Art direction aside, this bit also has great, smooth animation, which helps sell the whole sequence. If it didn't have nice animation, it would look a lot more like pale imitation

6 year old me legitimately thinking that this was from a really old episode of SpongeBob and that it had been around since the dawn of time.

I hate how squidward is just normal

In my teens i saw this after watching a Flip the Frog cartoon and was a bit bugged by it

i like how they didn‘t bother with making squidward fit in

My favorite episode in middle school

Dang it, I can’t escape characters with a Rubberhose sense of cartoon logic!

Remember watching ts live and being somewhat disappointed cause the marketing for this special was bigger than the actual fking movie 💀