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** The Flying Dutchman has proved to actually be a pretty low threat on his own. He teamed up with the Jelliens to have a possibility of actually killing Squidward, since he definitely couldn't on his own. Once all three Jelliens were dead ''and'' Squidward had reinforcements, killing him was out of the question, so the Flying Dutchman left.



** The Flying Dutchman has proved to actually be a pretty low threat on his own. He teamed up with the Jelliens to have a possibility of actually killing Squidward, since he definitely couldn't on his own. Once all three Jelliens were dead ''and'' Squidward had reinforcements, killing him was out of the question, so the Flying Dutchman left.


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** For the record, the demo version DID have the mayo tucked away in specific corners, and it was ''hard''. I believe they simply wanted to make the stage more entertaining.

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*** Or he could be driving home after seeing what he saw, as he calls Squidward to tell him about it.

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*** Or he could be could've been driving home after seeing what he saw, as he calls called Squidward to tell him about it.



** You can't touch the Suited Prowler when it goes invisible. Rather than invisible, I believe it also becomes untouchable.

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** You can't touch the Suited Prowler when it goes invisible. Rather than invisible, I believe it also becomes untouchable. Which in turn would make it impossible to hurt the duo.



** They're surrounded by sand. Sand becomes glass when overheated. And they're in a restaurant which still has energy supply. I guess you can pretty much imagine what happened there.



** Probably cuz the mother was too much for the Jelliens to handle. Then again, though, I don't know how the Gloveys running around in her room don't disturb her sleep, but Patrick doing the same thing does.

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** Probably cuz the mother was too much for the Jelliens to handle. Then again, though, I don't know how handle.
* How come
the Gloveys running around in her room don't disturb trigger the hazards in the maze? They don't get shocked to death when they come into contact with the fish motifs' exposed wiring, they don't trigger the Red Menace pressure plates, and they can run around in Clamu's room without disturbing her sleep, but Patrick sleep. Meanwhile, doing the same thing does.any of these things [[OneHitKill means]] [[YouAreAlreadyDead death]] for Patrick.



** If the Barg'N Mart cutscene is any indication, an employee could have been pretty much caught.



** If the Barg'N Mart cutscene is any indication, an employee could have been pretty much caught.

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** If *** He probably just spotted it while searching for a way to fend off the Barg'N Mart cutscene is any indication, an employee could have been pretty much caught.Jelliens in there.



** Unless if this was all a sand trap Squidward barely survived to.



* How on Earth are Jellien Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy strong enough to overpower and take down someone like Mr.Krabs? As the game itself points out, they're still old men.

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* How on Earth are Jellien Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy strong enough to overpower and take down someone like Mr. Krabs? As the game itself points out, they're still old men.
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Sorry, fellow questioners, the trend about the Suited Prowler leaving the suit doesn't really make sense anymore (because he doesn't until all the hives have been destroyed)


* At the end of Goofy Goobers, why does the Prowler leave from his suit?
** He leaves the suit to kill Patrick. Have you ever tried to use the hands of a mascot suit? Those things can barely hold a pencil, forget killing someone.
*** But the Prowler doesn't leave the suit. He charges at Patrick and shocks him to death while still in it.
*** Which he canonically would've achieved if it weren't for the fact that Patrick constantly blinded him with the clam cam. I think he gets rid of the suit so he can avoid the clam cam.

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** You can't touch the Suited Prowler when it goes invisible. Rather than invisible, I believe it also becomes untouchable.
* At the end of Goofy Goobers, why does the Prowler leave from his suit?



*** But the Prowler doesn't leave the suit.. He charges at Patrick and shocks him to death while still in it.
*** Which he would've canonically achieved if it weren't for the fact that Patrick constantly blinded him with the clam cam. I think he wanted to try a different strategy to kill them.

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*** But the Prowler doesn't leave the suit..suit. He charges at Patrick and shocks him to death while still in it.
*** Which he canonically would've canonically achieved if it weren't for the fact that Patrick constantly blinded him with the clam cam. I think he wanted to try a different strategy to kill them.gets rid of the suit so he can avoid the clam cam.

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** Probably cuz the mother was too much for the Jelliens to handle. Then again, though, I don't know how the Gloveys running around
in her room don't disturb her sleep, but Patrick doing the same thing does.

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** Probably cuz the mother was too much for the Jelliens to handle. Then again, though, I don't know how the Gloveys running around
around in her room don't disturb her sleep, but Patrick doing the same thing does.


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*** Patrick isn't nearly as strong as Larry. I think Doodle Patrick purposefully avoided running into Larry and instead went inside to stab every Red Menace in the gym.


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* Why doesn't Spongebob have a "Wanted" poster (or Sandy, for that matter) in the Salty Spitoon? He was one of the causes of the failure of the previous Jellien invasion.


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** We're talking about the same creatures who cloned [[ImplacableMan Dennis]].
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*** And as for the Nerdy Employee, the guy hasn't ever hurted a fly, just as long as said fly is cloned, so the Overlord would have no reason to bother to dispose of him.


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*** [[FridgeHorror Or if the Prowler battle is any indication, Patrick beat the ever living ink out of Big Lenny]]. Why he didn't do this in the tutorial could be because he still didn't look at the Mermaid Man comic cover, which is presumably what gave him the courage to fight evil.


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*** Or he could be driving home after seeing what he saw, as he calls Squidward to tell him about it.


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*** Which he would've canonically achieved if it weren't for the fact that Patrick constantly blinded him with the clam cam. I think he wanted to try a different strategy to kill them.


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** Probably cuz the mother was too much for the Jelliens to handle. Then again, though, I don't know how the Gloveys running around
in her room don't disturb her sleep, but Patrick doing the same thing does.


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** If the Barg'N Mart cutscene is any indication, an employee could have been pretty much caught.


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*** That would mean every Pinkie in the Sand Castle wants to help Squidward at the same time.


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*** Which is also what happened in the episode this section was based off of.


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*** ''In meows?''

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** He could have seen the unusually organized flocks(?) of jellyfish flying overhead, well outside of Jellyfish Fields, on their way to Glove World. If they were low enough at that point for their eyes to be visible, either with the naked eye or by telescope (which Mr. Krabs probably owns), he'd connect the dots pretty fast.



** He might have still been at the Krusty Krab; Squidward's comment about Mr. Krabs calling him into work indicates that it's still open at that hour, and 9pm isn't an absurdly late time for a fast food restaurant to still be open. Even if it is closed, ''3AM at the Krusty Krab'' indicates that there's still a handful of after-hours tasks he could be doing.



* It wouldn't make any sense for Squidward to survive the Pink Slip difficulty of the Krusty Krab, considering the numerous supernatural abilities the Flying Dutchman has

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** Probably because if it failed against a mind as simple as [[TheDitz Patrick's]], it probably wasn't gonna be that effective against the others.
* It wouldn't make any sense for Squidward to survive the Pink Slip difficulty of the Krusty Krab, considering the numerous supernatural abilities the Flying Dutchman hashas.


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** Jelliens carry the cocoons of their victims on their undersides; that could be why that area is still sensitive.


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*** Maybe it ''was'' already frozen, but Spongebob and Patrick were able to turn the lock from the outside with enough force to break the ice (remember this level is ''after'' Spongebob went through a workout). They just couldn't do that from inside because they couldn't get a good grip on the frozen handle. If this still left the bulk of the ice on the handle as it spun, that could account for how quickly it refroze (or maybe they just assumed that it was frozen and didn't bother trying to see if the ice was still loose).


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** He specifies in that opening cutscene that the people he was performing with gave him that clarinet. The one he was grabbing was probably the one he had before he was given the new one; given how long he'd been practicing with it, it probably has enough sentimental value for him to want to save it.
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* At the start of the Glove World level, Squidward was going to give a clarinet performance, and is shown practicing his clarinet. So how come in the level in Squidward's house, the clarinet is one of the objects you have to grab?
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*** Who's to say it wasn't her next target once Spongebob and Patrick were dealt with?
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** Jellien=Jellyfish+Alien; it's not implausible that Doodle Patrick would come up with that as a descriptor on his own without knowing that that's what they're actually called.


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** They're so engrossed in their conversations that they don't register that the cephalopod walking by has the wrong eyes?

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*** Well at this point it's only been around two hours since the invasion started, plus they still have to actually ''run the store'', so they probably haven't had time to double and triple check the shelves and clear all the mayo out.

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*** Well at this point it's only been around two hours since the invasion started, plus and they still have to actually ''run the store'', so they probably haven't had time to double and triple check the shelves and clear all the mayo out.



* Sandy's Treedome poses a few questions so let's just ask them all here:

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*** Perhaps Sandy designed it like that so it couldn't get stuck on snow banks outside if she were to start sleepwalking?



** In her delirium, why doesn't Sandy also attack the nut bot?



*** As the show shows, superpowers don't seem to dissipate with age.

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*** As the show cartoon shows, superpowers don't seem to dissipate with age.


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* If the Nestlers dig underground to get around, why do they still need to move around obstacles and walls instead of going under them?
** For a watsonian explanation, their WormSign indicates they're burrowing close to the surface. Perhaps the walls have foundation or extend slightly underground? For a doylist explanation, Dave probably didn't want to have to program a new, mostly useless AI type for a single, rare enemy.

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* Speaking of not killing when you have the chance, this applies to Doodle Patrick in the final level when he monologues Patrick to sleep. As the [=YouTuber=] Creator/JayskiBean pointed out, why did Doodle Patrick bonk his regular counterpart on the head to wake him up instead of just using that opportunity to erase him?

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* Speaking of not killing when you have the chance, this applies to Doodle Patrick in the final level when he monologues Patrick to sleep. As the [=YouTuber=] Creator/JayskiBean pointed out, why did Doodle Patrick bonk his regular counterpart on the head to wake him up instead of just using that opportunity to erase him?him? Furthermore, why not use the eraser during his boss fight?



* Something that I just thought about. Unless this is a case of GameplayStorySegregation, how come Doodle Patrick never attempts to attack Patrick with the eraser in his boss fight?

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** Possibly he was driving home from collecting the treasure he got from Jellyfish fields.

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** Possibly he was driving home from collecting the treasure he got from Jellyfish fields.Fields.
*** The tutorial takes place early in the morning, though, meanwhile 3AW takes place at 10 in the night.
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** Gary was there, he probably told Spongebob afterwards.
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*** If a drawn bowling ball can bowl over Patrick with the force of an actual bowling ball, then it stands to reason that a Doodle can restrain a real person. After all, in his debut episode, Doodle Bob was able to lift up Squidward with no effort.
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* Something that I just thought about. Unless this is a case of GameplayStorySegregation, how come Doodle Patrick never attempts to attack Patrick with the eraser in his boss fight?
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** Possibly he was at the Krusty Krab when the invasion started

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** Possibly he was at driving home from collecting the Krusty Krab when the invasion startedtreasure he got from Jellyfish fields.
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** In WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie, Goofy Goobers actually provides other meals including hamburgers. Maybe that's why they go there for mayonnaise.
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** Possibly he was at the Krusty Krab when the invasion started

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Avoidng This Troper language but yeah, I am speaking from experience.


** Selective hearing while sleeping is very much a thing; it's entirely possible to wake up to your alarm quietly buzzing on your nightstand while sleeping through someone mowing the lawn right outside your window. Pearl could very well be used to the sound of doors closing while she's sleeping, and the sound of Spongebob and the Nutalarm doing their thing could also be similar enough to sounds Sandy is used to.



** Both of his neighbors are jellyfish experts; they probably figured something out.



* The Prowler's terrifying ability to manipulate the minds of others completely gets abandoned after Patrick's level

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