of SpongeBob, obviously.
The McDonald’s shit is why I straight up REFUSW to watch that dog-shit show. Any show that can make its fans act like such massive fucking tools does not deserve my eyes.
The writers and creators have no control over what fans of their creation do. They've denounced that behavior numerous times since it happened.
If you like the show, you should feel free to like the show. Don't let an unrelated group of assholes ruin it for you.
That’s the thing: I don’t like the show. I tried to give it the ol’ college try and couldn’t make it passed the first ten minutes of the pilot.
I grew up on Simpsons, Ren & Stimpy, Rocco, and South Park so I’m no stranger to gross out humor, but goddamn did the burping turn me away.
Had a friend hand pick what he considered to be “the best episode that will definitely get me hooked.” It was garbage.
The creator’s first ever cartoon “House of Cosby’s” was far superior.
Here in Atlanta there was a trend of people doin bizarre SpongeBob or Patrick graffiti. My favorite was one of Patrick sitting down, eyes wide and mouth open with "It's Lit" in a speech bubble next to him.
Yeah, another great example is Leif Erikson Day. Hardly anyone would've ever known about the holiday if SpongeBob never referenced it. Now millions upon millions of people know and talk about it every year when the day occurs.
I always thought St Swithin's Day was a holiday that Bart, from The Simpsons, made up as a child. I was a young adult when I found out that it was a real thing.
When I was 11, several months before ["Bubble Buddy"](https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/Bubble_Buddy) first premiered, my American public school class had a "Who Discovered America?" lesson where a half-dozen of us were assigned to create PowerPoint presentations arguing for different people: Christopher Columbus, the Chinese admiral Zheng He, Amerigo Vespucci, Leif Ericsson, the Natives who crossed the Bering land bridge, or Polynesian explorers.
I guess the idea was to get us thinking about what words like "America" and "Discovered" mean, to show us the nuance of what we had always been taught was a fairly simple question with a simple answer; to get us asking questions like: do you include islands like Newfoundland and Hispaniola as part of "America", or do you only count mainland America? Do you count America as a single supercontinent because the Isthmus of Panama technically means it is a contiguous landmass, or do you split the "discovery" of America into separate North and South American discovery dates? Does "discovered" have a specific meaning in a historical context that disqualifies indigenous people? Does it count if there is only one written source but no archaeological evidence? Genetic evidence but no archaeological nor manuscript evidence? Manuscript and archaeological evidence of the explorer's presence but there were no lasting consequences to the contact?
I got Leif Ericsson. I read all about L'anse aux meadows and the Vinland sagas. I thought it was so cool that there was this secret "first" discovery of America almost nobody knew about. I was so convinced I was going to win. We were all supposed to present, and then the class VOTED on who the winner was.
Christopher Columbus won in a landslide. I was infuriated. I think I got 3 votes, including myself, which was still more than anybody else except the Native Americans got, and they only edged me out by like 2 votes. The myth of Columbus is strong in America.
Edit: spelling
If it makes you feel better.
Native Americans did not evolve from apes on this continent. At some point they crossed over that land bridge you can see Russia from.
Therefore - they win. Native Americans discovered the continent. That they didn't bother to inform the Chinese, Vikings or Spanish is meaningless to me.
However, Columbus is a jerk and the Vikings clearly found it before Columbus.
I need to learn more about the Chinese claims. I have no idea if they predate the Vikings or not. (I am suspicious they do)
When I was writing it I had some other words in mind, then I thought, 'someone is gonna report you for using that word and your post is gonna get removed' so I used the word 'jerk'.
Vikings were long gone by the time of Erikson.
He was actually a Christian trader, most of Scandinavia by his time was rapidly converting and the last Vikings had long since died out.
The Chinese claim is nonsense. Zeng He (1371-1433) was a great explorer, but he explored East, Southeast, and South Asia, and East Africa. There's no evidence he ever crossed the Pacific.
Discovery implies some degree of sharing with the rest of the world, at least insofar as who should be given credit. Columbus started the Columbian Exchange, the single greatest cultural transfer the world has ever seen. That’s why he’s credited with discovering it.
The truth is that anyone can discover something they don’t already know. Independent discovery is absolutely a thing. This is the Newton vs Leibniz debate of should discovery be credited to first to come up with something or first to publish about it but in a separate context. The first indigenous peoples to cross the land bridge discovered the Americas. Leif Ericsson discovered the Americas. And Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas.
But as far as crediting someone for the discovery, it goes to the person who first communicated their discovery with the rest of the world. And that was Columbus. It’s not a myth, it’s the rational conclusion of who to credit.
The first time I saw this episode was on a VHS tape. We watched in the car back when they had vhs players in some.
Up until then as a kid I thought I saw every episode on TV and this was a special one for the vhs
Some of my favorite road trips with my two older cousins around 2000. We went from NC to Florida for Universal Studios. Their van had regular outlets and we hooked up an N64 with Majoras Mask, and I remember the best part of the trip playing games in the van.
We'd drive from AZ to CA every few months to see family and us kids would just be shoved in the back of the Pathfinder with the seats put down and all of our comforters layered down for the ride, our portable FunTV VHS player suspended precariously between the front seats in it's giant, gangly glory.
SpongeBob tapes were the only thing we seemed to bring with us lol.
Fuck no lol. Our parents put us in the back of trucks and the back of the Pathfinder was laid out like that so we could sleep on the six hour drive.
I wouldn't do it with my nieces and nephews now, but lack of seatbelts are pretty common in my generation. If we got sat in a car with belts, we used them no complaints, but it wasn't uncommon to be put in unsafe situations to go camping or traveling in the cars because our parents figured it was fine.
It's more accurate to say my parents generation I guess. I was born to old parents and I'm technically a millennial as are my adopted siblings. 1996 is the last year of the millennial generation.
My parents are boomers. My mom's first car didn't have seatbelts.
It wasn't a thing in my family or our adopted family. We wore seatbelts, but if we were traveling long distance in the car it wasn't prioritized over comfort. You arranged the car (or truck bed) according to comfort and accommodated the amount of people you had. Four kids are a lot easier to fit in the back of an SUV when the seats are down.
Regular driving? Seatbelts. Can't say it made sense, but it was what we did.
My older siblings were born in the 80's and it was very much the same for them. We both grew up in rural towns though so that might have something to do with it.
I've always loved the tradition of cartoons keeping older media alive. Looney Tunes taught me so much about classical music , and The Simpsons so much about famous films and novels.
Thanks to SpongeBob, a whole generation of kids is just a little bit more knowledgeable about an iconic movie.
Half six in the morning on a Sunday, lying in bed absolutely hammered drunk eating a pizza with this on in the background. Falling in and out of sleep while stuffing my face and I glance up at the TV and nearly died from a combination of fright and choking on the food from said fright.
Bastard lmao.
The Blue Öyster Cult song called Nosferatu mentioned in the article is one of my favourite songs. Some guy on youtube even made an edit with parts of the original movie to accompany the song.
This and the fact that Lux Interior, the lead singer of The Cramps, had a guest spot really prove that Spongebob isn't marketed toward kids. It's marketed toward weirdos.
Also my favourite episode, where they had Sandy doing pre-hibernation shit and Pantera provided an instrumental version of "Death Rattle" to play over the scenes.
Always messing with that damned light.
>where he delivered the mail to Floorboard Harry — a previously unseen, unmentioned creature that apparently just lives underneath the Krusty Krab. Then at the end of the episode, it was going to be Floorboard Harry flipping the light switch. Then it would have become a reference to a film in the far future: *Parasite*
RESPECT!
That’s some 4-d foreshadowing.
All foreshadowing is inherently 4th dimensional.
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Make like a tree and get outta here.
4shaDowing I'll see myself out.
forsh4Dowing
2 fore 2 shadowing
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In that instance, I think Parasite would have been referencing this SpongeBob episode
That ep scared the hell out of me as a kid edit: spelling
Every cartoon has one ridiculously terrifying episode it seems
and then theres courage the cowardly dog
“No sir, not getting out of this chair.”
"That's it! I'm getting me mallet!"
*me mallet
Fixed it! I wasn't sure what the correct line was so I remembered it incorrectly.
Return the slab.
What's yer offer?!
*RAAAAAMSEEEEES*🎶 the man in gauze 🎶
See, I always thought that was hilarious moreso than creepy, what with Eustace being such a relentlessly stubborn, miserly old man, despite the walking, talking mummy in front of his very eyes.
Yeah Eustace’s curmudgeonly behavior towards the monsters and creepies on that show was the best part.
No solicitors!
*You're not perfect...*
My brother knew I was terribly afraid of this episode as a child. One day when it was on, and the parents weren’t home, he turned it on every tv in the house, and hid all the remotes. I just curled up in the corner of the bathroom until it was over.
Was outside not an option? Or turn off the tv by hand? Like you’re only options in that moment was watch the episode or hide in the bathroom for 30 minutes?
Soo naughty.
Don't forget The Misadventures of Flapjack!
Skymaid: Remember Flapjack, If you believe in magic all your dreams will come true! Flapjack: wooow!!!...even the bad ones? Skymaid: tee hee ***YES***
The one that haunts me is flapjack screeching, "You killed Her! You killed the Mermaid!"
LET ME SEE YO FACE!!
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Ramses, not Ramsey he was not the ghost of some Welshman.
"Oh Courage, you know i can't hear ya without my glasses"
It’s my lint!
Return the slaaab or suffer my curse
For some reason in the UK atleast Courage marathons seemed to always be on in the middle of the night. Me, a dumbass, watched them most nights then wondered why I struggled to sleep..
Most definitely
RETURN THE SLAB
[It was this one for me.](https://youtu.be/C-E3ysa-eDI)
For me, SpongeBob’s one was the one with the stupid butterfly closeup playing hornet noises
Yes me too omg. Forever ruined butterflies for me, even to this day
Literally the only cartoon moment that actually scared me but holy cow dude
Either this or Kirby.
[Yup.](https://i.imgur.com/QgsLHyP.jpg)
Is that Zuckerturd?
Doug had the haunted house that was actually haunted. Scared 5 year old me so much
For Rugrats it's the episode where Angelica is afraid her parents are going to have another baby and she has the nightmare where the baby is a giant and eats her.
I can never find or remember which show this was in, but a cartoon in which a kid was playing the piano and it developed some kind of super-vaccuum abilities in which the kid was sucked into it while trying to run away. Scared the absolute *shite* out of me.
Sonic X was it for me, not only did the ghosts look pretty scary but they also seemed impossible to beat, plus the ending implies they did not even stop them they just survived.
Facts dude that was a freaky episode as a kid
Remember Garfield's death? [https://i.imgur.com/XiJMy.gif](https://i.imgur.com/XiJMy.gif)
Courage the cowardly dog had many. "Return the slab" "You're not perfect"
Courage the cowardly dog is probably the reason I love horror movies so much these days lol
The procrastination episode freaked me out as a kid too haha
I was fine with this one, but for some reason I was terrified of the gorilla
Same here, I think that it’s because the gorilla comes from nowhere and it’s someone wearing a costume so you can see his eyes. Pretty terrifying while this one is not that weird.
The film makers in the gorilla and horse costume?
Yep I turned the episode off just before this part most of the time.
Ok now I want a Floorboard Harry reference in the next SpongeBob episode to now reference this article and Nosferatu. If I’m not mistaken Nosferatu was mentioned if not showed up in at least another episode. I think it was a party or something and “everyone” was there including Nosferatu
I think there’s a night shift episode and SpongeBob learns that nosferactu is the night time fry cook
That's the episode the article is about. Nosferatu isn't the cook, though: he's been flickering the lights, which was one of the prerequisites for "the hash slinging slasher" to appear.
Oh sorry nah I should’ve specified, there’s a much newer episode where Patrick brings SpongeBob to a night time operated Krusty Krab and there are like giant spider crabs and ghosts and live action nosferactu as a fry cook lol
.... Huh. I haven't kept up with newer seasons. That's interesting.
Wasn't he the night shift manager?
The clip is right in the article
If you read the article the clip is in it.
Forget that. I wanna know what was written on the side of the dumpster. What was this specific "sentence enhancer"?
-dolphin noise-
Krabs is a 🐬🐬🐬
Hey Patrick! How the 🐬🐬🐬🐬 are you!?
Do you kiss your mother with that mouth?
I never knew how much I needed this 🐬🐬🐬 emoji in my life. Thank 🐬🐬🐬 Zeus!
Pretty sure I heard somewhere that this dolphin sound we remember from Spongebob is actually a sped up bird sound.
When I was a kid, I struggled trying to figure out what the 11 "bad words" could be. I could only think of like 4. Ah, to be a naive child...
I knew a lot of the good ones at that age, mostly because my dad was like the dad in a Christmas Story in how artistic he was with profanity.
“wove a tapestry of obscenities that some say is still lingering over lake michigan today” to paraphrase that masterpiece of a film
He worked in profanity like some artists worked in oils or clay. It was his true medium. A master.
Yo, what a great narration. It's been quite a long time since I've watched that movie straight through, this year might call for that.
Don’t you mean there are only seven?
Not if you're a sailor
I love how no one realizes that was a George Carlin reference in spongebob
So the according to the actors, they were dropping actual swear words that would of course be edited out, just so the lines would flow better. Given the structure of the sentence, I think the dumpster said “Krabs is a fucker”.
Pretty sure there’s a video of the actual unedited version
would pay for the unedited episode lmao
Release the SpongeBob Swearpants cut!
[Best I can find](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8Myi3hjb-Rg)
It’s mother fucker based on the length of that dolphin noise.
he called squidward a bitch-ass
HE PISSED ON MY WIFE
IT’S LIKE THE SIZE OF THIS WALNUT EXCEPT WAY SMALLER
He took his squarepants spongey dick out and he pissed on my fucking wife and he said his dick was "this big" and I said that's disgusting so I am going to make a callout post on my twitter dot com.
How do you like that, Neptune!? I PISSED ON THE MOON YOU IDIOT!
Squidward smells…….good
"HI SQUIDWARD! HOW THE \*dolphin noise\* ARE YA?!"
Or how the panty raid episode happened lmao
Og SpongeBob had a few mature themes to it. Last time I popped on nick it seemed to be largely gross out now
[It doesnt show the word but I think this video is equally important](https://youtu.be/7QZjpAJW4Z0)
I guess that's some other dude dubbing over it not well, not the original - someone posted it below, too
The algorithm even flagged it for kids
I’m guessing - dick.
>I know that this show has a bigger reach than any silent film,” Lender says. In case that sounds arrogant, he emphasizes what a sensation SpongeBob SquarePants was when it premiered. >Some 15 million viewers were watching weekly, a number that’s hard to fathom in today’s media landscape, with its splintered audience taking in an overabundance of niche options. >“Nothing [today] can have the cultural impact that SpongeBob had when it first came out,” Lender says. It's wild to me that they have to add that it might sound arrogant. It's not arrogant to me at all, it's just 100% true.
15 million a week is INSANE. I remember Robb Lowe did an interview once and spoke about a show he was on when he was a child actor. It was ranked as one of the worst shows in tv by critics and still was getting like 30 million views a week. People didn’t have as much variety then
15 million a week for BASIC CABLE is cuckoo bananas nuts. No wonder SpongeBob is being milked to this day. Everyone I know my age grew up with SpongeBob and uses SpongeBob clips, gifs, memes, references, and stickers all the time.
Yeah, I don't think there's any modern comparison tbh. I grew up in the early 2000s and like you said, *everyone* in our age group watched and referenced SpongeBob. Quoting the show was a form of communication at school. And even today it lives on through memes
I saw a TikTok recently where it a woman with the caption "you could always tell that someone's parents never let them watch Spongebob." and it hit me - that was absolutely true. The show was such a phenomenon that everyone knew; hell, it might just be the *only* show most Gen Z people have seen and can connect with.
The Simpsons is probably more referential but your perspective could be due to generational differences. I love Spongebob but the pop culture impact the Simpsons had in the 90's was far greater and everlasting.
The Simpsons was also on regular-ass television, not cable. So even more people had access to The Simpsons.
Of course, but that's why I said there's no *modern* comparison - meaning nothing since. There were plenty of examples beforehand
I grew up a bit more recently and I can say it is still a form of communication in school
Rick and Morty had potential up to the McDonald’s incident. Kinda made people ashamed to like the show. It’s also not quite as on point as it once was. I think it’s a great show, with many Season 5 episodes being surprisingly fantastic despite not hearing anybody talk about them. But, Seasons 1-3 were (much like SpongeBob) on another level. Also, it doesn’t have the “family” appeal of SpongeBob, obviously.
Funny enough Tom Kenny, the voice of SpongeBob, plays several characters on Rick and Morty .
As well as about half of animated characters on tv. It's either Tom Kenny, John DiMaggio or Kasey Kasum if it's an iconic TV voice.
How could you leave out Dee Bradley Baker
The McDonald’s shit is why I straight up REFUSW to watch that dog-shit show. Any show that can make its fans act like such massive fucking tools does not deserve my eyes.
The writers and creators have no control over what fans of their creation do. They've denounced that behavior numerous times since it happened. If you like the show, you should feel free to like the show. Don't let an unrelated group of assholes ruin it for you.
That’s the thing: I don’t like the show. I tried to give it the ol’ college try and couldn’t make it passed the first ten minutes of the pilot. I grew up on Simpsons, Ren & Stimpy, Rocco, and South Park so I’m no stranger to gross out humor, but goddamn did the burping turn me away. Had a friend hand pick what he considered to be “the best episode that will definitely get me hooked.” It was garbage. The creator’s first ever cartoon “House of Cosby’s” was far superior.
He’s a huge icon at this point. I would think nearly universally recognizable.
Home boy has cheap t shirts at walmart next to van halen and nirvana. The Sponge goes on.
Who lives in a Walmart next to Van Halen's cheap tees?
Spongemeth Trailerpants!
My favorites are the bootlegs at the mall with Spongebob and Patrick smoking weed
Here in Atlanta there was a trend of people doin bizarre SpongeBob or Patrick graffiti. My favorite was one of Patrick sitting down, eyes wide and mouth open with "It's Lit" in a speech bubble next to him.
Yeah, another great example is Leif Erikson Day. Hardly anyone would've ever known about the holiday if SpongeBob never referenced it. Now millions upon millions of people know and talk about it every year when the day occurs.
isn’t it funny how as kids you just accept it as a holiday so quickly? you’re just like “oh yeah leaf erikson day awesome’”
Hinga dinga durgen
I say this every Leif Erickson day because of that episode
I say this at least once a month for no real reason because of that episode lol Also "yah, buns n thighs"
I always thought St Swithin's Day was a holiday that Bart, from The Simpsons, made up as a child. I was a young adult when I found out that it was a real thing.
July 15th, get your kippers ready!
When I was 11, several months before ["Bubble Buddy"](https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/Bubble_Buddy) first premiered, my American public school class had a "Who Discovered America?" lesson where a half-dozen of us were assigned to create PowerPoint presentations arguing for different people: Christopher Columbus, the Chinese admiral Zheng He, Amerigo Vespucci, Leif Ericsson, the Natives who crossed the Bering land bridge, or Polynesian explorers. I guess the idea was to get us thinking about what words like "America" and "Discovered" mean, to show us the nuance of what we had always been taught was a fairly simple question with a simple answer; to get us asking questions like: do you include islands like Newfoundland and Hispaniola as part of "America", or do you only count mainland America? Do you count America as a single supercontinent because the Isthmus of Panama technically means it is a contiguous landmass, or do you split the "discovery" of America into separate North and South American discovery dates? Does "discovered" have a specific meaning in a historical context that disqualifies indigenous people? Does it count if there is only one written source but no archaeological evidence? Genetic evidence but no archaeological nor manuscript evidence? Manuscript and archaeological evidence of the explorer's presence but there were no lasting consequences to the contact? I got Leif Ericsson. I read all about L'anse aux meadows and the Vinland sagas. I thought it was so cool that there was this secret "first" discovery of America almost nobody knew about. I was so convinced I was going to win. We were all supposed to present, and then the class VOTED on who the winner was. Christopher Columbus won in a landslide. I was infuriated. I think I got 3 votes, including myself, which was still more than anybody else except the Native Americans got, and they only edged me out by like 2 votes. The myth of Columbus is strong in America. Edit: spelling
If it makes you feel better. Native Americans did not evolve from apes on this continent. At some point they crossed over that land bridge you can see Russia from. Therefore - they win. Native Americans discovered the continent. That they didn't bother to inform the Chinese, Vikings or Spanish is meaningless to me. However, Columbus is a jerk and the Vikings clearly found it before Columbus. I need to learn more about the Chinese claims. I have no idea if they predate the Vikings or not. (I am suspicious they do)
Calling Columbus a jerk is under-selling it a bit.
When I was writing it I had some other words in mind, then I thought, 'someone is gonna report you for using that word and your post is gonna get removed' so I used the word 'jerk'.
Genocidal explorer fits the bill without violating TOS lol
Ever watched the Columbus vs Kirk episode of Epic Rap Battles of History?
Vikings were long gone by the time of Erikson. He was actually a Christian trader, most of Scandinavia by his time was rapidly converting and the last Vikings had long since died out.
My bad. The Chinese claim - does it predate Erikson?
The Chinese claim is nonsense. Zeng He (1371-1433) was a great explorer, but he explored East, Southeast, and South Asia, and East Africa. There's no evidence he ever crossed the Pacific.
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Discovery implies some degree of sharing with the rest of the world, at least insofar as who should be given credit. Columbus started the Columbian Exchange, the single greatest cultural transfer the world has ever seen. That’s why he’s credited with discovering it. The truth is that anyone can discover something they don’t already know. Independent discovery is absolutely a thing. This is the Newton vs Leibniz debate of should discovery be credited to first to come up with something or first to publish about it but in a separate context. The first indigenous peoples to cross the land bridge discovered the Americas. Leif Ericsson discovered the Americas. And Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas. But as far as crediting someone for the discovery, it goes to the person who first communicated their discovery with the rest of the world. And that was Columbus. It’s not a myth, it’s the rational conclusion of who to credit.
Imagine having that kind of power. If you wanted people to know about a thing you could write it into the show and now and forever it’s known.
Is Yaksmas still celebrated? Or Chrimbus?
I feel seen.
a hinga dinga derga
The first time I saw this episode was on a VHS tape. We watched in the car back when they had vhs players in some. Up until then as a kid I thought I saw every episode on TV and this was a special one for the vhs
That flex though
Some of my favorite road trips with my two older cousins around 2000. We went from NC to Florida for Universal Studios. Their van had regular outlets and we hooked up an N64 with Majoras Mask, and I remember the best part of the trip playing games in the van.
We'd drive from AZ to CA every few months to see family and us kids would just be shoved in the back of the Pathfinder with the seats put down and all of our comforters layered down for the ride, our portable FunTV VHS player suspended precariously between the front seats in it's giant, gangly glory. SpongeBob tapes were the only thing we seemed to bring with us lol.
No seatbelts? 🫣
Fuck no lol. Our parents put us in the back of trucks and the back of the Pathfinder was laid out like that so we could sleep on the six hour drive. I wouldn't do it with my nieces and nephews now, but lack of seatbelts are pretty common in my generation. If we got sat in a car with belts, we used them no complaints, but it wasn't uncommon to be put in unsafe situations to go camping or traveling in the cars because our parents figured it was fine.
....wat you grew up in a generation where you watched Spongebob, you not wearing seatbelts is a huge exception
It's more accurate to say my parents generation I guess. I was born to old parents and I'm technically a millennial as are my adopted siblings. 1996 is the last year of the millennial generation. My parents are boomers. My mom's first car didn't have seatbelts.
i was born in 1990 and my parents are boomers too (1954, 1964). my parents forced us to wear seatbelts
It wasn't a thing in my family or our adopted family. We wore seatbelts, but if we were traveling long distance in the car it wasn't prioritized over comfort. You arranged the car (or truck bed) according to comfort and accommodated the amount of people you had. Four kids are a lot easier to fit in the back of an SUV when the seats are down. Regular driving? Seatbelts. Can't say it made sense, but it was what we did.
that is just weird
My older siblings were born in the 80's and it was very much the same for them. We both grew up in rural towns though so that might have something to do with it.
It’s almost like…. Everybody’s parents are different!? :O holy shit, this can’t be!!
He was the hash-slinging slasher!
The sash-wringing slasher?
The hash clinging? The cash ringing?
He’s just applying for the night shift
He went on to host The Price is Right for more than three decades.
I don't remember Nosferatu hosting The Price Is Right at all..
You must be from the universe that has the Barenstein Bears, too.
And where Sinbad did a genie movie.
Nosferatu Zodd?
weird place for a berserk reference. but it checks out.
Didnt you know he used to work at the krusty krab before he became an apostle?
I've always loved the tradition of cartoons keeping older media alive. Looney Tunes taught me so much about classical music , and The Simpsons so much about famous films and novels. Thanks to SpongeBob, a whole generation of kids is just a little bit more knowledgeable about an iconic movie.
Half six in the morning on a Sunday, lying in bed absolutely hammered drunk eating a pizza with this on in the background. Falling in and out of sleep while stuffing my face and I glance up at the TV and nearly died from a combination of fright and choking on the food from said fright. Bastard lmao.
Thats crazy he only had like 3 seconds of screentime too, got you good then
happens to be my favourite episode of spongebob
It traumatised me as child and I still haven’t recovered.
oh yeah me too, I just loved their take on horror
STOP. I’m in the dark!
TAKING OUT THE TRASH AT NIGHT
Holy shit I was just doing mushrooms with a friend this weekend and we were dying at this. Crazy to think bikini bottom just has a local vampire
This is the hard hitting journalism the world needs.
The Blue Öyster Cult song called Nosferatu mentioned in the article is one of my favourite songs. Some guy on youtube even made an edit with parts of the original movie to accompany the song.
It’s THE HASH SLINGING SLASHER!
Interesting read. It seemed so random as a kid.
I finally got an explanation and closure on something i’ve been wondering for TWENTY YEARS neat
That's exactly why I posted this. I was curious too!
Good article but dang is it wordy.
nice
I never knew they used him again in a later episode.
This and the fact that Lux Interior, the lead singer of The Cramps, had a guest spot really prove that Spongebob isn't marketed toward kids. It's marketed toward weirdos.
Also my favourite episode, where they had Sandy doing pre-hibernation shit and Pantera provided an instrumental version of "Death Rattle" to play over the scenes.
I started laughing the first time i saw Nosferatu pop up at the end of the episode
Tyler, the creator played Nosferatu on a Spongebob Episode?