{"id":1442441,"date":"2020-01-28T10:00:50","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T15:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/?p=1442441"},"modified":"2020-01-27T09:38:22","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T14:38:22","slug":"5-literary-references-you-never-noticed-in-spongebob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/5-literary-references-you-never-noticed-in-spongebob\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Literary References You Never Noticed in <i>SpongeBob<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/12419spongebobclassiclitMAIN_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Like most people, I&#8217;m constantly fighting the urge to say, \u201cDo you remember the episode of <em>SpongeBob<\/em> where\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u201d only to follow it up with a description that sounds like a lurid fever dream and not an episode of a children&#8217;s cartoon I watched pretty much nonstop for the better part of a decade. I could have been learning a language or at least playing outside, but instead I planted myself in front of the TV to watch <em>SpongeBob<\/em>, and now I can hear Patrick saying \u201cIs mayonnaise an instrument?\u201d in my head at all times with perfect clarity. We all make choices in life, and these were mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, there are some literary references in the show that went way over my head as a young and particularly obtuse seven-year-old\u2014references I wouldn&#8217;t understand until I went back as an adult and re-watched the episodes in a fit of world-weary nostalgia. These are those references.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like most people, I&#8217;m constantly fighting the urge to say, \u201cDo you remember the episode of SpongeBob where\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u201d only to follow it up with a description that sounds like a lurid fever dream and not   <a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"continue-text\">continue reading<\/span><svg class=\"continue-icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"\">\n    <path fill=\"#007acd\" fill-rule=\"nonzero\" d=\"M13.442 5.558L19.885 12l-6.443 6.442-.884-.884 4.934-4.934L4 12.625v-1.25l13.492-.001-4.934-4.932.884-.884z\"><\/path>\n  <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[628,666,2285,25017,415,9118],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442441"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1442441"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1442443,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442441\/revisions\/1442443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1442441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1442441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1442441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}