Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Lord of the Flies in a Spongebob Episode 'Club Spongebob

Club Spongebob from series 3 (2002) casts SpongeBob as Ralph, Patrick as Piggy and Squidward as Jack. The episode opens with SpongeBob and Patrick in their club in a tree house, seemingly taunting Squidward because he can’t get in. It soon becomes clear that Squidward physically can’t squeeze into the clubhouse; his attempts to do so sends them catapulting into unfamiliar territory on the bottom of the sea. SpongeBob says that ‘we’ll be fine as long as we stick together’, echoing Ralph’s many speeches on the island. SpongeBob and Patrick have a magic conch shell which acts like a Magic 8 ball. They follow the directions given by the conch, which advises them to do nothing about seeking food or rescue. Squidward is apoplectic about this and starts his own camp, albeit just next to them, and delights in cooking the bugs he has ‘hunted’. However, the conch is proved right when an aeroplane drops its cargo over SpongeBob’s camp, providing an elaborate feast. They are eventually rescued by a ‘naval officer’.

This relates to the Lord of the Flies because along with the general plot line. Spongebob is Ralph in the story and has control over the conch that they found. However, in the episode the conch is more of an item which tells them what to do, which is like how it guided the kids in Lord of the Flies, impacting what the kids decided to do with their time. I wonder if the episode involved more fish things, then how would they have split among Squidwards little camp and Spongebob's treehouse. 

10 comments:

  1. So. I guess it kind of makes sense now, but I have a question. If the conch is the thing telling them what to do does that make the conch Jack? Or is the conch still just the conch?

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    1. The conch definitely has meaning for Jack as in him not caring about it at all and for Ralph it speaks to him by the thing that keeps order among the boys and keeps them from plunging into chaos. Each of them has a different view of the conch and it speaks to each of them in different ways.

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    2. I think the conch in the book doesn't directly tell them what to do like how it does in the spongebob episode, but it indirectly guides the group on what to do by giving the power to Ralph.

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  2. Alex,

    Wow! Great connection! I have seen that episode and now that I think about it, that is so true! There is also the fact that Spongebob is a child's show about 'adult' sea creatures, just like the boys in Lord of the flies are trying to be mature and act like adults since there are no real grown-ups.

    Great connections.

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    1. Woah Sara! That just took it to the next level. I was really impressed with Alex's connection but even with his help in understanding the relation, I wouldn't have come up with that. That is such a great connection to his connection! Good thinking!

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    2. Hahah that sounds really cool and I really didn't think about that. Adding on, with Squidward being Jack, do you think that Squidward has the same attitude as Jack in LOTF? They both seem to be very arrogant and insensitive.

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  3. Alex,

    This post was pretty deep, almost as deep as Bikini Bottom. Almost. Good find Alex, connections are real in dis one.

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  4. Alex,

    This post was pretty deep, almost as deep as Bikini Bottom. Almost. Good find Alex, connections are real in dis one.

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  5. what did spongebob as ralph say

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