SpongeHenge

SpongeHenge
Alternatively, "The Worst Skill of SpongeBob's Life".
Season	5
Episode No.	99b
Main Reason for being ScumBob	Boring All over the place SpongeBob torture Jerky jellyfish The ending is disturbing, dark and off the wall. Patrick doesn't even try to help his best friend A lot of plot holes Similar to red mist

SpongeHenge is a Super-infamous episode of SpongeBob SquarePants. In this episode, SpongeBob's holes make music in the wind, attracting the jellyfish.

Why It Should Get Stranded In A Cave

1. The main problem with this episode is that it can’t seem to decide what movie it’s supposed to parody. Although there are references to the real life Stonehenge and Planet of the Apes, it never sticks with one side or the other, confusing viewers about what this episode is about.
2. It's basically an 11 minute torture episode for SpongeBob as he's repeatedly chased by the jellyfish, forced to stay in a cave for an incredibly long time, and later finding out what happened to everyone and everything that he cared about, making the whole episode very mean-spirited.
3. The episode tries so hard to be serious and dark to make people more interested in the story. However, due to its tone it becomes more unappealing and nightmarish. Granted, "SB-129", another SpongeBob episode, also had somewhat dark scenes, but it never went this far.
4. Some scenes are flat-out disturbing and unsettling, such as the cave sequence.
5. This whole episode tries so hard to make SpongeBob suffer when he didn’t do anything to deserve it. All he did was play music with his holes.
6. Patrick is unlikable and dumb in this episode, as he kicks SpongeBob out of his home only because he thinks he's a bad influence for the jellyfish stinging him, yet it was obvious that the jellyfish were causing SpongeBob problems.
7. It shows a couple of contrived plot holes:
   • Why didn't SpongeBob cover up his holes to stop the music? The whole story could've been avoided if he did that.
   • Why hasn't Bikini Bottom been evacuated because of these strong winds?
     • Speaking of wind, how is there wind underwater?
   • At the Krusty Krab, why didn't SpongeBob close the window when he saw it open?
   • If the wind could blow the Krusty Krab away, then how come it couldn't blow away lighter objects, such as SpongeBob's house, which is literally a pineapple?
   • How did SpongeBob manage to survive if sea life became extinct?
8. Disturbing and bad ending: After SpongeBob succeeds fending off the jellyfish from him and he goes back to the Krusty Krab, he finds out that the place is deserted which technically means that the fish life got extinct, which is cruel and out of place. The fact that he cries out in despair finding out what happened only makes this even creepier and sadder.
   • To make things more awkward, we later on see aliens taking pictures of the giant SpongeBob statues. This scene in particular is even creepier as it is implied that not only that SpongeBob is dead and forgotten, but an eerie laugh of his is heard as we cut to black.
     • Speaking of the alien photographers, not only are their designs look real creepy, which is just enough to scare young viewers, but also generates one question; what the heck do alien photographers taking pictures of the giant SpongeBob statues have to do with what happened to poor SpongeBob?
9. The Jellyfish never get punished for all they put SpongeBob through, and yet THEY get the good ending, making them Karma Houdinis.

Redeeming Qualities That Should Be Rescued From The Cave

1. The song that was played through SpongeBob's sponge holes is nice, despite it's grim and dark tone.
2. The "Later" and "3000 Years Later" (a much longer version of SB-129's "2000 Years Later") time cards are very well done.
3. Great animation and voice acting as usual.
4. SpongeBob is the only likable character.
5. The SpongeHenge monument looks really creative.
6. Thankfully, in episodes after this one, SpongeBob is not dead after all.
7. The reference to planet of the apes was good depending on your view

How this should be solved

Make the underwater wind stop blowing for a while. Instead of having him stuck in the cave, have SpongeBob to get Sandy for help, alongside with Patrick (which he should be a good influence). Sandy should think up a solution on how to get SpongeBob out of harms from the jellyfish during the next windy season, until she and the duo came up and idea after discovering the SpongeBob-like stone Sandy carved make noise, but they must team up to build more and larger SpongeBob stones, to develop SpongeHenge. At the end, after trying out during the next wind come, it worked and become Bikini Bottom’s attraction located at Jellyfish Fields, all thanks to Sandy, SpongeBob and Patrick. And everybody went to gaze the stones and the episode ended.

Trivia

• This episode and the SpongeBob statues are a reference to Stonehenge, a monument in England.
• This episode was previously PieGuyRulz's worst SpongeBob Episode, then it was Atlantis SquarePantis, then in the present, Choir Boys.
• Phantomstrider likes this episode

• Ironically, it’s paired up with the ULTRA-famous The Two Faces Of Squidward.

Gallery

Creepy Moon

Seeing Mr. Sun like that makes me wanna touch some grass! 💀

The Infamous Ending