Lies

I was once a huge fan of Nickelodeon. I mean, specifically the show SpongeBob SquarePants, but you get the point. So, we all know Stephen Hillenburg died in 2018. Yeah, I was in tears. So, in honour of him, I decided to buy every SpongeBob DVD available, luckily, they were half-price, so I took the chance to get them. I'm talking about every single DVD. So, a couple of days later, I was out for a jog to exercise, and then I found this random homeless guy. He was selling several SpongeBob DVDs that the SpongeBob team used to test their skills. I told him, "How much are they? And where did you get them?" He said all of them cost a dollar each, and he got it after supposedly "quitting" his job as a Nickelodeon worker.
I had never seen this man before. But then he said he quit before the SpongeBob team even started producing the episodes. Still, that sounded pretty fishy, but I gave him that buck anyways. So yeah, I went back to my house, and I put the DVD into my DVD Player Philco PH136, But the first thing I saw was that old Nickelodeon fish floating around. I was back in memory lane. But then I noticed something. The fish's eyes were bloodshot, and the fish itself was red. "What the hell is this low-quality photoshop.” I thought to myself.
I didn't care about it. I mean, anyone could paint a fish red with photoshop. The menu screen was just a stretched-out image of a smiling SpongeBob with a title called "SPONGE\_FOR\_FUN.mp4". I clicked on it.
The first thing I saw was the intro. It was fine. But the title card was rather weird. The background was grey, and there was a red pentagram in the center. The title of the episode was called "Lies". During the title card, there was this odd, distorted music that was playing in the background.
And after that, the episode began. SpongeBob was eating some Kelpo. "Well, Gary, I am heading to work! See y’ later, Gare-Bear!" After SpongeBob left the house and off to work, he saw a highly detailed fish, just right there like the one from when I turned on the DVD. So, then, SpongeBob got disturbed and he had to calm himself down. He looked like he was having some sort of panic attack. He reached down to his pocket and took some pills, scarfing them down as quick as he could. I started to notice that visual static was gradually covering the screen.
But out of nowhere, a greenish liquid started coming out of his mouth, and he began to cough and gasp for air. Then SpongeBob anxiously said through his wheezing and gasps,
"That wasn't supposed to happen." SpongeBob said.
So, now even more scared, SpongeBob screamed and ran as fast as he could to the Krusty Krab. When he walked in, there was a massive line of fish customers waiting to get Krabby Patties. Then Mr Krabs yelled out, "SPONGEBOB!" The only thing off was that it wasn't the original voice. At this point, I was really intimidated by this episode. What was this episode trying to get at?
"SpongeBob, cook those patties! Me customers are in a frenzy!" SpongeBob ran into the kitchen as fast as possible. He makes the Krabby Patties. Mr Krabs walks back in, and SpongeBob cartoonishly swats him up and down, telling him he can’t handle him. And well, this is where the whole episode goes… entirely downhill. As the loop of SpongeBob flipping patties continued, a metal door started shaking. A little bit later, there were some screams. I started to shake a bit in my seat. I heard these sounds before. Then, SpongeBob just stopped cooking all together and just stared into nothingness. The screams persisted.
The room got darker, and the screams started to get louder and more unbearable. The kitchen caught on fire and then finally, it all broke off. SpongeBob stared at the viewer with a soulless thousand-yard stare. He smiled, and that was when I noticed static filling up the screen once again.
"People think I am a good person, but that's all LIES!!!" SpongeBob yells, but his mouth didn't move. I noticed the static somewhat intensify, he said, "I think I can show Mr. Krabs what I think of..."
It cut back to him making Krabby Patties. Except this time, he wasn't smiling. Instead, he just was staring blankly at nothing. Then all of a sudden, he threw a Krabby Patty at Squidward, making him yelp in shock. Then he went back to grilling the patties as Squidward took it off the back of his head and began to yell at Spongebob for it. He wasn't listening to him though, as if he was downright ignoring him. SpongeBob then called Mr. Krabs for help with Squidward. When Mr. Krabs came to SpongeBob, he asked what the problem was. Spongebob smiled as he pointed to Squidward, who pointed to Spongebob and saying how he was acting like a "dumb barnacle for throwing stuff at him". And that's when the episode turned graphic. The art style also became rougher and sketchy looking. SpongeBob grabbed Mr. Krabs’ head and used his bare hands to shove his head onto the grill. The muffled sounds of screams along with the loud hissing of the grill wasn't a pleasant sound, to say the least. Spongebob then lifted Krab’s head up and began to slowly dislocate Mr. Krabs’ bones. It was horrifying.
He twisted all of Mr. Krabs' limbs off, grabbing the crab’s wrists and twisting and pushing in off the socket with enough strength to break it, and after a while, Mr. Krabs' began gurgling in a low tone. SpongeBob said in a sweet, child-like voice "Oh... You're still alive... Oh goody, more fun for me then!" as he violently twisted Krabs’ head around. Then he grabbed a pan and shoved it down his throat while he bashed in Mr. Krabs' slightly burnt face until his face was cracked in half.
Three black rectangles covered Mr. Krabs' mutilated body, censoring them. Then after a while, the episode resumed, the black rectangles faded, and SpongeBob started digging inside Krabs' body to find his heart. He ended up peeling it apart, he held it up to his hand, admiring the crustaceans organ. Spongebob opened his mouth dropped the heart into it and eating it.
SpongeBob started violently jumping on his body while laughing maniacally. And finally, after all that, SpongeBob peeled off the rest of his flesh so he could see the remains of his internal organs. They weren't as detailed as the heart, but it was just as unsightly to look at. He stomped on them until all that the organs were was a pool of liquids and specks of insides. He finally stopped. SpongeBob started chuckling and soaked in a blue liquid, most likely Mr Krabs’ blood, that was splattered onto him. Then he realized he could kill another individual— Squidward. He went to Squidward, who was now hiding inside Mr. Krabs’ office under his desk, seeing how deranged Spongebob was now. The camera stayed on Squidward’s terrified state as he shook in absolute fear, his teeth chattering. The office door opened, making Squidward’s eyes widen, and his pupils shrink. Slow footsteps could be heard as Squidward’s whimpers ceased. SpongeBob, who was now next to squidward under the desk whispered, "Squidward, I know I'm annoying, but this... This will be the last time."
Before Squidward could react, SpongeBob grabbed him by his neck, pinning down to the ground by his waist, he grabbed his chest and ripped it open with ease. He got up and began to kick his insides, splattering it across the room and leaving behind a purple-y black substance. But, somehow, Squidward was still alive. "Any last words, Squiddy?". Squidward, through his ink-covered teeth with a look of anger, replied, "Just... kill me..." SpongeBob looked at him with perplexity for a second before he temporarily snapped out of madness and looked genuinely concerned for his neighbour. There was still a bit of morality inside of him.
"Fine, then I'll end it here and now."
SpongeBob proceeded to stomp on Squidward, instantly killing him from blunt force trauma. After that, SpongeBob walked up to the only customer in the restaurant, frozen in fear. He picked up Krabs' remains and showed them to that customer.
SpongeBob turned his head to the side as he smiled,
“We’ve got a new item here! Isn't it delectable? Try it!” SpongeBob cheered as he grabbed the back of the customers head and smashed it into the remains.
"No witnesses." SpongeBob said blankly.
The scene immediately cut to SpongeBob entering the gym.
He saw Larry and gave him a protein milkshake. "Thanks, my spongy compadre." Larry took the lid off and chugged it all down. A bluish red liquid started coming out of each hole in his face. He tried to perform the heimlich maneuver on himself, but he just coughed up more of the liquid, and he was unable to get it out of him. "SpongeBob, why’d you-" His pale body fell to the floor before he could even finish his sentence. He started seizing up. Spongebob was laughing evilly as he showed the viewer he had put some cyanide pills inside of the milkshake. satisfied, he went to Sandy's tree dome. She was working on a brand-new invention that looked like a woodchipper of some kind, with a large opening. SpongeBob entered the tree some with what looked to be a bat behind his back. He silently walked up to Sandy; still working in the device. Once he got close enough to her, Spongebob smacked the bat down on Sandy’s head, making a metallic sound. This knocked her out cold; once that happened, Spongebob grabbed her by her neck and began to walk briskly to the dome’s exit. My eyes immediately widened and what he was about to do. One he got to the last door; he held Sandy like she was a battery ram as the door slowly opened. Once the door was halfway open, Spongebob threw Sandy into the water without the suits. Sandy’s eyes shot open, clenching her throat as she began to drown. As her eyes began to bulge out of her head, she turned to face Spongebob; he was smiling widely at her drowning form. He waved as she felt the lasts bits of oxygen escape her lungs. Her body began to float for a bit, then finally ascend to the surface. The sight made SpongeBob smile wider as his eyes were now devoid of soul. He only cared about one more target. "One more… just… one more." he giggled to himself. It cut to SpongeBob knocking on Patrick's house with that same bat, now having a knife blade strapped to it. Patrick was inside looking at his hands, scared because his fingers were gone. It was weird considering that he never cared about that in the actual show. Eventually SpongeBob got impatient and began to kick his rock house. Once the rock lifted up with Patrick on the floor, SpongeBob leaped on top of him and began to slam the bats blade down on his head, brutally slicing him... Patrick started gurgling and soon a whistle came in accompanied with the screen fading to darkness. Patrick attempted to call for help but nobody was there, the outside looked emptier. Then it cut to Patrick covered in the sand still alive, covered in blood with his skull and some other bones exposed. He was partly unconscious, with his face down covered in deep cuts and gashes. Sponge Bob panted as he briefly stopped slashing at his unconscious friends' face, looking at what he's done. He slowly awakened and I could tell he couldn't remember anything. After he finally came to it, he started screaming like a feral animal, almost like the voice actor himself was being burned alive. He fell unconscious again, SpongeBob’s energy came back to him, and he began to slash and bash his friends face more vigorously. Patrick woke up one more time and cried very quietly as he wheezes weakly in pain. with the strength he had left, and SpongeBob looked at him. "Everyone will love me for this, they always do!" A message came up that said "Happiness leads to peace, but fear brings it to violence…" The scene then cut to SpongeBob's house. It showed the interior, which looked completely ransacked. There was also a pentagram on the wall, and it was the same thing in the title card. The next room had Gary in it. He survived. The room after that room showed a pixelated pile under a lamp light. I had a hard time distinguishing what it was, but it was most likely why none of the fish residents were around. SpongeBob was lying in bed with a knife in one hand and a face covered in blood. SpongeBob’s eyes widened a bit, remembering something, "Oh waaaiiiittt. Those were hallucinogens; I bought them on accident instead of the pill I needed from the drug store! No wonder why!" SpongeBob laughed before slowly realizing what he has done and realizing that he had killed. His eyes widened as his breath became more and more shaken. He was shattered by what he had just done. It cut to him standing on a cliff as he suddenly started to decompose as he stared off into nothing. As he decomposed, a vomit-like liquid slowly pumped out of SpongeBob's corpse, and it began to harden around his feet. In the end there was a time lapse of SpongeBob decomposing as he stood there, his eyes remaining open as the eyelids crumbled away. His eyes bec
oming bloodshot after the veins. His yellow turned into a brownish red. Eventually, all that was left was a still, almost unidentified corpse of the sponge.
Then it just showed SpongeBob but with a creepy white smile. He shouted in an unnervingly happy voice, "LIES, LIES, LIES!”
The screen cut to black and white text appeared. "ANIMATION TEST 4/11/2002. Testing new animation software developed by [unknown]. This is not made for public viewing. Do not distribute. NOTICE: This is still pending review. Please do not EXPUNGE episode test."The episode abruptly ended. I ended up having nausea and suicidal thoughts. But luckily, I found a therapist to help me out. I still like Spongebob, but I will never look at him the same ever again.