Vs. Spong
was a Friday Night Funkin' Game Mod, based off the popular kids show Spongebob Squarepants... Kind of. Well... uh... that's not SpongeBob per se, it's hard to explain. But whatever Spong is, he isn't SpongeBob.
A remaster was planned, but it was cancelled and instead released as an unfinished build.
Examples from the original mod:
- all lowercase letters / no punctuation is funnier: Most of Spong's dialogue is this.
- Call-Back: The cutscene for Spong's transformation in Pineappled looks similar to what happens to Senpai in the base game.
- The Cameo: Spong has a rare chance to appear in the main menu of Bob's Onslaught.
- Confronting Your Impostor: "Abrasive" has the real SpongeBob confront the fake one. He makes the mistake of lampshading it, prompting Spong to make the obvious reference.
- Establishing Character Moment: Spong's first words to Boyfriend.Spong: who the fuck are you
Boyfriend: Im Boyfriend Who The Fuck Are You - Evil Twin: Spong is this to SpongeBob, being significantly ruder and more foul-mouthed but otherwise looking identical.
- Interface Screw: In "Pinappled", first the arrows are spinning wildly, then the strum line starts spinning, then the screen starts rapidly zooming in and out.
- Patter Song: Literally EVERY song, ESPECIALLY Pineappled.
- Precision F-Strike: One courtesy of SpongeBob, of all characters, in Abrasive:SpongeBob: Uhh... shit.
- Sensory Abuse: Spong's form in Pineappled is.... rather hard to describe, to say the least.
- Shout-Out:
- The music that originally played in the cutscene before Pineappled was an edited version of the classic Roblox horror music, before it was changed.
- In the beginning of Abrasive, Spong tries to sing part of Among Us in Real Life before getting interrupted by SpongeBob.
- Sir Swears-a-Lot: Spong tends to say the F-word a lot.
- Stylistic Suck: The mod doesn't take itself seriously at all. Spong (at least before the remaster) is literally an edited Google image of SpongeBob, and the charts are full of spam.
- Suddenly Voiced:
- Played for Laughs in Abrasive, which gives us this gem:
SpongeBob: Now that's music... or something like tha-
Spong: Among Us in real life sus, sus. Among Us in real life sus, sus. Playing Among Us in-
SpongeBob: Gotcha- woah! - Surprisingly Creepy Moment: Spong's dialogue in newer versions of Pineappled is...creepy, to say the least.Spong: NEPTUNE HAS BETRAYED US
Spong: HES TRAPPED US IN A WATERY GRAVE WE CANNOT LEAVE
Spong: WE CANT BREATHE
Spong: WE CANT BREATHE
Spong: WE CANT BREATHE
Spong: WE CANT BREATHE
Spong: WE CANT BREATHE - Turns Red: Spong seems to transform into... Something before "Pineappled" begins. Lampshaded in the old dialogue for Pineappled.
- Uncommon Time: The music for the Pineappled cutscene has a BPM of 39.5759411502, and the old version of the music for that same cutscene has a BPM of 120.962.
- Unwinnable Joke Game: Pineappled, given its sheer note count and countless Interface Screws, is next to unbeatable.
- Wham Shot: SpongeBob's appearance in "Abrasive", which reveals that Spong is a separate character from SpongeBob.
Examples from the unfinished remaster:
- Adaptational Badass: SpongeBob manages to get in some singing of his own in the remastered "Abrasive", rather than being overpowered throughout the whole thing.
- Adaptational Jerkass: Spong's unused dialogue in the remaster is even cruder than in the original, dropping Cluster F-Bombs and yelling out more abrasive things than before when SpongeBob confronts him.
- Adapted Out:
- Girlfriend is nowhere to be seen in the remaster.
- Downplayed with "Pineappled." It was replaced entirely in the remaster, with its role being taken by "Serpent," although part of it is heard in "Born."
- Angrish: Spong's unused dialogue for "Abrasive" mostly consists of this, because of Spongebob trying to steal the mic back.
- Art Evolution: As is to be expected from a remaster. Spong and SpongeBob's designs have been updated to original drawings with proper animations instead of stock photos, and Spong's appearance in "Serpent" is a lot more coherent than the mess in "Pineappled".
- Art Shift: Not only are the sprites in "Bibulus" drawn in the style of Undertale, but the entire song is from Boyfriend's POV.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: In the unused dialogue for "Abrasive", Boyfriend credits the person behind the updated vocals in a *Cough* Snark *Cough* line.Boyfriend: *cough cough cough cough* new abrasive vocals by st4r *cough cough dies of lung cancer*
Spong: what - Darker and Edgier: Spong's final phase transformation is taken more seriously in the remaster, being given a coherent design resembling a Perverse Puppet instead of a glitching mess of images, a proper song with a frantic melody and rasping vocals, and a hint at possible lore involving a lab of some sort. That's not even getting into the revelations in "Born" about Spong's origin...
- Dem Bones: Downplayed. The unused character "Billy" is a diagram of a female human (despite being male) with a skull for a head.
- Interface Screw: Strangely Subverted in "Pineappled" When accessed in the remaster, for some reason, none of the interface screw it had in the original mod is present, likely because the remaster was unfinished.
- Mechanical Abomination: Spong seems to be one, as revealed in "Serpent."
- Medium Blending: The unused 3D Spong applies.
- Mind over Matter: Implied with Sp, whose mic is floating in front of them, despite never making contact with his hands.
- Patter Song: "Spong" and "Absorb" have unchanged vocals, making them this. "Serpent" brings down an even greater torrent of notes for a majority of the song. That's not even getting to "IP," which,
although not finished, obviously sounds like it'd be even spammier than serpent. - Perverse Puppet: Spong in "Serpent" appears to be this, hanging from the sky by yellow chains that seem to be forcing him to sing.
- Precision F-Strike:
- At the end of "IP," somebody randomly yelling "FUCK!" can be heard.
- The only thing Viacom says in "Copyright Evasion" is "Fuck you!"
- Shout-Out:
- "Bibulus" is heavily based on the Spongeswap AU of Undertale, complete with a black-and-white pixelated style.
- "Copyright Evasion" is a remix of the only song in bbpanzu's "Vs. Arch" mod with significantly more spam and Spong taking the place of Boyfriend.
- Skyward Scream: Spong lets one out at the end of the remastered "Abrasive".
- Stylistic Suck: Downplayed compared to the original version, but "IP" (and it's opponent, "SP.") and "My Mistake" definitely apply.
- Suddenly Voiced: In the remastered version of "Abrasive", similar to its older version:Spong: Shut the fuck up I'm going to rip your spleen out of yo-
Boyfriend beeps
Spong: ...Fuckin nevermind. - Take That!: "Copyright Evasion" is one against Viacom's infamous copyright claims.
- Token Human: The unused character "Guy" is the only human character in the entire mod, barring Boyfriend.
- Unwinnable Joke Game: "IP" likely would've been one if it was finished.
- Wham Episode: "Born" is a 'song' that reveals that Spong was born in a lab, and killed the scientist who made him, before presumably escaping.
