Go watch Ripped Pants again. Notice how far he goes to impress Sandy specifically. Same with Tea at the Treedome. There's also bits of it in episodes like Karate Choppers and Musclebob Buffpants. They really did want to try setting up Sandy as a potential love interest.
this is pretty OOC even if he did have a crush on her, which i think was the internet originally but the scrapped it before her episode even aired and i'm glad they did, Spongebob with an awkward crush would feel weird
i can't see him behaving like this and the way he talks here sounds like some shit straight outta Ned's Declassified
I don't think it would be as awkward as OP's pic makes it out to be. The only real difference, I think, is maybe they have one or two dating episodes, maybe their interactions would differ slightly, and that's it really. Insignificant in the long run aside from giving more ammunition to shippers.
>shippers
Anon it's an actual romance plot. There's no fan speculation involved at all. That word doesn't mean shit in an era before live journal even existed.
Shipping doesn't need to only involve ships that aren't canon, you can ship something that's canon
Also
Go watch Ripped Pants again. Notice how far he goes to impress Sandy specifically. Same with Tea at the Treedome. There's also bits of it in episodes like Karate Choppers and Musclebob Buffpants. They really did want to try setting up Sandy as a potential love interest.
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I don't think it would be as awkward as OP's pic makes it out to be. The only real difference, I think, is maybe they have one or two dating episodes, maybe their interactions would differ slightly, and that's it really. Insignificant in the long run aside from giving more ammunition to shippers.
idk how you could possibly write a romance plot into Spongebob that wouldn't be weird, but tbf, I trust Stephen Hindenburg would've figured it out... (unless he already figured out the best course is to not do it, in which case it's the timeline we're in)
He probably wouldn't pull an awkward highschool crush type of situation but I can't imagine the modern seasons wouldn't pull that kinda shit with how they butchered every other character
didn't the ol' Hindenburg come out and say that spongebob doesn't have love interests? might be misremembering
either way that episode with him taking pearl to the prom always seemed very romantic, has that moment with her at the end where mr krabs says "get away from me flower" or whatever
i think him having very minor crushes on sandy and pearl would've been smart, not enough to change their dynamics but enough that he can blush or be shy about silly little things just for joke material and a bit of character. like
Go watch Ripped Pants again. Notice how far he goes to impress Sandy specifically. Same with Tea at the Treedome. There's also bits of it in episodes like Karate Choppers and Musclebob Buffpants. They really did want to try setting up Sandy as a potential love interest.
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I don't think it would be as awkward as OP's pic makes it out to be. The only real difference, I think, is maybe they have one or two dating episodes, maybe their interactions would differ slightly, and that's it really. Insignificant in the long run aside from giving more ammunition to shippers.
said, sponge already goes to some kooky lengths to impress sandy so it wouldn't change much.
Yup, he wanted Spongebob to just see everyone as friends and didn't wanna involve romantic relationships
He is asexual in both the modern colloquial way of meaning "not interested in relationships", as well as the literal biological definition of "reproduces by self duplication without sexual copulation"
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uh... i think he did reproduce himself as a joke in that one episode but he's got parents, right? and he was in his mother's womb at one point... probably better not to think too hard on it...
>that episode with him taking pearl to the prom always seemed very romantic, has that moment with her at the end where mr krabs says "get away from me flower"
It's not uncommon for guys to take girls to prom as friends, or even guys who don't go to the same school to just escort them there, because going to prom and having a 'date' even if that date isn't romantic is such a cultural phenomena
A dad might choose a guy he knows and trusts, and we know Mr Krabs trusts Spongebob dearly, but he's still naturally protective of his daughter as is to be expected of a parent
yeah, sure. it definitely wasn't overtly romantic, just felt like it had undertones. i doubt the hindenburg would've allowed them to kiss or something
>that episode with him taking pearl to the prom always seemed very romantic, has that moment with her at the end where mr krabs says "get away from me flower"
It's not uncommon for guys to take girls to prom as friends, or even guys who don't go to the same school to just escort them there, because going to prom and having a 'date' even if that date isn't romantic is such a cultural phenomena
A dad might choose a guy he knows and trusts, and we know Mr Krabs trusts Spongebob dearly, but he's still naturally protective of his daughter as is to be expected of a parent
Hillenburg's specific wording is that Spongebro is asexual, which is both asexual representation before the trendchasers got there, and a clever joke about him being a sponge.
didn't the ol' Hindenburg come out and say that spongebob doesn't have love interests? might be misremembering
either way that episode with him taking pearl to the prom always seemed very romantic, has that moment with her at the end where mr krabs says "get away from me flower" or whatever
i think him having very minor crushes on sandy and pearl would've been smart, not enough to change their dynamics but enough that he can blush or be shy about silly little things just for joke material and a bit of character. like [...] said, sponge already goes to some kooky lengths to impress sandy so it wouldn't change much.
>That word doesn't mean shit in an era before live journal even existed.
The term comes from X-Files fandom in the mid 90s and the concept goes back to Star Trek fanzines in the 1970s
this is pretty OOC even if he did have a crush on her, which i think was the internet originally but the scrapped it before her episode even aired and i'm glad they did, Spongebob with an awkward crush would feel weird
i can't see him behaving like this and the way he talks here sounds like some shit straight outta Ned's Declassified
Is this official?
You don’t know. Maybe he wants tk frick the tree
he's not The Grinch
Of course the Grinch wouldn't do that. Now the Grirch, on the other hand...
Go watch Ripped Pants again. Notice how far he goes to impress Sandy specifically. Same with Tea at the Treedome. There's also bits of it in episodes like Karate Choppers and Musclebob Buffpants. They really did want to try setting up Sandy as a potential love interest.
I don't think it would be as awkward as OP's pic makes it out to be. The only real difference, I think, is maybe they have one or two dating episodes, maybe their interactions would differ slightly, and that's it really. Insignificant in the long run aside from giving more ammunition to shippers.
>shippers
Anon it's an actual romance plot. There's no fan speculation involved at all. That word doesn't mean shit in an era before live journal even existed.
Shipping doesn't need to only involve ships that aren't canon, you can ship something that's canon
Also
idk how you could possibly write a romance plot into Spongebob that wouldn't be weird, but tbf, I trust Stephen Hindenburg would've figured it out... (unless he already figured out the best course is to not do it, in which case it's the timeline we're in)
He probably wouldn't pull an awkward highschool crush type of situation but I can't imagine the modern seasons wouldn't pull that kinda shit with how they butchered every other character
>shipping doesn't need to only involve ships that aren't canon
This is how you destroy all meaning behind words.
didn't the ol' Hindenburg come out and say that spongebob doesn't have love interests? might be misremembering
either way that episode with him taking pearl to the prom always seemed very romantic, has that moment with her at the end where mr krabs says "get away from me flower" or whatever
i think him having very minor crushes on sandy and pearl would've been smart, not enough to change their dynamics but enough that he can blush or be shy about silly little things just for joke material and a bit of character. like
said, sponge already goes to some kooky lengths to impress sandy so it wouldn't change much.
Yup, he wanted Spongebob to just see everyone as friends and didn't wanna involve romantic relationships
He is asexual in both the modern colloquial way of meaning "not interested in relationships", as well as the literal biological definition of "reproduces by self duplication without sexual copulation"
uh... i think he did reproduce himself as a joke in that one episode but he's got parents, right? and he was in his mother's womb at one point... probably better not to think too hard on it...
yeah, sure. it definitely wasn't overtly romantic, just felt like it had undertones. i doubt the hindenburg would've allowed them to kiss or something
>he doesn't know about one of the most remembered disasters in history
kids these days...
>that episode with him taking pearl to the prom always seemed very romantic, has that moment with her at the end where mr krabs says "get away from me flower"
It's not uncommon for guys to take girls to prom as friends, or even guys who don't go to the same school to just escort them there, because going to prom and having a 'date' even if that date isn't romantic is such a cultural phenomena
A dad might choose a guy he knows and trusts, and we know Mr Krabs trusts Spongebob dearly, but he's still naturally protective of his daughter as is to be expected of a parent
Hillenburg's specific wording is that Spongebro is asexual, which is both asexual representation before the trendchasers got there, and a clever joke about him being a sponge.
>Stephen Hindenburg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hillenburg
>That word doesn't mean shit in an era before live journal even existed.
The term comes from X-Files fandom in the mid 90s and the concept goes back to Star Trek fanzines in the 1970s
Then they had that stupid marriage skit.
It just seems like it would be antithetical for what spongebob was trying to do
S-spongebros?
this is pretty OOC even if he did have a crush on her, which i think was the internet originally but the scrapped it before her episode even aired and i'm glad they did, Spongebob with an awkward crush would feel weird
i can't see him behaving like this and the way he talks here sounds like some shit straight outta Ned's Declassified
Yep they just don't make em like this anymore
thought it meant car crash