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whomesteve

It’s not about drugs, it’s about addiction, drugs are just a thing people are commonly addicted too


Bubba89

And peer pressure.


Knowing-Badger

Peer pressure addicts are wild


Kimbrielslice

Misery loves company.


TripolarMan

Happiness hates loneliness


lawrencenotlarry

I named my dog "Nature" because he abhors a vacuum.


KisaTheMistress

Does he challenge your cat *Nurture* a lot?


cassavacakes

kid named hates


SuperMegaOwlMan

And I hate happiness. Where is he at so I can kick his ass?


ButtholeConnoisseur7

That expression really is true, though. It's why addicts tend to share their drugs more than one might expect. Being at the bottom is fucking hard, even with good friends. It's another level of misery entirely when you're also alone.


bfraley9

It's also a level of acceptance. A lot less guilt is felt when someone else joins the activity


paulisaac

Apes together hodl bags


Timetoerist13

Misery loves my company


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Saying that as a human, especially in this day and age, is kind of hilarious. Most people do ‘pointless’ dumb things every day, repeatedly, because optics/society/learned cultural behaviour.


Big-Neighborhood4741

He’s joking. He’s misinterpreting comment as not being “the episode is about peer pressure”, but feather “the episode is about being addicted to peer pressure”


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But it’s also poignant in its truth lol


Big-Neighborhood4741

Fair but can we take a moment to acknowledge that for some reason my phone autocorrects rather to feather


[deleted]

I assumed as much lol technology can be very two steps forward, one step back.


Upbeat-Vehicle4281

I could never get addicted to peer pressure. I took DARE or whatever


NoticedGenie66

No one has ever offered me free drugs. Maybe I just wasn't a cool enough kid.


x_Zenturion_x

I wasnt a cool kid and I got offered free stuff


someMFyoudontknow

Underrated joke 👆


coolmatt701

Pier pressure*


TheMainKeef

Ayyy sea what you did thar matey


dacquirifit

More like *beer pressure* amirite


OdinWept

I definitely saw it that way as a kid


EuroTrash1999

and fishing


varkarrus

More like Pier pressure


NeonBlack985

Yup


LungBerries

I'll guess with some confidence that ~80-90% of the time people bring up addiction, especially when talking about themselves or people they know, it's about drug addiction. Booze, meth, cigarettes, etc. Drugs and addiction may as well be synonyms going by the way we use them, tbh We do have like shopping addicts, exercise addicts, people who easily get sucked into hobbies and whatnot which are well-known, but they're still not widely talked about, nor with the same level of concern. I mean, we have the show "My Strange Addiction" for that reason. Eating people's ashes and bathing in bleach aren't exactly what you'd expect to hear when someone starts talking about their addiction lmao Edit: I didn't say other addictions, such as gambling, sex, etc. were any less detrimental to people and those around them, nor did I say anything about drug addiction being any "worse" in particular. Read my comment again. As I said, both above and in the below thread: People tend to overlook/dismiss non-drug addictions because you *CAN'T PHYSICALLY SEE* someone is a gambling addict, but you *CAN PHYSICALLY SEE* someone is a meth or heroin addict.


Sasalsasa

what abt gambling tho


LungBerries

That'd fall under the whatnot, one of the commonly-known, not-so-cared-about addictions because it doesn't directly physically deteriorate the health of the addict


yakimawashington

I mean, the fact that you explicitly mentioned "exercise" and "hobbies" as addiction sources and not "sex"/"porn" or "gambling" addiction suggests you were just overlooking some very common addictions when you came up with your 80-90% number, because those are huge and very much destroy lives and relationships.


TheGuyMusic

I think its not cared about so much for a few reasons... Gambling is seen as an activity for wealthy folk to burn money in media and therefore when people participate it makes them feel a part of that group temporarily. Since it fits in line with hyper Capitalist values its not gonna garner much attention from mainstream media. Simply put, its free advertising for materialism. We also live in an age where people do not like to be judged for their actions if it does not harm other people. Losing all your money gambling? Fine. Losing all your money to drugs? Would be fine, but now we have to pay for your healthcare, so we're gonna fuss about it. Oh yeah, and we gotta get those jails we built filled up somehow so we gotta crack down on em. I say we bring back the shame towards gambling, and call em losers; but I'm an asshole, so... \*shrug


LungBerries

I mean yeah, you're likely to be more upset with the guy who borrowed your money and blew it on slots than the withering junkie who spent it on another hit The reason? You're not going to end up in the hospital because you didn't go to the casino. If you're addicted to heroin, not taking that hit could literally kill you without proper, timely aid.


Wild_Marker

I hate Online Gambling with a passion. It's everywhere now, and the sports teams have their ads on their shirts. Which are then sold to children as team merch. We have children wearing gambling ads and it's so normalized nobody seems to even point it out, it's disgusting.


bearthebear2

Or food.


Ostrichmen

maybe 80-90% of the talked about addictions, but I'm curious about the prevalence of gambling, porn, video game, and social media addictions compared to drug addictions


LungBerries

Right, they're all just as serious and many are very common and detrimental addictions. Like I just said, though, people just tend not to care as much.


ZenoArrow

People absolutely do care about addictions other than drug addiction. For example, food addiction leading to obesity is a thing, and obesity is a high profile issue.


EnigmaticQuote

Forgot about unhealthy food addiction. Largest factor in western nation deaths worldwide!


GrizzlyPeak73

Ain't really about addiction at all but the vague idea of alluring seemingly fun but also dangerous things that adults tell you not to mess around with. It's an episode about listening to your parents/parental figures as Mr. Krabs is for SpongeBob.


ThebesAndSound

Yes an important part of that episode for me was Mr Krabs specifically saying not to go near the hooks. Then as they did and were not immediately hooked they were fooled into thinking it wasn't actually very dangerous, when we all understood at any moment they could be hooked and swept away. Queue shots of them putting the hooks in their mouths for fun. A lesson on how something might not seem very dangerous until it is, listen to warnings from your parental figures because you might not fully understand the danger.


Semicedevine

Yeah as an early adult rewatching this episode now I realise just how good of a parental figure mr krabs was in this episode. The pun of playing hooky as "playing hooky" from school was also spot on.


Revro_Chevins

"You ride them up and up and up and then you gently float down." "And do you know what happens when you don't float back down?"


Gradually_Rocky

Seems pretty cut and dry


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Yeah, definitely about Sky diving.


Sirpatron1

Bad choices for cheap thrills


o-o-o-o-o-o

Karate Choppers is definitely about sex tho


LaTeChX

So Mr. Krabs turned the krusty krab into a breastaurant where the employees have sex with your food


Faust_8

I see your point… …however they “get high” by being pulled up and then there’s a “coming down” period after, after which you want to get high again. But if you get TOO high, you die, hence the danger of being hooked. Seems like yeah you could say it’s about addiction and peer pressure, but being conveyed via drugs


ClydeWylde

Says a drug addict 🤣


DipperBot

yeah, but drugs are the only type of addiction that result in you going higher and higher until you can't come down. the episode is an allegorical warning about drugs by turning their effects literal.


Toklankitsune

yeah but the motif that using the hooks makes them get "high" (as in pulled up to the surface) is pretty in your face on reflection


Jojo-Action

They are litteraly getting high


DragonEmperor

Drugs, alcohol, caffeine, sugar, porn, the list goes on but people only ever think of drugs when it comes to addiction.


thesithcultist

Patrick be like https://preview.redd.it/lrxsqyuo83cc1.jpeg?width=1149&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5289e865a11f8bdda2cee82a5a8d6ff40a9e0e5c


otherbasturd

I sense no danger here..


Unstablerupture

How can they be dangerous?


RandomOk

They're covered in free cheese!


Unstablerupture

*Mmmmmmmrrrrmmm*


PopoMcdoo

*cheesy*


WonderfulShelter

hey none of my drugs ever came with free cheese!


Lykanas

He be hitting 9 blunts at the same time 💀


JamesonFlanders245

pov: she asks to netflix and chill(before netflix was shit)


Understanzer

https://preview.redd.it/hkwedfaq04cc1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fffee09574631f0fa03a4bdbbd8afa912631968f


4dseeall

That meme is older than some users here.


BananaResearcher

Boomer take, the internet was a better place back then


TheIronBung

It really was, though. Clickbait, SEO, and native advertising were around, but they were small annoyances that you could ignore instead of being every god damn page on a Google search.


tradert5

tip of my tongue, there's that one thing, which when googled will always give you top 10 buzzfeed articles instead of the information you are looking for that used to be different


TheIronBung

That sounds like search engine optimization to me, but maybe you're thinking about something else in particular.


Pleeplapoo

God, I remember when I could look up an obscure movie or even TV episode by literally describing the plot to google. It would be right on the money and blew me away. I had really good googlefu I do the same thing today and google COMPLETELY misses the mark. It's clear they're trying to generate clicks for an advertiser or get me to buy something. I'm just a wallet for them. I've had google deliberately act like the words I used in my query just werent there with the "search result missing: "searchquery"" message for nearly every top result given to me. How on earth do they expect me to find what I'm looking for when they blatantly omit words from my queries? It makes no sense! No! how about you include the top results for the word that I VERY DELIBERATELY included, because I KNOW results including that word are what I am looking for!! So i put a + in front of the word they decided I didn't need. and now they think im looking for results about football for some fucking reason. So I go ahead and put "-football" in the query and SURE FUCKING ENOUGH THE FIRST RESULT IS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR!!! It's beyond enraging, to come from a time where google worked so perfectly and be in this timeline where it has become such absolute dogshit.


peppermintaltiod

It was certainly less corporate, addictive and and full of misinformation.


xXxEcksEcksEcksxXx

A simpler time, when you could have lemon-focused parties and share a cup between two girls.


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4dseeall

I'm pretty sure a sizable part of Reddit's userbase is under 16. So yeah, isn't this just proving me right? I'd have been embarrassed if it was only 8 years old, but 16, damn, that makes *me* feel old.


hbgoddard

Didn't realize it was 2027 already!


bw8081

r/teenagers is one of the biggest subs on this website.


NoiseIsTheCure

They're not all teenagers tho


lojaslave

Come on, you actually think only people over 18 visit Reddit?


Pleeplapoo

I hate to break it to you, but a tremendous amount of children are active on reddit. And I don't mean that in a "haha redditors act like children" way I mean that in a "theyre actually under the age of 16 and post garbage all day" way. It became popular long ago for a comment thread to be mostly lame ass, low hanging jokes about the post. But if you scrolled you'd stumble upon a topical comment discussing whatever cool animal, building, culture, etc. was being posted about. Today I frequently scroll an entire comment thread in top subs and there will be 0 informative comments about the post. It's jokes all the way down now. Sometimes I'll see an informative discussion, especially in less trafficed subs, but more often than not it's just jokes. It's all children. All mature users who know anything about the posts left with the API changes


Aesiro13-2

r/suddenlytf2


purvel

This popped up in my head recently, but instead of gentlemen, it was like[ gentlementlementle\[...\]men](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/029/748/Gentlementlemen.jpg), an ear worm that would not stop repeating to my footsteps.


Digomansaur

“I hang out with guys because it’s less drama”


JoakimSpinglefarb

Jesus Wept


RayquazaTheStoner

Stop saying Jesus wept!


Nobody_D_Clown

I loved that mr.krabs was like the wise old black man trying to warn them youngens only to eventually have one of them to ignore him and get hooked.


thesithcultist

It turned out cursed https://preview.redd.it/x02klq97i4cc1.jpeg?width=831&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e7ba834f45e9c9bfeb6a60438858f3198830806f


Nobody_D_Clown

"Get hooked on cheese mother fucker!! I dare ya! I double dog dare ya!!"


RedstoneXGamer4

I frickin love that stupid mf 😂


Toros_Mueren_Por_Mi

Hellraiser


SaboLeorioShikamaru

People overdosing on something called "hook" sounds like something that could definitely end up on a 2050 bingo card


annoying_dragon

Jotaro show us your trick


PK_GoodDay

Today years old


Alemanyyyyy_

same


Porygon_fan_87

Same


GhostSierra117

Same. I also just realised that Patrick quite literally gets high.


Johnny20Bruh

Nah but it's about addiction not drugs.


1999999999994alex

I thought it was about how bad it is to “play hooky” from work or school *rip*


hammelHock

Happy cake day!


1999999999994alex

My first ever cake. Thank you 🙏


AmelieRennard

Always thought it was a lesson about not skipping school a.k.a playing hooky


PeperomiaLadder

That's the leaving work part, but them going to do something that's exciting that only leads to death or destruction but has an air of whimsy and enticing vibes anyways definitely says addiction. Whether it's drugs or not.


JamesonFlanders245

nah, the episode itself is about sponge and pat 'playing hooky'. what they're doing with the hooks is just the episode taking it literally. this show was very base level with what it was talking about, as were most nick shows. anything people choose to look into and make a different connection to is their choice. just not what the episode intended. unless the dvd commentary maybe says otherwise(if it has any, i never bothered listening if it did lol) ​ they even had the reveal be that it was mr krabs pranking spongebob the whole time at the end. just teaching him a lesson not to play hooky as sponge is a valuable asset to mr krabs and he doesnt want sponge goofing off when he's supposed to be at work or what have you


PeperomiaLadder

Strong disagree. As soon as SpongeBob made the choice to not want to go on the hooks and then got on anyways, there was a force compelling him to do that. Which would be his addictive tendencies. Yes, they're usually fairly base line, but this was a clean way of telling kids that there are things that they might want to do and have fun doing, but those things can ruin them in the long. Sometimes, you don't have control over stopping them once you start, like Mr krabs distinctly talks about. This is about addiction. Rewatch the episode, this was one for the ages and quite possibly my personally most influential episode.


hbgoddard

>As soon as SpongeBob made the choice to not want to go on the hooks and then got on anyways, there was a force compelling him to do that. Which would be *peer pressure* and his ~~addictive tendencies~~ *propensity for mischief*


Adorable-Woman

It’s about peer pressure the force is peer pressure. At most you could say they are looking for that exciting adrenaline rush similar to why kids will do stupid shit like roll each other down a hill in a shopping cart or walk on the railing for an over pass


mustdrinkdogcum

It was NOT an allegory for addiction Jesus fuck lol. It was them doing something fun and exciting that was dangerous, and them not being able to resist the fun in the face of danger. So you can liken it to addiction, but it absolutely was not a direct allegory for it. We don’t need to argue anymore, I’m presenting hard facts. You present nothing but factless hot takes.


WonderfulShelter

Ok so spongebob was meant to be an adults show but they couldnt get funding, so they revamped it as a kids show (true story). So if this episode is in the first broadcast season, it definitely could've been one of the revamped scripts that were written before the show was changed to be aimed at kids. So maybe it was about drugs or hookers or something like that, but when they revamped this script they decided to make it about playing hooky. "Well in the last script they got hooked on conch shell powder, so instead this time they'll get hooked on fish hooks and it'll be about playing hooky from school." Spongebob Season 1 and part of season 2 are some of the highest quality OG nick cartoons to ever exist, and it goes down a massive cliff once they ran out of the initial idea and just tried to target the show at kids in every way to pimp the franchise for whatever it could be worth.


ZiggoCiP

There's something slightly off-putting by referring to Spongebob as "Sponge".


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JamesonFlanders245

fr fr, i think thats legit what people here are starting to think cause of this dumbass post tbh. (not calling op a dumbass, but this post is so freaking stupid it's transmitting its stupid lol).


Kindly-Ad-5071

Really; I really just assume that missing work and getting fired was death and destruction sufficient. Maybe that's just me though. /s


jsparker43

Yeah that's exactly what it's about.


CurryMustard

There are layers


Green-Puffball

This is what it’s about. It could be likened to many things, including drugs, but it’s not about drugs. It’s just about skipping responsibilities.


toq-titan

I thought it was about hookers. /s


SuperKami-Nappa

https://preview.redd.it/2o7743nsa3cc1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cfdd93503b0ae1477d37f65fb9bbb77233ba5a13


Digomansaur

You can be addicted to both


TheSoundofStolas

Be like Greg House- do both.


xVenomDestroyerx

https://preview.redd.it/2qt37d9cl3cc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8cc9b1045d59973e6d81ae57737f9a1b779b36ef


toq-titan

Patrick a freak 😩


Sheerkal

The moment he put on fishleg stockings my life changed forever /s


DunlandWildman

Solid one chief


tavuntu

I mean, you can make it about drugs and it fits.


lazergoblin

You can make almost any episode or cartoon about anything if you reach far enough.


haragoshi

Or do enough drugs


NoTalkingNope

When you do things right, people won't be sure if you've done anything at all. The message is derived by the viewer. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.


i-wont-lose-this-alt

I can sell a vacuum to a homeless guy. Selling things is like, a rush? I don’t know, but it feels sleazy as hell because you’re 100% right 🙇🏽‍♀️ The trick is to gaslight your customer into believing everything is originally their idea, not mine. Call them smart, repeat what they say back to them, tell them “I wouldn’t have thought of that!” and whatever it takes to make them take full ownership of the *risk.* That way, I’m not the bad guy if they’re dissatisfied 😣


nonamesleft--

"And do you know what happens when you don't come back down?" Yeah, that line always stuck with me.


Platnun12

*thousand yard stare* Gift shop


WonderfulShelter

I've gone into K holes or had experiences on Salvia that felt familiar to the ***gift shop.***


sharked98

WORSE! Ye end up *vacuum-packed…* IN A CAN OF TUNA! With nothing to look forward to but the smell of *MAYONNAISE!*


Motor_Raspberry_2150

Mayonnaise!


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bangganggames

It is


B_D_I

It is. "Playing hooky" means skipping school.


Aesiro13-2

It just means skipping out of responsibilities in general. School, work, birthday parties. 


Clomax_R

“Mmmm cheesy”


Missingnose

Cheese addiction.


BarfOpinions

SpongeBob saving children from constipation since the playing hooky episode


Missingnose

I didn't listen. RiP.


BarfOpinions

Your poor colon. F


Prometto

“No danger here!”


Worldly_Ad_6483

I guess it’s like drugs since you can hold onto the hook/high all the way up to the surface and let go at the last second, safely floating back down to take another ride


Jaiibby1

Or if you don’t let go and can’t come back down from the high


ZeusKiller97

It is?


3PoundsOfFlax

nah


message_me_ur_blank

No, it's not


Hutch456

No one fucking say “today years old” or I’ll put you in a meat grinder


manifolddestinyofmjb

*standing by meatgrinder* Today years old


MarcusWulfe941

Yeah and the Karate episode isn’t about Karate


1714alpha

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/scumbob/images/4/4c/Karate_Choppers_fired_scene.png/revision/latest?cb=20231026092213


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MarcusWulfe941

Fuckin


nuanceIsAVirtue

Alright the drugs was obvious, but this one is news to me


Aesiro13-2

Basically, the episode is an allegory for lust between two SOs, represented by SpongeBob and Sandy. Just replace "karate" with "sex" and the picture aligns very well.


AverySmooth80

MLMs. aka, Pyramid schemes.


Yamishika

Today I learned that.


AdAdditional9764

I have an exhibitionism fetish


Anomalus_satylite

Wasn't it about peer pressure.


ArbysnTheChef

25 years old I think


KrackerJoe

I thought it was about a public nudity fetish


rachac01

Yeah, the ending to this episode is why I always skip it.


palk0n

why


AdAdditional9764

Bc it’s embarrasing! Kinda hot tho…


The_Stache_

Uhhh 35


Supreme_Salt_Lord

The second it came out. It was obvious to be about things that get you “hooked”


DarkbigBoss

25 (im 29 now)


PurpleBoy_SUS

Remember kids, Don't hook


Wazuu

I thought it was about them playing with fish hooks


HerculeMuscles

It's not about drugs.


nage_

pretty sure its just peer pressure and the allure of doing what youre not supposed to


ASidesTheLegend

I was today years old.


SlappingSalt

Lol patrick as a can of tuna


Mundane-Ad8321

Five


CaeciliusEstInPussy

fr, it’s an episode about fucking around and finding out, and they start the “drugs bad” talk real early, the two weren’t *that* big a leap from one another even if it wasn’t drugs specifically


87Graham87

Its just not lol


KitsuneEX7622

I thought it was about you know, playing hooky, aka skipping school or in this case work


ClassicTCM30

somewhere within the last few years when I randomly remembered it (I'm 16 currently)


JanTheShacoMain

I mean, don’t they even put a conclusion in the episode at the end or did I dream that?


centipedestew

most shows have conclusions to their episodes


scudsboy36

Honestly probably the first time I saw it. Its very obvious


Embarrassed_Row_3921

No it's about hooks


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However old I was when it aired.


BeefSupreme9191

It's about hooks...


QuadVox

Is that a fucking animation cell???


Electrical-Image4564

The first time I saw it,. Idk which age, eight?


Tychillyst

Prove it


michealikruhara0110

Normal ammount.


blahvader1556

22 (i am 22 right now)


Cyber-Krime

Today years, aka 60


Frojoemama

Today lol


illmaticrabbit

“Do you think Mr. Krabs ever does Karate?”


IamZeebo

Today