Sponge Bob fans are experiencing an outpouring of distress after NSFW drawings of the beloved characters appeared on their social media timelines. While many, like me, dismissed the obscene drawings as Rule 34 content making its way across social media platforms, the drawings are apparently legit, according to the YouTuber who uncovered them.
On Wednesday, LSuperSonicQA YouTuber who specializes in discovering and analyzing previously lost episodes of cartoons such as Johnny Bravo and Dragon Ball Z crossover episodeereleased a video called The Darkest SpongeBob Lost Media, Found, revealing a collection of “rough drawings” of Sponge Bob characters from the official animators. Behind Closed Doors, abbreviated from Behind Closed Doors: Horrible, dirty, vile, disgusting, inappropriate, out-of-model drawings by the team of a popular animated showis a collection of… pretty much what the title says: a collection of unrelated drawings that script artists would create to do as crap to blow off steam.
According to LSuperSonicQ, an anonymous source who worked at Nickelodeon Studios obtained one of the many copies of a notebook that contained “hundreds” of lewd drawings. The anonymous source’s copy of Behind Closed Doors sat in their attic gathering dust until they came across 2012 Hogan’s Alley an interview with the people of Sponge Bob team who mentioned the book in passing. This prompted them to share the notebook with the YouTuber, according to LSuperSonicQ.
“The copy from my source was given to them under the impression that it was one of the only ones in existence and was apparently going to be scrapped to get rid of it in front of the new management at the time,” LSuperSonicQ said in his video.
How reckless are these drawings, you ask? Well, some that are visible in the Internet Archive if you’re not squeamish, picture SpongeBob playing his flute, Mr. Krabs’ projectile pooping in the toilet, and Squidward reimagined as a sentient penis with tentacles, among other raunchy illustrations. In his video, LSuperSonicQ noted that the anonymous source intentionally did not share some of the illustrations for their “unpleasant” and “unwanted” content.
“At the end of the season, all the script artists will do these hilarious, rough drawings of Sponge Bob on Post-It notes just to make everyone else laugh. And those drawings would be on the back of the door, because if the door was open, no one would see them.” Sponge Bob said writer-director Kent Osborne Hogan’s Alley. “Sam Henderson took all those Post-Its and turned them into a book and gave everyone a copy. The name of the book was Behind Closed Doors. He didn’t want to put everyone’s names in case they fell into the wrong hands, so he made anagrams of everyone’s names and put them on the back of the book. They were cheerful. The anagram for me was Teck Bonnerson. To this day, when he sees Tom Kenny, he lights up and says, “Tek!”
my city has reached out to Nickelodeon for comment.
At this point, you’re probably thinking there’s no shot that these raunchy drawings are the real deal. LSuperSonicQ quotes Hogan’s Alley interview, as well as the bawdy iteration of the Behind Closed Doors script of “Got Milk” ad for a relationship drawings and lines like Mr. Krabs saying, “And now for the stalker,” just as he does in The Plankton Army, albeit without blowing his ass, as proof that it’s probably legit. Fellow YouTuber, Quinton Reviews, co-signed the validity of LSuperSonicQ’s video in a tweet saying “LSuperSonicQ is highly respected in L[ost] M[edia] scene, it’s real.”
“The takeaway from Behind Closed Doors isn’t the fact that it exists simply for shock value, it’s the fact that it exists as a remnant of a studio that’s been plagued by controversy, even in the best content it’s produced for us,” said LSuperSonicQ . “It’s such a huge piece of lost media that, given this age of archives, is an important piece to own and acts as a way to look back at an older iteration of the brand that hopefully already does not exist.”
Yes, yes, Captain. Let’s never do this again.