The older season 1 animation makes Rock Bottom feel really creepy and isolating, the undersea version of some random liminal town you stop at for gas on a road trip.
It's kind of funny that it should be Halloween time, but when I go to the grocery store , everything is already Christmas and Halloween is on clearance sale. But it's good to see something that reminds me that it's not Christmas time yet.
Right? I went to a homegoods store in July and they had more Halloween then they did when we revisited in mid September. Its very irritating x3. If you want to get any Halloween decorations, they expect you to shop months in advance or you dont get shit
@@IrisThatOneGothMf I don't think it's an obsession, stores just prepare for the Christmas season earlier every year. Many people say that it has gotten out of hand and find it annoying, but the shops still push it.
I prefer small and desolate Rock Bottom to super advanced Rock Bottom, it should be like a tiny town in the middle of nowhere. Fits more thematically too since the abyssal zone is known to for life being extremely sparse. It is a big part of why fish are so focused on catching and keeping any food that does happen to cross their path.
bikini bottom, the name like, it should be located indeed before the coral reefs and lively shallow water regions right at the coast. the wast strands of sand, and in some episodes rocks and kelp forrests are verys important, like in the real zone of the earth.
Me too. The super advanced Rock Bottom from the video games and "Food PBBBTH! Truck" take away what made it so foreign and mysterious in the first place.
I think the opposite is better, rock bottom should be a big place, but without a lot of stuff, with a lot of empty spaces in between buildings and people.
I honestly prefer it having little to no backstory though, and I hope they keep it that way. It’s iconic, but it’s mystery and unsettling vibes is what makes it iconic.
Chapter 2 of Employee of the Month has such a cozy feel to it. You're stranded in Rock Bottom due to bad weather, and it's constantly raining the entire chapter with that eternal nighttime atmosphere. It doesn't capture the alien and mysterious vibe from the original episode, neither SpongeBob nor Patrick are particularly afraid of the place, and none of the locals speak with the Rock Bottom accent, but I really like the setting in its own right. Sometimes I would just turn the level on to listen to the rain or the receptionist typing on the keyboard at WSEA. Chapter 4 from that game was also pretty interesting. I thought they did a nice job dreaming up their own unique location for the series with Bottom's Up. It felt like it could be where Tentacle Acres is located.
Tbh Employee of the Month is probably the only video game that I'd consider canon to the show. The additions it makes just have a more vanilla+ feeling than say bfbb or truth or square where the additions that make feel a little too.. grandiose to be canon.
@Yuni-is-Schrodingers-Fox I recently replayed that game, and I definitely agree that it holds up very well as feeling true to the canon. All of the locations either match up with what was in the show or are new but thematically consistent with the show. Like with rock bottom, all the new locations are placed in a similar way to the buildings shown in the show, being mostly by themselves and low in number.
I'd like if the other places in Rock Bottom (The Rusty Anchor, WSEA and Merlin's House) had the advanced darkness Rock Bottom skybox, aka just a black void, because all those places have the generic nighttime bikini bottom sky and it always felt a bit out of place for me. I'm a big fan of Bottom's Up, placing it near Kelp Forest is an interesting decision, kinda reflects how big mansions and villas like that irl are always in desolate areas or next to forests.
This episode reminds me of that one time where I took the wrong bus. Ended up driving an hour into nowhere before getting out, heading back to a desolate bus station in the middle of nowhere. And all that just for taking a bus to a destination where I could've easily walked. Simply because I didn't know the routes. Ended up getting to my actual destination by foot.
Always feels bad when this happens, especially at night. I once overslept on a train heading away from the city after a tiring day and woke up 3 stations after where I'm supposed to drop off. Literally crossed the province border. Good thing they still ran 2 more services back to the city.
Writer Mr. Lawrence stated that the idea for "Rock Bottom" came from his own moment of getting on the wrong bus as a kid and the bus driver going the entire route before he would let him and his friend off in the right place, which frightened them both.
I've done that multiple times and it always reminds me of this episode. I also fell asleep on the bus one time and my phone died, that genuinely sucked so much
Bikini atoll is a real life site for nuclear testing... bikini bottom itself is based on bikini atoll. Rock bottom is just outside of bikini bottom so it's close to the nuclear effected area.
i liked rock bottom, marine life is somewhat well depicted in spongebob, and down the continental shelf ist deep, at the rock bottom. and its dark, thats another kind of dark than just night we know from the surface. rock bottom is very good.
One game appearance that I'd like to point out is that Rock Bottom is in the very first SpongeBob game, Legend of the Lost Spatula, as the second to last location. The bus stop sign and candy machine are right at the start of the area. There are deep sea fish as enemies and gloves to float up on. It's a pretty neat game that not many people seem to know about.
In the worm episode, when Patrick convinces the town to push it somewhere else. Do they push it in Rock Bottom? My memory thinks it looks pretty similar.
Rock Bottom is probably my favorite fictional location ever. Its just so eerie and atmospheric, but also weirdly comforting in a way, idk how to explain it. Like i just wanna explore it
i like to think of Rock Bottom as a continuos downward path that, if you go further than the bus station, might as well be another steep drop if you go far enough into the darkness...
You Must play pc-port for Employee of the Month. Aside from being a solid spongebob adventure, it has the best Rock Bottom of all videogame adaptations.
Something that bothers me about both BFBB and EotM's Rock Bottom is that the new buildings they added don't have the correct font the bus station and enter sign have, that's one of the most unique things about the place for me and they don't get it right. Here's a fun fact: SuperSponge for the PS1 predicted the Graveyard location, or rather it's likely a coincidence since i'm sure not a lot of people know about the game so they added a graveyard to the town because it fit the creepy vibe. Also from the same game is the "Lonely Souls" area, which in the PS1 version seems to be just a desert or wasteland area but in the GBA one is some sorta roman ruins area, which would've been interesting to expand upon in BFBB, or other games, since RB is a frequently used location on games in spite of it's 2 appearances
Can you do a video on patchy awe I love this video by the way Rock bottom is amazing and I always thought them spitting was really funny the sound track is fr creepy
1:55 Seeing Spongebob wind up in anger and then retreat into his pants in a similar fashion that a turtle retreats into their shell, then proceeding to throw a tantrum is possibly the funniest thing about the Rock Bottom episode.
If you play employee of the month, please do it on a live stream! Ive enjoyed the other streams. My head cannon for inconsistent maps / locations is.. the sand on the ocean floor moves, so buildings and layouts change due to ocean currents. And im glad you mentioned your Ren n Stimpy channel in the last video. Im watching those before sleep.
I absolutely loved all the Sponge Bob point&click PC games and actually replayed them several times as adult. Unlike action console games, PC adventures stick very closely to the original show's locations, characters and narrative style so it feels very much like interactive show where all the known places and characters are as they are in the show, but you can explore the things that were not shown in the show which feels super cool
I think canon is a very not necessary thing to worry about with some things in spongebob due to many things just outright not making any sense or changing by the episode.. I dont think its bad at all tbh since I think inconsistency somehow fits Spongebob all around and even makes many episodes feel unique, fever dream like or even uncanny.. I think when looking into what is considered Canon and not Canon for Rock Bottom is to maybe consider neither one but both.. Video games need to make a map and make said map interesting, Rock Bottom is probably portrayed perfectly to an extent with whats down in Rock Bottom but in the show Rock Bottom definitely seemed very open and deserted which could mean all these landmarks and buildings could be in the actual location but far apart and I kinda like this idea of having it as open as possible with some buildings there since there is some form of life down there.. I dont know, I am just rambling now.. XD
The Silent Hill of the Spongebob universe. (Speaking of which, the Spongebob Wendy's meal is coming out the same day as the Silent Hill 2 remake. October 8th.)
We need some sort of a GTA game in spongebob liek they did with Simpsons. Would just be awesome start as Spongebob drive a boat and do missions, u can explore Bikini bottom and explore teh world u see from the show. ANd if it get multiplayer like a server u can make ur own fish character.
The older season 1 animation makes Rock Bottom feel really creepy and isolating, the undersea version of some random liminal town you stop at for gas on a road trip.
It's got the same vibe as Courage the Cowardly Dog
It's kind of funny that it should be Halloween time, but when I go to the grocery store , everything is already Christmas and Halloween is on clearance sale. But it's good to see something that reminds me that it's not Christmas time yet.
we not even have halloween stuff, we have christmas past august...
That's just you living in a bad area... all the good stores have halloween stuff out currently... sorry you live there
Right? I went to a homegoods store in July and they had more Halloween then they did when we revisited in mid September. Its very irritating x3. If you want to get any Halloween decorations, they expect you to shop months in advance or you dont get shit
idk how people are that obsessed with Christmas tbh. Halloween has better decor, and everything.
@@IrisThatOneGothMf I don't think it's an obsession, stores just prepare for the Christmas season earlier every year. Many people say that it has gotten out of hand and find it annoying, but the shops still push it.
I prefer small and desolate Rock Bottom to super advanced Rock Bottom, it should be like a tiny town in the middle of nowhere.
Fits more thematically too since the abyssal zone is known to for life being extremely sparse. It is a big part of why fish are so focused on catching and keeping any food that does happen to cross their path.
bikini bottom, the name like, it should be located indeed before the coral reefs and lively shallow water regions right at the coast. the wast strands of sand, and in some episodes rocks and kelp forrests are verys important, like in the real zone of the earth.
Eels up inside ya, findin' an entrance where they can.
Me too. The super advanced Rock Bottom from the video games and "Food PBBBTH! Truck" take away what made it so foreign and mysterious in the first place.
I think the opposite is better, rock bottom should be a big place, but without a lot of stuff, with a lot of empty spaces in between buildings and people.
I agree
i love the creepy vibe of the place i even do still feel that creepy vibe when it shows up in the modern stuff
01:13. The word you're looking for is Vertical
I think that might have been a trap… ☝️😒
🫵 fell for it 🙈🙉🙊
They should do more episodes based on Rock Bottom. Feels kind of scary if the creators have explored it besides two episodes and the games.
I honestly prefer it having little to no backstory though, and I hope they keep it that way. It’s iconic, but it’s mystery and unsettling vibes is what makes it iconic.
Chapter 2 of Employee of the Month has such a cozy feel to it. You're stranded in Rock Bottom due to bad weather, and it's constantly raining the entire chapter with that eternal nighttime atmosphere. It doesn't capture the alien and mysterious vibe from the original episode, neither SpongeBob nor Patrick are particularly afraid of the place, and none of the locals speak with the Rock Bottom accent, but I really like the setting in its own right. Sometimes I would just turn the level on to listen to the rain or the receptionist typing on the keyboard at WSEA.
Chapter 4 from that game was also pretty interesting. I thought they did a nice job dreaming up their own unique location for the series with Bottom's Up. It felt like it could be where Tentacle Acres is located.
Tbh Employee of the Month is probably the only video game that I'd consider canon to the show. The additions it makes just have a more vanilla+ feeling than say bfbb or truth or square where the additions that make feel a little too.. grandiose to be canon.
@Yuni-is-Schrodingers-Fox I recently replayed that game, and I definitely agree that it holds up very well as feeling true to the canon. All of the locations either match up with what was in the show or are new but thematically consistent with the show. Like with rock bottom, all the new locations are placed in a similar way to the buildings shown in the show, being mostly by themselves and low in number.
Half of that Employee of the Month video game is built upon areas and locations that are never seen in the TV show and I love it.
That was my impression as well. Loved that rainy night vibe. Cozy indeed.
I'd like if the other places in Rock Bottom (The Rusty Anchor, WSEA and Merlin's House) had the advanced darkness Rock Bottom skybox, aka just a black void, because all those places have the generic nighttime bikini bottom sky and it always felt a bit out of place for me.
I'm a big fan of Bottom's Up, placing it near Kelp Forest is an interesting decision, kinda reflects how big mansions and villas like that irl are always in desolate areas or next to forests.
the fact that there are like 5 channels that cover 95% spongebob is truly amazing
The show portraits Rock Bottom as a dark and scary place, but I would like to chill there tbh.
(If I could breathe underwater)
If I could live anywhere in the SpongeBob universe, it would be Rock Bottom. It looks so cozy and peaceful 🥰
The Rock Bottomites are probably among the most hinged characters in the series.
This mans dedication trying to make sense out of the nonsensical is admirable.
Rock bottom has always been one of my favorite episodes, I love the creepy atmosphere.
1:55, this is why the old SpongeBob is way better.
This episode reminds me of that one time where I took the wrong bus. Ended up driving an hour into nowhere before getting out, heading back to a desolate bus station in the middle of nowhere. And all that just for taking a bus to a destination where I could've easily walked. Simply because I didn't know the routes. Ended up getting to my actual destination by foot.
Always feels bad when this happens, especially at night. I once overslept on a train heading away from the city after a tiring day and woke up 3 stations after where I'm supposed to drop off. Literally crossed the province border. Good thing they still ran 2 more services back to the city.
Writer Mr. Lawrence stated that the idea for "Rock Bottom" came from his own moment of getting on the wrong bus as a kid and the bus driver going the entire route before he would let him and his friend off in the right place, which frightened them both.
"hey lois, this reminds me of that one time i-"
Im so glad I don't have to take the bus anymore. 🙌
Been there, done that. It sucks. My condolences
I've done that multiple times and it always reminds me of this episode. I also fell asleep on the bus one time and my phone died, that genuinely sucked so much
It’s one of the most exciting locations in the whole show! I’m glad they expanded on it in later seasons.
this episode gave me anxiety
I'd like a video on the Flying Dutchman. Both one analyzing his ship and analyzing how he's changed over the years
Rock bottom is like chernobly
Bikini atoll is a real life site for nuclear testing... bikini bottom itself is based on bikini atoll. Rock bottom is just outside of bikini bottom so it's close to the nuclear effected area.
Battle for bikini bottom is the go to for spongebob games
Ong, might re-download it tonight on my PS5 fr fr 😂🔥
its the worst
Mine was Atlantis Squarepantis
It’s amazing. I actually played a custom zombies map few days ago of it on world at war it’s really fun
Movie game ftw
1:03 is that a whale sound? Absolutely the perfect choice for the ambience of that place/scene
Employee of the month was my very young childhood computer gaming experience. It is probably one of the first games I played. I’m currently 19.
Rock bottom scared me so much as a kid no matter how many times I’d watch it
I love when Rick Diaz drops these SpongeBob narration videos
This is my favorite sponge Bob episode
Rock Bottom in employe of the month has such a nice vibe to it. Like rainy nights do.
The employee of the month game is one of my favorite games of all time. Its just so unique and made with care.
Can you explore the treedome next?
I love rock bottom, not that it’s so iconic but it has the coolest fish characters there.
i liked rock bottom, marine life is somewhat well depicted in spongebob,
and down the continental shelf ist deep, at the rock bottom.
and its dark, thats another kind of dark than just night we know from the surface.
rock bottom is very good.
I love Rock Bottom, wish we saw more of it
I'm surprised that you didn't mention that the bus station looks like a submarine
Me too.
You're my favourite Spongetuber. Every upload is a blast from you.
One of my favorite locations in Spongebob
One game appearance that I'd like to point out is that Rock Bottom is in the very first SpongeBob game, Legend of the Lost Spatula, as the second to last location. The bus stop sign and candy machine are right at the start of the area. There are deep sea fish as enemies and gloves to float up on. It's a pretty neat game that not many people seem to know about.
In the worm episode, when Patrick convinces the town to push it somewhere else. Do they push it in Rock Bottom? My memory thinks it looks pretty similar.
Great video, but just as a heads up at 7:34 the 'tongue sounds' they are making is called 'blowing raspberries'
You really need to play the Spongebob games. I loved the Spongebob movie game as a kid.
Rock Bottom is probably The Backrooms of the Spongebob
Rock Bottom is probably my favorite fictional location ever. Its just so eerie and atmospheric, but also weirdly comforting in a way, idk how to explain it. Like i just wanna explore it
Real some of those sponge games look so interesting
god i remember playing employee of the month over and over again as a kid. barebones point n click in retrospect but damn the nostalgia
The fact that in the original episode Rock Bottom is like a bus station a restroom and a vending machine is too funny
Spooky season? The only thing spooky is the second hurricane in 2 weeks coming right for me!
Awe should make a channel about arthur. Just so he can replace the "hey!" In his intro with D.W.'s or vice versa
Spot on observation frfr
I think the intro is actually Quavo’s adlib “aye” but i’m just a part-time hair splitter
Funny ig
@jay_344 maybe. No clue who that is though lol
@@pokemontrainer5678He’s a rapper you’ve definitely heard him at least once in your life
I actually found rock bottom kinda calming
This video just reminded me that I used to have the "Employee of the Month" game for the computer. I have no idea what happened to it.
Subscribed when u were a little over 1k. Glad to see you continue to grow and make better and better content! Keep up the good work!
employee of the month is definitely worth playing and i’d love to see a video on it!
the spongebob adventure games were often quite good. you'd like them. at their better points they almost feel like an extension of the show's world.
Offset saying Hey while Awe is on screen melts my brain
My (19) coworker (36ish) was saying he was watching SpongeBob with his kid and that he always loved the rock bottom episode the most
i like to think of Rock Bottom as a continuos downward path that, if you go further than the bus station, might as well be another steep drop if you go far enough into the darkness...
I’ve got fond memories of the “employee of the month” game as a kid, the rock bottom portion was fun
You Must play pc-port for Employee of the Month. Aside from being a solid spongebob adventure, it has the best Rock Bottom of all videogame adaptations.
Something that bothers me about both BFBB and EotM's Rock Bottom is that the new buildings they added don't have the correct font the bus station and enter sign have, that's one of the most unique things about the place for me and they don't get it right.
Here's a fun fact: SuperSponge for the PS1 predicted the Graveyard location, or rather it's likely a coincidence since i'm sure not a lot of people know about the game so they added a graveyard to the town because it fit the creepy vibe. Also from the same game is the "Lonely Souls" area, which in the PS1 version seems to be just a desert or wasteland area but in the GBA one is some sorta roman ruins area, which would've been interesting to expand upon in BFBB, or other games, since RB is a frequently used location on games in spite of it's 2 appearances
Can you do a video on patchy awe I love this video by the way Rock bottom is amazing and I always thought them spitting was really funny the sound track is fr creepy
Oh man Rock Bottom in Employee of the Month is atmospheric perfection
1:55 Seeing Spongebob wind up in anger and then retreat into his pants in a similar fashion that a turtle retreats into their shell, then proceeding to throw a tantrum is possibly the funniest thing about the Rock Bottom episode.
I never thought that would be a comment that I'd leave, but here we are.
That cemetary joke was killer tho
I do feel like the mystique of Rock Bottom is sort of lost when they brung it back, I had a similar issuse with PL-1413 (the SB-129 sequal).
U should explore rock bottom in the bfbb game
This guy has the perfect accent for SpongeBob content
In 2022 I had to take a bus from Phoenix to Los Angeles and both bus stations at Arizona and Los Angeles feel like this episode lol
my favorite ! always come back to rock bottom, theres something about it ...
I just realized Spongebob uses a taxi to get to Rock Bottom in the game. Guess he learned from his mistake taking the bus.
The deep sea fish look scarier than those in rock bottom, believe me
If you play employee of the month, please do it on a live stream! Ive enjoyed the other streams.
My head cannon for inconsistent maps / locations is.. the sand on the ocean floor moves, so buildings and layouts change due to ocean currents.
And im glad you mentioned your Ren n Stimpy channel in the last video. Im watching those before sleep.
I thought "Rock Bottom was shown in more episodes than one?" But i stopped watching spongebob in like 2012 really i don't like the newer episodes.
I absolutely loved all the Sponge Bob point&click PC games and actually replayed them several times as adult. Unlike action console games, PC adventures stick very closely to the original show's locations, characters and narrative style so it feels very much like interactive show where all the known places and characters are as they are in the show, but you can explore the things that were not shown in the show which feels super cool
It also appears in the Cosmic Shake as Halloween Rock Bottom
This guy is the kind of RUclipsr you gatekeep from other people
Didn't know SpongeBob got his own racing game.
Would be cool to see these one off buildings from video games integrated into the show :)
I would like to see a let's play of the SpongeBob games
Deep dive in Rock bottom?
Clever girl.
this was the first episode i saw of spongebob and it kinda scared me and then my mom didn't allow me to watch it
Rock Bottom was in the Minecraft Bedrock Edition DLC. It was a race track.
You should review SpongeBob games. There are a lot of good ones and you will enjoy them!
I imagine it's a allegory for just going to a foreign country
I wish there were more episodes outside of Bikini Bottom
Les go ive been waiting
Battle for bikini bottom has a fire soundtrack
Flying Dutch man less scary than this
Oh yeah this place was creepy when I was a kid especially about one fish
I wonder if the trench from the SpongeBob movie is deeper than rock bottom
Rock Bottom is also in “SpongeBob SuperSponge” and SpongeBob has to fight the Flying Dutchman.
I think canon is a very not necessary thing to worry about with some things in spongebob due to many things just outright not making any sense or changing by the episode..
I dont think its bad at all tbh since I think inconsistency somehow fits Spongebob all around and even makes many episodes feel unique, fever dream like or even uncanny..
I think when looking into what is considered Canon and not Canon for Rock Bottom is to maybe consider neither one but both..
Video games need to make a map and make said map interesting, Rock Bottom is probably portrayed perfectly to an extent with whats down in Rock Bottom but in the show Rock Bottom definitely seemed very open and deserted which could mean all these landmarks and buildings could be in the actual location but far apart and I kinda like this idea of having it as open as possible with some buildings there since there is some form of life down there..
I dont know, I am just rambling now.. XD
Battle For Bikini Bottom is goated
I have a false memory that this video has already been on your channel.
I think he did a video on rock bottom before. I remember as well.
Was it deleted?
Mandela effect kickin hard
You've been here before.
Love your channel jingle 🔥 HEY!!! 🗣️
rock bottom is my favorite city
I hear those Rock Bottom girls are pretty nice.
Are you going to review the return to Kamp koral halloween specail
The Silent Hill of the Spongebob universe.
(Speaking of which, the Spongebob Wendy's meal is coming out the same day as the Silent Hill 2 remake. October 8th.)
You lowkey sound like Bernd das Brot
We need some sort of a GTA game in spongebob liek they did with Simpsons. Would just be awesome start as Spongebob drive a boat and do missions, u can explore Bikini bottom and explore teh world u see from the show. ANd if it get multiplayer like a server u can make ur own fish character.
I love your videos ❤❤❤❤❤
I PBFFT love PBFFT your PBFFT videos!
Kind of looks like sea underworld
Sorry, he mentioned an episode "Employee of the Month" and I got scared of what might happen to SpongeBob