The weird thing is, I definitely remember hearing that joke as a kid, but only reading this post right now did it really hit me how messed up that is. That's another commonality with all of Spongebob's dark humor, as a kid you just kind of absorb the weirdness without realizing how wicked it all is.
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Any use of live action in the show was just unsettling. My favorite was the episode where Spongebob and friends go up on land as a dare, and they all become puppets.
My pick for the darkest gag the show has ever done comes from that episode.
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I've seen a fair number of post-movie episodes, and honestly Krusty Towers and the one where they're trapped in a well are the only ones that I could call "good". I have not seen all of them though, not even close.
What comes to mind for me is I saw a classmate play an old woman in a one act play and she admitted to basing her performance off of the old ladies from the chocolate episode. Maybe the best one-off characters they ever came up with.
Speaking of dark turns, Spongebob was always at its best, IMO, when it hinted at the huge amounts of darkness beneath its super sunny exterior.
I love that I can quote Spongebob to anyone my age and they get it instantly. It's a generation definer for sure.
My favorite: "And that's when I punch him right?"
"The walls will ooze slime! Wait they always do that."
"Every Villain Is Lemons, otherwise known as EVIL!"
"He burned our crops, poisoned our water supply, and left a plague upon our houses!"
Krusty Krab Training Video. To give a quote that wasn't already mentioned in the large thread above: "Not when I shift into MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE!"
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Confession: I haven't seen that episode, I'm just good at googling things. But you're welcome!
Googling "Tom Baker bottomless pit" returned this: http://tardis.wikia.com/wik…
One of the funniest lines in that episode.
DWM published a comic story last year in honor of the 50th called Hunters of the Burning Stone that was recently collected into a graphic novel. It features 11 in an adventure with Ian an Barbara. It's a wonderful story, full of the good kind of fanservice that makes you feel warm inside. Ian and Barbara coming to…
Weird that you think that, because over half of Moffat's stories are still earthbound. Though this season, and even more specifically the last three episodes, have been pretty out there, so I can see why there'd be confusion.