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Patbob at a wedding (FYI Patrick catches the bouquet in the scene right before this, the animators knew)

From S9E18b, "Married to Money", and thank God for this cute little scene because the rest of this episode was 🐬ing heartbreaking

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Relationship goals is when you confidently answer them at the door in just your underwear and they can just shamelessly check you out

At this point SpongeBob and Patrick have seen each other buttass nekd so many times tho it ain't nothin lol

From S10E6a, "Life Insurance"

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SpongeBob made a Patrick snowman! 🥹❄️☃️ Look how proud and happy our bb boy is. He's so precious! SpongeBob always keeps his best buddy close even when they're physically apart 🥹

From S11E22, "Goons on the Moon"

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Watching the sunrise together is the ultimate love language...

From S5E2b, "Night Light", aka the one where Patrick runs to the fucking sun and back in 2.2 seconds

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SpongeBob is VERY excited to show Patrick his butt🗿

Dat ass do be fine af tho 🍑💦🍑

From S6E16b, "To SquarePants or Not to SquarePants"

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[Serious] I don't get the hate around "Squidiot Box"! Just watched the episode for the first time and adored it. To me, it's a commentary on trying to escape the subconscious mental state.

Just a preface that this is just my opinion, and I'm already a massive modern SpongeBob fan, so please don't hate on me or comment a generic "mOdErN sPoNgEbOb SuCkS bOoHoO". Yes I KNOW modern SpongeBob isn't perfect. I still love it. Anyway, I was kinda scared to watch this episode after hearing the extreme negativity surrounding it. Understandably, the concept of the "Imagination Box Repair" store seems like a bad one, but I interpreted as that being a part of SpongeBob and Patrick's imagination too. Like, did no one ever play as a kid imagining something broken that needed fixing? In SpongeBob and Patrick's case, their imagination box is their imaginary vehicle that needs fixing, so they bring it to an imaginary repair shop. Especially because the repairman didn't actually "fix" anything, and then Squidward easily "jostled" the box back into function, thus SpongeBob and Patrick imagining that Squidward fixed their box. I mean, maybe the writers intended the repair shop to be literal, but I found it easy to imagine that it wasn't literal. (Excuse the pun)

As for the Squidward part, I actually really enjoyed it! The OG Idiot Box episode was about contrasting SpongeBob and Patrick's immense childlike imagination with Squidward's lack of it—or at least, that's what it seems like, when in fact the episode tells us Squidward DOES have an imagination, because that's how he's IMAGINING the sound effects of SpongeBob and Patrick playing in it. He just doesn't know how to properly USE his imagination to his own benefit, and is unwilling to try. In "Squidiot Box", he *IS* trying, but still to his own detriment. The childlike SpongeBob and Patrick easily imagine treacherous situations because for them, the adventure is fun and it's also easy for them to imagine solutions out of it. For the more relatable, adult Squidward, his attempts to build himself an enjoyable space in his imagination is thwarted by intrusive and negative thoughts, represented in the episode by Patrick's interjections, but it's doubtless that Squidward would've eventually imagined something terrible if left to his own devices—especially given the fact that his first attempt to leave the box was a staircase leading nowhere, and that he was repeatedly unable to think of escape solutions for himself. I actually found it to be a rather sad but deep commentary that in the end, thoughts of extreme happiness were just as dangerous to Squidward as dangerous, unhappy ones, and in order to remain in a safe mental space, he has to imagine the mundanity of his job. As much as he wants to escape, Squidward has been institutionalized. His mind is his own prison. SpongeBob and Patrick, the childlike ones, are able to have fun inside their own thoughts, but they're also the ones who are easily able to exit the imagination box when they need to.

Okay, so obviously I'm most likely overanalyzing a silly episode of SpongeBob, but I just had to express my disagreement for the popular opinion about Squidiot Box and the notion that it's just "nostalgia bait" or that the writers ran out of ideas. I mean, of course it IS nostalgia bait, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. It's been a long time since an episode made me miss my own innocent childhood mentality this much. The imagination box itself was a callback for sure, but it felt to me more like a device to tell a new story rather than a rehash of the OG episode.

And if I'm wrong about everything above, then at least the episode was visually GORGEOUS, and not boring for a second. It felt like a lucid dream.

*cross-posted on Reddit*

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