i didn't tell you to get it you don't want to think about it okay get in hello everyone like many millennials i grew up watching spongebob squarepants on television the colorful characters unique environment and hilarious comedy have had a lasting impact on me as well as millions of people around the world turning it into one of the most beloved and longest-running cartoons of all time and in recent years it's also become the subject of various video essays with people picking up on themes that may have gone over their heads when they were younger there are plenty of episodes that people have already analyzed but there's one episode in particular which i found has been gravely overlooked an episode serving as an allegory for the seemingly never-ending battle between two opposing points of view those being anti-science and pro-science an episode that tried to warn us about what happens when you allow the former to take root today we're going to unpack the suds but first i'm happy to say that this video is sponsored by ground news in the age of the internet we're being bombarded with more news from more media outlets than ever before and unsurprisingly those outlets don't always give us the full picture warping our perception of the world that's only been exacerbated with the advent of social media where algorithms only show us what we already agree with placing people into echo chambers and further polarizing the population but with the ground news website and app you can navigate the news more clearly finding out where an outlet falls in the political spectrum in fact i used their app while making this video to make sure none of my sources went too far in either direction ground news also shows you how different news outlets will frame the same story differently and by going to their blind spot feed you can find out what stories the left and right are under reporting on so if you want to be a more informed and less partisan consumer of news then head over to URL_TOKEN nate for a free download of the ground news app so the episode begins with spongebob catching a disease eponymously named the suds which causes bubbles to shoot out of his body
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN first i'm happy to say that this video is sponsored by ground news in the age of the internet we're being bombarded with more news from more media outlets than ever before and unsurprisingly those outlets don't always give us the full picture warping our perception of the world that's only been exacerbated with the advent of social media where algorithms only show us what we already agree with placing people into echo chambers and further polarizing the population but with the ground news website and app you can navigate the news more clearly finding out where an outlet falls in the political spectrum in fact i used their app while making this video to make sure none of my sources went too far in either direction ground news also shows you how different news outlets will frame the same story differently and by going to their blind spot feed you can find out what stories the left and right are under reporting on so if you want to be a more informed and less partisan consumer of news then head over to URL_TOKEN nate for a free download of the ground news app END_SPONSOR_TOKEN