SPONGEBOB CONSPIRACY #8: The Time Traveling Ghost Pirate Theory — Transcript

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1. 0:00All right, so this time instead of
2. 0:02ending with the big twist, I'm just
3. 0:03going to open with it. The Flying
4. 0:05Dutchman is the ghost of Patchy the
5. 0:08Pirate. This is a claim that makes
6. 0:10absolutely no sense. They look
7. 0:11different. They act different. And most
8. 0:13importantly, Patchy the Pirate is alive
9. 0:15at the same time we see the Flying
10. 0:17Dutchman. It would be impossible to
11. 0:19prove that they're the same person,
12. 0:21right? Well, you know, I like a
13. 0:24challenge. This is the timetraveling
14. 0:26ghost pirate theory.
15. 0:28[Music]
16. 0:32You mean the big tentacle monster in my
17. 0:35basement?
18. 0:36Yeah.
19. 0:37How do you know about that?
20. 0:39I have one, too.
21. 0:41What?
22. 0:42[Music]
23. 0:45So, when you say you have a muse, you
24. 0:48mean you also have a creepy monster
25. 0:50thing in your basement giving you
26. 0:52Spongebob theories?
27. 0:53Well, no. It didn't give me Spongebob
28. 0:55theories. It got me my commercial jobs.
29. 0:57I didn't even know there was more than
30. 0:59one. I have like a thousand questions
31. 1:00right now. Like, what exactly are they?
32. 1:02Where do they come from? What do they
33. 1:03want?
34. 1:04Oh. Um, I probably don't know that much
35. 1:06more than you. Mine just showed up in my
36. 1:08house one day and eventually it left.
37. 1:11Wait, yours left? As in you don't have a
38. 1:14muse?
39. 1:15No, I just kept giving mine meat, got me
40. 1:18a permanent job, and then it left.
41. 1:21Listen, I know they seem really weird
42. 1:24and creepy at first, but honestly,
43. 1:27they're just here to help.
44. 1:28But didn't you have to feed yours like
45. 1:30more than just meat?
46. 1:32No. What have you been feeding yours?
47. 1:35Mine ate a cat.
48. 1:37Hang on. You gave your muse a cat?
49. 1:38I didn't feed it the cat. Okay. It was
50. 1:40in my home and then it took it. Okay. It
51. 1:42wasn't my fault.
52. 1:43Okay. Well, obviously you don't have a
53. 1:45cat in your home when you have a muse.
54. 1:47Listen,
55. 1:49just keep giving it meat and eventually
56. 1:51it'll leave you with enough Spongebob
57. 1:53theories to last you for years.
58. 1:56[Music]
59. 2:10Hey, so I've been thinking about things
60. 2:14and um I'm willing to continue our
61. 2:18relationship, but things have to be very
62. 2:22different this time. No more eating
63. 2:24living animals. Let's just stick to the
64. 2:26storebought meat. Okay.
65. 2:34Oh, okay. Uh great. Glad we're on the
66. 2:38same page. You know, I'm I'm sorry about
67. 2:41all the shouting and the craziness. You
68. 2:44know, I won't have anything against you
69. 2:45personally. I think if we just
70. 2:47communicated better, we could have, you
71. 2:49know, avoided a lot of the issues that
72. 2:50we were having. But I'm glad we finally
73. 2:53have an understanding.
74. 2:56[Music]
75. 3:09All right, the timetraveling ghost
76. 3:11pirate theory. That's the uh that's the
77. 3:14real title we're going with. Uh, sure.
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128. 5:10[Music]
129. 5:14Before I get into how these characters
130. 5:15connect, I have to explain the tragic
131. 5:17backstory of Patchy the Pirate.
132. 5:20I'm Patchy the Pirate, the president of
133. 5:22the Spongebob Squarepants fan club.
134. 5:24Patchy the Pirate is the president of
135. 5:26the Spongebob Fan Club, and they often
136. 5:27cut to him during special episodes to
137. 5:29host the show and talk to the audience.
138. 5:31He fits in perfectly with my television
139. 5:33theory and clearly works for the in
140. 5:35universe Spongebob Squarepants
141. 5:36showrunners as some kind of mascot for
142. 5:38the show.
143. 5:39Boring. Well, if it isn't my less than
144. 5:42amusing sidekick, Potty the Parrot.
145. 5:44Patchy is this weird lonely guy whose
146. 5:46only friend is a talking parrot who's
147. 5:48constantly harassing him. And I'm also
148. 5:50pretty sure Patchy wants to eat him.
149. 5:52Shiver me timbers. It's party.
150. 5:56I wonder what parrot tastes like.
151. 5:58But that's not what this theory is
152. 5:59about. If you rewatch all the episodes
153. 6:01with Patchy, you start to notice a bit
154. 6:03of a disturbing development with his
155. 6:05character. Patchy has devoted his entire
156. 6:07life to Spongebob. But that devotion is
157. 6:10very one-sided. And the more time that
158. 6:12goes on, the more resentful Patchy
159. 6:14becomes of Spongebob. In the season 3
160. 6:17episode Party Pooperpants, Patchy throws
161. 6:19a house party and tries to invite
162. 6:20Spongebob, but he doesn't show up.
163. 6:22Say, you didn't bring Spongebob with
164. 6:24you, did you? Gee, I sure hope he got
165. 6:27his invitation. I'd sure like to go to
166. 6:29this party, but I can't read the
167. 6:31invitation.
168. 6:32But Patchy doesn't really seem to be
169. 6:34that upset about it.
170. 6:35I will.
171. 6:36But then things start to take a turn in
172. 6:38the episode The Sponge Who Could Fly.
173. 6:40Patchy follows a map and goes on a crazy
174. 6:42adventure to find the legendary lost
175. 6:44Spongebob episode. And after finally
176. 6:46getting it, this is what plays.
177. 6:54That's it. That's the last episode. That
178. 6:58was just a bunch of cheap walk cycles.
179. 7:01What a rip.
180. 7:02So, Patchy got let down by Spongebob
181. 7:04again, but I'm sure he'll get over it
182. 7:06just like last time.
183. 7:09Spongebob betrayed us.
184. 7:12I'm sorry I ever started this stupid fan
185. 7:15club in the first place.
186. 7:17Patchy has a fullon mental breakdown.
187. 7:20Now, eventually he does find the real
188. 7:22lost episode and goes back to normal.
189. 7:24But this is just the start of Patchy's
190. 7:26transformation into a much darker
191. 7:28character. In the season 6 episode,
192. 7:30Truth or Square, Patchy throws a massive
193. 7:32television extravaganza to celebrate 10
194. 7:34years of Spongebob. There is a ton of
195. 7:36production value in celebrities that
196. 7:38Patchy managed to get. There is no way
197. 7:40Spongebob wouldn't show up for it.
198. 7:42Spongebob
199. 7:44Squarepants.
200. 7:47What do you mean he's not coming? 10
201. 7:50years I've been president fan club.
202. 7:53Patchy has dedicated 10 years of his
203. 7:55life to Spongebob and he can't even be
204. 7:57bothered to show up once. And this never
205. 7:59even gets resolved in the episode
206. 8:01either. Patchy tries to find Spongebob.
207. 8:03Thinks he's about to meet him. But then
208. 8:04it turns out it was all just a dream.
209. 8:06Mister, are you okay?
210. 8:08Spongebob?
211. 8:10No, it's just me, the guy and the penny.
212. 8:13Patchy's one-sided obsession with
213. 8:14Spongebob is making him delusional. And
214. 8:17this is by no means the last time Patchy
215. 8:19will hallucinate meeting Spongebob. In
216. 8:21Atlantis Square Pantis, Patchy gets lost
217. 8:23in the desert and once again
218. 8:25hallucinates Spongebob. Uh-oh, here come
219. 8:28the hallucinations.
220. 8:32It's me, Spongebob Squarepants.
221. 8:38But then in Spongebob's big birthday
222. 8:40blowout, it seems like he finally really
223. 8:42does meet Spongebob
224. 8:43from your biggest fan. I have a fan.
225. 8:47Surprise!
226. 8:49It's Patchy the Pirate. Happy birthday,
227. 8:52Spongebob.
228. 8:53Thank you, Patchy. But even if they
229. 8:55don't explicitly say it, this is
230. 8:57definitely another hallucination. It's
231. 8:59right after he crashed into an island
232. 9:01and he's just a severed head for some
233. 9:03reason and he can breathe underwater.
234. 9:05Yeah, I'm going to say that this is a
235. 9:06hallucination. They have another alleged
236. 9:08meeting in Spongebob's Road to Christmas
237. 9:10special, but this time Patchy's fully
238. 9:12animated for some reason. So, I'm pretty
239. 9:15skeptical about this one, too. In fact,
240. 9:17I'm going to come back to this one. Keep
241. 9:18it in mind because it's going to be very
242. 9:20important later on. So, as much as
243. 9:22Patchy worships Spongebob and wants to
244. 9:24meet him, he never will. And you don't
245. 9:26have to take my word for it either. In a
246. 9:282009 Wondercom panel with some of the
247. 9:30actors and creators of Spongebob, they
248. 9:32talk about the rules they have for
249. 9:33writing the show, including the fact
250. 9:35that Patchy can never meet Spongebob.
251. 9:37His character is has evolved into this
252. 9:40pirate that's obsessed with Spongebob.
253. 9:43Well, they can never meet, right?
254. 9:44Well, yeah, they can never meet. There's
255. 9:46there's a lot of rules in Spongebob
256. 9:47which are there for a reason. It's part
257. 9:49of the success in a way.
258. 9:51From the very start of his creation,
259. 9:53they doomed Patchy to be an obsessed fan
260. 9:55who would never meet his idol. He will
261. 9:57spend the rest of his life devoted to
262. 9:59Spongebob. But no matter how hard he
263. 10:01tries, he will never reach Bikini Bottom
264. 10:04and he will never meet Spongebob. And
265. 10:06unfortunately, that is the tragic story
266. 10:09of Patchy the Pirate.
267. 10:11But if all of that's true, then I just
268. 10:14have one lingering question. How come
269. 10:17the dumpster behind the Krusty Krab has
270. 10:19a message that reads Patchy was here?
271. 10:23Don't go anywhere because the time
272. 10:25traveling ghost pirate theory is about
273. 10:27to get crazy.
274. 10:51[Music]
275. 11:01[Music]
276. 11:18[Music]
277. 11:32[Music]
278. 12:27I'll come back to this message later,
279. 12:29but first we have to talk about the
280. 12:31mysterious origins of the Flying
281. 12:33Dutchman. The Flying Dutchman is the
282. 12:35legendary ghost pirate that haunts
283. 12:36Bikini Bottom.
284. 12:37In a pirate ship, the Flying Dutchman
285. 12:40descends on Bikini Bottom.
286. 12:42The first time we hear about the Flying
287. 12:43Dutchman is in the episode Squidward the
288. 12:45Unfriendly Ghost when Spongebob finds a
289. 12:47comic book about his origins.
290. 12:49It's the origin of the Flying Dutchman.
291. 12:51It says when he died, they used his body
292. 12:54as a window display. Now he haunts the
293. 12:56seven seas because he was never put to
294. 12:59rest.
295. 12:59Now, I've always been a little skeptical
296. 13:02about this origin. Not just because it's
297. 13:04claiming they put an actual human corpse
298. 13:05up as display in a kid store, but
299. 13:07because the Flying Dutchman himself
300. 13:09contradicts it.
301. 13:10It's a little torn. Of course, it was
302. 13:13the shirt I was buried in.
303. 13:14He was never put to rest.
304. 13:16If he was buried, then this origin can't
305. 13:18be true. So, who is the Flying Dutchman
306. 13:21actually? Well, when I rewatched all the
307. 13:23episodes with the Flying Dutchman, I
308. 13:25kept noticing that he seems to have some
309. 13:27kind of fixation with Spongebob in
310. 13:29particular. In the episode Shanghide, he
311. 13:31drops his anchor on Spongebob's home,
312. 13:33which leads to him having to briefly
313. 13:34join the Dutchman's crew. Then, in Born
314. 13:36Again Krabs, he's about to take Mr.
315. 13:38Krab's soul, but then immediately
316. 13:40changes his mind when Spongebob offers
317. 13:42his soul instead. And even in the Camp
318. 13:44Coral prequel show, he haunts Spongebob
319. 13:46as a kid. But strangest of all, in Ghost
320. 13:49Host, the Dutchman's ship gets
321. 13:51destroyed. And out of all the places in
322. 13:52Bikini Bottom he could stay, he decides
323. 13:54to stay with Spongebob. my location
324. 13:58where I'll be staying. Business or
325. 14:00residence?
326. 14:02Residence.
327. 14:04And look at the way he mischievously
328. 14:06smiles when he sees Spongebob. It feels
329. 14:08like this is personal for him. But why?
330. 14:11The episode Ghost Host is actually the
331. 14:12first time we get a bit more depth for
332. 14:14the Flying Dutchman's character. At
333. 14:15first, he spends all of his time
334. 14:17torturing Spongebob, but eventually he
335. 14:19just wants to stay and hang out with
336. 14:21him. Maybe stay with a friend for a
337. 14:23while. Just for a little while longer.
338. 14:26Even though his ship's already been
339. 14:28repaired for 3 months.
340. 14:29Actually, I have a confession.
341. 14:31Spongebob, my ship's been done for 3
342. 14:33months now.
343. 14:34It feels like the Dutchman has some kind
344. 14:36of vendetta against Spongebob
345. 14:38specifically, but also deep down, he's
346. 14:40just lonely and wants to be Spongebob's
347. 14:42friend. And does that remind you of
348. 14:44anyone? Someone who's desperate to be
349. 14:47Spongebob's friend, but also has a deep
350. 14:49resentment towards him. Okay, but
351. 14:51there's like a bunch of reasons why the
352. 14:53Flying Dutchman couldn't be the ghost of
353. 14:55Patchy the Pirate. I mean, for starters,
354. 14:57they look totally different, right?
355. 14:59Different shirt, different hat, and most
356. 15:01importantly, the Dutchman doesn't have
357. 15:02the iconic hook and eye patch that
358. 15:04Patchy does. This is the point where I
359. 15:06was about to give up and scrap this
360. 15:08theory. But then I decided to rewatch
361. 15:10the season 1 episode, Arg, where
362. 15:12Spongebob plays a board game called The
363. 15:13Flying Dutchman's Treasure that's
364. 15:15actually based on the Flying Dutchman's
365. 15:17real map. The Flying Dutchman's Treasure
366. 15:19Hunt
367. 15:20based on a real treasure map.
368. 15:22And then I noticed something. One of the
369. 15:24game cards actually shows a picture of
370. 15:26the Flying Dutchman. I mean, look, he
371. 15:28clearly has the same nose and face as
372. 15:30him. But this looks like a picture of
373. 15:32when he was still alive and had a darker
374. 15:34black beard. But the hat he's wearing is
375. 15:36not the usual Flying Dutchman hat. It is
376. 15:39the exact same hat Patchy the Pirate
377. 15:41wears. Okay, but he still doesn't have
378. 15:44the eye patch in the hook hand, right?
379. 15:46Well, yeah, but here's the thing.
380. 15:48Neither does Patchy. Patchy's hook is
381. 15:51always switching hands, and he
382. 15:52constantly takes off his eye patch
383. 15:54because Patchy isn't a real pirate. He's
384. 15:57just pretending to be one.
385. 15:58The great thing about Patchy is that he
386. 15:59lives in Inino, California,
387. 16:03but he's a pirate.
388. 16:05But the only thing that makes him a
389. 16:06pirate is that he says he's one and
390. 16:08dresses like one.
391. 16:09Okay, fine. But but the shirt the shirt
392. 16:11is still very different. You know, the
393. 16:13the Dutchman's is all open and it's got
394. 16:15those stripey things. Patches is more
395. 16:17fancy with the big white puffy collar
396. 16:19and cuffs. Well, in the curse of Bikini
397. 16:21Bottom, we see the Flying Dutchman's
398. 16:23closet and he pulls out the exact same
399. 16:25shirt that Patchy wears. Same fancy
400. 16:28puffy collar, same cuffs. Fine. Okay,
401. 16:31maybe Patchy the Pirate and the Dutchman
402. 16:33look the same, but that doesn't mean
403. 16:35they're the same person. It's time we
404. 16:37address the elephant in the room. The
405. 16:39Flying Dutchman can't be Patchy's ghost
406. 16:41because Patchy is alive at the same time
407. 16:44we see the Flying Dutchman. Like, in
408. 16:46order for this theory to be true, Patchy
409. 16:48would have to die and then the
410. 16:49Dutchman's ghost would show up. But
411. 16:50they're simultaneously existing at the
412. 16:53same time. Patchy even shows up during
413. 16:55an episode all about the Flying
414. 16:56Dutchman. And he even calls it his
415. 16:58favorite episode. We're going to see me
416. 17:01favorite show, Shanghai. Tada. It is
417. 17:04physically impossible for Patchy and the
418. 17:06Dutchman to be the same person. Or is
419. 17:08it? Things are about to get stranger.
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423. 17:22Cut. Um, let's move on.
424. 17:32Hey, Victoria. Uh, I tried to work
425. 17:34things out with the muse like you said
426. 17:35and then I'm pretty sure it like bit me
427. 17:37or something and now I'm like feeling
428. 17:38really weird and craving raw meat. Uh,
429. 17:40could you just call me back please? I'm
430. 17:42starting to freak out a little bit.
431. 17:53[Music]
432. 17:59Victoria, where have you been? I've been
433. 18:01trying to call you all day.
434. 18:03Hey, sorry I'm at work.
435. 18:05Okay, so like the muse like bit me, I
436. 18:07think, and now I'm like craving raw meat
437. 18:09and
438. 18:10Yeah, I know. I got your messages. Just
439. 18:12calm down. This is a good thing.
440. 18:13How is this a good thing?
441. 18:15Means it's almost over.
442. 18:17Okay, here's what I need you to do.
443. 18:21[Music]
444. 18:36When I rewatched all the episodes with
445. 18:38the Flying Dutchman, I noticed something
446. 18:40strange. In the season 7 episode, The
447. 18:42Curse of Bikini Bottom, the Dutchman
448. 18:44gets a girlfriend, but starts to freak
449. 18:45out when she wants to get married.
450. 18:47She wants to marry me. I ain't the
451. 18:49Marian type.
452. 18:51But the Dutchman not being the Marian
453. 18:53type isn't entirely true. Back in season
454. 18:553 during Ghost Host, we see that the
455. 18:57Dutchman was once married. Is that a
456. 19:00wedding ring?
457. 19:02Oh, this holds nothing.
458. 19:03All right, but so what? You know, this
459. 19:05just seems like a small continuity error
460. 19:07between seasons. No surprise for
461. 19:09Spongebob. But in the season 6 special,
462. 19:12Spongebob versus the Big One, there's an
463. 19:13even stranger moment like this. The
464. 19:15Flying Dutchman bumps into Mr. Krabs and
465. 19:18says this to him.
466. 19:20It's a flying Dutchman.
467. 19:22It's some guy I've never seen before.
468. 19:24He says he's never met Mr. crabs before,
469. 19:26but there are two whole episodes from
470. 19:28previous seasons dedicated to the
471. 19:30Dutchman trying to steal Mr. Krab's soul
472. 19:32for being too greedy. They're even on a
473. 19:33first-name basis.
474. 19:35Eugene Krabs, some guy I've never seen
475. 19:38before.
476. 19:39All right, so another weird
477. 19:40inconsistency with the Dutchman, but I'm
478. 19:42still not convinced that it's not just
479. 19:44lazy writing, but back in the Curse of
480. 19:45Bikini Bottom, there's a moment that
481. 19:47cannot be written off as another
482. 19:49continuity error. Spongebob and Patrick
483. 19:51accidentally shave off the Dutchman's
484. 19:53beard, and the Dutchman claims their
485. 19:54beard won't grow back for another
486. 19:55thousand years.
487. 19:57Your beard will just grow back.
488. 19:59You know nothing of my facial hair.
489. 20:01It'll take a thousand years for my beard
490. 20:03to grow back.
491. 20:04But by the end of the episode, we cut to
492. 20:06several months later and his beard is
493. 20:08back.
494. 20:09The curse will wear off when my beard
495. 20:11grows back.
496. 20:12Several months later,
497. 20:14she wants to marry me.
498. 20:16It's not like this is just some plot
499. 20:17point they forgot about between
500. 20:18episodes. This several months later is
501. 20:21in the same episode where the Dutchman
502. 20:22says the beard takes a thousand years to
503. 20:24grow back.
504. 20:25It'll take 1,000 years for my beard to
505. 20:27grow back.
506. 20:28Several months later.
507. 20:30Why the [ __ ] would they include this
508. 20:32line if they were just going to
509. 20:34contradict it a few minutes later in the
510. 20:35same goddamn episode. They even
511. 20:37blatantly mention that it's several
512. 20:39months later twice as if they're trying
513. 20:41to make you realize how inconsistent it
514. 20:43is.
515. 20:43Several months later.
516. 20:45Well, here we are several months later.
517. 20:46So, what does any of this mean? Why are
518. 20:48the writers of Spongebob intentionally
519. 20:50making the Flying Dutchman as
520. 20:51inconsistent as possible? Well, the only
521. 20:54way that this makes sense to me is if
522. 20:56we're saying the Flying Dutchman
523. 20:58non-chronologically. And by that, I mean
524. 21:00the Flying Dutchman is timetraveling.
525. 21:04Just Just bear with me for a second. For
526. 21:06Spongebob, only several months have
527. 21:08passed. But for the Dutchman, it
528. 21:09actually was a thousand years later. The
529. 21:12Dutchman didn't recognize Mr. Krabs in
530. 21:14season 6 because for him, this is the
531. 21:16first time they've met. And from his
532. 21:17perspective, the episodes where he tries
533. 21:19to take Mr. Krab's soul haven't happened
534. 21:21yet. The Dutchman's not the marrying
535. 21:23type in season 7, but he probably
536. 21:25actually does end up getting married to
537. 21:27the giant monster, and that's why we see
538. 21:29him with a ring in season 4, because the
539. 21:31past is the future for the Flying
540. 21:33Dutchman. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
541. 21:35Okay, okay, let's uh let's calm down for
542. 21:37a second there, Alex. This time travel
543. 21:39idea does fix a lot of problems with the
544. 21:41Dutchman's continuity, but claiming a
545. 21:43character has time travel powers is a
546. 21:46major leap. I mean, don't get me wrong,
547. 21:48the Flying Dutchman is a very powerful
548. 21:50ghost. He can teleport. He can
549. 21:52shapeshift. He can grant wishes, but
550. 21:54we've never seen him manipulate time.
551. 21:56You get three wishes.
552. 21:58Wishes? I wish we had known that
553. 22:01earlier.
554. 22:03Okay, you got two wishes left.
555. 22:05Huh. Okay, so the Dutchman's time
556. 22:07traveling and you know what this means?
557. 22:09The Flying Dutchman could absolutely be
558. 22:12the ghost of Patchy the Pirate. And I'm
559. 22:15going to prove it.
560. 22:41Oh, hey, Alex. What's up?
561. 22:43Hey, Wes. Uh, sorry for just barging in
562. 22:45on you like this. Um, was actually
563. 22:47wondering maybe if you'd want to watch
564. 22:49my new Spongebob Theory. Maybe give me
565. 22:51some feedback,
566. 22:52dude. Yeah, absolutely. I love those
567. 22:54videos. Come on in, man.
568. 22:58How's the uh film thing going?
569. 23:00Oh, you know, uh, funding's a nightmare.
570. 23:04Trying to figure it out. Um, so just,
571. 23:06uh, give it a watch. Tell me what you
572. 23:08think. And, uh, is it cool if I use your
573. 23:11bathroom?
574. 23:11Yeah, no problem. It's, it's just right
575. 23:12through there. So,
576. 23:13cool. Uh, I guess enjoy.
577. 23:16All right. So, this time,
578. 23:19I'm just going to
579. 23:23patch the pirate. This is the claim that
580. 23:25makes absolute
581. 23:27different
582. 23:46Heat. Heat.
583. 23:58[Music]
584. 24:17So, if Patchy the Pirate eventually
585. 24:19becomes the Flying Dutchman, that means
586. 24:21at some point in the future, Patchy is
587. 24:23going to die. Except here's the thing. I
588. 24:26think Patchy is already dead in present
589. 24:28day, and we have already seen his death
590. 24:31on screen. Remember that Christmas
591. 24:33special I told you would be important
592. 24:34later on? It's the season 13 episode,
593. 24:36Spongebob's Road to Christmas, and as of
594. 24:38recording this, it's the latest episode
595. 24:40in the Spongebob timeline. Spongebob
596. 24:42does meet Patchy in this episode, but
597. 24:44for some reason, he's fully animated
598. 24:46instead of using the usual liveaction
599. 24:48style.
600. 24:49Ohoy, Spongebob and Patrick. It's me,
601. 24:52Patchy the Pirate.
602. 24:53It honestly feels kind of creepy for
603. 24:56some reason, especially since the
604. 24:57creators themselves said that Patchy
605. 24:59could never meet Spongebob.
606. 25:00Well, they can never meet, right? They
607. 25:03can never meet.
608. 25:03Is it possible that this isn't the real
609. 25:06Patchy? Well, the last time we saw live
610. 25:08action Patchy was in Spongebob's Big
611. 25:10Birthday Blowout, and that episode ended
612. 25:12with him being fired out of a cannon and
613. 25:14crashing into an island.
614. 25:20[Music]
615. 25:22Immediately after that, Patchy's severed
616. 25:24head shows up and meets Spongebob. But I
617. 25:26already explained how this is clearly
618. 25:28just another hallucination, and he's
619. 25:29probably just going to wake up on the
620. 25:31island disappointed that he didn't
621. 25:32actually meet Spongebob like every other
622. 25:34time. But what if this is something more
623. 25:37than just a simple dream that he can
624. 25:39wake up from? I mean, the last shot we
625. 25:41saw of the real Patchy was him and Potty
626. 25:44face down in the sand struggling to get
627. 25:46out. What if they didn't? And this is
628. 25:49what Patchy is hallucinating as he dies.
629. 25:52During this hallucination, he begins
630. 25:53singing the show's theme song with
631. 25:55Spongebob to wrap up the episode.
632. 25:57Oh, who's having a birthday under the
633. 25:59sea? me.
634. 26:02But as they're singing, we briefly cut
635. 26:04to this horrifying shot of Pachy's body
636. 26:07with Potty's head lying on the island,
637. 26:08violently convulsing in pain.
638. 26:15It happens so quick that I didn't even
639. 26:17process it the first time. But godamn,
640. 26:19that is some terrifying imagery for a
641. 26:21kid show. Why the [ __ ] did they show
642. 26:23this? Is this some kind of PG symbolic
643. 26:26way to show Patchy and Potty suffocating
644. 26:28to death in the sand? Holy [ __ ]
645. 26:33Okay, so let's say Patchy and Potty, the
646. 26:36hosts of the Spongebob Squarepants
647. 26:38television show, are dead. What happens
648. 26:41now? Well, the show must go on. The
649. 26:44Spongebob Squarepants television show
650. 26:46has to continue without him. But they
651. 26:47need a new host to replace Patchy.
652. 26:49Except, are they really going to tell
653. 26:51their young audience that their beloved
654. 26:53Patchy the Pirate and Potty the Parrot
655. 26:55are dead? No, they're going to replace
656. 26:58them with animated actors.
657. 26:59And they're using actors.
658. 27:03Hey, that's Showbiz for you. But what
659. 27:05happened to the real Patchy after he
660. 27:07died? Well, he became a ghost and could
661. 27:09finally meet his idol, Spongebob. Except
662. 27:11when he goes to Bikini Bottom, what
663. 27:13would he see? Spongebob and all of his
664. 27:16friends partying without him. Patchy
665. 27:18dedicated his entire life to Spongebob.
666. 27:21He even died for him. And Spongebob
667. 27:23never even knew Patchy existed. And that
668. 27:26resentment that's been building up
669. 27:28inside of Patchy for all of these years
670. 27:30finally explodes. And this is how Patchy
671. 27:33the pirate becomes the Flying Dutchman.
672. 27:36Patchy is done pretending to be a pirate
673. 27:38and dressing up in his fake costumes. He
674. 27:41gets a new look, a new identity, and now
675. 27:43he can finally live out the fantasy of
676. 27:45being a real pirate. Remember that board
677. 27:47game that they said was based on a real
678. 27:48map from The Flying Dutchman?
679. 27:50Based on a real treasure map?
680. 27:52We never really did see the map that it
681. 27:53was based on. Or did we remember when
682. 27:56Patchy was looking for the Lost
683. 27:57Spongebob episode? He used this map to
684. 28:00find it. Now, at first I thought these
685. 28:02two maps didn't look all that similar,
686. 28:04but the more I looked at it, the more my
687. 28:06mind was blown. Same red X in the
688. 28:08middle. You got the compass, the palm
689. 28:10trees, a turtle, a fish, but most
690. 28:12importantly, they both have the forked
691. 28:15tree.
692. 28:15Half a lead to the forked tree.
693. 28:18Look for the deacon's goose through the
694. 28:20fork in the old tree.
695. 28:21That is a very specific detail. You
696. 28:23would not just see that on any random
697. 28:24map. The Flying Dutchman based his map
698. 28:27off of the one from his past. So, he's
699. 28:29become the Flying Dutchman now. And his
700. 28:31main target for haunting is, of course,
701. 28:33the one who ignored him his entire life,
702. 28:36Spongebob Squarepants. But how did
703. 28:38Patchy become such a powerful ghost who
704. 28:40can even manipulate time itself? Well,
705. 28:43there's actually an episode in season 12
706. 28:45called The Ghost of Plankton that gives
707. 28:46us a pretty clear understanding of how
708. 28:48ghost powers work. It basically just
709. 28:50takes time and effort to grow your
710. 28:51powers. Patchy's already given Spongebob
711. 28:5320 years of dedication. Might as well go
712. 28:55a little further with it as the
713. 28:56Dutchman. Patchy travels back in time to
714. 28:58visit all of his favorite, most
715. 29:00cherished Spongebob episodes, including
716. 29:02his favorite episode, Shanghide. We're
717. 29:04going to see me favorite show, Shangh.
718. 29:11And he's going to make Spongebob pay for
719. 29:13everything he's done. And he's going to
720. 29:15make him pay over and over and over
721. 29:18again. But then we get to the episode
722. 29:22Ghost Host. Patchy initially moves in
723. 29:24with Spongebob to torture him. But as
724. 29:26much as he tries to deny it, deep down
725. 29:28he's still that devoted fanboy who just
726. 29:30wants Spongebob to be his friend. As
727. 29:33much as he wants to pretend to be the
728. 29:34Dutchman, deep down Patchy is still
729. 29:37here. And that is why if you go to the
730. 29:39Krusty Krab after closing and you go out
731. 29:41the back to the dumpster, you can still
732. 29:43read the words, "Patchy was here." Yes,
733. 29:47he certainly was. And that, ladies and
734. 29:49gentlemen, is the timetraveling ghost
735. 29:52pirate theory. Thank you very much. Oh
736. 29:55[ __ ] what about Potty? He died with
737. 29:57Patchy 2, right? What What the hell
738. 29:58happened to him? Uh uh I I can figure
739. 30:01this out. Just give me a second. Let me
740. 30:03just quickly rewatch every single
741. 30:04episode of Spongebob.
742. 30:07Got to watch the spin-offs, too. Okay,
743. 30:09let me see.
744. 30:10The [ __ ] ate him. I wonder what
745. 30:12parrot tastes like.
746. 30:13That is the time traveling ghost pirate
747. 30:15theory, baby. I am done. Woo! See youa.
748. 30:20Thank you again so much for watching.
749. 30:22This was an especially tough one to
750. 30:23figure out, but I think it all came
751. 30:25together in the end. If you haven't
752. 30:26already, make sure to like, comment, and
753. 30:28subscribe and hit the bell icon for
754. 30:30notifications. I have been your host,
755. 30:31the Spongebob guy, and I will see you
756. 30:33next time.
757. 30:43Hey, Alex, I finished the theory. Pretty
758. 30:46good stuff, man.
759. 30:49You doing okay in there?
760. 30:56[Music]
761. 31:03Alex.
762. 31:06Alex.
763. 31:13Alex.
764. 31:17Oh, hi Wesley.
765. 31:20What are you doing down here?
766. 31:31Sorry,
767. 31:32I must have got lost.
768. 31:35That That's okay. I I finished the
769. 31:38video.
770. 31:41What' you think?
771. 31:43It was good.
772. 31:46Hey, is is everything okay?
773. 31:50Is everything okay?
774. 31:52Why wouldn't everything be okay?
775. 31:55I mean, come on, dude. You're You're
776. 31:58acting weird.
777. 32:00You know, you're right. I have been
778. 32:02feeling weird lately,
779. 32:06Wesley. I have a confession to make. I
780. 32:09didn't come here to show you a video.
781. 32:15Why are you here?
782. 32:18To help you.
783. 32:23[Music]
784. 32:30Oh,
785. 32:32you
786. 32:33I'm I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
787. 32:43Hey. Um, sorry about all of that. Uh, I
788. 32:48think I'm coming down with something.
789. 32:51Sorry, man. Uh, I'll clean it up.
790. 32:55Uh, but you should probably go, though.
791. 32:58Yeah. Yeah, I'll go. Um, sorry again.
792. 33:08[Music]
793. 33:17How are you feeling?
794. 33:18Like my stomach just got pumped.
795. 33:22You'll feel better soon.
796. 33:28I don't know how to feel about what I
797. 33:30did.
798. 33:31I get it. But you did the right thing.
799. 33:36And soon you won't have to worry about
800. 33:37your muse at all.
801. 34:12I like the uh your haircut, by the way.
802. 34:15Thanks. Yeah, long hair just didn't
803. 34:16really feel like me.
804. 34:18Thanks again for, you know, talking me
805. 34:21through all this. Um glad I don't have
806. 34:23to deal with it on my own anymore. Yeah.
807. 34:25I mean, I get how weird it all is.
808. 34:30See, you
809. 34:38must have given someone else a muse,
810. 34:39too, right?
811. 34:43Did you give me my muse?
812. 34:51You needed help. It worked, didn't it?
813. 35:00Good night, Victoria.
814. 35:14Well done.