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I want to start off by saying if you want an answer at the end, prepare to be disapponted. There just isn't I was an inte at Nickelodeon Studios for a year in 2005 for my degree in animation. It wasn't paid of course, most internships aren't, but it did have some perks beyond education. To adults it might not seem like a big one, but most kids at the time would s--- themselves over it. Since I worked diectly with the editors and animators, I got to view the new episodes days before they aired. I'll get right to it without giving too many unnecessary details. They had very recently made the Spongebob movie and the entire staff was somewhat sapped of creativity so it took them longer to start up the season. But the delay lasted longer for more upsetting reasons. There was a problem with the series 4 premier that set everyone and everything back for several months terns were in the editing room alon with the lead animators and sound editors for tl e and two other in final cut. We received the copy that was supposed to be "Fear of a Krabby Patty" and gathered around the screen to watch Now, given that it isn't final yet animators often put up a mock title card, sort of an inside joke for us, with phony, often times lewd titles, such as "How sex doesn't work"nstead of "Rock-a-by-Bivalve" when spongebob and patrick adopt a sea scallop. Nothing paticularly funy b work related chuckles. S a morbid joke. One of the intes did a small throat laugh at it. The happy-go-lucky msic plays as is when we saw the title Squidward's Suicide" we didn't think it more than oimn The story began with Squidard practicing his clarinet, itting a few sour notes like normal. We hear Spongebob laughing outside and Squidard stops. yelling at him to keep it down as he has a concert that night and needs to practice. Spongebob says okay and goes to see Sandy with with Patrick. The bubbles splash screen comes up and we see the ending of Squidward's concert. This is when things began to seem off. While playing, a few frames repeat themselves, but the sound doesn't (at this point sound is synced up with aniation so yes that's not common) but when he stops playing, the sound finishes as if the skip never happened. There is slight mun they begin to boo him. Not normal cartoon booing that is common in the show, but you could very clearly hear malace in it. Squidward's in full frame and looks visibly afraid. The shot goes to the crowd, with Spongebob in center frame, and he too is booing, very much unlike him. That isn't the oddest thing, though What is odd is everyone had hyper realistic eyes. Very detailed. Clearly Were looked at eachother, obviously confused, but since we weren't the writers we didn't question its appeal to en, yet. The shot goes to Squidward sitting on the edge of his bed, looking very forlom. The view out of his porthole window is of a night sky so it isn't very long after the concert. The unsetling part is at this point there is no sound. Literally no sound. Not even the feedback from the speakers in the room. It's as if the peakers this silence for about 30 seconds, then he started to s-- softly. He put his hands (tentacles) over lhis eyes and cried quietly for a full miute more, all the while a sound in the background very slowly growing from nothing to barely audible. It sounded like a slight breeze through a forest. ned off, though their stahis showed them working perfectly. He just sat there, blinking, in The screen slowly begins to zoom in on his face. By slow I mean it's only noticeable if you look at shots 10 seconds apart side by side. His sobbing gets louder, more full of hut and anger. The screen then twitclhes a bit, as if it twists in on itself, for a split second then back to normal. The wind-through-the-trees sound gets slowty louder and more severe, as if a storm is brewing somewhere. The eerie part is this sound, and Squidward's sobbing, sounded real, as if the sound wasn't coming from the speakers but as if the speakers were holes the sound was coming trough from the other side. As good as sound as the studio likes to have, they don't puchase the equpment to be that good to produce sound of that quality Below the sound of the wind and sobbing, very faint, something sounded like laughing. It came at odd intervals and never lasted more than a second so you had a hard time pinning it (we watched this show twice, so pardon me if things sound too specific but I've had time to think about them. After 30 seconds of this, the screen bhured and twitched violently and something flashed over the screen, as if a single frame was replaced·TIe lead animation edito! paused and rewound fialne by fine, what we saw was homble It was a still photo of a dead child. He couldu't have been more than 6 The face was mangled and bloodied, one eye dangling over his uphumed face, popped He was naked down to his underwear, his stomach crudely cut open and his entrails laying beside him He was laying oin ome pavement that was probably a road. The most upsetting part was that there was a shadow of the photographer. There was no crime tape, no evidence tags or markers, and the angle was completely off for a shot designed to be evidence. It would seem the photographer was the person responsible child We were of course mortified, but pressed on, hoping that it was just a sick joke. The screen flipped back to Squidward, still sobbing, louder than before, and half body in frame. There was now what appeard to be blood nunning down his face from his eyes. The blood was also done in a hyper realistic style, looking as if you touched it you'd get blood on yo figs. The wind sounded now as if it were that of a gale blowing through the forest, there were even snapping sounds of branches. The laughing, a deep baritone, lasting at longer intervals and coing more frequenthy After about 20 seconds, the screen again twisted and showed a single frame photo. The editor was reluctant to go back, we all were, but he lnew he had to. This time the photo was that of what appeared t be a little gil, no older than the fist child. She was laying on her stomach, her baettes in a pool of blood next to her. Her left eye was too popped out and popped, naked except for mderpants. Her entrails were piled on top of her above another crude cut along her back Again the body was on the street and the photographer's shadow was visible, very similar in size and shape to the first. I had to choke back vonmit and one intem, the only female in the room, ran out The show resumed. About 5 seconds after this second photo played, Squidwar cles down and his eyes were now done in hyper ulsating He just stared at the screen, as if watcl time not covering his eyes. The sound was piercing and loud, and most fear indu was mixed with scr sec dri down his face at a heav ame back, and so did the deep voiced laughing, and this time the still photo lasted for a good 5 frames The animator was able to stop it on the 4th and backed up. This tme the photo was of a boy, about the scene was different The entrails were just being pulled out from a stomach wound by a large hand, the right eye popped and dangling, blood trickding down it. The animator proceeded. It was hard to believe, but the next one was next, same thing He want back them quicker and I lost it. I vomited on the floor, the animating and sound editors gasping at the screen. thisnd there, so the editor just continued the episode. ts, we saw the kid's eves focus on it, we even saw two frames of the kid beginning to blink. The lead sound editor told us to stop, he had Once the few frames were shown, all screaming, all sound again stopped. Squdward was just staring at that deep V s mouth a pulls the trigger. Realistic blood and brain matter splatters the wall behind him, and his bed, and he flies with the force. The last 5 seconds of this episode show his body on the bod, on his side, one eye dangling on what's left of his head above the floor, staring blankdy at it. Then the episode ends Mr Hillenburg is obviously angry at this. He demanded to know wht the hell was going on. Most people left the room at this point, so it was just a handful of us to watch it again. Viewing the episode twice only served to inmprint the entirety of it in ny mnd and cause me homible nightmares. Im sony I stayed. The only theory we could think of was the file was edited by someone in the chain from the drawing studio o here. The CTO was called in to analyze when it happened. The analysis of the file did show it was edited over by new material. However, the timestamp of it was a mere 24 seconds before we began viewing it. All equipment involved was examined f if the time stamp may have glitched and showed the wrong time, but everything checked out fine. We don't eign software and hardware as well as glitches, as ow was an investigation due photos, but nothing came of it. No child seen was identified and no clues were gathered from the data befor en nec

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