Spongekill.avi

Part 1

As a child, I wasn't very familiar with the tv show SpongeBob Squarepants, which was quite a shame, because most of my friends were huge SpongeBob fans. You see, I didn't watch a lot of tv when I was young, as I was a huge gamer. I literally spent a ridiculous amount of hours during the weekends and school breaks playing video games on my PS2 and Gamecube, but then again, my friends were also huge gamers as well, but they also watched a lot of tv.

However, there is one thing about SpongeBob that I know that barely anyone knows about. There is a missing episode from season 2 that almost nobody knows about other than myself. The episode itself has no name and didn't appear to have been completed. Now for a guy who knows very little about SpongeBob, you may be asking how I know about this? Well, here's the story.

The file was found on a torrent site bundled up with torrent files of the entire second season of SpongeBob. Now the file was found in-between the Christmas special (christmas.avi) and the episode Survival of the Idiots (survivaloftheidiots.avi).

Now I was torrenting these files, to be burnt onto DVD's for my cousin George who was 3 at the time, since he really liked SpongeBob. Seeing as how my aunt and uncle were very conservative about money, I was generous enough to torrent episodes onto DVD discs for him.

I had to preview the episodes to make sure they were fine and surprisingly, all of the episodes torrented were in perfect condition and completely unaltered from the original versions except for the spongekill.avi file.

The first part of the video was of a black screen with the voice of a woman speaking in Japanese being the only thing that could be heard. I didn't understand Japanese so I had no idea of what she was saying.

However a while later I got a Japanese friend to tell me what she was saying. This is what she said

"Fellow viewer, we present you a SpongeBob episode of horrors. This episode is highly graphic and will be an experience that you will never forget. We hope you enjoy it."

After that the episode started normally with the intro, except there was no title card for the episode and no mentions of writers. I'll admit, the quality wasn't bad, but it could've been better.

The episode started with SpongeBob and Patrick goofing around over something as usual. However, things took a dark turn quickly when Squidward came out of his house as usual. For some reason, Squidward appeared as if he had been taking drugs, and somehow it made him look far more angry. He yelled at SpongeBob and Patrick to keep quiet while he practiced playing his clarinet. This scene partially used storyboard art. As usual, SpongeBob and Patrick still acted like total goofballs. Squidward returned outside, however he had a knife in his right hand.

Squidward suddenly lunged at SpongeBob and tried stabbing him. However SpongeBob punched Squidward in the face. Squidward tried to attack again by trying to stab SpongeBob however, SpongeBob grabbed the knife in self defense and stabbed Squidward in the head. Squidward died instantly as blood and brains poured out of his head.

SpongeBob was horrified at what he done and so was Patrick. Patrick attempted to call the police on SpongeBob, thinking SpongeBob had murdered Squidward. SpongeBob suddenly gave a devious smile and attacked Patrick. SpongeBob bashed Patrick's head on the ground and then stabbed him in the throat, cutting his head off and killing him instantly. Blood and vomit poured out of Patrick as blood splattered on SpongeBob, and he still had that devilish grin while he killed and after he killed Patrick.

SpongeBob says "I'm sorry Patrick". He then cries as he buries his corpse in the ground. He does the same thing to Squidward. The screen then cuts to night time, where the police find SpongeBob and Patrick's bodies buried. It cuts to the next morning. SpongeBob got out of bed to work at the Krusty Krab as usual. However, he gets arrested just as he left his home by the police.

SpongeBob is then thrown in jail by the police. The next scene was entirely in story board art. SpongeBob was in court for his crimes. The audio in this scene isn't that great but the only character speaking was the judge. From what I could make out, this is what he said:

"SpongeBob, the court has found you guilty for the murders of Patrick Starfish and Squidward Tentacles. Your sentence is death."

The last scene goes back to the original animation style, showing SpongeBob in an execution tied up to a pole blindfolded, about to be executed by a firing squad. Within a few seconds, the executioners fired at SpongeBob, killing him. However, instead of showing his death, it was replaced with a black and white painting animation of someone being shot and killed. SpongeBob's corpse is then taken away. It was covered up in some sort of quilt, so I didn't get to see his corpse. The episode cuts to black and then a line of Japanese text appeared on screen. It read: 人生の唯一の報酬は死です (The only reward for life is death). The screen then cut to static for about 2 minutes and 20 seconds and the episode ended.

Part 2

You know that Japanese friend I mentioned earlier in the pasta? Well, after I made him watch the file, he pointed out that there were scenes in the episode referenced and taken from a partially lost and banned anime film called Midori. I didn't even know what Midori even was, so he explained to me what it was.

He told me that it was an anime film released in the early 90s as part of fun fair freak shows where people would go through a maze and end up in a tent and be shown Midori as a reward for getting to the tent. The film was banned due to showing animal cruelty and torture porn, despite being done in a cartoon like nature. The film's director, Hiroshi Harada also had to draw all 5000 frames by himself due to the lack of funding he received for the film. Harada tried sneaking the film abroad in the 90s to film festivals in the US, France, Scandinavia, Germany, Switzerland, Canada, UK, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Australia, and other countries. In 1999, the original copy of the film was destroyed after customs at Tokyo Narita airport found the tape and destroyed it. Harada was outraged at this, however he had a spare copy which was later sent to France in 2005, and was remastered on DVD for Region 2 countries in 2006 with parts of the original film being cut from 54 minutes to 48. The deleted scenes have not surfaced to the public since the 90s and it is unknown if they still exist.

His older cousin apparently was at one of those fun fairs that showed Midori and he apparently recorded the film and put it on a VHS tape for him to see back in America. He still has the footage of the film, but doesn't have a VHS to avi converter on his computer yet, so he can't upload the whole film to Youtube or put it on a torrent site like The Pirate Bay, DISQUS, 4shared, or MediaFire.

When I asked him about the deleted Midori scenes, he refused to tell me what they were about however, saying "You would rather not know what they are, trust me.". I didn't want to start an argument with him, so I just let him be.

I apparently decided to email Viacom about the unlisted episode and this was the response I got.

"Dear Mr. XXXXXXXXX,

Thank you for taking your time to write to us about a concern over an unlisted SpongeBob episode that you have seen. I'm sorry to inform you that we don't exactly have a lot of information about the episode itself and who made this episode, but from what we have gathered, this episode appeared to have been an underground project made in 2000 by a group of Nickelodeon interns who no longer are associated with our company. We cannot release their names to the public, however 2 of these people who worked on this episode were of Japanese decent and knew their native language really well and appeared to have made this episode for unknown reasons. They were fired a long time ago after presenting their project to the other interns and employees. Fortunately this episode has never been aired, but we beg you not to leak this email or the episode to the public, as we feel it could damage our reputation for our programs aimed at children. And one more thing, we have no idea how the interns got their hands on that Midori film you mentioned earlier.

Sincerely,

Viacom"

Well it might be awhile before I sneakily leak it onto LiveLeak or Youtube or leak the torrent to somewhere if I can find the original torrent, but I suppose a transcript of the letter and a screenshot from the episode won't bother them too much.

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