Question About "Suds"

BabySmitty · Apr 4, 2015

If the suds is the sponge equivalent of just the common cold or the flu, why the halibut did his EYE FALL OUT?

Also, if he didn't have the suds in issue 26, what the heck was wrong with him? He even said that sponges don't get colds.

NoahsBlobs · Apr 4, 2015

Probably not the Suds, maybe the Soaks.

Cha · Apr 4, 2015

Some colds are worse than others. :dunno: It seems like the suds are more the equivalent of the chicken pox when it comes to getting it once. Sponges there might have more unique illnesses than just the suds, therefore how he got sick again. That or they can have the fever and etc same viruses as us. Why is it that sponges don't get colds anyways?

Sunshine Banjo Face · Apr 4, 2015

Remember in pre hibernation week his mouth kept on falling, same logic here.

BabySmitty · Apr 4, 2015

Award said:
Remember in pre hibernation week his mouth kept on falling, same logic here.

You're right. He's a bit of a shape-shifter. He tends to lose control of that against his will at times.

Cha said:
Some colds are worse than others. :dunno: It seems like the suds are more the equivalent of the chicken pox when it comes to getting it once. Sponges there might have more unique illnesses than just the suds, therefore how he got sick again. That or they can have the fever and etc same viruses as us. Why is it that sponges don't get colds anyways?

I dunno, that's a good question. He just said "I don't get colds." We never found out why.

Lego Spongy said:
Probably not the Suds, maybe the Soaks.

Perhaps. Sponge biology is strange.

OWM · Apr 4, 2015

I'm pretty sure it was for comedic effect to show how sick he was.

PinkPearl · Apr 4, 2015

Sponges probably react to things differently than people (fish) do. We've seen it before, like when Flats kept punching him and he felt no affect whatsoever (although that might be something entirely different). But of course these episodes/comics don't have much continuity so I guess it doesn't matter all that much.

iedasb · Apr 4, 2015

When I'm cold I feel so much pain in the eyes it looks like it's gonna fall...
idk maybe for fun

MasiHosseini · Apr 5, 2015

Because he's a Sponge.

BabySmitty · Apr 5, 2015

iedasb said:
When I'm cold I feel so much pain in the eyes it looks like it's gonna fall...
idk maybe for fun

When I have a fever, my eyes feel really hot for some reason, and sometimes they get watery. Maybe the suds takes that to the extreme.

pop_princess said:
Sponges probably react to things differently than people (fish) do. We've seen it before, like when Flats kept punching him and he felt no affect whatsoever (although that might be something entirely different). But of course these episodes/comics don't have much continuity so I guess it doesn't matter all that much.

The almost total lack of consistency in the show makes it weirdly interesting to analyze/explain.

DadMom AngryPants · Apr 5, 2015

In Issue #26 he explicitly says he has a cold even though in "Suds" he said that sponges don't get them. But it doesn't really matter since the comics aren't canon. Maybe the person who wrote that story hadn't seen the episode.

BabySmitty · Apr 5, 2015

DadMom AngryPants said:
In Issue #26 he explicitly says he has a cold even though in "Suds" he said that sponges don't get them. But it doesn't really matter since the comics aren't canon. Maybe the person who wrote that story hadn't seen the episode.

True. Even IN canon Spongebob isn't known for following logic. An undersea fire will only burn out if it's acknowledged that there can't be fire underwater. Episodes end with characters being horribly maimed or exploding only to be fine the next day.

...wait, the comics AREN'T canon? I thought they were. Since the show has little to no continuity I wouldn't be surprised if they were canon. Especially since they're published by Hillenburg himself, and a great deal of them are written and drawn by former crew-members.

I feel like every time I go on here and talk to people, we're like

SpongeyKid · Apr 5, 2015

Suds is possibly the worst possible illness a sponge can get. I actually feel bad that his eyeball was coming out :unsure:

BabySmitty · Apr 5, 2015

100-Percent-Bunny said:
Suds is possibly the worst possible illness a sponge can get. I actually feel bad that his eyeball was coming out

The "a sponge can only have the suds once" theory does make sense. I don't know if the episode supports it, but in "Whelk Attack" he speaks about it in past tense, as if it were the chicken pox or something.

I don't like seeing bad things happen to eyes. It freaks me out. Eyes, teeth, and choking scenes, those are the three things I can't stand in horror.

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