8 Insane Urban Legends About Famous TV Shows
2. There's A Lost Episode Of SpongeBob SquarePants (And It's Utterly Insane)
When you stop and think about it, it's impressive how insanely popular the animated show SpongeBob SquarePants is considering how often it can get incredibly...well, weird. From live actions sequences to bizarre facial expressions to a visit from Nosferatu, SpongeBob has been unashamedly alienating (and in that way engrossing) viewers for well over a decade.
Which makes the urban legend that there exists an episode of the show that never aired fairly plausible. According to rumour, a Scottish animator named Andrew Skinner created an episode of the show titled Red Mist. Red Mist began quite normally but soon pushed boundaries even for SpongeBob, seeing Squidward messing up a public clarinet performance and sinking into a deep depression. After becoming depressed, Squidward is supposedly visited by a salesmen who knocks on his door and tells him the red mist is coming. After this things get even stranger, with real life images spliced together with prolonged sequences in which Squidward paces up and down his room, clearly in anguish. The episode ends with the implication that Squidward is contemplating suicide.
Adding fuel to the fire is the fact that there exists an article on the Scottish news website Fife Today dated from 2002 (shortly after the episode is claimed to have been rejected by Nickelodeon) which details the attempted murder charge of a man named...yes, you guessed it: Andrew Skinner.