How Spongebob Explored Existential Nihilism
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Published 2020-10-10
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All Comments (21)
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what’s your favorite spongebob episode..?
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"In case you've forgotten, here's how things work. I order the food, you cook the food, then the customer gets the food. We do that for 40 years and then we die."
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I don't know why I only just realized this, but the only reason SpongeBob and Patrick like jellyfishing is because Squidward showed it to their ancestors. He is the maker of his own prison.
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It’s so disappointing SpongeBob no longer makes amazing episodes like this. They’re now targeted towards brainless children
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I also appreciate the fact that in this episode, when Squidward goes to the past, he ends up teaching Spongebob and Patrick how to jellyfish, contributing to his own torture.
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When you think about it, Squidward is probably the most fleshed out character in Spongebob (In the early seasons at least). He starts off as this snarky person who seems to just hate everyone around him. But over time, it's shown that Squidward only acts this way because he feels like he's trapped in this world where no one else understands him and will always be alone.
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Something else I noticed about the episode when it comes to how lonely Squidward truly is in the world is the fact that he was locked in a freezer but felt confident that someone will come looking for him "in no time", but he waited 2000 years and nobody bothered
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I love when people discuss the actual philosophical implications, instead of just calling every weird thing in kids' cartoons "purgatory" or "a dream/hallucination"
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4:13 in this scene alone, i think all the coloured squares surrounding squidward are meant to represent the spongebob main cast. yellow, brown/orange = spongebob pink = patrick light blue, purple/dark blue, red = mr. krabs these coloured squares disappear once he mentions being alone it may just be accidental, coincidental, or was done for a reference but it might be meaningful here :P i don't know
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Hillenburg in heaven: "Uh, yeah, I totally meant all that"
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The part where squidward ends up in nowhere is still terrifying to me.
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Imagine if the writers of this episode just wrote it randomly with no real reason.
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I was so lucky to grow up with SpongeBob. Intelligently written, hilarious, deep, and interesting. A show that sticks with you forever.
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The scariest thing to me is that the episode isn't even named. SB stands for spongebob, and 129 is 129 because it's in the first season and is the 29th segment on the show. It scares me and for no reason.
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Can't believe Nietzsche was such a big Spongebob fan that it inspired him to write a book. Amazing
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I took an entire class on Existentialism this past semester. From Heidegger to Camus and Sartre, each one’s insights force you to approach time, our liminality as we stand between our past, present and future, as well as our mortality, and our question and search for meaning. Definitely my favorite class I’ve taken so far.
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SB-129 was phenomenal. As a kid, I was jealous when Squidward found his alone space. It always seemed really nice to me.
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This dude literally just put together a collegiate essay based on a memed SpongeBob episode. Well done!!
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When I was a kid for some reason I thought the square things in the nowhere place were like abstract things Squidward knew about. The yellow and pink are Spongebob and Patrick, purple is Squidward's house, red is Patrick's house, etc, like if they devolved into their basic elements in his mind.
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This episode was truly terrifying I felt like I was there with squidward experiencing true emptiness and loneliness. Everything was so hollow and barren and the genuine fear of the emotions in that episode being something you can feel in real life shook me to my core
