20 Spongebob MISTAKES In One Episode

i was rewatching the 'help wanted' Spongebob episode and found so many mistakes and thought it be a fun video to make. lmk in the comments if this is something you'd want to see more often!

[Greenboi]

7:00 The pole changes color due to the red light on the hydro-dynamic spatula

[heartofgold]

Squidward's teeth look purple because it's dark in Krusty Krabs at that moment, and in darkness, white objects often look blue-ish or purple-ish. And that pole looks purple because that small red light from the spatula illuminated it. The animators went for realistic lighting

[zombiesmurf]

It's the first episode. You can't blame anybody for the mistakes.

[niyysosaaa]

the “inverted credits” was the boom of them hitting the pole, also the window was there in the scene, if you look between the anchovies

[Cashimat]

Well yeah, this is the pilot episode. Pilot episodes are pitches, made by an understaffed team, to make a basic idea of what the show is about. This is an exceptional animated pilot for its time. Just compare it to Adventure Times pilot which came later. In animation regards, the animators used Cell Shading. Basically, they’d have a background that they use as the canvas, like the inside of the Krusty Krab. Then, they’d draw a character, for example SpongeBob. SpongeBobs character would be drawn on a sheet of see-through plastic too. And placed overtop of the backdrop, and then the next one on top of that for a scene. I do not blame them for inconsistencies with the Anchovies eyes, when they had to draw that many separate cell shaded pieces, one for each frame on anchovies alone, with a pilot episode budget. Cell shading was useful for hand drawing as when drawing the next frame, they could trace over top of the lays by placing the entire sheet of plastic underneath the new frame and tracing it. They did a great job with this system considering they had about as many consistency errors as other episodes in both this season, and all later ones until S9 when the animation was finally stepped up and wide screened, and even more so S10 when they got crazy with expressiveness on characters. They actually at one point started selling individual cell shaded frames from the show, which would contain the background layer, and every other layer making up a singular frame. You could actually own a piece of an episode. These were obviously only Season 1, as Season 2 went away from Cell Shading. Nice video though, it was entertaining.

[luccadfoli]

5:38 This is not a mistake, this is a stylistic way to show the crash of the wave of anchovies

[oldart]

Spongebob's eyelashes always disappear when he blinks

[Qwerky_Qwerty]

interesting how squidwards house has poles in the back but only in this episode after this his house never has them again

[MindSweptAway]

There could be a thousand mistakes but I still won’t stop loving this episode ❤

[colinm]

There is no such things as a perfect cartoon pilot.

[Fatih_M]

Wow, i was honestly excepting errors as in like, *BIG MISTAKES* .
No it's just simple continuity errors that happen in like every animated show known to man,
what's next?
Are looping backgrounds gonna be an error XD.

[nejiross]

I think the flag and the teeth were only purple because they are white objects being shown in a darker or more shaded setting and instead of just a grey aquire a purplish hue to represent darkness. Also, the pole may be turning red in some scenes because it is shiny and reflecting Mr. Krabs red shell only showing at certain angles. Maybe.

[Turbozip_]

“It didn’t appear until it’s debut” mustard pregnancy-2023

[jakoontz]

7:05 If I had to guess the pole changing colors is from the light on the top of the hydrodynamic spatula, you can see an antenna with a little red light at the top of it but I have no clue besides that

[braistuff]

3:18
Every door, window and sign from the background is missing. (The kitchen's door, Mr. Crab's office door, Squidward's counter... etc)

[_OKANDYY]

I think the pole thing turned red ish cuz of the spatulas little red flashing light

[AidenRKrone]

_SpongeBob SquarePants_ animators: _make a minor character model mistake in the pilot episode_
MustardPregnancy: "And I took that personally."

[KrabbyPattyArchive]

7:18 You forgot it, but there's a second time SpongeBob's collar turns red. Around the part where he chucks the Krabby Patties at the anchovies.

[alexkotas]

@ 7:48 ... but we know from its history that it SHOULD appear.

[bobodalien]

Can the comments chill? No one's blaming anyone. He just points out mistakes, which is normal. Also i treat this more like an easter egg rather than mistakes.