Film Theory: Is Spongebob a Mutant? Solving Bikini Bottom's Most Popular Theory!

Welcome to another edition of MORTY, where I look back on old theories and see if there was anything I missed! Today, I'm taking another crack at Spongebob Squarepants himself. There was a popular theory going around about how Bikini Bottom was the result of nuclear testing. Could that be TRUE? You'll have to keep watching to find out!

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Credits:
Writer: Matthew Patrick and Justin Kuiper
Editor: Forrest Lee and Alex "Sedge" Sedgwick
Assistant Editor: AlyssaBeCrazy
Sound Editor: Yosi Berman

[hholtman]

Matpat should make a theory on how much money Phineas and Ferb spent that one summer

[TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

Tom Kenny: *Says there isn't a single pop culture reference in Spongebob*

MatPat: _Hold my knowledge_

[Red_Tulip]

Matpat: "Movies treat nuclear Like some sort of magic dust"
Ad: "There's magic all around"

[KeeperOfUntoldDreams]

Of all the "disturbing" cartoon theories I had come across in the past, this one always felt like one of the least absurd/most plausible ones.

[moowaffels]

I think Tom Kenny meant “topical” more than “pop cultural.” And that is pretty true since most the references mentioned are from more than 2 decades before the episodes aired. the pop culture references flew over most kids heads so I think the focus of those jokes was more the vibe they gave and less so a referential joke. You can easily say he was wrong for using a universal, but I think you’d be missing what he was really trying to say.

[blangaman]

“It’s time for me to ruin your childhood!”

“Yes, matpat…”

[ManiacElkRev]

What if we've only seen their timeline? Like only after the atomic testing. That would mean the prehistoric SpongeBob and Patrick was really them right after the bombs went off or whenever they first mutated and they were so unique they literally went through our history at a accelerated rate. Leading to what we see today.

[eliasbranch]

This theory has been proven in the show. In Feral Friends from season 10, a "Neptune's moon" releases a weird radation that temporarily demutates the members of Bikini Bottom. The caveman episode that's referred to here takes place in the BC era, with BC referring to "Before Comedy", meaning that spongebob timeline is seperate from human history.

[MikeyDL]

MatPat’s videos in general: Well yes, but actually no.

[JetblackJay]

Oh wow matpat acknowledged the prehistoric stuff nice

[ci]

What if, spongebob's prehistoric era started after the nuclear test, maybe they have a calender of their own, it is surely possible that their "history" started after the nuclear tests.

Edit: they can have a totally different calender where the year 1 (1 July 1946) is the time the nuclear test was goin on, and then they started to evolve at a very fast rate, but what totally debunks this theory is that Sponge bob started in 1986, and our sponge boi hasn't aged a day, from the past 40+ years, mr.krabs calls him a "kid" and we haven't seen any feature of him growing old, so ya I debunked my own theory and I wasted your time. I beg you, prove me wrong

Edit 2: now that I think of that I guess I was right, and SpongeBob when it started was set ahead in time, so the first evolutionary step of spongebob's world would be in 1986, so yes they evolve way faster than any creature, and we also see that the sponge bob family chain is pretty short, the great great great grandpa of sponge bob was a early human (which sounds like a long time and it is, but very short in this context). So save the sweat and try not to debunk this theory
I beg you.
Edit 3: creatures in bikini bottom see a major evolution every 5 years, which is shocking considering spongebob's age right now, i keep on debunking myself
Or maybe one day in bikini bottom is less than one day on ground according to their calander (maybe) so maybe the lifespan of sponge on ground maybe 5 years, and in bikini bottom they have a standard lifespan of 80 (bikini) years

[jewelhenson]

Fun fact: the creator of SpongeBob has a degree in Marine Biology so many of the things seen in the show are accurate. Such as the way scallops move in the show.

[michaeliv]

I have a way to help this theory along. The movie said Spongebob had 374 consecutive employee of the month awards. That is over 30 years and no one appears to change. Bikini Bottom is clearly on an accelerated timetable

[rawr]

ah one small problem, spongebob, the show specifically it shows how quick their civilization grows, it goes from stone age to 1900's as you can see in spongebobs family tree, look at southpark for an example, specifically cartmans seamen

[fishateme]

Counter-theory: It really is Bikini Atoll, and that the "stone-age" was actually just after the nuclear testing occurred, before the animals were able to develop language and the other things they developed a few decades later. To them, it seems like the stone-age because it was when they first gained sentience, however to us it was just after the nuclear testing concluded.

[zlch]

So this begs the question: How DID the nuclear experiments affect bikini bottom? Clearly bikini bottom existed at Bikini atoll when a bunch of humans started dropping bombs on them— how did the bikini bottomers of the 40s react to that? A very interesting theory! There is nuclear fallout left throughout the show, like in that one episode where SpongeBob accidentally creates a monster from the vats of nuclear acid just chilling around, so clearly there were nuclear weapons around bikini bottom!

[petermarsella]

I think when Tom Kenny said there aren't pop culture references, he meant the characters themselves don't acknowledge pop culture. A key note is the fact that Spongebob and Patrick didn't know David Hasselhoff. The series is disconnected from the real world in that the characters don't interact with real world events, not that the show doesn't reference it. But that's my guess

[LonelySandwich]

6:43 "Why is the Hulk green and super strong?"
Shows a picture of gray Hulk

[ShortHax]

Um, I believe Stephen Hillenburg is a puppet master and the characters are all following his orders, as who would sell Spongebob to the Flying Dutchman for 62 cents?

[Zaws]

Somewhere under the sea: "War... War never changes..."