Plankton Knows

I'm sure most of you have heard of Spongebob Squarepants. It is a TV show on Nickelodeon that shows a sponge named Spongebob, and it focuses on his adventures with his friends. However, there is one lost episode that never made it to the series.

It was Februrary 2018, and it was almost my brother's birthday. My dad told me to go to Walmart to find a gift for him, and I nodded.

I was later in the toy section, and I was about to buy him a toy robot when I felt something on the front of my foot. It was a VHS tape, and it had no label like most VHS tapes do. It was purple. I then got the toy robot and the VHS tape.

I asked the clerk where the tape came from, and he told me that it came from Nickelodeon Studios, because a guy whose name will not be revealed to you took a tape of one of their unaired Spongebob episodes and dropped it on the floor in one of the sections. He then told me to take the VHS tape for free, but I had to pay for the toy robot. So I paid for the toy robot and took the VHS tape home without paying for it.

I put the tape in my new VCR I got for Christmas of 2017, and the tape started. The quality was surprising perfect. There are no flaws with it. What's odd is that the intro didn't start. It just skipped to the episode.

The title card was just a black background with the words written in red, "Plankton Knows." I was confused by the title. What does Plankton know? The title card was only up for a few milliseconds before it jumped to the episode.

The episode was a shot of Plankton, but he looked like he was created poorly using Paint 3D. His laughing was no better, it sounded messed up and demonic. The camera was jumping straight to areas near him. The screen was also changing colors.

After a good 9 seconds of this, the camera jumped into Plankton's mouth, and his laughing then faded out. The rest of the tape after that was just a black screen that only lasted for 4 seconds before the tape ended.

I was totally confused and shocked at what I just saw. I took the tape out of the VCR and put it in the basement, where it remains to this day. I had nightmares about Plankton's messed up laughing, and I cannot sleep for months...