Red Mist

**Red Mist** is a controversial real-life bootleg tape featuring an unaired episode of the popular Nickelodeon series SpongeBob Squarepants. Like the long-lost yet recently discovered "Suicide Mouse" tape, Red Mist was purportedly created by a now-imprisoned Scottish animator (Andrew Skinner) for the series who intended to pass the tape off as the season four premiere episode instead of "Fear of a Krabby Patty" and feature the death of Squidward. It's Skinner's third tape and a visually edited version of Squidward's Suicide. The episode was viewed by Chaz Agnew in 2004

## Story

The first scene is of Squidward playing the clarinet when he gets a knock on his door. He answers it and it is a Scottish salesman fish. He asks if he could have a moment of Squidward's time, but Squidward says he is not interested, slams the door and returns to playing his clarinet. Before he can even play though, the knock sounds again. Squidward angrily goes to the door. The salesman looks very upset and tells Squidward that "The Red Mist is coming." and walks off. The next scene is essentially the opening of Squidward's Suicide, but with different animation. The only difference besides the look of the animation is that Patrick is with SpongeBob, and when yelled at, they both apologize to Squidward with tears in their eyes and they both walk off to their houses. The scene reverts back to Squidward, looking unsure of himself and he then returns back to the clarinet. Squidward is now playing his clarinet uninterrupted. The scene then fades to red over the course of 12 seconds, the scene then repeats once more, but now Squidward's eyes are replaced with realistic eyes which look different to the ones seen in Squidward's Suicide. The audio is also absent from this scene save for several clicking noises.

The concert scene then begins. Squidward has the same red eyes from the last scene, The frames of the animation keep skipping every 4 seconds. After performing a song that he dubbed "Red Mist", the crowd started booing, including Spongebob and Patrick, very uncommon for them. The scene pans out to reveal the salesman sitting next to them. The crowd had the same realistic eyes that Squidward had. Squidward walks off the stage.

A new scene begins, which is Squidward walking to his house, with a blank look on his face and he now has his normal cartoon eyes. This goes on for 3 minutes and 30 seconds before abruptly cutting to a red screen for 20 seconds.

The next scene begins with Squidward sitting on his bed with a blank look on his face. After 30 seconds, Squidward begins to sob softly. Shortly after he begins sobbing, the sound of wind blowing can be heard, which gets more severe over time. The camera also slowly trucks in on Squidward as his crying increases in volume. For a split second, the screen twitches during this.

After all this, the sound of a man laughing (who sounds like the Scottish fish) can be heard every now and then.

Shortly after the laughter starts up, the screen again flinches, followed by a single frame photo flashing onscreen. Upon pausing exactly on the frame, a photo of a dead boy, with his entrails scattered everywhere, appears, with the photographer's shadow visible nearby.

Back with Squidward, he is still crying, louder than before, as well as what looked like blood running down his face instead of tears. The laughter is still heard, the wind sound now includes the snapping of branches, and the screams of a young boy are audible.

Shortly thereafter, another single frame photo appears, this one of a girl lying face down in a pool of blood, again with the guts placed all over the ground. The shadow of the photographer can be seen here, too.

After this photo, Squidward suddenly stopped crying, which also caused all the other sounds to stop abruptly. He looks up to reveal that he now has the red eyes before. As he stares directly at the screen, he begins crying again, this time mixed with the screams of a young boy and girl. The wind and laughing sounds also return, as well as an off-key rendition of "Amazing Grace" played on both the clarinet and bagpipes.

During this scene, seven black-and-white frames of a boy getting his guts pulled out by a large hand (presumably the photographer) play.

When this finishes, all sound again comes to a halt. A grisly voice then addresses Squidward: "***Do it. DO IT!!!!***" The camera quickly zooms from Squidward's face to reveal he's holding an handgun in his tentacles. He proceeds to put the handgun near his eyes and pull the trigger, shooting blood out all over his room.

The tape ends on a long shot of Squidward's corpse on the floor as the salesman saying "The red mist is coming." from earlier plays with an echo reverb. The tape then ends.

## Delivery

On December 10 2004, after Andrew finished it, He sent it to the Canadian Branch of Nickelodeon in Ontario, The tape caused two young interns ( Chaz Angew and Mike Stern ) to get traumas, A couple of editors retired and three interns commited suicide with a handgun like Squidward in the episode. The tape was then discarded however it somehow ended up in a Warehouse in Canada

## Variants

VibingLeaf Variant - The version uploaded by him

CD Version - A version that is on DVD

Chaz Version - The Og Version Uploaded By Chaz Agnew

## Additional Tapes

* Suicide Squidward - Andrew's first tape. The central episode of the Investigation.
* Squidward's Suicide - Andrew's second tape. The most famous one.
* Three Bloody Drops - Andrew's fourth tape. A cartoon detailing the murders of the two kids.
* *Unmarked Video 2000 Tape* - Andrew's fifth tape. Nothing is known except that Spongebob's laugh is heard ten seconds in.
* Blood Lane - A Season 4 Episode Were Squidward Kills SpongeBob

## Video

Short clips of the tape can be found on YouTube, they were originally uploaded by SpongebobRedMist. However, there is many fake versions and recreations all over the internet.

## Aftermath

A Sony Betamax tape marked "Red Mist" was discovered in a warehouse in Mideastern Canada on August 12, 2016. It was found by Marcus Andrews, and he reported it to Nickelodeon. The tape was brought into Chaz Angew, the intern who wrote the account from Squidward's Suicide. They had to hunt for a Beta VCR in decent condition, but they were able to find one at a nearby thrift shop. When the tape was watched, it was in a poor condition. The tape was then cleaned for a few hours, and the quality vastly improved, although still quite low for a Beta, which was supposed to be better than any other video tape at the time. The tape fit exactly to the reported contents, so this means it is the real fourth of Andrew's five infamous cartoons. Footage of the tape has been released by Richards

## Videos

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