The ‘gross’ SpongeBob SquarePants episode pulled from TV

An aged occurrence of SpongeBob SquarePants has been pulled from TV implicit claims from immoderate viewers that its contented is inappropriate.

The classical kids’ cartoon, which started successful 1999, follows the regular lives of SpongeBob and his friends, who unrecorded successful the undersea municipality of Bikini Bottom.

More than 300 episodes person been broadcast, making it 1 of the longest-running cartoons connected TV, and it inactive remains hugely popular.

However, 1 occurrence has been pulled from aboriginal broadcasts aft it was deemed to diagnostic contented unsuitable for a daytime cartoon.

The arguable instalment, titled Mid-Life Crustacean, archetypal aired successful 2003 and features a communicative involving SpongeBob, his neighbour and champion person Patrick Star, and SpongeBob’s brag Mr. Krabs.

After Mr. Krabs expresses that helium feels ‘old and dried out,’ SpongeBob and Patrick instrumentality him connected a whirlwind circuit of pranks and hijinks to assistance his spirits.

Unfortunately, 1 of the pranks depicted successful the Mid-Life Crustacean occurrence is simply a ‘panty raid’ – a assemblage pastime that was fashionable betwixt the 1940s and 1960s.

During a ‘panty raid’, antheral students would invade the surviving quarters of pistillate students and bargain their underwear to parade and support arsenic trophies.

SpongeBob, Patrick, and Mr. Krabs sneak into the houses of women successful Bikini Bottom, stealing their underwear arsenic they spell – until they’re caught red-handed by Mr. Krabs’ ain mother.

A connection from Nickelodeon said: ‘Mid-Life Crustacean has been retired of rotation since 2018, pursuing a standards reappraisal successful which we determined immoderate communicative elements were not kid-appropriate.’

While the prank ends up being flipped astir connected the main trio, who are scolded by Mr. Krabs’ mother, older fans person SpongeBob person agelong deemed it to beryllium unsuitable for younger viewers.

On Reddit, @ToyboxofThoughts said: ‘I was really the unfortunate of a panty raid and it was mildly traumatic, but worldly similar [the SpongeBob episode] normalized the conception for me.’

@ActivateGuacamole commented: ‘A panty raid isn’t mean intersexual behavior, it’s transgression and gross. As overmuch arsenic I emotion this episode, I would not person fixed a greenish airy to the publication if I had been successful charge.’

Meanwhile, @ViridianKomorebi added: ‘There’s truthful galore things incorrect with their behaviour successful this episode. It’s wholly retired of character. The 2000s were horrible astir normalizing disgusting behaviour towards women.’

In 2023, the occurrence was accidentally reuploaded to the Paramount Plus streaming service, but was rapidly pulled erstwhile the mistake had been detected.

Pirated copies of the occurrence person been uploaded to different streaming services similar YouTube, portion it is besides disposable connected DVDs of SpongeBob SquarePants’ 3rd season.

Another banned occurrence of the amusement is Kwarantined Krab, which was pulled from TV successful 2022 owed to its crippled pursuing the outbreak of a superior virus.

SpongeBob SquarePants is disposable to watercourse connected Paramount Plus.

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