It's been a long time since we first met Spongebob Squarepants in 1999, though there doesn't seem to be much talk about the awful things he continues to do to our poor little childrens' minds on a daily basis.

Where are the throngs of protesters chanting catchy slogans? Where is the Senatorial debate? Where are the fanatical masses (that have never seen the show before) when we are in our hour of most dire need?

Spongebob is a Sea Sponge that lives in a pineapple at the bottom of the ocean in a town called "Bikini Bottom".

I can point out several things wrong with that one sentence that should cause you to worry about what this show is teaching our children!

- Spongebob looks like a yellow kitchen sponge and not a sea sponge at all, though both his parents do look much more like sea sponges
- He lives in a pineapple that never biodegrades
- The towns' name is a sexual innuendo

- Bikini Bottom is also a reference to Bikini Atoll, an area devastated by the USA in the 1940s and 50s by nuclear weapons testing

With that one simple sentence about the show we have already come across some major issues, and yet nobody says a word and we continue to allow our children to watch. With every episode of the show you watch, you will find more and more things that will damage your childrens' developing minds.

The characters routinely use fire underwater, such as campfires.

The characters go to the "Goo Lagoon" beach to swim and sunbathe... underwater. One surfer fish named "Scooter" DIED at Goo Lagoon because he was buried in sand up to his neck and nobody dug him out before high tide came in and drowned him!
Spongebob Season 2: Bubble Buddy
Scooter does return in later episodes, alive.

The various fish-based characters drive boats as cars and ride bicycles with multiple rotating paddles as wheels.

Spongebobs' neighbor is "Squidward Tentacles" the octopus... though he has 6 tentacles instead of the correct number of either 8 for an octopus or 10 for a squid. Squidward also plays the clarinet... underwater.

"Mr. Krabs" is a crab that owns the "Krusty Krab" restaurant, and he has a daughter named "Pearl"... that is a Sperm Whale.

Across the street from the Krusty Krab is the "Chum Bucket" restaurant owned by "Sheldon J. Plankton" whom everyone refers to as just "Plankton". Plankton is in fact not planktonic (drifting in sea waters), but is benthic (living on the ocean floor), and is married to.... a computer named "Karen", whom in the Spongebob movie states that she never agreed to marry Plankton.

And now Spongebob has moved from your television into the real world.

I live with my wife and our two children in a suburb of St. Paul Minnesota, and we sometimes go to Mall of America in Bloomington. We have taken the children to the renamed "Camp Snoopy" which is now "Nickelodeon Universe", and there you can find many references to Spongebob throughout the amusement park. On occasion they even have a person dressed as Spongebob walking around greeting children, and they can also have their photo taken with him.

What more proof do we need that Spongebob is a conspiracy to brainwash our children and make them think that all the anomalies I pointed out above are to be considered "normal" or "acceptable"?

Is all we care about mindless entertainment being being pumped into our systems 24hrs a day? We are being trained that we don't have to think for ourselves or wonder about what might really be the important goings-on in the world, and instead we should just sit back, watch "American Idol" and consume, obey and reproduce.

I just finished watching my Spongebob Season 3 box set, and will purchase season 4, 5 etc. shortly... for research purposes only I assure you. I will report back with my findings after watching them all a few times... with my children of course because they love Spongebob and I'm a mindless sponge that just does what I'm told.

Anybody know when the new Spongebob movie is coming out? I can't wait to see it!! I mean.. uh... I hate Spongebob, yeah, that's what I meant.