The Original SpongeBob Pilot: Difference between revisions

After returning from a boring flow of lessons, I arrived at home to see an orange box on my doorstep, with the words: “SPONGEBOB FIRST PILOT” poorly scribbled on with marker. I thought to myself that I could finally rest from the endless searching of this episode. As soon as I unwrapped it, there was a note attached to the tape that read: “DO NOT RELEASE AT ALL COSTS”. I ignored the “warning” and ripped it off. I went to my VCR player, and stuck the VHS in. Grabbing the remote, I changed the input settings to VHS and the tape had started instantly. To my surprise, it contained no more than just loud static that startled me at first, but then made me irate at the fact that I could have been scammed out of my own money. Instead of just instantly returning it to the shoddy guy who I phoned yesterday, I burned the contents of the tape into an empty disc that my computer had already had in, for some reason. When it was done, the process had generated two files, of which I dragged to my media folder: 

 

 

I clicked on the README document and it said this: 

 

 

I punched my brain for ignoring this file, but curiosity killed the cat as I had already started watching the mp4. The intro was, of course, not the regular intro that you would see nowadays, but instead a cruder and more simplistic intro that was reminiscent of the mid to late 1990s. To be honest, it looked a little identical to the rare intro from the 1997 pilot. 

I was petrified at what I was seeing. After about 12 seconds of nothing happening, the video cuts to a poor rendition of Mr. Krabs standing on a chair, with a noose tied around his neck. He appeared to be writing something on a scrunched-up piece of notebook paper. Krabs wrote for about 7 seconds before throwing it in another direction, then kicking the chair he was standing on. I kid you not, those sounds were almost realistic. They sounded like a grown man, who appeared to be in his mid 30s, choking to death. The choking noises were excruciatingly long, that I just couldn’t take it anymore. I wanted the video to stop, but alas, it was useless trying to do anything. I could see the corpse of Mr. Krabs hanging slowly in the darkness. Static covered my screen for some time, until I gazed upon another disturbing image. The image consisted of SpongeBob, Squidward, Patrick and Mr. Krabs all standing together with a background of red flowers behind them.The background was so red and bright it almost hurt my eyes to look at. They had no facial features at all other than their eyes, which were now soulless black dots which appear to be bleeding like before. The characters just stared menacingly at me, while white text appeared above them: 

 

 

The disturbing image was stuck on my screen for about 25 seconds, before the video finally ended with: 

 

 

When I closed VLC, I was surrounded in questions, why was this made? Who is William Tungsten? Suddenly, I heard a loud crashing noise from outside, and the power went out in a flash. I was startled because of what had happened outside, so I went to my window to check it out. It appeared that the night time storm had knocked down one of the power lines. I ran to my phone, and I saw on my notifications that there would be a blackout until tomorrow. My dad came in my room with an oil lantern and asked if I was fine, before further saying that Dave had to sleep with me tonight. The next day, when the power situation was sorted, I immediately rushed to my computer and sent an email to Nickelodeon. Later, I remembered about that note Mr. Krabs was writing on the episode, so I decided to have a further look. Upon opening Windows Movie Maker, I imported the video and slowed it down. The note appeared to have this message scribbled on it:

 

 

I was confused at first, since upon inspection it just looked like a random splash of Japanese, Thai and Russian, but when I tried many times to translate it, I got a rough result from every translator I came upon. Eventually, I came up with this result:

 

 

Three weeks later, I got a response email. 

 

 

 

 

For many days after I would experience nightmares about the disturbing images from that episode, but today I have since recovered. The tape is still in my bottom drawer, but I'm obviously never viewing it again. I’m telling you this to warn you about what it was. After all, everybody wants to know a secret / legend if they've heard about it, right?