Ahoy, and howdy!
This is PhantomStrider.
Let's visit the darkest side of Bikini Bottom.
Occasionally, we'll get times where Spongebob might be unsettling
or maybe even shocking.
As Spongebob has gotten into its later seasons,
the creators have become more daring with some of the creepy concepts and imagery they try.
[low-pitched laughing]
[(people in building) Woaaah!]
So let's enjoy the creepiness together.
Let's check out the top 5 creepiest Spongebob episodes.
Deep in the Jellyfish Fields,
we see an eerie, translucent creature that isn't quite jellyfish or sea creature.
Its brains are clearly visible,
and it digests the one jellyfish that goes near it.
From these jellyfish remains, it creates an empty-minded zombie army of jellyfish
to do its bidding and spread the alien parasite.
Whether it's in cartoons or movies, whenever I see these alien domination episodes,
they always kinda creep me out.
The takeovers tend to be so subtle and insidious.
Spongebob unwittingly helps the alien drone of Patrick
to spread the parasite to all his friends.
[Well, we've given everyone a jellyfish except Squidward.]
[Ah, he probably doesn't want one.] [(monotone) He will take one and like it.]
Making them all helpless drones of the jellyfish army.
[Goodnight, Squidward.]
[(monotone) There will be plenty of biting this night.]
One particularly creepy part is when Spongebob is at home at night
and one of the jellyfish keeps trying to subtly bite into Spongebob's head while he isn't looking.
And just look at Crabbs, here.
Those eyes are downright horrifying.
[Please accept this free jellyfish hat instead.]
[Thank you. Come again.]
Every citizen in Bikini Bottom gradually becomes possessed drones of this alien organism.
Except for Sandy, who eventually uses.. mayonnaise
to help Spongebob work out a way to save everyone.
[We know your weakness. Show 'em, Spongebob!]
This episode is notorious for ghoulish transformations.
Spongebob is off to the annual jellyfish convention,
leaving Squidward in charge of Gary.
[You guys deserve a weekend away.]
[You'll do it? Great!]
[Let me show ya a little about snail care.]
But Squidward forgets to feed Gary and we soon discover he's starving to death.
[I've gotta do something!]
When they take Gary to the doctor,
Squidward accidentally injects Spongebob with snail plasma.
Soon after, Spongebob's eyes gouge out!
And in a surprisingly disturbing scene,
he mutates into a snail-sponge.. thing.
What makes this episode so ominous is seeing Spongebob transform into something that
isn't quite snail yet isn't quite sea creature, either.
It's like some creepy homunculi or something.
Squidward barricades his door,
but nothing will keep this snail..sponge..thing
from invading his house!
And like many horrors, it eventually leads to the protagonist becoming the horror.
[Uh-oh.]
[♪ Meow meow meow]
Apparently, both Spongebob and Squidward are turned into snails indefinitely.
Though they're back to normal in the next episode, so I don't know,
maybe Sandy fixed them up or something.
And the third creepiest Spongebob episode is:
This one was a tricky decision between Ghost Host,
for some of the imagery the Flying Dutchman shows Spongebob, or this one.
And even though Ghost Host is the funnier, more enjoyable episode,
I say Ghoul Fools is a lot creepier.
Ghoul Fools had a lot more jumpscares, creepy moments, and unsettling imagery.
Screaming doorknobs, snakes jumping inside Spongebob,
mutilation of Gary,
even the bleak design of Lord Poltergeist is strangely less toony
than the rest of Bikini Bottom.
While storywise is a pretty sub-par season 8 episode,
what makes this episode so unnerving is the way it ends.
When the Flying Dutchman finally tracks down Lord Poltergeist,
he just outright drops a ghostly nuclear bomb on them.
And then, well, I'm not actually sure what happens.
Are Spongebob and the crew in some sort of afterlife?
They still seem to be working in the Krusty Krab,
but when we get a glimpse of the outside of the Krusty Krab,
we see they're being held by a giant, disturbing, cackling Spongebob wraith of some sort.
Or is it the Flying Dutchman? I don't know.
I really found this ending strangely unsettling for a Spongebob episode.
And the second creepiest Spongebob episode is:
We start this episode with Krabbs deciding to keep the Krusty Krab open 24 hours.
With two employees.
Really, Krabbs? You couldn't just hire one more person?
[It'll be just like a sleepover! Only we'll be sweaty and covered with grease!]
Understandably, I'm guessing no one else is willing to work for Krabbs but these two.
During the night shift, Squidward starts telling Spongebob
stories about the spatula-handed frycook!
A.K.A: the Hash-Slinging Slasher.
A lot of people call this the creepiest episode, but I don't think it's 'till the second half
that this episode starts to get 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 creepy.
At 3 a.m, we watch Squidward standing quietly in the dark, lifeless, empty restaurant,
as a strange, unknowing sound begins to slowly approach him.
[popping, slushing]
After he discovers it's just Spongebob,
the lights begin to flicker, just as the Hash-Slinging Slasher was meant to do.
As well as the music taking on that unsettling horror ambiance,
we also get a lot of those creepy horror tropes from B-grade horror movies.
[phone rings] [What? What? Hello?]
[Hello?]
Suddenly, an unknown bus arrives.
And a strange, spatula-handed creature enters the Krusty Krab.
[(screaming) Get away! Get away! Get outta here, you're not welcome here!]
But it turns out it was just a shy fella looking for a job.
[Can I have a job application? I brought my own spatula.]
I really do wish Krabbs had hired this guy.
I mean for one, it shows real dedication to your job to come out to a restaurant at 3 a.m.
I imagine Squidward wouldn't mind his shifts getting dropped a bit.
I'd expect he'd appreciate the time off.
And personally, I think the #1 creepiest Spongebob episode is:
Yeesh! How does no one ever talk about this episode?
This one is about as creepy as I've ever seen Spongebob get.
We discover Mr. Krabbs does secret experiments on modifying his patties.
Which leads him and Sandy turning the entire town into deformed, humanoid hamburger horrors.
They essentially transform other fish by feeding them their own insides.
It's kinda creepy.
It almost feels like a body horror trope in this one.
You thought Spongebob turning into a snail was bad?
How about watching every Bikini Bottom citizen's insides burst
and fill with patty meat?
Or fuse together, forming some sort of zombie-patty fish monster?
No one is spared!
Even the children are surrounded and mutated.
There's just something about seeing all the characters we know and love
mutated into disturbing shells of their former selves
that really creeps me out.
This leads all of Spongebob's friends turning against him.
The entire city is set ablaze.
Again, there's fire underwater? Really? And smoke?
Despite the fact that we are at the bottom of the ocean 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳,
there is fire. Alright, whatever~
Anyway, Bikini Bottom soon becomes a dangerous, hellish landscape.
Krabby Patty Creature Feature just came out of nowhere
with some surprisingly intense body horror scenes
combined with one of the weirdest zombie concepts I've ever seen in a cartoon.
I personally consider Krabby Patty Creature Feature
the creepiest Spongebob episode.
Well, thanks for checking out some of these particularly creepy Spongebob episodes with me.
These sort of darker episodes are fun to discover, so if you happen to know any that I missed,
feel free to leave your thoughts in the comments.
And as always, thanks for watching, and I'll see you next time!
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