SpongeBob SquarePants: The Sad Time

So. I am your average 15 year old living in New York City. I live with my mom and dad still. I do laundry and normal chores that my mom told me, but I kept in all my secret thoughts what baffles me. So, I was a little kid at the time watching, around 6-7 at 2012 to 2013. I loved watching SpongeBob SquarePants as a child, and I was crazy about getting more of the SpongeBob episodes. One day I went to the store with my mom to get a DVD, and while searching for a SpongeBob DVD the thing that caught my eye was "SpongeBob SquarePants: The Sad Time". I thought "Huh. What a strange SpongeBob DVD, but I might as well get it. My mom might be impatient anyways". As kids we don't think a lot anyways, we aren't mystery solvers and we don't really dive deep-in now, just like me the normal kid. I told my mom "Can I get this DVD?!", she was totally reluctant. Looking back, I know that the first thing she saw that struck her was the word "sad" which seems a bit overprotective. She knew I would be angry if she didn't let me so she just said "Well... We can get it, but don't go screaming into the night!". I told her I was "a big boy", and after some more minor arguing we eventually got the DVD.
We purchased it for $1.25, which was certainly cheap but as a kid I obviously did not care at all about currency. We put the DVD into our DVD player, but my mom stayed there. I moved her out because of "privacy reasons" and she just continued doing whatever business she was supposed to be doing. The intro was normal with no sort of spooky stuff really, with some subtle static which probably explains the cheap ass price. It just continued for about 10 seconds with no music, and the episode starts right after. 
It immediately cuts to SpongeBob, laying in his bed with Garry. SpongeBob seemed to be very sick, and was sneezing a lot with several tissues. Nothing too graphic here, this displays sometimes and I got used to it when I in real life caught the flu. I continued watching, SpongeBob sighed, and looked at Garry saying "Garry. Will you replace me?", with Garry being silent although he does seem to notice SpongeBob talking to him. I don't know why Garry responded, but it just felt like Garry was trying to "give respect" to SpongeBob or something like that. It flashes to the next seen with the Krusty Krab, Squidward seems to be very angry about SpongeBob being absent, along with Mr. Krabs and the customers. Squidward then tries to go to SpongeBob's house, but Mr. Krabs forces Squidward to come while saying that he will call him himself. Mr. Krabs calls SpongeBob, and Garry gives SpongeBob a phone by throwing hit, hitting SpongeBob's face in the process. Mr. Krabs immediately starts yelling at SpongeBob for not showing up at the Krusty Krab, SpongeBob's voice appears to be very weak and sick as if the actor himself was sick in the process, which I reacted with fear that SpongeBob will die. Bumps start to appear on SpongeBob, SpongeBob yelps in pain. Mr. Krabs is surprised that SpongeBob could've gotten sick and immediately calls the Hospital for help. SpongeBob expresses fear and hyperventilates, which causes Mr. Krabs to become very worried, along with myself. Mr. Krabs delivers the phone to Squidward, but declines his order to talk to SpongeBob and tells that the customers should be told of the situation. Mr. Krabs tells the customers of SpongeBob's situation, and the customers immediately start to cry. I was a bit confused why they were crying instead of actually helping SpongeBob but oh well, guess that's how it is going to work. I'm also surprised how my mom didn't hear it, maybe she was too busy to hear? Ok, back to the episode. It cuts back to the ambulance, with SpongeBob in it. SpongeBob is seen coughing up blood, and declaring that he should be killed. The nurses disapprove, saying that SpongeBob is crucial for the continuation of the Krusty Krab. SpongeBob is diagnosed with a disease known as "SpongiKilfth", who said that the condition was fatal to anyone. I didn't know what the word "fatal" meant at the time, so I just continued on. The nurses didn't share the news with SpongeBob but did however share the news to Bikini Bottom, resulting in protests and riots. Buildings were ripped apart, and everyone was furious. SpongeBob was brought to a hospice and was declared "terminally ill", which I have no idea what the time also. So lets just say I treated words I didn't know like they didn't exist. I don't know why everyone was so mad that SpongeBob wouldn't survive, so TEARING APART BUILDINGS AND STARTING PROTESTS was a "bit" confusing to me. I'm guessing only SpongeBob knew how to make food or was just the main character.
Anyways, to cut it short; More coughing up blood, more groans, more movements to other hospitals, more riots and fury, and eventually SpongeBob's death. The episode cuts to SpongeBob's grave for about 3 seconds and then cuts to Bikini Bottom. Now in this universe of illogical things, SpongeBob dying apparently caused such a toll on the economy. The Krusty Krab just blew up suddenly because well the customers were a bit too mad, everyone is going hungry. 
Some customer attempts to compensate for SpongeBob during a protest but is immediately beaten up by furious customers and just left there. I feel bad for that dude a bit. No one cares, its like God just died and now everything is being turned to ruins. A customer murders another for food (cannabilism) and cooks it in his campfire constructed from someones house, a group comes with him and tells him to come, he was killed by stabbing of the heart. So right off the bat I am now a bit... Terrified at the least. Mom STILL DOES NOT CARE and she continues whatever shes doing without coming into my room. Everyone tries to drink each other's blood for food (i mean because they got thirsty), and people seem to become more desperate as each minute passes. 
The scene switches to a customer standing atop the wood. "It's a hard time you know, hard times. Sometimes you run out, sometimes you do. Unfortunately the latter happened. Now we are stuck here. This is eternal death. We are the last of us, we murdered and ate each other, I wouldn't even say were even fish anymore. We attack each other like dogs, slashing everything in sight. No one comes in to fix it, no one. No one does. So, this is how you want your life? You want your life to be full of misery and suffering? Why? You have tools to kill yourself. Why? Why live at this point? Just. Why?"
The crowd murmurs for a few minutes before a customer stands up: "Were gonna have to live like this. We murder for a reason. This is the hunger games, we stand here and are forced to munch on the rest of us. So that is how it will work. We must spend the last possible on something. We want to extend our time more, for a reason. SpongeBob is gone, he gave us hopes. Were all on our own now, alone and afraid. The truth is... We just want to live some more"
"Why is it that you want to live more? Eating cooked fish like the cannibal you are. And you can't stand this, you can't. You can't even stand being short-lived. Sad I guess. Suicide is the mission, fish. You know, be eaten or eat eventually we all die. Suicide quickens this and makes this less dreadful, once we die nothing will be left besides the remains of our campfires. It kind of seems like a good thing to leave us like that, extinct. We don't need problems, no more sadness. Nothing. You on the other hand cannot see this. It's an end. A more... Per say, glorious end. But you want people to live in pain in this world."
"We do not. Survival is key. Don't you know how long we have been going as a species? Just killing ourselves in the end will just end centuries of development. Our houses. The last thing we could do is choose whats to live longest. That is... Murder. Wait... They're coming, Oh fu-"
A group of fishes apparently start attacking the crowd along with the speaker. "Oh my god." he says. Same with me. I mean what the hell you just start murdering each other for no apparent/absolute reason. The fishes kill each other in well a war. So they just start slashing each other pretty much. A customer slashes another customer and then stabs him in the damn eye. Everyone starts shrieking in pain while well... The "other guy" or the "speaker" just runs away. Oh so I guess your just gonna leave your knife there?
I wanted an answer, but I just couldn't seem to think of one. So I just stared there, waiting for what's next.
The scene switches to SpongeBob's house. It looks like, well it looks like a lot of people are breaking in. No, they are not breaking in. More like per say breaking IT. They're just slashing the windows down while a customer looks up from the scene. The customer then says "If there isn't any SpongeBob, why is there evidence?". People start wandering to find SpongeBob's grave after seeing the sight which I think should've been done a bit earlier. Then, no one finds it after. It's just like 2 minutes of switching scenes to see random fishes walking around the street to find SpongeBob. 
The people get tired. They go back to their "camping stations" and then they just stay there for the night. Scene switches to a fish zooming in on his sleep, with apparently psychotic (or something) thoughts being heard in a nice calm-like tone. "Hungry. I... Am... Hungry. Need fish. They are coming to us. They see me. I am sleep. No more death. Want peace. Peace. Peace. Please peace. Only can get...". I was creeped out a lot and screamed in my mind (but I was smart enough not to scream out loud). 
And well it switches to daytime just to find that the man was stabbed and eaten by a fish! I started to wonder "Why is this a SpongeBob episode?", I didn't know that anyone did not see it. Alright anyways, I just heard some screaming in the background before it switches to another man in the campfire cooking another man. Oh wait, he did not kill it first. He actually well... Burnt it. He burned him alive which is not a good way at all to end someones life. Even being stabbed multiple times is better (I am not saying I would want to die like that).
Alright it forwards to a fish killing another fish which to save you time repeats for about 10 times. Then there's a fish who kills another fish, which I don't know why he did that but you'll see that in a second. So then he just stands there for well about a couple seconds, then he just looks sad.
Then the customer sighs after that, as the last customer left and the last person, he gets the remaining knife, and kills himself instantly and painlessly by a simple cliche... A stab. And that was it, me terrified for the night in the very least. The end, no happiness, just nothing. I broke the DVD because I was scared, but also because I never wanted my mom to see what the hell I had just watched.
No, I didn't do that. I never broke the DVD. In reality, I hid it. In the next night, I continued. But I was approaching the end of the episode.
There was a rewind, SpongeBob was back at Bikini Bottom normal as ever. But something seemed off... There was something not right, SpongeBob was smaller and more emaciated, and there was cheese on every burger that I saw. You should know what I am saying. The secret formula was a false thing, the secret formula exists but it was falsified. There was no list of ingredients, there was just an absolute. It would be impossible to replicate the secret formula. The formula is actually SpongeBob himself. SpongeBob is using himself to cook every burger, and is now experiencing disastrous effects because of this. This explains almost everything, why the crowd didn't want to compensate for SpongeBob, why SpongeBob was sick, everything. The only thing was how everyone knew, actually everyone knew the formula. It was SpongeBob, and it was obvious. Plankton however, was too dumb, his brain is too small for him to comprehend the simple concept, because that's what he is... A plankton. I wondered as a kid for so much time how it was not so obvious for anyone to notice this, including me. I originally expunged this from being seen in the future, but I figured now it would be best to share. 
== THE INVESTIGATION ==
Now I went back I hid the disc, and left there. 4 years later, I come back as a 11 year old. With my phone, I try to tell anyone if they seen "The Sad Time". Nope, I searched for an hour without end, and no results popped up. I found other Creepypastas about these lost and un-aired episodes, I shortly realized that this was not the only "lost episode" where these existed. I left for years once again. 
Well, now a few months ago my mind started getting back to this. I was to the very least still confused. I now wanted to call the police to solve this mystery. I took out my disc where I hid it, and it was still luckily there. I then called the police, and after a fight with mom I got the police to come. The police came and I showed them the tape, they were confused at first, thinking they were just some editing. They told me that I shouldn't joke around or scare officers, but I told them that it was no joke.
They asked me some questions like where they bought this from, I told them from a store. They then told me that they should study the object's fingerprints, we came to the police station to test the fingerprints, and I found that it came from a guy named "James Howell". I wanted some information on his location or whatever, but the police told that it was private and we should just go somewhere without that location. We went there after, but the police drove themselves back soon after.
I knocked on the door to this house, no answer. There was lights on and there were some cars, but it was like no one was there. I knocked several more times and I was finally greeted by a man who opened the door. He was white and had a black beard with black hair, and he just waved. I came in and he shut the door, he said "Hello. I see that you wanted to come. Thank you for coming, I get a bit lonely sometimes. So I thank you a lot", I guess he had depression or something?
I first told him why he created the disk. He didn't answered, I told him I would leave if he didn't tell me, but he knew that I didn't know my way back. He didn't comply, so I was forced to do whatever the hell he wants me to do. He fed me some food, thought it was poisoned but he told me that he would be in jail if he did that. I wanted to know why he made this disk. 
"I can call the police back to take me back home you know.", I said. The man replied with "Well, not if I don't have a phone". I told him that I had a phone and he immediately questioned where he had found it, I just told him that's private stuff (my phone was in one of my pockets) and that we should just watch TV. He likes watching things like football and was a big fan of the Eagles, he would flip out if he did not win. I started to wonder if I even got the man right, so I asked his name and he told that he was "James Howell". So I had at least confirmed this was the right house. I went to sleep at like 12:00, and I was apparently reported missing on the news.
I told him that he should just let me out already, but he was too reluctant to do that. I told him the police are already coming, but he hid me in some secret area. He knocked me out and put me somewhere hidden, I was tied up under the basement. He told me not to make a sound or that they will hear and he will get mad, but he at least gave me food, water, and entertainment to make sure I didn't go insane. I was happy that he didn't starve to death. The food was some pizza and a coke, which I am happy about. I didn't throw up, so it wasn't poison. He gave me a remote too so I could control the TV. I didn't bother getting out really, as I thought this was pretty nice.
The TV had a lot of channels including my favorite show "Hell's Kitchen", which I watched all the time during my years 14-15. I am glad he even had Hell's Kitchen. I played Season 14 because I wanted to see what it was like since I didn't finish it, and I skipped to Episode 7. Nothing wrong, just a normal TV. I hear some sounds emanating upstairs, sounds like heavy stomping and voices. I wondered if the police were hear, but I was like "Who cares if I have what I want?". The doorway to the basement was hidden, so I guess the police had a hard time moving through.
I think I heard the guy pull out a knife, I don't know who would do that in front of the police but he just did. "This is my house! What do you want from me" he said, "Give the boy back and we will not use force." the police said. "I... I don't have the boy! Someone took it!" I heard, the voices got loud so I turned up the volume a bit, and they didn't even know someone was down apparently.
Apparently, Police are dumb. They just left, they didn't give a single word, a single sound. Wait, no. That is way to dumb for a police officer to do, I turned around to see if anyone was there and I saw no one. I heard the hidden doorway to the basement open, it was apparently an officer. The officer had in fact was just spying on whatever James was doing. Turns out he was just doing paperwork!
So he opened the door and he was probably a bit confused seeing a 15 year old on a chair watching Hells Kitchen with a pizza. "Is... Is that you? Are you the boy who went to James's house?", I replied with an embarrassing yes. The police were very confused now, but they still took me out. "Ok. Don't accept these stranger's offers, this is what happens when you do. You got that?", I told them that I just wanted him to tell him why he created it, but he forced me to stay.
They eventually brought me back to my mom's house, and she was glad to have me back. Meanwhile I on the other hand, was a bit mad that I had to come back to do the chores instead of watching Hell's Kitchen. I am coming back soon. Once again, I will come back to that place.
And I did. I had to move out in the middle of the night to go to James's house, turns out that James got arrested for kidnapping. I got a bit mad, I went through a website in the Deep Web that allowed me to scan someones finger prints, turns out the real person is Jake Ralph. My theory is that the police just gave me to this random guy and then left me there for well... Revenge. They also probably took him out, but who knows? Could be right or could be wrong. So the real man was a cryptographer, he hacked into the network, changed it, and then casted around the stores somehow without people noticing. 
Cartoon network mentioned absolutely nothing of all of this. But I bet that they did react. 
I got so desperate that I started a Reddit post with me in it. I runned the tape and asked them what ever evidence they could find in the screen. Everyone told me to shut up, they thought it was fake. But there was one guy, dRfSllAmNKm. He was unusual, telling me that "THIS WAS A PUZZLE TO SOLVE". I joked about it saying "Oh my god. Scary dude! Ah!" Lets just say I regretted this decision. A lot... 
A minute later, he responded: "Your looking down on me, aren't you?". I said "Yeah. Stop trying to make me scared, it's not gonna work". He says "I have your password. I have your real name.I have your address. I know your parents too. Everyone you know, I have them". "What's my password then?", he told me my real password. He also told me exactly where I lived, also saying he was a former member of Google, and is able to hijack the system whenever he wishes. I immediately turned off whatever settings allowed google to track any information, he replied "It's useless. I can still see your exact location [EXPUNGED], [EXPUNGED], USA. There is no use Errie.". I never put out my name, anywhere. Not in here, not in my private folders. Nothing. He shouldn't even know my name. 
"Now. Apologize. You insulted my work, years and years of work. I had to go through several tests. Get A's and B's years straight. Suffering". I told him why he is exposing everything over a simple insult. He said "Apologize. Now. Or we will do something you would never like.". I called the police and told them of the situation I was in. They immediately went to this guy's house and started an investigation. They searched for about an hour, and told me the results. One of the police got attacked by the members, but eventually recovered. 
They came to my house: "Here.". I took the results. They're were apparently, 3 dead bodies. A wooden nametag had been attached to each of the corpses. One was "Animator", the next was "Tester", the other was "Voice Actor". Autopsy revealed that they're cause of death was caused by starvation, and also that the corpses had lost 20 kilograms 2 days before their death, they had been beaten many times, and suffered lacerations on the sides of their body. The subject himself has not been discovered yet. From the nametag, I'm guessing that all these people were abused while the creation of this episode. 
Further investigation found several prototype codes that were used to hack into the net. But I don't know how they retrieved my name. Eventually, a whole team of bodies were found. Children, and pictures of abuse were found. I was actually really surprised how secret the cryptographer was, and the police themselves thanked me for being able to find this case. 
The man was found about 2 weeks later, he was tranquilized and then brought back to court. The computers used during the creation of this weird episode were brought back for evaluation by the police, and then destroyed. The man was Jake Ralph. He told "Well. The man insulted me. Our creation. The dead bodies were just costumes for fun, and the episode was intended to be as a nice work of art. That boy over there, he insulted my work". The prosecutor didn't drop any sweat, they deflected every single piece of evidence. The pleading went on for an hour, and resulted in the judge prosecuting Jake Ralph. 
It was pretty obvious anyway. With so much dead bodies, I don't think it would even take a minute for the guy to actually decide. Maybe the judge was trying to make it seem like "Yeah I'm gonna let you out of this" before just destroying Jake's confidence in being released again. His sentence was execution, which would be easy to decide. After that we just left entirely. Well, dead bodies! 
The police gave me a second report on the house, turns out that they weren't finished exploring the house yet. After the next results came in, I found that he himself killed his own son by torturing him to death while still crying, he also killed everyone in his family, including his own grandparents. What the hell?! Before that was already insane for hunting me down over a stupid insult, but this?! Murdering your family?! YOUR KIDS?!! And WHILE THEY WERE CRYING?! That has to be probably the worst goddamn thing you could do to your reputation. Ever. 
Well, at least that goddamn guy is gonna die. He will die, and I won't regret my decision in any way whatsoever. No matter if he cries, feels what he has done, sorry but it's too late bud, death is coming. 
I'm recovering from the trauma that happened to me, I shared my story on reddit. Several people were a bit confused at first, but then they tried to comfort me. I'm glad that the reddit community is on my side. I tried forgetting this event by thinking of happy thoughts, but doing that just intensified those thoughts. Well, for anyone reading this; Never get too curious about creepy episodes, it might cost your own life.
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