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Props to getting someone to voice Krabs instead of using an AI-generated one

Patrick is in the ending because he was originally supposed to have a route, but the game got released unfinished because the creator became tired of the state of the Creepypasta community.

Ok completely random detail I noticed that I love: in the bad ending, the music playing is the end credits theme from SpongeBob. A lot of people find this song unnerving because we don’t hear it when watching SpongeBob naturally. It’s a really cool detail that adds to the creepiness!

I like how this lore implies that David Byrne, lead singer of the Talking Heads, just decided to work on a random Spongebob game one day and never told anyone.

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My take on the bad ending's meaning is that SpongeBob has unfortunately become the new vessel of the flesh entity using Squidward as it's previous one.

The Effigy entry mentions an entity, presumedly worshipped by those who dwell the depths of the world, which the namely boss "shamefully" mimics in form.

The hollow appearence of Squidward's body makes it resemble like he was unwilling (or willingly given his manic laughters) used as a container for this entity to reside in, and the last frame we see of SpongeBob is similary hollowed out. (and strinkingly close to the doppleganger we fight before Squidward)

If this were the case, the "something better" mentioned in the ending would be a new eternal "friend", in the form of the eldrich horror hosted in his body. Grim stuff.

Even more speculative, but it could also mean that (in universe) the golden spatulas have the power to repel this creature's influence, but ONLY if the seven of them are together. It could explain the extra phase in the good ending; the entity grows desperate as the relics block it's new vessel, and goes from simply latching on/sprouting from it's current one to completely asimilating it in order to gain more power, to no avail.

Maybe i'm putting to much attention in a silly SpongeBob horror game, but is always fun to speculate!

Frank:
Head of Snacktime

Clearly the most important job

Spongeboy, me Bob! I took too much Ketamine, and began to peek beyond the veil! Argargargargargargh!

“After the war, Mr Krabs feel into a great depression that seemed endless.”

Honestly, the voice acting for Mr Krabs is 10/10

Perfectly sells the heavily traumatized vibe without straying too far from Krabs' usual voice

16:26  "BIG MIKE?? BIG MIKE-  that dude did not write anything" had me dying

Okay, so I'm pretty sure that those line mister Krabs said we're bits from stories by H. P. Lovecraft.

I would geniunely love like a VibingLeaf-style retake of this with a bit less abruptness that makes it a little more clear what’s going on. Like, Mr. Krabs tells you stories that foreshadow the next level but slowly his wartime PTSD gets triggered and the world changes to reflect his mental state. Like instead of a few normal levels followed by reliving Mr. Krabs’s biggest fears, it’s Mr. Krabs telling a story that slowly devolves into the horrors he witnessed during the war (which he was canonically in by the way, that was established in Krusty Krab Training Video and was never elaborated on again). Like it starts off with a GBA game very losely based off of The Flying Dutchman's Treasure Hunt but then slowly devolves into Mr. Krab’s severally scarred mind as he’s reminded of the pains and loses he’s endured.

Like, the sulfer and the City of Heads and the ash and literally EVERY LEVEL AND BOSS (Aside from the Squidward one) after the shift is forshadowed, so why not tie it all together?

The credits remind me of those "In Loving Memory Of" moments at the ending of Smiling Friend episodes

SpongeBob: No Stop! STAY BACK!
Evil Squidward: Wait where’d you get that Piano? F*cking dies

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I'm SpongeBob 🙂

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So thankful that Mr. Krabs warned you about them, I sure hope he doesn’t have any horrific war stories!

No amount of fan horror games will ever beat that horrific Butterfly frame in the original series

"He may not have any eyes but he's got a killer smile"

Love that line so much