Spongebob Squarepants Banned Season 5 Episode - ShadowSponge

So everyone knows about the longest Nickelodeon series from 1999, right? The series, SpongeBob Squarepants, revolves around a yellow sea sponge named SpongeBob, who goes on adventures with a pink sea star, Patrick, mainly to annoy the living shit out of Squidward or some other dumb crap. Today I recently heard that a lost episode from Season 5 was banned from airing on television broadcasts. And must I say, it’s as disturbing as tartar sauce.
I was at Target, searching through the DVD aisle. The DVDs I was searching for were SpongeBob related media. Shortly while searching, I found a SpongeBob DVD, which had all the episodes from Season 5. I was interested in its contents, so I bought it with my other DVDs. I went home after to go to my DVD player and place the disc that I bought.
The screen cuts to black shortly before showing the Nickelodeon fish  ident. However the fish had limited visibility and was rough to see. I could only make out a human realistic eyeball, glaring at me sinisterly. I was confused. Was it supposed to be a special variant or something? Or the one that was seen in that Goodwill Ni Hao, Kai-Lan DVD?
Shortly I could see flying stars descending down from the sky, which I assumed was the Paramount DVD logo. There were however minor changes present. The mountain was in shades of dark purple, with pink crystals forming on the top step of the mountain, the sky had its darkish blue color now dark crimson red. The stars however remained intact, alongside the Paramount word mark. The disc had been soaked in blood and had scratches all over it, as it flew and collided with the mountain. As the DVD flashed, a loud and inhuman scream echoed as a faint, demonic laugh echoed as the flashbang happened. I decided to select the menu option for my personal viewing.
The Paramount FBI warning was shown before the menu was displayed. I selected the option to play all, as it showed the entirety of Season 5. However, after the last episode played, a message was on screen, in the style of the credits, noting that the episode was originally intended for the season 5th finale of the show, and will contain a heavy amount of violence and blood. I found it quite unusual for the show to have an amount of violence and blood. I ignored it and continued on.
It showed the title card, in a dark purple background, as the episode’s name was ShadowSponge. The episode begins with SpongeBob working at the Krusty Krab, doing the usual orders Squidward told him. The screen forms into a telescope as we see Plankton spying on them. He begins to think about changing the Krabby Patty into a different color, and therefore poisoning it.
This gave Plankton an idea and told Karen about his new plan. Karen doubts that he would even attempt to poison a krabby patty. Plankton casually ignores her and runs off to the Krusty Krab, where nobody was present there. Plankton sneaks inside the cooking room where a single krabby patty was seen sitting in the grill, which was off.
Plankton snatches the patty and heads off without a trace. He goes back inside the Chum Bucket while laughing with astonishment. He shows the krabby patty to Karen as she was surprised at Plankton’s victory. He then gets the injector that poisons the patty. He injects it in, poisoning the patty in the process. During this the patty began to change into a dark purple patty, with pink jizz inside the patty.
Plankton was shocked and amazed at the sight of the now poisoned patty, and so was Karen. He takes it back secretly to the Krusty Krab without anyone knowing nor Mr. Krabs taking notice. He then places it onto the table next to the grill, where SpongeBob was cooking patties. He leaves in accomplishment, as the yellow sponge was going to try the newly formed patty.
SpongeBob shortly notices the patty and shows Mr. Krabs and Squidward. The both of them were amused at the sight of it, as SpongeBob then eats the patty. He said it tasted quite funky and rather taster than the other krabby patties. Meanwhile Plankton was watching from afar and laughed hysterically at SpongeBob eating the patty.
A few hours pass by and we see SpongeBob and Patrick goofing around with each other. Then out of nowhere, SpongeBob began twitching rather violently. He begins to sweat afterwards, as Patrick asks him if he’s ok. SpongeBob breathed heavily as he said, “Patrick I don’t know if I’m fine..” SpongeBob would then suddenly pass out and fall into a short coma before waking up after merely 5 seconds.
“Ughhh.. w-what happened, Pat?” SpongeBob asked him.
Patrick was then seen asleep, thinking that it's nap time. SpongeBob heads back to his pineapple house and goes into his room. There he begins experiencing small tumors while resting. He tells Gary that he doesn’t feel good, in which Gary responds by meowing as usual.
A title card popped in reading out, “Tomorrow..” It cuts to the Krusty Krab with SpongeBob cooking patties. Then out of nowhere he begins feeling immense pain all over his body as he collapses to the ground while screaming farcically. Mr. Krabs bursts inside the room where he sees SpongeBob shaking father violently. “MR KRABS YOU’VE GOTTA HELP ME, SOMETHING’S ONTO ME!!” SpongeBob screams in agony. Mr Krabs didn’t know what to do, he tried calming the shaky sponge down, but it wasn’t a use.
All of a sudden, the part gets really tense and gorey, as it showed SpongeBob’s skin transforming into purple, while the sponge screamed, “OH NEPTUNE WHAT'S HAPPENING TO ME AGGHHHH!!!” He grows four pointy red horns beside his face. His holes turned black as black ink was seen oozing out. “AHHH, OH GOD!!” He screams agonizingly as his clothes become a darker shade. His eyes became black with his pupils purple. Afterwards he faints for a few seconds before getting up without saying a word. Mr Krabs tried to speak with SpongeBob, but he wouldn’t say a word.
He went out of his kitchen and walked up towards Squidward, and would begin choking him violently as the people inside gasped in horror. “YOU WILL BECOME A FACE WITH MY NEWLY PERFORMED, AND HIGHLY TECHNIQUE SKILLS.” He said with a demonic and deep voice before Squidward passes out and dies out. Mr Krabs runs in and scolds SpongeBob for purposely killing Squidward, but his sentences were cut off by SpongeBob striking at him and.. oh boy how do I explain this.. He TEARS his flesh off and eats Mr Krabs alive. The worst part about it was that it was uncut and actually shown.
He would then proceed to kill everyone in the Krusty Krab while laughing maniacally. Soon after Patrick walks in, greeting SpongeBob, but is soon interrupted by the entire Krusty Krab exploding into tiny particles that weren’t briefly seen. SpongeBob then ran out of the now destroyed Krusty Krab, still laughing.
He heads to the Chum Bucket where Plankton was confused. “What?! I thought that he was gonna tell Mr Krabs to tell him the secret formula!” He spoke. As soon as he said that, SpongeBob barges in, scaring Plankton. “Ohhh uhh.. SpongeBob, what happ-“ Plankton’s sentence was soon cut off by SpongeBob yelling out, “SILENCE PLANKTON. FROM NOW ON I AM TO BE CALLED, SHADOW SPONGE.”  “Shadow what?” Plankton said before getting crushed on and Shadow Sponge frying him, alongside Karen, who all screamed realistically as they were being boiled. It then cuts outside of the Chum Bucket when out of nowhere, it exploded as the blue sky turned dark crimson red.
It then cuts to black for a few seconds before slowly fading into a shot of Bikini Bottom, now destroyed and wrecked in havoc as the innocent piercing screams of the remaining civilians flow through the air, as a piano version of the opening theme of SpongeBob SquarePants played in minor key. It cuts to each home and building as corpses of the dead were seen. Afterwards, it cuts to Shadow Sponge looking away from the camera before turning around and speaking in yet a demonic tone.
“Fellow citizens of Bikini Bottom, there is no escape from the mist. Thus I have reached an ending point here, as I send this entire city into a full internal damnation. If YOU are seeing this, YOU WILL NOT ESCAPE FROM MY FURY!” Shadow Sponge states before laughing again while slowly zooming into his face as his laughs repeatedly played over and over to the point where they get demonically toned and more intense, before the episode seemingly cuts to darkness, with the sounds of his laughter echoing.
The credits rolled in, but changes were heavily noticeable, as the closing theme was in a D# sharp minor key with reverb added, the background was replaced with a purple spiraling background, as the words and texts were in a shade of light purple. When it got to the closing logos, boy they weren’t normal, but rather twisted and menacing.
The United Plankton Pictures Inc. logo had the sea replaced with a tint of purple arising fire, as the yellow creatures remained normal. Not to mention the byline being light purple as well.
The Nickelodeon logo had the haypile dark purple, with the font being bloody and horrorized, as Shadow Sponge was briefly seen, smiling menacingly. That same Jager Nickelodeon horror jingle was heard, only that it was slowed down with reverb added into it.
The logo soon fades out, sending me to complete darkness. Before I could make an attempt to eject the disc, a message, written on a note faded in, reading out, “[REDACTED], this is FAR from over. I WILL be back.. very soon..” As a faint laughter was heard, which sounded like Shadow Sponge. Afterwards it sent me back to the menu. I was speechless, very speechless.
So I made an attempt to destroy the disc, but nothing clearly happened as the disc wasn’t broken, but rather turned into purple. I then would dig up the disc, far from my home so I don’t find it ever again.
A week after I had a nightmare, revolving around that same episode I watched last week. The dream had me in Bikini Bottom, now destroyed. I was wondering around there, until I saw SpongeBob standing in the middle of nowhere. I made mine reach with him, but before I even could, he transformed into Shadow Sponge. I tried to run but I couldn’t, and soon when he was about to reach me, I woke up, sweating. I couldn’t stop thinking about that terrible episode, so I contacted Nickelodeon about it. About a few days later they’ve responded with this;
“The episode you viewed was a scrapped episode for the Season 5 finale. Many parents were angered at the episode and contacted us, but we kept ourselves private, alongside the episode from being revealed ever again. We’re sorry for what you have seen, we really do mean it. Thank you for your patience and hope to see you soon.”
~Paramount Global & Nickelodeon.
So if you’d find yourself in a similar situation like mine, don’t bother watching it or report it to your local police station if you can, or do something with it. I don't care what you do with it as long as you don’t watch nor view it. Trust me, it’ll change your life dramatically.
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