SpongeBob Edited is a genre of YouTube videos where the original dialogue/audio is replaced with swear words, sexual references, or other vulgar and funny sound bytes from different media, most commonly from Tenacious D. Long disputed to be a subgenre of YouTube Poop, the first edit was created in August 2007 by now-retired YouTuber Klusignolo with the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Krusty Krab Training Video". Due to having limited access to sound material, the replaced sound bytes in the video mostly consisted of Tenacious D's "Inward Singing", AC/DC's "Big Balls", and a few bleep and fart sounds. He gained access to more expansive sound libraries from other Tenacious D songs along with a few rap songs in the early half of 2008, and made a few more SpongeBob edits of the episodes "Pizza Delivery", "Sailor Mouth", "The Bully", "The Camping Episode", "Squilliam Returns", and finally "Band Geeks", along with two Dora the Explorer edits of the episodes "Save the Puppies" and "Halloween Parade".
The editing community expanded around late 2008-the early 2010s with editors like MasterSkoadwarde, LickMyNoseHAHAHA, roshua666, and Spoiledmilk970. More television series than just SpongeBob began to be edited, including Dora the Explorer, Blue's Clues, Barney & Friends, The Fairly OddParents!, Ed, Edd n Eddy, and many more.
Editing was considered to enter a new generation in 2010 when SuperIdiotMan00 joined and made his first edit with the SpongeBob episode "Ripped Pants", where he introduced new sound sources including Metalocalypse and Wesley Willis. He is considered to be the founding father of Generation 2 of editing due to pioneering unique sounds and making visual changes, something editors rarely did beforehand. The other two pioneers are DaCavemanEngi and SkateboardEditor, notable for making Regular Show edits and introducing new sound libraries consisting of makemebad35, Jon Lajoie, The Lonely Island, and Epic Rap Battles of History.
Unfortunately, due to Viacom's strict copyright restrictions against Fair Use, several classic edits from the website have been deleted along with the editors having their channels terminated for violating YouTube's Community Guidelines. Thankfully, some of these edits have resurfaced on other video-streaming platforms (e.g. Dailymotion, Vimeo, VidLii, Odysee) with more lenient copyright policies due to people downloading them before their deletion, along with several being reuploaded to YouTube in a filtered or audio-only version to keep safe from Viacom's copyright abuse.
While most of the editors from the original days have long retired, several new editors have kept their legacy alive through their influence and retained the activity of the editing community.
The genre "SpongeBob Edited" is so named due to SpongeBob SquarePants being the most common piece of media edited. Despite this, it is far from the only thing edited, as there also exist several edits of other cartoons like Ed, Edd 'n Eddy, Regular Show, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, The Fairly OddParents, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, Arthur, and hundreds of others. Chances are if it's popular, it's been edited. Edits also aren't limited to cartoons, as there are many edits of live-action TV series, movies, songs, commercials, trailers, video game cutscenes, news reports, live events, pretty much everything.
Tropes associated with Edits:
- Adaptational Alternate Ending: Many edits will end with an alternate (often violent) ending implied, often using sound effects behind a cut to black, or someone exploding.
- Adaptational Jerkass: In addition to being generally foul-mouthed, characters' dialogue is often altered to make them much ruder to each other.
- Adaptation Name Change: Used often on the cast of SpongeBob, often having multiple different replacements for half of the characters' names per video.
- Affectionate Parody: Most editors admit that they wouldn't edit SpongeBob among other cartoons if they didn't love them.
- Animated Shock Comedy: The purpose of edits is to change the original lines to make them as obscene as possible, often to the point of YouTube age-restricting them.
- Arc Words: Besides common swear words, several other phrases are used commonly, such as "700 billion", "Cleaveland steamer on my chest", and various instances of Jack Black saying "yeah".
- Black Comedy Rape: It's common for scenes to cut behind black screens to feature sound bytes creating a rape scene, or when the original episode had screaming so as to imply the character is getting raped in the edited version.
- Butt-Monkey: Characters are often abused, either verbally, violently, or sexually.
- Cast Full of Gay: A common theme when inserting sexually charged dialogue into videos that feature on characters of the same gender.
- Censored for Comedy: Usually with visual pixelation to imply a sexual situation. Doing so with audio is generally frowned upon.
- Cluster F-Bomb: The most common swear in edits.
- Continuity Nod: Occasionally edits will reference prior videos. One example is EditsForWinners' "Just One Bite" edit where the "Tiptoe" from Tiny Tim's "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" plays while Squidward tiptoes past SpongeBob's house, followed by an audio byte of "I think you've said that before. It's out of context here." This is in reference to his "SB-129" edit where he used the same sound clip for Squidward tiptoeing to the Krusty Krab.
- Crossover:
- Several edits incorporate YouTube Poop elements and go half-and-half with the picture and dialogue replacements. This includes green screen effects of blood, nudity/censor pixels, gunshots and explosions, pasted images, and earrape distortion.
- The whole concept of dialogue replacement qualifies for taking sound clips from other media, sometimes from the same creator or network as the original source material.
- Dirty Kid: In edits of shows about children, they are not above saying sexually perverse things.
- From the Mouths of Babes: Edits on works with child protagonists have them say things inappropriate for their age.
- Funny Background Event: Videos that are heavy on visual edits will sometimes employ this - especially Squidward's paintings.
- Gag Censor: Occasionally used to censor nudity, or imply nudity where there was none originally.
- Mature Work, Child Protagonists: Several edits of works revolving around child characters are made, such as Ed, Edd 'n Eddy and Jimmy Neutron.
- The Movie: A few edits of full movies have been made, such as The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964).
- Obligatory Swearing: The main premise of edits. Clean videos are exceedingly rare.
- Precision F-Strike: The videos will often start out like the original source material then drop a Cluster F-Bomb.
- Quote Mine: Edits are an extreme example, where most of the lines are from completely different works.
- R-Rated Opening: Some edits will have a vulgar song play over the episode's title card.
- Sadist Show: Characters act like complete jerkasses, curse to the nth degree, threaten, harm, or even kill each other for the amusement of the audience.
- Sir Swears-a-Lot: Everyone swears rampantly due to the whole point of editing being to replace the dialogue with over-the-top expletives.
- The Stinger: Some edits feature an alternate scene or outtake a few seconds after the episode proper ends.
- Stuff Blowing Up: A common visual edit to make, often preceded by an "Allah hu-akbar!" quote.
- Subverted Kids' Show: Unless the title contains an 18+, NSFW, or Not for Kids reminder or the thumbnail is adult-themed, simply having "EDITED" in the title is not enough of a tip-off that it isn't the original episode. Several people click on edits thinking they're the real episode, and while some videos start off with a disclaimer or contain one in the description, the ones that don't are a jumpscare once you're 5 seconds in and hear the word "fuck".
- Toilet Humor: Lots of jokes are made centered around characters peeing or pooping.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Many of the sound bytes replace the original name of a food (e.g. Krabby Patties) with Jack Black's fast food orders in the "Drive Thru" skit, most commonly "Western Bacon Chee(seburger)" or "Filet-o-Fish Sandwich".
- Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Edits on shows about kids have them swearing like sailors and saying sexually inappropriate things in addition to doing drugs and engaging in gory violence.
- Vulgar Humor: Edits rely on this, most of the edited dialogue being sexual or scatological in nature.
