SpongeBob SquarePants 2020 Episode Has Fans Raging Over Major Canon Change
Everyone’s favorite weird cartoon is even weirder now, but in a very controversial way.
Initially launched more than 20 years ago, SpongeBob SquarePants has spent years having immense success on TV screens by bringing a surreal marine world to life with quite few things actually making sense, yet fans’ recent discovery proves that nothing really makes any sense now in there.
Following the titular character and his friends’ adventures in the underwater city of Bikini Bottom, the show has established certain canons regarding the lead characters’ lifestyle and personality types that remained unchanged over the years.
However, another major character’s finding in a 2020 episode came as an utter shock for viewers as well, and fans can’t believe they have been fooled like this all along.
A video posted by X user @SomaKazima has recently gone viral due to an unexpected plot twist that the show featured years ago. Back in 2020, the season 12 episode titled Shell Games revealed that SpongeBob’s best friend Patrick Star had never actually lived under a rock, but rather under a sea turtle’s shell that over the years gathered dust and thus looked pretty much like a huge stone.
In the episode, the turtle named Tony wakes up after 30 years of deep sleep and decides to make it up to all the time wasted by quickly getting ready and going on a date with a lady turtle.
However, Patrick himself is determined to never let his house go, which later on causes some major squabbles between him and Tony.
The video was quick to unite the show’s fans expressing their anger towards SpongeBob SquarePants creators for a major change that just ruined the entire storyline.
Many claimed that the series was audacious enough to make an attempt to rewrite the history that remained stable for years before the episode came around, but even the canon established by the series’ first seasons back in the day isn’t the only thing that matters in this case.
Since SpongeBob SquarePants creator Stephen Hillenburg was a marine biology educator himself, he made sure that all the kids watching the series should be aware of the fact that starfish like Patrick are actually used to having rocks as their habitat — and Hillenburg did succeed in doing so until others were to helm the show after his passing back in 2018.
Still, the whole controversy surrounding Patrick’s house being either a rock or a living turtle shouldn’t really bother anyone that much since the show never made real sense anyway.
As other users fairly pointed out, SpongeBob SquarePants may indeed alter its storylines in all the ways possible just to make it all funnier and to eventually keep the audience glued to the screen.
The series never lost its immense popularity ever since the weird episode aired, so there’s no reason to consider it a total game changer after all.